Married to a wonderful woman, two awesome kids. Cycling (Trek Domane SL6 for the bike nerds), music (owns a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet Rev 2). Doing IT stuff for a telco. Posts in Dutch and English, sometimes a mix of these by accident.
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Two sentences from towns that lie 90 kilometers apart, illustrating the huge dialect diversity that I speak about in the post above:
Hoogerheide (west): ‘Da maske lwop jeel dikkels op blwoote vóéte dur 't èùs.’
Helmond (east): ‘Dè durske lupt heil duk op bloute vuujt dur 't hois.’
("That girl often walks barefoot around the house.")
Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
@Joop Dit keer is het Coevorden, maar dit kan nu overal gebeuren.
@smveerman Ja, lang leve lijn 161!
Cartoon Maarten Wolterink: De lafste stad van Nederland https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/de-lafste-stad-van-nederland
@vaurora I love to read this kind view from the outside on the Dutch society. Very nicely done. And to be über Dutch: learn how to skate. If there is anything that loosens up the Dutch it is skating on canals and lakes.
@alexvdbrandhof @ionica @fredtdtje Heerlijke thread. Allerlei wiskundigen die komen met namen en termen die voor mij als leek niet te plaatsen zijn.
Ik vermoed dat morgen mijn credit card wordt gehacked als consequentie van deze vooruitgang in de wetenschap.
@GottaLaff NOS, a Dutch broadcast organisation: One Big Beautiful Bill: kan de VS failliet gaan?
Translation: can the USA go bankrupt? Looking at this from a distance really makes me wonder what has become of the USA. What makes it even worse is these radical changes are done with only very small majorities. One senator, two congress critters would have been enough.
I wish the people in the USA a lot of strength, they will need it.
We are wayfinders
Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?
By Michael Bond
Anthropology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4343
@tubemapper It’s always a magical moment. Out of the darkness the magic ride appears.
@johannesbeers Is wel een Olympische sport. Ambitie moet je niet in de weg staan.
@NOSRSS De logica van Yesilgöz: een zanger die weet dat hij gaat optreden voor Joodse kinderen is een jodenhater.
Douwe Bob heeft zijn rug gewoon recht gehouden: "Ik hou van de Joodse gemeenschap, ik ben tegen zionisme en dat is wat daar wordt verkocht, daardoor kan ik hier nu niet spelen. Sorry", zei de artiest, waarna hij het podium afliep.
Lijkt me duidelijk dat Douwe Bob beter is in het uit elkaar houden van mensen en politiek dan Dilan Yesilgöz.
@wenslauw Leef met je kop omhoog!
@thisismyglasgow The signs in Glasgow are fantastic! This is what I saw last week at the banks of the Kelvin:
@tomtrottel @GetCarter From the man in the car rental office in Glasgow: we promise you good times, not good weather. And that is absolutely true.
The A896 heading out of Shieldaig. Kinlochewe: 17 miles.
I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.
Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)
Lezersbrief in de Volkskrant die aller aandacht verdient. Help hem te verspreiden.
Boost if you're old enough to know why I have one of these on my computer desk.
@kcposch The Proclaimers were lucky to be born in Scotland: walking 500 miles in Sweden or Norway would have been much more of an effort #Proclaimers
