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Swap Processed Meat For Plant-Based Alternatives To Boost Fiber, Say Studies https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/swap-processed-meat-plant-based-fiber/

Swap Processed Meat For Plant-Based Alternatives To Boost Fiber, Say Studies
Swapping processed meat for plant-based alternatives can significantly increase fiber intake and reduce salt and saturated fat consumptio

Berlin 😍
I can relate when #socialmedia is a synonym with the #megacorp #algorithms (because the general public doesn't know about healthy alternatives

German electric car drivers are protesting against the unfair pricing practices of a major EV charging network.
The fact that they are (rightfully) raising their voices is a clear sign that there are too few alternatives to this apparent dominant operator.
via @…

"Zustände wie im Wilden Westen" - 70 E-Auto-Fahrer protestieren gegen Ladetarife der EnBW
Rund 70 E-Auto-Fahrer demonstrierten am Donnerstag vor der EnBW-Firmenzentrale in Karlsruhe. Grund dafür seien laut Organisator undurchsichtige Ladetarife und Bezahlarten der EnBW.

How independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu

The dirty chunks are back, baby: “Global coal imports in May are expected to be more than 464,000 tonnes, the third highest monthly coal imports on record.” FT.com
Well, #coal has never been in decline. We have never had a #transition.

"...solar panels and wind turbines were being installed across the peninsula. These were presented as ecological alternatives and came with this narrative that if we accepted them we were saving the planet.
... on the one hand there was this environmental discourse, and on the other hand they were dispossessing us of our territory and deforesting it. How can a project be environmentally friendly if it’s clearing a huge area of land?"
Resisting the so-called 'Maya'…

Resisting the so-called 'Maya' Train | Latin America Bureau
Indigenous activist Haizel explains to LAB contributor Isàlia McIntyre how strengthening Maya identity supports resistance to megaprojects harming communities across the Yucután. Since 2018, the Maya Train – an intercity railway line designed for tourism and cargo transport – has expanded to over 1.500 kilometers of tracks across Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, including the states of Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Chiapas. The train, a flagship project of the previous admin…

"U.S. aluminum buyers hunt for alternatives as Iran war upends global supply"
https://financialpost.com/commodities/us-aluminum-buyers-hunt-for-alternative-supply

U.S. aluminum buyers hunt for alternatives as Iran war upends global supply
Aluminum buyers in the U.S. are rushing to secure alternative supplies from Asia as the war on Iran disrupts a major foreign source. Read on

Seriously though: I'd really love to go back to using Linux on the desktop. I used it for years and I manage it for my whole family with very little fuss.
But what I'd really miss are proper alternatives to:
🎬 Infuse (Jellyfin client)
🏦 MoneyMoney (Banking)
📋 WISO Steuer (Tax software)
🎵 Meta (MP3 tagging)
📅 Fantastical (Calendar)
📸 CleanShot (Screenshots)
I'm happy to pay for them! But so far, there's just nothing comparable availab…

Many local Republican elites have been quietly resisting the MAGA-fication of their party,
even in the heart of Trump country.
But that resistance is increasingly fragile
— and it may not hold out much longer.
If the old guard is driven out of the party once and for all,
many Americans will eventually confront an unexpected legacy of Trump’s revolution:
a nation where there are no sound alternatives to progressive rule.
Old guard Republicans in th…

Opinion | If Trump’s Allies Win, Red State Governance Will Look Just Like D.C. Chaos
Old guard Republicans have maintained good governance in many red states, but MAGA chaos is coming for them, too.

As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

"In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/04/fuel-crisis-clean-energy-renewable-alternatives?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Quand j'étais encore en études j'avais fais une espèce de lettre pour présenter les alternatives Š #Google que je commençais Š découvrir.
5 ans tard et quasiment 0 apps gogol j'ai fais ce petit site : https://myapplyope…

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/much-ado-about-null

Google Workspace is not forwarding my private domain email reliably to Gmail: I think they're screwing up the ARC and stuff gets dropped as spam. Have you used either of these two alternatives?

1. Use Cloudflare or ForwardEmail to be MX for my domain and deliver to Gmail. Do they get ARC right?
2. Use Google Workspace "address mapping" to forward as the admin (instead of a personal forward). Does this work better?

"A 100% recycled paving block made from mollusk shells and mining waste"
#Recycling
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-recycled-paving-block-mollusk…

A 100% recycled paving block made from mollusk shells and mining waste
The construction industry is one of the most polluting due to its high contribution to CO2 emissions. In addition to its significant environmental cost, its materials are made from nonrenewable resources such as sand and gravel, making the search for sustainable alternatives an urgent challenge in a context where growing production demand must be balanced with environmentally responsible practices. The sector is therefore investigating the development of low-carbon-footprint materials within a …

Ui, digitale Unabhängigkeit nimmt auch woanders Fahrt auf!
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/how-to-replac…

I’m still completely lost with logic of JA4 patent licensing and actual incompatibility with the copyleft-license. So it seems to be a patent-based license and really risky to implement if you want to keep your actual software open source.
Did someone explore alternatives to avoid this? and especially other format which are open source friendly?
#ja4

Buying less from US-owned companies can be difficult. Heinz tomato ketchup is an easy target, but the Danish app UdenUSA (non-USA) shows that good old De Ruijter chocolate sprinkles ('since 1860') are Heinz, too.
The alternatives shown are very Danish :)

Strange the EuroOffice project started out on GitHub. That almost immediately disqualifies it for me, especially in these times. And let's not forget excellent alternatives like Forgejo. A completely missed opportunity. A pity. And stupid.

What is the maximum amount of value destruction that could be wrought on the big centralized commercial AI vendors, and the maximum amount of acceleration of the ecosystem of open source and community-led
alternatives, using the knowledge gained from the leak of the Claude Code source code?

Research proceeds on alternatives of polygraphs, but is true lie detection possible?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/polygraphs-have-major-flaws-are-there-better-options/

Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

@… @… “companies ship the worst possible service they can get away with” is old news but I can see ppl who can’t deploy their apps to eventually look for alternatives. GHA is already famously so bad that there’s plenty alternat…

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats

GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

I spend a bit of time today reading into Matrix and Jabber etc. I also watched some videos about the signup process (to see how easy it is).
Und just when I spoke with my wife about it, I noticed what "felt wrong" when seeing them as alternatives to signal/Whatsapp/...: The signup requires eMail.
When looking for a replacement of the classical messengers, I would expect that I signup by phone number and find contacts via my address book (email / phone).
Need to …

This might be why the Fediverse is such a nice place, but also why it doesn't seem to be as engaging (for some people) as the big tech alternatives. People are just so interesting here. I definitely don't see the rage posting that is present on other platforms..
Rage in the age of X - 🎁 from @…
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/389cac17-bf6f-40eb-8c5e-da2a4a5512d4

Europe does it:
Better.
Safer.
Greener.
Fairer.
Private.
Stronger.
Better.
European alternatives to US products / services:
only-eu.eu/en/
#EU #Europe #Europa

#European alternatives to American apps & software
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/�%9F��🇺-european…

I appreciate the motivation behind the #QuitGPT movement, but what makes anyone think any of the alternatives are any better?

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286295716964968
“Tedious bastards” aka people who actually care about things like privacy and human rights and maybe even want to create alternatives to your toxic brand of technology.
Have you tried fucking off again? May…

Please use GoDaddy to help me search for alternatives. Maybe put some in your cart.

Good turn out for the first Digital Independence Day of the #Uckermark today. We had about 13 people attending the first gathering, and they were listening closely to what we had to say about social media and independent alternatives to the large commercial offerings there. Also, funny enough, there were questions about how to move to Linux from Windows systems, as Microsoft keeps naggin…

You may be surprised that the money in your checking account is being used to fund oil drilling. It's worth it to move to a new bank/credit union to avoid that.
You can check your bank, and find a better one, here:
https://bank.green/

Find Ethical & Sustainable Banks In Your Area
Bank.Green is sounding the alarm on the climate-destroying activities of banks while recommending sustainable alternatives and empowering consumer action.

Als we onafhankelijk willen worden van BigTech hebben we in Europa meer datacenters nodig, niet minder.
#EU #datacenters #bigtech

Mistral raises $830mn to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe
French company’s debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups

Disabling Google's default apps on Android can help reduce your exposure to Google's data mining system somewhat, while their open source alternatives are generally excellent.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-android-without-a-google-account-in-2026/…

＂… something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. …＂
Source: <

I had missed the news that Vancouver city council had asked the city to stop relying exclusively on Twitter for updates.
The staff did a report on feisability. Shows too well how governments can be so slow at the most basic changes.
https://vancouver.c…

It feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code.

If this is defined as thought-provoking, it definitely provokes thought.
So, what Firefox alternatives are you all using?

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes "digital sovereignty" (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/95bd87c8-a112-49a5-9b80-c280a6bb4283

#CNN: "Frequent flyers say these 25 travel essentials under $25 actually make a difference"
Lemme guess. Greyhound (bus) tickets? 😏
#flying #alternatives #sarcasm #travel

Termintipp #Oberland (südlich von München)
Am 9. Mai, 10:00 bis 12:00
findet eine Gärtnerei-Führung durch die #Solawi Biotop Oberland (bei Lenggries) statt.
(Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Klimafrühlings Oberland.)
Um Anmeldung bis 07.05.2026 wird gebeten.

Gärtnereiführung durch die SOLAWI Biotop Oberland - Biotop
Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Klimafrühlings Oberland. Die Biotop Oberland eG steht seit zehn Jahren für solidarisches und alternatives Wirtschaften im Isarwinkel. Die gemeinschaftsgetragene Gärtnerei in Lenggries zeigt, wie Landwirtschaft … Gärtnereiführung durch die SOLAWI Biotop Oberland weiterlesen →

How on earth do you *permanently* opt out of Dropbox moving file storage to MacOS' weird cloud location?
Failing that, are there alternatives with the same basic 'sync files across multiple devices and allow shared access' functions? I don't want to lose the ability to share folders with family

We continue with François Levin talking about “Radical alternatives for AI.”
#UndoneCS

"The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned?"
#Balloons #Pollution

Whoever runs their account does more harm than good to their brand.

The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/the-dark-side-of-the-balloon-boom-is-it-time-they-were-banned

12 k Signature c'est bien, mais c'est loin d'être assez. Aller, on se mobilise pour que nos politiques et donc nos journalistes partent de la plateforme X
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-2610

Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible de gérer sa propre plateforme. Si vous allez ailleurs, les journalistes et les citoyens qui veulent consommer l'information du gouvernement français iront aussi ailleurs. Le propriétaire de cette plateforme est ouvertement opposé aux valeurs de la Constitution française. Il publie régul…

Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.

Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland
Several start-ups are developing cocoa alternatives using barley, beans or sunflower seeds.

RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/116443514449893070
110 Google alternatives?!
Holy moly.
How many of them just use Google results, though? Or Bing's?

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

Such non-sense. Just put clear labels on things.
Whatever, #soy-based slice etc.. It's not hard.
And be honest about it being processed.
A lot of the stuff can easily be self-made. 🧑‍🍳
Fresh #vegan #food

Why veggie bacon will beat the EU’s label ban
As Brussels prepares a ban on meaty names for vegetarian alternatives, plant-based dairy copycats are growing despite similar restrictions.

Constrained optimal transport with an application to large markets with indivisible goods
Koji Yokote
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02559 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.02559
arXiv:2604.02559v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We establish a variant of Monge--Kantorovich duality for a constrained optimal transport problem with a continuum of agents, a finite set of alternatives, and general linear constraints. As an application, we revisit the large-market model of indivisible goods in Azevedo et al. (2013), identify a flaw in the original equilibrium-existence proof stemming from an incorrect compactness claim, and recover equilibrium existence via our duality approach. We also characterize equilibrium prices as minimizers of a potential function, which yields a method for computing equilibrium prices.
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How independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu

A #degrowth ecosocial response to the fascist threat.
The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Network
https://www.degrowth.network/ne…

The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Network
The Social Forum aims to create a space for dialogue and convergence in order to democratically build the foundations of a new ecosocial model that challenges the failed model of green capitalism and confronts fascism by proposing alternatives beyond growth.

We call on European governments to: 
Stop signing new contracts with Palantir.
Review and phase out existing contracts with the company.
Invest in transparent, publicly accountable European alternatives.
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-

Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining access to our data, our hospitals, and our police systems.It’s time to expose it and stop its expansion.

I love it. These #US companies are absolutely screwing themselves twice over. AI won't deliver what they hope, and no people anymore to fix it.
In the meantime, the #EU is full-on developing alternatives and self sufficiency.
@…

Slim options at LB could undermine Cowboys DC's accountability edict https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/31/dallas-cowboys-accountability-need-options-christian-parker/89…

Ah yes, Comorant is 87% match with Comorant.
font-analyzer-six.vercel.app/

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Crosslisted article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Do not throw out the baby: Clarithmetics as alternatives to weak arithmetics
Giorgi Japaridze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_bot/116316995419379292
- On merge-models
Buffi\`ere, Lin, Ne\v{s}et{\v{r}}il, de Mendez}, Siebertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26570 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDM_bot/116316992797678948
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"France’s Ban on Forever Chemicals Sets New Standard for Consumer Safety"
#France #ForeverChemicals #PFAS

France's Ban on Forever Chemicals Sets New Standard for Consumer Safety | Happy Eco News
France’s ban on forever chemicals starting January 2026 prohibits PFAS in textiles, cosmetics, and footwear, setting strict safety thresholds and requiring manufacturers to adopt safer alternatives for consumer protection.

Hey @… with the recent birthdate field being introduced into systemd and the lead developer being obnoxiously stupid about it, Plasma desktop relying more on systemd feels wrong.
Given the circumstances, I urge you to please reconsider systemd dependency on KDE platform and if possible, please think of alternatives.
When you said X11 is getting axed from the cod…

Oh great... so we're going to privatize or sell 'equity' in our airports to private interests so that we can spend the 'proceeds’ on... let me guess... fossil fuel projects.
The more this government digs in, the more it looks like the worst Brian Mulroney Stephen Harper mashup.
@avilewis and the NDP need to be relentlessly loud in their opposition to this and presenting of socially progressive alternatives.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #Airports #Transportation #EndFossilFuels

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …

@… I miss your Wordles. If it's a NYT thing, there are alternatives. May I suggest https://left-wordle.com.
In any case, could point me again (I’ve lost the link) to the site that creates a…

Wordle - A Wordle Alternative
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Friends Don't Let Friends Use #Ollama
#LLM

RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116409089820321174
Looks interesting.
The website offers some good information on weaning yourself from privacy invading market leading products in many areas.
"Explore European and open-source alternatives to …

I've used #pretix for a few events, and although I really like how feature-rich it is, the UX (both on the backend and public-facing pages) could use some serious design reworking. It was one of the few #FOSS alternatives out there to

But yeah. Don't buy the creep's smart glasses. Don't let anyone wearing them stand near you. REALLY don't let them look at your credit cards.
In fact, if you ask me, do not pass your communications through the meta creep at all. Why would you? Alternatives exist.
I block all his servers here. He is literally the worst system admin ever.
What a creep. Look at him his creepy glasses. Ugh. Just don't let him look at you in them.
#facebook #glasses

«dCode - Online Ciphers, Solvers, Decoders, Calculators:
dCode is the universal site for decipher coded messages, cheating on letter games, solving puzzles, geocaches and treasure hunts, etc.»
This data-collecting website is often suggested to me when I am looking for something for data security and encryption. Are there any data-saving online alternatives in this regard?
🔑

dCode - Online Ciphers, Solvers, Decoders, Calculators
dCode is the universal site for decipher coded messages, cheating on letter games, solving puzzles, geocaches and treasure hunts, etc.

Wealthsimple just announced a partnership with Twitter
That’s just after a week after announcing their intention to offer prediction markets
If you’re a customer and you are unhappy, email them: complaints@wealthsimple.com
Also good to start looking at alternatives
#wealthsimple

If you say out loud “Computer, end program!” and it doesn’t work, try these alternatives:
“Computer, exit!”
“Computer, command q!”
“Computer, control c!”
“Computer, control x!”
“Computer, control x, control c!”
“Computer, period quit!”
“Computer, colon q return!”
“Computer, kill minus nine!”
(I'm sure I forgot a few or got some wrong... any suggestions?)

"Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing"
#HorseshoeCrabs #Animals #Oceans

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing
Amgen and Abbott are ditching horseshoe crab blood for synthetic alternatives — a win for a 450-million-year-old species edging toward extinction.

Gerüchteweise ist die Verteidigung dagegen ein alternatives Texture-Pack bei dem alle Blöcke einer Kategorie irgendwie gleich aussehen, aber das haben wir noch nicht so genau verstanden.

It's not like I'm entirely surprised by this #OpenAI. That's the kind of software that we should build as a community.
#Astral #Python #Capitalism #floss

None of these surveillance companies trying to break your kid’s brains would exist if we hadn’t made it illegal to reverse engineer their manipulative crappy software and produce compatible none-manipulative clones.
But they have been granted legal monopoly, so they can do what they like.
If you want a law to protect internet users it isn’t
“Force them to consent before you spy on them”
or
“age-gate chat forums”,
No. The real solutions are more like:
“Buying and selling data about an individual is illegal and punishable by years in jail and a penalty of 2x yearly profit”
or
“Advertising must be based on the content of the page context not the tracking of the individual”.
If a legal intervention is warranted then we don’t want a system where website operators have to pick between a list of monopoly providers to hand over their data to and force them all to spy on their users to age-check.
We want companies to be explicitly allowed to reverse engineer and reproduce other company’s proprietary access methods, to increase competition and end these rentier monopolies that allow them to push their manipulative phone apps.
End the DMCA and the similar laws which they campaigned for to prevent competition. It’s those laws which give the corporations the power to push their algorithms and limit alternatives.