What people could do?

Imitate them and put that fascist-owned monstrosity down everywhere.

They don’t have that permission

Yes.

Barcelona resident here. I pay 22€ for an unlimited month transit pass (that’s a discounted price that will probably go up). I can ride any underground, bus or commuter train inside the metropolitan area. I own a car to go outside the urban zone but I barely use it.

When I have to use my car in town (because I’m going to buy something that cannot be carried easily otherwise) I recall how much driving in the city sucks.

I’m actually thinking about sellling my car and using a rental service if I want to take a road trip.

You can take your notion of ‘free speech’ and your tech companies and shove’em.

Counter tariffs are a shot to the feet.

I like the proposal of Mr. Doctorow more. Legalize reverse engineering and anti-DRM circumventing. Reduce copyright to 25 years tops and don’t recognise software patents at all.

Good for the local industry, bad for American tech.

Win-win

It goes far beyond e-commerce.

Most European banks have moved part of their core to the cloud. DORA requires banks to have at least two cloud providers for their core services. Most of those providers are controlled by the Americans.

Yeah, of course it would be a declaration of war. The question is what we would do in that situation.

DORA should be amended so at least one of the cloud service providers should be European, or, alternatively, on prem. Tje European countries should provide themselves of legal and technical tools to seize the US-controlled vital infrastructure if necessary.

But what I read coming from Brussels is jus the usual shit.

Found the Nazi. Plonk!

I’d go any day with something controlled by the ECB instead of the CCP.

And don’t have any special antipathy vs the Chinese.

Don’t even need ‘savings’. Depending on US controlled companies is an existential risk.

Or the European TARGET system. Already in place, and works like a charm.

We also need to get rid of dependency on USA tech companies. Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.

Not easy, it will require extreme protectionist measures to allow European alternatives to thrive. It will be expensive and will probably induce a recession. But the alternative is way worse.

Banking IT engineer here.

In our case, everything ‘core’: checking and savings accounts, loans and credits, credit and debit cards… anything requiring a sub-second response time while being bombarded with tens of thousands of transactions per second AND requiring strict ACID transactions end to end AND 24x7 availability with quick recovery in case of disaster.

Secondary stuff is being moved to other architectures. And new core stuff is being written in Java… and ran on the mainframe.

I am.

First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.

But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.

So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.

I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.