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The content of that link sounds fine in terms of GDPR if one only uses the EU servers. Am I missing something?

What's that tablet looking device your using in the video and why is it not the lisperati? :) Also, are you done with Common Lisp and more into Clojure now?

You got the charges wrong. It's speculation on my part because it's kept secret, but all journalists in Denmark more or less agree that he is held for leaking information on the NSA partnership and two other stories involving the intelligence agencies (one about an agent being left in jail in Spain and one about a withheld security assesment of refugees held in camps in Syria). This is based on which journalists got interrogated and what stories they have brought to light

FTD = Frontotemporal demensia?

They are neither bribed or blackmailed, every danish government for the past 20 years have been informed about this agreement and has complied. It's absolutely a crime against the population (since innocent Danes are also being spied on). The reason the politicians are complying is that we are reliant on US for military support through Nato (which I guess you can call a bribe, of sorts)

It shouldn't. There's no political gain for any of the major parties. It also happens after several, relatively minor, cases of corruption and nepotism in the military and intelligence services (former high-ranking official just got 3months prison today). It stinks mostly of a corruption and several decades of lack of proper oversight

Ah, thanks for clearing that up, I was unaware. How is the traffic blocked by default? Firewall layer?

But, correct me if this has changed please, last i checked Cloud Run did not support private networks. So you SQL instance has to be exposed to the internet, correct?

Copenhagen has about the same salary ranges as quoted in the article. Taxes are a higher, but healthcare is free and foreigners can get 3years of 25% flat tax rate if you get a tech job (based purely on income, I think). Living costs are lower than Switzerland, I rent 100sqm for about 1900EUR. Good cheese is more readily available in Switzerland though

What's your evidence that train journeys have gotten more expensive in Norway due to this?

FWIW i am Danish and almost all of our public IT projects are done in .NET, almost always the reasoning is "more developers, more mainstream, less lock-in". Our IT projects are always hilariously belated and more expensive than budgeted. More often than not the same contractor (one of 5ish big corporations) keeps getting the same contracts from the same departments because they have pre-existing knowledge of the system they previously built (hint: this is lock-in). Now, the last part is changing somewhat due to EU tender rules, which I think Norway also abides by (they are not in EU, but are committed to complying with most EU laws)

Concluding that something is not a learned skill because it comes easy to some is illogical. Human upbringing consist of a lot of social interaction (at least when done right), it is only fair that some people actually get good at it.

Anyway, I should probably have disclaimed my first comment more loudly: it's anecdotal. For me smalltalk is absolutely a learned skill. I used to suck at it, now I can get by, and it took a lot of conscious effort on my part. YMMV

`For one I'm not really that interested in other people, and secondly I find it really boring`

I am totally with you on both points. The important thing to realize is that it is uninteresting and boring, but that is not the point. It is a skill like many others, if you want the benefits it brings, you have to learn it through practice and however else you normally learn skills

This is quite an elitist position to take. Why is it inhumane to find beauty in structures? Human society is riddled with structure

I have, evidently to too small a circle of people, described several non-FP coding styles and paradigms using aesthetic terms such as "ugly"

> where it doesn't seem like a tech issue per se,

Much of the privacy issues around "tech" companies revolves around the fact that they are advertising companies. That is the driving force behind them spying on users. But we do not group them as such

The remaining issues around "tech" companies usually revolve around their monopolistic nature, which is also an issue in other sectors.

I guess what I am barking at is that phrasing this as a battle against "tech" is a misnomer and might lead to unfortunate backlashes.

That being said, I am happy that Fru Vestager gets to soldier on, the fight itself is definitely valid. Now if we could just get our governments to stop spying on us we would be golden