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"Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives"
#Mexico #Dolphins #Animals

Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives | Happy Eco News
The Mexico dolphin show ban in 2025 promotes ethical wildlife tourism alternatives. Learn how this historic law changes travel and why responsible whale-watching is replacing cruel captive entertainment across Latin America.

Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/exclusive-cubby-raises-63-million…

Exclusive: Cubby raises $63 million in Goldman Sachs-led funding to scale self-storage software
Cubby just raised a $63 million Series A, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Fortune has exclusively learned.

This is how climate and geophysical system breakdown affects everyday life. Transport link (rail) cut and alternatives (buses) unable to replicate the traffic flow.
Expect much more like this.
Storm Ingrid damage forces closure of Devon railway line
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gldd9

Clean-up under way in Devon after Storm Ingrid wreaks havoc
Storm Ingrid batters Devon and Cornwall - damaging a sea wall, a historic pier and homes.

In 2026, what are the alternatives to Evernote?
I know of:
1. EagleFiler by @…
2. Yojimbo by @…
What else? And which one would you recommend?

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

European alternatives for digital products
#Europe #sovereignty

Danone Survey: Nearly Half of Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Alternatives https://vegconomist.com/food-and-beverage/milk-and-dairy-alternatives/danone-survey-nearly-half-germans-consume-plant-based…

Danone Survey: Nearly Half of Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Alternatives - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A recent survey conducted by Danone Germany in collaboration with the research firm INNOFACT reports that plant-based milk alternatives are now regularly

The official Epson Print Layout application is such an annoying piece of bad software, bug ridden and slowly turning out to be quite costly (when working with expensive fine art inks & paper, costing 2.50 EUR per page)...
Any recommendations for alternatives (which also support the P900 advanced ink settings?)
Just one example: I go through the effort to create a nice custom page layout in a certain orientation (e.g. A3 landscape). The app also shows the preview correctly, bu…

I’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…

I wonder when the average(!) person will be ready for discussions on free alternatives for popular services like #YouTube, #WhatsApp, #GMail,

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

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.

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.

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…

»Exploring alternatives to UUIDv4; Enter ULIDs.
UUIDv4 is a commonly used unique identifier format. UUIDv4 is a standardized format for generating unique identifiers that are widely used in distributed systems. […]«
Of course, UUID is usually used as a clear data hint and there are countless alternatives that are optimal depending on their application but I didn't know ksuid yet.
👤

Il y a une vingtaine d'années, ces groupes furent ma porte d'entrée vers la musique Japonaise.
https://japanesealternative.net/2026/02/07/japanese-alternatives-guide-to-jp-new-wave/

So i've been trying to move away from an American domain registrar (name.com)
My first try is with WHC (Web Hosting Canada)... so far i'm really really not impressed. Customer support is just awful.
Glad i just tried to transfer a single domain and not all of them.. will have to keep looking for alternatives
#buycanadian

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

As expected. And now, with no alternatives, millions of Americans will lose their Healthcare insurance. Some will die.
Trump voters: This is your fault.
☑️ Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke - Public Notice
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-health

Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke
He can barely bring himself to pretend he cares.

exposure to sexual exploitation. We can help Europeans build and join alternatives that can serve this function properly.
4/4

@… 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.

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null

Alternatives to #Linux are Redox, the BSDs, Illumos, Haiku, ReactOS, and Plan 9. There are even more! 🙂

Auch bei den anderen Parteien kann man durchaus berechtigt davon sprechen, daß die politische Lüge schon im Parteinamen beginnt,¹ aber auch hier treibt es die AfD auf die Spitze: sie ist natürlich keine Alternative _für_ Deutschland, vielmehr will sie ein alternatives Deutschland – im rechtsesoterisch-faschistischen Sinne. Das Deutschland, für das sie Politik machen will, hat mit dem demokratischen Deutschland kaum etwas zu tun², sondern orientiert sich an einer „tausendjährigen“ Blut-und-Bo…

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

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…

"RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are ‘Better’ And ‘More Efficient’"
#Animals
https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/rfk-jr…

RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are 'Better' And 'More Efficient'
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) has said that he is working to wind down animal testing in the US

YouTube launches genre-specific YouTube TV Plans as lower-cost alternatives to the $82.99 monthly subscription; the Sports Plan is priced at $64.99 per month (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/09/youtube-tv-plans-launch/

YouTube TV Plans launch this week from $55/month with $65 Sports Plan 
“YouTube TV Plans” are rolling out this week as cheaper alternatives to paying $82.99 per month for over 100 channels.

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

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.

It's interesting how alternatives to the classic corporate #Android keep coming up
1. Android-based but modified & 'de-Googled', like I think #LineageOS, #CalyxOS,

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

"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

You know what? This switching.software website is great. Very down to earth, non-techie approach, exactly the thing needed for most people.
https://switching.software/

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.

can anyone help me find some graphics for social media alternatives that show the big social media logos and then the logo and name of the activitypub equivalent?
I know I have seen a few but suddenly can't find them.
#mastodon #activitypub

#Geopolymere aus tonhaltigen Materialien und Industrieabfällen bieten eine Alternative zu #Portlandzement und können den CO2 Ausstoß in der #Baustoffproduktion senken.
Sie en…

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly
Cement is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and demand is growing as the population booms. Alternatives could help lower the impact.

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 have written why local police, possibly SWAT, must engage, detain and arrest ice. The alternatives are all worse.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds/

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

“We’re looking at execution roughly every 16 days,”
said Grace Hanna of
"Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty".
https://truthout.org/articles/florida-sets-the-record-for-death-penalties-this-year/

Florida Sets the Record for Death Penalties This Year
“We’re looking at execution roughly every 16 days,” said Grace Hanna of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

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

Analyze Any Font - Extract Fonts from Any Website
Discover and analyze fonts from any website. Just enter a URL and get instant access to all the fonts used.

«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.

@… ich höre gerade @bitsundso und es gibt andere alternativern zu Dropbox https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/dropbox
Vielleicht ist et…

Phone is showing SOS only as part of the Verizon Wireless outage.
Can't sign into my account because their 2FA requires a text verification and they've no alternatives.
Text 2FA has always been dumb.

While the desktop experience has some room for improvement, the Ente Photos app on mobile is totally competitive with privacy-invasive alternatives.
https://theprivacydad.com/ente-photos-a-privacy-first-photo-app/
@…

This has a lot of good issues and vision. You can probably get the core ideas after watching a short while (Though at the end he talks about some possible alternatives).
He does go on and on and probably could say everything with much less words. But the bottom line is he's probably right unless there is some radical new technology / technique that shows up. And if that happens, all the Big HyperScaler companies go bust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSgy2P2q790

@…
https://nosystemd.org/#alternatives what's wrong with the array of choices there?

Copy-Trasform-Paste: Zero-Shot Object-Object Alignment Guided by Vision-Language and Geometric Constraints
Rotem Gatenyo, Ohad Fried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14207
arXiv:2601.14207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study zero-shot 3D alignment of two given meshes, using a text prompt describing their spatial relation -- an essential capability for content creation and scene assembly. Earlier approaches primarily rely on geometric alignment procedures, while recent work leverages pretrained 2D diffusion models to model language-conditioned object-object spatial relationships. In contrast, we directly optimize the relative pose at test time, updating translation, rotation, and isotropic scale with CLIP-driven gradients via a differentiable renderer, without training a new model. Our framework augments language supervision with geometry-aware objectives: a variant of soft-Iterative Closest Point (ICP) term to encourage surface attachment and a penetration loss to discourage interpenetration. A phased schedule strengthens contact constraints over time, and camera control concentrates the optimization on the interaction region. To enable evaluation, we curate a benchmark containing diverse categories and relations, and compare against baselines. Our method outperforms all alternatives, yielding semantically faithful and physically plausible alignments.
toXiv_bot_toot

@… I do.
A thing I said a bunch back before I started paying for Kagi, when I was using Duck Duck Go: alternatives to Google are so much more viable now than they were 5 years ago because Google itself is so much worse than Google was 5 years ago. Kagi is good-for-now.
It's not nearly as good as Peak Google, but neither is 2026 Google.
I pay for it; …

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

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.

Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.
It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.
But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.
And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.

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 …

Small list I have put together for alternatives to #discord
I am looking at this from a non-technical perspective...
Willing to hear about other platforms though/
#Matrix = YES = BUT Onboarding is difficult.
#Root

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…

A common effort between 23 different local authorities* in Denmark to develop FOSS alternatives to big US tech in Danish schools.
I am here for this
Ja, tak 🙏
*But not apparently my local authority...
@… - @bettina alle kan læse mere om projektet her:
Https://www.os2.eu/OS2skole

Une #petition intéressante
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.

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…

Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's AI chips used for inference and has sought alternatives since last year, including from Cerebras and Groq (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-is-u…

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

By 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives. France plans to replace Zoom and Teams with a homegrown video conference system by 2027. Austria's military has adopted open-source office software, and a German state has switched to free software for administrative tasks. This shift aims for “digital sovereignty” amid concerns over data privacy and reliance on U.S. companies. The movement has gained momentum due to geopolitical ten…

"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.

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?

L'occasion de rappeler que l'acupuncture n'est qu'un placebo bien mis en scène.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-acupuncteurs-mettent-en-garde-apres-la-disparition-de-tout-cadre-legislatif-11676602…

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…

Great blog which makes again clear for me, why everybody should leave Whatsapp and move to safer alternatives like Signal. Although it can also be interpreted as a defense of Whatsapp.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/wh…

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but sever…

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

from my link log —
A survey of dynamic array structures.
https://azmr.uk/dyn/
saved 2026-01-02 https://dotat.at/:/KMIDU.html<…

A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures
This is a more thorough coverage of one of the topics that came up in my recent BSC25 talk "Assuming As Much As Possible" You use arrays all the time. The number of elements they need is often determined at runtime. There many different alternatives for representing these, with different

That discord age verification hopefully kickstarts some usable alternatives. Self hosted services are still hard for the average user to setup and get into

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 …

On a atteint 10% des 100k signature pour que nos politiques bougent de X, continuons de signer : https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/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…

Deux alternatives Š #linkedin qui s’interface avec Bluesky et Mastodon :
* https://ponos-job.eu/
* ht…

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

i implemented Ascon-Hash256 in Amaranth! (as well as laid the groundwork for the rest of Ascon family functions, including Ascon-AEAD128)
it comes at 1268 LUTs for iCE40 in the "compact" configuration, processing an average of 5.3 bit/cycle. a little expensive, but modern and cheaper than many better known alternatives

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

He visto esta comparativa de navegadores y me parece sublime https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30262814

Just in case you’re afraid AI is taking over: Ask any of them to play a round of #wordle 🤣😵‍💫

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…

"Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Plastic

Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives | Happy Eco News
EU microplastic ban regulations introduced through REACH in 2023 are transforming how industries use plastics. The comprehensive rules phase out microplastics from cosmetics, detergents, and agricultural products by 2035, pushing companies to develop biodegradable alternatives. Major corporations and startups are responding with innovative solutions that break down naturally while maintaining performance.

Does anybody have contact info for George Soros? I keep hearing that he’s paying demonstrators/domestic terrorists the big bucks and I’d like to get in on this lucrative side hustle. As a retiree on a fixed income, and with prices for everything going thru the roof, I need to find some alternatives to help pay the bills. Weed and wine don’t grow on trees y’know? Also, if I’m on his payroll, what other benefits can I expect?

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

Disclaimer: it's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that the invasive implantable alternatives are so bad #BCI

France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.
Under the plan, a domestically developed video meeting service known as Visio will become the standard tool for public servants, with full adoption expected next year.
https://www.

France to replace US video conferencing with domestic alternatives
France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.

⚠️ Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease
#sorbitol

Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease
Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets, sucralose (Splenda), or sugar alcohols are often seen as healthier alternatives to food with refined sugar (glucose). But that assumption is being challenged with new research, including the recent finding that the sugar alcohol sorbitol is not as harmless a sugar substitute as once thought.

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.

Nice piece on 'Prototyping semantic search for case law' by PhD student Caitlin Wilson working with the National Archives: 'a user searching for 'divorce' may be shown legal alternatives like '[decree] nisi,' or searching for 'compensation' will suggest terms like 'damages,' or 'reparation''

Prototyping semantic search for case law
PhD student Caitlin Wilson showcases the latest results from her research into an accessible search function for The National Archives' Find Case Law service.

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.

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…

Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization

＂… 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: <

Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…

Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/02/goldman-sachs-fieldguid…

Goldman Sachs leads $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform
Valued at $700 million, Fieldguide is combating the ‘existential’ talent crisis for the CPA industry.

Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.

"Millions of Christmas trees will end up in landfill this year. Here's what to do with them instead"
#Christmas #Trees #ChristmasTrees

Throwing out the Christmas tree? Here are the alternatives to landfill
Christmas trees can take years to break down when thrown into landfill, but there are some more eco-friendly ways of ending the festivity.

"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 …

"Norway’s Deep Sea Mining Ban Strengthens Global Movement for Ocean Protection"
#Norway #Oceans #Environment

Norway's Deep Sea Mining Ban Strengthens Global Movement for Ocean Protection | Happy Eco News
Norway's deep sea mining ban will protect Arctic waters until 2029 after environmental pressure and green party negotiations. The decision ends public funding for mineral mapping and strengthens global resistance to ocean floor extraction. Over 40 countries now support pausing deep sea mining while recycling alternatives could provide needed minerals without environmental destruction.

"Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water"
#Environment #Water

Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water
Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as more modern salt alternatives.

"Nearly Half of All Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Products, According to New Survey"
#Germany #Food #Dairy

Nearly Half of All Germans Now Consume Plant-Based Milk Products, According to New Survey
Nearly half of German adults now drink plant-based milk alternatives, as dairy-free products break out of their niche to become mainstream