I’m of the opinion that even if it is final, at some points laws are so ridiculous they must cease to be effective for all.

Payment processor fees as in, for Liberapay itself? Or the payment method such as PayPal, Mastercard, Visa?

IIRC, Liberapay uses PayPal (which is terrible and American) and Stripe (Irish-American).

The latter got funding from Musk and Thiel. Thiel is the guy who stole one of the names from Tolkien’s works, for spyware.

Liberapay is cautiously promising, but its payment processor options are iffy. If Liberapay were to allow Wero, I’d say that it’s the best alternative. Otherwise, skip the middle man directly and use Monero.

Oh, absolutely agree. I think: the more people contribute to European independence, the better.

you’re an hero!

Doesn’t DeepSeek still censor sensitive questions (e.g. about Taiwan and the Tiananmen protests) when ran locally and offline?

Although it’s certainly got its merits (being FOSS? and much more energy-efficient than most models), censorship of state violence is still bad.

I wonder how other chat AIs do, concerning that censorship. Grok we already know to be shit, it warps the truth beyond words. Even regarding non-political stuff, its accuracy is trash compared to other models.

How about ChatGPT? Ollama? Kobold? Llamafile? Do they censor stuff?

And Ollama then? Kobold.cpp? Llamafile? Those might arguably be better.

We actually do have EU-grown coffee beans, though not that much. In Spain there’s one. The Canary Isles also have some.

Finally some spine!

This is what I’d favour too, though I’m not involved in the Matrix rooms. Just as an outsider it seems handier to have both options available.

No thanks. America can keep its rubbish cars there. Europe will prevail with its higher quality cars!

Hey wait, I’ve seen this one before!

Fuck no, NO MICROSOFT STORAGE CENTERS. NO GOOGLE STORAGE CENTERS.

If the US wants to enforce their Cloud act then fuck that. We will do what we want.

A true People’s Republic would have less surveillance noncence than this.

The UK is a literal 1984 in the works.

What is Stripe?