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James House-Lantto (He/Him)

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/denmar

Up to half of employees at Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Affairs will be switched to Linux in place of Windows, and move from Office 365 to LibreOffice.

Denmark’s minister of digitization, Caroline Stage Olsen, confirmed the migration is in progress, adding that if all goes well the whole ministry will switch to using open source software by the autumn.

OMG! Ubuntu · Denmark's Government Ditches Microsoft for Open SourceDenmark is making 'digital sovereignty' a priority, replacing Microsoft and other US big tech products with Linux and open source.
#Linux#openSource#LibreOffice
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Danie van der Merwe

Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source

“Up to half of employees at Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Affairs will be switched to (an unspecified version of) Linux in place of Windows, and move from Office 365 to the leading open source productivity suite LibreOffice. Denmark’s minister of di ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/denmarks-gover

A stylized Tux penguin logo featuring the Danish flag, overlaid on a picturesque Copenhagen waterfront scene.
GadgeteerZA · Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source“Up to half of employees at Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Affairs will be switched to (an unspecified version of) Linux in place of Windows, and move from
#Denmark#government#opensource
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Deborah Pickett

And then there's #Canada's land border with #France. Yes, really.

About 20 km off the coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland is the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The maritime boundary passes by a small uninhabited island called Green Island, but it manages to trample over one nearby tidal islet. At low tide, you could *very carefully* step along the forty or so metres of international border on this exposed rock.

So the answer would seem to be that Canada has land borders with three other countries: #USA, #Denmark and #France.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Is

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Photo from the French territore of Saint Pierre (foreground). In the distance on the other side of the strait is the coast of Newfoundland. Mid-strait is Green Island, in Canadian territory. To the right of Green Island are some rocky low islets. The accidental land border is on one of these.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French territory) is on the left of this map. Newfoundland (Canadian) is on the right. The strait is about 20 km across and has some islands very close to the border. One of the islets passes under the border, whoops.
#GeoWeirdness
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Deborah Pickett

How many other countries does #Canada have a land border with?

Obviously there's the #USA. The border between the USA and Canada is one of the longest in the world.

Since 2023, Canada has had a land border with #Denmark through the Danish territory of Greenland. Tartupaluk (Hans Island) straddles the maritime boundary between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. It was the subject of a friendly territorial dispute between the two countries, who finally agreed to share the island.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Isl

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Aerial view of Tartupaluk (Hans Island). It's a brown iceworn bump in the middle of an icy strait.
Map of parts of Ellesmere Island (left) and Greenland (right). The strait is about 40 km acress; it has a maritime border down the middle, which crosses a small island in the middle.
#GeoWeirdness
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MediaFaro Analysis

European far-right parties are on the rise.

While the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party continues to be isolated in the German political scene, in certain other European countries, similar parties are in government.

mediafaro.org/article/20250612

AfD leader Alice Weidel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán shake hands. | Image: Szilard Koszticsak/MTI/AP/dpa/picture alliance
DW · European far-right parties are on the rise.By Christoph Hasselbach
#Europe#Politics#FarRight
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