Tag archives for AI
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…
A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives
Exactly one week ago, I had to release the bug-fix version 2.5.1 of ComicStripBrowser because Marmaduke was broken. The culprit was a typo that actually meant I inadvertently pasted a…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
The umpteenth AI compromise
I can't even remember how many times I changed my choice of chatbots in everyday use. Every time one chatbot angered me, I wanted to replace it, but each chatbot…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me. For code, Gemini CLI wasn’t bad when I used it, and Qwen Code was very decent, too, but…
Some changes in Gemini AI
While everyone is expecting Gemini AI 3.5 to be released tomorrow, May 19, at Google I/O 2026, some changes took place in advance. Starting on May 17, 2026, there are…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…