These days, mostly microblogging from https://bsky.app/profile/charlbotha.com
From mastodon, you can follow my slightly more active BlueSky account above via the bridge: @charlbotha.com
If you don't like blue sky or bridges, you can also just connect right here @cpbotha
See https://mastodon.social/@cpbotha/113340325817581254 for why I moved
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This week, the government announced an additional cut of roughly 300 million euros, primarily impacting the Dutch Research Council (NWO), that finances most research done at Dutch universities.
Given this government’s xenophobic and destructive stance, it’s uncertain whether any petition—especially one initiated abroad—will sway their decisions. Nevertheless, it could boost morale here and reinforce the will to resist.
Please add your name to the petition!
https://www.change.org/p/stop-cuts-on-dutch-higher-education
TIL how to setup #OpenPGP 's "WKD as a service" so that correspondents can easily and automatically retrieve your #PGP public keys to send you encrypted email
blog: https://vxlabs.com/2024/10/24/openpgp-wkd-for-easy-pgp-key-discovery/
thanks @stefanv + fmalan for the pleasant chaos figuring this out
Web Key Directory (WKD) “is a standard for discovery of OpenPGP keys by email address, via the domain of its email provider”. In short, through some DNS and files-on-your-webserver conventions, some email clients (e.g. Thunderbird or ProtonMail) and tools like GnuPG are able to retrieve your PGP keys automatically. This is of course super convenient and desirable for your correspondents, because PGP encryption is hard enough as it is. OpenPGP makes this even better by offering “WKD as a service”, which means you only have to do the DNS bits, and not the files-on-your-webserver bits.
@DrVeronikaCH moderator van je uni instance, very cool!
Ik ben zelf stiekem-niet-zo-stiekem ook bij bluesky aan het kijken.
@DrVeronikaCH dankjewel!
(weet niet op je gezien hebt: "mijn" mastodon instance emacs.ch stopt ermee eind dit jaar, vandaar dat ik dit nieuw account heb aangemaakt op mastodon.social. vind het iig fijn om vanaf hier ook weer mutuals te zijn ;) )
Marc van Oostendorp
