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starefossen··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
For the my branch of the Norwegian Government we have a public skill registry and a tool to sync them locally according to what «profile» you select, https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/verktoy

Source at navikt/copilot

starefossen··on The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
Apple Health was not among the reviewed?
starefossen··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
We have have had the same experience (qwen3.6 rocks) when we are evaluating local models for our developers in the Norwegian Government https://github.com/navikt/mlx-workspace
starefossen··on They STOLE his $200k Lego Collection – – – LEGALLY? [video]
Serve and protect.. the rich and powerful.
starefossen··on Cplt: Run AI coding agents or a plain shell inside a kernel-level sandbox
Chromium via Playwright landed today https://github.com/navikt/cplt/pull/44 (I am the maintainer of cplt)
starefossen··on Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
Freedom is literally in their name. Can it be more core than that?
starefossen··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Changes the defaults. Does not care to provide a pull request description. Talk about hubris.
starefossen··on Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Norwegian Government has a couple of thousand open repos for their code https://norwegian-public-organizations.vercel.app/

Most notably the Labor and Welfare Administration with 3000+ open repos.

starefossen··on Norwegian Government (Nav) just crossed 3000 public repos on GitHub
The Labor and Welfare Administration (Nav) just crossed the 3000 mark for public repos on their GitHub account https://github.com/navikt
starefossen··on Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
Most of the source code for the Norwegian welfare system is published openly on https://github.com/navikt (4K repos)
starefossen··on Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
If you have not tasted brunost you should definitely try it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost
starefossen··on Slugging it Out in Open Source [video]
Love this way of story telling. Video definitely deserves more views!
starefossen··on Quay.io down: Nginx 502 bad gateway
It is loading again. With a message at the top saying "Quay Container Registry is currently in read-only mode. Pulls and other read-only operations will succeed but all other operations are currently suspended."
starefossen··on State of Platforms 2026: From Adoption to Accountability
This is the follow-up to our 2024 State of Platforms report. We ran the same survey twice, in late 2023 and late 2025, to track how platform engineering is evolving across the Norwegian public sector. The 2026 wave captured 45 organizations representing approximately 240,000 public sector employees and organizational budgets totaling 2.5 trillion NOK.
starefossen··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Glad to see fish getting some shout outs here. Been using it for over ten years now, and it is super easy to get going on new hosts - it is just one simple install away.
starefossen··on This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)
Same here.
starefossen··on Slack Is Down
Status page is updated with ongoing incident: https://status.slack.com/2023-10/ad8f0e62516e8812
starefossen··on Slack Is Down
Started working again for me (Norway)
starefossen··on Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown
And they said Rails was a Ghetto…
starefossen··on Show HN: Governments on GitHub
Here is a better list of Norwegian government agencies on GitHub https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...
starefossen··on Show HN: Governments on GitHub
Great, but most of the Norwegian governments are missing. Here is a more up to date list https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...
starefossen··on Technical issues plague Ron DeSantis’s campaign announcement on Twitter
Maybe Musk shouldn’t fired all the SREs!
starefossen··on Public Money, Public Code
For us it is a matter of building trust and allowing others to help if they choose so. We don’t expect many outside contributions.
starefossen··on Public Money, Public Code
Yes, we definitely do that! Talking about cake, can someone form HN make a pull request, please?!
starefossen··on Public Money, Public Code
The Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) of the Norwegian government is doing exactly that, we have been opening up our code since 2018 and are accepting pull requests across our 2000 public repositories from those who want to improve government services https://github.com/navikt this has also enabled a much more close collaboration between new and existing partners that was previously unheard of!
starefossen··on Public Money, Public Code
The largest branch of the Norwegian government, Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV), have adopted this this policy since 2018 and now we have over 2000 public repositories on https://github.com/navikt and https://github.com/nais (last one is our platform organization)
starefossen··on Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
According to their FAQ page this only applies to products with a “guarantee to keep you dry” label inside.

https://www.gore-tex.com/support/frequently-asked-questions

starefossen··on Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
From what I have herd (but I was unable to find any written source at this point) the sampling only applies to the Gore-Tex Pro Shell brand. Meaning that products needs to be sent in and certified by Gore before they can be sold under that name.
starefossen··on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
For me it is how one person can suddenly own an entire social network and dictate the rules as he likes or dislikes. Mastodon it self is more open, the server you choose to sign up to might have content policies in place.
starefossen··on Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?
For all Norwegian users that want something better you there are two popular Norwegian servers @Oslo.town and @Snabelen.no.
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