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AI and more on the Japanese note.com

February 16, 2026 AI and more on the Japanese note.com2026-02-16T16:01:45+01:00 No Comment AI, Claude, Gemini, google, Japan, NotebookLM, writing

I just discovered note, a popular Japanese blogging and content-sharing platform that allows users to create and publish articles, entire blogs, illustrations, photos, and videos. While in some regards it…

Béranger on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “A Japanese blog post from Sept. 2, 2025, claims that this post of mine might be outdated: “Some of the…” Feb 16, 16:12
Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “On Android, I uninstalled ReadEra and Readest, so I’m left with the original trio (eReader Prestigio + Lithium + Kindle),…” Feb 16, 01:16
Norbert Preining on Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI: “I am still alive, I just washed Debian down the gutter and moved on. I still praise Debian for its…” Feb 16, 00:35
Béranger on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Vous ne savez pas lire ? Janvier 2026 ! Et j’ai bien mentionné ces quatre systèmes.” Feb 15, 22:04
HAL on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Oooh ! Ce doit être assez récent, car encore le 30 juin 2025 : “J’ai donc décidé de me simplifier…” Feb 15, 22:02
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Perplexity’s willingness to create images was inconsistent back then. Now it would create an image, now it would say it…” Feb 13, 09:50
Aldus on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Claude, DeepSeek, and Perplexity cannot create images. Perplexity can – and I’ve used it for this in the past, but…” Feb 13, 09:45
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I’ve read a lot of testimonials saying that ChatGPT is getting dumber and dumber. I’m still dumbfounded as to why…” Feb 13, 00:22
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “And this is exactly one of the reasons why ChatGPT stays relevant: everyone uses it. That’s how you see the…” Feb 13, 00:20
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Every single idiot on Earth is using ChatGPT. Most of them never heard of any other chatbot. You have too…” Feb 13, 00:03
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “No more Claude? Interesting. I think ChatGPT is still somewhat relevant because it sets the trends. And just the other…” Feb 13, 00:02
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Supposed to, but not necessarily so. But how could I pay for a service/product that does not impress?!” Feb 12, 14:45
HAL on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Some major chatbots are getting worse. Yes, but also because you are using the free version rather than their more…” Feb 12, 14:43
Béranger on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I did that with the previous laptop in 2023. I’m not doing that again. Not these days, when you can’t…” Feb 12, 10:03
zugu on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I’ve always bought new laptops with minimal RAM & storage amounts, the upgraded them myself later. It was cheaper that…” Feb 12, 08:30
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “I found the reason of the bug in Soplos XFCE.” Feb 10, 21:07
nobody on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “Lumo. Under the guidelines of its set-up and Proton’s privacy policies, it literally won’t say anything about politics. I asked…” Feb 10, 18:49
Béranger on A Big Beautiful Bullshit List: “When shit trumps shit, and everything collapses: Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know. In…” Feb 10, 15:29
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Not all distros are born equal.” Feb 9, 17:51
HAL on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “If the installed system disconnects from the Wi-Fi by itself, it’s usually because of a too extreme power management policy…” Feb 9, 17:09
Béranger on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “The retard who keeps invoking the Dunning-Kruger effect commented on this post: “Someone has also never seen the original Debian…” Feb 9, 16:13
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “A complete shithead that kept calling me an idiot in a dozen comments that I couldn’t approve because there wasn’t…” Feb 9, 15:54
Béranger on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “OpenSUSE Zypper clearly states the permissions can be overridden by the package you are installing 1. Where does it say…” Feb 9, 13:39
. on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “Isn’t it supposedly like it’s meant to be? I mean OpenSUSE Zypper clearly states the permissions can be overridden by…” Feb 9, 13:35
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “MAJOR CHANGES in The Graystones! First, watch the cover of INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart. What happened to the group:…” Feb 9, 00:36
Béranger on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Știu, dar n-are a face. Oferta OFICIALĂ e destul de veche și ea. Nimeni nu folosește ceva mai vechi decât…” Feb 8, 21:10
zugu on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Secărică oferă diacriticele corecte în Windows de 26 de ani, începând cu 95 (fără 3.1, favoritul tău): https://www.secarica.ro/en/rou/tastatura-ro” Feb 8, 21:07
Béranger on Iar îmi desființez contul eMag: “Fugi, bre, că nu-i pe criterii de etnie, sex, religie, sau apartenență la un grup de orice fel. Adică da,…” Feb 8, 21:01
nobody on Iar îmi desființez contul eMag: “Salut, Ai grija cu exprimarea (ma refer la partea de la sfarsit-ul articolului… aia cu impuscatu’ in cap). De cand…” Feb 8, 20:56
Aldus on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Citește acea sedilă ca pe o virgulă stilizată! 🙂 Să vezi chestie: și MLM-urile afișează câteodată sedile în loc de…” Feb 8, 01:36
Aldus on A paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI: “Perhaps it is worth noting that Boltzmann, who was also a professor of philosophy, went insane and hanged himself.” Feb 8, 01:12
HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “Strangely, MX has ungoogled-chromium in its repositories. https://mxrepo.com/MX25packages.html Well, it’s the penultimate version, not the very latest, but .109-1 instead…” Feb 5, 22:41
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Google or no Google, I don’t care. They can suck my dick. I can even use Edge: microsoft-edge-stable_144.0.3719.104-1_amd64.deb (or whichever…” Feb 5, 14:42
HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “I need both Firefox and a Chromium-based second browser. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium 😉” Feb 5, 14:39
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “To each their own, I suppose! 😉” Feb 5, 12:49
Béranger on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “I hope you’re not talking about ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC, because I preferred MS-DOS games.” Feb 5, 11:34
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “Since I’ve also been using my own brains since the 1970s, I remember the 80s computer games and how they…” Feb 5, 10:24
Béranger on Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more: “Speaking of the future of Ubuntu MATE and of its non-qualification as LTS for 26.04, there is this thread on…” Feb 5, 00:57
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “A small update on M.2 2242 SSD and RAM speed, including estimations on running a 7B LLM locally.” Feb 4, 20:53
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “BONUS: Linux Lite 7.8 with Yaru icons:” Feb 4, 12:23
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added SWR 4 BaWü; Smooth Jazz CD 101.9 New York, WCLK Jazz 91.9 Atlanta, and WCLK HD2 Mainstream/Classic Jazz; and…” Feb 3, 21:14
Gnomesucks on The magic of Fedora Linux: “https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaru-gtk-theme Who would have guessed that Arch has more normalcy than Fedora.” Feb 3, 17:39
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “I tried installing the same yaru-theme in the live session of the Fedora 43 XFCE spin. The results were similar:…” Feb 3, 00:49
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “I risk becoming Chinese if I keep using Kimi!” Feb 2, 20:53
nobody on Flopzilla is retarded: “Careful! You risk becoming retarded using too much AI 😉” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “I’m occasionally wrong, and I made a correction: sometimes, Ubuntu still maintains a package that was abandoned by Debian!” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links: “I mentioned Katie Harris here, Stefano Chiaromonte in another post, and the channel “Joy of Languages. Italian” in another comment.…” Feb 2, 16:10
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “While testing (in a live session) if the build of xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso from Jan. 26 is still not broken (it’s not)…” Jan 31, 21:54
Béranger on Wanderings around Debian: “While Linux Lite 7.8 Final has been released and it seems to bear quite some changes over Linux Lite 7.8-rc1…” Jan 31, 20:50
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “A note on the marvelous nature of snaps, from Joey Sneddon’s Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions:…” Jan 31, 13:55
Kai on The magic of Fedora Linux: “Recent Fedora releases are retarded. They broke LXQt spin for no reason, replacing X.org with Wayland, not caring about the…” Jan 31, 07:02
David on The magic of Fedora Linux: “You got gnomed 🙂” Jan 31, 06:03
HAL on The magic of Fedora Linux: “What? But that’s completely crazy! They’re nuts!” Jan 31, 02:31
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Unfortunately, I never used GoodSync, so I can’t have an opinion about it.” Jan 28, 18:03
Rosen Kolev on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Beyond Compare is indeed a great tool. Thank you for sharing how you use it! Those details will definitely help…” Jan 28, 17:34
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “You are completely retarded. I want COMPLETE CONTROL WITH MY OWN BRAIN’S SUPERVISION over my backups of: – e-books -…” Jan 28, 00:17
Eugen on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “manual backups? geez. how about rclone or rsync plus a bash script plus cron plus a 5$ vps?” Jan 28, 00:14
ng6333 on I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE: “It makes sense. LO/OO internal format (ODF) is not OOXML. The other office suites native format is closer to MSoft…” Jan 27, 13:16
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Indeed, its 3 predefined sync modes, “Two-way,” “Mirror to right,” and “Update right,” should cover everything. Obviously, actions can be…” Jan 27, 10:13
xwa on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “How about FreeFileSync? May not have such detailed settings, but it should be able to do all those mirror/update/left/right scenarios…” Jan 27, 09:49