Bert Hubert's writings

Hoe herken je een (toekomstig) invloedrijk kamerlid?

De Digitale Bermudadriehoek in Den Haag

Nederlands Agentschap voor Disruptieve Innovatie

Chatcontrol 2025 w skrócie, po polsku

Chatcontrol 2025 (resum, Catalan)

Chatcontrol vzor 2025 v kostce

Konversacia kontrolo 2025 (mallonge)

Накратко за Chatcontrol 2025

Chatcontrol: Of de Amerikanen onze WhatsApp foto's willen melden bij Europol

Chatcontrol ediția 2025 pe scurt (română)

Chatcontrol 2025 edizione in Breve (it)

Chatcontrol 2025: Resumen

Chatcontrol édition 2025 en bref

Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief

Chatcontrol 2025 (kurz)

WHY2025 and DNA talks

Overheid zoekt plv Chief Technology Officer met 3 jaar ICT-ervaring

Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis

Cloud Overview

The European Cloud/Computing Situation

The cloud is not a chemical plant

European Cloud Modules

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help

Mail in de VS en je bestanden hier? Het werkt niet

Is dit een soevereine cloud?

Demissionair de cloud in denderen: doe het niet

Verslagje nota overleg 'Wolken aan de horizon'

Yeah, it is on YouTube or LinkedIn and has cookies

Galileo's Testing Communications

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech

A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy

But first, connect with your audience

'The cloud' is not just servers. 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor

Out of the Office: Into each life some rain must fall

Cloud Kootwijk: moties zijn aangenomen!

Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture

Hosters verkopen hout, klanten willen meubels

But how to get to that European cloud?

Maar hoe bouw je die cloud?

The (European) cloud ladder: from virtual server to MS 365

Manifest Big Tech Alternatieven: Wat moet er beter

De cloud in soorten en maten

Waarom we de barricades opgaan om WhatsApp te blijven gebruiken

Naar de cloud nu je er nog mee wegkomt: is dat het?

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

Nee je kan niet meer je overheid en maatschappij verhuizen naar Amerikaanse servers

Voor de duidelijkheid: Open-Xchange

What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout

Rondetafelgesprek Tweede Kamer Digitale Soevereiniteit Rijksoverheid 13 Februari 2025

Ik heb nu een nieuwsbrief

Is het legaal om persoonsgegevens op servers van Amerikanen te zetten?

Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk

Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk

Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you

The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++

NLNOG Presentation trilogy on technical jobs and careers

On Long Term Software Development

Welkom bij OpenTK (deel 2): de monitors

Servers in de EU, eigen (dubbele) sleutels: helpt het?

De toestand van de cloud en de overheid

Totemic Books for Many Fields

Preventief politie in je chat?

We don't know why people are voting like that, and the results are terrible

Journalisten: (be)grijp uw macht

Welkom bij OpenTK (deel 1)

Life Long Learning: Dealing With New Things

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

Open Source zelf is geen alternatief voor Big Tech

A bit about me

De Totale Keuze voor Microsoft

CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in

Alles voor de kinderen, maar doe dan wel het juiste

Brief positie regering over de CSAM-verordening

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

De gigantische en ongereguleerde elektriciteitscentrales in de cloud

Nuclear power: no, yes, maybe, but not like this

Gaia-X is a distraction which should be abandoned

Hoe soeverein wil je zijn?

Don't say 'Europe Must Invest in XYZ'

De cloud is geen paracetamolfabriek

SkewDB

Toezicht AIVD en MIVD: kabinetsbrief, commissievergadering

Toezicht AIVD en MIVD, zonder toezichthouders, zonder kantoor

Digitale autonomie

De hele overheid naar de cloud? Dat is een politiek besluit.

How sovereign do you want to be?

De Plasterk cs DNA Patenten

Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check

Of je doet geen cookies?

Cloud Naïve: Europe and the 'Bijenkorf' Megascaler

Cloud Native, Europa, de 'Bijenkorf' Megascaler

Practical parsing with PEG and cpp-peglib

Bijeenkomst Cloud en Digitale Open Strategische Autonomie

Minister van Digitale Zaken: hoe het kan werken

On the new Dutch Intelligence and Security Law

Your tech or my tech: make up your mind quickly

Jouw tech of mijn tech: kies snel

Of je zegt niks?

Het hellende vlak van SIDN's commerciële ambities

BNR De Technoloog over de (Lidl) cloud & Europa

Volkskrant columns november 2023

Het ligt niet aan de Kamerleden

Onze afluisterwet is eigenlijk een privacywet

We gaan de aarde kunstmatig afkoelen, wen maar vast aan het idee

Laten we leiders met kennis van zaken in ere herstellen, ze zijn hard nodig

A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code)

Trifecta

Trifecta Technology

European Innovation & Technical Capabilities

Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud

Het Curieuze Artikel 73 van de AIVD en MIVD

EU CRA: What does it mean for open source?

EU CRA: The compiler does not read the comments, but judges do read the Recitals

De Mottekasteel debating truc

EU CRA and the Open Source Ecosystem: A Suggestion

Verslag Wetgevingsoverleg Nieuwe AIVD/MIVD Wet

Proportionaliteit EU regelgeving materiaal misbruik kinderen

Transcript Dutch parliamentary hearing on EU Chat Control and Client Side Scanning

Transcript bijdrage rondetafelgesprek Tweede Kamer Client Side Scanning 11 oktober

Bijdrage rondetafelgesprek Tweede Kamer Client Side Scanning

Niks te verbergen? Toch steeds meer uit te leggen

A Spherical Cow Model of Global Warming (With Data and Code)

NLUUG Award

Denken en voelen over wetgeving

De nieuwe AIVD/MIVD wet is controversieel

Atmospheric absorption, spectra, units and code: companion page to the global warming explanation post

On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management

On Being Useful

Welcome to the BAG: The Dutch Building and Addresses database

Waarheen met energie: wat is het plan?

The Dutch government wants to automatically and administratively gain permission to target victims of hackers

Reflectie rondetafelgesprek en technische briefing wet cyberoperaties

KI: Umwälzung für die Wirtschaft garantiert

AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies

AI: sowieso ontwrichtend

Hello Deep Learning: Further reading & worthwhile projects

Hello Deep Learning: Doing some actual OCR on handwritten characters

Hello Deep Learning: Dropout, data augmentation, weight decay and quantisation

Hello Deep Learning: Hyperparameters, inspection, parallelism, ADAM

Hello Deep Learning: Convolutional networks

Hello Deep Learning: Reading handwritten digits

Hello Deep Learning: Automatic differentiation, autograd

Hello Deep Learning: actually learning something

Hello Deep Learning: Linear combinations

Hello Deep Learning: Intro

Hello Deep Learning

EU Cyber Resilience Act part two: Updates & Impracticalities

The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

Celebrating Cerebration: ON CREATIVITY - by Isaac Asimov

Reactie consultatie Nota van wijziging Tijdelijke Cyberwet AIVD en MIVD

Elektriciteitsprijzen: Hoe zit het precies

Always use feenableexcept() when doing floating point math

Vervang vergeten verontwaardiging over privacyschendingen door inhoudelijke analyse

Is Europe Just Not Good at Innovating?

De Tijdelijke Wet op Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten 2022

The World of Yesterday: a brief review of a 1942 book

Bonds and the Ten Year Interest Rate

Big Data Storage

On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services

Vertrek TIB

De Wet op Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten 2017

Improved Galileo Time to First Fix

Tracker Beeper

MCH2022: DNA and GPS/Galileo/GNSS Talks

Nerdfluisteraar

Presentation at the European Energy Law Seminar 2022

Looking for an editor for my book

Dutch Electrical Power Numbers part 2

Open versus Proprietary: (re)calculating Dutch solar power generation

About That Russian Gas

Some business advice for academic startups/spinouts

A Science Experiment: published!

Simple generic parallelism idiom & C++17 specifics

Corona: Ooit houdt het op

Het onuitstaanbaar stompzinnige Coronabeleid

Who Controls the Internet? And should they?

Personeelsbehoud

Corona Update Oktober 2021

SkewDB: an open database of GC and other microbial skews

A Science Experiment: part 2

A Science Experiment: part 1

KPN Interactieve TV zonder Experia Box

SPRIND Podcast Transcript: Innovation, Europe, Secret Services

Leap seconds: Causing Bugs Even When They Don't Happen

Beste dunne artsen: Ik maak me wat zorgen over jullie

Demystifying European Digital Sovereignty

Corona Newsflash: Help, stijging! En: kinderen vaccineren?

Eneco: moet dit nou? (update!)

Tracking-free audience statistics

Corona: Delta Update

Help, My Sin Is Slow and My FPU is Inaccurate

Europe's Software Problem

Recensie: Een spoor van vernieuwing, door Arthur Docters van Leeuwen en Lars Kuipers

Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers

Corona Update eind mei 2021

Corona und dein Onkel

Favorite Recipes

Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root

History of PowerDNS 2013-2020, part 3b: the business story

Useful Spy Books

Het gaat om de kerncentrales

Sadly, You Can't Print Your Own (safe) mRNA Vaccine

The Galileo Eccentric Satellite Surprise

Corona Update: Licht aan het einde van de tunnel

Hire Me - semi-popular science writing

The CureVac Vaccine, and a brief tour through some of the wonders of nature

Stimulating Innovation with Money

Cybersecurity Is Like Food Safety: Digital HACCP

COVID-19 Scenarios and a Short Break

How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents

The Genetic Code and Proteins of the Other Covid-19 Vaccines

Analiza izvornog kôda vakcine BioNTech-Pfizer SARS-CoV-2

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (or, If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail)

Reverzni inženiring izvorne kode cepiva BioNTech/Pfizer proti SARS-CoV-2

Corona en je oom

Talking about Corona

Bu yazıda, BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA aşısının kaynak kodunu karakter karakter inceleyeceğiz

Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2

Ingeniería inversa del código fuente de la vacuna de BioNTech/Pfizer para el SARS-CoV-2

Een inkijkje in de broncode van het BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2-vaccin

Een inkijkje in de broncode van het BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2-vaccin

Merekayasa Balik Kode Sumber Vaksin SARS-CoV-2 BioNTech/Pfizer

Ingegnerizzazione inversa del Codice Sorgente del Vaccino BioNTech/Pfizer

Αποκωδικοποιώντας τον πηγαίο κώδικα του εμβολίου κατά του Κορωνοϊού

Dekonstruktion des Programmcodes des BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Impfstoffes

Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

History of PowerDNS: 2013-2020 (Technology)

Kerstdiner in Maart

COVID-19: Things We're Not Even Trying

History of PowerDNS: 2003-2013

Mijn nieuwe part-time baan

My New Part Time Job

History of PowerDNS: 1999-2003

IKEA TRÅDFRI for Rebooting a Server or Modem

Regulatory Capture, of de 'Gevangen Regelgever'

Hoe werken de nieuwe (mRNA) Corona Vaccins

Patricia Bruijning: Hoe kan het dat we zo snel een coronavaccin hebben?

Corona-Update november: Twee vaccins en sneltests!

Dutch COVID-19 Data Sources & Their Interpretation

Some animated Dutch COVID-19 Figures

End to End Encryption: Talk for the European Internet Forum at the European Parliament

Galileo's Ground Segment Problem

GNSS Jamming and Spoofing, aka Galileo's Authentication Algorithm Part 3

Vitamine D: De motorolie voor ons afweersysteem

Galileo's Proposed Authentication Algorithm: Part 2

Galileo's Proposed Authentication Algorithm: Part 1

Corona-update Eind Juli

Multi-Signal GNSS & the Curious Case of Galileo E24: Part 1

Review of the Uputronics GPS/RTC Raspberry Pi Expansion Board

The new Galmon.eu Weekly Galileo Report

Corona Update: Juli

COVID-19: The T Cell Story

Vitamin D: the New COVID-19 Chloroquine?

COVID-19 Predictions & Rampant Speculation: May 2020

How COVID-19 is diagnosed: bacterium assisted DNA searching

RETRACTED: R and the Herd: Why we could be nearer to community immunity than we think

Mitochondriën op Moederdag

COVID-19: het belang van ventileren

Corona: Hoe en waar krijgen we het? Niemand die het weet.

Corona Update 21 April

Tracing App Backend Development

Tracing App Thoughts and Links

Corona Updates: hoopgevende ontwikkelingen realistisch bekeken

Why no breakthrough yet? Or, why is it 'taking so long' to test COVID-19 treatments?

Our amazing immune system

Corona Science Journal

Antibodies on command?

Corona/COVID-19 Selftest Warning

ICT van levensbelang: kantoorautomatisering is geen leidraad

Amateur SARS/2019-NCoV RNA Comparison

5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

The Galmon GNSS Monitoring Project

A 2019 update on PowerDNS, Galileo, DoH and other things

What Is Life?

Is biology too complex to ever understand?

Dear anonymous internet user asking for help..

State of the world: The Real Data

The July Galileo Outage: What happened and why

The State of Galileo as seen by an outsider

GPS Lesson for 10-11 year olds

Economist submission: How the Internet Leaks

Economist submission: Towards a multi-stranded genome

Economist Job: my sample articles

GPS, Galileo & More: How do they work & what happened during the big outage?

Beidou Satellites Misclassification

Galileo Notes: Ephemeris, Anomalies, I/NAV, SFRBX

On the Pan-Genome

From gnuplot to Matplotlib & Pandas

C++ iostreams: Unexpected but legal multithreaded behaviour

What I Did in 2018

Liveblog: a Mars landing watch party with school kids

A Philosophy of Software Design

On Linus Torvalds, technical & corporate communications

Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 6

Should C Programmers learn C++, Go or Rust?

Modern C++ for C Programmers: introduction

Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 5

Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 4

Werving nieuwe collega's: niet zo moeilijk, toch gaat het fout

Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 3

Modern C++ for C programmers: part 2

Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 1

Under-prepared Meetings

Spectre & Meltdown: tapping into the CPU's subconscious thoughts

Kolmo

Some brief notes on making ethernet cables

Bol Com Vacature

Dna the Code of Life

Talking to Technical People

Encrypting IP Addresses

On Linux Vdso and Clockgettime

Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS

How About Some Actual Innovation

How Many Hours for Multithreading the Server?