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OK. I'll just claim French privacy law is better than GDPR then. If you ask I'll just point you to French law. If you tell me that doesn't help I'll call you a troll. I mean honestly if that's how you interact with people I'd rather just block you, I don't need more noise in my life. Take care.

IMHO LLM usage isn't coherent with independence. That being said I wrote quite a bit on self-hosting LLMs. There are quite a few tools available, like ollama itself relying on llama.cpp that can both work locally and provide an API compatible replacement to cloud services. As you suggested though typically at home one doesn't have the hardware, GPUs with 100+GB of VRAM, to run the state of the art. There is a middle ground though between full cloud, API key, closed source vs open source at home on low-end hardware : running STOA open models on cloud. It can be done on any cloud but it's much easier to start with dedicated hardware and tooling, for that HuggingFace is great but there are multiples. TL;DR: closed cloud -> models on clouds -> self-hosted provide a better path to independence, including training.

How is asking to justify a position trolling? You are the one who claimed that Danish law is better than GDPR. I didn't claim you lie or that law elsewhere was better, I solely asked for the proof. It's not because I mistrust you, I just want to learn and you saying it is so without an actual comparison is not enough. If you don't want to help that's perfectly OK you can just say so. It's fine to say you prefer Danish product because they are better and refuse to give proof that it's the case. It won't help me nor others though. It's the Privacy community on Lemmy, I bet others would love to learn too.

AI tools can find bugs faster than they can be patched Not a security expert but wasn’t that the case already? It feels like before AI there were already a lot more bugs, security related or not, on backlogs. That’s precisely why there are metrics like severity.

Bought a 2nd-hand Pixel 8 to put GrapheneOS on it, not sure if that counts. Feels old, more ecological, cheaper and more private. Not sure how repairable it is but in theory I can use it for up 7 years so hopefully by the time I need to repair it I wouldn't even want to.

Thanks, skimmed through https://www.recordinglaw.com/world-laws/world-data-privacy-laws/denmark-data-privacy-laws/ but it's quite difficult to do a "diff" between one and the other. From reading it I didn't notice significantly better for my normal usage but I'm not a lawyer. It also makes me wonder, if you have done it, how do you know it's not better than say another random EU country also national specific modifications, e.g. Slovenia? Is there any "benchmark" somewhere that identifies which national changes are better?

Which Danish laws go beyond GDPR?

CoMaps can export a GPS Exchange Format (GPX) route. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPX and that can be used to get most of the data your need. I imagine you could write a spreadsheet or online to do your visualization. I also bet others already did it. I've done something like that for hikes to plot the path in 3D for WebXR. As others points out GadgetBridge if you want additional data, typically biosensors for heart rate monitoring, is great to see which hardware is supported.

just that the mobile Proton Mail app does not support fulltext search. I know why, but I still think it’s doable the same way as in the web browser If your mobile has a modern Web browser I’m pretty sure you can do full text search in there too. Also FWIW it’s a constant struggle for everyone. Corporations do their very best, both technically but also with marketing and lobbying, to make it nearly impossible. We have to learn, help each other, vote and it will never stop. Still, each step mattes so kudos on even attempting.

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I think the “trap” is to believe “we” can “win” once and for all. Under capitalism (and I’m not suggesting there are better systems, only highlight a core mechanism) there will always be competition to capture value, both customers and lawmakers who (should) protect them. There are countless examples but one of the most obvious on that topic if Microsoft itself with it’s sadly now classic EEE en.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis… of which we can admire the comtemporary version with Github. Initially Github was acquired and no changed, nowadays a lot of basic functionalities, e.g. search within a repository are locked behind a login, there are more and more advertisements for Microsoft other products, e.g. CoPilot. That last product itself is questioning the foundation of free software and open source with its license washing process making unclear who did what, breaking provenance, etc. The same happened with Google acquiring Android but not locking it down more and more. The list could grow longer and longer, overall the point is to showcase a pattern : nothing is just “let” alone to grow on its own. It’s gradually captured and enshittified until there is nothing left but the name of a project because corporations exist only to extract more money. There is no moral, only an imperative for profit or their death. So… unfortunately we WILL have to keep on both building AND protecting what’s been built so far with newer and more powerful threats. Microsoft, Google, and all large corporations who advertise themselves as allies of free software and open source MUST be judge on what they actually do, not on what they claim. We have to push back and we will always have to. This year and the next.

I'm not sure for what matters it makes a difference, namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand#Legal_status Also AFAICT since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HavenCo my understanding is that P2P and distributed technical solutions (torrent, Onion routing, I2P, bitcoin, etc) improved enough that it wasn't really worth it.

Makes me curious, I assume within the EU with GDPR it would be roughly equivalent. What's the difference between EU countries then and why?

"Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in technology sales, marketing, public relations, ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

Sadly FUD as ANYTHING that is NOT increasing profit for surveillance capitalism, i.e Google, Meta, etc is a win for privacy! Of course /e/OS could be better, GrapheneOS could also be better (including on security) but the big picture is that still ANY of those solutions is making surveillance capitalism, the loss of privacy for profit and power, less efficient. That's good for all of us who, being on Lemmy or other federated instance, believe we do benefit from having more privacy, or at least not trading it away. TL;DR: be inclusive, bring others up, don't be exclusive aiming for perfection none of us can attain.

CoMaps / OpenStreetMap / local public service for public transport

So glad I moved from iOS to /e/OS (last year) then to GrapheneOS (last month).

I like risky sports (relative for some people it might be boring) but when I have to work or even play I want stuff that just works. I can’t imagine using a laptop and wondering every day if this is the last update to my OS I might get. Sure Apple laptops might be great hardware, you might love the design, etc but just the fact that this question exists make it impossible to consider such hardware. TL;DR: I don’t know and I don’t want to care. Please support OEMs who are not making money by selling locked hardware.

Yes I’m serious and I’m not a troll. I don’t know what in my questions or suggestions make it sound like that but feel free to dig deeper. Anyway, AFAIK Minecraft has an official client which connect to official servers. It’s possible to replace clients, as listed earlier, but they might still rely on official servers with their accounts as you pointed out. There are though, AFAICT, compatible servers too, e.g. glowstone.net so one could connect an unofficial client to an unofficial server and thus have a similar experience with no reliance on anything related to Microsoft, no?

No worries, if you want you can “test” that via a virtual machine, even a container e.g. docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ and see what you would genuinely miss. It feels like our computer is very unique, very customized, but often it’s done in very few key places, e.g. browser profile data, ~/.bashrc , etc and once you locate those, transitioning to any other system is way easier.

So for the PineTime the most popular firmware is https://infinitime.io/ and by default you get

• Watchfaces for telling the time
• Steps (displays the number of steps of the day and the daily goal)
• Heart rate (controls the heart rate sensor and display current heartbeat)
• Music (control the playback of the music on your phone)

and the PineTime is relatively slick, large bezel but frequently people told me, surprised if they knew me, they though I had an Apple watch, which was a brilliant moment to open up the discussion about open source, free software, open hardware.

Meanwhile Watchy has e-ink and the 3D printed frame is very bulky. It’s definitely a lot more noticeable and I received few compliments for it. By default its firmware is https://github.com/sqfmi/Watchy and…

• time (+ weather if connected to network, not mobile phone, via WiFi not BT)
• Steps

… and that’s about it. Honestly the Watchy ecosystem is a lot less lively than InfiniTime. Sure you get some different watchfaces but that’s about it in terms of popular customization AFAICT. Basically I’d only recommend it if you only want a watch for time and if you are adamant about e-ink.

Heuristic : if you don’t know, trust your distribution.

Linux on desktop, self-hosting and GrapheneOS too. I have a few smart watches, namely PineTime and Watchy by SQFMI but... honestly I don't wear them anymore simply because I try to be as minimalist as possible. In fact just yesterday afternoon I was wondering if I could do without GrapheneOS because I might actually NOT need a phone. So... what do you want out of watch? I can recommend both but honestly it depends on your need.

Interesting, it’s also not a chapter in browser.engineering That being said I imagine Google messed up the whole landscape with its Manifest V3 situation. Also I imagine after a certain expertise threshold, one can relatively easily re-create an addon themselves. I’m thinking people who are familiar with Tridactyl or GreaseMonkey might not be as sensitive as this problematic.

Install anyway daily drive do a SeedVault backup on a USB stick then optionally, after a short while if you are convinced buy a 2nd hand Pixel 8 (cheapest with longest support) or whatever match your preferences, maybe by then even a Motorola with official support bring your SeedVault backup back to the new device including, contacts, apps and data No matter what you do you will be “left behind” but at least you have time to learn something useful in the meantime then reassess.

FWIW not on income but on top wealth, Musk has $792 Billion (ffs…) so ~$1000B and we are 8.4B Earthlings so ~10B. If we were to spread equality his wealth (which I’m all for) it would “only” gives each of us ~$100. Conclude from that what you will but to me it’s just a reminder of just how many people we are. A lot. PS: this isn’t about income and it might be totally different there. If you have a better metric and approximation I’d be all ears.

assuming you trust JMP Any 3rd party security audit that would help on this specifically?

I think that’s precisely what this is questioning : is this helping fund critical FOSS? What if a fraction of that money instead went to Wikimedia? FSF which initially made GNU PG? FSFE? NLNet which supports Delta Chat? Sovereign Tech Fund? etc rather than individuals? I don’t think anybody is criticizing that hard working people contributing to a good project are well paid. I believe the question is rather what’s the cost to OTHER projects when there is 1 project, not an umbrella projects which funds others (again like NLNet or the Sovereign Tech Fund).

No and honestly I don’t think it matters. Set the age of your OS to 18 (assuming you are 18) and move on. What’s the issue? That being said if you are really interested in the topic and use this as an “excuse” to learn check out jsandler18.github.io and don’t worry if you don’t have an RPi to run it, you can use QEMU. After that you can dig into wiki.osdev.org really a fascinating journey.

I tinker with VLC using and… so far my “trick” is a bit dirty, namely I don’t “control” it as much as I killall potential running instances then I start cvlc again with the right parameters. If you want continuity though you might not want that. Note also that if you plan to do scripting check mpv as it’s a bit easier to tinker with IMHO.

It’s not about TomsGuide or OP, it’s about Securitum (who did the audit) and their methodology. If you don’t trust the audit then please out why and we’ll see if they fix the problem. It’s genuinely valuable.

Checkout splintercon.net and follow the advice given to political dissidents and journalists.

I bet if you replace 3.5mm jack by USB-C and use an adapter you’ll have a lot of choices. Also Qi isn’t efficient so unless you have a specific use case beyond “I just want to drop it on my desk” then relying on USB-C again is better. … that being said yes I understand but unfortunately one has to fight not just everything they want but a realistic compromise, otherwise you can check www.crowdsupply.com and if it’s not there propose your own project, maybe there is a market for it.

No idea with whom your arguing as I mentioned both.

If a kid is smart enough to set up a VM like that they are smart enough to deceive adults. That’s my point of Internet Archive software and emulation section : no need to be smart, open a Web page that provides a VM and voila. You don’t have to do anything hard, only understand the concept and know where to find a VM. Also if it’s properly all in the browser (no backend setup, which I’m not sure it can be done due to networking, but maybe) then any static host can have it, heck even download a .html would do.

In theory yes. What’s bad though is that it’s meaningless. Sure the OS can say you are 10 years old or 100 years old and you can’t change it… but then you open a page in your browser which runs a virtual machine and that VM now says you are, arbitrarily 50 years old. The VM is just another piece of software but put it in fullscreen (if you want) and voila, you are back to declaring whatever age you want to any application or Web page within that VM. If that’s feasible (and I fail to see how it wouldn’t, see countless examples in archive.org/details/software or docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ even though that’s running on another machine, so imagine that was a SaaS) then only people who aren’t aware of this might provide a meaningful information on the actual age but that’s temporary, the same way more and more people now learn to use a VPN.

now only few do That’s the one you buy then if that’s what matters to you. To be clear I’m not saying it’s “easy” or that the situation is “good”, only that there are choices and if we as consumers can support them, and as voted can support politicians that do make legislation to protect them (or at least not make others mandatory) then we are still going in the right direction, even if most people don’t care.

i dont like linux nor use it What is this? Arguing with a 5yo? No offense but do you genuinely believe “I don’t like X” without even explaining why could lead to interesting conversations? Do better. At least provider argument on why you like Windows (there are actually some good reasons, even for people who don’t like Microsoft) and why you don’t like Linux (there also are good reason). You’re not actually “intersed” otherwise you’d have at least bothered to link to couple articles, videos, etc arguing either way and would have at least taken the time to write 2 sentences properly. Blocked.

Don’t buy computers with locked parts. Buy computers with non locked parts. Problem solved.

Doesn’t matter, Microsoft already sell computers, i.e. Surface. One can still buy computers from other manufacturers. They can buy an instance of the entire stack and there would still be alternatives.

Official link motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions…

Sure but that’s about 8 years too late en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Micro…