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Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by jeroenhd »

tanaros wrote: post #219
jeroenhd wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body. He's not unpopular and many people do support him, unfortunately. Best case scenario, the silent majority didn't bother to prevent Trump and his lackeys from taking over the American government. I don't think denying Trump's popularity is going to solve a…

> Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body. For the curious, based on [1], turnout in 2024 was 63.1% of the voting eligible population, compared to 65.3% in 2020, 59.2% in 2016, and 58.0% in 2012. [1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnou...

Which is the second largest voter turnout since VEP started being measured, exceeded only by the previous election.

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Post by triknomeister »

snickerbockers wrote: post #150
nickdothutton wrote: post #81

Europe had a plan after they learned Merkel’s blackberry contents were going to Fort Meade, but they never enacted it. They planned their own MS Office (and email) replacement. Even got as far as scouting data centre sites and identifying first 40M accounts.

The EU seems to have a problem with the whole "talk is cheap" thing. They're always making grand announcements of new initiatives like this but they hardly ever materialize.

Because they plan before implementation. They don't trust grassroot efforts in most work. While this works well for them in classically established fields, it makes them fall flat on their faces in anything that requires experimentation with scaling.

Europe only has two modes: 1. Time-limited research funding (which funds basic sciences) 2. Classical "planned" funding (which funds classical industries)

Both are symptoms of low-risk taking ability, the first one is bound on risk by time, the second one by planning. It doesn't have any institution that it can trust that can hand out funding which creates a bridge between the two. The real reason is that there's no EU-wide institution that has the trust and power of the EU-wide population for that purpose. And the fractured democracy is part of the reason for that.

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Post by yahoozoo »

piskov wrote: post #306
yahoozoo wrote: post #13

Israel strikes again.

Nah, everybody watched closely what happened to Russia.

Hm? This is because the ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu. Israel is very influential in the Trump administration which is why the USA did this. It says this in the article.

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Post by soulofmischief »

SllX wrote: post #202
jeremyjh wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We defend some of America's interests, and harm some of its other interests. Mostly we defend the interests of the richest people in America and its military industrial complex.

We also elect the leaders that make those decisions and form the parties that nominate leaders to choose from. The winners of those elections get to choose the direction to lead.

This take is willfully ignorant of the political climate we live in, where individuals and organizations can pay billions of dollars to shape public opinion through a variety of mechanisms. A huge amount of Americans feel unrepresented by the current administration.

US politics should not be "winner takes all", the entire point of having a distributed body of leadership and not just the Supreme Leader is that a wider variety of American interests are supposed to be represented.

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Post by fsflover »

cnames wrote: post #165
bigtones wrote: post #7

>> Casper Klynge, a former Danish and European Union diplomat who worked for Microsoft, said the episode was in many ways the “smoking gun that many Europeans had been looking for.” Damn right. Strong evidence that Europe should look after their own, and not rely on the good old US of A. Written by an Australian who thinks we should do the same down here.

I’m in the U.S. and don’t want to rely on this stuff either, but I don’t know that I’d really trust any sufficiently complex software. Anything can be compromised. Even if you build from source, your compiler might be compromised, or you buy a cool new usb peripheral and plug it in- boom! Compromised. Bought a new device? Compromised already. That printer you bought years ago? Compromised and in your secure wireless…

> Anything can be compromised.

This sounds like security nihilism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975

> Even if you build from source, your compiler might be compromised

This problem can be solved by the bootstrappable builds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368835

> or you buy a cool new usb peripheral and plug it in- boom! Compromised.

This is why Qubes OS has been developed (my daily driver). It isolated the usb devices into a separate VM.

> Your sniffer and firewall? Compromised.

Try security through compartmentalization: Qubes OS. Last time a VM escape in the modern Qubes implementation was discovered in 2006 by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)

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Post by StefanBatory »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #270
danieljacksonno wrote: post #267

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Trump has several times threatened to take Greenland, by military force if necessary. He categorically has "not ruled out" military force against a NATO ally. First source, but there are many: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/world/greenland-annexatio... This has, for obvious reasons, been huge news in all of Europe and especially in Denmark. I'm sure MAGA Americans want to hand-wave it away, and since Trump is so…

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44340630 Trump says many things that nobody actually believes. Edit: @ujkhsjkdhf234 Answering your question from below here: >Trump says many things no one believes then he does. Stop steelmanning for Trump. That's actually a good political strategy in tough times: Keep your opponents always unsure about what you're gonna do next. Why do you think Putin invade…

It doesn't matter Trump says many random things.

What matters is that the President of the US has said so.

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