Exactly this. However much we understand our colleagues and students who disengage by buying a dumb phone and closing all their social media accounts, that can not be the only option. We need engagement and love to build a new digital world. @faoluin […]

Curious how your #Fediverse instance has been doing in 2025, in terms of activity? Check out https://fedidb.com/servers/ 2025 has been a good year for social.edu.nl 😻😻 @SLURF @SURF 😻😻 And we have some plans to make it do even better next year. More about this […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Unfortunately we couldn't attend #39c3 but luckily we can keep track of what is going on by following https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/39c3 Out of curiosity: @rstockm#39c3Do you see any possibility integrating relays like fedi.buzz into Mastowall? So that the overview tracks more servers?

#lotr #fediverse #christmas

Christmas #feditip: if you have to/ want to view content on #instagram, but do not want to download the app or visit Instagram.com, you can use anonymous front-ends like: https://imginn.com/ https://flufi.me/ If you then want to share the material with the free world, you can then use […]

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/ Big news for the #fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #activitypub. @swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations. Bonfire is proud to be one of […]

People "... have given up and resigned themselves to drift wherever their computing devices take them, because under the guise of convenience, everything is so hostile that there is no point trying to learn things, and dark patterns are everywhere. Not being in control of course makes people […]

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Is anyone paying attention? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content "Campaigners have accused Meta of being condescending and unresponsive, with the company offering only vague reasons why certain […]

This is exactly what we are talking about: https://social.edu.nl/@steltenpower/115701025665208897

Wat goed dat het gelukt is om @barbarakathmann in de Tweede Kamer te krijgen. Onze managers vertellen ons "de afhankelijkheid is inmiddels zo groot, die is niet meer terug te draaien". We worden bestuurd door cynisme, naïviteit en hopeloosheid, vermomd als "realisme". Het is niet zo moeilijk […]

For several weeks we have been proudly supporting experiments with #jupyterhub in the new programming course offered by Amsterdam University College #auc called “Programming in Digital Societies” (PIDS). OpenTech(AUC) is happy to see that with courses like PIDS, the university is (again) […]

Dit past overigens in het beeld wat ik paar dagen geleden schetste, Europese beslissingnemers die denken dat het nog normaal gaat in de US: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/hello-europe-joe-biden-is-gone/

Ik kan hier zo moe van worden deel zoveel. Uit de brief over het uploaden van de belastingdienst email naar Amerikaanse servers, het risico van de CLOUD-act is beperkt. De Amerikaanse overheid gebruikt FISA 702 en EO 12333 om andere overheden af te luisteren. En […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Dit is overigens precies de aanbevolen verhaallijn van Microsoft. Ik voelde deze bui al hangen overigens: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115632790067481775

"We need to get together, because it turns out we have the same enemies: the people who are trying to make us lonely—who are the same people who are trying to make us poor, who are the same people who are drying the lakes to build data centers, who are the same people who are trying to shut down […]

Exactly this. At the university we are surrounded by manager with this mentality. @bert_hubert https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115628349531082160

Nou keek ik vandaag nav vragen van een Europese/buitenlandse journalist nog even, maar het LIJKT erop dat de AIVD de Google Trackers heeft laten verwijderen van hun vacatures op werkenvoornederland.nl! Vast dankzij vragen Derk Boswijk (CDA) en stuk @FTM_nl - kostte maar drie jaar maar dan heb je […]

Lots of things going on in the world of AI this week! It turns out LLMs in the medical world aren't delivering the results promised (by Geoffrey Hinton, among others), and what's the deal with the AI bubble? Plus a lot of AI reading tips, so if Santa/Sint needs to fill some socks/shoes with […]

Ik kan niet wachten tot @Felienne reageert op het AI deltaplan wat morgen gepresenteerd wordt […]

@OpenTech_AUC @pluralistic Getting out of the rat race for a bit together with friends/family, with different levels of digital skills, is a good moment for network change; Signal, Mastodon, etc.. Get people a 'new' laptop by putting Linux Mint on it, or at least a less spying Windows with Libre […]

So we want to write a blog post called "Deshittify your friends and family", where we want bring together tips for December gifts that help your friends/ family escape the digital enshittification that @pluralistic describes so powerfully. Any input from the Fediverse?

“Seize the means of computation.” - @pluralistic

the pitchfork won't hamper your resistance because it's not "smart" (as in serving its master) whereas the iphone will be programmed and reprogrammed so as to actively sabotage your plans to overthrow the master

@OpenTech_AUC @aral I like the pitchfork analogy. We just need to use the pitchforks before they’er connected to the IOT and become AI-enabled…

#fediverse, what do you think?

@OpenTech_AUC Ik ben benieuwd wanneer de kijkcijferkanonnen 'de hardwerkende gewone Nederlander thuis' laten zien hoe krachtig en gebruiksvriendelijk 'alternatieven' eigenlijk zijn …

Brandbrief media: techgiganten bedreigen democratie in Nederland - https://nos.nl/l/2591205 "De opkomst van kunstmatige intelligentie baart de sector grote zorgen. Steeds meer burgers, en vooral jongeren, krijgen hun informatie via AI-toepassingen zoals chatbots en virtuele assistenten, in […]

Good news! #chatcontrol has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way […]

Dear Fediverse people, It's time to say thank you again. 🙏 We started this account 2 years ago & we've recently hit 7k followers. 🎉 What's more important than this standard metric: We've received a lot of insightful comments & questions (& a few less […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@SURF Het doet me ook denken aan de haast waarmee de overheid overstapt naar Microsoft producten, ondanks dat het kabinet demissionair is. Zoals @bert_hubert eerder al beschreef. De digibete managers die deze overhaaste besluiten nemen hebben het altijd over kostenbesparingen. Maar wat zijn […]

@SURF I am hearing that employees at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) and Utrecht University (UU) are suddenly haphazardly pushed to migrate their files away from the Owncloud before it migrates to Nextcloud. And guess what where they are being pushed to migrate to? Microsoft Onedrive. Call me a […]

Just received some amazing news in my inbox. October 31st @SURF is going to migrate its cloud service from the (relatively old) Owncloud to #nextcloud. Owncloud was ok, but Nextcloud is orders of magntitude better, smoother and prettier. This is what we need to wean off our higher education […]

Aankomend stukje, de ondergang van Cloud Kootwijk na de verkiezingen. Als we niet uitkijken

Does anyone know of any Fediverse powered social map annotation project? Something to leave information, reviews, tips, advice, warnings? It could maybe be as simple as the Fediverse adopting a certain tag as a convention? Posts with that tags will be brought together with a (e.g.) a FediBuzz […]

Wat een verademing, dit stuk van @barbarakathmann Lang leve de roependen in deze digitale woestijn. https://mstdn.social/@barbarakathmann/115393824208893382

"de integriteit van onderzoek onder druk zet. Transparantie, betrouwbaarheid en democratische controle zijn niet vanzelfsprekend als bibliografische databases en platforms hun selectie- en beslisprocessen niet inzichtelijk maken. Ook de veiligheid van onderzoeksdata is niet gegarandeerd wanneer […]

Voor de duidelijkheid, Microsoft blokkeert op outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.nl met grote regelmaat email van wie dan ook. Dit is niet iets om mij te pesten. Dit is al jaren aan de gang, en ik bespreek dit in dit stuk uit 2021: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/who-controls-the-internet/

Ik log na jaren weer eens in op mijn Microsoft account. Het blijft toch indrukwekkend dit. 941 partners die allemaal mijn locatie en apparaten en gedrag willen volgen.

We gaan beginnen! En de livestream zou live moeten zijn. https://www.nlconnect.org/agenda/het-digitale-debat-2025

@DigitaleOverheid Ik zie op https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/evenementen/seminar-dag-van-de-interoperabiliteit-2025/ graag Mastodon logo toevoegen en X-logo wissen.

Deze site is echt een juweeltje, https://noslite.nl/ - NOS nieuws met *niks* aan fratsen. Ik krijg regelmatig mensen die klagen over mijn web"design" (zie https://opentk.nl) en dan probeer ik helder te krijgen wat er nou mis is. En daar krijg ik nooit zinvol […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

@SLURF @wlaatje We are thinking about manually curating Mastodon list of accounts of AUC students and staff, whose feed we want to show on a screen in the building. To avoid this from becoming a space for trolling etc. we would like the accounts to be transparently tied to actual people. But […]

@hetzner now listed on https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap? Do you know a company or organisation running their own Fediverse service? let me know!

We all knew this was coming. Next one needs to be a PWA with on-screen install help. ("Add to Home Screen")

BBB staatssecretaris #EugèneHeijnen decides to move all Dutch #tax data to #microsoft servers in the US. Whoever is, or will be in charge of the US government will soon have a complete overview of all tax records in the Netherlands. That includes the records of you and me. The incompetence […]

Anyone else having issues connecting to the #nextcloud app store? Our community is indirectly involved in three separate Nextcloud instances running on different OS's (NixOS and Ubuntu) and using different installation set-ups (Nix, LEMP), and they seem to have the same issue?

While over here in Amsterdam we are fighting for our independence from toxic networks like WhatsApp, many countries in the Global South are only getting further locked-in. This is a dimension of #digitalsovereignty that we do not talk about enough. @Mathrubhumi_English […]

The so-called "Learning Management System" (LMS) that we use at the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College is called "Canvas". Canvas is owned by Instructure, which in turn was bought in 2024 - for 4.8 billion USD - by a US "private equity and growth capital firm" based in […]