Arthur van der Harg

Data-Analist/Onderzoeker | e^iπ+1=0 | Bronteroc spotter

'I understood every word in that sentence, but not the sentence itself.' – Terry Pratchett

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2026-08-02 11:20:33 UTC

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I don’t think they really want that. Neither the current regime nor sensible US policymakers.
With Ceuta Spanish, Spain controls the Strait of Gibraltar from both sides. Sure, Ceuta makes for a land border between the EU and Africa. It would be easier to ‘defend’ ‘Fortress Europe’ against the ‘hordes of illegal immigrants’ (pardon my language) if the border were the Strait instead of the Ceuta outpost. But I reckon that controlling access to the Mediterranean and Black Sea outweighs dealing with a wave of immigrants every once in a while. That is the sensible reasoning.
For the other approach: MAGA wants to destroy Europe from within. Refugees are the perfect means to drive up tensions, because they give the far right kindling to stoke up the fires of discontent. So Ceuta in Spanish hands suits MAGA fine: it’s guaranteed to keep stirring up trouble, both within and between EU countries. It plays into their hands. They are not really going to try to change that.

2026-07-31 11:07:57 UTC

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I read up on it. I treasure the fact that my knowledge of it is now minimal and not hands on. Sounds like a combination of an axe, a kitchen knife, a loaded gun with a faulty safety and a stack of pots and pans on an overhead shelf.

2026-07-29 05:35:41 UTC

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A lawyer would argue that the food is clearly not outside.

2026-05-31 12:08:14 UTC

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The way I look at it: AI is going to be used to find vulnerabilities, period. Because AI analysis does find vulnerabilities. The choice is between the author finding them first, or waiting until bad actors exploit them. Bad actors don’t give a rat’s patootie about your ethical stance. For them, AI is a tool that works, so if you refuse to use AI to find vulnerabilities, the more they will find.

2026-05-24 11:49:19 UTC

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No, something that costs Microsoft money. Something like 365 or Azure being unavailable for a couple of days or weeks.

2026-05-22 20:30:35 UTC

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So are they going to ask for their Peace Prize back?

2026-04-12 21:47:29 UTC

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I don’t know, but seeing as all the places in Gaza are still on the map, I doubt that it is what you seem to imply. Lebanon is not Israeli territory, so any request to remove place names must have come from Lebanon itself.

2026-03-12 07:52:17 UTC

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“Terug naar de normale langetermijnontwikkeling” is een passender omschrijving.

2026-02-25 05:17:52 UTC

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I suspect that *all* extant COBOL codebases have excellent test suites. They are mission-critical applications, after all.

2026-01-19 08:13:40 UTC

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IIRC “cazzo” is not “for fuck’s sake”, but “dick” or “dickhead”. De Falco insulted Schettino personally. With reason, I might add.
I don’t think that Trump will have anywhere left to escape. He likes strongmen. If he has to flee, he’ll be weak and any strongman will have him for breakfast. And not as a guest.

2026-01-10 09:20:56 UTC

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The problem is that dialogue requires two parties willing to engage in it, where violence needs only one. If one party chooses violence, then it is a mistake to expect dialogue to end it. Violence only ends when it becomes too costly compared to its rewards.

2025-12-21 09:11:15 UTC

De VS dreigden dus daadwerkelijk met het ontzeggen van de toegang tot clouddiensten. Den Haag, kunnen we even ophouden met naïef doen over het verplaatsen van overheidstaken en -data naar Azure, AWS en GCP? (Cadeaulink)
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/19/botte-afperspraktijken-door-het-amerika-van-trump-a4915587?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal&gift_token=4915587~1766912635~PHWgLp0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~EXhD6fZyipnHUt_EejN_JTEgkqPU-tS0tGgGLdBK5_k

2025-09-10 21:14:24 UTC

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So, I suppose that the National Guard is going to invade Orem, Utah?

2025-06-20 11:44:08 UTC

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If Schrödingers cat were a time period …

2025-05-09 09:50:26 UTC

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Interesting images. I wonder: why are the ripples ahead of Daphnis on one side of the gap and behind it on the other side?

2025-05-03 05:13:11 UTC

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That should work, but probably not because of the lesser gravity.

2025-04-29 05:17:14 UTC

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Is the proposal to make the *installation* of Chat Control voluntary, or just enabling a CC that must already be installed? Because the latter wouldn’t really help.

2025-04-17 07:13:10 UTC

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Ik voel—de ene dag meer dan de andere—een diepe woede in mij opborrelen als ik deze overzichten lees.
Aan de andere kant is Trump natuurlijk een enorme loser: Hitler was in 1933 in 53 dagen klaar en Trump is na 87 dagen nóg aan het stuntelen. Maar echt, ik hoop dat die nieuwe, haastig afgebouwde Air Force One-Boeing heel snel geleverd wordt. Sla de laatste paar testen maar over, die doen ze in het kader van “efficiency” maar op de eerste vlucht met Trump aan boord.

2025-01-26 09:09:21 UTC

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Gek is dat: als iemand zegt dat iedereen uit Israël weg moet zodat de Palestijnen eindelijk met rust gelaten worden, dan is dat ineens onaanvaardbaar.

2024-12-29 10:31:47 UTC

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Gedrag is inderdaad belangrijk. Wel in de gaten houden bij die RTL-kop: elektrische auto’s wegen bijna allemaal meer dan 1500kg. En het aandeel elektrische auto’s is de afgelopen vijf jaar gestegen van 3,7% naar bijna 14%, bijna een verviervoudiging. Dus het is logisch dat er veel meer zware auto’s betrokken zijn bij ongevallen: er zijn veel meer zware auto’s die betrokken kúnnen raken. En dat zijn niet allemaal Hummers, RAMs of F150s.

2024-11-25 07:08:58 UTC

I’m starting to see a pattern. A long term strategy by Russia:
1) Offer cheap Russian gas and cheap Russian oil.
2) Watch countries make themselves dependent on that gas and oil supply.
3) Watch prices soar when cheap gas and oil are no longer available due to sanctions.
4) Support political figures on the far and extreme right.
5) Have them campaign on the cost of living.
6) Laugh when pro-Russian parties are elected because of a price crisis that Russia helped make.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlw5pq967o

2024-11-23 13:09:32 UTC

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There will probably be an opt out to *use* the information, but presumably not for gathering it. Rationale: “Suppose you want to turn it on in the future, you’d want your historical information to be available.”
Oh, and the opt out will revert with every update of course, under the label “improving user experience”.

2024-09-28 07:21:08 UTC

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Dit is het “Toch Niet”-kabinet: spreidingswet intrekken (o nee, toch niet), terugbrengen vliegbewegingen Schiphol (o nee, toch niet), 130km/u terug (o nee, toch niet), woningbouw bij Amsterdam (o nee, toch niet), boeren helpen met landbouwtransitie (o nee, toch niet), derogatie terughalen (o nee, toch niet), afschaffen eigen risico (o nee, toch niet), asieloptout (o nee, toch niet).
Hopelijk als laatste: de rit uitzitten (o nee, toch niet).