Head of GovTech @ OpenProject | Former Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | Digital Sovereignty | Gaming | IT nerd | 🇪🇺🇳🇱
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Last Notes npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Vote for me and I will ban having to walk through perfume stores at airports. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina 🥲 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina It's boeuf bourguignon weather 🌧🔥 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…nj5n @nprofile…zvpj no worries, I was there at 16 😂 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…hpn3 absolutely! How did that go? How long did you end up staying? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…zvpj from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to a small coastal town on the costa brava in Spain, about 30 min from Girona and 1.5 hrs from Barcelona. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina So uhm has anyone here ever moved abroad by themselves? And by any chance to a much smaller town? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…hzkv I'll tell Pookie 😂 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Our local plumber Wessie at work. 🔧 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm having a lot of feelings about the state of the world today. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Sigh.. I thought I'd try Scaleway to move my OpenProject instance to, but since when do cloud providers require you to identify yourself with your government ID?! And of course they use some third party company... npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Me looking at fancy apartments in coastal towns while we all know how I'm actually meant to live. #moveabroad npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The other thing is.. the unit that I'm looking at is fully in the shade after 14:00. It only has morning sun. Which is nice now during the summer, but how will it be during winter? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…lx3a true, lots or cars around the shopping strip. Fortunately the unit comes with a garage under the building. And it feels possible to cycle to Sant Antoni de Calonge, Sant Feliu etc. There's even a boulderhall, gym and yoga studio around. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…lx3a because it's too busy? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm in Platja d'Aro today. It's beautiful, almost Noosa vibes with a small shopping strip, but also a boulevard with pine trees everywhere. 🇪🇸 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Reminder: 8 days left to submit talks! 🚀 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Girona is cute, but not a place I'd move to. Tomorrow I'm going back to Ppatja d'Aro and then Barcelona. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Girona is a place #moveabroad #Spain npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Me, after improving my French for months, now having to learn Spanish. 🇪🇸 #moveabroad #Spain npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…xawl fortunately I'm used to Amsterdam rental prices 😀 *sobs* npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…xawl €2500 💸 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The way that this is a perk for me. 🫏 #housesearch #Spain npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina You know what else doesn't help? Italy 🇮🇹 being beautiful, but every Italian expat in Amsterdam that I've ever met saying they hate it and that they would never recommend anyone to move there 🥲 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…84ng lol that would be hilarious. But then I'd live in Drenthe or Limburg. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina A lot of this is contradictory as well. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina It doesn't help that I'm a snobby little Goldilocks that is searching for a place that feels "just right" based on: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…ulu2 what does pro or perso mean? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Okay so, I'm still not 100% sure whether I'm making the right choice. I always thought I'd end up in a nice farm house in France, but because of tax reasons France is not an option. And because of weather reasons the whole of Northern Europe isn't an option 🌧 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm making this a "move abroad" thread for today. If it gets annoying know that there's an option to mute someone for a few hours or a day :) npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Alright now that I shared my awesome new job, I can finally share with you how moving abroad is going. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Dear #fediverse friends, I HAVE SUCH AN EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!! npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…0azk sorry that's my tv 😂 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Mildly horrifying. #Palworld #gaming #pokemon npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina My friends and I have been playing Palworld. It has some ..interesting pokemon 👁️ npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina TIL about the cuck internet theory 😳 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina My coworkers are not helping today. #PookieAndWessie npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I wrote a short blog post about our national @nprofile…fvc4 on code.overheid.nl with some recent updates. 🚀 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Exhibit A: Pull ups bars that are too wide. Same with the bars on the racks. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The way that I want to start a womens gym with equipment made for womens bodies. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…87tr @nprofile…j7ym the audience will be a mix of EU gov and policy makers, open source communities, and a few UN people. Last years OSCL was a huge success thanks to @nprofile…y50f npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm so excited to organize this with @nprofile…87tr 🥳🥳 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Cursed sangria. 🌴 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…0azk lol I think he's about 2 years old now? Took a while 🥲 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Wessie is *finally* aging out of his demonic teenage sharkphase. 🥰 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…jch8 pretty please consider releasing your newest model in pink 🥲 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Me patiently waiting for the Fairphone Gen 7 to come out next year. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…84ng oh man now I wish I had roller skates! npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…uf2n welcome back! 👋🫶 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina For anyone on toot.community (an excellent Mastodon server that is unfortunately closing), you are very welcome on #Fosstodon. Just dm me or @nprofile…v3xj , @nprofile…uuu5 , @nprofile…atnr , or any of our other team members. :fosstodon: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Khajiit has wares if you have coin 👀 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina For the Dutchies. 🇳🇱 #Nederland #Marktplaats npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina There's two types of people in this world: Have 18 unopened emails and a panic attack or 22.593 unopened emails and not a care in the world. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…kmu8 Oof. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Pookie wasn't bluffing #PookieAndWessie #CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryday npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…fhkc goed bezig! 💪 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Fun fact: when you visit hell, right next to where they keep Hitler and Stalin, there's the pen for people who send you "what's your lowest price" on Marktplaats. #TheMoreYouKnow npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…qlh2 what's stopping you from bouldering? npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina K football is done now. Back to the best sport #bouldering npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…v3xj you guys have eggball. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina ...and now? Are they going to flip a coin? #WorldCup2026 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm sorry but letting the US host the #WorldCup2026 is like letting that guy at the party play Wonderwall on his guitar. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina And that guy with the guitar I guess #Believe #WorldCup2026 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina OMG TED LASSO THOUGH 🩷🩷 #WorldCup2026 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Love how we have the muppets and BTS before anyone from Latin-America or Europe at the #WorldCup2026 halftime show. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina What in the American Football non-sense is this hydration break?? At least give us Bad Bunny if you're going to force an extra break #WorldCup2026 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The developers of Funda and Rabobank seem to suddenly block alternative mobile OS's, like @nprofile…4v3g and @nprofile…8d0p npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Yesterday we had our second #Codeplatform community meet-up! 🚀 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…sxk0 I think that the "look at my amazing life" people all moved to instagram. FB is mostly barely literate boomers writing racist stuff under random AI posts. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…sxk0 something to do with a few buy and sell groups. Besides the insane AI posts everywhere I was fascinated by how bitter all the responses on everything were. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina For the first time in a decade I had to spend some time on Facebook today.. and let me tell you, there's no hope for boomers. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Every flight. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Yall I don't want to go back, I can work from here 😭🇪🇸 #spain #thenetherlands npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Leave the house: 👎 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…7z5c it's so sad, it's so green and beautiful here. I hope the people living land inward are ok. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Cursed vacation. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Au revoir Brussels and hola Barcelona 👋🇪🇸 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Belgium. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I'm too Dutch for Belgium. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina ✅️ Coffee npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…4agh hahah my sweet summer child. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina A great point made again during the @nprofile…dvh5 Conference 2026 today: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…uuu5 my work laptoo 💔 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Do I ever stop complaining about it? No. Do I ever disable it? Also no. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The most annoying thing in existence. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina #mosstodon or #succulents? 🌱 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…8llp I know, I'm actually worried about it. With all the billionaires building bunkers everywhere, I wonder if things are about to get a lot worse in the next 10 years. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina I was so worried about sleeping through the hottest night EVER recorded in #thenetherlands , and then my 4pm nap saved me 😂🎉 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Not to brag, but I just woke up from a 14 hr nap. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…98wu Done, you're welcome :) npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…7kqx thanks!! This was my exact next question: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…0azk ooh that's next, for my custom pc build. npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Things I *say* I judge a #Linux OS by: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina A small 5 hour nap later and we're almost there. :nixos: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…24v5 I have an old laptop that I use to try out distros. I'll first try a fresh build and add a few things via the config file, etc. Then I'd like to compare my setup to the one being built by our gov DAWO* team for all the Dutch government desktop environments: npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Ah finally a nice and sunny day ☀️ npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Last day in Paris. 🥐🇲🇫 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina @nprofile…3rjr @nprofile…hpla @nprofile…84wz @nprofile…xvlp @nprofile…p74h npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina The Dutch government-wide codeplatform (code.overheid.nl) is one of the projects that has been awarded Innovation Budget!! 🥳🎉🍾 npub1r7384kwjpac08h892fghkhvs78eqh8mtxyahd5cuuttlcwhxvzls8hk07a Gina Met up with our #Fediverse queen @nprofile…zlvh in Paris tonight! 🥳🥳
