Ton Zijlstra 🇪🇺 @ton@m.tzyl.nl

Brilliant to see this — nhs.uk’s APIs are now powering digital services for 1,000 organisations! Well done team! So much fun to see the ecosystem growing.

#interoperability #techVision

RT @NHSDigital@twitter.com We have now reached over 1000 organisations using NHS.UK’s developer portal to access content to power their digital products! Find out more about available products for all levels of technical ability at https://developer.api.nhs.uk

my company (MNT) is looking for office/production space in berlin, around 50sqm. preferably kreuzberg or mitte. we’ll be working on open (libre) hardware and software with a team of three. if you hear sth, please write to lukas@mntmn.com. 🙏

Australia just made Man-In-The-Middle attacks required by law. They call it "the ghost" and every #encryption connection has to be open to the government.

Good luck with that.

#eff

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next

Nieuwe copyright-onderhandelingsdocumenten: meer woorden, maar niet meer oplossingen

Blog van Europarlementariër Julia Reda | Oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd op 26 november 2018 | Vertaling door Wietze Brandsma | #SaveYourInternet

https://piratenpartij.nl/nieuwe-copyright-onderhandelingsdocumenten-meer-woorden-maar-niet-meer-oplossingen/

Firefox extension to redirect AMP URLs to HTML https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

But the lifecycle pattern of sites that provide free content posting services to the general public keeps repeating itself:
1) service opens, is exciting/different in some way, reaches new audiences
2) popularity grows, audience widens
3) business scrambles to make advertising keep up with growing costs
4) sacrifices made to platform that hurt users/devs and help corporate advertisers
5) site closes

Many see services like facebook/twitter as permanent, but I just see them as another friendster/myspace.

So I wrote a thread on birdsite on the #Six4Three Facebook files confiscated and released by UK Parliament. Enjoy + feel free to RT the crap out of it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1070537560244580352

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Facebook

Uk Parliament publishes a cache of internal #facebook documents: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59vwez/nearly-250-pages-of-devastating-internal-facebook-documents-posted-online-by-uk-parliament

I find it odd that after 17 years of Wikipedia’s existence, its Mediawiki software is still so very crap in terms of usability, styling and adaptability. Having spent 4 days working on project documentation in Mediawiki in the past 2 weeks, I wonder how all Wikipedians learned to ignore the many hurdles their tool of […]

I’m a bit proud that Nextcloud is relevant enough to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Some people here don’t like privacy, freedom of speech, IT security or democracy.

Discovered Scotland's National Performance Framework last week: http://nationalperformance.gov.scot/ - 10 years of data tracking metrics beyond GDP including income inequality, carbon, pay gap, energy, biodiversity and mental wellbeing 🙌

┏┓
┃┃╱╲ In this
┃╱╱╲╲ house
╱╱╭╮╲╲ we use
▔▏┗┛▕▔ please & thank you
╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲
when speaking to voice assistants
╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲
▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

The Doug Engelbart Demo at 50

Next week it is 50 years ago that Doug Engelbart (1925-2013) and his team demonstrated all that has come to define interactive computing. Five decades on we still don’t have turned everything in that live demo into routine daily things. From the mouse, video conferencing, word processing, outlining, drag and drop, digital mind mapping, to […]

Sunset on Mars

hey! saturday the 8th of december we're organizing an event in #varia in #rotterdam about #mastodon and the #fediverse

https://varia.zone/en/mastodon-and-fediverse.html

We will dive into what the fediverse is, how it works, who is on there, who made it, what it means to host communities and how and where on can contribute.