jamesblonde a day ago

The Swedish tax authorities went all in on Azure. Insane. And screw solidarity with the Danes. We rent our digital infra, and now the Don extractive rents. He also threatens us if we want to have our own laws or, god forbid, support our own digital infra.

Ringz a day ago

Ok… that’s odd. Wouldn’t expect anything like this from the Dutch government, since they have a very progressive digital image in Europe.

  • usrnm a day ago

    For the past 15 years being progressive meant moving everything to the (US-owned) cloud

  • vladms a day ago

    Netherlands is generally very sensitive to price, so if the US cloud (plus the 2 millions for the backup) was cheaper than the alternatives they gladly took it. Also, I would expect Microsoft offered them a big discount...