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2025-10-10 15:31 from Nurb432
My personal dislike aside, is it just my corner view of the
industry, or is the entire IT ecosystem collapsing? Bunch of
freaking siloed morons. Everywhere.
No, it is not you. It is actuall collapse.
The whole sector is bubbling very hard. Projects have budgets way above what they need to function, and lots of projects everybody knows are going to fail also get a shitload of funding. Except during the last few years, funding has been gradually cut.
On the other hand, software is getting devaluated very hard. Services you used to be able to sell for 15k USD now you are going to have a hard time selling for 5k. We have normalized many services being free so end users won't pay for them.
I know enterprise contracts are multimillionaire still, but if you examine many of those up close, they don't hold up. It is an unstable house of cards and they know it. You see Nvidia investing billions in OpenAI, then OpenAI uses the investment money to buy Nvidia hardware. It is the oldest trick in the book to make it look like money is moving and raise stock value, but in the end of the day you have loses even if your accounting books show sales.
I think the videogame industry exemplarized the devaluation of software. There are so many games against so little demand, they are worth nothing. Lots of people only buys games when they are 2 bucks (against a listed value of 20). It is entirely possible to make a library of *professional* games just by grabbing them during promotional giveaway events. You can purchase gaming hardware and game for years without buying a single game, and that is before you account for actual piracy.
But then there are retards who will purchase a 16-bit game for 80 bucks, so a big segment of the industry has adjusted to get the attention of these psycho spenders. This segment operates under absurd astronomical budgets but their customer base is shrinking because the number of psychos willing to pay 80 bucks for a random game is dropping, therefore big game sector is in a pre-crash state. Have you heard the Arabians bought Electronic Arts recently? This is the reason, fundamentally.
2025-10-16 18:52 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: IG update!
Heh. Two SVPs are arguing over my start date. It's nice to be wanted.
Congratulations.
Being successful in getting funding for projects is always exciting.
Tue Oct 21 2025 11:25:53 UTC from darknetuser
I am making it look more exciting than it is, to be honest.
Cant go into details for obvious reasons, but i guess we had an attempted "break-in" in our on-site data center this week. Someone tried to sneak in.
Scary times we live in.
I guess Firefox is being removed enterprise wide next month. Its too open and they cant control it enough. "no freedom for you, digital serf" And some sort of 'enterprise control system' is being enabled for chrome. And a few other things that are going to totally F-up things due to not using AD anymore for authentication.
Now, i get we need to be secure, but i think these people enjoy making our lives hard and restricting our movements.
I remember in 2020, there was talk about "mandated cameras on during business hours" and a staff of people would monitor for missing faces.."why were you away from your desk". It didn't happen, fell apart before it was enacted. Today, they would do it via AI, just toss money at it.. its free money.
I just got added to a project today whose infrastructure requires building just about everything I dreamed of being able to build in the new role.
Things are pretty damn good right now!
Make sure you log all your work in the sprint's story
( i hate agile .. stupid overhead )
I just got added to a project today whose infrastructure requires building just about everything I dreamed of being able to build in the new role.
Things are pretty damn good right now!
arrrgggghhhhh! ( i'm sure you can hear me several states away )
Wont get into details for obvious reasons, but man its been a horrendously frustrating day here. I cant wait until its time to flip these people the bird and walk. And yes that is the plan. Literally flip it as i head to the door .. . AFTER i get a signed receipt for my equipment being turned in, as i don't trust these people at all not to lose it and blame me. You have like 24 business hours on termination/exit to turn it in, or its $10k + 5 years in jail, with felony theft charges.
I do Healthcare Billing Collections now - because it is from 7 to 3:30, hard, work from home, and I don't every have to be on call or work after hours. Yet. When they ask me, I'll tell them to fuck off.
It is a Walmart greeter job I can do from my bedroom in my underwear - and I never have to figure out user permissions, group policy issues, AD trusts. I just have to go, "Yeah, you got denied by your insurance, we're going to bill you... kill the CEO of the insurance company if you're upset."
Healthcare *sucks*. We're running on AS400s with terminal connections. I get paid less than $18 an hour to figure out if your insurance claim is valid or not, and they want me to do it in 15 minutes or less, per issue.
And if I don't get it right - they'll outsource me to India.
It is still easier than Fortune 500 corporate IT datacenter work. Sorta. But only because... I mean - healthcare is WAY more complex. The logic makes no sense - where when I figure out what I f'ed up in the DC - I always go, "OH! I'm stupid."
But because no one knows in healthcare. There is no "right way". EVERYONE is guessing, the whole way up, mostly because of Government regulation. If you need healthcare/provider/payor tips, hit me up. I'll try to help.
Ironically, i was actually considering something like that ( not billing specifically, but some sort of sit at home and talk to people regarding medical stuff )
When i bail from this place here shortly, id love to get out of IT. But, it has to be a 'real' job, with insurance and stuff. ( and i really need to be home most of the time now, wont get into why but its important ). Which for someone who has worked in the IT industry since the mid 80s, back when it was fun, its limiting. But medical "document" stuff, is geared towards people at home instead of wasting office space just talking on the phone.
Sat Nov 22 2025 04:14:54 UTC from ParanoidDelusionsI do Healthcare Billing Collections now - because it is from 7 to 3:30, hard, work from home, and I don't every have to be on call or work after hours. Yet. When they ask me, I'll tell them to fuck off.
healthcare is WAY more complex. The logic makes no sense - where when I figure out what I f'ed up in the DC - I always go, "OH! I'm stupid."
But because no one knows in healthcare. There is no "right way". EVERYONE is guessing, the whole way up, mostly because of Government regulation. If you need healthcare/provider/payor tips, hit me up. I'll try to help.
It's that way on purpose.
Scott Adams calls it a "confusopoly".
With regard to medical bills, I simply don't pay them. I find that if you ignore them long enough, someone eventually finds a way to make insurance pay.
Or they sue you.. and 1/2 the time you don't even know it happened until you get a letter "we are garnishing wages, sucker"
Sat Nov 22 2025 22:57:48 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarI find that if you ignore them long enough, someone eventually finds a way to make insurance pay.
With regard to medical bills, I simply don't pay them. I find
that if you ignore them long enough, someone eventually finds a
way to make insurance pay.
It shows your economy is not trashed enough for it to be no trust left yet.
Here you pay in advance, or you carry a scrip from the insurance company, or security shows you the door. TBH that works because insurance companies keep their end of the deal without too much fuss. It also helps insurance companies pay a pittance to their contractors so it is not like they are bleeding money.
We want insurance to pay - but we want SOMEONE to pay eventually. If it isn't insurance, you're the next target - and we'll send you to collections, we'll ruin you - you got the service or supply or goods, and you signed a thing, you didn't know it because you were sick or hurt and just wanted to feel better, that said, "if my insurance doesn't pay, I will." 99 times out of 100. So we'll go after you...
And if you don't pay, which is a LOT of the time, we pass it on to the rest of the patients and payors - which is why medical costs are so high. Most medical bills... pay 1 out of 99 dollars. The other 99 dollars, just go back into the cost passed on to the next patients, to try and recoup.
It is why you pay $50 for an aspirin at the ER.
You're ALREADY paying for socialized medicine.
Healthcare is complex, requires critical thinking, troubleshooting, and is frustrating - but you can do it remotely.
But it pays *shit* compared to what you're used to in technology. The executives and physicians and pharmaceuticals and DME suppliers take all the money.
Even Healthcare IT pays dogshit. Everyone who isn't a Doctor or an executive has to get paid peanuts to make the machine work.
But you can work from home, and they'll give you a flexible AF work schedule if you're smart - because mostly they hire mouthbreathers who couldn't critically think their way out of a wet paper bag.
Don't tell them I said this.
Even lower pay + insurance is fine. ill have my pension along with it so overall income wont drop enough to notice ( or might even be more.. if get lucky ).. its going to be supplemental until i can get to medicare. I'm old, but not old enough for that.
Thu Nov 27 2025 05:06:58 UTC from ParanoidDelusionsHealthcare is complex, requires critical thinking, troubleshooting, and is frustrating - but you can do it remotely.
But it pays *shit* compared to what you're used to in technology. The executives and physicians and pharmaceuticals and DME suppliers take all the money.
Even Healthcare IT pays dogshit. Everyone who isn't a Doctor or an executive has to get paid peanuts to make the machine work.
But you can work from home, and they'll give you a flexible AF work schedule if you're smart - because mostly they hire mouthbreathers who couldn't critically think their way out of a wet paper bag.
Don't tell them I said this.
It will absolutely grant you those things - and you can absolutely find a work-from-home-all-the-time gig in healthcare.
They want people who will show up consistently, who can figure out the complexity, and who won't take 4 hour lunch breaks because there is no supervisor hanging over their head. If you meet those criteria - and you can sell how your previous experience can translate into working the technology in their industry - they'll hire you and train you up.
Thu Nov 27 2025 15:46:07 UTC from Nurb432Even lower pay + insurance is fine. ill have my pension along with it so overall income wont drop enough to notice ( or might even be more.. if get lucky ).. its going to be supplemental until i can get to medicare. I'm old, but not old enough for that.
Man, it cant come soon enough. So over this.
Now its my responsibility to fix mistakes the contractor made..
And if you don't pay, which is a LOT of the time, we pass it on to the rest of the patients and payors - which is why medical costs are so high. Most medical bills... pay 1 out of 99 dollars. The other 99 dollars, just go back into the cost passed on to the next patients, to try and recoup.
It is why you pay $50 for an aspirin at the ER.
A doctor friend explained it to me as a series of buckets. The first bucket is Medicare and Medicaid, and whatever those refuse to cover spill into the private insurance bucket. Whatever private insurance won't cover spills over into the individual payer bucket. Since there is no bucket after that, the costs inflate until there is a zero balance (at least on paper).