To share things with your friends, nothing better than P2P

(European options)

• https://www.sharrr.com/ (Swiss)
• https://pairdrop.net/ (Germany)
• https://hashtree.cc/ (Finland)
• https://syncthing.net/ (Sweden)

Alles gültig solange es nicht WhatsCrap oder ähnlicher Müll ist, da ziehe ich sogar noch die althergebrachte SMS vor oder das vorsintflutige Finger Protokoll (funktioniert komischerweise immer noch)

Ich glaub schon, gibts schon seit 10 Jahren.

I prefer SecureBit Chat . No account, P2P, EE2E, Quantum resistent.

The Vivaldi Browser, strict against including AI

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/vivaldis-leader-has-a-bold-pledge-no-ai-in-your-web-browser

I use the SMPlayer, it does the same as the VLC, but it’s way faster and easier to handle.

Allways this, better than “Fuck AI” is “Fuck AI from big corps” (and big greedy corps too)

I use vgy.me (UK, script to use it with ShareX or Dropshare, API)

AI from big (US) corps are a biased scam by definition, never ever use an AI app inbuild in your OS, it will spy you and wasting a hugh amount of RAM and Bandwith. If you need an AI for some task, use a specific one for a function you need, a lot of these you’ll find for free, withot the need of an account, FOSS and made by little startups and devs, which don’t have the need to spy on you. You cand find a ton of these eg. in HuggingFace, ready to use.

I advocate an intelligence check, at least avoid that some politicians can go online.

Use an P2P chat and show the middle finger to the chat control. Official chats, like WhatsCrap and similar are anyway controled since ever.

No, companies does it without asking, creating and controling fools with new toys.

I’m a early Boomer and there isn’t any day where I don’t learn something new. Boomers don’t know everything, but can aport experience. Not the same to get old with an open mind, or stop thinking and reasoning in youth or never didº, only accumulating wrinkles instead of knowledge and experience.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/BxBWb0-TMho

It’s a big difference when a company use AI as tool for the employees to improve the quality and productivity, or use the AI to substitute with an AI experimented employees to save costs. It’s not the same a student which use eg. the Sketchapediaº to understand better a complex theme in the research for his essay or simply use a Chatbot to write the essay for him. A designer or artist using an AI in graphical editors for routine tasks or adding some effects to his work, o simply writing a small promt in an AI to create yhe design or artwork. Absolute not needed a Smart Home, Fridge or Toaster with AI to spy on us, to create memes or worse, political influencers using Deep Fakes Research centers, pharmacompanies, medical centers, had made big advances in new medications, treatments in diseases before not curable, new materials, better designs, improved research in physics, astronomy, with results impssibles without AI, researches in days which in traditional manner would have need years.

But this, the AI as tool in the hand of experimented employees and scientists. This is the problem, not really the AI as such, but greedy companies abusing and biasing it, to control, manipulate and scam the users

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I understand your point of view, but I can only speak mine. The advance of the far right in Europe and the rest of the world is more than worrying and must be fought, not facilitated. A company must also look at its image in the eyes of the public and show ethics and respect for the customer and user.

Mullvad is undoubtedly a technically good browser with excellent privacy-protecting features, but precisely for this reason it cannot be tolerated that its CEO supports a political party that promotes the exact opposite of what Mullvad claims to defend, because this takes away confidence in the future developments of this browser and what path it will take. The influence of someone who owns 50% of the company is surely not small and the influence and political orientation he has matters, even if it seems a good product.

Eg. Starlink, for sure very usefull to permit the connection in a lot of countries without infrastructure, in catastrophes, in trains, flights, etc. but I see also a worldwide network controlled by one person, Musk. Right populism always use the Honeypot methode for it’s advance.

No, the Mullvad company isn’t sponsoring a nazi party, but the company is owned by 50% of the one who did it, $500k, money gained with this company. This rest for me also at least 50% of trust in this company. Its not the same, if a company with 100 employees has an employee nazi, as when the owner is one. Because this mean, every money which pay the user for an service, 50% serve to support a nazi party. Stop fooling around with “he used his private money”, it’s money he earned with this company, by donations, VPN and services, paid by the users. Brendan Eich was fired by Mozilla for less.

There are more than 7.000 AI apps out there, most used are all from big corps (Gargle, M$, Zuckerbot, etc), meanwhile there are pretty good and private indie alternatives which are struggeling to survive. That is the real problem, not the AI as tool as such, but those which biased these for own greedy advantages, to profile and manipulate the user. Adding users which use it without criterio and knowledge to substitute with it own research and brain, instead of an tool which can help with research and work, using it for what it is.

There isn’t any lightweight local LLM which give valid results, or you dedicate >90GB for it, or you permits that it connect to the online source servers, wasting a lot of bandwith. You can use locally only AIs dedicated to certain tasks, eg for summarizing documents or in some graphic apps to automate some functions or for accounting in the office, but forget an local alround Assistant.

If you want an AI for certain tasks, use search assistants, like DuckAI or Andisearch, which are good for summarize results fom Webpages without the need of big and large lengage models, being privacy friendly, or use a specific one which you can anonym without account, eg one of those from HuggingFace or one specific from Futurepedia, there you can filter what you need.

Worse the people which use Fox News, Truth Social and a TikTok influencer as valid source.

FOSS nowadays is less and less a guarantee, since Google, M$, Amazon and Fakebook are one of the biggest contributers of FOSS (naturally all with their corresponding tracking APIs). Currently the company ethics, transparency and trust are a very important. At least for me, it’s not acceptable when a service is used to sponsor right wing or nazi parties. It’s not direct Mullvad, but their CEO paid by this product. Faschism is advancing in a creepy manner and at least I’m not willing to support it in any way.

PD. TOR was developed by the US army and secret services and they still owned the onion server. The future and free internet will not be the Onion, but I2P and decentralized networks, out of the reach from big brother corps.