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Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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As an American, heโs not wrong. Our government is absolutely not to be trusted and will abuse any power you give them to advance their own personal interests (which align with the current highest bidder, flatterer, or Israel).
Please get out while you can.
As another American I second this.
Relying on one American company as the sole OS and office suite supplier being a terrible idea should have been obvious like 20 years ago at least, but at this point I'll take any win.
It is not about functionality. It is about money
Yes, but I have a nitpick: it's not only true for U.S. companies but extends to all others. Particularly China has a law similar to the U.S.Cloud Act ...
This is old news, since Sรผssli has left his position in 2025. However, his opinion is true and luckily, the Cyber Command already decided to ditch M365 and use Open Source.
My problem with this whole topic is, that M365 has been evaluated since 2020. So every security officer, including CISO, who approved M365, should be thrown out.
It's crazy to me that these people have faced next to no repercussions for so long that they don't even try to do their job well. You would think that out of anyone militaries would attempt to secure their communications. (Or maybe thats the facade they put forward and just kill you if they catch you breaching data?).
How is using a datacenter in a different countries even legal for such purposes? Why wouldn't they run on-prem servers with redundancy across their own country? Fuckin' mental.
โBecause we talked with Microsoft and they guaranteed that no data will leave the data center at location Xโ ๐คก
To be fair, reality is actually worse than that, since M$ has already said under oath during a trial in France that it is unable to protect the data of EU customers from the prying eyes of Gringoland's authorities. Switzerland is not EU, but of course the same applies.
Any network connected software from an American company has been too risky since at least the days of the Patriot Act, double so since the Cloud Act.
The same thing applies to software from British companies, for similar reasons (differently named legislation but same kind of objective and similar systemic structures for the same kind of surveillance of other countries and industrial espionage, which ARE used in practice, as shown when the GCHQ was caught using the systems of Belgacomm to evesdrop on EU politicians and by a lot of what came out in the Snowden Revelations).
So Windows itself is a massive security risk for any non-American state operations (not just Military but for example most of the Justice System and anybody dealing with personal information that can be used to blackmail important people) as well as any company which competes with a large US based company.
Sounds reasonable.
The more headlines like this that do the rounds the less people roll their eyes at me when I tell them I will not have Windows 11 in my house and proceed to preach the virtues of Linux haha
The US Cloud act is an attack on sovereignty. All countries must abandon the cloud and us tech with all haste or suffer the consequences.
I'm really sad that the Swiss Army Chief does not have an awl and corkscrew readily available.
Good news aside, Sรผssli has to be the most amogus-sounding real surname i ever heard
Monopolies squelch innovation and encourage corruption. I love that Europe is pushing away from the Microsoft monopoly on multiple fronts.
Yes the way Microsoft has tried to steer everyone from complete ownership of our purchase to renting what they keep owning is devious as hell.