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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by foldr »

_osud wrote: post #484
foldr wrote: post #476

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Annex D is a list of things that are crimes pretty much everywhere. Not sure what to make of the claim that Hungary might theoretically be enforcing Hungarian law in France. It seems surprising that no-one has noticed any specific consequences of this that you can point to. The EIO is mostly just a formalization and standardization of a bunch of ad-hoc processes that were already in place. Law enforcement agencies in…

What you're missing is the erosion of the ability of the executing states to say things like "hey this is sketchy, we think this crime might not have happened", "hey the police department in this particular city is notoriously untrustworthy", or "hey this prosecutor is widely known in the local press to be corrupt and owns a collection of ferraris". Now foreign authorities are trusted by default and significant parts…

So provide some concrete examples of what you’re talking about, if it’s a real concern.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by okanat »

verisimi wrote: post #567
ginko wrote: post #559

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The European commission are appointed by the Council of the EU which is composed by elected individual member countries' heads of government. Commissioners also need to be individually approved by the European Parliament which is directly elected. Representative democracy is democracy. Basically all nation level democratic governments are representative democracies. Being a cynic doesn't make you look clever.

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EU has citizens initiatives. Citizens can propose changes to the law and the parliament has to discuss it.

Stop Killing Games movement actually got a foothold.

EU as every healthy democracy has also non-elected experts (just like judiciary side) in its organs who can create law proposals. That's how we got USB-C and GDPR.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by zie »

kioleanu wrote: post #137
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)

If you buy directly from Mullvad, they delete the transaction details after two weeks. Sure, your payment procesor knows you’ve bought from Mullvad, but in this case so does Amazon, no? Regarding Migadu, after extensive research it seemed to be the best option, but man that 20 outgoing emails limit is just so off-putting and the next tier is so far apart. I would be comfortable paying 50-60 euros per year for 50 outg…

I have like 20-ish[0] people using my Migadu account and I've only hit the hard limit once, and it was because one of them was trying to do a mailing list....

Once I got them on a better path, I haven't had any issues. I don't remember what plan exactly, but I've been a customer for a long time, since they were founded pretty much.

0: I host a non-profit and we use my migadu account, since they are broke and I'm too lazy to count the actual number.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by sofixa »

rafram wrote: post #557
sofixa wrote: post #459

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> We’re talking about a group of countries with active, enforced blasphemy laws In a very narrow interpretation, yes. Everyone with a modicum of common sense would realise that countries with laws on the books against offending religions / inciting hatred against them are still more free than a country where the fucking Bible is cited in court rulings and political speeches, and where there are active laws prohibitin…

The far right is ascendant in Europe; obviously restrictions on speech haven't prevented that. I am Jewish, I have a strong dislike of Nazis, and yet I think Nazis legally being able to "spout Nazi ideology" is a healthy thing for our society. Criminalizing speech doesn't stop people from holding abhorrent beliefs. This is an aspect of our country that I think most Americans are proud of. Some relevant reading: https…

> yet I think Nazis legally being able to "spout Nazi ideology" is a healthy thing for our society

How did that end last time? We know where it ends, we know there's nothing redeeming. Nobody needs Nazis, there is nothing to be gained by engaging with them or giving them a platform.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by nsbk »

ekianjo wrote: post #241
darthcloud wrote: post #213

As a Canadian, I’ve been thinking since last year about migrating to non-US services and applications. My main goal is simply to avoid giving money or data directly to US corporations. I have no illusions, these non-US services probably still benefit US companies in some ways. They’re rare, but I’ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies ar…

> Next, I’m thinking of moving away from Google Photos. I’m considering pCloud for that. Maybe try Immich?

I'm in the process of migrating to self-hosted immich and the experience is being great so far. If you have a beefy home lab it is incredibly fast and performant. One thing to mention is that you should have a good backup strategy not to risk losing your photo library

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by nozzlegear »

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

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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…

I'm not pretending things aren't bad, I'm pointing out that things could be bad for you as well. America had functioning legal and electoral systems too, and we only need to look at Brexit for a shining example of how parliamentary systems can also fail to resist a populist wave. By refusing to acknowledge that, you look no wiser than the Americans who were laughing at the idea of a Donald Trump presidency just ten years ago.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by dudefeliciano »

rafram wrote: post #561
microtonal wrote: post #178

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The US is at position 57 in the world free speech index. Virtually all EU countries do better and a bunch are top 10: https://rsf.org/en/index American exceptionalism doesn’t seem to know boundaries.

It's worth reading the specific actions they cite that lower the US's ranking. They include the closure of Voice of America, a government-run propaganda outlet for foreign audiences (and I do think that closure is bad! just not relevant at all to free speech); mergers of several big media conglomerates; not to mention, bafflingly, restrictions on journalism by the Iranian government in Iran, which somehow counts agai…

Can you quote it? Did not see any of those things you are mentioning.

https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by oblio »

_the_inflator wrote: post #468

European here. "Migrating to the EU" is serving a self-fulfilling delusion just as joining the so -called revolutionary forces after WW2 and moving to eastern Europe. The EU does everything to de-industrialize itself and protect its ground by using surveillance tools branded as "child protection" rules. Europeans don't have any tradition in thinking in freedom, in civil rights, in having a state that isn't there to s…

Linus Torvalds is Finnish.

Guido Van Rossum is Dutch.

Anders Hejlsberg is Danish.

Bjarne Stroustroup is Danish (I think?).

Rasmus Lersdorf is Danish.

Bram Molenaar was Dutch.

Edgar Dijkstra was Dutch.

Niklaus Wirth was Swiss.

Andrei Alexandrescu is Romanian.

I can probably think of many others.

The US is good at inventing things but it's amazing at marketing them and making money and drawing others to do the inventing for them.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by bluebarbet »

kgwxd wrote: post #483
bluebarbet wrote: post #434

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>Maps? Paper would be more practical. On the contrary, maps are (IMO) one domain where FOSS is genuinely better. OpenStreetMap data is far more detailed than any corporate map, and the available clients (Osmand in particular) are far more powerful. You-know-who can only compete because of its (admittedly useful) data on businesses. And, alas, because of ignorance among normies, many of whom are still clueless that, f…

The map data is great but I guess I really mean navigation, which is... not great.

Yes, that's what's commonly said.

Some anecdata I can offer: since last year I have used exclusively Osmand for navigating over 3000 km of cycle touring, on roads and paths of all types. The most common problem that arises is wrongly tagged surfaces (and occasionally access rights) for tracks and paths, i.e. for "roads" that do not even appear on the corporate maps. There is no comparison in terms of detail. Obviously this is less relevant for regular car drivers.

And certainly the situation for FOSS public-transit navigation is still quite poor.

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