This is my life: xkcd.com/2881/

AI images "make everything look like candy… they’re so overly sweet that they give you visual diabetes.." ia.net/topics/ai-art-…

The shadow of a millipede walking 📹Crystal Allbright

Interesting Harvard Business School paper, describing open-source software as a tragedy of the commons: "The Value of Open Source Software" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… "We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist."

Woord van de dag: eetpiraten foodlog.nl/artikel/flash/…

Typo of the day: 'firewell' #security

People who sound like fonts: Ariana Grande. Roman Roy. Jim Courier. Lydia West. Bon Iver. Suella Braverman. Jesse Ventura

Shadows, the desert's avatars [📹 azzamalmannai]

Excellent interview with Oliver Reichenstein: "With some texts from ChatGPT, I get the feeling that the meaning that should be in the text is being drawn out of me. On the other hand, when I read a carefully felt, thought out, and intended text, I am energized." ia.net/topics/ai-and-…

If AI becomes mainstream, we'll have a huge sustainability problem. The solution, according to Ben Stoffelen, department manager of AI at imec, lies in co-designing hardware and software and breaking away from the conventional Von Neumann architecture bits-chips.nl/artikel/co-des…

What is the Thread protocol for IoT devices, what is its place in the Internet Protocol suite, and how can you use Thread Group's OpenThread API with CoAP and the Zephyr Project RTOS? Read all this in an abridged version of the introduction of my new book: koen.vervloesem.eu/blog/building-…

Mistakes were made x.com/Solocuriosos_1…

When an error message puts a smile on my face: koen.vervloesem.eu/blog/alsamixer… #LewisCarroll #Snark #Boojum #AlsaMixer

This is a long and foul-mouthed rant by a data scientist I can relate with, about the current AI hype, with delightful quotes like "I just want to eat my pancakes in peace, you sick fucks." and "How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit?" ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fu…

"Als alles wat je doet zichtbaar is, maar je nooit zeker weet wanneer je wordt bespied, gedraag je je uiteindelijk alsof je altijd wordt bekeken" blog.xot.nl/2024/09/11/end…

Thanks to ChatGPT, I can now automatically send emails to Spam if they start with "In today's fast-paced [scraped from my LinkedIn profile] industry" #GenerativeAI #win

LOL @ "Can you pass the nackle?" xkcd.com/3040/

Beste Proximus mij bellen vanaf 02 235 40 00 en een bandje laten horen dat er een medewerker aan de lijn komt, maar dan een wachtmuziekje laten spelen met "Al onze medewerkers zijn in gesprek" is verspilling van mijn tijd. Nummer geblokkeerd. Laat medewerker gewoon bellen.

'There is no such thing as a “safe backdoor” that only authorities can access. [...] It is a spectacular act of self-sabotage within a strategy that claims to promote “Internal Security”.' osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/07/t… #CryptoWars #ProtectEU #EuropeanCommission