I am always baffeled when i see people working on sensitive infrastructure projects, use Windows and One Drive on their workstations. Especially when they have a bunch of other security protocols and procedures is place.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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thats because their project is not sensitive as you put it.. it's sensetive.
FOSS just seems like such a fucking no-brainer for governments. Increase their own security, sovereignty, and affordability, while improving life and affordability for the general public, around the world even. It's a damn shame they aren't already heavily invested in it.
I know for a fact that Windows 11 out of the box is incompatible with GDPR and my country's privacy laws by default, and most certainly with the very tough requirements we have on dealing with patient information secrecy. Yet it is an almost ubiquitous OS for government employees. As an IT specialist it is highly disconcerting.
Good, maybe this will keep business for forcing me to use Facebook in place of an actual website.
Using an imac in the cover image for this specific article is quite ironic.
iMacs can't run open source software?
Which libre software license is macOS released under?
iMac hardware ≠ macOS software
How many Macs do Apple sell with Linux preinstalled?
how many crabs are in the ocean?
More than one unlike the ironic cover image.
EU is not synonymous to Europe.
1558 partners, that's crazy
'Open souce' is a deliberately misleading phrase engineered to scam us out of libre software, control over our own computing.