SEO: Is Claude on my side, or it’s parroting me?
There is one thing that I could never understand. I asked ChatGPT about it on March 17, 2023, and I wasn't satisfied with the results. Now I just asked Claude,…
You Don’t Fool Me
I used to be annoyed by the huge influx of hoaxes, fake news, and especially fake quotations long before any LLM was born. And today's chatbots can hallucinate quotations for…
The Führer’s minions have restored my account
While people and organizations are leaving X, I just got restored. It’s the end of the world. (It wasn’t automatic; I contested it again, and in 2 minutes I was…
I tried to understand “no contest” without consulting Wikipedia
I’m sick of chatbots because I'm using them since March 13, 2023. More recently, I thought DeepSeek to be OK, then horrendous, and finally unable to admit guilt. Thankfully, I…
DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!
It is happening again. Why do I even bother? I can't stand idiots, and I run into them. OK, so I knew that DWW is censoring me (after the facts,…
Et tu, Claude? Having fun with AI
Notwithstanding all my other previous posts on AI, while playing with my short list of AI chatbots, starting with Claude, I found that sometimes Claude can be completely off-track. I…
Swimming upstream against the AI current—updated!
I had to give the seal of approval precisely to the only one of the 3 AI agents I currently use that cannot search the web! Why? Well, because searching…
Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
I don’t even remember how many times I insisted—because a Luddite has to be conservative, and Linux used to observe the KISS principle anyway—that the right thing to install software…
🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
Why, indeed, you shouldn’t use an AI chatbot to write non-open-source software, bar some code snippets and other minor adjustments, but people do it—with or without their employer's knowledge. It’s…
🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
I’m not entirely sure whether what the title says is what I believe, but the fact is that El Presidente Macron El Primero wants to make France a big name…
🤖 A curt explanation on my latest choice of AI systems
Few people managed to read my two previous mega-posts on AI models (from Feb. 1 and Feb. 6), with added comments and updates to the text. They were supposed to…
🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
When I wrote my previous post about AI, triggered by DeepSeek’s success, I did touch most aspects that I considered relevant for the current AI bubble, centered on LLMs and…
Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
Initially, I wanted to write a long and complex feature on the generative AI engines, only to realize, as time was passing by, that such a task was becoming increasingly…
The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
I am sick of the endless string of vulnerabilities because of CPU design flaws. A recent sampler: Meltdown (2018), Spectre (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and SpectreRSB in 2018, SWAPGS…
Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
I wanted to include a link to The Reg’s article by Liam Proven, Linux Mint Xia arrives fashionably late, in a later post, in which I wanted to investigate a…
One more time about Red Hat
On December 25, I wrote about how Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux. I mentioned that RHEL 10 Beta and CentOS Stream 10 removed most graphical desktop applications, because…
King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
Once you get over the introductory video of the second coming of Messiah (this one), the White House's website (which is a WordPress site) gives you access to the Executive…
One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
Just as it was with the CUPS hysteria, a set of rsync vulnerabilities have been promptly patched for all supported LTS versions of Ubuntu, even LTS and LTS for the…
Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
Preiau aici textul pe care l-am postat pe Facebook. Nu de alta, dar s-ar putea să fie eliminat. Nu de către fact-checking-ul care s-a cam desființat, ci de vreo interpretare…
News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
In the version of this blog from May 2007 to Feb. 2009, most of my posts (roughly four per day!) consisted of links to external articles, including lots of political…