Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
@sarahjamielewis can we blame them? I think most of this community is fighting daily to circumvent all the NSA+ shenanigans. I've recently had to change my wire guard port, isp seems to be catching up to that front too
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
There were many media reports in Canada/around the world regarding the decline of sales of US alcohol / decline in trips to the US.
I know there is some hope in US circles that both those trends will be reversed in the coming years.
But I suspect that the economic fallout has only just started to surface e.g. we have invested months of work building relationships with local orgs / migrating systems etc.
Even if tomorrow is all sunshine and rainbows, it's unlikely to overcome the new inertia.
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There were many media reports in Canada/around the world regarding the decline of sales of US alcohol / decline in trips to the US.
I know there is some hope in US circles that both those trends will be reversed in the coming years.
But I suspect that the economic fallout has only just started to surface e.g. we have invested months of work building relationships with local orgs / migrating systems etc.
Even if tomorrow is all sunshine and rainbows, it's unlikely to overcome the new inertia.
@sarahjamielewis Rather like a person finally breaking out of a relationship that they had realised for some time was abusive but not inconvenient enough to motivate them to leave.
Only once they have left do they then realise just how bad things had been and what a weak and fundamentally compromised position they had been in.
Sales pitches such as "But darling, I have changed, give me one more chance, it will be different this time" will no longer work.
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
@sarahjamielewis Also CF: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations
I am a US Citizen, and I am **so** ready for some country to actually, like, DO THIS.
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
@sarahjamielewis I think that's for the best. It's a safety thing now, and the USD is tanking already.
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There were many media reports in Canada/around the world regarding the decline of sales of US alcohol / decline in trips to the US.
I know there is some hope in US circles that both those trends will be reversed in the coming years.
But I suspect that the economic fallout has only just started to surface e.g. we have invested months of work building relationships with local orgs / migrating systems etc.
Even if tomorrow is all sunshine and rainbows, it's unlikely to overcome the new inertia.
@sarahjamielewis In unrelated news, vodka sales suddenly spike in the U.S....
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.
It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.
e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
@sarahjamielewis Sounds like this is the perfect opportunity for Canada and other countries who haven't already done so to switch to libre-licensed open source software and operating systems, funding the development of specific new programs to fill in whatever gaps presently exist.
In the long term, this will guard against vendor lock-in, monopoly creation, and easy trojan horse creation.
It's already a rich and vibrant environment and platform anyone can have a hand in expanding.
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There were many media reports in Canada/around the world regarding the decline of sales of US alcohol / decline in trips to the US.
I know there is some hope in US circles that both those trends will be reversed in the coming years.
But I suspect that the economic fallout has only just started to surface e.g. we have invested months of work building relationships with local orgs / migrating systems etc.
Even if tomorrow is all sunshine and rainbows, it's unlikely to overcome the new inertia.
@sarahjamielewis Digital sovereignty may well become the current US regime’s most enduring legacy. The change unfolds slowly, almost unnoticed at first, but once nations begin to de-Americanize their digital infrastructure, there is no going back. What begins as adjustment eventually becomes the new normal.
