As of May 2023, 65% of the Ukrainian refugees that left Ukraine starting February 2022 and decided to stay in Poland found a job—so, within around a year, as opposed to 5-6 years as in the article. Cultural similarity here is likely making it much, much simpler. For those who want to read more about the situation of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, this report by Polish National Bank (Narodowy Bank Polski, NBP) might be useful: https://nbp.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Raport_Imigranci_EN.pdf (in English!), there is a lot of interesting details.
lemmy.ml is hosted in EU, and lemmynsfw.com uses CloudFlare, which operates in EU. Worst case, issue a GDPR request to both.
I do not have notes from that time anymore, sorry. I do recall though that after following a chain of citations I ended up at the paper in the center of this controversy. Nobody sane would cite in now except to point out its flaws, but if there's a modern paper that cites a 10 year old paper that cites a 30 year old paper that cites it—people usually won't notice.
From my experience, despite all the citogenesis described in other comments here, Wikipedia citations are still better vetted than in many, many scientific papers, let alone regular journalism :/ I recall spending days following citation links in already well-cited papers to basically debunk basic statements in the field.
Yep, it's EU. File transfer shouldn't be bad if your files are large, though it's best if you tested it first—it might depend on your ISP's peering and your prefered transfer protocols/tooling. Whether it's reputable for your purpose, you probably have to do your own research. Also, remember that the offer I mentioned would only be equivalent in durability to a single-box RAID5 for your purposes, so not exactly equivalent to Google's.
There's Jottacloud with unlimited storage for 10 EUR/month, but they gradually slow down after first 5 TB. 30 TB might be a bit too much. There's Hetzner with their dedicated 4×10TB machines for ~52 EUR, you could do RAID5 and have somewhat redundant 30 TB, at the cost of self-managing a dedicated machine. There are several providers doing regular S3 (which you can take advantage of with tools like rclone) with decent redundancy for 4-5 USD/TB + egress. For high-value data you should be probably spending more than 100 USD/month for 30TB in the cloud, or invest in actual hardware. Do you need hot access to this dataset, or is a cold storage archive enough?
I'm surprised federation isn't based on asymmetric cryptography. Let the public/private keys identify instances, as opposed to domains that risk being blocked by governments or bought by malicious third parties if the instance owner forgets to prolong it.
With that, implementing a change in domain names would be simple.
Last job, we started writing mixing bits of Kotlin in an otherwise mostly-Java in a monolithic Spring-based service. Good experience.
One reason (among many) is that employment in American companies is less stable than in Europe with strong employment laws. Twitter could not do the same type of layoffs in Europe, with stories like this one being pretty common. But this safety net has a cost, and the cost is a part of total employment cost for employers. Whether the safety net is worth it for employees in IT, that's another matter—but it can't not be taken into account because of the law.
BTW, in some European countries there is a strong culture of IT workers doing long-term contractor work exactly to trade off employment laws for (usually quite a lot) higher wage.
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