Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

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fennesz12@feddit.dk · 12 pts · 231d (1 reply)

Lots of promising stuff happening here in Denmark already. A minister of digitalization, Linux Laptops in the government, and Margrethe Vestager created an initiative for European based social networks called Rebuild.

But for some reason also some backwards stuff. Like trying to ban VPN. Like, what?

C1pher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d

Maybe because most of them are US based, and steal your data anyways? Just guessing, but that still doesn’t make it right.

verstra@programming.dev · 8 pts · 231d (1 reply)

Did Nextcloud get any more performant in the last 5years, or did the Austrian ministry shoot itself in the foot?

arendjr@programming.dev · 1 pts · 230d

Happy Nextcloud user here. It has its ups and downs, but overall I vastly prefer it over Google Docs.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 231d

Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure

I can’t even imagine the number for Canada, it’s gotta be 100%.

I hope we and Europe can do this transition together, there’s a lot of room for safe partnership in it.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 231d

About time

Shamber@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d

World smallest violin 🎻