Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

July 21, 2026

AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”

Interesting study which measures our propensity to be more confident while being more wrong when using LLMs to answer questions. Those models really tap into our cognitive bias to mistake linguistic fluency for competence.

Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson’s Failed Cleanup
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No the technology we use isn't neutral... In that case it directly fund fascists. Whatever the technical merits from the Mullvad VPN it disqualify them to be used.

When ‘if’ slows you down, avoid it

This is too often forgotten. If you can avoid the "if" and your CPU will thank you for it.

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
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If you still don't think data centres have a water consumption problem, especially since the LLM weapon race... Think again.