I like the idea, and it has become more pressing that everyone outside the US think about tech sovereignty because the US has become an unsafe place to keep your data, but the impression I get from Apertus is that it moves at the speed of a committee. I have no expectation they'll deliver a competitive model. At least, not competitive with current models. Maybe competitive with models a year ago (though they haven't even done that yet, right?).

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nezuzen 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"the US has become an unsafe place to keep your data"

I empathize with this but curious what would make any other country a better safehaven for your data? I personally like the EU's approach to data safeguards, but are there other locales/data protections you have in mind that would keep your data "safe".

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jhancock 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

From a legal perspective the US may be safer than other places if the US is the one seeking your data. The US doesn't need legal process to authorize digging into your foreign server.

From a practical perspective, I'm not sure any servers are safe anywhere...depending on who may want your data.

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AndrewKemendo a minute ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No country is safe. You need to host your own end to end on your own infrastructure if you want to be free.

Stallman was correct in the 80s and is correct now about libre software

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MrDrMcCoy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Iceland and Switzerland are probably the best places to keep your data safe. I'd put Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands after that, though I don't have much specifics on how good they are at privacy these days.

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digitaltrees 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The rule of law exists in other countries in a way it does not in the US right now.

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SubiculumCode an hour ago | parent [-]

Can you give examples?

	▲	brandensilva an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Illegal tariffs, executive usurping congress power of the purse, Noem funding herself and others with a commercial from an unknown entity with tax payer money, people in ICE/FBI handing over undisclosed unaccounted money in brown bags, insider trading is rampant, using funds in appropriately to fly girlfriend places that isn't official business, illegally using private money to fund public projects, taking bribes from foreign nations like jets and such violating emulation clauses, passing no bid contracts to people you know, using the pardon power inappropriately to pardon crypto scammers and other white collar crimes, moving notorious Epstein related criminals to a low security prison without going through the courts, avoiding justice for sex crimes, using the DOJ as a political cudgel, and the list goes on.
	▲	sscaryterry an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wow, this is a bit obtuse. It is a commonly accepted "fact" right now, outside the US, that the US is not to be trusted (right now), due to some orange guy, and his mates, manipulating markets, running their mouths, doing all kinds of criminal and/or infantile shit. I'd say there is quite a bit of evidence for this all around.