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Maybe putting a fascist saluting drugged up weirdo in charge of all the computer systems was a bad look.
Ok, yes, you are correct…but how were they to know it was a bad idea before doing it?
Just because it is stunningly obvious to any person who isn’t corrupt, or an idiot, that doesn’t mean they were/are getting paid shit tons of cash from all their corruption and data mining!!It’s a bit like voting in the document stealing, child rapist, traitorous Russian asset Donvict tRUMP (twice). Most sane people will say it’s a bad look.
However it could be pointed out that voting Reagan in (twice) was also a bad idea. Which it was.Just because the us population keeps on making the same mistake again, and again, and aaaa-fucking-gain does that mean they need to wake the fuck up and stop being gullible fools? Who knows. It’s a tricky one.
I’ve worked for open source companies for a while now and a lot of our business was from European organizations for exactly this reason.
Who’s the most fleshed out replacement for something like GCP / AWS in your opinion?
On prem or colo.
There is none that is on par, but the closest ones I know are stackit, ionos, ovh and hetzner. German and French.
https://localstack.cloud/ maybe?
You know what’s less risky than using corporate systems at all? FOSS
Are there any good FOSS email providers? Like…I don’t want to deal with setting up my own email service, that sounds like a nightmare. I used Proton for a bit and even that got me spam filtered out of a lot of important communications.
What’s a “FOSS email provider”?
An email provider that uses FOSS products under the hood but operates as a normal for-profit company?
That’s what I’m asking! I would assume that they would be some sort of non-profit that would operate on FOSS, but is that really even an option w/r/t security? Proton has FOSS licensing, but their backend isn’t really open is it?
The OP is talking about email, and the comment I replied to was talking about open software for businesses, so I was asking for alternatives. I’m not really tech savvy enough to operate my own private email server.
The backend of any service is “trust me” even if it’s FOSS. Tuta has blogged about this
Fastmail.
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
Fair enough, I use webhosting with Mythic Beasts for my domain and I just decided to use their email hosting too for my domain, it’s way too hard for a small player to set up their own email and be viewed as trustworthy, with all the things the big companies do - I feel you for that one.
Do you have any problems with MB? I was using my own domain with Proton, and for some reason outgoing email was only working half the time. Switched to Google for the time being, but it’s SO EXPENSIVE (and also Google) that I want out ASAP.
MB works very well for both domain and web hosting for me
Thank you, I’ll check it out!
That sucks because it isn’t the average Americans doing anything it’s these fucking psycho billionaires and their cronies. This behavior is going to kill American jobs.
Average America voted in a majority for the House and Senate, as well as a psycho billionaire as president, and a majority of the state legislatures and governors. Average America can have they day they fucking voted for.
They didn’t know what they were voting for, and the effects won’t be limited to their borders. It is in all of our interests to educate them.
They didn’t know what they were voting for
Yes they most certainly did. Their plan was published a year before the election and was widely disseminated under the name Project 2025. Many conservatives liked the plan or knew that Democrats didn’t like it and just wanted to spite them. The ones claiming they were fooled simply weren’t listening to what was actually being said.
It is in all of our interests to educate them.
Have you seen how Americans treat educators? Anti-intellectualism is a driving force in this country’s politics. Best idea is to cut us off as much as you can and prepare to defend your countries as we lash out in our death throes.
Yeah that’s a cute meme but a fascist country with nukes will kill us all.
Oh, well then we better fix that. What’s your plan?
I’ll agree that the majority of trump voters was very mislead (much like brexit voters).
At the same time, it wasn’t exactly impossible to find out what they voted for, so it’s their own fucking fault at the end of the day. I only feel bad for the third of the country that voted against the clown (and everyone that for any reason was unable to vote). The rest? If you can learn your lesson from this, best of luck, but don’t expect any pity.
You say “pity” like this only affects them. It affects the whole world.
not knowing what they voted for is entirely their own responsibility
all of the information was there. they chose not to look at it.
But it’s our responsibility too. It affects us all.
I doubt they’ll learn anything, even if they ended up in Gilead.
Well we have to do something. What do you propose?
Burn the White House down again.
Canadians have experience with it, and they are pissed.
It is in all of our interests to educate them.
You can’t teach someone who is unwilling to learn. Living in a rural area, I know way too many Trump supporters for my own comfort and I’ve never once heard anyone expressing regret over their support. Not one. They seem to continually repeat the excuse du jour presented by Leavitt, Fox or whatever conservative echo chamber they subscribe to. At this point, it’s 100% willful ignorance and I’ve run out of optimism.
Well how did this guy do it?
I have no idea, but I’m impressed.
How do you teach someone who takes pride in being ignorant?
… How do you teach people who BRAG about how long ago they last read a book (if ever!)
What can you teach a population of dunning Kruger dunces to show them they don’t know shit from shingles?
As my favorite Swifty once said “you cannot reason a man out of an opinion he didn’t reason himself into”.
I don’t know but we better figure out. Maybe we should ask this guy:
Or, let the latest empire fall so the nations they’ve been stepping over get a chance.
Yep, I’d give it a go until CIA and NSA get torn down. They’ve caused more suffering than all the us residents combined are going through.
Okay but letting an empire fall means they go through their Hitler phase, only they have nukes. We might all die before they fall.
As much as it will probably hurt, it’s in everyone’s best interest to wean themselves off of the American tech sector. Microsoft in particular has its greedy fingers in so many western governments and really needs to be cut off.
Year of the Linux desktop! Let’s fuckin goooo!
The average American is either complicit or actively supporting it.
That is not correct.
It is happening in spite of most people not liking it. That’s part of the issue.
They voted for it or didn’t care about voting
The EU needs a publicly funded development effort to provide FOSS solutions for business admin and the public services sector. The GDPR helped, but it’s still way too much US-based software at the foundation of all that.
American Tech is literally encouraging the authoritarian dystopia that’s taking hold in the states. They deserve to be excised.
The switch won’t be instant but we are moving into that direction. When contracts run out with US tech firms they won’t be renewed and alternatives will be sought out. Slowly but surely.
As the alternatives start to gain market share, their products will become more feature rich. This will lower the barrier for adoption and increase the rate of transition.
I work with big corporate in both europe and us and it has always been true in some form or another as certification is very serious at enterprise level. There’s a huge boom for European software right now! Though, EU is completely fumbling the opportunity due to really poor support for small companies. Big corporations can afford to migrate and recertify etc but if you’re a small european company you’re totally fucked like always. European software is mostly captured by the big moat and this will not help.
OVH comes to mind…
Same in my mostly government-focused industry
Hopefully it’s not about Trump but the understanding that relying on proprietary software might sound nice in a short term but certainly will be devastating in the long(or short sometimes) term.
anything that requires ongoing updates, subscription, or storage is going to be a risk. we can’t even support data centers and also the cities where they build them without rolling blackouts and water shortages. but they’re prioritising the data centers anyway because they this Ai is going to pay off whatever damage the blackouts cause
The nature, it’s healing.
Is the adobe suite American?
yes
Nice. Maybe people will start making better affordable software.
I’m hopeful FOSS projects will see a big boost in funding and contributions in response to this nonsense. It’d be a nice silver lining to this cloud of shit.
sounds bad for duck creek.
Fun fact: to get your software or service approved to be used by US government agencies wich pay nice licensing fees, your software must run self-hosted. This means on the client infrastructure, without relying on any 3rd party services from microsoft, google, amazon etc.
