So You Know Why People Vote for Extremists in Europe
I'll quote from an article that comments on these masterpieces issues by Eurocrats: Free to love, free to be: the EU’s new LGBTIQ+ strategy (Directorate-General for Communication, 8 October 2025);…
E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
I have always favored, literally for decades, the ePub file format for e-books and ranted against Amazon's various Kindle-specific e-book formats. And, oh boy, they have changed in time: from…
A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts
I happened to read this article in SCMP, As China’s population falls, 300,000-strong robot army keeps factories humming, and the ending annoyed me: “By 2030, the country is projected to…
namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages
This is far from being the first time when I asked a chatbot for clarification regarding one language or another. This time, I selected a triad of related words that…
Un comentariu la Eugen Rădulescu (preluare de pe FB)
Dacă tot m-am strofocat să scriu atâta, reiau și aici ce am postat pe Facebook după vizionarea unui interviu televizat cu unul din experții noștri în finanțe, consilier al lui…
Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished
Nu am cumpărat absolut niciodată un computer second-hand, și nu aș cumpăra un astfel de laptop, pentru că pur și simplu riscă să nu se mai poată răci. Puteți schimba…
The next level of AI crap: lab robots
You wouldn't believe for what reason such a thing happened: Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up. Here's the thing: Dr. Agarwal is among more than…
Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!
I never liked Lumo, but out of curiosity (or because of the cat mascot), I happen to ask it something or other once in a while. Recently, it gave me…
Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
I just noticed two updates in two of the 12 chatbots I'm using. Copilot now has 5 choices in a browser (Quick response, Think Deeper, Study and Learn, Smart (GPT-5),…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available to anyone! Read the official announcement: Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5. Have some nice marketing images, too: From what I could see as a free…
Ascultați Radio Moldova online!
Cu ocazia confirmării menținerii 🇲🇩 Republicii Moldova pe o traiectorie suficient de antisovietică, m-am gândit să fac o păginuță care să faciliteze ascultarea online a celor trei posturi de 📻…
The Brian Crane Interview
I happen to like all kinds of comics, and I mentioned Pickles, the creation of Brian Crane, both in my post about GoComics and in my post on the GoComics…
Kimi’s useless “OK Computer” agent
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is now enriched with an agent mode called “OK Computer”: Say hi to OK Computer, Kimi's agent mode 🤖🎸Your AI product & engineering team, all in…
When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the consumer protection organization Euroconsumers has managed to determine Microsoft to provide one more year of free security updates to consumers in the EEA, without…
A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
Here's a genuine problem, as per the drawing: A person who shopped at a supermarket is at point A. They could go take the bus either from the bus stop…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!
Sabine Hossenfelder, on YouTube: I can’t believe this really happened. From the description: “My former academic institution discontinued my affiliation with them after members of the community complained about my…
My chatbot use in the last week
In the last seven days, I needed to use several chatbots for personal reasons (no coding or anything) slightly more intensively than usual, and I was curious with regard to…
Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
Nothing spectacular, and I wanted to report about all this stuff about a week ago, but personal issues prevented me from doing that. So here it is (better later than…