Notices by Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social), page 4

@arstechnica We need a mobile and smart TV all targeted at decentralized media, fediverse maybe.

Free the viewers to consume any media they like outside of a dedicated walled garden and without a middleman like YouTube.

@Gargron I do programming at a health insurer and members of my team had great ideas about portability and data integrity based on using blockchain in claims processing.

Those seem to have evaporated, there's no institutional interest in it. AI, and the prospect of it replacing *us* is very exciting for the executive folks. I haven't quite figured out why though, since none of the LLM stuff seems to be getting any more accurate at referring to reality.

@arstechnica The company who demonstrated how they have zero ethical concerns about unilaterally and retroactively changing contract terms and considers themselves arbiters of "real charity" isn't going to win back approval with a quickie apology and a "please".

They showed everybody they're not just kinda sketchy but outright evil. They'll do it again in a heartbeat if attention to the issue ever wanes even slightly.

@arstechnica Run it with and without those inputs and compare the results.

If it can't produce the same output then it's deriving its output from the input.

@nixCraft OMG yes, I've been fighting a losing battle against "company standard time" at work.

We have employees literally around the world trying to comply with and work around central time obligations. Meanwhile we're trying to pin down timelines on an error but we're not sure in which timezones their desktops are recording the timestamps.

Some offices set their hardware clocks to local and adjust their desktop display to central. Some set their hardware clocks to central. It's insanity.

@nixCraft My employer insists on Jira but they also insist on *continuously* changing the arrangement and requirements of fields, workflows and roles. We have bi-weekly continuing retraining as a result and it's still impossible to keep up.

The truth is that I don't know if any of my complaints originate with Jira. If I was ever allowed to use the damn thing rather than do battle with it, it's possible I'd like it.

@aral Corporations are an immortal competing species that consumes humans both as dray animals and as food.

They are everything we were afraid of AI being but they're already here and well established.