Lars Willighagen (@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

@egonw they have a SynthID watermark :/

Screenshot of the OpenAI SynthID watermark checker, with Dutch text: "Gegenereerd met OpenAI-tools. Deze content is gegenereerd met OpenAI-tools. De onderstaande signalen geven ondersteunend bewijs voor dit resultaat." This is followed by a picture of two antlered deers sitting in the shadows of two haybales, resembling snails. More Dutch text: "SynthID gedetecteerd. We hebben een SynthID-watermerk gevonden dat afkomstig is van OpenAI." "Inhoudsgegevens niet gevonden. We hebben geen vertrouwd C2PA-manifest gevonden dat afkomstig is van OpenAI."

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 11:08 AM

@djoerd @egonw I'm getting blocked from accessing https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/331667 from the RU network now...

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 27, 2026, 9:42 PM

Cooool, apparently the English 'gas' originates from Dutch, first attested in 1648 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gas#English

English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.

Noun
gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

(uncountable, physical chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
Synonyms: vapor, vapour
"A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder"

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 22, 2026, 11:25 AM

@egonw @djoerd I'm getting the same with ProtonVPN and Firefox Focus; agree with the LLM scraper part

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 21, 2026, 4:28 PM

Simultaneously, @OpenLibrary seems to have an outage.

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 21, 2026, 3:39 PM

Looks like public requests to the Google Books API now have a quota/rate of 0 per minute. RIP

#google #googlebooks #isbn

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 20, 2026, 12:23 AM

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@citationjs/117300508142020558

The cover photo is yellow *and* blue, get it?

(I always make the cover photo of Citation.js a bright yellow, after the logo. But yellow is also for JS and here I add support for TS so blue)

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 18, 2026, 10:35 AM

After blocking the bot account, no less

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 18, 2026, 10:34 AM

You accidentally merge ONE (1) pull request "co-authored" by an LLM and it just shows up in the Contributors section forever even after rewriting the Git history?

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 13, 2026, 8:46 PM

@egonw cool, seems to be unknown (fig. 4 at https://aacrjournals.org/clincancerres/article/6/5/2012/288251/Metabolism-of-Irinotecan-CPT-11-by-CYP3A4-and), at least at the time the pathway was added

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 2, 2026, 11:27 PM

Wow, I am *so* behind on modern JavaScript https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

@larsgw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Aug 31, 2026, 8:56 AM

Using GBIF RDF to find applicable taxonomic literature

https://larsgw.blogspot.com/2026/08/using-gbif-rdf-to-find-applicable.html