Yea we got a bit of the “inmates are running the asylum” situation over here.

In the immortal words of the joker(paraphrased) this country needs an enema

Couldn't undermine the country more if they tried, which makes one wonder.

I wish. Organizations and countries/municipalities are far too lazy to make the change.

Nope. The US isn't teaching people to fish, its forcing them to learn How to to feed themselves. In the past they handed them the fish so they could control them. That power is lost now.

US won't recover the position it had in fifty years or more.

This is not a bad thing. Over dependency on any one nation or even a bloc of nations is a bad thing.

I can’t help but think the dependency on the US that has been created played some role in what’s happening now.

I've been pro US imperialism for a while now, but honestly I'm glad that the rest of the world is shedding the worst of our power projection.

On one hand the heel position has really pushed a lot of the world in a positive direction, but there's gotta be a better fucking way then, like you said destroying half a century of international relations and cooperation. That's not to mention the bigger issue of US supported genocide in Palistein and the ethnic cleansing operation in the states, which I can't excuse for any 4d accidently good things on the geopolitical scale.

I will be so pissed off when a democrat is elected and every single EU country will try to go back to business as usual

in fact, things got better

The US or the ICC?

Well the ICC isn't amazing either. Historically it has been used as a tool to "prosecute" African individuals in western courts and has prosecuted literally 0 western war criminals, completely ignoring European crimes abroad. Whether imperialistic/colonialistic or just trying to establish itself as legitimate by prosecuting easy targets, African countries (who were initially all for the ICC because of their history with instability and war and were some of the main case referers early on) are withdrawing because of how "unbalanced" the justice is.

The ICC has never once prosecuted a european national, EVER, for war crimes.

A lot of regimes seeking to get rid of western mega-corporation exploitation are resorting to getting rid of as much western influence as possible, maybe because the frequency of European, american, and corporate sponsored coups.

But the US never recognized the ICC because they commit so many thousands of war crimes.

NixOS is great, but it definitely breaks things. It's the way it works, though, not whether the software is bleeding edge. Nix lets a package specify its own dependencies, even if those dependencies conflict with those of another package. It does this by breaking the traditional POSIX file system structure that many programs assume they can depend on. It puts all sorts of things where they "don't belong", and then uses a small army of environment variables, scripts, and symlinks to stitch it back together so that no individual package realizes what happened. If you only use software from the package manager, this is often (but not always) seemless, but if you download stuff from the web, none of the system libraries it traditionally expects are there. Likewise, if you're using Nix alongside something like Debian's apt, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the two package managers doing things in two different ways causes some issues that are hard to interpret to the uninformed.

Personally id say try it in a VM*. Home-manager and nix packages (and even flakes at this point) havent felt like experimental features for a good 5 years for me on NixOS

Edit: while on Mac yes. Havent played with it that much on other distros

If I can sell my house, I'll do it. But I'm in the US. Sure do want out. My house has been on market for 5 months.

Windows as a home user desktop is definitely coasting on momentum, though it is also the OS deployed on most new PCs which keeps it going.

I think the only thing really keeping Microsoft relevant is Active Directory (and Azure by extension) because a lot of organizations are dependent on AD internally, and there still aren't really any good alternatives that check all the same boxes. You could probably cobble together a working solution for ~90% of it with open source software, but it would be clunky, fragmented and feature-poor compared to an on-prem AD system. It would require a lot more administrative overhead to configure and maintain it, and user management would be a mess.

Flakes and home-manager is unmatched. ❤️

Considering the Dutch have ASML,

That's a card which only hurts ASML if played.

Next up, convince everyone to drop Meta, including WhatsApp and IG!

The government. Read the article

The problem you point out has been known in the Linux community for literally decades and is the reason why Red Hat Linux was created and any company can, right know, get an Enterprise version of it with an Enterprise support contract.

That said, over the years I worked in seriously large multinational companies which used Linux and other open source products like Apache extensively on the server side (pretty much all such machines had it) so at least on the server side things did change massively from back in the day when companies would get Sun servers with SunOS or IBM server with Minix rather than generic server PCs with Linux due to that rationale you stated.

In fact, it has also become a common thing in much smaller companies, though maybe not the small and micro-sized ones.

The reality on the ground at least on the server side and for infrastructure software is that companies did find a way to deal with the problem of not being able to get support contracts from many of the OSS apps makers, and did so either by just paying some company specialized in supporting it or by having their own developers - after all, it's exactly the thing with OSS that any developer can change it hence you're not limited to paying for support from a specific company that makes the software.

With non-free software, you have no say at all.

There is absolutely nothing preventing them from hiring a firm to develop a feature in FOSS. Hell, they can even keep it proprietary if they wanted to.

Don't get me started about ISO. They can go fuck themselves.

But that particular standard doesn't apply to software. It applies to a company. Its a best practices, audited authoritative report. None of that means the software doesnt have backdoors, flaws, issues, its how they handle them.

Microsoft is a known ISO cheater, and will pay off companies or at least influence them, so I wouldn't trust ISO or the auditors.

So now, any company that is willing to take on the challenge of being certified can use open source software (which actually is audit-able as opposed to Microsoft's).

Seems like there is a path forward. Yes they may have to fund a project that helps audit, develop, or maintain critical software. If its open source, you have an entire world could also participate in securely developing software, in the open.

Commercial support or if it's critical enough infrastructure have a full time department/team to do it. Commercial support is the obvious choice for most countries starting out tbh.

Honestly SuSE, Ubuntu, and Hetzner all have good for enterprise support and its crazy that they don't have more major gov business in the EU now.

But honestly yeah, pay for labour to maintain things. It's not a breaking new idea. You can do that AND own the things instead of renting from private companies too. Also not a new idea.

The only thing new is that we are talking about computers and we have museums for them already so maybe get with the times, right?

Well fuck, if it so hard for them to do it, they can hire me and I can implememt DISA for them. They'll nees to bring in an old immigrant though.

They don’t even need to be comparable. Majority of people just need the basics or what Office 2013 had to offer. Now Office does too much and now copilot… if anything it’s getting worse now.