A_S_B

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[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Isso é provavelmente ilegal mas isso não vai impedir o Trump e o governo dele de continuar a perseguir a instituição e perseguir os alunos estrangeiros que continuarem a estudar em Harvard.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Exactly. He will keep doing whatever he wants until he gets arrested or impeached, two things that are super hard to happen. He is in this moment very much above the law.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

E imediatamente se cria um clima ruim entre as empresas e o governo. Dito isso, pode ter o resultado positivo do governo federal parar de usar ou ao menos reduzir o uso de software proprietários no futuro.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Assim, isso é uma pena porque constelação familiar é uma aberração.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean that the SWIFT is a crucial infrastructure to the banking system all over the world because it allow banks to wire money from country A to country B. SWIFT itself is controlled by the US & EU but even then it was very rare that a country would be disconnected from the system. Until 2023, the only country that did get banned from SWIFT was Iran and it was allowed to come back under the 2016 agreement. In 2023, in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia was banned from SWIFT and this prompted many countries that do no have automatic alignment with the US & EU to develop an alternative infrastructure that would allow their banking systems to continue wire money internationally without depending on the SWIFT system. For example, Russia has the SPFS(System for the Transfer of Financial Messages), China has the CIPS(Cross-border Inter-bank Payment System) and the BRICS are developing the BRICS Pay which is to be an decentralized and independent payment messaging mechanism system.

The Microsoft situation is very similar in the sense of that the can do this once and after that many public institutions will change back to non-proprietary office suites. It might take a while but some of these institutions will do it.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

At least it is good that now we have some more concrete proof of what these organizations have been doing for decades and never really stopped doing.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yeah this is bad but this kind of stuff is the thing that can only be done once. Very much like the Unilateral SWIFT BAN on Russia. This prompted all of countries in the world to create an alternative and so they did, this case is the same thing. It might take some time but countries will find a way.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

The things is that we arriving at a limit on population growth under the current methods of production. There is a limit on how much cattle, chicken, pigs, etc we can actually raise. Now, if the whole world turned vegetarian, we probably could have much more people on earth. So much land is used to make livestock feed that could instead be used to grown actual food.

[–] A_S_B@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the list ! Will add to my reading list.