All Europeans 🇪🇺

The research group SECUSO (@SECUSO_Research) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 🇩🇪 (@KIT_Karlsruhe) has an account in the Play Store and F-Droid where you can download lots of privacy-friendly apps like: 😀

- QR Scanner
- Games
- Finance
- Todo list, notes, shopping list
- Health and sport
- Password Generator
- Tools
- etc

PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8129664033892391289
F-Droid: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=secuso&lang=en

Their github: https://github.com/SecUSo

#opensource #privacy #EuropeanAlternatives

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🎵 We listen to a lot of music from different countries and languages, so we go to concerts, have CDs and vinyl, but most of the time we listen to music via streaming services.

As part of the #BuyFromEU movement, we will personally try to listen to more music from Europe, especially from other European countries other than our own, but we need suggestions.

What if we did this together? This can help us discover a lot of nice music from our European friends. 😀 🇪🇺

So we thought it might be nice to create themed playlists with songs from different European artists.

Instead of letting the algorithm of your music streaming app decide our weekly recommendations based on paid content from record labels, the random recommendations of the Mastodon community could expand our musical horizons and help boosting European music. 🎻

Each week we could define a theme (e.g. music for a rainy day, songs with clever lyrics, etc.) and invite everyone to recommend a European song that fits the theme. We would collect the suggestions and create a public playlist somewhere (where?).

To decide on weekly themes, we could make polls a week in advance and on a certain day everyone would submit their song suggestions.

Are there people here who are interested in participating?

#music

75% Yes
6% No
19% Maybe

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Keep in mind that just because an application is open source doesn't mean it's safer. If nobody checks its code for bugs or malware, it could be worse than other software.

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We have so many questions that are making us feel a bit uneasy: ❓

In what ways can you be certain that a particular open-source software solution is secure?

What factors do individuals with an IT background consider when making decisions about open source software safety?

Certain open source software solutions have extensive code bases. Consequently, it would require a significant investment of time to verify the absence of bugs or malicious code. 🐞 ☠️

That said, even those who can understand code may not always have the time or energy to investigate every piece of software they install. So what are their criteria for endorsing a particular piece of software that they haven't analysed its code? 🧭

And what tips do you have for people who aren't developers, to help them make the best choices when they can't understand the code? Who can they trust?

#opensource #cybersecurity

Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.

Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.

It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.

It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.

It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.

There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.

It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.

The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.

Check all the features in their website:
https://joplinapp.org

#notetaking #opensource #BuyFromEU #europeanalternatives

Follow them on Mastodon: @joplinapp

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