PR nightmares will keep significant exploit fixes coming. Microsoft isn’t that stupid.

Nfts were a scam from the start something that has no actual purpose utility or value being given value through hype.

Generative AI is very different. In my honest opinion you have to have your head in the sand if you don’t believe that AI is only going to incrementally improve and expand in capabilities. Just like it has year over year for the last 5 to 10 years. And just like for the last decade it continues to solve more and more real-world problems in increasingly effective manners.

It isn’t just constrained to llms either.

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Ohhh, you get to pay based on the meters of mouse movement you do. Usage based billing, perfect.

We already do, with intentionally fast breaking switches. They get away with charging $100 for a mouse, and ensuring a $0.30 part will break long before the devices useful lifetime. Generating mountains of ewaste.

Why can’t they get away with the next step, which is charging a subscription fee to use their mice as well?

Which is planned obsolescence anyways.

It’s not a dopey idea, it’s an enshitification one, and one we will see again because there are no consequences.

Logitech will have subscription hardware, guaranteed. They’ll just go back to the drawing board on how to market anti-consumer practices better.

And similarly are antitrust regulations have done nothing to prevent companies like Logitech from just acquiring all of their competitors and then doing this anyways once there is no more competition. And even using potential competitors into bankruptcy before they can actually compete.

Did they though?

Many elderly end up being forced to sell their home and empty their retirements on nursing home costs. Leaving nothing to their descendants.

The ones that die at home or unexpectedly would be the ones that leave something behind in our capitalist wasteland.

They don’t even make good mice technically because of planned obsolescence.

Their switches die, intentionally, long before the life time of any other components on their mice. And have for nearly 10 years now.

How do you deal with places with thousands of remote endpoints??

And now you know why he’s donating to the Trump campaign.

Because with the shift of power with project 2025 he can actually do this.

Damn near every tech company and major utility provider has no way of growing aside from squeezing.

No matter where you turn you will be getting squeezed, and it’ll just get worse every year that regulations don’t catch up.

And if the U.S. has it’s way, institutional regulation will be a thing of the past as a new wave of unchecked corporate oligarchy begins. And since the U.S’s biggest export is crazy, it’ll just spread…

Making the future more grim.

Build it, don’t turn it on, watch all the residents complain about new ailments and conditions caused by the 5G.

Reveal that it’s never even been powered to really hammer home their ignorant bullshit.

The cognitively impaired should not be able to do this sort of shit.

Typical security negligence of startups.

Your data is essentially never secure if it’s sitting with a startup. It’s an atrocious world for security out there.

Nowhere in my post did I even say anything positive about Amazon, I literally explained this as an industry phenomena… I work in this industry and exposed to this sort of stuff daily.

I do software engineering and data science for contact center software, I’m literally the expert on this topic in this comments section, talking about this. 🤦

Google, AirBnb, Amazon, Verizon, Blue Apron, Red Bubble, T-Mobile, GameStop…etc all contract out their contact center needs, almost every single company you interact with on a regular basis contracts out their support staff to a small handful of contact center companies. And all of these companies tend to operate effectively the same, and this is bog standard stuff.

This means that the call center practices being complained about is an industry problem not a problem with a particular company, Amazon in this case.

Accusing me of astroturfing as a way to dismiss my credibility and then claiming some sort of moral high ground is extremely toxic. I even explained that this isn’t a good thing, yet somehow you completely missed that.

I explained in my post, fairly clearly. I suggest you reread it instead of stopping at the first sentence. It’s clear that media literacy really has went downhill.

But unsurprisingly commenters like you like to jump to conclusions without actually understanding the words written in front of them. And instead of actually arguing the point resort to personal attack instead.

Don’t be a dick.

I love how “easy” solutions are just the ignorant ones…

If it was so easy then everyone would abandon Amazon one might retort.

Researcher questionnaires are bog standard contact center kpis. You’re going to find it at Amazon, damn near every other app that you use that provides customer support, and just about every service and utility you also use that provides customer support.

Is this a good thing? No, of course not, but this has very little to do with Amazon and rather the industry as a whole. Literally any other big box retailer that you would go to instead of Amazon is doing the same thing, even small businesses that are outsourcing their support to in country contact centers are doing the same thing.

How to lose another election against an actual anti-democracy fascist who couldn’t pass a turning test 101.

It’s very likely that as a sole developer you are actually practicing agile as it’s intended and not corporate “agile”.

There isn’t a problem with agile there’s a problem with it being mislabeled and misused as a corporate & marketing tool for things that have nothing to do with agile.

If it was local only, and more security focused I would 100%.

My ADHD. brain needs an AI assistant.

Give it time.

Same. I have 5G off because it’s just so bloody slow and unreliable.

Let’s not even talk about the problems where periodically I can’t make any outbound calls and no one can call me. Which has been a problem for at least the last 5 years, for both me and my wife.

To be fair a security camera would be more like $300-900 and the install, wiring into the freezer…etc would be another $1-2k.

Still not comparable, but that’s definitely not just $100.

Yep, and Google does the same shit.

On Pixel phones you have the search bar at the bottom, which you cannot remove, replace, resize, or configure.

In the EU you can configure it to change your default search engine. In North America you cannot, and are forced to use Google.

And on Google forums anyone who complains gets attacked by a wave of simps saying “Then just don’t buy a pixel then, go somewhere else if you don’t like it”.

So tired of this shit.

As is typical for MAGAs

They hallucinate more than LLMs

I’m in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that’s 70 years old.

And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of “too short”.

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it’s built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It’s easier to just hand wave it away as someone else’s problem than to actually consider it…

When a problem becomes systematic it’s now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn’t working so it’s now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That’s how almost everything works

Thank god, governments (local and larger) should not be using Facebook as a sole/primary means of communication.

It’s infinitely frustrating that my own municipality makes announcements and shares public information on a platform that is not always accessible to the residents that constitute that municipality.

Information should be shared on the official municipality website in the same manner, and copied over to Facebook for ease of access to those who use it.

It’s not even “banning tik-tok”. It’s “separate your interests, or we block your product”.

Which isn’t exactly something that we haven’t seen before in the U.S. and it for sure isn’t anything new in China where plenty of services, games…etc are blocked with “Chinese only” versions of those services.

Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

Of course, not everyone is technology literate enough to understand how it works.

That should be the default assumption, that something should be explained so that others understand it and can make better, informed, decisions. .

I think their point is where is the line and why is the line where it is?

I’m not entirely sure what Kool-Aid you were implying they’re drinking…?

“Apple makes apple products in the apple ecosystem. Non-apple ecosystem fails to entice apple users over”

That’s essentially what you quoted. What part of that is controversial? It’s practically just a dry statement of fact.

Apple’s anti-competitive practices ensuring that it’s successful within his own ecosystem isn’t a controversial part of that. We know that’s what they do.

Or maybe I’m just missing something here.

Propublicas presentation of this is excellent.

And it’s absolutely infuriating to see the edits made that not only went in the face of empirical facts, but completely undermined the meaning of the guidance.

With services written in typescript

That is a hard nope from me. In no world do I want any core part of any operating system I use directly or indirectly relying on the JavaScript ecosystem.

Aside from the performance concerns the security and longevity problems are through the roof.

Wonder how much that ends up costing per month and how much that ends up costing over the lifetime of the vehicle.

Assuming the lifetime even matters when they decide to just cut off subscriptions at some point in the future to turn features off to drive you towards buying a new vehicle and dumping this one like a good consumer.

It only works that way if you are willfully ignorant. As does everything else in the world.

You can easily calculate your taxes, and your necessary withholdings from that on your W4. There’s even a stupid simple grid to match your income to on one of the pages…

It’s like a grocery store where you know the prices, but they’re rounded to the nearest $0.01. but at checkout you have to make up the difference that wasn’t shown on the price tags. Which overall constitutes a minimal portion of your overall bill.

Nation state cybersecurity threats are a big deal, and heavily targeting Microsoft is definitely part of a larger game plan by Russia.

If Microsoft is struggling, imagine how helpless “smaller” corporations (Even 10/100’s of billion $ corps) would be.

I’m interested in how this plays out, and the kinds of postmortems we’ll get from this. Will we see any shift in security culture and best practices?

No idea,but remember these statements aren’t meant for the technically inclined it’s meant for your average Joe.

It probably refers less to individual chips and more to individual components.

Hopefully right to repair laws will continue to spread which will make it difficult for companies to restrict business in specific states.

The irony here is that their constant push against a national standard for right to repair means that all these companies are now going to have to deal with slightly different laws in every single state that are an absolute nightmare to comply with.

Given Google and YouTube’s history of intentionally and maliciously disrupting other browsers that aren’t chrome, it’ll be a safe bet that it’s intentional.

Time to sail the high seas.

Our enterprise has all of that automated, who’s searching for names manually in any business of nontrivial size…?

This can, and should, be scripted.