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mateloos.be
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@mateloos.be
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Sound engineer with a passion for the outdoors. Rumored to be obsessed by ecology & cosmology.

#FOSS enthusiast: running #Debian since potato, Google-free mobile since CyanogenMod.
Signal, Matrix IDs on request.

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CJ @mateloos.be · Jan 10
This thread focusses on #Free #software on mobile.

As a forever user of #FOSS #libre software, I will use this expertise to document these apps & digital ecosystems.

This ever growing family of tools respects the user's #privacy. It nurtures a #democracy independent of Big Tech.

Let's go!

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mateloos.be
Eh!? How does a dense cloud that is collapsing to form a star produce UV !? 🤯

Current starbirth scenario:
Cold clouds collapse gravitationally, get warmer, emit infrared so they cool, collapse further, emit IR, etc.

Hot gas responsible for UV would heat up the cloud and resists collapse! 🤷
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
mateloos.be
Zonsondergang tijdens m'n avondwandeling. Of was het omgekeerd.

Wie spot het verlaten nest van Aziatische hoornaars?

#nn
Zonsondergang over riet en rivier.
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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parismarx.com
Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell.

It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.

disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
Speaking of a reindeer taking down grandma, a Ring doorbell might be able to capture that kind of footage so you have proof of what happened. But like with the smart speaker, there’s so much more that comes with that purchase. Amazon — and other companies pushing camera doorbells — want you to think they’re making you safer by giving you insight into what’s happening around your home. Ring doorbell ads often also try to make them appear fun, with people putting on a show for the doorbell. But that’s little more than a public relations campaign. For me, the camera doorbell is the perfect example of a technology that makes people believe they’re safer when really making them more paranoid and anxious as they see their neighborhood and community with deep and unwarranted suspicion. People become aware of things that had already been happening around their home for ages without them knowing about it and they become like big brother, spying out everything once the camera detects movement. It gets even worse when this paranoia meets social media, whether through snitching apps like Nextdoor or the spread of clips on platforms like Facebook that convince others to fear their surroundings and vastly overestimate the amount of crime happening in their vicinity.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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mateloos.be
Naar verluid kan je een bezemsteel of een vlakke hand gebruiken. Meer ervaren gebruikers kunnen ook eens proberen met een
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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casmudde.bsky.social
It’s nice to also see some good news sometimes. Important ruling

European Court of Justice rules that same-sex marriages should be recognized across the EU. 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
mateloos.be
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
mateloos.be
~"The Digital Omnibus mainly benefits big tech, fails to provide any tangible benefits to average EU companies."

🤯
noyb.eu noyb @noyb.eu · 15h
🚨 Today, the EU Commission will present the #DigitalOmnibus to the European Parliament (EP) for the first time. We urge the EP to oppose any changes that would undermine the fundamental right to privacy.

All the details on the planned GDPR reform 👇
noyb.eu/en/digital-o...
Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles
The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans
noyb.eu
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
mateloos.be
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"Francesca Albanese, de speciale rapporteur over de mensenrechten in Palestina, stelt vast dat de banken via hun financiële banden met Israëlische bedrijven meewerken aan schendingen van de mensenrechten en van het internationaal recht."
🍉
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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mateloos.be
Als er genoeg gestaakt wordt zodat de industrie de regering begint op te bellen "wij missen hier een hoop volk, werknemers die thuis moesten blijven om op de kinderen te passen of er niet geraakten met OV," dan zal Brussel wel gehoor geven aan de stakers.

Essentieel:
Vivek Chibber - Capitalism and the State
YouTube video by pdxjustice Media Productions
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
mateloos.be
Naar verluid kan je een bezemsteel of een vlakke hand gebruiken. Meer ervaren gebruikers kunnen ook eens proberen met een
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
mateloos.be
'k Zou graag nog es 't water opgaan bij hoogtij.

Maar de dagen zijn zo kort deze tijd van 't jaar dat er bvb afgelopen week enkel laagtij was overdag.

Nog erger: springtij, nodig om overstromingsgebied in te duiken, da's telkens om 6u of 18u. Dwz, tot 6 maart geen springtij overdag. 🤷
Schermafdruk van getijdentabel voor Antwerpen. 20 februari springtij om 6u en 18:26, dan is het telkens nog of al opnieuw donker.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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guusvalk.bsky.social
Het transcript van het gesprek met Herman Tjeenk Willink is ook te lezen.

Betaalmuurvrij, in NRC:

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
mateloos.be
While some were hesitant to go for a run due to November weather, I spent a couple hours in this sweetwater mangrove today.

Here is flooded multiple times each month, mostly during spring tides & then some.

Underneath the broken autumn reeds, a slippery, muddy silt.

#nn
Below, floods have brought broken reeds ashore. Through the silt covered streamlet, a natural drain after floods, into the mangrove. Willows and reeds grow wild around here. Most wouldn't consider trespassing and give me funny looks as I get out of here. Same, it goes on for some time. Have wildcam here, forgot to turn it on after I reinstalled it the other day 😏 Can you spot the cam?
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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grapheneos.org
France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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sophieintveld.bsky.social
Language matters @politico.eu. They are not US "demands", it is "blackmail". The @ec.europa.eu has no mandate to negotiate away EU legislation, nor the right to soften enforcement. The Commission has to protect European citizens, not US broligarchs.
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d
The EU’s push for the U.S. to scrap its tariffs on steel and aluminum has opened the door to an old demand from Washington: Loosen your digital rulebook, and we’ll meet you halfway.
US demands digital concessions in return for EU steel tariff relief
Washington argues U.S. companies would invest more in the EU if it rolls back its digital rulebook.
www.politico.eu
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
mateloos.be
Meanwhile, in the country that refrained from sending a delegation to #COP30:
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
mateloos.be
Due to the sheer volume of publications by the Pravda network (near 600.000 articles per year!), the Russian propaganda propagates via links to it on other websites and feeding training data to LLM's.

A proper analysis:
Link by link: Hundreds of webpages cite pro-Russia Pravda network
ISD has built a free browser extension to help individuals recognise Pravda network sites, which hundreds of media outlets still treat as credible.
www.isdglobal.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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myrthehilkens.bsky.social
Vreselijk.
En dan de conservatievere schattingen continu verdacht maken want ‘Hamas.’
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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mateloos.be
Edwin Hubble moest van z'n vader iets gaan studeren waar hij de kost mee zou kunnen verdienen dus deed hij rechten in Oxford. Kort daarna stierf z'n vader en kreeg Hubble een beurs in Chicago om fysica te studeren.

Zijn doctoraat ging over de destijds mysterieuze sterrennevels.

#dvdw2025
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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
mateloos.be
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qi.com Quite Interesting @qi.com · 1d
Thresher sharks can jump up to six metres out of the water. (📷: Steve Momot)
A thresher shark that just jumped remarkably high out of the air
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
mateloos.be
Goeiemorgen, bsky!
Zonsopgang boven een Scheldeschorre tijdens m'n ochtendwandeling.
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
mateloos.be
I don't have any Apple, Google or Microsoft devices.

🤔🤷

Also never thought I'd ever surf like a 15yo again.
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
mateloos.be
"Peace plan Trump"

"Donetsk is negotiable,

but Europe thinks Russia has to surrender Washington."

Cartoon by @lectrr.bsky.social
Putin is read the news.
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
mateloos.be
At 4x Planck's resolution & adding polarization to the CMB, ACT rules out ~30 models that would resolve the Hubble Tension.

ACT DR6, its final release, also confirms the Hubble Tension.

I can't wait to see this solved & look forward to new ideas on that.

May this ⤵️ 'fix' our understanding? 🤷
🔭📡🌌
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM