This is um… Very CCP-like

Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!

Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.

Unadulterated crabs-in-a bucket thinking

We’re deep into a “move fast and break things cycle” which absolutely means a lot of testing is happening in prod because ev

I get it… If the competition has features you don’t have you’ll lose business now. Telling your customers to submit a ticket so the team can quickly fix it or ignore you is kinda the normal now.

What are you gonna do, vibe code your own solution?

Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.

When you say CEOs are you thinking of guys who are making millions with staff living on almost nothing?

It IS a big hassle. I use Amazon SES for outbound which mostly solves the spam rejection problem based on IP, but the system still has to protect its domain reputation by being setup well. Inbound is an issue because downtime can mean lost email, so I have two other systems acting as MX relays. I also have to deal with spam, monitor disk space and a bunch of other things that for most would not be worth the hassle.

They started this BS a few years ago… At the time they were going to totally remove the program, and finally backed off from that stance if you agreed to use only for non business purposes. Horse was outta the barn though, a lot of people migrated away.

The thing is, Google very clearly and purposefully marketed this as a free for life program to get your family domains on there in return for earning credibility with IT influencers and decision makers. If they remove this program, they’ll burn that goodwill (if any is left, lol) and frankly should return all of the value they got from scanning our data for the past 20 years or so which was a known part of the “free for life” trade.

I’m degoogling as fast as possible and have all except some family members off Gsuite so far.

Immich Nextcloud My own postfix email server (I’m a super nerd) Thunderbird and rainloop email clients Duckduckgo is default everywhere and use searxing in some cases Also have a pihole doing dns blocking of Google’s junk and ublock origin on all home pcs

I don’t have a great replacement for YouTube yet. Actually I subscribe to YouTube premium because I feel like that at least gets creators paid

These are a few of the ways I’ve handled it

The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.

Dang. If I owned Tesla stock I would be a bit worried about this at the moment.

Seems pretty dicey to let an AI anywhere near your wallet.dat

Don’t know why you got downvoted, you’re 100% right. It’s just another layer of abstraction. Like a super high level non-deterministic level of abstraction.

Unfortunately that is almost certainly detectable too

Do you feel like AI and its current form is ever going to go away?

To me it seems like we’re well beyond the point of it going away ever. It may never live up to the hype of replacing all the jobs.

We also know that AI companies are footing a large chunk of the bill. Someday those prices are going to crank up and a bunch of work we shovel over to AI will go back to humans.

Heck, it may have peaked already - we may not have any more killer uses to discover. Or maybe we do, and that’s partly why I’m here - I’m pretty interested to see if some interesting uses cases emerge. Some really tough or annoying problem that we all hate to do that AI can start actually doing really good work at.

AI is the buzz at the moment and is driving investment. From the perspective of the business of selling tech it matters most.

But that’s largely because companies involved in tech are trying to find use cases for AI that can move the needle, as is the case for many new technologies in search of a problem to solve.

If the starting position is “fuckai” or “fuckwork”, or “fuckzuck”, well I guess thats awesome but doesn’t really seem like a conversation about tech or how it may eventually solve problems or change the world.

Is this the technology forum or fuckai/fuckwork/fuck meta forum.

Jesus H Christ

I understand those are popular positions for the average Lemmy user but the negativity is really off-putting

Two companies that are desperate for disruption. It’s like one drowning person swimming over to another drowning person to rescue.

Craigslist, or Facebook marketplace?

A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that’s a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.

But it does make life a bit harder for Anna’s archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won’t.