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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41378406

The browser disables firefox telemetry and Pocket by default.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31165102

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59704046

2D/3D, mostly AutoCAD compatible:

Dassault DraftSight:

https://www.draftsight.com/

Graebert Ares Commander (there is Linux version too):

https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/ares-commander/

Bricsys BricsCAD (there is or was Linux version too):

https://www.bricsys.com/

Monstrous 3D CAD system, on league of its own - Dassault Catia:

https://www.3ds.com/products/catia

Architectural - Graphisoft Archicad:

https://graphisoft.com/solutions/archicad/

Architectural, engineering - Nemetschek Allplan:

https://www.allplan.com/index.php?id=13001

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/63938

Written by u/BoycottUSA4Now on Reddit

It's so pathetic, reading how some Americans believe Trump's lies. Trump is doing the right thing, they wonder why a president hasn't done it before. Some Americans obviously are very simple and uneducated. Unbelievable. Nevertheless, we must not forget that there is still another America. Americans who go along with this boycott.

I used to live for about a year in the USA, years ago. None of my friends there voted for Trump, they are as much shocked as me. These Americans do also exist! So what are my reasons and those around me (Germany) for the boycott? Even before the election, Trump only stirred up hatred and spoke of revenge. All opponents would be eliminated. The criminals who stormed the Capitol in Nazi SS style, where there were even deaths, were pardoned. They are free and now the heroes.

Trump is not interested in the victims and their families, just as he is only interested in power and nothing else. Trump denies all scientific knowledge. Climate change is denied. Trump is de facto ending democracy in the USA. He has indirectly announced exactly that: You only have to vote once more, then no more. Trump fights any other opinion. Trump is dissolving important institutions such as the Ministry of Education etc. (Germany is already successfully recruiting good US scientists, just as the USA used to do.) Trump is only interested in money. Trump is not interested in people, not even Americans. He is only interested in himself and power. Trump lies constantly, only a few have the opportunity to contradict him, as Macron skillfully and kindly did on camera when Trump as always gave completely false data about the support for Ukraine. Pentagon deletes images of black World War II soldiers! He changes history.

All together. Trump is a dictator. Right now he is turning the USA into a dictatorship that is not better than China or Russia. These are some of the reasons. It has nothing to do with tariffs. As far as I know, Merz, the next Chancellor of Germany, was the first to say it, albeit indirectly like everyone else: the USA is the new enemy of Germany, of Europe, of the entire Western world, of the free world, to which the USA no longer belongs and can no longer belong in the future after this loss of trust, which cannot be repaired and will continue to put a strain on the relationship between Western democracies for a very, very long time after Trump, also in the case if US democtatie should survive Trump. The relationship between the USA and Western democracies is over for the foreseeable future. The West has already started to move towards a future without the USA. This will continue, and on a massive scale. Politicians from different countries have now said it several times: The West needs a new leading power. Nobody wants the USA anymore, because the USA is the enemy. And that has nothing to do with tariffs.

There are certainly many other reasons that can be added, such as the perverse game with Ukraine, which has shown the full malice of this perverse US government. Many reasons to boycott, but certainly not tariffs. They could simply be reciprocated and that would be fine, no more needed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27463109

Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation

Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.

On X, he said it was “insane” that subreddits were blocking links to the platform in protest of him ~~appearing to give a Nazi salute~~ giving repeated Nazi salutes. A few days later, he posted that Reddit users advocating for violence against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees had “broken the law.”

As it turns out, Musk wasn’t only using his X platform to call out content on Reddit. He was also privately messaging Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, according to people familiar with the matter.

Shortly after the two CEOs exchanged text messages, Reddit enacted a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit that hosted the thread about DOGE employees, citing the “prevalence of violent content.” The specific thread Musk shared on X was also deleted, including hundreds of comments that didn’t call for violence or doxxing. (So far, Reddit doesn’t appear to have intervened in any moderator decisions to ban X links from the subreddits they oversee.)

When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.” Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The news of Musk’s outreach to Huffman quickly made its way to some of Reddit’s moderators, who discussed it together on Discord. After one wrote, “Musk is coming for /r/Comics,” which was one of the subreddits that was banning links to X, another responded by calling him a “giant baby,” according to screenshots of the conversation that were shared with me.

EDIT: minor correction up top after y'all gave the text a SolidShake

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31137198

Not sure how many people subscribe to anything on Lemmy, but let's give it a try

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41334596

They even had a court dispute about the name. 🍺

Shoutout to u/simb33 on Reddit

"ZOURI is an eco-vegan footwear brand that uses plastic trash from the Portuguese coast together with ecologic and sustainable materials."

100% made in Portugal. Also those soles are epic.

Check them out: https://www.zouri-shoes.com/

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/62966

Written by u/NoxAstrumis1 on Reddit. True everywhere.

Now is the time for unity, not division.

I've seen several statements from various governments (including my own) along the lines of "we need to ensure we get preferential treatment from trump".

This is the wrong approach entirely. Begging for scraps from a lunatic's table is not the way out of this mess, uniting and leaving the lunatic to babble on his own is.

The free world cannot afford to start jostling each other for advantage, we have to come together and create our own bonds that exclude hostility. The US is one country, regardless of how large their economy is, we can do just fine without them.

Let's not descend into squabbling amongst ourselves. That's precisely what they're trying to achieve.

Shoutout to u/According-Buyer6688 on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31105151

TL;DR: A recent Handelsblatt commentary criticizes Google’s move to integrate AI-generated search results, warning it could be a threat to the open internet. The author argues that this change increases Google’s control over how information is presented, potentially reducing diversity and neutrality in search results. It raises concerns about Google’s monopolistic power and the future structure of the internet.

Google is the invisible hand on the internet. No other company controls global data traffic in Europe or the USA as strongly as the technology company from Mountain View. The search engine is so powerful that the dictionary has included the verb "to google". Now the company is taking the next step - and consolidating its power over the internet. Since Wednesday, Google has been providing AI-generated answers directly in the search results in Germany. Anyone searching for an explanation of heat pumps, a recipe for pancakes or a description of ETFs will receive an automatically generated summary - prominently placed above the classic links. Why click on a website when Google provides the answer itself? For the company, this is just the beginning. Google's parent company Alphabet is working on a future in which AI agents control our digital lives. The new summaries are just a test run - and a foretaste of how CEO Sundar Pichai envisions the internet.

A quarter of a century ago, Google set out to organize the world's knowledge and make it accessible. The algorithm became a beacon in the sea of data, Google the undisputed gatekeeper of the internet. The web is based on a simple principle: content versus reach. Specialist portals, bloggers and the media put their knowledge online because Google brings them readers. But with the new AI syntheses, this model is breaking down. Google uses third-party content, but users remain trapped in its ecosystem. Google lives from external content.

YouTube shows how it's done: the video platform grew so rapidly partly because Google started giving creators a share of the advertising revenue early on. But in the new world of AI search engines, this deal is no longer possible. Google no longer wants to share - Google wants to own.

This is reminiscent of Facebook's fatal strategy. Mark Zuckerberg has cut the distribution of journalistic content on Facebook in many countries, described traditional media as "unreliable" and labeled fact-checkers as biased. Yet Facebook had benefited from high-quality news for years. Sundar Pichai is more cooperative. He cultivates the partner's image and publicly emphasizes the importance of media, influencers and experts. But in the end, his AI strategy leads to the same result: Google is building a digital knowledge monopoly. And there is hardly any escape.

Nine out of ten search queries in Germany are made via Google. The alternatives? Microsoft's Bing, OpenAI's chatbots or Perplexity - they all follow the same principle: answers instead of links, compartmentalization instead of openness.

Artificial intelligence can revolutionize search - but not at any price. The start-up Perplexity shows a viable way forward: it gives the websites from which it sources content a share of the revenue.

Google could also follow this path. However, if the current strategy remains in place, the Internet as we know it is in danger of imploding. Because if nobody clicks anymore, who will create content?

Buy games from other European brands

Shoutout to u/Visara57 on Reddit

Shoutout to u/theFallenWalnut on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41271261

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I was getting disappointed with the quality of Converse boots before this whole thing kicked off. My partner suggested I try the French brand Paladium. The quality is much better. Apparently, the French paras use them. All I can say is they are more comfortable and last longer than my Converse ever did.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30945058

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59517739

I made my first order on otto.de a few days ago. I even installed their app, as I had Amazon app before, so it is easy to see my orders and invoices. It worked excelent, I found what I needed. What I was pleasantly surprised with, was that I did not need to enter a payment card. I just made my order, things came in 2 batches, different days, and I have about a month to pay them.

When I went to pay them, you have the option to pay each one, or all of them at once. I chose all, I’ve got a QR code, scanned it with my bank app and made the transfer. Painless and not using anything US made. Well, the phone I am on and the iPad…but you know what I mean, no VISA/Mastercard, etc.

And from what I heard, they have stricter rules of who can be a merchant on their website, compared to Amazon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27384100

The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus.

There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the Internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration.

“There’s a huge appetite in Europe to de-risk or decouple the over-dependence on US tech companies, because there is a concern that they could be weaponized against European interests,” says Marietje Schaake, a nonresident fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and a former decadelong member of the European Parliament.