Is this thing on?

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Cake day: August 3rd, 2024
  • Encephalotrocity@biglemmowski.wintoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independenceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Techies in Europe – who obviously have a vested interest in unsettling Microsoft stronghold on the market as AWS, Microsoft, and Google have upwards of a 70 percent share of the public cloud sector in the region – previously highlighted the potential dangers of US legislation.

    I’ve mentioned this before as a criticism for Canadian boycotts of the US. Every large Canadian website, even Government and News use US cloud services. Every. One.

    Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, told us in March, “The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else.”

    How was this allowed to happen? The minute that law was passed all sites that use them should have discontinued their contracts. JFC.

  • Encephalotrocity@biglemmowski.wintoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Vote Blue No Matter Who!English
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    2 months ago

    The Democrats should never have to take positions or do things to make voters like them

    Not when the only viable alternative is literal fascisim. At that point all the opposition party against fascism should have to do is not goose-step on camera, but apparently a whole lot of 'murican voters don’t understand direct consequences of inaction.

    By not voting no matter who you said “I am okay with what is happening now”, and you were WARNED this would happen before you chose not to vote (or voted for the self-admitted spoiler) so all this bluster to shield yourself from reality isn’t fooling anyone that understands a room gets dirty if you don’t clean it.

    Look at Canada. Almost 70% voter turnout and the results prevented not only a Trump boot-licker from getting into power but kicked him out of his own fucking riding. Did people vote less progressively than they’d have liked? Absolutely. FPTP is a flawed system, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is Canada won’t be Zeig-heiling for the next four years and we can still work towards fixing the system instead of worrying about brute-squads arresting innocent citizens and deporting them without due process for opposing the Government. That is the power of forethought and action instead of excuses and apathy.