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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I don’t where you live. But almost all of bigtech US cloud is problematic (Read: Illegal to use) for storing or processing of Personal information according to the GDPR if you’re based in the EU. Don’t know about HIPPA and other non-EU legislation. But almost all cloudservices use US bigtech as a subprocessor under the hood. Which means that the use of AI and cloud is most likely not GDPR-complaint. Which you could mention to the right people and hope they listen.

    Edit: It’s illegal to use for the processing of the patients PII, because of transfer to insecure third countries and because bigtech uses the data for their own purposes without any legal basis.

    Edit 2: The same is the case with your, and your colleagues PII.

    In my opinion privacy and GDPR is the same in this case. I think most public authorities is required to have a DPO, fx hospitals or the relevant health authority. The DPO can help answer your and your bosses questions on the mentioned questions.

    Hope you figure it out.













  • I have used Linux for a while and transitioned the wife and kids to Linux Mint a couple years ago.

    They know it is different than Windows but never miss anything as the alternatives are as good or better. The kids are used to mobile and tablets so know of app store and so on. The only downside is getting some games their friends play working, like Roblox. But for the most part alternatives like Minetest are fine (better).

    The upside is IMHO massive in terms of privacy, security, user friendless and sysadm stuff.

    It just works and we’re happy with it!



  • Same here! Rolling old Thinkpads because of the Linux compatibility, price and reparability is hard to beat. Would like to support the good companies more, but like the tinkering.

    Our talk made me think about the ethics of tech companies in general. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a ‘Tech Companies Ethics Index’ kinda like Phoronix/Toms Hardware Guide is for hardware, but which documents and compare tech on fx the following consumer relevant parameters:

    • Privacy
    • Security
    • Openness / FOSS / EEE
    • User friendliness
    • Reparability
    • Other?

    Sources could be: privacyguides, EFF, FSF, iFixit usere own experience and so on.

    It could be run by users who also contribute to a git something and site something.