Buy European

Just a quick reminder to those looking for web services alternatives based in EU - there's a quite an easy way of self-hosting it all by yourself and remain fairly independent of any 3rd party decisions to monetize, move or shut down services, or use your private data:

• The cheapest EU & Co based Virtual Private Server (VPS). Could cost you up to 5 bob/month.
• Linux OS of your choice (I'd personally recommend Debian since CentOS is now gone and its alternatives for servers are not well established yet). Free.
• ISPConfig hosting control panel. Free and somewhere EU based as I understand it. I've been using it on and off for about 15 years.
• Your own domain name. Try to avoid *.zip one for your email server... Let's say that will set you back by up to 20 bob/year.
• A step by step tutorial on how to set it all up. Encryption, spam filter, antivirus, email fetching and webmail all come free!
• (Optional) You probably will need to ask your VPS provider to open certain email ports for you.

That's it - you have your own little hosting set up, which you can use for your websites as well! And whatever else more advanced you may want to try in the future! Add a couple of your friends and relatives with their own domain names into it - and you may even be in profit!

recable is handmade for you in Merseburg. We only produce what is in demand to avoid electrical waste. We source all individual parts from within a 500 km radius - with the exception of the plugs. Our CO₂ footprint is about half that of standard USB cables. You can read more about this here.

https://en.recable.eu/pages/recable-usb-ladekabel-nachhaltigkeit

https://www.recable.it/pages/co2-bilanz

For self-hosting: https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager?tab=readme-ov-file

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27791056

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday.

The European Commission determined last year that Elon Musk's social network violated the Digital Services Act. Regulators are now in the process of determining what punishment to impose.

"The penalties are set to include a fine and demands for product changes," the NYT report said, attributing the information to "four people with knowledge of the plans." The penalty is expected to be issued this summer and would be the first one under the new EU law.

"European authorities have been weighing how large a fine to issue X as they consider the risks of further antagonizing [President] Trump amid wider trans-Atlantic disputes over trade, tariffs and the war in Ukraine," the NYT report said. "The fine could surpass $1 billion, one person said, as regulators seek to make an example of X to deter other companies from violating the law, the Digital Services Act."

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842754

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842702

Germany is financing Ukraine's access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.

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For those who don’t know the service, Made O'Meter is an experimental app from Denmark that's completely free and ad-free, created to support Europe, Canada, and friend nations around the world. Using the power of AI, the app estimates where products are made. While it's not always spot-on, it's a great way to get a better idea of a product's origins.

The last version was delivering wrong information about the origin of certain products, then it was put on hold by its creators, who apparently solved the issue with this new version.

Saw this e-OS on French24 vid. Developer claims open source OS for smartphones. No privacy data transfer to Google or Apple, but privacy protection and a smooth experience. There was a 4 month cloudservice disruption, which has been fixed. Also, you can use other cloudsservices ofc, as it's open.

Anyone good experience with this OS

What should other nations do? My strong recommendation to Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union is to join together to create a free trade zone that excludes the United States, imposing at least a 10 percent tariff on all imports from America.

They should also threaten to limit American banks’ access to their public stock markets, put limits on what their citizens can invest in American companies annually, and increase taxes and regulations on American digital platforms.

They will be tempted to negotiate and do so individually. They should not. They need to negotiate from a position of strength. A non-U.S. free trade union will give them that strength.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2009546

use your voice

If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.

EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.

It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.

You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.

Here are the supported languages:

• bg български
• cs čeština
• da dansk
• de Deutsch
• el Ελληνικά
• en English
• es español
• et eesti
• fi suomi
• fr français
• ga Gaeilge
• hr hrvatski
• hu Magyar
• it Italiano
• lt lietuvių kalba
• lv latviešu valoda
• mt Malti
• nl Nederlands
• pl polski
• pt Português
• ro română
• sk slovenčina
• sl slovenščina
• sv svenska

Hi guys, as the title says, I’m looking for electrican tools (multimeters, clamp meters, voltage testers) made in the EU or owned by a european company. Thank you in advance. 😬🫡

Edit: Thank you guys for the replies! Now comes the hard part. To decide 😂 I appreciate everyone’s input.

Let's hope it brings some people here!

Also, for some reason I couldn't post the duplicate (they had already crossposted the previous post a month ago), hence the Red dit:

Linux hardware, notebooks, computers and more. Individually manufactured in Germany, fully Linux-compatible, Windows too, of course

They're on the fediverse too! @tuxedocomputers