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Jan Penfrat 1d ago

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

AP News

Zephyr Leif Renner 14h ago

Trump just did to the US tech industry what he did to the US defense industry: killed any future foreign business and set in motion its permanent decline. Nobody will buy US tech now.

"#Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor."

#uspol #EU #microsoft

Mark Koek 1d ago

@Greengordon @ilumium there are more examples, also pre-Trump

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷1d ago

@Greengordon The stupidity burns. @ilumium

Daniel Gibson 1d ago

@Greengordon @ilumium
> Nobody will buy US tech now

Oh how I wish this was true.

But incompetent businesses, agencies etc in Europe will continue using products from Microsoft, Google etc, even cloud-based ones which are especially easy to switch off (and to steal data from).

I have no illusion that anything is gonna change here until a European government gets so royally fucked that they *have* to act. And that's a high bar, considering that outages from ransomware are already accepted

@Doomed_Daniel @Greengordon @ilumium can confirm. There are German universities who are right now in the process of migrating *towards* M365

Daniel Gibson 16h ago

@dan @Greengordon @ilumium
🤦‍♂️

and then there's the BSI who recently started a cooperation with Google for "Cloud-Solutions" for government agencies: https://www.heise.de/news/Google-und-BSI-arbeiten-an-sicheren-Cloud-Loesungen-fuer-die-oeffentliche-Hand-10309149.html

they're all completely lost...

Google und BSI arbeiten an sicheren Cloud-Lösungen für die öffentliche Hand

Mit einer Kooperationsvereinbarung wollen Google und das BSI die Entwicklung und Bereitstellung sicherer und souveräner Cloud-Lösungen für Behörden fördern.

heise online

@Doomed_Daniel @dan @Greengordon @ilumium we‘re all completely lost, I fear

Greengordon 13h ago

@Doomed_Daniel @ilumium

Good grief. The responses below you back up what you said. Corrupt and/or incompetent...

Eric the half-a-bee 1d ago

@Greengordon @ilumium

US can no longer be considered a Western Democratic Country. They have become just another pariah thug autocracy. 😔😢😤🤬

Eric the half-a-bee 21h ago

@Greengordon @ilumium

And not just a pariah thug autocracy. Reading the article fully it’s obvious that the US is now a pariah thug terrorist autocracy.

Microsoft are complicit in this. Personally I’m moving off Microsoft and into Linux. I wish so much professional software, in my case engineering software, was not based solely on the Microsoft OSs.

#trump #USThuggery #USCorruption #microsoft #CorruptMicrosoft

CohenTheBlue 16h ago

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium 1/2 Most stuff can be run via Wine / Proton. For a beginner, installing Steam and adding software installers as non-Steam games may work. Once the installation completes, modify "target" and "start in" fields to the path the program was installed to. Don't let the installer try to start the program. Add double quote " to beginning and end of "target" and "start in" field contents if they don't have them.

CohenTheBlue 16h ago

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium 2/2
Steam's default location for stuff installed via Proton is:
$HOME/.steam/steamapps/compatdata/

In that folder, look for the folder created latest. In that is a skeleton of Windows starting at pfx/drive_c

There are more configurable options, like using Lutris.

Steam has the freshest Proton if you set the "experimental" branch as default, most quirks ironed out. Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility -> Run other titles with: Proton Experimental

CohenTheBlue 16h ago

@Ericthebeeover2 @Greengordon @ilumium Disclaimer: if your paid software has some sort of activation limit or it's forbidden to run it on anything other than Windows... This was just a suggestion of what might work, I'm not responsible if you lose the license due to any anti piracy measures or such that the developer might have implemented.

StreetDogg 19h ago

@Greengordon @ilumium Almost everybody already bought it and is thoroughly locked in.

It would take quadrillions of work hours to get rid of it. It's not going to happen. Everybody will clench their butts and pray this will never hit them.

Greengordon 13h ago

@StreetDogg @ilumium

I think you’re right, sadly. Our times are exposing how grossly overpaid corporate CEOs are. They lack courage and vision.

"It would take quadrillions of work hours to get rid of it. It's not going to happen. Everybody will clench their butts and pray this will never hit them."