I get where the author comes from, but this isn’t a skill issue. Of course Europe has all the expertise and access to hardware it would need, but we have a political class that ideologically deeply committed to neoliberalism, meaning they will always prefer a public tender with competing private enterprises over a state run and owned utility.

The problem is that the way the US providers have cornered the market, and the overly bureocratic tender procedures, you end up with only a few eligible bids from the three US firms and a few others like T-Systems, that have such a bad track record of actually delivering working solutions that no one interested in something other than a future board position with them will ever choose these companies.

In my experience using AI for that replaces legthy documentation searches with reading lengthy AI output that turns out to be full of halucinations. Net time saved usually negative.

If I remember correctly the 500 billion loan is packaged in a way that it doesn’t count towards the official deficit number, so this is pure smoke and mirrors.

There are ways to install Linux on many Macs. https://asahilinux.org/ for example.

As others have mentioned there are ssh keys and generally you can and should of course use a password manager.

However there is IMHO a huge blindspot of people using only SSH keys to long in, and that is that your day-to-day dev PC is actually more likely to be compromised in some way than the server that only runs specific, relatively well defined applications and overall just has less attack surface. And the ssh keys on your dev PC are really not very securely stored and thus quite easily compromised.

Hardware keys are of course a better solution, but I would personally recommend to use a 2FA solution that prevents access even when one factor (ssh keys or passwords) is compromised.

What makes you think Movim is a “hosted service”? You can easily self-host it and many people do: https://github.com/movim/movim

The developers of Movim are also hosting a public instance, yes, but the official on-boarding page lists it as only one among many others. A bit like how the Lemmy devs also host an instance.

Revolt/Stout on the other hand is rather a “hosted service”, as they are openly discouraging people to self-host it and make it intentionally harder to do so.

Ovh should work.

For some other countries, I suspect they only do it to inconvenience German travellers as a fuck you for Germany pushing the same shit onto them.

At best neutral, but apparently all the original Threema founders left already in 2024, and this PE firm is some sort of holding to obfuscate the real investors, which is not a good sign at all.

You could also try https://movim.eu/

It is XMPP based and supports a/v group calls and screen sharing. Voice channels like Discord are planned.

This is well known and you can easily find a lot about this online, but the involvement of these right-wing groups got significantly less over the years after 2014, and in the last election they were basically irrelevant. The integration of the Azov militia into the Ukrainian army is more problematic, but even there some people say that this basically neutered them, and after the heavy losses early in the war the remains of the Azov battalion seem indeed largely irrelevant and/or have little to do with what they were in the mid 2010s.

I agree that ZFS is a solid choice for that, but so it btrfs, which has basically all of the important features of ZFS, but is significantly easier to use and built into the Kernel.

The job loss in luxury horse carriages was for sure bad too.

Leaving RAM cache to be managed by the kernel has some benefits, especially on low end devices, which is what the article talks about.

Yeah, the typical uninformed FUD with anecdotes of btrfs failing them 15 years ago when they did something that was explicitly marked as experimental 🤦

For every person that complains about btrfs, there are 10 that have been using it since many years with absolutely no issues what so ever.

That depends on the usage, see: https://www.xda-developers.com/smr-hdds-are-fine-for-your-nas-until-you-try-to-resilver/

If you keep this issue in mind and avoid resilvering / balancing they can work just fine in a media storage NAS.

They use a lot less power too. For small home NAS they are really an often overlooked option.

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This might be a good choice: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/x2e-n150.html

This channel posts very regular DJ sets: https://toobnix.org/c/tanakian_channel/videos

The channel owner is active in the synthwave and electronic music channel on XMPP.