Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would probably end the Internet faster than China can cut intercontinental cables. I’m here for it but the fallout would be positively insane.

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  • balssh@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From the ashes maybe a better internet will emerge then. The current one is very dogshit and only going worse.

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Where do I sign up for newgrounds 2.0?

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  • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are plenty of providers, this is a little reactionary. I’ve worked with a local data center for hosting in every state I’ve lived in.

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not about the providers, it’s about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let’s be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.

      And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.

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      • person1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you’d already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.

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      • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is why you give notice; this isn’t an overnight thing. If anything, this would help strengthen and decentralize hosting platforms while giving a huge amount of business to companies to help them migrate.

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d double my mortgage just to see microsoft365 crumble.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or they’ll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.

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      • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That entirely depends on who deeply they’ve locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it’d take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.

        Source: I’ve done it.

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course it would not.

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Put a tariff on the companies that was pro-Trump, and who was at his inauguration.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve switched to Hetzner and I’m super happy. Fuck DigitalOcean and their ever increasing prices.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m at Hetzner für 10-15 years now.

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