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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

jruz wrote: post #488
BrunoBernardino wrote: post #106

For search, I'd suggest Ecosia [1] or Qwant [2] if you don't mind ads, or Uruky [3] if you don't want them (full disclosure, I've created Uruky with my wife). [1]: https://ecosia.org [2]: https://qwant.com [3]: https://uruky.com

Ecosia is just Google/Bing depending on location. Qwant is the way to go

Both use Google and Bing, though not exclusively, and both joined efforts to create the new, independent EUSP index.

Sources for Ecosia indexes/providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia#Ecosia

Sources for Qwant indexes/providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Development

EUSP: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

Schlagbohrer wrote: post #470
BrunoBernardino wrote: post #106

For search, I'd suggest Ecosia [1] or Qwant [2] if you don't mind ads, or Uruky [3] if you don't want them (full disclosure, I've created Uruky with my wife). [1]: https://ecosia.org [2]: https://qwant.com [3]: https://uruky.com

For anyone who wants some eco-optimism, Ecosia has a youtube channel where they film their reforestation efforts.

And a nice blog [1] too!

[1]: https://blog.ecosia.org

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by telmo »

sunaookami wrote: post #235
s_dev wrote: post #222

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>(though currently a little bit less marked) Again this is a false equivalence, 'a little less marked' isn't close to imparting the true state of things and to be honest a little disingenuous. The EU is not in full motion to dismantle democracy across her 27 states. The US should it not turn this around in the midterms is finished as a liberal democracy. So 'ah yes but Hungary' doesn't persuade me even though I'll co…

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What actually happened was that former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton publicly stated on French TV in January 2025 that if the AfD won in Germany, elections there could also be annulled by the EU "as was done in Romania". That was a stupid thing for him to say, but he is a private citizen, he did not represent the EU in any capacity, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the EU pressured Romania. Of course, post-truth political movements run with a distorted version of this story to play the victim.

Romania's Supreme Court decision was based mainly on illegal campaign financing. The Constitutional Court noted that Georgescu had officially reported zero campaign expenditures, yet had an enormous social media presence. His TikTok account had over 646K followers and 7.2M likes. This was in the context of interconnected declassified intelligence. Around 25000 pro-Georgescu TikTok accounts became highly active in the two weeks before the first-round vote, with nearly 800 accounts created in 2016 that had remained dormant until the election. Activity was coordinated through a Telegram channel. Romania's intelligence service said there were signs of state-sponsored attacks operating in a hybrid manner, targeting critical infrastructure and shaping public opinion through misinformation. The campaign was said to mirror influence operations conducted by Moscow during elections in Ukraine and Moldova.

Romanian prosecutors later charged Georgescu with involvement behind cyberattacks targeting Romanian electoral systems.

Russia has been systematically attempting to interfere with EU elections, and anyone who argues otherwise in the face of mountains of evidence is either being naive or disingenuous. Post-truth political parties such as the AfD are funded and supported by the Kremlin, which is interested in sowing division and wished the collapse of the EU for a long time. Unfortunately, the current US administration is also ideologically aligned with the Kremlin and also wishes the collapse of the EU, as is explicitally stated in the recent strategic document published by the Trump administration. These are the actual facts, that are easy to verify if you are actually interested in the truth.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by tensor »

rafram wrote: post #108
alpineman wrote: post #33

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At least there is still the rule of law and democracy in the EU

The baseline level of freedom of speech in the EU, in particular, is much, much worse than in the US. We’re talking about a group of countries with active, enforced blasphemy laws! Completely unthinkable for Americans.

Given the last year, it doesn't seem like any level of suppression of freedom is in fact unthinkable for Americans.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by tensor »

nozzlegear wrote: post #271
alpineman wrote: post #33

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At least there is still the rule of law and democracy in the EU

For now – the EU is one AfD win away from following in America's footsteps.

The EU governance system is vastly different than the US, and not nearly as fragile. Even if AfD gets sway in one country, it doesn't mean that suddenly they can do anything they want like you saw in the last US election.

My understanding of the EU system is that it's far more proportional in representation, and a simple 51% isn't enough to have 100% control. Parties still need to work together and compromise.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by dewey »

poolnoodle wrote: post #491
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #202

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In Germany, netcup ( https://www.netcup.com/ ) is also quite popular among customers who are - small or midsize companies, or - "hacker-minded people" (I know quite some "hacker-minded people" who rent a server or vServer at netcup), since they offer quite a bit of value for the money. In opposite to Hetzner, netcup is more of an inside tip.

Also https://uberspace.de/en/

That's the host mentioned 6 times in the article.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by epolanski »

nozzlegear wrote: post #520
epolanski wrote: post #412

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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 t…

I agree that presidential systems in particular are problematic, and the EU is lucky that Germany and France use parliamentary systems. But the nasty thing about populism is that it happens in waves and it does overtake parliaments. We need only look at what happened to the UK with Brexit for a recent example. It's not hard to imagine that a wave of far-right populism could one day overtake Germany, or send France's…

Well nobody has figured out the perfect political system yet.

Except the Swiss.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by whiterose1214 »

Lot of discussion about different privacy laws across jurisdictions, and while I understand a lot of users have different approaches to privacy and opinions on political matters, realistically if your threat model is the NSA or some other three-letter agency:

a) migrating to a different jurisdiction isn't realistically a massive barrier for them (related: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf)

b) if they're taking the time to get a "secret" warrant for you, you have much larger issues. It's like building a car that's resistant to hellfire missiles. It'll help, but if you're getting hellfire missiles thrown at you, you have much larger problems than the structural integrity of your vehicle.

Realistically, there's a reason that a lot of these services are underused. Many of them lack reliable support, many of them aren't as useful, and the vast majority lack the interconnectivity that makes services like Drive and Gmail so useful to the vast majority of consumers. In addition, if your evaluation of the utility of US companies is based on which party is in power, you should know that both parties equally don't care about your privacy, and never have.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by messe »

u8080 wrote: post #531
sofixa wrote: post #440

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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?

Can you remind me when those actually passed? I can pull equally up equally ridiculous bills from the US that never came to fruition.
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