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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by u8080 »

sofixa wrote: post #440
noobermin wrote: post #422

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europeans are so blind to how they are essentially on the same path as the US, the US just got there first.

Most European countries have functioning legal and electoral systems, and more than two parties. On top of that, constitutional courts aren't political appointments. So it would be incredibly hard for a political entity like AfD or RN to gain full and absolute power like the orange has achieved. Even in the worst cases, those parties usually only have ~30% popular support at most, which usually translates to at most…

Could you explain to me (non-US and non-EU resident), how people in EU are okay with mandatory photo scanning on your devices(aka CSAM protection)?

Who does this weird proposals like Chat Control?

AFAIK, it is not "alt-right" parties - so it really does not clicking for me, why AfD and others constantly brought in during online privacy discussions?

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

dethos wrote: post #395
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.

One of the other comments mentions https://codefloe.com . I haven't tested and haven't yet checked their background, but they seem to allow private repositories.

That sounds good. I'm a bit confused about missing pricing. It says free tier is generous but I can't find any prices.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by spiderfarmer »

flowerthoughts wrote: post #101
_pdp_ wrote: post #37

Our company started migrating our tech stack from USA to EU. We are about 90% there with a few small dependencies that could be resolved but we have not yet tackled.

Could you summarize the easy and hard aspects? Have you had any unexpected benefits or downsides?

For me:

- SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale.

- I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by 4k93n2 »

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…

just to piggyback off of this, theres also Pikapods (based in malta i think) that have about 100 or so self-hosted apps that can be installed with one-click and then you just pay depending on what you use. im more into self-hosting on my own hardware but its a nice option for people who want to get their feet wet or that dont have the time to manage a VPS themselves

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by sph »

sph wrote: post #2

I'm also pretty much using 100% EU services except FastMail. Nothing against the Aussies, but I'd rather use something local, with servers within the EU. But I don't think there's anything as good as Fastmail this side of the pond, and I'm not prepared to compromise on this just yet. I might self-host email despite all the dangers the day FM decides to enshittify itself.

Not sure why I got downvoted for saying none of the dozen alternatives people have suggested are anything close to Fastmail. I guess none of you have even tried Fastmail. I am a big fan of its UI, and they have recently released and official Linux client.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by megous »

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,…

Well https://www.devever.net/~hl/xmpp-incident

It's a problem. But it has technical rather than political solutions.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by chucksmash »

patmorgan23 wrote: post #519
awongh wrote: post #516

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still waiting and hoping that open street map becomes a viable alternative to google maps- it would be great to get a firefox of mapping (maybe not the best analogy, but....) I definitely know that an open mapping solution could gain traction and be supported by bigger companies that would use it. It seems like a good candidate for the kind of collective OSS work that supports other projects- that there are enoug…

Lyft pays people to help map in OSM. meta and Microsoft have both made big contributions as well (like allowing the use of Bing imagery)

Amazon also uses and contributes edits to OSM.
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