It means that for more than 30 days, you’ll be unable to send or receive emails that have to do with that email provider.

I’m not sure how you arrive at that. Whether you file a GDPR Art.77 complaint is independent of how you ultimately decide to reach the other party.

This is not what I would do but this is what most activists would do:

1. Use a residential dynamic IP address to attempt to send an email to a recipient whose data processor (email provider) is Microsoft.
2. Keep the logs of the MS server refusing you.
3. File an Art.77 GDPR complaint against MS.
4. In parallel, use a different webmail account to email your correspondent. Ideally wait a week or two after filing the GDPR complaint.

The fact that your webmail provider can reach MS does not obviate your Art.77 complaint.

Personally, I have indeed quit sending email. When I need to reach an MS recipient, I use fax or snail mail and I do not give them an email address, thus forcing them to respond by snail mail. Most people will not elevate ethics above convenience like that, but to each his own.

but not being able to receive them gets really problematic.

That’s a separate matter and it depends on what email address you supply. You can attempt to send from your own server using any email address you want, even an @gmail.com address if that’s your thing. The email address you share with the other party need not be one that associates to your mail server.

I personally do not even share an email address with MS users, so those users can only reach me by postal mail. But of course this move requires a higher level of discipline on your part.

if anyone comes from the future, my issue was finally solved.

find it here:

https://github.com/TheoLeCalvar/peertube-plugin-hardware-transcode-vaapi/issues/6#issuecomment-3246562059

It means that for more than 30 days, you'll be unable to send or receive emails that have to do with that email provider. Not being able to send emails can be a bit annoying, but not being able to receive them gets really problematic. Doesn't it mean that when someone is trying to send you an email, they'll just get a message telling that the message cannot be delivered because the address does not exist? That would mean people cannot reliably send you email.

And also, it means that you might need to wait a month to be able to reply to an email using your own address.

Fighting for your rights… with gdpr, yeah, I’m sometimes doing it, but the problem is, sometimes tcompanies fail to respond … and if they take 30 days… or longer to give a response you’re really at a huge loss

Not sure what you mean by being at a huge loss. Filing a GDPR complaint is gratis, by law. It’s indeed typical that data controllers ignore complaints. After 30 days of ignoring your request, you have a sound case for an art.77 complaint. The DPA will also likely do nothing, but you’re not at a loss for complaining. If the DPA decides to simply contact the data controller, they will dance. The case will still go nowhere, but the data controller will respond to the DPAs inquiry, if they make one.

I tried so many self hosted note taking apps I eventually settled that most are... either crap, or not worth it because you WILL find something which annoys you and you will try to fix it and you'll get in a vicious cycle.. of either performance, usability or security lacking.

1 Zim Wiki is the best if you want to have an easy way to take notes 2. If you want something to be accessible everywhere and in markdown format, just use fossil SCM either as wiki or editing the files manually...

I used to host my own mail servers a long time ago, gave it up, went with a hosted version by a very small company, and began retesting self hosting email with mox in december for a few domains I can say that it works great.

Fighting for your rights.. with gdpr, yeah, I'm sometimes doing it, but the problem is, sometimes tcompanies fail to respond .. and if they take 30 days.. or longer to give a response you're really at a huge loss

Now, if you're trying to host it form residential ip address you will have problems namely Your IP will change resulting in issues with sending/receiving email It's maybe easier to just buy a $5 VPS and host it there, yeah, I know, most providers block those ports unless you've been active long enough.. but well this is an alternative

Yeah, I think this is part of their current business model, unfortunately.

I mean, it wouldn't be hard to implement OpenAI compatible APIs. That would access to pretty much any AI service, including self hosted like Ollama.

But this would make their service unnecessary.

Nah I mean, I was hoping it would be fully self hosted and offline, but I guess that would require you to run the models yourself

Yeah, that's bad if you care about AI.

Can Affine AI be used in a local workspace ? Certainly, you just need to log in to your AFFiNE Cloud account, and then you can activate AFFiNE AI in the local workspace.

$8.9 / month billed annually

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