The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

Gators1

Hog already posted about the Logitech mouse subscription before, but Verge did an interview with their CEO (a Swiss lady that started 7 months ago and has a long history with beauty products at P&G). Out of touch does not even begin to describe it. She obviously doesn’t understand her product quality either because I would be thrilled if some of the Logitech shit I bought lasted more than a year. I do like their mice though. Also nobody is going to think about a plastic mouse as the equivalent of a Rolex.

Faber: I’m very intrigued. The other day, in Ireland, in our innovation center there, one of our team members showed me a forever mouse with the comparison to a watch. This is a nice watch, not a super expensive watch, but I’m not planning to throw that watch away ever. So why would I be throwing my mouse or my keyboard away if it’s a fantastic-quality, well-designed, software-enabled mouse. The forever mouse is one of the things that we’d like to get to.

Patel: What made the mouse a forever mouse?

Faber: It was a little heavier, it had great software and services that you’d constantly update, and it was beautiful. So I don’t think we’re necessarily super far away from that.

Patel: Let’s come to that in a second because that makes sense to me. You sell managed services to enterprises. You price support contracts for cameras and whatever. That’s an ongoing need businesses have. I’m still stuck on, “You’re going to sell me a mouse once and it’s going to have ongoing software updates forever.”

Faber: Imagine it’s like your Rolex. You’re going to really love that.

Patel: But Rolex has to employ software engineers to ship me over-the-air updates forever.

Faber: But the artifact is like your Rolex, and then given that we know the technology that we attach to changes, it’s not going to be like your Rolex in that it doesn’t have to ever change. Our stuff will have to change, but does the hardware have to change? I’m not so sure. We’ll have to obviously fix it and figure out what that business model is. We’re not at the forever mouse today, but I’m intrigued by the thought.

Patel: I’m going to ask this very directly. Can you envision a subscription mouse?

Faber: Possibly.

Patel: And that would be the forever mouse?

Faber: Yeah.

Patel: So you pay a subscription for software updates to your mouse.

Faber: Yeah, and you never have to worry about it again, which is not unlike our video conferencing services today.

Pate: But it’s a mouse.

Faber: But it’s a mouse, yeah.

Patel: I think consumers might perceive those to be very different.

Faber: [Laughs] Yes, but it’s gorgeous. Think about it like a diamond-encrusted mouse.

Nilay Patel / Jul 29, 2024 / decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mouse to last forever

Logitech’s Hanneke Faber discusses the future of the computer mouse.

Lob12

What a twat

oyaji

this helps explain why there are few women CEOs.

tigger

It works really well as soon as she finds a reason for people to wear their mouse on their body to show others how rich they are.

Stu

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

It works really well as soon as she finds a reason for people to wear their mouse on their body to show others how rich they are.

tigger

@Stu said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

It works really well as soon as she finds a reason for people to wear their mouse on their body to show others how rich they are.

Awesome. I’m buying Logitech stock and selling it in 1000 years!!

Tazz

What is a VPN and why do I need one? I’m seeing advertisements about protecting my home internet from haxxors.

Gustaf

It’s how you can secretly watch Democrat pr0n without your neighbors finding out.

oyaji

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

What is a VPN and why do I need one?

stands for “virtual private network”. gives the user a false sense of privacy, at least as far as anyone you would really want to hide your activity from.

Jam

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

What is a VPN and why do I need one?

stands for “virtual private network”. gives the user a false sense of privacy, at least as far as anyone you would really want to hide your activity from.

These days, VPNs are necessary for anyone who works at home to get into their host network. I’m sure Hog uses VPN connections daily.

I have governmental access that is token-protected as well as password protected and security comes down to how tightly protected is the host gateway.

Once you are logged in through the gateway, then it comes down to internal firewalls downstream and routing.

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

These days, VPNs are necessary for anyone who works at home to get into their host network. I’m sure Hog uses VPN connections daily.

I did up until last year but they’ve replaced the way I access internal systems with something caled ZScaler PRA which is just a regular https address that runs the remote system desktop in the web page (it’s kind of shit but then so is everything else about IT where I work).

I’m kind of glad really since that’s one less thing I have to explain if the government ever coming knocking on my door and questioning what I’m doing. And there was always the risk that they’d one day decide to arbitrarily block VPNs in this country and then I’d have to fly to another country at no notice just so I could continue working.

On VPNs for most people:

Sure, use them if you want to get around region blocks on content (not an issue for most Americans)
Otherwise, you’re just exchanging your ISP for your VPN provider in terms of securing your privacy and there are a fuckton of shady VPN providers.

rote7

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I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

Dunno, I think it’s Linux but the stuff I do is so far removed from the OS I wouldn’t even know.

Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said.

How do you spin off loss leaders like an open source browser and operating system? They are just pure cost on their own and are only worth anything to Google because it can set the default search provider etc (which the judge will also nerf).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html

Gustaf

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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

Dunno, I think it’s Linux but the stuff I do is so far removed from the OS I wouldn’t even know.

This is more Hog’s area.

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Devin Coldewey / Aug 14, 2024

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google's woes mysteriously vanishes | TechCrunch

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that

Someone needs to tell this noob how technology and the internet works:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

It would not be surprising if it was at the behest of the talent. “I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” said Schmidt in an emailed statement to TechCrunch. “I regret my error.”

Several news publications have already run headlines about the video, and 1.4 million people viewed a clip of Schmidt trashing Google’s remote work practices on X.

At another point in the video, Schmidt tells the audience to keep what he’s telling them private, then acts somewhat surprised when his interviewer points out cameras in the room. At another point, he tells the audience that AI startups can steal IP and hire smart lawyers to clean it up later, once they’ve created a successful product. Presumably, the former Google CEO did not know the entire interview would be posted online.

tigger

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

Look, this is nitpicking but it’s not technically true. Google has a brilliant business in that the better search results it serves, the more users come, the better ads it can serve. And in Eric’s time, (2001-2011) this was indeed so, and the scale of growth was massive, so there were no pressures to make it not be so, and there were practically no efforts to do quality-vs-ads trade-offs or other bets.