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Rob Hooft

@rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Dutch, chemist, #science and #technology geek. #FAIRdata #omics #privacy Job: Omics Working group coordinator in ICT Architecture at Health-RI. #DPO too. hooft.net/rob 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@rwwh, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
It was exceptionally clear weather a few hours ago. I could see the windmills at 20-60 km distance over sea. A good moment to show that the world is not as flat as it seems. hooft.net/en/people/rob/videos/vide…
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The world is not flat
A view from my bedroom window at an exceptionally clear moment, showing wind mills at 20-60 km distance over sea.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
God. Damn. This was an amazing reply. He didn’t back down, explicitly called out the Islamophobia of the “just asking questions,” and then flipped the guy’s bigotry back on himself. This may not change hearts and minds, but feel like it’s an answer that’ll motivate his own base.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
There comes a moment you understand how a #coal #power plant can also directly reduce the performance of your #PV system. #energy
The sun hidden by the exhaust of a coal power plant in an otherwise mostly clear sky.
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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117281… air RAID 5
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@mattblaze remember Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction related program activities”? Apparently relations can be used either to search or to dilute a connection.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Of course the US #AI companies need a slowdown. The money they have been pumping around is running out.
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Marjolein Tamis @willowpje.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Schrödingers dataretentie
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Orion Ussner kidder @orionkidder.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
@pluralistic Once again, LLMs are a *normal technology*, one that has use cases, but it is being pushed by a really dangerous industry. Not because it's going to become sentient or become a god or take over all our jobs. But rather...
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
@ionica put je al uit de serie “goede gesprekken” van De Correspondent? Lex Bohlmeijer schrijft het niet op, maar interviewt wetenschappers van vele verschillende richtingen.
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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Beautiful. The point is that AI is only ever about "the answer", when the process is the thing that we learn and understand from. It's exactly what Douglas Adams described with the number 42. So fucking what? It may be right, but what have we learned?
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
@koen is er een weg denkbaar naar een Europese bank die zich niet hoeft te laten chanteren door buiten-Europese politieke druk?
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
@cazabon a flashing 12:00 time? You mean it does not use NTP via the same WiFi connection it uses to update its coffee-making (and botnet facilitating) firmware? Jokes aside, I’ve seen a lot of equipment in Europe that has a power save mode that has the time display off. My old microwave indeed […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
@cazabon I once heard: how do you recognize a semi-professional camera from a professional one? The semi-professional camera has a lot of features a professional would never use.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
#SilentSunday
Our local falcon waiting on a concrete edge for more active times.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@frank ik heb dus gewoon nog nooit die api-key free limit van exa gehaald… net nog even nagegaan: ik heb inderdaad nooit een key ingevuld. Veel van de vragen die ik stel laat ik inderdaad lokaal oplossen.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@frank ik speel met verschillende modellen; de basis is de Jan.ai software, waarin ik recent met gemma4-12b werk. Jan heeft ook eigen modellen. Jan maakt het ook mogelijk om een openai-compatible server te draaien, en die gebruik ik als basis voor mijn run-at-home Nextcloud assistant, waarbij de […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@frank kleine modellen liggen duidelijk achter, zeker. Maar het is heel leuk te proberen ze wat bij te leren (QLoRA) waar je dat nodig hebt. En wat meer fouten houdt je juist scherp op waar de modellen teveel fantasie hebben. Mijn M1 iMac is nog trager dan een M3! Ik vind het heel gaaf om te […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@frank Een andere actie voor op je soevereiniteit-todo lijst is over te stappen op self-hosted niet-zo-heel-large language models.
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🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 @brouhaha.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Within 60 seconds of adding A and AAAA DNS records for a new web server, miscreants are trying to break into it. They're trying to access various php scripts, JSON files, /api, /server, /.git/config, /trace.axd, /.env.local, /actuator/env, /debug/default/view, /.vscode/sftp.json […]
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JonaLendering @jonalendering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
@venite @ionica Nu we het toch over Vaticaanstad hebben: ik heb uitgerekend dat ze daar ruim twee pausen per vierkante kilometer hebben.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
@bert_hubert Gaan we het in de volksmond anders noemen? “Wet Eenvoudig Bespioneren van Mensen die het Oneens zijn met de Minister”?
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
De nieuwe partij Project 2029 noemt zich 'sociaal-conservatief'. Haar slogan: 'Dit land is toe aan verandering'. Voor mijn taalgevoel wringt daar iets: een conservatief is voor mij TEGEN verandering. Ik ben te ouderwets om conservatief te zijn.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
@v_i_o_l_a over time readers may increasingly dislike variation in writing styles and *demand* regularization. On the other hand, instead of reading the very long pieces that especially LLMs tend to produce they’ll probably ask another LLM to summarize for them. I should try starting some LLM […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
@ChrisAintMarchin This looks to me like a logical consequence of people taking the decisions who never learned from playing peek-a-boo. They still think that if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. And if it doesn’t exist, it can’t harm you. So you should avoid looking.
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Panicz Maciej Godek @paniczgodek.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
Yesterday I went to visit my old Philosophy Department, and I saw this poster on one of the professor's doors (bearing the title "Mathematical Logic and Foundations 1847-1947 and crediting Joel Friedman as its author), and I felt that I have to share it on […] [Original post on functional.cafe]
At the top, there's the inscription:

MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS 1847-1947

below is a diagram that resembles a two-headed creature.

The left head is captioned "DeMorgan", and it contains "DeMorgan's Laws (1847)" and "Logic of Relations (1859)"

The right head is "Boole" and it contaions "Laws of Boolean Algebra, 1847"

Between is a smaller circle captioned "Jevons" with "Logic Machine (1869)", and right below it - "mrs. Ladd-Franklin" with "Numerical test for validity of syllogism (c. 1880)"

Then at the level of chest there are Frege and Cantor with numerous contributions.

At the same level is left arm, with a Venn Diagram of Peirce, Venn and Schroeder. The right arm is Weierstrass. Then Frege is connected to Russell (at the level of pelvis) with a strip captioned "propositional logic", and Cantor is similarly connected to Hilbert with "predicate logic". In the middle of pelvis is Zermelo.

The left arm is extended to the fist captioned "Whitehead". The right arm consists of two long forearms captioned Peano and Dedekind, which reaches three fingers? - Brouwer, Lovenheim and Weyl.

Now from the pelvis there are monster's two legs: Post and Skolem, and there's a "Fraenkel" circle dangling between them. The left foot of the monster is Tarski, the right foot - Goedel, and between them is von Neumann. There's also Gentzen and Bernays placed between the 3 feet. There's also Lewis, Nicod, Wittgenstein, Likasiewicz, Schoenfinkel, Herbrand, Church, Turing and a few others
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
It isn’t silent when you’re right next to the tourists. But still #SilentSunday 200 meters up. A viewpoint along a 2,5 hour walk encountering nobody, in an area with a bazillion tourists. #moselle #cochem #mosel #moezel
View of the “cochem” curve in the Mosel river from almost 200 m up.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
@slothrop European car companies asking for the transition to be delayed. Right. That is not going to save them from the intercontinental competition. They should speed up instead. I am amazed to hear the push for hybrid cars continue: worst of both worlds for the customer, best for the […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
@dilmandila every mail starting “Dear professor” can go straight to the bin, as I never got that title/role and likely never will. I am amazed how long the emails with praise can be without really mentioning *any* particular item they like. All bland nonsense not addressed to anyone in […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
@SRDas no name or login here…. I found a Rarity-58 word worth 85 pts in OUTLIER. KEEN · 756 points · 10 rare words. Only 8 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Someone was flying a lighted #kite over the beach after the #eclipse. When I took a video, A #perseid meteor took the stage mid-time.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
This is how we watched the #eclipse
A telescope projecting an image of the solar eclipse on a white sheet glued to a box, on a table with snacks and wine.
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Roel Griffioen - #antifa @roelgrif.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
Shell gaat weer ‘full fossile’. Fossiele subsidies maken meer kapot dan u lief is. Aandeelhouders denken niet aan hun en uw (klein-)kinderen. #boycotShell www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/…
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DPG Media Privacy Gate
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Suzanne Veerman @smveerman.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
“PostNL wil een AI First company worden” - De Volkskrant 1 augustus 2026 Volgens mij zouden jullie primair een bedrijf moeten zijn dat dingen probeert te bezorgen…
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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Next thing the #EU should standardise is charging indicators for #electronic devices: – Solid LED, does it mean it’s charging, because when done it changes colour, or does it mean done, because when charging it blinks? – No LED, does it mean battery is full, or charging circuit is dead?
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
@oscherler yup… I remarked something similar a while ago. mastodon.social/@rwwh/1154395325066…
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High on my wishlist for European standards: unified visual indications for chargers and similar systems. I never know whether a {red | green | yellow | blue } {off | blinking | flashing | steady} light means {not charging | charging | fully charged | error}. Just noticed my steam iron uses “flashing/steady” green LED to indicate “heating/at temperature” for the water tank, but “on/off” for the same conditions of the iron itself. So I have to wait for one to be on, and the other to be off….
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Remember, kids: In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis". It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
@sundogplanets the plans are awful, but what I’ve seen they use a 20m x 20m mirror (60 ft) to illuminate 5000 m x 5000 m (3 mile) on the ground? So it is going to be as bright as 1/62500 of the sun? 0,02 W/m2?
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Rina Volpina 🏳️‍⚧️🦊 @rinavolpina.com · 17/07/2026
Thank you AWS for the impromptu cardio (This is a known issue, currently being fixed)
Billing email from Amazon Web Services alerting me that my monthly S3 bucket budget of $2 has been exceeded by $1,271,309,247.83
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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
100% true.
screenshot:
sidereal @sidereal@kolektiva.social

I just realised that I've been using adblock
so consistently, for so long, that | have basically no idea what the average person's experience of the internet is like.

Every now and then | use someone else's device that isn't so locked down. And I'm floored by how useless and annoying the internet is. IDK how people do this.
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Een argument wat in de rechtszaak natuurlijk niet mocht spelen maar ik toch wel interessant vind voor het #solvinity geval is dat overnames in de IT vaak niet gedaan worden om schaalvoordelen uit te buiten, maar omdat klanten langetermijnrelaties zijn (vendor lock in) en de nieuwe eigenaar dus […]
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Joep Bos-Coenraad @joepbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
RE: hear-me.social/@joepbc/116906371416… “Maar wat als we voor het verkeerde alternatief kiezen?” Die vraag krijg ik vaak als het gaat om het los komen van Big Tech. Toch is dat eigenlijk niet zo'n groot issue, en komt die zorg voort uit het 'oude denken' over ICT. In dit artikel […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
@Frieke72 Wat er voorgespiegeld wordt bij contracten is inderdaad vaak niet juist. Ik reken het altijd even na. Maar: Dit jaar is de elektriciteit gemiddeld duurder dan vorig jaar, dus zo de twee rekeningen vergelijken is niet juist. De grootste winst van dynamische stroom zit er sowieso in dat […]
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
🇪🇺 The European Parliament lets #ChatControl 1.0 go through despite a majority voting against it (314:276) – allowing mass scanning of private chats until 2028. Survivors are warning. My analysis and why this is the wrong approach 👇 […]
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Ik ben medestander van The Firewall, omdat ik weiger toe te kijken hoe techgiganten onze democratie ondermijnen. The Firewall vecht terug. Met het vrije woord en de rechtspraak. #StaOpTegenBigTech Word ook medestander van TheFirewall www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee
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Rob Hooft @rwwh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
De #overheid begrijpt het concept van digitale mantelzorg niet geloof ik. Ik moet mijn vader elke paar dagen om een nieuwe machtiging voor een andere digitale zaak vragen. Bank, gemeente, waterschap, CAK, #belastingdienst, pensioen, … Maar dat kan hij niet […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Schermfoto van de site van belastingdienst waar zelfs voor losse onderdelen weer opnieuw machtigingen nodig zijn.
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waxle @waxle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Oh oh oh. @Nieuwsuur_online laat zich gewillig als datacenterpropagandaorgel bespelen: “In Amerika lopen ze mijlenver voor met investeringen in en bouw van datacenters! EU moet ook!!11!!!! Ga eens goed kijken naar de ROI op AI, met name de LLM’s waar die enorme groei op gebaseerd is. Geen van […]
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rar is win @xyla.zip · 25/06/2026
germans: “uuuuuhhh, we don’t really have proper high-speed rail!!!!” also germans:
At Freilassinger Bahnhof

Cargo train breaks the sound barrier
06.08.2018 | As of 09.01.2021, 18:57

Federal Police Freilassing/Press release

[a photo of a cargo train breaking a noise wall]
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
En Español, los programadores que usan IA se denominan “vibradores”
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