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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

Yeah and make it 200%

[–] [email protected] 96 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe fix the Irish tax loophole first?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Exactly. Never do anything until you can do everything all at once. If you can't wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it's best to just keep the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 185 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

[–] [email protected] 99 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The real money is in AWS, azure,GCP. No one cares about your iPad. Tariff the big 3 hosting providers and see how quickly shit hits the fan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 minutes ago

Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

Put a tariff on the companies that was pro-Trump, and who was at his inauguration.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Would probably end the Internet faster than China can cut intercontinental cables. I'm here for it but the fallout would be positively insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Of course it would not.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There are plenty of providers, this is a little reactionary. I've worked with a local data center for hosting in every state I've lived in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

It's not about the providers, it's about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let's be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.

And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you'd already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This is why you give notice; this isn't an overnight thing. If anything, this would help strengthen and decentralize hosting platforms while giving a huge amount of business to companies to help them migrate. I think the real shake is going to be those locked into provide IP like Redshift or Fargate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Notice or not any infrastructure change is brutal - even if you go like for like.

I'm not saying I'm against the idea: I loathe all the centralization and robber barons running around in this era. But switches like these rarely go as planned. If haste is required even less so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Oh I get it. We made the jump from Google Cloud to AWS, and I'm sure there are companies that are even more vendor locked. But a good example of what people can do when they don't have a choice is the new PCI 4.0 roll out that has cost companies millions they wouldn't spend unless made to do so. Will it be a mountain to climb and cost a ton, yeah, but change in the right direction isn't always easy.

I'm with you, it will be hard, and they need a good system for extensions and the like, with a reasonable time line. But this is good change IMO, even if it's painful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'd double my mortgage just to see microsoft365 crumble.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

But you love teams right?! (get the gas can - I'll get the matches)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

There is no feature that is simpler than gsuite. So much duplication and needless services and apps.

I hate google and microsoft for making me appreciate their product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or they'll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That is pretty much how the VMware situation shook out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, we've got on-prem cloud hosting at a university, and moving away from VMware is an ongoing process. Still. Two, three years after the writing was on the wall. They'd rather pay the Danegeld.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

From the ashes maybe a better internet will emerge then. The current one is very dogshit and only going worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Where do I sign up for newgrounds 2.0?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Don’t just legalise jailbreak (which was never illegal anyway 😂), but force device manufacturers to unlock root as soon as they end support for the device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Then they will offer shit support to avoid doing so. Simpler and safer to just make unlocking legit from the start.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Why not force them to unlock root from the start?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes, of course, but I think, like I wrote it, it is more likely to happen in reality 😁 but of course, I would prefer from the start as well

Like just hide it in developer settings which as well are hidden. No noob should accidentally go there, but a malicious being may lead a noob there…

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How about not letting Google have exclusive rights to the drivers for all the phone hardware? I would like to be able to install Linux on any phone I buy. I don't want Google monopolizing phone operating systems. #FOSS #Linux #FuckGoogle #Monopoly #deGoogle

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How about not letting Google have exclusive rights to the drivers for all the phone hardware?

What exactly do you mean by that? Google is one of the few companies that let you easily unlock their phones so you can do whatever you want with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

Unlock so you can use whatever phone service provider you want but Google controls the Android operating system. If you don't want Android on your phone and would rather use Linux or another FOSS operating system, it's very difficult, because Google doesn't give up control of the drivers for a lot of phones. If you just want to remove Google apps from a phone that comes with Android, you have to jailbreak it which voids the warranty and jailbreaking can't be done to every phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

No, unlock as in: You can install whatever operating system you want. No need for "jailbreaking" on Google phones. They officially support unlocking the bootloader (and re-locking it later as well!). There are many things not to like about Google, but how they handle their phones when it comes to openness is certainly not one of them. Pretty much all other phone vendors are much worse than that (except for maybe a few small ones like Fairphone).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago

There's also patent invalidation on pharmaceuticals

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You know jailbreaking isn't illegal right? It's the same is removing one of those void if removed stickers, you won't get tech support anymore but who cares about Apple tech support?

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[–] [email protected] 279 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. Tech billionaires are the ones who stood behind Trump proudly on inauguration day, so let's start using Canadian/European options. Plenty of them match what those tech companies offer anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Deleted meta acccount with a note referencing trump and zuck. Not much but its what I had to do

[–] [email protected] 112 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (40 children)

I believe this is how we can cripple the US.

I just switched my services over and there are some great alternatives, we have just been pre-programmed to use the American default brands.

Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon all easy to replace.

The only challenging one so far is YouTube, content is just lacking elsewhere, but atleast with adblockers YouTube isn't getting my money.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago

As an American I'm here for it and encourage it. These greedy evil fuckers need to be brought down and if we have to burn it all down so be it, so we can rebuild better. What we have now is clearly not functioning for anyone but the 1%.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Do it, fuck up Twitter, Amazon, meta, and everyone else that shared a stage with trump.

The only language they know is $, if trump is bad for their money, they'll go against trump.

These are people obsessed with wealth over every thing else, it's not hard to manipulate them, but when rational adults regain power, we need to tax the ever loving shit out of them because no matter what happens, they'll always choose "more money".

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