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.

Paying for DRM-free quality content https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ and pirating the rest. Also promoting the concept of Big Content from Chokepoint Capitalism https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

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?

Why would anyone who care about privacy not provide a new alternative WITH a benchmark comparing the newcomer to what already exists (e.g. Google Android, GrapheneOS, PostMarketOS, /e/OS, iOS, etc) and 3rd party audit is beyond me.

Which Danish laws go beyond GDPR?

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.

Prof Christian Brand, the emeritus professor in transport at Kellogg College,

This guy doesn’t even have a degree.

I really hope you are a troll lobbying for the car industry ... because a rando questioning the credential of an Oxford professor which we can verify with a single DuckDuckGo query reading "Professor Christian Brand is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, physicist and geographer with over 25 years research experience in academic and consultancy environments." from the page of one of the most prestigious university in the World, for centuries, is really weird.

It doesn't mean though that appeal to authority is right and thus that whatever Prof Christian Brand writes is correct. It's not because he's a professor researching in the area of expertise of the paper that he's right... but his credentials are definitely on point.

Egoist mentality : "I'm scared of others, I need a car that looks like a tank so that at least I'm safe, even it means other are less so."

Arguably capitalism is fostering "optimizations" but unfortunately it does so entirely amorally. When the only metric is profit then everything else becomes a negative externality to ignore.

TL;DR: yep.