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AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world. That's right, all the lists of alternatives are crowd-sourced, and that's what makes the data powerful and relevant.

I knew the site a long time ago - they usually show up on search engine results when you're looking for an alternative, but I never knew the lists were crowd-sourced. For some reason, I even got into the habit of avoiding them and always going for Reddit threads when searching for an alternative or some other random sites.

But not long ago I visited them and damn, it's actually pretty great. They publish quite a lot of articles, have a Mastodon account, have a lot of important info near each app - like license, country of origin, some warnings, short descriptions, user comments, features. And you can easily contribute yourself with little effort.

So you should know about this, because I didn't realize how useful it actually is. Beats browsing random sponsored websites that recommend alternatives.

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Well said Bette

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51177007

Think the roughly $18 Billion Meta has settled for over child safety is a slap on the wrist?

Wait until you see the actual details: 😀 Paid in annual installments over a 10-year period

😜 States receive the money, not the victims

🤑 30% will only be paid if YouTube & TikTok:

"...pay an amount matching the 30% figure "...implement a one-hour Daily Limit, Night Mode, and age assurance measures"

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/agreement-with-state-attorneys-general-supporting-teens/

Meta even wrote a wonderfully open letter to their competitors!

Sadly now everyone will have to verify themselves, too bad for Meta, now they will have to collect even more data - which we know they totally oppose and hate ;)

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10966531

Chinese workers are circulating instructions [on Chinese social media] for reporting excessive working hours to European authorities, using the EU’s forthcoming forced-labour rules as leverage in a domestic labour system where complaints often produce limited results.

Videos tagged with phrases such as “EU reporting website” and “EU reporting procedures” received more than 200,000 views on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, according to an examination of social-media activity by Reuters. Similar discussions appeared on RedNote, although some posts were later removed.

The activity shows that workers are beginning to view access to the European market as a pressure point before the regulation becomes fully applicable in December 2027.

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The EU Forced Labour Regulation prohibits products made wholly or partly with forced labour from being placed on or exported from the Union market. It applies to every sector and origin, including individual components within a finished product.

Authorities will be able to investigate substantiated concerns, prohibit affected goods and order their withdrawal. Customs officers will enforce decisions at the border, while a single portal and shared database are intended to collect information and co-ordinate cases.

Excessive overtime is evidence, not a verdict

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The European measure uses the International Labour Organization definition: work or service exacted under the menace of a penalty and not offered voluntarily. Excessive overtime can be an indicator when workers are coerced, threatened, indebted, deprived of documents or unable to leave. Hours alone do not settle the case.

Official figures indicate that Chinese employees work more than 48 hours a week on average, compared with a legal standard of 44. Enforcement is uneven, particularly where factories face tight export deadlines or workers depend on overtime to reach an acceptable income.

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Some Chinese companies have announced mandatory clock-off times, partly in response to public criticism of the “996” culture of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week. The persistence of online complaints suggests that formal policies and factory practice can diverge.

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Lu Ming, a member of China’s top political advisory body, warned earlier this year that weak [Chinese] labour protection could provoke foreign trade barriers if other countries concluded that export competitiveness was built on excessive work and poor living conditions.

A new risk for European importers

The regulation does not create a blanket presumption against Chinese goods. EU and national authorities must use factual, verifiable information and follow a risk-based process. The burden of establishing a violation rests with the lead authority, not with an individual worker posting a video.

Worker testimony may nevertheless provide the starting point for an inquiry. A detailed submission identifying a factory, product, production period and coercive practice is more useful than a general complaint about long hours. Preserving evidence is difficult when posts disappear or employees fear retaliation.

European companies will need to examine more than first-tier suppliers. The prohibition applies where forced labour has been used at any stage of extraction, manufacturing or processing, including in components. A finished product assembled under acceptable conditions can still be affected by conduct further upstream.

That prospect changes the economics of compliance. Importers may demand payroll records, working-time data, grievance procedures and access to employees. Audits arranged by suppliers are unlikely to be sufficient if workers cannot speak freely or records can be altered.

The worker interest also lands in a tense trade relationship. Brussels and Beijing are already disputing subsidies, market access and industrial overcapacity. A forced-labour investigation would be legally distinct from those cases, but Chinese officials may still regard it as part of a wider European effort to restrict competitive exports.

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For workers, that political sensitivity is part of the attraction. A domestic overtime complaint can be contained within one employer or locality; credible evidence affecting EU market access can reach customers, customs authorities and corporate boards thousands of miles away.

The regulation applies from 14 December 2027. Its influence has begun earlier, not through a Commission enforcement action, but through workers testing whether European trade law can give their grievances a commercial consequence.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10966800

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German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said Germany could no longer rely solely on traditional free-trade principles while China strengthened its competitive position.

“They’re not playing by the rules,” Klingbeil ... said. “Overcapacity, state subsidies, joint venture obligations – all these things.”

“We simply have to do more in this regard,” he added.

His comments come amid growing concerns over Europe’s industrial competitiveness. European policymakers have increasingly argued that stronger trade-defense measures and industrial support mechanisms may be necessary to counter competitive pressures from China.

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Context: This meme is about the Norwegian heavy water sabotage in WWII. A squad of Norwegian commandos, trained and armed by the British, snuck into the Vemork power plant to wreck Nazi Germany's nuclear research. But right as they were about to light the fuses, the local caretaker panicked about his lost glasses. Since new eyeglasses were basically impossible to get during the war, everyone stopped to search until they found them. Then they blew the chambers. So yeah, they risked the whole mission over a pair of spectacles. Also they weren't actually British commandos, they were Norwegians working with the Brits.

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