@Em0nM4stodon oh God this would be awesome. Terrible at first for some but a blessing in disguise

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Fortunately the drive by the tech companies to make money is stronger than even DJT's vindictiveness.

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@Em0nM4stodon I live in New Zealand. The simple answer is no, we are not at all prepared.
Our government has been touting new data centres that have been established here to give us data sovereignty. But guess who runs them? AWS and Microsoft, for two.
Having the hardware on our soil is just an illusion of data sovereignty in my opinion (but I am not a tech expert).

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I would assume cutting off Canada would result in our cutting off their oil, electric power, and uranium, each having its own immediate to long-term effect, basically making their data centres and clouds useless instantly.

But we really do need (and I assume are planning) to disconnect our computing services from the unreliable rogue state.

If not, we should be.

@Em0nM4stodon You'll be hard pressed to find a business that doesn't use Google or MS desktop apps. A good chunk of businesses have their enterprise applications in US controlled cloud. And those that don't are often using third party apps and SaaS that rely on US cloud under the hood.

Basically, losing connections to Google, MS and AWS would shut down a country.

Which is why we need IT sovereignty... but it's not an easy problem to solve. US tech is ingrained deep!

@Em0nM4stodon not sure about the bigger picture, but many govt offices use Linux. As far as what the incumbents think they need to function, we have great home made surveillance and identification/oppression systems already in place.

@Em0nM4stodon in Czech republic is seznam.cz. many people use email, maps and other services from seznam. So no big deal for lot of people.

@Em0nM4stodon that's why, we should have start cutting our relieve to the USA at least since the USA killed millions in vietnam

@Em0nM4stodon We (the UK) would be fucked.

@Em0nM4stodon @blotosmetek We're as prepared as the US is for China cutting off access to the products they manufacture. Or, in fact, as prepared as we are for that eventuality ourselves. There's a similar situation with Taiwan and chips, or the Netherlands and chipmaking machines. This is probably number 30 on our priority list right now.

@Em0nM4stodon I brought this issue up at our yearly company council conference. My concerns were more or less brushed aside. "We can't move that many people to a different operating system", they said. "Our servers are safe", they said.

@Em0nM4stodon Say it with me now:

The cloud is someone else's computer.

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🤔 i can't imagine this US govt would do that for the simple fact all those companies are currently bribing Dotard Tumor. if it happened, i'd assume it was a grift by Dotard to extract more bribes from them to turn it back on

it would greatly affect clients

personally:
i use a degoogled Fairphone
using LibreOffice for decades
shopping for a Linux 2in1 laptop to fully ditch microsoft
use Signal for video & most comms now
switched to Proton mail
I NEVER shop on Amazon

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I wrote to my MP (UK) about this. I didn't get a sensible reply

- My former employer ran MS servers. They would grind to a halt
- Some UK hospitals were still using Windows 😜 - dead in the water
- Emergency services and banks - don't know

The whole country would be screwed

You can also add the threat to close payment services like Visa, Mastercard and Paypal.

@Em0nM4stodon here’s a complete and comprehensive list for those who are migrating to open source software to become digitally sovereign. Please do check out the whole website, it will be worth your time!

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to