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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

@benjamingeer @egonw Yes, we did some more research and my partner actually bought a Slimbook Evo a few weeks ago. So far, he is very happy and the delivery from Spain was surprisingly fast.

Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

Slides with our workshop goals and results from the #atr session organised by ATRIUM in Berlin are now available on #zenodo:

https://zenodo.org/records/17061629

Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to collaborate on #htr model training for early 20th-century #english […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

As part of an @AtriumBerlin workshop, my colleague Susan & I are trying to prepare #trainingdata to build a special #htr model for early 20th-century handwriting from the British Isles in #e-scriptorium. Unfortunately, none of the existing #kraken models […]

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Preparing a ground truth with e-Scriptorium

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

As academics, we get invitations to contribute to more or less legitimate conferences and journals all the time, and often the proposed topics have nothing to do with our research. Most of the people sending these emails, however, at least get our names […]

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Email inviting me to an (alleged) engineering conference in China and calling me Dr. Xin.

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Engineering Archive @engrxiv.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

The challenge of AI slop for preprint servers.

https://blog.engrxiv.org/2025/08/ai-slop

#preprints #preprint #ai #spam #aislop #LLMs #academia

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

@SURF: Are there any plans to set up a Dutch national instance of #peertube anytime soon and also make academic podcast-hosting more independent from commercial platforms? With #youtube drowning in #aislop and ads, I wonder how much longer universities and other research institutions can keep […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

The rumours about #windows12 are super worrying for everyone who cares about #freedom and #dataprotection in private as well as professional use:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ive-been-following-windows-12-rumors-whats-next-for-microsofts-os

Especially the expected increase in inbuilt #ai […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

@benjamingeer @egonw They seem to be selling the same models that I also found on laptopsmetlinux.nl. I wasn't sure if the manufacturers are trustworthy, though. My desktop PC is from Captiva, a German company that offer on-demand machines especially for gaming, and their customer service has […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

@egonw PS: I am using #ubuntu on a desktop gaming PC already and have previously installed it on older Windows models. Is it worth getting a pre-installed model now? I hear that "Framework" laptops are best for #linux but I cannot find out where to buy them in the Netherlands.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

Dear @egonw and other #linux people, my high-end Lenovo work laptop finally short-circuited after many issues since we bought it four years ago and is beyond repair. I would have to spend all my staff budget to pay a similar machine as the standard office machines are less powerful, and I would […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 17

#nature is always fascinating --- no matter how often you've seen particular phenomena before. I am currently in Northern #italy and observing a #thunderstorm at night. Because of the clouds, we cannot see actual flashes, but the light effects are still […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

@roblen Tja, ich auch nicht! 😇

Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

@attribot Ist das wieder so ein schrottiges AI Cover?! 🤕

Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6

https://maps.app.goo.gl/s13iXa83HEpNnLtz9

One of my stops in #munich will be the #wine shop run by my former co-student Jule. The reviews I have seen so far are great and I thought I should also let fellow #travellers going to Bavaria know about it. 😇

Cose Deliziose | Naturweine & Weinproben in München · Munich

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6

I have booked one of the new mini cabins on the #nightjet sleeper #train for the first time and think they're gorgeous! They give you full privacy at a reasonable price. You have a locker for a mid-sized suitcase and more room for smaller bags under your […]

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View of the sliding door that closes the mini cabin.

Window and closed connection to the neighbouring cabin.

Inside of the mini cabin photographed from outside

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6

Starting another #nighttrain adventure today at #amersfoort Centraal! I am taking the ÖBB #nightjet to #munich and will get there by 6 am tomorrow morning. My previous experiences with the Austrian sleeper trains were very good --- both in shared cabins and […]

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Train announcement at the station of departure

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1

Ik luister naar 'How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us' (The Ezra Klein Show) in de NRC Audio app: https://audio.nrc.nl/episode/138976756

This is a fantastic episode and highly recommended to everyone in #parenting or #Education. #DigitalSociety

How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us / The Ezra Klein Show - NRC audio

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are both proof of how the ability to capture attention is power. And the attention economy isn’t...

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 27

As a choir #singer and member of a casual family combo, I regularly need to transcribe #music scores and generate #midi files. This weekend, I have been looking for #opensource tools for music engraving and found #lilypond as well as #frescobaldi (which provides a text editor with syntax […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 26

Are there any people out here who have successfully #degoogled their #smartphone and are now using operating systems like e/OS? https://e.foundation/e-os/

I would love to here more! I have an older Samsung phone at home that I could play with if it's fully unlockable. Unfortunately, I doubt I […]

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Sebastian Kübeck @skuebeck.graz.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

Microsoft marketing: “Your data stays in Europe.”

Microsoft’s Legal Director (under oath, in French Parliament): “No, I cannot guarantee that.”

Still think Microsoft Teams is a sovereign solution?

Credit @ponceto91 for the meme […]

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Ab boat labeled FRENCH GOVERNMENT with a fishermen about to rescue a girl (labeled MICROSOFT). The part of the girl that's under water shows that she is actually a sea monster labeled UNITED STATES.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

@mattjhodgkinson Love that! Can we also include some nice prompts for lazy students, please? Would make my AI investigations so much easier if student essays relying on AI summaries would all include the mention of green monkeys or so. 🤗

Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

In the interest of #openscience, it is not really helping that Dutch universities are still heavily dependent on corporate software solutions & keep hiring #ict staff specializing in #microsoft365 etc. I also had to migrate to Windows 11 / Microsoft 365 on my work laptop earlier this year & can […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 30

The #dhbenelux26 website is live and we invite you to read our call for papers: https://2026.dhbenelux.org/ Our theme in 2026 will be #storytelling --- so we welcome contributions from academics as well as papers, workshops or demonstrations by (heritage) professionals. For the 13th edition of […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 26

In den Medien wird viel über rechte junge Männer, die #andrewtate oder #jordanpeterson bewundern & #Trump Posts teilen, berichtet. Oft wird gefragt, was hinter dieser Krise der Männer steckt, & manchmal gibt es gute Antworten wie im Buch "Of Boys and Men". Da ist es eigentlich gut, die […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 24

@mrundkvist Thanks, the photos are awesome. I love sailing ships although I even get sea sick on a ferry. Hope we can revive cargo sailing. Nobody needs those rubber bath ducks from China within a week.