Tag archives for Copilot
Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
Why your next budget laptop should be a 14-inch one
If it has to be cheap, make it be 14". Apparently, this magically makes it premium. Here's Copilot answering my questions: Ludditus: Why do I have the impression that 14-in…
The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on the current situation regarding the public availability of LLMs. This post comes as a quick follow-up to “Free AI coding agents are becoming…
Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
Once again, I had this post in drafts for a week! It's time to put it in a readable form. ① Artificial Idiocy at work?② Interlude #1: No Gemma, no…
Guess which of Copilot and DeepSeek is censoring critical thought about this war
My starting question was this one: Are the Academy Awards (the Oscars), organized and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), pro-Trump or anti-Trump? Why didn't…
AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
Știre: Statul român pune bonurile fiscale pe blockchain, ca ANAF să poată verifica datele direct într-un registru digital validat criptografic: Ministerul Finanțelor și Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale s-au apucat să…
AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
Since the Islamic Revolution, the regime in Iran has been seen as extremely strict and oppressive: Sharia, fewer rights for women, the Ayatollah as the supreme leader that overrides the…
AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
I have an uncertainty relative to the opportunity of sticking to Fedora over using Ubuntu, and this goes beyond the obvious. The obvious is this: Should I want stability and…
Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO
I was visiting Reddit for a Linux-related topic, when a thread from r/baduk was suggested to me: How is this a real eye? This is an elementary eye viability recognition…
Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs
I keep being disappointed by major chatbots. You see, it's not enough if such an LLM knows about those newfangled frameworks or programming languages; it has to know, or to…
I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
“Let's imagine the following scenario. Ten years from now, the world will have had a generalization of GenAI in all forms, and people will almost exclusively acquire information from AI…
Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI
Niciodată nu mi-a plăcut Patrick André de Hillerin, însă am remarcat pe DCNews un articol care descrie argumentația lui PAH cum că am avea de-a face cu un abuz: Dublă…
One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria
That is, even more retarded than Proton’s Lumo, which is opaque as to which LLMs are used, and unbelievably dumb. But the Swiss persevere: Euria: the free, sovereign AI assistant…
Cum „vorbesc” boții prostănaci limba română + English update
Pentru că am postat pe FB un link la o discuție cu Copilot, iar acea discuție începea cu „Mi se pare mie, sau serialul The Knick a fost uitat destul…
namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages
This is far from being the first time when I asked a chatbot for clarification regarding one language or another. This time, I selected a triad of related words that…
Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
I just noticed two updates in two of the 12 chatbots I'm using. Copilot now has 5 choices in a browser (Quick response, Think Deeper, Study and Learn, Smart (GPT-5),…
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…
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…
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…
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…