The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
    • Vincent@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      There’s always been a risk, but now that risk is actually playing out. It’s a bit smug to pretend that nothing has changed.

      Not to mention that Bert Hubert has been beating this drum for a long time. However, he also sees that there is more momentum now to actually affect change, which involves latching onto changing circumstances.

      Pretending that things are the same as ever only leads to a defeatist attitude, where people conclude that apparently it’s worked so far, might as well continue doing it.

  • Foni@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    What the hell is a government doing using someone else’s cloud? I have a small business and I bought a Synology NAS years ago. How is it possible that a government does not have its own servers?

    • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Buying service level agreements on rented hardware is easier and cheaper (you don’t have to pay your own IT). Security and data protection, pfft nobody needs or wants that.

        • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          “Yes, but that’s another departments cost. Or some lobbyists told me this is cheaper. Anyway, we’re locked into the whole thing by now, doesn’t matter anymore.”

    • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      What the hell is a government doing using someone else’s cloud?

      Fucking up everything. Thar’s what governments do for a living,

    • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, that just doesn’t scale. Don’t get me wrong, what you do works and is good, but you (probably) don’t have an off site backup or 100TB of customer data, that is needed in 17 countries accessed by over 15.000 employees.

      I’m not saying, that you need a public cloud provider for that, there are other companies, that do these kinds of things, but it is more comfortable and as with SAP no manager has ever been fired for proposing using Microsoft.

        • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yes, but there are even more smaller companies doing that and in the past a lot of companies did that themselves (if big enough) but “the cloud” is seems just so convenient, that they don’t want that anymore.

  • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    The cloud is a tool of oppression in the wrong hands, and it is in the wrong hands.

    Let the sun shine in.