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hayden on X: “there’s too many people with “AI/ML” in their bio asking what this image is.” / X

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/23

This Tweet from a year ago still is too relevant today: [WaybackSave/Archive] hayden on X: “there’s too many people with “AI/ML” in their bio asking what this image is.”

[Wayback/Archive] hayden on X: “this is who you’re arguing with online “

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Via: [Wayback/Archive] 4censord :nfp: 🔜@eth0: “Stealing to add alt text …” – UnFUG Mastodon

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, BlueSky, Chat, Development, Facebook, Fediverse, Generative AI, Instagram, LinkedIn, LLM, Mastodon, Reddit, SocialMedia, Software Development, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Turning off AI during Google Search with the “new” UDM parameter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17

It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.

In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).

That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.

This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.

Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Chrome, Chrome, Chromium, Development, Edge, Firefox, Google, Google AI, GoogleSearch, LLM, Mastodon, Power User, Reddit, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, URL Encoding, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Excel: sorting an array on 3 different columns using functions

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/09

Given Excel is the most popular functional language (see the video under my post “Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney), this post is on sorting with Excel functions.

I had an array in Excel starting at row 2 (to exclude the headings) where I had to sort on 3 different columns: C, A, B (or numerically 3, 1, 2) so [Wayback/Archive] sorting – How to multi level sort an array in excel, using formulas? I am aware about the way, using SORT button on DATA tab – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Armaan Gohil and [Wayback/Archive] Jos Woolley) didn’t fully apply but did put me on the right track as I wasn’t aware that the SORT function allows to specify multiple columns using an embedded array argument.

The functions that worked:

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