Maybe in your place, but it's the exact opposite in the EU. Some publications are calling gas car sales in the EU a "historical collapse" (in French: https://www.sports-cars.fr/art... ). Meanwhile EV sales have seen +48.9% in Europe in March, taking the market share from 18.8% last year to over 20% in 2026Q1 ( in French: https://www.ev-magazine.fr/art... ), and are now forecasted to reach 27% by the end of this year (in French: https://www.borne-electrique.f... ). Several Chinese models among the most sold, forcing all car makers into lower prices, such that there is no significant premium anymore.

This is not question they're trying to address. The origin of the code does not matter, you can can fork it, audit it, and you can hire thousands of people to work on it. For example HarmonyOS is a Chinese OS and it does not matter if it depends (or used to depend) on Android. The important question is loyalty. Those who can access sensitive data and those who can disrupt the operations (engineers, managers, executives alike) should not be submitted to the laws of foreign governments.

Where do you buy stuff? Last year I got an external SSD Sandisk 2TB (SDSSDE30-2T00-G26) for ~160-180 € (I forgot the exact value) from a physical retailer. It's now 209.90 € from my retailer, and 207.69 € from Amazon.

I don't mean to interrupt your discussion with the OP, just to reply on one detail.

One can define "nazi" as "someone who agrees with the proposal in Mein Kampf". Then a degree of Jew-hating is involved. But this does not have to be the only definition for a nazi. The same way we don't define anymore the political Left and Right by the seating order at the French National Assembly from 1789, or Liberalism by "someone who agrees with Adam Smith". We use updated criteria that fit today's society.

Historical Nazis hated Jews, but also hated other minorities present in Germany in the 1920s. They sought to exterminate the Disabled already in 1924, a decade before conceiving the same idea about Jews. They also committed genocide against the Romani (Gypsies). They did focus on Jews, I believe, because Jews represented the largest of their targeted minorities.

I think that if Nazism would be born for first time today, it's possible it would not focus on Jews, because Jews aren't much a topic of national importance in today's Germany. Because the minority du jour in Germany is Muslims and Refugees, a new Nazism would seek persecution of those.

Their broader definition has to do with race superiority, brutal hate for minorities, and seeking purifying a country (through genocide) from people of different races, religions, cultures.

(I don't have an opinion and am not trying to imply anything about Elon.)

Alright, I concede you that point. I did not really want to take a stance on whether the government should/should not be afraid. My point is that since this stance was very sensible two centuries ago, and independently of its value as a concept, is simply inapplicable today. You're fooling yourself if you believe "government should be afraid" argument has any *practical* relevance.

Governments have tens of thousands of staff, hundreds of billions in budget, and designed to be prepared to any adverse eventuality, including enemy tanks in the streets and atomic bombs flying over. There is no scenario where an individual stands a chance.

Today, any individual identified as a danger is routinely circled with a hundred officers, helicopters, dogs. A well-equipped, well-trained, motivated individual might make the decision to hit as many officers / officials as possible before being inevitably taken down, but that's still never going to be a danger for the government as a whole. Any success in murdering an important target will just result in large increase of a the security budget or stricter practices, making sure the same scenario can't happen again.

Tell me, how successful are armed Americans at beating SWAT units sent to get them? You probably share the typical American view that "the government should be afraid of the people". It might have worked a century or two in the past, when outlaws were playing level with the Sheriff. Right now, personal gun ownership in the context of a rebellion equates to suicide by police.

The argument is interesting, but I don't find it compelling. We understand that technological progress often stems from conflicts and other dramatic situations; but we don't celebrate the evil-doers at their origin. Think of WWII, we don't credit Hitler for advancing the Jew agenda by kickstarting Israel, or for starting a half-century "for the better" because of various technological advances obtained during and soon after WWII.

The issues is, obviously, the minority of resellers unwilling to abide by rules. Even if you complain, and AliExpress removes the account, another is created next day. It's a whack-a-mole problem.

The online reseller is also located abroad. When you buy stuff on Amazon, the seller can be in China. You're the only one in a Western country, with Jeff Bezos.

The case I am referring to is that arbitrary resellers, for example Chinese residents, put products on Amazon/Temu, to ship to your country. The manufacturers are have no control over that.

You can't go after the manufacturers because 1) they're outside of your jurisdiction, 2) their products are likely legal in half of the world (e.g. Asia/Africa). The problem occurs because foreign sellers register these products on platforms e.g. Amazon or Temu, and accept to ship to countries where they are not legal. What you can do is regulate Amazon so they are liable for their products. Of course it's also very difficult politically.

https://copy.fail/#mitigation

Correct, but the translation by The Register leaves open the possibility two sentences would add up, which is not implied by the original in French (and does not happen in French law). Being part of the same crime and judged simultaneously, only one sentence of the same nature will be applied. Reference: L132-2, L132-3 CP https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr... Regarding the penalty of 7 years for each of the two offences: L323-1 subpar. 2 CP and L323-3 subpar. 2 CP https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr...

Specifically, the maximum penalty for a minor is HALF what an adult would face (or 20 years in case an adult would face a life sentence). Reference: L121-5 CJPM https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr...

2.7% unemployment is in the range of severe labour shortage. (Full employment is considered when unemployment rate is about 4-5%.)

The question is loyalty. Ubuntu is assembled by 650 staffers who do not have to obey direct orders from the US administration (for example orders to introduce new backdoors in the binaries), spend their time reviewing the latest kernel patches for any hint of sabotage, report their findings openly to the world, and fix whatever is broken in their supply chain.