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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Acrobatic_Road »

askonomm wrote: post #555
AlexandrB wrote: post #495

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Yup, I don't get someone who would look at the US and say that their government overreach is particularly bad compared to the rest of the "first world". For example, the UK is arresting people for getting too spicy in school Facebook groups[1]. It just feels like "grass is greener" mentality because folks on here are most familiar with US political issues. [1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/police-arre…

Do the immigration police in UK also murder their own citizens in broad daylight? What about incarceration (and falsely incarcerated) rates? What about general cases of police brutality? What about pedophile-run government where nobody ever gets arrested? What about a government that's bailing out known criminals for money? Or one that rug pulls its own citizens via crypto scams, phone scams, citizenship scams? USA i…

>What about pedophile-run government where nobody ever gets arrested?

This is just complete nonsense. We are not run by pedophiles. Nobody is being arrested because the people you want arrested have committed no crimes. Being in the Epstein files doesn't make someone a pedophile.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by frevib »

jwr wrote: post #584

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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by vanviegen »

deaux wrote: post #49

https://bunny.net/ seems solid as a Cloudflare and S3 replacement. I'm not affiliated but they deserve more mentions in these threads.

I recently used Bunny for a small project. Pretty good experience. And they're rolling out new functionality at a good pace.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by vages »

esher wrote: post #625

I don't like all the 'us against them' rhetoric going on. All that European alternatives talk is not much better than America first.

Most of the articles I read about this is about showing that going all-European is possible at all. If that feels like it’s an us vs. them thing, I’m not sure how I could change your mind.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by varispeed »

matt-p wrote: post #621
varispeed wrote: post #620

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I like that German company offers Blitz service. Tempted to order something from the UK.

You do pay import tax, plus admin fee to the carrier - or did last time I ordered. But factoring it in its still a great deal.

That's fine. Same from China etc.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by js-utm32 »

gattilorenz wrote: post #592
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…

To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work? I have been a user of gmail since you needed an invitation to register, and even though I have felt for years the pressure to de-google myself, I find it a daunting task due to the amount of people/services that…

I auto-forwarded to protonmail and replied from there. It took two years before I stopped receiving email that way.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by FabCH »

_osud wrote: post #529
FabCH wrote: post #273

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You are technically correct but seem to be applying common law standards to civil law countries. Unlike common law judiciary, civil law judiciary in and of itself has investigatory powers and judges don’t just hear arguments but can order their own investigations and are significantly more independent than in common law. This can cut both ways, yes in theory the judge can accept evidence the prosecution obtained ille…

You forgot about the Nordic countries.

Scandinavian law is commonly considered to be a subcategory of civil law. Judges in Scandinavia have investigative powers and can judge the truth of the matter.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by keybored »

_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…

I haven’t talked to all Europeans, like Albanians, but I can’t imagine that we all monomaniacally obsess about all the trending culture war talking points. Like you just breathlessly throw out Child Protection Rules at the end of a sentence. Huh?

Is one supposed to go over such a laundry list/dump of talking points one by one? It hardly seems serious.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by wolvoleo »

frevib wrote: post #364
wolvoleo wrote: post #252

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Yeah I was thinking of getting infomaniak for my mail. I don't really care for the encryption thing of proton (all email comes in in plain text anyway!) and I want to just be able to do plain imap without bridges. But their stuff just feels a bit weird somehow. I didn't really want to commit yet. I'm glad to hear you had good experiences.

Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming. Everything is done e2ee where possible. In case of mail, when the peer has no Proton, mail is indeed send plaintext. Mail is stored e2ee on server, so not even Proton can read it. Proton mail has also made PGP very easy to use. It’s Swiss based and a foundation, not a corporation. They’ve done this so they cannot easily be bought. It ticks most boxes in…

I only want it for the mail. Everything else I self-host anyway. It's just that mail is hard with bad actors like Microsoft demanding certain reputation standards (e.g. you have to send X amount of legit mail per month or you get blocked even if they've never seen spam from you!). But for mail the encryption is just useless in my opinion.

The encrypted mail storage adds no value for me because I pull all my mail from the server immediately anyway. It's just a big hassle to deal with that bridge. And when a mail comes in they have to handle it in plaintext (and also, the other party sees it which is 90% of the time microsoft or google or another bad actor). I just view email as a lost cause really.

The only thing I get from Proton is the VPN.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by okanat »

akvadrako wrote: post #618
okanat wrote: post #569

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I think that is not up to date. Mailbox publishes DKIM records: https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... SPF is here https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... DMARC is up to the domain owner to set.

Lack of records isn't the issue. You authorize mailbox's servers to send on behalf of your domain. Then they let anyone with a mailbox account set the from to your domain.

I see, so their SMTP authentication is woefully broken and they let anybody who can send an e-mail from their SMTP server to put anything in From: ? That's rather hard to believe. The defaults of most SMTP servers like Postfix prevent that. Since I don't want to get banned I don't really want to test that option with their SMTP server.

I took the https://emailspooftest.com/ and while the "spoof" mail gets delivered to mailbox.org's Inbox, my Thunderbird client is all red and it warns me about DKIM and SPF fails.

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