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A journal was a thing when it was based on paper. What value does collecting papers to a specific issue of journal have today? Science and Nature may attract better peer reviewers but maybe we could find a new way to compute a weight for a paper depending on the people who peer reviewed it instead of the journal it appeared in?

What if we could look at authors, peer reviewers and papers as a graph of weighted edges to come up with a score that was independent on journals as a concept? And where there is an ontology for the semantics of edges (not only number of citations)?

But isn't Zoho Corp an Indian / US company? If so the customer needs to do an assessment of India as a third country and what laws they have that may impact GDPR compliance. Sounds difficult.

That is one of the products they are considering (like the French government did). But it needs more functionality than team chat to be viable.

I think OnlyOffice is one of the candidates being considered. But it needs more tools around it (e.g. Nextcloud for files and tasks, videoconferencing etc).

If the OnlyOffice developers made a giant leap to broaden their product they would likely attract a lot of customers in the EU right now.

I believe it will come back. France is working on Bleu [1] which looks very similar to what Germany and Microsoft tried back then. In the mean time I think startups like Basecamp [2] that can provide a compliant alternative right now would get quite a lot of customers. One way of doing it is partnering with a European company to provide the same service out of reach to the US government.

[1]: https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/27/223...

[2]: https://basecamp.com/

Openly licensed speech data for smaller languages is great! I hope as many as possible contribute in order to get better representation across ages and pronunciation. In the end, this may be what is needed for the hyperscale companies to support speech assistants in more languages?

Had the laptop had a 15 inch screen it would likely have shown the entire URL including the full PIN code. Also visible in the screen are bookmarks to Netflix and what looks like barber shop music. Also a Gmail tab open. Did now know defense ministers were using Gmail on official hardware...

It was a six-digit pin of which 5 digits were accidentally shown in a tweet from the Dutch Defence Minister Ank Bijleveld.

The conference chair couldn't help giggling. What was it he said? "Hey you better hang up before the police arrives"?

Can't help but think that the Schrems II court judgment should be viewed as the intro to EU industrial policy in cloud computing...

I run a couple of things on Scaleway. It works very well and looks very similar to Digital Ocean. Great UX for the console application and chap prices. But like Hetzner only a basic service.

Maybe we could create EU cloud catalog website for people to find all the providers that actually already exist (in Sweden the company Glesys is a similar provider).

While there are some Jira alternatives there still seems to be a an opening for a Confluence alternatives. Any takers?

Fun case from Sweden: the central government website for healthcare included js from a third party with no integrity hash. Third party got hacked and they changed the js to mine cryptocurrency over the weekend. Thousands of people participated in mining...

"Now that we have that shell script, we can call it from other places as well. iTerm2 has a feature called Triggers, which can execute actions based on text matching a regex in your terminal. So we could write a regex to listen for “Yubikey for” and have it run the same script, eliminating the need to press buttons altogether."

But isn't the whole idea that it shouldn't be possible to trigger it from software?

I use it to archive complex web pages.

A lot of US service providers (and European organizations using them) need to think about the implications of the Schrems II decision. The more people who did the legal analysis I speak to the more it becomes clear that this will have major implications.

In practice I have already heard about organisations that are wary about handling personal information in cloud services if they are hosted on US platforms like AWS, Azure etc.

The EU needs to get an agreement in place with the US. But it looks like this will not happen for maybe a long time. Will there be a major exit from US cloud services in the mean time?

It suggested stereosperm.com - not sure what business I need to start now...

I still have a hard time understanding why there needs to be a markdown preview window occupying space. When you go back to your notes will you read the rendered version or just read the markdown? Maybe I am looking for wysiwyg.

Oracle Enterprise TikTok. Licensing experts from Oracle will visit kids and check if they are properly licensed. Multi-core phone owners will pay extra unless their family is on Oracle Premier Support.

I clicked the upvote on your comment but wanted to put a sad emoji...

1. I think many public sector organizations in Europe lack basic knowledge of FOSS and have IT managers that don't even know what it is.

2. In many ways it is surprising that generic software like cloud office functionality in reality only have two suppliers, both from the US, in the public sector. The amount of money that is being paid by tax payers every year for that across the EU is staggering.

Maybe the Schrems 2 court decision will change #2 eventually but for the time being I see very few alternatives.

I really wish there was an iMessage application for Windows. iPhone <-> Windows 10 interoperability is not really there.

It would be great with a similar solution that also packaged you own STUN/TURN setup. Maybe there is someone who did that for Jitsi meet?

If there was an easy way to get iMessages in Windows 10 I guess it would just increase the number of people who consider switching from Mac? Maybe Apple can't fit that into their business model?

I have been looking for a replacement 13" laptop and for the first time in many years I am looking at getting a Win 10 laptop (heres hoping WSL2 will be the saviour for decent development setup). But is is hard finding decent 13" hardware that doesn't have annoying drawbacks. Hard to believe but there seems to be a market segment for a new laptop manufacturer that produces three models that are continuously refreshed every second year or so.

Not anymore. :-)

For a lot of people the thinking will go "ah DoD uses Azure so it is safe to put pur own valuable stuff there". But is the DoD contract actually using the same Azure infrastructure as everyone else or is it running on a physically separated Azure platform with staff w security clearance?

I would love to know more about how this discussion is in Denmark. Also how the Danish public sector is talking about GDPR/Cloud Act in relation to O365 and similar services.

To be fair, they did the following:

- Data and analysis was done at a server in the class room (locked in a cabinet) - All parents signed a consent form before the trial started. - All data was erased after the trial ended.

The Swedish DPA decided that:

1. Consent is not valid of there is a power difference between the subject and the requester. 2. They should have documented a PIA (Privacy impact assessment). 3. They should have contacted the DPA before starting the trial.

Zoom is one of the few web meeting solutions that just works - even for people without the client. I was surprised to see that they seem to skipped WebRTC and have a custom implementation instead: https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/