beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoThe Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everythingnos.nlexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1369arrow-down1external-linkThe Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everythingnos.nlbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square28linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1158275/the-netherlands-just-blocked-a-us-company-from-buying-the-app-dutch-citizens-use-for-eve
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 hours agoMeanwile, in Finland, we outsourced our fucking vote counting system, to god-damn AWS.
minus-squarePalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoSounds like you guys are going to love having Putin be your best friend.
minus-squareDisasterTransport@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 hours ago…isn’t UpCloud Finnish? E: looks like they didnt go through with it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers
Meanwile, in Finland, we outsourced our fucking vote counting system, to god-damn AWS.
Sounds like you guys are going to love having Putin be your best friend.
…isn’t UpCloud Finnish?
E: looks like they didnt go through with it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers