Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

"SOMEONE really should do something about this terrible situation!" - senior politician in a position to do something about this terrible situation right now. I hear this lot.

Touching the Sun Despite its familiarity, the Sun is a very different presence from the friendly yellow circle in children's paintings. Our star is a broiling mass of plasma, with its powerful magnetic fields, twisted...

For those unfamiliar with the celestial object currently visible in UK skies, here's a primer. (Short version: This is the Sun. It is massive. And hot.) www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/to...

If you take a step back it's really quite incredible what Ukrainians have achieved

Most people don’t know this: Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant.

More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org👇

interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today

02:34:50, sorry!

I am losing it at how many of my peers have forgotten what software engineering is. It is not typing in lines of code.

Munich, of course, famously a great place for British PMs to get an easy win that saves their career.

very sad because he used to have valuable insights into the industry back in the day..

Bureau Buitenland | NPO Start Sophie Derkzen en Bram Vermeulen bespreken afwisselend de wereldpolitiek, met gasten die de kijker op een begrijpelijke manier meer grip geven op de wereld. Grote ontwikkelingen, machtsverschuivingen ...

2/2 In Bureau Buitenland @npostart.bsky.social met @berthubert.bsky.social over waarom we van het BigTech infuus af moeten en hoe we dat moeten doen. Cloud-out woensdag kan ons daarbij helpen. Wat dat precies is? Kijk de uitzending hier terug 👉🏻 npo.nl/start/serie/...

1/2 Cloud-out woensdag!!! Cloud wattt?? We verbreken de verbinding op woensdag heel even en kijken wat er nog werkt. Dan snappen we eindelijk de urgentie van digitaal onafhankelijker worden! Idee van techexpert Bert Hubert. Hopelijk krijg ik woensdag de handen hiervoor op elkaar in de Tweede Kamer!!

I am losing it at how many of my peers have forgotten what software engineering is. It is not typing in lines of code.

To clarify, this is an administrative problem, not policy. People will often even invent employers for me, I've been labelled as 'Dutch Intelligence', 'Dutch police', or even as a journalist for a newspaper I once wrote an article for. Or people write down 'PowerDNS' because I founded that in 2000.

Bert holding a QR-code pointing at https://berthub.eu/rtg and there is a sign that says Hubert, personal title, berthub.eu

Organizations and conferences deal badly with me having no employer or other affiliation. So on badges I often end up working for 'NA' or sometimes even 'null'. Recently I've taken to filling out berthub.eu as my employer and that is working out rather well:

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…and all but about twenty bucks of that is OpenAI.

hmm could you type some more words? This really is my jam but I'm not getting it!

That‘s the spirit.

One of the problems with Starmer's triangulation is he is roughly aiming at where the average person but that person doesn't listen to political speeches. And it annoys everyone who does. Then the average person catches the bad vibes.

een bij met een jas

eens :-)

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Open Source Policy Summit 2026  European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off

Don't think I've ever felt as sick reading a newspaper story as I have looking at this morning's Epstein coverage. Just the open amorality of all the powerful people involved for so long.

Oracle * @Oracle X.com The NVIDIA-OpenAl deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAl. We remain highly confident in OpenAl's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

My “the NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI” shirt has people asking me a lot of questions answered by the shirt

13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies.

This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either

‘Weirdly, the only multilateral organisation that is getting stronger is the one whose demise was always being predicted: the EU.’

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The Netherlands rethinks its US tech addiction Dutch society is built on US digital services. That’s now seen as a glaring security issue.

From Politico, @bartgroothuis.bsky.social @barbarakathmann.bsky.social and me on how the Netherlands is about to see its national government service login infrastructure move to US spying/sanction regulation: www.politico.eu/article/neth... #digid

I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!

We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.

De voorgenomen overname van DigiD door een Amerikaans bedrijf zorgt voor ophef in de Tweede Kamer én daarbuiten. De angst is dat onze privacygevoelige gegevens in Amerikaanse handen komen. Hoe afhankelijk zijn we van DigiD? Kamerlid voor GL-PvdA Barbara Kathmann legt uit: