Europe faces a critical dependency on US cloud infrastructure, with 90% of its digital infrastructure controlled by American companies, according to competition expert Cristina Caffarra[^1]. This vulnerability has spurred concrete action, with public institutions in Austria, Germany, France and the International Criminal Court moving away from US providers.

The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location, conflicting directly with EU privacy laws[^1]. This creates an "irreconcilable legal conflict" since any contract between European customers and US cloud providers is subordinate to US federal law.

Several key developments highlight this shift:

• Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy completed migration of 1,200 employees to European open-source platform Nextcloud[^1]
• The International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft office software with OpenDesk after its chief prosecutor was locked out of Outlook[^1]
• Germany's Schleswig-Holstein state has moved 24,000 civil servants to open-source alternatives[^1]

However, challenges remain. The acquisition of Dutch cloud provider Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl demonstrates how European alternatives can be undermined through foreign acquisition[^1]. Critics also warn about "sovereignty washing," where US hyperscalers market 'sovereign cloud' solutions that don't resolve the fundamental legal conflicts[^1].

[^1]: The Register - Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23384142

More info on this at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Energy_Converter .

The company was bought by E.ON and the project was killed. At that time, there were working 450 Kilowatt prototypes (see the video). 450 Kilowatt is a power volume that took wind power plants over three decades (about from 1970 to 2000) to achieve.

The technology was then apparently copied by a Chinese company.

A quick Christmas message from Gordon Borwn's social media team. But also Merry Christmas you cynical bunch! hope to argue with you in the new year. So stay safe, stay merry, and see you next year.

and in the leftist spirit of Lemmy. and because I couldn't resist. "All i want for Christmas is, 5 minutes of quite, No Crisis, No Phone calls and no fixing everyone else's problem." Welcome to mayoralty buddy that's the fucking job.

I've never played but this feels unreasonable

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Opinion piece

Recently sites like archive.is and archive.ph are not resolving when using DNS providers from Mullvad and DNS4EU. Is it just me or does anyone else also experience this issue?

The state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

In recent months, Trump officials have ordered US diplomats to build opposition to the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation, but which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on US tech companies.

Late on Tuesday night, Breton posted on social media: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”

I've seen "Lemmy V1.0" being thrown around on the Fediverse and how it's supposed to resolve a lot of problems. I tried looking for a list of confirmed features, but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know what is confirmed for that big update? Anything especially notable?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55589035

The killing of a Hindu man during recent violent protests in Bangladesh has pushed already strained ties between Dhaka and Delhi into a deeper crisis.

As the two neighbours accuse each other of destabilising relations, questions are growing over whether their once close, time-tested relationship is fraying beyond repair.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55588932

Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

This app works with any service that implements the Subsonic API, including:

• LMS - Lightweight Music Server - personal fave and my backend
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Ampache
• NextCloud Music
• Airsonic Advanced

https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/releases/tag/v4.6.0

My last release post was for v4.2.4 so I've included whats changed since that post.

Highlighting these 4 really lovely features that people have wanted for some time and were well received. Added screenshots for each below

What's Changed

• feat: added regular playlist to home view

• feat: add heart to artist/album pages, fixed artist cover art failing

• feat: playerqueue fab allowing actions on full play queue Download

• feat: add play functionality to library folder/index items

• fix: player queue soft-lock
• feat: Add Catalan language
• performance: Refactor MediaService
• chore: Update Spanish translation
• chore: Update Italian translation
• chore: Add clickable Obtainium badge to README
• fix: refactor start queue to put the db writing in the background all , save to playlist, shuffle, clean and if enabled, load queue.
• chore: Update Polish translation
• fix: updates to starred syncing to user defined directory which was saving the tracks to internal storage and not a shared location
• fix: handle empty albums and null mappings
• feat: integrate sort recent searches chronologically
• chore: Update description_empty_title in English, Italian, Polish French and Spanish
• fix: checks preference and writes files externally, updates the ui for playerqueue downloads

note app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features

app-degoogled* <- The izzyOnDroid release that goes without any of the google stuff.

As usual, any dev contributions appreciated as I am not actually a java/mobile dev, so my progress is significantly slower than those who do this on the daily.

Big thanks to all the folks who have been contributing. We have a new icon designed but I could use some help if anyone wants to do a PR to implement it.

@grok is this True Blue Interlude?

At this time

It's coming

I only see posts about "beans is" or something, it is very offtopic. Lets get back on track with some of your sickest bets and tricks

Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations

Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.

General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.

The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.