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All Europeans 🇪🇺

Do you wear US shoes? 👟

You can easily replace them with the ones produced by European shoe manufacturing companies such as Adidas 🇩🇪 and Puma 🇩🇪.

But did you know that both companies are German and were founded in the same city by the Dassler brothers, Adolf and Rudolf, who were actually enemies? 💣 To the point that, when they died, they were buried on opposite sides of the same cemetery. ⚰️

Their rivalry was so big that it divided the city and created a long-lasting animosity that touched the lives of all employees and inhabitants.

Check out the full story (with lots of photos):

businessinsider.com/how-puma-a

And for all you French and German speakers out there who are into ARTE programmes, there's an episode of Karambolage that explains the story:

🇫🇷 youtube.com/watch?v=kJI5nqj79R
🇩🇪 youtube.com/watch?v=nzOcFG7SQw

Business Insider · How Puma and Adidas' rivalry divided their founding town for 70 yearsBy Business Insider Deutschland
#Germany#BuyFromEU#boycottUSA
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All Europeans 🇪🇺

This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany

Docs is an web-based collaborative text editor that is the result of a joint effort led by the French 🇫🇷🥖 (DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).

It's a good alternative to popular services like Notion, Google Docs and Outline.

The platform offers real-time collaboration capabilities, a sleek minimalist interface, and all the essential features you could possibly need.

Best of all, Docs is open-source on GitHub and can be self-hosted, making it a viable option for local agencies and companies.

You can test Docs on your browser by visiting this page:

impress-preprod.beta.numerique

using the login:

email: test.docs@yopmail.com
password: I'd<3ToTestDocs

howtogeek.com/docs-alternative

You can also volunteer to help translating Docs to other languages here: crowdin.com/project/lasuite-do

An illustration of a baguette, a cheese and a pretzel with an object with the flag of the European Union
#europe#europeanalternatives#germany
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nuko147

2 Months old Post that i saw now: Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

lemm.ee/post/58774939

lemm.ee2 Months old Post that i saw now: Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party - lemm.eecross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24846782 [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.
#buyfromeu
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Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@bradlinder odd? No... Not at all... Just one more incident in a seemingly endless string of failures that goes to show once more the mindboggling incompetence and lack of quality control at Microsoft. How people are still defending them as a valid choice as a software vendor is beyond me. The only thing they haven't screwed up (yet) is Excel.

#Microsoft#enshittification#us
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Techsorcist

@ErikJonker @geopolitics I mostly agree with some caveats. It also serves as a platform for creating shared standards. I can certainly see the New West( #EU + #Canada + the rest) and Trump eventually making new standards but not for some time in meaningfull way.

One thing though: as much as it would be a catharsis to tell the Trump administration the truth it would be counter productive. At this time we just dont have a good situation. De-risking is taking place behind thr scènes, I have no doubt of that, but simply saying de-risking feom the #USA is a risk. ATM all the talk is simply delaying the moment we all know is coming. But talk is cheap so its 127% worth it.

Also #BuyFromEU off course

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All Europeans 🇪🇺

Here's a PDF explaining the #Eurostack initiative

What is Eurostack:

“EuroStack” is an umbrella term for a European tech infrastructure intended to create local capacity along the digital value chains which enable the provision of digital products and services – from chips to data to compute to connectivity.

The term originates as a catchy shorthand for “Investment in European Public Digital Infrastructure”, borrowing in part from the successful “India Stack” concept now popular across the world.

The objective is to reduce Europe’s current total dependency on non-European actors for service to European citizens, businesses, and institutions, to enhance security, create redundancy and resilience, improve opportunities for innovation and digital competitiveness while establishing European governance rules."

See the full report here:

euro-stackletter.eu/wp-content

cover of the pdf title: Eurostack: European strategic sovereign digital infrastructures subtitle: joining and building logical and physical infrastructures to secure Europe's role in competitive digital value chains. A pitch document. 10 January 2025
illustration of the eurostack in its different levels
#europe#europeanalternatives#BuyFromEU
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roland

#BuyFromEU - Alternativen für Microsoft-Produkte: Libre Office kann Office 365 ersetzen. Und: Kost nix - Open Source. In Verbindung mit zusätzlichem Onlinespeicher auf europäischen Servern eine echte und preiswertere Alternative. #Trump und seine Vasallen schauen dabei in die Röhre.

Fündig wird man unter anderem hier (einfach mal "Cloud" in die Suche eingeben.

goeuropean.org/

Go EuropeanGo European — Discover European products and servicesGo European is a community-driven directory bringing you European products and services from across the continent.
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Jan Heisinen

People of #Europe!
We must fight with #American social media. Not only because there are from the #USA which is no longer a reliable ally, but also because they made SUCH a massive monopoly in this aspect. We must propagate our #European #Fediverse. Spread the word! Don’t use their tech! Use what is ours and secure. Don’t sell data across the Atlantic
#EU #BuyFromEU #BuyFromEurope #Mastodon #PeerTube #Lemmy #Pixelfed #BoycottUSA #BoycottAmerica #BoycottUS #Trump #Tariffs #Musk #ViveLaEueope

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