Oh, I just figured that a portable version of an isolated OS would be a decent alternative. Bit you’re right maybe a bit too much

They don’t realise they won’t be ministers for ever.

I would like to know how these politicians feel about being surveilled 24/7? Because they aren’t excluded.

You could try Qubes OS? Portable version maybe? That’s quite easy and sucure.

https://www.qubes-os.org/

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This is about 20 years ago. Anyway, the absurdity of the situation still strikes me today. I was reading the newspaper provided by the company and mister manager was angry that I read something he didn’t like so he tried to force me into submission.

Contractual and lawful reasons.

You can’t be fired without proper cause so when they fire you without proper cause the wil have to keep you on board for a while or choose to pay you out for that amount of time. I was sort of a foreman with a teal of about 20 technicians and I also had to work directly with our customers. They deemed me a liability because I was fired so they chose to pay out.

Same with salesmen. When you fire them without proper cause they want you out of their network as soon as possible and won’t take the risk of letting you work with costumers anymore so they just pay out the amount of time that is needed.

He first lade a threat. Then I called his bluff and then he pushed through.

In that way I got my full year off.

The stupid thing was that I was fired for reading a newspaper. I didn’t take it up to court because I knew I was getting a full years pay if they fired me that way.

Spaces will come but I miss them too. Threads are another feather that I miss on Elemen X

Matrix works great. Element X is my favourite client.

I got fired for reading the newspaper during my lunch break. Once a week this newspaper came with a for hire section that also included career advice and al that stuff. I was reading that part but the CEO called me into his office to tell me off. I called his bluff and he fired me.

I was scheduled to lead a team in China for a few weeks and after that had to go to the US for some other job. Sadly people that are fired can’t work off premises anymore so the staff manager begged me to accept their withdrawal of my discharge.

I kindly declined and got payed out a years’ wage. Took the time to reorientate into less toxic work environment. I now work with politicians, don’t know what happened there.

That breeding programme called natural selection is what got us all here.

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They started out with sort of a ‘fail forward’ approach where as German entities were encouraged to try and implement different types of open source software of OS’es. Those experiments have led to a broader understanding and in the meantime they funded the greater project that became OpenDesk.

This year they joined forced with the French government where the were doing the same sort of project with La Suite. The French and the German team joined in a 100 day sprint to deliver somewhere around September.

And I forgot to mention that the French government is on board as well.

They on their side are launching La Suite which is based on the same building block as OpenDesk.

https://code.gouv.fr/en/lasuite/

Some figures for those wondering how broadly adapted this open source suite is.

• Tchap: the trusted instant messaging service for the public sector used daily by 200,000 users. An extension of the Albert AI tool is planned for Tchap soon, during the summer.

• State audio conference with nearly 8,000 users for 700 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• State web conference with 47,000 users for 10,000 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• State webinar: the webinar service which can accommodate up to 350 participants, public officials and interlocutors from outside the State (from the public, private or associative sectors) has recorded more than 800,000 users for 65,000 meetings weekly (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• France transfer: the simple and secure solution for sending large files with 140,000 users having exchanged more than 350,000 letters (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• Resana, a public sector collaborative platform with 140,000 users and nearly 800,000 documents shared/month (2024 figure as of mid-May).

Sleswich-Holstein is one of the first states to ditch Microsoft.

You have to know that all of this takes time. They’ve decided to follow this path in 2022 and were aiming for the first results to appear in 2025.

Two weeks ago ZenDis launched OpenDesk 1.0. https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/

Are you sure?

Just about two weeks ago they launched OpenDesk.

https://www.digitale-verwaltung.de/SharedDocs/kurzmeldungen/Webs/DV/DE/2024/10_zendis.html

Element chat is integrated in this suite and is allready vastly used by the federal government, the army,…

I think no government anywhere else has embraced open source as much as Germany does.

The are building their sovereign cloud and different states, Schools, government departments, hospitals… are joining.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/#gsc.tab=0

They’ve put their money where their mout is by creating a sovereign tech fund.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/

They move slowly, as governments do, but they have a goal and a plan. It’s not easy to switch and running contracts have to reach the end of their term but when these contracts are over the move will be huge.

Thanks. I agree with your conclusion. I probably have spent too much time in privacy communities. In the end you’ll have to trust someone.

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi’s revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.