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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by squarefoot »

bean469 wrote: post #112
_osud wrote: post #18

How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review? Some EU courts will not exclude illegally obtained evidence either, so challenging the warrant later on will be pointless. Oh, and you might be in a reasonable EU country and still be hit with an EIO from one of the unreasonable countr…

> How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review? Just to be clear, according to the DOJ, law enforcement officials in the US can search your home without a warrant if they suspect that you are a "Alien Enemy" [1]. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25915967-doj-march-1...

Don't forget civil forfeiture, which can (an does) happen whether they think you're an enemy or not.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/freq...

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

pjc50 wrote: post #130
_osud wrote: post #18

How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review? Some EU courts will not exclude illegally obtained evidence either, so challenging the warrant later on will be pointless. Oh, and you might be in a reasonable EU country and still be hit with an EIO from one of the unreasonable countr…

How much is this a practical rather than theoretical problem? One of the problems with being on the US Internet is that we get lots of coverage of US police overreach and much less coverage of EU police overreach. That could have one of three causes: - actual incidence is low - it's not being reported - it is being reported, but doesn't generate discourse (And the counter option: sometimes when you do hear about it,…

> That could have one of three causes:

> - actual incidence is low

> - it's not being reported

> - it is being reported, but doesn't generate discourse

Fourth possible cause:

- the EU has 24 official languages

i.e. when it is reported, the number of people who are actually capable of understanding the reporting is only a fraction and rather localized.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by aborsy »

Some of these European countries such as France are quite authoritarian. They frequently pass (update: propose/push for) laws to ban VPN and even social media, request access to private messages, etc. It seems to me the situation is equally bad in EU.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by threethirtytwo »

sobiolite wrote: post #5

I’m not with I could ever migrate away from Gmail, even if I wanted to. I have so many accounts and services linked to it.

There's no point in switching. Most of these people are dealing with a threat that has an extremely low probability of happening. It is not in any practical way going to affect your life and for most of the people here busy switching to EU services they likely don't have any major example of where it has affect them or anyone one degree away from them.

It's mostly an ideal. Like OSS. The practical reality means that such extreme adherence to only EU services doesn't do anything but make your life harder. It's like saying you only use open source, from the CPU to the GPU to your OS and everything else... make it all from open source, how big of a nightmare would that be? The only time it is practical is if you're doing really illegal shit and you need the data protection.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by v20 »

layer8 wrote: post #121
dinowars wrote: post #88

> First, I tried mailbox.org, which I can generally recommend without reservation. Unfortunately, you can’t send emails from any address on your own domain without a workaround I use mailbox for a long time, one account for 2.50EUR/month with multiple custom domains and I can send emails from any address. To send from a different address the process didn't really seem different than other providers. From Thunderbird…

My understanding is that the number of such sender aliases is limited, at most 50 or 250, depending on the plan. There are ways to use a custom domain for sending where you end up using a larger number of localparts fairly quickly, and it would be a hassle to have to manage them, instead of just typing whatever sender you want (or on replies, having the email client automatically use the address from the original ema…

The limit is only enforced in the web interface. You can send from any alias using any third party email client, and on the website you can configure a catchall mailbox and create a rule to filter out the aliases that receive spam.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by roelschroeven »

thijsw wrote: post #99
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #3

Codeberg is only for FOSS projects. Is there some good European hosting provider for git? I really don't want to self host git.

Yes, check out https://www.gitlabhost.com/ It is based in the Netherlands

AFAICS the cheapest option is 250€/month. That seems geared towards businesses, not individuals.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by kouunji »

Honestly this is part of a macro trend of everyone outside the US scrambling to get off a US tech stack…these are going to be the longer term economic consequences for the country, as it is no longer seen as a safe option for any kind of data or service exposure.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by [deleted] »

aktau wrote: post #127
tonydav wrote: post #113

For mail I've been using migadu. I self host most services: contacts, calendar, git, .. Agree on mullvad, buy giftcard on amazon. Tried hetzner, but it wouldn't allow me to create an account. Ovh it is. I haven't thought about registrars, I don't think it matters for most tld. (Moniker, porkbun)

> Agree on mullvad, buy giftcard on amazon. I've heard this before. Is this just to add another hop in the chain to make it harder for someone to track the user down? Apart from someone needing to order Amazon to pony up the details ("Which credit card was this Amazon item bought with?") Is there another layer of privacy I'm missing?

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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by jdiaz97 »

jen729w wrote: post #56
hbbio wrote: post #52

Still not accepting Codeberg moral stance. Yes, gitea (and originally gogs) are released under permissive licenses, so it's legally allowed to fork them. But forking complete working projects with years of work, rebranding with a "good guys" attitude, and progressively erasing the name/history (mentioning a gitea fork has moved down the faq now) is not fair. Edit: even worse, the word "fork" is not in the FAQ. It is…

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software… – https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/LICENSE If you don't want your software us…

open source is all fun and games until they fork you
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