jospoortvliet

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Jos Poortvliet is co-founder and Communications Director at Nextcloud, the open source, privacy-focused collaboration software company. He is a long time technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. He has previously been community manager at SUSE & worked as business consultant at government, finance and telecom companies in the Netherlands.

He is based in Berlin and loves cooking for friends, family and colleagues. Is also nurturing a bit of a boot 🥾 and hat 🎩 obsession.

Websitehttp://www.jospoortvliet.com
Bloghttp://blog.jospoortvliet.com
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.

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So we're launching Nextcloud Hub 10 today! There's our launch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkGd_pNuYww

And you can read our full blog with details here: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub10/

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 10: your unified, modular digital workspace!

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#EndofWindows10 🖥️ is happening. #10isEnough, #UpgradetoFreedom today! #openSUSE #Linux has your back. #Privacy #Security Listen to first impressions of our regular release. https://youtu.be/ujUvkAJ6Mnc?si=z8-54LFI1NLCFgdC
OpenSuse 15.6 Leap | My First time impressions of it

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"In Ukraine, about Ukraine, with Ukraine," - President of the European Council António Costa.

Trump is taking on European digital regulations and privacy laws!

Last Friday, the U.S. published “Defending American Companies and Innovators From Overseas Extortion and Unfair Fines and Penalties”, going after EU regulation that restrict Big Tech.

This is a straight up attack on EU's digital sovereignty. I guess in the vision of the US, Europe should also become a kleptocratic swamp controlled by a few big tech billionaires.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/defending-american-companies-and-innovators-from-overseas-extortion-and-unfair-fines-and-penalties/

Please share and be aware!

Defending American Companies and Innovators From Overseas Extortion and Unfair Fines and Penalties

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY      THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE      THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

The White House

Bert Hubert has been on the vanguard of hashtag#digitalsovereignty developments in the hashtag#Netherlands lately, with his Radio Kootwijk initiative getting a lot of attention in Dutch parliament. As former adviser to the Dutch secret services, he knows a thing of two about securing the state. In the post below, he explains the glaring deficiencies in current digital policy with surgical precision and backed by mind blowing examples.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.

Bert Hubert's writings
Uit Binnenlands Bestuur "Vastgeplakt aan Microsoft" (https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/editie/binnenlands-bestuur-03-2025) . 9% van de lokale overheden acht een overstap weg van Microsoft mogelijk. Laten we de voorlopers bij de hand nemen dan volgt de rest hopelijk daarna!
Binnenlands Bestuur 03-2025 | Binnenlands Bestuur

* Interview met Teun Heldens, beste bestuurder van een kleine gemeente * Beste Bestuurder 2024 Femke Halsema: 'De eer is voor de handhavers' * Onderzoek: vastgeplakt aan Microsoft * Essay: Decentralisatie, was dat wel een topidee? * Sociale uitgeven de hoogte in, ook over de grens * Mindere burgers arrangeren: 'Kijk uit met Oránisering van staatsrecht' * Wajong: blinde vlek op blinde vlek * Wachten op de nieuwe warmtewet * Zeist verkennen in snelkookpantempo

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗜 💕 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆!

Our 30th episode of the #softwarefreedom podcast is dedicated to the #ilovefs day !

Thank you to the @appfair for participating in the special episode <3

In this episode @annabonnie and Marc Prud'hommeaux discuss the #DMA and how it levelled the playing field for #FreeSoftware Apps on iOS

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-30.en.html

SFP#30: App Fair Project with Marc Prud'hommeaux - FSFE

At FOSDEM, Bonnie Mehring and Marc Prud'hommeaux met to talk about Marc's Free Software initiative, the App Fair Project. This project is a marketplace for...

FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe

Less red tape, more business!

Needless admin holds back innovation and jobs – and hampers our policy objectives, too.

That’s why, aligning with the EU Competitiveness Compass, we will propose cutting needless rules and administrative burdens for companies. ↓

Today, our team is recording for the upcoming #Nextcloud Hub 10 release! This is a big one, challenging the narrative of big tech that "there is no alternative" to their solutions. There is - and it is available now, actually respects privacy regulation and avoids the massive vendor lock-in that many organizations and people are suffering from.