There are many alternatives. Check out https://european-alternatives.eu

Let's have a quick look:

Qwant France EU Hosting

Sure, but the search engine behind is monstly Bing.

Startpage Netherlands EU Hosting

Use Bing and Google

Ecosia Germany EU Hosting

Use Bing, Google Yahoo and Wikipedia

This is not how you build alternative platforms.

The only true Independents search engine are Brave Search and Kagi both from the US.

The EU can't compete, we are lagging behind.

Kagi is not independent: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Disclaimer: I work at Brave.

You missed independent search engine Mojeek (UK), and which Kagi uses.

I recently found this site: https://european-alternatives.eu. I think there are many EU-based alternatives to U.S. tech that are not very well-known.

I have started moving some personal stuff to Codeberg and statichost.eu.

I'm actually impressed with some of the software there. Its matured quite a lot since I last looked at it.

I might try OnlyOffice. I've never really gelled with LibreOffice due to the UI.

My organisation has recently gone all in on MS intune/O365. Its been happening gradually but accelerated recently. I think some heavy taffies might make us look at it again, but probably not.

LibreOffice UI can be changed (ribbon style) if you prefer. Just saying because I realized it quite recently

Oh I'll try that, thanks.

Time for another coffee

I think most people buy Bitcoin for its speculative value but never use it as a currency to actually buy or sell stuff.

I use it as a currency to both buy and sell stuff.

If the gp had said “no one uses it to...” your anecdotal sample of one response would have been sufficient to disprove the claim. However, it is at best anecdotal and at worst completely irrelevant to the actual claim made (i.e. that most BTC users are investing in the currency).

Okay? Do you have any insight as to whether you belong to the set of "most people"?

I bought some Bitcoin over five years ago, totally forgot about it, and then remembered I had bought some. I sold it and bought an SLR camera to photograph the total eclipse this summer. It felt like the time I won a few hundred bucks at the slots in Nevada.

Annotated by whom?

Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

Based on Brad Larson's GPUImage, amazing OpenGL based image filters library, very hackable if you learn GLSL :)

Yup. I made sure the second line in the repo readme was "The majority of the praise should be directed towards BradLarson for his GPUImage library."

Does anyone have a list of all existing interpreters in the App Store? This would be a nice compilation for newbies to programming, teaching kids to program, etc.

Isn't he talking about "Backend as a service"? Shouldn't he mention Parse or StackMob or Appcelerator Cloud Services, etc.?

Or Buddy?

The data in the infographic is pretty interesting, and the author's gist is correct, but it is sad that an article about "mobile backends in a box" doesn't even try to list some of the key players.

It's a fluff article provided to them by Engine Yard since if you actually were writing a real story you would point out the different providers.

You may also like Michael Steil's awesome "Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk": http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54

Amazing technical overview of the C64, including the latest in demo effects, in 64 minutes.