Elvith Ma'for

Agreed. The US can access/subpoena any data it wants from US companies, even if the servers they host the data on are in Europe or Asia or…

It doesn’t matter where the servers and the data is located. It matters who posses (or controls the access) to it.

Yeah, but if I understand that correctly, that’s just for the app itself the LLM is very likely still a proprietary one (ChatGPT, Grok,…)

non-commitment like “I can’t do that” or “that’s against policy” or “that’s not my dept”

Ok, I’m not a native English speaker but… I have the feeling that they don’t know what non-commitment means. Unless it’s commitment to fuck the customer, but then, why bother to offer a call center?

That’s what I’d expected if Monty Python tried to design this process for a sketch. Which… Is very British. So…

Better yet: the app description says explicitly:

If you’re applying for someone else they must be with you. If they are not, you should apply online at: https://www.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation.

Which… Just brings you to said page that tries to get you to use the app…

Time for a classic: The Case of the 500-Mile Email

Edit: The site seems to be overloaded, but it’s also on Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20260220060645/https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running

Maybe Nextcloud (not only for storage, but also calendar, video conferences, office, when combined with Collabora,…)? Also Immich (basically Google Photos) comes to mind. Your own instance of SearXNG.

Any kind of ToDo-list, Kanban board, …?

A ticketing system?

A Wiki to host your documentation? Note, that you may want to access it if the server fails, so…

Some stack of components around Grafana or such to visualize some data? Since you mentioned Hetzner, I’m guessing you’re from Germany. You could build a small container, ingest the gas prices that the gas station are required to publish and build a dashboard for the gas prices in your area? (Hint, here’s an API licensed under Creative Commons - https://creativecommons.tankerkoenig.de/ )

Delays - if you use the internet and request an answer from an LLM, you won’t notice if it’s 300-500ms slower than usual. But if you deploy and run a software stack, a delay of 5ms betweenntze app and the database can make the difference between a usable application and an inperfomant one.

How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,…?

^/s