Please, Hammer… don’t hurt em.

They all do

I have been part of a mass tech leadership exodus at a company where the CEO wants everything to be AI. They have lost 5 out of 8 of their director/VP/Exec leaders in the last 3 months, not to mention all the actual talent abandoning ship.

The CEO really believes that all of his pesky employees who he hates will be full replaced by cheap AI agents this year. He’s going to be lucky to continue to keep processing orders in a few months the way it’s going. He should be panicked, but I think instead he’s doing a lot of coke.

Fun fact: AI doesn’t know what is or isn’t true. They only know what is most likely to seem true. You can’t make it stop lying. You just can’t, because it fundamentally doesn’t understand the difference between a lie and truth.

Now picture the people saying “We can replace our trainable, knowledgeable people with this”. lol ok.

This isn’t a surprise to anyone except fucking idiots who can’t tell the difference between actual technology and bullshit peddlers.

I don’t think I followed this… did HBO also own Cinemax? Is that why they called the service HBO Max?

Yes. It will tell you what’s happening where your eyes cannot see.

I know how she can test her theory.

Run a primary opponent against her who feels differently. Let the market decide.

The best time to switch was 10 years ago. The second best time to switch is right now.

Be careful, because there is a limit.

I’ve been doing research into this because I want to degoogle. Looking for hosted and secure Mail, Calendar, Drive… maybe docs if possible. I don’t mind paying as long as I’m a customer and not a product to be sold.

My short list was: Mailbox.org, Zoho, and Notion.

Then there are the services I don’t understand as much because I don’t really want to self host or step into server maintenance… NextCloud, OwnCloud, LibreCloud, OnlyOffice. Maybe someone could straighten me out with those if I’m off base.

Didn’t we finally realize that the whole “shoplifting epidemic” was all bullshit to cover up inept corprate management?

Yes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data.html

Stroke rate increasing as well.

Without wires you have no permanent power. Also, it sounds like you want it to be wireless transmission without a network. That’s a challenge.

Lets Ignore the “no cables” part then. If you want this to be cheap, highly reliable, and non-networked… use wires. You can’t go wrong.

You can get 4 camera systems with local storage from companies like Lorex for a reasonable price for good quality. I got mine at CostCo for $299. It might support cloud storage (maybe?) but I never enabled it. It just records locally. It’s been running for years with no downtime or issues and the cameras still look great.

So… back when I used Pidgin, I aggregated AIM, YahooIM, GoogleTalk, and Pre-MS Skype. What is the use case today?

I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.

it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.

Yeah, I try jumping around. Some are better than others, but none are great.

I probably need to switch VPNs. I currently use Surfshark and I experience 2 problems, and I want to see if it’s unique to that service.

1. Lots of sites block my traffic because they detect i’m coming from a VPN. And just not like… banks or streaming services, but stupid things like Autotrader.com. It’s silly.

2. The connection always seems to slow down over time, and I have to disconnect and reconnect to get it working at full speed again. I use it on Linux and on Android and the problem happens across devices.

Sounds like Mullvad has some good options.

It’s a great product. It is thanklessly maintained by a single developer who is constantly fighting Youtube changes to break it. If you do use it and like it, and you can afford it, please consider a few bucks a month via patreon to keep it alive.