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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • They started this BS a few years ago… At the time they were going to totally remove the program, and finally backed off from that stance if you agreed to use only for non business purposes. Horse was outta the barn though, a lot of people migrated away.

    The thing is, Google very clearly and purposefully marketed this as a free for life program to get your family domains on there in return for earning credibility with IT influencers and decision makers. If they remove this program, they’ll burn that goodwill (if any is left, lol) and frankly should return all of the value they got from scanning our data for the past 20 years or so which was a known part of the “free for life” trade.

    I’m degoogling as fast as possible and have all except some family members off Gsuite so far.

    Immich Nextcloud My own postfix email server (I’m a super nerd) Thunderbird and rainloop email clients Duckduckgo is default everywhere and use searxing in some cases Also have a pihole doing dns blocking of Google’s junk and ublock origin on all home pcs

    I don’t have a great replacement for YouTube yet. Actually I subscribe to YouTube premium because I feel like that at least gets creators paid

    These are a few of the ways I’ve handled it







  • Do you feel like AI and its current form is ever going to go away?

    To me it seems like we’re well beyond the point of it going away ever. It may never live up to the hype of replacing all the jobs.

    We also know that AI companies are footing a large chunk of the bill. Someday those prices are going to crank up and a bunch of work we shovel over to AI will go back to humans.

    Heck, it may have peaked already - we may not have any more killer uses to discover. Or maybe we do, and that’s partly why I’m here - I’m pretty interested to see if some interesting uses cases emerge. Some really tough or annoying problem that we all hate to do that AI can start actually doing really good work at.