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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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askonomm · 1790329035 · focus · HN ↗
Any move away from the abusive big tech that exists in USA is a good move in my book. Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads, and per ads viewed, you then earn credit to be able to use your program/game. It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.
1. wartywhoa23 · 1790338341 · focus · HN ↗
  > It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.
  There is a couple more wild things here:
  1) That there is an agenda, demand and total legal abetment from the top of the power/monetary hierarchy for such corporate policies
  2) That there is a horde of individual employees working to those ends without any shadow of doubt, often even vice signaling their intent to be the first to attain the figurative A-bomb or full-blown BB telescreen.
  1. shevy-java · 1790339704 · focus · HN ↗
    That is true. We see that with Trump, where he tries to force the EU to open markets to the US corporations who will just steal data from EU citizens.
    Why can't the EU learn more from Canada? Canada realised that with Trump there is no way to make a deal. So cut things down where possible, diversify - the EU still has to learn this lesson. In particular Germany is totally US-addicted - no idea why, other than, of course, the obvious answer ("we need to export into the USA", aka selfish greed from Germany here).
    herbst · 1790345192 · focus · HN ↗
    Can you name examples how the EU or Germany is US addicted? From my POV in central Europe this has changed long long long ago.
    Doing some trading with a shitty country doesn't imply any dependency
    eastbound · 1790363741 · focus · HN ↗
    Buying US helicopters when they've been developing one with France. But Germany has no choice: It has been literally occupied by the US forces and it's only recently that it has regained the right to have an army, but there are still 200k US troops in Germany (among other means of influence).
    herbst · 1790412213 · focus · HN ↗
    Germany had it's Bundeswehr the whole time since it joined the Nato 1955 same year the US occupation officially ended. And there are not even remotely 200k us Troops in Germany anymore.
    No idea where you get your Infos from, bit a short googling would show that this is simply not true.
    agentultra · 1790347838 · focus · HN ↗
    Canada isn’t that great either. We say one thing then do the opposite of that. Google is moving in to do age verification for Canadian services.
    leonidasrup · 1790359668 · focus · HN ↗
    Because Germany is critically dependent on LNG imports from US.
    " Gas covered a little more than a quarter of Germany’s primary energy use in 2025, making it the country’s second most important energy source. Germany is among the world’s biggest natural gas importers – around 95 percent of its gas consumption is met by imports, according to energy research data group AGEB. "
    " Energy industry association BDEW said that Norway has now become Germany’s top gas supplier by far, with about 45 percent in 2025, transported by pipeline. Around one tenth of the gas used in the country arrives as liquefied natural gas (LNG) directly at one of four import terminals along the coast. In 2025, around 95 percent of that LNG came from the US. "
    European countries are trading gas between them, we have to look into whole European imports. For example Germany is import lot of US gas through Belgium.
    " Russia has continued to supply a sizeable portion of gas imports, although the EU has decided to fully phase them out by 2027. Most natural gas in a gaseous state was imported from Norway (52%), Algeria (20%), Russia (10%), and the UK (8%) in 2025. LNG came from the US (55%), Russia (14%), Qatar (9%), and Algeria (6%). "
    <a href="https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germany-eu-remain-heavily-dependent-imported-fossil-fuels" rel="nofollow">https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germany-eu-remain...

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