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I used to get multiple Zivver messages a week from the health providers I work with. However, I haven't received a single one since the announcement of the takeover a while ago.

I recently moved to a Dutch municipality that runs its own non-profit ISP. They installed a symmetric 1 Gbps fiber connection with a static IP at my house for 40 euros per month.

The service is solid, there’s no upselling or throttling, and hosting things from home just works. I bring this up because when we talk about “open”, “fair” and “monopolies” the model of a local, non-profit ISP backed by the municipality could offer a real alternative. It doesn’t directly solve the peering issues, but it shifts the balance of power (and cost) somewhat.

This comment makes this thread a great time capsule. Given that the website is now over 10 years old, it perfectly illustrates how much 'best practices' and architectural complexity (and cloud bills) have changed since then.

The fruit fly runs a real-time embodied intelligence stack on 1 MHz, no cloud required.

Edit: Also supports autonomous flight, adaptive learning, and zero downtime since the Cambrian release.

This feels to me like HP is trying to formalize a whole new business around second-hand hardware — not just selling off returns, but really building a controlled ecosystem for trade-ins, refurb, and resale. My guess is they want to keep that value in-house rather than letting third-party refurbishers or resellers capture it.

The Carfax reference stood out to me. It seems more like a feel-good marketing move than anything with real substance — just enough to trigger that association of “trusted, inspected, certified.” Not necessarily bad, but definitely more about perception than transparency.

Overall, I think they’re trying to rebrand “used hardware” into something safe, premium, and profitable — under the HP umbrella, of course.

This book was a great help to me years ago, and I still have a hard copy lying around. It's wonderful to now have a digital edition as well. I often look back on my time with the Delphi IDE with fond memories—though, thankfully, the bad ones seem to fade faster.

As a synthesizer enthusiast, I'm excited to read about this. A well-designed button layout on a synth sparks my creativity. Tweaking knobs on a touchscreen doesn’t work for me because I constantly have to check the screen to make sure my fingers are on the right control.

In the Netherlands it's called "luchten". It's similar to "aérer". Both translate to "To air out" in English.

Maybe "the world" needs to pay to countries with large forests (like Brazil) to maintain them, instead of paying them for cutting them down (lumber, agro, resources)

I'd recommend Clean Architecture by Robert Martin.

To me, coding and making electronic music in the nineties were very similar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker]

I've visited a castle in Germany once, where they had special short swords for defending the staircases. The staircases in that castle were too small to wield a regular sword.

Writing my own database (which ended in a wreck) was a great learning experience. It helped me understand the problem space better.

Cars in the Netherlands are taxed by weight (combined with fuel type). This doesn't prevent people from buying bigger and bigger cars.

Orion Browser is free. Payments are possible by donating or subscribing to either Orion+ or Kagi Search.

An ex secret service regulator has previously warned the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) about cheating from the secret service so communication of all Dutch citizens can be tapped[1]

[1] (Dutch) https://decorrespondent.nl/13987/de-geheime-diensten-bedonde...

Cross platform saving and playing & free for players who already own the game on Steam. Nice!

Ecstasy is usually shortened as "XTC", "E" or "X"

At the next step. It's a no go for me as well.

What does HCI stand for? Human Computer Interaction?

This sounds/looks awesome! I wonder if Renoise also runs on it.

> One possible technical measure that may be relevant when using Google Analytics is pseudonymisation.

Under GDPR pseudonymisation is considered to be reversible and therefor still falls within the scope of personal data. [source: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/gr... ]

What risks do you expect to be imposed on your business?

I've picked one at the arcade and never changed it. (It only allowed three characters)

Me too! But it was in Groningen

Ugh, I'm still sad about what happened to Macromedia Fireworks after Adobe takeover. Have been boycotting their products ever since.

I absolutely loved Baahubali and watched RRR last night for the first time. I'm planning to watch KFG tonight. I'd highly recommend Tumbbad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbbad too.

I've been using the free version for years. Never needed any of the premium features to create a useful mindmap.

Hello!

I used to trade e-mail addresses with various banks, some 15 years ago. I'd just call up their marketing departments and offer those as 'financial leads'. I had a network of people who had various ad campaigns running where a customer could win something if the'd leave their personal (financial) data.