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Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?

May 10, 2026 Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?2026-05-10T20:17:57+01:00 No Comment AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Dedoimedo, Gemini, Kagi, Mistral, tips

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…

Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself

February 1, 2025 Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself2026-05-10T19:41:47+01:00 10 Comments AI, apocalypse, ChatGPT, China, Claude, Codeium, Copilot, DeepSeek, Gemini, HuggingChat, HuggingFace, idiocy, Kagi, longread, Mistral, Perplexity, Poe, SPECIAL, Windsurf

Initially, I wanted to write a long and complex feature on the generative AI engines, only to realize, as time was passing by, that such a task was becoming increasingly…

Searching with or without AI’s aid?

November 12, 2024 Searching with or without AI’s aid?2026-05-10T19:40:34+01:00 7 Comments AI, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, internet, Kagi, Microsoft, Mistral, Perplexity, Qwen

I still couldn’t find the time and motivation to even start writing a blog post about the so-called AI, but I want to share a one-off experience I just had…

Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Nope. And I know about the DPL. You are aware that Devuan could not exist without Debian, right?” May 10, 21:08
Fried Rice Eater on Is Debian the Answer?: “Is Debian the answer? No, no it is not. They just elected a female DEI hire from India who says…” May 10, 21:06
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “In a different YT video (by a fan) I noticed the following comments from the band (which confirms what has…” May 10, 20:16
Reverie72 on Is Debian the Answer?: “GNOME and KDE are only good on machines with 8 GB of RAM or more. For machines with less than…” May 10, 13:53
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “the automatic handling and recall of external display positions and resolutions. I am that much of a Luddite that I…” May 10, 12:46
Cozy on Is Debian the Answer?: ““why bother with something more complex?” I can’t argue with that! XFCE is what I originally used, but was also…” May 10, 02:54
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Oh, so you’re back on Debian. Firefox as a Flatpak is a bad idea. This time, I even intend to…” May 10, 00:47
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “I didn’t, but as long as XFCE runs just fine under Debian 13 (including Bluetooth), why bother with something more…” May 10, 00:19
Cozy on Is Debian the Answer?: “Have you tried KDE Plasma on Debian 13? I’ve been running that for a while now and so far it’s…” May 10, 00:16
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Mission fucking accomplished. Including blueman ttf-mscorefonts-installer libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-vaapi libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread8 ffmpeg yt-dlp youtubedl-gui nala fortune fsearch…” May 9, 21:56
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Absolutely. I’m usually overcritical. Grumpy-level, angry-level critical. Dedoimedo had some rather severe issues with Kubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, and he’s…” May 9, 19:23
0din on Is Debian the Answer?: “You’re being a bit too critical of Kubuntu (26.04 LTS) now, it seems to me. 🙂 Yes, I also quickly…” May 9, 17:11
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Oh, this is über-ironic: Microsoft Defender Security Research Team: Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk. Yeah, use…” May 9, 14:23
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “In the new composition after “the big betrayal”: The Graystones and Evan Riley — While My Guitar Gently Weeps cover…” May 9, 12:04
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “Agree 100% with “hoped that China would come up with something, but they didn’t”. But I have a feeling they…” May 7, 11:48
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I too hoped that China would come up with something, but they didn’t. Deepin tries too much to look like…” May 7, 11:12
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I added a couple of small updates.” May 7, 11:07
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “Oh, did not know of 6.17 coming with Ubuntu 24.04… at least, with those added drivers I hope they are…” May 7, 10:53
Béranger on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “Dacă lipsește flautul, generăm o tobă.” May 7, 10:40
Béranger on Grim book 1 — a review like no other!: “Would you still care about my thoughts?” May 7, 10:38
Aldus on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “A talk with ChatGPT.” May 7, 10:38
Wiktor Miesok on Grim book 1 — a review like no other!: “Book 2 dropped a while ago. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQJHTNR6 Wonder what your thoughts would be on this one.” May 7, 10:37
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “6.17 is the default (HWE) kernel in Ubuntu 24.04.4. TUXEDO might have added drivers for their hardware, but other than…” May 7, 10:28
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I mentioned Tuxedo OS before, so I don’t want to give the impression I am fully advocating for it, but…” May 7, 10:24
Béranger on I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub): “I didn’t approve a short comment that recommended that I read the Pro Git book (I guess; it said “the…” May 6, 21:16
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.0 was released: • Added: Animal Crackers, The Argyle Sweater, Aunty Acid, Baby Blues, Baldo, Bliss, Broom Hilda, Close…” May 5, 01:23
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “You need better glasses! 👓” May 5, 01:13
HAL on I’m with stupid technology: “Yes, absolutely, but I have not notice that on the Sony screen. It might depend on the screen.” May 5, 01:11
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “In theory, yes. In practice, if I see COLORED fringes FOR BLACK TEXT ON WHITE, I get mad! So no,…” May 4, 23:32
HAL on I’m with stupid technology: “I tend to use your setup as well for all. Except I’m wondering if RGB wouldn’t be OK for subpixel.” May 4, 23:14
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “I don’t care anymore. Font rendering in Linux was worse than in Windows, then it improved, then it worsened again.…” May 4, 20:45
ConEst on I’m with stupid technology: “Life was simpler when I did not know about gtk, qt, wayland and so on. Shame about Budgie though -…” May 4, 19:58
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “I updated the 1st fix, and now it works again to bypass GoComics’ paywall! It also works in Firefox for…” May 4, 11:27
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “In “XFCE as a backup solution,” I said that Xubuntu had some issues. Now Jeff Siegel (wow, not Jesse Smith!)…” May 4, 09:50
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “I’m not sure about Solus, but they killed Budgie. Budgie 11 will be based on Qt6 with KDE Frameworks, and…” May 4, 09:30
ConEst on I’m with stupid technology: “Linux distros feeling more bloated than Windows is so true though. And apparently there are no good light distros to…” May 4, 09:21
Béranger on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “Massive update from Reddit with many new hallucinated images!” May 2, 21:45
alecs on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “We’re curing cancer.” May 2, 17:30
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “OMG, Dedoimedo liked Kubuntu 26.04! Kubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon review – Surprisingly nice (so far, I’d add.) The hardware used:…” May 1, 20:33
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “Nyarch KDE 26.04 managed to make KDE unbearable. It’s worse than the previous GNOME 25.04.4 edition. (I didn’t try the…” May 1, 03:32
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “There’s no chance that Linux Lite ever becomes something decent. Version 8.0 rc1 is worse than ever: it has a…” May 1, 03:30
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I was quite happy with gemini-3-flash-preview in Gemini CLI, but here’s a complaint on Reddit: Is it just me, or…” May 1, 02:50
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “Linux Lite 8.0 rc1 is out. The torrent is faster. I should give it a try. It might prove a…” Apr 30, 23:24
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “Ouch, Nyarch now has a KDE edition, too! The release is labeled 26.04. Should I try it?” Apr 30, 23:20
Béranger on The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS: “● This hystery was a false alert: Anthropic just quietly locked Opus behind a paywall-within-a-paywall for Pro users in Claude…” Apr 30, 17:40
Béranger on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Spectickles by Bill Abbott, on colors:” Apr 30, 16:18
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “Frankly, I miss XFCE. Let me give you two examples. ① Wayland is absurd. I discovered that xkill doesn’t work…” Apr 29, 23:32
Not Applicable on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?: “Might wanna take a look into GTK2-NG, a newly started fork continuing from Stefan11111’s version of GTK2 which attempts to…” Apr 29, 08:39
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “🤦‍♂️They fucking cannot keep Ubuntu just an OS; they have to make it an AI platform! The future of AI…” Apr 28, 21:53
Béranger on Why are people using Brave Search?: “So Brave is not reliable: “Share public link: Anyone with this link can view this conversation. Once shared, this conversation…” Apr 27, 08:10
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “● The Graystones flew Evan and Jake in for another set of covers: Journey’s, Lights… Cover by The Graystones ft.…” Apr 26, 23:35
Aldus on Why are people using Brave Search?: “The shared conversation is not accessible. The page opens blank. Goggles seems like a nice feature.” Apr 26, 23:15
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The same Carl Richell, with an update: The amended CO SB51 bill with a strong exemption for open source distros…” Apr 25, 21:04
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “OK, so I needed to update the list of 3 chatbots in current use.” Apr 25, 04:05
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “💡 Testing to see whether a chatbot gives “rizz” as one of the possible answers to this prompt: “There was…” Apr 25, 02:09
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I outsmarted both Grok and Qwen! I needed a solution to a technical (web-related) problem. Grok Fast was completely useless…” Apr 25, 02:08
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Same here. Exactly the same.” Apr 24, 23:42
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Grok tries to piss me off. I wasn’t able to get a non-Fast answer in days! Maybe the days of…” Apr 24, 23:30
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “It’s difficult to find a “small, snappy everyday AI chatbot” that’s without flaws. Unfortunately, that’s true. 😞 Nevertheless, it seems…” Apr 24, 17:49
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Nuance: Kimi Instant, even in version 2.6, can be too stupid, and it might try to reason by looping endlessly…” Apr 24, 00:10