On Tuesday May 14th ACCSS, NCSC and SURF will host a joint symposium on the topic of Cyber Security and Society. The main goal of the symposium is to bring together scientists from academia and practitioners from the government in order to exchange ideas and foster collaboration. In between the talks there will be opportunity to network.| accss
This is post was translated from Dutch using a locally run copy of the Mixtral LLM, using a very low-end GPU. I did some light editing here and there, but the translation is mostly fully automatic. The short version: organizations often hesitate for many years before outsourcing tasks, particularly in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology). During those years, valuable ICT employees leave because constantly justifying their own existence is frustrating.| Bert Hubert's writings
A 2024 plea for lean software| IEEE Spectrum
Over the past few years I’ve been writing a lot about innovation, and specifically, the lack thereof in Europe. I also touch on how we’ve outsourced a ton of operational capabilities, leaving us relatively helpless. By now this is such a huge amount of words, audio and video that it is in dire need of a summary, if only to see if it makes any kind of sense taken together.| Bert Hubert's writings