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Only if you have installed MS Office, it was one of the first thing which I deleted, among with other MS Bloatware and services “to improve the user experience”. A clean Windows is a difference like day and night with the defauly one, in speed, stability and RAM usage. The specs of my modded Windows11 24H2 (Acer laptop)
Also in the EU, security agencies and the police can have access to individual accounts, but only in the case of an criminal investigation and only with an court order. Even very privacy oriented services and apps have to give access to the data they have, in this case. But this, if these data are encrypted, there is few what the authorities can do, then they have to contact the user directly to obtain the encryption key, or trying through weeks to crack it. But all this has nothing to do with privacy, it’s not the same as sharing freely user datas to third party advertising companies, like it is possible in the US, in the EU it’s only alowed in a very limited way to share statistical, anonymised and tech data.
Well, several administrations in Spain already are using LibreOffice, which is a pretty good alternative to the MS Office, it is even compatible with way more document formats than the MS Office. That means, that don’t exist an real dependency because tecnical reasons, but maybe because burocratic ones. Using alternatives of Windows is more complicated, but there isn’t any problems with general apps for Windows, except for some specific corporation ones, Windows catalogue of software is the biggest one of any other OS.
Wrong, MS EU have to comply EU GDPR laws, yes or yes. They have learned it after several high fines, like also Facebook and Google, even X planned in the past to stop the service in the EU because of this. They can’t send userdata to third countries without the express consent of the user. Privacy in the EU is an human right protected by law. MS is scared with a reason.
Agree, in part, certainly the panorama is changing, but fact is that Linux has still only an 4-5% marketshare reparted in several different distros. Well, the Flatpack is an solution, but the general amount of soft m FOSS and also proprietary is still lightyears away from the software catalogue from Windows, simply because Windows is by far the most used OS (I hope this may change in the future, we’ll see) and in consequence most soft, incluse FOSS, is developed for this OS. law of the market. Yes, for a normal user with his daily tasks, Linux is the best option, but as said, not for everyone. Linux has it’s drawbacks as any other OS. The perfect OS is always the one which best fits the need and tasks of each user, period.
Yes, but you can also proof it, checking and even blocking the traffic in the OS, eg. with Portmaster. Not a big Problem. Different to MacOS, Windows permits to make it reasinable private in the settings, the only problem is that a lot of settings (in total over 200 setting points and registry entries) are indocumented and hidden. The OS as such is only another modified UNIX fork, the worse part are the apps. telemetries and services added by M$. The gutted, mencioned WindowsX, shows it, also mine DIY version of Windows11 24H2 which I use, with only <700 MB in RAM, after eliminating all this MS crap.
Yes, but currently Linux isn’t a valid option for a lot of users, because a lot of professional and corporation apps, apart of most games are Windows only. To rise Linux is needed to change this first. The only alternative for this issue is maybe using instead eg. WindowsX, something like an “de-microsofted” Windows. Linux is certainly the best alternative, but also has some drawbacks, like too much different distros not always compatible one with another, depending on the distro also often an deficient support and maintance, certain driver problems, among others. Not good if an still minority OS is above to diversified, which cause a lot of problems for the devs of software. To dethrone Windows as leader of the market does it still need a lot of work in many environments.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
In Options in the search bar you can filter the country US or EU
Since years I’m enjoying with The Dark Mod, a Thief like First Person stealth (FPS-, puzzle-, strategy-, adventure -, survival,-,horror-, RPG elements, depending on the mission) game (Windows, Linux, Mac), there isn’t a need of an fast gameplay. It’s 100% free and currently with 170 fan made missions, which you can download and add direct from the game menu.
Andi said Syncthing:
Based on recent sources, Syncthing emerges as the most recommended free solution for synchronizing Obsidian vaults across devices[1][2]. This open-source tool provides real-time syncing without third-party cloud storage, encrypts data end-to-end, and works across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android platforms[3].
Key advantages of Syncthing for Obsidian sync:
- Completely free with no storage limits
- Direct device-to-device synchronization
- No cloud storage required
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-platform support (except iOS)
- Real-time syncing capabilities
Setup involves:
- Installing Syncthing on all devices
- Connecting devices using their unique IDs
- Creating a shared folder for the Obsidian vault
- Accepting the shared folder on other devices
For iOS users, alternatives include:
- iCloud sync (Apple ecosystem only)[1:1]
- Git-based solutions using Working Copy or iSH[1:2]
- Remotely Save plugin with cloud storage services[1:3]
While Syncthing requires more technical setup than paid solutions, it offers the most robust free synchronization method with privacy protection and no recurring costs[2:1].
Nice article, it seems that the US with Trump is out of the game befor this year ends.
https://www.theverge.com/space/629948/space-science-dei-diversity-nasa-trump
More with the current Trump wall surrounding all the US and scientifics leaving the states to MAGA (Make America a Golfstate Again), too stupid to understand that walls always work in both directions, even the economic ones.Now qith Canada, Mexico and also the EU making business with China. The eggs problem is only the beginning.
China is currently leading in Science and Tech
Even 2 years ago , China leads in 37 of 44 areas
Yes, AI arrived to stay, that is fact, also soon there will be a unified global AI (see Stargat Project) which will make obsolet all other LLM. A $500 Billon project. The only thing we can do is to use it in the most intelligent way, avoiding it will be impossible.
Another reason why I use Andi, because it don¡t gut copyright content to the own knowledge base, it’s is a search assistant, not a chatbot like others, it search by the concept and give a direct answer to your question, listing also the links of the sources and pages where it found the answers. It’s LLM is only made to “understand” (to call it something) your question to search pages que contain information about it and to understand the content to be capable to summarize it. There isn’t third party or copyright content in the LLM. It’s knowledge is real time web content like any other search engine. Even in it’s (reduced) chat capabilities, always show the sources where it found it’s answers.
Traditional search works with keywords, listing thousends of pages where appears this keyword, that means that 99% of the list has nothing to do with what you are looking for, this is the reason why AI searches give a better result, but not Chatbots, which search the answers in a own knowledge base and invent answers if not.
I still prefer Andisearch over all others, it was rhe first AI search long before all other were released, with own LLM not a copy from others.
The Dark Mod since a lot of years
Mission lists (New ones in work, can be downloaded and added from the Game menu)
Anyway I think that a Webcam cover should be a default on webcams, not only for privacy, but also for th same reason why Cams and binoculars have caps by default, to protect the lens. If you use a tape, to avoid glue on the lens, you can cover the intern part which is over the lens with a piece of paper
AI will be intelligent one day in the future, but until now it only can give intelligent solution in certain tasks like AI used in science, medicine, physik, etc., but not to be confused with AI for the normal user, well, sometimes certainly more intelligent as the user. It can be a usefull tool, but only if the user also use his own brain.
As I said, these things happen when the company uses AI mainly as a tool to obtain data from the user, leaving aside the reliability of its LLM, which allows it to practically collect data indiscriminately for its knowledge base. This is why ChatBots are generally discardable as a reliable source of information. Search assistants are different, like Andi, since they do not get their information from their own knowledge base, but in real time from the web, there it only depends on whether they know how to recognize the reliability of the information, which Andi does, contrasting several sources. This is why it offers the highest accuracy of all major AI, according to an independent benchmark.
The difference is easy, a ChatBot take informacion from a knowledge base scrapped from several previos inputs. Because of this much information isn’t in this base and in this case a ChatBot beginn to invent the answers using everything in its base. More if it is made by big companies which use it mainly as tool to obtain user datas and reliability only in second place. AI can be usefull in profesional use in research science, medicine, physic, etc. with specializied LLM, but as general chat for a normal user its a scam. It’s a wrong approach to AI in the general use, the Google AI proved it.
I use an AI as main search (Andisearch) because it is made as search assistant, not as ChatBot. In its base is only enough information to “understand” your question and search the concept in reliable sources in real time from the web. Because of this it’s accuracy is way better than those from every ChatBot from Google, M$ or others. It don’t invent nothing, if it don’t know the answer, offers a normal web search, apart it’s one of the most private search, anonymous, no logs, no tracking, no cookies, random proxie and Videos in the search result sandboxed. Not very known, despite it was the first one using AI, long before the others, from a small startup with 2 Devs, I use it since almost 2 years. Until now I found nothing better or more usefull for the daily use with AI https://andisearch.com/ PP
Screenshot of the original chat in Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1gq4acr/gemini_told_my_brother_to_die_threatening/
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