The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Enshittification is a contagious disease. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been watching a YouTube short and though, “Hang on, what was that?” and then wanted to rewind but you can’t. They’ve hidden the horizontal time scroller (in the YouTube web page anyway; you can see it when a video is embedded here for instance). So you’ve got to start at the beginning and wait for it to get back to where it was.
I blamed it on a half arsed implementation by YouTube and thought they’d fix it one day because, you know, pausing and going back 5 seconds to make sure you understood something is like basic functionality right? Well today I’m watching a video on Facebook “Reels” of the resort we’re staying at during our next vacation and, same thing happened: “Ooh, let me go back and see that water again… wtf? You can’t?” If both YouTube and Facebook are doing it, it’s not a fuck up, it’s deliberate.
Apparently being able to pause and go back is functionality that is too fucking complicated for us to be trusted with even though it’s been a feature of every recorded medium since the fucking gramophone. Stop making the world dumber and harder to navigate you cunts.
/rant
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Blame Gen Z. They watch it once and laugh or don’t get it and then move on without giving any effort to figure something out or understand why something happens. AI will only make it worse in the future when it says anything or does everything for them. Barely point and click and poof … it’s done. If it’s wrong nobody will care or remember.
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Microsoft gives in and lets you close OneDrive on Windows without explaining yourself
This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
Looking forward to seeing what happens when you try to shut down GPT in Windows 12.
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No worries, Kamala is on it. At least she can spell A.I.
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Hmm I haven’t been working in the salt mines of healthcare billing, I’ve been working on fancy things.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Hmm I haven’t been working in the salt mines of healthcare billing, I’ve been working on fancy things.
Kile at work like
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Well this seems like a gaping security hole:
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Charge your phone at night ya wankas!
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China does the same thing through TikTok.
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Some cabrõn in division 2 just now was named pendejo tactica
Hijo de la chingada
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Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntGTFO
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Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT, citing security concerns
Microsoft told employees on Thursday that "a number of AI tools are no longer available" due to security reasons.
The company initially said it was banning ChatGPT and design software Canva, but later removed a line in the advisory that included those products. After initial publication of this story, Microsoft reinstated access to ChatGPT.
Geez, given their huge bet on GPT and their rush to incorporate it into their products, the optics on that would have been terrible.
“Here, use our product”
“Do you use it yourself?”
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntEven I wouldn’t treat you that way!
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Facebook Messenger can’t die fast enough for me but a huge number of Cambodians (including my wife) use it and nothing else so I’m stuck with it. Chhunly sent me some audio recordings that he recorded with messenger. Of course I need to do something with the recordings but Messenger doesn’t let download them. So I had to install half a dozen different apps until I found one that would let me record the recording. Then I sent him a text message that had a mistake in it but you can’t edit sent messages. Fuck me.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntI am convinced that if you pass on and St Peter rejects you, at the end of the down escalator you will hear “welcome to AT&T”. Total shithole company.
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@Gators1 when I talk to AT&T on the phone they’re pretty good , Comcast was the worst. When I mentioned it to a repair tech he laughed and said both companies use the same call center service.
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Fuck Samsung!
The era of cheap SSDs is about to end
SSD prices have been pretty great lately, but that might be about to change. Samsung is said to be increasing prices by up to 20%.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntI am convinced that if you pass on and St Peter rejects you, at the end of the down escalator you will hear “welcome to AT&T”. Total shithole company.
It may be a toss-up between AT&T and Verizon . . .
Verizon is a bit of the throwback. They offer some very good products, which, as long as you do not need support, can be excellent.
But when you need support in the field, the techs are in a strong union and they do get a lot of overtime. The “bosses” of the field techs are non-union salaried foremen and managers. The foreman are titularly in charge, but they can only make suggestions as to what the field people should do. If the foremen or supervisors cannot manage the people who don’t actually answer to them, they can be fired or replaced. The field guys pretty much have jobs for life.
Moral of the story here is to be very courteous, respectful and grateful to the field guys and if you have to vent, ask to speak to an officer of the corporation who actually does practically nothing . . . and tell them to fuck off!
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntI am convinced that if you pass on and St Peter rejects you, at the end of the down escalator you will hear “welcome to AT&T”. Total shithole company.
It may be a toss-up between AT&T and Verizon . . .
Verizon is a bit of the throwback. They offer some very good products, which, as long as you do not need support, can be excellent.
But when you need support in the field, the techs are in a strong union and they do get a lot of overtime. The “bosses” of the field techs are non-union salaried foremen and managers. The foreman are titularly in charge, but they can only make suggestions as to what the field people should do. If the foremen or supervisors cannot manage the people who don’t actually answer to them, they can be fired or replaced. The field guys pretty much have jobs for life.
Moral of the story here is to be very courteous, respectful and grateful to the field guys and if you have to vent, ask to speak to an officer of the corporation who actually does practically nothing . . . and tell them to fuck off!
I have not needed support from Verizon and the guy that installed my internet was probably the best telco tech I have had in my life. He even showed me how to rewire the thing in case I wanted to change the outlet my router was attached to. I am guessing there are plenty of horror stories out there though, but AT&T isn’t just shitty for customer service, their products and infrastructure suck ass as well. My dad had an old email account tied to his AT&T service and they eventually outsourced it to yahoo mail and then wanted to “encourage” people to get off it so they wouldn’t have to pay, so they downgraded the spam protection and he got spammed all to hell. And their website was the worst corporate site I have seen with significant lag, and getting lost all the time. Their customer support made me want to learn curse words in Indian.
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Jesus; that’s bad.
Verizon outsourced to AOL mail, so there’s that sort of parity afoot.
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