Banzai51 @ Banzai51 @midwest.social

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It's still going to ship with Notepad.

People still sleep on Excel. Nothing else touches it, and your finance department would riot if IT tried any of its "replacements."

So your thoughts can be monitored by authoritarians.

You will vote as we say or you will be fired from your job.

Voting requires anonymity.

Just what I want, a permanent record replicated everywhere for every flippent thing I say. Hard pass.

Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. And it hasn't found one to solve yet.

I have a friend that is a pilot. He said the quickest way to be out of a job and never be hired as a pilot again is to remotely admit you might have a mental health issue. And not in the "I hear voices" severity, more like "Hey my job is stressful, I'm away from home all the time while working, and I'm going through a divorce. Maybe talking to a professional will help me cope" kind of thing.

That's going to be highly dependent on the work done and the structure of the company. Even then, it is also about demonstrating power. I work in IT where our datacenters are in different states, and we work more and more with cloud infrastructure. Even when I'm in the office I'm working remotely. We don't see clients. Our teams are scattered across the country, hell my manager lives in another state. So even in the office the people part of it is still done remotely. There is zero reason to be in the office for us.

The Board of Directors at Zoom should be having an emergency meeting right now to fire this guy with prejudice for comments directly damaging to the brand. Wonder why that isn't happening? Zoom shareholders should be revolting.

I think it is less gut feelings than many of these top execs being personally invested in the same financial securities the company is invested in, like commercial real estate securities. But they don't want to say that part out loud.

Unless your or the company's portfolio has lots of commercial real estate securites. The commercial real estate and the financial securities behind them are in a bubble and there is a fear it could pop like it was 2007 with the mortgage securities. That was the fear behind it. And many cities had mayors pushing for a return to office because the downtowns were threatened.

Most of this comes from the C-level execs being "inbred." Meaning many C-level execs sit as board members on other companies. These guys are all trying to scratch each others' backs.

Because the coach isn't apologizing and moving on. He's helping getting the player punished for rightfully complaining about it.

China pulled a Japan. In the 80s we were told to learn Japanese because they were going to be the next big thing in the world forever.

I have Home Assistant on an old Intel NUC, with mostly Z-Wave switches and two IP based switches, one Kasa IP switch and one Shelly switch. The Kasa and Shelly show the divide in IoT. The Kasa is everything wrong with IoT, requiring an Internet connection to function and is slow to respond. Shelly is everything right as can be. It will work just fine locally without an Internet connection if you set it up that way, but can work cloud based if you don't have a system to control it.

I'm still on the lookout for Matter switches actually for sale, instead of projects announced and nothing else. So I still buy Z-Wave switches.

Home-Assistant.

The big device manufacturers DON'T WANT INTEROPERABILITY. They want you nailed down to their ecosystem and hit you with planned obsolescence. Like most anything else in the economy, they want premium pricing. If you adopt open standards, then you're competing with everyone else but now on price. The majority of device makers don't want to do that. THAT is the problem with the smart home.

But now the illegal content is not happening on their owned instance, taking them off the hook.

This only highlights and strengthens my decision to never buy a Samsung phone. They so desperately want to go their own way but don't quite have the guts.

CIA walks in, "I believe this is my jam. I'll take it from here."

DIY Netflix is the one I like.

Given how much YouTube tries to push right wing propaganda down everyone's feed, I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.