Notices by All Europeans 🇪🇺 (ueeu@social.vivaldi.net)

Trump orders a 100% tariff on foreign movies 🎥

Should we boycott US movies too? 😉

Please share 3 European films that you liked and think others might like too!

We will start with 3 films that we have seen more than once:

- Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain 🇫🇷
- Goodbye Lenin 🇩🇪
- Volver 🇪🇸

Your turn! 😀

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/media/movies-tariff-trump
#EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #cinema

Browser Market Share Report for March 2025 by Cloudfare

Most used browsers by country on desktop:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q1
#browser #firefox #safari #microsoft #chrome

Boycott American products or products made in the USA?

Élodie Lapierre argues in this article that we should not boycott USA products made in France, only imported ones, because they employ more than 180,000 people in France. (even more in Europe)

According to her, American products and services keep France working:

in the food industry:

- McDonald's employs more than 78,000 people directly and 28,000 farmers who supply nearly 1,600 restaurants across FR
- Burger King has more than 25,000 employees
- KFC employs 15,000 people
- Coca-Cola has five production plants and 2,500 employees.
- PepsiCo France, owner of brands such as Alvalle, Tropicana, Lipton Ice Tea, 7 Up, Pepsi, Bénénuts, Quaker, Lay's and Doritos, has four factories and 700 employees
- The Kraft Heinz group (Capri-Sun, Weight Watchers, Heinz) employs more than 200 people

In tech,
- Amazon: 22,000 employees
- IBM: more than 3,100 employees
- Microsoft: 2,100
- Dell Technologies: 1,900
- Google: 1,300
- META: nearly 250 people

In hygiene and personal care products:
- Procter & Gamble: more than 2,000 employees and 3 sites.
- Johnson & Johnson: 1,600 employees, 3 production sites
- Henkel: 900 employees, 2 factories (Le Chat, Schwarzkopf, Maison Verte, Loctite etc.)

Do you agree? 🤔

https://www.marques-de-france.fr/magazine/appel-au-boycott-des-produits-americains-ou-des-produits-made-in-usa
#boycottUSA #boycottUS #BuyFromEU

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:

https://impress-preprod.beta.numerique.gouv.fr/

using the login:

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

https://www.howtogeek.com/docs-alternative-google-docs-notion-france-germany/

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

#europe #europeanalternatives #germany #france #opensource #BuyFromEU

Many of you are ready to take that first step and start using Linux, but you're feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the distributions out there?

The great news is that although there is only one Windows, there are hundreds of Linux distributions to suit all different personalities and hardware! 🐧 :kde: : :fedora: :linux: :opensuse:

Which one will suit you best? Try this test and share your results! 😀
(available in many languages)

https://distrochooser.de/

Edit: follow the project on Mastodon => @distrochooser

#linux #opensource

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):

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-puma-and-adidas-rivalry-divided-their-founding-town-for-70-years-2018-10

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:

🇫🇷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJI5nqj79Rk
🇩🇪 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOcFG7SQwk

#Germany #BuyFromEU #boycottUSA #europeanalternatives #adidas #puma

They are also spamming on X. Actually they want people to engage with the profiles so they can train their AI.

And we don't know who is behind it, they want to remain anonymous. 🤔

More info:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/06/if-you-can-make-this-ai-bot-fall-in-love-you-could-win-thousands-of-dollars/

Want to see some toxic AI bots on Mastodon? Try clicking here: #SpaceX

Or take a look at this instance: https://social.freysa.ai . ☠️

Hundreds (or thousands) of recently created accounts posting AI text and interacting with each other.

Feel free to block the entire instance by simply clicking on some of its profiles and selecting "Block domain social.freysa.ai".

(if your instance admin hasn't already done so)

🤖

It is nice to see that a growing number of people are becoming aware of Arte TV for the first time.

(original post here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114157528603949502)

We told you that the service is free, but this is only partially accurate.

It is a public service broadcaster funded by French and German taxpayers. 💸

The source of payment differs between France and Germany.

In France, people used to pay around €140 per year to finance public broadcasters. This tax was abolished in 2022, and the funding of public broadcasters comes from VAT now, an indirect tax that applies to most goods and services.

In Germany, a flat rate of €18.36 per month is paid by each household, ensuring that the entire population contributes to the funding of public broadcasters like Arte.

Some programmes are translated into other European languages, with funding support from the European Union (English, Spanish, Polish, and Italian).

For more detailed information on the funding mechanisms, see the following link: https://www.arte.tv/sites/corporate/en/funding/

Thanks to the French 🇫🇷 and German 🇩🇪 taxpayers! 😀 Danke, merci !

#germany #france #europe #EuropeanUnion

Netflix versus Arte

Arte TV:
https://www.arte.tv/en/

Arte Concerts:
https://www.arte.tv/en/arte-concert/

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@arte

Image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jaj76t/the_app_works_great_and_they_also_offer_games_btw/
#netflix #arte #europeanalternatives

The European search engines (and competitors) Ecosia 🇩🇪 and Qwant 🇫🇷 are joining forces to build their own European search index!

And the best part? It'll be open and available to all of us!

This is great news for other small search engines, start-ups and the AI industry, as they'll now have the chance to use this index instead of the ones offered by Microsoft and Google.

https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
#ecosia #qwant #searchengine #european #europeanalternatives #germany #france #innovation

@aral

He could buy any private European company anyway, couldn't he? If we think like that, no one needs to boycott any US company because it's useless, EU alternatives may be sold in the future to Musk anyway...

Do you need an #European e-reader and tablet?

The reMarkable 🇳🇴 is a very serious European alternative created by a Norwegian startup.

⚠️ To avoid temptations, if you don't need one, don't visit their website or watch their videos, otherwise you may end up buying one, as we did. We love it but it's not cheap, as they only produce it in small quantities. ⚠️

The reMarkable is an E Ink writing tablet designed for reading documents and textbooks, sketching, and taking notes. It's designed to feel like writing on paper.

What we like the most:

- you can read #ebooks or documents in various formats, including pdf. It's like a Kindle. And you can make notes in your ebooks, for example.

- it REALLY feels like you're writing and sketching on paper. It's impressively well done ✏️

- there are many of different templates you can use and download on the internet 📃

- you can write notes by hand and convert them into digital text. It can even translate your handwritten text into another language 💬

- you can also automatically save your files in the cloud and in your computer. 💻 ☁️

If you're interested, you can find more information on their website, which is full of useful tips.

Do you have any too? We'd love to know what you think! 😊

https://remarkable.com

#europeanalternatives #remarkable #norway #europe

De-google-ify Internet

Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.

The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.

They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!

Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:

@Framasoft

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

#europe #opensource #europeanalternatives #EUtech #boycott #degoogle #google

Welcome to All Europeans!

We will post and boost content to encourage people to replace their non-EU products and services with European, #selfhosted or open source alternatives.

Tag us if you want to recommend something!

If you're a EU company, follow us and we'll follow you back and share your product with the community.

Start buying European products to boycott bully countries and foreign monopolies.

Or maybe you just want to boost the local economy?

Buying European products has many benefits, including supporting local entrepreneurs, creating jobs, and increasing money circulation within your country or neighbour country.

It's also more environmentally friendly!

When the local economy is strong, everyone benefits.

#europe #european #BuyFromEU #boycott #BoycottAmerica #opensource #selfhosting