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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 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.

They are correct. It only means more work for future devices, makes the initial port to a device slower. But then, once things have been figured out. It becomes just as fast and reliable as it was (unless what I said earlier: Google setting things in a very different way in a major update (for example, moving to Fushia, which has been abandoned)

I agree, but it's more complicated than that: They have removed the device tree for pixel devices from AOSP and using the device tree of the basic virtual phone in android studio instead. That brings the pixel 10 family (as well as future android pixel devices) to the same level as many other phonemaker's devices as far as making roms is concerned. So not all hardware will be documented, many drivers will need to be rebuilt. The pixel line up to the 9a is not affected because older device trees can be used (until Google wants to mod the way drivers load or add API's).

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.

If you use sandboxed Google services for notifications, you need to allow full network permissions to Google services. Kind of defeats the purpose.