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Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

It's FOSS

Geoff Simmons 3d ago

Tom Gauld 3d ago

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Geoff Simmons 5d ago

Landeshauptstadt Mainz Dec 3

Liebe Community, ihr habt uns überzeugt: Die Stadt Mainz bleibt auf Mastodon. Für die vielen, konstruktiven Reaktionen vielen Dank! Offen gesagt: Wir haben nicht damit gerechnet. Denn wir hatten in den letzten Jahren hier wenig Resonanz erfahren. Daher wollten wir uns auf die Plattformen konzentrieren, auf denen wir zigmal mehr Follower und Reaktionen haben. Ihr macht uns jetzt Mut, dass Mastodon lebt. Lasst uns hier geMAINZam austauschen: lebendig, vielfältig, solidarisch. 🙂

Geoff Simmons 6d ago

Pax 6d ago

Exactly 30 years ago today, Netscape and Sun announced JavaScript.

Originally called LiveScript, the language was renamed to JavaScript, ensuring that everyone in the industry would be thoroughly confused about its relation to Java for the next three decades.

A decision made by the marketing guys, of course, since Java was hot at the time and Sun was on board.

The original announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

#javascript #netscape #sunmicrosystems #java

Press Release

Geoff Simmons Nov 26

Sophie Schmieg Nov 26

Unicode normalization.

Geoff Simmons Nov 26

David Revoy Nov 26

The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Geoff Simmons Nov 26

Infrapink (he/his/him)Nov 9

I love how far good programmers will go for the sake of a joke.

https://tabloid.vercel.app/

Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.

Geoff Simmons Nov 25

Randahl Fink Nov 25

Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:

1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.

Geoff Simmons Nov 22

Tom Forsyth Nov 21

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.