House Panther May 28

#onpremisesinfrastructure is vastly underrated. What are you going to do when #GoogleWorkspace or #Microsoft365 shut your account down because their AI decides to and you have no recourse. You can’t sue them because you’ve agreed to their terms of service. Oops? 🤷‍♂️

Also, what many don’t know is even if data is stored in the cloud, the customer is still responsible for backing up and archiving their data. The cloud company does some rudimentary disaster recovery but has specific indemnification against data loss. Marketing conveniently glosses over this. 😈

The #cloud cannot be trusted for small businesses. #Selfhosting is the way to go. It’s not hard at all and I am in the midst of writing a book for people with a minimal technical background to get started as easily as possible. Or even for them to have a technical friend help them out.

Show threadTomáš ZnamenáčekMay 29
@housepanther @bert_hubert Agree completely except for the bit that says self-hosting is not hard at all. For many smaller organisations it’s very hard indeed, that’s why they go with Workspace or MS365. And it’s often not a question of reading a book or finding a friend to help you set things up. They are just FAR below the needed levels of digital maturity to run things themselves. (I work for a non-profit that’s trying to improve digital skills in the Czech public sector including NGOs.)
Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦May 29
@zoul @housepanther tbh I had missed the rest of the post (beyond the click for more). Self-hosting right now is indeed not easy. But we can ask how that came to be. And if it could be solved, and I am sure it could be. Much like you can make your own coffee because we made that as easy as you'd want it to be, so you don't have to go to a coffee place.
Show threadJohn UlrikMay 29
@bert_hubert Coffee machine isn’t under constant attack by malicious state actors. (Hopefully. 😬) But, somewhat more seriously, I wonder when the EU and its members will take digital defence more seriously. Compared to the analog world, no one would consider or demand all persons, organisations, firms keep their own weapons, defences, private armies, and whatever it takes to defend themselves as the digital world forces us to do.
Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
@ujay68 the coffee machine however is tightly regulated, and if it make espresso it has a compressor which could explode. Or set your house on fire. In https://standards.iteh.ai/catalog/standards/cen/11791797-de00-4187-b1bd-14c5f6d94342/en-13248-2002 we find stringent rules. For software we mostly just gave up...
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Show threadJohn UlrikMay 29
@bert_hubert Maybe … make the internet as simple as coffee machines? 😅
Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦May 29
@ujay68 put water in there under pressure and see how easy it is.
Show threadJohn UlrikMay 29
@bert_hubert I know, I know. Her “sister” (right beside, but not shown on this photo) is 64 years old and has had a couple of … mishaps in her life. (But far fewer cables.)