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2OEH8eoCRo0 | 4 days ago

I'm a US citizen and I hope more of the world decouples because I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition.

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yndoendo|4 days ago

Even as a US citizen ... I have started to decouple from US business that hold my data.

toomuchtodo|4 days ago

Same. I don't trust the US as much as the rest of the world does not trust them. They want control with little to offer for it. My data and compute is safer offshore at this time.

thegreatpeter|4 days ago

where did you move your blog to? hetzner?

rustyhancock|4 days ago

But we have our own issues outside of the US.

They reality is the average person is between a rock and a hard place.

microtonal|4 days ago

Major US tech businesses are making money with analytics/ads though, so they would never roll out end-to-end encryption in a serious way. At least outside the US, a lot of E2E-encrypted services are popping up (Proton, Zeitkapsl, etc.).

I don't trust the small number of E2E US services at all. E.g., some of the companies that were/are in PRISM seem to have very convenient 'accidental' backdoors. E.g. WhatsApp doing backups on Google Drive without encryption by default on Android or Apple doing iCloud backups of iMessage that are not E2E encrypted unless you enable ADP. And even if you are wise enough to enable E2E in both cases, most people that you communicate with don't, because they use the defaults, so it's game over anyway.

joe_mamba|4 days ago

This. When I look at why my life sucks and is on hard difficulty mode, it's not because I use US tech instead of EU tech. Most people and companies have bigger economic challenges right now trying to keep the lights on, than data sovereignty and domestic alternatives. My company just had a 3rd round of layoffs and its wasn't due to lack of EU SW.

nozzlegear|4 days ago

> I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition.

I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of cooperation.

PlatoIsADisease|4 days ago

>Unipolar worlds are safer than Bipolar. Multipolar is extremely dangerous.

Do you want more people dead? I assume you didn't know how dangerous the world is without a hegemon..

TitaRusell|4 days ago

The competition is China and the US is becoming so hysterical about it that I genuinely hope that the PLA is prepared for a nuclear first strike.