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Tinkering with cloud and opensource technologies...

Souvereignty: the first steps

2026-04-02 3 min read Souvereignty Bas Van De Sande
The 1984 Apple commercial is legendary! A young girl throws a hammer into a screen, breaking the control of corporate power. When I started writing this blog about sovereignty, that image popped into my head. Sovereignty, or digital sovereignty, is a term we hear a lot these days. What does it actually mean? And why is everyone talking about it? At first, I thought it was just about making sure personal data doesn’t fall under the US Cloud Act, which allows the US government to access it. Continue reading

Revamping my blog in a changing world

2026-03-28 3 min read General Bas Van De Sande
The world we live in is changing at a rapid pace. Not only technologically, but also geopolitically. As a kid, I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s — a time when tensions between the West and the East were high, with both sides threatening to obliterate each other using nuclear missiles. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, East and West found more common ground, and the fear of mutual destruction began to fade. Continue reading