They are basically already being banned (by the Feddit.org admins) as soon as they start posting. An additional unenforcable rule wouldn’t make a difference.

AFAIK because the powerful agroindustry lobby in France is against Mercosur, but not against this one.

Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…

Found the campist.

Hmm, I am most surprised by Austria. Especially since afaik wages in Austria tend to be a bit lower than in Germany for example.

If your definition of “good” means like a douchebag, sure.

MultiBanco / MBway works great in Portugal 🇵🇹

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

You didn’t understand my comment it seems.

You can’t just stop trading in US dollars, at best you can very slowly look for other suppliers for vital commodities that you currently have to buy in US dollars. That is a decade long process and will not do anything to deter the US from doing what it wants right now.

Selling off bonds on the other hand has a direct effect on the finances of the US government which is constantly issuing new bonds to finance its deficit. This effect is somewhat limited by the fact that they can also do quantitative easing (“printing money”), but that usually has a direct effect on the value of the dollar and is much more likely to make others to reconsider their trade in US Dollars than a few European states slowly diversifying their supply chain over the course of a decade or so.

Selling old bonds destroys the market for new bonds, which forces the US to do quantitative easing, which does far more damage to the US Dollar than a few countries trying to avoid trading in US Dollar.

The sale of bonds is a good lever, and even if it doesn’t work it is good to get rid of these likely soon to be toxic assets now while there is still a chance of getting something for it.

And in general, how do you propose to stop using Dollar? It is either US products you want to buy or oil/gas that is bought in US Dollar. And the latter will not switch anytime soon because of a long list of reasons among which is the threat of US invasion for the sellers of oil/gas.

Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.

It has the same effect as it will force the US to further devalue their currency making it less attractive to do trade in US Dollar.

I was about to comment on the double standard, but then I realized I misread your instance as “lemmy.ml” 😅

I don’t find this argument very complelling. If there are really few buyers than even a mild sell off would make the value of US treasuries temporarily tank and in turn make it very difficult of the US to issue new ones, which they depend on to finance their huge deficit.

And e-bikes, which is probably the main factor that changed in the last 5 years.

No, Europe is starting to realize that they should get off a dead horse. The car industry is not the vital industry it once was with the demographic changes and increasing lack of export markets.

In some parts the transition will be painful of course, but that usually happens when you artificially try to keep a nearly dead horse alive for too long.

I would love to comment on this, but unfortunatly I lack time and energy 👍

although XMPP doesn’t necessarily natively have video call, usually you’ll have an accompanying TURN server

The same is true for Matrix and the popular Ejabberd xmpp server has a Stun/Turn server built in, which makes it even easier to setup than what you have on Matrix.

P.S.: Matrix also isn’t a messaging protocol. It is a distributed database protocol that has been abused for making a messenger with it.

I get where the author comes from, but this isn’t a skill issue. Of course Europe has all the expertise and access to hardware it would need, but we have a political class that ideologically deeply committed to neoliberalism, meaning they will always prefer a public tender with competing private enterprises over a state run and owned utility.

The problem is that the way the US providers have cornered the market, and the overly bureocratic tender procedures, you end up with only a few eligible bids from the three US firms and a few others like T-Systems, that have such a bad track record of actually delivering working solutions that no one interested in something other than a future board position with them will ever choose these companies.