Countries like Canada cutting us off from their data is also good for those of us in the US under threat from our own government and corporations.
Our small business just bought a server and installed NextCloud on it. We’re doing our part.
There’s a killswitch scenario where a malicious US executive order shut off our civilization by banning Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from serving Canada. Almost every business would be immediately hamstrung and the economy would collapse in a week. This is too fucking dangerous.
The US can’t be trusted anymore(?). No world superpower can be.
I have moved all my things off of US servers, minus the community I belong to on Discord. I still have a Facebook account but it is just sitting there I haven’t gotten to hitting the kill switch yet. I am almost totally off of Google, I finally have searXNG working properly, I may do more fiddling to make it better but it is good. I have scripts that send me news from topics I am interested in, from Canadian sources, twice a day. It is nifty what I have done.
I’ve deleted my Facebook account. I was making it seem a lot worse than it was. It’s more peaceful having it gone.
I just don’t use it, I turned off the email address and I haven’t installed the apps anywhere. I actually don’t know that I have the email address anymore, I was using Apple’s hide my email thing but than the boycott started and I started cutting back services. I went to the max with email though, got myself a domain and a service provider that could host unlimited emails and started changing my email on every thing so now I get next to no spam.
If I do get spam I decide if I really need the account and if it is a yes I create a new address and close the old one. Because I like seeing what else I can do, today I found out my vaultwarden has a leak/pwnd detector.
The amount of conpliments I get for deleting Facebook. It’s like everyone applauds me.
For email, I had to go with a free provider because I don’t want to be in a situation where I don’t want to pay for a domain, and then lose my email in the process.
As I just commented on a post about European digital sovereignty:
American tech giants are a large portion of why the world is so terrible right now. Absolutely, unequivocally, fuck them.
Everyone has an idea.
US give it polish, form, marketability.
China build the thing. India programs it.
Nothing the US did is special. You don’t need us. Ditch us. We are hurting you.
Good. Surefire proof it’s the right thing. Double down hard.
The U.S. doesn’t seem to be happy about much lately.
Lol. Well that’s what happens when the US is run by idiots. A lesson that will set us back at least 50 years.
More power to you, Canada.
And another reason to support Canada joining the EU.
Economies of scale can make a huge difference in costs, and requiring all cloud services to be entirely domestic would greatly limit options and increase costs. If we can join the EU, then we’ll be part of a big enough economic block to get full benefits from economies of scale and still retain data sovereignty within the context of membership.
Fuck US corporations, their lobbyists, the regulatory capture that leads to their anti-consumer laws, and trade agreements exporting their wealth-concentration laws globally. Disney, in particular, can get fucked with their life-of-creator-plus-90-years copyright terms. But I digress.
My vps is operated by an EU company, running on hardware in Montreal, powered entirely by Quebec’s abundant hydroelectric grid. EU Canada all the way.
OVH? I have a dedicated server with them that has been running for nearly a decade. I also worked at their old office in Montreal as a customer advocate and visited the datacenter in Beauharnois. It was impressive and it must have grown quite a lot in a decade. Even back then they were trying to get the government to host its data with them.
Unfortunately they also raised their prices recently.
The only reason I can think of for Canada not to join the EU is the name. It sets my teeth on edge with the bad geography.
It’s the Holy Roman Empire all over again! And, today, NATO includes countries which do not border the North Atlantic, including several which are entirely landlocked. Or, my favorite, the Big 10 Conference in the NCAA has a logo that looks like the number 16, and has 18 members.
Ow! Stop! My teeth!
The US can go pound sand.
US being quite emotional lately. Framing things as if they lost something. They should be thankful for what they have.
We don’t give a shit if you like it or not.
Elbows up
As predicted by literally anyone paying attention to how the US operates for the benefit of its ruling class.
Oh no! Anyways….
