It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings
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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.
  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    As a dev I have had this workflow at a previous employer:

    I start my Windows 11 work laptop. I write emails to my coworkers on Outlook, I take notes in OneNote, I make presentations in PowerPoint. We have remote meetings on Teams.

    I use GitHub and GitHub Actions. I host packages on npm. I write my TypeScript code with VSCode with help from GitHub Copilot, the C# .NET Core code with Visual Studio.

    I login in to everything usingusing Single Sign On with Active Directory.

    And everything we make is of course run on Microsoft Azure.

    Yes, everything mentioned here is owned or maintained by Microsoft.

    • Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I use all of those Microsoft products at a sensitive department of the Federal government of Canada, and they are NOT ready to transition away.

      (btw VSCodium is an open source VSCode without the telemetry)