Interdependent Thoughts
by Ton Zijlstra
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Good Enough Jumps the Model Gap and Avoids AI Lock-in
The shiny new tech syndrome makes us focus on always wanting to work with the latest greatest AI models, almost by default. And switching away from one of those to something else is then tied to the question if it is as good or better than the frontier model you already use. I…
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Bunkering Down by Matt Webb
Favorited Bunkering Down by Matt Webb After 26 years Matt Webb quits hosting his stuff on his own hardware. Because he feels an extreme asymmetry is coming between automated exploits, such as the one in PHP this week (and others that got less attention) and time needed to…
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Munch’s Sun
The other week I was in Oslo and visited the Munch museum, taking a break from a marathon meeting schedule. Munch‘s museum holds the largest collection of his work (a long time ago in London E and I visited another large exhibit in the Tate Modern gallery). One temporary…
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The Arc of Browsing Bends Towards Firefox Yet Again
The Arc Browser will go away by December, as the company behind it will pursue their AI-first browser. I like the Chromium based Arc browser, as it moves its UI out of my sight when I don’t interact with it, and has its tabs to the side. I’ve been using Arc for some years since…
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The PHP Interruption
This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld in Utrecht with E and Y, when I realised what was going on, and left for home to take my stuff down. Now that PHP patches, after…
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Norwegian Book Shopping
To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to bridge languages and be able to scale things across Europe. Maintaining the cultural differences is important as a source of…
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Laptop Stickers? Nay.
In reply to Laptop Stickers Yay Or Nay? by Wouter Groeneveld Wouter asks the question below. I never place stickers on my laptop. Not because fear of glue marks or loss of gloss though. Because of context. I would enjoy stickers on my laptop, but don’t add them. My laptop ends…
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Testing Embedding Models For Related Blogposts
I mentioned wanting to automatically add related blogposts based on comparing embeddings. When Dries Buytaert blogged about it, I wanted to follow his example. However I want to use those embeddings not just on this site, but also in my notes that include a local blog archive.…
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Y’s First Anki Spaced Repetition Deck
Y is currently learning European countries and their capitals for school. Of the 45 country/capital combinations to be learned on a blind map, 24 will be tested next week, and the remaining 21 two weeks later. Self study, or with our help, can mean that less well remembered…
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In verantwoorde AI botsen deeltjes en golf perspectieven zoals bij licht
Discussies over verantwoorde toepassing van AI zijn vaak moeizaam omdat verschillende argumenten op heel verschillende beelden van wat AI is zijn gebaseerd, en dus wat geschikte interventies zijn. Het lijkt voor mij op hoe je het gedrag van licht als deeltjes en als golf kunt…
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Doei!-dag, uitpakdag: Linux smartphone
Het is weer Doeidag! Elke eerste zondag van de maand aandacht voor hoe je jezelf weer een stapje van BigTech verwijdert. Nou heb ik de afgelopen jaren al heel wat BigTech uit mijn leven en uit mijn bedrijf gebannen, met name als het gaat om social media platformen, applicaties…
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Beat Döbeli und das Biblionetz
Das Biblionetz ist eine einzigartige Website, die mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient. Es beschreibt viele tausende Bücher, Artikel, Texte und Ausschnitte, und deren Verbindungen und Zusammenhänge auf Grund von Begriffe, Erwähnungen, Fragen und Aussagen. Ein Beispiel wie Texte im…
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Blog Archiving to Notes and Embeddings
Last March I made an export from my blog, so that I have all my blogposts since 2002 (some 3800 posts) in my notes locally. This makes it easier to find and link to my own blogposts while I am working, thinking, or writing in my notes. What I did not do in March was […]
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Big Data LDN Impressions
The past days I was in London to visit the Big Data LDN event and meet with my friend Paolo and his company’s team at Activate Intelligence. It made for interesting contrasts, and those contrasts made the trip worthwhile where the event on its own would not have. Big Data LDN is…
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Transparant Lies
During lunch in Holland Park, London this week, the water bottle had the text ‘ethical glass’.
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Die deutschsprachigen Blogwochen 2026
Die deutsprachigen Blogwochen sind wieder gestartet. Eine Initiative von Robert Lender, Benedikt Müller und Dirk Deimeke, deren Blogs sich schon lange in meinem Feedreader befinden. Die Idee ist: Blogger schreiben während 3 Monate über eine kleine Liste von Themen, und werden so…
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Treffen wir uns auf der Swiss Data Alliance Konferenz in Lausanne?
Am 28. Oktober findet in Lausanne in der Schweiz die jährliche Konferenz der Swiss Data Alliance (SDA) statt. Die Swiss Data Alliance ist ein unabhängiger Think-Tank, der den Dialog über Daten und Digitalisierung zwischen Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Verwaltung fördern will. Die…
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https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2026/09/26769/
I will be in Lausanne from Monday October 26th late afternoon until Thursday October 29th early morning. I will be in Lausanne for an event by the Swiss Data Alliance. If you care to meet-up let me know. I will fly in and out of Geneva, so on the day of arrival a meet-up in […]
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https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2026/09/26767/
I will be in Oslo from Tuesday October 13th early afternoon until Friday October 16th early evening. I will be in Oslo for a CEN/CENELEC JTC25 plenary meeting (European data space standardisation work). I may have time on at least one half day, and two of the evenings if you…
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Books by Karen Lord
Earlier this week I read We Will Rise Again, a selection of short sf hopepunk stories and accompanying essays centered on civil disobedience, resistance, and protest. It was edited by Annalee Newitz, Malka Older, both authors whose work I have very much enjoyed, and Karen Lord,…