Without AI and FOSS, Precise Calculator, precise isn’t only a saying, this thing is capable to calculate until 100.000.000 numbers after the comma if you want (FOSS, Windows only).

Short answer: Yes

In Spain there are more and more shops selling PCs only with FreeDOS to the user choice which OS he want to use. I need to use Windows for several reasons, but it’s gutted and debloated to the mere OS (<1GB).

Clearly it isn’t easy to switch away from US corporative services and the way to go is OpenSource and if not, using instead EU products and services. It’s still a long way to go, the way is made walking. It’s about souvereignity, not depending on greedy US companies, less with this stupid Australopithecus as President. Time to show him the middlefinger, as at least Spain already does.

I like sarcasm, but if you don’t know the people, it’s not always clear that it was in this sense. With eg. the PP of Google there are no doubts with: Your privacy is very important for us.

Well, LibreOffice and other free office suites use by default .odt, but all are capable to open and export any other document format, even more than MSOffice is capable to do. In Spain since years administrations and companies are usin LibreOffice and OpenOffice without problems. Spain is one of the most advanced countries in the EU respect OpenSource-

Open Source Initiatives and Events in Spain

Spain has several notable open source initiatives and events spanning education, government, and industry:

Government Initiatives

The Galician government launched Mancomún in 2006 to promote free and open source software (FOSS), achieving significant cost savings by migrating public administration to LibreOffice and other open source tools^[1]. By 2018, the government completed migration of all workstations to open source productivity suites, reducing licensing costs by 50% (€1.7 million annually)^[1:1].

Major Events

Open Source Summit Europe takes place in Spain, with the 2023 event held in Bilbao from September 19-21^[2]. The summit brings together developers, technologists and community leaders to advance open source innovation^[2:1].

Education and Resources

Several Spanish-language open educational resources support learning:

• El Atareao (atareao.es), a Spanish blog focused on GNU/Linux and open source topics^[3]
• Español Abierto, a collection maintained by the University of Texas for Spanish language learners^[4]
• LibriVox’s Spanish audiobook collection featuring public domain works^[4:1]

Business Adoption

Major companies recognize Spain’s open source expertise. In 2016, Accenture acquired Spanish firm Tecnilógica to expand its open source capabilities, noting the company’s skill in “using emerging and open source technologies”^[5].

See also https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/spain-2025-country-report

I think that it don’t mean the Steam website, but steam pressure.

Agree, better to call it LLM, because intelligence is needed by the user, not a thing of an algorrithm. And yes, Swiss is known for good products, but as said before, also other EU countries use products which are even better as the ones from the US. Only rest to also use these. See eg. the German KDE and its products, even the US forked these, eg. Blink and WebKit are forks from the KHTML engine by KDE, used by its Konqueror browser (Linux only).

Read about the procedence of the Apertus Data, there isn’t any copyright violation scrapping.

It’s an recurrent claim by the right wings, but same as the Chatcontrol, rejected, because incompatibility with the privacy rights in the EU which would be violated with Palantir and the Chat control… There isn’t any reason to introduce the control, because the current law permits an individual chat control in an crime investigation with an court order, but not an global control, which would be the same as open and controlling private cards and correspondence, which obvious is a no go.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-deutschland-sagt-nein-zu-chatkontrolle,Uz1fO08

https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/chatkontrolle-eu-deutschland-bmjv-hubig-whatsapp-signal

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/chatkontrolle-eu-justizministerin-100.html

Well, compared to the energy used by the LHC, anyway, the Swiss use mostly Hydro-electric plants for the Energy, normal in Alpine zones. (~65% of Swiss energy is renevable (Hydro, Solar, Eolic). Even used the heat produced by the CSCS.

https://www.cscs.ch/publications/press-releases/2015/installation-of-a-microhydro-plant-at-the-cscs-pumping-station-for-the-production-of-electrical-energy-using-the-cooling-water-from-supercomputers

Anyway, there are tons of EU alternatives, even superior, to US products and services. It’s not a tecnically but an political problem to switch, which at least is on the way.

Well, respect AI, there is a big one from Swiss, Apertus with its PublicAI, using the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), also used by the CERN. All 100%FOSS and privacy centred. I currently use the PublicAI in my bookmarks (free account (nick,mail). The Apertus dataset can also be downloaded if someone want to selfhost it (~90 GB min)

It’s nothing new, steganographic encryption is used as long I remeber, to hide messages into texts, images, videos and even music. There are a lot of tools out there which everyone can use. The advantage is, that an normal encrypted message can cause suspicions, but not so an inocent selfi from the beach, a cat photo, an mp3 of an summerhit, or an “unencrypted” text message, all these can be a container for hidden messages. It can also be used for invisible watermarks for an copy protection, but also for evil uses in autoexecutables malware in images or mp3 files, as seen in the past.

https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/Jpinsoft/DeepSound

https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego

https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/ssuitepicselsecurity.htm

https://github.com/KuroLabs/stegcloak

https://github.com/fabienpe/MP3Stego

and several more, I listed only the free and OpenSource apps

Browser engine

Portmaster on desktop, InviZible Pro on mobile

Account is free, minimum data (nick and mail, if you want, use an disposable one), well, also Lemmy need an account like almost any other service you use. The account is not shared, but with account you can customize it with plug ins and for an API. Otherwise you can selfhost it, but than you don’t have the power of the supercomputer from the swiss datacenter, the same used by the LHC of the CERN, but only the server you use to host it. It don’t store previous chats if you don’t want, otherwise only stored in your HD.

Webbkoll test

Apertus PublicAI is also capable to translate in a lot of lenguages, among other uses. Swiss made, privacy focused and FOSS. On eye level to the most advanced US AIs. It use the infrastructure of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

About Apertus

Linguist extension (Chromium/ Firefox)

• Modular translators system
• You can use any translation service like Google, Yandex, Bing, DeepL, ChatGPT, etc.
• Custom translators: you can use your own translator module
• Offline translation. With embedded Bergamot translator, you can translate texts right on your device. Keep your privacy
• All-in-one translation solution
• Full-page translation with flexible auto-translation configuration
• Highlighted text translation
• Translate any text input
• Dictionary with saved translations
• Translations history, to remember recently translated words
• Text-to-speech (TTS)

or Crow Translate on Desktop

• Translate and speak text from screen or selection
• Support 125 different languages
• Low memory consumption (~20MB)
• Highly customizable shortcuts
• Command-line interface with rich options
• D-Bus API
• Available for Linux and Windows

Mastodon instances are mostly leftists, I’m on socialvivaldi.net, which is almost 100% leftist in political themes.