Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Bf2k+ on Wed Mar 20 2024 04:16 pm

Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: Bf2k+ to All] on Tue Mar 19 2024 04:25 pm

Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Carol Shenkenberger on Tue Mar 19 2024 06:38 am

I have found that when calling Xfinity for tech support, if I say

"Terminate My Account"

I get a human on the line real quick.

Cute but not related.

xxcarol

yeah it is related. we're talking in my thread and this is a form of AI
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Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bf2k+ on Wed Mar 20 2024 06:39 am

I think it's time to move to AT&T Fiber, if anything for symmetric
service (I'm 600/10 here).

Unfortunately, for me, Xfinity is the only hi-speed internet available in my county which I suppose is another reason they're so unreasonable here.

But in the last 6 months someone has been laying fiber in my neighborhood... Someone told me it was ShenTel but that night not be correct. It will still be good to have competition...

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Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: Bf2k+ to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 21 2024 06:41 pm

Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bf2k+ on Wed Mar 20 2024 06:39 am

I think it's time to move to AT&T Fiber, if anything for symmetric service (I'm 600/10 here).

Unfortunately, for me, Xfinity is the only hi-speed internet available in my county which I suppose is another reason they're so unreasonable here.

But in the last 6 months someone has been laying fiber in my neighborhood... Someone told me it was ShenTel but that night not be correct. It will still be good to have competition...

what sucks is where i'm at, all that line is laid. BUT, there's agreements that the different providers have about territory. So i can't switch in most cases.
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Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Thu Mar 21 2024 10:15 pm

what sucks is where i'm at, all that line is laid. BUT, there's agreements that the different providers have about territory. So i can't switch in most cases.

I thought division of territory by competitors would be illegal under antitrust laws?

Nightfox

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On 22 Mar 2024, Nightfox said the following...

what sucks is where i'm at, all that line is laid. BUT, there's agree that the different providers have about territory. So i can't switch most cases.

I thought division of territory by competitors would be illegal under antitrust laws?

it would seem they're allowed to get away with it from a practical standpoint .. running two sets of coax cabling everywhere would be crazy, DSL piggybacks on the phone system but it's still entirely local and single-provider (even if in your area multiple companies are allowed to re-sell it).. afaik fiber is pretty much end-to-end to.. can't really just say "hey, run the fiber from my house over to a different isp" .. fiber sits in an price bracket where it's
almost too expensive to offer so you're probably lucky if you have one in the first place..

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Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Mar 22 2024 10:03 am

Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Thu Mar 21 2024 10:15 pm

what sucks is where i'm at, all that line is laid. BUT, there's agreements that the different providers have about territory. So i can't switch in most cases.

I thought division of territory by competitors would be illegal under antitrust laws?

it's only illegal if you get caught.
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fusion wrote to Nightfox <=-

it would seem they're allowed to get away with it from a practical standpoint .. running two sets of coax cabling everywhere would be
crazy, DSL piggybacks on the phone system but it's still entirely local and single-provider (even if in your area multiple companies are
allowed to re-sell it)

I've heard nightmares from people who tried to resell DSL on copper
from the local exchange carrier. Since the local exchange carriers
were required to open their copper network by law but there wasn't much
oversight, they did everything in their power to cripple resellers
ability to sell DSL, while using the cost overhead to make their
services cost-competitive. I think everyone's given up by now.

I had resold DSL service for a couple of years through a savvy local
ISP. It was nice getting DSL service and having my ISP be the customer
of record. He knew which buttons to push, so to speak to get problems
fixed.

Mind you, this was back in the 2000s, with hosted email, a news server,
tilde web space and their own DNS. Sign a form and you got all ports
opened. Those were good days.




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Mind you, this was back in the 2000s, with hosted email, a news server,
tilde web space and their own DNS. Sign a form and you got all ports
opened. Those were good days.

They sure were. Don't forget a shell account! ;)


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It's going to turn what's left of the Internet into an apocalyptic wasteland devoid of human life.

... Poverty begins at home.

fire. And now we're stuck with even fewer options, forced to rely on obscure search engines just to find something halfway decent. It's a

What do you use? I find that Wiby and Mojeek are pretty good for avoiding the Corpo Net.

... The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects

It's going to turn what's left of the Internet into an apocalyptic wasteland d
oid of human life.

Quite possible. The only humans left will be the ones who don't
understand, or don't care, that they are interacting with "nothing."


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Re: Re: ai sucks ass
By: unixl0rd to fusion on Tue Mar 26 2024 06:46 pm

What do you use? I find that Wiby and Mojeek are pretty good for avoiding th

Wiby and Mojeek are nice. You should also try Marginalia and Searchmysite.

There is a nice metasearch engine worth trying which packs many alternative search engine backends. Go try 4get.ca for some fun.

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