If you're European and reading the news at any point in the last year+, you understand how critical a weakness being dependent on US companies for your IT infra is.
There are some things that are difficult to avoid, like CPUs and GPUs, but software is much more doable.
Please don’t assume I’m not up to date on the news. But is there a tangible risk vector to European consumers of open source, commercial American software. I’m genuinely asking about incentives for the individual or individual business. That’s a more difficult question to answer than asking why shouldn’t Europe as a whole pursue this.
I answered above, but answering here as well in case it's buried.
> But is there a tangible risk vector to European consumers of open source, commercial American software.
Yes. If you're a European sanctioned by the US, it's illegal for American companies to provide you service. That means no Amazon, PayPal, Expedia, Visa, etc.
Ah, so I should have replied with "Yeahhh bitch, science!", because that's a reference to the Breaking Bad meme? That's how we're discussing things now?
Just because you immediately clicked "yeah sure sell all my data so I don't have to pay" doesn't mean it's not paywalled, please be a little more discerning.
I actually wanted to suggest government funded online dating, so we aren't beholden to godawful Tinder and its clones (OkCupid was great for me until it got bought out and turned into Tinder).
I have a slightly different angle on that - Government mandated open algorithms, exposure of sort factors (are you in the back of the line in the swipe queue), and monthly disclosure of male/female ratios. Yeah, it'll effectively crush their business models and then they actually need to start solving the problems they've created (extreme superficiality, not background checking users, not addressing bots, not acknowledging that US has an implicit class system)
I'm trying to figure out if I have enough energy to try to pitch this to my representatives office, but I don't know if 30-40% adults never marrying or falling birth rates would be arguments that democratic politician would care to act upon.
They probably didn't like the "government funded" part. I don't think I disagree. I'd hate to see what a government operated dating app would look like under my government. I doubt someone like me would be allowed on it.
Infamous means famous but for a bad reason, basically notorious. I've noticed a lot of people making this mistake recently, as well as people using ignorant to mean stupid. But I digress...
Many of us have that mode 13h stuff memorised too, including the 0x3c8 and 0x3c9 palette registers etc. And since 320x200 bytes is less than 65536 you don't need to do any segment stuff to access the full frame buffer.
It'd be fun to see a filter similar to [dead] where you could just blissfully ignore these baity throwaway accounts.
edit: ironically to the person using a throwaway to yell racial slurs under me I do browse with [dead] visible because I find some of them amusing, more amusing than most of the throwaways even, though the funniest ones have seemingly stopped posting.
I got your autograph in my notebook at EGSR (I think?) 2019, still a little sad I didn't have my PBRT full of autographs at that particular dinner! Next time ;)
There are some things that are difficult to avoid, like CPUs and GPUs, but software is much more doable.
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