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#Shelly #homeassistant
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mastodon 4.7.2Husband, father of three, historian by education, IT'er at work, and now retired. Have been reading SF since more than 50 years...
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I know a few people who won´t like this admission from Google: "the outputs from their LLM should not be trusted and users should know that" !!
Will OpenAI e.a. admit the same thing?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social That's a good one, clearly illustrating the "female hormones bad, male hormone good" principle of the nitwits in the US administration!
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@adfichter Cory Doctorow just quoted Thiel in https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/ while writing about “disaster capitalism”…
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@timbray@cosocial.ca During my career, the company I worked for went through two “mergers”. Can’t help appreciating your sentence “decisions to get into new markets are a map of some mediocre executive’s ambition” ! Calling them mediocre is very gentle, by the way :-)
I’ll also remember this: “Polish the turd before you sell it.” Made me chuckle…
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@tg@indieweb.social @andrewmelder@mastodon.online But a simple text version is also available, in the spirit of the old boring internet ;-) Love it!
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@linguistgoneforeign@mastodon.social @steve_zeke@freeradical.zone @bash2@momou.social I see they are using OpenStreetmaps - are they also contributing to OSM in some way?
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@elena@aseachange.com #technofeudalism Darn, that's another title to add to my (already long) list of "books I need to read" !
One of my issues with AI is neatly described by Om Malik: ‘“AI” is doing exactly the same work that “tronics” and “.com” did before it. Suffix is a signal. It attracts capital. Nothing else matters. Day trading, momentum trading, gambling. It is just all the same.’
Read his whole rant here: https://om.co/2026/04/15/newbirds-ai-is-really-loonybirds-ai/
Of course they have to make car data available: https://c.org/rqHRqmxv5R
#evcc #eudataact #opendata
June Was Hot
The last week of June was warm and sunny, yes. But we also had quite a bit of rain earlier, and in the end that results in a pretty average month in terms of solar electricity production: our panels produced 97% of what we expected on average. Nothing spectacular, contrary - for quite a lot of people in Belgium - to the outcome of the storm that passed over us a few days ago.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @workchronicles@mastodon.social Consider yourself lucky, and don't hesitate to keep learning!
They’re Made Out Of…
Of course I know the short story "They're Made Out Of Meat" by Terry Bisson - I have read it, and I have seen the short movie that Stephen O'Regan made about it as a final film project (it's on Youtube). Great stuff, both the story ánd the movie! And now Max Leiter - someone who it seems is well acquainted with LLM's - took inspiration from Bisson and wrote "
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/theyre-made-out-of/
Recent Reading Material (June 2026)
Yes, I finally finished the third book of Cixin Liu - what a trip! "Death's End", by Cixin Liu (part three of the 'The Three-Body Problem' trilogy) "High Society", by Ben Elton I'm also 'consuming' Tim Danton's "The Computers That Made Britain"... in small 'bites' - because I read it section by section in a random order.
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/recent-reading-material-june-2026/
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@evacide@hachyderm.io I will… once the patch is available. So far, nothing (perhaps because I’m in Belgium?)
Let’s Avoid W Social, Shall We?
Bluesky created my profile somewhere in late 2023 or early 2024, if memory serves me well. Checking out all kinds of "social media", mostly to see how "social" they really are: that's something I have been doing since 2011, when I first encountered LinkedIn. But at that point in time I was already reading a lot of RSS feeds as well as a Mastodon timeline, and that meant that I only occasionally had a quick look at what was going on in…
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/lets-avoid-w-social-shall-we/
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @Giddy@mastodon.social @CJPaloma@mstdn.social He'll be an immigrant there! What if the Martians think like him?
Good To Know If You Like Python
Just a quick note to myself. If you are still using a Mac running Mac OS X "El Capitan" (10.11.6), then it is still possible to run Python 3. You just have to know which version to use: as far as I know, Python 3.9.13 is the latest version to run on this OS X. Download it from here. And don't forget to add the modules you need manually using 'pip'; things like 'requests' are not part of the default installation.
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/good-to-know-if-you-like-python/
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@cford You have to be careful with historical comparisons… but the difference between a market-mandated hype and a party-mandated hype may be smaller than we think. And I fear the prognosis of AI “failure” is pretty spot-on…
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@ironicbadger@techhub.social @mcsurl@mastodon.social Sorry to disagree, but for a newcomer like me namechanges like that (same goes for changes in the menus) are mostly confusing! Much documentation was written before the change, and is not being adapted...
Thinking Clearly Versus Mythology
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/thinking-clearly-versus-mythology/
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Andere computer, zoveel uren later: geen beterschap voor #Taxonweb. Net ingelogd, maar een poging om mijn aanslagbiljet te openen levert na veel te lang wachten enkel een Oeps op…
Now There’s A Good Question, Not Just For Philosophers
I did not realize that the Israeli Attack Force used AI to determine Palestine membership of Hamas. Turns out they do, if I may believe the French website "Dans Les Algorithmes": D’un côté, l’armée israélienne s’est vantée d’effectuer la sélection des cibles à l’aide d’outils d’IA et d’analyse de données les plus sophistiqués pour identifier des cibles humaines et des infrastructures liées au Hamas ; pourtant, le…
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/now-theres-a-good-question-not-just-for-philosophers/
Come On, Apple, Be Quick Now!
A week ago, I read this Mastodon toot (plus all replies and follow-up toots)... So I started writing my post for this blog: Yeah, it’s bad. Anyone who does not want to (or cannot) update from iOS 18 to 26 on a device that is theoretically capable of running the latest version is now stuck with what could be a very risky operating system.
https://nukleos.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/come-on-apple-be-quick-now/