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…
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.…