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@m1rk0

If you want a de-googled phone, privacy AND maximum security, there is no way around a Pixel with GrapheneOS. We can complain about buying and using Googles hardware, but the sad truth is that there is no other hardware available which can be used whith custom ROMs that is more or even equally secure as the Pixel.

@khaleesicodes Dem kann ich nur zustimmen. Das Problem liegt nicht darin, dass Kinder diese Plattformen nutzen, sondern dass diese Plattformen ausschließlich darauf ausgelegt sind, den Nutzer möglichst lange dort zu halten und ihn mittels ausgefeilter Algorithmen immer wieder mit neuem Content zu versorgen. Hier sollte Regulierung ansetzen, in Kombination mit möglichst frühzeitiger Förderung der Medienkompetenz bei Kindern.

@Tutanota To me this looks like just showing the Tuta webinterface in Thinderbird. So in this case Thunderbird is nothing more than a browser.

The situation with AI is getting worse.
Mrinank Sharma, former lead of Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic resigned and announced at X that he is deeply concerned about the current state of the world. Instead - he announced, he plans to go to the UK to focus on poetry and writing, which might be a good idea for everyone who can afford it.

And he is not the only one. Zoe Hitzig also resigned at OpenAI because of her deep reservations against OpenAI's plans to introduce advertising.

#AI #aisafety #techEthics #aialignment

More details can be found in this BBC article:

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning

It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

(www.bbc.com)

This morning I promoted nolto.social, a platform that was made - at least I thought so, to be a Fediverse based alternative to LinkedIn. As I'm getting more and more annoyed by LinkedIn and all the useless posts over there, I was happy to find an independent alternative.

nolto.social still worked this morning, but when I came back later; i found the project deleted and at least when you are viewing the website from your smartphone, you see a message from the developer of nolto.social where he states that this project was never meant to grow. Obviously this was just a one person project who became overwhelmed by the success of the platform and by the fact, that companies started creating profiles and nearly 1000 people joined within a short time period. But now it seems that this project ran out of control and the maintainer decided to pull the emergency break. He is also talking about negative feedback he received for the platform and even personal harrassment.

It is sad that a promising project like this had been terminated, but I can understand what made the maintainer doing so. Managing a business platform can become a fulltime job quite fast and it also requires technical ressources and money to run these resources.

I firmly believe that we need an alternative to LinkedIn. I believe that people don't want all this bullshit posts just created to please the algorithm and to generate likes and feedback. And I believe that people would like a business network which is nothing else than a business network - no space for bursting egos and self promotion, but a space for connection and serious discussion.

Fediverse would be the ideal space for this. But as we know, if business networks are successful, they require more and more attention, more ressources, more money. And at this is the problem. When you need money to run your social network, it's tempting to ask yourself how you could generate money by using the ressources you already have, which are user data...

I don't see a solution for this now, just sharing some thoughts.

#shutdown #activityPub #fediverseMoments #digitalCommons

I am often complaining about LinkedIn and it really annoys me. Fortunatley, 99% of the people I'm talking to, feel the same. They are annoyed by the flood of non-business-related posts, AI-generated contributions and photos that only have one intention: generating clicks. Most of the people I'm talking to say they would like to leave LinkedIn, but hell, there's no way out, you have to be there, otherwise you are invisible.

A few days ago I randomly stumbled over nolto.social, a Fediverse based alternative to LinkedIn. Currently, there are less than 1k users which is nothing compared to LinkedIn. But it's up to each one of us to make this a success. And often, big things start small...

https://nolto.social

#linkedin #careerNetworking #businessCommunity #professionalNetworking