What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?

It's LLMs for ERP

... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?

The problem was actually caused by Google
Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.

Good, we have a reason to touch grass now

Like the bad kind

I put on my robe and wizard hat

Your code can compile while you're in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong" about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they'll review this retro's action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items

This is why I call scrum masters scrumlords.

Thankfully my boss is hands off so I took a walk and then worked on an internal tooling side project that really only I will appreciate.

Same. Feeling pretty good about using Anubis instead of Cloudflare for our dinky systems.

Oh no, not Cloudflare!

Oh right I use NextDNS, so anyway...

Oh, its also Google, Twitch, Discord and Etsy... and some AI girlfriend generator... and Spotify?

... People still use those? Aren't they worried about all the security and privacy concerns, the exploitative business models?

No?

Huh. Well, dang, sucks for those users I guess.

Ahem, annnyyyywaaaayyyy...

...

Ok, serious mode / tinfoil hat:

... Did maybe someone in the Trump admin just try to do a US internet blackout, given all the insane shit happening, and pulled a few wrong cords out?

...

Either way... and I cannot believe I am citing Ready Player One as a positive example of anything, but such is the nature of our collective degeneracy:

Tuesdays and Thursdays are now no internet days.

Go outside, touch grass, realize you're addicted to social media like a drug, and begin detoxing.

...

EDIT: Holy shit, Israel just struck Iran at multiple locations, presumably all or many related to their nuclear program... including Tehran.

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

Just a moment...

(www.axios.com)

Live updates: Israel strikes Iran as fears of another war mount

Follow the latest news after Israel launched strikes at Iran, a dramatic escalation in long-running tensions between the two countries.

NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)

wsj.com

(www.wsj.com)

info blackout tinfoilhattery intensifies

I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.

I'm glad I agreed with me on it.

Holy shit, goddamn near everything is down, nearly everywhere.

Fucking Tracer Tong ending from Deus Ex, hope somebody has a save file they can reload from soon, otherwise... yeah...

My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai

realize you're addicted to social media like a drug

Lemmy included.

Enterprise resource planning

Speaking as someone who managed to quit smoking, but still uses a vape, who is focusing on doing daily PT after being maimed a while back...

A step in the right direction is a step in the right direction, and taking one step at a time is better than none.

Lemmy ain't corporate like Reddit, it ain't parasocial, only a very small number of users actually directly link their real identity to their psuedonym, and it doesn't have a worldclass datamining/profiling algo perfecting what content to feed to specifically you, to make you angry or insecure enough to keep you engaged.

Perfect?

No.

Leagues better than every alternative?

Far as I can tell, yes.

It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.