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Articles, notes, and project documentationThis section contains official time-sensitive messages from ASK-Solutions. Here we publish, for example, service notices, changes in our availability and practical organisational changes that may be relevant to those involved with the foundation.
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Articles about external developments in technology, policy, repair, and digital rights — with our context and practical implications. This includes opinion pieces and explainers that help readers make better-informed choices.
Updates from ASK-Solutions. This includes service notices, changes in availability and other time-sensitive announcements from the foundation.
Project notes and technical documentation around concrete work. Here we share smaller project-related articles, build logs, experiments, repairs, design notes and technical solutions that help others learn, replicate, repair and improve.
Below you’ll find our latest and recently updated articles, ranging from short updates to longer technical write-ups and project notes.
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.
Below you’ll find our latest announcements, with new items appearing here as they are published.
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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