kernelle

https://www.sqlnoir.com/

SQL, you love it or hate it. Become Sherlock Holmes and hate it even more, euh I mean love it. Enjoyment is subjective anyway. Now if anyone wants to torture me, make a regex version of SQLNoir.

https://mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-all-things

What's my obsession with Wikipedia? Ask the people selling door-to-door encyclopedias in the olden days. So what happens when you mix an encyclopedia with a liminal space? The Museum Of All Things, Wikipedia made into a procedurally generated near infinite display of art. The only improvement I could come up with is adding multiplayer support in order to stumble into people wandering the halls of knowledge too.

https://www.dumbware.io/

KISS, one of the most important values in software design. But simple problems sometimes require complex solutions, as a response we have Dumbware. Needing barely any configuration, they solve those simple problems in the simplest way possible. Not ideal for public or production environments, but perfectly suitable for everywhere else.

https://zws.im/

Shortening URL's is a staple of the internet, why would you send 200 characters of nonsense when you could be sending 20? Zero Width Shortening takes this to the next level using Unicode that is not rendered by the browser. Honestly, it's something that is more important to know about than it has uses. As a demonstration, here's my Lemmy instance, made one character longer. Don't ask too many questions okay. https://zws.im/%E2%80%8D%F3%A0%81%AC%F3%A0%81%B6%F3%A0%81%A6%F3%A0%81%A4%F3%A0%81%A3%F3%A0%81%A1

https://emoji.paulbutler.org/?mode=decode

C󠅇󠅘󠅩󠄐󠅞󠅟󠅤󠄐󠅤󠅑󠅛󠅕󠄐󠅅󠅞󠅙󠅓󠅟󠅔󠅕󠄐󠅟󠅒󠅖󠅥󠅣󠅓󠅑󠅤󠅙󠅟󠅞󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅣󠅤󠅕󠅠󠄐󠅖󠅥󠅢󠅤󠅘󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅒󠅩󠄐󠅕󠅞󠅓󠅟󠅔󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅙󠅣󠄐󠅕󠅞󠅤󠅙󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅒󠅙󠅤󠄐󠅟󠅖󠄐󠅤󠅕󠅨󠅤󠄐󠅙󠅞󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅑󠅞󠅟󠅤󠅘󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅠󠅙󠅕󠅓󠅕󠄐󠅟󠅖󠄐󠅤󠅕󠅨󠅤󠄜󠄐󠅟󠅢󠄐󠅕󠅦󠅕󠅞󠄐󠄵󠅝󠅟󠅚󠅙󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅖󠅟󠅢󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅑󠅤󠄐󠅝󠅑󠅤󠅤󠅕󠅢󠄞󠄐󠄸󠅕󠅢󠅕󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅒󠅟󠅞󠅥󠅣󠄐󠅜󠅙󠅞󠅛󠄪󠄐󠅘󠅤󠅤󠅠󠅣󠄪󠄟󠄟󠅧󠅧󠅧󠄞󠅚󠅣󠅓󠅢󠅕󠅕󠅞󠅖󠅙󠅨󠄞󠅓󠅟󠅝󠄟󠄜󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅨󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅠󠅙󠅨󠅕󠅜󠅣󠄐󠅧󠅙󠅤󠅘󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅙󠅣󠄐󠅧󠅕󠅒󠅣󠅙󠅤󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅣󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅒󠅙󠅤󠄐󠄥󠄠󠄟󠄥󠄠󠄜󠄐󠅒󠅥󠅤󠄐󠄹󠄗󠅜󠅜󠄐󠅤󠅑󠅛󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠅣󠅕󠄐󠅟󠅔󠅔󠅣󠄐󠅗󠅜󠅑󠅔󠅜󠅩󠄐󠅙󠅖󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅠󠅙󠅨󠅕󠅜󠄐󠅙󠅣󠄐󠅣󠅤󠅥󠅓󠅛󠄐󠅟󠅞󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅒󠅢󠅙󠅗󠅘󠅤󠄐󠅓󠅟󠅜󠅟󠅥󠅢󠄞opy this

The availability of critical medicines is under pressure within the European Union (EU) and globally. In recent years, shortages have become increasingly visible, partly because of geopolitical tensions and a heavy dependence on Asian countries for raw materials. To address this challenge, the Critical Medicines Alliance was established in April 2024 under the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council. This Alliance consists of stakeholders from healthcare, industry and civil society and works with representatives from European Member States to formulate sustainable solutions. The primary goal of the Alliance is to identify bottlenecks in the supply of medicines and formulate recommendations.

The result is impressive: the past year of intensive discussions with all stakeholders has led to the development of an ambitious strategic report. The report provides concrete recommendations to the European Commission, EU Member States and other stakeholders on how to strengthen the production of critical medicines within the EU and ensure strategic partnerships with non-EU countries.

news.belgium.be

Ghent (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Ghent’s Orsi Academy (Merelbeke-Melle) and Nvidia developed an AI tool for surgical training, analyzing real-time images and aiding surgeons. A Belgian first remote surgery from Ghent to Shanghai (9,000 km). Pieter De Backer was involved.

The Ghent’s Orsi Academy, located in Belgium, has teamed up with Nvidia to create a cutting-edge AI tool for surgical training. This technology first appeared at a major international conference and allows surgeons and medical professionals to interact with an AI-powered chatbot during live operations. Officials mentioned that this intelligent system can analyze real-time surgical images and provide tailored explanations to users of all expertise levels.

brusselsmorning.com

Researchers at Leuven University (KU Leuven) have discovered the existence of millions of poorly secured so-called ‘tunnelling hosts’. Tunnelling hosts are servers or computers that act as intermediaries to connect computer networks. A total of more than four million vulnerable tunnelling hosts were found.

vrt.be

The Atomium on the Heizel Plateau in Brussels has welcomed its 11,000,000th since it reopened in 2006. The icon structure that was built for the 1958 World’s Fair continues to pull in the crowds. The 11,000,000th visitor receive a festive welcome from the Atomium’s staff earlier on Wednesday.

vrt.be

https://soundcloud.com/whynotbarbershop2/tracks

Finding reacting online a bit dull? Our first stop brings us by a barbershop quartet singing over 1000 different reactonairy lines. Take your copypasta to the next level with WhyNotBarbershop1 and 2.

https://it-tools.tech/

Every developer needs a toolbox, this self-hostable swiss army knife of development tools surely fills that void.

https://phyphox.org/

Used by Teachers, Children, Tinkerers, Developers, and scientists, it's probably the best use of a smartphone yet. From basic sensor data to full-blown physics experiments, analyzing springs, or measuring the gravitational constant is just the tip of the iceberg. The best part? It's FOSS, has libraries for many platforms and can be downloaded right now on F-Droid, Play Store or the App Store on iOS devices.

https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

Running Windows in 2025 needs a good reason, but those reasons exist. To make Network File Management from Windows to the rest of your Linux stack a little less of a mangeled shitshow, you can use SSHFS-Win. Combined with one of the GUI's listed, it will map network drives in your Windows Explorer as if they were natively supported.

https://solidlab.be/sharcs/

Last Monday there was a Solid Community Meeting held in Ghent (Belgium), that I was fortunate enough to attend. With a wide range of speakers, it was mainly focused on this report from SHARCS. Which is a collaboration between researchers from different innovative organizations. They were tasked with finding the strengths and weaknesses of the Solid standard as it exists today. If you're not already familiar with Solid, I'd recommend watching this video first.

Bonus link

https://www.figma.com/proto/89Jn0Ucdewxxv47U6PEs7I/The-Solid-application?node-id=17977-5612&t=Uy9klfrcUoi51eo9-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=17975%3A10116&starting-point-node-id=17907%3A4356

A demo shown at the latest Solid Community Meeting. This demo demonstrates how a Solid Pod could be used in a browser, allowing selective data sharing for personalized results. Disclaimer: I do not know how long this link will keep working.

Belgium’s defence minister Theo Francken is considering a voluntary military service programme aimed at increasing the amount of young people working in defence.

Belgium abolished its compulsory military service in 1995 and has no intention of reinstating a mandatory initiative, RTBF reports, but Francken sees a voluntary programme as a means of recruitment and plans to launch it "as soon as possible".

“All young men and women aged 18 will receive a letter from me inviting them to join the defence for one year,” said Francken.

thebulletin.be

Since the introduction of the NIS2 legislation in October last year, 1224 organisations from critical sectors have already registered with the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB). During this period, the number of reports of cyber incidents increased by 50%.

Cybercrime is set to explode in the coming years. The new European Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) aims to improve the cyber security and resilience of essential and key services in well-defined sectors in the EU.

Pioneering role Belgium was the first European member state to fully implement the new NIS2 directive. Meanwhile, half of the EU member states still need to transpose it into national law

news.belgium.be

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Good.html

The internet is an amazing melting pot, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? Written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee - yes the internet guy, this article highlights technologies that are trying to improve the negative side effects of our modern day internet. A Fediverse must read.

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

Ever spent hours following one Wikipedia link to the next? Introducing, Wikipedia Doomscrolling. I'm truly sorry for any lost productivity due to WikiTok.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-infinite

Doom doesn't need any introduction, but this roguelike mod does. Doom Infinite brings procedurally generated levels, random weapon variations, new items, new abilities and much more. Calling this the best Doom mod ever made is a matter of opinion though, but if you disagree, I might just rip and tear.

https://www.mudconnect.com/

MUD's or Multi-User Dungeons are the original MMORPG's. Active since the 70's, MUD's still have a place on the internet. Being mostly text*-based adventures, it's a deep rabbit hole of early internet multiplayer gaming. The MUD Connector will find the perfect MUD for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

Trees? trees.

Earlier this week a painting by the artist Jacob Jordaens that was stolen by the Nazis from a flat in Mechelen (Antwerp Province) 85 years ago was returned to the descendants of its rightful owners. The painting was handed back at the Dossin Barracks Holocaust Memorial and Information Centre in Mechelen.

vrt.be

The winners of this year’s Oscars, the Academy Awards that recognise technical and artistic merit in the film industry, are being announced on 2 March. With 13 Oscar nominations, a record for a movie in the category ‘Best International Feature Film’, Belgian coproduction 'Emilia Pérez' is one of the favourites. But several other nominated films have Belgian input.

vrt.be

In 2024, observant citizens forwarded more than 9 million messages to suspicious@safeonweb.be . In record year 2023, there were 10 million. On average in 2024, we received 25,900 messages per day. We would like to sincerely thank all internet users who continue to do so! Together we are making the internet a safer place.

With this information, we were able to detect and redirect exactly 1,644,732 suspicious links. Indeed, less attentive internet users who do click on such a link are redirected by us to a warning page and thus not scammed.

news.belgium.be