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Good for them, I refuse to write those tho

TLDR: Apps are open, models are open weight but you don’t know which one you get, and they have not yet disclosed any tweaks they may have made (although for me, it never sounded like they actually tweak the models all too much)

Illegal in the EU btw.

Their biggest problem is that people don’t want to buy their stuff because it’s bad, they can worry about their backdoory image later

You cannot selfhost Signal, because the regular app won’t connect to your server. You could probably bridge it to Matrix I guess? I’m pretty sure it’s a thing, but I see little benefit here, besides your phone not connecting to Signal and your messages being collected in one app, if you so desire.

I wouldn’t mind a Geth or two, for jolly cooperation

It surely can’t hurt, if it’s to sanity check your highly paid advisors…

Currently, I, my entire Family and everyone I know use Signal. And everyone that doesn’t want to, can contact me via Matrix or XMPP, which literally no one ever does, even thought I know a lot of IT and CS people. I keep them as options regardless, just to offer them to people.

I mean, there is also phone, SMS and email of course, but people seem to prefer a new messenger over actually contacting me in any of these ways. And then I’m always like “look, you can choose one of countless ways to contact me, if you like none of them, that’s a you-problem”.

Have you tried setting up rclone for cloud access and then using restic with -r “rclone:my_aws:path/to/backup”?

Thank god my OS doesn’t care about EU regulation

Yeah, but you can just set targets and penalize companies for missing them. No. of accidents per year for example. Even assuming autonomous vehicles only ever become as good as the average driver, this already means a substantial improvement over where things are at. For me, that’s the point where I’d start to phase out manually operated vehicles. I believe they will ge significantly better than that eventually.

I’m kinda torn on this - in principle, not this specific case. If your AI performs on paar with an average human and there is no known flaw at fault, I think you shouldn’t be either.

Nah, only parts of it

The GDPR also applies to public institutions as far as I’m aware - but most importantly the concern here is Google and data collected by Google. This data collection is in no way necessary to provide the age verification service. Most of it is not even related to it. The state legally cannot force you to agree to some corporations (i.e. Google’s) terms, even if we completely ignore the GDPR.

I think Lumo is based on Mistral models

That Flathub app is unofficial afaik, which is why I don’t use it. Normally I wouldn’t care, but this seems important enough to not use a repackaged version

People here be acting like no one uses chatbots.

I like Lumo, be it only because I can use it instead of US or Chinese LLMs. Hope they help drive european AI development. And I’m quite sure Proton thought about their 1 billion investment a bit before announcing it.

You can refuse to use LLMs, but I doubt the use of AI will ever decrease again.

Yeah no. Requiring anything Google for something as basic as this violates the GDPR. If they go through with this, it’s one legal case until they have to revise it.

Edit: German eID works on any Android btw., flawless actually. I sure hope I can use that for verification

For any kind of storage, cloud or not, I think rclone should provide whatever you need for free (not entirely shure about metadata). You will likely want at least one script tho, since the commands can get quite long, depending on configuration.

I don’t know whether this fits your needs better, but “Ente” and “Proton” offer E2E encrypted cloud storage with the option to share parts of it via link or accounts, as well as clients that automatically sync stuff for you (Android only for Ente I think)

The thing with new Gs is that they recognized and try to improve that situation. 5G for example includes low-frequency bands that allow to cover much more area with one tower, making it more feasible for less populated areas.