Why? I don’t know. But some really do.
2015 there was the Germanwings flight where one suicidal pilot locked the other one out of the cockpit after he went to the loo and then intentionally crashed the plane in the Alps, killing everyone on board.
Watching the initial Falcon launches, it gave me so much joy when it flew successfully and I was sad when it exploded.
Watching the Starrship launches it gives me so much joy when it explodes, and I’ll be so sad if it makes it to space one day.
Wait, has something changed in the speed an atomic war would take place in the last 40 years? When I was a teenager in the 80s I could be vaporized from one moment to the next.
We had fucking autobahns and bridges mined with tactical nukes so they could be blown up in order to stop a conventional army.
Maybe fatalism is what you get being a teenager in the 80s living right next to the Iron Curtain.
Reminds me of the flying Mercedes CLR:
What a burn. The Tesla might even catch fire from this comment alone.
tja.
Yes that’s right. It’s a get your shit together or go bust moment for us here in Europe.
Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities… (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.
Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.
In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.
Btw, I’d have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a “european code review agency” might be a thing.
We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.
With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.
We need an Europan open source stack.
Lemmy acting like people that lived here in Germany in the 40s aren’t people…those Lemmy’s are just as bad as what they think they are angry at…most people here in Germany were good people…just like anywhere else. The bad people tended to be a small percentage.