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  • The Euro-stack directory of European tech alternatives

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  • Is Linux from Finland or from the USA? If someting is open source and has a global contributor base and no single entity can subvert it, then I don't really think the country matters. But it there is one entity that controls it, then it matters where it is from and what jurisdiction and what policies apply on it.

  • The Euro-stack directory of European tech alternatives

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  • It is a screenshot of the filter option that allows to select both "European" and "open source" for people like who want both.

  • European tech alternatives: eutechmap.com

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  • European tech alternatives: eutechmap.com

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  • Europe @feddit.org
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    European tech alternatives: eutechmap.com

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  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    European tech alternatives: eutechmap.com

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  • Debian - The universal operating system @lemmy.zip
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    Debian GSoC 2026 project list

  • Debian operating system @lemmy.ml
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    Debian GSoC 2026 project list

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • There’s a priest, a baby and a bag of candy. I need to take them across the river but I can only take one at a time into my boat. In what order should I transport them?

    You can easily use the link https://openrouter.ai/chat?models=anthropic%2Fclaude-opus-4.6%2Copenai%2Fgpt-5.2%2Cx-ai%2Fgrok-4.1-fast%2Cgoogle%2Fgemini-3.1-pro-preview%2Cz-ai%2Fglm-5%2Cminimax%2Fminimax-m2.5%2Cqwen%2Fqwen3.5-plus-02-15%2Cmoonshotai%2Fkimi-k2.5 to ask all flagship models this question in parallel. Personally I would definitely not leave my children alone with a priest (they might try to convert them), but if your constraint is only baby+candy, then in my test Gemini, GLM, Qwen and Kimi made that, and only that, assumption.

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • Actually I set out with the assumption that flagship models would fail even on these fairly simple questions that I have seen them failing on before, but I was suprised they didn't all fail.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/ai-models-plateaued-or-not/
  • MariaDB / MySQL @lemmy.ml
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    MySQL community manager goes MariaDB

    lefred.be /content/i-joined-the-mariadb-foundation/

  • VillageSQL, the newest MySQL fork built around the concept of extensions

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  • MariaDB has a lot of users, and they should be more vocal about it to give it more visibility.

  • VillageSQL, the newest MySQL fork built around the concept of extensions

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  • I wouldn't be surprised to see multiple MySQL forks emerge in 2026, now that more people are realizing how bad Oracle has been as an open source project steward for MySQL.

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    VillageSQL, the newest MySQL fork built around the concept of extensions

    villagesql.com

  • Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux?

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  • I welcome more paid schemes, such as Ubuntu Pro, as I believe it is beneficial for the whole ecosystem.

  • Ubuntu Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux?

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/ubuntu-pro-subscription-pay-for-linux/
  • Ubuntu @programming.dev
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    Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux?

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/ubuntu-pro-subscription-pay-for-linux/

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    MySQL users be warned: git commits in mysql-server significantly declined 2025

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/
  • GIT - Github, Gitea, Gitlabs. Everything git @lemmy.ml
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    DEP-18: A proposal for GitLab-based collaboration in Debian

    optimizedbyotto.com /post/debian-collaboration-on-git/

  • Could the XZ backdoor have been detected with better Git and Debian packaging practices?

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  • There was a bunch of luck involved that Andres Freund detected this. Give more time, it would have ended up in stable releases eventually if not detected.

  • Fireship’s latest vid spreading the Linux desktop to 500k+ viewers

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  • Exactly. I don't use Omarchy, but I think it is good someone did a polished distro for a specific use case, and some web dev Windows users will surely find it more appealing than a generic distro where they need to figure out a lot of stuff from scratch.

  • Which open alternative apps list is the best?

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  • To me it is hard to find the best apps in their directory as they don't have a good ranking system. The other sites that rank by GitHub stars do a pretty good job of surfacing what are the truly most popular and successful apps.

  • MariaDB 11.8's zero-configuration TLS requires no manual setup

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  • TLS is good *only' if you are also validating those certs. And that is what MariaDB 11.8 is now doing.

  • I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list

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  • I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list

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  • I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list

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  • MariaDB 11.8 LTS Released

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  • "Unicode as default character set" - finally, nice!