Robert van Bregt @metbril@mastodon.social

Evgeny Morozov: Dat Big Tech een pandemie moet oplossen is het politieke probleem van deze tijd - https://decorrespondent.nl/11146/dat-big-tech-een-pandemie-moet-oplossen-is-het-politieke-probleem-van-deze-tijd/1995704452280-0735d8c9

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After 3 clicks I'm no longer sure open-source would give me more confidence in the apps…

(from: https://github.com/covid19-alert/covid19-alert-api/blob/master/src/main/java/com/immotef/corona/admin_user/EncryptPasswordHandler.jav)

Maurits Martijn: Kun je het coronavirus wel indammen met een app? - https://decorrespondent.nl/11132/kun-je-het-coronavirus-wel-indammen-met-een-app/342375792-9bf9a436

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Together with many Dutch civil rights defenders the FSFE has signed a statement to outlines 10 principles a contact tracing app should abide by #freesoftware #privacy

https://www.veiligtegencorona.nl/

Q: Where did the hacker go?
A: I dunno. She ransomware.

#joke

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

Maybe you've noticed that #OpenStreetMap map tiles are being served very slow in the last few months. The #OSM tech team has now made clear [1] that any offer for caching servers would be appreciated. If you'd like to support them, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN for more info.

[1]: 🐦 https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/status/1239573899274334209

Mooi initiatief om videobellen via Jitsi eenvoudiger te maken https://vc4all.nl/

⚠️ PSA to all Germans ⚠️

Starting tomorrow, Telekom and Telefonica will hand over your phone's movement data to the government and other authorities.

It is opt-out, not opt-in!

Deactivate ASAP.

Telekom: https://www.optout-service.telekom-dienste.de/public/anmeldung.jsp

O2: https://www.telefonica.de/dap/selbst-entscheiden.html

Eigenlijk is die hamsterwoede een uitkomst in de vastentijd

Trump turning the US into a Failed State
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state
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RT @CarolineGruyter@twitter.activitypub.actor
Incredible: Donald Trump want to take over German chemical company so it produces vaccins exclusively for the American market. The German government is right to try to prevent this. https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article206555143/Corona-USA-will-Zugriff-auf-deutsche-Impfstoff-Firma.html via @welt
https://twitter.com/CarolineGruyter/status/1239113780900114433

For a personal project, I'm interested in understanding what makes people proud and happy. This is a completely anonymous form which won't take long to fill in. I'd love to hear from you. https://airtable.com/shrCDogvNsQgI5Y7s

Three-quarter of companies is moving one or more apps back from cloud to #onpremises for security and cost reasons. Interesting and not surprising trend! Learn more in our blog. #hybridcloud
https://nextcloud.com/blog/over-70-of-enterprises-moving-applications-back-on-premises-among-security-and-cost-concerns/

“We should not be scared of permanent records. We should be scared of informational power dynamics that bring immediate, harmful consequences and a serious lack of preservation infrastructure for contemporary culture.”—Meg Leta Jones

https://gizmodo.com/will-my-data-be-online-forever-1842022010

The #OpenStreetMap licence requires that you give #OSM attribution if you use our map data. Sometimes people forget.

So I ordered some stickers that you can use to fix any maps you see. 🙂

(Currently I only have English versions, I'll make more. If you want some, see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Promotional_Material_Programme
Or email communications@osmfoundation.org )