• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 hours ago

    Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.

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      I think, this is especially relevant in Europe. The open source / European tech services could be used as a backup at least. It’s very shortsighted to rely just on one service provider. Such service disruptions like the recent one make one wonder about when Europe finally gets a wake up call and we truly look at how we can build own tech properly.

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        Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/