@Em0nM4stodon If we do in Australia, it's not public, and I'd be pleasantly shocked if ASIO was even talking about it behind closed doors. There was a tiny little indication of awareness a couple of months ago:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-11/spacex-risk-elon-musk-starlink-satellite-regulation/106779898

@Em0nM4stodon i've had lots of eye rolling in response to my bringing it up at work, only kinda now am i being half taken seriously 🤨

@Em0nM4stodon no microsoft means no GitHub, no npm of course.

@Em0nM4stodon But they can't! All our Azure resources are in "North Europe". It will be fine.

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I think hospitals in my current country of residence would be mostly fine.
The rest, however...

If Microsoft/Azure, AWS, Google and (not to be forgotten!) Cloudflare went out overnight, it would be a major catastrophe.
There's lots of talk about so called "digital sovereignty", but it's mostly lip service.

@Em0nM4stodon we all need to switch to FOSS systems. We should have done so already.

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The Only plan we have in France is a "tall free number".

For any crisis.

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@Em0nM4stodon hahaha. No one is ready enough. If that happens we are all fucked. Back to the stone age.

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Americans should be aware of this as well, on a personal level. There's no reason to think it won't be individualized against non-nazi Yankees.

@Em0nM4stodon Germany. Sure as hell they don't. Especially companies.
I mean, some states/cities decided to move to Linux/LibreOffice. That's a good thing.
But the company I work at? Omg, Microsoft, Exchange, Jira, Confluence, Miro. I kinda look forward to the chaos that would ensue if that happened.

@Em0nM4stodon @chu When I was warning about this many years ago, people called me naive, stupid and told me the world doesn’t work that way and I just hate Microsoft (which I do).

@Em0nM4stodon my work would stay on (and maybe increase) - the rest is fucked.

@Em0nM4stodon Large parts of germany will be doomed.

@Em0nM4stodon My current employee uses M$ and GMail services. As an ex-IT Consultant, I have the know how to assist in keeping this business going if this becomes reality. Will it? I'm not sure. Thing is, I'm not sure any other employee of this company would know how to make the transition, other than, Apple is an option. I'm not sure how much money this business makes, but I don't see Mac computers in its future. Anyway, I'll help out if and when the time comes, as long as I keep working here.