Een van de verdachten in de zaak van de Sliedrechtse groepsverkrachting zou het slachtoffer willen dwingen haar verklaring in te trekken. Hij zou dat doen via vriendinnen die het 18-jarige meisje moesten benaderen. Dat zegt de officier van justitie in deze zaak.

This piece of shit keeps showing up in my eBay searches for old DNA Lounge flyers: they are taking dates and venues on which actual concerts happened in history and having the Plagiarism Machine vomit out new, terrible posters for them.

Apparently you can't "leave feedback" on a seller without paying them money first.

Andrea Stella believes that McLaren matched the performance of Ferrari and Red Bull during the United States Grand Prix, despite Lando Norris eventually slipping to fifth last weekend.

The world is full of different keyboard layouts, but if you want one that's completely customized, down to the individual key, there's a new open source project that uses magnets to hold interchangeable pieces together. Keybytes is an open source project that allows any ambitious builder to create a fully modular keyboard - and we’re talking FULLY modular here. Each key contains its own RISC-V microcontroller and pogo pins on all four sides, providing power and I2C connections between adjacent modules so users can rearrange the keys into different layouts. The only extra component needed is a controller module, which coordinates the individual keys and handles communication with the host computer. And good news: Despite consisting of two stacked circuit boards, it has the same footprint as the single-key modules that attach to it. The entire thing was designed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman named Nathan Alspaugh, who is studying aerospace engineering. Alspaugh has always wanted to design his own keyboard, and who better than an MIT student to go over the top in building the most intricate, overengineered version imaginable? “I had always wanted to make a keyboard but I didn't want to be locked into just one design so I wanna make it so that I can rearrange it at any time,” Alspaugh said in the first entry of his project journal, which he’s been keeping since March of this year. “I searched online and couldn't find it anywhere so I decided to make it myself.” The main readme in the GitHub project isn’t super detailed, instead mostly describing what the project entails for anyone willing to give it a shot (custom printed circuit boards, Cherry MX switches, 3D-printed cases, and a whole lot of tiny soldered components). It’s Alspaugh’s journal where the depth of the work he did is laid bare for all to see, and boy did he do a lot of work. Designing a single-key modular keyboard from scratch is no easy task, and the journal details a number of setbacks that Alspaugh faced, like magnets that wouldn’t stay put, design compromises, and - of course - plenty of board errors that he luckily was able to catch in the design phase before spending a bunch of cash ordering custom components. Alspaugh also had to learn to use a resin 3D printer for the project, and of course multiple iterations and a bunch of manual modifications had to be made to get everything to properly fit together. Alspaugh told The Register he’s spent around 100 hours on the project so far. And then there’s the cost: All those tiny custom boards don’t come cheap. According to a shopping cart for the board designs included in his journal, the Keybits (the individual key control boards) cost only a couple of bucks apiece, but the Keywords (controller boards) cost $30 a pop. Alspaugh opted to have the manufacturer fully assemble the boards, which is where a good deal of the cost came from: Keybit assembly cost him $69, while Keyword assembly cost him $203. Alspaugh said that a full-sized keyboard would end up costing around $900, making it pretty cost prohibitive. “If I ever make a full one I’ll buy them separately and solder them myself,” he noted in his journal. Alspaugh did tell us that there’s no reason to stop at a full-sized keyboard, explaining that anyone with the desire to build a monsterboard could do so if they had the resources. Alspaugh encourages anyone who wants to build their own to go for it, telling us that anyone who has the components could probably build their own in a few days, not counting delivery for the PCBs. You could wait, though. “I am thinking about selling them in the future once the designs are improved and finalized,” Alspaugh told us, adding that he wants to make a bunch of changes and hardware updates first, plus add some new functionalities. “I’d probably make more key varieties, like ones that have a fingerprint sensor.” Interested makers seeking a Halloween frankenboard project can find all the necessary files on GitHub. ® Correction: Due to an editing error, the original version of this article mistakenly referred to the plural of "Lego" as "Legos." We know better.

The world is full of different keyboard layouts, but if you want one that's completely customized, down to the individual key, there's a new open source project that uses magnets to hold interchangeable pieces together. Keybytes is an open source project that allows any ambitious builder to create a fully modular keyboard - and we’re talking FULLY modular here. Each key contains its own RISC-V microcontroller and pogo pins on all four sides, providing power and I2C connections between adjacent modules so users can rearrange the keys into different layouts. The only extra component needed is a controller module, which coordinates the individual keys and handles communication with the host computer. And good news: Despite consisting of two stacked circuit boards, it has the same footprint as the single-key modules that attach to it. The entire thing was designed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman named Nathan Alspaugh, who is studying aerospace engineering. Alspaugh has always wanted to design his own keyboard, and who better than an MIT student to go over the top in building the most intricate, overengineered version imaginable? “I had always wanted to make a keyboard but I didn't want to be locked into just one design so I wanna make it so that I can rearrange it at any time,” Alspaugh said in the first entry of his project journal, which he’s been keeping since March of this year. “I searched online and couldn't find it anywhere so I decided to make it myself.” The main readme in the GitHub project isn’t super detailed, instead mostly describing what the project entails for anyone willing to give it a shot (custom printed circuit boards, Cherry MX switches, 3D-printed cases, and a whole lot of tiny soldered components). It’s Alspaugh’s journal where the depth of the work he did is laid bare for all to see, and boy did he do a lot of work. Designing a single-key modular keyboard from scratch is no easy task, and the journal details a number of setbacks that Alspaugh faced, like magnets that wouldn’t stay put, design compromises, and - of course - plenty of board errors that he luckily was able to catch in the design phase before spending a bunch of cash ordering custom components. Alspaugh also had to learn to use a resin 3D printer for the project, and of course multiple iterations and a bunch of manual modifications had to be made to get everything to properly fit together. Alspaugh told The Register he’s spent around 100 hours on the project so far. And then there’s the cost: All those tiny custom boards don’t come cheap. According to a shopping cart for the board designs included in his journal, the Keybits (the individual key control boards) cost only a couple of bucks apiece, but the Keywords (controller boards) cost $30 a pop. Alspaugh opted to have the manufacturer fully assemble the boards, which is where a good deal of the cost came from: Keybit assembly cost him $69, while Keyword assembly cost him $203. Alspaugh said that a full-sized keyboard would end up costing around $900, making it pretty cost prohibitive. “If I ever make a full one I’ll buy them separately and solder them myself,” he noted in his journal. Alspaugh did tell us that there’s no reason to stop at a full-sized keyboard, explaining that anyone with the desire to build a monsterboard could do so if they had the resources. Alspaugh encourages anyone who wants to build their own to go for it, telling us that anyone who has the components could probably build their own in a few days, not counting delivery for the PCBs. You could wait, though. “I am thinking about selling them in the future once the designs are improved and finalized,” Alspaugh told us, adding that he wants to make a bunch of changes and hardware updates first, plus add some new functionalities. “I’d probably make more key varieties, like ones that have a fingerprint sensor.” Interested makers seeking a Halloween frankenboard project can find all the necessary files on GitHub. ®

Reddit's r/opensource community has declared war on AI-generated software by introducing a sweeping set of new rules that also manage to shut out solo developers, newcomers, and anyone who doesn't speak English. The crackdown, announced over the weekend, bans projects that use AI, that were created with AI, or that are intended for AI applications. "The long story short, if your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/opensource," moderator Wolvereness wrote. "AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community." To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software. That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor. The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted. Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising restriction concerns language. "If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community," the announcement states. Moderators say they cannot distinguish AI-written content from AI-translated text, and that non-English speakers cannot verify whether a translation is accurate. That particular rule has gone down about as well as you might expect. Fellow moderator ssddanbrown publicly objected, saying they hadn't been consulted about the changes and only learned of them through moderation notifications. "I don't agree with that rule. Especially so with how it was said," they wrote. The rules also raise awkward questions about projects like Linux, whose developers have taken a different approach to AI-assisted contributions. The kernel allows developers to use the technology while holding them responsible for the resulting code. Earlier this month, maintainers even decided to drop the requirement to disclose AI assistance. Asked whether that meant Linux would be banned from r/opensource, Wolvereness suggested it would probably still be allowed, arguing that enforcement would depend on whether a project was obviously the product of AI-generated code. "There's no 'objective' way to implement this policy," the moderator acknowledged. Apparently, AI is forbidden unless the moderators decide otherwise. The row comes as open source developers increasingly find themselves at odds over how to handle AI-generated contributions. System76 recently banned AI-generated code and other content from its COSMIC desktop project, while parts of GNOME have introduced similar restrictions. Other GNOME developers, however, have questioned the wisdom of rejecting AI-discovered security vulnerabilities simply because a machine found them. The debate has also caused rifts within KDE, while NetBSD has emerged as something of an AI-free alternative for developers who would rather keep generated code out of their projects altogether. Not everyone is convinced that blanket bans are the answer. Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently argued that competent developers should be free to use AI tools, while warning against low-effort patches submitted by people who don't understand the code they're contributing. Reddit moderators have opted for a broader approach, and one that has already prompted the creation of alternative communities, including r/TrueOpenSource and r/OpenSourceAIAllowed. The original announcement has since been updated to point disgruntled users towards these alternatives. Of course, r/opensource is a Reddit community, not an authority on what qualifies as open source software. Its moderators are free to decide what gets posted there, just as developers are free to take their projects elsewhere. ®

Elke maand gaat er hetzelfde bedrag naar je energieleverancier, dus het voelt alsof alles geregeld is. Toch is gas sinds de zomer flink duurder geworden. Heb je een variabel contract, dan is je termijnbedrag vaak nog berekend met een prijs die niet meer geldt.

Het verschil zie je pas in het voorjaar, op je jaarafrekening.

Gas is nu een stuk duurder dan in september

Op maandag 26 oktober klom de prijs op de Amsterdamse gasbeurs tot boven 97 euro per megawattuur, na een stijging van ongeveer 3,5 procent, meldt indegazette.be. Variabele contracten waren toen al duurder geworden. Volgens Keuze.nl verhoogden alle negen leveranciers met een variabel contract in de vergelijker hun gasprijs per 1 oktober, met gemiddeld 12,9%.

Een variabel contract kost nu gemiddeld €1,80 per kuub gas, rekent Keuze.nl. Ter vergelijking: het gemiddelde lopende contract stond in september op €1,39 per m³, volgens het CBS.

Je termijnbedrag gaat niet vanzelf mee

Het termijnbedrag is een voorschot. Volgens ACM ConsuWijzer schat je leverancier wat je bij de jaarafrekening kwijt bent, op basis van de energieprijs en uw verbruik in de afgelopen jaren. Dat bedrag gedeeld door 12 is uw termijnbedrag. Volgens Gaslicht.com rekent de leverancier dat bedrag uit als je klant wordt, verhuist en na elke jaarafrekening.

Komt er tussendoor een tariefverhoging, dan kan het voorschot dus achterlopen. De leverancier mag het verhogen als de energieprijzen in de groothandelsmarkt sneller gestegen zijn dan de leverancier verwachtte, en hoeft je daarover niet dertig dagen van tevoren te informeren, schrijft de ACM. Verplicht is het niet. Ga er dus niet van uit dat het al geregeld is.

Zo loopt het tekort op

Een rekenvoorbeeld met de gemiddelden van nu:

• Per 1 oktober werd een gemiddeld variabel contract volgens Keuze.nl zo'n € 25,- per maand duurder (stroom en gas samen). Ging je termijnbedrag niet mee, dan bouw je in een jaar zo'n €300 achterstand op.
• Elke kuub kost bij €1,80 ongeveer 41 cent meer dan bij €1,39. Dat is €41 per 100 kuub.
• Stook je deze winter nog 700 kuub tegen de hogere prijs, dan komt dat neer op zo'n €287 die je voorschot niet dekt.

Een laag termijnbedrag maakt je energie niet goedkoper. Volgens energiebespareninfo.nl kan €30 per maand minder betalen aan het einde van het jaar betekenen dat je ongeveer €360 moet bijbetalen.

Wat je nu te weinig vooruitbetaalt, betaal je in het voorjaar in één keer.

De duurste maanden komen nog

Op een snelle daling hoef je niet te rekenen. Volgens Keuze.nl gaat de termijnmarkt deze winter uit van ongeveer € 73,- per MWh. Vanaf april zakt dat naar € 55,- tot € 60,-. Het meeste gas stook je dus precies in de maanden dat het het duurst is. Hoeveel dat alleen al in de koudste maand is, lees je in ons eerdere stuk "Koude januari op komst? Zoveel gas stook je in die ene maand, en zoveel kost dat bij de gasprijs van nu".

Vast contract? Dan zit je meestal goed

Met een vast tarief betaalt u dezelfde prijs voor stroom of gas zolang uw contract duurt, legt de ACM uit. Je termijnbedrag rekent dan al met de juiste prijs. Het kan wel te laag zijn als je meer stookt dan in eerdere jaren. Loopt je vaste contract binnenkort af, dan word je bij de verlenging duurder uit. Het goedkoopste jaarcontract kostte op 30 september € 2.430,-, nu is dat € 2.588,-, meldde Keuze.nl vorige week.

Zo pas je het aan

• Zoek de gasprijs op in de laatste tariefbrief van je leverancier en vergelijk die met de prijs waarmee je termijnbedrag is berekend. Die staat op je laatste jaarafrekening.
• Volgens de ACM kun je het termijnbedrag vaak zelf aanpassen via de app of op de website van uw leverancier. Lukt dat niet, stuur dan een mail of brief met het bedrag dat je voortaan wilt betalen.
• Reken het extra bedrag grof uit: wat je deze winter nog denkt te stoken, keer het prijsverschil per kuub, gedeeld door het aantal maanden tot je jaarafrekening.
• Overdrijf het niet. Gaslicht.com raadt aan het termijnbedrag niet als spaarpotje bij je leverancier te gebruiken. Je kunt het geld ook zelf apart zetten voor de verwachte bijbetaling.
• Verhoogt de leverancier je termijnbedrag zonder uitleg? Dan kun je volgens de ACM om de reden vragen. Op een mail of brief moet u binnen 8 weken antwoord krijgen.

Wil je ook je verbruik omlaag brengen, lees dan "De verwarming één graad lager: hoeveel scheelt dat op jouw rekening?". Maar wat je ook bespaart: met een variabel contract is je termijnbedrag nu het eerste om te checken. Even rekenen in oktober is beter dan in april schrikken van de jaarafrekening.

Bronnen: Keuze.nl, Keuze.nl, Stroom en Gas (CBS-cijfers), indegazette.be, ACM ConsuWijzer, ACM ConsuWijzer, ACM, Gaslicht.com, Gaslicht.com, Energiebespareninfo.nl

HILVARENBEEK (ANP) - De situatie rond de dierenverzorgster van Safaripark Beekse Bergen die zaterdag gewond raakte door een panteraanval is nog steeds "precair". Dat laat de Brabantse dierentuin in een verklaring weten.

Zaterdag was de vrouw, die al 25 jaar voor de Brabantse dierentuin werkt, aan het werk in het verblijf van twee mannelijke Perzische panters. Zij werd aangevallen en raakte zwaargewond. Het is niet duidelijk wat zich precies heeft afgespeeld, omdat er geen camera's in het verblijf hangen. De Arbeidsinspectie doet onderzoek naar de toedracht van het incident.

Zondag werd al duidelijk dat artsen vrezen dat de vrouw het niet zal overleven. Een woordvoerster van het dierenpark bij Hilvarenbeek liet dat weten, met toestemming van de familie van de vrouw.

De vrouw werd op de dag van de aanval geopereerd. Volgens Beekse Bergen was dat "naar behoren" verlopen. De vrouw is buiten bewustzijn.

DJ Shadow

According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth.

On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) set by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of its mission, covering in five and a half years a distance that took Opportunity almost 15.

For a vehicle whose top speed is 0.1 mph and which stops all the time to do science, 28 miles is quite a distance. The route video is fun to watch…it resembles a dog’s path, sniffing out its favorite spots and doubling back along familiar routes.

BTW, the Guinness World Record for the number of miles driven by one vehicle on Earth is 3,039,122 miles. (And the guy kept driving it after the record was recorded…he reached 3,260,257 miles before he died.)

Tags: cars · Mars · NASA · perseverance · space · video

The actor appeared in the cult 1960s show as well as many of the films but also worked as a writer

Walter Koenig, the actor known for playing Pavel Chekov throughout the Star Trek franchise, has died, his representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90.

Koenig died at his home in North Hollywood surrounded by his daughter and niece, according to a Facebook post by Zachery McGinnis, the founder of Galactic Productions, an appearance agency that counted the actor as one of its clients. His death was attributed to “old age”, with no other details provided.

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Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a historic fourth term as president, defeating the far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in a dramatic comeback. Lula is the first candidate to win a runoff election after losing in the first round – taking victory with 51.79% of the vote to his rival’s 48.21%. His win bucks a regional trend, after the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro had spearheaded a radical populist movement. But with Flávio Bolsonaro refusing to concede defeat, what’s next for Brazil? Michael Safi speaks to Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips

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Non-hierarchical movement is seeking to ‘rebuild society’ in Balkan country after years of authoritarian rule

Serbia’s triumphant but untested Student List movement is preparing to start talks on forming a government capable of reversing 14 years of increasingly authoritarian nationalist rule, after a seismic weekend election win.

Supporters of the movement, which has no experience of government, took to the streets in the west Balkan country on Monday after the strongman former president, Aleksandar Vučić, was defeated in a historic landslide.

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The solution to today’s puzzles

Earlier today, I set a puzzle by UCLA professor Terry Tao, who is widely regarded as one of the world’s top mathematicians.

Here it is again with solutions.

a regular plant produces a single coin per day

a mother plant produces a single coin and two seeds per day. (A seed will grow into a regular plant the following day.)

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• Head coach arrives to watch Under-21s play

• Bruno Fernandes likes Instagram post about loyalty

Michael Carrick was at Manchester United’s training ground on Monday afternoon as elsewhere at the Carrington base Jason Wilcox, the sporting director, and Omar Berrada, the chief executive, deliberated whether to sack the head coach.

Carrick arrived at about 1.50pm to watch the under-21s play a behind-closed-doors game.

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Foto: Anja Meulenbelt in 1944

Grapperhaus zou het geriatrische beunhazerij noemen. Schrijfseniel en oud-BIJ1-spook Anja Meulenbelt loopt leeg op LinkedIn: "Als er één effect is geweest van de aanval van Hamas op Israel, op de inmiddels beruchte 7 oktober, dan is het dat de gehele wereld zich bewust lijkt te zijn geworden van wat er in Palestina aan hand is. En als het die aanval niet was, dan toch zeker de meest wraakzuchtige reactie van Israel, die uitmondde in wat we een genocide noemen." De breinaald gebruikt als pen, gedoopt in postmodern slachtofferschap. Het zal de leeftijd zijn, maar Anja vergeet hier één effect: de slachtoffers van 7 oktober.

Over de Nederlandse Israëllobby: "Een van de activiteiten van de lobby is om het vijandbeeld van het Palestijnse verzet, met name van Hamas, aan te wakkeren." En dat terwijl Hamas er zelf alles aan doet om zich te positioneren als tolerant clubje. Een collectief vol verdraagzaamheid. Waarom ze het predicaat MVO (maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen) nog niet hebben ontvangen, is ons een raadsel. We vonden het al vreemd dat je niet op Hamas kon stemmen met de Rabo Clubsupport.

Heel even lijkt Anja een moment van verlichting te hebben: "Ze onderdrukken vrouwen en willen homo’s van hoge gebouwen gooien, horen we, en uiteraard haten ze joden en willen ze die allemaal de zee indrijven." Maar Anja druppelt langzaam verder: "Het is alsof de mensen hier die nogal snel van mening over Israel zijn veranderd dat nog een beetje ongemakkelijk vinden, en dat verzachten met een variant op 'maar Hamas is ook erg'." We komen inderdaad langzaam op het punt dat u op een verjaardag moet gaan uitleggen dat Hamas ook erg is.

Mocht uw lunch nog niet omhoog zijn gekomen: "Ik ga er vanuit dat het onjuist is dat Hamas een terroristengroep wordt genoemd". Een overschot aan omdraaiingen zorgt blijkbaar voor een wat draaierig gevoel. Wees gerust: helemaal onbestraft laat Anja Hamas ook niet. Een grote foei: "Burgers doden mag niet, dus als het zover komt kan Hamas nog op het matje worden geroepen vanwege een oorlogsmisdaad." Het enige matje waarop wordt geroepen, is de gebedsmat, An. 

Om af te sluiten: "Dit is waar ik voor pleit: dat we, net als we uiteindelijk ook met Zuid Afrika hebben gedaan, respect hebben voor het Palestijnse verzet." Een enkeltje Rafah voor beroepsactivist Anja, verplicht een incontinentiesluier om en lekker aow'en met warme Hamasknuffels.

Inmiddels heeft Hamasversteher en fopfeministe Meulenbelt een nieuwe bijdrage geplaatst. Als u echt graag wilt: hierrr.

Hele """bijdrage"""

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date stamped on back of photograph, January 4, 1954

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