alaricus

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by alaricus 4y ago
Not really.
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by alaricus 4y ago
There are lots of local semiconductor companies (Infineon, Bosch). This money would be better spent on them.
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by alaricus 4y ago
A lot.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Some of the current German leaders (like Annalena Baerbock) are too subservient to American corporate interests.
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by alaricus 4y ago
America is not part of Europe. No reason to spend European money supporting American companies.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Sitting empty due to American meddling.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Increasing trade with Russia is a good strategy. No need to follow America to WW3 or a new cold war.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Trump was yet another demonstration that Americans can't be trusted.
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by alaricus 4y ago
My point is that as a taxpayer in Germany, I don't want to subsize an American company. Better to invest in local companies like Infineon or Bosch.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Subsidizing an American company is not necessary for Germany's security. In fact, it undermines it.
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by alaricus 4y ago
True, I forgot Gitea!
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by alaricus 4y ago
You don't need to create an Intel competitor from scratch. For example the same money can be better invested in Infineon, ASML, Bosch or a number of local companies that work on chips. Or it could be put into RISC-V work.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I consider it unethical for my tax euros to subsidize an American company.
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by alaricus 4y ago
You can invest 5.5 billion to create local companies, instead of subsidizing an American one.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Russia is not going to invade Germany. Stop spreading nonsense.
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by alaricus 4y ago
> The origin of the company is irrelevant if they respect basic norms. This is not correct. American govenment has a habit of using American companies to push foreign policy objectives.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Intel was going to buy them anyway, regardless of where the fab is built.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't want my tax money filling the coffers of an American monopoly.
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by alaricus 4y ago
It's time to move away from GitHub. There are better alternatives such as Codeberg or Gitlab.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is a very bad policy. We should instead invest in local companies, not a American monopoly like Intel.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is one of the most ridiculous things I read in a very long time. Why does it concern those 1500 people how I decide to store my money? What's next, regulating where I can spend my money and where I can't? There is nothing re
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by alaricus 4y ago
It's a closed source app. Translation: you and I don't know what it does. Take it apart all you want, but you're not going to find any backdoors or learn about how good the E2EE implementation is. Claiming otherwise is rid
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by alaricus 4y ago
> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress. Do these ever work? The people you are blowing the whistle to are the same ones doing the shady illegal stuff.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is my point exactly. It doesn't matter as long as the app is closed source. You could do the worlds most secure E2EE implementation, but then send a copy of all keys to Facebook servers.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This makes no sense. There is nothing to prove that that WhatsApp is really using the aformentioned Signal code. It's closed source, so it could be anything inside.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Most Apple software is buggy and annoying.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Blocking competitor websites is anti-competitive behaviour under EU law.
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by alaricus 4y ago
It's trivially easy to encrypt the traffic and then send a copy of the private key to Facebook's servers. You would not be able to decrypt it, but they would.
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by alaricus 4y ago
> Honest question because I don’t understand most of the comments on this submission: what’s supposed to be the issue with cooperating with law enforcement? Depends on the laws they are enforcing. There is a very thin line between law e
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by alaricus 4y ago
> WhatsApp more secure than Telegram Why is that? With WhatsApp client being closed source, we simply don't know if it really is doing E2EE at all.

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