Hi I wanted to install the Last.fm plugin on Jellyfin so I can scrobble the music I listen to. I installed it according to the steps listed on Github (the new one by danielfariati), but when I enter the credentials in the settings nothing happens. This is what appears in the logs:

Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

Edit: I tried it again 2 weeks later and this time it worked. Didn't even change anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As consumer choice proliferates, people will rely even more on online reviews to inform their decisions and navigate offerings. Reviews have become a powerful tool and valuable source of insight for individuals and businesses alike.

The problem we have today is that hundreds of millions of people are feeding their valuable insights currently into proprietary data silos of a few dominant platforms, where they cannot be used for the public good.

The Open Reviews Association is a non-profit initiative to change that. Our vision is a future in which everyone can share and make use of reviews freely.

Which is why I'm writing my reviews on https://mangrove.reviews/ (from the Open Reviews Association) now instead of Google Reviews and Tripadvisor, which are both American and proprietary too. Mangrove is far from being as refined and known as the popular options but I choose to support them because I feel like they're going in the right direction.

Some highlights:

• They're FOSS
• Big focus on privacy (accounts without the need for personal data, not even an email)
• The Open Reviews Association is Swiss
• You can review Places of Interests (based on OSM), Websites, Companies and Books
• It's already integrated in Mapcomplete.org
• The data is downloadable

You can read more about it on https://open-reviews.net/ or the link above. What do you think about it?

While La Langue des Vipères will officially come to French bookstores in April there is already a crowdfunding underway for the Collectors Edition. The funding goal of 12'000 € was reached after less than 4 hours which shows how eagerly the fans are anticipating her work. Me included.
https://www.ulule.com/la-langue-des-viperes-edition-collector/

Translated from German (with DeepL):

The Swiss messenger service Threema is being acquired by the German investment company Comitis Capital. Both the company and Threema itself emphasize that the arrival of the new investor will not lead to any significant changes for the time being. The company headquarters and servers will remain in Switzerland, and the management team will stay unchanged.

A financial investor with a broad portfolio

Comitis Capital is a young private equity firm, not a technology company. It invests in various industries, including a UK-based supplier of vegan meat alternatives and a manufacturer of dog accessories.

Its business model consists of providing financial support to promising companies so that they can grow and establish themselves internationally. “Comitis now clearly sees this potential in Threema too,” says SRF digital editor Tanja Eder.

Data protection as a business model

The strong focus on data protection is considered a key strength of the messenger. Precisely because US tech companies are coming under increasing criticism and digital sovereignty is gaining in importance, Comitis sees this aspect as a clear unique selling point.

Whether this will remain the case in the long term is unclear, according to Eder. If Comitis were to conclude at some point that it would be more profitable to collect Threema customer data or sell the company, no one could prevent them from doing so.

Trust in the authorities remains an issue

In Switzerland, federal authorities and the military also use Threema for internal communication. Even though everyone involved is aware that there is no such thing as absolute security, Threema still has advantages over its competitors.

For example, Threema's source code is openly accessible. Experts in the fields of data protection, IT security, and research regularly check whether the company is keeping its promises. Government agencies can also carry out their own checks.

Hardly any alternatives on the market

Good alternatives to Threema are rare. “Apart from WhatsApp, which dominates the market, there is simply not much room for other messenger services,” notes the digital editor.

Signal is considered another secure messenger alongside Threema. However, it is operated from the US, albeit by a non-profit foundation and financed by donations. In Switzerland, Proton offers encrypted emails, but does not have its own messenger service.

“Given this limited offering, we can only hope that privacy-friendly communication services will gain in importance in the future,” says Eder.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/24577648

Buy european (and boycott USA) - Swiss edition 🇨🇭

Hi! I've been following the #buyeuropean movement since about a year and amidst current political events I felt the need to deepen my engagement. All existing lists and guides have been a great resource but I still felt like they didn't have an impact big enough on my consumer habits. This is why I did some research on everyday products in my local supermarkets for the people in Switzerland.

The following lists have been created with the goal to endorse products and alternatives that are as local as possible and belong to companies that are somewhat established but without a horrendous reputation. This is why Nestlé is in the avoid section but if you don't care much about that you can see them as alternatives instead.

Keep in mind that this is a list written by me, a single person, so it's likely to be influenced by my consumer habits, my lifestyle, my location etc. If anyone has more recommendations or finds something was ill-researched, you're most welcome to contribute. I might edit this list later on myself.

To the list:

• The company in Brackets is the manufacturer or - if owned externally - the parent company of the manufacturer. For research I've been looking up predominantly Wikipedia or the brands official page.
• To almost every product there are store brand alternatives like M-Classic and M-Budget (Migros), naturaplan, fine food, Karma and Prix Garantie (Coop) and others (Denner, Lidl, Aldi, etc.) which I didn't bother to list everywhere. But those are good alternatives most of the time, so don't forget about them!

Food

Dairy

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Fresh Cheese	Philadelphia (Mondelez 🇺🇸)	Filona (Züger Frischkäse 🇨🇭)Cantadou (Bel Group 🇫🇷)Tartare (Savencia 🇫🇷)
Yoghurt	Hirz (Nestlé 🇨🇭)LC1 (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Emmi 🇨🇭Activia (Danone 🇫🇷)

Frozen section

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Frozen Snacks	Buitoni (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Dr. Oetker 🇩🇪Findus (Nomad Foods 🇬🇧)Kern & Sammet 🇨🇭
Ice Cream	Ben&Jerry's 🇺🇸 (Unilever 🇬🇧)Extrême (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Frisco (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Häagen-Dazs (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Mövenpick (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Maxibon / Rakete / Pralinato (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Creme d'Or (Migros 🇨🇭)Gasparini 🇨🇭Kalte Lust 🇨🇭Emmi 🇨🇭

Grains

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Mexican inspired	Old El Paso (General Mills 🇺🇸)Pancho Villa (General Mills 🇺🇸)	Store brandsFiesta del Sol (Migros 🇨🇭)
Rice	Ben's Original (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)	Store brandsTom's Best (Coop 🇨🇭)Mister Rice (Migros 🇨🇭)

Sauces

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Sauces	Heinz 🇺🇸Thomy (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Maggi (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Store brandsHugo 🇨🇭

Breakfast

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Cereals	Kelloggs (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Cini Minis / Lion Cereals / Cookie Crisp (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Familia 🇨🇭Farmer (Migros🇨🇭)Country (Coop 🇨🇭)Alnatura 🇩🇪
Chocolate Spreads	De Rujiter (Mondelez 🇺🇸)	Lindt 🇨🇭Ovomaltine 🇨🇭 (Associated British Foods 🇬🇧)Caotina 🇨🇭 (Associated British Foods 🇬🇧)Nutella (Ferrero 🇮🇹)Nocciolata (Rigoni di Asiago 🇮🇹)

Snacks

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Salty snacks	Pringles (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Doritos (PepsiCo 🇺🇸)Pancho Villa (General Mills 🇺🇸)TUC (Mondelez 🇺🇸)Lay's (Pepsico 🇺🇸)	Zweifel 🇨🇭Farm Chips 🇨🇭 (Migros)Tyrrells 🇬🇧
Chocolate	Toblerone (Mondelez 🇺🇸)Cailler (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Smarties (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Kitkat (Nestlé 🇨🇭)M&Ms (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Malteser (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Twix / Snickers / Mars / Milky Ways / Bounty (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Reese's (Hershey 🇺🇸)Balisto (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Mikado (Mondelez 🇺🇸)Milka (Mondelez 🇺🇸)	Lindt 🇨🇭Ragusa (Camille Bloch🇨🇭)Torino (Camille Bloch🇨🇭)Frey (Migros🇨🇭)Kägi 🇨🇭Halba 🇨🇭Ovomaltine 🇨🇭 (Associated British Foods 🇬🇧)Kinder (Ferrero 🇮🇹)Toffifee (August Storck 🇩🇪)Knoppers (August Storck 🇩🇪)
Cookies	Oreo (Mondelez 🇺🇸)	Kambly 🇨🇭Wernli 🇨🇭
Sweets	Sugus (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Skittles (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)	Trolli 🇩🇪Haribo 🇩🇪Nimm 2 (August Storck 🇩🇪)
Chewing gum / Mints	Hubba Bubba (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Airwaves (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)	Ricola 🇨🇭Stimorol (Perfetti van Melle 🇮🇹🇳🇱)Mentos (Perfett van Melle 🇮🇹🇳🇱)Fisherman's Friend 🇬🇧Tictac (Ferrero 🇮🇹)

Beverages

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Alcohol	Jack Daniels 🇺🇸Jim Beam Bourbon 🇺🇸Woodford Reserve 🇺🇸Budweiser 🇺🇸	I don't drink much alcohol, suggestions welcome
Soft Drinks	Pepsi (PepsiCo 🇺🇸)Gatorade (PepsiCo 🇺🇸)7-up (PepsiCo 🇺🇸)Dr Pepper (PepsiCo 🇺🇸)Capri-Sun (Mondelez 🇺🇸)Oasis (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Coca-Cola / Fanta / Sprite (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Fuzetea/Fusetea (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Mezzo-Mix (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Powerade (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Schweppes (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)Monster Energy 🇺🇸Arizona 🇺🇸Nestea (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Ramseier 🇨🇭Sinalco 🇨🇭Rivella 🇨🇭Elmer 🇨🇭El Tony Mate (intelligentfood 🇨🇭)Migros Ice Tea (Migros 🇨🇭)Focus Water (Rivella 🇨🇭)Sirup (Migros 🇨🇭)Pepita (Mineralquelle Eptingen 🇨🇭)Flauder (Goba 🇨🇭)Farmer (Adelbodner 🇨🇭)Red Bull 🇦🇹Volvic (Danone 🇫🇷)Vitamin Well 🇸🇪Isostar (Associated British Foods 🇬🇧)
Water	Valser (Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)S. Pellegrino (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Henniez (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Vittel (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	tap-water duhKnutwiler 🇨🇭Rhäzünser (Feldschlösschen 🇨🇭)Adelbodner 🇨🇭Aproz (Migros 🇨🇭)Swiss Alpina (Coop 🇨🇭)Evian (Danone 🇫🇷)
Coffee	Nescafé (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Nespresso (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Starbucks 🇺🇸	Hochstrasser 🇨🇭Bertschi 🇨🇭Henauer 🇨🇭Vicafe 🇨🇭Chicco D'Oro 🇨🇭CoffeeB 🇨🇭Delizio 🇨🇭Lavazza 🇮🇹L'Or (Jacobs Douwe Egberts 🇳🇱)Tchibo 🇩🇪
Fruit Juice	Innocent (>90% Coca-Cola Co. 🇺🇸)	Sun Queen (Migros 🇨🇭)Biotta (Orior 🇨🇭)Anna's Best (Migros 🇨🇭)Sluups (Fresh Drink 🇨🇭)Andros 🇫🇷Granini (Eckes-Granini 🇩🇪)Alnatura 🇩🇪True Fruits 🇩🇪Hohes C (Eckes-Granini 🇩🇪)

Non-food

Household

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Laundry detergents	Ariel (P&G 🇺🇸)Lenor (P&G 🇺🇸)Febreze (P&G 🇺🇸)	Held 🇨🇭Total (Migros 🇨🇭)Elan (Migros 🇨🇭)Washo 🇨🇭Persil / Perwoll (Henkel 🇩🇪)Frosch (Werne & Mertz 🇩🇪)Omo (Unilever 🇬🇧)Vanish (Reckitt Benckiser 🇬🇧)
Cleaning utensils	Swiffer (P&G 🇺🇸)Scotch-Brite (3M 🇺🇸)Scrub Daddy 🇺🇸	Creaclean 🇨🇭Twist (Migros 🇨🇭)Flup (Coop 🇨🇭)Leifheit 🇩🇪Vileda (Freudenberg 🇩🇪)
Cleaning	Ajax (Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸)	Durgol 🇨🇭Potz (Migros 🇨🇭)Cif (Unilever 🇬🇧)Cillit Bang (Reckitt Benckiser 🇬🇧)Attitude 🇨🇦Dettol (Reckitt Benckiser 🇬🇧)Frosch (Werne & Mertz 🇩🇪)
Soap	Palmolive (Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸)Le Petit Marseillais (Kenvue 🇺🇸)	Method (Held 🇨🇭)mI am (Migros 🇨🇭)pH-Balance (Migros 🇨🇭)Well (Coop 🇨🇭)Nivea (Beiersdorf 🇩🇪)Dettol (Reckitt Benckiser 🇬🇧)

Drugstore

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Dental hygiene	Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸)Elmex (Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸)Oral-B (P&G 🇺🇸)Listerine (Kenvue 🇺🇸)Meridol (Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸)	Curaprox 🇨🇭Dentamed (Coop 🇨🇭)Candida (Migros 🇨🇭)Trisa 🇨🇭Odol (Haleon 🇬🇧)Parodontax (Haleon 🇬🇧)Sensodyne (Haleon 🇬🇧)Philips 🇳🇱Signal (Unilever 🇬🇧)
Shaving	Gillette (P&G 🇺🇸)	Wilkinson Sword 🇬🇧Well (Coop 🇨🇭)Bic 🇬🇧
Intimate hygiene	Always (P&G 🇺🇸)Tampax (P&G 🇺🇸)Carefree (Johnson & Johnson 🇺🇸)	Molfina (Migros 🇨🇭)o.b. 🇩🇪Cosmea (Pelz Group 🇩🇪)Duchesse (Müller 🇩🇪)Tena (Essity 🇸🇪)
Haircare	Head & Shoulders (P&G 🇺🇸)Pantene (P&G 🇺🇸)	Belherbal (Migros 🇨🇭)Well (Coop 🇨🇭)Rausch 🇨🇭Garnier (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)Elsève (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)Schwarzkopf (Henkel 🇩🇪)Syoss (Henkel 🇩🇪)
Skincare	Neutrogena (Kenvue 🇺🇸)Le Petit Marseillais (Kenvue 🇺🇸)	Weleda 🇨🇭pH-Balance (Migros 🇨🇭)Kneipp 🇨🇭Nivea (Beiersdorf 🇩🇪)Eucerin (Beiersdorf 🇩🇪)CeraVe (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)La Roche Posay (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)
Tissues	Kleenex (Kimberly-Clark 🇺🇸)	Linsoft (Migros 🇨🇭)Well (Coop 🇨🇭)Tempo (Essity 🇸🇪)
Lip balms	Burts Bees (Clorox 🇺🇸)	Labello (Beiersdorf 🇩🇪)Vaseline (Unilever 🇬🇧)
Makeup	NYX 🇺🇸 (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)Maybelline 🇺🇸 (L'Oréal 🇫🇷)	L'Oréal Paris 🇫🇷

Pets

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Pet food	Whiskas (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Sheba (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Cesar (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Dreamies (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Pedigree (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Exelcat (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Perfect Fit (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)Edgar-Cooper (General Mills 🇺🇸)Purina (Nestlé 🇨🇭)Friskies (Nestlé 🇨🇭)	Delibest (Delipet 🇨🇭)Vitakraft 🇨🇭Lily's Kitchen 🇬🇧
Other stuff	Catsan (Mars Inc. 🇺🇸)	Optipet (Martec Handels 🇨🇭)

Some extras

There is still so much left to look into - clothing, outdoor, kitchen ware, cars, traveling, etc. - but because my time is limited and this post is already getting pretty long here are just a few more addings I felt strongly about.

Category	To avoid	Alternative
Payment	Visa 🇺🇸Mastercard 🇺🇸American Express 🇺🇸	Twint 🇨🇭 (wherever possible)
Second hand buying / selling	Facebook Marketplace	Ricardo 🇨🇭Tutti 🇨🇭Marko 🇨🇭
Streaming	Netflix 🇺🇸Amazon Prime 🇺🇸Disney Plus 🇺🇸etc.	playsuisse.ch 🇨🇭SRF 🇨🇭filmfriend.ch 🇨🇭cinu.ch 🇨🇭Arte.tv 🇫🇷🇩🇪Your local cinemaYour local libraryThe high seas 🏴‍☠️

If you got this far thank you for scrolling through and I hope this helped someone in their endeavour. My eyes have certainly been opened regarding some brands I never questioned or believed to be very Swiss.

Hi! I've been following the #buyeuropean movement since about a year and amidst current political events I felt the need to deepen my engagement. All existing lists and guides have been a great resource but I still felt like they didn't have an impact big enough on my consumer habits. This is why I did some research on everyday products in my local supermarkets for us people in Switzerland.

The following lists have been created with the goal to endorse products and alternatives that are as local as possible and belong to companies that are somewhat established but without a horrendous reputation. This is why Nestlé is in the avoid section but if you don't care much about that you can see them as alternatives instead.

Keep in mind that this is a list written by me, a single person, so it's likely to be influenced by my consumer habits, my lifestyle, my location etc. If anyone has more recommendations or finds something was ill-researched, you're most welcome to contribute. I might edit this list later on myself.

To the list:

• The company in Brackets is the manufacturer or - if owned externally - the parent company of the manufacturer. For research I've been looking up predominantly Wikipedia or the brands official page.
• To almost every product there are store brand alternatives like M-Classic and M-Budget (Migros), naturaplan, fine food, Karma and Prix Garantie (Coop) and others (Denner, Lidl, Aldi, etc.) which I didn't bother to list everywhere. But those are good alternatives most of the time, so don't forget about them!

Edit: I just noticed on some Lemmy clients the <br> doesn't work. Sorry about that. You can view the correctly formatted post here (blorpblorp).

Food

Dairy

Frozen section

Grains

Sauces

Breakfast

Snacks

Beverages

Non-food

Household

Drugstore

Pets

Some extras

There is still so much left to look into - clothing, outdoor, kitchen ware, cars, traveling, etc. - but because my time is limited and this post is already getting pretty long here are just a few more addings I felt strongly about.

If you got this far thank you for scrolling through and I hope this helped someone in their endeavour. My eyes have certainly been opened regarding some brands I never questioned or believed to be very Swiss.

Usually when alternatives for messaging apps are recommended it's Signal, Threema or Element but all of them still seem to have small inconveniences (Signal is American, Threema isn't free and Element just seems too complicated).

Today I stumbled upon Delta Chat for the first time and it seems to be the ideal solution. It's european, free, open-source, decentralised, usable on almost any device and privacy focused. But the fact that I've never heard about it before makes me hesitant.

Has anyone of you used it and can share their experience?

Edit: Here's a link to their official website: https://delta.chat/en/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23173243

A French supermarket’s Christmas advert is going against the AI trend and it's a hit with millions of people around the world

Specific request but I only just realised that it’s an amazon company. I use it to look up film data and ratings/reviews as well as track films I watched and those I want to watch in the future.

Alternatives I’ve seen are TMDB which looks nice, but that’s from the US too as far as I know and letterboxd which is from New Zealand but takes the data from TMDB anyways. Also I’m not looking to have my watchlists public.

Any recommendations?

Hi, I'm fairly new to the self-hosted universe but I like the idea of self-hosting media (I've looked at Jellyfin and Plex). But as I understand this requires quite some money and a lot of work. I don't think it's worth it if I put in all that effort just for myself but I'd love to build a small private streaming between me and my friends. We used to share and swap blu-rays after all, so it would be cool to build a shared collection.

My question is if that's possible and if anyone has experience with this? I've read that Jellyfin and Plex are meant as home-media-servers and I'm not sure what limitations that implies. Can people access the library from outside networks and will that affect the streaming quality/speed? What specs would the server need to ensure it can handle a bunch of users? Is there a software that is better suited for this use-case?

Thanks in advance for any help!