I work from Spain for a French company, they ate Microslop cock everyday and they don't want to stop... I really want it to happen.
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At least one multinational in Ireland that I'm aware of has been investigating FOSS alternatives to common tools like Matrix instead of Slack/Teams.
Slack and Teams are tiny, I think, when compared to other cloud services - my company could easily migrate from slack to something else (some pain involved, but very doable). Even a sudden disconnect, there's still email and other tools to get everything on the same page.
Migrating our products and data from Azure, if that got cut out of the blue? We'd probably be out of business before that was achieved.
It's a step, and I'm glad your company's taking it.
Just saying that there's still some big hurdles ahead, but you're right, gotta start somewhere.
Same, except I don't work in Spain.
"Soverign," huh. I would prefer to live in a world where you don't need to be a sovereign state in order to get software that doesn't have a built-in remote kill switch.
Open source is the answer, but the worshipers of Mammon want control so they too can rent seek. Thus the "Sovereign"
A huge reason why you shouldn't rely on American tech companies.
You really think if America attacks, it won't start with a cyber attack? And not a shitty DDoS attack but literally turning off huge parts of the internet for you?
To be fair, this train wreck happened in slow motion. It was clear the US was going down in flames 15 years ago. You guys should have been working on this threat since then at least.
The same companies are dragging their feet when it comes to switching, or even just trying, any kind of alternatives. They always wait for someone else to do the leg work.
It'll cost them :(
Yes, but that'll be NEXT quarter.
"I fear ransomware but i'm not gonna put more money on it or backups. Only for a short while, after being struck by it." -All companies.
We need alternatives that are more open and safe for EVERYONE not just "we made this alternative that we can shut down at will instead of the US"
usa tech today is no different than the blankets they gave the natives way back when. They both come with an unintended surprise.
the twist is that corp's don't fear ransomware at all, since they expect to be bailed out by their governments if it hits them /hj
Add Australia. Fear of us tech kill switch
We do need to have more discussion about opening eftpos to handling credit transactions. Sure, it has nowhere near the reach of the American big two but itβd fill the hole in an emergency.
Europe spent decades outsourcing its digital infrastructure to US companies because it was cheap and convenient. Now everyone is shocked to discover that dependence creates leverage. A US tech kill switch doesnβt even need to be used: the possibility alone is reason enough for Europe to build its own stack.
We thought we were allies. We were, until Trump came along and decided that any leverage should be used to his benefit. That works in the short perspective, but will be a disaster in the long run.
Imagine a marriage where instead of working together, you try to exploit the other person at every opportunity.
What's with that bad website? looks slopcoded with slop images from 2024. I am all for using AI in software development, but it should be used to reach a higher quality of a product, not a lower one.
Also, the contact link opens a LinkedIn profile (i.e. on a US website).
That's not really sovereign, if you ask me.
It would be a rough month nothing more.
There are several companies that bankrupt or suffered big loss after a planned ERP replacement, I really think it would be more than just a rough month. They are not prepared, and aren't preparing
I think that says more about those companies management than anything else.
In some countries we've seen the most inefficient parts of our economy (public sector) able to do such a change. We've also seen the entire continent's change its energy supply in a year.
I have zero doubts in a dynamic private company's ability to do such a transition relatively unharmed. In fact they do this regularly, going from aws to azure, from azure to gcp, and so on. It just depends on who's buttering up the CTO at the moment...
A rough month? I donβt believe most companies can recover that fast when Microsoft switches off outlook, teams and sharepoint.
It does deeper than that. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure being cut would be a killer. I really doubt StackIT could scale quickly enough to fill a gap created by either of those
Let me assure you that it would be much more than "a rough month". You have no idea how many factories run on US tech. Most would grind to a halt, with no chance of restarting in any reasonable amount of time.
OPs title is misleading. Makes it look like Europeans shouldn't switch off US cloud, while the article talks about the risks of the US turning off the US cloud.
I'm puzzled where you get the implication that Europeans shouldn't exit US cloud from the headline ?
The headline of the post is consistent with the article ( unless it changed between you reading it and when I saw it).
Both the headline and the article are making the case for getting off US cloud due to the potential impact. We do have to migrate before turning it off though
The language "switching off US cloud <...> could deal an economic blow" can be interpreted in two different ways: the US companies switch off access for EU companies, or EU companies switch off from the US cloud to some alternative.
Well, it could if read on its own, but when it follows the "fear of US kill switch" it's pretty clear that they're talking about a risk of the US switching off access.
On the other hand, given the agent of the first half of that sentence ("European businesses"), it is also reasonable to assume that they would be the ones "switching off" from US cloud in the second half. It is poor headline writing.
Not really, since it's talking about what they fear, not what they plan to do.
It is totally reasonable to assume that a "fear" is motivating those companies to do something. Given at least 5 people here misunderstood the headline it's pretty clearly ambiguous and thus bad. It would be really easy to fix too, e.g.
75% of European businesses fear a US tech Kill Switch as much as a ransomware attack β being cut off from US cloud and services could deal an economic death blow, with sovereign alternatives needed
OK, I can now see the alternate interpretation although I didn't read it that way. Cheers
You'd have to bring that up with the editor of that particular site.
They used the title:
75% of European businesses fear a US tech kill switch could deal an economic 'death blow' β driving a search for sovereign alternatives
Which does not have the same amiguity.
Then they changed it after I posted it. I never edit the headline.
That's annoying, but at least it validates my complaint XD
The title says at the end "with sovereign alternatives needed" ... it's pretty clear I would say, and not too much different from "driving a search for sovereign alternatives" imho.
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