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Grim book 1 — a review like no other!
Following my previous post “The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim,” I’ve received a complimentary evaluation copy of the book “Grim Begins: The Hero’s Journey of a Russian…
The zombified Claude Explains, and more Anthropic shit
When Claude Explains, then it doesn't anymore! I’m not sure when was it that Anthropic launched its Claude Explains sort of blog, but between June 3 and 5 every single…
Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
I had a strange experience with Claude yesterday, and it made me reanalyze the reliability and the practical availability of the main AI chatbots freely available online. It’s by no…
Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
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)…
🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
I’m not entirely sure whether what the title says is what I believe, but the fact is that El Presidente Macron El Primero wants to make France a big name…
🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
When I wrote my previous post about AI, triggered by DeepSeek’s success, I did touch most aspects that I considered relevant for the current AI bubble, centered on LLMs and…
Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
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…
Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
Răcit fiind, păduri nu pot cutreiera, și nici concentrațiune prea multă nu am a dezvolta. Dar pentru că ce am de combătut a apărut pe un blog, mi-am zis să…
From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey
This is going to look like a post using twisted logic to justify an illogical decision. But humans are not guided exclusively by what we love to call reason; they're…
Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
While being lately into KDE, I always acknowledged that any non-GNOME-based desktop environment is perfectly usable. Two “no-go” elements: it shouldn't use Files, the dumbified version of Nautilus that makes…
How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
I noticed this behavior of Webcamoid while I was testing the latest Ubuntu MATE , and I mentioned it here. At the time, I thought that the app was broken.…
What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
In the post about my Custom AlmaLinux KDE Live ISO, I mentioned the differences compared to the official KDE Live ISO. Still, I feel that I need to underscore at…
SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
In the last year and half, I thought I could stop the distro-hopping, but very recently it turned out it wasn't the case. Since there are criteria and thoughts about…
Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
I never thought I'd discover such a stupid design decision in KDE. I didn't even learn about it on Planet KDE, but on KDE's Facebook public group, which I joined…
SPECIAL: You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
Long time no see, so I'm going to synthesize here the experiences and the epiphanies I had with Linux in the last couple of months. You should be at least…