Schlagwort: Autonomie

Coffee as a service.

  • 2025-03-17

A rough comparison:

  1. “No cloud”: I roast and grind my own coffee beans for use in my own coffee maker.
  2. “Renting servers”: I have a bean-to-cup coffee machine, and I can buy beans anywhere.
  3. “Renting capacity”: I use regular (DE, store-brand) pre-ground coffee in my simple, affordable coffee maker (many brands available).
  4. “Limited in the cloud”: I use any brand of instant coffee (Nescafé, store-brand) and don’t need a coffee maker at all.
  5. “Fully in the arms of the cloud”: I have a Nespresso machine that only works with Nespresso pods.
  6. “Coffee as a service”: I go to Starbucks, where I can order a variety of coffees. I don’t own a coffee maker, I don’t need to understand how it works, and I don’t need to keep any coffee supplies at home.

The last option is expensive but effortless.

Bert Hubert: The (European) cloud ladder: from virtual server to MS 365

Someone else’s hard disk.

  • 2025-03-10

Putting our sensitive data on someone else’s hard disk, under foreign jurisdiction, via vulnerable connections, was never an enticing proposition. While many Radboud colleagues opposed the move to Office 365 several years ago, recent geopolitical developments make it clear just how dangerous the current situation is, whereby we are at the mercy of a foreign government led by a whimsical leader, who can force a company like Microsoft to comply with executive orders, or fulfil governmental access requests to data.

Open letter to the Executive Board calling for digital autonomy and independence from Big Tech (2025-03-10)

And why are we doing this? Convenience.

  • 2025-02-23

But it really is over. Stop the nonsense of complicated and long-winded legal arguments about why it would be legal to put our citizens’ data in the US. These arguments are not only naïve—they are also no longer true.

Bert Hubert: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds (2025-02-23)

Zelf het doe.

  • 2024-03-04

Als .NL niet in staat is .NL te beheren is dat als een restaurant dat z’n maaltijden bij thuisbezorgd.nl inkoopt.

Bert Hubert: Jouw tech of mijn tech: kies snel

MagnetronmaaltIjT.

  • 2023-02-28

[...] de mogelijkheid om zélf kennis, ervaring en visie te ontwikkelen op het ontwerpen en beheren van technologie komt op geen enkele manier terug in de Kamerbrief. Terwijl er een groeiende groep is van initiatieven, klein én groot, van overheden tot omroepen, bibliotheken en bedrijven, in Nederland en Europa, die zelf clouddiensten maken en beheren. Van NextCloud tot Jitsi en OpenStreetMap: open-source en volgens publieke waarden. Deze groeiende beweging van gemeenschappen wordt nu door de eigen overheid de pas afgesneden.

Job Spierings (waag future internet lab): Gaat de overheid echt overstappen op Google Docs?