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It's the good old Red Scare but using the word "tankie" instead of "commie" and the people doing it now are just as devoid of ethics and hard right as the Macarthists were.

It massively depends on the country - it's probably fine in Southern and Eastern Europe but not for example in Germany were if I'm not mistaken copyright violation is even part of Criminal Law rather than Civil Law as in pretty much the rest of the World.

Personally ever since I lived in the UK - which has the most insane levels of civil society surveillance in Europe, including of Internet usage - I got into the habit of doing pretty much everything behind a VPN, which also helps with peace of mind for the whole torreting thing no matter which country I'm living in at the moment, plus I pay 5 euros a month for the VPN which is less than a single streaming service, so in a way it pays itself (it's funny how piracy compensates for the costs of protecting myself from dragnet surveillance).

Bullshit!

The tariffs on the tools required for the mandatory cock and ball torture would be set higher than for everything else imaginable.

Worry not: soon the American authorities will treat the former pretty much the same as the latter.

A lot of us were warning them against putting their data and having their infrastructure rely on 3rd party suppliers years ago when the cloud mania was taking of.

At the very least, if you must contract computing power because of having spiky needs, only use clouds with open protocols so that you can move much more easilly to a different supplier if you need to, rather than being tied down to a single provider because your codebase was made on top of their libraries.

Would you trust HP to make any kind of consumer hardware which is supposed to run networked and has their own OS variant?

One would expect it would at the very least come pre-enshittified, possibly with some sort of subscription service to enable certain hardware features.

This ain't the pre-Carly Fiorina HP.

Learn your lesson and stop implicitly trusting US Authorities! (and licking American ass).

Não é só em Portugal - por exemplo poucos têm noção que a razão pela qual a Europa estava na dianteira da technologia móvel no início (entre os anos 80 e para aí 2010) era porque usava um único standard - o GSM - algo que foi imposto pelos reguladores quando leiloaram o espetro móvel. Os Estados Unidos, entretanto, tinham vários standardes competitivos e não interoperáveis e até à era do smartphone estavam atrás da Europa na maioria das métricas de coisas como cobertura móvel, preços e adoção da tecnologia pelos consumidores (e por volta de 2010 tinha uníficado as redes deles à volta do GSM-3)

Eu diria mesmo que a maioría dos políticos na Europa do Presente, depois de 4 décadas de neo-liberalism e um prégar sem parar da Bíblia Da Desgregulamentação e Do Mercado Livre, esqueceram-se dessas lições, e isso inclui a maioria deles em Portugal, na minha opinião.

Sempre achei interessante o quanto mais avançado o Multibanco era que o resto e geralmente só que viveu fora e dentro de Portugal usando os sistemas bancários de onde viveu é que se apercebe disso.

I'm Portuguese and also lived in other countries in Europe and Multibanco is a vastly superior system to everything else I've seen, but on the ATM side rather than the payments side (everybody seems to have their own payment solution or, like the UK, rely on the likes of Visa and MasterCard) - already back in the 90s in Portuguese ATMs, in addition to withdrawing money, you could check your bank account balance, get a statement with the last transactions on your account and even pay your bills all this well before widespread internet access and online banking: that stuff was way ahead of its time back then.

Right now they've added stuff like touchless mobile payments and transfers, but the rest has caught up with them so you'll find such solutions in most countries plus that whole system is entirely local as it's the product of ages ago (before neoliberalism) the government forcing the banks to get together and create a company - SIBS - under shared ownership of the banks, responsible for setting up and managing a national interbank payment systems.

I wouod even say that the Multibanco system probably helps Portuguese banks maintain market lock-in against external competitors, which does get translated to Portugal having pretty high banking fees compared to the rest of Europe, especially for one of the poorest countries in the EU.

"It's the fault of immigrants" and "Trump's working for Putin" are just two faces of the same "Americans good, foreigners bad" thinking: the problems in America couldn't possibly the the fault of the American power and money elites.

American Liberals are just as prone to preach prejudiced, nationalism and exceptionalism to the riff-raff in the defense of the very same American elites as American Conservatives.

If you go up to my original post, it was in response to somebody talking about German politics in the context of the Israeli Genocide.

As one of only a handful of nations who kept on "unwaveringly supporting" Israel with weapons even as the Genocide became more and more extreme and obvious beyond deniability, Germany definitely needs to be heavily criticized for that support and the underlying view of other human beings that is required for people to say - as Sholz did - "We unwaveringly support the Jewish Nation" (note the ethnicity very explicitly) as justification to keep sending weapons to Israel even after they had already murdered over 40,000 civilians including a list of babies 1 year old or less which was 17 pages long.

This isn't the "police taking less seriously reports of being assaulted from victims of certain ethnicities than from other ethnicities" level of Racism far too common in many countries, this is the "we'll keep on sending weapons to people who have murdered thousands of babies because we support the race of the murderers" level of Racism - the level of evil of unfairly treating a minority is a whole different scale from the level of evil of sending weapons to baby mass murderers because you support their race.

Absolutely, the likes of the US and UK, for example, are just as appallingly and disgustingly Racist.

However I myself did not expect this from Germany, both because I had a much much better opinion of Germans (I even lived there for 3 months) and because having in the past done horrible things (Nazism, the Holocaust) exactly because of extreme Racism and spent the time since remembering it and claiming "Never again", it turned out that the "Never again" of most German politicians was the race-limited version "Never again shall we Germans do this to Jews" rather than the Humanist version of "Never again shall this happen".

It's hard for me to convey just how profoundly disappointing I am with Germany in addition to how disgusted I am with it and other nations who kept supporting baby mass murderers with weapons to kill more babies overtly because they support the race of the murderers.

So yeah, I totally agree with

I feel like Germany just got the acceleration card equipped

from the poster I was responding to, because until recently Germany hadn't displayed anywhere near the levels of Racism required to, because of the race of the murderers, support baby mass murderers with weapons that will be used to murder more babies.