Your lens on the world is shaped by everything you’ve done, the person who you are, the persons that you talk to. When you use that lens, by registering your experiences consciously, writing them down, making pictures, making art, talking about it, you gain feedback on what this lens is doing for you.
I like the framing here of making as reflective.
you cannot train your intuition, but you can listen to it better. I don’t know if that’s entirely true. But I do think you need the silence, the peace of mind, to stand still for a while, to be able to be intuitive
If intuition includes entrained experience, that I'm w Marieke on this. [[Chunking 20210312215715]] for instance seems to be akin to the tacit awareness above, and what makes [[Experts zien anders door chunking 20210418104041]]. Intuition listening as mindful act?
be vaguely right instead of precisely wrong.
ballpark. But this works for specific groups of questions/decisions and not others
One thing that keeps coming back in everything I’ve read: intuition is like information reduction, basically. We have it for a reason: we need to function in this world. And having this one rule of thumb is helping you make fast decisions, and it’s usually almost as accurate, or even more accurate, than if we’re trying to rationally come up with the answer.
intuition as reduction(ism). Intuitively I disagree, much of my own experience of intuition is emergent not reduction. A sensed pattern that jumps out intuitively, often in opposition to reductionism (as (over)simplification). More like a probability wave collapsing?
Cognitive surrenderA paper that came out this year asked: if you’re working with AI a lot, and you’re using it as a machine to answer all of your questions, what happens with System 1 and System 2?
Cognitive surrender: what happens to System 1 and System 2 if you offload to AI to get any answers? (Is this diff from other cognitive tools, like writing and Plato's rejection of it?)
The paper is https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yk25n_v1 and it posits AI offloading as System 3. That is an interesting perspective. Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender by Shaw and Nave, 2026. Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender in Zotero
Jonathan Haidt takes it even further. His paper is called “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail.” If you look at a dog, you think the tail is making a movement. But is the tail actually making the movement, or is the dog wiggling and is the tail just going along? He says we essentially only have System 1. We make our moral choices from our guts, and then we just use System 2 to defend the thing we already decided. There’s been discussion about whether that’s entirely true. There’s no right or wrong, I guess, because we don’t really know exactly what intuition is. But I think it’s a very nice perspective on how our intuition might be more important than we often think it is.
The Emtional Dog and Its Rational Tail by Jonathan Haidt 2001 https://protevi.com/john/Morality/HaidtEmotionalDog.pdf which is said to see System 2 of Kahneman as just there to rationalise System 1 in hindsight, it's all System 1. The tail wiggles bc of the dog's movement.
Most of you are probably familiar with Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. System 1 is your gut feeling, your intuition. Very fast, but also makes mistakes. System 2 is the rational system where you weigh your options and see what’s best. It’s usually explained as: this one is fast but makes mistakes, and then there’s the thinking. We put a lot of weight on that. We are thinking animals, that’s what differs us from the animals.
[[Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman]]
By doing that, by looking at one concept from different angles, suddenly the map of content doesn’t stay flat anymore. It becomes kind of round. You’re able to look at it from different perspectives, different experiences, different domains.
Vgl [[Filosofische stromingen als gereedschap 20030212105451]] as ways of exploring the same questions w different methods based on different perspectives
But you can also look at a concept from different domains: what’s happening in the brain, for example, or how are you experiencing it yourself?
phenomenology meant?
There’s also something called interoception: feeling the feeling of your own body.
Interoception, feeling your body. build up to embodied K?
This is my take, after reading a lot about it: if you act repeatedly on tacit knowledge and you get feedback while doing it, that tacit knowledge becomes intuition.
position: tacit knowledge w feedback loops, becomes intuition
Visual knowledge works the same way. Close your eyes and think of Marilyn Monroe and Einstein. You can picture their faces, you know what they look like. But if you have to describe them to another person, suddenly that becomes very hard. That’s also knowledge that lives in this tacit field.
Not all can. And most can do so incomplete, which is not the same as tacit K. Vgl making a drawing of a bike.
In between sits what Michael Polanyi called tacit knowledge. Think of playing the piano. You’ve practiced a piece so many times that your fingers just go.
[[The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi]] practical skills build on tacit awareness, as in the e.g. of playing piano, but is tied not being able to explain how you do it, making it tacit K. Polanyi's claim is that any meaning can be based on tacit awareness, and thus hard to express.
Our senses take in about 80,000 bits of information per second. We can only consciously process about 50 bits. So there is a lot more unconscious knowledge than there is conscious knowledge.
source? stimuli <> K and that's a very big diff: 4 orders of magnitude.
One word that comes back often is immediate: intuition is this thing that you immediately feel rather than think, rather than rationally explain
intuition as immediate (vlg pattern sensing)
there’s no hard definition. I’ve been talking about this topic more and more over the past few months, and I noticed that people think very differently about this word. And I find that fascinating
no def of intuition, but a intuitive sense of understanding of the term.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260328101008/https://substack.com/home/post/p-192306253
[[Marieke van Vliet p]] on intuition in pkm, from her PKM Summit 2026 session
Takeaways This list isn’t comprehensive. I’m still experimenting and would love to learn from your experiments as well.
I don't feel convinced by specfically the naming of these roles it seems, and also don't per se find them very amanuensis like. The amanuensis / assistant frame is a useful one as such (not just for AI, but also for thinking up new [[Personal Software]] for [[Mijn personal tools list]].
9. Reflector This final role is different. Whereas the others took as the object of inquiry a particular work — e.g., a novel or a movie — this last one takes as the object your knowledge garden itself. That is, you point the LLM to a series of notes to analyze patterns over time and suggest improvements. Example: I fed all 52 weekly posts from my humanities crash course to Claude Code, and asked it to identify the various roles in which I used AI for learning throughout the year. Its answers — with some curation from me — are the roles you just read. Suggested prompt: Here are my notes from [X weeks/months] of reading on [TOPIC]. What patterns do you notice in what I pay attention to? What do I seem to find most interesting, and what do I seem to avoid or underweight?
Role 9 Reflector, give it a bunch of your own notes to analyze patterns. Not sure it differs much of the Connector/Analyst roles other than the object of inquiry being your own notes. I thought of doing this for my blog in one of the earlier roles just now.
8. Mapper This one’s a bit more esoteric. Some people — me included — are primarily visual: diagrams and drawings aid our understanding. Concept maps can be especially helpful. I’ve built an Agent Skill to allow LLMs like Claude draw concept maps. (Download it from Github.) Example: I used this mapping skill to generate a concept map of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. It’s not especially insightful, but more of a proof point of using LLMs in a more visual modality. Suggested prompt: (Note: install my LLMapper Skill before issuing this prompt) Generate a concept map for [WORK] centered on the question: “How does the novel’s treatment of [THEME] illuminate [BROADER QUESTION]?”
Role 8 Mapper. Interesting role, though I wonder if the friction in making concept maps is actually the work to be done here by yourself. Getting a mapping exercise ready (elements that likely need to be on the map, feeding it my [[Systems Convening by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner]] mapping elements library) I think would be useful, and apply my Excalidraw template to it e.g. More amanuensis like too, I think.
7. Analyst This role will also help you appreciate a work from a different perspective. It’s easy: you ask for the LLM to apply a specific critical lens to a reading. Common lenses include Freudian, Marxist, feminist, Girardian, etc. Example: The same week I read Freud, my son and I watched Predator, the 1980s sci fi film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. For fun, I asked ChatGPT to analyze the film through a Freudian lens. The result was both enlightening and hilarious. Suggested prompt: Apply a [Marxist / feminist / postcolonial / Jungian] reading to [WORK]. What does this lens reveal that a neutral summary would miss?
role 7 analyst. The description is not analysis in the data/argument sense, but interpretative more like. Vgl [[Filosofische stromingen als gereedschap 20030212105451]] taking a different perspectives on a question to bring thinking further.
6. Adversary Here’s a fun role: asking for an LLM to push back on your position or steelman the opposing point of view. The idea is to expand your understanding by bringing your assumptions to the surface and challenging them. Example: After watching Modern Times, I asked ChatGPT to correct my understanding of the movie as a work of Marxist propaganda. The LLM convinced me that the film is in fact more of a humanist statement than a political one. As a result of this interaction, I changed my mind on Chaplin’s work. Suggested prompt: Here are my notes on [TOPIC]. Please help me see it through the lens of someone who might be sympathetic to [OPPOSING POSITION] without fully realizing it. What could I improve? Where is my argument weakest? [paste notes]
Role 6 Adversary. To challenge assumptions, better understand opposing views. This is a very interesting role. Having a debater, not as performance, but to deepen knowledge
5. Recommender This is a useful role for deepening your understanding of a subject: asking for related works that reflect similar themes. It’s also a use case where I noticed considerable improvements in LLM performance over 2025. Example: Early in 2025, I read Confucius’s Analects. Perplexity was ahead in web-backed interactions at the time, so I asked it for a list of classic Chinese movies that reflected Confucian values. It responded with five suggestions, some of which it hallucinated. But one of them, Spring in a Small Town, was a bona fide classic — and I likely wouldn’t have learned of it without an LLM. (Later in the year, other chatbots gained this ability and hallucinations dropped across the board.) Suggested prompt: I just finished [WORK]. Recommend three films that explore similar themes or ideas. Prioritize films with strong critical reputations — I’d rather have one great recommendation than five mediocre ones.
Role 5 recommender, described as recommending works to deepen one's understanding. The example to me is more about finding more superficial things to see content in a different shape again (here films, podcasts before), a broadening. Perhaps to get a more emotional tie in with a concept, bringing it into scope of one's perception of beauty, next to K as such?
4. Orienter This role is something of an inversion of the validator. Instead of asking for feedback on your notes after reading a text, here you ask the AI for guidance before reading. You’re looking for framing, historical context, high level outlines, etc. — ideally, without spoilers. Example: Before reading Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Illych, I uploaded both books to NotebookLM, which created a podcast for me that explained their thematic contexts. Listening to this podcast in my daily walk helped me better understand the readings. Suggested prompt: I’m about to read [WORK] for the first time. Give me enough context to make sense of it — historical background, key arguments, things to watch for — but don’t spoil the experience of discovering it myself.
Role 4 Orientor, asking about works' meaning upfront as prep for one's own reading. As inversion of the validator in role 2. The example is about giving something a different form for consumption (comparison of works as podcast). NotebookLM used.
3. Connector Here’s yet another role you can easily do via chat: identifying thematic, philosophical, or narrative parallels between works. Note I wrote “works” — it’s fun and illuminating to ask for connections across media, genre, time, etc. Example: I watched Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation on the same week I read Oedipus Rex. For fun, I asked ChatGPT for possible parallels between the two works. Its reply was enlightening: it pointed out how the protagonists of both stories undertook an obsessive investigation that uncovered terrible knowledge. Suggested prompt: I’ve been reading [WORK A] and [WORK B]. What philosophical or thematic threads connect them? I’m looking for non-obvious resonances, not surface similarities.
Role 3 connector, also chat based. Connector seems a generic term (and in general, wrt [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]] a own brain effort), but the example is more about syntopic readng vgl [[Gebruik AI om podcasts syntopisch samen te vatten 20260306123338]]
2. Validator Another basic role for AI is validating your understanding. To do this, you ask it to review your notes for errors or gaps, do basic fact checking, or critique your reasoning. Again, you can do this via the chat interface, but I also experimented with passing my notes in Obsidian using the Copilot plugin and in Emacs using gptel. Example: After reading The Epic of Gilgamesh, I wrote a note in Obsidian summarizing its plot. When I asked ChatGPT to critique my summary, it pointed out that I’d given the central character a redemption arc that isn’t present in the text. I’m so accustomed to the standard hero’s journey, that I projected it onto the book — and an LLM helped me correct this ‘hallucination.’ Suggested prompt: Here are my notes on [WORK]. What important ideas did I miss or underemphasize? Don’t rewrite my notes — just flag the gaps.
Role 2 validator of one's understanding, also seen as basic. Might be a good complement to e.g. turning some of my notes into [[Anki]] card decks or combine in another way w spaced repetition. [[Spaced repetition 20201012201559]] [[Connecting my PKM to Anki]]
1. Tutor The simplest role for AI is as a tutor. You ask it to explain a difficult concept, clarify a confusing passage, translate jargon, etc. I mostly did this via the standard chat UI (although I created a ChatGPT project to preserve context for the course.) Example: While reading Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, I came across three unfamiliar German terms: es, ich, and über-ich. ChatGPT helpfully explained these are more commonly known as id, ego, and superego — three terms I already understood. Suggested prompt: I just read [PASSAGE]. I understand [X] but I’m confused about [Y]. Can you explain [Y] in plain terms, without assuming I have background in [FIELD]?
Role 1 as Tutor, simplest role. Ask a chatbot for clarification. I think this skips a bit of exploration (wikipedia as jumping off point e.g.), but it is also much more contextual and specific. Includes translation of concepts. You could run this locally I think, and as Jorge states, create a bit of persistent context for it.
It was a messy process. That’s what you do in a garden! And the outcome wasn’t an enthusiastic endorsement of AI. Instead, I landed at a map of roles and modalities for how AI can help at different points in the spectrum. Let’s look at nine of these roles.
there are more than 9 it seems. Perhaps check his blog over the year to see what else. Says process was messy, bc yes garden, and implies mixed results.
Quick glance at the 9 roles I don't see all of them as fitting the amanuensis metaphor imo
Robots in the garden
Arango tried it out on major texts (reminiscent of the original version of [[How to Read a Book The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler]], not the 2nd edition. ) Over a year he came to define 9 roles for the robots in his garden.
I consider amanuensis to be the ideal role for AIs in your knowledge garden.
Can relate. I think this metaphor implies a lot of agentic use too
Some early modern scholars employed live-in secretaries to do various tasks for them: researching, indexing, archiving, retrieving, organizing, translating, summarizing, and running errands. While not as famous as their employers, these people were often seen more as collaborators than anonymous servants. They were called amanuenses
Not sure why going back so far is needed to make the metaphor work? Research assistants, PAs cover similar territory. Or is the key diff the 'live-in' bit. Making it more a continuous relationship and collaboration, less transactional and joblike?
I get most value around the middle of the spectrum. There’s a historical precedent here.
The middle of the spectrum Arango dubs the amanuensis.
When thinking about your relationship with AI in general, it helps to consider a spectrum. On one end, you reject the technology completely: you don’t want it anywhere near your notes. On the other end, the AI completely replaces you. Neither extreme is desirable, so most approaches fall somewhere on the spectrum.
This is akin to [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] spectrum (kiil the monster, adapt the monster, adapt cultural categories, embrace the monster) It is sort of logical that most of us will fall in the middle 2 groups, adapting both the tech and ourselves.
AI — which is being explicitly framed as a prosthetic mind
another metaphor, AI as the second brain, the prosthetic mind. Not sure I've noticed this framing. More like again the productivity angle, do this complicated thing in an hour, not weeks. And again outsourcing of cognition too. It's mostly not even seen as automation, but autonomous handwaving magic.
if the point is creating a place for your first brain to work better, that raises an increasingly pressing question: what role should AI
core question of the talk: if your PKM is a support for your brain, what role for AI.
A garden provides solace and recreation — the opposite of the anxiety that overhangs systems built as productivity hacks. My PKM system provides solace and recreation. So I call it my “knowledge garden,” riffing on the popular digital garden metaphor and Andy Matuschak’s evergreen notes, among others.
A garden provides recreation. Recognisable as a trait my notes have. My title Garden of the Forking Paths for conceptual notes collection points the same way
I approach my knowledge garden with Field Notes’s tagline in mind: “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” I don’t keep a PKM to remember things later, but because writing, structuring, and connecting ideas is how I think. That the words are there for recall later is a bonus, not the main attraction. Clearer thinking is the “gold,” the notes merely record it happened.
Not fully agree with this. Yes, writing is the work/thinking (although it can also happen without it), and yes notes provide the trails of it (but is never the reporting of it) But recall is also a main attraction, just not in the exact same way, as resource for remixing and mash-ups in new thinking processes. Whenever I open a few random notes, new thoughts to note come to mind.
Finally, for many gardeners, the fruit is only part of their garden’s value. Gardening is pleasurable per se. It’s not something they do just because they want to eat. After tall, it’s cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket. Instead, they garden because they find it fulfilling.
Garden yields are one resulting value, the gardening itself another
Also, a garden’s structure can’t be rigidly top-down. While some structure is needed, the place’s form emerges over time as it meets real-world needs. Thinking about PKM as a productivity hack leads to overemphasizing upfront structures and workflows at the expense of the more patient approach required by organic processes.
this goes back to [[Warning, Tacit Assumptions May Derail PKM Conversations]] garden metaphor implies emergent structure, patience, organic processes, as well as a bit of planning, productivity implies top-down initialising.
There are different kinds of gardens for different purposes. Some are for pleasure, while others are for growing food. Some are industrial; others artisanal. What they all have in common: things grow there. And it doesn’t happen overnight, but after much toil in the soil. For a garden to fulfill its purpose — whatever it might be — it must be stewarded over a long time.
Garden metaphor implies work / maintenance for things to grow
more fruitful metaphor for PKMs is that of a garden. Many of us already talk about our PKM systems as “places” where we do focused work
garden metaphor as place we do work.
Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson explain that metaphors don’t just reveal how we talk about things; they also reveal and inform how we think about things, deep down
Key message of 1980 [[Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff Mark Johnson]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By
Metaphors matter not just bc it shapes how the talk about things, but also how we think about them.
That said, I think the “second brain” metaphor has three problems: It implies delegating cognition. The promised outcome is a prosthetic mind. That is, the system will relieve you of thinking and (especially!) long-term recall. (Westenberg: “I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting.”) It sets expectations PKMs can’t meet. This isn’t a promise current PKMs — even with AI — can deliver. The system won’t “extract the gold,” at least not for a long time and after a lot of work on your part. These are bad expectations to begin with. Even if PKMs could do this, you shouldn’t want this. If you want to think better, your goal shouldn’t be to delegate your thinking: It should be enabling your first brain to work better.
Arango has 3 issues with second brain metaphor: 1) implies delegation of thinking to it, 2) oversells pkm as delivering 'gold' (vgl Luhmann's 'septic tank' in contrast) 3) even if PKM could do it, they're not desirable traits. Iow PKM is primarily a tool to support your own brain, not outsourcing.
But I also believe mindset influences the value you get from these systems. And unfortunately, the most common framing for PKMs sets the wrong mindset. It’s the metaphor in the title of Westenberg’s post: second brain.
Arango argues that disappointment in pkm is in part caused by faulty metaphors, such as second brain.
[[Jorge Arango p]] talk at PKM Summit 2026 robots in the garden, a perspective on PKM and the use of gen AI in it
ARK dashboard on government goals and results.
Algemene Rekenkamer, Dutch audit authority, launched dashboard tracking government goals and results
Report saying drones shut down a US continental AFB several times over. Not seen elsewhere.
list of scenario's in which AI agents will a) work against you b) be used against you at scale.
If you name the fallacy in your response, I would say, you're doing it wrong.
To avoid labelling fallacies as a way to shut something down, a rule of thumb: if your response to it names the fallacy, you're doing it wrong.
[[Stephen Downes p]] on fallacies. Labelling something as a fallacy is not to be used as a way to not engage / dismiss something as done. Fallacies have a process attached: see the flags they might be present, then a need to determine it is indeed a fallacy by checking the reasoning, then to show that reasoning is flawed.
e dopamine die je krijgt van het scrollen is niets meer dan een 'verwachting van' een beloning, een beloning die nooit komt want uiteindelijk heb je uren lopen scrollen als een zombie en voel je je enkel meer miserabel. Terwijl uit de dopamine die je krijgt van dingen zoals al die muziek op je mp3-speler downloaden, wel echt een beloning volgt. Dat kan verklaren waardoor je je zoveel beter voelt, je hebt ook écht een resultaat waar je blij mee bent
dopamine hit from expecting a reward, vs dopamine from actual rewards, as explanation for the bad feeling endless scroll creates.
video make Ella Aafjes on breaking her endless scrolling habits on mobile. Put her phone away for a dumber one for a month to detox. Switched to other things (Mp3 player, separate camera, note book, reading). But realised she did that in 2019 too to no avail. Then heard her 2019 self say something about time being money. That metaphor stuck: every hour as a coin in the slot machine, where socmed has not returns.
slides [[Martijn Aslander p]] at [[PKM Summit 2026 20260320080947]]
Since the early days of the blogosphere I have cherished the ability to view the world through the eyes of people more qualified than me to understand and explain what happens in particular domains.
Yes! [[Jon Udell c]] phrasing social filtering. [[Infostrat Filtering 20050928171301]]
[[Jon Udell c]] on Mastodon Lists in 2023. Used a plugin and APIs it seems. Is there an easier way now?
Vgl Doug.md
PKM Summit session slides 'Serendipity Protocols' the one session I missed that seemed to create a stir
On DNS4.EU. I find it blocks too much I try, but this article suggests that may be a settings thing, wrt levels of enforced security measures.
The Rebuild Letter
I’ll be honest: I feel conflicted about the framing of this as a European project.
Depends on what the 'European' is supposed to convey. Interpreted geographically, as in this para, yes, it is limiting. But Reboot, and I suppose Rebuild too, always used European as a label for a certain set of values. In the same way the EU is not geographically defined in terms of who can join or cannot. The Treaties say you have to embrace the values stated in the EU Treaties art 1A and 2 to be able to join.
Linda Likuas participated in rebuild meet-up in CPH This is her newsletter about comp sci and culture.
Any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union.
Art 49 of the consolidated Treaties (but was Art 49 before too), states that any European state can apply for membership if they subscribe to the values in Art 2. of the Treaties. In general this suggests that any member of the 1950s Council of Europe, could apply as factually supported by the applications of Turky, Caucasus states and the upcoming ref in Iceland.
1. The Union's aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples. 2. The Union shall offer its citizens an area of freedom, security and justice without internal frontiers, in which the free movement of persons is ensured in conjunction with appropriate measures with respect to external border controls, asylum, immigration and the prevention and combating of crime. 3. The Union shall establish an internal market. It shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. It shall promote scientific and technological advance. It shall combat social exclusion and discrimination, and shall promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and protection of the rights of the child. It shall promote economic, social and territorial cohesion, and solidarity among Member States. It shall respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that Europe's cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced.
Art 2 of the Lisbon treaty expresses values based aims for the EU
The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.’.
Article 1a of the Lisbon treaty, formulating values.
Linda Liukas has more.
Lina Liukas (?) has a posting on this too
20 years ago, Europe had a thriving generation of social platforms and the entrepreneurs, designers, and programmers building them. A capability and an industry that have been lost.
Rebuild very specifically points to the Reboot wave of social software and web initiatives (of which getting bought by US VC / Bigtech was often the (hoped for) result).
[[Peter Rukavina p]] on Rebuild, [[Thomas Madsen Mygdal p]]'s latest initiative, wrt Eurostack, specifically social media
2017 Podcast with [[Beat Döbeli]] recommended by [[David Lohner p]] at PKM Summit.
GRAMPS, FOSS genealogy tool also for Mac. Since 2001 but actively maintained still. Database, python. Can output in GEDCOM and XML.
EU funding and tender portal Alerts instellen ook weer.
Tactical Tech book on the link between climate urgency discourse and tech.
Rebuild by [[Thomas Madsen-Mygdal p]] in Techfestival style
Rapport Topsector Energie met aanbevelingen voor strategische autonomie in energievoorziening. De energietransitie is een cruciale versneller
Ai and taxation
Activitypub Server in a single file of php
Stadsbron vergelijker van programma teksten gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 2026 Amersfoort.
CEN-CENELEC JTC21 working program overview, for (harmonised) European Standards wrt the AI Act.
Print on demand of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 18th century waste books (683 pages).
the waste books, Sudelbücher of German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (18th c.). This is an English translation of a selection I think. There are 15+ original notebooks. A frist part is published as public domain at Project Gutenberg: https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/georg-christoph-lichtenberg/books/sudelbuch-a/ w 141 aphorisms.
Humans as API, bc [[Alles is een API 20260309095254]]
(via [[Stephen Downes p]]
Lijst maximum vergoedingen buitenlandse reizen Rijksoverheid Per #2026/01/01
Bigtech Lobby efforts in the eu
Interesting feasibility assessment - [ ] return
Joke Sickmann 1932-2026 overleden.
the 'am dash', as opposed to the em dash. A human only glyph that AI 'can't use'
I tnink there I am dash
Tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog, op 6 of 7 november 1944 wordt Jaap Koek door de Duitse bezetter opgebracht voor de Arbeitseinzats. Zijn verre oom Ger Jannink (1900-1976) weet hem uit de kollone van opgebrachte jongeren te redden door van jas en pet te ruilen en zelf de plek van Jaap in te nemen. Een eerste poging valt meteen op en onder dreiging met geweren wordt de vluchtpoging opgegeven, maar een tweede poging is wel succesvol.In 1944, duikt hij onder op Stepelerveld, de boerderij van zijn oom Ebs, o.a. bij Klaas Zijlstra (de bedrijfsleider van Stepelerveld) thuis onder de vloer.
Jaap Koek zat ondergedoken bij mijn grootouders onder de vloer in de laatste oorlogsmaanden (nov-44 apr-45). "De Koekjes" hebben altijd contact gehouden, en kwamen ook langs. Een zus van zijn vader was de vrouw van Ebs v Heek, de eigenaar v.h. Stepelerveld.
ACM keurt overname Solvinity goed omdat zij alleen op competitie aspecten toetsen. Ze noemen de zorgen mbt digitale soevereiniteit wel, kun je als signaal opvatten, maar zijn niet aangewezen omdat te wegen in hun rol.
MLS messaging layer security, protocol for AP, for e2ee
Evan Prodromou is editor
been working on true E2EE in ActivityPub, using the MLS protocol — which is a successor to Signal protocol with better support for very large groups.
e2ee work in AP uses the MLS protocol, here said to support large groups better than Signal
Funding for this feature was secured through the Sovereign Tech Fund
the e2ee work is funded by the German sovereign tech fund
e2ee to be avaiable within the fediverse by June.
“We needed everybody’s approval to get it in the film,” he said. “So Guns N’ Roses was definitely a disappointment for us; we all have a lot of respect for Guns N’ Roses.”Grace Jones, meanwhile, “apparently couldn’t get over the political hurdle, notwithstanding the fact that the film is not a political film,” he claimed. “So that was disappointing, too. It’s disappointing when people put politics so far ahead, and that happened a little bit with the film, for sure.”Advertisement HPGam.cmd.push(function(){ return HPGam.render("inline-2", "entry_paragraph_3", false, false); }); A lawyer for the estate of Prince, meanwhile, nixed approval even though the rights holders had granted it.“Literally we were ready to go, and this lawyer that manages the estate was like, ‘Prince would never want his song associated with Donald Trump,’” he recalled. “And we’re like, ‘But it’s not a Donald Trump film! He comes into the movie once in a while, but this is all about Melania. It’s not political.’ And that guy blocked it. It’s so ridiculous.”Songs by Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, Aretha Franklin and The Rolling Stones were approved for the film.
Only not 'political' if you disregard the entire project is a 40M bribe/grift of course.
peertube keynote by Dirk Schrödter at EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 (he's with the German Land Schleswig-Holstein
Tuta useful overview of age verification efforts globally.
Good journalism, exposing a network of companies doing 90 billion USD of oil exports from Russia. The give-away was that network of over 400 companies all used the same email server.
From the (paywalled) story:
"The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, “mx.phoenixtrading.ltd”, showing that they share back-office functions."
"The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil."
"For example, Foxton FZCO, a Dubai-based entity listed as the buyer of $5.6bn of oil in Russian export filings, matches “foxton-fzco.com”. Similarly, Advan Alliance, an entity listed in Indian filings as having sold $1.5bn of Russian oil into the country, can be linked to “advanalliance.ltd”. "
"Filings linked by the FT to the domain list show oil exports from Russia amounting to more than $90bn."
while this page is highly irritatingly designed wrt readability, it asks a good question wrt the basic layout of feedreaders. And the app looks very nice. Vgl [[Mijn ideale feedreader 20180703063626]] en Fraidycat w its sparklines. I'd like heatmaps across communities etc.
Vgl [[Claude code workshop Frank]] last Friday where I started implementing some things
n:: phantom obligation as a design choice that gives you chores (inbox zero etc) but really is not an obligation
Very interesting thought experiment by Ben Werdmüller. If you switch out newsroom for any NGO or civil society organisation all the more so. Not just in the USA, but elsewhere too, akin to what [[Arjen Kamphuis p]] worked on. Vgl [[Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow]] Nice title that works as shorthand too. n:: Zurich protocol - [ ] return to dig out a few of the mentioned concepts / solutions / work flows into a list and muse about how you'd set such a thing up #pkm #60mins
[[Doug Belshaw p]] vibecoded a calendly replacement after switching to Proton.
The former civil servant said: “Andrew was seen as a liability. He went off-script, he thought he was an expert, when he wasn’t. He thought he was funny, when he was being rude to people.”
Another data point wrt [[On the Epstein Files and Oligarchs with Room Temperature IQs]]
yes the banality of it all is striking. The 'banter' that no sane thinking mind would put in writing. Ofc same is true of any 'high level' grouping, be it a government cabinet or board. High rates of vibeleading all over.
EC demands US sticks by trade agreement despite supreme court ruling. EP has called to halt ratification
on China's brain computer interfacing efforts
Twenty CRM is an open source package
bunny.net as CDN for a WP site goes through a WP plugin.
Domain TLD pricing. This one is just baffling. Certain TLDs cost significantly more when purchased through European registrars. I'm talking 2-3x markups on extensions that are cheap everywhere else. I never got a satisfying explanation for why. If anyone knows, I'm genuinely curious.
Indeed some registrars are noteworthy costly. But I found looking around for smaller registrars is always worth it.
Twenty CRM for customer management
mentions a self-hosted CRM: Twenty CRM
Hanko handles authentication and identity. A German provider that gives you passkeys, social logins, and user management
Hanko (German) for authentication and identity management, incl social logins
Nebius powers our AI inference. If you need GPU compute in Europe
Nebius, for GPU computing resources
Bunny.net is the unsung hero of this stack. CDN with distributed storage, DNS, image optimization, WAF, and DDoS protection, all from a company headquartered in Slovenia. Their edge network is genuinely impressive and their dashboard is a joy to use. Coming from Cloudflare, I felt at home rather quickly.
bunny.net from Slovenia praised here as CDN and Cloudflare replacement.
author explains what he did to build a stack for his company that relies almost entirely on EU tech / providers
Zoals hierboven beschreven ga ik er vanuit dat de bekende e-maildiensten die we dagelijks gebruiken, privé of zakelijk, eruit zullen liggen. Het is dan handig als we snel en makkelijk een nieuw, herkenbaar e-mailadres kunnen krijgen. Dat kan bijvoorbeeld als een Nederlandse hoster zich daarop heeft voorbereid en het in de crisissituatie – of daarvoor al – mogelijk maakt om snel en makkelijk een nieuw e-mailadres te krijgen. Dat kan via de wallet! Daarmee kun je bewijzen wie je bent en kun je een standaard e-mailadres krijgen. In mijn geval zou dat kunnen zijn van de vorm: b.p.f.jacobs@diginoodpakket.nl of b.p.f.jacobs-nijmegen@diginoodpakket.nl. Mijn achternaam, initialen en woonplaats kan ik vanuit mijn wallet aan de hoster tonen, die vervolgens dit e-mailadres voor mij aanmaakt. Dat is geen rocket science. Op zo’n manier kunnen mensen elkaar weer bereiken. Ook daar moeten instructies en uitleg voor komen.
is het niet eenvoudiger om een domein te registreren en je eigen email adres zo vorm te geven? Dat is toch ook geen rocket science, non?
want of het installeren van nieuwe apps daarna nog kan is onduidelijk
gaat er dus vanuit dat wat de crisis ook is, er wel stroom zal zijn.
Er zijn ook ‘decentrale’ wallets, waarbij jouw persoonsgegevens in jouw telefoon opgeslagen staan. Zulke apps blijven wel werken en kunnen in een flinke crisis buitengewoon nuttig zijn. Zo’n wallet app zal voorlopig niet van de Nederlandse overheid komen, want die opereert in de Europese achterhoede bij de invoering: een overheidsvariant gaat nog minstens twee jaar duren. Maar er zijn al wel andere functionerende wallets, met betrouwbare gegevens.
Decentrale wallets ihkv EU regels zijn nuttig. NL loopt achter met de invoering.
Digitale identiteit zal het startpunt moeten zijn, om weer van de grond te komen.
Dit volgt hier niet uit. Je hoeft van veel mensen niet te weten wie ze zijn, en het lijkt me ook niet primair bij communicatie uitval.
Het pakket zou wat mij betreft erop gericht moeten zijn om burgers te helpen de onderlinge communicatie weer op gang te krijgen, op een betrouwbare manier, waarbij je met een redelijke mate van zekerheid kunt weten wie je ‘aan de lijn’ hebt. Wat is daar voor nodig?
premisse is dat bij een digitaal noodpakket communicatie primair is. En dan betrouwbare communicatie.
iBestuur on a digital emergency package in case of crises.
European Parliament may halt work on ratification Turnberry agreement after US supreme court declared Trump's tariffs illegal.
Zotero plugin to give it a MCP server
[[Het verbetertraject by Marjon Wiendels]]
States that Russian troop number is stalling, while Ukraine is aiming for a much higher monthly number of Russian casualties. Ties into rumours about general mobilisation
US sub crew member evacuated by Danish helicopter near Greenland, and taken to hospital in Greenland.
Trump announced to send a hospital ship to Greenland for unclear reasons. Both US hospital ships are under maintenance in Mobile, Alabama. One in dry dock.
A hexagon map editor for fantasy mapping as plugin for Obsidian. Vgl fantasy cartography at CaL 2019, https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/06/getting-frodo-to-mordor-with-geo-data-analysis/
The shady bunch that forms Trump's bribes for peace
AVG Verwerkingsregisters Rijksoverheid
StandICT.eu funds/trains ICT experts to participate in (global) standardisations work, wrt EU policy alignment
BOSS Business Operations Support System contains descriptions of the workings of CEN-CENELEC standardisation workflows and processes.
OSF / IMI studie over opbrengst overheidstransparantie
[[AI Contintent Action Plan]]
Gasunie stelt dat bestaand gasnetwerk ook geschikt is voor waterstoftransport. Duikt op in meerdere lokale programma's voor GR 2026 in Amersfoort.
[[The Means of Production by Maximilian Kasy]] overview in slides by author https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/slides/meansofprediction_slides_long.pdf
Report 'Verantwoord vooruit, AP visie op generatieve AI verantwoord-vooruit-ap-visie-op-generatieve-ai2026 in Zotero
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens over generative AI
browser game running your own solar energy company
On ai, productivity and shorter work weeks and why that will not happen
een versterkte aanpak op het afspreken, invoeren en handhaven van (digitale) standaarden, zoals via Nederlandse Digitaliseringsstrategie. Daarnaast noemt de brief het inzetten op meer steun bij implementatie en toetsing vooraf bij IT-projecten.
2 takken: meer accent op afspreken van standaarden, de invoer en handhaving (dat laatste is wassen neus al jaren), oa via NDS (welk deel NDS dan? #openvraag) En tak steun bij implementatie en toetsing vooraf bij IT projecten. Ik mis hier het woordje inkoop. Staat dat wel in brief? Ja: [[Brief - Informeren Tweede Kamer over de Meting Informatieveiligheidsstandaarden en Monitor Open Standaarden 2025]]
Het gaat om de meest recente meting Informatieveiligheidsstandaarden en de Monitor Open Standaarden 2025.
Nav meting open standaarden en informatieveiligheidsstandaarden 2025
digistas Van Marum kondigt sterkere aanpak pas toe leg uit lijst aan, na onderzoek Forum v Standaardisatie
Ik onderzoek ook hoe we IT-projecten en aanbestedingen bijoverheidsorganisaties vooraf kunnen toetsen en een zwaarwegend advies meekunnen geven over de uit te vragen relevante verplichte standaarden van de ‘Pastoe of leg uit’-lijs
Ah, ja gaat dus in de brief v Digistas ook om inkoop/aanbesteding.
The scenarios Wooldridge imagines include a deadly software update for self-driving cars, an AI-powered hack that grounds global airlines, or a Barings bank-style collapse of a major company, triggered by AI doing something stupid. “These are very, very plausible scenarios,” he said. “There are all sorts of ways AI could very publicly go wrong.”
Scenario's for a Hindenburg style event: - deadly software update for self driving cars - AI-powered hacking ground global airlines (not sure, if that is clear enough to people, unlike the self driving cars running amok) - Barings-style collapse of a major company triggered by AI (if it's a tech company, it may be less shock, more ridicule, but still)
a spark that ignited the 200,000 cubic metres of hydrogen
bc helium wasn't available, due to the 1929 US helium act. Then the major source of helium, the US forbade export. Otherwise that would have been used.
“It’s the classic technology scenario,” he said. “You’ve got a technology that’s very, very promising, but not as rigorously tested as you would like it to be, and the commercial pressure behind it is unbearable.”
true for AI, but wasn't the case for Hindenburg I'd say.
The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products’ capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood.
prediction Michael Wooldridge (Oxford, AI), sees a risk at an 'Hindenburg' event. Shattering the global confidence in AI tech. I"m not sure this analogy entirely fits other than in its potential impact (AI isn't globally trusted, the Hindenburg did not fail bc of the tech itself but bc helium not being allowed to export from the US at the time. Still the Hindenburg did put an end to the entire zeppelin industry yes. No matter the causes.)
Gentoo Linux distribution is in the process of moving from GitHub to Codeberg (Germany based). Copilot the major reason. (I have codeberg account, feb 2025, not used yet)
Heb dit al eens eerder gevonden. Nu zie ik dat inmiddels: [[Gerard Kema p]] van Prov FRL hierin getraind is, evenals Genien Pathuis [[Willy Tadema p]] staat genoemd, evenals [[Rob van Kranenburg p]]
z-inspection is a tool (CC by nc sa) to assess trustworthy AI using applied ethics. Wordt gebruikt door Rijks ICT-Gilde en door DataFryslan
OECD catalogue of AI tools en metrics for trustworthy AI.
Inmiddels is DataFryslân een coöperatie met veertien leden, waaronder zeven Friese gemeenten en de Provinsje Fryslân. Nieuw Elan Juni 2024 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Huurdersbelang Fryslân december 2023 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. De Friesland november 2023 Nee./PODIUM. Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Tytsjerksteradiel november 2023 Nee./HUB Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Provinsje Fryslân februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Arjan SchepersAlgemeen Directeur Provinsje Fryslân Mark StuijtAdviseur Provinsje Fryslân Berend TirionAdviseur Provinsje Fryslân Diederik Scepter (februari 2019 - december 2021) Regina Bouius (februari 2019 - juni 2022) Geen.Geen. Gemeente Leeuwarden februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Eelke de JongBestuursvoorzitter DataFryslânVoorzitter ALV DataFryslânGemeentesecretaris Gemeente Leeuwarden Gijs ScholtenWethouder gemeente Leeuwarden Elsbeth van HaselenHoofd Informatiemanagement Mr. Ir. Reindert Hoek (februari 2019)... Gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Kristiaan StrijkerPenningmeester DataFryslânGemeentesecretaris gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân Michiel RietmanWethouder gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân Rob JanssenTeammanager Informatiemanagement Pieter Zondervan (februari 2019 - december 2021)... Gemeente Smallingerland februari 2019 Ja./HUB Siebren van den BergSecretaris bestuur DataFryslânGemeentesecrataris gemeente Smallingerland Sipke HoekstraWethouder gemeente Smallingerland Mariska van Nijen, Teammanager Informatiemanagement (2025 - ) Jelmer Mulder (februari 2019 - december... Rijksuniversiteit Groningen februari 2019 Ja./HUB Prof. Dr. Anne BeaulieuAletta Jacobs chair of Knowledge InfrastructuresDirector of the Data Research Centre at Campus Fryslan Prof. Dr. Andrej ZwitterDean Campus Fryslân Dr. Oscar GstreinProgramme Director Campus Fryslân Jouke de Vries (februari... NHL STENDEN februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Peter MulderProgrammamanager Ecosystemen Erica SchaperBestuursvoorzitter van NHL Stenden Frank GortProgrammamanager NHL Stenden Soon Hee Santema (februari 2019 - december 2021) Geen.Geen. Planbureau Friesland februari 2019 Ja./PODIUM Geen Geen Chaïm La Roi Drs. Ingrid de VegteDirecteur/Bestuurder FSP(2019 - 2023) Jornt OzengaRaad van Toezicht FSPGemeentesecretaris van gemeente Lelystad(2019 - 2023) Marijn Mollema (2022-2024) Gemeente Waadhoeke mei 2022 Ja./LAB Geen. Jeroen IJkemaGemeentesecretaris gemeente Waadhoeke Jan-Daem de LangeTeammanager Informatiemanagement Geen. Geen.Geen. ROS Friesland Mei 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen Sandra ScherstraDirecteur ROS Friesland Jildou de JongAdviseur Geen. Geen.Geen. Tresoar September 2019 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Arjan DijkstraDirecteur Tresoar Olav KwakmanTeammanager ICT Geen. Geen.Geen. Elkien September 2019 Nee./HUB Drs. Peter van er WegDirecteur/bestuurder Elkien Janine Koning, MSc, Manager ICT, Data en Digitalisering (januari 2025 - ) Dennis Feenstra (2022 - ) Geen. Geen. Roel Vuursteen (2022 - 2024) Gemeente Ooststellingwerf November 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Weststellingwerf November 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen Geen Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Noardeast-Fryslân Juni 2024 Nee./HUB Geen. Henk Verbunt MBA, gemeentesecretaris Noardeast-Fryslân Herman Buikema Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Heerenveen Maart 2023 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen.Geen.
De DataFryslan cooperatie heeft 20 leden,
DataFryslân is in 2019 ontstaan als samenwerkingsverband van zeven Friese maatschappelijke organisaties die tijdens hun gezamenlijke betrokkenheid bij de Kulturele Haadstêd 2018 ontdekten dat er mooie dingen kunnen ontstaan als partijen met diverse achtergronden kennis en ervaringen met elkaar delen en samen optrekken met een gemeenschappelijk doel: datagedreven werken organiseren, stimuleren en propageren.
DataFryslan begon als 7 maatschappelijke organisaties die elkaar rondom Culturele Hoofdstad 2018 troffen op datagedreven werken.
DataFryslân is een cooperatie (sinds 2022, daarvoor samenwerkingsverband)
Frysian Data Space FRLDS, datadeelomgeving voor leden van DataFryslân.
ChatGPT, next to adding ads, is now also inviting users to upload their contact list according to this web article. The purpose is unclear, is OpenAI building a social media platform? It is a EU wide GDPR violation though. Even if I were a user and opt-out others who don't might upload my personal contact details.
Video on running an ollama coding assistant on Hetzner. Does not mention the fact it runs on a GEX44 at Hetzner, which starts at 200 Euro/month
Example of person working with Obsidian and Claude Code. Note that it does not use the Obsidian CLI access, but its API.
Same author some months back mentioned running Claude Code on a small Hetzner VPS (but just Claude Code, no models) so he could access it from anywhere (except offline obviously).
mentions different ways of installing a local set-up for AI. Also mentions much cheeper options than Anthropic, specifically OpenRouter.ai. Does not mention running your own local install on a cloud VPS.
Comparison video of Claude Code using Anthropics cloud models vs local models on a M4 128GB. Still a heavy lift, fans spinning, memory usage almost at full capacity. But it works. Means that for my M1 16GB a smaller model is all that works, and you need to leave room for context loading too. For one-offs like code generation and for interactive in moving contexts there's different needs.
MinBzk zoekt bmw op digitale autonomie.
One of the largest PC suppliers, Dell, was reported to be planning a price hike that could raise hardware costs by hundreds of dollars. Interestingly, for consumers opting for higher memory configurations, this would now require a significant price increase. Here were the price increases that were reported across a variety of products: $130–$230 increase for Dell Pro and Pro Max notebooks and desktops configured with 32 GB of memory $520–$765 increase for systems configured with 128 GB of memory $55–$135 increase for configurations with a 1 TB SSD $66 increase for AI laptops equipped with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU (6 GB) $530 increase for AI laptops equipped with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU (24 GB) Similarly, companies like ASUS and Acer were also reported to be bumping up PC pricing to cope with memory shortages, and according to Acer's Chairman, Jason Chen, the BoM (Bill of Materials) for several products within Acer's portfolio has risen dramatically, leaving no choice but to increase prices to ensure consistent supply. Small-scale manufacturers like Framework are also looking to increase the cost of upgrading RAM on existing configurations, indicating a widespread "price hike" wave approaching gamers.
price hikes of DRAM, due to pc laptop manufacturers having trouble in getting enough RAM. Shortages to keep going for 2026, after 2025. AI supply chain gobbling up the rest.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260216112337/https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/ Western Digital says consumer sales of HDDs is now just 5% of their sales, everything else going to AI companies. 2026 WD is already sold out. For 2027 and 2028 there is already a few deals in place too.
[[Renate Nikolay c]] ddg at #dgcnect as of 2022/12 prev #dgjust #dgtrade
Electronic Communications Code (EECC) 2018 wrt electronic communications networks and electronic communications services
To be superseeded by the newly proposed [[The Digital Networks Act]].
Making it easier to change service provider and keep the same phone number, including rules for compensation if the process goes wrong or takes too long
EECC is the basis for mobile number portability.
European electronic communications rules seek to make broadband internet access and voice communications affordable and available throughout Europe through effective competition and choice. Where the needs of consumers are not met by the market, universal service obligations ensure that affordable adequate internet access and voice communications services are available, regardless of personal circumstances like location, income or disability. The adequate broadband internet must have sufficient bandwidth for using important services such as eGovernment, internet banking, and standard quality video calls.
EECC covers both telephony and broadband
EECC introduced a new general objective to promote connectivity and access to, and take-up of, very high-capacity networks, including fixed, mobile and wireless networks, by all citizens and businesses of the Union. Increased emphasis was also given to the need to take into account the variety of conditions relating to infrastructure and competition in different geographic areas and the need to promote efficient investment and innovation in new and enhanced infrastructures.
EECC focus was connectivity across MS, incl fixed, mobile networks.
The Commission completed the review of the functioning of the EECC on 21 January 2026 with the adoption and publication of a Report to the European Parliament and the Council. After highlighting several challenges, the Digital Networks Act (DNA) proposal aims to replace the Code. In turn, the DNA will create a modern, simplified and more harmonised legal framework, that boosts innovation and investment in resilient and advanced digital infrastructure, that is critical for enabling the adoption of AI, cloud, space and other innovative technologies.
EECC was reviewed, and is now to be replaced by [[The Digital Networks Act]] Another example of moving from a directive to a regulation. A stronger move to single market therefore. Vgl PSI Directive moving into DA.
the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has developed and adopted a significant number of guidelines, which aimed to promote a consistent application of the EECC and contribute to its successful implementation.
BEREC (founded 2009) has supported the EECC implementation.
Only three Member States met the December 2020 deadline for transposing the EECC into national law. The transposition in all 27 Member States was only completed in August 2024, with the Commission supporting the Member States in the implementation process.
The EECC is a directive, and transposition in MS took very long. 3 by the 2020/12 deadline. All only by 2024/08, with EC support.
BEREC founded 2009, by EC 1211/2009 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:337:0001:0010:EN:PDF HQ in Riga, Latvia
Digital Networks Act, DNA. Proposed #2026/01/21 by EC.
Evolves the 2018 EU Electronic Communications Code (EECC)
China reduces tariffs to zero for 53 African nations it has diplomatic ties to.
Why are so many techies dysphoric?It must be said that some people in tech are closeted or unaware trans people, and it's probably significantly more of the population than we might think given that a lot of trans people wind up drawn towards tech as a field. In these cases, the dysphoria makes a considerable amount of sense. However, even at the outer limit, that would account for no more than a quarter of tech people, which isn't enough to explain the general prevalence of dysphoria that we observe in the tech community. This means that we need an explanation for why our tech industry is so dead-eyed and void of emotion or motivation that isn't just that they need estrogen.
while there are relatively more trans people in tech (a clear pattern yes), it does not explain the overall presence of dysphoria in tech.
Looking at tech culture through this framing, it's hard not to see a lot of the same patterns at play. The depersonalisation, the idea that people can somehow be pure mind rather than being embodied and the lack of desire and motivation of your own and willingness to go along with whatever you're told by society is good are all very much patterns that we see in tech.
Direct comparison of techie patterns w dysphoria
In this kind of situation, you quickly wind up suppressing your actual desires, emotions and motivations, even to yourself, and instead try and act on the basis of what society tells you that you should want, should feel and should be trying to do. Consequently, it becomes very easy for you to simply fall in with whatever everyone else is doing, to neglect yourself and your body and to see yourself and others almost as depersonalised minds without any real physical needs or wants.
Not unique to gender dysphoria. Any abuse will do too. Or neuro differences. n:: Vgl shiny cylinder stuff, HB etc.
While a lot of dysphoria is about the physical body (how could it not be), much of the ill-feeling in practice is to do with emotions and with desire.
dysphoria is not just physical, but about emotions and desires (and their clash with environment) too.
n that kind of state, it's very easy to fall in with basically anything that tells you how you should live your life, what the path to happiness and feeling OK is or whatever: when you don't much desire or value anything, rejecting propaganda on the basis that it conflicts with your desires or values isn't a thing that really happens.
It makes one a space to be written into similar to mentioned above for techies
Without knowing that it's gender-related, dysphoria often presents precisely as this kind of directionlessness, not having desires or not knowing what you want. You often wind up kind of sleepwalking through life, trying to pursue the things that you think that you should want or the desires that society tells you are appropriate for someone in your supposed social position. Nothing ever quite works though, and often enough, until you figure out the problem, you kinda just... stop wanting things and stop trying entirely.
describes dysphoria as directionlessness, as long as you don't know its cause, mimicking the desires and motions others go through and society suggest. Leading to detachment and withdrawal.
this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria
Author compares it with gender dysphoria
the cultural core of the industry is a strange void of desire and motivation that anybody with an agenda can write whatever they want into.
a result of the whole efficient bodiless rational machine stuff?
The existence of soylent suggests that a significant minority of tech people don't even really like or enjoy food all that much.
Techies as groups distancing them from other interests, including food/eating
It's as though many people in the tech industry have no real desires at all beyond the desires that they're told to have by their wider social circles.
Software devs desires as the current highest probability desires of their environment. (Vgl [[Groep som der delen of container 20201207194431]]
When LLM coding agents are the new hot thing, everything that the engineering community previously said about engineering standards, testing and robustness suddenly goes out the window,
Techno-optimists wrt LLM throwing established practices to safeguard quality out the window. (And I noticed if you point it out it gets them mad, e.g. wrt web search by LLM)
The pattern in the tech world seems to be a distorted mirror of this, where some entity pushes a propaganda narrative and, like clockwork, the core influencers of general tech opinion shift their desires to match
Observes a quick uptake of narrative du jour, where in other groups existing opinions, wishes and aims are to be navigated around
Whether it's talking about race science and eugenics, the blockchain and NFTs or our current LLM situation, the core voices in the tech community (which is to say the people who have a disproportionate influence on general opinion within tech) are consistently willing to pick it up and go along with it, regardless of how obviously the narrative has been deliberately engineered and almost as though they have no real desires or internal motivation of their own.
Mentions example topics where author observes this pattern
I drew the conclusion that software developers are almost uniquely vulnerable among educated and professional people to being taken in by propaganda.
Author observes that software devs are more swayed by propaganda that other professional classes, like stats and engineering.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260216080643/https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria
On particular patterns in software techies, techbros, and coining 'carbon dysphoria'
By Iris Meredith (N-Z, CS/ML), blog added to feedreader
On personal digital autonomy
rsync books back and forth and mess on until your heart is content, as you should be able to with a device you own.Note: your books will end up in /mnt/storage - unimaginative, but very simple.
perhaps useful for annotations too?
To enable ssh:Rename this file to ssh-enabledReboot the deviceConnect via: ssh root@<device_ip>
while connected to my Mac, edit a hidden file, then you can ssh into it with root at the device IP. First connection will ask for you to set pw.
how to ssh into my kobo ereader.
NDOV loket, onder Stichting OpenGeo ([[Stefan de Konink p]] geeft aan dat alles up to date is, al oogde het voor mij eerst niet meer in gebruik (met jaartallen als 2016 etc).
Obsidian documentation on Bases. How does this compare to Dataviews? Bases are accessible it seems through the Obsidian CLI, where Dataview is not.
Epstein class, some powerful populism here wrt the ultra-rich / influential. With the targets being the people who foment populism aimed at underprivileged groups (migrants, poor, race)
Obsidian CLI documentation. This is useful in local agents. It can interact with Obsidian directly, meaning you don't have to go through the file system for things that are specific to Obsidian. Stored it locally for reference too.
[[Frida Monsén p]] on agentic ai, downloaded text to [[In Memoriam of the Prompt A New Reality of Human–AI Collaboration 20260215144548]] bc LI
Article without sources on how Sweden is moving away from digital devices in (primary?) education. Feels very generated, w generated images. Vgl [[Tallinn 2013]] wrt primary school in Stockholm [[Frida Monsén p]]
First time visitor FOSDEM 2026 blogpost
Peter Naur reminded us some decades ago that a program is more than its source code. Rather a program is a theory that lives in the minds of the developer(s) capturing what the program does, how developer intentions are implemented, and how the program can be changed over time. Usually this theory is not just in the minds of one developer but fragments of this theory are distributed across the minds of many, if not thousands, of other developers.
Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building 1985 https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-6074(85)90032-8
Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted.
hypothesis: in AI and agentic AI use cog debt likely bigger issue than techdebt.