#vendorlockin door #minezk:
Om mee te doen aan een Europese aanbesteding moet je #Adobe gebruiken.
#vendorlockin door #minezk:
Om mee te doen aan een Europese aanbesteding moet je #Adobe gebruiken.
Trapped by your tech provider? You're not alone!
Vendor lock-in is silently costing businesses millions and limiting their digital freedom.
Most companies don't realize they're trapped until it's too late to escape without massive costs.
Ready to break free? Check out our video and let us know if you have questions.
#Degoogling #android sure ain't easy.
Certain apps reliance upon #GooglePlay makes it almost impossible to get rid of.
For instance, I've got an app for a grocery store that allows payment through your card by just scanning a QR code.
The payment method refuses to be activated when the Google Play app is deactivated.
It's pretty obvious to anyone: this is #MonopolyByDefault, #VendorLockin and even a form of #DRM.
I already confirmed my identity by way of #BankID. What more is needed?
Finding a sleek, distraction free #markdown editor for #Android is rough, especially when paired with a cloud storage provider that isn't #Google.
My candidates were #OpenNote and #Quilpad, but both take away power from the user by preventing them from managing their own files.
Both refuse to work with the Android cloud provider backend, to a point where I can't even import my MD files from #Jottacloud.
One has experimental support for #Nextcloud tho, which smells like #vendorlockin.
#VendorLockIn is a financial AND strategic trap.
From rising fees to hidden dependencies, #BigTech keeps you dependent on their services.
But achieving #DigitalSovereignty might be easier than you think.
Discover more in our latest blog post: "What is vendor lock-in? The real price of Big Tech."
https://nextcloud.com/blog/what-is-vendor-lock-in-the-real-price-of-big-tech/
If you've ever wondered how to tell if a vendor is actually running #PostgreSQL in a manner that's compatible with standard #Postgres, PG Scorecard (http://pgscorecard.com) is a great resource.
Michael Josephson talks about how it works along with why compatibility matters in this blog:
https://www.pgedge.com/blog/postgresql-compatibility-cutting-through-the-hype-with-pg-scorecard
Europäische Souveränität am Ar$ch: meine Nichte berichtet gerade, dass sie an der Uni Rostock eine Hausarbeit mit M$-Word schreiben muss, obwohl sie im anderen Fach gerade erfolgreich LaTeX verwendet hat und klare Vorteile sieht.
#texlatex #eu-souverenity #vendorlockin
Ah, the age-old debate: #SaaS, the eternal promise of liberation from technical drudgery, only to ensnare you in a labyrinth of dependencies, mystery fees, and mind-numbing decision fatigue.
But hey, at least your vendor lock-in now comes with a sleek, modern logo and the illusion of choice.
https://rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-vendor-lock-in-with-better-branding #Dilemma #VendorLockIn #DecisionFatigue #TechDependencies #ModernSoftware #HackerNews #ngated
@bert_hubert Eet smakelijk. Zou je misschien nog in de gelegenheid zijn op ook juist iets te zeggen over vrije #opensource-software. Volgens mij is de essentie van #DigitaleSoevereiniteit niet of de software / dienstverlener Europees of Amerikaans is, maar of de gebruiker (de #overheid) vrij is om de software te gebruiken zoals ze wil. Voorkom #vendorlockin (kan ook in Europa gebeuren). Overweeg #zelfhosting. Investeren in #FOSS is investeren in het publieke domein!
Aankondiging gegunde opdracht van 3.7M€ voor #Microsoft-licenties door #GGD en #Veiligheidsregio #Groningen. In de opdracht werd expliciet naar Microsoft licenties gevraagd.
https://www.tenderned.nl/aankondigingen/overzicht/380294
Is dit ok? Expliciet naar producten van een bepaalde leverancier vragen? Is dit goed voor de #DigitaleAutonomie en #DigitaleSoevereiniteit van de Nederlandse samenleving.
Waarom werd er niets over vrije #opensource software gezegd?
DNIP Briefing #19: Memes, Macht und Microsoft - Das Netz ist politisch https://dnip.ch/2025/04/01/dnip-briefing-19-memes-macht-und-microsoft/ #Microsoft #Datenschutz #privacy #SignalGate #Gesichtserkennung #FacialRecognition #surveillance #Überwachung #SocialMedia #Digitalisierung #digitalization #ArtificialIntelligence #LegacySoftware #DOGE #ElonMusk #AppPrivacy #Android #Google
#iOS #Apple
#DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #XMPP #Fediverse
#OpenSource #DigitalRights #VendorLockIn #DonaldTrump #DNIPbriefing #CloudACT #unplugUSA
Rapport van de @gemeenteamsterdam over: Verkenning Amsterdam Digitaal Onafhankelijk
Hier het linkje:
https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/15269417/1/Verkenning+digitale+autonomie+-+5+maart+2025
Dit opent bij mij een browsertab met als titel: "Microsoft Word - verkenning digitale autonomie - 5 maart 2025".
"De gemeente Amsterdam is wat betreft big tech vooral afhankelijk van Microsoft. Dit in cloud en kantoorautomatisering."
Tja, dat is duidelijk. Er is nog een lange weg te gaan.
Stupid fucking M365/Teams makes it so hard and slow to download shit.
#Microsoft #vendorLockIn rant…
My new job is a #Microsoft365 shop, so we use #OneNote.
I am on a MacBook.
I have a notebook with many pages.
I needed to generate a list of the page titles. There is no way to do that within the desktop or web app.
There's no way to export the notebook in another format (there supposedly is on PC, but not macOS).
I had to use the developer console in the web app to grab the page list HTML and edit it in a text editor to extract the page titles.
Ridiculous.
Cool dat er in de overheidsbrede handreiking voor verantwoorde inzet van generatieve AI onder andere dit staat:
"Bij voorkeur wordt een #opensource-applicatie of -model gebruikt. Deze modellen bieden meer inzicht, bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van transparantie."
Verder wordt ingegaan op #proprietary modellen, voorkomen van #vendorlockin, #privacy en #scraping, #herbruikbaarheid, #bias, #discriminatie en #transparantie.
Lees de hele handreiking hier:
Why Azure is so attractive? Because migrating on-prem enterprise software to cloud-native is too expensive.
#vendorlockin #cloud
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/swapping_linux_for_microsoft_is_hard/
I'm wondering if the #gnucash developers use their own software. Nobody who would be able to influence the #ux of it would accept it like this.
I'm using it for > 25 years for my private finances and may have developed a kind of #stockholmsyndrom . Maybe just #vendorlockin .
At least today I'll report some bugs - not much hope of improvement, though.
If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:
You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/microsoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/
For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.
People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: https://karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of-OneNote/
My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_note-taking_software
Geliebte Sucht – Die Vendor Lock-in durchsetzte IT Drogenszene"
Beim #Winterkongress der @digiges durfte ich über #Geopolitik & #Vendorlockin in
und was das mit Sucht ähnlichen Abhänigkeiten und #Risikomangemant zu tun hat
#Linkedin Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lars-hohl-89265a20_geopolitik-vendorlockin-riskomangement-activity-7307482470520688642-ADGl
Komplettes Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/dgwk2025-56337-geliebte-sucht-die-vendor