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Goede geluiden over digitale autonomie

De Tweede Kamer is met reces, en de out of office replies vanuit de overheid beginnen indrukwekkende vormen aan te nemen. Kunnen ze in Amerika nog wat van leren.
Maar, er worden nog steeds dingen gepubliceerd, en het is opvallend hoeveel goeds er recent gezegd is over digitale autonomie.
De tl;dr is dat er een duidelijke wending zichtbaar is. Na een decennium van ontkenning publiceren allerhande stukken overheid nu ronkende teksten over digitale autonomie en staan die teksten ook vol goede voornemens en besluiten.

Construction Physics
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Reading List 07/11/26

Reading List 07/11/26

Adults living with their parents, Samsung’s profits, Native American data centers, Puerto Rico’s electricity grid, and more.

Andrew Nesbitt Valid
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This Week in Package Management: 11 July 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)

Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to Alanya"; ToS are the internet's biggest lie; Soviet jokes; Fox rapists v gag orders; GBAO is the f...

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In defense of not understanding your codebase

As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness) would say “obviously you have to understand it completely, otherwise you can’t do ...

Eli Bendersky's website
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Dot product: Component vs. Geometric definition

The goal of this post is to answer a simple question: why are the following two definitions of the vector dot product in Euclidean space [1] equivalent for vectors \vec{a} and \vec{b}:

  • Component definition: \vec{a}\cdot\vec{b}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_i b_i
  • Geometric definition: \vec …

Fabien Sanglard
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A dock that finally wakes up reliably

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention
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Quoting Nilay Patel

The reality is to make augmented reality glasses, you need to put a camera next to your eyes that is continuously recording everything you see and processing that to put information over it. There is not another way around it. And there's certainly not a chip that can fit i...

Dwarkesh Podcast
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Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Maurycy's Blog
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The Tadpole galaxy:

North is up (exact, mirrored). 0.53 "/pixel [18.8' x 7.4'] FWHM = 4.2" This galaxy has a massive (and rather bright) tidal tail, but I can't see an obvious companion galaxy. The general consensus is that there's a second galaxy behind it... although a nearby elliptical...

Terence Eden’s Blog
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Game Review: Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime ★★★☆☆

My new year's resolution is to play more video games with my wife. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory at the expense of someone else. So I asked for recommendations and picked the cheapest things which looked reasonable. Several people recommended Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime. It's a neat little game which is just short enough to…

The Old New Thing
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The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect

Decoding where those integer came from.

The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Jeff Geerling
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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

QuadRF antenna array from front

The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming.

It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.

If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of.

When you plug a computer into a network, tools like Wireshark can show all the hidden traffic you might not even know is there. WiFi packets are the same, but those travel through the air, allowing snooping without physical access.

The Silicon Underground
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Gary Kildall’s death investigation

Gary Kildall’s death investigation
Gary Kildall’s death investigation

Gary Kildall’s death investigation, or the seeming lack thereof, has taken on mythical proportions. Gary Kildall’s story seems to have that effect on people. Just like the story of Kildall allegedly going flying instead of meeting with IBM in August

The post Gary Kildall’s death investigation appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

Andrew Nesbitt Valid
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Package Management as Org Chart

Conway's Law applied to dependency management designs.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)

Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the entertainment industry; ISP v record label death penalty; Coming out on Splash Mountain; Negative ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention
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Quoting OpenAI

[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work conversations do not appear in desktop Work; desktop Work threads and local files remain on that computer.

OpenAI, trying (unsuccessfully) to clarify ChatGPT Work

Tags: openai, chatgpt, ai

Fabien Sanglard
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Don't you mean extinct?

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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus s...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention
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llm-meta-ai 0.1

Release: llm-meta-ai 0.1

Let's LLM run prompts against the new muse-spark-1.1 model.

Tags: llm, meta