Stadt Brüssel verbietet E-Leihroller ⌘ Read more
Neue KI-Siri befeuert Streit Brüssel – Apple
Das neueste Apple-Produkt, der runderneuerte durch künstliche Intelligenz (KI) gestützte Sprachassistent Siri, öffnet ein weiteres Kapitel im Streit zwischen der EU und dem iPhone-Hersteller. Am Montag stellte Apple die Neuerungen vor und zeigte sich „tief enttäuscht“, dass „unsere User in der EU“ nicht auf Siri AI, so der offizielle Name, zugreifen könnten. Schuld daran seien die strengen Regeln der EU, so der Vorwurf. Doch Brüssel will das nicht gelten lassen und verweist stattdessen auf z … ⌘ Read more
Adam Liaw’s roasted Brussels sprout salad
Enhanced with green leaves and sweetened with a touch of maple syrup, Brussels sprouts become the star of the show. ⌘ Read more
Erster Erfolg für Magyar in Brüssel
Rund drei Wochen nach der Angelobung der neuen ungarischen Regierung hat die EU-Kommission angekündigt, mehr als 16 Milliarden Euro an eingefrorenen Finanzmitteln für Ungarn freizugeben. Der Großteil des Geldes solle fließen, wenn von Ungarn beschlossene Reformen und Investitionen umgesetzt seien, sagte EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen am Freitag. Zudem müssen auch die anderen EU-Länder grünes Licht geben. ⌘ Read more
EU verhängt 200-Mio.-Strafe gegen Temu
Die EU-Kommission hat wegen illegaler Produkte eine Strafe in Höhe von 200 Millionen Euro gegen den chinesischen Onlinemarktplatz Temu verhängt. Das Unternehmen habe die Risiken und Schäden für Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher nicht ordnungsgemäß bewertet, teilte die Brüsseler Behörde am Donnerstag mit. Es handle sich um einen besonders schwerwiegenden Verstoß gegen das Gesetz über digitale Dienste (DSA). ⌘ Read more
Österreich bei Schlusslichtern
Die am Donnerstag in Brüssel veröffentlichte Wirtschaftsprognose der EU-Kommission bietet düstere Aussichten: Für 2026 wird für die EU nur noch mit einem Wirtschaftswachstum von 1,1 Prozent gerechnet. Nur für Italien und Rumänien erwartet die EU-Kommission ein geringeres Wachstum als in Österreich. Die EU ist pessimistischer als das WIFO, dessen Prognose Grundlage des neuen Doppelbudgets ist. ⌘ Read more
Brüssel will Ticketbuchung vereinfachen
Die EU-Kommission will grenzüberschreitende Bahnreisen in der EU künftig einfacher machen. Bahnbetreiber sollen verpflichtet werden, auch Fahrkarten von Bahnunternehmen in anderen Ländern zu verkaufen. Bei verpassten Anschlüssen sollen Passagierinnen und Passagiere europaweit eine Entschädigung bekommen. Einen entsprechenden Gesetzesvorschlag zu „Single Ticketing“ präsentierten EU-Verkehrskommissar Apostolos Tzitzikostas und Kommissionsvizepräsident Raffaele Fitto am Mittwoch in Brüssel. Tzitziko … ⌘ Read more
Kommission bestätigt Taliban-Einladung nach Brüssel ⌘ Read more
EU-Einigung zu Arzneimittelproduktion
Um künftig Engpässe bei lebenswichtigen Medikamenten in EU-Staaten zu verhindern, haben sich Unterhändlerinnen und Unterhändler in Brüssel auf neue Regeln zur Herstellung und Förderung von Arzneimitteln geeinigt. Das teilten die Vertreterinnen und Vertreter des EU-Parlaments und der Mitgliedsstaaten am Dienstag mit. Europa soll dadurch weniger abhängig von Lieferanten aus Nicht-EU-Ländern werden. ⌘ Read more
Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens
A top EU official is urging Europeans to work from home, drive less, and cut air travel as the bloc braces for a prolonged energy crisis triggered by the Gulf conflict. The European Commission is also pushing member states to accelerate renewables and other energy-security measures as oil and … ⌘ Read more
The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. From a report: The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps. Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing … ⌘ Read more
Google Warns EU Risks Undermining Own Competitiveness With Tech Sovereignty Push
Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive by restricting access to foreign technology, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer Kent Walker told the Financial Times, as Brussels accelerates efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants. Walker said the EU faces a “competitive parad … ⌘ Read more
GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year
GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week… ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute
Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe… ⌘ Read more
GNU Hurd Is “Almost There” With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building
Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year’s was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd… ⌘ Read more
Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the “linuxulator-steam-utils” project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD’s Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy t … ⌘ Read more
GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API
GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings… ⌘ Read more
@birb@birb https://wikimedia.brussels/feed/
Great article about how #Wikimedia runs on metal and not someone else’s cloud - and why. Includes other interesting tidbits, like software decisions, AI, et cetera…
Europe’s Public Institutions Are Quietly Ditching US Cloud Providers
European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data.
Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energ … ⌘ Read more
EuGH-Urteil zu Mindestlohn: EU darf Arbeitnehmer vor Dumping-Löhnen schützen
Das Gericht hat die Brüsseler Zuständigkeit bestätigt, aber auch zwei bestehende Regelungen gekippt. Das könnte sich auf Deutschland auswirken. mehr… ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026.
The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!
The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs).
The event is no … ⌘ Read more
Belgian Defense Minister: “If Putin Fires at Brussels, We Will Level Moscow” ⌘ Read more
Slovenian president in Brussels called the events in Gaza genocide ⌘ Read more
FOSDEM 2025
I recently attended the large Free and Open Source Software conference
FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. I went there by train, of course,
via Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Cologne. The same route back.
I lived in the rather expensive, allegedly fancy hotel Le Châtelain in
Brussels. It was really not that fancy, but they had a … ⌘ Read more
On my way to FOSDEM 2025
I’m leaving by train for FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium tomorrow
morning, arriving tomorrow evening, Goddess willing.
During FOSDEM I’ll probably mostly be in the Security devroom.
My presentation about the Tillitis TKey is on Saturday at 14:30.
I’m bringing some TKeys, both enduser and unlocked, and a couple of
TKey flash programmers if you want to … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP Summit #27 and FOSDEM 2025
The XMPP Standards Foundation’s yearly Summit will be held on January 30 and 31st, in Brussels. The Summit is an annual two-day gathering where we discuss XMPP protocol development topics. It is a place for XMPP developers to meet each other, and make progress on current issues within the protocol and ecosystem.
Immediately following the Summit is FOSDEM. FOSDEM is a free e … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2024
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The 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter!This is the 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter since it started in February 2019.
We think it is worth to celebrate this achievement and say thanks to all the contributors as well as all our readers!
Back at the Summit in Brussels, JC Brand, Nicolas Vérité (Nyco) and Severino Ferrer (S0ul) prop … ⌘ Read more
Farmers Dismantle Police Barricade in Brussels Protest
Farmers in tractors clashed with police in Brussels on Monday, February 26, the same day the European Union’s agriculture ministers gathered for a meeting in the Belgian city. Footage recorded by Pieter Clepp shows a tractor dismantling a police barricade. Other footage showed police firing water cannons at tractors and hay being dumped on roads. Farmers across Europe have been protesting … ⌘ Read more
Water Cannons Force Tractor to Reverse During Brussels Farmers’ Protest
Police used water cannons to force a tractor to retreat as protesting farmers clashed with authorities in Brussels on Monday, February 26, the same day the European Union’s agriculture ministers gathered for a meeting in the city. Footage recorded by Marc Tilley showed a tractor driving toward a police barricade. The police aim water cannons at the tractor … ⌘ Read more
Slurry Sprayed Onto Brussels Street Amid Fractious Farmer Protest
The uncustomary “stench of manure” was in the air in Brussels on February 26, Politico said, as protesting farmers again descended on the EU capital, in time for a meeting of the bloc’s agriculture ministers. According to the Brussels Times, police were being “bombarded” with dung, and responded with tear gas and water cannons. Tractors were also seen driving through … ⌘ Read more
European farmers protests turn fiery in Brussels
Farmers on Monday (February 26) dumped tires on the streets of the Belgian capital before setting them on fire, in the latest of many protests by farmers across Europe against competition from cheap food imports, excessive environmental rules and subsidies favoring large firms. Francis Maguire reports. ⌘ Read more
Protesting farmers jam Brussels with tractors as ministers meet
Farmers set fire to piles of tyres in Brussels on Monday in a protest to demand EU action on issues ranging from cheap supermarket prices to free trade deals, as agricultural ministers met to discuss the crisis in the sector. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP Summit 26 & FOSDEM
On February 1st and 2nd, the 26th XMPP Summit will take place in Brussels. Immediately afterwards, the FOSDEM event will take place on the 3rd and 4th of February.
I’ll be attending both (although I won’t be present for the second day of FOSDEM). If you happen to be in Brussels, let me know! Maybe we can meet up!
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 26
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 26th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium this year again!
These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2024.
The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote!
The venue will take place at the Thon Hotel EU including coffee break (from 08:30 o’clock) and lunch (12:00 to 14:00 o’clock) paid b … ⌘ Read more
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‘Gone are the days of boiling the life out of them’: Why we’ve changed our minds about brussels sprouts
Ever wondered how to make those green vegetables you mother boiled to oblivion taste good? Find out how this up-and-coming young chef does it. Meanwhile a couple of young farmers are using the formerly despised veggie to pay off their first farm. ⌘ Read more
Low-tech Magazine: The Comic
In early 2022 I received an email from Guillaume Lion, a young filmmaker based in Brussels, Belgium. Having read Low-tech Magazine for several years, Guillaume recently started making comics, which he considers low-tech cinema. He proposed to visit me in Barcelona and make a portrait of me. I have never taken myself too seriously, so Guillaume came by later that year. The comic origina … ⌘ Read more
Europe’s chance to be a leader in the age of AI
Below are my prepared remarks delivered at the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels on Feb 3rd. ⌘ Read more
EU companies in China pay the price for Brussels stance on Xinjiang
Chamber of Commerce chief Joerg Wuttke says companies will find it difficult to prove their supply chains are free of forced labour links. ⌘ Read more
Plus que 5 ans à attendre #covid19 #vaccine ⌘ Read more…
Surviving in Brussels - because precarity is the new normal, the new “classe moyenne” ⌘ Read more…
Tonight in #Brussels you can almost hear the sound of relief crawling around the world right now, problems are not gone, but at least we can work now ! ⌘ https://blog.rmendes.net/2020/tonight-in-brussels-you-can-almost-hear-the-sound-of
Brussels: beer, cocktails and Korean takeaway ⌘ https://luxtimes.lu/the-hub/41916-brussels-beer-cocktails-and-korean-takeaway
The Heritage Beer Brewed With Some Help From Spiders - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lambic-beer-spiders-brussels-belgium-breweries