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I'm not sure how all this is going to play out but sooner than later local solutions will be enforced politically. >Migrating away from US cloud services was e
by mrtksn 2y ago
I'm not sure how all this is going to play out but sooner than later local solutions will be enforced politically.
>Migrating away from US cloud services was easier than I expected.
So if the AI hype is worth its salt, the transition should at some point become trivial.
"Hi Mistral, can you please build a OneDrive replacement? I will host in on my Linux server at OVH. Here is the documentation for OneDrive, make sure that the software works as described in the documentation. Then install it into my server using these credentials and put the client side apps in my Apps folder"
I can't keep myself but thinking, what will happen when the mighty US tech companies that used to serve the planet get limited to 340M people in the half of the North American continent.
So far it was just convenient to have your tech thingies in the USA even if you are just providing a niche service somewhere in south Italy from Montenegro.
For years this created a positive feedback loop that fed into the centralization of capital and talent in USA, particularly in the Silicon Valley. It wasn't that Americans were writing better for loops than Europeans, it was that the global nature of the tech positioned itself at the place with least resistance and largest resources.
Unfortunately this is coming to an end as a political choice by the USA itself, so what's next then?
The moat of social networks and financial networks can indeed be broken by force if politicians choose to. This brings so much opportunity to non-Americans, it is sad for those who feel like global citizen and integrated with the whole humanity and its pretty much the dream of ant-globalists.