Easter Benny 🐇🥚
The average person has No Idea of the actual damage that Trump has done. I met with a very senior person in tech at a global bank today, and the stuff they're now having to plan for is now completely batshit insane - just to protect themselves from geopolitics. Insights:
1. US tech companies, including hyperscalers are fucked.
2. Open source is a strategic imperative, no matter the cost.
3. It may not sound like it right now, but developer demand is going to go sky high.
4. AI - hahahahaha
Mar 26 at 4:25pmWeb
Show threadEaster Benny 🐇🥚1d ago
Tech/data sovereignty is now a top 3 factor in investment decisions. Fedi discourse has been ahead of the game.
Show threadEaster Benny 🐇🥚1d ago
If you're an open source committer on a data platform there is a payday coming the likes of which COBOL programmers can only dream.
Show threadAcesabe1d ago
@feijoa
I will likely run a session for my workplace on data sovereignty as I'm certain most seniors there have no clue about such concepts, the reality of what that implies for a smaller company with limited sys/dev capacity however, will be heavy, the resistance to migrate from G or M$ will be high. (Lucky we have avoided getting snared by M$ but the boss still regularly blurts: "..and when we go back to M$..." as though we actually used paid licenses ever...
Show threadMikey1d ago
@feijoa could you elaborate a little on your first point? How are the hyperscalers fucked?
Show threadWylieCoyoteUK 1d ago
@frak @feijoa I think he means that they will not be considered by anyone outside the USA
Show threadEaster Benny 🐇🥚1d ago

@wyliecoyoteuk @frak If you can be cut off overnight from your own systems on a madman's whim, even if they're hosted in-country...

Same can be said of any on-prem software with a licensing kill switch. It's all on the way out.

Show threadWylieCoyoteUK 1d ago
@feijoa @frak That includes Windows and MacOS....
Show threadEaster Benny 🐇🥚1d ago
@wyliecoyoteuk @frak The sheer scale of this 🤯
Show threadSam H (he/him)1d ago
@feijoa @wyliecoyoteuk @frak
I've started the conversation with our CTO, but I don't think they're taking it seriously yet.
Show threadMikey1d ago
@wyliecoyoteuk @feijoa *insert year of the Linux desktop joke here*
Show threadEaster Benny 🐇🥚1d ago
@frak Very large companies are divesting. Cloud is now seen as an operational risk - "other people's computers". Not just IaaS, but also SaaS.
Show threadMikey1d ago

@feijoa about time in my opinion 🙂

And it's funny what it took for businesses to finally see the risks.