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Hasedera Temple
長谷寺

For me, the image that comes to mind when I think of Hasedera is this temple gate. This was my first time visiting.

とりあえず、長谷寺といったらこの山門のイメージです。今回初めて寄りました。

Kamakura city, Kanagawa pref, Japan

Tot een paar decennia terug was de wereld één grote manosfeer. Wanneer ontstond die scheve man-vrouwverhouding precies?

‘Stel jezelf de vraag: welke patriarchale opvattingen heb ik nog?’

Opinie: Waarom we de diepere laag van de manosfeer moeten zien

Hoe de iconische antihelden uit ‘Taxi Driver’ en ‘American Psycho’ onbedoeld rolmodellen werden voor de manosfeer

De manosfeer heeft vrouwenhaat niet uitgevonden. Zij heeft hem slechts zichtbaarder, harder en winstgevender gemaakt

Help, hoe stoppen we de manosfeer?

Hoe beïnvloedt de manosfeer Nederlandse 15-jarigen op TikTok?

Wie iets wil doen aan de manosfeer, moet beginnen bij de algoritmes

Wat krijgen Nederlandse 15-jarigen mee van de manosfeer?

Samen sporten tegen de manosfeer

Empathie voor de belevingswereld van jongeren kan tegenwicht bieden aan de manosfeer

Hoe praat je met je kind over de manosfeer? ‘Ze denken al snel: daar gáán we weer’

De drie belangrijkste inzichten uit het Volkskrant-onderzoek onder 15-jarigen en de manosfeer

Aantrekkingskracht manosfeer komt door zingevingscrisis

Manosfeer dringt het klaslokaal binnen: veel leraren maken zich zorgen over invloed van oerconservatieve geluiden

Waarom doet het tweeduizend jaar oude stoïcisme het zo goed in de manosfeer?

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De acteur uit het West-Friese Schagen was geknipt voor boef of rechercheur, maar hij kon veel meer. In en buiten zijn werk was Geel een opvallende verschijning, die zich even makkelijk bewoog in de intellectueel angehauchte wereld van het kunsttoneel als in het volkse Amsterdamse uitgaansleven.

Zorgpersoneel worstelt met bron- en contactonderzoek. In minstens 80 procent van de nieuwe besmettingsgevallen is niet duidelijk op welke mensen de besmetting is terug te voeren.

The European Commission has watered down its rules around battery replaceability with exemptions for some wearable devices, potentially including the Apple Watch and Meta's AI Glasses. A delegated act was adopted by the European Commission on July 14 that exempted the products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. The batteries must still be replaceable, but by independent professionals rather than end users. Wet appliances already have an exemption from user-replaceability rules, and qualifying wearables are now on the list. By wearables, the Commission means smartwatches, fitness trackers, smart glasses, or anything integrated into clothing. In its document [PDF], the Commission said small batteries should be removable and replaceable only by professionals, where "the miniaturization of wearable devices and the portable batteries powering them may result in situations where the battery is so tightly encapsulated in its receptacle that its removal may create a non-negligible risk of damage or piercing of the battery." "Where the nature of the product hinders its redesign (anatomic or ergonomic considerations), it is justified that such small batteries be removable and replaceable only by independent professionals." The EU's portable battery rule is set to come into force in 2027, and requires gizmo makers to ensure their designs allow for battery replacement by users. Phone creators, for example, will generally have to ensure customers can open their devices and switch out the battery themselves, although batteries in phones meeting specified longevity and IP67 requirements may remain replaceable only by professionals. The environmental cost of ditching a device when the battery fails is less than ideal, and the European Commission has sustainability rules around the sourcing, collection, recycling, and repurposing of batteries. Allowing users to replace batteries means the units can easily be recycled and the life of devices extended, although an expiration of software support will be the next challenge faced by the users. The US PIRG action group reckons that expiring software or server support is responsible for 1.7 billion pounds of e-waste over the last decade. Campaigners have urged the EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates. The Register asked the Commission if the change was at least partially a result of pressure from industry. Dropping the requirement for user replaceability is good news for manufacturers considering how gadgets such as smart glasses or watches could be made to comply. The Commission has yet to respond. The next step is to send the delegated act to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU for scrutiny. According to the Commission, "it will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU, if the European Parliament or the Council fail to object to it." ®

This week brings two point releases for both Debian 13 - aka “Trixie” - and Debian 12 - “Bookworm,” the latter now shuffling off into long-term support. Debian 13.6 and Debian 12.15 are just the latest point releases of Trixie and Bookworm, but Debian 12.15 is also significant in another way: it marks the end of regular support for Debian 12, which is being handed over to the LTS team. That reduced level of support is scheduled to last until mid-2028. That means Debian 12.15 is the last point release of Debian 12. There won’t be a Debian 12.16. In turn, that means mainstream support for Debian on 32-bit x86 is over. (Debian 13 does still support some 32-bit Arm CPUs via the armhf port.) As we warned you in 2023, to run Debian 13 on x86, you require a 64-bit CPU. It supports 32-bit packages and libraries, so you can run 32-bit programs fine – but if you want to install Trixie on a 32-bit CPU, then you need to compile your own kernel. That’s not impossible: as we reported in late 2025, WindowMaker Live 13.2 does this, and so does antiX Linux, which we last looked at in March. The new releases both have two significant changes worth knowing about. The fwupd firmware-update tool from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service has been updated to version 2.0.20. As the Arch wiki describes, fwupd can only update the system firmware if your machine boots in UEFI mode (that is, not legacy BIOS boot.) However, that’s useful, as it can update UEFI machines’ secure-boot signing certificates and database too – and as Red Hat warned last month, Microsoft’s original 2011 secure-boot certificates just expired. If you don’t use secure boot, that doesn’t matter, but if you do and your boxes haven’t rebooted in a while, you might have problems. Don’t panic: problems aren’t likely, but if you do have some, disabling secure boot will work around it. Either way, it’s worth updating those certificates. The Debian Wiki has more info, and Linux Weekly News has a full rundown on the problem. Also, there’s a downgrade: the geoip-database package has been rolled back to an older version from 2019. This is because of changes in the MaxMind EULA on newer versions of GeoLite which conflict with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The Debian release notes, somewhat unexpectedly, tell users to go and buy it: “Consumers of this data are strongly encouraged to obtain a GeoLite license directly and cease reliance on the ‘geoip-database’ package.” ®

Amazing:

Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary light fields and tap into a pixel’s full potential for carrying information by manipulating light’s intensity, oscillation phases, and polarization. The team reported its findings in a paper published yesterday in Nature.

We are one step closer to 1984 technology:

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

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