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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27150675

The US, grappling with an egg shortage, is reaching out to Lithuania for egg exports after Finland declined. The situation has prompted ridicule online.

The short Story is, that they only mark the country of the company who sells the products and not the country of origin. So for wxamble, their own peanuts are marked with a star as they are based in EU as a company, but their peanuts can come from the US. Same gores with "California raisins" and other products what recieve the EU mark simply because the company who owns the brand are based in EU.

I am looking to buy Careless People from within EU. No local bookstores seem to have it (yet) but I would like to get it before it (maybe) gets pulled back. Any suggestions besides Amazon?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34810765

This is a Firefox fork from a Spanish group.

Pros

• privacy focused
• default search is their own Searx instance
• default integrated Oblivious http (toggle off)
• uses Next.dns (cannot be changed though, and I can't find documentation of the implementation)

Cons

• updates can be irregular
• they seem a bit opaque as to funding
• no about:config, if it's not in the settings you ain't getting it.
• may use Google Safebrowsing directly (instead of the Firefox version), it's very hard to tell
• the website is fucking garbage, stock photos/images on a lot of it, many links go to the same place

Other

• originally goes back to 2007, however it was sold in 2019 to the Astian Foundation. Then became a Firefox fork
• https://astian.org/
• Github for releases https://github.com/goastian/midori-android (also available from their site)

Seems to be a middle ground between Firefox and Ironfox on Android. I use it occasionally when it is up to date just to spread my browsing around. Obtanium reminded me today that there was an update.

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Vive l'Italie ! 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹

I have no affiliation with the service but I've been running Filen.io these past 2 years ever since switching away from my own Nextcloud instance. It's E2EE and been running really smoothly. Also cheap and sometimes they offer lifetime packages when their algorithm decides that they can do so (which I think is a good thing in order to not have it unsustainable for them).

My only complaint is that the Android app doesn't work half of the time, meaning you'd have to close it and re-open it 2-3 times to get it working. Otherwise it'll get stuck on the main loading screen. Seems to be a network issue with the app that's been posted on Github, but that hasn't been solved for a long time now.. Not a dealbreaker for me though.

Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

• Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.

• User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.

• Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there's massive potential.

• Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.

• Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

• Contribute to the Index:

  • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.

  • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.

• Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.

• Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.

• Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.

The source code for nginx is hosted in the US, BSD-licensed and has the american F5.com as the primary maintainer, sponsor, and steward of NGINX.

In 2022 some of the developers forked it into Angie, the code of which is hosted in the US as well.

In 2024 one of the lead developers forked nginx into freenginx due to F5's interference, bringing it more in line with its initial grassroots origin. They have a self-hosted Mercurial repo (and a mirror in the US) and the domain seems to be controlled by the lead developer.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/25123

Use Hetzner or OVH or any of these: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31374897

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While the fund is open to researchers of all nationalities, it appears to be a direct response to growing concerns among American scientists about the tightening restrictions on academic freedom under President Donald Trump. Researchers in the U.S. have raised alarms over increasing government censorship, political interference in fields like climate science and gender studies, and tighter controls on scientific communication. France has already launched a program to lure disillusioned American scientists, and the Netherlands now aims to follow suit.

[...]

Dutch universities have already expressed interest in recruiting American researchers. The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), which represents the country’s 14 public universities, confirmed they are exploring ways to bring in U.S. scientists. “It seems like a good idea to us,” a UNL spokesperson said, emphasizing that strengthening Dutch innovation is a priority. The universities also see it as a way to stand in solidarity with American academics facing restrictions.

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Specific request but I only just realised that it’s an amazon company. I use it to look up film data and ratings/reviews as well as track films I watched and those I want to watch in the future.

Alternatives I’ve seen are TMDB which looks nice, but that’s from the US too as far as I know and letterboxd which is from New Zealand but takes the data from TMDB anyways. Also I’m not looking to have my watchlists public.

Any recommendations?

does it taste similar to Mountain Dew? Tried it for the first time and thought, wow that tastes unique and maybe slightly similar to Mountain Dew? But really tasty :-)

Degoogle + BuyFromEU + Privacy: I'd like to share about my smartphone apps replacement journey:

WhatsApp -> Olvid

Gmail -> Mailo

Reddit -> Lemmy

Play store -> Aurora store (no account needed)

Google (browser and search engine) -> Qwant

Google maps -> Here Wego

Gboard -> Heliboard

All trails -> Komoot

ChatGPT -> LeChat

Any recommendation to replace the following?

• Google Drive,
• Google photo,
• Apple wallet (I'd like an alternative to pay with my phone)

The broadcaster currently operates two television channels (San Marino RTV and San Marino RTV Sport) and two radio stations (Radio San Marino and Radio San Marino Classic).

https://sanmarinortv.sm/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9507148

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1941363

Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'