In the meantime, Russians and Chinese are building bases all over the area, once French and US bases close down and evacuate. So the “live freely and peacefully” is wishful thinking at best. They close down their bases because those are at risk.
“Hey, now we do E2E! No need to worry about where it is, it’s totally opaque except to you! What? You want to review the code? No! Ours is not one of those dangerous FOSS softwares, ours is closed for your security, but you got our word!”
I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.
We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.
The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.
I think you have missed a few chapters, it’s not slow moving it’s glacial age moving. The free software policies have been already talked about since 2003., that’s 22 years ago. None of this is new, it did not appear with trump, nor with the Russian invasions. It’s way older projects and it all remains as talks, memorandums, conventions. Never anything enforced, GDPR is not enforced seriously, DMA will not be etc…
Let’s not kid ourselves anymore with the voluntary inaction of the EU.
You cannot understand how sorry I am about it. I am the result of a intra European wedding, I went places thanks to EU collaborations, I owe my wages and work hours in big parts to EU wide regulations. I still am an EU cheerleader in many wide ranging subjects. But on this one, in which European countries have the most economic, work opportunities , attraction pole, social benefits to reap for future generations. They are too much listening to the FANGS and banks and not enough to economists. It’s basic lip service that has been going on for too long.
This is all talk. The EU and European countries are articulating what they know their population and the EU tech sector wants them to do BUT in the end, they will do none of it. Maybe vote a few laws, fund a few cheap FOSS projects that will never truly be applied/ used by EU countries except for a handful of cities, public services. But it will remain a minority as long as the EU puts the interests of the financial sector above all others.
Talking spaces such as this lemmysub are places where we, the end users and creators can collaborate to pressure them to at least consider things and get out of this Trump/Xi dependency our politicians want for us.
It’s a bit less than 1% erosion per year but yeah… They got bakmut two years ago and now they are at chassiv yar, 4 miles further according to Google maps.
This is such a typical move from the EU. They always have big loud proposals to cut off that, to go full EV/go all organic/ go all open source etc. Then they ALWAYS chicken out. “What will the market think?” " Oh, that big corporation is saying they will lay off if we go that way." " Our sys admin costs will go up if we don’t subscribe to that corporate plan."
Next they start throwing a tantrum because people lose faith in the EU, start looking to hard liners etc.
Four years ago they said: look we are so powerful and implicated in your daily lives, we decided to get out of the Daylight saving time system and impose it on all member states, starting in six months…
They couldn’t even manage what was meant to be a weak demo of their strong willpower and political determination.
The EU is a political midget. It hurts me so much to admit it. But yeah, it’s dead. The whole thing.
Will you push it and be ready to kill a 16 Y.O to make another father mourn?
Because by “weaving through traffic” and “taking chances”, that’s usually what ends up happening.
Clairefontaine: Printing papers here: https://www.clairefontaine.com/gb/search?s=Imprimante
But it all looks like expensive paper (velum, cotton paper etc…) I know they also make big blocks of white paper to load in printers. But maybe exclusively in brick and mortar shops in France.
Could be like France where the rise in cancers (especially pancreatic ones) is linked to cadmium in the plants (french farmers currently use phosphates from Moroccan mines that are very high on cadmium, poisoning the plant based food that is eaten there, cereals and veggies alike). The rest of the EU uses stricter heavy metals tolerances and uses phosphates produced in Europe or China, that have way lower cadmium levels.
Doctors unions have recently pulled the alarm and recommend the general public to only eat organic, as phosphates are not allowed.
He’s got a great GI tract! The best ever!