Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

• balssh@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From the ashes maybe a better internet will emerge then. The current one is very dogshit and only going worse.

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where do I sign up for newgrounds 2.0?

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• Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are plenty of providers, this is a little reactionary. I’ve worked with a local data center for hosting in every state I’ve lived in.

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about the providers, it’s about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let’s be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.

    And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.

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    • person1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you’d already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        100%

        Germany is providing an open source solution to gsuite (which I haven’t looked at yet) but am told it’s pretty good. More open and more choice is great.

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is why you give notice; this isn’t an overnight thing. If anything, this would help strengthen and decentralize hosting platforms while giving a huge amount of business to companies to help them migrate.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Notice or not any infrastructure change is brutal - even if you go like for like.

        I’m not saying I’m against the idea: I loathe all the centralization and robber barons running around in this era. But switches like these rarely go as planned. If haste is required even less so.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d double my mortgage just to see microsoft365 crumble.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But you love teams right?! (get the gas can - I’ll get the matches)

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or they’ll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is pretty much how the VMware situation shook out.

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That entirely depends on who deeply they’ve locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it’d take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.

      Source: I’ve done it.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        were moderately smart

        This is mostly the problem in a lot of cases. A lot of companies don’t pay you to be smart… they pay you to be “efficient” which normally means cheap.

        Good and skilled people may be in a lot of these companies… but their hands may be tied in terms of choices.

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course it would not.

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