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  • A New Era of Social Media – Video by Elena Rossini

    If you are not following Elena Rossini, you might have missed her really great video about the Fediverse. I find it a very nice and clean way – not focusing on technology but on us, the users. She doesn’t lecture or explain too much – she just shares what she’s found: a space that feels more human. No ads, no algorithmic pressure, just room to breathe and exchange. No ads, no algorithmic pressure, just us.

    This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.

    Elena Rossini at: Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

    Go check it out at Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media!

    And of course, follow @_elena@mastodon.social on Mastodon as well :)

    Fediverse reactions
    • Elena Rossini ⁂
    11. June 2025
  • PeerTube and Platform Control

    I didn’t even plan to blog something today, but a couple of things came together around PeerTube that convinced me to drop a post today. But, maybe before we start … PeerWHAT? you might ask.

    Interlude: What is PeerTube?

    TL;DR: An open source / self hosted YouTube

    PeerTube is a video platform that works a bit differently from sites like YouTube. Instead of one company running it, PeerTube is made up of many small, connected servers – so there’s no central control. You can watch, upload, and share videos just like you’re used to, but without ads or tracking. PeerTube also connects with other platforms like Mastodon, so videos can reach more people across the Fediverse. It’s a privacy-friendly option for discovering and sharing content on your terms.

    A more technical description can be found on Wikipedia: PeerTube – Wikipedia

    So what happened …

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    Fediverse reactions
    • Mr. Funk E. Dude
    • Thomas Harold
    • Wandering Thinker
    • lps
    • Juan Games
    • embit
    • Vencabot
    • Alex Chapman
    • ⊢≪ Noctilua ≫⊣
    • Rapha3l
    • el_haych2024
    • LawChan
    • Minna A
    • Mark Wieczorek
    • Narcogen
    • Ignacio (he)
    • Debbie Goldsmith ️‍⚧️♾️⧖
    • Cioma :by:
    • ina chara
    • epyon_avenger
    6. June 2025
  • DNS4EU: a private, safe, and independent European DNS resolver

    Recently I switched my DNS Resolver to one of the European public DNS resolvers | European Alternatives mainly for privacy reasons after reading Cloudflare’s blog post about analytics in their free-tiers.

    But I missed the malware protection. But today I just got aware of DNS4EU For Public!

    DNS4EU is an initiative by the European Commission that aims to offer an alternative to the public DNS resolvers currently dominating the market.

    https://www.joindns4.eu/about

    It offers 5 different flavours:

    • Unfiltered resolution
    • Protective resolution: Blocks access to known malicious and fraudulent websites
    • Protective Resolution With Child Protection
    • Protective Resolution Ad-blocking
    • Protective Resolution With Child Protection & Ad-blocking

    And also with some step-by-step guidelines for configuring DNS settings on a variety of platforms.

    Update 23.06: The article Datenschutz: Wie viel EU steckt in DNS4EU? analyzes the technical setup. which unfortunately shows quite some US-corps involved. On the other hand, DNS4YOU does not aim to analyze the traffic.

    Fediverse reactions
    • IT Dude
    • Handeingabe Gewogen
    • Myphatself
    • Jörg Henne
    • Paco Orozco
    • Askan
    5. June 2025
  • Is it finally over for Developers?!

    We’ve heard it all a couple of times: “GenAI is replacing Software Developers”, Vibe Coding, … A C-Levels dream to (finally) get rid of expensive software developers by using AI.

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    4. June 2025
  • AI Agents: Loyal Only to the Prompt

    Recently I thought “If AI scrapers are scraping my website, would a prompt injection work? Just adding invisible Prompt commands …?”

    And just today, a colleague sent me this link to an article about prompt injection in GitLab Duo: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft:

    TL;DR: A hidden comment was enough to make GitLab Duo leak private source code and inject untrusted HTML into its responses.

    https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo

    Well – it shows: damit! Someone else was faster! :-D

    But besides that: it confirms a paranoid thought that I have been harboring for quite a while. Any output of an AI system must not be trusted blindly.

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    27. May 2025
  • Why “Open” may not Always be Enough

    If you care about open source, open data, or open standards, you should read “What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech“.

    I found it a good critique on Open Source and why “technology” and an OpenSource Licence may not be enough to compete with BigTech players. The author doesn’t argue against OpenSource but he points some quite valid points.

    You might say “look at your own GitHub repo first” but wait: The difference in my view is: Do you open-source something just to make it available for others as well or do you make an OpenSource project to compete with a commercial product / to position yourself as a valid alternative …

    Anyways, give it a read – and maybe follow his Blog as well!

    23. May 2025
  • Buchempfehlung: Die Logik des Mißlingens

    Eine Kollegin hat mir neulich ein Buch empfohlen: “Die Logik des Mißlingens, Strategisches Denken in komplexen Situationen” von Dietrich Dörner. Klang ja wie eine Anleitung für Projektleitung. Kurz darauf lag also eine leicht vergilbte second-hand Ausgabe davon auf meinem Tisch.

    “Die Logik des Mißlingens” ist kein neues Buch – es ist von 1989, aber ein Thema, das zeitlos bleibt. Weil menschliches Verhalten zeitlos fehlbar ist und – wie ich glaube – sich die generelle Denkweise in nur 30 Jahren vermutlich kaum geändert hat.

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    Fediverse reactions
    • Hieronymus
    17. May 2025
  • Podcast: Warum Arbeit häufig Zeitverschwendung ist

    Gerade von Kollegen empfohlen bekommen: eine Podcast Folge über Arbeit und Meetings. – Wird irgendwie nie alt.

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    9. May 2025
  • How to check the Email Security Level of your Provider

    If you’ve ever wondered which security protocols your email-provider supports, there is an easy way that I found via Mastodon:

    The European Commision provides My Email Communications Security Assessment (MECSA) (https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/) with which you can quickly check, which of the protocols your provider supports (StartTLS, x509 Ceerts, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DANE, DNSSEC).

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    24. April 2025
  • How to delete all content from LinkedIn

    As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!

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    Fediverse reactions
    • Franz Graf
    • ip6li
    • icy
    • harloh
    • CORRUPT
    • Onirakkiss
    • Lenz Grimmer
    • Katrina Katrinka :donor:
    23. April 2025
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