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RISC-V moved to Switzerland as well a while ago. I think it's a shame to see stuff like this happening. Regardless, of where one stands currently in the current

• tossandthrow 2y ago
  Regardless of the political situation, the EU is probably a more friendly environment for a standards body taking their stance in interoperability into account.
  • dtquad 2y ago
    Not all EU countries are the same. I would avoid Hungary, Slovakia, and former Eastern Germany (except Berlin).
    • perching_aix 2y ago
      Why?
      • pesho 2y ago
        They're one of the best places in Europe right now, actually.
      • onli 2y ago
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        • ghosty141 2y ago
          This is a 20 year old article and no we don't have "nazis kill foreigners with some regularity". Yes hate-crime happens, but you make it sound like an active war zone where you have to be afraid of your life if you are "foreign" looking. I'd wager for tourists it's very safe in Germany.
          • Parae 2y ago
            Well, if you're Palestinian, Germany can be really harsh and I won't bet on your safety..
            • sharpshadow 2y ago
              That’s complete nonsense and the opposite is the case.
          • TheEnbyperor 2y ago
            I am a foreigner living and working in Germany. Its a perfectly safe and pleasant country to live in.
            • onli 2y ago
              It sure is, until it isn't. And it strongly depends on where you are in the country. I highly doubt you live comfortably in a Nazi area.
              • sharpshadow 2y ago
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                • onli 2y ago
                  That's of course not true in the slightest, but it is the image the new Nazi party is painting. I recommend you stop consuming afd content.
                  • sharpshadow 2y ago
                    Regarding your knowledge on this topic your recommendation is an insult. Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here, I don’t make this up look it up. All kinds of outdoor festivities are undergoing brutal security regulations, making them unprofitable and many don’t even happen anymore because of this. Not even mentioning the knife crimes which are absurdly. Nazi crimes are the lowest they have been in history. Most problematic are the antisemitic tendencies from the Palestinian movement at the moment.
        • akimbostrawman 2y ago
          There is no mention of regular killing of foreigners. The only mention of murder is from 1990... In contrast the number of crime involving foreigners has risen 13% in 2023 to 34% of all crimes. https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLagebilder/PolizeilicheKriminalstatistik/PKS2023/Polizeiliche_Kriminalstatistik_2023/Polizeiliche_Kriminalstatistik_2023.html https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLageb...
          • onli 2y ago
            I did not claim the article contained that information, I specifically claimed it did not. It is an example for non-deadly violence that indeed does occur regularly there. https://www.bpb.de/themen/rechtsextremismus/dossier-rechtsextremismus/324634/rechtsextreme-gewalt-in-deutschland/ https://www.bpb.de/themen/rechtsextremismus/dossier-rechtsex... is a source for the murders and also describes why the statistics are hard to gather.
            • akimbostrawman 2y ago
              109 murder in over 30 years is not "regularly" either, more people die from falling of stairs in a single year. Meanwhile there where over 750 group rapes/attempts in 2023 alone of which 50% of the perpetrators where foreigners. But I guess that one wouldn't count as "regularly" for you.... https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/gruppenvergewaltigungen-was-erklaert-den-hohen-auslaenderanteil,UQixrB2 https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/gruppenvergewaltigungen...
      • smatija 2y ago
        Hungary probably due to Orban, while Slovakia has ultra-nationalistic party in coalition. I would evade Germany, Austria and also Italy in general, due to common racism against slavic people.
      • lynx97 2y ago
        Politically motivated xenophobia.
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    • tirant 2y ago
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      • kanbara 2y ago
        family friendly for very strict definitions of family
      • andsoitis 2y ago
        Hungary is run by an authoritarian leader (Viktor Orban) who has strongly aligned itself with Christian nationalism and is opposed to immigration, gay rights, and what it calls “Western literalism”.
      • Freak_NL 2y ago
        What makes you say that it is family-friendly with a blooming economy? Orbán just banned Pride events nationwide, and vowed to use facial recognition software to fine anyone attending. This all in an attempt to placate the minority of the populace who want these kind of draconian measures (polling points out that the majority of Hungarians do not support this ban), and to draw attention away from the inflation, economy, and terrible state of healthcare and education. A utopia for white Christian traditionalist families who feel Putin is just a misunderstood leader trying to protect his people. Not quite as family friendly to any other family. Family-friendly to me means that a place is actually conductive to raising a family, regardless of what your children grow up to be. This includes children who discover that they are gay or trans (or even just atheist or non-Christian). And are families made up of two gay parents welcome too? Otherwise 'family-friendly' is just a fascist dog whistle.
        • no_time 2y ago
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          • Freak_NL 2y ago
            The 'utopia' part was sarcastic (obviously, given the preceding paragraph). I'm sorry you didn't pick up on that. > aligning himself with more radical western ideology Such as?
    • Jolter 2y ago
      As far a I know, all of the listed countries are reasonably safe to travel to. I’ve not heard any stories of arbitrary detention from any of them, which is what this article is (mostly) about. Trans people might not enjoy Slovakia or Hungary right now, but I’m not sure they are unsafe to visit for them (yet)? Someone local might fill me in here…
      • _cenw 2y ago
        Hungary just criminalized pride. Their political leadership seems more aligned with Putin than the EU at this time. https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/20/hungary-bans-lgbt-pride-events https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/20/hungary-bans-lgbt-pride-...
        • Jolter 2y ago
          Yeah, I've seen that. It's been well documented that they are slipping into authoritarianism, nationalism and even a dictatorship. Free speech is not really in place anymore. I was just not very well informed about how civil liberies for trans people look, specifically. Whether the country is safe to travel to for conferences being the issue at hand. I see on Wikipedia that Orban has ended "legal recognition of transgender Hungarians", which I guess is probably significative of the trend, if nothing else.
      • blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
        It’s not unsafe for anyone to visit the US either. Unless you’re violating the law in some way, like presenting false documents or overstaying a visa - in which case there would be consequences like in any other country. Sure mistakes can happen on rare occasions, like in any country, but “arbitrary” detention isn’t a thing. That’s just sensationalism from a biased news media that has no idea why anyone was denied or detained, since that isn’t public information.
        • Jolter 2y ago
          Overstaying a visa in any other (developed) country does not result in this kind of detention. These people are not even being given due process. I’m sure each of them is detained for some mistake in their paperwork, but some of these stories are really not flattering to the ICE.
  • p4coder 2y ago
    It depends on your citizenship. Some European countries reject 50% Indian Schengen visa applicantions. https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-nearly-50-of-schengen-visa-requests-from-india/ https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-...
    • Jolter 2y ago
      At least they don’t issue you a visa and then arbitrarily detain you at the border. Obtaining a work visa in a particular country is not a human right, and their issuance are up to the hosting country’s policies.
      • laserlight 2y ago
        > work visa I would guess that 90% of the applications were for travel, not work. > their issuance are up to the hosting country’s policies These countries don't even bother to apply their policies. Some cases I heard about indicate that they randomly reject applications, without reviewing them.
        • Jolter 2y ago
          Ah, you’re right. The linked article doesn’t say, but apparently a Schengen Visa is “for short-term purposes, such as tourism or business trips. Work permits are apparently not counted in these numbers, then. As to whether they are conforming tot heir own policies or not, I can’t find any evidence either way in the linked article. They’re just stating the numbers.
    • ABS 2y ago
      Schengen is different from EU. More importantly, and according to your link, only Estonia rejected 50+% Indian applications, everyone else rejected less than 50%, with only 2 others anywhere near 50% (Malta and Slovenia). So out of 29 countries in the Schengen area only 3 were anywhere near the 50% mark and all 3 are tiny countries as far as both area and populations are concerned (those 3 combined account for only 4 million people in total). Also, just to take one of those 3, Estonia has an overall high rejection rate in comparison to all the others, and that started happening after the pandemic. Details are important
  • sschueller 2y ago
    Switzerland is not in the EU.
    • babayega2 2y ago
      But it is in the Schengen area. I have a 1 year Schengen visa and I have been going there regularly without problem.
    • tossandthrow 2y ago
      You are right! I could have said Switzerland, but I believe that my point expands to the entirety of the EU, why I expanded a bit. As some of you sibling commenters also write: Not all parts of the Schengen / EU is equally - just like you probably wouldn't move these things to rural Alaska.
  • thomasfedb 2y ago
    Singapore and Australia might also be on the list.
    • clarionbell 2y ago
      Unless you make a mistake of bringing cannabis.
      • Jolter 2y ago
        If you’re saying that being able to legally bring cannabis into a country is a test for whether the IETF can host their meetings there… I don’t know if that is accurate. Sure, Singapore has draconian laws when it comes to narcotics. But surely everyone attending will be aware of this? It’s been widely reported over the decades how foreign nationals have gotten life sentences or even the death penalty for drug running. What I’m saying is that Singapore are up front about it and it’s not enforced arbitrarily. Leaving your personal stash at home and abstaining for a few days should hopefully not be too difficult for the attendant engineers.
      • eqvinox 2y ago
        Or being gay in Singapore. Wait, holy shit, it was legalized in 2022. Didn't know. Nice!
        • _t9ow 2y ago
          The law -- a relic from British colonialisation -- criminalising homosexuality between men (not women, by the way) was never enforced anyway.
          • defrost 2y ago
            It's true that since 2007 charges have been laid by the police in a few cases, these have been challenged, and variously overturned or thrown out from court. So, enforcement was certainly attempted and people were certainly detained for periods of time and forced to defend against charges that were laid. It's not readily clear how often charges under Section 377 (1860-) or Section 377A (1938-) were laid in Singapore prior to 2007 (or of the charges laid how many cases came to trial and how many convictions occurred). ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_(Singapore)#Constitutional_challenges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_(Singapore)#Const...