You don’t need to subsidize EU industry at the taxpayers expense to achieve economic independence. Refusing cheaper goods for arbitrary reasons just makes EU look stupid. The key is to buy on your own terms under which you never give foreign nation control over you.

Look at France. Their whole country is built on sovereign independence in critical areas. They achieved it buy building their own industry, while taking goods deals from other countries, not by refusing them and making their own people lives harder.

What EU should really do is accept the cheap solar panels from China but under their own terms. No remote access data, storage in EU only, and enforce EU legal jurisdiction for all disputes. China needs a market, they will accept those conditions. It would be huge win/win for both sides.

Moving away from cheap goods to protect non-existing industry doesn’t makes any sense, but that’s what corporate “centrism” gets you in the EU. Buy cheap while you build your own industry and then when you reach competitive state you can change the terms.

The code is owned by a nonprofit foundation, but a lot of the assets and other compnies like an ad agency is owned by their for profit wing.

Most of those forks rely on Firefox upstream updates. Apart from some of their specific features and disabling of existing ones, they don’t develop the actual Gecko engine. We would really need someone with resources to take over the development.

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

He’s not wrong. Even more, with them worshiping at the king Trump altar they will even be able to buyout all the competitors that were hurt by these tariffs (no regulators to stop them) and make their monopoly even stronger.

We would be really struggling to stay alive pay ourselves millions in salaries.

Good to see. CryptPad has been go to for collaborative docs for years now.

Did you ask school teachers if they want to be armed?

Last time I checked only the supreme court has the authority to declare something unconstitutional.

That is not entirely correct. They have the final say in determining what that is, but anyone can declare something unconstitutional based on prior Supreme Court decisions.

The whole US federal legal system is based on that since you first need to get a judgment in trial court, then appeal and only then you can get to the Supreme Court (in 99.99% cases as there are narrow exceptions).

What a garbage article.

ADL is a propaganda machine, not a reliable source. https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-break-with-the-adl-as-a-source-for-news-and-research-on-extremism/

It’s indeed RTG using Plutonium-238.

They will just make a law against it then. UK surveillance powers increased exponentially recently.

Well that’s a good way to permanently lose me as a customer.

You’re not wrong, but the loses are also real. While they will personally come out ahead in the end that’s what capitalism is designed to do, the company workforce will shirnk as a result.

Most likely lack of resources. The codebase of the site is so old that it needs a complete rebase, which is a time consuming task. Relaunching without fixing the oustanding flaws is not really an option.

It’s kind of ironic that Facebook paid to avoid “regulators and fines” and got biggest “fine” in their history instead.

I really hope it will not be based in the US where law is dead and where IRS at the command of executive can remove non-profit status. That would defeat all the stated goals in the press release.

Small copies of existing technologies aren’t novelty nor innovation.

Well, this just shows your ignorance on the subject. The biggest irony is that you probably don’t even know when you use some EU innovation since they aggressively promote open research, so it’s not hiding behind a patent to be abused to by a single greedy corporation…

Until someone accuses you of using it “not the allowed way” and without any proof suspends your education. She lost her scholarship over an AI allegation — and it impacted her mental health

EU has been for a long time investing in innovation and supporting open source development. Lemmy for one is partially funded by EU funds…

The issue is an economic centrism which dominates the EU governance so while there are plenty EU supported and developed alternatives they are not used. But as much as hate LLMs it seems that was the push required for EU to reconsider their approach. Combine that with the friends turning into foes and the future tech sector in the EU looks bright.