Is much nicer ๐
To me it lately sounds like Canadians do need to worry a bit about "freedom" being brought to them.
Sounds quite good, but just use regular Debian, ubuntu isn't any better and annoying with their Snap BS.
I guess i need some kind of VPN for a secure use?
You can set up a Wireguard VPN.
The argument about possible threats is good, but why this means we need to increase defense spending is completely unexplained.
Europe already vastly outspends Russia on defense, and for example Spain buying more Leopard 2 tanks just to have them rot in their baracks is not helping at all.
We need to get more efficient in defense spending and we need to invest in defensive weapons that can be easily moved where they are actually needed. Better locally produced anti-air defense, especially ones cheap enough to work against drone swarms are probably also needed.
But none of that needs 5% of GDP. We could probably significantly reduce current defense spending and still end up with an more effective deterrent against Russia.
Our infrastructure and social services are already massively underfunded. More than doubling defense spending will come at a cost to those services, especially with right wing governments in power everywhere. And the result of that is just as much if not more of a threat to our values and the cohesion of the EU than Russia.
Russia outspends the whole of EU in military built-up
This is blatantly false and it takes a lot of massaging the numbers to reach even parity in spending like the OP article claims (but it uses pre-war PPP figures, which is completely laughable).
Is military spending efficient in the EU? No. Do we spend too much on unreliable US made weapons? Yes!
But Russia is spending a tiny fraction of what the EU+UK does, and its troups are exhausted from a protracted war with Ukraine.
Maybe they will try to poke a sleeping bear to divide us further as a form of asymetric warfare, but in no way (other that nuclear) is Russia an existential threat to Europe right now.
This is just the age old cold war fearmongering back in action. Lots of profits to be made from that...
Before SpaceX, Ariane Space was pretty dominant in the commercial sattelite launch market. But they completely botched the Ariane 6 design and are now likely still decade away from having a reusable first stage, which is required to remain competitive.
They can be lucky that SpaceX is wasting their resources on a reusable second stage, which will likely never be economical.
Hmm, did Pocketbase add AP support, or how is this implemented behind the scenes?
It's not any worse than the differen't feature support levels of different Matrix clients. But especially on Android, XMPP has nice modern clients with all the features you would expect, including a/v calls and reactions/stickers.
The main issue right now are up to date Windows desktop clients, but on Linux desktop there are some good options.
There is: XMPP ๐คท
There is not much they can do about it short of shutting down the entire server. Due to how matrix functions internally any sufficiently large federated homeserver replicates most of the entire network.
It is a bit counter-intuitive but restricting new signups will not help them much. The way the matrix protocol is designed, i.e. replicating everything on every server, means that clients connecting to their server have only a minor impact. As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver their costs will stay high and there isn't really much they can do about that other than shutting it down entirely.
Yes from centrists like Macron that pave the way for the extreme right to take over soon ๐คฆ