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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️

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Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB Indie music 🎸 Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL #nobot 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://idf.social/@arjen, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact .. more

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Als je jezelf hebt klemgeluld en je weet echt niet meer wat je moet zeggen... Dan gooi je er gewoon AI en Robotica in!!

Caroline v/d Plas (BBB) bij Nieuwsuur.

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

This happens at many organisations, our university too: The people running advertisements with Google and Facebook use statistics from Google AdWords and Facebook Ad Manager to report how their campaigns are doing, and Google Analytics of course... Naive? OH YES! Great work by #datacops […]

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Cloudspeakers @cloudspeakers.bol.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

today's track of the day

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Falling Apart

:spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0BTSJiovmjDoWYMt7UHd3B #np #newmusic #music

Falling Apart

The Rural Alberta Advantage · Falling Apart · Song · 2025

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

‘The Democrats Still May Not Understand What They're Dealing With’ - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-silicon-valley-book-jacob-silverman-00603682

"A simple way to put it is that this is a group of people used to getting everything that they […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Did you notice we were gone? That was a backup, only 2 minutes really. Now we will go again for even less, to compact the datastore and restart on v4.2.26.

(Yes, it's a holiday here in NL ;-))

#mastoadmin

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Wat goed! DPG geeft studenten (MBO/HBO/WO) gratis toegang tot nieuwsmedia als de Volkskrant, AD en Trouw

https://www.dpgmediagroup.com/nl-NL/studentenabonnementen

DPG Media Privacy Gate

myprivacy.dpgmediagroup.net

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skry @skry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Friday afternoon [lol] “Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

"Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

"…The automaker pushed out a telematics update for the Uconnect infotainment system that evidently wasn't ready […]

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/ongemakkelijk-maar-waar-veel-mensen-geloven-echt-dat-ze-superieur-zijn~b16380ae/

Ongemakkelijk, maar waar: veel mensen geloven echt dat ze superieur zijn

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

FT: Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI
https://www.ft.com/content/934cc94b-32c4-497e-9718-d87d6a7835ca

"The document contained multiple errors, including references and citations to non-existent reports by academics at the universities of Sydney […]

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STEM-inschrijvingen dalen naar laagste peil in 10 jaar: "Cruciaal voor toekomst van economie en samenleving"

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/10/06/aantal-vlaamse-leerlingen-in-stem-opleidingen-daalt-naar-tienjar/

STEM-inschrijvingen dalen naar laagste peil in 10 jaar: "Cruciaal voor toekomst van economie en samenleving" | VRT NWS: nieuws

Slechts 35,5 procent van alle Vlaamse leerlingen in het secundair onderwijs kiest voor een STEM-opleiding. Dat is het laagste cijfer in 10 jaar tijd. Nochtans wil de Vlaamse overheid die exact-wetenschappelijke en technische opleidingen net laten groeien. "STEM-profielen zijn cruciaal voor de toekomst van onze economie én samenleving", zegt de ondernemerskoepel Vlaamse Ondernemers bezorgd.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Michael Granitzer opening the final OWS.EU project meeting - planning what to do until March 2026, and how to keep things afloat after March.

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 12d

De @aivd is op zoek naar een nieuwe directeur! Let wel, als je solliciteert bij de AIVD weet Google het als eerste. Want zo rollen we in Nederland met de data van onze burgers: https://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/directeur-generaal-algemene-inlichtingen-en-veiligheidsdienst-AIVD-2025-0129

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: directeur-generaal Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst

directeur-generaal Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst in Zoetermeer voor 36 uur bij Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst

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clarmso @clarmso.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

If you see a website not working on #firefox but working fine on other browsers, please report the website to Webcompat! 🐛
https://webcompat.com/

Bug reporting for the web | webcompat.com

Open source community for web compatibility. Report bugs from websites or for browsers and help us move the web forward.

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Jona lendering @jonalendering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Voor iedereen die morgen in #leiden is, is hier mijn jaarlijkse blogje over #leidensontzet: hier is het verhaal, zoals verteld door niemand minder dan P.C. Hooft.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2019/10/03/leidens-ontzet/

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Solar became the EU’s main source of electricity for the first time this June
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/10/02/solar-became-the-eus-main-source-of-electricity-for-the-first-time-this-june
For the first month in history, solar energy was the main source of electricity generated in the EU.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Tnx bits for freedom
https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/oordeel-rechter-meta-moet-keuze-gebruiker-respecteren/

En driewerf hoera!

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

John Searle overleden. Een interessante en oorspronkelijke denker over taal.

https://dailynous.com/2025/09/28/john-searle-1932-2025/

John Searle (1932-2025)

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act theory. He is especially well known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence. He has also made contributions to philosophical work on social ontology, rationality, and perception. Some of his works include Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983), The Construction of Social Reality (1995), Rationality in Action (2001), Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization (2010), and Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception (2015). You can read more about his work here. Searle was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley from 1959 to 2019. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1959. He also received his MA and BA from Oxford. In 2019, Searle was stripped of his emeritus status at Berkeley as a result of the university finding that he violated the its sexual harassment policies. In 2017 he was sued for sexual harassment (unsuccessfully), and the university had received prior complaints about him of sexual harassment. (A letter from his secretary regarding these events is reproduced here.) Over the course of his career, Searle was the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Jean Nicod Prize, the National Humanities Medal, and the Mind & Brain Prize. He has also been awarded several honorary doctorates. (via Gosha (George) Cherkasov) NOTE: As usual, comments are welcome. However, I ask that commenters on this post refrain from discussion of the sexual harassment allegations and related matters. The post John Searle (1932-2025) first appeared on Daily Nous.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Tom-Jan Meeus in NRC:

<Kamer steunt strafbaarstelling van „personen en organisaties” die illegalen „helpen onder te duiken” (amendement PVV). Verbod Antifa (motie PVV-FVD). Herhaalde poging tot asielstop via staatsnoodrecht in debat over het extreemrechtse geweld in Den Haag (verworpen motie […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Geert Wilders is "een algoritme, met een vocabulaire van duizend woorden", schrijft Tommy Wieringa in zijn column.

"Twee kabinetten hielp hij vormgeven en twee kabinetten blies hij op, en het enige dat hij tot stand bracht, zijn een nationaal pesthumeur, fopgrenscontroles en het weigeren van […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

And, we are back in two steps on the recent #v4.2.26.

#mastoadmin

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Michael Crews @midacre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18d

#wartornportland

A beautiful sunset view of the Columbia River at Portland, Oregon. Houseboats float along the shore in the foreground, while Mt. Hood glows in the light of the setting sun in the distance.

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Thank you, participants of the Dagstuhl Seminar: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation – The Future of Search?"

https://www.dagstuhl.de/25391

The traditional Dagstuhl photo of all participants standing on the castel's stairs: Everybody is smiling in the rain.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Let's welcome @ACMSIGIR to IDF.social 🤗🙌

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

I'll consider this a birthday present.

Why Johnny Can't Use Agents: Industry Aspirations vs. User Realities with AI Agent Software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14528

"We found that users were generally impressed with these agents but faced several critical usability challenges ranging from agent […]

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Kees Noome @farmahond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

“In Nederland is de #vaccinatiegraad van mazelen de afgelopen twintig jaar gedaald naar 89 procent. In Amsterdam, waar Max woonde, zelfs naar 83 procent. Volgens het RIVM hoort dat percentage voor het opbouwen van #GroepsImmuniteit rond de 95 procent te liggen. Alleen dan kan een besmettelijke […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26d

This is amazing.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Waar was het alarm toen Nederlandse cybersecurity werd verkocht aan Amerika?

Column van Marcia Luyten in De Volkskrant.

De overheid heeft commerciële techneuten nodig om te definiëren wat ze zelf nodig heeft. Opnieuw een probleem, want Nederland en Europa hebben een tekort aan geeks. Ze […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Grrr I get more advertisement junk from Diversity travel than from booking even, while I cannot opt not to use Diversity travel as the uni has mandated this (much to the annoyance and in disagreement with really every single scientist I know).

#radbouduniversity #stupidrules

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Insight in the data economy:

https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/

Seems dodgy! Did I get the option to not consent? I don't recall seeing this on my last flight booking.

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

#duckdb 1.4 released

https://duckdb.org/2025/09/16/announcing-duckdb-140.html

Huge new feature: database encryption!

The encryption covers the main database file, the write-ahead-log (WAL) file, and even temporary files.

Another great feature: iceberg writes (for DuckLake).

And: In-memory […]

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