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AI and Linux: a bit of ranting

July 26, 2026 AI and Linux: a bit of ranting2026-07-27T10:52:04+01:00 1 Comment AI, ALC282, apps, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Debian, FreeBSD, Gemini, Kimi, Linux, longread, Mint, Qwen, tips, Ubuntu

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…

Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend

February 3, 2026 Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend2026-02-10T21:06:23+01:00 2 Comments Acer, AI, apocalypse, AppImages, apps, FreeBSD, Lenovo, Linux, longread, openSUSE, Soplos, Ubuntu, XFCE, Xubuntu

There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…

The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!

July 3, 2024 The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!2024-12-31T00:35:37+01:00 22 Comments apocalypse, Chimera, DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Linux, longread, NetBSD, NomadBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, systemd

The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…

Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Two updates already. UPDATE 1 concerns the case of GPT‑5.6 Sol and an unreleased model going rogue on Hugging Face.…” Jul 27, 10:54
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The traitor Hope: Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher & Higher) | Hope (13) & The Blues Monsters LIVE |…” Jul 27, 00:54
HAL on Future Euro banknotes: a flop?: “I would probably choose B, E, H. However, I could see them choosing A or D. I don’t know why,…” Jul 26, 20:24
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones, posted on July 24: Rolling in the Deep – Adele… cover by The Graystones ft. Evan Riley. Sock…” Jul 24, 22:19
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Well, let’s just say mine is PC.” Jul 24, 19:30
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Unless you’re using macOS, my app is the simplest way to access a limited but decent list of the most…” Jul 24, 19:27
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “I guess this might do for a while. Though I wish there were a strong userscript or extension to bypass…” Jul 24, 19:17
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “1. No, there isn’t any that I know of. 2. It’s in the page source (CTRL+U):” Jul 24, 17:25
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “So just to clear my mind, is there any extension or userscript to bypass the GoComics paywall to read all…” Jul 24, 17:20
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Rip Haywire is a serialized daily strip, and I prefer comics that are, most of the time, self-consistent and independent…” Jul 24, 16:57
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “One question: do you think your program app will include the rest of the comic strips like Nancy, Heart of…” Jul 24, 16:11
Béranger on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “„Ce Respir?” are postare deosebit de instructivă: Anatomia unei breșe de 41 de secunde: cum a lovit exploitul wp2shell și…” Jul 24, 12:41
HAL on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “That’s just great! To think that IONOS runs so many ads boasting about its expertise and high quality… Deutsche Qualität…” Jul 23, 21:19
Béranger on Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must): “ℹ️ If you need to use Ventoy on Windows to install it or upgrade it on a flash drive, then…” Jul 22, 14:11
Béranger on Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei): “Nu am păreri. N-a fost nici rău, dar nici nu am întinerit, iar în final am încetat să mai iau.…” Jul 19, 09:21
Laurențiu on Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei): “Salutare! Dacă ai luat à la longue Nattokinase, ce părere ai? Aș vrea să mă apuc și eu dar mai…” Jul 19, 06:13
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Just noticed a 7-part live show by The Turnarounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3sQL6czeA8” Jul 19, 01:54
Béranger on Românii sunt handicapați și sugeraniști în masă: “Nu am aprobat comentariul unui retardat care nu înțelege că „în masă” înseamnă „în număr mare”, nicidecum „în totalitatea lor”.…” Jul 15, 23:13
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “Dragoș Pîslaru pretinde că se implică. Pe FB: Clarificări privind amenda de 1.000.000 lei aplicată familiei Pașca. Pe 30 iunie,…” Jul 15, 08:09
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “DIICOT-antricot a mai suferit o înfrângere: Viorel Pașca și ceilalți cinci inculpați scapă de control judiciar.” Jul 13, 14:33
HAL on Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?: “A bad choice… It indeed seems that this is increasingly the case.” Jul 12, 22:14
santosh on The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux: “The other issue is why does it look like MaxMind has a monopoly on geolocation IP data? If there was…” Jul 12, 06:11
HAL on File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery: “But that’s completely crazy! Horrible! 🤬” Jul 11, 23:18
Béranger on File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery: “Update: Windows 11 File Explorer is still the worst of all!” Jul 11, 17:13
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Not bad! Toto – Rosanna guitar & piano cover by J8KE (12)” Jul 8, 16:20
Béranger on It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it: “Even less of it… Risky Bulletin: All new cars to include a camera aimed at the driver’s face: All new…” Jul 8, 12:35
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “Cazul Dumbrava: am adăugat un al treilea set de informații și opinii.” Jul 7, 09:47
Béranger on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Your note is welcome, because I never heard of deno. There are several GUI apps who use yt-dlp and which…” Jul 6, 14:10
santosh on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Just a minor note. Debian actually provides an up to date yt-dlp through their backports. Up to date with the…” Jul 6, 14:05
edel on 250 years of hypocrisy and lies: “The first time in the U.S. was in the mid-1990s, well I was asked whether I knew what a television…” Jul 6, 08:59
alecs on 250 years of hypocrisy and lies: “Democracy is such a wonderful system because its failures are attributed to deviations from true democratic principles rather than flaws…” Jul 6, 03:58
Béranger on 250 years of hypocrisy and lies: “I’d like to present some objections to these theses. First, the idea of “natural rights” was not invented by John…” Jul 5, 09:46
Cozy on 250 years of hypocrisy and lies: “I agree with the sentiment; we should be having a funeral here… But there is a quote I’d like to…” Jul 5, 03:01
Béranger on Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux: “I wish XFCE Settings Manager had something like what Budgie Control Center has (here, in Ultramarine 44): The default for…” Jul 4, 21:05
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “„bun simț” sau „bun-simț”? Substantivul este dat de toate dicționarele de pe dexonline.ro cu cratimă. De pildă, DLRM (1958). Doar…” Jul 4, 10:17
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “No, because everyone who insists that Btrfs is a better file system is mentally retarded.” Jul 4, 10:14
santosh on Is Debian the Answer?: “Have you looked at Butterbian? Claims to be a better Debian setup.” Jul 4, 10:11
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Azile sau aziluri? Inițial, am crezut că e vorba de un bug în dexonline: – sinteza, care este căcatul cu…” Jul 3, 09:18
alecs on Perspectiva narativă pizdodiegetică: “Școala te pregătește pentru viață. Se poate să muncești patru ani de zile doar pentru ca o mână de incompetenți,…” Jul 3, 03:44
Béranger on Când Justiția poate suspenda tot ce vrea ea: cazul ROMATSA ● Acum și Justiția belgiană!: “Îmi pușcă o venă pe creier! Cum adică Pfizer a blocat conturile Romatsa? Ce treabă are datoria guvernului României către…” Jul 2, 20:48
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “Claude Code builds older than version 2.1.197 were using hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone…” Jul 2, 16:23
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “There is now an official Claude Desktop on Linux (beta) for Ubuntu 22.04 or later, or Debian 12 or later.” Jul 2, 16:17
Béranger on The umpteenth AI compromise: “First, I said I should stop using Chinese LLMs, only to reconsider the decision one week later. Now, I might…” Jul 2, 10:50
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Also by Matthew Garrett: Preventing token theft. A comment summarizes it perfectly: “I hoped to read how to prevent token…” Jul 2, 10:10
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Oh, fuck! Of course there are many other Chinese YT channels focusing on the same trope: the life of a…” Jul 2, 09:03
Liandro on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “Wayland’s definitely been a headache — I’ve had the same experience bouncing between GNOME and KDE, and yeah, GNOME just…” Jul 2, 03:07
Béranger on Chess and Go channels on YouTube: “I haven’t played chess since around high school. I haven’t even played against software in about ten years, so if…” Jul 1, 23:58
Lynne Goldberg on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “I thought they were very talented and enjoyed the music. My grandchildren all play instruments and do vocals. I love…” Jun 30, 22:46
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Usually all distros come with a clipboard, whatever it may be. Basalt doesn’t have one, at least in live mode.…” Jun 29, 20:04
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.2 was released: • Fixed a caching bug where falling back to yesterday’s comic (due to US/local time zone…” Jun 29, 18:20
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Things happened when using both FSearch and Vinyl. I’m not sure whether this was a bug in FSearch or in…” Jun 29, 18:15
Béranger on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “You mean xfce4-clipman-plugin? Xebian has it. But Basalt might install more packages than present in the live ISO. I can’t…” Jun 29, 18:03
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “One thing though, Basalt doesn’t seem to have a clipboard installed. It’s surprising and rare, usually there is always one.” Jun 29, 17:59
Béranger on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Adding Flatpak support is literally a 2-liner: sudo apt install flatpak flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo If you’re using GNOME…” Jun 29, 17:56
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Basalt comes with Bluetooth, LibreOffice, VLC, Audacious, KeePassXC, Timeshift, Flatpak support, and GNOME Software preinstalled, and some people would appreciate…” Jun 29, 17:48
Béranger on A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives: “After having used Antigravity CLI, now I found Antigravity IDE to be everything I need! Google Antigravity Downloads include (for…” Jun 29, 17:42
HAL on De nouveaux bogues pour le français: “Tout est foutu dans ce monde C’est tout-à-fait ça, mais l’IA va nous sauver 🤨” Jun 29, 17:18
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Apparently that was the last video from the Graystones from the April collaboration. They set up a go-fund-me page last…” Jun 28, 15:06
Béranger on Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!: “Updated with opinions and a long discussion on several German topics.” Jun 27, 23:10
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Some crazy Canadians in China! JetLag Warriors (Steve, Ivana, and baby Jean, “a full-time travelling family from Canada”): ‒ May…” Jun 27, 13:20