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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I build call centers.

    When we design the call flows, those are the first tings we disable. You can tell a company at least slightly cares about their customer base if they actually do allow you to escalate to a human without a ton of effort. Most don’t, and want to shove “AI” in front of everything, so they can hire even less people in low-cost markets. Offshoring wasn’t cheap enough for these leeches companies, now they want AI to replace those folks making starvation wages to get yelled at all day.

    And sometimes, these solutions work well. Most of the time, they work just well enough to not have people quitting their service in frustration.


  • 25% tariff is still cheaper than re-shoring. Well, Apple never made them here anyways, but you get the point. To make them here, they’d have to jack that price up by way, way more than 25%.

    The Daily Show had a guy that wrote a book on how Apple has been one of the biggest reasons for China’s economic growth in the past 15 or so years, with them investing like $50 billion a year and driving literally millions of jobs in just their supply chain. Trump isn’t changing that. Apple would pull out of selling in the US before they’d reverse course at this point.

    Look how quickly they were ready to make and ship devices from India, when the China tariffs firs hit. They are smarter than the Trump admin, and planned for this.


  • They can, but this wouldn’t be a website thing, it’d be the whole browser. Not a bad thin, IMO, Recall is cancer that no one but Microsoft board members & investors are asking for.

    I predict privacy-preserving browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. potentially deploying the same “DRM for a good cause” approach Signal is using.




  • Well, as hopeless as it is, forcing votes like this has two effects

    1. Forces the House to all go on record for/against it. I think Trump and the GOP have pissed off enough of their own base to hurt them in mid-terms. I hope so, at least.
    2. Takes time off their “do all the evil” clock. If they have to go through the motions to vote on stuff like this, it’s less time they have to do damage elsewhere.

    Will it succeed? Almost certainly not But it’s not a useless thing, either.