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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by antonvs »

hvb2 wrote: post #408
tcp_handshaker wrote: post #351

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Given how bad the US military performed against Iran, its pretty clear that any hostilities started by the US against NATO, would finish with a takeover of Washington within...2 weeks...

What makes you say that? Where does this weird expectation come from that you can basically achieve your goals in a 2 week air campaign? If the US wanted to they could probably do a lot of damage but, as you can see in Ukraine, taking over a country is a whole different thing. Unless you're willing to go in with the army and are willing to lose a LOT of people. And even then it'll take months or years for a single co…

> Where does this weird expectation come from that you can basically achieve your goals in a 2 week air campaign?

From every US administration that’s started a war since about 1945.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by pillefitz »

chasd00 wrote: post #247
wolvoleo wrote: post #116

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As a European: yes definitely. And that won't be fixed if you choose a sane administration again. There can always be another Trump. It will take significant time to build trust again.

> It will take significant time to build trust again and nothing of value was lost. What did the US get out of the relationship?

You can't be serious.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by antonvs »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #378
joe_mamba wrote: post #155

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Not just ASML, when I working in EU at another major Dutch semiconductor company, the leadership and decision making was mostly US-based and centered around US policies, even if the HQ was still technically in the NL, but because PE and most other major investors were all US Bay Area. For example my manager had to reject a candidate from Iran, simply due to US policies, even if that wasn't against the EU policies, an…

> when I working in EU at another major Dutch semiconductor company Ok, come on, please stop playing this silly HN game of: "another major ... company". There can only be four other options: NXP, SMM, BE Semi, Nexperia. Or a bit deeper: SMART Photonics, EFFECT Photonics, Nearfield, Prodrive Tech, Neways Elec. Which one? > As long as the EU investors refuse to invest in domestic companies and their future, EU companie…

There are plenty of reasons to think China could be a more stable and safe business partner for the EU than what the US has become.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by sevenzero »

dgellow wrote: post #557
sevenzero wrote: post #307

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Because if I want to provide an app to like 5 people I know personally, I am soon forced to do so via the Playstore due to Google disabling sideloading on Android. So now I am forced to inform myself about all the bullshit documents I never cared for beforehand. Yes I know what I am allowed to do with my users data, no I don't send it to some data brokers, yes I already comply to privacy laws and whatnot. Just requir…

You don’t need a lawyer to create privacy terms. You can literally write a markdown file hosted on GitHub where you explain that you don’t track anything (assuming it’s the case). You also don’t need to publish something publicly to the stores to share with friends, you can both side load (no it’s not disappearing) and have test versions that your friends can install

Its not disappearing but Ill have to sign the apps with my google developer id. Also I want them to be able to simply click an install button over having to figure out what an apk is.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by frm88 »

TheCapn wrote: post #531
Unfunkyufo wrote: post #498

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As an advocate (and practitioner) of European digital sovereignty, let me tell you, at least from my perspective, it has absolutely nothing to do with fear of US intelligence agencies spying on us, and everything to do with the catastrophic consequences of an unreliable and unstable American government pulling the plug on our vital infrastructure, or at least the very least weaponizing our dependency on American comp…

As a Canadian who has been listening to the "51st state" wordvomit coming out of US administration your comment is very apt. For some reason I can't fully grasp, a LOT of US citizens are ignorant to how the rest of the world is perceiving them at the current moment. There's countless US articles talking about US/Canada relations as if it is a trade dispute and that they think Canadians are eager to re-unite and go ba…

For some reason I can't fully grasp, a LOT of US citizens are ignorant to how the rest of the world is perceiving them at the current moment.

Lets help them via visualisation: from rank 30 to 48 in just one year

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-b...

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by bcye »

weberer wrote: post #347
embedding-shape wrote: post #151

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> Definitely a change, because it is not something I can recall being important just a couple of years ago. I work as a consultant and freelancer across a bunch of companies, some American but mostly European ones. Last ~8 months or so, the sentiment about "Hosting our data in EU or even our own country" has drastically changed, I don't think I've seen such a clear shift in public opinion so fast before. The amount o…

>I don't think I've seen such a clear shift in public opinion so fast before Its not about public opinion, but rather data sovereignty requirements. Certain types of data must be processed within servers located in the EU, regardless of where the company's HQ is. That's why you see most SaaS platforms nowadays offer a EU-only version.

I disagree, enforcement on data laws in the EU is extremely lacklustre.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by simonjgreen »

flumpcakes wrote: post #323
chasd00 wrote: post #209

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this is good, there's money to be saved in many many cases with self hosting. Cloud was supposed to save money but it's gotten so overdone that now companies have dedicated devops teams just like they use to have dedicated sysadmin teams. I think you can take the opensource paas's out there and selfhost something internal that covers 75-70% of your use case at a fraction of the cost of aws/gcp/azure.

The price of hardware (DELL, HP), and the price of enterprise software (VMWare, Nutanix, etc.) has increased an insane amount in the last 12 months. In our case some of the services it has been as much as 6x. Hardware quotes are rising 10-20% per week. Delivery dates are months out. It has become so bad that we're considering moving to the cloud for our on-premise workloads. Only problem is some of the cloud provider…

What happened with VMWare licensing post acquisition is a travesty and has absolutely ruined what was a great ecosystem of small to medium scale hosting operations (talking in the half a rack to 10 racks territory). There is still no alternative with feature parity.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by ffritz »

happyspacebear wrote: post #522
ffritz wrote: post #433

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I feel this and as a German company, we have our stuff hosted in the EU. But where it becomes pointless to have the host in the EU, is when Cloudflare is a requirement. Since we expose ourselfs through their certificate, we might as well host with a US company. And I’m not aware of a EU Cloudflare competitor with similar WAF offering.

Can you explain that a bit more?

A full integration with Cloudflare means it is their SSL certificate that’s presented to the visitor of your website, and all traffic is passed through them. They do read everything.

Thus it’s pointless to host in the EU if everything first has to go through a US company.

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