What would be my options as an end user who does not want to root his device
Perhaps a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS (which is a de-googled Android)?
https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-s...
Readit NewsHm, I'm sorry you feel that way. It's not meant to be mean. On the contrary; Instead of encouraging someone who I feel is going down a wrong path, to me it's kinder to express my view that they aren't. I have personally wasted years of my life on technical projects, and would have been better off if someone had told me that it was a bad idea.
I'm of the opinion that these passion projects are incredibly important.
Your passions projects were problably also far more important to your growth than you give them credit for.
Scratching an itch is how we, as programmers/engineers/whatever, grow. It is also how we stumble into solving real problems and make our mark on the world.
Who knows, this could become the next big player in the browsersphere, or maybe it'll pivot into something else, or perhaps it will spark someones imagination. At the very least it has (probably) already been a source of creative bliss and pride for the ones involved, which in my opinion makes it worthwhile.
sjogress commented on We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/0... · Posted by u/open-source-ux
And the US: https://designsystem.digital.gov/
And Norway: https://www.designsystemet.no/
Can you think of a good alternative other than outlawing Microsoft 365? I want these services to be spread out however this particular idea would make the EU even more sluggish than it already is
Im not a legal scholar in any way, but perhaps a solution would be a fully independent Microsoft EU that licenses Microsoft US tech for deployment/use within Europe?
Based on the results of GDPR, it'll probably just result in more annoying sites that users will avoid due to all of the pop up banners. Hopefully I'm wrong, I wish there was strong competition from Europe
An optimistic take would be that this forces European companies to think through their analytics/ad needs again, perhaps resulting in less invasive solutions and thus fewer popups/banners and improved privacy.
At least that is what I'm hoping for, however unrealistic it might be.
As far as I understand it, it's not Google Analytics per se that is illegal, but the data transfer to the US. If Google Analytics would use servers on European ground it should be fine.
Or would that still violate GDPR as Google as an American company can still be coerced to give access to data stored on their servers outside the US? But I can't imagine that to be the case, as it would effectively mean that any business where an American company stores user data is illegal.
As far as I can tell this ruling means that transfering PII to any company/service controlled by an American company is illegal per the GDPR.
I work for a European company that is already being impacted by this ruling. Our first step is to replace Google Analytics, but I believe we are also looking through all cloud usage for any traces of PII.
I think this is a huge opportunity for European companies to get a foothold in the Analytics/Ads/Cloud/Office spaces. Perhaps also an opportunity for good open source alternatives, like Matomo Analytics, to get adopted.
In this case it seems like the steep price is to prevent frivolously using the emergency room. You can get covid tests dirt cheap (or free) if you schedule and appointment at a hospital or one of the testing sites. Emergency room has to have capacity to take on actual life threatening emergencies.
It seems like you've done the research here: how do you know how you are supposed(?) to do the test in the US?
Here in my municipality in Norway the media keeps repeating how/where/when to get tested, and if anything important changes the municipality will literally send a SMS to all its citizens to ensure as many as possible are up to date.
From my admittedly limited experience with the US (NYC/tri-state area) I get the impression that information is often hard to find and hard to understand. This could of course be caused by cultural or lingual differences since I'm neither American nor a native English speaker.
sjogress commented on Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events tara.ai/... · Posted by u/iba99
Its definitely something we've been exploring when putting our product roadmap together. I'm curious though, if we had a private cloud instance vs self hosted? I'd love to understand why self hosted would be the option you'd go for.
I think for most/many European companies, especially those that are potentially handling PII, there are regulatory concerns with using US based hosting/companies.
My employer for instance has put a ban on deploying anything new on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud until legal issues have been settled after Privacy Shield was invalidated.
Everything new right now needs to be on EU/EFTA data centers run by EU/EFTA companies. This essentially means self hosting since most clouds are owned by US companies.
sjogress commented on The Framework Laptop is now shipping frame.work/blog/the-frame... · Posted by u/ahaferburg
Linux is ready for prime time for anyone not bound to Windows/MacOS software.
Personally, I'm still on MacOS for work, but all my personal devices run some form of Linux. It's been liberating to say the least.