cross-posted from: https://belgae.social/post/2546989

Indeed, all eggs are in one basket in Belgium. It is hard to find any exceptions whereby a government agency is independent and sovereign from Microsoft Corporation.

(edit) Can you fax them? Some agencies still have fax numbers. Not enough of them… it’s a shame to see fax die when it is the only somewhat universal electronic way to send a message without exposure to surveillance advertisers and their walled-garden barriers. This question really boils down to: are the fax numbers going to an inhouse decoder, or are they just 3rd party cloud services that repackage the faxes as an email?

  • a4ng3l
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah you run you home lab on your spare time. On the size of the government one cannot afford any loose end that would typically occur with non specialists. Hence why most of my contry’s ICT is subcontracted to companies like the Smalls or sometimes to my employer. Nothing is simple with such large scales and when stakes are so high. Unlike your basement.

    • maszlowshierarchyisstillhierarchy@quokk.au
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      3 hours ago

      and there it is. you’re simping for your boss.

      don’t you want a cushy job with the city government of Belgium doing exactly what you do now but with less corpo shit and less boss stealing your wages?

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        3 hours ago

        Uh? Am I? Because I point out that a government ‘s job is to govern?? And that there are governement partnerships whose role is to support them where they need to?? Have you looked up the smalls? You are just ignorant and vindictive for no reason here.

        • maszlowshierarchyisstillhierarchy@quokk.au
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          3 hours ago

          private corporations are bad shitty insecure and overpriced. they do worse work than they could with any other motivation scheme, and skim money at every step because that’s literally the point of them. why on earth would anyone who’s not just a corrupt asshole do things that way?