Terence Eden on COVID-19 Apps | EuroBSDCon Zagreb 2025

https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/vpRkaepYpqeEjV83Errmxw

LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks – Terence Eden’s Blog.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/llms-are-still-surprisingly-bad-at-simple-tasks

"I asked three different commercially available LLMs the same question: Which TLDs have the same name as valid HTML5 elements? This is a pretty simple question to answer. Take two lists and compare them. I know this question is possible to answer because I went through the lists two years ago..."

#TerenceEden #ai #llm #QuickRead

Terence Eden’s Blog – Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/

I like almost everything about Terence's blog - except... maybe too many emoji! 🙃 ))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Fast acting, clear, reader controls, intriguing content/mixed content, rss feed, mastodon feed, succinct.

Well worth your time. An 'old web' breath of fresh air.
Not sponsored! 🙃

@Edent

#TerenceEden #rss #linux #theatre #vegetarian #vegan #tech

Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations – Terence Eden’s Blog

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petrol-stations-%f0%9f%86%9a-car-charging-locations/

"Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance. Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies: There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around 82,000 public charging points. Bloody hell!"

#cars #ElectricCars #bbc #uk #TerenceEden

De UK staat vol met memorial bankjes. Dit zijn in principe gewone bankjes in de publieke ruimte zoals we die in Nederland ook plenty hebben. Een plek om te zitten, om even te rusten of om tot rust te komen. Het verschil met Nederland echter, is dat de bankjes in de UK vaak een inscriptie hebben, een herinnering aan een dierbare.

Dit fenomeen komt wereldwijd meer voor, maar blijkbaar toch […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/open-bankje-35215/

#OpenBenches #OpenBenchesOrg #Stornoway #TerenceEden

Terence Eden reflects on changing jobs when working from home and how… weird it can be. While I’ve been based from two different converted garages during the past decade, I’ve travelled a lot so it has felt different. I can imagine, though, if that’s not the case, it can all feel a little bit discombobulating! One Friday last year, I posted some farewell messages in Slack. Removed myself from a bunch of Trello cards. Had a quick video call with the team. And then logged out of my laptop. I walked out of my home office and sat in my garden with a beer. The following Monday I opened the door to the same office. I logged in to the same laptop. I logged into a new Slack – which wasn’t remarkably different from the old one. Signed in to a new Trello workspace – ditto. And started a video call with my new team. I’ll admit, It didn’t feel like a new job! There was no confusing commute to a new office. No having to work out where the toilets and fire exits were. No “here’s your desk – it’s where John used to sit, so people might call you John for a bit”. I didn’t even have to remember people’s names because Zoom showed all my colleagues’ names & job titles. There was no waiting in a liminal space while receptionists worked out how to let me in the building. In short, there was no meaningful transition for me. Source: Job leaving rituals in the WFH era | Terence Eden’s Blog

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/11/10/rituals-for-moving-jobs-when-working-from-home/