4 days Ago

Links and Notes for October 30th, 2026

Published by marco on in Notes

Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

[1] Emphases are added, unless otherwise noted.↩
[2] Annotations are only lightly edited and are largely contemporaneous.↩

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5 days Ago

What does Copilot know about me?

Published by marco on in Miscellaneous

The other day, I received an e-mail from Microsoft that offered to use Copilot to generate a cool picture describing the glory that is me to inspire envy and job offers on LinkedIn. As you can well imagine, my initial reaction was scorn, but then I wondered what would be the overall impression one would get from the information about me available on my company’s intranet (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Azure DevOps, etc.).

So, I entered the prompt with which I had so generously been provided,... [More]