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WICCA 🇳🇱 and Unixerius are very happy to announce the return of the WICCA Summer School!

In this one-day class we will cover the fundamentals of Git, useful for just about any role in IT!

July 17th 2025 from 09:00-16:00 at MAC3Park in Almere Buiten, The Netherlands!

https://www.meetup.com/wiccanl/events/308582238/

Let's have a Nix meet-up in the Netherlands again!

We'll meet Thursday the 26th at the ProcoliX office in Dordrecht (near Rotterdam) and have two speakers:

* @kiara will talk about the @fediversity project
* @aequitas will talk about how Nix is used in the @basisbeveiliging project

After that there will be plenty of time to socialize with other Nix folks.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixnl-meetup-dordrecht-2025-06-26/65544

#NixOS #Nix #ProcoliX #Fediversity #Basisbeveiliging #Meetup #Dordrecht

🌟 Exciting News in Digital Freedom! 🌟

Starting next month, Denmark's Minister of Digitization, Caroline Stage, plans to phase out Microsoft and other tech giants' programs within her ministry. This bold move aims to reduce reliance on U.S.-based tech companies and embrace open-source alternatives.

Half of the ministry's employees will transition to a new computer system, replacing Windows with open-source solutions. Specifically, they will adopt LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite, as an alternative to Microsoft's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

"I want to take the lead and try it out. When the opportunity presented itself, it would be crazy not to seize it. I am very much looking forward to seeing how it works in practice," says Minister Stage.

This initiative aligns with Denmark's broader strategy to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on large tech corporations. The goal is for the entire ministry to be free of Microsoft by the fall. However, if the transition faces significant challenges, there is flexibility to revert temporarily.

The push for digital sovereignty is gaining momentum, especially in light of current global dynamics and concerns over data protection. Political parties like the Red-Green Alliance and the Alternative have also voiced support for reducing ties with American tech giants.

Let's celebrate this shift towards freedom, collaboration, and innovation in the tech landscape! 🎉

🔗 report: https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/politik/digitaliseringsminister-vil-udfase-microsoft-i-sit-eget-ministerium/5616096

#DigitalFreedom #OpenSource #LibreOffice #DenmarkLeads #TechInnovation #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #FreedomAndCollaboration #DigitalizationMinistry #OpenSource #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #FuckTechBros #LinuxLove #LibreOffice #FuckMicrosoft #FuckTechBros #danskertrut #linux #libreoffice #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #digitalizationministry #fuckmicrosoft

I’m trying to imagine this happening in Germany or, yet more implausible, in the Netherlands. And yet it has to happen. Soon.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ks244q2qaqc5r3u5uftv4rbj/post/3lr5sktrytc2g

Trump scraps Biden software security, AI, post-quantum encryption efforts in new executive order https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/trump-cybersecurity-executive-order-eliminate-biden-programs/750119/

@radieschen I would expect it worked across Android work profiles

Great research started by Güneş Acar in our research group: Meta abused a loophole in Android to surreptitiously track users, violating Google's terms of service. See news article in Dutch https://nos.nl/artikel/2569805-onderzoekers-facebook-en-instagram-gebruikten-spionagetrucje-op-android-smartphones or English https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers, or all the technical details in https://localmess.github.io/

💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.

Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could:
✔️End vendor lock-in cycles
✔️Strengthen data sovereignty
✔️Create local tech jobs
✔️Support FLOSS innovation

XWiki, CryptPad and other open-source solutions prove alternatives exist, they just need proper funding.
Read more : https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governments-should-invest-in-open-source/

#OpenSource #FLOSS #oss @ueeu #tech #technology

Follow-up article on thinking about digital autonomy https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/04/21/securing-europes-digital-orchard-rethinking-our-critical-dependencies/

Great map by @jurgentje at https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/map.html showing that municipalities in Benelux rely on Microsoft or Google for email much more than in France or Germany

More info in Jurgen's blogpost https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies and his interview on the situation in Brussels https://www.bruzz.be/actua/column/data-analist-brussel-te-sterk-afhankelijk-van-microsoft-en-google-2025-03-19

There will be on-premise MS Outlook behind some - many? most? - of the blue and green, so dependency on Microsoft will be higher than these colors suggest

Another successful edition of the CTC organised by https://challengethecyber.nl with 145 students testing their hacking skills. The top scorers go on to the Cyberbootcamp in July where the final selection for TeamNL for the European ECSC will be decided

April 28 the 3rd edition of the AFFECT.nl "fuzzing" workshop - on automated finding, fixing or exploiting of software vulnerabilities - will be held at the Radboud University. Programme & (free) registration at https://www.cs.ru.nl/affect.nl

It's my great pleasure to announce that the sixth Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy (ISP 2025) will take place July 6 - 11, 2025, at hotel Erica, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands. This year's topic: Digitalization of the Public Sector: Risks, Rights, and Resistance. Registration is now open!

https://isp.cs.ru.nl

Linux gebruiker of er in geïnteresseerd (om het te worden) en woonachtig in de regio Nijmegen?

Neem dan eens ene kijkje bij linux gebruikersgroep Nijmegen ! 💡

De eerstvolgende bijeenkomst in Nijmegen (de 151e al weer) is al op dinsdag 11 maart a.s..

Voor meer informatie: https://linuxnijmegen.nl/

#linux #foss #linuxgebruiker #nijmegen #LUGN

Building Security In is going well

#Kommentare #diskussion #Diskussionskultur #streit #streitschlichtung #schwarzweiss #comic #cartoon #funny #ohneworte

@Frederik_Borgesius For a creative first (and only!) sentence hard to beat "Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown" by JG Ballard. Not a real academic paper but a fictional short story masquerading as one, but maybe in the post-truth era that's no longer a meaningful distinction anyway.

There will be another LangSec workshop at IEEE S&P in May. Deadline for submissions: January 20. See https://langsec.org/spw25

@marleenstikker

Bij deze vast wat slides. Sterk verhaal van @bjacobs!