On Saturday 26 September, Hackerspace Brussels hosts its yearly edition of Software Freedom Day. Doors open at 11:30, the talks run from 13:00 until 19:00, and entry is free. The theme this year is “Organising with FOSS”. Because the topic hits home, it makes sense for us to help out and have a corner of our own during this event.
Full programme and directions: sfd.hsbxl.be
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What BeLibre is doing there
Jurgen and Christopher open the talks at 13:00 with an introduction to BeLibre and to the Leak Inspector scans of municipal, school and healthcare websites. The talk covers how to run a scan, how to read the report that comes out of it, and how to bring the findings to a local council in a way that they can work with it.
September 13, 2026
This contribution was taken from the blog of Joop Beris with permission of the author.
“Do you trust me?” So began a former manager of mine during the ritualised humiliation we call a performance review. It was, to put it mildly, a discomfiting inquiry from a man whose own breaches of confidence had already rendered the term meaningless between us. But the discomfort runs deeper still, for it presupposes equality in a relationship that is fundamentally hierarchical. And if you think the dynamic between employee and employer is fraught, consider the even more lopsided transaction between citizen and state, where trust is demanded of one party while being conspicuously withheld by the other.
July 22, 2026
What a caterer too good to refuse teaches us about vendor lock-in, data harvesting and enshittification.
June 12, 2026
You visit one website and around ten companies hear about it, several of them outside Europe. BeLibre’s Leak Detector records a real browsing session and shows you exactly who received what about your visit, and what that means under European law.
June 3, 2026
What happens when a website tracks you, and why ‘Accept all’ costs more than it looks
June 3, 2026