[Technology] Technology general

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We've smart devices in all forms.
Some useful, some not so much.
But behold the incoming smart rings.

https://www.androidauthority.com/amazif ... ng-3401584

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For me, the most frustrating service on the internet is Gmail.
Every goddamn morning it takes at least 3 attempts to open Gmail before the entire thing renders properly with all working elements.
Email these days is so crap.

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No matter what you think about the Apple of today and its products, you can't deny the industry influence Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh had in 1984.
Please let's not forget the Apple Lisa.

https://theconversation.com/mac-at-40-u ... ion-220535

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Found this interesting page, all about search engines and indexes.
Guarantee you'll learn something.
I know I did.

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/sea ... wn-indexes

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Beware of any individual or any company using the term "serverless" to sell you or deliver digital services.
There's no such thing.
Everything is delivered from a server somewhere.
It's simply a marketing buzz-word.

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I'm thinking Zuck uses a special configuration for his own account which only displays Likes and Loves.
Because there's no way that among 400,000+ interactions with this post that there's not a single hater.

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No tech job is safe anymore!
You can see what Google is aiming for - a nearly fully automated workforce through advanced AI.
AI is taking low-to-mid-to-high paying jobs in the tech sector.
In the long-run, this will only put significant pressure on unemployment pressures in so many other sectors.
Governments need to start planning for this coming shift, which is inevitable and massive.
But knowing traditional habits of government complacency, they won't.
They'll sit around, do nothing, placing their full confidence in the highly-flawed and proven failed "free market" ethos.

https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and ... 322-p5fejw

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Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried

https://theconversation.com/can-ai-read ... ied-227057

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What an utter joke, this is!
Pouring a billion dollars into this experimental field of technology which after nearly 30 years of experiments still doesn't work as they envisioned and isn't seriously viable on any level.
Chinese companies that once invested in quantum computing have since ditched all investment because it's just not viable.
Yet Australia says "it'll create thousands of new jobs".
No, it won't.
The company only has 250 staff in the entire world.

https://www.afr.com/technology/labor-s- ... 429-p5fnb7

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This is another ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars to establish something that already exists and is controlled by the States.
And where they get these absurd dollar figures from I've no idea.
It does not cost $160m dollars to set up a new register and connect a database.
Apparently one Australian politician expressed criticism of the idea, saying the concept was basically just creating an Excel spreadsheet.
At the end of the day it'll be an SQL database which is the global standard and actually entirely free.
So there's some truth to it, I guess.
I'm sure the IT contractors responsible must laugh when they're sitting there downloading MariaDB SQL for free, wondering how governments justify paying $100m+ for such jobs.
It's another duplication of services that improves the lives of nobody.

https://ministers.ag.gov.au/media-centr ... 27-04-2024