Zelenskyy is a fucking gigachad for saying that in the Oval Office. Fucking legend

It'll get you sky high that's for sure

My reaction too! I hope at some point they add it cause I'd buy it purely for the nostalgia

But Trump was the first president (since the US tried to break up Microsoft) to seriously start thinking about fighting big tech. Obviously for dumb reasons (they hurt his feelings) but still, I don't think that statement is inaccurate. However, it is true he isn't the first politician to say something against big tech. Even so, he was in a position of power to potentially do something about it (even if he never did and likely won't now given how much they are bending the knee)

Regardless of what we think of his comments, it's good that he is vocal about his opinions. Makes him seem like a person than some faceless CEO they says nothing.

He just got spicy with this 1 post and it hasn't worked out for him and now the open source community Proton is a part of hate him. There is so much hate that they are leaving Mastodon which is a huge shame

So it's naive to voice his opinion on what a Trump presidency could mean for the tech industry? Looking back to trump's previous term big tech shunned him and Twitter even kicked him off the platform by the end of his presidency. Back then it pissed Trump off and he threatened all sorts of shit. I don't think it was that crazy to think that he would still be upset about it and try to do something at the begining of December when Proton's CEO made that post.

If you look at what proton is trying to do in terms of becoming a complete non-proffit that would have many safeguards in place to undo that change. I think it does show he has some level of forethought. The one caveat being that they have not completed that process and implemented everything yet so we'll have to see if that promise follows through

Here is the CEO's post along with a link to an article with the twitter link.

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

He is supporting Trump's pick for a roll, fair enough. But the rest of the post, he is talking about how he hopes the republicans will do something about big tech. He isn't endorsing Trump himself or his stance of policies. Far as I've seen he never has. He it literally just stating what the republicans used to be about.

Damn that sounds impressive. Hopefully they can get this service deployed before the others do and they can start to claim some more market share

From a historical perspective, he wasn't wrong. The republicans were looking more at big tech cause, in the past, big tech was very left leaning. Things have obviously changed but your quote misses that he was hopeful that Trump would do something for big tech. His hope is obviously miss placed after big tech started sicking his dick but doesn't mean he couldn't be hopeful

Agreed. I don't support their decision to leave mastadon but I totally understand why they did it. Proton is on our side (as much as a company can be) so I don't get why people keep ripping into them for something that isn't true. He wasn't saying he supported Trump, he just hoped the republican party would do something about big tech. Not gonna happen but we can all agree we hope it'll happen

Europeans need to move fast if they are going to have a real impact on how Ukraine will turn out. If Canada and others want also want to join in then even better.

Whilst you can't trust what Trump says, I find it hard to see the Ukrainians being able to offer a better deal than what Putin can (in his eyes). I imagine Putin's 'good' offers would allow the US to leave the conflict quickly which Trump will see as 'the greatest deal' even if, in the long run, it only strengthens the Russian.

Hopefully Europe can figure out a credible strategy. They have the capacity, I'm just not certain politicians will have the balls

Thing is the sanctions have been slow and did allow time for Putin to shift who he supplies energy to with the shadow fleet. I think adding more sanctions after years of war is not going to amount to much. Especially when the war may stop soon (cause Trump knows how to make the best deals /s). This would give Putin fiscal space to build those pipelines to China and otherwise invest more in his fleet of tankers.

Ultimately, he will find buyers for his energy from countries who don't care about the war and don't care about Europe's sanctions (China, India...). Maybe I'll be wrong and these new sanction will work but I'm sure India and China can figure out how to get the energy they need from Russia

Thing is, Europe lags behind in tech on most metrics. We need to foster new companies that can compete in current industries and creat new ones. Without this, tech will continue to be another dimension in which we rely on others to supply us. Of course, some of these start-ups will be shitty cash grabs. But most will be trying to accomplish something real. Europe cannot only rely on once reliable industries for growth (like automotive), it needs to look at the future and jump on it before others do

I saw that claim but I dont understand where this money could from. My understanding is the EU, as a whole, has provided ~140B€. So 700B€ would be 5x more than what has already been provided. Whilst this could be possible if it was also intended to revitalise EU militaries and with joint EU borrowing I fear the joint borrowing will prevent everyone from being onboard

I do believe taxing the rich is part of the strategy but it can't be everything.

Thing is, the rich are the ones most able to move their money around so they pay the least in taxes so I'm not sure Europe, as a whole, will be able to effectively tax them to the correct level in the long term. If the taxes end up 'too high' by their standards, these people will just move to the US where they don't need to help any poors like they should. Rich individuals are also a source of capital to fund start ups which the EU also needs too.

I think it could be more productive to force the rich to put their money into the economy by creating innovative new companies. Companies are harder to move to another country compared to an individual and their family. At the same time, somehow prevent them from dodging the current taxes so they can't just hide their immense wealth from the state for free

Sanctions are good, but Europe needs to do more than just sanction Russians and send just enough supplies to Ukraine to keep them going.

I totally agree with increased investments, Europe needs to spend on infrastructure that will allow them to operate independently so they cannot be crippled by sudden changes in geopolitics. I think they should throw money at literally everything. That includes energy, IT, security the lot. I just hope they can do this without putting themselves into unsustainable debt though lots of debt is required at this point

More sanctions sounds good but what can they truely accomplish? The Russians have big friends like China who will buy their stuff instead and potentially the US soon too.

Imo, the only thing that will send a message thar the EU means business is some kind of concrete security guarantee to the Ukrainians. Maybe they can conjure something but will it be sustainable given Europe's economic issues and will people in EU countries be willing to stick their necks out for Ukraine? I'm more positive on the first point but I get the vibe I get is Europeans don't want to support Ukraine in the only way Putin understands

I don't mind long games but if it's an RPG with branching story lines I think I would prefer a shorter game that I could replay. I always want to replay RPGs to see the different paths but never do cause they are insanely long and I don't want to devote my existence to one game even if it's amazing

A shit post made is a shit post earned

The EU just doesn't have any companies that can put together something that can compete. CPUs and GPUs have been around for a while and the technical knowledge and patents these companies have gathered is basically insurmountable.

Graphcore is a startup in the UK that has been trying to get into the ai processor market for a few years but even though they got a load of money their chips have not been competitive (if they were able to get any out the door).

Arm could feasibly do it (given they already make the CPU/GPU designs) but their business model is selling the base designs to other companies. If they started to make their own chips then those that buy from ARM (Qualcomm, mediatech...) might look to developing their own risk-V chips

Imo, I think the EU should try and make a company similar in style to what happened with Airbus. Combine a bunch of companies together across the union, give them money and contracts and let them cook. Seems to me the only way to enter this kind of market.