TroyDavos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
StinkyFingerItchyBumA few thoughts:
My real problem is all the US tech dependency. Gmail. Youtube. Apple Music. Amazon Web services…
Imagine if there was an executive order to turn off Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft web services to Canada. How much economic damage would that cause instantly? We’d be set back a decade.
I’ve got a small business and we’re contemplating setting up a NextCloud server to try to move off a few of these things.
Hey, at least we have lemmy.ca (and such!)
Turning them off would be a mixed blessing. The US would instantly lose the revenue, we would quickly adapt alternatives, and they would lose the surveilance. Others around the world would also expedite the deAmericanizing efforts. I’m more worried of them keeping it on, keeping the revenue and slowing down our adaptations.
LemmyoutofhereTime to rip off the bandaid.
We aren’t there yet.
If they turn that off, they’re also turning off Github, npm, pypi, ghcr, docker.io, and all of your cloud storage instantly.
Every company without multiple backups is fucked. Every company that runs software will need to find new package repositories to pull from. Government clouds could get shut down. Android and iPhone will stop working without your iCloud and gmail authentication.
So, companies won’t have files, won’t be able to deploy code, will be clamouring for the few external clouds which are geographically located to Canada, and your phones won’t work (and you don’t know anyone’s number). The government likely will have massive downtime as well, as will your hospital, police, fire department, etc. all running on Windows.
We need to diversity now, write your MP, describe this scenario in detail, because it will be bad, and the more desperate Trump gets, the more likely this is to happen. In the last 365 days it’s gone from “not going to happen, put your tinfoil hat back on” to “well, they did it to the ICC and they’re threatening to invade”.
Yes. Very astute observation. Yet…
CEO of American tech companies: please murder all our business streams and income overnight. We hate money and surveilance.
Do it to everyone and they are broke overnight, do it to some, and everyone drops them with emergency expediency and they all go broke in wekks or months.
Avid AmoebaI paid good money to help prevent PP. Boy do I feel like money well spent rn…
That said now trying to help the NDP reform and regain support and power.
Wow, just wow. What a speech.
It is a breath of fresh air when a politician is coherent.
His speech had some lighthearted humour sprinkled here and there. You could see his face when one of them landed.
Carney did not say the words “Union”, but the whole argument around countries in the middle joining forces with each other so they can negotiate rather than be coerced into unilateral agreements is the same for workers unions.
Countries earn the right to principled stance by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation.
Goddamn.
Meanwhile, Trump is learning that “whole milk” is spelled with a W, and sending thugs to shoot his own citizens hoping he can use martial law to cancel elections and shut down the whole “Trump probably ran a pedophilic human trafficking ring with Epstein” thing.
Harsh words were spoken. Necessary. Didn’t find almost anything I disagree with.
Interesring take on the Board of Peace. Participate to influence instead of flipping the table. Perhaps he’s right. That way he won’t be vulnerable to “you don’t support peace” and he’ll be able to credibly discredit the initiative if (likely) it fails to achieve peace, having participated.
Could you imagine Timbit Trump up there? “Hur dur Trudeau bad [bites apple]”
Ah good job Canada, you elected a level-headed leader who seems very clear-eyed and determined to see your country through this mess with integrity and honor. I wish you the best, from your worst southern neighbor.