Yes, I know. And my point is that the arguments used to justify how it enables compliance never held up, and now with the supervisory authority not being functional anymore it can’t possibly be said to comply with the letter of the law even in the most charitable reading. The legal basis of the agreement was built on the existence of the PCLOB ensuring adequate protection of personal data. With the PCLOB being neutered and inoperable, that basis no longer holds.

The amount of mental gymnastics required to believe that an agreement with the US will prevent them from gaining access to data stored by US companies on EU soil is staggering. And it’s repeatedly been shown to be fiction, as US national security laws will always supercede such an agreement.

It’s even more silly now that the US has a president that’s very clearly opposed to the agreement, and recently made the supervisory authority that’s supposed to enforce the agreement (PCLOB) inoperable by suspending appointed members such that there aren’t enough of them to make a decision.

Bert Hubert has a very good article going into this in more detail, with lots of links for further reading: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

It’s time we put this fiction to rest and accept that data stored in clouds owned by US companies is available to those companies, and therefore to the US government, and will continue to be so no matter what gets written on a piece of paper.

I’m glad we’re working on replacing starlink, though AFAIK IRIS² won’t be ready until 2027 at the earliest.

I do think that with the increasing use of LEO satellites for drone control and the general breakdown of international agreements and institutions we’re seeing, the moratorium on weapons in space will not last much longer. Every player will work on anti-satellite systems to deny command-and-control links to the enemy.

The anti-satellite weapons we have today are mostly focused on taking down single satellites, and would not be practical against these mass swarms of LEO satellites. We’ll probably see a revival of ideas like EMPs in orbit to knock out large batches of satellites all at once. Obviously such a weapon would be indiscriminate and would take down everything within the blast radius.

I assume he must have gone back to his hotel room afterwards and just screamed in frustration for a solid hour. Or had a workout of with a punching bag with Trump and Vance’s faces on them.

I’m truly astounded at the patience he showed during that event. It was infuriating to watch.

The Economist is a British newspaper. No Americans here.

If we’re going to have the Brave New World, at least let me have my soma and orgy-porgies. This version sucks.

Works great here, and my users are very happy with it. Not disputing your experience, just saying it’s not universal.

Could be a compatibility issue with amazon’s android fork? I have only used the android client on google pixel, samsung phones and AOSP builds.

My guess is signal leaving sweden means they would block sign-ups from swedish phone numbers. It would be very effective as most people won’t bother jumping through hoops to get a number from a different country.