Linux nerds: "Ahh, you use Windows! You should be using Linux like me!" pushes up glasses

Some person: "Oh, OK. Ubuntu looks nice."

LN: "NO NOT THAT ONE. That one is for losers or intellectually challenged people! You must like the one I like!" pushes glasses up into brain

(And we wonder why people don't take the time to switch. Some of you guys are toxic.)

Here's a good article this week on just one reason why Flock is terrible:

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

VEHICLE SURVEILLANCE GIANT Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned.

Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s “associates” from the cameras they pass together. Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description.

Bosses are in their 50s, but they came from a giant corporation then decided to make their own business.

Unfortunately no.

Benefits are actually kinda bad, honestly. We have insurance but insurance companies don’t want to give good insurance to really small businesses like this. No vision or dental.

I'm very fortunate to have a job with a very small company (literally 4 people) where we get to set the rules.

It is funny to see the ingrained notion we (collective "we") once had that working from home could never work. I started this job in 2018, and I often suggested we do a work from home day each week since we all had laptops. My bosses (co-owners of this company) always shot it down. "Oh we'd never get any work done!"

Then, of course, COVID. And while I certainly would rather COVID not have happened, it did convince them that working from actually works. And, of course, they loved it as well. So since 2020 I have not had to go back to the office. We still have office space for some minor things, and once in a blue moon we might gather there. But in six years I've probably spent six days in the office.

Heck, I'm fortunate enough to finally have convinced them we should take Fridays off, too. We piloted that program two years ago over the summer, and it, of course, stuck because everyone likes that—though we actually just take every-other Friday off. But still. Hard to beat.

Make it 0 seconds and we still don’t have a deal.

Cut the poles down.

Ah yes, dreaming of an AI novel.

"And what do you want to be when you grow up, Timmy?" "I want to pretend to write stories and then get upset I have to do any work at all."

I use Bluesky all the time, and I barely ever see corporate brand stuff.

My actual gripe about Bluesky is that somehow they haven’t dropped an iPad app after four years. Or at the very least fixed issues with their iPhone app while using an iPad.

I wish DDG defaulted to their no ai search.

If they want to make silly little jokes about “the other guys and their ai” then maybe don’t use ai shit as your default search option on your own platform?

And still Control Center will survive somehow like an undead cockroach.

Some real "hotdog suit guy" shit going on with NVIDIA of all people say ram is too expensive.

So 1.5 trips to the grocery store.