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I'm a US citizen and I hope more of the world decouples because I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition.

yndoendo 8mo ago
Even as a US citizen ... I have started to decouple from US business that hold my data.
- toomuchtodo 8mo ago
  Same. I don't trust the US as much as the rest of the world does not trust them. They want control with little to offer for it. My data and compute is safer offshore at this time.
  - tartoran 8mo ago
    Control is one part of it. The other concerning part is leaks and sharing it with third parties.
    - nxobject 8mo ago
      The two are linked, sadly – data brokers are a good way to conduct mass profiling.
- thegreatpeter 8mo ago
  where did you move your blog to? hetzner?
rustyhancock 8mo ago
But we have our own issues outside of the US. They reality is the average person is between a rock and a hard place.
- joe_mamba 8mo ago
  This. When I look at why my life sucks and is on hard difficulty mode, it's not because I use US tech instead of EU tech. Most people and companies have bigger economic challenges right now trying to keep the lights on, than data sovereignty and domestic alternatives. My company just had a 3rd round of layoffs and its wasn't due to lack of EU SW.
  - microtonal 8mo ago
    The lack of data sovereignty does have large geopolitical consequences though. Without data sovereignty of EU government services and businesses, the US can blackmail EU continuously or even worse, in the case of e.g. a conflict over Greenland, cause chaos by turning off access to US tech. So for the EU, tech sovereignty is a matter of life and death. Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism. So if we can bring down their sales Tesla-style, I'm all in for it.
    - joe_mamba 8mo ago
      >Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism. Not true. The reason my Col is off the charts, salary low and housing unaffordable is due to EU central bank printing too much money leaving us holding the bags, government's zoning laws making housing expensive and them importing millions of immigrants despite record unemployment numbers to put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing. None of this is done by US tech bros, it's all done by EU rulers and elites. US tech bros is an orthogonal issue that distracts from the core issues.
      - hgomersall 8mo ago
        The quantity theory of money is trivially shown to be nonsense just by considering what happens to savings (i.e. nothing). You need to up your analysis if you want to truly understand.
TitaRusell 8mo ago
The competition is China and the US is becoming so hysterical about it that I genuinely hope that the PLA is prepared for a nuclear first strike.
- kyboren 8mo ago
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PlatoIsADisease 8mo ago
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nozzlegear 8mo ago
> I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition. I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of cooperation.

yndoendo 8mo ago

Even as a US citizen ... I have started to decouple from US business that hold my data.

toomuchtodo 8mo ago
Same. I don't trust the US as much as the rest of the world does not trust them. They want control with little to offer for it. My data and compute is safer offshore at this time.
- tartoran 8mo ago
  Control is one part of it. The other concerning part is leaks and sharing it with third parties.
  - nxobject 8mo ago
    The two are linked, sadly – data brokers are a good way to conduct mass profiling.
thegreatpeter 8mo ago
where did you move your blog to? hetzner?

rustyhancock 8mo ago

But we have our own issues outside of the US. They reality is the average person is between a rock and a hard place.

joe_mamba 8mo ago
This. When I look at why my life sucks and is on hard difficulty mode, it's not because I use US tech instead of EU tech. Most people and companies have bigger economic challenges right now trying to keep the lights on, than data sovereignty and domestic alternatives. My company just had a 3rd round of layoffs and its wasn't due to lack of EU SW.
- microtonal 8mo ago
  The lack of data sovereignty does have large geopolitical consequences though. Without data sovereignty of EU government services and businesses, the US can blackmail EU continuously or even worse, in the case of e.g. a conflict over Greenland, cause chaos by turning off access to US tech. So for the EU, tech sovereignty is a matter of life and death. Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism. So if we can bring down their sales Tesla-style, I'm all in for it.
  - joe_mamba 8mo ago
    >Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism. Not true. The reason my Col is off the charts, salary low and housing unaffordable is due to EU central bank printing too much money leaving us holding the bags, government's zoning laws making housing expensive and them importing millions of immigrants despite record unemployment numbers to put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing. None of this is done by US tech bros, it's all done by EU rulers and elites. US tech bros is an orthogonal issue that distracts from the core issues.
    - hgomersall 8mo ago
      The quantity theory of money is trivially shown to be nonsense just by considering what happens to savings (i.e. nothing). You need to up your analysis if you want to truly understand.

TitaRusell 8mo ago

The competition is China and the US is becoming so hysterical about it that I genuinely hope that the PLA is prepared for a nuclear first strike.

kyboren 8mo ago
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PlatoIsADisease 8mo ago

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nozzlegear 8mo ago

> I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition. I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of cooperation.