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Jurgen Gaeremyn
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Jurgen Gaeremyn writes Pseudo Random Noise, a personal blog at jurgen.gaeremyn.be about politics and economics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “European Critical Dependencies”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for a post estimating how many municipalities run Microsoft mail servers, based on MX-record lookups for Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. One commenter cites its figures in a thread on European government open-source platforms.
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Most-linked posts?
- European Critical Dependencies3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
What Hacker News says?
In Belgium, 72% of the communes are on Microsoft 365: https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-depe... "Purely based on the MX-records, we learn that 72% of Belgian municipalities run Microsoft mail servers and 60% of the Dutch municipalities. For Scandinavia, it’s 64% in Norway and 57% in Sweden. In Finland, it’s a whopping 77% if the cities that are being served by Microsoft."
Comment linking /2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies/
on “Soft launch of open-source code platform for government”Submitted European Critical Dependencies as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted European Critical Dependencies as a story · 2 points
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