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      I mean they could do what he asks and each individual county could hit him with the exact same fine

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        It works because the EU nations are stronger together, and musk can’t rebel against this fine without risking a big chunk of his profits.

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          True. While my comment is based mostly on drunken self amusement based on my own country’s dumbest decision to bail on the EU. The rules dont change overnight and this would result in fines based on those rules would transfer to each former member

          Also its fucking twitter one of the things that my country is looking to hamfistedlely regulate I can’t imagine the rest bending the knee

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            You and I then share our disgust at our country committing an incomprehensible act of self-harm leaving the EU. At least you have the consolation of Scotland voting remain; England has no such insight. I would like to apologise on behalf of English and Wales for the barbaric stupidity that has been forced upon us all. And Scotland rarely supports rightwing UK governments, having a heart in the right place and a head firmly screwed on, voting left more than not. I can understand Scots wanting to quit the UK, but I’m very very grateful indeed that you all haven’t. If Nicola Sturgeon had been Prime Minister of all of the UK, tens of thousands of dead English folk would still be alive today post covid.

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        Man, I know so many rich-ass dragons sitting on their hoards that fuck children that if he’s never stuck his claws in children, I’ll be surprised.

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          Let’s see. He is a drug user (1), and videogame cheater (2), he bought a social media to post propaganda, is an AI techbro, has married three times in twenty years and had affairs outside his marriages.

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      Yeah, makes sense from his perspective. If they were individual small countries, he could strong arm them and play them against each other. But unified they are a threat to his power

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      It’s in hundreds of millions and dude has like half a trillion. I’d say multiply by arbitrary number between 100 and 1000.

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          we can go higher than 1000, he can afford it. Let’s multiple it by 420 and then 69. He’d probably go for it just because of how he is with stupid things like that.

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            I think I’m no better in this part. I’m implementing online Gliński’s chess for a computer networks project and plan on making joining a game with ID 42069 a cheat code for an instant win board.

            Oh, and default port is 1337

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      The fine is €120 Million. Elon makes $1,000,000 in less than a minute, so he made it back in < 2 hours. It definitely needs to be multiplied several times.

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      It should be 120 billion, not million. That’s the only thing this fuckhead understands. Take his money.

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    The fact that any public representative from any country in the union maintains a Twitter account should be illegal at this point, as should all institutional accounts, of course.

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    It is time for the EU to kick out all these too big to fail corporations that are openly hostile to European culture. Megacorporations are a direct threat to all citizens rights.

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      This. It’s crazy to think some dumbass rich american can openly ask for the dissolvement of a progressive, free market just because it tries to protect it’s citizen from greed, propaganda and stolen data.

      Fuck Elon, and fuck every american oligarch that thinks Europe will just buckle for them.

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        I don’t think that at all. and if anybody asks why I’m even commenting on this when I live in America, its because most of my extended family lives there. I share their pain.

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        Microsoft will be easier, at least for public services, in the coming future since Europe currently pushes hard for FOSS instead of US owned companies.

        For consumer markets we’ll need better alternatives still because it’s harder to convert your citizens away from something they grew up to be used to over the last 20 years.

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          How far along adopton though? I see a few German city councils move across to FOSS but I would guess it’s a long way to go before US equivalents are the smaller percentage.

          If you wanted to replace Office 365, intune and Azure, what would your foss equivalents be? I guess the OS would Be something like SUSE and Libre Office for documents, but what about cloud storage and online document editing? What is the FOSS equivalent GUI driven MDM of Linux devices or cloud directory services? I ask this as I haven’t heard of the equivalents rather than to argue they don’t exist.

          It’s a struggle to get consumers off of Twitter, at this point I don’t believe we will get them to drop iPads, Chromebooks etc unless we are actually at war with America, it feels impossible. I’d argue that will be true for a lot of EU based international business also.

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              For the OS and Office I know the equivalents, but what about GUI driven MDM, cloud MDM and directory services? Cloud storage and online document editing. I’m sure something exists but I couldn’t name those solutions currently.

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                There are plenty of options for MDM and directory services and cloud storage and online document editing has a million alternatives.

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                  So if you had to build a cloud only equivalent to Microsoft 365 setup based on FOSS / European software alternatives, what would it look like?

                  I only ask as for companies to adopt this setup over Microsoft or Google work space it’s going to have to offer the same feature set and level of integration between components. But also have a path for less experienced IT teams to manage it. Otherwise it’s a much harder sell.

                  Another poster mentioned Next cloud, which I had heard of as an alternative to personal OneDrive via my tinkering with dietpi, it does look pretty fleshed out for enterprise also. But obviously for corporations, they will want tools for enterprise level device management, data protection across devices and cloud, etc so just wondered who is offering those solutions currently.

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      The EU institutions act like megacorps though and they’ve been veering right as of late

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        There are definitely valid criticism about the EU and its many processes. The bureaucracy, undemocratic representation, and issues around sovereignty are just a few to name.

        Having said that, they have done far more to reign in our digital future than anyone else. So it is not all bad.

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    LMAO All these right, white men seem to throw a temper tantrum whenever real consequences for being a shitty social network (or a different shitty thing), I think X needs to be abolished instead. After Musk pays the fines, that is!

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      I think the number of users is still relevant. They want all that data both for themselves and their “partners”. Not to speak of the supplement grift.

      But most of all: Xhitter provides a lot of MAGA propaganda worldwide, and supports far-right hucksters in the EU and elsewhere.

      So yeah, we need to abolish it.

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    Man notorious for saying stupid provocative shit every day says stupid provocative shit. Also, man is Nazi.

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    I think Elon Musk and alike should be abolished. They are ruining society. Seriously, it is that simple, these pieces of shit are probably humanity’s enemy number #1.

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    IMO: the DSA & DMA should hold executives accountable for their company’s behaviour. Someone is making those decisions. And all of the corporate law in the world would be abided a whole lot faster and a hell of a lot more diligently if there was the executive’s skin at stake for breaking it.

    Also: Fuck Musk, as he’s a Nazi cunt making a Hitler salute at when being inaugurated as a minister.

    Edit: Also, the only thing destroying european culture are the Techno-oligarchs in the USA.

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      Nah you see they are silent responsible for the companies success. But when something goes wrong there is no possible way they could know everything that goes on in the company. And they get big pay because they take all the risk. I have never understood that one what risk golden parachute not big enough.