On January 1st of every year, new heritage works enter the public domain. Unfortunately, these works can still end up being inaccessible.

The heroes behind Creative Commons, KBR Belgium, Wikimedia Belgium and Meemoo organize the annual Public Domain Day on the 9th of January to discuss inspiring developments and use cases from Belgium and will take a look at the public domain through a European lens.

Want to be there? Check out https://meemoo.be/en/training-and-events/public-domain-day-in-europe

thoughts on Amsterdam civil disorder:

- Maccabi Tel Aviv (and all Israeli teams) should not have been allowed to compete in UEFA competitions
- Demos supporting Palestine were already out of sight of soccer match, Maccabi supporters went into the city centre and saw pro Palestine symbols.
- Timeline shows provocation from Maccabi supporters (chants, flag destruction, attacks) prior to retaliation by Amsterdam residents

Night Train Map in Europe (2024), https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/. This is an interactive map: each line is clickable and brings information about all the stops, schedules, frequency and the company operating this line. That’s pure beauty.

Combined with InterRail, it’s so much travel freedom and opportunities in Europe!

#train #NightTrain

"Het systeem kijkt naar 3 parameters" - oh fuck een formule met 3 variabelen, hier smijten we best AI tegenaan!

(Alsook: expliciete toestemming nodig van ouders en leerlingen, lijkt me)

https://www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/smartschool-wil-met-nieuwe-tool-uitval-scholieren-tegengaan~b387060ad/

De Lijn has to set up ticker gates in Antwerpen says politics...

Euh... none of the De Lijn ticket infrastructure is made for that...
* 3rd party apps do not have barcodes yes
* SMS tickets are still big, 0 possibilities for a barcode
* smartcard tickets can be used past 60 mins, no way to check that nor allow the proper 60 mins change rule
* "kaart kostenloze begeleider" is issued by SNCB
* Flexbus tickets cannot have barcodes
* Contactless payments is currently a seperate system

@maartje oh sweet memories. Maar ik kan je jammer genoeg niet helpen

Is your knowledge graph complete?
Does it contain errors?
How do we measure this?
Last week, we discussed SHACL, the Shapes Constraint Language, to enable quality assurance for #knowledgeGraphs.

Lexcture slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fmo0z7fzc1NFRK6eKpbTzTOV8w5P9QHB/view?usp=drive_link
#ISE2024 SHACL GitHub resources: https://github.com/lysander07/ISE-2022-Complement--SHACL

#SHACL #SemanticWeb #QualityAssurance #LinkedData #shapes @sourisnumerique @enorouzi @shufan @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe #aiart #dragon #astronaut

Europese petitie om grote vermogens sterker te belasten. Momenteel zijn er al 220.000 handtekeningen verzameld. Er zijn er 1 miljoen nodig tegen 9 oktober. Als minstens 4 van mijn volgers graag even deze eis mee willen onderschrijven? Dan heb ik mijn deeltje richting die 1 miljoen gedaan. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

@repo ik ben wel trots om Belg te zijn omdat ze op de valreep de stemming hebben georganiseerd wetende dat het zou goedgekeurd zou worden. Vlaming is iets anders

“A full AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster. We really want to prevent this from happening.”

Meanwhile, opinion makers, press, and politicians continue to paint #ClimateChange as just another topic that has “faded into the background” in e.g. the latest elections in #Belgium. Fools.

By @rahmstorf :

https://tos.org/oceanography/article/is-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-approaching-a-tipping-point

webshop weer actief voor wie interesse heeft in een #haiku boekje (of iets anders)

binnen België... (naar NL iets opsturen kan ook maar dan regelen we het beter op een andere manier)

https://www.ingridhoeben.be/nederlands/webshop

A little 🧵 on a week long trip through Europe

This morning early departure from Valence TGV for another work-related #noflying journey around a large swath of Europe, including #Stockholm. Estimated distance 6481 km in only 10 trains, including 2 night-trains.

Perfectly on-time, train fully booked. Actually looking forward to what should be, for the first leg, about 26 hours in trains from here.

(had to do the first 76km by car, since on Sundays we have no early TER)

1/34
#EuropeByTrain

https://www.knack.be/nieuws/extreemrechts-populisme-zal-juist-meer-migratie-in-de-hand-werken-in-plaats-van-minder/

Investeren in natuurherstel levert een veelvoud op, blijkt uit onderzoek van het VITO in opdracht van WWF en Natuurpunt. Het bracht de kosten en baten in kaart voor het natuurgebied Demerbroeken in Vlaams-Brabant. Elke euro aan natuurherstel blijkt er 8 op te leveren aan de maatschappij. https://www.mo.be/nieuws/natuurherstel-rendeert-1-euro-levert-er-8-op-voor-de-samenleving

I recently got quite some flak for discussing what #Starlink satellites burning up in the atmosphere after their planned lifetime of 6 years could do to the stratosphere. Adding tons of aluminium and other elements as fine aerosol particles. Well. New research has just been published:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120

Hi all,

I want to deploy a light web/api backend.

For that, I'm looking for a Belgian dev-friendly webapp hosting provider using local datacenter, ideally that has an honest approach of energy and carbon footprint.

What would you advise? If you don't know, boost is very much appreciated too ;).

#belgium #hosting

Weten jullie nog, dat schip met die auto's dat in brand stond? Paniek want EV en onveilig?
Surprise: alle 498 EV's zijn ongeschonden. Er ging er geen één in de fik.
Delen is karma, want goed nieuws gaat traag...
A Ship Carrying Electric Cars Is On Fire! We Must Run And Tell The King!! - CleanTechnica
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/17/a-ship-carrying-electric-cars-is-on-fire-we-must-run-and-tell-the-king/

@biekemachiels het was fantastisch!

Terwijl de noodzaak om meer mensen uit de auto te krijgen steeds prangender wordt en ze de fiets of op OV te krijgen, gaat de nmbs kleinere stations schrappen.
De uitleg dat ze een bus kunnen nemen naar grotere stations is gewoon schrijnend. Ipv te schrappen moet men ov nog meer toegankelijk maken.