Position, velocity and time (PVT) information can be a ‘nice to have’, but in other circumstances knowing place and time has legal or military importance as well. Heavy vehicles for example are typically outfitted with tachographs that track driver speed and/or location. This has … | Continue reading
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou (Global Navigational Satellite Systems, GNSS) are miracles of engineering. And within any complex system hide surprises and unsuspected complications.In this post I go over how we resolved an odd observation: that everyone (including major institutio … | Continue reading
I have a longer story brewing, but in this post I want to briefly announce the “Galmon.eu unofficial Weekly Performance Report”. This is a blog post version of an earlier Twitter thread.I’m very proud to present the first full Galmon.eu Weekly Galileo Report! And the good news is … | Continue reading
What is life? This question keeps many people awake at night and has led to rafts of definitions, some involving features (procreation, metabolism and so forth), some involving chemistry, entropy or energy flux and some are of a more philosophical bent. A BBC article noted there … | Continue reading
When COVID-19 burst on to the scene, tests quickly showed that the everyone was susceptible - no pre-existing antibodies were found that bound to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This led to dire predictions that over 80% of the population might eventually fall ill.Now more than six months … | Continue reading
Welcome to this post, in which we’ll be taking a trip through the wild and bumpy ride that has been Vitamin D & sunlight research over the past few decades, and what it might mean for COVID-19.As with my previous post, before any non-specialist attempts to write something on COVI … | Continue reading
bert@hubertnet.nl / @PowerDNS_Bert / LinkedInVery quick post. The Dutch government just launched a tender for “digital technologies that can help with Corona”. The tender includes words on privacy sensitive contact tracing, it explicitly refers to PEPP-PT, the Pan-European Privac … | Continue reading
NOTE: If you like this stuff, come work with me over at PowerDNS - aspiring C++ programmers welcome!Welcome to part 1 of Modern C++ for C Programmers, please see the introduction for the goals and context of this series.In this part we start with C++ features that you can use to … | Continue reading
In a break from the usual GPS/Galileo, DNA and C++ posts, here is a bit on 5G and national security. It turns out that through PowerDNS and its parent company Open-Xchange, we know a lot about how large scale European communication service providers work - most of whom are our cu … | Continue reading
Dear anonymous internet user, dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address, dear “GitHub account with a single issue”,Thank you for your interest in my free software, my project or the documentation I wrote for you. I am happy to hear you want to ask a question, have … | Continue reading
This page collects links to raw and live sources on how well the planet, including its vital infrastructure, is doing right now, potentially visualised attractively. But the key thing is, we want Real Data, from the most direct sources.Sources are expected to be realtime or at le … | Continue reading
By bert hubert / bert@hubertnet.nlIn this post I want to document some mostly non-technical aspects of the EU’s Galileo Satellite Navigation Network. I will also share some observations on how things are going, and perhaps how they could be improved. NOTE: A shorter version of th … | Continue reading
By bert hubert / bert@hubertnet.nlThis post is an excerpt of a far longer post on Galileo, its structures and the cause of the outage. Here we’ll only focus on the outage - the potential underlying reasons behind it are described in the full article.Since the week-long outage in … | Continue reading