Technology

In order to halt they have to consider it first. There is some process required.

That was my first reaction, but anyone who's been anywhere near the civil service knows it will take 16 meetings just to decide to have a meeting about it. The fact they've started considering it within a year means this must be high priority.

Ditto. I would have expected most justice ministries to self-host or at least use domestic servers.

Some of us here think it's no coincidence the move was considered just as a right wing government happens to be in power. Especially since there was no significant cost savings from the proposed move.

It was already unpopular, but the USA going full Putin now has the average Finn also seeing it as suspicious, instead of just the left wing.

Easier said than done for a country that size, but I always think it would be amazing if Finland could band together with a couple dozen or so other European countries to form some kind of cooperative Union that would allow the creation of this kind of project. I also imagine that if such a thing did exist and you were a part of it you'd have to be a complete fucking dickbasket to leave it but that's neither here nor there.

All your data are belong to us.

American oligarchs will bribe the government to continue doing their bidding, even against nations that were once our allies.

Put your private citizens data on US servers?

Nah. More like giving your private citizens data to US government.

Oh no, no... Trust in America is gone forever, no matter who wins. Because American people have demonstrated (twice) that they can choose someone like Trump as a president. The world won't be waiting anxiously for the next Trump. We'll move on.

Even if the electios are free in fair, I don't think he'd be done in November.

The only way he's "done" is if GOP loses every single last senate seat up for grabs. Every single one in Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Florida, Texas, etc.

Hell, most analysts think that Democrats don't have a realistic chance of even getting a simple senate majority, let alone a veto-proof one or even a filibuster proof one.

If they don't then they cannot remove anyone from office, they cannot override vetos. Yes, they can decline to pass bills, but given their stance of 'executive branch has supreme power', they'll just do illegal executive orders and ignore the courts unless the supreme court agrees with them. Trump is already declared immune from any and all crimes except by the Senate and has the ability to pardon any and all federal cases, and that's assuming his own enforcement agencies even bother trying to punish anyone...

I’m sure the Democrats will select a top-tier candidate for us like Gavin Newsom in 2028. One of the most pressing issues in this country right now is there is a lot of hate against minority groups like billionaires and zionists, and a candidate like Newsom would work tirelessly to make sure these groups don’t have to live in fear.

We've formed a committee to look into it

We only struggle with what we produce not being bought up by American giants.

Writing the software isn't a problem. Having the company survive is.

Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.

The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.

I would assume this is more a Finland specific problem, AFAIK Slovakia for example has a private cloud for all government IT stuff.

Though that might be due to corruption in this state....

That's not an alternative. In fact almost everything cloud already is Linux.

It's almost like you don't actually understand exactly what options they're looking at. And you just feel like throwing Linux out for everything. Considering that a lot of AWS does actually run on Linux.