Archive for 2025

Our servers consume a lot of electricity. For this we of course use 100% green energy. We don't buy this electricity directly, but this energy is supplied by our data centres. We do validate their energy sources, as well as request Green certificates/GvOs from them. This should mean we do not emit CO₂, right?

Well, even though we are using 'green' energy, the energy coming out of the wall socket is always a mix of green and grey energy. It only becomes 100% green through certificates (GvOs). We wrote a lengthy article about this: sjoemel stroom. So even if on paper it’s green, that doesn't...

For many, many years, we have been ambivalent regarding our presence on social media in general, and Facebook and X/Twitter in particular.

Already back in 2010, we wrote a (Dutch) blogpost on whether or not to quit Facebook, and in 2015 we joined a large global initiative asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop his internet.org scheme. Since then, things only got worse.

Although social media are undeniably a very powerful tool in community building, we now feel the abuse of power and the tone of voice on X/Twitter, and the endless list of privacy concerns with Facebook far outweigh any benefits, and...