u/menemen — The Menemen

Lol, people should stop thinking that intelligence agencies are all powerful. They fumble and fuck up stuff all the time.

That said, the current Israeli government under the current political situation might very well arrange this basically as a public execution, knowing that western media will present it in the right light for them.

Anything interesting in it? RT is blocked in Germany.

20 years ago was 2005, not 1975... Cloud services started before that year. AWS started in 2002 and they weren't the first.

But digital autonomy is not only about cloud services. EU countries were depending on US products with backdoor way before 2005.

Linux was mature at 2005. It is coincidentally even the exact year I started using Linux and also the year I personally first said, that we in the EU have to get independent from US owned operating systems. And I am not a genius.

2005 is funnily enough also the exact year Turkey started its project to get independent from US owned OSs, a project called Pardus. Sadly it pretty much failed, but the EU would have had different resources than Turkey on its own.

The tools are and were there to build the development on. The EU parliament should have started this 20 years ago. They rather took the sweet deals and we got to deal with corrupt software developed by corrupt developers (I don't mean you, but your employer).

Lol, that you think that this is just laziness. Some people got some very sweet deals. Just have a look at the LiMux project. Microsoft is really good at this; goole and co. won't be that much worse at it. They know how to influence the right people.

I am sooo xxxx pissed. The EU had all the time in the world and all incentive imaginable to develop an "EU-OS" and an "EU-Office". Linux and other FOSS software was always there to build upon. And with EU founding it could have been an easy solution, making the world a better place in the process.

But instead so many xxx politicians rather made some nice deals...

Now we reap what the EU parliament did.

I mean, I don't like Abunimah and clashed with him on twitter before (I think it was on Syria). But calling him an "islamist" is just pure bigotry. Bullshit vilifying over-generalisation is why islamophobe fascists are on the rise in Europe. The term "islamist" has become utterly meaningless. "Oh, he is brown and I don't like him? He is an ISLAMIST!"

Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. Not just Biden.

There is a little speculation in his text, but most seem to be public news.