too late. We already lost it. At this point the question is if we actually are serious about taking it back. So far, I am not seeing it. Partially because people do not want to see the size of the risk (too scary) and partially because people really do not want to accept the size of the work needed.

It needs a change of policy and view.

gov.uk/government/news/defence…

Truth. We are probably not serious about taking back our digital sovereignty at the moment. You know how it is. Bureaucracies gonna' bureaucrate. I.E.: find the lowest bidder, or someone who takes them out to dinner, or someone who is willing to train their staff on proprietary systems. Or all three. If I see anyone trying to steer the ship toward the right direction I will point them in the direction of Hubert's manifesto.

My money, for where that leadership comes from if & when we see it, is on #Norway or #Finland, but I'm just guessing.

#infrastructure #AWS #geopolitics #defenceProcurement #infoSec #europe

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Spreadsheets have one good location in a process: at the top.

They can be directly used as database clients, to good effect.

The Macro-laden sheets I passed around mainly had a "refresh" button, so they didn't have to know to right-click on the pivot table report and pick "refresh" from the database.

On rare occasions, they could also be used to put something into a database, as long as it was manually confirmed for every record.

They can have huge roles in NON-automated updates.

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