I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.

Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?

Not necessarily if you run workloads within the datacenter? Surely that’s not that rare, even if they’re mostly for hosting web services.

Switzerland because it blows every other European country out of the water in terms of salaries. One consideration would be if you’re planning to have a kid they have shitty parental leave in comparisson.

While most people would likely move to Digg v2.0 (I am just being realistic)

Are people actually going? The only thing I’ve heard about it (the AI-fueled reboot) is that it was planned.

“US politics new speak, can’t relate.”

I sure hope so, but I have little faith tbh. Cloud providers have done a great job selling serverless solutions that are tightly coupled with the provider. Wise companies have limited themselves to the basics - load balancers, servers, maybe some serverless container solution or kubernetes. The latter can move pretty much anywhere with some, but not a whole lot, of effort. The former, have fun rediscovering the quirks of your new provider’s equivalent of lambdas or whatever (or at worst, rewriting the whole thing).

In Sweden we’ve been able to do this for years? Any site that has Klarna as a payment option you can choose to add it to your monthly bill or the “pay it later” (I think two weeks) option.

There’s a non-zero % chance that a nazi with ties to the government and unlimited money might be interested in this data… 👀

I think there is a skill set that’s required to use AI efficiently. You need to know what kind of problems they’re suitable for, be able to recognise when it’s going in circles or hallucinating and you need to be able to troubleshoot and understand whatever it’s outputting. Personally I’ve found it quite useful in many cases.

A team with one creative and one gets things done is not too bad. I’d take the headline with a grain of salt since AI are known to not always get things done and sometimes will lead their pilots around in circles for no good reason, but still, they don’t really need to be creative to beat most teams.

Netscape went bankrupt so might not be the most solid idea for funding. Wasn’t opera paid before too, but abandoned that model?

Not sure how you read pride into this at all, the implication is that if they don’t know about it it’s not a choice, while at the same time acknowledging that perhaps I’m just out of the loop.

Did they really? I assume they would do more research than me when choosing tech, but my initial reaction is “the fuck is a Jami?”. Is this a big app in recent years?

The one good thing I could think of is that Firefox could come under new management. But then again, how that management will be funded I don’t know. Likely they will run in to the same problem as Mozilla.

Totally get it. I love my Garmin, but would prefer a classic dumb watch over a Galaxy Watch (which I had before) or any other that requires charging more than once every week and which I wouldn’t be comfortable with getting wet (even though they should handle it well).

Notifications are the main feature for me, I was never a heavy smart phone user and the notifications on my watch allow me to pay even less attention to my phone. In addition I can deal with deletion of unwanted emails immediately instead of doing them in bulk every few days like I would otherwise. Saves me a lot of stress, YMMV.

Lemmy has thunder?

Problem is that Trump is on the oil companies’ pay rolls. Unfortunately he’s subsidizing them instead of Tesla.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349650/trump-ev-tax-credit-tariff-congress

I should probably have put quotes around “selfhosting movement”, because I meant the term itself. Reason for asking is that if it doesn’t include shared instances, then it’s not a very big movement and most people will not really be able to join it.

That said I’m not trying to start a discussion on whether it’s good or bad, IMO it’s good and I self-host a lot of things for personal use myself. Just a thought I guess.

Does selfhosting movement include using non-commercial instances of apps like mastodon/lemmy/matrix etc?