From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.
They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.
It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.
The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.
It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.
Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".
"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"
Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.
They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.
Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.
Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.
> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe
Don't trust old phones with too much value.
There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.
Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.
A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.
An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.
Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.
Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.
We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).
It sounds like that devops laptop had
It seems more likely that what they're looking at is 'nobody' who reads Reddit posts without logging in will ever need to visit Reddit.com because they can just get all the answers they want from a Gemini query.
I can see their conundrum while noticing that it will suck for humans more than AI and that AI - as currently [not] enforced by law - is the primary culprit in this round of enshittification.
The current economic situation is that all profit from the current web will accrue to the Mag7 while their datasources will foot the bill for making it possible.
If somebody doesn't invent a better economic model soon there won't be much content left for AI to scrape and injest.
Verify that you're human [ ].
From a 1960s comedy:
Interviewer: "Have you ever had any experience running a high-speed digital electronic computer?"
Virgil: "Yes, I have."
Interviewer: "Where?"
Virgil: "My aunt has one."
It was an absolutely absurd thing to say in 1967, but in 2026 the joke is about as dated as anything can be. I wonder if young people today even get it.
I don't know when you went larval, but your low uid suggests it was probably a very long time ago. I speculate that a few decades back, a type of tool once thought to be for business (which IBM had earlier predicted had a worldwide market size of about a half dozen) somehow fell into your hands, and you fell in love at a personal level. No? Did I guess right?
In a lot of industries, people learn about tech at work first, and then maybe adopt it personally. But with computers, at least for GenX-and-later, it mostly worked in the reverse: you get a personal computer and master it, and then when you're 18 you show up at a business totally loaded with years of experience and skills.
Why? Because unlike Bessemer converters or bucket wheel excavators or magnetic resonance imaging machines, computers are cheap. All the "capital" (if you can even honestly call it that) you need is just a few thousand dollars at most, maybe even just a few hundred.
The way things have worked in the last few decades (I'd think especially for old Slashdotters) is that the "professional" tool was already very familiar long before you got the job where you work with it. And anything involving cheap electronics is going to remain like that. Unless it's just totally illegal, there's no way millions of people aren't going to have it and use it personally.
Just ban them all in public, except perhaps for people with special needs (who could wear e.g. bright red ones with polkadots -- that nobody else wants to).
All the crap I wrote above was just to say: special needs is everybody. Don't hop in your time machine and tell 1979-me that I can't use a computer, or I'll become a very angry kid, and by 1984 I would consider it an inexcusable Act of War.
Now if you wanna mandate wearable displays be bright red with polka dots, you might get away with that. But don't be surprised if you end up changing fashion itself. Wearable displays don't really appeal to me yet (they haven't been commoditized where I can choose from many manufacturers, all of whose product can run the same defacto-standardized Free Software, just like how an x86 motherboard can) but maybe some day the market will produce a wearable display that I would be willing to use.
If it's bright red with polka dots, then I just might end up losing the black-band-shirt-and-jeans look, and start dressing like the love-spawn of Liberace and Quetzalcoatl, just so my glasses match the rest of me.
Proton used to let you buy an account with Bitcoin. Then they started requiring a credit card number or an outside email/phone.
It was clear to me that the perception of security replaced privacy.
I'm not sure what I need Proton for that needs my banking information tied to it.
The article is actually reassuring that I didn't misperceive what was going on.
This immediately came to mind:
searches made through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search
Have you thought about disabling AI Mode and returning customers to traditional search? It'll not only make you more money, but result in happier users too. Everyone-except-Nvidia wins.
I've only been paying attention since 1990 but every single time a feature they don't offer "is stupid" until they offer it.
Even when I liked the company this Cluster B behavior always bothered me.
If there's an example of "that's a really nice feature our competitor has but we don't offer it yet" I haven't seen it.
The closest I can think of was offering WebObjects for Solaris. Not sure if that ever shipped or we just had a beta. I bailed from that Healthcare IT team when the CIO pulled funding for two-phase commit among disparate patient medication systems with the rationale "even if medication errors kill someone it'll be cheaper to settle the lawsuits than pay for the license." Enough people left that they outsourced and everybody still hates that replacement system.
I learned too late that MBA's don't care about quality.
> everything you do has fucked the consumers
Say more
Let them do their thing.
I remember in High School the Camaro guys couldn't stop talking about how their Camaros were better than Mustangs but the Mustang guys never felt the need to denigrate the Camaros.
It's a matter of nature.
unrelated: Tailscale is so fooked today:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
Some people here may need to panic right about now.
the germs to punish humanity for allowing transgender Muslims to practice Sharia law while eating your pets! Repent, heathens, or you'll end up with a brainworm like RFK's and low testosterone!
for the New Horizons probe to explore, like they did with the "snowman asteroid"*, but the area of space it can reach is rather limited, as it can change its path by only about a degree with the fuel it has left.
It's still amazing something going that fast can change its path by a whole degree. Due to luck, it didn't have to use much of its onboard fuel to get to its last 2 big targets. I hope it gets a chance to use it on something important.
* Found the by the Hubble scope, actually. They keep changing the rock's name, so I just call it by its nickname.
...one way
There are other options besides QWERTY and DVORK.
"The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box." -- Peter da Silva
