friends, I am in a six hour call that’s supposed to be a high level overview of a certain embedded software runtime. The current slide contains a discussion of the garbage collection subsystem and heap management, and also a diagram of how an individual cell of static ram works with the electrons shuffling around between the 0 and 1 states. There are several hundred words in a tiny font talking about voltage and whatnot.

engineers please learn to value soft skills like “expressing your expertise clearly and concisely” a little more 😭 this is like trying to share your grandma’s cake recipe through the medium of a textbook on organic chemistry

What alternatives to Dropbox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive etc are available today, that are EU based?

- Nextcloud Files is one
- any others people would recommend?

Hosted is fine, if within EU. German User Interface is essential.

https://european-alternatives.eu/de/ueber-uns

Background:

My accountant needs to make a per-customer data share available for ~400 different customers. Almost all of these are Windows, with a few macOS, and ... one FreeBSD person. Erm.

They are planning to consolidate 400 different customer ways of transferring data, to a single standard one.

We had a long and fruitful discussion today, about AI, privacy, and GDPR.

They would like to use Google Drive, and I said that all the USA companies make GDPR compliance very problematic, both due to their pro-AI stance, and also to the generally shakey stance of the various legislative frameworks that have been successfully challenged in recent years.

https://umatechnology.org/european-court-of-justice-rules-the-u-s-safe-harbor-data-sharing-pact-is-invalid/
https://iapp.org/news/a/schrems-addresses-emerging-questions-around-eu-us-data-privacy-framework/
https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/latombe-case-first-hearing-for-annulment-of-the-euus-data-privacy-framework
https://iapp.org/news/a/european-commissioner-discusses-eu-us-data-privacy-framework-potential-gdpr-reform