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Paolo Amoroso

☝️ Please welcome @pixelunion on Mastodon!

The Google Photos alternative PixelUnion, a hosted Immich solution based in Europe, made good on another of their promises to address the issues I pointed out in my feedback. They added an RSS feed to their blog and now joined Mastodon. They're also planning a guide for migrating from Google Photos as I also suggested.

Feedback to Big Tech platforms is slightly less effective.

oldbytes.space/@amoroso/114437

OldBytes Space - MastodonPaolo Amoroso (@amoroso@oldbytes.space)PixelUnion is a brilliant Google Photos alternative: a hosted Immich solution based in Europe. Love the name. But there's no Google Photos import tool (seriously?) and I emailed them asking to please provide such an option. I also recommended that they join Mastodon and add an RSS feed to their blog (seriously?). https://pixelunion.eu #GooglePhotos #immich #EuropeanAlternatives
#GooglePhotos#immich#EuropeanAlternatives
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Petra van Cronenburg

@alper_yeg That's because not everything must be made by the state. 😉 Search for #EuropeanAlternatives or follow @european_alternatives to get more European stuff before you cry about a shame.

We have two browsers made in Europe, @Vivaldi (Norway) and Mullvad (Sweden): european-alternatives.eu/categ Mullvad VPN which can be combined with the browser is also on Mastodon @mullvadnet

@sco_tty

European AlternativesEuropean web browsers | European AlternativesA web browser, also called internet browser, is an application that allows users to access the World Wide Web.
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Eric Maugendre

Cloud migration converts universities “from being a source of technical innovation and knowledge distribution to consumers of services”—a fundamental shift that undermines academic independence and transforms knowledge-producing institutions into service-consuming clients.

@C__CS writes on tensions between public interest and tech: techpolicy.press/clouds-over-p 🧵

Tech Policy Press · Clouds Over Public Infrastructure: Rethinking Internet Governance in the Hyperscaler Era | TechPolicy.PressDutch resistance to Amazon Web Services storage highlights global risks of hyperscaler cloud dominance, writes Dr. Corinne Cath.
#computing#EuroStack#BuyEuropean
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Gabor Hrasko

It’s been a month since I began my transition from big tech systems – marked by this banner on my Facebook account: “I’m more and more elsewhere…”

Now building on Mastodon, Threema, Pixelfed etc. See my new blog & initiative for context: techtonicshift.vivaldi.net

Any advice for me and my fellow followers from Facebook on how to effectively rebuild initial networks here (or across the Fediverse) is very welcome!

My good-bye Facebook banner
#EDAI#DigitalSovereignty#EuropeanAlternatives
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SHIFTPHONES

#BuyEurope and Made in China - how do they go together?

You can find the answer in our new blog post:
shift.eco/en/german-smartphone

At a time when national interests often take precedence over common solutions and dialog is replaced by power games, many of us feel a strong need:
➡️ For stability.
➡️ For reliability.
➡️ For responsibility - also regionally.

#shift#shifthappens#shiftphone
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SHIFTPHONES

#BuyEurope und Made in China – wie passt das zusammen?

Die Antwort findet ihr in unserem neuen Blogbeitrag: shift.eco/shift-deutscher-smar

In einer Zeit, in der nationale Interessen oft über gemeinsame Lösungen gestellt werden und Dialog durch Machtspiele ersetzt wird, wächst in vielen von uns ein starkes Bedürfnis:
➡️ Nach Stabilität.
➡️ Nach Verlässlichkeit.
➡️ Nach Verantwortung – auch regional.

#shift#shifthappens#shiftphone
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All Europeans 🇪🇺

The Open Web Index (OWI) 🇪🇺 is a European-based initiative designed to foster a competitive digital infrastructure that aligns with European values and promotes independence from US-centered search engines.

This project is a significant step towards ensuring digital sovereignty and stimulate innovation within the European digital landscape.

It aims to provide an open alternative to proprietary search indexes, thereby reducing the over-reliance on a few dominant vendors that currently control the search engine market. 🔍

By doing so, it seeks to democratize access to information and ensure that the digital ecosystem remains diverse, competitive, and aligned with European standards and regulations.

The initiative is structured around several key steps, as illustrated in the image below. By visiting the page and clicking on the image, you can read more about each step associated with each phase:

openwebsearch.eu/the-project/s

See updated statistics on their index: dashboard.ows.eu/owler/our_dat

Follow them on Mastodon: @openwebsearcheu

the workflow of the open search web project: The image provides a detailed overview of the Open Web Index (OWI) initiative, illustrating the process of index generation, search applications, and data products. Index Generation 1. Selecting Web Resources: Web pages are navigated, prioritized, and collected for analysis. 2. Storing Web Documents: Multiple gatherers collect web documents and store them in web archives on a European server. 3. Content Extraction: The content of web documents, such as words and images, is extracted. 4. Metadata Extraction: Metadata, including publisher, author, and date, is extracted from the web documents. 5. Content Analysis: Features of web documents are extracted, such as topic, language, quality, genre, legal constraints, and ethical aspects. 6. Index Building: All extracted data from web documents are stored in a specialized database, known as the webindex. 7. Index Deployment: The index is deployed in its full version at European data centers or sliced into smaller portions for specific purposes and made available for download. Search Applications Selecting Web Documents: Web documents that fit the user search request are selected. Ranking Web Documents: The selected web documents are sorted (ranked) according to their assumed relevance for the user. Purpose-Specific Search: An application with a user interface enables the search for general or specific purposes. (...)
#SearchEngine#OWI#EuropeanAlternatives
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All Europeans 🇪🇺

A long and interesting interview (1h17m) with the CEO of Mistral AI 🇫🇷, Arthur Mensch, conducted by Franco-British journalist and YouTuber Hugo Travers (HugoDécrypte), is now available on YouTube (and on other platforms).

The discussion covers several topics related to artificial intelligence, including

- The potential impact of AI on jobs
- Personal and business applications of AI
- Human error in AI systems
- Political and media aspects of AI
- The Open Source Model
- Mistral AI's competitive landscape
- Europe's progress in AI and soveignity
- Augmenting human knowledge with AI
- Risks and energy consumption of AI
- etc

The interview is in French, but you can always activate the automatic translation in your language :)

There were many interesting points, but we are especially interested in the audit that Carbone4 did for Mistral, but unfortunately we couldn't find anything online. As Carbone4 has some credibility in the market, being founded by Jean-Marc Jancovici, an expert in energy and climate issues, we're curious to know the results. (if someone knows, let us know!)

youtube.com/watch?v=XvM20KSFYo
#mistral #ai #EuropeanAlternatives

Interviewer Hugo is sitting at a table with the CEO of Mistral AI. Cups and snacks are on the table. In the background is an illuminated bookshelf and a mural of post-it notes.
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