@Tutanota@mastodon.social You can at least avoid running/interacting with AI yourself by replacing Windows and all its subscription and data harvesting shit Linux, BSD, etc. This also cuts off of the flow of your personal information to Microsoft servers. Unfortunately Linus is allowing AI slopcoding in the Linux kernel, but you can bet there's even more of it in the Windows kernel. At least the installed Linux kernel does not itself connect to and run AI crap. You could run an older kernel version but there is a problem: AI attackers find zero days faster than human programmers can, forcing an ugly AI arms race to close those holes. AI should never be used to write the fixes though. I for one am refusing to review PRs that have AI involvement and are too much code for me to understand every single line and function as though I had written them myself.