This! The point of automation is rarely saving time.
The point of automation is increasing quality.
It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.
Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).
I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be
what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?
Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.
Why the *3?
The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated
The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂
Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear
I am here with my popcorn to see how well this will play for those CEOs.
We are in an age in which getting to a power position is a reality show. You don’t need to know how to do anything, really. It’s enough that you have charisma and trigger emotions (possibly negative emotions, they work better)
EU always escalate slowly. Eventually it enforces though (e.g., USB-C, GDPR).
Given the companies are almost all US based and US historically have been very defensive of their businesses (not only in IT) this seems a pretty reasonable approach for avoiding diplomacy escalations.
IMO DMA will be fully enforced in 3-4 years (and collecting some Billions here and there in the process).
First in line for the few initial billions: Meta and Microsoft. We’ll see what comes next
Penalties for DMA is 10% of global turnover for first offense and 20% of global turnover for subsequent offenses and, eventually, further penalties like the prevention to acquire companies.
DMA is not a joke (and I <3 EU, DMA is a very balanced law aggressive on the big player and not impacting small players)
If I did accounting (or even just cooking, really) for the Mafia would be less bad than actually going with a gun to tether or kill people but it would still be bad.
Why? Because it still helps an organisation which core mission is hurting people.
And it’s purely out of greed because ChatGPT doesn’t desperately need this application otherwise they will go bankrupt
I looked in queen Romana… always fascinated to see cult leaders and what make their followers believe. Facts don’t matter there, emotions do. The darker the better because only the leader can solve the issue triggering the dark emotions…
It's quite a speculation. Democrats haven't lost (or won) any 2024 election yet.
That said, let's try to think how elections are "stolen". First of all, i define stolen as irregularities in counting votes. People voting twice or on behalf of someone else is unheard in the...human history (why? Because it's hard, a villain needs to find, one by one, millions of votes for making any meaningful impact on elections)
For counting irregularities it takes two things (1) that the primary system for counting is corrupted and (2) control mechanisms are corrupted and/or ineffective.
Only incumbent can influence (1) because only incumbent has power at the time of election while (2) is even more complex and, by design, neither incumbent (nor opposition parties) have full control of control mechanisms.
So, realistically, only incumbent may have a chance to corrupt the system.
In 2020, indeed, incumbent (Trump) tried to influence the counting system and failed because of the control mechanisms (e.g. state officials, even republican state officials, refused to comply because they knew their internal control mechanisms would not have allowed them).
Now in 2024 the incumbent is democrats so, if anything, only republicans may speculate irregularities.
But anyone can say anything. I may say that i am billionaire but not for this reason the bank must give me 1B$ cash. I have to demonstrate to be billionaire.
So, to recap, in 2024 onoy republican can reasonably accuse of irregularities and, in that case, they must demonstrate that there were these irregularities.
And this is one of the many reasons that these days I create a @duck.com email address for each website.
My password manager (Bitwarden) happily generates for me both the mail and the password… now instead of having to look up for the unique password for each website I need to look for both the unique password and unique email 🤷
Furthermore if they are incompetent enough to make shitty regexp they are for sure incompetent to keep their db safe from hacking/leaking… and I am fine with a duck.com address being locked, less so with my actual email address
I think Linux/FOSS is about software, not hardware. Ok there are grey areas (firmware).
Sure, apple is a mega corp that is not particularly ethical (see reparation score) but I am not convinced that, let’s say, Lenovo or dell are much better.
On the other hand Apple hardware is generally fairly solid, mainly intel chips (that are generally well supported in Linux), there is a relatively small set of products so it’s easy to check compatibility.
How much I would love if EU pulled a USB-C on printer ink/toner.
“All printers must be compatible with one of these X possible formats of ink/toner. Lockdown is forbidden too”
Sure the printers would be more expensive but I am sure we would see an incredible improvement in quality and decrease in ink/toner cost