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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 29-03-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 6.4°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 5.3°C / Max 10.1°C | Kans op neerslag 28%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 5.3°C, Max 10.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 30.6 km/u (8.5 m/s), richting: → 250°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 03:00: 5.8°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1026.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°
• 04:00: 5.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 288°
• 05:00: 5.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 308°
• 06:00: 5.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1027.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 293°
• 07:00: 5.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1027.6 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 280°
• 08:00: 5.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 09:00: 7.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1028.4 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 287°
• 10:00: 8.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1028.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 284°
• 11:00: 8.9°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1028.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: → 258°
• 12:00: 9.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1028.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: → 250°
• 13:00: 10.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1028.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 14:00: 10.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• maandag 30 maart: Min 6.8°C, Max 9.3°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 46%, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ↘️ -6.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 28.4 km/u (7.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 312°
• dinsdag 31 maart: Min 5.5°C, Max 10.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ↗️ +6.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.3 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 321°
• woensdag 01 april: Min 4.4°C, Max 11.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1024.8 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 6.0 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ← 92°
• donderdag 02 april: Min 6.5°C, Max 11.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 17%, 🧭 1016.2 hPa ↘️ -8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.0 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• vrijdag 03 april: Min 7.3°C, Max 10.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 4.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1007.0 hPa ↘️ -9.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• zaterdag 04 april: Min 5.9°C, Max 8.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 12.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1000.2 hPa ↘️ -6.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 34.5 km/u (9.6 m/s), richting: → 253°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 6.4°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 2.7°C (-3.7°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 315°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 12.6 km/h (3.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 71%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1026.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 19.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:23 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:10

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 37 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.6 μg/m³

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Ukraine leader says signs with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with one to come with the United Arab Emirates, as Iran presses aerial campaign against neighbours. What we know on day 1,495

Qatar and Ukraine signed a defence agreement on Saturday that included cooperation on countering threats from missiles and drones, the Gulf state’s government said, as Iran presses an aerial campaign against its neighbours. Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy – during a previously unannounced flurry of visits to Gulf nations – said his country and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to cooperate on defence, after Iran targeted countries in the area in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes. Ukraine also signed an air defence agreement with Saudi Arabia during Zelenskyy’s visit to the kingdom earlier this week.

“We are talking about a 10-year cooperation. We have already signed a relevant agreement with Saudi Arabia, we have just signed a similar agreement with Qatar, also for 10 years, we will sign one with the Emirates,” Zelenskyy told reporters at a briefing.

Ukraine has quickly grown into one of the world’s leading producers of cutting-edge, battle-tested drone interceptors that are cheap and effective. They are playing a key part in its defence against Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began on 24 February 2022.

In return for its aid to Gulf countries, Ukraine is seeking more high-end air-defence missiles that they possess and that Kyiv needs to counter Russia’s attacks. Last week Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was looking into whether it could play a role in restoring security in the strait of Hormuz.

Ukraine wants to build long-term ties with Middle Eastern countries, Zelenskyy said, including joint production, cooperation in the energy sector, investment and sharing battlefield experience. He spoke with journalists via Zoom during an official visit in Qatar, the latest in his tour in the region. “Simple sales do not interest us,” Zelenskyy said. “We want systemic relationships, where exporters earn revenue and Ukraine receives sufficient funds to invest in domestic production.”

Zelenskyy has sought to craft an opportunity from the war, which otherwise benefits Russia through higher oil prices and possible slowdowns in western arms supplies to Kyiv. Almost immediately, he started offering US allies in the region deals to get their hands on Ukrainian drone interceptors and has dispatched more than 200 military experts. “Surely no one else can help in this way today, with expertise,” he told reporters. “No one else possesses such experience.”

Russian air attacks across Ukraine early Saturday killed at least four people and damaged critical infrastructure, including a port and a maternity hospital, authorities said, as Russia pressed on with its war against Ukraine. Moscow has been firing drones at Ukraine in nightly barrages during its four-year invasion, with Kyiv accusing it of attacking residential areas and targeting civilians.

Iran claims it struck Ukraine-related drone warehouse in Dubai. Iran’s military joint command made the claim in a statement run by state media, without offering evidence. The Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters said more than 20 Ukrainians were in the warehouse in the United Arab Emirates and their fate was unknown. In a news briefing, Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi, however, called the Iranian allegations a “lie,” according to Ukraine’s public broadcaster.

Ukraine’s military struck a major Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl, north-east of Moscow, in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday. It said in a statement that the attack caused a fire at the site of the refinery, which is critical for the Russian army’s logistics.

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Vice-president received about 53% of votes at Conservative Political Action Conference held in Texas this year

One of the biggest conservative gatherings in the US ran a poll showing vice-president JD Vance is the top choice this year to be the next Republican presidential candidate.

The poll from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), released on Saturday, was taken during this year’s gathering. About 53% of the more than 1,600 attendees who voted in the poll chose Vance, Reuters reports. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, came in second with 35%.

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It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight" after he'd added the optional birthDate field for systemd's user database.

Critics saw it not merely as a technical addition, but as a symbolic capitulation to government overreach. A crack in the philosophical foundation of freedom that Linux is built on. What followed went far beyond civil disagreement. Dylan revealed that he faced harassment, doxxing, death threats, and a flood of hate mail. He was forced to disable issues and pull request tabs across his GitHub repositories...

Q: Should FOSS projects adapt to laws they fundamentally disagree with? Because these kinds of laws are certainly in conflict with what a lot of Linux users believe in.

A. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases, the answer is yes — at least for any distribution with corporate backing. The small independent distributions are much more flexible to refuse as a protest.

If we ignore regulations entirely, we risk Linux being something that companies are not willing to contribute to, and Linux may be shipped on less hardware. I'm talking about things like Valve and System76 (despite them very vocally hating these laws). That does not help us; it just lowers the quality of software contributions due to less investment in the platform and makes Linux less accessible to the average person. We need Linux and other free operating systems to remain a viable alternative to closed systems.

Q. Do you think regulations like these will reshape desktop Linux in the next 5-10 years where we might have "compliant Linux" and "Freedom-first Linux"?

A. Unfortunately, yes, to some degree this is likely. I imagine the split will be mostly along the lines of independent distributions and those with corporate backing.

We're already seeing it as far as which distributions plan on implementing some sort of age verification and which ones are not, and that sucks. I'd rather nobody have to deal with this mess at all, but this is the reality of things now. As I said in the previous response, the corporate-backed distributions really have no choice in the matter. Companies are notoriously risk-adverse, but something like Artix or Devuan? Those are small and independent enough where the individual maintainers may be willing to take on more risk.

I was actually thinking about what this would look like if we added it to [Linux system installer] Calamares and chatting about that with the maintainers before that thread got brigaded by bad actors posting personal information and throwing around insults. I completely support the freedom for the distro maintainers to choose their risk tolerance. If the distribution is based out of Ireland or something (like Linux Mint) without these silly laws in the jurisdiction the developer operates in, I think that we should leave it up to them to make a choice here.
They think the installer should have a date picker with a flag to disable it, and "We can even default it to off, and corporate distributions using Calamares or those not willing to take the risk could flip it on if they need to. That way if maintainers of the distributions do not wish to collect the birth date, they won't have to, and no forking is required to patch it out."

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