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Koen Hufkens, PhD

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Addressing #climatechange through data driven methods in #ecology #remotesensing #phenology #foodsecurity #rstats developer | #academic omnivore | move fast […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Chris Siebenmann @cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Ah, charming, the Rust sudo on Ubuntu 26.04 is ignoring our /etc/sudoers.d files and their instructions, with no logging about it. That's a yeet, thanks for trying, now go away.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 46m
@hrbrmstr and probably those of anyone else too.
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 4 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h
O_O www.zdnet.com/health/athenahealth-c…
Athenahealth patients can ask Claude about their medical records now
The partnership could provide one of the nation’s largest AI companies with a bevy of personal medical data.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h
Sitting in on a meeting of radio astronomers and learning that the FCC is gradually auctioning off the radio frequency bands we need for weather forecasts. Fantastic.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1h
Wendy's puts in the very first sentence of their advergame's steam page that it's made by human artists. WENDY'S. Do you have at least as much praxis as a fast food corporation?
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
Dear people in the US, please vote! Maybe call some friends and neighbours, too. I'm not sure if a political swing will bring stability in the short term, as a defeat of the incumbents will be resisted fiercely. However, for the sake of long term progress and prosperity, let your voice be heard.
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
This is fucking ridiculous. My openbenches.org website is serving over two TERABYTES of bandwidth per month! That's up from 1.5TB the previous month. While I'd love to believe that's all people fascinated by benches, I think it's more likely to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Graph showing yearly bandwidth.
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Pozorvlak @pozorvlak.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
I can't remember who I learned this from (maybe @raganwald?) but a good trick for reading computer science papers if you work in industry is 1. Find a bunch of papers on the problem you need to solve. 2. Notice what baseline they're all comparing their new shiny techniques to. 3. Implement that […]
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Andrew Benedict-Nelson @albnelson.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026
To me, the point of Capt. Picard, really the point of all Star Trek, is that we have to make principled decisions even when they are difficult or dangerous. We won’t all do it in the same way and we won’t always succeed — the point is to try. Too often these […] [Original post on beige.party]
Picard stares out the window of his ready room at the end of “The Best of Both Worlds”
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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 7h
Vanavond ben ik in Nieuwsuur om te vertellen over de "gehackte" koelkasten, maar ook wat deze onvoorstelbare laksheid betekent voor hoe we omgaan met IT-beveiliging. Want die koelkasten zijn de kanarie in de kolenmijn. Als dit al niet lukt.
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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 5h
As I predicted in ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.h… , no taking a strong stance against the use of LLM in your project is exactly the same as taking a strong "use LLM everywhere" stance. There’s no middle ground. #Debian :debian: is demonstrating this more quickly that I even […]
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Some manager got a bonus because setting the correct temperature remotely as opposed to manually would have cost them one FTE job, across the whole chain.
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What did I say? You connect appliances to the internet, this is what you get. You should not be able to hack yoghurt. Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
I want to bet that in the future if the industry gets away with things (i.e. if the bubble doesn't pop soon) you will be required to use your AI agent and company XYZ's MCP server to get any service at all.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h
Increasingly I also notice that websites use a "chatbot" to fix all their poor UI choices. Need help finding something, here is a chatbot. What about fixing the UI or search?
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10h
By STRA. Photo by Duncan in London, UK 🇬🇧 streetartutopia.com/2019/10/07/make… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Street art by STRA. Photo by Duncan in London, UK
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Nord Süd Trail @soulboy.nrw.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
Kleiner Bericht über die Fernwandertage in Wiesbaden www.nordsüdtrail.de/2026/10/31/fern… #wandern #outdoors #trekking #NST
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
AI vendor who stole all digital work on the internet to build its product dictates you can't reverse engineer video games. Well that's rich […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
The AI frontier companies want to control every aspect of your computing life going forward. This kind of thing will push more and more people toward local (on the user's machine) models. Even if you agree with Anthropic's logic here, the implications suck […]
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
Suddenly every horror movie victim makes perfect sense
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Franz Graf @hikingdude.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
Good morning. There's fresh snow in the mountains and it's grey and wet down here.
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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
fascinating rabbit-holes that you wouldn't have to hack your way through if manufacturers simply gave you open standards and documentation www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJ1536Uhtc
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026
If cartoons only need to change a year you know we aren't making progress.
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Another record profit for Shell (and other oil companies). This is a slightly adapted version of a cartoon I did in 2022. #Shell #war #profit #ClimateCrisis
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
Pink Flamingo — by Tom Bob in New Bedford, USA 🇺🇸 streetartutopia.com/2026/04/24/clev… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Pink Flamingo by Tom Bob in New Bedford, USA
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/10/2026
Norway's water and resources directorate warns data centre growth without new power additions will result in high prices, and crowding out of other industries www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-centre-growth-triggers-backlash-norway-over-power-deficit-concerns-2026-10-29/
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Moriel 🏳️‍⚧️ @moriel.chaosfem.tw.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
If anyone doubted that AI is a cult, look no further than the words of the CEO of OpenAI (which is not open, by the way). #AI
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 31/10/2026
The EPA is quietly killing its web archive #Climate
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The EPA is quietly killing its web archive
Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
Now, we can't have people own things, can we. They should rent (DRAM). Flexible price points will be set at debt bondage levels.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
"If the Democratic Socialists take over that is, like, the end of America." - Peter Thiel Essay Prompt: What does this statement suggest about the characteristics Mr. Thiel sees as foundational and essential to "America"?
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
Everything is grey goop slop, including Apple. www.404media.co/apple-is-entering-i…
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Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era
I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026
We need more boring tech.
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
More "boring" service providers who are content with a modest profit margin and slow organic growth, please. I don't even care if the UI looks "dated" and new features take a long time to be built. Traditional boring bare metal, only add new customers when you have capacity to support it […]
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
@ketanjoshi.co This is not new. It now just spills over from LinkedIn into the wider world.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/10/2026
something the vibe coding era has enabled is men with medium-level technical skills creating intense data visualisations and data viz websites that are visually engaging, aesthetically interesting..... and also just deeply, fundamentally pointless - communicating absolutely nothing important at all
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
"If we see AI stocks continue to struggle in the coming days, it could suggest the AI trade is past its peak, and investors will be looking for a new theme to drive markets," she said. Short attention spans are running out. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvwy72e0n…
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US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn
Shares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
AIs legacy is the slow enclosure of the once public internet. What will remain freely accessible will be slop. www.theverge.com/tech/1022571/reddi…
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
I didn’t know until today that #PatrickStewart was an outspoken advocate against #ViolenceAgainstWomen (for his mom) and also for supports for veterans (for his dad). But it fits. The blog below has a couple nice videos of him speaking about it. It feels nice to have that common activism with […]
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/10/2026
A halloween cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
It is halloween. Two children dressed as ghosts in white sheets walk along the pavement, behind them are some large houses. One carries a carved pumpkin and they both carry a piece of paper with text on it. One child/ghost says
 "A lot of scientists live around here, so if they're too rational to be frightened by our ghost costumes, we'll show them these articles about research funding cuts.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
Laten we een keer wat besparen op miljardairs. www.demorgen.be/meningen/lezersopro…
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DPG Media Privacy Gate
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
@ilumium @Tutanota Then again, aiming for features might not be the best strategy. I hope they do their market research, because most at least on this channel would settle for reliability over features. And using AI to get around the zero sum dynamics might come back to haunt them (most […]
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
So much this. He was such a public force for positive masculinity and something we will miss in a world which doesn't seem to have many of them.
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And Stewart carried this over into reality, by essentially becoming the avatar of positive masculinity, in so many different ways, from passionately advocating for women's rights and against domestic violence, to his meme-generating bromance with this gay bestie. All the more important and impressive when so many others view being a prominent old rich white guy as a blank cheque for being the worst possible human imaginable. 7/8
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
@aires Ugh... that's the same thinking which led to this Proton fiasco. Can't anyone stick to the basics. Most people don't need that many "features".
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Thomas Fricke (he/his) @thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
Patrick Stewart was a positive role model for an old white man #patricksteward #feminism #oldwhiteman btchflcks.com/2013/11/sir-patrick-s…
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Sir Patrick Stewart Fights Domestic Violence, Gives Out Hugs, and Flies a Spaceship
And in a society where male revelations about abuse, physical, emotional, or sexual, are still considered a mark of weakness, it’s fantastic that such a successful figure is willing to set an example. Especially when that person is Captain Jean Luc Picard, a super smart, sexy, sensitive, nerves-of-steel spaceship captain. I have a feminist daydream of Kirk (Shatner), Janeway (Mulgrew), Sisco (Brooks), and Picard (Stewart) doing a women’s rights PSA: I would make it my ringtone forever.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/10/2026
Patrick Stewart had Trump pegged in 2017: “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. America I think is on the edge of a very bad flu infection and it’s because of the man in the White House.” He said he’d take us to war for no reason. Talk about nailing it. #RIP (From @marco.foster)
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/10/2026
The proton CEO is the latest business idiot using the phrase "lovingly handcrafting" about code like it's a slur. I've put down my thoughts more eloquently & generally here blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i… but I do want to be direct about this specific phrasing and […]
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
I really didn’t have money on Proton crashing and burning as a trusted community partner and company due to leadership AI psychosis this rapidly. It’s incredibly disappointing and a huge loss.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
Hi @Tutanota, what are the plans to make migration from @protonprivacy really easy? Is there one click migration of email (especially)?
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026
RIP Patrick Stewart www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oc…
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026
AI agents are opaque expert systems. Below is a link to a "skill" not to introduce the same bug again (and again). It is basically multiple hundreds of lines of code to remember a few basic rules. The rules are dynamic, so you still might miss some. Also, everything is local (the experience and […]
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026
It's almost as if they bet on the wrong thing and lost a ton of money in the process. I wonder what could that be?
A screenshot of a Yahoo! Finance article. The title says: "Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, the biggest in its history"

Below one can see Alphabet's share price showing a 11.82% decrease.
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Shocker, the deskilling machine successfully deskills school kids - to the tune of them being a full year behind their peers who are "left behind" by *checks notes* actually learning! Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure […]
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