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@robmcminn.uk I watch mainly for the drone shots of brighton If they would make the full hour just of those, it would improve it :D

Tomas Rees Apr 29, 2025

LibreOffice Apr 29, 2025

Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/

Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - TDF Community Blog

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format (and the default used in LibreOffice). The German IT Planning Council is a 17-member committee consisting of representatives of Germany’s federal government and the state governments. They say: Open formats and open interfaces are an important building block for the necessary transformation process of public administration in Germany on the path to greater digital sovereignty and innovation. The IT Planning Council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly used in public administration and become the standard for document exchange by 2027. It is commissioning the Standardization Board to implement this. More information (in German) on this page. Also see the updates from Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice.

TDF Community Blog

Tomas Rees Apr 27, 2025

The tragic story of another undocumented migrant @garius https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot

She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home

The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern

Tomas Rees Apr 17, 2025

A great exposition of the current economic problems of the USA. Spurred by government policies, the US has engaged in a consumption binge fuelled by cheap foreign borrowing rather than productive investment. https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/tariffs-saving-and-investment

Tariffs, saving, and investment

I haven’t written much about tariffs, because so many other economists are doing such a great job.

The Grumpy Economist

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Tomas Rees Apr 4, 2025

@newsthump great stuff. what was the dad's army one? Is that on a mug too?

Tomas Rees Apr 4, 2025

NewsThump Apr 4, 2025

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The Turd Reich Mug

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Tomas Rees Apr 4, 2025

@hvangalen perhaps gocardless. Or Worldpay.

Tomas Rees Apr 4, 2025

Jon S. von Tetzchner Apr 4, 2025

31 years ago, Geir Ivarsøy and I started working on the Opera browser. A year later we founded Opera Software.

At Opera we wrote all our own code from scratch.

In 2011 I left Opera due to disagreement with investors about the direction Opera was heading.

Two years later, I co-founded Vivaldi to build a browser for you.

So I have been building browsers for 31 years. I think I know what it takes to build a browser.

Our Vivaldi team is for the most part in Norway and Iceland with a few people distributed around Europe and a couple of business people in the US.

Vivaldi is available for your computer and your phone, unless you have a very specific setup. Vivaldi might even be available for your car as well.

We go out of our way to provide you with a browser that matches your needs. I hope you like it.

#Vivaldi #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #ios #Computer #Mobile

Tomas Rees Apr 4, 2025

Janel Comeau Apr 3, 2025

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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Tomas Rees Apr 3, 2025

@jottacloud thanks! I need to be angle to work with filters on either of two computers (or my phone), like with synch, but only store locally the files or folders in working on at the time. It's because I have a large photo library. I like jotta cloud because of its photo timeline feature. I'll do the supportv team an email