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Just sharing my standard prompt to Mistral chat (in this example used to validate my continued use of Joplin for note taking and sharing across devices - works great for me). Hope someone finds it helpful in exercising a due diligence.

Can you research and summarize the background of software "Joplin" - ownership, applicable law, financials and potential controversies around?

In case the summary was calling for action, I'd ask for alternatives

Can you find free alternative solutions governed by EU law (any member) and available for Android, Windows and Linux

They've stopped sponsoring SF Pride, even though their "we're so inclusive" bits on their website are still up.

They own a LOT of brands, so check out the Wiki and avoid them like the plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27064382

Edit: original post has some corrections, as some translations are faulty.

Well, quite ambitioned for a one-man-show, also the chosen linux distro as base can be disputed.

The mark to be appealing to "typical public sector organisation[s]" is quite high, but in regards to the team (one man?) I'm remembered of elmenteryOS and how the two founders managed before splitting ways. They pulled it off for a while.

Wherever you login with gmail account, meta/facebook or microsoft account consider to switch to european email user.

Even you don't 'buy' a login big companies might collect timestamps and kind of accounts you are in.

You pay with your data and should consider to use european email identification as user on any platforms instead .

geteilt von: https://feddit.nl/post/30601987

Just here to shed some light on Bookwyrm.social, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I've been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other's review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm.social is the place to be. It's steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA's Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm.social yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That's where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They're not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I'm sure it's steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.

Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you've got any.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24846782

Summary

Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

Well the title says it already. Is it possible to source an ergonomic keyboard from the EU? After finding the tenth keyboard layout or music keyboard page I'm giving up searching and start asking.

I've found several EU resellers but not yet something really produced locally

Bonus points for split keyboard and being custom flashable (would love native neo2 support).

Thanks for any pointers!

Deutsche Version: https://www.heise.de/news/Industrie-fordert-EU-Kommission-zu-Buy-European-Initiative-auf-10318660.html

To recommend European alternatives is a good start, but we can accelerate the process by disrupting tech giants in multiple ways. This article offers a good list.

Since I’m a more of a tablet user, my daily devices are iPhone and iPad at the moment. I’m using Safari with AdGuard and private relay, but I was thinking of switching to Vivaldi. AFAIK the engine is practically the same and doing so I would also lose private relay and extensions support. I’ve already ditched other Apple apps and switched to EU services on almost everything (also not Apple related) What do you think? What do you use on iOS?

Hi all,

A few years ago (during COVID-19), I played around with a lot of meditation/yoga apps, and finally settled on "Down Dog". Now I wanted to get back into meditation, and almost renewed my down dog subscription, but then remembered that it is US-based.

So I was wondering if you have any suggestions regarding EU-based meditation apps? I searched for alternative on the sites set up for finding EU alternatives, but didn't see any suggestions (will add a few after hearing your inputs).

I have "Meditopia" and "7Mind" on my radar, but before committing to one of them, I wanted to hear about your experiences, and possibly other/better alternatives. In particular, I am looking for an option that allows me to set duration/type/theme flexibly, to use it in different conditions throughout the day.

“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale,” French president says.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30518068

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23996234

The rallying call to put European tech first — backed by companies including Airbus, Element, OVHCloud, Murena, Nextcloud, and Proton, to name a few — follows the shock of the Munich security conference, where U.S. Vice President JD Vance tore into Europe like an attack dog, leaving delegates in no doubt that the post-War international order is in tatters and all bets are off when it comes to what the U.S. might do under President Donald Trump.

Key tech infrastructure that’s owned and operated by U.S. companies doesn’t look like such a solid buy, from a European perspective, if a presidential executive order can be issued forcing U.S. firms to switch off service provision or terminate a supply chain at a pen stroke.

“Imagine Europe without internet search, email, or office software. It would mean the complete breakdown of our society. Sounds unrealistic? Well, something similar just happened to Ukraine,” Wolfgang Oels, COO of the Berlin-based, tree-planting search engine Ecosia — one signatory to the letter that was already taking steps aimed at reducing its dependency on U.S. Big Tech suppliers — tells TechCrunch.

Would be nice if signatures and edits are possible. Couldnt find one this morning

I'm looking everywhere* but small fridges tend to have an energy rating of E or lower. Has anyone. come across a brand that manufactures them?

• Amazon.de, darty.fr, mediamarkt.de, and locally here in Ireland.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7469

Edit: from the comments it looks like Gerband is way superior to Tesa and also from Germany.

Originally posted on Reddit

Hello,

I need to buy big mirrors (at least 65x150cm).

IKEA has two options that would satisfy my needs, Nissedal and Hovet but they are both produced in China.

I am well aware that IKEA is a European-owned company and that the current aims of this community are centered around ditching American products and brands but since the community is called BuyFromEU I thought maybe I could still give it a try.

So I would be happy about any recommendations on mirrors that are produced in the EU and are at least of these dimensions :D