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Ok so you agree that there is a need to make laws here in Europe about it and subject any supplier to them regardless of where their HQ is located? No need to answer that 😅

Accountable based on what laws? The real issue is that these things are perfectly legal regardless of who does it and that there is also almost no way to hold a supplier accountable for software security breaches (besides the fact that it is too late then anyways).

It also further links to another issue about individually blocking users and communities. Apparently that is quite inefficient in the current version, so maybe that adds to your problem?

What you can try is to clear your browser cache for the main domain. In the past there was a bug in Lemmy that caused Firefox based browsers to accumulate many gigabytes of cache data and that slowed down the loading of the page significantly. In the latest version there are some fixes for this and it shouldn't effect app usage, but I suspect this problem still persists to some extend.

Aside from general issues others have mentioned, our instance (slrpnk.net) is seeing some especially high database load in the last couple of days and I also noticed the subscribed page to be even slower than usual. I tried to figure out what it causing it, but so far there is no clear smoking gun, but I suspect some AI scrapers found a way to target the Lemmy API directly so our current scraper protections for the webinterface are inadequate.

What I don't quite get is how the Chinese owners can block the export now, even though the Dutch intervention was specifically to prevent them from being able to do that, no? The mass-media articles I have read so far on this also seem confused. Anyone got a clearer idea on this? Did the Dutch intervention just come too late or is there some legal technicality?

I don't see how that makes a big difference. As the Polish example clearly shows, the laws right now are inadequate to deal with this and it took 3rd party hackers to reverse-engineer it after the company extorted significant amounts of money from the operator to re-enable the trains. And the icing on the cake is that now these hackers are in court, not the company.

And from an IT security perspective, it doesn't matter much to an attacker if the remote operated backdoor to shut down these busses is put there by a Chinese or European company (which would likely be using Chinese tech for that anyways).

Online updates and remote diagnostics are usually an advertised feature and might even have been a selling argument as it appears to save costs in maintenance... until the Polish vendor turns off their trains because the operator dared to try to repair them themselves (yes that is not a "Chinese" problem).

Repost from 2 days ago.

There have been such attempts, like Nextbox for example. But afaik they have been all commercial failures, IMHO because basically anyone that cares enough about this stuff can build their own for a much lower price, and those that don't...

Indeed, Postgres 18 introduced some breaking changes and AFAIK Lemmy isn't compatible with them yet. This will probably be fixed in the next release.

The same or at least similar increase in real estate prices has happened in non-EU countries around the world, and the primary beneficiaries are the local upper-class not the foreign investors. It is a complex topic, and EU regulation does play a role in it, but overall I would say that the EU isn't the primary driver behind this.