Hans Verbeeck

It's a great day to be an optimist!

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Oh wow. Yes Of course.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

This scarf hack just fixed sleeping on planes forever 😉✈️🧣
Wrap it around the headrest = instant neck support. Every traveler needs this! 🔥

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Het is niet omdat je minder inkomsten hebt, dat het het dat bedrag kost. De overheid heeft niet automatisch recht op het geld van de burgers.
https://t.co/X9KJceKuiV

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

https://t.co/R1KWHZMP6k

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

@SondreB @atmoio I was thinking that the has come again for real social media. Not the influencer media that the others have become. Good luck with your app Sondre.

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

@grok, it would be great if your app would support 'share to' on Android.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Supercharged past few weeks as we push the bounds of model-forward innovation across Microsoft 365. A few highlights:

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

@elonmusk No. X has become useless lately. It's always repeating what I already read in other posts. I moved the app to page two on my phone.
Grok is still amazing though!

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Trump lijkt tevreden met het artikel in De Tijd.

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Walgelijk. War knows no ethics.

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

The language of the universe is mathematics.

[Xor @XorDev]

"Orb"
for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;){vec3 v,p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.z+=2.;p.zx*=mat2(cos(p.y+t+vec4(0,11,33,0)));v=p;for(d=1.;d<i;d+=d)p+=sin(p.yzx*d)/d;z+=d=.2*max(.03+abs(s=cos(3.*p.y))*.1,length(v)-1.);o+=(cos(s/.4+p.y+vec4(6,1,3,0))+1.5)/d/z;}o=tanh(o/1e4);

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Musk has gotten less interesting to follow over the last months. Zuckerberg more. Who would have thought?
Musk is too much of the same thing, Zuckerberg is evolving insights, future looking.
If Musk would share his views on what is next a level deeper than today...

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

1/ It’s been a busy few weeks – between today’s earnings and some of our recent announcements. Here are a few things I wanted to highlight:

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Exact! Dit is zo stuitend. Corruptie zou altijd hoog op de lijst moeten staan want ondermijnt totaal het vertrouwen in de politiek en overheid. Wat een verkeerd signaal van de magistraten in kwestie.

[Peter De Keyzer @PeterDeKeyzer]

Lees: tot hiertoe stond corruptie niet bovenaan de prioriteitenlijst van Justitie.

Maar als je van ons pensioen blijft, knijpen we daar (opnieuw) een oogje voor dicht.

Hallucinant. En dan verbaasd zijn dat het vertrouwen in justitie zo laag is…

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Dat ze eens starten met lekkere bieren te maken. Primus, Super 8, Tongerlo. Dat zijn echt geen toppers. Maak een top tripel/duvel achtige er zijn genoeg voorbeelden (Triple d'Anvers, Cornet, Omer... ), zet in op low alcohol. Market ze jong en fris.

"De verlieslatende Primus en Super 8-brouwer https://t.co/yaohVhBphJ.Ha heeft door zijn rijke vastgoedportefeuille de middelen om een ommekeer te betalen. Maar heeft hij er ook de strategie voor?"

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Will an iPhone finally be as expensive in the USA as in the EU?

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Elon Musk becomes deeply moved, and deadly serious, when Bret Baier asks him why he called Sen. Mark Kelly a "Traitor" for pushing to send more US aid and weapons to Ukraine.

Watch every second of his response.

"We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday in the trenches. For no movement in the lines. For the past two years thousands of people have died every week for nothing."

"I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day."

"I have contempt for such people and I want to make that clear. Because they're virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don't have a father. It means parents lost a son. For what? Nothing."

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Zo raak je dus aan verworven rechten.

[Wouter Duyck @wduyck]

Allez vooruit. Dat wordt dus -40% tegen 2045. Zomaar. Een prof gaat dus op termijn zelfde pensioen krijgen als leraar basisonderwijs. Een externe Deloitte studie wees 20j geleden al uit dat academici loonhandicap van bijna 30% hadden. Tov academie dicht buitenland én binnenlandse privé. Toen al. Sedertdien géén loonsverhogingen in hoger onderwijs. Kloof leerplicht alsmaar kleiner. Behalve de vakantie en de productiviteit. We bedienen 40% meer studenten per kop dan EU gemiddelde. De werkdruk is immens. Zonder de kwaliteitsproblemen van het leerplichtonderwijs. De universiteiten staan in top100 vd wereld. Dit is dan onze dank. Laat ons die kenniseconomie eens overeind houden zonder competitieve universiteiten. Strak plan. Iemand nog een frigo?
(Ook vandaag: juristen willen geen magistraat meer worden)

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

Ik betaal 0,32 en ontvang 0,28.
Vooral transport en taksen (zoals voor de groene stroom certificaten) tellen door.
Ik verlies dus aan thuis opladen.
Heel die transitie is een puinhoop.
https://t.co/ypKtsBQtlg

[Hans Verbeeck @hansver]

@jvanovertveldt De EU wou voor Trump zelfs niet over vrede praten. Nu best ook zwijgen dan.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣🚨 BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes. 

The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a backdoor by giving the government the ability to add themselves to any group or chat they like. In the name of (checks notes) fighting drug trafficking. 

While those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t’ ‘breaking encryption’ their arguments are as tedious as they are stale as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ‘ends’—sender and recipient(s). Otherwise, it is backdoored. Whatever method is devised to add a ‘third end’ —from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor. 

Indeed, the ghost participant proposal was roundly rebuked (humiliated, even) when it was first proposed in 2019 in the UK. The technical community was united, and it was never implemented in law or otherwise. 

We cannot accept any backdoor, however it’s dressed up. Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries. Which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees, anywhere. Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats. 

This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining. 

We hope—WE HOPE—that this callow, dishonest attack will fail, and will be the last. We would love to get back to the work of maintaining and improving our core technologies, instead of fighting legislation which is distinguished in nothing as much as its refusal to listen to decades of expert consensus in its drive to imperil global cybersecurity and the human right of privacy.