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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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  1. ricardobeat · · focus · HN ↗
    A note to the developers in the project, if anyone is reading: your repositories are in violation of the new Codeberg policy that forbids AI-generated code [1].

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    1. gagik_co · · focus · HN ↗
      It’d make the most sense for the Dutch government (or DAWO) to have their own Forgejo instance if the goal is data sovereignty.

      edit: looks like this was originally the case and then they moved?

      1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
        We can insist everyone self-hosts everything, but is it worth it? Do you have your own email? It&#x27;s quite normal for a government agency to contract a third party to supply e.g. furniture, instead of chopping its own wood.
        1. gmueckl · · focus · HN ↗
          But furniture is a one time sale, not an ongoing service. That&#x27;s a bad comparison.
          1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
            A third party supplies their electricity too.
          2. Quothling · · focus · HN ↗
            Furniture is actually an ongoing service on the scale of public organisations. When I worked for a Danish city we had a set of subscriptions for furniture, depending on what sort of institution it was. This probably won&#x27;t surprise you but city hall had the supreme plus subscription which meant that furniture was replaced regularily, while schools had the shit tier subscription meaning the furniture almost had to break into pieces before it got replaced. It&#x27;s done with purchase agreements for an entire sector.

            I think the comparison is fair enough considering that self-hosted would work sort of similar. In that you&#x27;d rent the physical space for your hardware (and possibly the hardware itself) at local suppliers, and not actually have it in your basement.

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