Not just that, also decentralised. FOSS+decentralisation is key.

Peer to peer would be a great way of that.

But to where?

Following the launch, Proton’s CEO Andy Yen told the Keystone-SDA news agency that the company had chosen Germany as the location for Lumo’s servers due to the planned VÜPF reform. The company is also setting up locations in Norway. However, Proton does not want to completely pull up stakes in its Swiss homeland.

Depending on your threat model, you may want to look where to pick servers (if that’s an option, which should be, and if your data is spread such that none of these countries can figure things out, the better).

Norway is good, though it is part of the 9 Eyes network; and Germany of the 14 Eyes.

Depending on your threat model, best to always look at which country your VPN has its headquarters, and where you pick your VPN.

You’re completely right; it is true that Wero is only rolled out in a few countries now. But it’s also new and basically going to be a continuation of iDEAL (a nicer name imo) at a European level.

Monero is indeed crypto and whether it’s scalable, I do not know. But what attracts is that it’s much more decentralised, I feel. It’s like Ethereum in that regard.

I also agree with you that breaking down the duopoly is necessary and should be done by the European governments. In fact, I think it’s the simplest way to foster extra competition. Break up Visa and Mastercard and introduce a few European competitors.

Absolutely Europe should.

What You Can Do:
Shift from … to …:
Chrome, Edge -> Firefox, Librefox, Tor

Word, Excel, Powerpoint -> LibreOffice
Reddit -> Lemmy (you are here)
Twitter -> Mastodon
Facebook -> Friendica
YouTube -> PeerTube

Gmail, Outlook -> Tuta, Mailbox, Proton
Visa, Mastercard -> Wero, Monero

Fuck McDonald’s. It made for Luigi’s arrest & is an animal cruelty farm & is American!

General rule: never give a company all trust and power. If a company has access to part A of your life and encrypts fully from begin and during til end, ok.

But if a company also has access to your agenda, your authentication, your hospital data, etc… that can be dangerous. Best to spread the risk, I feel, with the best options available.

Propietary, apparently. Alas.

Still, good that the EU is getting digitally more sovereign and independent! And it also appears to adhere to GDPR fully, or so they say.

Autonomous driving isn’t democratic. Then you can’t decide how to drive.

Autonomous driving would be bicycling. That is true liberty!

Make a level playing field for non-Americans first.

America third, Europe first!

Fuck off Tolkien thief

Hell no! We should prohibit bankrupt European companies being bought by foreign-based ones!

Cowardice at work! It is bullshit. We need to combat it pronto.

Europe needs to get independent from Google, Meta, Twitter, Windows, and Apple ASAP.

Best to just not have a fitness tracker.

Use Qwant, Ecosia, SearXNG, those are better.

Can rec Bol.com instead of Amazon, though it only delivers to NL and BE.

Best is always to buy from the store itself directly. Have it delivered to the store, buy it there.

And OnlyOffice? How about that one?

You can, if you go to game stores. Though those have been going bankrupt left and right - but I prefer buying from them rather than digital. No risk of a game getting removed from a store or digital pass.

??? Companies are MEANT to be fucked with. They never have your best interests in mind. They only care about profit, profit, and greed.

Fuck Microsoft. Time to download LibreOffice!

(removed a few other ideas, see below)

All the more reason to get LibreOffice and OnlyOffice!

I mean, can you blame them? Cryptobros did ruin a lot of stuff.

Avoiding censorship (when you’re not someone spreading hatred) is the primary reason one should use paper or crypto. Tax evasion isn’t one of them.

Aye, I’d love that. A Napster 2.0, if you will.