Not Europe, but the EU. Not every European country is in the EU.
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If I'm honest, I've completely given up on trying to understand this region. It's confusing as hell.
There are 51 countries in Europe.
27 of them chose to be in an alliance called the European Union.
Similarly, not every country in America is part of the USA.
Just like not every American country is in the US and yet...
Exactly
And yet it's a simplification everyone uses and understands.
Words have meanings.
Including simplified concepts. Words can even have multiple and not overlapping meanings.
Meanwhile, actual government organizations have successfully made the switch without all this performative bullshit.
I love this.
I also think that the EU should prohibit PII from being stored in the cloud where there isn't a 100% guarantee that this data won't leave Europe without the explicit consent of the organisation storing it. Starting with governments in 2030 (or something) and then expanding this to private companies.
Need to store PII? Then it's on prem or an EU cloud provider. Nothing else.
I'm willing to accept exceptions as long as they are periodically reviewed and a plan exists exit the situation.
What is PII?
Personally identifiable information.
Meanwhile, my employer(one of the largest European companies) is betting more and more on Azure services :|
M-)
After decades of passivity and lack of decisiveness, EU as a political entity is running out of moral credit. So they better get start getting their shit together. Having said that, even the glacial pace of re-taking the initiative since 2022 gives some hope.
Having agency with regards to the software the entire EU bureacracy and societies use is a fundamental step. Look forward seeing more of this.
Passivity and lack of decisiveness? The EU is still mostly a club of national governments working mostly on consensus basis. Considering that, its achievements are quite incredible and unmatched world wide. Regions with much more similar countries, south America for instance, haven't managed yet.
This. Shitting on the EU is usually far right rhetoric and quite frankly, I'm sick of it. It is insanely difficult to make decisions on behalf of an entire continent. It's incredible what the EU has achieved to date.
This, the EUs achievements are insanely underestimated. Often the people critizicing the EU for lack of action also vote for parties who only want to take power from the EU.. and it ain't that much.
Some open source advocates also engaged in critical infrastructure, like Bert Hubert, support this:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/
Here is a discussion about a more skeptical statement from the open source community on this:
Meanwhile the us is exiting its alliances with world leaders and moving to privatize everything
It's gonna be realized in the year of Linux desktops when fusion reactors reach prodiction readiness.
Maybe weโll also have graphene at that point.