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The commission is the only body able to initiate legislature, but it cannot pass this legislature without assent from the European Parliament and/or Council of the European Union.

The EU has plenty of deficiencies, but calling it a dictatorship is wildly inaccurate.

I'm not looking forward to it, them being strapped for resources provides a huge incentive to develop and release these smaller models. Even if they'd still release their models once they are able to comfortably service all potential customers via their cloud, running them locally would be almost impossible due to their size.

Yeah but if the wallet requires Google Pay Services attestation the AOSP based clones won't be able to run it unless they can spoof it somehow.

They can't tackle issue oft establishing a 3rd popular mobile operating system, true. But they could support Desktop Linux or AOSP.

What is the french owned bank you're referring to? Your article mentions ČSOB (Belgian ownership)and Česká spořitelna (Austrian ownership). The source [1] also mentions issues with Fio bank, which according to Wikipedia has Czech owners. The source also attributes this to ESG rules, rather than supplying weapons to Ukraine. Last year, the European Commission launched a legislative initiative designed to make it easier for arms manufacturers to secure funding, including by clarifying the rules within the ESG framework regarding prohibited weapons.[2] I therefore find it hard to believe that the EU deliberately brought about the incidents described. Regardless of this, I do not consider it sensible to conflate the issues of ‘private gun ownership’ and ‘the financing of arms companies’.

[1]https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/ceska-ekonomika/na-hypo...

[2]https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-indus...

>Didn't really stop them passing whatever rules they wanted during Covid, did it?

>Or today with Russia and Ukraine situation. Sure is convenient that we keep having more and more crisis and boogiemen that governments can leverage to deflect accountability and bypass the wishes of the population, for our own good of course.

>Why do you think Germans supported to tie themselves to Russia's gas and destroy their nuclear power.

You see you might get called a bot, Russian troll, or MAGA a whole lot less, if you didn't pull out ALL the topics those groups are playing at once. There is plenty to criticize about the EU institutions, but man that is a very odd focus.

In the past, protection of free speech in the EU might have been less absolute, than in the US. Given the actions of the current US administrations and the (in)action of the supreme court, free speech in the US currently doesn't even serve its most essential purpose of being able to criticize the government, without fear of repercussions (e.g. Kimmel, Colbert).

As such moving services to the EU jurisdiction is most likely also better, if you're concerned about free speech, at least for the moment.

Weichkochend, really? I've only ever seen mehligkochend (floury), but yeah those are widely available in supermarkets.

If this isn't what OP was referring to, why bring it up? I don't see how this is relevant, to the security of data from European companies, stored in European clouds.

What incarcerations in Germany are you referring to?

>At the contrary, many are of the opinion that to defend Europe we have to oppose this recent trend of spending billions into the unproductive war machine.

We've tried that after the end of the cold war, now there is an active war in Europe. You can not unilaterally stop military spending if there are other countries ready to take advantage of it.

>When was the last time germans lined up to enlist in the army?

That would have been during the height of the Cold War, the resulting Reunification does have its drawbacks, but certainly beats getting overrun by the Soviet Union.

It very much depends on your personal threat model, if you expect targeted attacks LOS doesn't hold a candle to GOS, but at least for my threat model verified boot and hardware security features outside of my control don't have a substantial security benefit.

Obviously it would be preferable to have up to date security patches, but as long as there are plenty oven even more easily exploitable devices, and there is no WannaCry level attack ongoing it is a risk I'm willing to accept for more user freedom.

I think people generally aren't keen on putting their life on the line for anything. But even if this was a mandatory conscription, there is still the constitutional right of conscientious objection.

>If I do GPL, I have to make sure that I'm following the rules set out in that license

If its all your own stuff you don't really have to care about the license. Otherwise the rules are pretty simple, include a GPL license and if requested by a user supply the source code (which you can even charge some money for).

>and making sure others who have based their code on my project have done the same.

If you don't care what others do with it, you don't have to enforce it.

As the sole copyright holder (A)GPL only gives you more options.

It concerns me insofar as the comment I was responding to, mentioned that participation in /r/conservative got him banned in another subreddit, while failing to mention the nature of /r/conservative as a heavily censored echo chamber.

>And clearly this has been a discussion on that angle, rather than an answer to the rhetorical question above.

How do you know the question was rhetorical?

I did explain my reasoning. You coincidentally not mentioning /r/conservatives censorship practices, simply doesn't appear plausible, given the context of your comment and demonstrated knowledge of reddit moderating practices.

You're listing several examples, including /r/conservative, yet even though this subreddit is widely known (on Reddit) to be a censored echo-chamber, you do not mention this aspect. I find it hard to believe, that this would be a coincidence.

>But a US border guard looking at your passport and rejecting your entry based on that alone feels like overreach.

This is at least such a common practice, that certain countries issue their entry visas in such a way, that they can be removed from the passport. I'd expect issues entering the US, if I had an Iranian stamp in my passport.

/r/conservative doesn't even allow comments of users without a user flair.

They state: "This is designed so that a couple posts per day are almost guaranteed to have conversation which is not hijacked by leftists and other non-conservatives.Who Gets Flair?

Only mods can assign User Flair, and User Flair is only for conservatives. Once you have a solid history of comments in /r/Conservative, and have been commenting in the subreddit for at least two weeks,[..]

Please understand that this is for conservatives. We do our best to vet you based on your post history on reddit. You will need some post history to qualify - ideally within the subreddit itself. If you do not have a conservative leaning post history you will likely be asked to re-apply when you do."

"Strangely" there isn't a single post on their frontpage at the moment, which doesn't require a flair to comment.

/r/conservative is probably the most heavily censored echo chamber on Reddit, yet somehow you only take issue with other subreddits flagging participation.

>France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today.

Today France takes more than a decade to build a single reactor (Flamanville 3) and the debts incurred nationalizing EDF, are now causing serious concerns about the whole nation defaulting. As clean and safe as nuclear power might be, I think the world will be fine not following that example.

>The reality is elite schools are supposed to filter for "the best and brightest" not "the hardest workers".

Maybe they are supposed to do this, but let's not act like the filter doesn't quite apply the same way if your parents are rich and or well connected. They're however very effective in filtering out bright kids whose parents can't afford the tuition and aren't lucky enough to get a scholarship.

I mean you could just get a Fairphone or any other Android with replaceable batteries/parts. At least with Android you do have this freedom of choice.

>So, Chat Control is an attempt by a few politicians to give police some tools to prevent teenagers from shooting each other in gang wars

No that is not ChatControl, that is just some Swedish thing. Chat Control would make it mandatory for servive providers to scan every single message in the EU for offending material and notify the authorities if anything is detected. It's blatant mass surveillance under the guise of protecting the children.

>In Germany the government has literally collapsed due to the former coalition’s ineptitude.

The government collapsed because the party pushed by the country's most influential media company (Axel-Springer) with the expressed goal of collapsing the coalition did just that.

Having been tought the use of Word in school I have made many of the same arguments in college. Unfortunately some word processors do start to exhibit "What you see isn't actually what you get, once you export it to pdf", suddenly those vector graphics are badly compressed jpegs or text is converted to images. And for collaborative works you better hope everyone is using the version of the same tool, or suddenly you'll have to worry about different interpretations of the stuff they hide from you.

Also there are plenty of specialized Latex editors offering side-by-side views, you don't actually have to use Emacs.

China is already banned from buying many of ASML's machines, which is why China doesn't have any leading edge fabs. They probably will be able to replicate the research and solve the manufacturing issues eventually but it took a global effort and many failed tries to get it working the first time.

>The open driver is great under linux because it bypasses AMD's craptacular support. But AMD doesn't support consumer GPUs in ROCm under Linux, and de-facto they don't seem to support ROCm on the open driver in the first place anyway, you have to use AMDGPU-PRO (according to geohot's investigations).

While they don't officially support any consumer GPU aside from 7900XT(X) and VII, I haven't encountered any issues using it on a 6700XT with the open source drivers, pretty much the only tinkering required was to export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0. It was quite a pleasant surprise after never getting my RX480 to work even though it was officially supported back in the day.

Thing is their VPN isn't great on Linux either (or in general for tech savvy users). Needing a VPN and wanting to support Mozilla I did subscribe to their service, only to find you needed a special program to use their VPN, which you'll have to build yourself if you're using any distribution other than Ubuntu. If you manage to build it you'll find their selection of servers is more restricted than Mullvad's own offerings. At least their 30-day money back guarantee is working.