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The accessibility checklist for academic conferences and events that I had a hand in producing now has its own proper address, not under my staff webspace:
https://accessible-events.ncl.ac.uk/
If you work at a university and you're planning any sort of gathering of people, please have a look at it. It contains practical advice about how to make sure people of all sorts are included and able to take part in your event.
Today we launched https://code.overheid.nl: the NL government-wide code platform 🥳🥳
Code.overheid.nl is a pilot in which we are going to test @forgejo; an open source and sovereign alternative to GitHub/GitLab.
This is an initiative of @BZKopensource, in collaboration with our friends from team DAWO (SSC-ICT), @opensource , @developer , and a number of participating government orgs. 🤝
@tomootes from developer.overheid wrote a nice piece about it: https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2026/04/24/we-gaan-samen-code-overheid-bouwen
I should write a python tool to do this, it is basic data science and no idea why we cannot have a drill to do this.
It is not as if we do it multiple times per year, every year....
oh wait...
As a user I want my big drill to automatically generate certain plots about my data, and statistics so I can package to a local drill in xlsx format...
Big Drill: only histograms and some statistics..
Me: Throws big drill in the bin.
Me: Turns to Locally Made drill, can I give you the data, and you can give me plots and statistics.
Locally Made drill: for some of your final data yes and not to you but your boss can get it later and they can share it with you...
Me: Throws locally made drill in the bin
Me: Turns to Office365 drill, can you do this for me;
Office365 Drill: yes but it will cost you...
Me sighs, cuts finger, draws pentagon and sigils, and chants...
That feeling when you realise you may have left your nice travel cutlery in the public work kitchenette.
I’ve not been in for a few days. Fingers crossed it is still there…I cannot find them anywhere at home…
Any academics I follow interested in moving to Europe? My department here in Maastricht, Netherlands, is hiring:
Associate Professor in System and Network Security, open until May 10, 2026
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Associate-Professor-in-System-and-Network-Security/1357701057/
Assistant Professor in Computer Systems, open until May 10, 2026
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Assistant-Professor-in-Computer-Systems/1357700157/
Both of these are for the equivalent of tenure-track, i.e. after a 18-month probationary period, you have a permanent contract.
I'm happy to tell anyone interested about the university, the department, the role, the city of Maastricht, or about moving to the Netherlands as an English-speaker.
Urgh. Why on earth do you want a battery powered system for a bin to make it ‘no touch’.
Pedal bins are just as good and repairable.
Shame though, it’s a nice looking bin….
The UK government has blanked the risks of US tech dependency for too long.
Our digital infrastructure is a strategic asset.
But that understanding is absent in how we hand out public sector contracts and allow UK tech sector sell-offs to foreign companies.
We must shift the dial.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-digital-sovereignty-and-the-digital-commons/
#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol
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