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Ecstatifyon Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

It’s a proprietary ERP completely custom. Think it was deployed through an acquisition. The problem isn’t the ERP it’s the business. “We want custom processes” but hire the cheapest developers possible to maintain the ERP and then complain about bugs. “We’re agile™” … but have the same inefficient processes for the last 3 years. Cargo cult org, the CEO was taking about Black Swans during COVID … even though Nassim Taleb explicitly said COVID wasn’t a black swan event.

Ecstatifyon Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

Our company is pushing everyone to use a similar offering. Most of the company is doing low value work … still using excels even though we have a custom ERP. Now seeing people who couldn’t write a coherent email before write 3 page emails. The illusion of being productive by doing more work even though it has zero impact on the bottom line. It’s insane how inefficient organisations are. No doubt we’ll have some KPI soon about using the tool.

Ecstatifyon Team management tips: 10 more ways to kill a team

Are there any actually good resources on management?

Everything these days seems to be click bait/top 10 lists or corporate propaganda.

Ecstatifyon Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)

Did you read the article?

Ecstatifyon Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)

What has that to do with product decisions?

Ecstatifyon Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes

Reddit at the moment is trying everything to inflate metrics before their IPO.

Dislike an advertisement of a brand and it will ask you do you want to subscribe to that brand’s subreddit.

“r/Place works by letting users drop a pixel of one of eight colors wherever they want on the canvas, but they have to wait a few minutes to be able to drop another.“ - the functionality users have been demanding…

I was getting spammed on LinkedIn by the CEO of an infra platform company. I looked on Reddit to see what the company was about. Glowing reviews from numerous accounts that all mysteriously stopped posting shortly after leaving those reviews.

Ecstatifyon Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work

Would be great if they could integrate it into the shortcuts application, I find that application completely unintuitive.

Ecstatifyon Lidar-equipped, 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600

Tesla’s argument centered around the idea that vision and LiDAR were not complementary. They questioned the reliability of having two different sensors providing conflicting information and the challenge of determining which one is accurate.

Ecstatifyon Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch

We’ll see how bad it’s really going if Zuckerberg does an interview with The Verge in the next 6 months. The Verge is the canary in the coal mine.

Ecstatifyon One of Reddit’s biggest communities suggests move to Discord [Strike ongoing]

Why would anyone invest in Reddit now?

Reddit Community Team:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/14ytp8b/evolving_a...

Top Comment: I don't get it. You're taking this stuff away with no compensation or transition into whatever you'd like to add in the future? Seems rather inconsiderate.

The management are doing everything to monetise in anticipation of their IPO. Their whole business model is based on free labour. Piss your free labour off, no business model.

Ecstatifyon Please don't say just hello in chat

It’s not just the “hi”. It’s me asking for

“the link to the ticket”

“basic details they didn’t include”

“asking did they read the documentation”

“asking did they already contact X team”

Generally people who just say “hi” do everything ad-hoc and haven’t thought through the request.

Ecstatifyon Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors and where do we go from here

GitHub Advanced Security is so expensive. I can’t see the benefit considering we have a SonarCloud instance which is 1/3 of the cost. All our credentials are stored in vaults or IaC, so one of their main selling features we don’t need.

When ever there’s a sales team in front of a service it seems like the service isn’t worth the cost.

Ecstatifyon Please don't say just hello in chat

The person initiating the interaction should make it as easy as possible for the other person.

For example I work with multiple different timezones, I have meetings all morning. I can quickly answer questions if they’re straight to the point. Daily I’ll get 10-15 people contacting me about X topic. If it’s not straight to the point I can’t help, it will be after lunch before I can and then it’s probably too late.

Ecstatifyon How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community

https://youtu.be/kF5pyVUQBH8

Ecstatifyon Moneyball for Software Teams: Quantifying Dev Performance

There was recently an article about purchasing hackernews likes. This seems like a prime candidate considering how bad the blog is.

Ecstatifyon Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo

Tim Cook won’t rest until the apple fruit gets renamed to “trademark infringement”

Ecstatifyon BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

Link to Recording: https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...

People can make up their own mind if they think the Dev was trying to blackmail Reddit or not.

Ecstatifyon BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

The mismanagement of Reddit is crazy. I wonder will they fire Huffman. His blatant lying is insane when people have emails to back up their claims against him.

Seems like he’s on a media blitz to try and change the narrative. You know when you’re doing interviews with The Verge you’re in bother.

Ecstatifyon The workers quitting digital nomadism

The media keeps inventing new terms/problems every few months about work culture … that inevitably lead to going back to the office. The main anecdotal story is about someone who became a digital nomad who found it difficult to keep up productivity in her business … a travel blog. Travelling and writing about it is literally her business.

The BBC neglected to include this statistic from the report they referenced.

“Digital Nomads Among the Most Satisfied with their Work and Income Consistent with prior years, digital nomads are among the workers most satisfied with their work and lifestyle.”

Ecstatifyon China's Xi tells Bill Gates he welcomes U.S. AI tech in China

What is Bill Gates endgame? Seems like he was on a press tour the last few years aiming for a Nobel prize or something. Then several scandals later (Divorce,Epstein) seems to have abandoned that plan?

Ecstatifyon Toyota Touts Solid State EVs with 932-Mile Range, 10-Minute Charging by 2027

Toyota playing catch-up.

Ecstatifyon Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

The people complaining about moderators are the very same people who don’t read the rules and complain that the moderators are on a power trip. I moderate a small sub 15K and the amount of spam is insane. I can’t imagine the amount of work involved in a 1M sub.

Ecstatifyon France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI

Vaporware.

Ecstatifyon Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

Sundials emphasize our reliance on the sun as a source of light and energy. They remind us of the fundamental role the sun plays in sustaining life on Earth and providing us with light and warmth. This dependency gives sundials a sense of harmony with the natural world and instills a sense of wonder and appreciation for the celestial bodies.

Mechanical watches are diamonds for men.

Ecstatifyon Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan

Why are top management at Kaspersky using iPhones, presumably they knew iPhones were a “black box” and a security risk.

Ecstatifyon The work is never just “the work” (2022)

It's kind of ridiculous that people still believe that they can get better at estimating work they've never done before.

The amount of hours lost by teams estimating work is insane.

Ecstatifyon DevEx: What Drives Productivity

No doubt it will come out in a few years as total quackery.

All these books/frameworks are all the same.

Accelerate: "Copy what successful teams do and your team will suddenly be successful"

The Phoenix Project: "IT department was bad, they made small changes and then eventually they all lived happily ever after"

Ecstatifyon Google blew it with open source layoffs

Once companies grow as big as Google nothing really moves the needle. They need to acquire competitors to grow revenue.

Any Google service that doesn’t meaningfully impact the next quarterly earnings should start getting ready for the chopping block.