Well, this explains it.
I changed the screensaver to the fish tank because the default cityscape on has all those stupid ads plugged in.
The other day, it had a banner that said the fishtank was being removed. I couldn’t figure out why.
I guess I will have to find a new streaming box? Sheesh.
I had long ago blocked all telemetry at my edge network box for the whole house. Now I presume it will not be sufficient.
So I should stop doing a good job and I can fail up?
Man, I feel like a chump.
I use ai at work to handle low-value, high-effort bullshit.
I have to plan out a quarter ahead for my team of about 20 people. The expectation was to sit with them during multiple planning meetings, haggle out plans based on estimates and vibes for what we might be able to get done.
I hated that so I loaded all of our work data (agile) into an agent I created. I had it create plans based on historical data. I tuned those plans based on what I needed to. It would take me about two hours to do the entire quarterly planning. I sent it to the teams for modifications, fed those back through for final tuning. Then the agent would create and schedule all of the work, dates, assignments, set up all the admin stuff to make it go.
Took planning from probably about 60 labor hours per quarter to maybe 10.
Because my boss was a twat, he would not log into the system to view the plans, he could only read PowerPoint. I had the ai make his dumb ass slides from the content.
So you can use these things effectively. You can also make endless work slop. Keep in mind, work slop is not new. Ever hear of a “walking deck”? It is as fucking stupid as it sounds. You make a presentation about what you and your team does for nobody in particular. It is usually self promotional marketing wank that nobody ever looks at. Been a thing for ages. Now I can just use my work data to generate one if I wanted (I don’t want one).
This levels the playing field for all the busybodies who don’t really work, but do make a lot of slop. I hope they drown in it.
I taught at a small college in the early 2000s. It was the type of place you got an associates degree. I was hired to teach there a few weeks after I graduated from college. I had four days to prep for teaching a full courseload. Day classes and night classes. I had never taught a day in my life prior. I was a presenter at a museum previously. I had the fun job of staying one day ahead of my students. I would spend every free moment in the textbooks writing outlines for every chapter I could. Each class I would try to stay on topic and would sweat any time a question would come up, hoping I could answer. I never worked harder in my actual college career than I did when i had to teach. I did eventually get ahead and turned up to be a pretty good teacher. I was liked and respected by my students and peers.
I’m just saying getting thrown into the deep end is nothing new. Instead of writing outlines, you can generate them. However, I would agree that all that time I spent working is what enabled me to be a good teacher. I understood the work required at the pace it was expected. I’m not against AI, but I don’t think it belongs everywhere. It is a tool, not a panacea.
Remember, the people in the c-suite are not there because they’re the best or the smartest. They’re not there because they earned their position through hard work an intelligence.
They are in those seats because they are willing to lick the boot of someone who has more money and power. Nobody “takes” a job, they ask for a job or they’re permitted one.
CEOs are nothing more than the toadies of those with more money and power. I have gotten a front row seat to this over and over. CISO of my last company is a complete and utter twat. Knows nothing does nothing. However, he does know which boot to lick and he does so with elan. He will persist until he is no longer useful. He’s one of the least talented security practitioners I have ever had the displeasure to meet. He’s howdy doody come to life.
This is not uncommon. Don’t be a c-suite worshipper. Most of them are assclowns. On rare occasion a smart one will get through, but they usually don’t last long.
I’ve been able to fall asleep pretty much anywhere. Airplane seat bolt upright, office chair, it matters little.
It does suck now getting older that it is less of a choice.
“In February 2017, Massie introduced a one-page bill that would abolish the United States Department of Education, and cosponsored a bill that would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Just remember, he’s still a massive twat. He occasionally does things that are less twat-like, but that isn’t anything to get excited about.
Clearly didn’t stop Trump.
i used a 7a because it was the smallest and not old. 8a isn’t a lot bigger.
Still bigger than my old zenfone–that also had a headphone jack. Small is good
We are pretty insufferable.
A perpetual check engine light does that to a person.
Yep, been doing used pixels for a while now. They’re all the same anyway. I don’t care about the camera.
My kids are dopes and constantly break screens so I’m not about to buy anything nice. We all have the same model and a spare. Broken, eBay screen, bring in the spare, fix the broken one, is now the spare.
You’ll get a new phone when it doesn’t get updates anymore, then you’ll just get the next one up.
Spending more than $300 on a phone is nuts to me. They’re all the same candy bar anyway.
May as well just buy a used laptop or desktop.
I miss moths
I only know the term gambled and lost to describe a fart that is accidentally a shit.
Work in security.
We have been able to do this since the beginning. No need to clutch your pearls.
It is just https traffic. We have been collecting and decrypting this since the late 2000s.
Remember, your work computer is not at all private. We have telemetry on EVERYTHING you do with your Corp laptop. Been this way for a long time.
You also get quietly whisked off to a prison that isn’t a prison where you are charged as a terrorist.
I would like to see power in the hands of the people, but using technology to do it is really risky. You have to be extremely good at covering your tracks or you’re fucked.
The majority of men would gladly offer theirs as tribute to darn near anyone who asks.
I will not pretend to be special.
Anyone can have a penis if they want one.
Ha ha, I escaped.
They fired me.
Take that!