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  • Hmm we may have for a long time considered alternatives to the American cloud and tools but we still are extremely reliant on it in all administrations in France. As I recall 70% of our online government services are on American clouds. We also are almost exclusively using Microsoft windows and office for the desktop workstations.

    I’m pessimistic in the sense that Europe has tried to offer an European cloud before. It was a spectacular failure that just costs us a lot of money so that businesses here could just take the money and then pretend they couldn’t make it work.

    We definitely had a real shot in Europe to be sovereign. We just missed it. It’s never too late but it’s so prohibitively expensive to switch out of Microsoft ecosystem that many governments entities will rather fork out money to Microsoft.





  • There is plenty of data on compromised certs. I mean if you steal a cert you essentially steal the identity of that server.

    I’m just saying before that you had admins connecting from time to time to the server while deploying but after that change it could be years before someone connects. Cert deployment IMO is often one of the last maintenance that is not automated and one of the hardest to automate both safely and reliably.

    But for a business that handles it that way it’s just straight up an upgrade in security to have shorter certs.








  • That’s not fair to change the system only when businesses require it. I received a fuckin’ letter from a government entity where I live for having downloaded the trash tier movie “Demolition”.

    I agree copyright and patents are bad but it’s so infuriating that only the rich and powerful can choose not to respect it.

    So I think openAI has to pay because as of now that shitty copyright and patent system is still there and has hurt many individuals around the world.

    We should try to change the laws for copyright but after the big businesses pay their due.