https://web.archive.org/web/20240702043645/https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird Ladybird is a project that aims to become a new independent *nix browser (not borrowing from other engines). There's also a US non-profit founded for it ladybird.org. Still very much in pre-alpha.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630131807/https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

Dated June 2024 a set of 'ethical' principles for the web. Curiously it never mentions linking, not even in context of the principle of enabling verification of info.

Some things are handy checklist to run against my own website / web activities though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630131123/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd114lllyp6o

37signals on when it does not make sense to run cloud infra. Costs vs what it brings. Great if you need 20mins of high performance, but not needed to in 5mins extend serverpark, if a week and running own hardware is also ok. I think this is true for hosted subscription services too. They add up, and there might well be alternatives. - [ ] #webbeheer maak beter lijstje abo's #tgl met Fenna. Is er iets te vervangen of consolideren? 2024-09-01

"From cloud-first to cloud-when-it-fits" (Mark Turner of Pulsant colocation data centres)

[[Ðubre (Trash) by Marko Vidojkovic]] is not translated from Serbian to anything else it seems. Published 2020. Vidojkovic in exile because of criticising Vucic et al.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240629142207/https://www.fr.de/politik/ich-hatte-nie-angst-um-mein-leben-das-begann-erst-mit-vucics-machtuebernahme-92451403.html

"interoperable and openly accessible European data processing ecosystem, known as IPCEI-CIS. This initiative aims to reduce reliance on external providers and promote open source technologies" "The European Union has approved a €1.2 billion investment" - [ ] zoek het IPCEI-ICS project op #geonovumtb en kijk nr relevantie voor bijv SIMPL en andere DS initiatieven. #10mins #elaag #pmiddel

https://web.archive.org/web/20240621162905/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/science/brain-language-thought.html

• [ ] Search for publications by Dr. Evelina Fedorenko on the role (or rather absence) of language in thinking.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240621155220/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds

localized geo-engineering as casus belli

The lopsided asymmetry here is charring. Imagine putting in time like that, where responses are instantly generated. You'll feel a) that this is worth something because you spent time on this, and we equate such investment in others with depth, but here there's no other b) there will always be a response by generated personas, and you will feel a likely 'social' pressure to respond in kind.

And of course there's lots of money in this sociopathic scheme. likely because the funders come from the same strain.

wholesome? 'could help people connect with others such as AIs' An AI is not an other and there is no connection as it has no concept nor memory of you.

It might well be a narcissist honey pot.

Where on the spectrum is this guy? No they couldn't have been AIs, or you wouldn't have built meaningful connections. Relations aren't just something you experience for you to feel good over, but a thing in itself playing out between two or more people. This sounds sociopathic.

Will humans and AI be distinguishable? _butterfly who's a woodworker' no it isn't. It is generating stuff statistically matching what a woodworker might post, and all it generates is fantasy. There is no woodworker, there is no 'latest creation' of actual wood, just a generated image. Can we please stop this utter crap?

whose creativity? what actual relationships? More seductive to project you mean.

Yet this too is just a generative AI chatbot, with nice pictures.

What? a Butterfly is an interactive persona, and supposedly people want to interact with it? Each one has "backstories, opinions and emotions" no they don't. Each one generates text that people then project upon to perceive a past, opinions and emotions. It even doesn't need much for it, see Eliza.

These descriptions are very uncanny valley. Imagine a community where each AI friend has its own unique digital life, ready to share moments, create memories, post images just like real friends Butterflies is more than just a social network; it’s a fresh approach to connection Imagine a place where every friend understands you perfectly,

Asimov in his fiction was fascinated by the advent of statistics, so let's not read things into it wrt predicting futures. We know that's not what statistics do, and still are committed to the waving of invisible hands like it's the 18th century. Connecting this to memetics is likely a fruitless path.

Journal appeared 1997-2005 http://pcp.vub.ac.be/jom-emit/past.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20240618090724/https://www.pv-magazine.de/2024/06/12/solarpower-europe-europas-speichermarkt-verdoppelt-sich-im-dritten-jahr-in-folge/

Third year in a row that power storage capacity has doubled in Europe. The graph suggests that doubling will not continue, but was more a function of the low level of storage previously. Germany is a leading actor in storage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617130038/https://www.reworked.co/digital-workplace/are-we-focusing-on-the-wrong-ai-use-cases/

via [[Lee Bryant]] Postshift. Which use cases to look at for AI. Imo the narrower the better. Vgl [[small band AI personal assistant]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617122834/https://www.anthropic.com/claude

What https://unherd.com/2024/05/im-in-love-with-my-ai-girlfriend/ used as AI model / app, jailbroken.

Seems it was the paid version, as linked article mentions Opus, which is available for 20usd/m. Has an API and an iOS app (no Android).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617122335/https://unherd.com/2024/05/im-in-love-with-my-ai-girlfriend/

Column by a travel writer on how anthropomorphing AI can go off the rails quickly. Note that author doesn't really explain how he interacted except for vague indications (a jailbroken Claude 3 Opus model, seemingly running on his phone as app?)

Via [[Euan Semple]] https://euansemple.blog/2024/06/08/jesus-tittyfucking-christ-on-a-cracker-is-that-a-pagan-shrine/

Conclusie jaarrapport: kijk naar digi en cybersec op bestuursniveau. Raakt aan [[Bestuurlijke zaken data centraler 20201029094001]]

UK rail hooked CCTV up to algo's to detect emotions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617100817/https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/energiewende-warum-es-jetzt-auch-nachts-solarstrom-gibt-a-5462f892-2ee4-4937-93bc-0b8ec078570c

Overview of the rapidly reducing prices for power storage. At scale the price wil drop below 100USD/KWh by 2025.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240616135517/https://alex.kirk.at/2024/06/13/your-wordpress-as-your-personal-mastodon-instance/

Use WP as your activitypub instance. If the mentioned plugins require xmlrpc or depend on JetPack then not feasible for me. Might try a set-up like this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240616134849/https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at-innovating/

[[Bert Hubert]] on lack of innovation in Europe. Outline the reasoning. Wrt innovation I think the goal too often is global or making it in the US, which fails because of the stated cultural reasons. Having European diversity as starting point works well from examples I'm aware of, but that is not a usual one. Vgl. [[Innovation – Interdependent Thoughts 20051229164439]]

De opstelling van het foutrechtse kabinet

https://web.archive.org/web/20240614130844/https://www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/

no clear evidence that homework has an academic or non-academic effect on learning.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240613081407/https://netzpolitik.org/2024/european-election-german-pirates-will-not-re-enter-eu-parliament/

Netzpolitik provides a useful listing of MEPs with digital expertise. - [ ] maak lijst namen MEPs en achterhaal profiellinks etc #geonovumtb #30mins

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611111852/https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

creepy uncanny valley stuff. Platform sanctioned bots insinuating themselves in spots where the expected context is 100% human interaction, undisclosed, and with the aim to mimick interaction to lock in engagement ('cause #adtech) Making the group of people a means. One wonders if this reaches the emotional influencing threshold in the EU legal framework

Akin to any research is [[Action Research is vraag-reflectief leven 20031215142900]], and distancing as safety measure or to siderstep ethical questions around one's output.

Any research should be impact aware.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611050132/https://jentery.github.io/ts200v2/notes.html

An interesting read turning a range of #psts issues into specific reflection questions to ask at the start of a tech project. With references to the background concepts. From 2018. #toread

Vgl [[Techpledge 20190917062614]] as the 'political' phrasing of same.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240607201833/https://mcgeesmusings.net/2024/06/06/knowledge-is-personal-manage-it-that-way/

Fellow KM blogger from back in the day [[Jim McGee]] (he blogs since Oct 2001) articulates in a slightly different way something that is key ot my perspective on org KM too: PKM is the foundation for org KM. I picked that up from Sveiby's 1997 book. n:: Jim phrases it here as K sharing doesn't happen between people when they have nothing to share, bc they don't do PKM. Then any sharing is a burden as it requires formulation first. I share stuff with colleagues daily, because it is a benefit to share things I already formulated.

hoezo VNG wel? De waterschappen vallen er ook zeker onder, en zij hebben toch geen privaatrechtelijke vereniging? De UvW is publiekrechtelijk wellicht?

gek, want in de lijst staan ze als tegenstemmend.

huh? ODD maakt AVG expliciet leidend, en baseert bovendien op openbaarheidsregime van Lidstaten, waarin AVG ook telkens de leidende beperking van openbaarheid is.

nog eens nalezen wat de ODD over inforegisters zegt. Ik las het in eerste lijn als de info-registers die de WOO had gedumpt uit het voorstel maar nu terugkomt. Die lijst bevat van alles, en lang niet allemaal data. Eind 2024 zou er een voorstel moeten liggen mbt omgang inforegisters.

er komt een lijst van overheidsondernemingen

dit is wel helder antwoord

Dit is een warrig antwoord. Hier wordt niet helder gesteld wat marginale verstrekkingskosten zijn. En ja, het idee is dat die lager zijn dan hergebruikswaarde en geen Coasean floor betekenen.

formuleert het hier als een inspanningsverlplichting tav nu zichtbare risico's, dus imo niet fictieve toekomstige.

meerdere keren genoemd, kan het zo snel niet vinden.

2 jaar, v mid 2019 tot mid 2021 en is nog niet eerder een issue geweest.

Welke is dit? Van BZK of bedoelen ze de Geonovum HVD gids ook?

Ja wat een onzin was dat. Gemeenten worden niet geraakt door de HVD en daarmee verbonden API-plicht. BZK heeft een miljoen aan de VNG verkwanseld voor een fictieve angst. Ze doen nog altijd alsof HVD heel veel werk voor gemeenten is. Het typische VNG model, veel angst zaaien en zeggen dat een zak geld helpt.

vreemd dat dit expliciet in de wet is opgenomen. De AVG betekent al dat hergebruikers die (zorg)plicht hebben. Hergebruikers hebben zelfstandige verantwoordelijkheden in de AVG, en die reflecteren niet upstream naar overheidsverstrekkers.

juist.

Kijk, de Stas zegt het wel helder. De link met doelbinding, niet met imaginaire toekomstige risico's.

Dit is sinds het begin imo een weeffout in AVG: je kunt als initiele provider niet uitsluiten dat iemand anders later in strijd met de wet handelt, maar dat kun je imo nooit gebruiken om nu iets niet openbaar te maken. Je verschuilt je dan achter een toekomstig en niet inschatbaar risico, en doet alsof je daar zelf verantwoordelijk bent. Je lekt geen data in retrospectief als iemand anders er in de toekomst illegaal iets van bakt, no?

Is Volt wel bij op dit dossier? AVG beperkt in WOO wat openbaar is, en daarmee wat mogelijk onder hergebruik valt in de WHO. Openbare persoonsgegevens is weer een ander ding mbt hergebruik.

Huh? Hergebruikers heb ik dat nog nooit horen zeggen, anders dan op 2 manieren: - ik vind het niet erg om te betalen want ik kan dat, en dan bescherm ik de onderkant van mijn markt tegen nieuwe actoren, meestal door grote bestaande hergebruikers - ik wil betalen voor een SLA naast de gratis verstrekking.

Er is bovendien een cruciaal verschil tussen betalen at point of use, of vrijwillig bijdragen aan de infra of deelnemen in governanceraamwerk, in termen van effecten op hergebruik.

Ja, rompslomp als je heft. Nee die tellen niet.

uhm, samenhang? ODD = Wet Hergebruik, no?

https://www.raadvanstate.nl/publish/library/13/digitalisering_wetgeving_en_bestuursrechtspraak.pdf

RvS advies digitaliseringswetgeving in Zotero

Goede vraag. Ik heb nooit begrepen waarom het zo lang duurde (al vermoed ik dat KvK/AP hier een rol in hebben gehad, en BZK er weinig trek in had. Covid is maar 1 reden, want na de publiek consultatie vroeg 2022 lag het ook lang stil) Al weet ik ook dat BZK er heel weinig capaciteit op had zitten.

In de Eerste Kamer is een commissie Digitalisering gevormd. Dit leidt oa tot woordvoering voor meerdere partijen tegelijk. Klinkt goed. Zie ook motie Fiers mbt rekening houden met samenhang digi/datawetten.

Een project v Open State Foundation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240531083407/https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/06/this-disused-mine-in-finland-is-being-turned-into-a-gravity-battery-to-store-renewable-ene publ #2024/02/06 A deep mineshaft to be used in Finland for gravity-storage of green energy. The mine is 1400m deep and a 530m shaft would be used. 2MW means about 1 windmill's capacity in storage. I think the deepest Dutch mine was 1100m (Hendrik mijn, Heerlen), but don't know about shaft length, and if that still exists.

Meredith Whittaker on the origin of AI wave and consquences. Need to read this. #toread Current AI as 1980s insights now feasible on top of the massive data of bigtech silos. And Clinton admin wrt privacy and advertising in 1990s as the fautllines that enabled #socmed platform silos.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240530132639/https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/PersonalScienceWiki:About

"The Personal Science Wiki hosts knowledge about "personal science", where individuals use empirical methods to ask and answer questions about their own lives. Personal science practices overlap with various related communities (e.g. Quantified Self and patient-led research) and individual goals are divers" Has a dozen registered users. No mention of [[Action Research is vraag-reflectief leven 20031215142900]] although they do say 'questions about their own lives', but seemingly meant in a much narrower meaning, not the person in their living environment with others. Came across it as mentioned case in dissertation https://hal.science/tel-04579553/ where it is an example to do similar for citizenscience

Gagliardi, Pasquale (1996) `Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life', in S.R. Clegg, C. Hardy and W. Nord (eds) in Handbook of Organization Studies. London: Sage. https://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PIISMUW0j2YC&oi=fnd&pg=PT446&ots=eLCBvhmiqN&sig=MnoXhQfPB6tN_A14E95HS64Qgr4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Wolfgang Welsch posits aesthetics as prerequisite for cognition. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Welsch_(Philosoph) is this along the path of fenomenological stimulant for thining? [[Denken vergt fenomenologische stimulans 20230514121913]] My sense of beauty is in layered complexity [[Schoonheidsbegrip 20151023132920]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240528070547/https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/the-limits-of-general-purpose-computation/

Terence Eden (posted #2023/05/28 ) on the question if an app provider does have a say on being willing to run their code on your device, in contrast me being in control of a device and determining which code to run there or not. In this case a bank that would disallow their app on a rooted phone, because of risk profiles attached to that. Interesting tension: my risk assessment, control over general computation devices versus a service provider for which their software is a conduit and their risk assessments. I suspect the issue underneath this is such tensions need to be a conversation or negotiation to resolve, but in practice it's a dictate by one party based on a power differential (the bank controls your money, so they can set demands for your device, because you will need to keep access to your account.)

Useful interesting description of DIY solar installations not aimed at full electricity generation but application specific power (e.g. laptop phone charging, lamps, fans). With/out storage. If you list the specific things you want to run on solar you can perhaps have solar capacity specifically for it. Practical implementation of [[Design for intermittency 20190114164941]]

non-nieuws in de sterrenkunde, maar de vragen die Schilling oproept te stellen gaan eigenlijk over elk dossier. Wel 'steeds meer x' roepen maar geen echte vergelijking (het is nog altijd minder dan 10 jr geleden) of duiding geven (bijv dat x gewoon met bevolking meegroeit), geen relatie met impact, geen relatie met blijvende waarde etc. cf [[Crap detection is civic duty 2018010073052]]

regeerakkoord 2024

more meme-list than proper conversation.

Prisco connects to [[Novacene by James Lovelock]] here wrt the evolutionary path any A(G)I will take. (Vgl [[AI begincondities en evolutie 20190715140742]] ) Leaves out [[AI heeft dezelfde natuurwetten 20190715135542]] btw which limits that evolutionary path, and AI might well be too bored because of it to do anything worthwile.

Prisco combines the 'they're here but we can't see it' and dark forest answers to [[Fermi Paradox 20201123150738]].

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The EU actually regulates out of economic interest. The internal market is their remit.

oh dear. This is the second time he phrases his tech stance in religious terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice

the opposition I think is not to fusion tech nor space flight, but to positioning those two as catchall remedies making other actions unneeded. Other actions that are cheaper, have predictable impact in the short run, etc. It's not a 'plan' to ship rich people to Mars because Earth is becoming a mess. And saying such plans are bullshit is not opposition to space flight. Au contraire when it is space research that tells us so much about our environment. Fusion would be great but is a long way of, meaning energy usage reduction while switching to renewables is a viable strategy now, while fusion might be one in some undetermined time frame likely beyond the boundary of the current urgency.

E/Acc says invest more in AI limitlessly, as opposed to EA/Bostrom saying invest only in a specific circle of billionaire friends bc of the extinction level risk involved of AGI. And we need to do it, bc religious fervor 'it reflects the will of the universe'. Not convincing.

Ah, it is an intentional similiarity. An EA rebrand. Note that Bostrom got kicked out by Oxford, for running a 'philosophy' org without philosophers. Prisco about E/acc is very explicit in sketching out its provenance it seems, angling for both a specific audience I suppose and as a next culture war front hopeful (grift).

'e/acc' is optimism Prisco says.

This is odd. 'we have alway done geo-engineering in the sense that we had large scale negative impacts on the globe' unintentionally, so let's do it more and with more focused intention. The leap here is not in geo-engineering David, the leap is in thinking you are capable of seeing it through without externalisation. With a guy that says you can engineer yourself out of complex issues....

Great stuff, if your world view is a response to something you abhor.

[[David Orban]] formulates a telling question here. The label again (e/acc e/yuck!) but putting up several straw men wrt the 'enemy' here 'radical environmentalism'.

a spiritual stream w scientific and philosophical aspects. An early feeder into transhumanism.

which descended into fascism quickly.10yrs after authoring the Futurist Manifesto he authored the Fascist Manifesto, and was a key figure in fascism in Italy. Agitated for Italy's involvement in WW1, died during WW2 in '44 of heart attack. Prisco is not concerned with the moral pedigree of things it seems. See photos https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/10/week-notes-22-39/ on flickr.

Prisco is of transhumanist bend, a into cryogenics. Resigned an ethics board as virtue signalling statement in 'the culture war'. The label itself is a red flag. https://giulioprisco.com/i-have-resigned-from-the-ieet-board-of-directors-793d10a10a8a

Wikipedia https://giulioprisco.com/i-have-resigned-from-the-ieet-board-of-directors-793d10a10a8a

Note he lists his 3yr work at CERN and later work at ESA to aid his tech credentials, but all that work lies 20-35 yrs in the past. It reads like a pretense to link his current stances to something of solid reputation.

A techno-optimist / rationalist thing, connected to transhumanism and cryogenics.

Book titles 2018 and 2021 by Giulio Prisco.

Is the analogue to EA on purpose? That would be a clear red flag.

This sounds very problematic to me. Engineering is not meant for complex issues, it needs reductionism to complicated but highly predictable causal chains to be able to engineer it. Also wrt environment I don't see actual evidence of techno-optimism having had positive impact, let alone at geo-engineering scale. Environmental achievements wrt sulfur (acid rain), ozon (HFCs), living rivers (pesticides, discharges) etc. result from regulations limiting what engineers had previously introduced.

A bit weird text on the role of open data in European common data spaces, where the author fell too much in love with a metaphor.

Hamish Campbell on a '4 opens framework', which seems to be opennes, transparency, collaboration and decentralisation, to enable improvements in empowerment, equity and justice, community building, sustainability. Sounds like a cross between [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] and [[Open Definition 20201004114932]]

Hmm, same author at https://www.reddit.com/user/openmedianetwork/comments/1aoyruz/the_4opens_framework_provides_a_set_of_principles/ names them in Feb 2024 as #opendata, #opensource, #openstandards and #openprocess.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240505060605/https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

GCJ-02 is a WGS-84 based geodetic reference system for China. It has an algorithm applied introducing discrepancies, ensuring only a handful of Chinese companies and the government have accurate map information. Article mentions that some countries have their own geodesic data, I think that might be wrong, most will have their own as it is a historically strategic thing. EU has its own, as does NL at country level. ITRS and its derivation WGS-84 are global ones. Is GCJ-02 a global model or also a national?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240503124032/https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/

Long post on 'how to' tag with a set of rules. Not a word on why to tag as a personal practice. Retrieval is key, and not just retrieval but retrieval in contexts. Not merely descriptive but mostly associative. That there is e.g. a #longtail of tags only used once is also a piece of information itself. E.g. when finding the starting point for a new branch of exploration. I find that [[Tags are valuable as pivots 20070815104800]]. The mostly used tags (unavoidable if you use a limited set as suggested in rule 2) become useless because they no longer demarcate a manageble chunck of material.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240503092551/https://protos.com/creator-of-rabbit-ai-assistant-has-hidden-nft-past/

r1 founder's (scrubbed) past as another nail in Rabbit's coffin. I guess the 'large action model' is vaporware, back to Automator :D

https://web.archive.org/web/20240430105622/https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a

Author suggests the improvement of LLMs is flattening. E.g. points to the closing gap between proprietary and open source models out there, while improvement of proprietary stuff is diminishing or no longer happening (OpenAI progress flatlined 13 months ago it seems). In comment someone points to https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 which implies a hard upper limit in improvement

What seems zero-shot performance by an LLM may well be illusionary as it is unclear what was in training data.

Exponential increase in training data is needed for linear improvements in zero-shot results of LLMs. This implies a very near, more or less now, brick wall in improvement.

BBC highly critical of Humane AI Pin, just like [[Humane AI Pin review not even close]] I noted earlier. Explicitly ties this to the expectations of [[rabbit — home]] too, which is a similar device. Issue here is I think similar to other devices like voice devices in your home. Not smart enough at the edge, too generic to be of use as [[small band AI personal assistant]] leading to using it for at most 2 or 3 very basic things (weather forecast, time, start playlist usually, and at home perhaps switching on a light), that don't justify the price tag .

AI hype in material science. Google shows an allergy to being pointed to fundamental issues. Another example of pointing out obvious mistakes or issues is not only not welcomed but actively ignored (vgl examples of AI as search engine, where pointing out the first three of the top ten results were wrong resulted in being shouted at, or the blogpost writing video in which presented 'facts' were 1 wikipedia click away from being shown made-up. False citations etc.) It's not bad per se that AI can be wrong, no tool is infallible, but the problem is n:: the extreme asymmetry between the machine effort needed to make stuff up in heaps, and the human effort needed to wade through all the crap and point that out. Vgl [[Spammy handelings assymmetrie 20201220072726]] [[It is easier to F things up than fix things 20180610073041]] Creating entropy is way easier than reducing it, always. We don't need our tools to create ever more entropy on purpose, if only we can reduce it again. Our tools need to help decrease entropy. Decreasing entropy is the definition of life, increasing it should be anathema. Esp if it is unclear where a tool is increasing entropy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240430091654/https://pdworkman.com/writing-a-novel-in-markdown/

A full description of PD Workman's workflow writing a book in markdown and Obsidian. Mentions using Canvas and Excalidraw to visualise plot development, as well as Kanban style boards. Mentions compiling tools to create manuscript from loose files. Seems similar to Scrivener except that has this baked in and thus less flexible?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240430062049/https://ideophone.org/raspberry-pi400-kids-first-personal-computer/

Post by [[Mark Dingemanse]] about a RPi pc for his kids to explore. Sounds like something that is perfect for Y too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240429112449/https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120 paper from #2023/10/16

so what do we have: heuristics -> emergence -> complexity -> system evolution

static persistence, dynamic persistence, novetly generation. Function is a selective pressure “law of increasing functional information” vgl [[Informatiewaarde ligt in verrassing surprisal 20210124072501]]. How does this work vis-a-vis entropy laws vgl [[Definitie van leven 20190715121243]] as entities that reduce entropy in their environment.

Life as bootstrapping to another level of complexity

Paper in Zotero

https://web.archive.org/web/20240429105012/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism

More on the demise of Bostrom's outfit at Oxford.

wtf. there's a negative correlation between education access and poverty. And a positive correlation between poverty and family size. This is like saying the poor have too many children, or fill-in-a-poverty-stricken-region-of-the-world have too many children. Such complaints are as old a our collective memories. And this passes for philosophy with Bostrom c.s.? When people are better off they have smaller families.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240429070339/https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

A ranty post about what happened at Google search ca. 2019 and eroded its quality.

author mentions this as the locking in of rotting google search.

The start of Google search decreasing effectiveness

How does 'we've lost tax-exempt status in Germany' logically lead to 'let's incorporate in the US'? What makes paying tax bad? What about the tax exempt non-profit status in one of the other EU countries (Easy to form, I chair one and am on the board of two others e.g.)? What are the consequences of starting a US entity, how does it affect Mastodon falling within the scope of the Patriot act, what about how every data transaction to a US based entitiy is currently now legally covered in the EU? Which assets fall under the new entity?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240429052238/https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tumble-storage-battery-costs-boost-shift-renewables-says-iea-2024-04-25/

Costs of batteries is expected to go down 40% in coming 6yrs (source IEA). Notes that storage doesn't need the same lightweight materials that cars aim for.

Counterclaim that the stats were represented wrong. Still Vgl [[Een boek verkoopt gemiddeld nog 44 papieren exemplaren 20220215170655]] stands, Flemish gov stats: 44 copies is the average.

Very sobering figures on the publishing industry. Vgl [[Een boek verkoopt gemiddeld nog 44 papieren exemplaren 20220215170655]] and [[Boeken schrijven is flauwekul 20210930172532]]

Apple supposedly slashed production for their 3k5 USD ski goggles, a sign they may soon be joining the long list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_reality_headsets of attempts that all don't solve the key thing: adding 1kg of ski goggles to your head and shove it between yourself and the world is only acceptable in a very limited set of contexts and uses, and not a mainstream thing.

Not sure what to make of this, a combination of Solid Pods and AP, with Solid being the data storage. Meaningless refs to data ownership (you don't own your data on Fedi, you've spread it to 100s of servers around the globe with each message. You don't even have control over the database you use in your client, unless self-hosted. You can move, without your messages.) It's just that nobody afayk mines the stuff for adtech. And data ownership doesn't legally exist in most parts of the world. So what is the purpose of Solid here, if you store recipes and ephemeral socmed messages in it? Just that it's there so you can skip having to build the database part of an AP server / client combo? So that everyone can run their personal instance with something that can also do other things? It doesn't say but that would be a potential step up (assuming people know how to run a solid pod that is).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240424051714/https://www.rabbit.tech/research

Seems the basic idea is: - Have a person perform a task (much like Automation on a laptop) and then the Rabbit (from taskrabbit no doubt) will be able to do variations on it. Automating in the style of [[Standard operating procedures met parameters 20200820202042]] - the device is a relatively simple edge , with most of the compute depending on data centers. This runs counter to smart edges, and interestingly counter to how they market the device (as no subscriptions or APIs needed). The simple edge should make it affordable and the centralised compute should make it scalable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240424050235/https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-os

RabbitR1 claims about their workings allowing user actions not just information.

The Rabbit people say their LAM is a new type of foundation model, to be able to deduce user intention and decided on actions. Sounds like the cli tool I tried, but cutting human out of the loop to approve certain steps. Need to see their research what they mean by 'new foundation model'

Rabbit R1 is a personal AI assistant in a retro box. Supposedly without subscription fees, but with access to AI services and with internet connection. Designed to be able to take action (kind of like the promptchaining cli tool I tried out?). Says it has a LAM next to LLM, a 'large action model' which sounds like marketing rather than tech.

According to #dgcnect this page will track all EDICs set up by MS through implementing decisions by the EC. They also said every EDIC is expected to have their own website with contact details and composition. So no company register style set-up with UBO type info.

Mogelijk opening keynote geven. Bij de Vlaamse in Brussel.

Wethouder Lauriks v Arnhem: schuldhulpverlening kost 17milj/jr, terwijl het om 3,5milj/jr aan schulden gaat. Een factor 5! Bron? Tegelijkertijd gaat dat geld natuurlijk ook in banen zitten. Kans op herhaling lijkt me key. Vgl daklozen experimenten en UBI.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240422104417/https://www.ncsc.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/april/18/cybercheck-ook-jij-hebt-supply-chain-risicos

NSCC over supply chain risico's mbt digitale diensten/producten. Kijk de check eens door op dingen voor [[Infosec ladder van techniek en gedrag 20190530190335]] TGL.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240421060823/https://www.identityblog.com/ Kim Cameron (died 2021)'s blog wrt [[7 Laws of Identity 20201024210040]] with the last post being from mid 2020, but the last pertinent posts from fall 2018, having started in 2004. There seems to be a large amount of useful material here around identity. Cameron was a chief architect at MS wrt identity. His 7 laws sought to tie our human understanding of how identity works to the digital realm, putting things like consent, minimal disclosure which people do fluently irl, and seeing people as part of the system when you design something at the heart.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240420102854/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Oxford shut down 'Future of Humanity Institute'. Vgl [[Jaan Tallinn]] Nick Bostrom Part of phil dept, but less and less phil on staff. Original existential threat list seemed balanced, over time non-existent AI became only focus, ignoring clear and present dangers like climate change.

Nebo is a Mac app for handwritten notes. Its OCR claims to do English plus one of 66 other languages both. First time I've seen that. Q remains: does it do so simultaneously in a single note, or as selected per note? My e-ink device allows a range of languages but not at the same time, I need to switch the setting, and applies one language to one note. This clashes with the fact that multilingual users will use multiple languages inside their notes at the same time. n:: [[Multilingual is not multiple monolingual 20191019072010]] obv https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/adding-better-language-support-ii/

60% of WP hacks is based on stolen session cookies. Another third on core/plugin/theme vulnerabilities. Forcing log-outs for admin accounts then is a fix.

The three are: company data, statistics and mobility. Odd choices: statistics already are interoperable, mobility is a tiny theme in HVD legislation, limited to transport networks and inland waterways, covered by INSPIRE. Company registers

byob bring your own bacteria. Many hospital infections are caused by microbes you already had on you, not by a drug resistant superbug.

Vgl [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]] / [[Context is netwerk van betekenis 20210418104314]] [[Observator geeft betekenis 20210417124703]] . I think K as stock is prone to collector's fallacy. My working def of K is agency along lines of Sveiby. Such K is always situated in the interaction with the world, networks of meaning as context. This as K isn't merely purified I (DIKW pyramid is bogus), it's weaving I, experience, context, skills into a meaningful whole, and it needs an agent to decide on what's meaningful.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240412153300/https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review?eicker.news=

it reads like that yes. Being able to instruct something rather than guess what it is I want is easier and probably better, because you can tweak your instructions to your own preferences.

This reads as if the device wants to be too clever. You could do this with your phone wearing a headset and instruct it to look up a specific restaurant in your own voice. No need for the device to use location, snap an image, OCR it or whatever.

[[AI personal assistants 20201011124147]] should be [[small band AI personal assistant]]s and these are the type of things it might do. This articles names a few interesting use cases for it.

Het webinar van RADIO op 27-2 over mijn #pkm systeem. Video bij https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/03/word-pkm-kampioen-voor-jezelf/ en [[PKM RADIO slides]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240409122434/https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/go

• In the decades before AI beat Go-worldchampion, the highest level of Go-players was stable.
• After AI beat the Go-worldchampion, there is a measurable increase in the creativity and quality of Go-players. The field has risen as a whole.
• The change is not attributable to copying AI output (although 40% of cases that happened) but to increased human creativity (60%).
• The realisation that improvement is possible, creates the improvement. This reminds me of [[Beschouw telkens je adjacent possibles 20200826185412]] wrt [[Evolutionair vlak van mogelijkheden 20200826185412]]
• Also the improvement coincides with the appearance of an open source model and tool, which allowed players to explore and interact with the AI, not just play a Go-game against it.
• Examples of plateau-ing of accomplishments and sudden changes exist in sports
• There may also be a link to how in other fields one might see the low end of an activity up their game through using AI rather than be overtaken by it.

Paper 2022 publication in Zotero

Five types of wayfinding in PSKN: 1) node creation 2) finding key notes, 3) forming mental maps 4) making a connection between nodes deemed important 5) finding/filtering information. Note how these 5 are also, in a different way perhpas, core elements of my [[PKM Personal Knowledge Management 20041004192620]] First mentioned, the creation of nodes is a novel type defined by this study. Three types of creation behaviour are involved: learning communities, knowledge nodes, and course knowledge bases. These there are common in pkm circles too, vgl Discord servers some have started, or DF platform, published notes and vids e.g.

Om je te oriënteren in een persoonlijk social kennisnetwerk is het creëren van nodes van groot belang. Maw je moet actief het sociale kennisnetwerk mede vlechten. Netwerkleren betekent connecties maken.

Vgl [[Wie deelt bestaat 20130131133926]] only nodes that share (i.e. contribute) exist in the general perception of the network. Wrt [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240402125351/https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-will-the-genai-bubble-burst

On the investment and revenue in #algogens AI. Very lopsided, and surveys report dying enthusiasm with those closely involved. Voices doubt something substantial will come out this year, and if not it will deflate hype of expectations. #prediction for early #2025/ AI hype died down

Wrt [[XZ open source kwetsbaar door psyops 20240331083508]] and examples referred to here, the author focuses on technology fixes to reduce risks. Whereas most of the problems highlighted are social aspects, for which no other solution is suggested than paying OSS devs who maintain stuff. That may well alleviate some of the social aspects that became an attack surface, but does nothing to look at Q of connections between devs and knitting those into relationships that are more resistant to social engineering and psyops. That and more transparency both on the social side of things and the chains. OSS is open source wrt the piece of software in front of you only.

Next to the xz debacle where a maintainer was psyops'd into backdooring servers, this is another new attack surface: AI tools make up software packages in what they generate which get downloaded. So introducing malware is a matter of creating malicious packages named the way they are repeatedly named by AI tools.

a few interesting suggestions, but based on shaky assumptions and practices I think, and then jumping to (over)engineering an alternative system/tool, rather than updating one's (understanding of) tiny methods. The reference frames are useful notion I suspect, but as emergent structure. It seems as if author is thinking the actual work involved in writing / placing / linking is a bug rather than a feature.

Verdict of EU CJ, IAB Europe is een joint-controller voor de AVG. En daarmee ook aan te pakken. Ook de volgende iteratie van IABEurope om onder de AVG uit te komen faalt dus.

1 TC String is personal data under the GDPR: "a string composed of a combination of letters and characters, such as the TC String, containing the preferences of a user of the internet or of an application relating to that user’s consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her by website or application providers as well as by brokers of such data and by advertising platforms constitutes personal data within the meaning of that provision in so far as, where those data may, by reasonable means, be associated with an identifier, such as, inter alia, the IP address of that user’s device, they allow the data subject to be identified. In such circumstances, the fact that, without an external contribution, a sectoral organisation holding that string can neither access the data that are processed by its members under the rules which that organisation has established nor combine that string with other factors does not preclude that string from constituting personal data within the meaning of that provision."

2 IABEurope is a joint controller: "first, a sectoral organisation, in so far as it proposes to its members a framework of rules that it has established relating to consent to the processing of personal data, which contains not only binding technical rules but also rules setting out in detail the arrangements for storing and disseminating personal data relating to such consent, must be classified as a ‘joint controller’ for the purpose of those provisions where, in the light of the particular circumstances of the individual case, it exerts influence over the personal data processing at issue, for its own purposes, and determines, as a result, jointly with its members, the purposes and means of such processing. The fact that such a sectoral organisation does not itself have direct access to the personal data processed by its members under those rules does not preclude it from holding the status of joint controller for the purpose of those provisions";

https://web.archive.org/web/20240325144725/https://www.golem.de/news/tracking-und-cookies-dieses-urteil-koennte-die-online-werbung-veraendern-2403-183186.html

Oordeel over IAB latest trick mbt real time bidding. IAB is again determined to be a processor. I think this is their 3rd of even 4th iteration. High time a judge concludes they aren't good faith actors (and never were). The Transparency and Consent string is judged to be personal information as it contains both a url and personal user preferences. IAB and not only their individual members can now centrally be prosecuted for GDPR violation.

A redirect tool by [[Henk van Ess]] to search for existing public twitter lists by keyword. Only works if you are logged in with an account, because it only redirects you to the URL for the search: https://twitter.com/i/lists/search?q=keyword and that url is only approachable if logged in.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240307125758/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

Women's diaries from 17th till now have frustration as recurring theme, analysis shows. Not a big surprise. I think journaling often is emerging when frustration rears its head. And women have had ages of deeply systemic reasons to be very frustrated by.

I've only ever journaled when there was something wrong with me or my context, when I was frustrated, sad, depressed etc. Perhaps except for those who treat their being as action research and make daily notes for later data mining, or those in a public role journaling to maintain first hand observations before spin gets invovled (keep a journal is a sound advice for anyone getting politically active).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305193114/https://writing.bobdoto.computer/how-to-use-folgezettel-in-your-zettelkasten-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started/

I regularly come across posts wrt to use Folgezettel or not, and whether there's a role for them outside 'Luhmann purism'. Bob Doto is vocal about it, or has been over the yrs. I get three elements from this: 1. The numerical branches and numbers are emergent, not preplanned like Johnny Decimal or as people once suggested for common placing 1. It forces a first link. Which also serves as a mental anchor. This is something that can work regardless of Folgezettel. I also always add at least one link. The thing is I do not fixate that link by marking them as the original or something like that. I could however do that in some way. The same is true for exploring the collection. It might help as an entry point (and you may have a mental map of the main numbered branches) but that works without numbering too: I know from the graph where main sections of my notes are and use that as starting point. 1. Luhmann and Doto remarked it helps preserve original lines of reasoning /argumentation from a source text or their thinking session. This is something I currently don't really have, and do miss. I do at times create an overview note for such things, and I sometimes add 'link trains' to a note, linking to an overarching concept and following concept and an example. I am not sure that introducing numbering is key in keeping lines of argumentation visible/traceable. This is one of the things to think about n:: numbering systems allow keeping lines of reasoning

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305083845/https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/over-de-betrekkelijkheid-van-veilige-ai-en-het-belang-van-digitale-geletterdheid/

By [[Wilfred Rubens]] citing Leon Furze (?) how 'AI made safe' isn't safe AI just as alcohol free beer isn't soda. I think there's an element here of [[Triz denken in systeemniveaus 20200826114731]] analogue to [[Why False Dilemmas Must Be Killed to Program Self-driving Cars 20151026213310]] where all the focus is on the thing (application, car etc)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305082302/https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/on-not-using-generative-ai

This seems an interesting piece on the use of algogens. It probably does not address the issues around transparency, labor, footprint etc. But it does seem to address the search for the spot where algogens are useful in one's own workflow. Like me in [[Coding Personal Tools With GitHub Co-Pilot]]. There getting to action faster, and saving time are key. But only if you use it as intermediate step, never as a result to be used as is or as final output.

Via [[Stephen Downes]] https://www.downes.ca/post/76336

purpose of doc: list steps to be taken to promote and protect EU tech sovereignty. The paper - details interntnl policy developments (esp in EU and NL, I think EU is relevant level here, NL not so much). - outlines issues for EU govs to ponder before increasing cloud use says it is time to act, like in 5g.

This doc still reads hollow up to this point, nothing tangible said just hinted at.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2024/01/22/staat-van-de-digitale-infrastructuur

https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/5cb9749c-7efa-40db-9328-5da7fa5fcb7c/file

France, NL and Estonia have 'different understandings' of what cloud sovereignty is. What differences are meant (I can guess the cultural ones: F more centralised and directed, NL market led, Est squarely aimed at gov ability to run 'from a usb stick' in case of Russian attack, and citizen control over personal data use.) The question is if those differences are highly relevant: the level of decisionmaking is EU, where they all have a say, but ultimately a European model will be adopted, not a MS-level one.

GAM have 70% market share in Europe wrt cloud (though the relevant customer groups seems to be govs here, how is their market share there?) Says EU alternatives are limited in number and scale but does not mention any. Are some mentioned further on? Also note that EC is not aiming for EU universal cloud services but very deliberately for federated cloud and services. So this comparison may not be al that useful, as the EU will not seek to have EU based GAM style providers, but will seek to make GAM style providers too unwieldy to be relevant.

This is an odd phrasing. The awareness of US tech dependencies wrt cloud precedes those on 5g wrt Huawei and China. This introduction feels off.

The article calls 'a 5g moment' the moment of realisation that dependencies in a tech may erode strategic position, by letting critical infrastructure to be controlled by tech firms that can be influenced by other governments. In the case of 5g it's Huawei and Chinese gov, in the case of cloud it's GAM and US gov. This is not a new notion, it is why the EU digital and data legal framework was created the past 4 yrs, so why this paper now?

DMA level cloud services in 3rd countries provide reliable technology but do not bring trust, security and diversification at a level needed for cloud sovereignty

https://web.archive.org/web/20240202060134/https://andymatuschak.org/books/

Books and lectures are transmissionism (I'd say for historical reasons mostly). Engagement (different forms) is needed, but what form of medium would drive such engagement and do it flexibly is the hard question. (Seeing lecture as warm-up to engagement is a rationalisation afterwards, textbooks already do more but lack emotional and social scaffolding.) This is the research question behind his [[Timeful Texts 20201124070427]]. There's also a connection to my [[Boeken schrijven is flauwekul 20210930172532]] because the distrust in author's motives is that they don't even aim for transmissionism. Just the pretension of it.

Edit #2024/02/28 : Saw [[Chris Aldrich]] mention elsewhere that lectures started out as oral comments on a source text, sharing interpretation and sensemaking as it were. The word deriving from L lectio, reading.

Seems a good point in a lot of areas, here wealth: don't look at what successful actors do but what they did to become successful. Many wealthy people's current investments is not how they got rich, and is not all that successful. (E.g. saw in the '00s how the KM processes of Fortune 500 were touted, without acknowledging they only set those up well after becoming a Fortune 500 company..

Broderick: https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult, Anderson: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

AI search hides the authors of the material it presents, summarising it is abstracting away the authors. It doesn't bring readers to those authors, it just presents a summary to the searcher as end result. Take it or leave it. At the same time, if one searches for something you know about, you see those summaries are always of. Leaving you guessing how of it is when searching something you don't know about. Search should never be the endpoint, always a starting point. I think that is my main aversion against AI search tools. Despite those clamoring 'it will get better over time' I don't think it will easily because the tool nor its makers have any interest in the quality of output necessarily and definitely can't assess it. So what's next, humans factchecking AI output. Why not prevent bs at its source? Nice ref to Maggie Appleton's centipede metaphor in [[The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]]