Ton Zijlstra 🇪🇺 @ton@m.tzyl.nl

RT @bitsoffreedom@twitter.com

Waar de overheid vervalt in het gebruik van gegevens van grote techbedrijven die op onrechtmatige wijze zijn verzameld, legitimeert zij de massasurveillance van haar burgers en vergroot zij de afhankelijkheid van big tech.

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2020/04/03/google-grijpt-crisis-aan-om-massasurveillance-te-legitimeren/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bitsoffreedom/status/1246086294876442625

I'm now at the point where, if I see a link to an article on Medium, I go 'mmm, yeah, maybe not'. Even if the summary makes it look like an otherwise interesting article.

It's because of Medium's aggressive paywalling; I'm now locked out from reading Medium articles. Also, I now realise that the point of using Medium is just to make money, so it's a clickbait flag.

Just in case anyone is thinking that using Medium makes your article more likely to be read. For me, it does the exact opposite.

This is Toby he is now working from home... #COVID19 #memes

Remember when Amazon first launched and started putting bookstores out of business? People would look at books at a physical bookstore and then choose to buy the book through Amazon instead.

I realized I've started kind of doing the opposite. I check out reviews on Amazon and then I buy the product either directly from the manufacturer or from a more ethical retail site (shout out to London Drugs if you're Canadian).

How's it feel, Amazon?

Woensdagavond 20:00 bespreken o.a. @marleenstikker@twitter.com, @pietervboheemen@twitter.com (digitaal) de rol van van maker movement tijdens de #CoronaCrisis. Kijk hier hoe je hier aan mee kunt doen.

https://waag.org/nl/event/waag-talks-diy-maker-initiatieven-tijden-van-corona

@ton @sl007 here is a nice notes collection https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2020-03-18_Selfhosting_Jitsi by @kensanata

It's a basic idea but... this morning I made a list of all the things that were making me feel stressed out, shared it with my wife and we talked them through.

It was useful! Recommended, if you can do something similar 👍

@djoerd This is the same company that makes diabetes tests strips for over €1 each. I use four of them per day. This is costing the society serious money; and knock-off strips can be found, but there's chips in them and the meter (they send them to you for free) will reject those.

There's a shortage of COVID-19 tests in the Netherlands because:
1. One company #Roche has a (near) monopoly on the testing machines;
2. The machines need accessories of that company that have secret/patented ingredients.

Sounds a lot like the inkjet printer we have at home. Vendor lock-in should be illegal!

See the FTM article (in Dutch)

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/roche-corona-lysisbuffer

Just what we need during the Corona lock-down: Jitsi. Free open-source video conferencing for web & mobile. Make a call, launch on your own servers in minutes (via @arjen)

https://jitsi.org/

@cypnk In ham radio there's this annual event called Field Day where people practice setting up radio communication in an emergency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Day_%28amateur_radio%29

It'd be cool if there were something similar for practicing setting up emergency internet connectivity -- a WNDW field day.