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  2. Jan 2026
    1. We need scrapers and headless browsers to accomplish the adversarial interoperability that will guarantee ongoing connectivity to institutions that are still hosted on US cloud-based services, because US companies are not going to facilitate the mass exodus of international customers from their platform.

      this is a good point. Bigtech will not stand by as customers move out. So you will likely must have circumvention tooling, ... which is illegal.

    1. The scale of Europe's technological deficit makes migrations like Austria’s daunting for most organisations.

      non sequitur. You just had multiple paragraphs saying it was easy for Austria. Most organisations in Europe are small, making migration easier.

  3. Dec 2025
    1. Daarin gaat het nadrukkelijk over autonomie en keuzevrijheid, niet over soevereiniteit, want iedereen weet dat volledige ontkoppeling een illusie is en niemand wil de regering Trump onnodig tegen de haren instrijken.

      n:: Odd sentence, 'sovereignty' doesn't mean fully disconnect either. Public sector needs sovereignty as sine-qua-non bc if someone else holds the off-switch that you don't control, you are the colony that Caffarra mentioned at top. Only autonomy is sovereignty washing itself

    1. We are entering a time when the ability to create software is no longer a specialized skill. It is becoming a basic form of digital literacy, like writing a document or making a spreadsheet. Not everyone will do it. But everyone could, if they wanted to.

      yes, agency does increase, where people realise this works locally.

    1. Het hernieuwde convenant geldt voor de periode 2024-2027. Er zijn in totaal acht Kennis- en innovatieagenda’s (KIA’s) binnen de KIC opgesteld, waaronder de KIA Digitalisering. Digital Holland is coördinator van de KIA Digitalisering.

      Binnen het innovatieconvenant van Rijk et al, 2024-2027, zijn er 8 Kennis Innovatie Agenda's KIA. Digitalisering is er 1, en DigitalHolland is er coord van. Dwz: Vu deze KIA is de SIDN call te bezien.

    1. Bijvoorbeeld omdat ze zijn uitgegeven onder een opensource-licentie, gebruik maken van open standaarden, van dataspaces Link opent in een nieuwe browsertab-technologie (gericht op het delen van data in een beschermde op publieke waarden gebaseerde context) of gebaseerd zijn op decentrale, federatieve modellen.

      Links to data spaces on Wikipedia: note that that link talks about data spaces as tech only, not in the sense of the EU single market for data, which is a much more meaningful context when it comes to (design)values.

  4. Sep 2025
    1. Spanish cloud service provider a la Nextcloud and Proton. I hate it when website don't actually contain any info about legal entities running the show. Their LinkedIn profile says they're in Valencia, but the site doesn't mention where they are located.

  5. Jun 2025