Tag archives for Gemini
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…
My Lenovo’s resume-after-sleep bug fixed in one minute
Somewhere, I mentioned the fact that my new, cheap but premium-finished Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 had a single issue under Kubuntu 26.04 LTS: resuming after sleep would break Bluetooth. I…
Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!
I just noticed in r/GeminiAI someone being puzzled by the fact that he asked Gemini (Nano Banana 2) to create an image from an attachment, and he got an image…
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…
Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE
This post is an attempt to summarize my experiences and adventures with Linux from the last two or three weeks. Before I finalized this post, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS had been…
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…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
Why do they still not explain AI properly?
There are three kinds of people on Earth. Monkeys who use chatbots, monkeys who pretend to explain how they work, so some other monkeys believe they understand, and the few…