Palantir? Wirklich? Was ist de-facto ein teil der Amerikanischen Geheimdiensten auf Deutsche daten loslassen? Ok 👍

The government is liberal, not lefty. Very different. But they seem like reasonable politicians. Boring. Normal. Not like this disaster.

Vielleicht wegen Alzheimer. Manche Leute werden damit sehr aggressiv.

MPL for libraries, AGPL for applications.

I’m a big fan of open source, but I just don’t think so. Companies and governments want to outsource hosting, cloud, and other IT work to big full-service corporations like Microsoft. If the EU wants digital sovereignty, it’s going to need one or more Microsoft-like corporations capable of delivering full-service solutions. The alternative is to contract with consultancies like Accenture to set up and administer Linux desktops, Libreoffice, cloud storage, and so on. That’s doable, but companies and governments just don’t want it. They want low-risk common solutions with predictable billing (i.e. not Accenture).

Possibly. Issue is the kind of reactors that are typically employed in submarines and on aircraft carriers are not necessarily the ones we want for civilian uses, but the temptation to use the civilian program as a training ground for military stuff is huge, for economic reasons. I think nuclear energy would be far more advanced if it wasn’t shackled to the pressurized water designs.

After the Russo-Ukrainian war began the Greens have really done a 180 on this sort of stuff, so I wouldn’t count on it.

The headline says Germany is replacing the US as security guarantor. Clearly it’s more nuanced, as you point out.

No nukes - no guarantees.

A lot. So much European investment has been flowing into the USA for the last couple of decades because that’s where the best returns are.

Well, Intel tried with OneApi. As for AMD they go 5 minutes between every time they shoot themselves in the foot. It’s unbelievable to watch.

If it wasn’t Trump I’d agree. However, getting Palantir involved sounds less like unifying databases than creating a social credit score-kind of system, complete with political opinions and other kinds of sensitive data

Good that they’re working on it, but man is this stuff slow. Germany’s still all in on PayPal. I think the EU should just create a common solution. Oh, and create a common way to confirm identities and sign documents online. This national fragmentation is just dumb.