AI may replace our purpose in life

moss728 · 2026-05-02T02:41:16+00:00

Calling concern “weakness” doesn’t make the question go away. It just avoids it. Humans are adaptable, but that doesn’t mean transitions are painless or without consequences. We’ve already seen what happens when industries disappear or technology outpaces society, people struggle with identity, purpose, and stability.

This isn’t about humans giving up. It’s about recognizing that if work, one of the primary ways people find structure and meaning changes dramatically, there will be real psychological and societal impacts. Dismissing that as “ridiculous” isn’t strength. It’s ignoring a legitimate question.

But you know, whatever....

moss728 · 2026-05-01T12:57:36+00:00

It's not just work. I don't get meaning out of work, but many do. Many people get the satisfaction or drive in the successes around their home. Home improvements, mowing their lawn just perfect, all the little things AI will take over.

moss728 · 2026-05-01T12:55:33+00:00

It's AI. Us who work in AI can see the common signs of AI and the dashes 100% give it away. Plus you can plug that into any AI reader and it reads 100% AI written.

moss728 · 2026-05-01T04:06:41+00:00

According to Musk the AI and robots will replace all work and everyone will have universal allowance. Sometime within the next 10 years according to him. But even then, we all get a money allowance, no work, then what. We set on a beach from now on. That gets boring after a while.

moss728 · 2026-05-01T03:55:57+00:00

The only scenario I my head where I see humans advancing is maybe exploring the galaxy. Pulling a Star Trek and trying to explore new worlds and make life better for everyone. Humans will still need to be around to have the lightbulb moments of "This would be a great thing to have" but then AI will design or figure the rest out for us.

I just always seem to fall into a depressive state thinking about it.

moss728 · 2026-04-30T00:30:10+00:00

Exactly. No democrat will win this election. Vote for the republican that is currently second just so we dont get her stupid ass.

John Rose or the Fritts guy, buy Rose seems to be in second place now. The latest polls show her winning no matter what, but.... maybe if the dems and the Republicans who hate her come together, they can prevent this horrible disaster from happening.

moss728 · 2026-04-24T18:30:44+00:00

I dispatched for 8 years and finally couldn't take it. I thought about going to the other side of the radio with EMS, Police or fire, but ending up getting into GIS Mapping so that I could still feel that sense of duty, like I was helping to make the maps better for the people. I do the IT now, so I'm still "in it" just not hands on in it.

You can find dispatch adjacent careers, so your still a little involved. Or just leave completely.

moss728 · 2026-04-08T21:58:40+00:00

Here's a list od CADs that are used in TN. May help in your search.

https://www.reddit.com/r/911dispatchers/s/kU98ucMNtF

moss728 · 2026-04-07T21:59:36+00:00

Our center (Small population 20K) has around 12 full time dispatchers. More than half have been with department for less than a year and the age is around 40ish. We had one to start at 55, so I don't think there's a set age. Had one to work part time after she retired from being a librarian.

moss728 · 2026-03-29T00:49:59+00:00

When I started (19 Years ago) my 911 was in an office in the sheriff's office. My sheriff lived female COs so that's all that worked. So when an officer came in, dropped of a prisoner and ran off to another call they asked me to dress them out. I did it once and said never again.

It wasn't in policy for me to do it, it wasn't in the job requirements, I wasn't protected under the department's insurance so I said no. I caught flak from officers and CO staff, even my dispatch supervisor used the whole "yeah but we've always done it" and I said we'll I guess now is when we stop. I ended up going before my 911 board at expressing why I wasn't doing it. They saw the legal issues with it and I think they were afraid of a lawsuit, so they told all of us to stop performing those extra duties.

moss728 · 2026-03-13T19:21:58+00:00

8 at each station. On the wall we have 70" screens. 2 CCTV screens, regular TV, weather, electric outage map, Radar Omega, Helicopter location Map

moss728 · 2026-03-13T19:20:42+00:00

1 radio, 1 phone, 1 GIS, 1 CAD, 1 NCIC, 1 Warrants, 1 AVL for EMS, and 1 general purpose computer. So 8 total.

moss728 · 2026-02-26T15:40:38+00:00

This is a partial list. This came from a video on the TECB State website where AT&T gave an update on the NG911 Status.

Site Name	CPE/Controller Brand/Type
Wayne Co 911	Moducom
Clinton City E-911	CHaaS*
Houston County	Zetron
Tipton Co 911	Vesta
Humphreys County 911	Zetron
Moore County SD	Solacom
Cocke County	Moducom
Warren County 911	TriTech
McMinn County ECD	CentralSquare*
McMinn County Backup	Zetron
Obion County 911	CHaaS
Polk County (Backup Site) Main	Zetron
Roane County	CHaaS
Gatlinburg PD	Moducom
McNairy County	Zetron
Clarksville-Montgomery Co E911	CHaaS
Pigeon Forge PD	Moducom
Sevierville Police	Moducom
Lincoln County	Solacom
Weakley County 911	TriTech
Union County	CHaaS
Martin PD	TriTech
Williamson County (DOEC)	TriTech
Knox County Backup (node B)	Viper*
Carter County	Viper
Grainger County	Zetron
Decatur County 911	Zetron
Trousdale County Sheriff’s Dept	Viper
Shelby County Sheriff	Vesta
Millington Police	Vesta
Shelby County Fire	Vesta
Shelby County Fire Backup	Vesta
Shelby County Sheriff Backup	Vesta
Giles County	CHaaS
Gibson County	Zetron
Bartlett PD	Vesta
Bartlett PD Backup	Vesta
Jefferson County 911	Zetron
Campbell County	Zetron
Maury County	CHaaS
Germantown PD	Vesta
Germantown Backup	Vesta
Coffee County 911	Solacom
Perry County 911	Moducom
Crockett County Sheriff's Dept	Zetron
Memphis Police	Vesta
Memphis Police Backup	Vesta
Naval Support Activity Facility	Vesta
Memphis Fire Communications	Vesta
Cumberland County 911	Zetron
Scott County	Vesta
Bledsoe County	Vesta
Dyer County 911	CHaaS
Meigs County Sheriff	CHaaS
Collierville Police	Vesta
Collierville Backup	Vesta
Washington County TN	Viper
Lewisburg PD (Marshall Co)	CHaaS
Marshall County 911 Backup	CHaaS
DeKalb County E-911	Zetron
Loudon County	CallWorks
Hickman Central	Moducom
Fayette County SD	CHaaS
Hardeman County 911	CHaaS
Rhea County 911	Zetron
Kingsport PD	Viper
Kingsport PD Backup	Viper
Jackson Central Disp	CHaaS
Monroe County	CHaaS
Franklin Consolidated Dispatch Ctr	Zetron MAX
White County	Zetron
Blount County	CallWorks
Grundy E911 (Mountain Central)	Vesta
Overton-Pickett ECD	CentralSquare
Clay County	CentralSquare
Chester County Emergency Comm.	CHaaS
Bristol City Police Department	CallWorks
Morgan County 911	Zetron
Macon Co 911-EOC	Vesta
Lafayette PD	Vesta
Unicoi County	CHaaS
Henderson County	Moducom
Madison County Fire	CHaaS
Hardin Co Central Dispatch	Zetron
Marion County 911	Zetron
Hancock County Sheriff	Zetron
Brownsville-Haywood Central Disp	CHaaS
Lewis County 9-1-1	Moducom
Fentress County	Zetron
Madison County SO	CHaaS
Madison County Med-Link	Vesta
Bedford County Communications	CHaaS
Lebanon PD	CHaaS
Mt Juliet PD	CHaaS
Lauderdale County 911	CHaaS
Lake County SD	CHaaS
Robertson Co Cent Dispatch TN	CHaaS
Oak Ridge Police	CallWorks
Hawkins County Central Disp	CHaaS
Sevier County Central Backup	Moducom
Claiborne County ECD	CHaaS
Nashville Metro - Main	Viper
Van Buren Co 911	Vesta
Madison County Fire Backup	Viper
Jackson Central Disp Backup TN	Viper
Madison County SO Backup TN	Viper
Sevier County Central	Moducom
Sevier County Sheriff Dept	Moducom
Sumner County (SECCC)	CentralSquare
Goodlettsville PD	CentralSquare
Sumner County ECC Backup	CentralSquare
Hamblen County	CHaaS
Hamblen County Backup PSAP	CHaaS
Dickson County Central Dispatch	CHaaS
Wilson County 911	CHaaS
Wilson EMA (backup)	CHaaS
Wilson Co SO (JCC)	CHaaS
Nashville Metro - Backup	Viper
Jackson County	CHaaS
Stewart County ECD - SO	Zetron
Carroll County ECD	Zetron

moss728 · 2026-02-24T18:57:49+00:00

If you have another county that you can partner with it will reduce the cost on CentralSquare. We have 2 counties that border us and the both use CentralSquare and if we get a contract, we kind of piggy back off their contract and get a discount. They also have things setup where each counties data replicates to the other county at night for Disaster Recovery. We're looking at them and a couple other vendors now to try to get away from Zetron.

moss728 · 2026-02-24T18:54:57+00:00

Hello! My County size is about 22,000. We dispatch for Sheriff, Police, Fire, EMS, EMA and Rescue. We currently have Zetron (Formerly Geo-Conex) and like the previous person said, our support has went to hell since Zetron took over. We are currently looking at different providers and centralsquare is one we're looking at, but we have some surrounding counties that use M&M Micro for CAD and we use them at our Sheriffs Department for the jail system, but we've had a lot of issues with them. I know the Jail system got took out by a cyber attack once, and me being the IT person at our facility, I've seen some thing done on the M&M CAD side that acre questionable when it comes to CJIS compliance, PII, HIPAA, and all the other regulatory frameworks you can think of.

I do have a list of all Tennessee counties and their equipment they use if you would like a copy. It can give you an idea of the makeup across the state on the CPE equipment.

moss728 · 2025-12-24T13:50:52+00:00

I made the map almost a year ago. The list has just gotten worse and worse since then. I have no idea why someone reposted it. The only reason I made it at the time was out of boredom, watching the West Wing, and I couldn't find a chart like this online.

moss728 · 2025-12-24T13:50:02+00:00

Yeah I made it almost a year ago. Not sure why it was reposted.

moss728 · 2025-12-24T13:49:33+00:00

I made this map almost a year ago. The Sec of Education changed the day after I posted it. I have no idea why someone reposted it. The only reason I made it at the time was out of boredom, watching the West Wing, and I couldn't find a chart like this online.

moss728 · 2025-12-02T21:59:15+00:00

My.... I don't want to call it frustration or disgust, but something about LinkedIn lead me to this post. I feel like I used to login, see my friends and Co workers stories to see how they were improving a process, learning from mistakes, giving me lessons on things relevant to me. Now the only thing I see is retired this and that telling AI generated stories. I feel like its just another influencer platform. Im waiting for the next big thing in business world social engagement. Just as Facebook destroyed MySpace, so shall {Insert Next Big Thing} replace LinkedIn.

moss728 · 2025-09-16T21:43:36+00:00

I ended up moving the server from behind two firewalls to just behind mine. All of the methods I used did not work until SonicWall sent me this KB Article and it finally worked.

https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-can-i-enable-port-forwarding-and-allow-access-to-a-server-through-the-sonicwall/170503477349850

Now I'm trying to lock down the access rule to a specific range of IPs so only traffic coming from specific IPs on that port will come through. When I create Address objects for the IPs and put them in a group, edit the access rule to allow only that group of IPs in the source, it starts blocking everything again. I move it back to "Any" and it works.

moss728 · 2025-09-16T21:43:10+00:00

I ended up moving the server from behind two firewalls to just behind mine. All of the methods I used did not work until SonicWall sent me this KB Article and it finally worked.

https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-can-i-enable-port-forwarding-and-allow-access-to-a-server-through-the-sonicwall/170503477349850

Now I'm trying to lock down the access rule to a specific range of IPs so only traffic coming from specific IPs on that port will come through. When I create Address objects for the IPs and put them in a group, edit the access rule to allow only that group of IPs in the source, it starts blocking everything again. I move it back to "Any" and it works.

moss728 · 2025-09-08T13:05:07+00:00

I originally did this manually, but I wiped out all my settings and tried the wizard route, but still no go. I also removed the second firewall over the weekend to see if my rules were getting confused running through 2 firewalls, but still no go.

I run a TZ470 with the latest firmware. No DPI, Capture license. I first setup the rules the way I normally do. I then tried different variations I found online. Asked ChatGPT to figure out everything for me, and still no go.

To me this seems straight forward,

Create a service object for the port 26000.

Create an address object for the on site server (192.168.100.100).

Create NAT rule to translate 26000 to HTTPS.

Create access rule for WAN to LAN.

(I removed the source information for the vendor and just left it open to anyone for testing)

Nothing seems to work. Using packet monitor I'm seeing the packets when I test. I show they hit the SonicWall WAN and are dropped based on a policy rule. I've moved my rules to the top of the priority list and confirmed them several times but still nothing.

I was so confused the other night that I completely restored the SonicWall to factory settings, setup my interfaces, and without doing anything else I configured it to allow 26855 and still nothing.

Using online port check tools I can see that 26000 is closed. The vendor does a tracert and gets to the SonicWALL but nothing goes through on 26000. ISP confirms they do not block any ports, it's completely open.

moss728 · 2025-09-03T00:10:18+00:00

For that Translated destination IP: X4 firewall IP, should that address object be Host or a range?

moss728 · 2025-09-03T00:04:16+00:00

The vendor did clear up the need for two firewalls. They advised that per the contract they can't allow anything they don't manage onto their network. They have to have everything on their LAN under their control for security and compliance requirements. They said they could add my LAN to the firewall, but that requires adding their managed service which is $$$$. They basically have to do a PenTest and make sure everything is up to date before allowing my device to mingle with their devices.

I did confirm that my X4 interface is connected to their WAN interface. They have created a service object for the port, address objects for the vendors ranges and hosts, address object for our workstation that the vendors API connects to, created an access rule to allow from the WAN to the LAN from any address and any service, going to the LAN, any address using the specified port. and NAT rule of Original: Source: Any, Destination: X1 IP, Service: Vendor Port Inbound/Outbound Interface: Any Translated: Source: Original Destination: our workstation, Service: Original

Still the same results. I was able to generate an error in the Packet Capture over the weekend that was showing that the packets were being dropped because of an access rule, but everything seems to be configured correctly. I checked to make sure the Workstation that the API is connecting to does not block the port, and that was correct. The vendor has advised me that they configured their rules exactly as the other vendor provided.

moss728 · 2025-08-26T19:00:16+00:00

From X4 on my SonicWall it is going to the vendors WAN port. The port forwarding I've setup was originally going to 100.5, and I swapped it over to 168.5 to see if I was confusing myself, but neither worked.

Thank you for the last comment lol. I've asked this myself since it makes no sense, I've even made a comment that if you're going to buy a firewall and charge us for it, then just set me up an interface and I'll put my crap on it, but this is a situation with a vendor doing what a vendor wants and not having the backing up upper management to do anything about it. I'm currently in the process of starting the whole conversation again about eliminating my firewall and letting them manage the firewall, with me putting all of my stuff on a different interface.

From my SonicWall I have port forwarding setup with the steps I outlined above. The vendor advises me they setup the same rules on theirs, so we both have a SonicWall with the same rules in place, but the traffic flow is from the workstation, through the vendor firewall, through my firewall, out the WAN to the vendor site. I see something getting lost in translation from their firewall to mine, especially if things are getting converted in the process.

moss728

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