USA just switched off starlink in Ukraine. They blocked Microsoft accounts and visa cards from ICC members. You can’t rely on USA tech. It’s got a killswitch and a madman ready to push the button.
And you americans, go out there and vote Democrat, you can do politics in third parties later if you have a country left after the election.
And you americans, go out there and vote Democrat*, you can do politics in third parties later if you have a country left after the election.
*Vote as far left as possible in the Democrat primaries too or it’s all for nothing.
4 months too late my man
Day 1 Early Voting, voted full Democrat all the way down, doing what I can in one of the reddest states 😅
Thank you!
Frim: The rest of the world (+USA I guess/hope)
Should have put Geet Wilders in that image as well.
Democrats there are of the same capital class though.
So tired of this tankie shit
It’s true, but try this:
- defeat the bigger evil first
- then defeat the smaller evil
- ???
- communism (or whatever it is you want)
Wonder why 10 upvotes for you and negative 20 for me when we mean the same thing 😰
I agree that democrats (as they exist now) are a bad party. However, the US system is broken in a way that disadvantages third parties. If you vote for a 3rd party that is left of the Democrats (or don’t vote at all), you split the vote and Trump wins again. I think the US is in a bind, but the best way out is to vote Dem and turf corporate/zionist Dems like Schumer in the primaries. It will take time, but it will work.
Some people on Lemmy have been using “both parties bad” rhetoric to discourage people from voting for the Democrats, which only benefits Trump and his gang. Your post probably got associated with that rhetorical strategy.
Definitely vote of course, didn’t mean it as anything else really. I think you hit the nail on it. Meanwhile I have already been accused of many things now 😭
They spoke in Priorities. You didn’t. Hardly a mystery.
You have to start shifting the Overton Window from somewhere.
The Russian bots in here trying to fix the election are annoying
You are not wrong but they are the lesser evil. I mean either try to change the system or burn it down. Doesn’t seem lime America is anywhere near a revolution so the only thing to do is vote the furthest left you can.
Diversification helps here. Being able to switch service providers easy and quickly is best for users.
At the moment it’s good for Europeans to focus on domestic services, but in the long run our laws and governments may also turn more oppressive, so having many different reliable alternatives is the recipe for a free and empowered society.
Iris2 can’t go online early enough. There is Govsatcom now at least, as a crutch, to bridge the time until the basic Iris2 service can begin in 2030.
Just imagine Europe would have listened to the strong SpaceX fan crowd that called Ariane 6 a waste of money, because it costs some millions more per launch.
And can you remember the storm against Galileo when the crowd called it an epic waste of money (the domestic Putin front does to this day for mysterious reasons), when already have the US military run GPS?
yeah we dutchies got our own killswitches and madmen ready to push the button
That’s the idea, you figured it out, bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼
I agree. Digital sovereignty is important for the EU. The less we are in the pocket of the US the better.
Digital anarchy is important for the regular people. The more you take technology in your own hands, the less you are at the whims of centralised services.
Digital anarchy is important for the regular people
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies
Reading down those actions and it turns out I’m already doing most of those things.
Right on! Just thought I would pass it on in the spirit of your statement. There are so many things we can do.
First time I have seen “digital anarchy” and I love it. Except it sounds like a punk-techno band. Lol.
It is essentially the same as the Free/Libre software movement. Digital Anarchy is a term I really like though because rather than emphasizing freedom, it emphasizes the destruction of hierarchies of authoritarian regimes and big tech. Free/Libre software is the best example of Anarchism working in practice.
It’s always nice to see Microsoft get kicked in the balls.
Especially after they lobbied/bribed the ISO committee into approving the broken and closed-source OOXML as if it was an open standard
What do you mean, the Office Open Extensible Markup Language isn’t open source? That’s nonsense! Next, you’ll tell me OpenAI is some sort of opaque stock market scam.
OOXML is open source. It’s just that everything of importance for compatibility is in extensions. Fuck M$
Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn’t useful for anything but gaming.
Why would you want a backdoor on the OS of your gaming machine?
Some anticheat systems require a backdoor. If those are games you want to play, you have to submit to it. Personally I see it as a reason to avoid those games, but if you really want to play them, you may not have a choice. Apart from pressuring the publisher to support saner anticheat and Linux.
I don’t and it sounds like I might not have to soon. Mslop had us by the balls for long enough.
Oh what did I miss there?
fartknife/ easyanticheat will have support for signed linux kernels with tpm, secure boot and iommu
You don’t need no windows for no gaming, this isn’t 2015 jesus
I know, but I still do classes and they require you use garbage software. Eventually I’ll get it sorted out.
It might be worth checking if there’s really no alternative. I intend to do that for my son; his school requires Windows, but he’s starting to get increasingly annoyed by Windows (his laptop has Win11) so I want to check with the school why exactly Windows is so essential. Presumably, most is Web, so will work just fine on Linux. Specific software may have a Linux version, run fine on Wine, or have an open source alternative.
I know and for the most part that’s how it is. Some of the classes still want to use Respond-ass. Which I just end up going to the school library for. If I have to use Win11, I will just run a VM. That OS has been a nightmare.
I feel your pain. Hang in there!
Thanks!
No no no, the backdoor is useful for gaming, not the OS.
The game companies need backdoors for their Anti Cheat, you see.
Strange question perhaps – but is open source/linux supported tax filing software available where you are?
I haven’t found any that run reliably outside of Microsoft so far in Canada – tend to use a windows vm specifically for it, but it’s an example of software outside of gaming that’s pretty handy, and not typically easy to get / trust on linux yet as far as I’m aware.
I would assume your tax system works differently. I wanted to move to Canada since I have skills to contribute. But I live the greatest country on the earth, the U Ass of A (/s borat joke.)
Anyway, there is a simple free option for those that make under a certain amount; most people have w2 forms so those are pretty much automated; as in your employer already submitted them. But then comes in tax exemptions.
So then it gets more complicated because you don’t want to be paying the same tax in multiple ways. For instance, you pay a local tax and then pay a federal tax on your income. I don’t have an issue with taxes going to the right place, which is often not the case here.
I always pay the taxes whenever I’m in other countries even though I could get an exemption but I don’t think that’s right. I get the privilege of going somewhere then I should pay what everyone else pays and besides you don’t have to tip -_-
So taxes are complicated here if you’re outside of the norm. The amount of different forms I had to file before I quit my latest job was a job in itself, add in a death in the family and it’s even more complicated. Like it took months, with a delay, to sort out all off this. And it sucks, if you don’t do it right you end up with everything taken away.
Like you, I’m interested in some open source software.
I’m thinking that this step in life(quitting what I was doing) is a good choice because I’m tired. Yeah I can charge 100+ an hour but doing the math for the year, I really should work at a grocery store.
It’s not the OS, only microsoft 365
Only because changing the OS compared to stopping a transition to an insecure Microsift cloud service is a much greater task, one that is in progress as well.
I wonder if the tech companies will realize their bending to Trump is going to shoot them in the ass
Satya sure won’t. See his latest post on the super intelligence era.
No, it is not. They still get billions of American taxpayer money
De-dollarization is already happening. President Shits-his-pants is accelerating that.
They’re going to lose the rest of the world, but to Trump and many of his supporters, the rest of the world doesn’t matter and barely exists. Except for Russia which Trump seems to love somehow.
They don’t care about that, they only care about keeping their wealth tax free.
Kudos to the Netherlands, the Oranje made the correct decision.
At first I thought you meant that “the Orange” (i.e. Donald) made the correct decision into ruining the US so much that the Dutch autorithies decided to ditch Office. lol
Oh my God! How are they going to work without MS Teams?
I love using MS Teams, because I hate getting work done.
who needs that shit anyone? work is about the community and MS Teams is all about the community!
Exactly, just think about all the networking you can do with teams so we all can grow together as one big family.
because that’s what companies are for!
Oh my god, how were they supposed to work WITH MS teams?
At worst, someone else will pick up the Slack. At best, they’ll find what Matters Most.
…and the Dutch
More of this please!!!
The switchover’s been ongoing for years as some European governments have moved to Linux, and are going for FOSS for their operations.
Ther’s only two things I hate in this world, people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the… no, wait! I love the Dutch!
GVD JA!!!
Laat ze maaris iets zien noorderburen! Hup holland hup!
One of those changes that requires and entire generation of workers to retire… <cough> boomers <cough>
Until that happens, they stand in the way of change. After they are put out to pasture, change occurs at a normal pace, according to logic and reason, as it always should. Even in normal times.
I expect to see a lot of shifts in things as the boomers finally begin to die off. Medical advances are extending their lives to freakish extremes, but so far not one of them has proven to be immortal. .
I worked at a health company as a manager and was told not to electronize records keeping because they couldn’t afford to hire computer literate people for the grunt work. I was told to use whiteboards and laminated printouts.
Get me out of this fucking shithole USA…
scary thought
Its not bomers most people are not good at tech. I’ve been to may training course and the amount of pwole who can’t set an IP address on a laptop is insane and this is INA tech agecent field.
Most people don’t know how a oc works and just know I click this icon for this and that one for that.
I don’t think it’s the boomers holding us back. It’s the lack of better alternatives to the junk systems we have today. We will see institutions switching from commercial crap to open source copies of that commercial crap. As if we’re still living in the paper world. The users are just the victims.
Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor’s APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.
Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor’s APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.