In recent years, the Swiss army has considered collaborating with Palantir five times but rejected overtures from the controversial  United States technology company each time.

This is shown by research conducted by the online magazine Republik and the research collective WAV. According to the research, one reason was concern about the security of confidential data.

“We not only discovered these five contacts between experts from the Swiss army, but also the reasons why the cooperation was rejected,” Balz Oertli, one of the journalists involved in the Palantir investigation, told Swiss public broadcaster (RSI). “In three of the five cases, it was the lack of control over the data that led to the rejection.”

For the army experts, it was a question of sovereignty in handling confidential information. “They obviously didn’t trust Palantir enough,” Oertli concludes.

The journalistic investigation into Palantir was conducted at the European level through a collaboration between various media outlets. It revealed a contract volume of €1.44 billion for Palantir in Europe. The tech company generates the majority of its total revenue of approximately €4 billion in the US.

Cloud infrastructure is now as critical as energy, transport and telecommunications. we need our own secure European-controlled alternatives.

A friend of mine couldn't pay for his shopping at Tesco with his Revolut debit card.

Hi all,

I am the founder of Vault42, and I am trying to find out whether there is interest in a hosted Forgejo service built around EU sovereignty and independence from big tech. Forgejo is an open-source Git hosting platform that I think deserves wider use, so we will donate 5% of our plan revenue to the project.

Vault42 is meant for freelancers, small agencies and small teams who want their code in the EU but have no one to spare for running their own servers. We handle the hosting, upgrades, security patches and backups. The plan is to offer:

• Forgejo for Git hosting
• Servers at Scaleway, a European cloud provider
• CI/CD runners
• Dependency vulnerability alerts on every plan
• Daily backups
• Custom domains, so your code lives at your own address

Vault42 has no US parent company and uses only EU-based subprocessors, so your code is not subject to the US CLOUD Act. ISO 27001 certification is a goal for later on.

The focus is on private and commercial repositories. Codeberg serves open-source projects very well, but its terms are not intended for private commercial work, which is the gap we want to fill. There will also be a free plan for open source with unlimited public repositories, as another option alongside Codeberg.

If this interests you, you can join the waitlist at vault42.eu.

I would especially like to hear from people who have considered leaving GitHub or GitLab: what would make you switch, and what has stopped you so far?

Marijn

Just as a note: it could be likely, that if there is a narrow margin win, or the Dems don't take the Senate, the US will not change due to the Democrats that flipped Republican (this is why Leaders We Deserve is trying to increase the margin).

Should the Blue Wave not happen or not be effective, what are you willing to do to send a message to the US?

And as someone who just used this product for the first time today, I can confirm it is of top toer quality! ☺️

Hello! I recently had to move to a different office at work, and as my coworkers had warned, the insulation here is terrible. Heatwaves are (finally) over in my region, so I'm left freezing at my desk.

So yeah, does anyone have glove recommendations?

Preferably fingerless gloves because I need to type on a keyboard. Bonus point if said gloves are made of natural fibers (no hate on synthetic fibers, they have various purposes but I prefer natural fibers for clothes that have direct contact with my skin).

Thank you for reading ❄ (ó﹏ò｡) ❄