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Dumping US tech giants within 5 years is realistic for banks, insurers, pension funds, according to the Dutch Central Bank

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Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.
If really wanted to have them, you'd need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, ...

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What are your recent "BuyEuropean" wins?

I completely switched my behaviour. Even my Halloween costume I bought from funidelia.at, a spanish company - can recommend, was nice quality and not overpriced. My supplements I buy from ESN and Rocka Nutrition (germany companies), and on the digital side I'm super happy (since already quite a while) with my mailbox.org (also german) subscription. Wouldn't give it away any more now that I have it, it's super neat and worth every penny.

And lemmy replaced reddit for me.

Going good :)

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Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud

Great news! It's much more beneficial for all involved parties. Also, as the article mentions, moving to FOSS doesn't mean you're on your own. Just like Microsoft "Partners" help with integration and smooth operation, there are similar agencies offering the same services for FOSS solutions.

Not only that, but feedback and bugfixes to FOSS software indirectly benefits others too instead of some Microsoft manager. So, good use of tax money benefiting citizens and everyone else!

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Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)

Meh, Medium is really just a cash grabbing machine by now, used to be good, but now I'm happy I self-hosted my ghost-blog since the beginning.

Ghost also does offer Ghost Pro, which is a managed service from them. (They are headquartered in Singapore though)
However, otherwise there are a ton of third parties that offer to manage a ghost blog instance for you for little pay.

Nevertheless, an article with good intentions, 90% is better than 0%.
I like it, and not everyone might like Ghost or existing alternatives, it's just the one I settled on.

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Best - if at all? - European AI coding assistant

My company subscribed to Jetbrains Juno (or Juni?)
Not using it actually yet as I don't like those tools much too, but it seems to be good according to colleagues. Not sure though if it uses a M$, GPT, Claude or Gemini model via API behind the scenes. But at least Jetbrains gets a cut, which is a CZ company.

If I use tools like those, I stick to Mistral.
You can use something like aider.chat with a Mistral API key, or directly use the CLI tool provided by them https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli.

I use the CLI from Mistral directly, works very well. But mostly use it only for generating test stubs and stuff like that.

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Migrate from Google Photos | PixelUnion - Free your photos from American tech platforms

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It's their only service, they make money by customers paying them to host their photos. They don't subsidise by crawling through all of your photos, mails, documents and then use that information to display Search and YouTube ads getting money from advertisement seals.

If its too expensive for you then it's what it is, but it's unrealistic to expect small scale competitors to outperform big tech offerings on every front.