

wowi42
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CoFounder https://t.co/m10u7YqTF4 French Nerd! #sysadmin #FreeBSD #Archlinux #PostgreSQL #Erlang #Elixir #Python Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! K8s is useless






Teortaxes just made me realize that the recent efforts by the EU to mandate use of homegrown software systems in government (like France’s recent Zoom clone) are even more self-defeating in light of Mythos. Such moves create unique indigenous vulnerabilities that the U.S. and China will not share. When USG develops or acquires exploits, there is a choice they make: do we keep this to ourselves or do we inform the developer? The benefit of the former is obvious, but the tradeoff is that if it’s a globally used software system, the government itself may be vulnerable to the exploit as well. But foreign governments who force themselves to use homegrown software are eliminating this tradeoff, since no U.S. government agency or business has any dependency on France’s Zoom clone. Yet another reminder that public policy very often does the opposite of what it says on the tin. These domestic software mandates are meant to ensure “digital sovereignty,” and yet they diminish it. Note that this analysis applies only to Middle Powers and not to China, since China has its own frontier AI capability.











why has no one vibed up really good local otel tooling i want to be able to look at all these traces during local dev




