In a few months, I'm doing a talk about how computing has lots its way, and I'm looking for input. What irks you about working with computers (be it laptops / desktops / smartphones / ...) today? For example: "every software is a subscription now, and we own nothing."

You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

Kom nou, Israël begint een militaire operatie _altijd_ met het bombarderen van een school. Met tradities breek je niet.

JONGENS MEISJES DE VISDEURBEL IS TERUG https://visdeurbel.nl/

Euhm neen

Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/18/seedances-generated-ai-cruise-pitt-demo-was-a-green-screen-and-face-swap/

(nobody wants this) Apple's building a wearable panopticon and calling it Siri - Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2026/02/18/apples-building-a-wearable-panopticon-and-calling-it-siri.html

Still my go-to article to explain what backpropagation actually is in neural networks! Hello Deep Learning: actually learning something - Bert Hubert's writings https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/first-learning/

Unbelievable story about how a brick expert helped locate a victim in a CSAM case. How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo

Onder Trump moet je niet het scherpste mes in de lade zijn om ambassadeur te worden. Je moet nauwelijks bestek zijn.

Ook genoten van 28 Years Later (2025). Benieuwd wat Nia DaCosta (van die crimineel ondergewaardeerde Candyman remake) met de volgende film doet.

Deze week elke avond in de #krokusquiz op Canvas met Team Nerds!

Eindelijk "Weapons" gezien. Niet te missen als je van mystery/horror houdt!

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator […]

Heerlijke lijst: Unsolved historical mysteries that keep me up at night https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/unsolved-historical-mysteries-that

Playing #TheOuterWorlds2 and it's got some excellent robots

Wel ondertussen al anderhalf (!) jaar in de cel. Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/04/palestine-action-activists-cleared-aggravated-burglary-israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-filton

RIP Chris Van den Abeele. Enorm aimabele vakman.

Heerlijk! Read-once, ook :D Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology […]

"iPolice" klinkt even modern als "Politie 2000“

Interessante talk met LeCun Embodied AI: Systems that See, Hear, and Act in the World https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJyoqapCRZE&si=R0Tom5rP1JdG1bWV

Pivot Away from Pivot to AI™ 'Microsoft overweegt om AI-functies uit Windows 11 te schrappen' https://tweakers.net/nieuws/244210/microsoft-overweegt-om-ai-functies-uit-windows-11-te-schrappen.html

Loving "The Chair Company"

Goed nieuws iedereen: Hitlerbot en Herbruikbare Raketten, nu in 1 handig bedrijf. Elon Musk might merge SpaceX with Tesla or xAI https://www.theverge.com/tech/870380/elon-musk-space-x-xai-merger

Bought "Earth Must Die" from Size Five Games. Support small developers! (and look at that voice talent list, wow) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/Earth_Must_Die/

"Moeten we in de kop zetten dat het om een powerbank ging?" "Nah good zo"

Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia https://wikipedia25.org

Washington’s 3D Printing Bills Are Bad for STEM, Bad for Business, and Bad for Open Source 3D Printing https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/25/washingtons-3d-printing-bills-are-bad-for-stem-bad-for-business-and-bad-for-open-source-3d-printing/

Speltip: "The Signal State". Puzzelen (zachtronics-like) met patchkabels en signalen. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577620/The_Signal_State/

Wanneer je nog niet hebt kunnen slapen en je telefoon springt terug op light modus

Finally got round to self-hosting Pangolin on a Hetzner VPS and it's a nice piece of software! (With a generous OSS community edition) https://pangolin.net Mainly using it as a cloudflare tunnels alternative Also, cute logo is a win.

Hotline Miami soundtrack still 👍 after all these years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKD-MVfC9Ag

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/open_sources_new_mission_rebuild/

Over enkele dagen: "Anders denken we er nog even over na"

Geen zorgen iedereen, Roger Vangheluwe zit de werkgroep fysieke integriteit voor

Belgisch onderzoek van de groep van Bart Preneel aan de KUL (COSIC) Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/google-fast-pair-bluetooth-audio-accessories-vulnerability-patches/

Things *not* to do on an airplane: Personal Wi-Fi hotspot named “I have a bomb, everyone will die” triggered NATO Quick Reaction Alert https://airlive.net/incident/2026/01/15/personal-wi-fi-hotspot-named-i-have-a-bomb-everyone-will-die-triggered-nato-quick-reaction-alert/

With all these countries sending 1 military unit to Greenland I've learned about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force

Good initiative! https://press.vub.ac.be/vub-onderzoekers-pleiten-voor-meer-epistemische-diversiteit-in-artificiele-intelligentie#

In the new DLSS presets, I like preset M at 1440p Quality. I used to run my own sharpening pass (and thus performance hit) over preset K, but M seems to be sharpened by default. Anyone else? #nvidia #rendering

Leuk geprobeerd, Autosalon, maar ik heb het hele jaar door een salonconditie.

Baasje was even weg nu *MOET* ER GESPEELD WORDEN

Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/running-factorio-from-over-1-000-floppy-disks-is-a-masochistically-manual-process-that-surely-sets-a-new-record-for-game-load-times/

Things you think an AI chatbot should be good at, but fails spectacularly: "Hey, it's been a while since I watched this tv show. What happens in Season 1 episode 5, the last one I watched?" What follows? A mish mash of things that happen in *all* previous episodes, leaving out key details and […]

Ik vind nog altijd dat de meest plausibele verklaring is dat Trump de Mercatorprojectie niet begrijpt. #groenland

Hope no one needs new high quality input! 🫩

There's plenty* of fish in the sea! * ᵇᵉʰᵃˡᵛᵉ ᵃˡˢ ᴿᵘᵇᵉⁿ ⱽᵃⁿ ᴳᵘᶜʰᵗ ⁿᵉᵗ ᵍᵉᵈᵒᵏᵉⁿ ʰᵉᵉᶠᵗ

From: @jimbob https://aus.social/@jimbob/115885726928435999