Ben Companjen 🟥

I should listen again, because the "your mama" jokes in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode got me distracted. Or read the transcript:

There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19087169-there-s-no-ghost-in-the-machine-with-carmen-maria-machado-2026-04-13

"Your mama's so fake, she needs a whole data center to run" provided by the Twitch audience, read by @emilymbender@dair-community.social 😆

F you, Microsoft. I DON'T WANT OUTLOOK TO CHECK MY SPELLING OR GRAMMAR AND I DISABLED IT. DO NOT TURN IT ON AGAIN.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, DO NOT CHANGE MY TEXT WHILE "AUTOMATIC CORRECTIONS" ARE OFF.

I seriously considered filing an incident with IT because I sent an email in which "heeft" was changed to "heft".

@christof no HTTPS? In 2026? No award for that website 🤓

TIL if you *just play* with Microsoft Teams's new(ly highlighted) feature "file Forms" and make any field required, you can easily block everyone's work on the Team. Even without saving the form when you're done playing.

I thought I was playing in a single deeply nested folder, but by previewing my form, two fields became required for all folders and files in all channels in the Team. My colleagues could not save or synchronise these files anymore.

#MicrosoftTeams

@NilsArlinghaus I recognised the font and brand artwork from my alma mater before I saw the name. At the time it felt over the top, but I guess it works for brand recognition :D

@pietercolpaert@mastodon.social if you want your data to be reused, it is a good idea to think about how your data should be interpreted from the start. That means using multiple vocabularies to cover multiple viewpoints, because mapping in retrospect is very difficult. This was the main point of a presentation about FAIR research data. Let me find the details.

@meliimming@akademienl.social Sept 1 is the deadline!