So I presume all these search engines being down (all of which rely on the Bing backend) is because people are jumping ship from Google's AI nightmare in enough numbers that it's causing problems for whatever system that allows them to grab those results from Bing?
Well, that's one company I don't think will be hiring me as a consultant.
Based on the questions they were asking me to comment on in their initial communications, I don't think they're going to appreciate me informing them that AI is simply not fit for purpose for them. Very much got the impression they weren't looking for an actual recommendation, but rather for an opinion that already agreed with whatever they were already proposing to do.
Either retailers are way more desperate than I thought, or this company has made a hell of a typo in sending out this email!
(The amount also appears in the email subject, so that's 3 separate places with this figure.)
@delProfundo It'll be interesting what they offer as "compensation" to stop people taking it to the ACCC. It'd be harder to push it if it was a mistaken sale price, but the nature of this as a promotional offer might make it easier to enforce.
@delProfundo Just got the retraction email. I don't particularly like acting like a Karen, but considering they took 2 and a half hours to correct this error, I figure it's fair game.
I think this might be my last semester doing any teaching or marking. I just don't think I can bring myself to continue here, not when I'm constantly being pressured to pass students who should be failing.
If a student never attends class, if the LMS analytics show they never even listened to the lecture recordings, their failure cannot and should not be placed on the teaching staff.
Really not impressed with the current EOFY sale offers for tech products. Was hoping I'd be able to get myself a few decent discounts on the NAS I want to set up, plus a new SSD for the laptop, but nothing so far is catching my eye.
As soon as I finish marking student assignments and exams this semester, I'm going to properly complete my switchover to Linux. At this point, there's only a few programs I don't have a direct equivalent for, and most of those I'm finding I'm just not using on a daily basis. Everything else just needs me to block out some time to get it set up properly.
So glad that the first thing I did on getting the new laptop was to remove Windows 11. Only a shame that I had to install Windows 10 rather than Linux. Hoping EOFY will see some nice SSD’s with DRAM cache for sale, so I can rectify that.
What kind of idiot taunts process servers on social media? Did Rudy think that, just because his boss has the same complexion as the Gingerbread Man, that he'd be able to dodge them forever?
Is it just me, or would Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire have worked better as something like a TV series on Netflix or Amazon Prime? Something to just allow for a little extra character development and on-screen ghost catching.
Honestly, it feels like a TV series would be better for the franchise as a whole, going forward. Let us have some episodic stories to develop the characters and the world, while building up a threat in the background over the course of the season, Dr. Who style.
With Pokémon Center Online launching a store for Australia and New Zealand, my wallet can rest easy in the knowledge that it will never be burdened with cash ever again.
The amount of web crawlers right now which just blatantly ignore robots.txt is frustrating. It's pretty clear many of these are just scraping every single website they can to train generative text AI as well.
If nothing else, there's surely got to be some clear violation of a whole lot of CC licenses from this behaviour.
Hospital had a cancellation, so they're going to be able to fit in my appointment with the specialist later this week! Hopefully won't be too long now until I can get this surgery.