Pictures or it didn't happen.
And you answer your own question. So I'm going to suspect this post is bravo sierra.
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The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure.
Nothing has gone through parliament yet. That's not to say that a majority of twats couldn't be found there. But crucially I think this is not something a floundering PM can decree on his own authority. So far this threat is about as believable as any statement by the incumbent American president on Iran.
Yes. Even people who speak more than one language don't know all the music in the world. But they are likely to have been exposed to a greater variety.
If hypothetically you wanted to listen to all the music in the world, you'd probably fail because you would need to dedicate every waking moment to the project and you'd die before you finish.
The ruling isn't final.
On that we are agreed. The headline speaks of a landmark ruling, which I think is too much acclaim for a decision a higher court could just dismiss.
I think my sniping at Bavaria speaks for itself.
They don't need sway as much as money and lawyers, which I imagine they have. And this verdict is probably on the worst outcome end of the scale for them. I cannot imagine they will accept a ruling that calls them daft like this one does. They will try to water down liability for their model's fantasy summaries. Whether they succeed is a different question. But they will try, so they will appeal, so this verdict isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Yet.
All I said is that this verdict isn't effective yet. These headlines and sadly this article buries this fact in a sentence in the last paragraph. Blink and you miss it stuff. Lemmies tend to overlook this and declare victory over Google when this was merely the first battle of the war.
This isn't final. Google has time to appeal. Let's hold off on the label "landmark" until it reaches legal effectiveness. Which it probably won't, however good a verdict by a German regional court, much less one based in Bavaria, this is in my opinion.
Google lawyers arguing in court that Google's so-called AI results are shit anyways and people should know it is chef's kiss.
If you're not doing it via your own domain, I don't think it matters much. Half the people you email are on gmail anyways so you'll never break free fully. So you can stay with Proton if you wanted to. I feel icky about them so I personally wouldn't give them any money.
But there are also providers like Tuta that offer European hosted email services. I haven't heard anything bad about Tuta.
In terms of word processing? No. That's why I do it on notes. Look into Nextcloud as a solution to do calendars, contacts, cloud storage, and notes to de-googlefy.
If you are looking for a free alternative, you're not going to like it. If you're lucky, you'll find a service hosting OnlyOffice for you with cloud storage, which will suffer from not having the worldwide server capacity of an American tech giant.
I'd sooner investigate if you can deal with not editing documents much on the go and going for LibreOffice on a computer. It's the solution I went for. If you have a service that hosts notes in the cloud for you, I found that to be enough to draft something, which I can turn into a document when necessary.
Somebody suggested Proton. They are not a big as Google. Their services work alright. But where Google used to be "don't be evil," Proton's motto seems to be "be daft." Examples range from praise for the 47th administration in the US, selling email users out to the authorities, and most recently sponsoring questionable YouTube content. They want to be your Google replacement for everything and going with them is rapidly turning into "out of the Google frying pan, into the Proton frying pan." Plus, they aren't exactly cheap if you ask me.
LibreOffice have recently announced they were going back to developing a cloud version. This situation might get better in the future.
"We will change the law" means they haven't changed it yet. And this PM is so god damn popular in his own party, they are just trying to get his possible replacement in in an otherwise unnecessary byelection. This sounds decisive but isn't a fait accompli by any stretch of the imagination. The tech big guns will sound amenable to such a policy but will do fuck all.
This is most Americans, no matter what camp they root for, for most of their leaders. And you have plenty to choose from although recently I imagine the Republicans have edged ahead in this depressing horse race. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.