Clearview AI Dutch Fine and the Problem of Globalization On the 4th September 2024 came the news that Clearview AI faces a 30.5M ($33.7M) fine for building a Facial Recognition Database. So Clearview AI is located in the USA and the fining organization is t...
The importance of Open Source for Education In this article we will try to explain why Open Source is important for Education both IT and generic, and how we try to achieve that by building an international network. First, we have to start with...
AI and the Risk of Data Leakage and mitigation with FOSS The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has recently received several reports of data leaks because employees shared personal data of, for example, patients or customers with a chatbot that uses arti...
Free and Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs) should be the basis for the future of AI The AI hype is undeniably happening right now. Everywhere you look online, you see AI this and AI that. A couple of blogs ago, we wrote about AI, and the introduction is still relevant It seems not mo...
Choosing a programming language, and what's makes them Green? How do you choose a programming language? When I tell people that I am proficient in more than 20 programming languages, they are sometimes shocked. Of course, I have languages I use more often than o...
Verifiable Credentials at OpenSource Science A couple of weeks ago, the board of OpenSource Science decided to implement OpenBadges in the credential system of the institute. While fulfilling courses and upload source code to their GitHub repo...
Why Linux is more secure than Windows and/or Mac OSX The Crowdstrike / Windows 10 worldwide crash of last week has again shown the impact that big software failures have on society in general and the economy in specific. As an advocate of free and open ...
Smartphone Freedom of Choice When speaking about Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS), one of the core freedoms, is the freedom of choice. When looking at computer systems, the change is really happening with Linux becoming more...
Generative AI and Education It seems not more than logical, that we in our blog also give some attention to Generative AI, right? As AI being this nice bling bling 'new' technology invented by 'OpenAI'. Yeah, right. When I was d...
FOSS guidelines In our blog, we often write about actual topics from the FOSS world. While, participating in Free and Open Source Projects is a bit dependent on the type of project (company - community) or the manage...
Partnering Up OpenSource Science B.V. Was founded in 2022 to improve the global sustainability of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). In order to achieve this OS-SCi created a 4 year program in Open Source techno...
Why Green Software should be FOSS A couple of months ago, I witnessed the launch of the Green Software foundation in The Netherlands. While attending the meeting, I was slightly disappointed about two things: It was organized by a pro...