Bart Hanssens

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

CCLeaner was once the most popular cleaner in the world. Then it got hacked and shipped malware to millions of people.

Today a big company sell it by subscription.

So a solo developer named Dave rebuilt the entire thing from scratch, open-sourced it, and gave it away for free.

It is called Kudu.

Install it and you get more than 15 maintenance tools inside one app:

→ Clean system junk, logs, caches, and crash dumps
→ Find malware using signatures and heuristic checks
→ See which programs are slowing your startup
→ Map what is eating your disk space
→ Update outdated software in bulk
→ Remove preinstalled Windows bloatware
→ Harden more than 35 privacy and security settings
→ Monitor CPU, memory, disk, network, and drive health

It also creates backups before cleaning and keeps a history of what was removed.

No ads. No upgrade popups. No bundled software. No telemetry.

Kudu works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, supports 30 languages, and has crossed 1.6 million downloads.

The entire codebase is public under the MIT license.

After what happened to CCleaner, being able to inspect the cleaner may be its most important feature.

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[Capitán Bitcoin @CapitanBitcoin]

🚨PRIORIDADES. España ha cerrado más mar para proteger a 1 sola persona que para frenar a 70.000 irregulares. Has leído bien, atento.

Pedro Sánchez ha bloqueado medio millón de metros cuadrados de mar para que nadie lo moleste en su palacio de verano, en La Mareta.

Prohibido pescar.
Prohibido bañarse.
Prohibido acercarse.
60 agentes de seguridad.
Todo el mes, hasta que él se vaya.

¿Y la frontera de Ceuta, con 70.000 personas entrando? 500 metros de boyas a los 3 días.

Y aún hay más.

Mientras Ceuta se hundía en el caos, las cuentas oficiales del presidente publicaron una cosa: su lista de canciones para el verano.

Su playlist. Con Ceuta en crisis.
Frivolidad total. No hay más que decir.
Ya está todo dicho.

7.500 disidentes ya estamos dentro
Faltas tú → https://t.co/JtP6bmpKel
PD: el "Manual del Disidente" te llega al correo en cuanto entras. No tienes que hacer nada más.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

"Exceeds Expectations" is a myth crafted by HR. 🤡

[Oliver Prompts @oliviscusAI]

There's an open-source home robot vacuum you can actually build yourself.

It's called OOMWOO.

Runs on a Raspberry Pi with 2D LiDAR mapping, ROS2 navigation, and native Home Assistant integration. No cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in.

The team spent real time researching before designing it. They reviewed the entire 2025-2026 robot vacuum market, from budget to flagship, and found real-world cleaning doesn't track advertised suction power.

The anti-tangle brush design alone is worth mentioning. A tapered rubber roller that resists hair-wrap, one of the most common complaints with commercial models, easy to 3D-print yourself.

If you've got a Raspberry Pi and a 3D printer sitting around, this is a genuinely interesting weekend project.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Let's hear your theories... I think he nailed it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson has been refused permission to sell food he grew himself, twice. In the same window, central government overruled a Lincolnshire council to put solar panels across 1,214 hectares of grazing land, an area the size of Heathrow.

Run the two columns side by side, because the pattern is the whole story.

He asked to open a restaurant in his own lambing shed. Refused.

He asked for a car park for the people already blocking the lane. Refused.

He asked to sell food produced more than sixteen miles away. Capped at sixteen.

He asked for a barn to store his own harvest, so he would not have to sell at whatever price August offered. Full application required.

He asked about the restaurant again. Enforcement notice, and six weeks judged ample to put the building back as it was.

Now the other column.

Had he covered those same fields in solar panels, the council could have refused and been overruled from Whitehall, as Lincolnshire was in October 2025.

Had he grown maize to feed an anaerobic digester, nobody would have written to anybody.

Had he taken £532 a hectare from Defra to grow a legume fallow, he would have been paid to leave a crop standing that may not be harvested, grazed or sold. Defra cut that rate this year and gave the reason in writing: it had become attractive enough to take land out of food production.

Had he sold the lot to a data centre, a battery park or a Chinese pig unit, all four of which he listed in his column last week, the paperwork would have moved considerably faster than a farm shop's.

There is your planning system. Every use of English farmland is easier to permit than farming.

Two hundred of his acres grew nothing at all this year, and the queue of people who want that ground for something other than food is already forming.

He is not being stopped from developing the countryside. He is being stopped from feeding it.

[De Telegraaf @telegraaf]

Spaanse politie detecteert zeker tien terrorismeveroordeelden tussen migranten die Ceuta binnendrongen https://t.co/JIwjQAQv4B

[Five Times August @FiveTimesAugust]

Never forget.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

I did claim that parental controls can be set up in 2 minutes. I've provided a link to a 2-min video to show how it's done on an iPhone. This tweet explains how I can prove from a technical perspective that this law is about surveillance and control, not child safety. Either Melissa is aware of this, or she's about to learn something that should change her mind about the need for this law and its strange technical implementation. No jargon.

I wrote something similar yesterday, but I've added more insights here because I didn't realise her tweet was probably referring to me specifically.

↳ 2 minutes assumes a parent knows where the settings are, which most parents don't. But that's because none of the child safety advocates are helping them through education and awareness. Even if it took an hour, that doesn't seem like a heavy lift for a parent who's really concerned about digital safety. It's also a one-off setup.

↳ Being a parent, I appreciate the challenges, but being a parent doesn't qualify me to know what works, what doesn't work, and where parents who lack technical expertise are fundamentally wrong and need to learn more. Building some of the most intrusive security services you can imagine for mobile firmware, mobile apps, browsers, business tools, SMS infrastructure, and content filtering while co founding the W3C standard for Content Labelling in 2004 is just the tip of the iceberg that qualifies my assertions. All opinions aren't equal and some are technically wrong.

↳ A politician or child safety advocate who disagrees with these technical observations might as well be arguing that the earth is flat. That's how incredibly uninformed and uneducated they are. I'll happily debate any person on any aspect of any child safety related law or policy, or technical implementations the law or policy hopes to enforce.

↳ In 2014 I was interviewed by BBC Newsnight to explain why parental controls were so poor - while advising the UK government during the first parliamentary inquiry into Online Child Safety. I wasn't in favour of what the UK eventually did with porn filters, and my predictions all came to fruition over the following 10+ years. But that's for another conversation.

↳ Today, device based parental controls are excellent. I've done a 180 on my opinion because the technology has done a 180 in recent years. There's no need for any additional software, API services, or laws. It's already built into the phone's operating system. These controls are technically impossible to bypass.

↳ There's no law in any country that can or will protect teens from apps and websites that their parents believe are unsuitable or dangerous. Every law that's come into practice so far has failed. Every new law being discussed will fail to protect children. Politicians and tech executives with ulterior motives are actually putting children in more danger than they're in today.

↳ UK politicians now say it's "work in progress" because they have plans that aren't being shared, but those plans are obvious to technical experts. Technically speaking, it doesn't make sense to say child safety measures are work in progress. Their chaotic, draconian laws either works or they don't. The only thing they can possibly be referring to is introducing extra laws that enforce government issued identity verification and ban VPNs. Outside existing device based settings, it's technically impossible to impose child safety measures that work without these extra steps.

🇪🇺 Separate to online child safety, I've advised NCMEC, IWF, the DOJ, CEOP, and others on matters related to online child exploitation. This is a unique area of expertise that doesn't overlap with online child safety, which the EU is conflating through what can only be described as propaganda. I see even darker surveillance objectives across the EU with Chat Control. This is all a coordinated effort between a few countries (including the Five Eyes) and a few tech companies.

↳ I speak only of my credentials because they make it impossible for politicians and other child safety advocates to argue with, or at least they should anyway. This isn't a debate between child safety advocates and civil liberties groups as suggested across all media outlets. It should be a debate between politicians and their lobby groups, and technical experts who are unbiased and care as much about child safety as they do about privacy protections and human rights.

If I had to host a meeting between the DOJ and NCMEC to help them understand how to better monitor, detect, and report CSAM, EU political leaders and lobby groups shouldn't quote NCMEC or IWF data to justify something that I say is technically impossible.

↳ Meta and TikTok are the main lobbyists for device or OS based age verification so they can avoid liability for any harms they've been accused of until now. Google thinks it's great because they get even more data points about every person, getting to know which child uses which apps and when. This means some US political movers have been wined and dined by the people who wrote the bill, people who work for Meta and TikTok. Are they likely to lobby for something that reduces their revenue while imposing technical measures to protect kids?

💡 Android has age grouping already inside the phone's settings where parents can restrict everything on their child's device to say, 13+. This would make it impossible for a security professional to add an app like Facebook, much less a teenager. Google is responsible for Android, so launching an API service for apps when their own operating system already has the settings built in can only mean they want to know more about people when they use a mobile app. I designed a similar API service for Android firmware about 14 years ago, and had to walk Samsung engineers through it on a whiteboard because they didn't think it was possible to do what my team had built. Link to video demo provided below.

💡The age attestation API is supposed to make it possible for tech companies to provide an in-app experience based on the age group of the person accessing the service. That's insanely dangerous and irresponsible.

💭 I'd like you to imagine Meta and TikTok lowering the age rating of their apps to 4+ based on the promise that anything a child sees will be age appropriate. Given their track record, how likely do you think they are to provide an in-app experience that doesn't expose them to content that their parents believe is either unsuitable or harmful?

This law guarantees that some parents will end up with a false sense of safety for their children and do even less to take responsibility to learn more about digital devices and how their children should be protected in the same way that some parents teach their kids about stranger danger outside their home.

💡If both the government and tech companies who meet privately on a regular basis, know that today's mobile phones already have these age settings built into the OS and they work across every app 100% of the time, why is there a need for a law that duplicates the same efforts for app developers that's less technically sound, introduces more corporate surveillance on children, and age verification for every person?

🇪🇺 Bonus point for anyone following "Chat Control": the same portfolio of patents that most leading security vendors license for in app security is the same one that'll require the EU to ask me for permission when it comes to monitoring and scanning web links inside apps for the purpose of complying with Chat Control. This should give the likes of Signal a get out of jail free card because they're looking for any reason they can find to refuse in app spyware like monitoring under the guise of child safety.

💡 Governments don't care about child safety, they care about device and app based surveillance. They want to break end to end encryption and bring an end to VPNs. Tech companies want more ways to target the people that use their apps and devices.

@EPPGroup @DigitalEU @Europarl_EN

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[Luckas Vander Taelen @LuckasV1]

Hoe erg kan het worden?
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[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Prediction: If it crashes in a fog, they will blame Israel anyway

[Bart Hanssens @BartHanssens]

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R John from Legal routinely prints every presentation, spreadsheet, document and email he sends and receives ...

[Kristen Mag @kristenmag]

June 2020 - Fauci pulls his mask down when he thinks the cameras are turned off. This is why nothing in his diary surprises me.

We knew he was a massive hypocrite from the start.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

European Net Zero achieved two things:

1. Deindustrialization in Europe due to high energy costs, many well-paid jobs lost.

2. The same products come now from Asia, but with higher emissions to build and ship. Cars, for example, cause 70% more emissions.

Isn’t that genius?

[Christophe Lambrechts @Christo63100802]

Bang maken, schamen, terechtwijzen, ...
Het lijkt zowat het enige waar bepaalde media nog mee bezig zijn.

Heel wat redacties lijken vooral te bestaan uit mensen die de bevolking willen heropvoeden naar hun wereldbeeld.

Activisme dat nog weinig met journalistiek te maken heeft.

[jurgen verstrepen @verstrepen]

De 'verbodspolitiek' Men grijpt steeds naar verbieden om een 'gedrag' aan te pakken. Onmachtspolitiek. Generaliseren voor een minderheid. Hetzelfde politieke riedeltje, keer op keer...

'Papa, mogen we je auto gebruiken?' Tuurlijk. Omdat ik mijn kinderen vertrouw, ze goed heb opgevoed en ze de juiste normen en waarden hebben.

'Neem mijn wagen maar, maar let op eh, er zitten heel wat pk's in en een gaspedaal... ' What's next?

Ik voel me geruster met mijn auto, veiliger dan dat ze hun tragere kleinere koekendoos nemen

[Nancy ⚘️ @NB_NancyB]

Deontologische code van VRT maakt herhalingen volgen ingewikkeld: bepaalde afleveringen overgeslagen.
Behalve voor pedofielen zoals Sven Pichal. Die mocht amper 3 weken na zijn veroordeling al terug op tv verschijnen. https://t.co/FlrbcD2RRO

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

You know what’s scary?

The people who actually believed this logic are still walking among us… and they get to vote.

[Luckas Vander Taelen @LuckasV1]

Vastgoedbelasting stijgt in negen Brusselse gemeenten met honderden euro's https://t.co/GxCSQcv3jp

[Liliane Schoofs @SchoofsLiliane]

“Trust the Science.” they said.

Now that the #Fauci diary and released communications raise serieus questions about the genesis of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”, where is the Expression of Concern from @NatureMedicine ?

#ResearchIntegrity should not depend on politics.