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Разрушающийся средневековый Отхтский собор в Турции - одна из немногих сохранившихся больших грузинских базилик.
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Показали интересный текст на "Медиуме", он на английском, но я перескажу основные тезисы и снабжу их своими ремарками
(автора не знаю, впервые вижу, поверхностное гугление его не идентифицирует, ну да ладно: обсуждать будем его контент)
1. Американская пропаганда тоньше чем российская, но она есть. Чувствами, восприятием американских читателей манипулируют через множество крючков заброшенных профессионалами PR и маркетинга, окружающих их понемногу десятилетиями, а в России перекинутая вчера из одного кармана в другой котлета денег определяет то, что читатель получит в свой медиафид за завтраком. Какой-то результат есть - и ладно.
2. Дальше автор показывает, что использование фразы "неспровоцированная агрессия России против Украины" никогда и нигде не объясняется. Американская историография российско-украинского конфликта по СМИ выглядит так: наступило 24.02, Россия жахнула по Украине, всё.
Это технический огрех СМИ, о котором я неоднократно писал: они как пелевинский Вавилен Татарский останавливаются и какую-то мысль перестают думать. Причём останавливаются — крайне топорно. Не слишком ли настойчиво используется слово о неспровоцированности? Истоки СВО — не обсуждаются англосаксонским истеблишментом. Если кто-то вдруг начинает что-то раскапывать — для него найдется ярлычок. Путинферштеер, "любимый российской пропагандой Уотерс/Хомский/Миршаймер и так далее
Не заметить такой огрех — невозможно. Это стеклянная стена, ограждающая редакторов от высказываний на темы, о существовании которой я уверен, знают абсолютно все редакторы прикормленных NED и EED медиа.
3. ISW (институт изучения войны) — это тупо организация дающая пресс-релизы от американского военного истеблишмента для проукраинских медиа, которые не рассматриваются критически и не дополняются. Основные спонсоры ISW Дженерал Дайнэмикс и Райтеон
ISW и его брат-близнец PNAC работают под руководством родственников Виктории Нуланд. Видите статью со ссылкой на ISW — это статья с заходами тупо от госдепа США. Писать тесной связи ISW с Нуланд — нельзя.
4. Автор прошёлся по медианарративам западной прессы:
Резня в Буче не получила ни одного подтверждения от независимого источника, о чём, например, Пентагон через Рейтерс спокойно заявил. От себя добавлю — за год контроля Бучи Украиной, нет нормального расследования того, что же происходило конкретно и с кем. При этом хохлы спокойно рассказывают о том, что у них спокойно без суда и следствия исчезают люди, ну вот такое оно, устройство Украины сегодня. Задаваться вопросом, насколько такие пропажи и бессудные казни применимы к Буче — нельзя. Почему комментарии берутся не у текущих ответственных лиц, а у бабушки Карлы дель Понте - спрашивать нельзя (точно так же исследовали смерть Литвиненко: отставной судья без статуса написал бумагу про хайли-лайкли, рюски след, когда Скотланд-Ярд даже дела об убийстве Литвиненко не возбудил. Старые трюки самые надёжные.
Прилёт в Польшу украинской ракеты — тоже нельзя обсуждать.
Взрыв Северных потоков — тоже. В комнате сидит невидимый слон, надо немного потесниться, чтобы как-то разговаривать, но почему мы сидим изогнувшись на лавке — обсуждать нельзя.
Каменты к статье представляют интерес тоже. Конечно же, проживая в коконе утверждений о том, что "НАТО не агрессивный альянс", "Украина имеет право на..." (у Украины, как и у любого независимого государства, столько же прав как и у Мексики, например) — читать всё изложенное выше неприятно.
Охват у автора мизерный, но текст, как по мне, по аргументации очень хорош.
(автора не знаю, впервые вижу, поверхностное гугление его не идентифицирует, ну да ладно: обсуждать будем его контент)
1. Американская пропаганда тоньше чем российская, но она есть. Чувствами, восприятием американских читателей манипулируют через множество крючков заброшенных профессионалами PR и маркетинга, окружающих их понемногу десятилетиями, а в России перекинутая вчера из одного кармана в другой котлета денег определяет то, что читатель получит в свой медиафид за завтраком. Какой-то результат есть - и ладно.
2. Дальше автор показывает, что использование фразы "неспровоцированная агрессия России против Украины" никогда и нигде не объясняется. Американская историография российско-украинского конфликта по СМИ выглядит так: наступило 24.02, Россия жахнула по Украине, всё.
Это технический огрех СМИ, о котором я неоднократно писал: они как пелевинский Вавилен Татарский останавливаются и какую-то мысль перестают думать. Причём останавливаются — крайне топорно. Не слишком ли настойчиво используется слово о неспровоцированности? Истоки СВО — не обсуждаются англосаксонским истеблишментом. Если кто-то вдруг начинает что-то раскапывать — для него найдется ярлычок. Путинферштеер, "любимый российской пропагандой Уотерс/Хомский/Миршаймер и так далее
Не заметить такой огрех — невозможно. Это стеклянная стена, ограждающая редакторов от высказываний на темы, о существовании которой я уверен, знают абсолютно все редакторы прикормленных NED и EED медиа.
3. ISW (институт изучения войны) — это тупо организация дающая пресс-релизы от американского военного истеблишмента для проукраинских медиа, которые не рассматриваются критически и не дополняются. Основные спонсоры ISW Дженерал Дайнэмикс и Райтеон
ISW и его брат-близнец PNAC работают под руководством родственников Виктории Нуланд. Видите статью со ссылкой на ISW — это статья с заходами тупо от госдепа США. Писать тесной связи ISW с Нуланд — нельзя.
4. Автор прошёлся по медианарративам западной прессы:
Резня в Буче не получила ни одного подтверждения от независимого источника, о чём, например, Пентагон через Рейтерс спокойно заявил. От себя добавлю — за год контроля Бучи Украиной, нет нормального расследования того, что же происходило конкретно и с кем. При этом хохлы спокойно рассказывают о том, что у них спокойно без суда и следствия исчезают люди, ну вот такое оно, устройство Украины сегодня. Задаваться вопросом, насколько такие пропажи и бессудные казни применимы к Буче — нельзя. Почему комментарии берутся не у текущих ответственных лиц, а у бабушки Карлы дель Понте - спрашивать нельзя (точно так же исследовали смерть Литвиненко: отставной судья без статуса написал бумагу про хайли-лайкли, рюски след, когда Скотланд-Ярд даже дела об убийстве Литвиненко не возбудил. Старые трюки самые надёжные.
Прилёт в Польшу украинской ракеты — тоже нельзя обсуждать.
Взрыв Северных потоков — тоже. В комнате сидит невидимый слон, надо немного потесниться, чтобы как-то разговаривать, но почему мы сидим изогнувшись на лавке — обсуждать нельзя.
Каменты к статье представляют интерес тоже. Конечно же, проживая в коконе утверждений о том, что "НАТО не агрессивный альянс", "Украина имеет право на..." (у Украины, как и у любого независимого государства, столько же прав как и у Мексики, например) — читать всё изложенное выше неприятно.
Охват у автора мизерный, но текст, как по мне, по аргументации очень хорош.
Medium
Western Propaganda — The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Played …
Good propaganda doesn’t make you think, it makes you feel
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Микроядро seL4 математически верифицировано для архитектуры RISC-V
Организация RISC-V Foundation сообщила о верификации работы микроядра seL4 на системах с архитектурой набора команд RISC-V. Верификация сводится к математическому доказательству надёжности работы seL4, которое свидетельствует о полном соответствии заданным…
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Немного символизма в сей знаменательный день.
ЖК «Королевский полумесяц» в городе-курорте Бат.
Бат - это что-то вроде Царского села, «летняя столица» Великобритании XVIII-XIX веков.
Во второй половине XVIII построили этот комплекс из 30 таунхаусов, для высшей британской знати и членов королевской семьи. Один из главных шедевров георгианского стиля.
Фасад - европейская классика.
А вот на задворках начинается азиатский самострой. Махачкала, Ереван, Тбилиси и Бат знамениты своими самовольными пристройками в виде бесконечных «лоджий», увеличивающих площадь квартир.
Также и вся британская монархия - внешне европейская, а содержание отвратительно азиатское.
ЖК «Королевский полумесяц» в городе-курорте Бат.
Бат - это что-то вроде Царского села, «летняя столица» Великобритании XVIII-XIX веков.
Во второй половине XVIII построили этот комплекс из 30 таунхаусов, для высшей британской знати и членов королевской семьи. Один из главных шедевров георгианского стиля.
Фасад - европейская классика.
А вот на задворках начинается азиатский самострой. Махачкала, Ереван, Тбилиси и Бат знамениты своими самовольными пристройками в виде бесконечных «лоджий», увеличивающих площадь квартир.
Также и вся британская монархия - внешне европейская, а содержание отвратительно азиатское.
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Тут опять пошла гулять одна из моих любимых тем – «Саратов, он же Арбатов», так что я решил вытащить из архива статью Сергея Григорьевича Боровикова «Краезуды», написанную в 2009 году. То есть уже 14 лет назад было понятно, что в литературном Арбатове из романа Ильфа и Петрова нет ни одной характерной саратовской черты.
Telegraph
Краезуды (2009 год)
Всегда интересно разгадать прототип того или иного города из знаменитых книг. В данном случае – дилогии И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова. В их романах действие происходит в следующих городах. В «Двенадцати стульях» – реальные: Москва, Нижний Новгород, Сталинград, Чебоксары…
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Четвертая промышленная революция в Америке буксует
Компания General Motors, которая в прошлом году продала в Китае больше автомобилей, чем в США, была первой, кто внедрила частную широкополосную сеть 5G для поддержки приложений искусственного интеллекта на производстве. Но нет никаких признаков широкого внедрения, как в Китае.
Ключевым препятствием для внедрения 5G в Соединенных Штатах является громоздкая нормативная база, которая затрудняет частным сетям доступ к беспроводному спектру.
Федеральное авиационное управление заявило, что диапазон для 5G может создавать помехи для авионики коммерческих самолетов.
Министерство обороны США возражает против коммерциализации части беспроводного спектра в диапазоне от 3,1 до 3,45 Гигагерц, утверждая, что перевод военной техники на другой диапазон обойдется в 120 миллиардов долларов.
Из-за этих препятствий, по словам одного американского чиновника, “Вполне может пройти более пяти лет, прежде чем какой-либо спектр для 5G, предназначенный для коммерциализации, будет выведен на рынок”.
Низкая задержка и высокая пропускная способность позволяют сетям 5G улучшать автоматизацию производства. Высокоскоростные камеры загружают тысячи снимков в минуту в облако, где алгоритмы искусственного интеллекта выявляют дефектные детали, неисправное оборудование или другие производственные проблемы.
Первый полностью автоматизированный завод Huawei для производителя бытовой техники Midea начал свою работу в августе 2022 года. Набор приложений искусственного интеллекта, ставший возможным благодаря 5G, удвоил скорость доставки на заводе.
В китайском порту Тяньцзинь система 5G-AI сократила время разгрузки крупного контейнеровоза с предыдущих восьми часов до 45 минут. Автоматизированные краны считывают штрих-коды на контейнерах и быстро загружают их на автономные грузовики, которые доставляют их на автоматизированные склады.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/fourth-industrial-revolution-slow-to-start-in-america/
Компания General Motors, которая в прошлом году продала в Китае больше автомобилей, чем в США, была первой, кто внедрила частную широкополосную сеть 5G для поддержки приложений искусственного интеллекта на производстве. Но нет никаких признаков широкого внедрения, как в Китае.
Ключевым препятствием для внедрения 5G в Соединенных Штатах является громоздкая нормативная база, которая затрудняет частным сетям доступ к беспроводному спектру.
Федеральное авиационное управление заявило, что диапазон для 5G может создавать помехи для авионики коммерческих самолетов.
Министерство обороны США возражает против коммерциализации части беспроводного спектра в диапазоне от 3,1 до 3,45 Гигагерц, утверждая, что перевод военной техники на другой диапазон обойдется в 120 миллиардов долларов.
Из-за этих препятствий, по словам одного американского чиновника, “Вполне может пройти более пяти лет, прежде чем какой-либо спектр для 5G, предназначенный для коммерциализации, будет выведен на рынок”.
Низкая задержка и высокая пропускная способность позволяют сетям 5G улучшать автоматизацию производства. Высокоскоростные камеры загружают тысячи снимков в минуту в облако, где алгоритмы искусственного интеллекта выявляют дефектные детали, неисправное оборудование или другие производственные проблемы.
Первый полностью автоматизированный завод Huawei для производителя бытовой техники Midea начал свою работу в августе 2022 года. Набор приложений искусственного интеллекта, ставший возможным благодаря 5G, удвоил скорость доставки на заводе.
В китайском порту Тяньцзинь система 5G-AI сократила время разгрузки крупного контейнеровоза с предыдущих восьми часов до 45 минут. Автоматизированные краны считывают штрих-коды на контейнерах и быстро загружают их на автономные грузовики, которые доставляют их на автоматизированные склады.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/fourth-industrial-revolution-slow-to-start-in-america/
Asia Times
Fourth Industrial Revolution slow to start in America
NEW YORK – While Chinese factories have installed 6,000 private 5G broadband networks to support AI applications in manufacturing, only a handful of large US manufacturers have done or are pl…
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Re: Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?
Hey I built getdispute.com to do literally exactly this: sue big companies in small claims court easily.
First, I strongly recommend sending them a demand letter. You can generate one for free on getdispute.com/products/demand-letter and/or pay us a few bucks to mail it.
Second, physically mail the letter to their legal address. The mail goes to someone in legal tasked with reading the mail.
90% of our cases end here. A correctly written demand letter, sent by physical mail usually gets noticed and resolved very quickly.
If nothing happens after a few weeks (give it 3-4 wks) then you could file a case in court. This will require you to file the case, pay the filing fee, and then serve the defendant via a 3rd party process server. Could all be done in 1 day if you know what you're doing. If you serve the defendant (FB) correctly, they are now obligated to show up to court or otherwise risk a default judgement against them that cannot be reversed later.
Another 50-75% of cases end here as most defendants prefer to settle out of court.
If they don't respond, you will need to go to your court date and explain the case to the judge. Usually, without a defendant appearing, the court will grant a default judgement in your favor, assuming the judge decides they do in fact have jurisdiction. To be safe on jurisdiction, file in the county FB does business, or otherwise has a legal entity registered.
All of this said... it's probably not worth the time/money to do more than send a demand letter. It is probably worth your time to send a physical demand letter.
Good luck. 2.7m small claims court cases are filed each year in the US, approx 50% by individuals. So you're in good company.
obblekk, 1 hour ago
Hey I built getdispute.com to do literally exactly this: sue big companies in small claims court easily.
First, I strongly recommend sending them a demand letter. You can generate one for free on getdispute.com/products/demand-letter and/or pay us a few bucks to mail it.
Second, physically mail the letter to their legal address. The mail goes to someone in legal tasked with reading the mail.
90% of our cases end here. A correctly written demand letter, sent by physical mail usually gets noticed and resolved very quickly.
If nothing happens after a few weeks (give it 3-4 wks) then you could file a case in court. This will require you to file the case, pay the filing fee, and then serve the defendant via a 3rd party process server. Could all be done in 1 day if you know what you're doing. If you serve the defendant (FB) correctly, they are now obligated to show up to court or otherwise risk a default judgement against them that cannot be reversed later.
Another 50-75% of cases end here as most defendants prefer to settle out of court.
If they don't respond, you will need to go to your court date and explain the case to the judge. Usually, without a defendant appearing, the court will grant a default judgement in your favor, assuming the judge decides they do in fact have jurisdiction. To be safe on jurisdiction, file in the county FB does business, or otherwise has a legal entity registered.
All of this said... it's probably not worth the time/money to do more than send a demand letter. It is probably worth your time to send a physical demand letter.
Good luck. 2.7m small claims court cases are filed each year in the US, approx 50% by individuals. So you're in good company.
obblekk, 1 hour ago
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Re: FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup
One is a law enforcement agency that primarily focuses on domestic cases. It is set up to follow requirements that protect constitutional rights, with the ultimate goal being a prosecution through the justice system.
The other is an intelligence agency that focuses on foreign collection, analysis and action. Its activities are definitionally illegal in the places where it operates, with the ultimate goal being to inform and enforce American foreign policy using means other than the US justice system.
The CIA sharing information with the FBI generally means that the 4th amendment has been violated, because the CIA operates with an "ends justify the means" framework that the FBI isn't supposed to use.
Edit: I worked with defense/intel forensics as Iraq was transitioning from wartime (intelligence based) to peacetime (justice based) frameworks for dealing with terrorists. There is a massive difference between intelligence briefings needed in a wartime environment to prevent IEDs through "kinetic action" and the evidence packet needed to prosecute terrorists in court as civil society reasserts itself.
drc500free, 10 hours ago
One is a law enforcement agency that primarily focuses on domestic cases. It is set up to follow requirements that protect constitutional rights, with the ultimate goal being a prosecution through the justice system.
The other is an intelligence agency that focuses on foreign collection, analysis and action. Its activities are definitionally illegal in the places where it operates, with the ultimate goal being to inform and enforce American foreign policy using means other than the US justice system.
The CIA sharing information with the FBI generally means that the 4th amendment has been violated, because the CIA operates with an "ends justify the means" framework that the FBI isn't supposed to use.
Edit: I worked with defense/intel forensics as Iraq was transitioning from wartime (intelligence based) to peacetime (justice based) frameworks for dealing with terrorists. There is a massive difference between intelligence briefings needed in a wartime environment to prevent IEDs through "kinetic action" and the evidence packet needed to prosecute terrorists in court as civil society reasserts itself.
drc500free, 10 hours ago
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Re: Learning DNS in 10 Years
I've contracted an ex Azure DNS team member to write up articles about DNS [1] and published it for free. I considered my DNS knowledge okay, but I learned something every article he wrote.
If you want to be better at DNS than >99% of your colleagues for the rest of your career, then invest a single day in reading those.
[1]: https://www.nslookup.io/learning/
pul, 8 hours ago
I've contracted an ex Azure DNS team member to write up articles about DNS [1] and published it for free. I considered my DNS knowledge okay, but I learned something every article he wrote.
If you want to be better at DNS than >99% of your colleagues for the rest of your career, then invest a single day in reading those.
[1]: https://www.nslookup.io/learning/
pul, 8 hours ago
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Re: Google keeps failing its Nest customers
Google has spent nearly the last decade completely ruining any goodwill Nest had established through a comedy of errors and sheer, wanton incompetence.
It's absolutely breathtaking how bad Google is at shipping functioning software. I don't know how Rick Osterloh or Rishi Chandra still have jobs, but they should answer for the following litany of catastrophic product decisions:
* Google decides to abandon Nest as a separate, highly-prized brand and product line, and instead bring everything under the Google Home umbrella. This process is excruciating and a monumental, half-decade-long failure. It is the very definition of a legacy rewrite pattern gone awry, but coupled with billions of dollars of purchased, installed hardware in people's actual homes.
* This starts with the "force Nest users to have a Google account to use Nest" and "Googlekill Works With Nest" decisions. Google decides to gate certain features and to encourage people to upgrade to the Google Home implementation of the Nest functionality, but completely left feature parity a decade behind.
To wit, Google Home's app, beyond being buggy, also can't do basic things like allow for easy scrubbing of video feeds, or control of the Nest Protect smoke detectors.
* Google also willfully murders Works With Nest, and kills with it the goodwill of hundreds of manufacturers who were pretty excited to build compatible products and services. This is migrated to a Works with Google/Assistant product that... again, completely lacks parity. They break the Home/Away functionality entirely. They delay this process a bit, and Works with Google catches up in some ways, but it takes literal years.
* Google releases a new line of Nest Cams that... don't work with the Nest app. Indeed, you have to activate them in the Google Home app, and their feeds will not display in the Nest app. From a Product Manager perspective, this is very easy to back into: Google is on a slow, death-march termination of the Nest app, in favor of migrating to Google Home. Rather than building any new functionality into the Nest app (these new cams included battery and floodlight functions, for example), they decided it made more sense to force users to use the Google Home app.
Except... the Google Home app STILL lacks parity with the now-8-year-old Nest app. The Google Home app, as of May the 8th in the year of our lord 2023, does not support the fantastic SightView video scrubbing functionality. Or, as it happens, ANY scrubbing functionality. It doesn't support the ability to generate and download video clips. And the web version, which has been in a public preview for over a year, STILL doesn't support the ability to even view the pre-tagged movement sessions that you can view in the mobile app.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [1/4]
Google has spent nearly the last decade completely ruining any goodwill Nest had established through a comedy of errors and sheer, wanton incompetence.
It's absolutely breathtaking how bad Google is at shipping functioning software. I don't know how Rick Osterloh or Rishi Chandra still have jobs, but they should answer for the following litany of catastrophic product decisions:
* Google decides to abandon Nest as a separate, highly-prized brand and product line, and instead bring everything under the Google Home umbrella. This process is excruciating and a monumental, half-decade-long failure. It is the very definition of a legacy rewrite pattern gone awry, but coupled with billions of dollars of purchased, installed hardware in people's actual homes.
* This starts with the "force Nest users to have a Google account to use Nest" and "Googlekill Works With Nest" decisions. Google decides to gate certain features and to encourage people to upgrade to the Google Home implementation of the Nest functionality, but completely left feature parity a decade behind.
To wit, Google Home's app, beyond being buggy, also can't do basic things like allow for easy scrubbing of video feeds, or control of the Nest Protect smoke detectors.
* Google also willfully murders Works With Nest, and kills with it the goodwill of hundreds of manufacturers who were pretty excited to build compatible products and services. This is migrated to a Works with Google/Assistant product that... again, completely lacks parity. They break the Home/Away functionality entirely. They delay this process a bit, and Works with Google catches up in some ways, but it takes literal years.
* Google releases a new line of Nest Cams that... don't work with the Nest app. Indeed, you have to activate them in the Google Home app, and their feeds will not display in the Nest app. From a Product Manager perspective, this is very easy to back into: Google is on a slow, death-march termination of the Nest app, in favor of migrating to Google Home. Rather than building any new functionality into the Nest app (these new cams included battery and floodlight functions, for example), they decided it made more sense to force users to use the Google Home app.
Except... the Google Home app STILL lacks parity with the now-8-year-old Nest app. The Google Home app, as of May the 8th in the year of our lord 2023, does not support the fantastic SightView video scrubbing functionality. Or, as it happens, ANY scrubbing functionality. It doesn't support the ability to generate and download video clips. And the web version, which has been in a public preview for over a year, STILL doesn't support the ability to even view the pre-tagged movement sessions that you can view in the mobile app.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [1/4]
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Re: Google keeps failing its Nest customers
But to say this again: new Nest Cam users cannot view 100% of the video recorded by the Nest Cams. It is functionally impossible and completely ridiculous, considering the Dropcam/earlier Nest Cams have been able to do this for literally a decade.
* Beyond that sheer lunacy, Rick Osterloh gets up on stage and has the temerity to announce with a big dumb grin on his face the Nest Doorbell: the "upgrade" (in literally no metric) from the older Nest Hello. This product has two variants: a wired and battery powered version, for people who don't have doorbell wiring. The wired product manages to ship into end users' hands with a curious limitation: even when wired, the product is INCAPABLE of recording 24-hour footage. Note that the Nest Hello, launched in 2017, supported this functionality out of the box and still does. When pressed for a reason, Rick says that the thermals were a limitation, coupled with how thin they wanted to make the product.
I'll say this again slowly: for some reason, a Product Manager at Google thought that the THINNESS of a PERMANENTLY INSTALLED, FIXED LOCATION VIDEO DOORBELL was more important than its ability to actually record video reliably. How on earth do these people still have jobs?
* Which brings us to two weeks ago. Google had already announced back in 2020 that they were killing the brilliantly designed, beautiful, extremely functional, nearly perfect Nest Secure alarm system. They stopped selling it, and then sunk $450M of money into ADT for... literally what reason, no one on planet earth can say. At the time, they announced they'd continue to support the Nest Secure.
Well, that's no longer compatible with their designs to migrate people to the Google Home app, or to return their boondoggle style investment in ADT, so two weeks ago, Google announced that they'll be bricking every single person's Nest Secure, along with their (also) brilliantly designed hybrid Nest Detects: their combination motion and door open sensors, which _also_ feature a muting button and little nightlight. These things are a wonder of design, and still function perfect, and Google has decided to literally pull the plug and create an entire mountain of e-waste for the hell of it.
They're offering users a free ADT system, which includes an ENORMOUS hub that is literally 5 times the size of the Nest Guard hub, and two motion and door sensors. That's it. There are users who spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars on Google's Nest Secure hardware, buying additional Nest Detect sensors, and they're all going into the trash now and literally no one knows why.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [2/4]
But to say this again: new Nest Cam users cannot view 100% of the video recorded by the Nest Cams. It is functionally impossible and completely ridiculous, considering the Dropcam/earlier Nest Cams have been able to do this for literally a decade.
* Beyond that sheer lunacy, Rick Osterloh gets up on stage and has the temerity to announce with a big dumb grin on his face the Nest Doorbell: the "upgrade" (in literally no metric) from the older Nest Hello. This product has two variants: a wired and battery powered version, for people who don't have doorbell wiring. The wired product manages to ship into end users' hands with a curious limitation: even when wired, the product is INCAPABLE of recording 24-hour footage. Note that the Nest Hello, launched in 2017, supported this functionality out of the box and still does. When pressed for a reason, Rick says that the thermals were a limitation, coupled with how thin they wanted to make the product.
I'll say this again slowly: for some reason, a Product Manager at Google thought that the THINNESS of a PERMANENTLY INSTALLED, FIXED LOCATION VIDEO DOORBELL was more important than its ability to actually record video reliably. How on earth do these people still have jobs?
* Which brings us to two weeks ago. Google had already announced back in 2020 that they were killing the brilliantly designed, beautiful, extremely functional, nearly perfect Nest Secure alarm system. They stopped selling it, and then sunk $450M of money into ADT for... literally what reason, no one on planet earth can say. At the time, they announced they'd continue to support the Nest Secure.
Well, that's no longer compatible with their designs to migrate people to the Google Home app, or to return their boondoggle style investment in ADT, so two weeks ago, Google announced that they'll be bricking every single person's Nest Secure, along with their (also) brilliantly designed hybrid Nest Detects: their combination motion and door open sensors, which _also_ feature a muting button and little nightlight. These things are a wonder of design, and still function perfect, and Google has decided to literally pull the plug and create an entire mountain of e-waste for the hell of it.
They're offering users a free ADT system, which includes an ENORMOUS hub that is literally 5 times the size of the Nest Guard hub, and two motion and door sensors. That's it. There are users who spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars on Google's Nest Secure hardware, buying additional Nest Detect sensors, and they're all going into the trash now and literally no one knows why.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [2/4]
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Re: Google keeps failing its Nest customers
Worse, the new product is markedly worse in every way. The ADT Hub is ENORMOUS. It has no business being this big. It does literally everything the Nest Guard does, but the Nest Guard is 1/5th the size, and tastefully designed. This thing looks like one of those massive cable modem/wireless router hybrids, except it's also your keypad for disarming your system. Gross. (Nest Guard crammed in battery backup, wifi, Nest Thread, cellular backup, a voice speaker, and an alarm siren into a very tasteful package.)
Beyond that, Nest is also inherently stripping another piece of brilliant design for NO REASON: The Nest x Yale door lock (which I have three of in my house) currently unlocks my door AND disarms my security system automatically when I get home. It's hard to describe how amazing this functionality is. There is absolutely no indication that there will be any way to get the replacement ADT system to disarm from the door lock, even though Google has floated this idea of "Routines" (and a script engine) for over a year , with nothing to show for it.
So in a year, I'll literally have to throw away my perfectly good Nest Guard and Nest Detects. I'm creating e-waste. I'll be replacing them with an uglier system with more parts and less functionality. How is this a win, Google?
If I strip out the most cynical view of what's happening here (Google wanting to amp up sales of the ADT product they've invested in, but maybe not, because, again, they're actually giving these things away for free to Nest Secure users, so ostensibly losing money here), I can again understand how they came to such a hamfisted decision: they don't want to migrate the Nest Secure functionality into the Google Home app, and they signed a dumb agreement with ADT to sunset it.
But once again, Google chooses to ignore the reputational damage and damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. They'll brick your perfectly functional hardware and make you downgrade to the newer, shittier model. And no one over there has the power to stop it? What the hell is Sundar doing over there, other than firing people and cashing insanely fat bonus checks?
Meanwhile, Google also:
* Migrated the Google Home Hubs away from legacy Linux OS to Fuschia, and then promptly murdered the Thread functionality that the locks and thermostat work with, removing a mesh network component
* Still hasn't released a video scrubber for their new cameras. I cannot conceive of how this has taken them so long. This is the same company that owns YouTube, YouTubeTV, and... checks notes... the existing, already functional Nest app that does exactly what we want
* Is ALSO killing old legacy Dropcams. More e-waste. These cameras work just fine, but Google is murdering them anyway. They're shipping you a replacement if you're an active Nest Aware subscriber, but only for up to two cameras.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [3/4]
Worse, the new product is markedly worse in every way. The ADT Hub is ENORMOUS. It has no business being this big. It does literally everything the Nest Guard does, but the Nest Guard is 1/5th the size, and tastefully designed. This thing looks like one of those massive cable modem/wireless router hybrids, except it's also your keypad for disarming your system. Gross. (Nest Guard crammed in battery backup, wifi, Nest Thread, cellular backup, a voice speaker, and an alarm siren into a very tasteful package.)
Beyond that, Nest is also inherently stripping another piece of brilliant design for NO REASON: The Nest x Yale door lock (which I have three of in my house) currently unlocks my door AND disarms my security system automatically when I get home. It's hard to describe how amazing this functionality is. There is absolutely no indication that there will be any way to get the replacement ADT system to disarm from the door lock, even though Google has floated this idea of "Routines" (and a script engine) for over a year , with nothing to show for it.
So in a year, I'll literally have to throw away my perfectly good Nest Guard and Nest Detects. I'm creating e-waste. I'll be replacing them with an uglier system with more parts and less functionality. How is this a win, Google?
If I strip out the most cynical view of what's happening here (Google wanting to amp up sales of the ADT product they've invested in, but maybe not, because, again, they're actually giving these things away for free to Nest Secure users, so ostensibly losing money here), I can again understand how they came to such a hamfisted decision: they don't want to migrate the Nest Secure functionality into the Google Home app, and they signed a dumb agreement with ADT to sunset it.
But once again, Google chooses to ignore the reputational damage and damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. They'll brick your perfectly functional hardware and make you downgrade to the newer, shittier model. And no one over there has the power to stop it? What the hell is Sundar doing over there, other than firing people and cashing insanely fat bonus checks?
Meanwhile, Google also:
* Migrated the Google Home Hubs away from legacy Linux OS to Fuschia, and then promptly murdered the Thread functionality that the locks and thermostat work with, removing a mesh network component
* Still hasn't released a video scrubber for their new cameras. I cannot conceive of how this has taken them so long. This is the same company that owns YouTube, YouTubeTV, and... checks notes... the existing, already functional Nest app that does exactly what we want
* Is ALSO killing old legacy Dropcams. More e-waste. These cameras work just fine, but Google is murdering them anyway. They're shipping you a replacement if you're an active Nest Aware subscriber, but only for up to two cameras.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [3/4]
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Re: Google keeps failing its Nest customers
* Is NOT offering ANY compensation AT ALL for Nest Secure users outside of the US. They're just willfully destroying your $400-$1500+ investment for the hell of it.
* Claims to be environmentally minded but generates e-waste with these deprecations.
Google should take a page out of Sonos's book, when they caught the unholy backlash for their equally stupid idea of bricking legacy Sonos products: spin them out to a legacy app. Or build a connector, or open-source the firmware, or rewrite the firmware to even work with ADT. There are so many options that could be pursued in the year they've given us before they murder this thing. You would think a literal trillion dollar company could find their way here, but time and time again, Google proves that they don't know how to release hardware with a cohesive strategy. It's all spray and pray, and it's ridiculous.
* Oh, and they're doing all sorts of stupid stuff with FitBit too, but I won't even get into that.
How. Do. These. People. Still. Have. Jobs. There. How do they expect to ever be trusted by anyone again? How do they think this is a good or right call, and why is no one speaking up and advocating for their USERS? I'm genuinely asking. I don't work there, I don't understand how something like this happens.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [4/4]
* Is NOT offering ANY compensation AT ALL for Nest Secure users outside of the US. They're just willfully destroying your $400-$1500+ investment for the hell of it.
* Claims to be environmentally minded but generates e-waste with these deprecations.
Google should take a page out of Sonos's book, when they caught the unholy backlash for their equally stupid idea of bricking legacy Sonos products: spin them out to a legacy app. Or build a connector, or open-source the firmware, or rewrite the firmware to even work with ADT. There are so many options that could be pursued in the year they've given us before they murder this thing. You would think a literal trillion dollar company could find their way here, but time and time again, Google proves that they don't know how to release hardware with a cohesive strategy. It's all spray and pray, and it's ridiculous.
* Oh, and they're doing all sorts of stupid stuff with FitBit too, but I won't even get into that.
How. Do. These. People. Still. Have. Jobs. There. How do they expect to ever be trusted by anyone again? How do they think this is a good or right call, and why is no one speaking up and advocating for their USERS? I'm genuinely asking. I don't work there, I don't understand how something like this happens.
disillusioned, 12 hours ago [4/4]
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Re: You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kan...
Every team I've worked on that has switched from Kanban to Scrum has slowed down and never regained the previous velocity. Further, many of the promised benefits of Scrum (things like better insight and predictability about delivery rates) never materialized.
Every team that I've worked on that has switched from Scrum to Kanban saw an immediate improvement in speed that never disappeared.
Once, just once, I was lucky enough to work on a team that switched from Kanban to Scrum, and then, mercifully, blissfully, back again. To be fair, I think we actually worked quicker after the return, though I don't know if that could be attributed to having actually learned some lessons from Scrum, or out of a fear that we'd one day return to it.
DanHulton, 1 day ago
Every team I've worked on that has switched from Kanban to Scrum has slowed down and never regained the previous velocity. Further, many of the promised benefits of Scrum (things like better insight and predictability about delivery rates) never materialized.
Every team that I've worked on that has switched from Scrum to Kanban saw an immediate improvement in speed that never disappeared.
Once, just once, I was lucky enough to work on a team that switched from Kanban to Scrum, and then, mercifully, blissfully, back again. To be fair, I think we actually worked quicker after the return, though I don't know if that could be attributed to having actually learned some lessons from Scrum, or out of a fear that we'd one day return to it.
DanHulton, 1 day ago