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You evaded the question.

Let me tell you about that time when I walked around in a DC in NL and ran into an unaccompanied FBI liaison officer... I don't think any of us have the total picture, but the bits…

Canadian judges can rule whatever they want, it isn't going to make a difference in practice: if Canada or a Canadian entity wants data from an EU company they're going to have to …

Technically, the US president is also not elected by the people but by the electors, which in many ways is comparable to how the EU elected the EU Commission President.

Because everybody on HN is most likely aware that Google is an American company and that by using them you pretty much can assume that your data can be compromised without your kno…

There is a Godwin in there somewhere.

The times are wild enough that I first checked if Trump had been making any moves on Iceland, just in case I had missed something...

You're right, just the other day our MP lined his pockets to the tune of a couple of billion, pumped his shitcoin, tipped off his friends about about the stock market movements he …

I think you meant to write Greenland.

Sorry, I don't agree with that. The amount of corruption in the USA right now is simply off the scale.

The harder problem here is that any real EU sovereign platform would have to come with ironclad guarantees that it isn't going to be directly or indirectly sold to a US party. And …

Knowing what to write in the first place is the hard for me, and always has been.

You can strike at least four of those.

I hope Airbus is large enough for you? https://thenextweb.com/news/airbus-scaleway-aws-sovereign-cl... And many others besides, pretty much every company I've looked at in the last…

Well, for sure they can pressure them but I highly doubt Hetzner would break the law in Europe to satisfy the US government, they are a lot more to lose here than there. I realize …

That's true but the EU still has a - mostly - functioning legal system. See 'Schrems' and other lawsuits that came out as they should have.

EU data regions are a reflexive action by companies that try to hold on to their EU customers (and more and more are leaving, surprisingly the larger ones seem to be leading here).…

Almost every service provider in the AI field is subsidizing their token cost to some degree, they're all shooting for marketshare and lock-in (and they're not really achieving the…

They can do the same thing in the US. What are you going to do, sue OpenAI or Anthropic?

This is the best model to come out since the beginning of open weights models for those working with classified data that you can not use hosted services for. I've been using it pr…

Whatever you are making this year as SWE you'll be making less next year if the current trend in improvement of AI coding aids is going to be sustained. Think about it : programmer…

That's exactly what they did here, I don't see the difference.

License policies are made by lawyers not by programmers. And their competition will be in the exact same boat (different lawyers though). AGPL is so toxic that it tends to be check…