📚 The Dutch translation of 'Ada & Zangemann' is here! We have received boxes full of books 🤩

You want to have one? Pre-order your book now for @fosdem and come by at our booth in building K, Level 2 to pick it up: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260108-01.html

You want more stories 📖 about Ada? Come and step by at @nicorikken and @kirschner talk during FOSDEM in the main track on Sunday: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/

A big thank you to @nicorikken. ❤️ who made all of this possible <3

#FreeSoftware #books #Netherlands

RE: https://masto.ai/@euractiv/115979343444438391

@Gina can we get the inside scoop? Has your office been intensely busy since the DigiD buyout happened? Has the government been asking for advice or quickly been trying to find options? Will this situation spark a faster move to foss and digital autonomy/sovereignty, with stronger and broader support from elected officials?

#foss #netherlands

⚠️🇺🇦Death of seahorses reported on Black Sea coast in Odesa possibly due to Russia’s ecocide oil contamination (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-other_news/4085317-death-of-seahorses-reported-on-black-sea-coast-in-odesa.html #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #Cyprus #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Austria
#RussiaIsATerroristState

⚠️🇺🇦Death of seahorses reported on Black Sea coast in Odesa possibly due to Russia’s ecocide oil contamination (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-other_news/4085317-death-of-seahorses-reported-on-black-sea-coast-in-odesa.html #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #Cyprus #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Austria
#RussiaIsATerroristState

I am buying my first LoRa device.

Following the insightful buying guide by LocalMesh Netherlands, I am thinking I will go for LYLYGO T-Echo Plus. I would like to buy it from the official website, where it costs ~54€.

What do you think?

#LoRa #Meshtastic #Meshcore #MeshNet #MeshNetworks #radio #Netherlands #LocalMesh

‘Off the fossil fuel rollercoaster’: 10 countries pledge €9.5bn for North Sea wind projects.

At-sea wind farms will soon be connected to multiple countries across Europe, thanks to a landmark declaration.

It’s expected to create over 90 000 jobs and reduce power production costs by 30% in the next 15 years.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260126-off-the-fossil-fuel-rollercoaster-10-countries-pledge-95bn-for-north-sea-wind-projects?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#WindEnergy #NorthSea #FossilFuels #Energy #RenewableEnergy #Europe #Belgium #Denmark #France #Germany #Iceland #Ireland #Luxembourg #Netherlands #Norway #UK

Signal is growing: Signal is now bigger than Telegram in the Netherlands 🚀 🇳🇱

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-now-bigger-than-telegram-in-the-netherlands/

Don’t have Signal yet? Join and download Signal: https://signal.org/install 💙

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #telegram #netherlands

‘Off the fossil fuel rollercoaster’: 10 countries pledge €9.5bn for North Sea wind projects.

At-sea wind farms will soon be connected to multiple countries across Europe, thanks to a landmark declaration.

It’s expected to create over 90 000 jobs and reduce power production costs by 30% in the next 15 years.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260126-off-the-fossil-fuel-rollercoaster-10-countries-pledge-95bn-for-north-sea-wind-projects?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#WindEnergy #NorthSea #FossilFuels #Energy #RenewableEnergy #Europe #Belgium #Denmark #France #Germany #Iceland #Ireland #Luxembourg #Netherlands #Norway #UK

"Element expects that a Dutch government investment in Matrix peer-to-peer technology could now support this quest. The goal is to develop a version of Element that can operate on a mesh network without requiring an internet server."

#ChiaraCastro, 2025

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

Ooh, that's exciting! @matrix folks have been working on p2p matrix for a while, but progress has depended on volunteer devs;

https://arewep2pyet.com/

#decentralisation #MeshNetworks #matrix #TechFunding #Netherlands

"Element expects that a Dutch government investment in Matrix peer-to-peer technology could now support this quest. The goal is to develop a version of Element that can operate on a mesh network without requiring an internet server."

#ChiaraCastro, 2025

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

Ooh, that's exciting! @matrix folks have been working on p2p matrix for a while, but progress has depended on volunteer devs;

https://arewep2pyet.com/

#decentralisation #MeshNetworks #matrix #TechFunding #Netherlands

Local elections coming up soon. Which party should I vote for?

The most important thing is that they don't support fascism, which unfortunately rules out just about every party in the Netherlands.

#elections #netherlands

Entire collection stolen from Doesburg silver museum overnight.
The “entire collection of antique silver” has been stolen from a museum specialising in silver objects in Doesburg.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/entire-collection-stolen-from-doesburg-silver-museum-overnight/ #globalmuseum #news #Dutch #Netherlands #crime

Signal is growing: Signal is now bigger than Telegram in the Netherlands 🚀 🇳🇱

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-now-bigger-than-telegram-in-the-netherlands/

Don’t have Signal yet? Join and download Signal: https://signal.org/install 💙

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #telegram #netherlands

Very nice person suuuper helpful and informed wow

#KvK #Netherlands #BelinLand #entrepreneurship

The inside of the ground floor of Blaak 40, where KvK looks in Rotterdam, looks as neo-liberal as you can expect.

Free coffee and water, open WiFi. There is this sort of tree-like structure in the middle of the atrium? it makes me look like a saint 😇

Anyway, this place feels exactly the same as Agenzia delle Entrate offices in Italy. Neat, quiet, spacious.

#KvK #Netherlands #BelinLand #entrepreneurship

Becoming an “entrepreneur” in the Nederlands

Here stats a semi-ironic, pseudo-serious thread narrating my journey in Dutch bureaucracy.

Today’s challenge is coming to Rotterdam’s Kamer van Koophandel (KVK), the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, to start a sole-entrepreneur business 😱

As you can see, I am not terrified. It consoles me to know that @barbs was here last week and she survived 😳

To be clear: I STILL AM ANTICAPITALIST but you gotta pay rent somehow.

#KvK #Netherlands #BelinLand #entrepreneurship

📚 The Dutch translation of 'Ada & Zangemann' is here! We have received boxes full of books 🤩

You want to have one? Pre-order your book now for @fosdem and come by at our booth in building K, Level 2 to pick it up: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260108-01.html

You want more stories 📖 about Ada? Come and step by at @nicorikken and @kirschner talk during FOSDEM in the main track on Sunday: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/

A big thank you to @nicorikken. ❤️ who made all of this possible <3

#FreeSoftware #books #Netherlands