Mastodawn

It took less than two years for a lot of good developers that could work with a laptop and a few containers or VMs without internet connection to turn into coding zombies that are addicted to centralised "AI" coding agents and getting the shakes when their connection to those services goes down. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf This is frightening to me. Now imagine what this addiction does to normal people that think that "AI" can actually help them in life.

Hayo 17h ago

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Hayo just finished reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Again, very short. But lots of fun. And who doesn't love an enormous transport meddling with whatever you're trying to do.

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🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/artificial-condition-bca752

#Reading #Bookstodon #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Robots

Hayo 23h ago

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency 1d ago

So apparently Netflix added most or all of the James Bond catalogue to the service a few weeks ago & now they're removing it again.

I'm not particularly beholden to 007 but it's a great example of how fucking exhausting this digital world is because of the constant twiddling going on behind the veil.

Every time you try using any digital product you may find it's different than last time.

It's like They™️ want to take object permanence away from us.

#enshittification #ux #tech #resist

Hayo 1d ago

Michiel Zandbelt ⚕️1d ago

Afkicken van LinkedIn is verrassend snel verlopen voor mij. Mis het totaal niet. Geen enkel moment meer terug verlangd. Had dus (constateer ik nu achteraf) wel eerder het platform vol nonsense en wannabe statements kunnen verlaten en kan het iedereen die nog twijfelt aanraden. Gewoon doen.. !
Helaas alleen nog wel regelmatig spam mail op mijn werk als erfenis, Waarin je joviaal met je voornaam wordt aangesproken alsof je elkar al jaren kent. Maar verder de volledige #JoyOfMissingOut

Hayo 2d ago

Omar Antolín 2d ago

Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much they care whether the statements they make are accurate.

Hayo 2d ago

Any one remember when #wsocial was going to "fix social media"? A lesson: don't announce a product if you don't have anything to show.

Hayo 2d ago

Wel leuk die Blik op Nederland indicatoren. Maar doen alsof allerlei dingen keiharde cijfers zijn, waar geen enkele vorm van foutmarge op van toepassing zou zijn, is natuurlijk wel een beetje raar.

https://blikopnederland.rekenkamer.nl/

Blik Op Nederland: Dashboard Doelen & Resultaten

Blik Op Nederland: Dashboard van de Algemene Rekenkamer met overzicht van overheid doelen en resultaten per thema. Bekijk voortgang en prestaties.

Hayo 3d ago

Björn Brembs 3d ago

At last! It starts this fall:

"A new era for Open Research Europe"

https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/new-era-open-research-europe-2026-03-26_en

Diamond #openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries:

🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland

Now "incentivize" institutions to make this the default #publishing option. #openscience

A new era for Open Research Europe

European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Hayo 3d ago

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Hayo just finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells

I was sick and watched the series. I loved the main character. But as we all know, the book is always better. So I read the book. It is indeed much better. But desperately short. I love that the book is much more no-nonsense, doesn't feel the need to explain every single thing and goes forward in a much brisker pace than the series. So I will definitely read all the other parts as well.

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🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/all-systems-red-679934

#Reading #Bookstodon #Fiction #ScienceFiction

Hayo 3d ago

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Baldur Bjarnason 3d ago

The difference between the tech industry and, say, Enron is that the tech industry is a cluster of very large, deeply intertwined megacorporations. They're like the 2007 era banks in terms of their interconnectedness: big tech orbiting Nvidia and smaller startups orbiting the big tech planets.

You only need fraud to thrive in one corner of this system to create a cascading risk for them all.