Helma

122 days left ... then Google will restrict which apps you can use on your Android smartphone.

"After the update lands, you can only run software that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for. Then the company that made your device gets to decide, after you've bought it, what software you're allowed to run. "

Sign the petition against this:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage
and stay in control of your own device.

Read more:
https://keepandroidopen.org/nl/

So, last week I was at the birthday of my aunt Mina (named after queen Wilhelmina, like me) with my mother of 83. Mina turned 90. Still as sharp as a knife and eloquelent in her way. I loved that afternoon, even while sitting indoors.
The wit, the curiosity in people of now. Amazing. #Elderly #CelebrateLife #Uithuizen #Grunn
Travelled by train ... Northern Groningen in spring be like:

Het houdt niet op.

"Om vergelijkbare redenen ziet het College voor de Rechten van de Mens ook grote bezwaren tegen de wet, schreven zij vorig jaar in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer. Het college vindt dat het plan ‘aanzienlijke grondrechtelijke risico’s’ met zich meebrengt. Dat gaat dan vooral om ‘het recht op privacy, vrijheid van meningsuiting, demonstratievrijheid en non-discriminatie.’"

#massasurveillance
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/burgers-zonder-verdenking-online-in-de-gaten-houden-hard-nodig-vindt-dit-kabinet~b26b3b7e/

Worth your time. 👇

"In a time of energy shortage and, as noted, climate challenges, we have to accept that the world is going ALL IN on massive AI data centers that slurp up our water and emit vast amounts of CO₂ and gigawatts of heat. (...)

Meanwhile, a total lunatic is in charge of the US nuclear arsenal, and he starts random wars with no plan, and there is zero indication that the military or courts or congress are inclined to stop him in any way.

#Haywire

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/

If you get lucky, you happen to be in Venice while Festa di San Marco and encounter the doge.
The rose is called 'boccolo' and on that day you give it to the one you love. ❤️
#Venezia #Venice

@wlaatje@social.edu.nl It is not just digital erasing of villages ... Israels is destroying them.
@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social

RE: @DeGroene@social.groene.nl

Hoeveel dieper kun je als land nog zinken?

#Klimaat

In het afgelopen jaar is Nederland geconfronteerd met meerdere, grote datalekken. Maar, welke schade veroorzaakt een datalek? En hoe groot is groot? Hoe erg is het? En hoe kun je als organisatie de impact kunt beperken?

#Privacy #Onderwijs

https://communities.surf.nl/privacy/artikel/verklein-de-impact-van-een-datalek/