We need a police force in Canada that does not use Microslop and then follow the French lead. France is in the process of dropping Microslop for some linux distro in all public agencies.

Yeah, it's been a journey for sure. I think I started divesting myself from google in 2015 when it made a deal with us military.

Now I have my own calendar, contacts, maps & GPS, alternate email, YouTube alternatives, hosting my own music, etc etc.

It's a lot of work. A lot. I jump through hoops to do stuff that is convenient for most.

However, when I hear about the latest misuse of private data, it feels worth the effort. If infrastructure failed in an apocalypse, I'd have my opus music library.

Ultimately, my data remaining in my control is my top priority. MY DATA, MY RULES.

Unlikely. Compute Canada was supposed to establish data servers for federally funded research...in 2009. They even got a rule enacted that if a research program had a server funded, it would be taken by Compute Canada.

Another agency in Ottawa full of 200 wankers no one would miss if fired.

And also build some redundant infrastructure so in the event of a US turning hostile (which it is). The post-WW2 alliance and 5-eyes network was made under the assumption that while Americans can be positively nuts, they won't do shit like this.

But under Trump they proved they can. While Trump's brain is mush, the movement won't stop with him. The next president might be worse.

Funny story about how France has done it with their public services. The Police where frustrated with the upgrade to XP, so they got a distro developed for them and went Linux. After a Microslop representative told France that their data was not safe from the US CLOUD act, they set a deadline for all public services to switch over to this distro. Not sure if the deadline has passed but fairly sure it is coming up if it hasn’t yet.

Even if the data stays in Canada on Canadian servers using Microslop systems the US can still get it because of the US CLOUD act.

We don't have to sell EXCLUSIVELY to a Canadian market. We can sell to other countries.

Parts of the EU are doing it.

Canada's small population to serve inference to is an advantage to some extent in such a capex heavy space, but the money being committed federally is pretty tiny. I look at $3.3 billion committed for AI over 5 years when compared with $60B for new subs, $3B for Arctic patrol ships, and up to $27B on F-35s if we go through with that order and don't think we're being serious about sovereign AI at all. We don't have to be an OpenAI spending half a trillion on data centers for training and inference to reach a market of a billion+ people, but $3.3B over 5 years is not being serious about carving out our own independence from hyperscalers.

We have zero PhDs in Parliament, 7% STEM degrees. No one understands AI so any strategy will be written by lobbyists.

Hopefully that will not happen this time around, oh who am I kidding it is going to happen.