Tag archives for AI
Trust AI-generated code. Not.
Ludditus: WordPress search in posts now shows posts sorted probably by relevance instead of showing the most recent first. Can this be changed? Gemini: Yes, this can definitely be changed.…
Changes to Qwen I failed to notice
While using chat.qwen.ai in a browser, I noticed an “Upgrade” button to the right of my username. That means there is now a way to pay for extended chat usage.…
The fake Luis Burgado piano player and violinist
It’s an open secret that AI-generated fake artists are disrupting the music industry, and that the public is stupid enough to enjoy AI-generated music. Things seem, however, to be completely…
Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI
Spre deosebire de ramolitul de Geoffrey Hinton și de traumatizatul de Jacob Coxon, Răzvan Rughiniș tot nu crede în apocalipsa AI. L-am mai menționat pe excentricul nostru profesor de la…
✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale
I ended my previous post in this series, ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?, with a half-hearted epilogue that included the discovery of the fact that LanguageTool…
Did AI kill us yet?
I’m so sick of this new hysteria! Our natural stupidity would probably kill us before AI does. But hey, we still have to tackle this sorcerer’s apprentice situation, eh? I…
I’m afraid of Gemini 3.8 Flash!
I didn’t notice that the Flash version had changed from 3.7 to 3.8 when I first asked Gemini a question earlier today. I wasn’t even aware of the announcement: Introducing…
Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?
While I was fighting an unexpected cold (smart people catch colds in summer), I was disappointed by two stupidities regarding the Debian Project. One was some developers’ reaction to the…
✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?
I started this post about ten days ago and posted an initial version on August 16. Meanwhile, I explored a few other solutions and tested the ones I initially considered…
8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web
While I was busy procrastinating and not finishing other tasks, I still had time to pick a few links from the past few days: 4 from Kagi’s Small Web and…
Lumo 2.0 is still Chinese, and Euria is even dumber
I wrote about Lumo in August 2025, then in October, with occasional updates as comments on the respective posts. I repeatedly noted that Lumo used, even if not always, self-hosted…
Siemens: the One Flop or the One Hope for Europe?
Not long ago, ZDF broadcast an 18-minute documentary titled Warum sich Siemens gerade für immer verändert (“Why Siemens is changing forever right now”). Only after I concocted this automated but…
From whisper to whisper.cpp
I have used OpenAI’s Whisper a couple of times, with satisfactory results. I mentioned my Debian/Ubuntu setup in a post from 16 months ago: python3 -m venv whisper_env source whisper_env/bin/activate…
The NYT is as reliable as Pangram (meaning it ain’t)
There are very few mainstream sources one can trust when it comes to AI, and the NYT recently proved it's not one such source. This is the article that irritated…
One more visit to the Small Web
At first, I couldn't stay awake, so I took a forced nap. Then I woke up and noticed that I just couldn't think. I couldn't focus on anything. I felt…
AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
From the hundreds of URLs visited per week, here are a bunch of comments based on a very short selection of news from the last 3 weeks. I am unhappy…
OpenAI’s Playground vs. ChatGPT
I'm far from being a fan of ChatGPT, and my wife isn’t one, either, but she trumped me on this one. Unbeknownst to me, she was using for quite some…
I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!
It’s been weeks since I last wrote something remotely related to technology, and there are several reasons for that. One of them is that I’ve been rather busy; another one…
One can’t ask Chinese chatbots literally anything about China!
Post-output self-censorship is a well-known “feature” of all Chinese chatbots, but today I encountered it in a double way, so to speak. I came across this article on Al Jazeera:…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…