> You have one server in one datacenter.

It doesn't have to be only one server in one datacenter though.

It's more work, but you can have replicas ready to go at other Hetzner DCs (they offer bare metal at 3 locations in 2 different countries) or at other cheaper providers like OVH. Two or three $160 servers is still cheaper than what they're paying right now.

It doesn't have to be one server in a single datacenter, though. It adds some complexity, but you could have a backup server ready to go at a different cheap provider (Hetzner and OVH, for example) and still save a lot.

That uses a workaround based on WiFi debugging even though it's all local. It doesn't run if you're not connected to a trusted WiFi network, you have to set it all up when connecting to a new network, etc.

Not only users are not connected to WiFi all the time, but in many developing countries people often have no WiFi at home and rely on mobile data instead. It's a solution, but not a solution for everyone or a solution that works all the time.

Paranoid Android (operating system): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_Android_(operating_sy...

Maybe the old "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" song wasn't that wrong then:

    Hitler has only got one ball,
    Göring has two but very small,
    Himmler is rather sim'lar,
    But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball

Probably easy to do with a Mac, but iOS is a different question. Way too restrictive if you don't use iCloud.

It's easy to use a different calendar, search engine, etc, but it's far from easy to use an Android device without Google Services. Can be done, but banking apps, contactless payments, etc, become painful or impossible.

The point is that avoiding Android is also easy. I never had an Android device and have no interest.

Once again: The only problem is avoiding both platforms.

I avoid both platforms. Librem 5 is my smartphone.

There you go! It’s possible.

Regarding censorship, that works only if there's no network side blocking, otherwise the unencrypted requests to root servers also get intercepted. That's why some people use DoH as the upstream for their resolver.

Not all countries or ISPs do this, but some do.

True, DNSSEC should tell you if requests are being rewritten or blocked, but it will not help you circumvent this.

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And is also not using an LLM. It's neural machine translation.

NMT is a category containing both transformers and deep RNN. The Mozilla translation models are transformer LLM NMTs trained via Marian https://marian-nmt.github.io/ (ref: https://github.com/mozilla/translations/blob/main/docs/READM...)

NMT doesn't "contain" tranformers and deep RNNs, it can use them. LLMs use a transformer architecture, not everything using a transformer architecture is an LLM. NMT can actually use an LLM, but that's not the case according to the documentation you linked, they use a parallel dataset to train their models.

> they use a parallel dataset to train their models

If you want to be pedantic you should look up the LLM definition.

Care to explain why?

I'm not from the US, so forgive me for what is probably a dumb question, but how is an illegal receiving money for food, rent, and healthcare? Don't you need documents (aka be legal in the country) for that?

In many instances, no. And that's where a lot of the anger and blow back stems from.

This is just factually false.

https://www.nilc.org/resources/overview-immeligfedprograms/

You're right, no one is getting benefits without paperwork, because that's what the rules say, and no one would break rules.

It would be interesting to see how that works. Even here in Europe where we usually have a strong(er) social net, the state wouldn't give me a benefit without going through a process requiring documents to prove who I am, my nationality, etc.

There are food banks and stuff like that, but that's usually from charities.

They are not receiving any benefits. They are not legal literally. Work for cash. No safety net except peers who are often abusive. There are lot of this in EU, just not this visible.

Parent comment is talking about working “under the table”, receiving cash off the books for work done. Not government benefits.

I don't think "illegals" means "people receiving money under the table", especially in the context of this thread. It sounds like they're referring to people living illegally in the country. Hence my question about "illegals" receiving benefits when usually we need to have documents to receive any state/government benefit.

I was referring to the same people. The reason I said that is that employing someone who’s undocumented exposes the employer to enforcement risk, so many choose to keep the relationship hidden.

That’s how most undocumented people in the country survive: by working for employers who are breaking the law.

In terms of undocumented individuals benefits, that’s a common and almost entirely false claim.

While it is a complicated space (because of State vs Federal), the vast majority of “Illegals” are not eligible for the vast majority of benefits in the United States, with the exception of some emergency services.

There are some exceptions for victims of human trafficking and there like.

If you want to dig in: https://www.nilc.org/resources/overview-immeligfedprograms/