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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by ziml77 »

replwoacause wrote: post #186

Good write up I guess, but I'm just so tired of all the AI-isms in every damn thing. "Your European passport is one quiet subpoena away" Why does the subpoena need to be quiet? If I search my chats with ChatGPT for the word "quiet", I get a ridiculous number of results. "Quietly this, quietly that". It's almost like the new em dash. There's many others all over this blog post I won't bother calling out. "Understandin…

> Or it took an hour of back and forth with ChatGPT loaded up with those 34 pages.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I read that line. And there's nothing necessarily wrong with using AI to help decipher large legal documents, just be honest about it.

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by 18061235 »

laszlojamf wrote: post #148
pavel_lishin wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Why is that your assumption?

Unless you have friends without phones and live in a city without cameras, I think that's a pretty fair assumption

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Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by barbazoo »

bachmeier wrote: post #207
ColinWright wrote: post #20

I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…

This is a good example of why it's insane that nobody at Mozilla cares that they hire CEOs that have only a LinkedIn page. If you want to visit the website of the Mozilla CEO, you have to create an account and log in. No big deal if it's a CEO of a plastics manufacturing company, but when the mission is fighting against the behavior of companies like LinkedIn, it makes me wonder why Mozilla exists.

It’s hard to be perfect.

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by csmpltn »

wolvoleo wrote: post #183
csmpltn wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Building a site like LinkedIn is really easy. Europe can easily do this. All it is is yet another social media site of which there are tons. There is nothing special about LinkedIn. The reason we didn't was critical mass. Everyone was already on linkedin and there wasn't really a reason to pick something else until the US started becoming a nuisance. It's marketing, not technical. I'm sure an EU alternative will come…

> I'm sure an EU alternative will come up now that the US is no longer a trustworthy partner. A lot of people like myself now have ethical issues with using american products (especially from big tech) and there's a lot of demand for EU-local stuff that wasn't there before.

This is all hot air. If it's so easy to build, it would've been built by now. I bet you that there won't be a single successful European LinkedIn competitor - not for the past 20 years, not now, and not for the next 20. Europe is fundamentally at a deep state of decay at every level. The only way anything might be built, is by banning the competition. At which point you might as-well just forget about a social network for professionals entirely, because you're probably working at a gulag and there's no job hopping to be done anyways :)

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Post by DonThomasitos »

LinkedIn is Tiktokified social media brainrot disguised as serious work. „Hey - you‘re not wasting time, you‘re building your network and gather industry knowledge!“

LinkedIn is full if so called professionals who make a living by leveraging their brand. If you‘re not one of them, leave

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Post by andrewjf »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #158
talkingtab wrote: post #111

Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people. 1. they are selling you as a target. 2. some people, governments, groups, whatever are willing to pay a lot of money to obtain information about you. 3. why would someone pay good money to target you unless they were going to profit from doing so. are they stupid? no. 4. where does that profit come from? If some one is…

Beautifully written, I saved your post to send the next friend or relative who asks me why I am so hard-over on privacy. I enjoyed working at Google hears ago as a contractor, and they are my ‘favorite’ tech company - the only mega-tech company who’s services I regularly use, but I am constantly mindful of their business model as I use YouTube, GCP, and their various dev APIs.

being "hard-over on privacy" and regularly using google services is an astounding level of cognitive dissonance.

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by dboreham »

DonThomasitos wrote: post #216

LinkedIn is Tiktokified social media brainrot disguised as serious work. „Hey - you‘re not wasting time, you‘re building your network and gather industry knowledge!“ LinkedIn is full if so called professionals who make a living by leveraging their brand. If you‘re not one of them, leave

Kind of. I've had a strict policy since LinkedIn launched of only connecting with people I've actually met and had at least some meaningful conversation with. Most of my contacts are former work colleagues. I think this makes my feed and audience a bit less spammy and grifty.
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