Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers 1760497
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 27/09/2026Apple Passwords is good enough for me now! www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/proton-...kooslooijesteijn.netHow to migrate passwords from Proton Pass to Apple Passwords 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776142098
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnSimon William Cree @piratesprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I will simply be the millionth person to say that an LLM is made up of a bunch of servers owned by a company. OpenAI is committing crimes in broad daylight, and we're all supposed to collectively act like we don't understand this because computer or whatever. 06621
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnJK @miniver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026❝ Tom Bombadil and the Witch-king of Angmar are the same person. 1. We never hear of Tom at all during the whole of the First Age. The Nine Rings aren't forged until the Second Age. QED. 2. You never see the two of them together. ⋯ ❞flyingmoose.orgTolkien Crackpot Theories 121
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnAmy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people. 172058805
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 22/09/2026Good articles that are illustrated with AI slop exist. There's also an infinite supply of good articles, so I need to decide quickly what to read and what to ignore. The probability of finding text slop with image slop is very high, so pardon me for ignoring your hard work if you taint it with slop. 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnCliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream 172961930
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 20/09/2026Infinite back and forth between “Don’t make it any harder than it is and just get the best” and “capitalism wants you to believe it’s about the gear, but in reality it’s about putting the time into practice and technique” 100
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnMartin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 20/09/2026Time to vote, #Berlin! 🗳️ Time to decide on a future that is inhabitable, fair, and desirable. Go out and vote! 092
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 19/09/2026If your computer does illegal things, you are responsible. If your computer does illegal things because of what your customer does with it, there’s laws for that too. That whole please regulate AI is such bullshit. Except perhaps it’s time copyright law is actually enforced 040
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431633458
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 18/09/2026I've updated my post about rolling my own #video widget. It now covers a few edge cases that prevented video from playing on our website. www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/respons...kooslooijesteijn.netResponsive video is (almost) easy now 110
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 13/09/2026If someone is asked "Are you sexist/racist/islamophobic/antisemitic" and instead of saying "No" try to phrase their believes in what they think are acceptable terms, then that's just a really long "Yes" 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world. 416840
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnThomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 09/09/2026they used to make much stronger hinges in Apple's foldable AI phablets 282
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026I had a "woah what is that" moment when they showed how the Duo closed and had a display on the other side too. But the price! Like, I'm not going to walk up to my flat, while watching a video, while texting, while holding a €2000 device in one hand and my keys in the other like that guy 100
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026Apple: other foldables' screen aspect ratios are awkward because "movies are boxed in by oversized black bars” A few minutes later: 100
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026I asked Claude replace all variables with numbers, but now everything is broken I'm devastated please help how solve without fake math 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnChuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Goddammit. I was just about to move everything over to them. Thanks for that. IS THERE NO NON-EVIL TECH PROVIDER?! 101
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnVale @vale.rocks · 08/09/2026Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...vale.rocksAntiquated HTML Snippets and ArtefactsOverviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete. 1110025
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026Ahw shit, imagine working at Calendly and announcing your redesign is going live in a week just around the time Google rolls out scheduling links right inside Google Calendar 000
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 06/09/2026If you reset it to 'default' position, western Europe is right at the point where it's least distorted, so maybe US representatives to the United Nations can admit it's not actually woke: 000
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/09/2026Tell me a fun fact. 298855101
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnCallum 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @myshka689908.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If you put Sweden and Denmark's abbreviations together, they spell SWEDEN. The letters left over spell DENMARK. 460565
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 05/09/2026Been waiting to try the new Audacity ever since watching this video: youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38 Reactions of heavy users are predictable: lots of "But I liked that it looked like shit!"youtube.comHow We're Redesigning Audacity For The FutureYouTube video by Tantacrul 100
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895483548
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 03/09/2026🎵 It's the time of the season for telling an Adobe sales agent I'm going to cancel the cloud subscription if they don't extend the limited twelve month offer once more 🍂🧡 000
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 02/09/2026Maybe I'm too much of an engineer, but I never liked the mic drop meme. Microphones are amazing, sensitive devices and the more I know learn about them, the more I appreciate them 🎤🫲 000
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnVale @vale.rocks · 24/08/2026I hope you're hungry, because we're serving a greatly improved experience over on PersonalSit.es. We've got some cleaned up data and much improved tagging, so you can filter for and check out specific niches.personalsit.esPersonalSit.esPersonal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world. 86615
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026also HOLY MOLY www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 611944
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 16/08/2026@standard.site hey is there already a proposal to define languages/locales for documents? Would be neat for non-English readers to find publications. And for English only speakers to not see translations in feeds/searches. 000
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 16/08/2026Nice! Looks like thanks the endlessly patient and supportive @mb21.bsky.social and … an API, I now have a standard.site, which you can tell from this preview: www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/apis-ar...kooslooijesteijn.netAPIs are cool 130
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 13/08/2026We need something for cars that do 360 degree recording. Narc car? Snitch car? Pervert car! Same with these CCTV poles cities in some countries. Pervert poles. 100
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 12/08/2026I think/hope that the term "Pervert Glasses" is genuinely catching on. This is excellent. If there's one thing that will kill this whole category of products dead, it's stigma. 49517
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 11/08/2026I wrote about a thing I built for my own website on my website. Now that's often a sign that the author is out of ideas. Rest assured: this is just the most fun thing I 'worked' on recently: www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/publish...kooslooijesteijn.netHow I publish bookmarks on this website | Koos LooijesteijnAfter experimenting with various read later apps, IFTTT, Zapier, Airtable, Notion and Obsidian bases, I now use Raindrop and its API. 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnForTomorrow @fortomorrow.eu · 11/08/2026Wie wir's schaffen, motiviert für #Klimaschutz zu blieben? Koos sagt dazu: Stellt euch mal einen Feuerwehrmenschen vor, der gerade mit einem riesigen #Waldbrand konfrontiert ist. Würde der sagen: „Das Feuer ist eh zu groß, ich fahre wieder heim.“? Nein, er löscht weiter – weil jeder Beitrag zählt. 022
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. 904378159489
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/08/20261. Donate to climate protection. 2. Reduce you personal emissions. If you get serious about it, it changes how you see consumption and society. Others apologize to me for flying now; this is not just an individual thing, it spreads! 3. Join protests. Start with the next big one, they're fun & safe. 100
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 07/08/2026#Blockchain: everything is decentralized and verifiable, except that you have to trust the person who created the record. #ATprotocol: everything is decentralized, except that the Bluesky company controls access. 200
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnTyler Sticka @tylersticka.com · 06/08/2026I like to think I keep up with new #CSS features, but sometimes I overlook something fun. For example, improvements to text-stroke: tylersticka.com/journal/impr... #WebDesign #WebDevtylersticka.comImproved CSS Text-Stroke – Tyler StickaArriving late to the party for this fun little CSS trick (with a few gotchas). 4297
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 03/08/2026Ja, die Empörung ist angebracht. Wenn Merz auf die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung hören würde, würde er mehr Klimaschutz machen. Bis dahin machen wir's @fortomorrow.eu! Wer macht mit? www.fortomorrow.eu/de/klima-abo... #klima #klimakrise #hitzewellefortomorrow.euMach Klimaschutz zu deinem wichtigsten Abo | ForTomorrowKompensiere CO₂-Emissionen mit deinem Klima-Abo. Für einen monatlichen Betrag pflanzt du Mischwälder und kaufst der Industrie EU-Emissionsrechte weg. 010
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850. 9035131734
Reposted by Koos Looijesteijntante @tante.cc · 02/08/2026Some people read this as if people using "generative AI" don't know what's up. But these lines just show how the "AI" industry keeps cycling through terms hiding the same systems in order to not have to admit that the invest and outcome don't match. 0495
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 02/08/2026To me it's really simple: the emissions of free AI use only happen because of the paying users. No paying users → no revenue → no investment → no money → no training → no inference → no data center user → no emissions www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/how-muc...kooslooijesteijn.netHow dirty is your AI use? | Koos LooijesteijnDoes OpenAI cause 350 kg of CO2 emissions per customer per year? 020
Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 02/08/2026I've just updated my article "How dirty is your AI use?" The part where I explain why the use of free users should be included in carbon estimations for paying LLM customers surprised some people.kooslooijesteijn.netHow dirty is your AI use? | Koos LooijesteijnDoes OpenAI cause 350 kg of CO2 emissions per customer per year? 000
Reposted by Koos LooijesteijnHidde @hidde.blog · 02/08/2026🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...digital-strategy.ec.europa.euEU Icons for labelling AI-generated contentDeployers of generative AI systems can use the EU set of icons to label certain AI-generated content, in accordance with the AI Act transparency rules. 64621
