AkademieNL update
How are things going as an administrator for the Mastodon server AkademieNL.social? In this blog, I provide an update of what's on my mind right now.
Chris Hartgerink
Upskilling for a European cloud
There is growing concern that the citizens, businesses and Member States of the European Union (EU) are gradually losing control over their data, over their capacity for innovation, and over their ability to shape and enforce legislation in the digital environment.
In my own attempt to be a productive part
Input and output tasks
We all have tasks to do. How we formulate them can help us get things done. In this blog post, I talk about a trick one of my mentors taught me a few years ago: Input and output tasks.
Why I'm not going to SIPS 2025
I've been a member of SIPS since 2017, and have visited plenty of their conferences. But with the decision to host it in Hungary in 2025, I decided I won't be going.
Disclosing a Data Breach to Pensoft
For no apparent reason, I stumbled upon a data breach of one of my accounts, password and all. It is a humbling lesson in how much trust we place in platforms to keep that information safe and secure.
New AkademieNL rule: No disinformation
Administering a Mastodon server comes with challenging situations. Recently, a post got reported that was not covered by the existing rules, which results in a new rule for the AkademieNL instance: No disinformation.
"Community" is the new "family"
"At this company, we're a family" by now is a red flag many recognize. Something I noticed replacing that trope, is calling something a community. Everything is called a community these days, which makes it harder to recognize real communities.