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ASK-Solutions is a non-profit foundation. The foundation has public-benefit objectives that arise from questions concerning knowledge, freedom, responsibility, human development, cooperation, and the relationship between people, organisations and society.
On this website you can find, among other things, our projects, articles and practical activities, information about working with us and taking part, and background on the subjects we work with. Some projects produce software, hardware or documentation, while others bring together people, knowledge and practical activities or explore a societal question.
For the full overview of our project lines, see Projects.
Nocterra is a general-purpose free-software CMS for building and managing websites over the long term. The project focuses on fast, accessible and maintainable websites that remain transferable, so that site owners can retain control over their content and technical environment over time.
The Owl’s Nest is a project built around a shareable work model in which people can make, repair, learn, share knowledge and take part in meaningful practical activities together. Operators give that model concrete form at their own locations.
WasteBug is a small free-software bug tracker used by ASK-Solutions in its own development work. The project also encompasses the preservation and restoration of the software and its history, after parts of the original source code and project information were lost over time.
Bōzuki is a phased free hardware and free software build project around an older Suzuki Swift, used as a lasting demonstration object for practical ownership, design, fabrication, electronics, documentation and technical learning. The project shows how far safe and responsible modification can go, while sharing patterns, designs, software and knowledge where possible.
Repair and Ownership is a project centred on the question of what ownership means in practice and how much control an owner should be able to retain over the use, maintenance, repair, modification and continued use of something. The project connects that question with Right to Repair and the broader Right to Ownership.
Bookkeeping is a free-software project developed by ASK-Solutions for its own financial, organisational and operational administration. It grew out of the need to manage those processes in a way that fits the foundation and remains under its own control.
These themes describe the common thread behind our work: shared knowledge, cooperation, social connection, learning and participation, practical freedom, repairability, privacy and self-reliance.
Read our latest and recently updated articles on technology, society and our own projects, alongside news and announcements from ASK-Solutions.
Multi-factor authentication is useful security, but it can become a privacy problem when companies collect more personal data than needed and treat security data as profile data.
Synology MailPlus Server 4.1.0-21778 contains two regressions affecting DKIM-only configurations: Rspamd is not started when only per-domain DKIM signing requires it, and changes to the DKIM signing Allow List do not regenerate the Rspamd signing network map. We analyse both problems and provide patches.
The Trump administration's effort to obtain phone records of New York Times journalists and relatives in the Air Force One leak investigation shows why source protection is not a professional perk, but a First Amendment safeguard.
A practical guide to preserving lawful digital collections across films, series, e-books, games, music and software, with attention to DRM, metadata, backups, physical media and account dependence.
Streaming made film and television easier to access, but not easier to own. Right to Ownership means that a lawfully acquired movie or series should not depend entirely on a platform, account, licence window or corporate content strategy.
ASK-Solutions works on free software, documentation, hosting, web service support, repair, digital autonomy and the sharing of practical technical knowledge. Much of this work happens online, or is documented in a way that can also be useful beyond Haarlem and the Netherlands.
Holiday greetings from ASK-Solutions for 2024, reflecting on a challenging year and why privacy, freedom, ownership and Right to Repair matter more than ever.
Our ISP is migrating to a new technology. During the next few days you may experience slightly reduced availability when contacting us.
A major power grid outage in Haarlem impacted our data center and internet links, causing partial downtime. We provide live updates as services are restored.
Holiday greetings from ASK-Solutions: thank you for your support in 2022. We’ll keep defending privacy and the right to repair in 2023, plus a New Year referral promotion.
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