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A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Japanese local governments, let alone the central one, still have almost zero knowledge about the value of maintaining infrastructure which they should have full control. Virtually even discourses about it do not exist yet. Huge difference between the European governments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beauty of that is that knowledge can be transferred :) But i suppose they have to be willing first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unless the governments would change radically how they see FOSS from a way of reducing money cost…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? They’re still using floppy disks and fax machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fax machines are one of the main ways of communications there. I guess floppy disks are indeed partly used at municipal offices yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, very much so. There was a big news story about two years ago where a police officer lost a floppy disk that had a bunch of people’s personal information on it.