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"Great Replacement" is a fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement
The Post-American Internet
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With one hand they do so much to protect consumer rights for us citizens, but with the other hand they build a survailance state. The US is doing that too, and has been pretty open about it for years.
Europe wants so very much worse in many cases.
What things do you mean exactly? I'm not following all of that too closely
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#113I've spent a couple of decades in the Danish public sector of digitalisation and in the private sector for global green energy. 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, and a lot of organisations are already actually doing it. So I would argue that there is more of a crack, but I'm not sure the post-american inte…
There's a clear winner of surveillance in the set of the US government, US companies, and the EU government and EU companies. Not only is the EU miles behind the US, the US is accelerating faster towards more surveillance. Historically PRISM and the US Cloud act. More recently DOGE's recent actions in centralising data and a new crop of private enterprises working on surveillance tech like CCTV facial recognition. I…
People also sometimes forget in this debate that the NSA is allowed and has a mandate to spy on non-US citizens and companies as they deem fit. Anything is allowed, including mass surveillance and hacking into systems. There are only restrictions when US citizens and companies are involved. European agencies probably have similar permissions but I don't think they have comparable capabilities and they also have and will continue to have smaller budgets.
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#114I've noticed some OSS orgs have been shifting their center of gravity to europe recently. Notably the Eclipse, Linux Foundations, and soon WikiMedia.
VCs and politicians forgot that Silicon Valley did not appear out of thin air, it was the product of public research and open-source ecosystems that made the internet revolution possible.
If the US betrays these ecosystems too much, they could migrate and make another tech industry flourish somewhere else.
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#115There's a lot of interesting stuff in here – e.g. the Polish trains and the ventilators.
Though I wish he'd tone it down a little occasionally. (This is why I'm not an activist.)
It's interesting as for the first time I've found myself mildly encumbered by DRM, notably some old Apple FairPlay files I bought prior to 2007 (or 2009) - which I can't play in non-Apple software.
But these are minor inconveniences compared to servicing costs of trains, tractors and so on, which get passed on to the rest of us indirectly.
I'm not sure if "disenshittificatory" will ever catch on. I'd propose d17n for disenshittification, except there's already a d18n for a project that masks sensitive fields in databases..
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
its entirely needed. For those of us who live outside the US he's tearing everything down. His remarks about Greenland and curious kid gloves with Russia hint at a future without NATO. What do you expect other nations to do in response to that? We can't just outsource all our tech to the US anymore, if it isn't a reliable partner.
>curious kid gloves with Russia Did he outsource all of the country's oil reliance to Putin's Russia? Wait, no, that was the EU. Did he also laugh at anyone telling him not to do that since it made him rely on Putin's Russia? Wait no, that was also the EU.
We aren't 100% reliant on Russian Oil, and the EU has made decisions again and again to reduce the reliance on Russia for Energy against the resistance of some members
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#117Maybe countries need to seriously consider stockpiling old hardware. Rather than sending ewaste to Southeast Asia for “recycling”, old laptops and smartphones could be the only things usable in a future fractured world.
They can just buy new hardware from China.
Until China decides they don't want to sell to them that is.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
there is a reason why US can force ASML to stop selling its machine to China learn EUV technology history first, it originated from US department of energy research program, because of cost Gov decided to halt it but multiple private company take over the development but US Gov still hold a patent/license from that technology
> patent/license Which are enforced by international agreements. At some point those don't matter anymore either and is also the point of the article. Also Zeiss a Germany company is the only one that can make the optics required.
"Which are enforced by international agreements. At some point those don't matter anymore either"
and whose in charge of international agreements between US and Netherlands ??? I think you mix up between who in power here
also stop acting like ASML netherland produce the EUV machine, its not lol
ASML US branch actually produce more parts, so if EU want to cut off the US then they also self sabotage themselves since 50%+ machine for Giant EUV is happening at US soil
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#119I've spent a couple of decades in the Danish public sector of digitalisation and in the private sector for global green energy. 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, and a lot of organisations are already actually doing it. So I would argue that there is more of a crack, but I'm not sure the post-american inte…
>There is a saying about how US citizens trust companies but not their government, and how Europeans trust their governments but not their companies. Almost always easier to pick a new company than a new government.
> Almost always easier to pick a new company than a new government.
As long as the company you left doesn't buy the company you just picked.
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#120The irony of this talk is that the prospect of the US having its own de facto "Great Firewall," albeit one imposed from without rather than from within, doesn't sound that bad to any American old enough to remember what the Internet was like before its successive waves of global Septemberings: https://old.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1l5bhfo/total...
The Twitter/X location experiment/debacle laid this bare, showing how much low-effort, divisive, often racially or religiously antagonistic content directed at Americans was actually foreign (e.g., the Indians LARPing as white nationalists with classical statue avatars).