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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 hours ago

Never had been.

You just now figured this out?

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

The cloud is a tool of oppression in the wrong hands, and it is in the wrong hands.

Let the sun shine in.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What the hell is a government doing using someone else's cloud? I have a small business and I bought a Synology NAS years ago. How is it possible that a government does not have its own servers?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Buying service level agreements on rented hardware is easier and cheaper (you don't have to pay your own IT). Security and data protection, pfft nobody needs or wants that.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

you don’t have to post your own IT

Now you’re paying for devops…

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As a cloud professional in the US he is 100% right. They should be worried.

[–] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago

Without too much detail, all heads of US cloud providers sat behind trump at the inauguration.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 29 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Which idiot is responsible for the "no longer"?

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

America and Europe have been supposedly allied since WW2. That’s “no longer” the case, now more obvious than ever before.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago

Well clearly people thought it was previously.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

AWS and Azure kind of kneecapped all the other cloud providers

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Tried to explain that to the higher ups in my org for months.

They introduced some proxy/VPN that pipes all of our traffic through a service that is not only breaking SSL, but also owned by a US corporation.

That's enough red flags to make Mao blush, but nobody saw any problem in it....