Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot
Or is it a storm in a teacup? Either way, some people are hysteric for no good reason. Just as it has been reported by The Register, Anthropic is changing…
Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein’s spooky action…
If you never heard of Sabine Hossenfelder, read my older post about her. This short one is meant to come with updates on her obsession and her raison d'être. On…
Google’s “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit
I wasn't aware of Gemini's upgraded image editing capabilities based on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), “our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model.” It was announced on their blog,…
Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway
Over the past months, I’ve started and kept as drafts several Linux-related posts. But frustration accumulated to the point when I just couldn't take it anymore, so I ditched them…
A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
I still don't believe in stablecoins! For the first topic, a bit of context. CNBC, on August 20: Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling…
O ciudățenie a limbilor franceză și spaniolă
De decenii, m-a zgâriat pe creier sloganul „Renault préconise ELF”, care între timp cred că a și dispărut. Cum ar veni, de ce nu „Renault recommande ELF”? Simplu: pentru că…
Reforma Pilonilor II-III-IV: un furt marca Bolojan, nu OECD
Inițial, tovarășul Bolojan a invocat „cerințele OECD, în care vrem să intrăm”, pentru a justifica reforma care limitează dreptul de a retrage banii din Pilonul II de pensii private obligatorii.…
Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar
Nu-l urmăresc prea des pe Mircea Badea, însă tocmai am făcut-o. Dumnezeul ateilor mi-a dat un bobârnac, și-i mulțumesc. Nu am prins începutul emisiunii, dar văzând ce am văzut, am…
Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!
According to a Japanese report on X, the KB5063878 Windows 11 update is allegedly causing SSDs to become non-functional after large files are being written to them in quick sequence.…
Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI
Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their…
La dispariția unui spectru
Ion „Ilici” Iliescu a dispărut dintre noi fiind detestat de o majoritate a populației: l-au urât atât cei care-i reproșează eșecul democrației românești, cât și nostalgicii ceaușismului sau, mai generic…
It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it
Ten months ago, I wrote I wish I weren’t born in Europe. All of a sudden, the planets realigned so that I felt the need to write a much shorter…
Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…
Limbistul Mircea Badea e un bou
N-am mai scris de mult pe teme gramaticale și lexicale, mai exact de la Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări). Ei bine, o cucurigeală de-a lui Mircea…
Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
Since I restored my Twitter account (almost two years after being suspended, but I still maintain that I like to see tits only when I'm supposed to see tits), my…
Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
I might be wrong, but I believe that Alibaba’s Qwen offerings have become more interesting than DeepSeek's. At least, when coding is what matters the most to you. When I…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
The AI doom is nigh
Read the first two articles, and you'll become both disappointed and worried. Read what follows, and you'll become shit-scared: the world is going just like the Titanic, straight into an…