HenryBemis

From Deezer to Spotify many years ago From Opera to Firefox many many years ago From Winzip to WinRar many many years ago From Gemini to ChatGPT a couple of years ago

I wish there was an alternative to Carbonite (unlimited storage, my encryption) that doesn't hide the VAT until the checkout so they don't trick on the pricing (for us Europeans)

  *caught me

if you can't speak or write well, that's probably a good reason. I have rejected multiple CVs lately because the got so much generic/meaningless word salad, that I genuinely don't know what the hell these people are doing on their current job.

Perhaps make the CVs more human(?!), stick to 4-5 bullet-points per job and try to describe in simple non-BS language.

> even a remote one

I would say "especially a remote one". I think those days are gone. I see the 60 office-40 home being prevalent, and the 40% is more like a favor to you/us rather than 'work life balance'.

This comment will not contribute anything, and/but it is a thought that I had a few days ago, and I cannot 'shake' it. We keep 'discovering', recognising, mapping, etc. And I feel that every 'breakthrough' is "one step closer" (let's say 100 steps total), on a journey that is a thousand miles long. So, for the past 4000 years (or whichever century we can call the 'birth of astronomy'), we have accumulated 'this much' knowledge, and still we know a speck of sand in a vast desert, and perhaps now we have accelerated the rate of knowledge gathering, but still we are SO FAR.. ufff..

It's not hubris (for the engineer) in this case though. It is the fact that company X knows that its dept Y can thrive with 10 engineers, and stay afloat with 5 engineers, so the magic number is 5. And then it is down to the individual to convince their manager (or resign) that problem_A is bad, but problem_B is worse, but not in my P&D objectives.

  The hubris comes from the fact that the CEO doesn't hear the problems that Directors don't disclose.
  The hubris comes from the fact that the Directors don't hear the problems that Senior Managers don't disclose.
  The hubris comes from the fact that the Senior Managers don't hear the problems that Managers don't disclose.
  And Managers simply don't care to hear the problems that Engineers face because "shuddup and close that Jira ticket within 48 hour or else".

I am ~50, I have worked (now..) 20? 20+ years in Audit/Compliance, and I laugh-cry inside.... and I am NOT surprised when I read about cases like this, it's another day in the office/life..

(definitions)

The terms hubris, ate, nemesis, and tisis originated in ancient Greece and had specific meanings and roles in everyday life.

  Hubris
  “Hubris” was a fundamental concept in the lives of the ancient Greeks and was used to describe someone who overestimated their abilities and behaved in an arrogant and offensive manner toward others, toward the laws of the state, but above all toward the gods.
  According to ancient beliefs, such acts of hubris offended and enraged the gods.

  Ate
  “Hubris” consequently provoked the intervention of the gods, and especially Zeus, who sent “ate”—that is, a clouding or blinding of the mind—upon the hubristic person.

  Nemesis
  “Ate” led the hubristic person to commit further acts of hubris, until they committed a grave folly or fell into a very serious error, which provoked “nemesis”—that is, the wrath and vengeance of the gods.

  Tisis
  Next comes “tisis,” that is, the punishment and ruin or destruction of the person who committed hubris.

I see the segregation of duties falling apart. "My company" would hire that politician, set him on a nice office, air condition, unfiltered internet, an assistant, 4 SBUX coffees and pizza every day. And once the 2 months are out, let the favors begin!

Your comment brought the song lyrics from Murder - Sepultura:

  ...
  Same hand that builds, destroys
  Same hand that relieves, betrays
  Same hand that seeds, burns
  Same peace that exists, here lies
  ...
  Same religion that saves, damns you!

I got no comment on the essence of your comment, but (in your implied meaning), the very last of the song was matching what you wrote.

If you have noticed, every independent candidate almost never gets elected. Vast majority of those who say they will "change the country to the better" either never get elected or are ousted early on. And those who stay change their tune.

I fear that only blackmail-able people with the potential to win elections, get the support, so that they are beholden to someone who ultimately gives them the job (e.g. funding their campaign) and has to return the favor x10 when elected, so promises go out the window and new reality sets in.

That is a great point. Machine consumes energy of adding goblins in every response. The machine consumes energy on removing goblins from every response. That is a great attack vector. If (wild imagination ensues) an adversary can do that x100 (goblins, potatoes, dragons, Lightning McQueen, etc.) they can render the machine useless/uneconomical from the standpoint of energy consumption.

hi, cool use-case! Question: do they have to type it, or one can upload an audio (old people such as me may talk for 5mins about a mini-story vs typing for 20mins, especially if they use a phone vs windows telegram application (typing on a keyboard vs the smartphone). in which case, do you got a STT 'module' that will pick up the audio, transcribe it, and then 'process' it?

We can't. If someone tries, then they get arrested for doxing, harassing, "causing discomfort", etc. Have you tried to follow a politician around? Do you want to try and track their phone?

I read the first 4-5. They either 'provide services' to govs/law enforcement, and/or are ran by govs.

So to answer to your question, Nothing. You can write 100 letters to your senator, MP, mayor, etc. The "system" will serve its purposes. Best case you will get a response that "national security, paedophiles, terrorists, bad actors", etc.

In some regions you can file a GDPR nightmare letter, which will be shut down because of EU DPR ("national security, paedophiles, terrorists, bad actors", etc.)(yes I copied and pasted from above.. there is a pattern here).

Historically (and Harari describes this far better in "Nexus") documentation and bureaucracy was created to exert control. Any information 'must' be captured, stored, processed, assessed, flagged. Before we only had letters and radio. Now we have more letters (bits and bytes/packets). The mechanism is the same. Collect, store, process.

Cross-referencing this with 1984, everything we do/say/send/etc. will never be forgotten, can and will be used against us. Politicians though can 'rewrite' history ('Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.').

IMHO1: Notion is a Confluence+SharePoint+Jira with useless "AI" to quickly create templates.

Anyone who uses it for your made-up use-case is silly, and has no sense of 'segregation of duties' (access).

IMHO2: this is a process/procedure problem, not a technical problem (to quote GDPR's phrase) "..technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure.." this is an organisational problem that you are trying to solve as technical.

I have very recently tried to work with Notion staff in applying basic "compliance" controls, and their input/response was next-to-garbage, with a big "we didn't build it for/like this mate" attitude. E.g. complete lack of "canned reports showing inactive users", "canned reports showing failed login attempts", and so on. One will have to drill though the audit logs, extract the lot, and go excel magic. Other 'within-Notion' solutions are (politely) 'inaccurate'.

Overall it is a GRC/Privacy nightmare and I am happy to not be a user of this any more :)

Why oh why do you not have a "pricing" page up front and center?

Why oh why do we have to 'pay $1' to see the different (?) subscriptions?

Why oh why do you force me to type in some random characters on your email box to find out your pricing?

  basic $99/mo
  full $350/mo

I asked Gemini and it gave me 8 and then I asked again and it gave me 9.