A new PNG spec (programmax.net)

It would make sense for the governments to fund a team of developers to maintain and upgrade the euro-gov version these products. Keep them open source, but have dedicated software developers working for the gov to maintain and improve them. This will still be far cheaper than enterprise licenses.

dmazin · 3h ago

I respect digital sovereignty but I'm also giggling at the shock the non-nerds are going to have at Linux desktop/the tech support hassles for the IT teams.

DanielHB · 2h ago

Windows is so bad these days I actually expect this kind of problem to go down.

Literally half the reason everyone complains their computers are not working is because of IT putting random crapware monitoring/security software on managed windows devices. Go away with windows the crapware goes away too and users have less problems.

And that is just on top of the normal windows 11 crapware and bad UX.

wqaatwt · 1h ago

There will be full of crapware available if enterprise starts adopting Linux on a wide scale.

e.g. Crowdstrike is already there.

graemep · 2h ago

There will be s short term transition issue, but once Linux is installed and people have got used to it it should have fewer hassles.

I have been told its harder to manage config at scale but have not experience of it, and there are products that claim to do it.

Most non-nerds barely notice the desktop. its just a launcher for the handful of applications they use.

taneliv · 3h ago

Ho hum. Does this create demand for integrations/distributions/new software geared towards government and state/municipal employees across Europe?

I suppose this space is already well catered by large multinational consultancies?

112233 · 2h ago

The depth it is possible to dig oneself into a dolgostroy with OSS is unlimited. OTOH, if governed properly, it gives an option to actually solve the problems that you face.

With Microsoft and other corps you are in an abusive domestic relationship with a nacissistic sociopath.

Agree on the initial confusion, but, I do not think the forced upgrade to W11 went unnoticed, either

ChrisArchitect · 39m ago

[dupe]

Denmark Is Switching to Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346120

Previously:

The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234552

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255352

cyberwaj · 3h ago

Is thing a thing now in government offices? just read the same about the city of Lyon at https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/business/19813/lyon-drops-m...

gabrielgio · 3h ago

There is movement across different European countries to move FOSS in a attempt to achieve some digital sovereignty.

A new PNG spec (programmax.net)

Gemini CLI (blog.google)

Is Lovable getting monetization wrong? (getlago.substack.com)

OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter (george.mand.is)

Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024) (nber.org)

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux (shkspr.mobi)

Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet (research.roundtable.ai)

How to Write Compelling Release Announcements (refactoringenglish.com)

Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits (theguardian.com)

Introducing Qodo Gen CLI: Build and Run Coding Agents Anywhere in the SDLC (qodo.ai)

Microsoft Edit (github.com)

How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! [video] (2021) (infoq.com)

Yarn (YC W24) is hiring engineers in NYC (ycombinator.com)

Thnickels (thick-coins.net)

NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD (bloomberg.com)

Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock (frame.work)

Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans (propublica.org)

Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”

Fun with uv and PEP 723 (cottongeeks.com)

Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video] (youtube.com)

Web Translator API (developer.mozilla.org)

A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni (eldalamberon.com)

The probability of a hash collision (2022) (kevingal.com)

Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay (cpsi.media)

ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry (bloomberg.com)

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts (theregister.com)

XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne (xbow.com)

CareerBuilder and Monster job boards, file for bankruptcy (reuters.com)

Managing time when time doesn't exist (multiverseemployeehandbook.com)

Ancient X11 scaling technology (flak.tedunangst.com)

Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading (docs.rs)

How to Think About Time in Programming (shanrauf.com)

Writing toy software is a joy (blog.jsbarretto.com)

HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz (theverge.com)

Playing First Contact in Eclipse, a 3-Day Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)

Canal Boat Simulator (jacobfilipp.com)

PicoEMP – A low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool (github.com)

How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack (blog.cloudflare.com)

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls (pewresearch.org)

Assembly Theory of Time (faculty.ucr.edu)

Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App (nickjanetakis.com)

Playing Doom in 2025, Or, Sculpture from Clay (rjp.io)

Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows (xtool.sh)

Fairphone 6: Nothing works without a screwdriver on the new fair smartphone (heise.de)

Mapping LLMs over excel saved my passion for game dev (danieltan.weblog.lol)

Show HN: Oasis – An open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium (github.com)

FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores (axios.com)

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods (plasticlist.org)

Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup (bloomberg.com)

Show HN: Windowfied

Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux

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