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Re: European Alternatives

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Post by microtonal »

drnick1 wrote: post #87
nolok wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The amount of things wrong is impressive You're confusing Europe and the EU You're forgetting about Ireland and Malta You're thinking that because the UK left the EU it will change the main language countries use to speak to each others

> You're thinking that because the UK left the EU it will change the main language countries use to speak to each others Yes, and that's precisely the irony. Europeans still need to subject themselves to Anglo "cultural imperialism" or absolutely nothing works, starting with communication across national borders.

First, we co-opted English. It’s now ours as well. Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English

Besides that, besides my native language and English, I had German and French in school (which are required topics in our country). So I can speak the native language of all nearby countries.

Auf Wiedersehen!

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by brugidou »

202508042147 wrote: post #174

One obvious thing missing from any of those lists: Visa and Mastercard alternatives. This is the protection money that is never brought up by the US officials when they say that America was paying for our security.

France has the CB network for example which I believe still dominates most credit card transactions although it's declining as more and more cards are not co-branded anymore.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by fainpul »

202508042147 wrote: post #174

One obvious thing missing from any of those lists: Visa and Mastercard alternatives. This is the protection money that is never brought up by the US officials when they say that America was paying for our security.

I wish GNU Taler would become more concrete.

https://www.taler.net

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by ragall »

lostmsu wrote: post #222
ragall wrote: post #186

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Considering the low taxes and lower cost of living in Zurich (yes, lower than Seattle), and the much higher quality of life, Zurich is a no-brainer.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... says Zurich is 33% more expensive and I remember it that way.

Numbeo shows averages, and the basket of goods that it considers is not what a well-off person would buy. I Zurich I could live perfectly well without having a car, just with public transportation, and French and Italian cheeses and wine are a cheaper than in Seattle.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by mlitwiniuk »

evaneykelen wrote: post #251
mlitwiniuk wrote: post #248

Speaking of missing categories — there's no "Compliance Tools" or "GRC" category yet. I'm building humadroid.io (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance platform, based in Poland) and as far as I can tell, there aren't many European alternatives in this space. Most of the established players (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) are US-based. Would be great to see this category added.

Interesting, do you also provide the actual audit for ISO 27001 as part of your service? That’s why I went with Oneleet, but a EU-based solution would be attractive.

No, we don't do audits — and that's intentional. I think there's a conflict of interest when the same company advises you on compliance and then certifies you. Incentives get weird.

The good news: there are plenty of EU-based ISO 27001 audit firms. We can recommend one or two if you need a pointer — we just don't have a formal catalogue or marketplace for that yet (though it's on my list).

So you'd use Humadroid for the preparation - policies, controls, evidence, risks, continuity plans, ISMS workbook - and then bring in an independent auditor for certification.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by trinix912 »

palata wrote: post #253
atmosx wrote: post #170

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And the EU governments will be advertising it.. already happened in Greece… few companies with strong core tech were bought by Microsoft and the gov was “so happy” for the “success story”. Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway

> Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway Though that's one of the easy ones. Get your own domain and you're free to use whatever you want forever.

In theory yes, in practice the messages from your random domain way too often end up in spam for Gmail and Outlook users, if they get delivered at all.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by nickdothutton »

direwolf20 wrote: post #259
nickdothutton wrote: post #254

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I'm a happy customer of Hetzner, but AWS revenues are 440x theirs. Not much of a castle.

Why do you want to be a customer of a company with extreme revenue? That only means you'll pay too much money.

Greater chance of survival, greater chance of being a winner in any consolidation in the industry, generally revenue translates to higher share price which means ability to acquire useful and interesting companies, likely lower cost of capital for borrowing for build-outs. Attracts greater talent with better packages. Now as teeny tiny (personal) customer of these guys... I'm not really going to care about most of this stuff. But in my $70B company market cap day-job... I do.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by maigret »

PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #199
bildung wrote: post #139

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People in the US need to become more aware of the dramatic impact this current administration has on the world. A paper in the Lancet, not exactly your average leftie rag, extrapolates the deaths resulting from the sudden USAID defunding to amount to about 14 million people. That's about 10x Pol Pot. People around the world distancing themselves from these actions is hardly nationalism. https://www.thelancet.com/jour…

I'm sorry, my cognitive bias says 'Look! See! That proves my point at how great the US is/was.' 1 bad politician elected by a fraction of the population is enough to turn the world against us. Why bother with such altruism when a single election can turn everyone against us?

It was a single election in 2016, and a few governors and senators and… oh it’s actually a pattern, a system that people feign to ignore when convenient for them.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

vldszn wrote: post #59

I submitted my project EasyInvoicePDF (a free & open-source invoice generator) a couple of months ago to European Alternatives but never heard back unfortunately. The project has no backend and is purely browser-based, but I’m based in Europe and developing the project here, so I consider it a European project =) App: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

Unless you do Peppol... it's not intresting at all.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by jacquesm »

palata wrote: post #262
jacquesm wrote: post #132

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Yes, but the cost-to-switch is more important right now than the details, the bigger fear I have is that if such an EU alternative is successful that the US incumbents will swoop in and buy it and then you're back to square 1. That has happened quite a few times already.

> the bigger fear I have is that if such an EU alternative is successful that the US incumbents will swoop in and buy it That's usually what happens indeed. There is a lot of great tech coming from [the rest of the world] and being bought by the US. > the cost-to-switch is more important right now than the details I kinda disagree there. The lack of competition is the problem today. If, instead of AWS, there were 50…

That's obviously the idea, but unfortunately everybody just wants convenience instead of decentralization. Hence Mastodon's amazing adoption rate...
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