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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27931079

Summary

Trump has rejected the EU's "zero-for-zero" tariff offer on cars and industrial goods, demanding instead that the bloc commit to purchasing $350 billion of American energy to offset the trade deficit.

Following his implementation of 20% tariffs on EU goods last week, which triggered significant market downturns, Trump indicated openness to negotiations while emphasizing his "America First" stance.

He also criticized EU product standards as "non-monetary barriers" designed to block American exports.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10451325

Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.

The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG .

I'm wondering: what the philosophy behind the project is? How is the funding taking place? What will happen to the crowd-sourced data and the joint effort? Don't get me wrong, but putting effort in a closed source database that belongs to a company, which then claims the copyright of said database (German Urheberrecht), is something I would like to discuss upfront.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10495973

swisscows.com is deffinetly worth checking out, as they not only do have a search engine, but also mail services and a messenger aswell as a vpn. And their name is kinda funny.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32335303

Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting for the Russian army in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

The Ukrainian president said intelligence suggested the number of Chinese soldiers in Russia's army is "much higher than two".

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that Chinese troops fighting on Ukrainian territory "puts into question China's declared stance for peace" and added that their envoy in Kyiv has been summoned for an explanation.

It marks the first official allegation that China is supplying Russia with manpower for its war in Ukraine. There has been no immediate response to the claims from Moscow or Beijing.

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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/europe@feddit.org/t/2024674

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[–] tfm@europe.pub 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never had any problems with them. To be honest, it's my favorite.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of these? None

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago

No I mean the big social Networks with centralized management. Like Reddit, Facebook,...

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Net neutrality

To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 5 points 1 month ago
[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 month ago

So let's repost all of the popular Reddit content here ;D

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would your friends stay exclusively on Discord if they would ban you?

I'd imagine they would be ready to join another platform to stay in touch with you. And I don't mean that they'll immediately stop using Discord completely but use both simultaneously.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something being free and open source doesn't mean it's good

True. But it's verifiable.

It's FOSS and you've looked at the code and found it to live up to its claims of being secure?

Popular FOSS projects get audited all the time. Heck, there is even automated software to detect anomalies in code changes.

Auditability is the only reason why you can only really trust open source but not closed source. With proprietary software you'll always have to trust the developers to not do something shady and are competent enough. With open source you can simply verify it.

Also being open source is what usually makes popular FOSS more stable and secure than most closed counterparts. A LOT of people donate their work and since it's completely public, most want their contributions to be in good shape. If only a few or no other people see your code, you are tempted to write bad code a lot more. This of course is not always the case but more often than not.

Also in most developed countries it's illegal to purposefully introduce manipulated code. And I don't think most people would risk punishment for that if literally anybody could find it.

I'm trying to show that the particulars of why you like or prefer something matter.

Sure. But most people don't care about the details, unfortunately. In the case of messaging they just want to communicate. And if someone asks me, which platform I'd recommend I will always start with the most secure and private.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago

That's why I specifically wrote "completely public" not "private".

I think most people know that a discord server with a few hundred or thousand members can hardly be considered private. But I can imagine that there are people who don't want to put it directly online for everybody to find on Google. Not that I like that.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 month ago

How about crossposting stuff from reddit there to get the engagement up?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemmy communities are basically forums. So let's post and interact more here. :)

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