A few orders aren’t enough for companies to invest in more capacity. They need assurances that their products will be bought for at least 10 years or so to even recoup the initial investment. Weapons factories are expensive and thus risky to build, but government guarantees can eliminate that risk.

Red tape? I thought it was spelled “independence” or “autonomy”.

Restating my assumptions…

How much power does this thing draw?

What I wanted to say is, even if they were to never again be competitive, they won’t get dropped by the governments. They are a strategic resource of the European Union.

It’s not a race. It’s a jobs program which provides thought essential services to the governments. Just that nowadays, what is considered essential has been expanded.

The way I perceive PRQL is somewhat like SQLAlchemy-Core (the SQL expression layer, not the ORM). Almost a 1:1 mapping to SQL but softening the rough edges in SQL when constructing more complex queries dynamically, in particular: no function calls, no real variables, only string concatenation. While SQLAlchemy-Core lets you even extract sub-queries into variables, I don’t know about how powerful PRQL is in this regard.

From what I see from the docs I’m rather hopeful though.

The one argument that even flies understand:

Switch light on outside of my room. -> Get out!

Because they want it. It’s the main reason why they’ve built the app.

Once federated with Meta, not only “valid Meta users” would join the network, but also bots which would nudge the users, influencing the narrative.

Do you have a link? I’d like to know that sorry story too.

It’s not cynicism if the other party has a track record of behaving in an anti-competitive manner. The Fediverse became a competitor once it showed non-negligible growth.

It’s not cynicism, it’s weariness.

I like to think they see the rapid growth as an opportunity to grab some Reddit refugees. I’m not sure they see the Fediverse as a viable threat YET. They could hedge it though and try to snuff it out while they still can.

Their idea is likely to eventually present themselves as the “better part of the network” and make migrating to their servers very easy.

This must be prevented at all costs.

We should bake it into the software (Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, etc.) as a first line of defense. If you want to federate, you’d have to fork the server first.