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Re: The Post-American Internet

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Europe is in a tough spot these days, trying to unwind decades of economic partnership with the USA while simultaneously trying to fend off Russia from Ukraine.

But can't be bothered to avoid Palantir or Microsoft.. that would be TOO tough! Learn all those new buttons (once) and that confusion with ~ instead of C:\. Oh the difficulties! :D

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I have the impression that most people believing and repeating this "great replacement" narrative are not members of the demographics they claim are being replaced. To me it seems mostly spread by people living outside of Europe trying to paint Europe in a bad light in order to push fear and anti-immigration policies in the general west.

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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

If putin, then trump and their people agreed on that we are no longer living in a rule based world, patents, licences etc. would hold little value. Realpolitik of the globe will kick everyone's ass.

US let Russia take a chunk of ukraine and China and Russia to certain extend let US control its own hemisphere

just eat up that some major power always playing geo-politic war games that exert its influences

they maybe have a friction and want to mess with each other but the domain of influence is always there and they generally dont want to cross the line for it

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It's weird seeing people still having soft spot for trump. Although it's more and more of a "leave the mad grandpa alone! he's ours!".

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Che. Boludo.

(for those fortunate enough to not understand the context of this proposal, back when the US was not yet itself a banana republic it used to support juntas that did things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War#Adolfo_Scilingo's_de... ; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#U.S._involvem... )

Re: The Post-American Internet

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I'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…

You won’t ever be able to use anything but Microsoft and other American products. I feel sorry for you. Mr Trump and Lindsey are laughing directly at your face, it seems.

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I'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…

For computers we have linux, ok, but how are iOS and Android being replaced?

The EU is slowly weakening Google's grasp on Android, for example by evening the playing field for app stores. You can get google-free Android devices from both Chinese manufacturers and the Netherlands (Fairphone). They aren't terribly attractive right now, but that could quickly change if the demand exists

At that point Google would probably turn even more hostile to the open source nature of Android, leading to some sort of fork

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My country (Germany) still consists out of 72.65% Germans (Wikipedia/Destatis Sept. 2025).

Every other ethnic doesn't surpass 4%.

Being an open and multicultural country kinda implies that other ethnics have a place here, and that's a good thing. Nationalism is the last thing my country needs.

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