A surprise Digital Sovereignty test.
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Croatia and Bulgaria GOAT it with own servers
You cant see it well because the graph covers it but this clearly shows how sweden is a digital hellhole. Evryone is a techbro, nobody actually understands tech, everyone uses all the newest corporate bullshit, even the government. This is why we need it education from a younger age, and it education that is platform independant.
I think the Nordics are all in the same shit as Benelux - complete dependence on American tech.
As a Norwegian we're also heavily invested as owners, with the idiot in charge of the sovereign wealth fund having invested most of our money in American big tech. So when America goes down they're taking us with them in all kinds of ways. 🙃
Edit: Long live stupidity:
https://belibre.be/mxmap/?country=europe&color=mail&month=2026-11
'Sovereign wealth fund'
Looks inside
Reliance on US tech giants...
There's a lot of us advocating for, and using, open source alternatives at work. The problem is the higher-ups get really aroused when they see the Microsoft logo. It's pretty frustrating as a developer, most of the time for smaller systems and projects we get to do what we want and choose open source. But for bigger decisions outside our department big corporate enterprise solutions are always chosen. And of course, they are an absolute nightmare to work with, horrible API's and so on.
As someone studying Norwegian and looking to maybe move there, that's a bit unsettling. Granted, Japan is also in a rather precarious position and North America is, well, full of the US.
The sovereign wealth fund lost 1500 billion kroner of value since this summer. And that's before the stock market crashes.
All the money in the world is invested in the same scam, so we're not worse off than anyone else. The biggest difference is that we have a lot more money to lose. I'm just angry because we should have been better than that, but instead hired some finance bro with the IQ of a fencepost and no fucking idea what anything is worth to manage the fund. Now is the time for strengthening ethical guidelines, not weakening them. The social democrats won the election, but they're not challenging the leadership of the wealth fund because it's supposed to be "apolitical'.
If funding tech bros is apolitical then so is the guillotine.
I’m just angry because we should have been better than that,
Do you think Norway was allowed to keep the profits while all other oil producing countries are regularly raided?
Its genius that yall have a shitton of money in case the economy collepses.... and all of it is invested in the... economy? I mean truly a genius play. No but actually i used to idiolize norway cause it seemed like yall had everything solved but now i see that many of the same problems are present there as well, tho yall still do a lot of stuff much better.
It's invested in a pretty diverse portfolio and there will be no reason to feel sorry for us no matter how much the economy tanks (we own everything), but the current leadership of the sovereign wealth fund is in full on AI psychosis, keeps on cozying up to tech billionaires as if their life depends on it, and is working to try to get rid of the few ethical guidelines we have in the fund arguing it makes it impossible to invest in the most profitable companies and that reality has changed to the point where the idea of ethics is outdated and irrelevant.
Nicolai Tangen, may you rot in hell alongside the fascists you enable.
There has to be some process to remove him, right?
"Apolitical" shouldn't be an excuse to make his position more secure than the monarchy's...
Just embrace Silicon Valhalla, bro.
Where you die valiantly only to have your brain scanned and sentenced to eternal wage slavery. Fuck this timeline.
I am quite surprised about Switzerland
As a person who lived there and worked there as a dev I can confirm it's bad and they are so conservative that they are like 20 years backwards...
Ireland 365.
One more reason for EU to finally put an end on the lobbying and corruption of the major European technology hub and start proper regulatory enforcement and strategic autonomy
The EU too is corrupt as fuck, except for the EU Parliament (and even then, in the main rather than all of it).
Certainly the unelected EU Commissions are very much the willful bitches of American big companies, most notably Big Tech and Big Finance.
As long as the executive of the EU is the unelected commission, don't expect anything to trully challenge the dominance of big American Tech companies in Europe - at most we'll get some symbolic, watered down for optics only measures.
It's not as if overexposure to American Big Tech and the strategic risks and negative economic impact for EU companies of it is something new - it's a problem that's been growing for over 2 decades and has reached massive proportions already a decade ago. They haven't done anything meaningful about because they don't want to, not because it wasn't a problem before.
Sadly can't see Finland, but would expect it to be fiery bright red as we are soon hosting everything on Amazon servers.. From healthcare to elections.
Impressed by Germany. Is this intentional or accidental success? Sometimes they seem like moving at snail's pace with regard to IT.
You can quite clearly see it's divided into several regions, so it's probably a Bundesland thing
It looks implausible to me. I'd expect to see a lot more red.
Kudos to France!
France is not only Independent but also 4K (much higher resolution on the map than for example Poland which is also independent but only HD, Greece seems independent as well but 720p)
probably because all ISP comes with their own email server
(^ I read this as witty sarcasm :) ) As a FOSS type person exposed to many facets, I must hand it to the people of France for running a lot of independent infrastructure. You're out there living life and stumble across "yet another" French instance of something (git, email, whatever), probably with a collective behind it. Germany and The Netherlands are close behind as well, tons of collectives running infra all over the place by these fine folks.
In Italy this looks like a development-level kinda map but for tech.
Kinda like the population-map fallacy.
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