From the «other people's computers» department:
Title: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds Author: Sami_Lehtinen
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:48:19 +0000
Link: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/[1]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150085[2]

Points: 1126

# Comments: 624

Links:
[1]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ (link)
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150085 (link)

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On 24 Feb 2025 03:45:24 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
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Title: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds >Author: Sami_Lehtinen

So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use >different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.

In past month, I bought a higher end NUC from ASUS...it could have
been shipped with Linux or MS.

I believe many could drop MS, but there is the learning curve.

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Retrograde wrote:

From the «other people's computers» department:
Title: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Author: Sami_Lehtinen
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:48:19 +0000
Link: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/[1]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150085[2]

Points: 1126

# Comments: 624

Links:
[1]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ (link)
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150085 (link)

Hah, they are late to the game. I wrote an article on the subject a month
ago and it got published in a liberal magazine, and got 10k views on
linkedin. Maybe not a lot for you, but for me it was a new record! ;)

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, JAB wrote:

On 24 Feb 2025 03:45:24 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
wrote:

Title: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Author: Sami_Lehtinen

So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use
different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.

In past month, I bought a higher end NUC from ASUS...it could have
been shipped with Linux or MS.

I believe many could drop MS, but there is the learning curve.

Not today. It is basically null. My father who is soon 75 has used linux
for 15 years. It's all graphic, he logs in, clicks on firefox, and off he
goes.

He has to my great pride and joy, even learned how to torrent old country songs! He is also a master a gimp!

Not bad for an old student of sociology! ;)

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