• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Coming late enough to the party to pick up the empty beer cans with the cigarette butts in them. What a non-starter.

    • DonkMagnum@lemy.lol
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      2 days ago

      lol wut? Because cloud data storage isn’t a thing any more? Because giving money and data to foreign companies is awesome? What do you know that the rest of the world doesn’t?

      Even if they only ever hosted for the fed gov, this would still be a worthwhile project, if only to stop spending that money abroad.

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        2 days ago

        Maybe he means it’s like closing the barn door after the horses have bolted. The government already put all the personal data they have on most people into the cloud years ago.

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            2 days ago

            You could ask him, bit it sounds to me like he’s not happy about how long it took them to get to this point. He’s right that the government caused generational harm to its citizenry with their oblivious decision making. The best time to set this up was before moving our information into public space. That doesn’t mean the next best time isn’t immediately.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Yep. I’m not sure how much of the milk is just already spilled. I still think this is a very important and good idea, though.