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confiqon Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

yes, Impressum (imprint) is require by every business that offer services for Germany.

So 100% with you here...

confiqon Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

models run on EU servers so it never leaves the EU.

"allegedly"

confiqon Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

Because they got a lot of trolls and Apple fans. The decision was not made lightly.

confiqon Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

so they don't care about users, they care about themself?

confiqon The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

why I agree with both of you?

confiqon Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

> he has done nothing to begin to justify violence

No One does!

I also found news hard to believe but it is true:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx91rdxpyeo

I'm not a big fan of Sam Altman, but violence like this is not a solution; it has the actually opposite effect as it probably did with Trump.

confiqon The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign

Israeli here. I would not be surprised if Bibi uses an N-bomb just to keep his chair.

confiqon Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH

this ^

GSSAPI can be more secured than public/private key if configured right.

confiqon European Cloud, Global Reach

> AWS China wouldn't have happened if they didn't offer enough safeguards.

AWS China vs. AWS EU: Data centers in China are managed by Chinese companies, whereas DCs in the EU are managed by USA companies.

From a regulatory perspective, it's two different worlds. The Patriot Act can happen in the EU, not in China.

This is why GDPR does allow that EU user data is transferred to non-EU countries, but not to the USA.[0]

Furthermore, a discernible trend has emerged, attributable to the inadequacies in privacy regulations and suboptimal Trump geopolitical strategies with the EU, the EU is actively seeking better cloud services [1].

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/third-countries/

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud-services-europe/

confiqon Osgint – OSINT tool to find information about GitHub user

It also requires registration to use it.

confiqon European Cloud, Global Reach

> Having worked at AWS

This should be disclaimer at your first message when you compared AWS with UPCloud.

TBH, I would not trust AWS with countering the Patriot Act.

confiqon European Cloud, Global Reach

I'm not expecting 100% SLO, but using Cloudflare cloud service while you are a cloud service is little ridiculous.

confiqon European Cloud, Global Reach

they have terraform [provider](https://search.opentofu.org/provider/upcloudltd/upcloud/late...), that is great!

This is how they compare with AWS: https://upcloud.com/competitors-and-alternatives/aws

confiqon SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases

Where have you been all my life? :)

Seriously, I needed this 10 years ago.

confiqon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

of course the gemini android app is not available in Germany or EU

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

confiqon Manipulating Terraform states for fun, profit, and reusability

hmm, we did something similar using workspaces in terraform. If I would know about this before I might reevaluate it.

It would be cool if we could transfer from workspaces to layerform

confiqon Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices

for those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...

confiqon Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices

not only that, but it also protects you from law enforcement or any state actor.

This mainly protects journalists and human right lawyers. I think this is the idea here after NGO shitstorm.

confiqon Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

thank you! I needed to read this!

confiqon Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

hey,

that is fair answer! AFAIK, there are two things that consider:

* Aurora do have some vendor-locking feature if I'm not wrong?

* moving from Aurora to PostGres will lead to downtime of 2 minutes + unknown waiting, where this is not a case when you convert from PostGres to Aurora.

confiqon Fundbox 42% layoff: We grew our team too fast, and we need to course correct

https://www.trueup.io/co/fundbox

confiqon Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC

except when it comes to force companies out of the USA because of "security reasons".

I think Russia is using similar tactics, does it?

confiqon Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes

The internet was not design to spy on citizens, it was design to connect citizenry!

confiqon Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

Ohh, so Israel is one of these 33. Good to know!

confiqon Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

he was not talking only about CPU but about extensibility!

confiqon Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

As far as I understand, yes[1]! I'll quote

> There are two types of runners in Bottles:

> 1. Wine

> 2. Proton

> The Wine runner is used for all Environments and is therefore in all bottles created, but also for external prefixes imported into Bottles. We support 3 different runners:

[1] https://docs.usebottles.com/components/runners

confiqon PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager

I think I'm starting to like poetry too!

confiqon Facebook-owned sites were down

I agree, but try to explain that to PR people...

confiqon Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

https://www.digitalviolence.org/

It kinda describes how NGO operated and it's great infographic!

confiqon Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

wait... why nobody is talking about rick & morty TV show? Everyone should talking about it!