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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by loeber »

schubidubiduba wrote: post #668
loeber wrote: post #665

This stuff strikes me as misguided. Britain's Ofcom is sending censorship/deanonymization requests around the world, Germany prosecutes thousands of its citizens every year for "offensive" things said online... and you think Europe is a bastion of free speech or privacy? You might find that you have greater rights on US soil.

The US president is threatening to shutdown news organizations that report about his war in ways he does not like. The US government is sanctioning European individuals for doing their jobs, preventing them and their families from accessing any US digital service. I could go on. But the message is already clear: Relying on US services is gambling with a ticking time bomb.

Can you provide credible examples of each of these?

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by danilocesar »

PLMUV9A4UP27D wrote: post #607
danilocesar wrote: post #510

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pcloud is a security nightmare. If you really have to use it, add your own crypto layer on top of it. Gocryptfs works well for that.

Can you motivate why Pcloud is a security nightmare?

A couple of years ago someone raised evidence that pcloud was processing documents stored in their servers.

They created that "paid cryptography addon" later, but it's hard to trust at this point.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by badsectoracula »

ellieh wrote: post #658

> Codeberg is a German-based nonprofit organization, and it’s hard to imagine going wrong with this choice. I like what they're doing, however Codeberg's 14 day uptime is _97.05%_. I've heard from many that downtime is normal there, and is worse than GitHub (which is already... bad). This makes them a non-starter imo, until that improves. With the current trend of things going down all the time , the best way to comp…

One neat bit with Codeberg however is because they're using (actually developing) Forgejo (a Gitea fork which itself is a Gogs fork) you can easily clone the entire thing locally or on your own VPS to have as a backup.

Forgejo is even trivial to set up as it is a single self-contained binary you can throw somewhere and it'd work.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by exiguus »

My next phone will be also one that is supported by GraphenOS.

Currently, my private setup is:

- VPN: Windscribe [CA]

- AI: Mistral [FR]

- Phone: De-Googled Fairphone [NL] (F-Droid/Aurora/OpenStreetMap)

- Search: Self-hosted SearXNG + YACY (since ~10 years / good setup & documentation)

- Domain Provider: INWX [DE] (since +10 years / good setup & documentation)

- DNS: Self-hosted AdGuard Home / dnscrypt-proxy 2 + dnsdist / resolver (since ~5y / good setup & documentation)

- Git: Self-hosted GitLab (since ~1 year / ok setup & documentation)

- Mail/Cal/Card: Self-hosted with Mailcow (since +5 years / good setup & nice documentation)

- Password Manager: Self-hosted KeePass2 + SSHFS (since +10 years / easy setup)

- Notes: Joplin + self-hosted Joplin-Server (since ~5 years / good setup & documentation)

- Feeds: Self-hosted Miniflux (since +5years / easy setup & good documentation)

- VPS/Server/Storage/Hosting: netcup [DE], Webtropia [DE], IONOS [DE], OVH [FR], Hetzner [DE], Contabo [DE]

- Browser and Mail-Client: Firefox and Thunderbird (since ~2013 - last Opera release)

Costs: ~60 EUR/month and between 2 and 4 hours of work a month to maintain.

Moving away from PayPal and Amazon is quite hard and currently I search for a Slack alternative that don't need a k8-cluster to run stable or cost >50EUR/month (playing around with Matrix, Rocket.Chat and Mattermost).

Recently, I’ve been using https://european-alternatives.eu/ a lot to help friends and family.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by QuarterReptile »

thejohnconway wrote: post #411
QuarterReptile wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Diego Garcia is an island of exceptional strategic importance to the West. When it eventually gets granted to a client state of China, that will steadily degrade the effectiveness of bases there. I expect slower movement than the time the UK promised to protect the rights of Hong Kong citizens, but that is a matter of degree. I am not aware of Denmark giving meaningful control of Greenland to China or Russia, nor or…

I don’t see how it relates very well to what I said. I think you’re trying to say the that the Chagos island lease disagreement is as big a deal as threatening to invade a NATO ally. I disagree.

No, that is incorrect. I disagree that my comment draws that equivalency, not least of all because claiming "as big a deal" is to make a comparison between two radically different concerns between fairly different groups, which could only be lined up against one another in some narrowly scoped way.

I'm saying that losing stable access to Greenland sites would be similar to losing access to Diego Garcia sites, and the threat of the latter is a recent flare-up. And if you're hoping to retreat to fortress America, then Greenland becomes much more important than Diego Garcia.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by digitalPhonix »

verisimi wrote: post #474
johannes1234321 wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The EU has about 450 million citizens, which of course limits my direct vote. Downside of a democracy (EU is a complicated democracy, but still) is that a majority probably has other priorities than me. However there are many ways to impact policy makers. From individual contact to impact on the public debate. Even a small post here may lead to people considering their vote or contacting a local or EU parliamentarian…

The actual answer as to how much you influence policy is: none at all. The European commission proposes laws. European commissioners are proposed through existing EU institutions. They are not voted in. You vote for MEPs, who discuss laws, pass them, perhaps amending them. They do not propose them. And by the way, this is not democracy, it is 'representative democracy' - you vote for one person to represent you and 1…

> And by the way, this is not democracy, it is 'representative democracy'

Representative democracy has been part of the definition of democracy (in English) since before the USA existed: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=democracy

(Only in the US have I had to argue about whether representative democracy is a "real" democracy, so I assume you're American)

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by mr_00ff00 »

_pdp_ wrote: post #37

Our company started migrating our tech stack from USA to EU. We are about 90% there with a few small dependencies that could be resolved but we have not yet tackled.

What are some of the biggest EU alternatives for US big tech?

When I Google this I find a lot of options, but not sure which are actually mature tech companies vs start-up hopefuls

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by refurb »

y-curious wrote: post #191
_osud wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not advertising the US here or trying to troll. I'm an European pointing out things about the European system that many here will not have thought about. >It's a complete false equivalence. ICE agents have straight up murdered two US citizens in broad daylight without consequence and you're querying the nature of some search warrants in the EU. Maybe keep your US nonsense to yourself?

I’m in the US and generally pretty level-headed. Nothing makes me become a red-blooded patriot nationalist temporarily faster than seeing Europeans completely ignore the similarities in our political ills. It always boils down to, “but it’s the good kind of authoritarianism we have that preserves social order!!!” as if that has never failed to produce desired results. Thanks for being much more rational. We have a co…

Exactly.

What the EU fails to realize is that rights have always been dennied due to the "great good". Nazi Germany did it. The USSR did it. China does it today.

So by claiming "there are good reasons" creates no distinction between them an authoritarians. They need to have a better reason.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by mcswell »

I suppose I'm the only one who thought this article would be about moving oneself to the EU. Frankly, given the current mess in the US government (Making America Little Again), I would do that if I could swing it financially. But I'm retired, and have no kin that live or lived in the EU.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by zenmac »

>For a long time, I was a satisfied Namecheap customer. They offer good prices, a wide selection of available domains, their DNS management has everything you need, and their support team has helped me quickly on several occasions. But now it was time to look for a comparable provider in the EU. In the end, I settled on hosting.de. Some of the reasons were the prices, reviews, the location in Germany, and the availability of .is domains. So far, everything has been running smoothly; support helped me quickly and competently with one issue; and while prices for non-German domains are slightly higher, they’re still within an acceptable range.

Have you tried zone.eu? Think they are related to the Nodemailer people or they acquired them. Would fit the whole Migrating to the EU theme of the article. And it is in English ;-) Couldn't really navigate the hosting.de site without using Google Translator.

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