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This is why the cloud was a bad idea for so many use cases in the first place. Security and privacy are often things that aren’t considered nearly as carefully as they should be… This kind of threat could have been foreseen.
Once again convenience trumped everything else. People are lazy as shit.
People are lazy as shit.Companies are cheapskates.
This is my country’s government and it isn’t about money, but about culture.
Derp. Reading comprehension failure on my part there.
Lol, that you think that this is just laziness. Some people got some very sweet deals. Just have a look at the LiMux project. Microsoft is really good at this; goole and co. won’t be that much worse at it. They know how to influence the right people.
The Netherlands’ digital sovereignty is a joke wrapped in a Microsoft license agreement. Complete dependence on American tech giants isn’t just negligence—it’s institutional Stockholm syndrome. Pretending GDPR-compliant data centers protect us while the CLOUD Act looms is like building a moat around a house that’s already on fire.
Trump and Musk’s DOGE circus turns data security into a geopolitical punchline. Young “efficiency” bros with admin privileges and zero oversight? That’s not innovation—it’s a script for a cyberpunk dystopia.
Open source isn’t a silver bullet, but clinging to Azure while preaching sovereignty is peak delusion. European “alternatives” remain vaporware because Brussels would rather debate ethics than fund infrastructure. Until we treat data like a national asset—not a SaaS subscription—we’re just paying rent on our own digital grave.
“We’ve got nothing to hide and this will send a clear signal of unity with our allies towards authoritarian states like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia”
- the Dutch (me excluded)
Europe is now discovering why China has the digital firewall and spent time ensuring that domestic companies became dominant players building out digital infrastructure.
Is it because of literally 1984? I bet it’s because of literally 1984
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The article’s specifically about Dutch data, but I suppose it’s probably very similar with the most of European countries, or?
Very likely.
But the Netherlands has been exceptionally trusting of the US over all other nations.
I am sooo xxxx pissed. The EU had all the time in the world and all incentive imaginable to develop an “EU-OS” and an “EU-Office”. Linux and other FOSS software was always there to build upon. And with EU founding it could have been an easy solution, making the world a better place in the process.
But instead so many xxx politicians rather made some nice deals…
Now we reap what the EU parliament did.
What’s xxxx and xxx?
fuck shit or piss
Yeah they couldn’t figure out how to use foss
Probably takes a whopping 5-10 developers to set up the systems in question from scratch with FOSS. “From scratch” as in, not accounting for whatever insane backwards compatibility requirements exist, though that’s not some impassable obstacle either.
They could, but they didn’t want to.
Well deserved.
And surely this news will send a strong signal towards Russia that we are more united with our allies than anyone else and that we’ve got nothing to hide from them. /sI’m from the Netherlands
(and the second sentence has been the actual thought process for years from anyone but me here 😢).
That building looks like a 4080 founders edition
i didn’t check but I’m guessing they gave him top secret clearance a long time ago
edit: looks like he’s had top secret for a while but that’s not supposed to give him access to payment data and all this other shit
