That sounds like a dream come true for many of us who prefer taking ownership of data in our own hands but unfortunately things are not that simple.

How?? If it costs more to send data, Netflix will just send you lower quality video. You should want them to send you the same data or more data, but in a standard file type so it works with all your software and devices.

But hey, maybe companies will cut back on their node_modules folders now.

So Russia in their calculus figured the solution to their problem of European governments publishing anti-Russia and pro-Israel propaganda is to hurt the dissenting voices and strengthen those propaganda networks?

Inshallah this is true

I hate HTML5, and absolutely think markdown or plain HTML or RSS or Gemini or some other standard would be a massive improvement. The problem isn’t picking the standard or creating the browser, it’s having content available.

Maybe you can campaign for a law that says if a data centre servers js, it legally has to be bombed. If a website doesn’t work without js they have to pay for a person to come to your door and operate it for you.

Maybe this https://aaddrick.github.io/kernel-cve-watch/data/cves.csv

(Not very well counted. Please double check my numbers. Ironically it made me wish I had mcp for LibreOffice because I couldn’t figure out how to sort this data correctly lmao)
282 introduced after 6.19 (including).
117 introduced before 6.19 (excluding) and fixed after 6.19. There’s also 31 fixed after 6.19 that don’t say when they were introduced.

I’m curious: what would you need to see from a product like this before you’d trust it with your code?

I’d probably take you (or any given service) at your word, but you need to actually advertise the advantages. Of course it’s risky, it’s easy to be heavy-handed or to signal your position in a way that dissuades someone. But if you don’t properly name the fears, I have no reason to think you’re addressing the fears either.

Because you’re one person I trust your intention now, but that isn’t a good angle either, because now I wouldn’t trust your longevity and procedures for dealing with disasters (paying for availability after the business venture has failed so customers can download their data for a few months after sunset, money to deal with cyber attacks, stuff like that).

The biggest seal of quality thing that’s possible for you to get with your current angle is to get a government (even just a city or province) customer and saying you’re trusted by them, or getting some sort of official commission to develop for the public sector. Then the customer would feel safe the funding is intended to achieve the stated goals. But you can’t will those contracts into existence either.

Any level of extra sovereignty makes a big difference for big customers, so the answer is yes. But for individual developers and start-ups, it’ll come down to if your owners have stock in USA/Israeli companies.

If they do then there is no sovereignty. Rewarding a capitalist who happens to have an EU member passport is still rewarding an USA capitalist. There’s no difference and other than with the odd nationalistic one, all of them will primarily have loyalty towards the USA regardless of on-paper nationality. It’s simply the pragmatic choice when you are a capitalist.

And so any reason to be scared of hosting in the USA will still apply. You’ll still over-comply, rat us out, censor us, invite USA-competitors to study our private repos. And it’ll be based on the exact same cheap orders from the USA, and you’ll still ignore our national laws with as little care as a Microsoft, Google, or indeed as a SAP.

Without sovereignty, what you’re doing is just using nationalism to market a product. We all know putting the USA flag on a product in the USA works great. Used to not work as good in Europe, but now make that an EU flag and it doesn’t feel nationalistic, so it works. But the reason it doesn’t feel nationalistic is because the implication is that it’s sovereign. People will catch on that it isn’t very soon.

Depending on how strict you want to be, you might also need to disallow USA puppets like the Gulf countries and the UK from your owner’s portfolios. And a lot of others are going to be upset to see Russia or China on there too.

But no, we don’t need poisonous plastic clothes, or poisonous kitchen gadgets or kiddie toys filled with asbestos. These are all big enough reason to meddle in with the stores.

Is any of that addressed with this tariff? Or if it was increased to 30€? I’d argue quite the opposite, by making repair 30€ × number of items needed to make the repair, you’re guaranteeing that everyone will constantly buy new tat for less than 30€ rather than look after their 90% fine existing one.

If a distro is advertising that, then they aren’t trustworthy and should be avoided. Linux uses AI assisted development, and every Linux distro is built on top of Linux.