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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by GJim »

embedding-shape wrote: post #258
mrits wrote: post #253

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From the a US perspective, EU hate each other and I see no way any temporary cohesiveness will last. Most EU countries are just as likely to elect a Trump in the next decade

> EU hate each other What gave you the impression that EU members hate each other? It'd be a weird union if that was the case. Not saying it's not possible, I just haven't seen it myself, although I am a Swede so clearly I do hate the Danes and the Norrbaggar with passion, but it's love-hate, not hate-hate.

As a Brit, I consider it my god given duty to take the piss out of the French; a duty I know is entirely mutual. Please don't however, consider this anything other than a slightly odd friendship.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

saulapremium wrote: post #610
embedding-shape wrote: post #563

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> Generally, a lot of people are just not good people. Worth remember, no one sees themselves as the "bad people", in each one of those 1/3's point of view, they're the "good people".

..maybe? I mean, I would have said something exactly like that a few years ago. But first of all, history is full of atrocities committed by humans. They may all have considered themselves good people, but if they were/are objectively not, what does that matter? And secondly, I have encountered people who appear to think that decency is for sissies or something to that effect. Those people seem seriously emboldened l…

> but if they were/are objectively not, what does that matter?

It matters less for them, and more for you. Yes, we see them as horrible, but also yes, they see us as horrible people. In the end we're all humans, and we all work towards what we think is better, but the method and goal what "better" actually is obviously differs.

> Do they think that being a good person is something to aspire to? I don't think so.

Yes, of course they do, but their definition of "good person" differs between you and them. For you, decency is "good person", for them, ignoring decency is "good person", so of course they aspire to being a good person, whatever that means for them.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by HackerThemAll »

I am heavily reliant on the Office suite, and aware of many business that also are. I tried to switch to LibreOffice numerous times, with no success. For example, a simple thing - the CSV import wizard is so inefficient and buggy in LibreOffice that I spent literally hours to make it work. I then proposed concrete improvements for the LibreOffice team, but they got downplayed and dismissed. "Everything's normal, just got used to it". The productivity with LibreOffice is ruined at the very moment you have to do anything but typing a text or spreadsheet cell content. Paying the MS subscription returns in a few hours saved by it compared to LibreOffice and clones.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

crote wrote: post #545
palata wrote: post #526

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Well of course there is nationalism in Europe. The thing is, it weakens Europe. And nationalists outside of Europe are very happy to help them. Not only Russia: look at Elon Musk and his nazi salute and publicly endorsing neo-nazis in Germany...

The new part is that the nationalists of various countries are now, ironically, banding together in international cooperation.

Also not new, been happening for as long as I can remember. Nordic Resistance Movement for example been around since late 90s, and early 2000s they were already banding together with other organizations in the Nordics, and even collaboration with their German counter-parts and more.

From the top of my head, Franco, Hitler and Mussolini frequently helped each other, two of them even created a somewhat famous alliance together, even though by their own "theories" they should have been fighting against each other instead.

I'm sure there are even more examples further back too.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

GJim wrote: post #621
embedding-shape wrote: post #258

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> EU hate each other What gave you the impression that EU members hate each other? It'd be a weird union if that was the case. Not saying it's not possible, I just haven't seen it myself, although I am a Swede so clearly I do hate the Danes and the Norrbaggar with passion, but it's love-hate, not hate-hate.

As a Brit, I consider it my god given duty to take the piss out of the French; a duty I know is entirely mutual. Please don't however, consider this anything other than a slightly odd friendship.

Ah, as someone who live on the border to France, and every summer experience lost Frenchies asking for directions in French, when we're not in France, I agree :)

Still, love em, let the weirdos eat their snails in peace and may we always be brothers and sisters <3

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by eleventen »

shimman wrote: post #422
c16 wrote: post #51

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Umami isn't half bad self hosted. Been using it with Docker Compose for a few years now on a LEB and it's working great.

It's not bad but it's a massive resource hog for what it purports to do. Shame that most of the self host analytics use things like typescript or php rather than more performant languages like Go. Speaking of which: https://github.com/th0th/poeticmetric Looks interesting but haven't delved in it too much. I do like how I can create specific analytic tracking events without worrying too much about ad blockers but that…

I think you might be confusing Umami with Plausible? Plausible is a total mess of heavy-idling containers and ClickHouse. I dropped switched to Umami and have had no performance issues of any kind. It's running on ~12 year old shitbox. I do only deal with ~10K events per day max though.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

crote wrote: post #538
embedding-shape wrote: post #381

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I guess they eventually read their own local (US) laws and figured no one cares about that effort since Amazon is still covered by CLOUD Act, regardless of what ccTLD they happen to use for their landing page. > The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored o…

Their idea is that the EU cloud's corporate structure is completely independent, so AWS US isn't a parent company' so the CLOUD Act doesn't apply. They aren't a local subsidiary, they are an independent company licensing the AWS tech stack to operate fully independently on their own hardware - which just happens to also have a license to the AWS name. It's a rather clever idea, and it essentially prevents EU governme…

> Their idea is that the EU cloud's corporate structure is completely independent, so AWS US isn't a parent company'

I'm not sure this is actually the idea, it still isn't so in practice for sure, I'm not sure where this misconception comes from.

The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security memo says the Dutch government asked AWS who ultimately owns AWS European Sovereign Cloud GmbH and AWS Luxembourg. According to that memo, AWS stated that both are indirectly owned by Amazon.com, Inc, and this is all public information: https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/36acf7a6-1ea3-401e-86ad-...

Besides, it doesn't really matter who is the parent or where it geographically is located, 18 U.S.C. § 2713 states this:

> [...] regardless of whether such communication, record, or other information is located within or outside of the United States.

It'd be a clever idea if it was actually 100% independent, but then it also wouldn't make sense for AWS/Amazon to do, it'd have to be actually independent then, not this weird mix-match of "some stuff in the US and some in EU" which they seem to be aiming for currently.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by gib444 »

debugnik wrote: post #596
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I'll preface this with a statement that as a European I want European alternatives to succeed, and MS-owned GitHub to shrivel and disappear. But in case anyone from Codeberg reads this, IMO landing and signup pages need a lot of improvements: > Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides services to free and open-source projects, such as Git hosting (using Forgejo) OK, so do I register for Codeberg o…

Codeberg is not a commercial product, they've got a mission to provide a forge for active FOSS contributors, not to increase conversion rates. Reducing friction would be nice, that much is good feedback, but their target user is probably picking between them or self-hosting, so fixing half of these isn't urgent. As for the other half: > OK, so do I register for Codeberg or Forgejo? [...] Do I care it's Forgejo? If yo…

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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by j_maffe »

gmueckl wrote: post #539
j_maffe wrote: post #476

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> Russia has been trying to export their nationalistic totalitarianism to the EU Let's not pretend that nationalism doesn't have deep roots in Europe.

Do you think that I do? Nationalism existed at the edges of the political spectrum for a long time. I'm saying that outside propaganda tries to actively boost the popularity of those parties.

I think it's easy to blame foreign nations for issues in the local population. Would be great if Europeans take responsibility for once in their life.
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