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As a Dane, this has been frightening for years. I hope our government thinks of open source solutions, instead of just a european company over a US one.
As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.
Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you “just” have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.
so… you’re the baddies?
I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.
it’s coming from a well known meme: “are we the baddies”.
You should look it up. It’s basically 2 Nazis wondering, and then realizing they are the baddies…
I don’t really get why and how lobbies are even allowed.
I always thought the correct word to describe it was “corruption” and that it was illegal.
Corruption is when you get a million for something. Lobbying is when you do it for a promise to be on the board of directors in the future.
It’s lobbying in the West and Euro subsidies embezzlement in the East.
I’d choose the second option tbh. I’d rather yoink some funds than take a bribe.
All I can say is Nothing new on the western front. Same shit all the time.
As someone of middle age that’s been thinking of a career change away from all my BofH open source tech roots, and maybe going back to school, I’ve been very disheartened to see how married a lot of curriculums in public universities are to specific companies. Maybe it was always like this and I didn’t notice, I can imagine if you did an engineering program in the 80’s you’d have Boeing employees as professors, but fuck me if I’m going to go to Adobe art school.
I never understood the obsession to use Facebook Messenger in Denmark. First time someone asked me whether I “use messenger”, I said “Yes, three different ones” and the person was bewildered while I was confused.
This is an important area where everyone can start:
- Find an XMPP provider
- Install app, create account
- Move conversations over
- Delete Facebook account at some point
Free conversations from big tech, use something that does not depend on a single provider. Monopolies are bad, not just if they’re from the US. Try to use something from Europe that isn’t based on monopolies.
Here’s a flyer from the Digital Independence Day that has recently been proclaimed by the Chaos Computer Club and several other German organisations: https://shop.digitalcourage.de/files/xmpp-folder-engl-druck.pdf
Fire them.
“Here in Denmark, we want homegrown European corporate-driven mass surveillance of all civilians.”
Glances at ChatControl
That’s why we need to decentralise communication everywhere.
Good luck trying to surveil all of XMPP. It just does not work. The server operators could be forced, but the client developers would just not release an update with a backdoor and instead just stop developing their clients.
#GO AWAY DAVRIELLE LOUNA
And take your endless stream of obnoxious spammy accounts with you
#GO AWAY DAVRIELLE LOUNA
And take your endless stream of obnoxious spammy accounts with you
