UK IT Leaders to stat Tech Firms: non ci fidiamo di te

* “My experience and thoughts as a normie trying NextCloud to degoogle” was submitted on April 12, 2025: https://np.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/1jxckmq/my_experience_and_thoughts_as_a_normie_trying/

* “Escaping US Tech Giants Leads European YouTuber To Open Source” by Tyler August (May 17, 2025): https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/escaping-us-tech-giants-leads-european-youtuber-to-open-source/

* “Gitex Europe: EU states work on the open-source “hyper cloud” 8ra” “Building on Gaia-X and the EU program for an industrial cloud IPCEI-CIS, 12 EU countries want to create an open source ecosystem for data rooms with 8ra.” by Stefan Krempl (May 22, 2025): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Gitex-Europe-EU-states-work-on-the-open-source-hyper-cloud-8ra-10392647.html

* “‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers” “Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won’t happen, say analysts” by Dan Robinson (May 22, 2025): https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/ditching_us_clouds_for_local/

* “Leave the Room: A Reality Check on European Cloud Alternatives” by Benjamin Hermann (May 25, 2025): https://np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1kxen0r/escaping_us_tech_giants_leads_european_youtuber/muoj5tw/

* “Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds” “IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch” by Dan Robinson (May 28, 2025): https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/uk_execs_cloud/

* “UK IT Leaders to US Tech Firms: We Don’t Trust You” by James Maguire (May 29, 2025) — includes a PDF link to the white paper “The digital sovereignty revolution: What UK businesses need to know” by Civo: https://techstrong.it/ai/uk-it-leaders-to-us-tech-firms-we-dont-trust-you/

 

– From https://np.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/1k53dkc/im_going_in_an_international_trip_to_visit_family/

– “My Solution Without Relying on Global Vendors” by vawaver (April 22, 2025): https://help.nextcloud.com/t/replacing-office365-how-to-keep-os-secure/223289/3 from https://help.nextcloud.com/t/replacing-office365-how-to-keep-os-secure/223289 (“Replacing Office365, how to keep OS secure”)

 

– From https://np.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/1k3g123/europes_cloud_customers_eyeing_exit_from_us/

– “Why Do Hyperscalers Design Their Own CPUs?” by Sally Ward-Foxton (April 10, 2025): https://www.eetimes.com/why-do-hyperscalers-design-their-own-cpus/

– “SaaS Is Broken: Why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is the Future” “BYOC lets companies run SaaS on their own cloud infrastructure.” by Noam Levy (March 30, 2025): https://thenewstack.io/saas-is-broken-why-bring-your-own-cloud-byoc-is-the-future/

– “Open Source: A hedge against tariffs and geopolitics” by Vipul Vaibhaw (April 8, 2025): https://vaibhawvipul.github.io/2025/04/08/Open-Source-A-hedge-against-tariffs-and-geopolitics.html

– “LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs” “The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week.” by Agam Shah (March 6, 2025): https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

 

* “A Global Rebalancing Is Well Underway as Investors Sell Off U.S. Bonds” by Patti Domm (April 18, 2025): https://www.barrons.com/articles/foreign-investors-selling-us-bonds-cc4c0693

* “Global Shift to Bypass the Dollar Is Gaining Momentum in Asia” by Catherine Bosley, Harry Suhartono, and Tao Zhang (May 8, 2025): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/global-shift-to-bypass-the-dollar-is-gaining-momentum-in-asia

* “Investors dump bonds globally as U.S. credit downgrade, Trump’s tax bill ignite fiscal worries” by Lee Ying Shan (May 22, 2025): https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/global-bonds-selloff-investors-turn-away-from-long-dated-debt.html

 

* https://np.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1kwy3ea/the_new_dark_age_the_trump_administration_has/ (“The New Dark Age — “The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.””)