Comment by einpoklum
19 hours ago
Your website seems to conflate "Europe" with the EU.
Can you clarify, here and on the website, whether the data remains:
* in _EU member state_ sovereign territory
* in _European states'_ sovereign territory
* on the contentinent of Europe
or some combination of the above?
I am specifically wondering about:
* Out-of-Europe territories of European states.
* UK, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia etc.
In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably.
I’m not sure many people would include Russia in Europe in normal speech, unless they were a geographer in which case Russia is partly “Europe” in some cases I think.
Even when the UK was part of the EU if someone in the UK said “Europe” they meant continental Europe and someone in continental Europe would be unlikely to mean the UK if they said Europe unless they were using “Europe” as a shorthand for the EU. When the UK was in the EU a United States American saying Europe would probably not not be including the UK in their mental model of Europe and, indeed [0], might not be very clear on what the UK actually is, because that’s confusing for the countries they agglomerate into “England” which might also include Ireland. A United States American saying “Europe” most likely means “Paris” and then maybe France, Italy, Spain or Greece but probably not Germany which is definitely the EU and everything that is wrong with the EU. But maybe Switzerland, because that very European.
As a European I’m not even sure where Serbia is, or if it’s even a real country [1]. I thought it was capital of Albania [2] . Or possibly a region of North Macedonia [3]
[0] only some of what I have said should be taken even part way seriously. Very little in fact
[1] Obviously being satirical here
[2,3] Also real countries, also European, but not necessarily “Europe” and definitely not EU. Yet.
> In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably.
In Europe some people generally and incorrectly use "Europe" and the EU interchangeably. Europe existed far before the EU and will continue to exist after the EU finally comes to an end.
> Europe existed far before the EU and will continue to exist after the EU finally comes to an end.
First clause: indisputable.
Second clause: maybe, maybe not. Europe hasn't always existed as a concept, and its longevity is unknown.
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I think you maybe missed my footnotes.
Even if you did/did not, vernacular evolves. So at the time that you fervently hope the EU comes to its (clearly deserved, Mr Putin) end, I imagine people will be able to adapt their wrong speak and clearly incorrect thinking to ensure they adhere to the newspeak.
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I’m sure many thought the same about the United States of America when it was founded.
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« As a European I’m » – So what country do you hail from? I understand it's not Serbia. Just so this wild nonsense and wannabe satire can have proper geographic attribution. (Because despite there being a strong indidivual factor, the systems governing some countries do breed certain mental dispositions.)
> In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably.
We do not.
OK! Your generalisation definitely beats mine.
> In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably.
I guess you don't wander out of your office in Brussels much.
Oh sweetheart. The real looney Eurocrats like us don’t even leave Strasbourg. Brussels is filthy.
The FAQ seems clear on this
> Where is my code actually hosted?
> On bare-metal servers that we operate in Scaleway's Paris datacenters
That could change at any time. They could move to an Italy datacenter owned by a different company and that would be just fine.
But whether they're making a promise to stay in the EU specifically? Or whether they might expand to territories that aren't physically in Europe? That could matter, and the FAQ doesn't tell us.
(And yeah the line at the top says 100% EU but that's not the full picture.)
I hope they also have a backup outside Paris.
From the website:
"Your repos never leave the EU"
That's clear enough I think.