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  • Koofr, a Privacy-Oriented European Cloud Storage is Here to Stay
  • If WebDav is your everyday bread, and you Linux your house, then you won't find anything special. But for most users, it is great. The app works seamlessly for me, but surely, there are others that would work similarly. But the real strength is...

    ...in their well curated blog. I found step-by-step instructions on almost everything I wanted to do with Koofr. That helped a million.

    https://koofr.eu/blog/

  • Crowdfunding: Czech satellite to watch skies over Ukraine
    www.misedrak.cz Mise Drak: Podpořte start české družice pro Ukrajinu

    Pomozte nám vypustit družici Drak, kterou v Brně vyvíjejí české vesmírné firmy. Družice bude hlídat ukrajinské území a poskytovat snímky s velmi vysokým rozlišením bezpečnostním složkám Ukrajiny.

    Mise Drak: Podpořte start české družice pro Ukrajinu
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    Crowdfunding: Czech satellite to watch skies over Ukraine
    www.misedrak.cz Mise Drak: Podpořte start české družice pro Ukrajinu

    Pomozte nám vypustit družici Drak, kterou v Brně vyvíjejí české vesmírné firmy. Družice bude hlídat ukrajinské území a poskytovat snímky s velmi vysokým rozlišením bezpečnostním složkám Ukrajiny.

    Mise Drak: Podpořte start české družice pro Ukrajinu
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    NATO demands more than 5% of GDP for defense instead of dialogue
  • Good point. For reference, from the OP article:

    Mark Rutte, in response to Donald Trump’s demands for a 5% target – suggests member states agree to raise defence spending to 3.5% of their GDP and commit a further 1.5% to wider security spending.

    I can totally see Trump agreeing to get his 5% if part of it will be spent on climate adaptation and mitigation, or infrastructure in the "hostile and abusive" EU.

    BTW: 3.5% is still more than any NATO country spends on R&D, maybe except of the US.

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

  • NATO demands more than 5% of GDP for defense instead of dialogue
  • I understand that there are real threats in Europe. But... 5 fckn percent as a (!) minimum? None NATO country spends more than 3.5% on research and development (the only countries that do are South Korea and Israel). And that is everything from new medicines to new bombs to 5G to anthropology to climate science research. And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only? Play it smart, not hard, please...

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  • Pls let's discuss this topic after they make their minds ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • I get your point for Samsung, but % do not add up.

  • Spain is not a real place
  • Thanks! It should be "Some Spanish people I know..." Sorry if I overexaggerated. It's just that over my life in student dorms, multiple unrelated Spanish people would be in the common kitchen when I was going to sleep (maybe still chatting after dinner), and they would be there when I woke up. This was blowing my mind.

    I think when you use the word "siesta" in English (and many other languages), it becomes more specific than "nap". Like, if I take a nap at 8PM to go out and party later, I would not call it a nap. Similarly, when I was a kid I was napping while parents drove me to school - that I wouldn't call siesta either.

  • EU weighs carbon tax on home heating and petrol to fill budget gaps | Commission officials suggest using some revenues raised by unpopular levy due in 2027 to meet bloc’s wider needs
  • Maybe first put a carbon tax on fuels used in aviation? LOL

    Petrol is reasonable, depending on how it is rolled out. The heating should be fixed by the state and the EU, not taxed. Like heating networks and heat pumps.

  • Spain is not a real place
  • The last point does not hold. Spanish people I know eat dinner at 11 PM and breakfast at 7 AM. And they live outside of Spain, the timezone issue does not apply here. Idk when they sleep (Siesta? Siesta in Sweden/Germany?) Please explain.

  • Welp. June 3 is officially a crap day :/
  • What is wrong with .ee?

  • Dutch government on brink of collapse after Wilders' far-right party quits | Reuters
  • Let's talk about others. I invite the Dutch people to tell us who they would like to see rise in this election.

  • Dutch government on brink of collapse after Wilders' far-right party quits | Reuters
  • PVV has been dropping in polls for more than a year now. Let's hope this is the last time they are in a ruling coalition.

  • Swedish electric motor hits world record in efficiency
  • I see many people here interested in what it is actually used for

    Motorn driver en luftseparationsenhet (ASU) som kondenserar atmosfärisk luft så att syre och kväve separeras till rena gaser som kan användas i ståltillverkningsprocessen.

    Which DeepL loosely translates to

    The engine drives an air separation unit (ASU) that condenses atmospheric air to separate oxygen and nitrogen into clean gases that can be used in the steelmaking process.

    The motor is going to a steelwork in India.

    Source: https://news.cision.com/se/abb/r/abb-motor-satter-nytt-varldsrekord-genom-att-uppna-99-13-procent-energieffektivitet,c4157998

  • European Cloudflare alternatives
    European alternatives to Cloudflare | European Alternatives

    I think I've seen that asked before, but can't find the post now. I also know quite some instances of Fedi use Cloudflare.

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    YouTube alternatives
  • Searching the web, I found this thing for football updates:

    https://dasfootball.com/

  • EU to approve Bulgaria’s euro bid
  • I don't get it. What should the brexiters railing about Poles make others realise? That if you are rich, you destroy vocational schools to get richer, get people from abroad to do basic service and construction jobs that almost nobody in your country is educated to perform, and then make them the scapegoat once your own policies fail the people?

  • 50 shades of green
  • And in a generally quite good journal....

    Well, science hippies and their humour ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • 50 shades of green
  • I mean, not that worse things haven't passed the peer review...

  • 50 shades of green
  • Links or it didn't go through the peer review

  • German military throws money at Google
  • Is it? What do you mean by that?

    Kommun workers use Windows or iOS. University workers use mainly Windows or iOS, though computer labs usually have Linux PCs. Still, the unis usually have their email service managed via Outlook or Gmail services. We have our own data storage, though, e.g., KTH still buys OneDrive. Similarly, we have our own computing clusters, and here, luckily, I have never heard of any Swedish researcher using AWS or anything like that.

  • How do Explore and Discover tabs work on Mastodon and Pixelfed?

    Is there a way, without going to the source code, to check how the "explore" panel on mastodon, or the "discover" panel on Pixelfed, are generated.

    I find it easy to understand my options for the feed on Lemmy - like "hot", "active", "new", and independently "subscribed", "local", and "all". I also like that I can customize it. Can I customize what I see on Mastodon/Pixelfed in a similar way?

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    Where/how do you search for news?

    As in the title. I mean, sometimes I know something should/could have happened by now, and I just want to find a coverage of it. Like last weekend, when the Soviet failed Venus probe was about to crash back on Earth.

    I find it hard to search through the results of most search engines. I get tired of MSN handles and unreliable websites.

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    Where/how do you search for memes?

    As in the title. I find most search engines to be very bad at finding memes. I haven't dared to ask LLMs...

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    Is lemm.ee hosted in the US? (FediDB info)

    According to fedidb.org, lemm.ee is hosted in the US. But according to the admins, it is hosted in Finland (https://lemm.ee/post/57870549). Why the discrepancy?

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    European crowdfunding platforms?

    Hey! I have been searching for platforms to collect money for a non-profit sustainability organization at my uni (in Sweden). If I search for options, I get lists of for-profit American companies.

    I noticed lemm.ee uses ko-fi.com. It is British and my go-to option now. My pet peeve with it is that you need to use PayPal or Stripe to get money. I have no experience in (obtaining money through) crowdfunding, so idk how normal that is.

    Do you know any other alternatives?

    PS: We really need the crowdfunding goal (or just a count) feature for transparency.

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    Szewek Szewek @lemm.ee
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