Yeah, it’s so tiring. Search for something, entire first page is useless aggregator sites, containing nothing about the actual topic other than keywords. Waste of time

Are you telling me they ever knew how to build Windows?

There are a handful of EU cloud providers. In addition, at least some EU countries have what amounts to a governmental cloud provider, providing services to government agencies and ministries.

Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅

Well, at least it gives us a common language… I’m not sure the discussion would go so well if I was speaking one of my other languages to you. Enjoy your evening, or morning, or whatever it’ll be on your end

Fair enough, there’s nuance here as with a lot of these things. I used to work in banking IT, I’ve seen some parts of it. It was just the blanket “regulations = bad” sentiment I reacted to, though I see now that wasn’t the intent from your side

They left the union

Regulatory bullshit? I’m quite happy with the fact that I can generally trust my bank not to fuck me over in a hundred different ways, thanks to all that ‘bullshit’

I’m not sure they like those either, maybe just tolerate

Frustrating. Sorry you’re in this position

You’d think the onus here should be on PayPal and Stripe… Do they have anything to say?

That wasn’t my comment, I was just pointing out that reducing the argument against Israel to “one company is bad” is severely downplaying the situation.

Hardly because of a company. You’d have to be living completely off the grid to be unaware of the atrocities being perpetrated against their neighbours

Passport pages are numbered. Ripping one out may get you detained and questioned somewhere.

As opposed to what is otherwise one of the LLMs largest databases, Reddit? 😅

Thanks!

For those of us out of the loop, who is Patrick?

Just straight up execution of foreign nationals without trial.

in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country

Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.