Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Quitting the smartphone
From:    poindexter FORTRAN(21:4/122)
Date:    Sat Aug 29, 2026 07:39

-=> Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ad> (Incidentally, this reminds me how I changed message retention in
 Ad> Outlook at some point, because there'd be the occasional times when I
 Ad> needed to find an old e-mail, but I couldn't search for it, because
 Ad> local retention is such that old messages disappear from the local
 Ad> computer, and thus from search.)

 My company just split off from their parent company. The company had
 gone through many iterations, first as a start-up company, then
 purchased by Chevron, then spun off to private equity, then bought by
 our previous parent, and now purchased by private equity again.

 There are people who've worked through each iteration, over 20 years -
 and had email going back to day 1. Our parent company stated they'd
 only be able to provide 1 year (Maybe 2...) of email.

 It caused a lot of resistance and outrage, but I knew in the back of
 my mind that giving us *all* of our email would be easier than trying
 to separate it out. We ended up with all of our email.  :)

 Ad> I'm wondering if these people also misuse genAI.

 Ad> "Misuse" because there's a wild difference from using it and then
 Ad> fact-checking all the output, and using it like a kid cheating on their
 Ad> high-school homework.

 Someone coined the term "meat proxy" for people who regurgitate AI
 output. It fits.




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