There’s no alternative yet right?

I’m literally working on a project integrating a major European bank into a major US cloud (not my fault).

Maybe we build a new Twitter or Facebook, but we are still heavily using US cloud

Europe would probably do it over a long term by simply not rolling treasuries or slow sell off.

I think this is a long game to play

He’s right. Dumping is would be dumb. You need to quietly hedge the dollar devaluation first.

On a serious note, it probably wouldn’t have the desired impact.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/who-owns-us-debt-2025-02-10/

Even if the whole world ex-US dumped, the US holds the most

I worked for one and I happen to know they violate European data laws by spying on employees (surprised?). An internal lawyer told us to keep quite about it and that they would find a legal pathway to punish those they wanted to punish.

I like my Bosch one. It’s battery is swappable with any Bosch tool.

Does this work on normal Android? I still have some phones on normal Android

https://www.streetepistemology.com/

Check this out. I used to do things like this with hard core right wing (trump flags, cleaning their guns everyday).

My goal wasn’t to convince them, but get them to think critically and feel safe around liberals. The ones I talked to were usually convinced leftists were out to get them. I was a leftist who would literally just listen to them, watch Fox news with them and then we’d get burritos and hang out.

I want them to think of me and other friends, when they see videos of ICE beating up people. I’ll never convince them to vote blue, but maybe I can convince them that we can disagree about politics, but still be friends

It would be cool if this was ActivityPub compatible so we could follow Instagram from Mastodon. As much as I hate meta, there are some artists I would like to follow still

Echo chamber in different words. I grew up with a lot of conservatives. Hard second amendment people. They listen if you listen

We also want to ensure that conservatives are repeatedly alienated so they build their own networks and never see other points of view! /s

Part of it is a chicken or egg. I go into these platforms and there’s nothing there, so I don’t check them. Organizers see nobody checking them, so they don’t maintain them.

My current plan is something like this. Basically make unofficial accounts for groups that interest me (clearly labeled unofficial of course). Then hand them over when there’s enough traffic.

Groups I organize I just make two channels

Okay. Just to note that if you put graphene on a pixel, you aren’t giving them more data. Just because it’s a Google pixel doesn’t mean they’d have you data in GrapheneOS

Is it really 100%?! How much to import from the US? And China?

What do you mean by give Google more? The only way you give Google more is buying a pixel, but you can buy second hand. I only buy them second hand.

There are now more alternatives from EU companies if second hand still bothers you, but when I started with GrapheneOS, there weren’t many other choices.

If you mean give data to Google, graphene definitely doesn’t do that

Oxford Ionics, acquired by U.S.-based IonQ, was one of the six spinouts out of Switzerland, the U.K., and Germany that delivered exits of more than $1 billion to their investors in 2025.

Yup… The European exit strategy. Make a startup and get bought by America

I loved python when I was a junior dev. Now I hate it (except for things like computational math). I have to add debug statements to figure out that someone snuck in the wrong type into the code.

They should honestly just wrapper the majority of the code base in rust unsafes and then slowly very slowly migrate sections of the code to rust. This is the right way to do it imo

Will they do that? Nope.

Nobody is truly reviewing that stuff. Would you if you were in that job? Just blame mistakes on AI