For a company whose business model is based on breaking the rules, fighting tooth and nail to gain influence, and eventually just paying the fines, I’d image they forecast this and decided the risk/reward was worth it. It’s just 2% of annual revenue.

The unchallenged winner of capitalism. Wow. Now let’s restart the game.

This is um… Very CCP-like

Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!

Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.

Unadulterated crabs-in-a bucket thinking

Agentic really moved the needle on this. I mean, if your LLM is suffering from a limit, why not let another LLM watch it. While that’s going on, why not let yet another orchestrating LLM watch all the LLMs and tell them what to do. It starts to get confusing fast so better use yaLLM (yet another LLM) to watch the whole circus.

We’re deep into a “move fast and break things cycle” which absolutely means a lot of testing is happening in prod because ev

I get it… If the competition has features you don’t have you’ll lose business now. Telling your customers to submit a ticket so the team can quickly fix it or ignore you is kinda the normal now.

What are you gonna do, vibe code your own solution?

Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.

When you say CEOs are you thinking of guys who are making millions with staff living on almost nothing?

It IS a big hassle. I use Amazon SES for outbound which mostly solves the spam rejection problem based on IP, but the system still has to protect its domain reputation by being setup well. Inbound is an issue because downtime can mean lost email, so I have two other systems acting as MX relays. I also have to deal with spam, monitor disk space and a bunch of other things that for most would not be worth the hassle.

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

Dang. If I owned Tesla stock I would be a bit worried about this at the moment.

Seems pretty dicey to let an AI anywhere near your wallet.dat