Schlagwort: Wolke

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)

Fern(e)wärme.

  • 2021-11-21

A downside of running my CI pipelines somewhere else is that I no longer hear (the fan stopping) when they are done.

Garmin Gold.

  • 2020-09-22

Now that all #Garmin servers are down, let me recommend GoldenCheetah, a great offline-first software to manage cycling etc. data: https://goldencheetah.org "We believe that cyclists and triathletes should be able to download their power data to the computer of their choice"

me on mastodon and on twitter (2020-07-26)