Tag archives for Gemini
Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review
As someone wrote about it, The cast marshaled for this movie is an embarrassment of riches: Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Mia…
Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all
I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it. Most people have nothing against it (it’s for your security!)…
Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it
A chat with Gemini, what else? ❶ Ludditus: Back in the day, when ePub readers included models from Sony (PRS-300, 350, 500, 505) and many other brands, I was rabid…
Il ne valait mieux pas que je comprenne le français 🙄
« It is not because you are / I love you because I do / C'est pas parce que you are me / Qu'I am you, qu'I am you » (Renaud). I…
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…
The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux
I don't expect people to read carefully the details that accompany the release of Debian 13.6. It's just a bunch of updates, right? Even I couldn't be bothered, but as…
File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery
I prefer all folders to open by default in the compact List view; some other people prefer the Detailed view by default. Either way, only morons need a folder to…
Google’s AI Mode vs. double jeopardy in Savannah
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, and Lady Chablis, and directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, has many differences compared…
Microsoft and Mozilla: examples of a higher intelligence
What follows is a set of two minor annoyances that, nonetheless, prove that the software issued by some of the most popular companies is ridden with stupidity. In both cases,…
Vibe-solving the Erdős 1196 problem
Ludditus: That news about how ChatGPT solved the Erdős 1196 problem in 80 minutes doesn't say how the hell someone managed to get it to think for 80 minutes. Either…
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…
Gemini: De ce Europa federală nu poate fi dorită de Germania
Niciodată nu știi ce poți afla dintr-o conversație mai lungă cu un chatbot. Astăzi am plecat de la marota unor influențări români care insistă că „în țările civilizate” nu se…
Bucureșteanul și intersecțiile
Am observat în spațiul public online românesc o chestiune recurentă pe care nu am abordat-o până acum fiindcă mă enervează. Cum mi-a sărit în față ieri pe Reddit, mi-am zis…
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…
Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except…
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…