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Fair point - Microsoft has definitely made it easier for cross-platform deployment with Entra ID, and for many orgs the F3 license math works out.

May I ask, has the fact that the data and service is under US residency and subject to US laws ever been an issue for you? That's the niche I'm trying to understand - whether it's big enough to matter or just an odd edge case.

That's the plan. I still have to figure out a lot but it's fun!

Thanks! I sure will, its my first own rack in a new data centre actually :-) kinda a long-term member of the homelab movement

Honestly, I wish I could stick with LDAP forever, it just worked. But no. My first setup in 2004 was OpenLDAP all the way for every service.

I am moving to a new server over Christmas, thanks for telling though :-)

Stay vigilant. Our German conservatives will repeat the process to restrict our human rights over and over until it slips through the cracks.

It's funny how politicians want laws against issues for which they usually are the guilty party.

1. I find it hard to call this a sovereign cloud. This is still Azure - albeit with the crown jewels cut out - in a different dress. Did they verify there is nothing inside that Azure stack enabling calls home? 2. SAP itself is not sovereign, they're a MS shop. 3. They are no fast movers, they move short-term through acquisitions only. 4. Change is not a thing you would associate with SAP 5. A company that bungles 200 million EUR for running smartphone app for handful of years is not gonna get far with 20 billion EUR.

Sorry but the ones with the money in the bank are not the ones who will actually be concerned or capable of working towards sovereignty because its opposed to their income source.

Systems against money laundering only work against average Joe/Jane. Really wealthy people just make a deal with a bank of their choice and launder money legally.

The wonderful thing about money is: its roots are only in belief, not in fact. If you get a sufficient amount of money users to believe pink colored dog poop has more value than a diamond, than it has.

The entire shtick is made up. People just tend to forget this too quick.

Have you ever use any of those in a realistic scenario? Any existing CI/CD solution is broken like hell and if you try to do more advanced stuff like reusing templates or actions, all hell breaks lose. Don't get me started on clones via SSH, doing commits from pipelines, etc.

CI/CD is one of the topics that is barely solved or usable ...

In reality executives are responsible when the company is doing well. When mistakes happen it is either handled by insurance or by firing an employee who was only partially involved.

That remark about blue states is pretty meaningless. Red states do much worse.

You could simplify the whole post by to express that any state or political party in the US is abhorrent to the citizens.

The only significant or interesting thing might be why certain focus areas actually provide a little bit for citizens.

Finally someone might get that the concept of a free market is a fairy tale

If a product becomes unstable due to increased competition it's not exactly been stable before. Also the whole premium is quite off. You got good items for fair prices before factories started producing bread. Often at higher quality. I'm old enough to remember. Honestly seems like the current market is only working because of regulation and protections of all kinds. That to me is a clear sign of volatility.

Considering I talked about a truly free market, central planning then seems to be a weird reaction. Why would that be related? It's not like I suggested a Chinese system, I advocated for one which is free from monopoly and focusses on local production and diversity for sourcing goods.