I mean that’s been known since the Snowden leaks
Hopefully this will get something moving
If this doesn’t get the French state to get Microsoft and US tech out of all their public offices, I don’t know what will.
The national Police is planning to renew all the computers not supported by windows 11 while our Gendarmerie (same thing but different) is using Ubuntu since approximately 17 years. The head of Polytechnique signed a deal with microsoft to put restricted zones on o365. We are not there yet and it is a fucking shame. All the usual state contractors are hand in hand with microsoft so I don’t see any move in the close future. It could be easy to fine the USA companies into oblivion because they can’t respect GDPR but the EU is too submissive for that.
France has been right about digital sovereignty since the beginning. It’s a little disappointing that it hasn’t gone very far. Maybe this will give it new momentum.
If the Gendarmerie can do it, the national police should be able to too, but from what I read, they are years behind on wages.
In my opinion, only one of them should exists or they should be responsible for each other instead of internal investigation, firstly, but the police is not part of the military so that’s a first point, and with our fascist interior minister (responsible for the police), i don’t think this is a priority. I am sure that migrating to gendbuntu would not be too hard for the police, but it seems that they are rivals so I don’t see it coming. Kinda deadlocked as a situation
They are rivals? Why? That doesn’t make much sense. Shouldn’t they be colleagues?
Rivalry between two state organizations with the same role is to be expected I guess. Maybe some historical too as the roots of the national police lay in Vichy’s France…
It’s the same with Chinese companies. In the past we thought that the US was benign but not any more.
I’ve never thought it and don’t know why others did. If you where not American why would giving the US control of your infrastructure be a good thing? People just didn’t plan for relations to change I guess.
You may not however in Australia our systems were supplied by US corporations for decades before cloud storage and processing became a thing. Every data centre was local but then some started to be owned/operated by those corporations, then started hosting in foreign countries. It’s a gradual transition where the risks were not obvious. Not so today.
This is why I’m migrating all the servers I own to EU data centres owned by EU companies. It’s insanely hard to get enterprises off the big 3 cloud providers, but for the smaller clients I support they don’t know why difference and in the long run it ends up saving then money
Which ones are you using? I only have worked with hetzner, ionos and ovh, with mixed results.
I’ve used Digital Ocean, Hetzner and OVH just because they’re cheap. It depends on your expectations.
Digital Ocean is American, tho.
Never said they weren’t
OP mentioned about EU based ones, that’s what I asked about.
Hetzner VMs generally, there are a couple of issues I’ve needed to workaround like private IP assignment with terraform, but other than that, if you’re comfortable deploying a k8s cluster yourself, just throw things on the cluster. The VMs aren’t the fastest but they give the biggest bang for your buck.
I’m currently experimenting with scaleway, but the cost is pretty high, so I’ll probably just migrate over to dedicated machines in hetzner and add more machines as the cluster grows
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The EU and Canada must stop immediately using closed source software, especially from US Vendors
…then don’t use microsoft… /s
Why /s? This is the only logical conclusion. In general governments shouldn’t be using infrastructure they don’t control.
…i live within the US, don’t wish to be misunderstood…
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Ohlala, quelle surprise…
🦎 Intensified German Lizard noises
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