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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by thejohnconway »

QuarterReptile wrote: post #384
thejohnconway wrote: post #356

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I don't understand your comment.

Diego Garcia is an island of exceptional strategic importance to the West. When it eventually gets granted to a client state of China, that will steadily degrade the effectiveness of bases there. I expect slower movement than the time the UK promised to protect the rights of Hong Kong citizens, but that is a matter of degree. I am not aware of Denmark giving meaningful control of Greenland to China or Russia, nor or…

I don’t see how it relates very well to what I said. I think you’re trying to say the that the Chagos island lease disagreement is as big a deal as threatening to invade a NATO ally.

I disagree.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by epolanski »

nozzlegear wrote: post #240
s_dev wrote: post #135

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>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? This is a hilarious 'just asking questions' concern that doesn't address the complete 180 in direction the US is taking and descending in to authoritarianism while moving against the world order it primarily helped build post WWII whi…

> the complete 180 in direction the US is taking and descending in to authoritarianism while moving against the world order The EU is just one AfD win away from doing the same thing. It's not immune to this issue either, you have the same problem happening right under your noses.

Not really.

Most European countries have parliamentary democracies.

It's not a winner-takes-all system ala presidential and semi-presidential republics where effectively individuals:

1. rule without opposition. There's no opposition it's not represented in that branch.

2. rule without even needing support of their own parties. The Italian prime minister or the German chancellor have to fight every day in parliament to have support of their parties and the other parties coalitions.

3. a single individual can claim popular mandate. In parliamentary systems you vote for parties/coalitions, not individuals

There's a reason why this authoritarian trend goes from the Philippines, Nicaragua, to Belarus, to Turkey, to Russia, to most African countries and now US. They are all presidential republics.

The last parliamentary democracy to turn authoritarian has been...Sri Lanka. Almost 50 years ago. Presidential ones? It's basically every year.

Systems with winner-takes-all mechanics do not represent voters, and power is too concentrated.

Parliamentary democracies might be labeled as less efficient, that I can agree, but they have strong antibodies to such people.

See Austria or the Netherlands as examples where strong far right authoritarian-wannabes individuals became prime ministers...and then nothing happened and their governments didn't last.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Bombthecat »

frevib wrote: post #364
wolvoleo wrote: post #252

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Yeah I was thinking of getting infomaniak for my mail. I don't really care for the encryption thing of proton (all email comes in in plain text anyway!) and I want to just be able to do plain imap without bridges. But their stuff just feels a bit weird somehow. I didn't really want to commit yet. I'm glad to hear you had good experiences.

Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming. Everything is done e2ee where possible. In case of mail, when the peer has no Proton, mail is indeed send plaintext. Mail is stored e2ee on server, so not even Proton can read it. Proton mail has also made PGP very easy to use. It’s Swiss based and a foundation, not a corporation. They’ve done this so they cannot easily be bought. It ticks most boxes in…

Proton is moving out of Swiss, because of privacy concerns and new laws...

Just fyi

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by gib444 »

nopakos wrote: post #215

One concern is that if an EU company becomes very successful, it could easily be acquired by a large U.S. corporation.

You're not wrong. But no SaaS is forever. Price rises, bankruptcies, ToS changes, change of CEO etc. Being acquired by a US company is just one of the things that can happen.

For someone like the author, it's not a reason to stay with a US company

And helping European companies be more successful might prevent them from selling out...

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by boringg »

bluebarbet wrote: post #408
boringg wrote: post #383

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This doesn't make a lot of sense: "They’re rare, but I’ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies are in the US, and I feel they would happily move there if needed." So in an effort to veer from the US based on idealogical positions you wouldn't support your own countrymen because you think in some future state that said copmany might hypoth…

>What utter BS Consider for a moment how you would feel if, after carefully composing and sharing your thoughts in good faith, you received this response.

Im sorry but saying you won't support your own people because you THINK they MIGHT move to the US is BS (I removed it originally because I toned down my knee jerk reaction but I defend it as you brought it up). I hope OP has enough emotional capability to handle some gentle feedback.

FWIW in case you are unfamiliar with it -- Canada has a history of not supporting its own products and companies - so this sentiment expressed above is tough one to swallow given the exceptional talent and capability of Canadians and some countries efforts to undermine that.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Deeds67 »

Bombthecat wrote: post #405
Deeds67 wrote: post #390

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Immich would be one, if they would allow photo compression... Insane that they don't even allow an option parameter Edit: oh just saw, it's a fork of immich! Cool!

Go ahead and make a feature request for it, sounds like something I could build soon :)

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by mafuy »

max_ wrote: post #368

> The reasons for this are the current global political situation and improved data protection I don't understand why people keep saying this when Europe is more hostile towards privacy. The constantly insist on schemes like chat control, and GrapheneOS users are often confronted by legal authorities. They may have "the laws", but its way less trust worthy.

You misunderstand this. Yes, there have been moves by some in the EU to reduce privacy, but they face resistance and have actually been repelled often. The ChatControl debacle you mention is one such instance. And on the other hand, sometimes there is actual progress, like with GDPR.

But more importantly, at least there are privacy laws in the EU that do something. In the US, there are virtually none, so of course you won't hear about their erosion.

I trust the EU ten times more than the US in this regard.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by groguzt »

dragochat wrote: post #86

how about the OPPOSITE problem: _anyone knows of any non-EU AND non-US email providers_? with email accounts as the roots of trust for many things, i'd really wanna know how can I get a trustworthy one not-attached to eithern an unstable system (US), or a very overregulating one like the EU juristictions... and ofc, non-CN too

Proton is in Switzerland, which is not part of EU

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by gib444 »

atoav wrote: post #41

One tip in the EU is to consider just renting a Hetzner Storage Share. This is a 1TB (or more) Nextcloud that Hetzner manages for you for 5.11 Euros per month. A Nextcloud can give you many things at once, file syncing, file shares, contact syncing, calendar syncing, etc. I have been using this for years now after having hosted my own Nextcloud instance. The space and performance they give you for that price is unbea…

I've just rented one a few days ago!

It's not a full-on Nextcloud instance, mind. For example there is no ffmpeg for generating video thumbnails.

But liking it so far

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