“We needed everybody’s approval to get it in the film,” he said. “So Guns N’ Roses was definitely a disappointment for us; we all have a lot of respect for Guns N’ Roses.”Grace Jones, meanwhile, “apparently couldn’t get over the political hurdle, notwithstanding the fact that the film is not a political film,” he claimed. “So that was disappointing, too. It’s disappointing when people put politics so far ahead, and that happened a little bit with the film, for sure.”Advertisement HPGam.cmd.push(function(){ return HPGam.render("inline-2", "entry_paragraph_3", false, false); }); A lawyer for the estate of Prince, meanwhile, nixed approval even though the rights holders had granted it.“Literally we were ready to go, and this lawyer that manages the estate was like, ‘Prince would never want his song associated with Donald Trump,’” he recalled. “And we’re like, ‘But it’s not a Donald Trump film! He comes into the movie once in a while, but this is all about Melania. It’s not political.’ And that guy blocked it. It’s so ridiculous.”Songs by Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, Aretha Franklin and The Rolling Stones were approved for the film.

The former civil servant said: “Andrew was seen as a liability. He went off-script, he thought he was an expert, when he wasn’t. He thought he was funny, when he was being rude to people.”

Domain TLD pricing. This one is just baffling. Certain TLDs cost significantly more when purchased through European registrars. I'm talking 2-3x markups on extensions that are cheap everywhere else. I never got a satisfying explanation for why. If anyone knows, I'm genuinely curious.

Twenty CRM for customer management

Hanko handles authentication and identity. A German provider that gives you passkeys, social logins, and user management

Nebius powers our AI inference. If you need GPU compute in Europe

Bunny.net is the unsung hero of this stack. CDN with distributed storage, DNS, image optimization, WAF, and DDoS protection, all from a company headquartered in Slovenia. Their edge network is genuinely impressive and their dashboard is a joy to use. Coming from Cloudflare, I felt at home rather quickly.

Zoals hierboven beschreven ga ik er vanuit dat de bekende e-maildiensten die we dagelijks gebruiken, privé of zakelijk, eruit zullen liggen. Het is dan handig als we snel en makkelijk een nieuw, herkenbaar e-mailadres kunnen krijgen. Dat kan bijvoorbeeld als een Nederlandse hoster zich daarop heeft voorbereid en het in de crisissituatie – of daarvoor al – mogelijk maakt om snel en makkelijk een nieuw e-mailadres te krijgen. Dat kan via de wallet! Daarmee kun je bewijzen wie je bent en kun je een standaard e-mailadres krijgen. In mijn geval zou dat kunnen zijn van de vorm: b.p.f.jacobs@diginoodpakket.nl of b.p.f.jacobs-nijmegen@diginoodpakket.nl. Mijn achternaam, initialen en woonplaats kan ik vanuit mijn wallet aan de hoster tonen, die vervolgens dit e-mailadres voor mij aanmaakt. Dat is geen rocket science. Op zo’n manier kunnen mensen elkaar weer bereiken. Ook daar moeten instructies en uitleg voor komen.

want of het installeren van nieuwe apps daarna nog kan is onduidelijk

Er zijn ook ‘decentrale’ wallets, waarbij jouw persoonsgegevens in jouw telefoon opgeslagen staan. Zulke apps blijven wel werken en kunnen in een flinke crisis buitengewoon nuttig zijn. Zo’n wallet app zal voorlopig niet van de Nederlandse overheid komen, want die opereert in de Europese achterhoede bij de invoering: een overheidsvariant gaat nog minstens twee jaar duren. Maar er zijn al wel andere functionerende wallets, met betrouwbare gegevens.

Digitale identiteit zal het startpunt moeten zijn, om weer van de grond te komen.

Het pakket zou wat mij betreft erop gericht moeten zijn om burgers te helpen de onderlinge communicatie weer op gang te krijgen, op een betrouwbare manier, waarbij je met een redelijke mate van zekerheid kunt weten wie je ‘aan de lijn’ hebt. Wat is daar voor nodig?

een versterkte aanpak op het afspreken, invoeren en handhaven van (digitale) standaarden, zoals via Nederlandse Digitaliseringsstrategie. Daarnaast noemt de brief het inzetten op meer steun bij implementatie en toetsing vooraf bij IT-projecten.

Het gaat om de meest recente meting Informatieveiligheidsstandaarden en de Monitor Open Standaarden 2025.

Ik onderzoek ook hoe we IT-projecten en aanbestedingen bijoverheidsorganisaties vooraf kunnen toetsen en een zwaarwegend advies meekunnen geven over de uit te vragen relevante verplichte standaarden van de ‘Pastoe of leg uit’-lijs

The scenarios Wooldridge imagines include a deadly software update for self-driving cars, an AI-powered hack that grounds global airlines, or a Barings bank-style collapse of a major company, triggered by AI doing something stupid. “These are very, very plausible scenarios,” he said. “There are all sorts of ways AI could very publicly go wrong.”

a spark that ignited the 200,000 cubic metres of hydrogen

“It’s the classic technology scenario,” he said. “You’ve got a technology that’s very, very promising, but not as rigorously tested as you would like it to be, and the commercial pressure behind it is unbearable.”

The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products’ capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood.

Inmiddels is DataFryslân een coöperatie met veertien leden, waaronder zeven Friese gemeenten en de Provinsje Fryslân. Nieuw Elan Juni 2024 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Huurdersbelang Fryslân december 2023 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. De Friesland november 2023 Nee./PODIUM. Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Tytsjerksteradiel november 2023 Nee./HUB Geen. Ntb. Ntb. Geen. Geen.Geen. Provinsje Fryslân februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Arjan SchepersAlgemeen Directeur Provinsje Fryslân Mark StuijtAdviseur Provinsje Fryslân Berend TirionAdviseur Provinsje Fryslân Diederik Scepter (februari 2019 - december 2021) Regina Bouius (februari 2019 - juni 2022) Geen.Geen. Gemeente Leeuwarden februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Eelke de JongBestuursvoorzitter DataFryslânVoorzitter ALV DataFryslânGemeentesecretaris Gemeente Leeuwarden Gijs ScholtenWethouder gemeente Leeuwarden Elsbeth van HaselenHoofd Informatiemanagement Mr. Ir. Reindert Hoek (februari 2019)... Gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Kristiaan StrijkerPenningmeester DataFryslânGemeentesecretaris gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân Michiel RietmanWethouder gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân Rob JanssenTeammanager Informatiemanagement Pieter Zondervan (februari 2019  - december 2021)... Gemeente Smallingerland februari 2019 Ja./HUB Siebren van den BergSecretaris bestuur DataFryslânGemeentesecrataris gemeente Smallingerland Sipke HoekstraWethouder gemeente Smallingerland Mariska van Nijen, Teammanager Informatiemanagement (2025 - ) Jelmer Mulder (februari 2019 - december... Rijksuniversiteit Groningen februari 2019 Ja./HUB Prof. Dr. Anne BeaulieuAletta Jacobs chair of Knowledge InfrastructuresDirector of the Data Research Centre at Campus Fryslan Prof. Dr. Andrej ZwitterDean Campus Fryslân Dr. Oscar GstreinProgramme Director Campus Fryslân Jouke de Vries (februari... NHL STENDEN februari 2019 Ja./HUB Drs. Peter MulderProgrammamanager Ecosystemen Erica SchaperBestuursvoorzitter van NHL Stenden Frank GortProgrammamanager NHL Stenden Soon Hee Santema (februari 2019 - december 2021) Geen.Geen. Planbureau Friesland februari 2019 Ja./PODIUM Geen Geen Chaïm La Roi Drs. Ingrid de VegteDirecteur/Bestuurder FSP(2019 - 2023) Jornt OzengaRaad van Toezicht FSPGemeentesecretaris van gemeente Lelystad(2019 - 2023) Marijn Mollema (2022-2024) Gemeente Waadhoeke mei 2022 Ja./LAB Geen. Jeroen IJkemaGemeentesecretaris gemeente Waadhoeke Jan-Daem de LangeTeammanager Informatiemanagement Geen. Geen.Geen. ROS Friesland Mei 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen Sandra ScherstraDirecteur ROS Friesland Jildou de JongAdviseur Geen. Geen.Geen. Tresoar September 2019 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Arjan DijkstraDirecteur Tresoar Olav KwakmanTeammanager ICT Geen. Geen.Geen. Elkien September 2019 Nee./HUB Drs. Peter van er WegDirecteur/bestuurder Elkien Janine Koning, MSc, Manager ICT, Data en Digitalisering (januari 2025 - ) Dennis Feenstra (2022 - ) Geen. Geen. Roel Vuursteen (2022 - 2024) Gemeente Ooststellingwerf November 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Weststellingwerf November 2022 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen Geen Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Noardeast-Fryslân Juni 2024 Nee./HUB Geen. Henk Verbunt MBA, gemeentesecretaris Noardeast-Fryslân Herman Buikema Geen. Geen.Geen. Gemeente Heerenveen Maart 2023 Nee./PODIUM Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen. Geen.Geen.

DataFryslân is in 2019 ontstaan als samenwerkingsverband van zeven Friese maatschappelijke organisaties die tijdens hun gezamenlijke betrokkenheid bij de Kulturele Haadstêd 2018 ontdekten dat er mooie dingen kunnen ontstaan als partijen met diverse achtergronden kennis en ervaringen met elkaar delen en samen optrekken met een gemeenschappelijk doel: datagedreven werken organiseren, stimuleren en propageren.

One of the largest PC suppliers, Dell, was reported to be planning a price hike that could raise hardware costs by hundreds of dollars. Interestingly, for consumers opting for higher memory configurations, this would now require a significant price increase. Here were the price increases that were reported across a variety of products: $130–$230 increase for Dell Pro and Pro Max notebooks and desktops configured with 32 GB of memory $520–$765 increase for systems configured with 128 GB of memory $55–$135 increase for configurations with a 1 TB SSD $66 increase for AI laptops equipped with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU (6 GB) $530 increase for AI laptops equipped with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU (24 GB) Similarly, companies like ASUS and Acer were also reported to be bumping up PC pricing to cope with memory shortages, and according to Acer's Chairman, Jason Chen, the BoM (Bill of Materials) for several products within Acer's portfolio has risen dramatically, leaving no choice but to increase prices to ensure consistent supply. Small-scale manufacturers like Framework are also looking to increase the cost of upgrading RAM on existing configurations, indicating a widespread "price hike" wave approaching gamers.

Making it easier to change service provider and keep the same phone number, including rules for compensation if the process goes wrong or takes too long

European electronic communications rules seek to make broadband internet access and voice communications affordable and available throughout Europe through effective competition and choice. Where the needs of consumers are not met by the market, universal service obligations ensure that affordable adequate internet access and voice communications services are available, regardless of personal circumstances like location, income or disability. The adequate broadband internet must have sufficient bandwidth for using important services such as eGovernment, internet banking, and standard quality video calls.

EECC introduced a new general objective to promote connectivity and access to, and take-up of, very high-capacity networks, including fixed, mobile and wireless networks, by all citizens and businesses of the Union. Increased emphasis was also given to the need to take into account the variety of conditions relating to infrastructure and competition in different geographic areas and the need to promote efficient investment and innovation in new and enhanced infrastructures.

The Commission completed the review of the functioning of the EECC on 21 January 2026 with the adoption and publication of a Report to the European Parliament and the Council. After highlighting several challenges, the Digital Networks Act (DNA) proposal aims to replace the Code. In turn, the DNA will create a modern, simplified and more harmonised legal framework, that boosts innovation and investment in resilient and advanced digital infrastructure, that is critical for enabling the adoption of AI, cloud, space and other innovative technologies.

the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has developed and adopted a significant number of guidelines, which aimed to promote a consistent application of the EECC and contribute to its successful implementation.

Only three Member States met the December 2020 deadline for transposing the EECC into national law. The transposition in all 27 Member States was only completed in August 2024, with the Commission supporting the Member States in the implementation process.

Why are so many techies dysphoric?It must be said that some people in tech are closeted or unaware trans people, and it's probably significantly more of the population than we might think given that a lot of trans people wind up drawn towards tech as a field. In these cases, the dysphoria makes a considerable amount of sense. However, even at the outer limit, that would account for no more than a quarter of tech people, which isn't enough to explain the general prevalence of dysphoria that we observe in the tech community. This means that we need an explanation for why our tech industry is so dead-eyed and void of emotion or motivation that isn't just that they need estrogen.

Looking at tech culture through this framing, it's hard not to see a lot of the same patterns at play. The depersonalisation, the idea that people can somehow be pure mind rather than being embodied and the lack of desire and motivation of your own and willingness to go along with whatever you're told by society is good are all very much patterns that we see in tech.

In this kind of situation, you quickly wind up suppressing your actual desires, emotions and motivations, even to yourself, and instead try and act on the basis of what society tells you that you should want, should feel and should be trying to do. Consequently, it becomes very easy for you to simply fall in with whatever everyone else is doing, to neglect yourself and your body and to see yourself and others almost as depersonalised minds without any real physical needs or wants.

While a lot of dysphoria is about the physical body (how could it not be), much of the ill-feeling in practice is to do with emotions and with desire.

n that kind of state, it's very easy to fall in with basically anything that tells you how you should live your life, what the path to happiness and feeling OK is or whatever: when you don't much desire or value anything, rejecting propaganda on the basis that it conflicts with your desires or values isn't a thing that really happens.

Without knowing that it's gender-related, dysphoria often presents precisely as this kind of directionlessness, not having desires or not knowing what you want. You often wind up kind of sleepwalking through life, trying to pursue the things that you think that you should want or the desires that society tells you are appropriate for someone in your supposed social position. Nothing ever quite works though, and often enough, until you figure out the problem, you kinda just... stop wanting things and stop trying entirely.

this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria

the cultural core of the industry is a strange void of desire and motivation that anybody with an agenda can write whatever they want into.

The existence of soylent suggests that a significant minority of tech people don't even really like or enjoy food all that much.

It's as though many people in the tech industry have no real desires at all beyond the desires that they're told to have by their wider social circles.

When LLM coding agents are the new hot thing, everything that the engineering community previously said about engineering standards, testing and robustness suddenly goes out the window,

The pattern in the tech world seems to be a distorted mirror of this, where some entity pushes a propaganda narrative and, like clockwork, the core influencers of general tech opinion shift their desires to match

Whether it's talking about race science and eugenics, the blockchain and NFTs or our current LLM situation, the core voices in the tech community (which is to say the people who have a disproportionate influence on general opinion within tech) are consistently willing to pick it up and go along with it, regardless of how obviously the narrative has been deliberately engineered and almost as though they have no real desires or internal motivation of their own.

I drew the conclusion that software developers are almost uniquely vulnerable among educated and professional people to being taken in by propaganda.

rsync books back and forth and mess on until your heart is content, as you should be able to with a device you own.Note: your books will end up in /mnt/storage - unimaginative, but very simple.

To enable ssh:Rename this file to ssh-enabledReboot the deviceConnect via: ssh root@<device_ip>

Peter Naur reminded us some decades ago that a program is more than its source code. Rather a program is a theory that lives in the minds of the developer(s) capturing what the program does, how developer intentions are implemented, and how the program can be changed over time. Usually this theory is not just in the minds of one developer but fragments of this theory are distributed across the minds of many, if not thousands, of other developers.

Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted.

Technical debt lives in the code; cognitive debt lives in developers' minds

Cognitive debt

the humans involved may have simply lost the plot and may not understand what the program is supposed to do, how their intentions were implemented, or how to possibly change it.

communicates the notion that the debt compounded from going fast lives in the brains of the developers and affects their lived experiences and abilities to “go fast” or to make change

Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction

Technical debt nicely captures that “human understanding” also matters, but the words “technical debt” conjure up the notion that the accrued debt is a property of the code and effort needs to be spent on removing that debt from code.

The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time

I've experienced this myself on some of my more ambitious vibe-code-adjacent projects. I've been experimenting with prompting entire new features into existence without reviewing their implementations and, while it works surprisingly well, I've found myself getting lost in my own projects. I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing.

we might move again. The point is that we can. We can because we own our prompts, our skills, our databases, our memory architecture, they all live in our bar. None of it lives inside OpenAI or Anthropic. When we moved, we rewired the model layer and everything else stayed put. That’s the whole trick, really. If you control the pieces that make your agents smart, switching the engine underneath is just plumbing.

What if I actually did have dirt on me that an AI could leverage? What could it make me do? How many people have open social media accounts, reused usernames, and no idea that AI could connect those dots to find out things no one knows?

The UN Open Source Principles Open by default: Making open source the standard approach for projects. Contribute back: Encouraging active participation in the open source ecosystem. Secure by design: Making security a priority in all software projects. Foster inclusive participation and community building: Enabling and facilitating diverse and inclusive contributions. Design for reusability: Designing projects to be interoperable across various platforms and ecosystems. Provide documentation: Providing thorough documentation for end-users, integrators and developers. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support, and empower): Empowering individuals and communities to actively participate. Sustain and scale: Supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system and beyond.

We're in the habit of exporting public money out of Europe, and importing dependencies.

So, for now, Schleswig is still running Windows, but has replaced Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on "nearly 100 percent" of machines. It's using Thunderbird for email, calendars, and contacts, talking to Open-Xchange on the back end, alongside the Matrix-based Element for chat and Nextcloud for collaboration.

Brine also contains metals and chemicals (foreign to the marine environment) that have adverse effects on marine ecosystem

Because energy for desalination increases with seawater salinity, buildup of salt in brine endangers potable water supply there.

The Persian Gulf (also known as Arabian Gulf) is surrounded by desalination plants with about 50% of worldwide capacity to desalinate seawater. Most of these plants dispose of hypersaline effluent (brine) via surface and nearshore outfall into the Gulf

more viable fixes such as modernizing irrigation or repairing urban water networks that lose nearly 30% of supply to leaks.

Groundwater extraction exceeds natural recharge by two- to threefold in many plains, causing land subsidence of 25–35 centimeters per year and collapsing centuries-old qanats.

Agriculture consumes roughly 90% of Iran’s water while contributing only about 12% of GDP, a ratio driven by inefficient flood irrigation and water-intensive crops like rice cultivated in arid basins.

The pipeline itself crosses some of Iran’s driest terrain, where heat and exposure could evaporate 20–30% of the transported water, while brine residues risk contaminating fragile soils.

Desalination produces hypersaline brine, which, if discharged improperly, could raise salinity in parts of the Gulf of Oman by up to 1.5 times and increase water temperatures by 2°C, threatening marine ecosystems and already stressed fisheries.

PKM isn’t necessarily about disorientation, but it is a tool for exploration. You can then get to a point of reorientation, which may not be complete, and then be able to take action or make it actionable.

I left Facebook 10 years ago and left Twitter 2 years ago. The only platform I’m on now is LinkedIn. And even there, some days I think that maybe I should get off it, too. I mean, the algorithm has changed so much. Here’s an example: a post I put on LinkedIn about 3 years ago got 29k views. Now, I’m lucky to get 1k views. That’s what the algorithm is. I have around 7k followers on LinkedIn, and I’m only getting 1k views? You know that the algorithm is just squeezing it down, and I’m not a paying member of LinkedIn, so…

You know, the e-books basically were a way for somebody who wanted to read my content in a book format, with a flow to it and things like that.

You mentioned that many of your blog posts begin as small moments of curiosity and questioning about the world around you and your clients’ experiences.

No one wants to change.

I think I’ve touched some people individually. I’ve had some successful projects where we actually got something where we could see the benefits of what we were doing.

being comfortable with not knowing is part of blogging. Sometimes I’m putting stuff out there, and I don’t know if it’s any good, I don’t know if it makes any sense, but I gotta get it out there, and let’s see what happens. There’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t go any further than a blog post. It is what it is. It’s my process of trying to make sense of things.

being comfortable with being disoriented

Dave Snowden? It’s a sense-making framework as well, but there’s a part where Dave talks about aporia: a state of puzzlement or disorientation, until you finally get to the point where you actually understand what you don’t know. First, you don’t even know what you don’t know, because everything is confusing. And then, through exploration, you get to a certain point where you think, “Okay, I don’t understand this, now I’ve got to learn about that.” So, I actually know what I don’t know, and now I can go into it and take some action. That’s where the actionable part comes. And part of that, too, is being comfortable with being disoriented.

Well, PKM is not actually my idea. There are other people who are writing about personal knowledge management. I changed it to mastery because I wanted to move away from the knowledge management world, which was too much about big systems and big databases. I wanted to focus on what I, as an individual, do, and what we as a community or a network do. For example, how do we enable that kind of collaboration and cooperation? So, personal knowledge mastery just became the term because it is about mastery, and you never master it completely, right? It’s like any discipline, a lifelong thing. You continuously try to get better.