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EESSI @eessi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

EESSI has been nominated (again) for the HPCWire Reader's Choice Awards 2026, in the "Best HPC/AI Programming Tool or Technology". 1. Go to www.hpcwire.com/2026-hpcwire...; 2. Fill out the form; 3. Vote! Maybe you can aim for "EESSI Open-Source Project" in category 11? Please join the vote! #HPC

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2026 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards – Voting is Open! - HPCwire

Welcome to the 2026 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards Voting! The HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards recognize the most outstanding individuals, organizations, products, and technologies in the industry. The...

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 09/04/2026

Absolutely loved both the song and the (first) game. Tremendous atmosphere and storytelling.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 20/01/2026

Guardrails don’t fail in code—they fail in adoption: if people don’t use the governed workflow, the guardrails never fire. Reliability collapses back to whatever the probabilistic generator does that day—which, by definition, won’t always be what you want. (3/3)

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 20/01/2026

LLMs are probabilistic generative engines that need deterministic guardrails (automated constraints plus selective human oversight) to function reliably. If the flow isn’t rethought, the “AI gains” are mostly illusion: higher throughput of the same waste, plus new failure modes. (2/3)

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 20/01/2026

Seen this movie before in ICT: automating the current mess just makes more mess faster. LLMs won’t improve processes by themselves —because they’re not digital employees; www.juicebox.com.au/insights/ai-... (1/3)

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 31/08/2025

Summer was fun and inspiring... let's get that new academic year started! 💪

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 31/08/2025

“Bluesky may support a more interpretive, reflective mode of science communication.” “Interactions on Bluesky were an order of magnitude higher than on X.” “Bluesky may well become the next X for scientific discussion and will persist in the long term.”

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 31/08/2025

Research confirms: Bluesky is a better home for academia! Posts about science on Bluesky are more original and get significantly more engagement than on X, according to a large-scale analysis reported by Nature. A promising shift for science communication! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 30/08/2025

Compliance is no longer optional… and change a certitude. Very nice summary of today’s cybersecurity reality.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/08/2025

I was putting together a PowerPoint slide with the headlines of major cyber incidents in our region from just the past two months, and I’ve already run out of space.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/08/2025

This has been a wild summer. Now a zero-day on Apple OS'es, CVSS score 7.8, "this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals". Lovely. thehackernews.com/2025/08/appl...

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Apple Patches CVE-2025-43300 Zero-Day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Apple patches CVE-2025-43300 zero-day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS after active exploitation reports.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/08/2025

The criticism of Orange for downplaying the risks of its incident, as noted in the article, is striking - especially since Orange also sells cybersecurity services to others. Hard to square that with the transparency, containment and mitigation NIS2 is supposed to drive.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 19/08/2025

It's a stochastic parrot. But this may challenge us to rethink what understanding really implies. If a purely statistical model consistently produces coherent, useful, context-aware answers… at what point do we just treat that (at least functionally) as understanding? And does it not have value?

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 16/08/2025

Surprise surprise, commercial generic models aren’t the definitive solution to all problems. Specialized, open, and well-tuned beats big and generic. Curious to see how this shift will play out at the edge...

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 12/08/2025

Fact is, LLMs learn only by predicting the next word—yet (some) reasoning and abstraction emerge. Maybe that’s a clue: language isn’t just a tool for thought, but a big part of how we perceive (and structure) the world. Not the whole story, but maybe more central than we guessed?

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 12/08/2025

I had the Courier in those days... still remember flashing it to support X2 and getting the amazing 56k throughput (which was "almost as much as a digital 64k line!"). With the iconic "oink-oink" handshake noises at the start of each session...

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 10/08/2025

That may sound blunt, but given the ongoing instability, it’s clear MITRE’s reliability as a cornerstone partner is compromised. That doesn’t mean they’ve lost all relevance, but sole dependence on MITRE for stewardship of key frameworks has now become risky.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 10/08/2025

"MITRE just terminated senior leadership at the Center for Threat-Informed Defense in a cost cutting exercise. It appears, at this early stage, MITRE can no longer be relied upon to be the steward of the back bone frameworks for global threat-informed cyber security."

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 10/08/2025

We're closer to anthropomorphic misinterpretations than to Rise of the Machines.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 10/08/2025

Carnegie-Mellon research seems to confirm: LLMs often fail at long-horizon reasoning, social interactions, and tasks requiring genuine understanding. They perform noticeably better when tasks align with their training data, not when abstract or novel reasoning is required. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 08/08/2025

To me, this reads like we’re recreating Atlas Shrugged, but with venture capital and blockchains. Now it’s upgraded with crypto, AGI, network states, and Substack manifestos.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 08/08/2025

Exciting to see PHP adding one of my favourite Clojure features: function piping/threading. A big step forward for anyone with a soft spot for functional programming! Now let's get this finalized in JavaScript as well 👍

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 08/08/2025

Just a gentle reminder that universities - even top-tier ones with significant operating budgets - are not safe from cyber threats and incidents. If it seems that "nothing ever happens" in your academic environment, that's because people are constantly hard at work to avoid it. bit.ly/3HhpibK

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Updating Our Community on the Cyber Incident | Office of Public Affairs

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 05/08/2025

"Quite simply, 'LLMs are doing reasoning' is the 'look, my dog is smiling' of technology." Provocative article that certainly puts the AI/LLM hype into some sobering perspective. Though IMHO even then the Stochastic Parrot can have some value - when recognized as such.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

It does have one great feature though - it'll still have security patches after October 14, 2025.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

Discomforting conclusion: the global incident around shocking zero-day CVE-2025-53770 that took everyone by surprise… wasn’t surprising at all. Just a remix of a familiar pattern. And more like it? Not surprises, but inevitable.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

Nothing new here. The real value of AI is in augmenting humans, not replacing them. LLMs require a human in the loop and verified tracebacks to be reliable — and that takes significant manual effort. No automated method today can guarantee accuracy in high-stakes use.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

Het is niet zozeer een vlaag van zinsverbijstering maar eerder de toepassing van de wettelijke vereisten in de Codex Hoger Onderwijs, waarbij de instelling zich ook aan controle mag verwachten, en niemand gebaat is met complicaties. Zie o.a. www.ugent.be/nl/jobs/taal...

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Taalvereisten aan de Universiteit Gent voor ZAP leden

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

Edge computing on steroids: LLMs run locally on regular laptops, thanks to the rise of NPU-accelerated PCs. With AI hardware baked into new chips, running models like LLaMA or Mistral offline will become a private, practical way to handle your data.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 23/07/2025

Education tops the list with 31% of its public-facing assets vulnerable. This inherently open, dynamic environment demands understanding of asset ownership, purpose, context, and attacker perspective to manage exposure. That’s exactly what #NIS2 is pushing for. Security starts with context.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 05/06/2025

Absolutely! Feels like the perfect match I never knew I was missing. Really happy with the switch — it’s genuinely invigorating!

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 05/06/2025

Byebye Cherry MX Blue, hello Kalih Box Jade! We click on a whole new level ❤️

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 05/06/2025

From Python mastery to AI-enhanced image analytics, my colleague Lara is transforming digital art history. Her innovative work at Ghent University promises to be a game-changer for cultural heritage!

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 29/05/2025

"Chatbot initiatives are largely unrelated to observable firm characteristics"... that's a polite way of saying that adoption and investment is driven by corporate FOMO, without a clear and concrete understanding of the value it can or will bring to the organization.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 29/05/2025

Real-world studies show the actual impact of using generative AI is far more modest than predicted by RCTs, with average time savings of 2.8% and no measurable impact on earnings. The hype is real, but so is the friction... this is no silver bullet. www.nber.org/papers/w33777

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 14/05/2025

Absolutely delighted with my new set of GMK MTNU "Space Cadet" keycaps, modeled after the legendary Symbolics lisp machine keyboards ❤️⌨️

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 10/05/2025

ITIL4 tells you: “We’re modern now! You can be Agile!” But it does so with a straight face, still offering a 1000-page library of decomposed "practices" and governance models that lead right back into a bureaucracy trap. ITIL4 paradoxally only succeeds when you fully discard ITIL’s original spirit.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 26/04/2025

“Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rule and regulation” (Dee Hock)

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EuroCC@Belgium @eurocc-belgium.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🇧🇪 Belgium in the spotlight! Our colleague Jothi talks w/ UGent’s HPC team on the portable scientific software ecosystem EESSI from the CoE MultiXscale. 🎧 lnkd.in/dSSs6cre #EuroCC #HPC #Belgium #EESSI

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

In summary, just a clear reminder that nothing that comes through email can ever be trusted.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

My kingdom for a LISP Machine.... not as clumsy or random as today’s tools. A more elegant system… for a more civilized age.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

So cool! I love the aesthetics of the show — and the keyboard specifically gives off vibes of the (in)famous Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard (though that one had too many keys, rather than a few missing). superdisruptor.com/atomic-keybo...

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Atomic Keyboard Launches 'Severance'-Inspired MDR Dasher with Intentionally Missing Escape Key

The tech world is buzzing with excitement as Atomic Keyboard unveils a meticulously crafted replica of the iconic keyboard featured in Apple TV+'s hit dystopian series "Severance."

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

Following this incident, the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium advises utmost vigilance for any fake websites and social media accounts. safeonweb.be/en/news/bewa...

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

3 days after a major cyberattack Wallonia's public services, this regional government remains disconnected from the internet. Public services and sites like Wallonie.be are offline. A rebuild of a safe perimeter has been initiated and an estimated time to restore is expected later.

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Johan Van Camp @johanvancamp.bsky.ugent.be · 21/04/2025

Soms kunnen we zelfs vanuit ICT bijdragen aan een vleugje positivisme, zo blijkt! Dankjewel voor de good vibes, Schamper! ❤️ www.schamper.ugent.be/editie/656/a...

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Schamper | De printer werkt en dat maakt mij blij

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