Ton Zijlstra 🇪🇺 @ton@m.tzyl.nl

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As of our last all hands meeting we have moved our company to using NextCloud on a server in a German data center. This is the second major step in improving on our information hygiene in the company, after adopting RocketChat and leaving Slack.
I had created the cloud already last May, but we had not transitioned everyone in the company and all our work. That transition has now been made.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/moved-the-company-to-nextcloud/

#infosec #thegreenland

A vulnerability in Citrix software is causing traffic jams in Netherlands: with remote access to gov Ministries shut down, all their ppl have to come into the office this morning.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/citrix-traffic-jams/

#citrix #traffic

Prompted by @laura / @laurakalbag post "I don't track you", I looked at what I need to do about embedded content to make that a true statement for my own blog.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/i-dont-track-you-here-but-others-might/

#beacons #cookies #trackers #tracking

(Onderzoeks)journalisten schrijf je in voor datajournalistiek progr Data als Kans april-mei met @beeldengeluid @bellingcat @localfocusnl https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/kennis/data-als-kans Want ik wil veel meer journalistiek en veel minder nieuws

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/datajournalistiek-training-data-als-kans/

#datajournalistiek

I have updated my blogroll / OPML file, as linked to in the right hand sidebar.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/12376/

#blogroll #opml #rss

Made a small php snippet that gives E the day number of today, which she uses to number some of her postings. Even if it basically is just a single php date function , it is somehow very satisfying to create these tiny tools (like the earlier one creating the right html encoding for that code snippet).

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/12372/

#php #snippet

Morgen 10 januari is het Publiek Domein Dag. Kom ook naar http://publiekdomeindag.nl/ biij @beeldengeluid Meld je aan!

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/publiek-domein-dag-2020/

#eye #nibg #openculture #opennederland #pdd #publicdomainday #publicdomain

The first week of 2020 was one of vacationing. We left Tuesday morning for Switzerland visiting dear friends for New Year's Eve, and spending a few relaxed days. Three former roommates live there, and we all go back 30 years. We returned home on Saturday. I did some invoicing and prepared a laptop for our new colleague who starts coming Monday. We removed the Christmas tree from the living room, and it's now in the garde

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/week-notes-2001/

#weeknotes

The new Depot of the Boymans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam is becoming an amazing building.
I visited the ThingsCon conference recently in the Nieuwe Instituut across the road from the building site of the depot. Walking towards it I saw the entire Rotterdam skyline with high rises reflected in the building. They've only recently added the mirrors to the facade. In the end, the building will have trees o

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/12/new-boymans-depot/

#boymans #rotterdam

This image to me says much about the Netherlands. Taken while strolling through Amersfoort city center December 27th, Lieve Vrouwestraat 4.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/12/nl_in_one_image/

Noticing some very odd behaviour on my WordPress blog. I use the Mastodon Autopost plugin, and I use the Category Excluder plugin. I have one category that only publishes to RSS. To post something to Mastodon I must check a box in my edit screen. Yet if I publish something to the RSS only category, it also ends up on Mastodon, despite the checkbox not being selected. (I'm marking this posting both for that RSS only category and Mas

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/12/12064/

#mastodon

The final full week of the year. I didn't work (although not entirely). Most other people had time off as well, judging by the extremely low number of e-mails in the past few days. Still, I

Wrote my end-of-year Tadaa posting
Spent Christmas with E's parents, to Y's delight
Looked at next year's plans, and Q1's planning, efforts and goals
Cleared my desk, fulfilling the one good intention I hadn't gotten aroun

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/12/week-notes-1952/

#weeknotes