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@hobbsc /me googles

A monster comic!

/me approves #slack

According to a recent announcement from Salesforce, Slack customers will now have to pay more but will receive new AI-based features in return.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108366-salesforce-latest-price-increase-comes-promise-more-ai.html

So, #Slack drops Cloud Native Computing Foundation and #Kubernetes (two large #OpenSource groups) from their donated enterprise tier, giving them just one week to export and migrate multiple years of data... and what do they do?

Move to #Discord. Seriously. 🤪

I'm sure they've been doing it forever, but #slack just sent me an advertisement when I was DM'ing someone and I hate it.

I really need to take the time to figure out a client-friendly alternative.

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#embedded #engineering #machinelearning #ml #datascience #ai #bookclub #reading #signalprocessing #slack #math #mathematics #computerscience #embeddedengineer #stemeducation #slack

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Sometimes I wonder whether this push for “AI summaries of everything” is simply a consequence of the failure of “chat” to provide effective “search”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113517
#collaboration #discord #facebook #messenger #search #slack #workplace

Sometimes I wonder whether this push for “AI summaries of everything” is simply a consequence of the failure of “chat” to provide effective “search”

I’ve worked at companies where (first) Skype and (then) Slack were the principal means of keeping employees in touch with each other. In between, I worked at Facebook where *literally* Facebook was used to keep employees collaborating.

This latter, worked. The others were shit.

Among several key differences, the primary one was “most communication was essentially a blog post” hybridized with “there is a search function for blog posts”. It must be admitted that when Facebook took Workplace to market it was an abject failure, but I see that as a consequence of the user base having moved to a chat paradigm and not wanting to give it up.

But that doesn’t mean that the chat paradigm is an efficient one, it just means that it is popular at the moment. Where we are is in a chat based trend where everything is either Slack or Discord, and then we have to deal with the fact that the announcement of some new API project to frob your JavaScript widgets in a hoopy new way… is about 400 screenfulls back in your chat history and you have to wade through all of the occasional mentions until you get to the actual announcement which had the wiki hyperlink you want.

So of course you want some personal Google AI chatbot thingy which has consumed the entire content and can reference it all at an instant.

Because search is an essential.

But on the other hand at least with Slack you can add a dancing banana emoji reaction to the CEO’s announcement of quarterly earnings.

#collaboration #discord #facebook #messenger #Search #slack #workplace

Slack: "On July 17, some AI features will be available for everyone in your organization. If you’d like to fine tune the settings before then, now’s your chance."

Me: "Yes! Disable AI."

#ai #noai #privacy #slack

Screenshot of the Slack app offering to manage AI permissions. A red arrow points to a button labeled "Disable AI".

The quickness with which I hunted down and slapped the "Disable AI" setting...

Why Slack. Why.

#noAI #slack

Screenshot of an email from Slack

Slack's Pro plan is getting an Al upgrade

We are updating our free and paid plans to make your team's workdays more pleasant and productive. The Slack Pro plan will include some Al functionality, and Business+ will have advanced Al functionality. All plans now have enhanced security features and access to Salesforce integrations. There are no price increases to the Pro plan. What does this mean for you?

Hard not to read this as a threat…

#Slack #AISlop

Text message from an email that reads:

Slack
Your Slack plan is getting an Al upgrade
Updates to Slack's free and paid plans Slack's Pro plan is getting an Al upgrade We are updating o...

Woke up to notifications from a bunch of #Slack teams I manage because apparently we're getting (and paying) for AI whether we want it or not: https://slack.com/blog/news/june-2025-pricing-and-packaging-announcement.

I guess the update on the optional paid AI integration was too low to cover costs, so they're pushing it on everybody to spread the cost out.

no we’re not - I disabled that option first thing this morning when I saw it in the admin menus, are you nuts #slack #ai #hellsno

Where is the button 'Go fuck yourself!'?!

#Slack #Ai #forcedAI #PriceIncrease

AI is coming to your plan
Pay less and get access to advanced AI features when you renew early. Learn more
Immediate access to advanced AI features, including search, summaries and more
Price will increase $2.50 USD per person/month
Renew early and pay less than what you do today for the next year

Et allez, après #Notion, c'est #Slack qui augmente ses forfaits de TRENTE-TROIS POUR CENT pour ajouter des fonctions d'IA dont on n'a rien à battre.
Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre, je vais passer au forfait basique, et tant pis pour eux. Et ras-le-bol de cette IA Tax après la SSO Tax.

Heads up folks. #slack is joining the list of companies who think it’s OK to opt groups of users into an #AI / #LLM system without their explicit consent.

✨ New notification integration: now live for #Slack & #Webhook!

Stay on top of your security posture with real-time alerts delivered directly to where your team works.

Key benefits:
🔔 Instantly get notified about intrusions, suspicious behavior, and system anomalies
👀 Never miss critical events that need your attention
💡 Monitor the health of your CrowdSec instances, all from within Slack & Webhook

Get all the details: https://crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-launches-notification-center-slack

Slack: “AI is coming to your plan”, “Price will increase $3 USD per person/month at renewal”

With a piggy bank 🐖🪙 animation on the side…

At least it’s honest?

#Slack #AI

AWS User Notifications + Amazon Q Developer in chat applications を使ってSlackにイベント通知する際のハマりポイントをまとめた
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/2025-06-17-chatbot-user-notifications-slack/

#dev_classmethod #AWS_User_Notifications #Amazon_Q_Developer #AWS_Chatbot #Slack #AWS_CloudFormation

Declaring Metapendence – WhatsApp

While I have never used WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app (outside of Facebook Messenger, which is a different kettle of fish), there are many around the world who rely on it to communicate with friends, family, and even business partners and customers. WhatsApp boasts of its end-to-end encryption for user privacy, but the company has shared user data with Facebook and 3rd party providers, including user phone numbers. Now, WhatsApp is starting to include advertising as a way to monetize the […]

https://medi-nerd.com/2025/06/17/declaring-metapendence-whatsapp/

That is just a wonderful reminder of what happens when you give your data to company using a proprietary software. Even if the are good, helpful and even generous, they can just take it away. And then you might loose data and part of your history.

#slack terminates #kubernetes sponsored enterprise account and transforms it into a free-tier account with 90-days retention policy.

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-slack/

#slack

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