Jan van Acken

PhD candidate at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Background: M.Sc. in A.I.

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-06-11

To check that my students have read the course syllabus I hide a minor assignment in it: the students should start a thread in the course plattform and post a picture of an animal (chosen by me). Today the first peace dove has landed.

#HistoricalPeaceStudies #Peace #history #Histodons #AcademicChatter #UniversityTeaching

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-06-10

How do librarians remotely access their computers?

ssh!

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-05-06

"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).

Pass it on."

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TheZeldaZone🏳️‍⚧️🎮🎀TheZeldaZone
2025-04-22

Media sites: A tip

If you can use an AI image for an article header

The article didn't need a picture

So just don't

Thanks, bye

2025-04-15

Getting the ball rolling again: time for the NWO ICT Open conference in Utrecht on the 15th and 16th of April.
See you there! Feel free to say hi/toot if you see me (especially at the poster sessions tomorrow) #ictopen2025 #Utrecht #ictopen

2025-04-11

@kattascha.bsky.social Gibt es für diesen Zustand von "ich stimme hier und jetzt zu der heutigen Regierung Macht über XYZ zu geben, und übertrage damit auch implizit jeder weiteren wie auch immer gearteten Regierung der Zukunft diese Macht" eigentlich ein einzelnes griffiges Wort bzw einen kürzeren Ausdruck?

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Renaud Chaputrenchap@oisaur.com
2025-04-11

Quick poll for Mastodon server administrators : what is your biggest pain point between those two?

You can add a bit more detail in a reply, and I am not interested in other areas.

#mastoadmin

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Does "digital twin" mean anything different from "model"? I'm seeing it used all over the place these days. Maybe it used to mean something more specific and now it's just a fancy way of saying model?

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-04-08

i see 'copilot' has turned up in the menu ribbon in outlook on my mac. I do not want. How to kill?

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-04-07

@jpvanacken@inventaire.io that feeling when you add a stash of books to your digital bookshelves and then get notified about it on Fediverse, because why not? Thanks @inventaire !
(Now I only need to find out based on which rules some of my accounts can follow the inventaire.io instance, while others seemingly cannot and are stuck at "pending") #inventaire #newbook #cybersecurity

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-04-01

Kans om mee te doen met testdagen voor identity wallets bij de gemeente Nijmegen, de koploper in NL: nijmegen.nl/onderzoek-id-walle

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-27

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: unite.un.org/news/sixteen-orga

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies #FOSS

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-26
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Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-25

I switched away from Notion a few weeks after starting to use it after realising that not only the content was only stored online, but you literally couldn't get into your notes without an internet connection and the ability to log in without bugs from their servers. But if anyone is still using it, especially PhD students, you might want to rethink that as it literally randomly deletes your data without warning you!
youtu.be/5XiUcwqOx44

#notion #phdlife #obsidian

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-25
A picture with Buddha and his disciples. One disciple asks Buddha what makes us human? And Buddha answers: Selecting all images with traffic lights
Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-24

Wishing y'all a productive week #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

@kaiarzheimer The image is a cartoon featuring three characters. On the left, a character with blonde hair and a yellow coat is looking at a bearded man in a blue shirt who is leaning on a table, appearing tired or frustrated. The bearded man is speaking, saying, "WHAT A WRITING SESSION, HUH?" On the right, a small white dog with a black spot on its back is drinking from a glass of beer. The dog has a surprised expression, with droplets around its mouth. The character in the yellow coat responds, "Captain, it's a sentence." The background is a plain, light brown color, and the characters are drawn in a simple, cartoonish style. The image is labeled "imgflip.com" in the bottom left corner.

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endrift 🏳️‍⚧️endrift@treehouse.systems
2025-03-20

Which of these computing devices do you have and use?

Jan van Acken boosted:
2025-03-14

The second PKM Summit is about to start. So excited to connect with all kinds of #PKM enthusiasts! PKMsummit.com #pkmsummit2025

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