Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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Right until your PostgreSQL server goes down and you can't call your IT department and have to start hunting for a contractor, find a budget, get it signed off by management and HR, then on-board the new staff member, that is, after you advertised the position, did job interviews, after first filtering through the 700 .. or two, applications, each plausibly generated by a ChatGPT session. Give it something like six months in a big organisation, less in a nimble one.

Does an "entrenched" anything sound "nimble" to you?

Have you told her this, just like you have here?

What you're describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.

If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you're the subject matter expert.

What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?

Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.

Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.

And that right there is why Windows is so entrenched.

If you want this for real, adoption of open source, then treat it properly. Consider the business impact of your absence, document the systems, train others, otherwise this is just another timebomb waiting to go off and with it any hope of weakening the Microsoft stranglehold on the company and its C-suite.

I've lost count of the number of such "projects" I've encountered in my professional career.

This is not doing anyone any favours, least of all yourself.

Reading the article, that sounds a lot like: "The dog ate my homework."

Given the "deeply entrenched windows" in the company, together with a presumably similarly equipped ICT department, how are you protecting your department and the company against your absence?

In other words, what happens if you get hit by a bus?

Fairy sure that you're seeing a bicycle only intersection. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but zero cars is not plausible, not even in Holland.

Source: I lived there for a decade and I've also been watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

My peak body, the Australian Computer Society is advocating that we should be happy with the wages earned in the late 1990's, so clearly we're not essential.

Source: https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2023/it-teams--salaries--rebalancing--after-pandemic.html

You only just figured this out? It's always been about reducing wages .. or said differently, how to get richer than the other members at your country club.

I am not sure, but I think that I saw my friend dip their toothbrush in salt. This was nearly 50 years ago.

Growing up, one of my friends used salt, but I have no idea about its effectiveness.

Yup: https://github.com/bluesky-social

I understand the sentiment and have experienced the science version of it, even said so out loud in a forum once.

I'm not sure if amateur radio is cut from the same cloth.

Whilst I acknowledge that there are some who's biggest life achievement was passing their amateur licence exam, it's not true for the majority of wonderful amateurs.

I'm wondering about how we can harness the changes that the regulator and technology inevitably introduces and find a way to make that change part of the mindset that comes with the hobby.

Depends on the purpose.

Signal for private conversation.

Mastodon for my hobby.

Lemmy and Bluesky for participation in the world.

Oops

That makes no sense.

You can create a Lemmy or Mastodon account in moments with nothing more than a web browser.

Is that the entire fediverse, no.

Is Facebook one thing, also no.

Source?

The fact that Debian is not on your list makes me doubt that it's accurate or complete and while I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for over 25 years, I've never heard of any of those distributions listed.

I hope that Douglas Adams' daughter financially benefits from this game.

Not sure if this is a productive solution.

You'd just end up with the exact same posts, but now coming from accounts that are x days/weeks/months old.

Don't get me wrong, spam and low effort are absolutely an issue, but I'm not sure how this would fix it.

Your restrictions on excluding the fediverse are nonsensical.