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Here's more information on Germany using the Open Document Format (ODF) in its "Deutschland-Stack", rather than Microsoft's file formats: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/

BIG NEWS: Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory - TDF Community Blog

The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but highly significant line. Under the technological pillar “Semantic technologies and real-time analysis”, the document mandates the use of just two document formats: ODF and PDF/UA. That is all. Two open, vendor-neutral formats, defined by international standardisation bodies. OOXML, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary format, is not on the list. What is the Deutschland-Stack? The Deutschland-Stack is the German federal government’s project for a sovereign, interoperable digital infrastructure that complies with European standards. It is neither a pilot project nor a policy discussion paper, but the result of a coordinated decision between the Digital Minister, the Federal Chancellery and the Chancellor, backed by the coalition agreement. The document sets out the standards that will govern how all federal public administrations, at all levels, build, procure and manage their digital systems, and envisages concrete implementation by 2028. It is worth reading its architectural principles carefully. “Made in the EU first.” Reduction of lock-in effects.

TDF Community Blog

Pernille Strande Mar 11

Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 11

RSE Investigates: The history of Scots and English in 10 objects

What can objects tell us about the history of our languages?
Prof Jeremy Smith uncovers the unique stories & histories of English & Scots through ten extraordinary objects: a bone, a piece of jewellery, a stone cross, a jug, two manuscripts, two letters, a broadside sheet, & an early printed book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8MEEn47TRc

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #languagehistory

The history of Scots and English in 10 objects | RSE Investigates

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Pernille Strande Mar 8

Open Culture (Official)Mar 8

How the Brilliant Colors of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made with Alchemy

https://www.openculture.com/2018/02/how-the-brilliant-colors-of-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-were-made-with-alchemy.html

How the Brilliant Colors of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made with Alchemy

Today the word 'alchemy' seems used primarily to label a variety of crackpot pursuits, with their bogus premises and impossible promises.

Open Culture

Pernille Strande Mar 5

Cleo Menezes Jr. 🌵Mar 5

Hot take: #opensource projects MUST stop being hosted in USA.

Pernille Strande Mar 1

Gemma 👽Dec 26, 2023

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

Pernille Strande Feb 24

Locus Magazine Feb 24

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Pernille Strande Feb 22

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Feb 22

A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots

4/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

Willie Neill

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Pernille Strande Feb 21

A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC Feb 21

If you've recently left school are are about 6 months into your first adult job... and are wondering if this is really all there is to your life now.

The answer is NO!

You've also got back pain to look forward too.

Pernille Strande Feb 21

kottke.org Feb 20

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. https://dialed.gg/

Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors?

We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think. Play free at dialed.gg.

Dialed

Pernille Strande Feb 21

Liana Brooks Feb 21

If you are writing contemporary fiction you can make sure things like sunrise times and the phases of the moon are accurate. You can do a quick Google search (add -ai to keep from getting a wrong answer from AI) and you can find calendars with those details.

#LianaEdits #AmWriting #Writing