Wendy van Dijk

Hoe zijn we in dit racistische land terechtgekomen? Waar is de medemenselijkheid? Waar de redelijkheid? De gelijkheid?

#nietmijnnederland

"legitimate military targets" MY ARSE. "Not all Russians" MY ARSE.

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque — Liberales Erich Maria Remarque laat de verloren generatie van Duitsland zien. Gesneuveld op de slagvelden van Frankrijk, onbegrepen door hun ouders en hun kinderen. De wereld waarin ze geboren werden, was niet ...

De wereld waarin ze geboren werden, was niet de wereld waarin ze stierven, of ze de oorlog overleefden of niet. Dit is een verhaal dat het verdient om steeds opnieuw verteld te worden. Opdat we niet vergeten, zullen we hen en wat ze meemaakten, blijven herdenken. www.liberales.be/teksten/2025...

750 Amsterdamse verhalen - Amsterdam750 Voor de viering van het jubileumjaar brengen we 750 Amsterdamse verhalen samen onder één digitaal dak. Lezen, kijken en luisteren, maar ook doen. Vóór en dóór Amsterdammers en iedereen die de stad in ...

Vandaag bestaat Amsterdam 750 jaar. Ter ere hiervan zijn er 750 verhalen gelanceerd. Fokke & Sukke zijn (niet zonder reden, maar dat snap je als je het leest) verhaal Nummer #8. Blader door alle andere mooie verhalen... amsterdam750.nl/verhalen/
@amsterdam750

Buy European, buy Canadian, buy Mexican, Australian, New Zealand, British etc. but nothing American please. Let Trump know that insulting, betraying, belittling and offending 550 million Europeans, 100 million Australians, Canadians and 125 million Japanese is going to cost the USA a lot of money.

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And this is Europe's major ally?

#JeSuisAntifa

Contributor: Trump's lawsuit against book publisher is a dangerous escalation Don't overlook the significance of a sitting president suing the world’s largest trade book publisher and two authors for publishing a book.

"We at PEN America view a U.S. president filing a suit claiming a book is “malicious, defamatory, and disparaging” as a grave warning. We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write." - Summer Lopez #booksky @booksky.club www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Exclusive: Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops

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I guess we can now really say that nothing has changed since the adoration of Putin in Anchorage, and the EU intervention in the White House.

Fucking unbelievable. They're going to put US expats under the District of Columbia where....they have no electoral votes. 🤬

I hope they abolish FATCA and having to file taxes whilst living elsewhere, too.

Developments: 1 New Problem Solving Issue, 1 set of core developments, 1 new module, 14 updated modules.

Writings: a few blogs, a Weekly Challenge, 2 questions, 1 comment, 3 skeets (all skeets were mine).

2025.33 More Resilience Liz’s Corner Liz continues on the path started last week with (1) Towards more accountability of Raku programs, this week adding new posts on (2) CRA and OpenSource, on (3) CycloneDX Support …

Steve Roe (librasteve) published a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter today, which starts (again) with work by @lizmat on SBOM because of the EU's Cyber Resiliance Act.

Enjoy!

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#RakuLang

Als je dat leuk vindt, wil je wellicht ook eens Wacken Open Air proberen.
;-)

Towards more accountability of Raku programs Shortly after the Second Raku Core Summit in June, it became clear to me that there had been one...

So, read up on what @lizmat wrote.

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#RakuLang

There's a lot more to say about this. Fortunately, Liz wrote blogs about this topic, and about her work on this. Four blogs already. Very educational. And if you are a developer of software, or of hardware with software on its components, you will at some point in your career bump into this subject.

Including working with PURL: Package URL (sounds like Perl, but is not related). So now she made modules for that too, and even working together with the PURL community.

@lizmat started with SBOM for Raku. The Software Bill of Materials will probably become a requirement that every software producer must provide. Liz is working hard on making whole packages with modules and documentation to make SBOMs possible for Raku, and she advancing nicely with this project.

My @liz started work on this for Raku, nudged and supported by Salve J. Nilsen , who I know for being a great organiser of events and an overall nice and smart guy.

#RakuLang

Failure to comply can mean being banned from the EU-market. Another risk is fines of millions of euros for not complying and maybe endangering people / infrastructure.

This all also applies to open source software.

That can be a lot of work and provide many surprises (good and nasty ones).

Developers need to prove that their products have no vulnerabilities. And they need to be able to show for every bit of software who made it, who wrote the code, who changed it, on what other code it depends, and on what again other code that other code depends on, and so on.

Products like software, of course, but also electronic devices that have some software to drive them. Nowadays, most electronic devices have such software components.

From now on (the law is already in effect, since December 2024), companies and all software and hardware developers need to conduct cyber risk assessments before they put a product on the market.

A safety and validity marking on software products is a good idea. The CRA is a first move that will make that happen.

Our stuffed toy butterfly Camelia is such a product and carries the CE-marking (designed in The Netherlands, developed in the USA, and produced in China).

Many producers in the world adopted the CE-marking, and the EU member states have done quite a bit to check on the validity of CE-markings on products from countries all over the world.

The European Union has agreed, a few years ago, on the CRA: the Cyber Resilience Act.

To me, it is a bit like the software version of the CE-marking on toys, electronics, and other commercial goods that need to comply to safety, health, and environmental proctection standards of the EU.

#RakuLang

Trump's Labor Statistics pick has painting of Nazi battleship behind his desk Some people online claim the painting is of the USS New Jersey, but it's the Bismarck, as made obvious by the photograph it traces.

With this barrage of unbelievable news, sometimes you've got to step back, draw a breath, and say WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

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