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~fish-fingerer

At least in the UK we're not allowed to much anymore. Everything seems like it has to be hosted on Microsoft's cloud, and we're not allowed to self host (our IT departments are actively searching for our hidden servers and telling us off).

There is fight back against it (at least at my uni), but it is coming from the top. It is incredibly short sighted.

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~fish-fingerer wrote (thread):

It gets worse with things like git.

IT says all research data must be secured in OneDrive... but onedrive doesn't cope with filenames beginning with . (like the .git folder) or the millions of files in it. It also borks the permissions, so we have to enable a bunch of options to comply. We're not allowed to use github or an external forge (its not secure in onedrive they say)... we're not allowed to host and secure our own. So what are you gonna do? Half the groups put it on github anyway... a few more run there own servers but hide them from IT. Utterly insane. If it was confidential, dangerous, or private data id be okay with it but half the time its open access research for crissake!