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I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by eithed »

TrackerFF wrote: post #49

For the past days I've been participating(albeit over Teams) in a conference relevant to my industry (intel), basically startups and established companies showcasing their products to a closed audience of EU gov. officials. One thing I noticed right away, is that all companies were asked "Can we fully host this from within EU or our country" from the various people in audience. Every single one. Many of the startups…

Loss of trust towards US is one factor; another is enshittification of services; yet another are good enough monopolies that EU don't have capital to disrupt

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by wolvoleo »

sisve wrote: post #82
unixhero wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a change. It has been asked since the advent of GDPR. So nearly 10 years.

It started 10 years ago, but have def escalated the last year IMHO. Im sorry to say it, but i feel a lot of Europeans have lost a good deal of trust in the US.

As a European: yes definitely. And that won't be fixed if you choose a sane administration again. There can always be another Trump. It will take significant time to build trust again.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by repelsteeltje »

throw9304044949 wrote: post #50
bayindirh wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently, if you want the internet-climate of the 1990s or even 2010s, you need to build yours, preferably on a different planet, with your own hardware. We don't have any "ideal" places anymore. And we need to defend what we support and believe.

Have you been around at that time? NSA had recording boxes at ISP routing places, every few days guy would come to swap hdds. Most com was unencrypted. Or read about echolon...

Yeah echelon seemed overwhelming at the time, and encryption was to be the answer.

But it turn out surveillance works just fine if you only focus on the meta data. Knowing who takes to whom, and which sites people visit is much more valuable (and much cheaper) than scanning the actual payload.

And why collect all that data yourself if ad companies are happy to sell it to you, ie to the government? (Huh, maybe that's why Facebook changed its name to Meta, come to think of it)

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by guilhermesfc »

alaudet wrote: post #87

I am not running a company, just a household but this article speaks to me. I have given this topic plenty of thought in the past year as I have a growing unease with large American tech firms and how they use data. These are some of my setups (in the spirit of the article) I have also rid myself of Google Analytics for a personal website. Replaced with a local solution that parses logs and builds reports that give m…

Everyone talks about Proton, but I've used Tuta.com for years (no vested interest) and it works fine

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by esistgut »

IAmFledge wrote: post #96

I started the process of this back in January and now, at least in terms of product hosting; fully migrated into European infrastructure ( https://bannermedia.ltd ). It didn't come without a bit of pain, but glad I've done it - and to come with this I've ended up building a whole terraform setup for cross provider / cross region high availability within Europe. So far my key mappings included: - Cloudflare -> Bunny C…

Waiting for your writeup, especially the Bunny part. We moved away from AWS but Cloudflare remains a point of failure, we are going to remove it as soon as we have some spare time to do the required research.
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