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I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is.
If I had a penny for every time I heard something like
"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"
1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?
Dear Co-Worker: Please stop asking Gemini to tell you how to do the thing, and just LOOK UP HOW TO DO THE THING. WITH A SEARCH ENGINE. You are not stupid, THE TOOL IS. If you look up instructions, they tell you how to do the thing correctly.
#OldManYellsAtCloud #AIIsNotASearchEngine #JustLookItUp #LessAIMoreBrainPlease
You can advertise on Big Tech, but
Don't organize using Big Tech.
Don't use Big Tech services to support vulnerable populations, this is putting their safety at risk.
Use alternatives that respect your and their privacy. This is essential for safety.
Very much agreed — I make a point of strenuously avoiding Chrome itself, but even using Chromium-based browsers makes me unhappy. I've tried hopping over to Firefox a few times or making Safari my primary, and they're just missing bits and pieces of things that make it hard to really settle in. Might be time for another shot at it, or to start poking at the early builds of Ladybird to see how it's coming.
As much as I like brave, I hate the stranglehold chromium has on the internet.. A browser with a different rendering engine is good. I still use Firefox a lot. Dont forget Privacy Badger add on from the @eff
I have been recommending mailbox.org for email for quite some time now. It is well worth what they charge and they have some cool privacy feature.
@hosford42 @Em0nM4stodon @pixelfed @peertube @signalapp @matrix @Tutanota @brave @StartpageSearch @bitwarden @GrapheneOS
@darkuncle @paul_ipv6 @nixCraft
About the same length of time with 1P here, and have stuck with it even when many of the "cool kids" have jumped to Bitwarden, because 1P Just Works™, especially when working with less-technical family and team members.
However, my password manager does. Not. Need. AI. In any way, shape, or form. None. It barely needs a browser. It does not need AI. I know that's not quite what's being offered here, but this feels like the first little tentative move in that direction and I'm not happy about it. Just offering up another voice towards @1password in case that's something on the roadmap, because if it's on the roadmap, I'm getting off the road.
@paul_ipv6 @nixCraft been using 1P for ... 15+ years? Since before there were family subscriptions, since before 1P for Teams, since before the service-based option or cloud storage for vaults ... still think they are the best option of what's available, for what they do, but *man* was this a bad look. *Really* inconsistent with their brand and entire value prop. It's confusing, *at best*.
(I like perplexity as a research assistant well enough but boy howdy do I not want any of that anywhere near my password manager, and it doesn't need a browser of any kind built in, let alone this kind. Y'all need to double down on simplicity as a differentiator, not adding flashy features just because.)
/cc @1password
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