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I am really happy the Anglo-Saxon World is shooting itself in the foot with technology. I worked for a tech company in the UK who had german clients that produ
by 1971genocide 11y ago
I am really happy the Anglo-Saxon World is shooting itself in the foot with technology.
I worked for a tech company in the UK who had german clients that produced economical policies that were used by Merkel's Cabinet.
It was the same time that the snowden scandals were all over the news and the client flat out told us no amazon, microsoft or american cloud computing platform.
It was a pain to find good European cloud providers but as a young 20 year old I was cynically happy - It meant that just like in the cold war - physicist never ran of jobs In my lifetime there wont be a shortage of jobs for programmers. Essentially the world had twice as many physicist ( Soviet and America ).
Snowden has been the best thing to happen to the tech world.
Finally I can stop making shitty apps to connect to amazon and make my own amazon !
- trengrj 11y agoMy wish is not that the Snowden scandals cause European companies to make shallow clones of American cloud platforms but that libre / free software software and open hardware emerge. I feel this is the path to real privacy and freedom.
- openfuture 11y agoI could not agree more with this. We need to figure out a way of making a more united front in this war. Its crazy how hard it is to reach people regarding the danger of all this surveillance, I feel completely drowned out.
- ZoeZoeBee 11y agoThe people you're trying to inform are incapable of seeing beyond what Big Brother tells them the way things are. Best of luck waking others up
- openfuture 11y agoThat's why the 'we' I was referring to doesn't include them.