pulse Report This Comment
Date: May 09, 2026 01:21AM

100%

I've always preferred to do it myself. Always will if I can. Host my own email too...

Shame the hosting industry is at a critical dead end. I used to do it as a side hustle before it became too much work and ended up cutting it. I used to host a couple of Melbourne PC stores websites, like pccasegear.com, some personal blogs (remember those? thanks facebook) and some other little businesses.

Cloud, "serverless", all the new fangled garbage of the day has eaten that industry alive. Now you give all your data to the big 4 and they decide if you live or die.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: May 09, 2026 11:54AM

My dad was a boi!ermaker for the B&O railroad, had actually apprenticed to his dad to learn a "stable" trade. He was busy AF during WWII, then the diesel electric locomotives took over, cars and the highway system improved ruining the U.S. railroad passenger service, and he was permanently laid off in 1956, the year he married my mom. He promptly got a good union job in a truck factory, a growing industry that both rivaled and was an adjunct to the railroad. Times change, technology changes, but the song remains the same. I'm wondering what AI is about to change across the board.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 10, 2026 01:53AM

Tech bros have laid off tens of thousands this year, Oracle alone slashed 30,000 staff, but the CEO's claim it is NOT to do with AI. Go figure.
Entry level office jobs are gone, call centers are gone and the Indian/Philippines ones will be gone soon, HR departments are almost gone (although they are in a unique position to fight back) & manufacturing jobs (especially metal fab') can all be roboticsised but the setup cost is still extremely high.
Entertainment is where it's at... movies are shrinking and streaming is booming. Streaming needs content. AI content = cheap content. Money talks.

Movies can help explain AI perhaps.
1) Stop-motion & puppets. Think Star Wars. Many people operating 1 puppet. Many people building models & props then many people operating the models and shooting frame by frame. (props includes many people painting backdrops to save shooting in remote locations or sets)
2) Motion-capture & CGI. Think Star Wars again. Actor wearing a mo-cap suit means ZERO people are required to film the scenes. there are still a few artists required, and the same amount of behind the scenes people but 30 or 40 less jobs per movie (plus you can use cheaper off-shore artists).
3) AI. Game Over. One person will be able to sit with a supercomputer for a day or two and there is your streaming content. There will be so much content, the executives will probably use an AI to judge the content so they don't have to watch it all themselves.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: May 10, 2026 09:30AM

Oracle's is due to AI but not the replacement by AI; the banks have pulled funding on their massive AI/data centre expansion, so they need to come up with the cash to pay for it themselves; hence cutting 30K staff to foot the bill.

I can tell you definitively Oracle's service has been getting worse and worse and this year it's fucking atrocious.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 10, 2026 11:36AM

oh and this...
[m.youtube.com]
still some actual journalism going on at the ABC happy to say. Takes a while to warm up but it gets to Large Language Models eventually.