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China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…

May 2, 2025 China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…2025-05-03T20:50:22+01:00 3 Comments AI, Alibaba, Baidu, China, Ernie, eurocrap, Qwen, USA

There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…

Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing

February 23, 2025 Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing2025-11-27T12:40:27+01:00 6 Comments AI, Alpaca, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Linux, Llama, LMStudio, longread, Mint, Mistral, Msty, Ollama, phi4, Qwen, RAG, SPECIAL, tips

I never thought I’d be doing that, especially as it doesn’t make sense on a €400 laptop that lacks a proper GPU and VRAM: i3-1215U with Intel graphics (ADL GT2)…

Searching with or without AI’s aid?

November 12, 2024 Searching with or without AI’s aid?2025-05-03T00:09:30+01:00 7 Comments AI, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, internet, 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 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
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, on Mastodon: I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill. * Open source…” Apr 22, 01:26
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I just went down to 3 chatbots: Here’s why.” Apr 21, 18:14
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.4.0 was released. Cumulative updates and changes include: 2.4.0: • Simplified the scaling down of huge comics. • Defined…” Apr 20, 01:46
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “YouTube has been occupied by the Chinese! Is this a propaganda op by the Chinese government masquerading as genuine personal…” Apr 19, 22:54
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Lofi Girl (Wikipedia: “formerly ChilledCow until 2021”) is maybe the only set of (improperly labeled) lo-fi music livestreams (not only…” Apr 19, 22:31
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “POLITICO: Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. Piotr Müller, a Polish…” Apr 17, 23:24
Béranger on Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI: “Răzvan Rughiniș se întoarce! Cum ne manipulează creatorii Inteligenței Artificiale (49:52) Capitole: 00:00 INTRO 04:50 Cum ar trebui să ne…” Apr 16, 12:42
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Bad news regarding the US and the EU: ● Linuxiac: Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire…” Apr 16, 09:16
Béranger on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Parcă ar fi catifeaua unor scaune de cinema-teatru-operă de odinioară.” Apr 15, 12:17
Aldus on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Uite ce știam eu că este culoarea purpuriu (sau roșu-purpuriu): mostră. Cred că așa erau colorate mantiile unor regi din…” Apr 15, 12:01
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Total Commander? Nope. I don’t use orthodox (dual-panel) file managers, and a smartphone is even less suitable for that than…” Apr 15, 10:39
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “thanks for your thoroughly comeback. sadly, nothing is now like it used to be. sad times we are living. regarding…” Apr 15, 10:31
edel on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “As all that rage is justified, make one note, any, and I mean it, with any Democratic leader nothing would…” Apr 13, 22:42
Béranger on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “It gets better and better. Now Trump is Jesus (he deleted this shit, but everyone saw it):” Apr 13, 13:32
Ned on As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist: “(After resisting joining for years before this), I got cancelled about 16 years ago, after having the account a few…” Apr 13, 04:22
Ned on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “Thank you for existing. Keep on raging; it makes me feel less alone and therefore a particle less in despair.” Apr 13, 04:18
Béranger on The day GoComics went bad: “I added a note to clarify that the JS barrier used by GoComics to prevent the direct downloading of pages…” Apr 12, 22:59
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Rotring Tikky isn’t anymore what it used to be. I found some Rotring Tikky III mechanical pencils in a supermarket.…” Apr 11, 00:07
Béranger on The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump: “Apparently, Anthropic believed there would be people interested in reading this 245-page System Card: Claude Mythos Preview.” Apr 10, 11:48
Béranger on Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang: “GPU-accelerated Linux terminal apps, ligatures, and “Linux terminals built for coding agents”: a chat with Kimi. It even talked “about…” Apr 9, 20:41
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “Maybe Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang would help.” Apr 9, 14:04
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Passed all those tests 🙂” Apr 8, 21:02
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “The Spectacle crash has officially been fixed in Plasma 6.6.4. Look for the commit regarding layer-shell-qt. It literally reads, “Fix…” Apr 8, 05:57
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “Issue #42796: [MODEL] Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates ● Discussion on Hacker News…” Apr 7, 22:40
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Oh… Spain. Unfortunately I am not traveling any longer, so perceptions get biased now. The real number is, of course,…” Apr 7, 07:32
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “On medical leave? In what country? Not so many in Germany or Romania. But very low spirited indeed.” Apr 7, 03:23
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Last time I was in China was more than a decade ago and by then already 90% of bikes I…” Apr 6, 23:51
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Ah, you’re a mechanical pencil person! B and 2B are very pleasant to use. Many low-quality HB leads are often…” Apr 5, 22:52
Béranger on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “Regarding the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite), Christopher Barnatt came up with an updated version…” Apr 5, 21:38
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “I enjoy writing with Penac CCH-3 0.7 mm and Rotring Tikky II 0.5 mm with Staedtler 2B (I don’t like…” Apr 5, 13:09
Béranger on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “Today, one of the 3 mice I’m using is an ultra-light Redragon K1NG LITE M916W-LIT-1K, and I love it! OTOH,…” Apr 4, 22:59
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “Well, in the 1990s, in Slackware, I used to build my kernels. I never built a kernel in the last…” Apr 4, 22:56
EJ W on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “I am a gamer, and I completely agree with everything you said about gamer products, the consumers are fools, they…” Apr 4, 17:45