Which is kinda my favorite thing to do as of late, and what I prefer AI be used for.

I’m not taking about building a suite of black box tools. But tiny scripts to scrape, shape, and generate reports. Things I used to pull in a dozen node libraries to do and manually configure and patch up.

You know, busy work.

You can have a little AI, as a treat

They’re absolutely trying to find use cases for their “solution”.

I haven’t used a vending machine in years (except in Japan). And so I for one welcome AI vending machines so I can fuck with them and get free stuff. Or until some vandals break shit.

I think the root issue is still real, regardless of how much koolaid this person drank.

1. Person buys a gift card from a brick-and-mortar store
2. Apple says its fraud
3. Locks account and refuses to elaborate

but I’m learning that a LOT of people are either / or with phones and computers;

My knee jerk reaction was to say something smart ass like “well they should get a computer” but you’re absolutely right.

The customer service woman I talked to was surprised I could talk to her and browse the internet (on a laptop). She told me most people use their phone for everything. I met college kids who were typing their papers on their phones. My mom never owned a computer until I gave her one, and she leaves it in the corner “for emergencies”.

I have no answer. People will continue uploading their lives into Google photos, Facebook galleries, whatever - with no backup, and hope those companies store their data. I think the average person is fucked.

The Terraria dev who had his Google account locked out because of whatever bullshit.

Don’t ever put anything secure/critical in places that aren’t yours.

Same. I don’t mind it if it was done by a group of writers who can finetune it or people who just hate that shit. But but Google’s job is to get more clicks and get more eyeballs. So I don’t trust them to game their own systems.

Why not also the company that does the IDs?

And hell, also the porn site?

Its all a big money making scheme. Security theater bullshit.

I left it last year for tutamail.

Its not fancy. But why the hell do I want fancy email?

Sometimes I like to find top headlines from other countries.

Like damn, your country’s biggest news today is that you’re replacing outdated lights with eco-friendly alternatives?

Must be nice.

This is awesome! I appreciate the list!

I used to think this way until all this AI garbage happened. My tiny tech blog suddenly got 100x the traffic after the AI boom, all from bots and scrapers. I started with basic solutions but after a few weeks, gave up and used cloudflare because it’s free and I’m sick of playing wackamole.

It’s a mess out there.

Applebee’s at 2AM which leaves a physical trail? Noob. I strap meshtastic nodes on wild dogs, using them as a Internet relay at 1-2kb a second, to look at manga leaks.

Same energy as when they pushed Kinect and Cortana as the future of computers.

I’m curious how much internet traffic gets lost when something like ChatGPT gets taken down.

Like, all those bots…how will they post garbage?

Window users are gonna get AI rekt

Microsoft warns that Windows 11’s agentic AI could install malware on your PC: “Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications”

As long as windows is installed by default on hardware, it’s hard to move the needle. A huge majority don’t want the headache of switching.

But, that pie is slowly being chipped away as options are available.

Ooof, yeah reading their comments, I agree.

OP, if you’re reading this, start even smaller. Not everything has to be right in your house.

I been deploying web apps since 2010, and I jumped right into self hosting during the pandemic and it was a massive headache or challenges I wasn’t prepared to face or maintain.

I gave up (for now) and just used open-source apps and AWS, because I needed availability. And every few months, I do a bit more to one day move everything to pure self hosting.

Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.

And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.

Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.

I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.

And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.

It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.

Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.