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Cake day: January 25th, 2026

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  • I’m not sure what you mean, are you trying to imply that the EU at the current state is not dependent on US technology? Because I think that is simply not true at all. In general the US is massively ahead on tech (and not just AI) and a lot of EU companies has made themselves dependent on especially US cloud providers. I have worked on finding EU alternatives and while there are products that can work it’s usually clear that it’s somewhat behind and you’re playing catch up.

    It’s interesting to hear that there are at least some cases of the US also being dependent on EU technologies.

    Edit: Im not saying that it’s impossible or that we shouldn’t reduce our reliance on US techs and cloud products. Just that it’s delusional to pretend we aren’t behind.



  • AWS ska ha credit för att de verkligen verkar ha ansträngt sig med den här lösningen. Rent tekniskt så låter det ju solitt med att de har sett till att enbart personer som fysiskt befinner sig i EU kommer att ges åtkomst, och saker som att de ska ha tillgång till källkod så att det kommer att gå att fortsätta drifta även om det skulle sättas in sanktioner. Frågan är väl ifall de fortfarande skulle välja att följa order ifrån det amerikanska moderbolaget, och ifall EU-lagstiftning skulle tillåta det.

    Men i slutändan så spelar det nog inte så stor roll, de kommer aldrig att komma ifrån associationen med USA. Om man seriöst överväger att lämna AWS så går man nog hela vägen till en annan leverantör.











  • At least when pouring my shit into Big Tech I can be reasonably sure that it disappears into the ocean of other data they have, and it’s exceptionally unlikely that someone with the access to do so would actually look into me specifically.

    That any unhinged individual on the internet can pull out more information than strictly necessary about my online history is a completely different threat model. I understand that the federated model requires some level of data sharing to keep track of posts but I would kind of have expected that the instance that “owns” the post would be the only instance that needs this info.

    On the other hand, I’m sure that absolute privacy like completely hidden post history to some extent will help bad faith actors with troll farms and bots so I don’t fucking know.


  • Last time I (was forced to) use SUSE it was unfortunately vastly inferior to RedHat. Mainly in terms of reliable stability like how they claim to have the longest supported major versions but change so much in their “Service Packs” that you’ll have to be on your toes every 18 months anyway (and release notes for the SP wasn’t really created, only for major versions). and Arch doesn’t even try to deliver that kind of stability…

    Ubuntu is probably a better bet since at least Canonical is based in the UK. Or simply Debian


  • This may just be a shot in the dark but what is the MAIL_USE_TLS setting in your configuration? I also had issues with mail delivery to start with and it turned out that the problem was that I thought that setting was for SMTPS, but it’s actually whether to use STARTTLS. Granted since you’re using port 587 either value should work, but Mailgun might block unencrypted submissions.

    Also, I think almost all email delivery happens from the celery instance. This was also a mistake I made to start with because I didn’t prioritize getting async up and working (turns out that’s very important).