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If you are on Linkedin and think of verifying your account, you may wish to read this first.

TL;DR:

• There are 17 companies that receive your data if you want Linkedin's blue checkmark, 16 sit in the US and 1 in Canada, none is in the EU
• In addition to your name, selfie, passport photo, Linkedin collects things like your NFC data chip, IP address, device type, MAC address, browser, OS version, location (based in the IP
• Linkedin also tracks whether you pause during the process, and whether you paste information instead of typing it
• They cross-reference you data consumer credit agencies, mobile phone provider, utility companies, ...
• Based on 'legitimate interest' (not consent), Linkedin forwards your data to train bots (Anthropic, OpenAI, Groqcloud)

Some more interesting stuff. The linked article also provides steps you can take if you are already a 'verified' Linkedin user.

Just stumbled upon https://european-alternatives.cloud/en.

The site is online since 10 February and thus far from offering a large number of alternatives, but seems interesting.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

https://slimbook.com/en/

https://starlabs.systems/

Something that will chop vegetables for soup. Ideally something high quality, so I don't need to replace it for a long time

It's quite an impressive little app. Under the hood, it's an advanced XMPP client that has:

• Excellent text chats with file upload support, including solid optional encryption (OMEMO, based on Signal's encryption but modified to be compatible with federation)
• Group voice/video calls with screensharing (must use a chromium based browser to screenshare an app's audio at the moment)
• A neat integrated blogging feature for communities & individuals
• a fun built-in paint program to draw stuff into the chat
• Full working and proven federation thanks to the XMPP back-end, which allows it to scale up reliably and easily self-host (XMPP is very lightweight).
• Uses the AGPL license, ensuring that cropos won't be able to take it over. It'll be community-owned forever.

In message-mode, it looks fairly similar to Discord:

If you're curious if it'd work as a Discord replacement, it's still missing Discord-like servers with collections of rooms in them, as well as drop-in voice rooms. However, the developer is actively working on implementing those features, with the server w/rooms part likely to be implemented within the next few weeks. They already posted what it looks like in the development branch:

To stay updated on its progress, the !xmpp@slrpnk.net community pretty reliably posts news about it.

fun fact but we just trashed the possibility to use @netbird #netbird in some part of our company in addition to our own VPN

Why ?

This "european" company run on AWS, so we trashed them without even reading what they propose.

#europe #whasing #euwashing #fake #fakeeu @buyeuropean@feddit.uk @buyeuropean@mastodon.social

Money is leaving the US

Spliit: https://spliit.app/

Project GitHub to selfhost it: https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit?tab=readme-ov-file

The age checks countries are trying to add will just send all the data to the US.

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I was wondering which european companies would you recommend for high quality jeans and/or summer long pants? I'm especially interested in relaxed-fit pants.

Pe: I already have a pair of MUD jeans and i absolutely love them

Buy more European - also Movies!

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The free world is fed up with unhinged threats from the U.S. — and strikes back.

In previously unreported remarks, the U.S. administration warned Brussels that it will retaliate if Europeans “strong-arm American companies out of the market.”

We report critically on Europe’s dependence on Big Tech – yet our own platform still relies heavily on U.S. systems. It’s time to change that. Together with De Correspondent, we’re phasing out U.S. technology and will document every step of the journey.

I noticed Lidl Pay today, but it only supports Visa/MasterCard, at least in my country.

My banks don't support WERO yet, but I was wondering if there are any technical impediments to using WERO as a payment method in Lidl Pay.

If not, it seems like an easy win to push Lidl into WERO.

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CryptPad client revenues and paying accounts grew 50% in 2025. That's just one European product/service provider among many, but it is interesting and encouraging to see it grow.

Hi folks, just wanted to share my experience and strategy with transitioning away from US-based digital services. As you can see, the blog is on GitHub, so it's not about perfection. Happy to chat in the comments!

AsteroidOS is an open-source operating system for smartwatches.