I've decided to make some significant changes in my digital life. I've taken the plunge and am rooting out most US-based services from my usage list. This includes canceling all my streaming subscriptions, putting my Reddit account in cold storage, and deleting my Twitter accounts. Additionally, I'm in the process of removing my presence from Meta platforms. This shift is part of my effort to simplify and re-evaluate my online habits and dependencies.
One of the primary reasons for this change is the importance of bolstering the EU economy. By supporting European companies and services, I believe we can foster innovation and growth within our own region. This not only strengthens our economic independence but also encourages the development of solutions tailored to our specific needs and values.
In my exploration of EU-based alternatives, I've found that while they may be slightly more expensive, they often offer superior technology and usability. The focus on quality, privacy, and user experience in many European products aligns with my personal values and expectations. By investing in these solutions, I'm not only supporting local businesses but also benefiting from advanced and reliable services.
This transition is about more than just personal preference; it's about contributing to a stronger, more self-sufficient European digital landscape. I'm excited to continue discovering and integrating more EU-based services into my daily life.
Despite the costs and effort needed to make this change, I would like to encourage and motivate everyone else considering doing the same. It will undoubtedly be tough for a while, but if we push forward together, it will be better for all of us in the end. Let's support each other in this journey towards a more independent and innovative digital future.
Supporting EU Innovation: My Shift Away from US Tech Giants
I've decided to make some significant changes in my digital life. I've taken the plunge and am rooting out most US-based services from my usage list. This includes canceling all my streaming subscriptions, putting my Reddit account in cold storage, and deleting my Twitter accounts. Additionally, I'm in the process of removing my presence from Meta platforms. This shift is part of my effort to simplify and re-evaluate my online habits and dependencies.
One of the primary reasons for this change is the importance of bolstering the EU economy. By supporting European companies and services, I believe we can foster innovation and growth within our own region. This not only strengthens our economic independence but also encourages the development of solutions tailored to our specific needs and values.
In my exploration of EU-based alternatives, I've found that while they may be slightly more expensive, they often offer superior technology and usability. The focus on quality, privacy, and user experience in many European products aligns with my personal values and expectations. By investing in these solutions, I'm not only supporting local businesses but also benefiting from advanced and reliable services.
This transition is about more than just personal preference; it's about contributing to a stronger, more self-sufficient European digital landscape. I'm excited to continue discovering and integrating more EU-based services into my daily life.
Despite the costs and effort needed to make this change, I would like to encourage and motivate everyone else considering doing the same. It will undoubtedly be tough for a while, but if we push forward together, it will be better for all of us in the end. Let's support each other in this journey towards a more independent and innovative digital future.
I've made similar changes....but I've stopped recommending these to people. Almost everything here takes plenty of knowhow and setup effort. Good to have a reference like this....but this is not for normies.
Also, Lemmy tends to shoot on sight at the mention of Brave. Lemmy hivemind is close to doing the same with Firefox.
I feel like there are quite a few normie-friendly alternatives out there... But generally speaking, I've gotta agree.
However, I do think we could take it upon ourselves to help! It might be hard to set up, but it's worth it. I say: keep recommending it, but make yourself more available to guide and aid people less knowledgeable than yourself.
My mission has been to get people to at least use a password manager like Bitwarden. I've been unsuccessful for years and am stuck recovering accounts for everyone. You have to understand just how little normies are willing to do.
I've managed to get my wife to use Bitwarden through brute force, i.e. when I recover any account for her I refuse to let he input a new password without putting it in her Bitwarden first. Only to find out when she changed device that she doesn't remember her Bitwarden password and only ever used the fingerprint on her phone.
My parents are the other people I provide tech support for. They'd rather just say they'll ask me to recover their account again rather than use Bitwarden. If I try to force them to use it I have to teach them how to use it again every time (which icon was it? What was my password for this? How do I input the account details you've got now?).
My wife and parents don't remember the password for their main google account on their android and gmail. Any time a password prompt comes up for anything they ask me "so should I put in my Google password here?" 🤦♂️
People at work have realised I'm "techsavy" and ask me stuff. They won't use Bitwarden either. They've all got pieces of paper on their desks with their passwords for secure work systems.
I've tried for a couple of years to get people to use one, and I could only get one person to use a password manger. So yeah. It is actually very surprisingly hard to get people to do something that is not only simple, but ignoring the security benefits, it will also improve the quality of their life and makes things easier.
it will also improve the quality of their life and makes things easier.
Will it? Now that is not true, I don't think. Using Google sign-in for everything is way easier, using the built-in Google password manager on Chrome and android is way easier. No?
I mean, even if you're using the same password everywhere (which I know some of these people aren't doing because they've forgotten their password for some accounts while not losing access to every single account they have), it's harder to actually sit and type out a password every single time. Using your default password manager, you don't really have to think or do anything, just tap once on the screen and maybe authenticate your biometrics, that's all.
We only shoot Brave on sight because there are a myriad of reasons why Brave (which is just another crappy chromium browser) is a very bad browser. I’ve given a few links just a week ago that goes into great detail on why it is a shitty browser run by a shady corpo. Let me know if you’d like to read them, and I’ll gladly share them here in an EDIT. 😀
Adopt a 100% Swiss Cloud with local support. Included: storage space, messaging, videoconferencing and everything you need to make your projects a reality.
Could you please tell me you went for myKsuite or ksuite pro? i found the offers quite similar and not sure about which one to choose. Thank you so much
Isn't Stremio just a torrent client with integrated videoplayer and search? Kind of odd suggesting it as an alternative to legit services. Might get some less knowledgable people bonked with fines.
I'm a huge advocate for switching to FOSS, but you're being disingenuous by portraying it as supporting the EU. You're boycotting US companies. I do the same for the benefit of privacy, frugality, and, honestly, fun. FOSS isn't for most people, though.
I have heard that Nextcloud is pretty buggy. Libre Office is a Microsoft Office replacement, which is mainly the function of Nextcloud.
Home Assistant has a pretty steep learning curve, but totally worth it in the end. The voice assistant software is still in its early stages, same with cellphone software.
I love that you're spreading awareness, but I wanted to warn others. There are many lists of FOSS alternatives out there!
because it is a centralized service from US company, registration requires phone numbers so it is easy to know from what country you are, the server is running in Amazon Web Services, etc, while ArcaneChat can be used with your own infrastructure, for total technological sovereignty
I'd trade US servers for a more secure, anonymous and trusted messenger a hundret times over.
Arcane has 100 stars on Github, the server has 3. Their code is not documented at all. They have like ten contributers. Metadata is not encrypted. They don't mention anywhere what they use for encryping your chats. I don't trust this one bit.
you don't need to trust, you can self-host your own server and read/modify the code, unlike in a centralized server where you don't even know what is actually running on the server, which is well know from the past to not match the actual released code for the case of Signal
They don’t mention anywhere what they use for encryping your chats
all this is documented inside the app in the offline help/FAQ that comes with it, the app is targeted to end users that don't know or care about such topics so it is avoided to talk too much about encryption up-front
Their code is not documented at all.
ArcaneChat is a fork of DeltaChat client, DeltaChat has been audited several times, you could also use the official Delta Chat client: delta.chat/
How can I move from WhatsApp to any other messaging app, if people I chat with don’t use any other app than WhatsApp? Serious question. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but it seems like impossible task.
We need some laws that make companies expose messaging apps APIs so that a third party open source app that talks to all the different messaging services can finally emerge.
It's been such a process for me. And then the double and triple checking that I won't lock myself out of something that I've connected to through Google or Apple.
I went through my google authenticator a few times just to make sure all the 2FA had been switched over to Proton.
In the last few weeks, I've deleted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Amazon, PayPal, Switch, Reddit, Prime, and iCloud.
Replaced my iPhone with Samsung and de-googled as much as possible. Using Aurora store and 3rd party apps for all the basics. Proton for email, password manager, VPN, etc. Qwant/Vivaldi browsers and search, Here We Go maps.
I replaced pretty much all streaming services with a Plex/Overseer server. Today is the day I delete my Apple account. Goodbye Tim Apple!
I still have my Google account for YouTube access. I'm not sure yet how I can replace it. I noticed that a lot of channels are available in video format on Spotify now, but maybe only like 30% of the stuff I watch.
My plan is to do the easy stuff to warm up and then try to attack the stuff I'm spending actual money on. The biggies for me will be android and anything my wife has shared interest in such as Sky (aka Comcast). I'm in a long contract with them so time to work on her.
I moved my pension by coincidence from a US money manager to a UK platform, and am totally out of US stocks where it was all in US tech half a year back.
I do still need to sell my iShares and move over to BMO.
I also deleted my account with Microsoft and Nvidia, so that's Gamepass and GeForce out the window. Boosteroid is an EU alternative cloud gaming platform, which I believe is available in Canada. The only issue I have is that the available games all seem to require Steam. If it's not available on PSN, Nintendo, GoG, or physically; I'm not buying it.
I feel like I might have made a mistake moving from iPhone to Samsung/Android. I went with the Samsung Flip 6, and I'm not sure if I can switch OS. I have turned off and replaced all Google services, but i believe they are still lurking in the background. I'm not sure what else I can do.
I would love to know if there's an alternative to Mastercard or Visa.
Never used Vivaldi before, how is it? I mainly use Brave on mobile and Firefox on desktop because it automatically blocks YouTube ads and I can watch videos PIP. That's the only reason I haven't made the switch yet.
Former die hard Brave user (both mobile and desktop), switched to Vivaldi, took some 10min. to set everything up (look/feel, ad blocking etc.), never felt anything is missing ever since. Vivaldi is built on Chromium, so it's very similar.
I would suggest MX as a European alternative Linux distro for winblows users looking for a more beginner friendly distro, but I checked on Distrowatch and it says the origin is Greece and USA.
There are plenty of European Linux distros, and this sort of thing always inevitably boils down to which distro is the OP's personal favourite. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, but it can blow the discussion somewhat off course!
Ubuntu itself is European/British, and SUSE/openSUSE is a notable major player of the Linux world. Then there's Manjaro, Zorin, Tuxedo, Solus, Feren, Mageia, and I'm sure dozens besides.
Again with this Brave bullshit. It's a chromium browser made by company whose whole business is to sell ad spaces and crypto scam. It's like the worst of all the worlds, it's like quitting smoking because you started injecting heroin.
@jnfrd @evildeig @TobiWanKenobi @wackJackle @joaocosta I've heart this argument a few years ago and i still agree: luckily no big national state (or federation of states) is actually materially capable of waging world war. The problem this time around, though, is that leaders might not go to some bunker to kill themselves when things are lost and the time comes (this is how authoritarianism often ends) but have the ability to push some nuclear buttons.
Please, don't use that money to buy American weapons: don't gives the bully what he ask for! We have enough European Arms Company to reArm while staying independent! A strong Europe is an Europe that stand against bullies!
Europe is ready to continue fueling the war in Ukraine (..and all its consequences - both national and worldwide) in the place of USA, the inflation of each member country's economy that will affect most people and let us not forget, each country's government dept.
Det er godt vi står sammen i Europa, nu vi fandt ud af, at der er 2 agressive samarbejdspartnere som Rusland og USA, der åbenlyst ønsker at gøre Europa fortræd. Nu må jeg som dansker håbe, at Danmark fjerner de sidste “forbehold” så vi kan blive et fuldgyldigt medlem af unionen.
you fucking cock suckers! We are in this mess because of you! Since 2016 you had 8 years to prepare and did nothing. Now you talk but EU words mean jack shit.
Now we are talking the right numbers! Russia has always proven to become our enemy, no matter how good we treat it. Now that USA is looking elsewhere, even at times aligning with it, we can’t count on US to support our interests any longer. We must put the big boy pants on, or be tricked by Russia again, and again.
time to act and not to talk. Just do it ! Time to wake up. Not sure if too late after more then 20 years of implanted fake News, and other tactics from a country from East … Let’s go! United we are more stronger.
EUCommission you're going to start getting capacity built up now?
Or you've seen what has been happening in USA for many years and have already taken the reasonable steps needed to step up and immediately supply UKR with the necessary arms when US military aid stops?
These are very different things. One reeks of weakness, incompetence and inadequacy.
The other shows responsibility, stability, reliability and intelligence.
es momento de que Europa, a través del liderazgo de la Comisión (y no de Macron o Starmer), tome decisiones que fortalezcan la UE. Si nos es ahora ¿cuándo liderareis? Si no lo hacéis, seremos insignificantes, rodeados de euroescépticos con todo el derecho a serlo. --- It is time for Europe, through the leadership of the Commission (and not Macron or Starmer), to take decisions that will strengthen the EU. If not now, when will you lead? If you don't do it now, we will be insignificant, surrounded by Eurosceptics who have every right to be so.
As someone arrested at a campus protest last spring, I have major qualms with how the Biden administration handled campus dissent. But it was nothing compared to what we are in for now.
Our reaction to this statement will help decide if Trump's regeime is able to consolidate power to form the strong-man dictatorship he envisions. Our reaction should be to protest in force across every campus while wearing MASKS.
RFK is now calling woke a moral failing, labeling dissent in colleges, just any dissent, as a moral failing.
By the way, he also calls mental illness, depression, black kids and trans morally deficient and they’re all supposed to go to labor camps to fix that..
The man is uniquely unqualified at every level to be the head of the agency is now in charge of.
Not only are his ideas crazy lies, he has profited from misinformation from the conspiracies directly.
Everything about him is over the boundary legitimizing concentration camps. The United States has already a carceral nation, with more people in prison as a percentage than China.
It's time for lots of mass protests nationwide. Flood the zone with demonstrations to the point where even the dumbest major media organizations can't ignore them any longer.
Administrators should issue explicit permits for the protests and. (If the school authorized it it isn't illegal, right?) Keep it peaceful, folks, but fill the streets and quads.
Off-campus protests should be held as well, especially where administrators won't permit on-campus gatherings.
Maybe we need a quantity purchase of Guy Fawkes masks...
@dan613 @electricarchaeo True. But they are only legal until defined otherwise. That's the challenge of relying on legality, especially as governments move toward authoritarianism.
I can't make it, but some faculty I know are headed your way in a few weeks. Feel free to pass this info on if it hasn't already corculated through your spheres of inflence!
Masks everywhere. It will be a lot easier to argue that masks aren't just for "committing crimes" (exercising the right to protest) if people are also wearing them to grocery stores, the pharmacy, doctors offices, work or school, town halls, etc.
I've already personally confronted an agitator trying to stoke violence at a priest this year. Not only does Trump want violence, his supporters are actively working to make it violent.
It is our job to deescalate. Be pressure to tone down the retoric even, or especially, when you are in the right. Be prepared to take a shove without pushing back.
I could imagine that in France, masses would be out in the streets, all masked. In Germany, grandmas would crochet or knit masks for every Republican governor and the whole government. Imagine Trump flooded with pink Pussy Masks!
30 years ago protesters on Silicon Valley campuses were not allowed to have signs opposing George Bush. But people put their signs away 30 years ago and didn't think much of it. I did though. I thought a lot about it. What would've happened had people refused to put their signs away? Would they have been shot? Arrested? Kicked out of school? The fascism has been here for a long time. We've all just been too polite to look at it
So just as an FYI, due to world events and w/e I have set my follows to approval required. So like... if you try to follow and I do not approve it is prob bc I can't verify you're a real live person interested in social.
How long before Universities and schools realize you can't take the same funds away twice, and there's no point even trying to follow his ever more ridiculous demands?
If people only wear masks at protests, they inadvertently bolster the right's argument for mask bans.
People should wear masks everywhere, so those of us who are high risk and have been forced out of society can navigate essential doctor appointments and shopping more safely. This normalizes masks and helps push back against attempts to ban them (and basically reinstate ugly laws against disabled people).
Edit: organizers cancelled the event in fear of low turnout on short notice. Pivoting to other action.
UC Denver, along with our sister schools on the shared Auaria campus, are having a MASKerade on Monday to protest Trump's attack on our constitutional rights.
This is the time to stand up, all across the nation. We can still prevent the worst of what #Project2025 has promised us.
I hope other schools voice their concerns alongside us, and that folks in the Denver area join us Monday 3/10.
Let me see if I understand this. Were you personally arrested directly by "the Biden administration", or under colour of federal law? That seems unlikely.
The administration is free to express their opinion and suggest doctrine, but rarely has legal power to directly enforce either. It's typically individual schools, under state and local law.
In the same way, the White House can bloviate all they want, but claiming authority does not grant it.
2/ I'm not saying that no such thing could happen. Indeed, there's not really anything I'd put past this administration TRYING. I just hope people understand that with rare exception, this is not a federal power, even if it might be abused.
Also, most people hopefully know that this administration is very commonly full of shit.
3/ All that said, I might suggest an old Wobbly tactic, of deliberately inciting mass arrest, because that's a burden on law enforcement, who will quickly tire of it.
This administration talks big, but they're mostly just gas. This is mostly just posturing on their part.
@wesdym I really like that idea you just have everybody clamor towards local police station, saying arrest us arrest us. Please arrest us. We demand to be arrested disobey disobeying.
Warning, travelers! A certain rogue nation, openly contemptuous of international law, has begun randomly snatching up visitors with legitimate passports and visas and confining them incommunicado in detention camps. No legal process applies.
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
I’m gonna keep hollering that this isn’t a little bit new for US immigration until I’m confident that people won’t believe the problem is fixed should a dem administration get back in office
@simrob Stop your hollering. Of course “the problem,” if you define it broadly enough, isn’t new. But only a fool can be oblivious to the differences between Dems and Trumpists on immigration and on racism.
I promise you that you are 100% only hearing about this German woman because she’s white. she’s done as much wrong as half the people who Trump has disappeared to Guantanamo, which is to say basically nothing. The fact that we’re talking about one of these things today is gross.
*snip* “After nine days, she says she started freaking out and punching the walls,” Lofving said. “There was blood everywhere.”
This is vacation in America now. It'd be a great time to kill Disney and ehatever else we got by staying the fuck away and safe in any other nation that isn't one big roach trap.
When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.
“CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said.”
This is absurd. They are also holding her past the time of her return flight (mid-February).
uhh ... clearly just one example from one source but as someone who's flown to the US multiple times over the last few years that's a little frightening to read
Our family Trumper has moved from Florida to Ireland, so I personally don't need to go anywhere near the US ever, for which I am duly grateful. Past visits were also not very enticing anyway. It's notable that a Trumper would rather live in the EU than in Florida.
So, if some halfwit worries that maybe you are thinking of violating some rule of civil law, possibly, in the future, somehow, then it's okay to throw you in prison without an attorney and with no chance to contact your family or friends? And to start billing American taxpayers at an exorbitant rate for your confinement ?
Is this different in any significant way from Russia and Iran grabbing innocent foreign visitors to use them as currency for "diplomatic exchanges"?
Maybe Los Angeles should sue for all the money they are investing in the Olympics since only a handful of americans will be able to safely attend. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
The answer to "...Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,” she..." Is in the same article. Its a private corp running a for profit prison.
This was a possibility for a very long time. People used to tell me I'm bonkers paraniod when I told them that this is one of the chief reasons why I don' travle to the US. I was always told that this all theoretical and would never happent to random people. I hate when I'm right in ghe end 😔
It's almost like Trump has been berating his immigration minions about having too few arrests/deportations (despite already hunting children, hard-working community members, and refugees). What do you do when you've got to raise the numbers? You find a way to raise the numbers.
Expect to hear more stories of tourists and American citizens get dragged into private detention centers. Groups like CoreCivic are only too happy to accommodate.
The ugly thing is they’re claiming she was coming in to the U.S. to do work, which would be a violation of her visit under the Visa Waiver Program. The assumption by the CBP official is that she was going to (not had, not did, but will and intends to) violate the terms of the VWP is wild to me. That’s way beyond reasonable assumption, by anyone. And she’s from a friendly country, and can’t even speak with the consulate?
The story gets more horrible the more you think about it.
@jb it’s strongly tied to how she responded to the border agent “interview” questions.
And they do actively try to trick people to answer that they will work in the US - which is not allowed - as opposed to e.g. attending business meetings, which are fine under most visitor visas. Even if attending those meetings is effectively part of one’s job elsewhere, you should never call it “work”, the magic word of trouble.
I can imagine very similar tactic against artists.
@vriesk My understanding is she had a tattoo gun, and inks, with her at the border crossing. The government’s argument is those are proof she was intending to violate her visa, as she works as a tattoo artist.
Which, frankly, is a bullshit argument by CBP/ICE. That’s claiming mens rea, while not allowing someone their own defense, or for that matter allowing them to commit the visa violation.
@jb @vriesk I think the point is that she was thrown into solitary confinement with no process of any kind. Even if she had been caught red-handed violating her visa, that's not acceptable. (Reminder that Elon Musk violated his, for a considerable time.) Does Germany imprison Americans who violate their visa rules?
We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face. Or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those
@joaocosta @jnfrd Have you lived under a rock for the last 15+ years and haven't seen what the EU commission normally stands for in all this time but suddenly there's money? Second: It's the EU commission, they have no power to give 820 billion euros to the military industrial complex so what the fuck is she talking about?
Sorry guys, you lost me there. Why is unlocking funds and loans to urgently investing in defence a bad thing when the US has turned soviet and the russians are at our gate armed to their teeth?
@meliante @joaocosta @jnfrd @wackJackle I guess some people want Eastern Europe back under Russia's influence. We could try asking Russia nicely to stop, but I don't think they'll listen.
@Lazarou @meliante @joaocosta @wackJackle it may have occurred to you that Putin did not manage to invade Ukraine, a single country that is not part of the Nato.
But he managed to sabotage nearly every western county, eg by sponsoring the AFD. I’m not afraid of his army of tanks. More of his army of trolls and the inertial of the eu to fight that.
I see. Perhaps we have different ways of pushing the agenda we want to see. The EU has failed on climate action, social investment, divesting from russian fuels, Troika corruption, etc but did one right thing today, and that makes me want to support them in that one right decision. Otherwise it sounds like you don't support investing in defence, when you actually do but also want investment in all those other things. Up to you, of course. 🏳️
In Italy we say "Anche l'orologio guasto segna l'ora giusta due vole al giorno" "Even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day". EU institutions are the broken one. EU will cut welfare expenditures and stop climate programs to subsidize war industry and automotive industries who partially convert to military. This is simply unaccettable and anti-democratic.
@jnfrd @joaocosta @Lazarou @meliante @wackJackle Exactly. The Italian media aligned with NATO and the EU have been misinforming in recent days by presenting a report with data from the IISS ‘The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ in which it was said that the EU spends far less on military defence than Russia and therefore much more needs to be spent. But one of Italy's leading universities conducted an analysis reporting the true and certified data, refuting... 1/2
La spesa europea per la difesa eccede quella russa del 58% nel 2024 (56% considerando solo UE e altri membri NATO in Europa e 19% considerando la sola UE).
@joaocosta @jnfrd Because it contradicts everything they did over the last 15+ years. For some reason they seem to think the climate catastrophe or poverty don't need this. Furthermore it's the EU Commission which cannot do this. Please elaborate where this unlocking of funds and loans should happen?
What did the EU Commission as part of the famous Troika do in Greece? Don't you all remember? They can go fuck themself all day long!
If the US continues down this path, and continues aligning with Russia over the coming months, there needs to be a serious conversation about the security risks that are US bases.
I never thought I would agree to such a plan. But considering the agressive moves of Russia and the US, there is no other way to stand our ground. Such a waste, instead we should concentrate on climate action.
Also don't overlook infrastructure either. Especially here in Germany our bridges and roads are breaking down. And railway isn't looking good either. That's the ideal conditions for becoming a bottleneck for moving military equipment through Europe.
Also there should be significant punishments for any politician that is pocketing money, especially in these times. I don't know how such actions could be seen anything but as sabotage or treason.
El presidente de Estados Unidos ha pronunciado este viernes en la ciudad suiza de Davos uno de sus discursos más anticipados hasta la fecha. El mandatario que...
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Ukraine 🇺🇦 ✌️ urgently needs ammunition to expel and destroy the Russian invaders.
EUROPE MUST RESPOND TO THIS NOW, AS OF TODAY!
(before tonight's heinous speech by America's #1 crook, aka Agent Orange)
#StandWithUkraine #Fight…
ah, ben il y en a de l'argent finalement... Bizarrement, ce qui est problématique pour l'égalité, la solidarité devient un non-problème quand il s'agit d'armement.
if you do not do that, you just said "i am corrupt and actually don't care about anyone but myself" aka "i will print a lot of #money to finance my friend's #war #business but #security is not my goal" = more useless senseless #death + #destruction
thanks all idiots involved... especially everyone who sabotaged the #peace talks in #ukraine #istanbul #borisjohnson was that you?
Please, introduce European sovereignty criteria ! 🙏 For example, let’s start by developing a European 🇪🇺 and not an Israeli 🇮🇱 ground-to-air defence...
Don't buy weapons in the USA. Our own weapons first. Don't whine that it can't be done, that mantra is worn out. Start today. The Danes have already taken an old ammunition factory out of mothballs. There will be more of these locations in Europe that have been closed for profit. Switch the industry to war production.
Why did that take an egomanin narsist in the most powerful position of the world to come to that conclusion? What made us rely on a massive dependency on the USA? Still don't get it!
You cannot prepare for dangers both domestic and abroad when you're allowing hostile foreign nations to man army bases within your borders or do nothing against their agents infiltrating and taking over local governments. More must be done, and post-haste.
War is NEVER the right way. Someone must stop Trump and Putin. The entire planet will go to hell because of the monetary whims of powerful and greedy governments. Fuck Wars!!!
Don't forget to think about digital sovereignty. If the US stops being an ally of the EU, then no European governments should be dependent on US operating systems, clouds or data leaks. It is high time for better protection of European infrastructure, data and rights.
And please don't forget Apple, Thiel, MS365 and the various kill switches in tractors, airplanes and other devices.
If the USA goes down this path, it will be just as untrustworthy as China, for example.
Watch what happens to your funding for healthcare, education, housing, etc. once you start shoveling money down the maw of the military-industrial complex.
We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face. Or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those
Simplistic. I'm not a fan of China but China can offer EU whatever they needs and much more than USA. Russia is a puppet of China: without commerce with China, Russia runs to default. China has raw and critical materials, energy, technological advantage in AI, renewables, and many other sectors, and a huge market. A strong EU-China commercial partnership could support european industry and push EU technology and AI, in defence sector also.
Whatever Russia would do against EU, China will stop it: EU market is a rich market of 450 mln people. EU public opinion is tired of USA bully and two-faced hegemony. It's time to take critical decisions: abandon USA e turn towards China, India. Russia won't be a menace.
@grad Russia ist the biggest danger for Europe. Look at Ukraine. China is doing nothing to stop Russia. I think China would feel quite comfortable with Russia ruling over Europe.
It is a good start 💪 Let us also help protect #Ukraine 🇺🇦 against expansionist plans of Putler. It is now more important than ever since #USA is declining any support for this country defending itself against aggression.
The times are especially dangerous for Europe because the EU is led by war-mongering lunatics that reject even the possibility of peace and negotiations.
So you buy all the armement in USA, don't you? Are you sure that there is nothing in there which could disable it all by a push of a button? I would consider US material the same way what you did with Huawai because of China.
Don’t forget we must get rid of #bigtech asap. Make the #euro the replacement of the #dollar as 2 currency. Disinvest in #usa treasury bonds and banks. Ban #us #army from #europe. Don’t support #usa military action in foreign countries by using #eu airports. Invest in the middle east and #africa.
the only thing the EU has to do now is declare EU competition law mandatory for all defense-investments. Then soon, all military will finally work with Swedish AK-5s, Italian Berettas, French fighter-jets and Dutch missile defense systems and the EU will be saved.
But no, of course the local employment is much more important for politicians than giving the militairy the best the EU has to offer.
as far as the spending is to develop our own stack of war tech (AI, cyber, drones swarms,...) and not buy US F35 and tech weapons/defense from thiel's friends (anduril, palantir, epirus, spacex,...) which eu soldiers cannot be sure it will work as expected on the battlefield against EU enemies and not betray them (position, decryption of sensitive coms,..). And making sure that western Europe has sufficient defenses in case war reaches its countries (not giving everything to external parties even friendly today like ukraine, keeping sufficient weapons and our production lines for ourselves) with an eye to protect western Europe and eastern Europe. Also focusing on low cost drones/robots with gamified interfaces similar to war videogames the young ones know already how to use and training AIs on these interfaces.
I know this will be a brutally unpopular opinion, but i feel we as people have to see tax increases in the eye... euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03…
Borrowing has been high and causes all kinds of troubles and risk, I fear stagflation the most. We should work our way out of this now, not later. We, the people, have to understand this. Politicians will follow.
The EU Commission has unveiled plans to borrow €150 billion to fund a major rearmament push. This joint borrowing proposal comes in the form of loans rather than grants—an idea largely rejected by so-called 'frugal' countries such as Germany and the …
Dear George, that's a fine and funny note on the #Trump figure. But what do the Americans do about the human #Trump? Nearly everybody on this planet can see that he's aa traitor to the Nation who not only dismantles the democracy but also does everything alone for his own personal advantage.
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I see the exclusion as a form of censorship. Would it not be better to secure it? In a sort of cage. ( Would give the impression of jail - but what's wrong about that)
No, George. You deal with them by removing them from power, by any & all means available. No holds barred. Venting on his likeness doesn't hurt him even a little. It just prompts him to up his authoritarian game further. You know how they feel about gays. How much longer until you are branded & eventually disposed of? Your fame wont save you when that time comes. Neither will your money.
You need weapons. This is make-work for the people losing everything. Nazis cannot be stopped with words, complaints, sneers, jokes, or any other utterance from our mouths. History teaches the only way to stop them is with force.
Where are the leaders? Cowering? Saying mean words? Adjusting their reading glasses while the Nazis steal Social Security?
We need a million gun march on Washington, and we need it now!
Nati da riti agricoli arcaici, queste festività romane finirono per includere una serie di scambi di doni, occasioni conviviali, e inversioni di ruoli, tali da diventare una delle celebrazioni più popolari del calendario, e sicuramente la più lieta.
I Saturnali erano una festa romana di lunga durata dedicata a Saturno, divinità agricola, che si tenevano ogni anno tra il 17 e il 23 dicembre, durante il solstizio d'inverno. Nati da riti agricoli...
Ecco una descrizione dell'immagine: Il logo mostra un quadrato rosso scuro contenente un simbolo stilizzato bianco, seguito dalle parole "WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA" in corsivo, e in piccolo sotto, "in italiano".
La strategia di Israele tra violazioni del diritto internazionale e guerra totale in Medio Oriente | World Politics Blog
"Israele è colpevole di gravi violazioni del diritto internazionale nella sua espansione delle ostilità in Medio Oriente, coinvolgendo le forze di pace delle Nazioni Unite e mettendo ulteriormente a repentaglio la stabilità regionale, con il coinvolgimento di altre potenze come l’Iran."
Una legge del ventennio, un giro di vite. Perché nei romanzi non possiamo più citare altre opere. Un contributo di Loredana Lipperini
"uniamoci, scrittrici e scrittori, editrici e editori, e chiediamo pubblicamente la revisione di quell’articolo. Due paroline in più, che dicano che la narrativa aiuta la musica, o il cinema, o la letteratura stessa, e non li affossa. E basta con le parafrasi, che sono orribili, e inutili"
What's Going On è l'undicesimo album in studio del cantante soul americano Marvin Gaye. È stato pubblicato il 21 maggio 1971 dall'etichetta sussidiaria della Motown Records Tamla... Leggi e ascolta...
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I've made similar changes....but I've stopped recommending these to people. Almost everything here takes plenty of knowhow and setup effort. Good to have a reference like this....but this is not for normies.
Also, Lemmy tends to shoot on sight at the mention of Brave. Lemmy hivemind is close to doing the same with Firefox.
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in reply to cRazi_man • • •I feel like there are quite a few normie-friendly alternatives out there... But generally speaking, I've gotta agree.
However, I do think we could take it upon ourselves to help! It might be hard to set up, but it's worth it. I say: keep recommending it, but make yourself more available to guide and aid people less knowledgeable than yourself.
If you're willing, of course.
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in reply to gon [he] • • •They could learn......but they won't.
I've managed to get my wife to use Bitwarden through brute force, i.e. when I recover any account for her I refuse to let he input a new password without putting it in her Bitwarden first. Only to find out when she changed device that she doesn't remember her Bitwarden password and only ever used the fingerprint on her phone.
My parents are the other people I provide tech support for. They'd rather just say they'll ask me to recover their account again rather than use Bitwarden. If I try to force them to use it I have to teach them how to use it again every time (which icon was it? What was my password for this? How do I input the account details you've got now?).
My wife and parents don't remember the password for their main google account on their android and gmail. Any time a password prompt comes up for anything they ask me "so should I put in my Google password here?" 🤦♂️
People at work have realised I'm "techsavy" and ask me stuff. They won't use Bitwarden either. They've all got pieces of paper on their desks with their passwords for secure work systems.
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in reply to gon [he] • • •gon [he]
in reply to DrainedOctagon • • •Will it? Now that is not true, I don't think. Using Google sign-in for everything is way easier, using the built-in Google password manager on Chrome and android is way easier. No?
DrainedOctagon
in reply to gon [he] • • •Using your default password manager, you don't really have to think or do anything, just tap once on the screen and maybe authenticate your biometrics, that's all.
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in reply to cRazi_man • • •And for good reason.
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in reply to cRazi_man • • •AnonomousWolf
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I've switched away from google to infomaniak.com/en/ksuite
1.91 Euro/m for 1 Terabyte of storage, and it's hosted and operated from Switzerland
kSuite – The ethical and secure collaborative solution
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •kauraaaa
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Kind of odd suggesting it as an alternative to legit services. Might get some less knowledgable people bonked with fines.
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I'm a huge advocate for switching to FOSS, but you're being disingenuous by portraying it as supporting the EU. You're boycotting US companies. I do the same for the benefit of privacy, frugality, and, honestly, fun. FOSS isn't for most people, though.
I have heard that Nextcloud is pretty buggy. Libre Office is a Microsoft Office replacement, which is mainly the function of Nextcloud.
Home Assistant has a pretty steep learning curve, but totally worth it in the end. The voice assistant software is still in its early stages, same with cellphone software.
I love that you're spreading awareness, but I wanted to warn others. There are many lists of FOSS alternatives out there!
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •ArcaneChat
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in reply to adbenitez • • •I'd trade US servers for a more secure, anonymous and trusted messenger a hundret times over.
Arcane has 100 stars on Github, the server has 3. Their code is not documented at all. They have like ten contributers. Metadata is not encrypted. They don't mention anywhere what they use for encryping your chats. I don't trust this one bit.
adbenitez
in reply to doodledup • • •you don't need to trust, you can self-host your own server and read/modify the code, unlike in a centralized server where you don't even know what is actually running on the server, which is well know from the past to not match the actual released code for the case of Signal
all this is documented inside the app in the offline help/FAQ that comes with it, the app is targeted to end users that don't know or care about such topics so it is avoided to talk too much about encryption up-front
ArcaneChat is a fork of DeltaChat client, DeltaChat has been audited several times, you could also use the official Delta Chat client: delta.chat/
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in reply to fluckx • • •Hirom
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •BlueSky is US-based and not really decentralised. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesk…
Prefer Mastodon and other fediverse services.
American social networking service
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in reply to Hirom • • •Bluesky = fedivapour?
"We're going to be federated one of these days, honest."
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Serious question.
I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but it seems like impossible task.
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I'm a slower burn, deciding to move one account at a time to limit the fatigue.
Today was reddit as I noticed it was still my default to open that before Lemmy
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in reply to NotJohnSmith • • •sloppychops
in reply to NotJohnSmith • • •It's been such a process for me. And then the double and triple checking that I won't lock myself out of something that I've connected to through Google or Apple.
I went through my google authenticator a few times just to make sure all the 2FA had been switched over to Proton.
In the last few weeks, I've deleted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Amazon, PayPal, Switch, Reddit, Prime, and iCloud.
Replaced my iPhone with Samsung and de-googled as much as possible. Using Aurora store and 3rd party apps for all the basics. Proton for email, password manager, VPN, etc. Qwant/Vivaldi browsers and search, Here We Go maps.
I replaced pretty much all streaming services with a Plex/Overseer server. Today is the day I delete my Apple account. Goodbye Tim Apple!
I still have my Google account for YouTube access. I'm not sure yet how I can replace it. I noticed that a lot of channels are available in video format on Spotify now, but maybe only like 30% of the stuff I watch.
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in reply to sloppychops • • •Wow, you're smashing it.
My plan is to do the easy stuff to warm up and then try to attack the stuff I'm spending actual money on. The biggies for me will be android and anything my wife has shared interest in such as Sky (aka Comcast). I'm in a long contract with them so time to work on her.
I moved my pension by coincidence from a US money manager to a UK platform, and am totally out of US stocks where it was all in US tech half a year back.
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in reply to NotJohnSmith • • •I do still need to sell my iShares and move over to BMO.
I also deleted my account with Microsoft and Nvidia, so that's Gamepass and GeForce out the window. Boosteroid is an EU alternative cloud gaming platform, which I believe is available in Canada. The only issue I have is that the available games all seem to require Steam. If it's not available on PSN, Nintendo, GoG, or physically; I'm not buying it.
I feel like I might have made a mistake moving from iPhone to Samsung/Android. I went with the Samsung Flip 6, and I'm not sure if I can switch OS. I have turned off and replaced all Google services, but i believe they are still lurking in the background. I'm not sure what else I can do.
I would love to know if there's an alternative to Mastercard or Visa.
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in reply to Dizzy Devil Ducky • • •There are plenty of European Linux distros, and this sort of thing always inevitably boils down to which distro is the OP's personal favourite. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, but it can blow the discussion somewhat off course!
Ubuntu itself is European/British, and SUSE/openSUSE is a notable major player of the Linux world. Then there's Manjaro, Zorin, Tuxedo, Solus, Feren, Mageia, and I'm sure dozens besides.
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •It's a chromium browser made by company whose whole business is to sell ad spaces and crypto scam.
It's like the worst of all the worlds, it's like quitting smoking because you started injecting heroin.
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