How do you make sure that the model you run locally is not tainted? Is there even a way to confirm this without providing the complete training set?

Fwiw I just run kiwix/zeal locally which has old school search index of all articles in wiki/stackoverflow etc. That seems enough for most of my day to day use.

Because they wouldn't. I mean, they would, but they would not be in a position where we or the world would hear about them or need to care.

I used XFCE for more than a decade and it's my first choice when picking a DE. Two major issues tempted me to try KDE this year: the lack of Wayland support and the absolute asinine file picker/ chooser dialogue XFCE took from gnome, if I remember correctly. Having a file picker that marks the text of the file name, but when you start typing switches to the search bar drives me nuts. (Even when you just want to drop a downloaded file somewhere in a directory ... why would I want to search in these circumstances??)

I'm keeping an eye on XFCE and they plan to release Wayland support some time this autumn. Once this is somewhere near stable, I thin I will switch back again to XFCE.

Don't worry. You don't have to look at "muslim countries". Blasphemy is a valid and actively weaponized legal charge in the German legal system [0] and as such hampers any discussion on religion and its influence and ubiquitous presence in German politics [1]. It goes so far as to enforcing the presentation of crucifixes in Bavarian class rooms and government agencies even though the German Federal Constitutional Court declared it illegal back in 1995. Way to go, Germany!!

[0]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschimpfung_von_Bekenntnissen...

[1]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatskirchenvertrag

[2]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruzifix-Beschluss

P.S. Sorry for the links to German wikipedia. These articles describe the German situation in Germany and as such are not available in English. May be deepl.com can help.

The US has blasphemy laws still on the books in a few states, although broadly speaking such things are unconstitutional (for now...)

And the US is trying to make it illegal to burn the flag, which is blasphemy against civic religion. And you can be arrested for blasphemy against Zionism and the American military industrial complex by protesting Israeli genocide and America's complicity in it.

I also consider laws banning abortion to be anti-blasphemy laws since Christian doctrine is the basis for those laws.

And as far as crosses go, numerous US states now require the posting of the Ten Commandments and incorporating the Bible into the curriculum, thanks to the Supreme Court essentially repealing the separation of church and state.

Not to say the US is at the point of sending someone to prison for a "blasphemous" t-shirt, but let's not pretend America isn't headed gleefully in that direction. It's bad when it's Islam but OK when it's Christianity.

Read the flag burning executive order - it's a nothingburger. It's been extremely misrepresented in the media. It makes nothing previously legal illegal and makes nothing previously illegal legal.

It is still clearly an attempt to sidestep the first amendment and make something that is established legal free expression a de facto crime.

These times are long gone. Not only with government efficiency, but the transition to digital services, railroad services, you name it. And yet people voted for a 68 year old Blackrock manager without any kind of governmental expertise on any level as their new saviour.

Yeah these days the masters of officiencynard probably Japan.

Panasonic, so iconic.

For offcice equipment, like fax, phones, copiers, printers...

They were everywhere, around 2000.

Well, I guess Germans are in for a nasty surprise since they call that garment an "Aluhut" in the respective circles where such things are required for street cred ...