For those that think the files will be heavily redacted, I have a question. Ready?

We just got 20,000 docs that were not redacted in any way. How do you think the full release will be edited?

That’s rather the point? See how ridiculous is sounds in a different context?

You and I are 1-in-50 purchasers, if that. Nobody gives a shit if AI is in the game.

Go grab a random dude on the street,

“Hey! Just one question? If you’re considering buying a video game, is the fact they used AI in making it a deal breaker?”

Nobody cares. I’m with ya. Don’t fucking buy it, I won’t. But enough other people will that it won’t make a difference.

You can tell most everything you need to know about a company by looking at the CEO. That’s because they’re the leader, they set the tone, contrary to lemmy beliefs. Happy or unhappy employees? Look to the CEO. Solid earnings, year after year after year? CEO. I ask at every interview, “What’s the CEO like?” BUT…

A) Ultimately, CEOs do what the fucking board of directors wants, or they get fired, hence, the golden parachute. Would you take a monster job knowing that you could be forced to fuck your industry reputation and not hedge that bet? Nah. Force me to do something stupid yet needful? I want paid when you fire me on purpose for doing what you said.

B) I think you are in an echo chamber around here. Most CEOs are great folks, you only hear about the major fuck ups at the major companies. Also, the decisions the big dogs make that lemmy tells you are unpopular, really aren’t unpopular in the wider world. EA Games still exists after all.

everyone will have to 'fess up to using it eventually as AI will become "involved in nearly all future production.

True enough! No reason not to say it up front, right?

Look y’all, not 1-in-20 people give a flying fuck about AI like we do on here.

Most people won’t run an ad blocker.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until Trump’s death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post.

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realm of Greenland. I pledge my life and honor to Trumps’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

“At the end of August, I’m going away [on vacation],” she adds. “And my team will all know, [so] when they’re able to actually go off and do something, they should go off the grid and do it.”

She’s not talking about being nonstop plugged in. The corollary is that you can unplug when you need to. That sort of thing goes without saying when you have a solid job and management.

You hardly have to be an executive to have those sorts of options. I have done everything you mentioned at my last two jobs and didn’t have a single soul under my name on the org chart. This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.

She’s clearly not talking about that sort of job and you’ve clearly never had the sort of job she’s talking about.

I had great work-life integration job before last and I’ve never been happier in my career. I was often excited to get to work and try some news things I’d thought of and often worked late testing stuff. When life required my attention, I didn’t feel a bit bad about blowing off work.

None of that is unreasonable. Sometimes I’m hitting on all 8-cylinders and want to keep working. Other time I’m useless so I go do something else.

You’re ignoring the flip side to that quote. Put work on the back burner when life demands your attention. I find it far less stressful to do what I want, when I want, rather than have a rigid timetable.

you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time

What the hell is wrong with that?!

Her take is perfectly reasonable:

“I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

Sometimes I pour more into work, sometimes life needs my attention. Sometimes I’m eager to finish working on a work problem, sometimes work can fuck off for a bit. At my last job I’d sleep in in the mornings and work past “close” when fewer people were bugging me.

I find it more stressful to be strict about keeping work and life seperate. Maybe I want to login at night and test some ideas that I wouldn’t risk during the day. Many times I’ve been on a hot streak and don’t want to stop at exactly 5PM. Maybe I’m not getting a lick of work done, know I’m being useless and pop out to hike before I run out of sun. If I’m bored shitless, I may run through my email and clear out the crap so there’s less staring at me Monday morning.

Did no one read the article? Or have none of you had a professional job with responsibilities? FFS, she’s merely saying do what works for you. Point to a single unreasonable thing she’s saying here.

tl;dr: I was already working exactly as she talks about and that left me with the least stress, most satisfaction.

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No way. People like me purchase a steady supply of standardized machines at a fair cost. Bigger companies than I’ve worked for want a lease agreement. We pay $X for Y units, you come in and swap them in 3, 4, or 5 years, rinse and repeat. We also need robust tech support, both from the manufacturer and wide user base. No way I’d suggest management purchase Frameworks.

Framework is awesome for individuals as you can upgrade! No one in their right mind wants to hassle with upgrading a fleet of hundreds, thousands, or 10’s of thousands of machine. You talking about pets when business requires cattle.

https://www.hava.io/blog/cattle-vs-pets-devops-explained

Great question! And BTW, thousands upon thousands of those “old” cattle are available on eBay from sellers who make a living moving off-lease machines. I’d never buy new. LOL, I bought servers that way from savemyserver! Boss came by while I was setting up a new server. “Is that new?!” “Nope.”

Funny enough, job before last I was buying all Dell. Next job, all X1 Carbons and the occasional Mac for the devs.

The studio will find a way to quietly torpedo this monstrosity. Trump’s dementia can’t lock onto an idea for more than a week, he’ll be saying this was a dumb idea next month.

My IT experience is fading fast so can anyone explain this bit?

block the access of users connected via VPN

I’m running a Digital Ocean droplet on the other side of the Pond with my own, static IP. How could a site detect I’m using a VPN? Imgur blocks me if it’s on. How do they know?!

Been saying this about tariffs for months:

Say you have cash on hand, or the ability to get a monster loan, to start a factory. You would be a fool to build in the US!

You know the tariffs will be disastrous and eventually repealed, and we’re seeing both actions right now. So even if tariffs allow you to compete with imports, the rug will get yanked out from under you at some point. And there you are, holding the bag on a brand-new, worthless factory.

You can scribble eyeballs on a wall with a sharpie and people will behave more honestly.