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A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?

September 23, 2025 A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?2025-09-23T21:49:48+01:00 4 Comments AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek, Gemini, GLM, Grok, Kimi, Lumo, Mistral, puzzles, Qwen, Zhipu

Here's a genuine problem, as per the drawing: A person who shopped at a supermarket is at point A. They could go take the bus either from the bus stop…

Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot

August 30, 2025 Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot2025-08-31T17:22:19+01:00 2 Comments AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, GLM, Kimi, Lumo, Qwen, Zhipu

Or is it a storm in a teacup? Either way, some people are hysteric for no good reason. Just as it has been reported by The Register, Anthropic is changing…

Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI

August 6, 2025 Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI2025-08-06T22:06:03+01:00 12 Comments AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek, GLM, Grok, Kimi, Lumo, Mistral, Qwen, Zhipu

Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their…

Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!

July 29, 2025 Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!2025-12-23T01:58:06+01:00 9 Comments AI, apocalypse, China, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Moonshot, OpenRouter, Qwen, vibecoding, Zhipu

The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…

Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Oh, I forgot about this relic! It does work, but it doesn’t always serve the purpose. I collect watermark-free Bing…” Mar 13, 21:11
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Varianta mea de istorie scurtă pe care am pus-o ca descriere la un extras video pe FB: În 1953, CIA…” Mar 13, 20:58
foobar on On browser wars and stupid people: “In Firefox, you can press Ctrl+I, then select “Media” to see all images on a page.” Mar 13, 18:38
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Oui, chef !” Mar 13, 00:05
HAL on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “I told you not to trust Fedora and/or KDE! Perhaps the most “secure”, with the reservations you mention, is XFCE.…” Mar 12, 23:52
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Nu mai pot să mă uit la absolut nici un canal de știri românesc. Hai, poate la un buletin de…” Mar 12, 19:04
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “N-ai cum să te opui, că doar nu ești cu Putler și cu Ayatolahii! (Jeff Stahler) Dar există o soluție…” Mar 12, 12:57
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Al Jazeera: Could Iran be using China’s highly accurate BeiDou navigation system? Why wouldn’t they? China needs oil! We all…” Mar 12, 04:46
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Am o critică măruntă: ai scris „Atenție: în contextul războiului cu Iranul!” Corect ar fi fost: „Atenție: în contextul războiului…” Mar 12, 01:40
Aldus on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Eu sunt chiar tranșant pe subiectul ăsta. Pe scurt, no way! Pe larg, aici (articol + comentarii). Și asta pentru…” Mar 11, 23:48
Béranger on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “Ouch, SUSE might be for sale.” Mar 11, 22:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Uh, MidnightBSD’s initial reaction was not what it seemed to be, even if it changed twice. First time: California residents…” Mar 11, 22:20
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “ZRAM becomes more and more interesting. In October 2025, I used Zswap (not ZRAM!) in Lubuntu 25.10. In December 2025,…” Mar 11, 18:30
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Reg: Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks. Carl Richell: Today, I met…” Mar 11, 00:55
Béranger on I might not be human, after all: “Indeed, it was painful to choose between such “masterpieces.”” Mar 10, 22:20
Jeo on I might not be human, after all: “Both human and AI written passages offered for evaluation sound artificial and pretentious to me. That is no good quality…” Mar 10, 21:50
Béranger on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Her, who? Her? as machines age, it gets worse over time. With a separate /home partition, the OS can be…” Mar 10, 19:38
HAL on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Ubuntu? Would you like to go with her, given her (possible? probable?) future direction? 😳 Well, Fedora… pff, but maybe…” Mar 10, 19:34
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Narratives: Trump’s vs. Iran’s. Trump: Trump is speaking about Iran again in Florida, a couple of hours after saying the…” Mar 9, 22:51
Drath on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “I genuinely enjoy AI music, though not the youtube streaming stuff, but weekly tops on suno and udio. That is…” Mar 9, 11:07
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a true Nostradamus!” Mar 8, 20:50
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “I very much liked JFS myself! But you already knew that.” Mar 8, 20:27
HAL on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In the past, I used XFS and liked it, but I also used JFS, which I preferred. I never had…” Mar 8, 20:26
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’d rather believe you’re masochistic… or maybe you invented a new religion, and you stick to it. This is not…” Mar 8, 20:12
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Believe me, I’m a big fan of the K.I.S.S. principle. What you consider (in theory) “unnecessary complications,” for me (in…” Mar 8, 19:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “George Carlin is eternal!” Mar 8, 14:56
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’m mostly focused on unnecessary complications. Are you familiar with The Incredible Machine, or you’re too young for that? You…” Mar 8, 14:52
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, just a few more clarifications based on daily technology use: a) IMHO, you’re very focused on the performance issue…” Mar 8, 14:48
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi about native booting from a VHDX. Its answer includes, among other things: The bootloader (bootmgr) uses a…” Mar 8, 10:49
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “This is merely the “Australia syndrome”: censoring the access to social networks. But Carl Richell’s statement applies here, too: “The…” Mar 8, 10:20
Aldus on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Raed Arafat isn’t falling behind either. He was ridiculed in Romania, but it’s bizarre how suddenly all the governments of…” Mar 8, 09:09
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Fair points. But what a twisted design to have Windows use a VHD/VHDX file instead of a partition. Not only…” Mar 8, 07:05
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Okay, I see you’re strongly opinionated about this, which I can’t be. Because, just like you, I’ve never tried this…” Mar 8, 05:22
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way (Phoronix): “XFS came out on top followed by EXT4, F2FS, and…” Mar 8, 02:47
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi: VHD/VHDX with dynamic disk allocation: I don’t understand how this works. On a normal filesystem, say an…” Mar 8, 02:27
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: ““whenever you reinstall Windows (or install it on a new PC)” – I do not (re)install Windows. Like, ever. Maybe…” Mar 8, 01:08
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I really like the system described by VRBF. I’ve never used it myself, but it looks excellent: you create the…” Mar 8, 01:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “The NYT, about Iranian President’s Apology: Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, had just apologized on state television on Saturday morning…” Mar 8, 01:01
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “System76 on Age Verification Laws is an excellent read! I don’t care about their hardware and I dislike their COSMIC…” Mar 8, 00:13
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “For flash memory-based disks (NVMe, SSD), the overhead of writing to a file is practically negligible. It’s about the raw…” Mar 7, 21:05
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, understood. But to prevent anyone from coming here and getting incorrect or imprecise information, some clarifications: 1. BootICE appears…” Mar 7, 19:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “It just occurred to me that what these bastards want really requires control at the OS level. It’s not enough…” Mar 7, 16:28
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “1. I can’t even find an OFFICIAL SITE for BootICE. Only fuck-ups. Pathetic. 2. Writing to a file should be…” Mar 7, 16:14
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “An important observation: when you natively boot from a VHD, the only “virtual” thing is the C: drive. Everything else…” Mar 7, 16:00
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “But how the fuck are you booting them, managing them, installing them? An OS should be installed FROM a booting…” Mar 7, 03:16
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I have to admit that this is the usual reaction when I talk about this topic (“What the heck is…” Mar 7, 03:04
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “How about these ayatollahs? As of Jan. 6, 2026.” Mar 7, 00:14
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Windows Server or Windows IoT LTSC. But I didn’t even know that there is such a thing as VHDX with…” Mar 6, 23:51
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “The desktop versions of Windows (Win 10, Win 11) are very unstable and bloated. The most robust Windows edition is the Server…” Mar 6, 23:50
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “This is completely off-topic, but I’m leaving it here. Notes: 1. I don’t care about such hubs; I actually dislike…” Mar 6, 17:28
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “that hub was relevant because it has accompanied software for turning on and off individual ports issuing commands from pc.…” Mar 6, 17:21
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those products didn’t seem relevant to the case. Look, you could have even posted Amazon links! I would have removed…” Mar 6, 15:05
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “But it was not an AD to that hardware (i gave 2 different links to 2 different products and 1…” Mar 6, 15:03
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those comments were advertising to hardware products, and I deleted them by hand.” Mar 6, 14:07
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Hi! I have two comments in moderation on thread about “beyond compare”. Am I being blocked or they were slipped…” Mar 6, 14:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Ukraine, Gaza (and the West Bank), Iran (and Lebanon): Putin, Netanyahu, Trump. 3 modern Hitlers. AlJAzeera: “Today is worse than…” Mar 6, 00:42
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Based on the 40-50 relevant articles read on some international websites, I could write even a book about the current…” Mar 5, 11:35
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Let me add 3 tiny points as a comment: ❶ Question for the fans of Arch and pacman/Pamac: how is…” Mar 4, 22:52
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “I’m not sure where they got this chart from. Maybe from here, although the date of the last update is…” Mar 4, 13:22
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “Sam Altman backpedals as ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%” Mar 4, 09:29

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