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2023: Ben Collins on Twitter: “Here’s the thing with the current AI panic: pretty much any technology that uses an algorithm is being relabeled as AI right now. It’s a way to sell investors or shareholders, to say what you’re doing is the future. A lot of it is just rebranded tech that’s been around a while.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/12

I wonder how now, 3 years after the AI hype started in 2023, the situation has changed.

[Wayback/Archive] Ben Collins on Twitter: “Here’s the thing with the current AI panic: pretty much any technology that uses an algorithm is being relabeled as AI right now. It’s a way to sell investors or shareholders, to say what you’re doing is the future. A lot of it is just rebranded tech that’s been around a while.”

[Wayback/Archive] Михайло Ska Tov on Twitter: “@oneunderscore__ It also sounds like this isn’t even AI, but just like, a cable-company level helper bot”

[Wayback/Archive] Ariel Guersenzvaig on Twitter: “How it started How it’s going”

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–jeroen

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11

In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:

  • They used their captcha mechanism to have their end-users DDoS a party that they had a dispute with
  • They altered archived content

Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.

Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains  of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.

For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.

What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):

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Posted in Power User, Internet, InternetArchive, WayBack machine, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Archive Today controversy | Leave a Comment »

Great implicit breadboard tip by PH1X on Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11

There was a great embedded breadboard tip in this tweet:

[Wayback/Archive] PH1X on Twitter: “Working on a Quad 43 pre-amp that has problems with the source selection. Don’t have al logic IC’s in stock to replace them so instead I made a little test circuit. This CD4001 works as it’s supposed to do so I have to dig a little further.”

Do you see it in the picture he posted?

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Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

[Wayback/Archive] Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Dass sich über smartes oder bidirektionales Laden Geld sparen lässt, ist aber kaum zu bestreiten. Das ist vor allem dann der Fall, wenn man den eigenen Solarstrom im E-Auto zwischenspeichert und für den Eigenbedarf nutzt. Doch dem steht die Anschaffung einer teuren Wallbox gegenüber.

This corrects the car-market centric article [Wayback/Archive] Bidirektionales Laden beeinträchtigt die Lebensdauer von Elektroauto-Batterien nicht – Sonnenseite – Ökologische Kommunikation mit Franz Alt

Bidirektionales Laden (V2G) wirkt sich nur minimal auf die Gesamtalterung aus und bringt dem E-Autofahrenden einen Mehrwert von 600 Euro pro Jahr.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @solarpapst on Thread Reader App

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The hardest debugging task: reliably reproducing the issue

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

This happens so often:  [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman 🌺 on Twitter: “@XenoPanther This happens to me way too often”

Or on public repositories: [Wayback/Archive] Xeno 🐈‍⬛ on Twitter: “… Seriously? I was able to repro an issue but as soon as I began filing feedback. Fixed”

A reliable CI/CD environment helps on the former: that way you can produce a breaking build both locally and on the CI/CD in one go.

Step 1: finally repro the bug Step 2: Tell your teammate Step 3: The repro goes away Wait, what? Gru, who has been presenting the steps on a whiteboard, looks back at that one, wondering if there's a flaw in the plan

–jeroen

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New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

From last year, but the blog queue was deep (:

TL;DR: defaults not the same for Chrome and Edge; modifiers differ between Chrome and Edge.

[Wayback/Archive] New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

We’re pleased to announce that version 4.4.32 of our extension introduces convenient keyboard shortcuts for your most-used features.

Default Shortcuts

Function Shortcuts
Capture > Visible Part Alt+Shift+V
Capture > Full Page Alt+Shift+F
Capture > Selected Area Alt+Shift+S
Start Recording Desktop Alt+Shift+R

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I was worried it would clash with shortcuts in existing web-sites or extensions, so I was glad the blog post continued explaining how to change the settings in two ways:

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Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

[Wayback/Archive] Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

This holds for many non-cancer patients as well, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] How to comfort people to actually make them feel better ? : socialskills.

Every patient is unique, so don’t suggest alternatives unless you have been in exactly the same situation as they are in.

Even then, better than bringing up their disease, ask them how you can help, show your care, sit down and just listen, or talk normal aspects of anyone’s life: hobbies, family, weather, food, etc.

The worst you can do is not being there at all. This is how long lasting friendships end.

For anyone, it is very tiring to talk about a single aspect of their life for each and every day. Not even new moms as the article from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center mentions.

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1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen…

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06

A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).

I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:

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Posted in BITNET Relay, Chat, Development, DuckDuckGo, eMail, Fun, gist, GitHub, Google, GoogleSearch, History, Internet, Java, Java Platform, Meme, Power User, Quotes, SearchEngines, SocialMedia, Software Development, Tomcat | Leave a Comment »

memory spy by b0rk (Julia Evans): visualise how C how variables are represented in memory

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06

[Wayback/Archive] memory spy

It is universal for most other programming languages too as explained in [Wayback/Archive] New playground: memory spy

why is it useful to look at C?

You might be wondering – I don’t write C! Why should I care how C programs represent variables in memory?
In this playground I’m mostly interested in showing people how integers and floats are represented. And low-level languages generally all represent integers and floats in the same way – a 32-bit unsigned int is going to be the same in C, C++, Rust, Go, Swift, etc. The exact name of the type is different, but the representation is the same.
In higher-level languages like Python it’s a little different, but under the hood a float in Python contains a C double, so the C representation is still pretty relevant.

Via

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Some Bitwarden Family Plan notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/05

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