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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18
NewsGuard August 2025 One Year Progress Report: Percentage of Responses Containing False Information
This is what I have been warning for since 2020: AI LLM will end up in a downward quality spiral.
My reasoning back then, and still now is that they:
- cannot distinguish LLM generated training data from human data making the LLM worse over time
- don’t perform human curation thereby not solving the worsening
I’m not surprised by the [Wayback/Archive] August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard summary:
AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Generative AI, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech
It is a great session with guidance how to kind of go “back to the future” by amending cloud based applications to run locally by means of caching and syncing data. No small feat, but very convenient for end-users to have their – recently regarded as old-fashioned – local running applications back.
There is a – member’s only – video of it as well at [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 – YouTube
--jeroen
Posted in Cloud Development, Development, Software Development, Systems Architecture | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:
[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):
Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.
--jeroen
Posted in ADSL, Development, Encoding, Internet, ISDN, ISP, KPN, Mojibake, Power User, PSTN, Software Development, Telephony | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Home brew / homebrew, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Tagged: 15073, 4640 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.
So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:
If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:
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Posted in CommandLine, Development, MSI, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 11, Z77A-G43 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
On my list of things to try out (and see if it is better than an NTP clock):
--jeroen
Posted in Development, Hardware Interfacing, Legacy Ports: COM, Software Development, USB | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
- List branches by their date of last modification
- Delete old topic branches that have been merged
- Find the origin of a branch point
- Fix trailing whitespace
–jeroen
Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10
[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
Main takeaways for me:
- CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off
- there are many more internal registers than I was anticipating
- clever ways to convert if statements to non-jumps
--jeroen
Posted in .NET, Assembly Language, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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