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Happy Europe Day. “Come on, be brave, the European Spring is still ahead of us!” “...to become an area of active peace, to maintain a framework for sustainable development and to celebrate in a particular way our cultural diversity.”

The more I watch these videos, the more I know my next phone is a Fairphone. I discovered Fairphone because of /e/OS, as I was looking for something to de-Google and regain some privacy, but the more I hear about the other reasons, the more it makes sense. youtu.be/URfBhT0n888?...

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided a government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

You bought an Android phone because Google told you it was open. Google is now retroactively rewriting that deal on hardware you already own. After the update lands, you can only run software that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for. keepandroidopen.org/en/

Fairphone sales Q1 YoY 116% up! www.androidcentral.com/phones/smart... Keep Degoogling. It's the only way to break the monopolies. Government isn't going to do it.

‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near. Market share for eOS, graphene, LineageOS, UbuntuTouch, Sailfish, etc. needs to grow and be shipped on more phones as an option. www.techradar.com/phones/andro...

Europe is moving towards digital sovereignty. Payment providers, operating systems and software, and now banks. youtu.be/yU70qYau3gU?...

wololo #redbull #aoe2 It's started. www.youtube.com/live/F04zirn...

wsocial.eu/public/signup Not sure about the ID requirements. EU launching European social network.

office.eu Privacy focus Based on EU servers. All-in-One Office Suite, 100% European Office EU is a complete cloud-based office suite (like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) that is 100% European-owned and runs entirely on European infrastructure.

If governments and the EU had kept their Paris climate agreement promises to limit global heating to 1.5°C, we wouldn't be in this mess AND the global oil & gas trade would be less of a weapon of war AND people's energy bills would be lower It's time to stop fossil fuels and go 100% renewable

May is looking good. youtu.be/5515tJAJnXM?...

The Tech Ai bubble is about to burst. Cheap money for datacentres is about to disappear due to the Iran war. With no business models making money for AI, investors are going to be selling fast. #AIbubbleburst

Before, Big Tech algorithms decided what you saw. Now you can opt out of the 'personalised' feed or make it chronological! Ads must be transparent, and deceptive design is banned. All because of our Digital Services Act. Your digital life, your rules.

Just asking. Is there a way to block the annoying content that Amazon keeps adding between the advertising? You know, the 2 mins of films that they interrupt the advertising with. #AmazonPrime

King of the Desert 6 50k tourney. Age of Empires 2 AOEII www.twitch.tv/membtv

100K for a car that has headlights that fall out. Genius. Break things and innovate. It works, and you volunteer to pay for it. youtu.be/w497xXtv_os?...

oh, that'll be it. More than half of my use are Ads/trackers despite adblockers on browsers, degoogled, non-Google apps (open source) on phones. EU ad blocking DNS out of the Netherlands. running DuckDuckGo blocking on Mobile Pc via ghostry. I fund the ad Industry while blocking hard as hell.

Boomer rant: Why? I can turn on Bluetooth on my phone and wander around my house, my headphones still play YouTube and Audible, and my watch is still connected. PC is connected to a mesh6 network, I have 800mb connection, slow as fuck. hangs, waits for the latest ads.

why? I turn on Bluetooth on my phone, wander around my house, headphones still play YouTube & Audible, my watch is still connected. PC: connected to mesh6 network, 500mb connection, it's as slow as fuck. hangs & waits like a fucker to download the latest ads. Microsoft, get your act together.

How Google Makes Billions Off You (Europeans)—And How To Opt Out | Incognito Mode | WIRED youtu.be/rtoRk6QS3i4?...

Nextcloud signs Public Letter calling for EU Sovereign Tech Fund nextcloud.com/blog/nextclo...

Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure, Magnus Östberg, Chief Software Officer at Mercedes-Benz: “Open source accelerates innovation across the automotive industry. to maintain this infrastructure at scale, we need strong, public-private collaboration openforumeurope.org/ofe-launches...

Reddit is doing its thing. #atheism

Privacy First: Guaranteed DNS.SB believes that, without privacy, there is no human dignity. DNS.SB is designed with one goal in mind: to protect your personal DNS data, no logs, forever. We don’t want to know what you do on the Internet. #Privacy #BuyEU dns.sb

But why would you want to Degoogle ? Maybe.

Similar to Privacy pack. This site lets you easily pick from a range of apps that are EU based. Pick your own EU based apps or try out some alternatives with this easy-to-use site. europick.eu Start your de-USTech journey. You never know if you're gonna be DOge'd.

Pick your own apps or try out some alternatives with this easy-to-use site. privacypack.org Start your degoogling journey, unless you want to be a product all your life.

Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet. If you value privacy or you're just looking for a good Android keyboard. Check out FUTO. I've struggled with testing a few offline keyboards. This is now my daily driver. So far, I'm pretty happy with it. keyboard.futo.org

Some suggestions for a privacy pack.

European alternatives for some common software applications

I hear MasterCard have asked esports players and influencers to look out for negative posts. This one's for you #Mastercard youtu.be/auDgqzozcYA?...

Your Master has spoken. #steam #mastercard #gamedev

A humid evening by the harbour.

European alternatives to popular SaaS. seeking out local alternatives? below is a list of open-source software solutions that are based and developed in Europe. We hope you'll find it useful if you're looking for reliable and transparent solutions made locally. xwiki.com/en/Blog/Euro...

Schlep, a self-styled “predator hunter” who has over 767,000 YouTube subscribers, had all associated Roblox accounts terminated in the high-profile conflict with the company. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Roblox CEO called on to resign after sending cease and desist letter to online ‘predator hunter’ mashable.com/article/robl...

The virtual AI assistant with privacy in mind Accelerate your work with AI tools and assistants, without compromising data safety www.solidagent.io

Bunny Fonts is a EU-based font service designed to be a direct drop-in replacement for Google Fonts. offered for free by the (CDN) provider Bunny. Simply swap "https://fonts.bunny.net/css" in place of "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css" on your website's code to use Bunny Fonts. fonts.bunny.net

WeSendIt is a file-sharing service based in Switzerland. They don't require an email and have a transfer limit of 2 GB. say goodbye to wetransfer say hello to : www.wesendit.com

European Jamstack hosting. Statichost is a provider for static websites from Sweden. To deploy a website, you can just provide a Git repository (incl. a deployment key), and statichost will detect which static page builder you are using and build and deploy the site for you. www.statichost.eu

Le Chat is an AI assistant developed by Mistral AI from France. It provides comprehensive support in answering questions and providing information. Le Chat leverages modern AI technologies to deliver precise and helpful responses. EU AI. chat.mistral.ai/chat DeUS tech

Guaranteed Privacy Metager is a German metasearch that combines search results from other providers. It is a non-profit association, the source code is open, and the servers run on green electricity. Metager also advertises high privacy. Made in the EU. metager.org

DeUS teching? Qwant is a French search engine thats about privacy, by not storing or selling any data about you. They use the Bing search index mixed with their own; therefore aren't reliant on Google. www.qwant.com The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product. Made in the EU

DeUSTeching? www.ecosia.org Switch to a chromium browser with a heart. Ecosia is a search engine with a focus on sustainability. The company donates 80 percent of its surplus revenue, which it generates through advertising, to conservation projects. In addition, the servers are CO2 neutral.

SoundCloud is a music streaming service from Germany that allows users to listen to and share music over the internet. #eutech #germany SoundCloud provides an option to listen to and share music without relying on US-based services. soundcloud.com

Mullvad Browser is a private browser from Sweden. It is a fork of Firefox that enables advanced protection against tracking and was developed in cooperation with the TOR project folks. mullvad.net/en/browser #opensource #sweden #eu

DeUSTeching. Switch from google DNS to an EU alternative. It's really easy to do on PC and phone. DNS.SB is a public DNS resolver based in Germany, focusing on privacy (no logging) and security. This and other European DNS servers are here: european-alternatives.eu/category/pub...