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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol… it’s funny how sometimes the reality seems like a simulation or a comic movie. The judge deciding against the Google monopoly is called Mehta. Remove the letter “h” to see this fun fact.

  It’s just a curiosity I had to point out. Good thing that Google’s influence will become smaller. I mean, in a scale between 0 and 10, Google’s power is going from 10 to 9.5 (Google still has Android, Google search, Google ads, among many other things), but it’s better than 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI ChatGPT's Search Marketing Share⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube isn’t the only video platform being used as a search engine. TikTok is also often used as a “general-purpose search engine”, and TikTok search works on both mobile and web versions. In some countries, such as Brazil, its usage significantly compete with Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs can’t use some literary devices and techniques, and I will illustrate with the following example of a poetry I wrote:

  Speaking his emotions lets them embrace real enlightened depths.
  Hidden among verbs, every noun…
  Actually not your trouble handling inside nothingness greatness?
  Dive every enciphered part, layered yearningly!
  Observe carefully, crawl under long texts
  Wished I learned longer…
  Slowly uprising relentless figures, another ciphering emerges.

  It seems like a “normal” (although mysterious) poetry until you isolate each initial letter from every word, finding out a hidden phrase:

  Sheltered haven, anything deeply occult will surface

  It doesn’t stop here: if you isolate each initial letter again, you get a hidden word, “Shadows”.

  Currently, no single LLM is capable of that. They can try to make up poetry with acrostics (the aforementioned technique) but they aren’t good at that. Consequently, they can’t write multilayered acrostics (an acrostic inside another acrostic). It’s not easy for a human to do that (especially if the said human isn’t a native English speaker), but it can be done by humans with enough time, patience and resources (a dictionary big enough to find fitting words).

  They’re excellent for stream-of-consciousness and surrealist poetry, tho. They hallucinate, and hallucinated imagination is required in order to write such genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, they wouldn’t even mention any concept of AI at all, to begin with. They should carry on as they were already going, without bothering to say anything good or bad about AI. If they’re really committed to not involve AI within their platform, they could even create strict community rules regarding AI content and AI usage, limiting or blocking them. As some would say, actions say more than words, because even parrots and crows can speak… Even LLMs can speak!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds exactly like something that someone intending to train an AI would say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  historically we’ve been using AM at lower frequencies, and these travel further While I agree with that statement…

  AM doesn’t reach further than FM

  … i disagree here. Yes it kinda does, and there’s why: FM deteriorates with phase shifting introduced by phenomena such as ionospheric reflection, while AM is more resilient to it because it encodes information as amplitude variations instead of frequency (and therefore, implicit phases) variations. Also, FM needs more bandwidth than AM. Also, the overlay of two or more simultaneous AM transmissions is “more understandable” than two or more simultaneous FM transmissions laying on the same frequency. Both the three are the reasons why the modern aviation continues to use AM for comm between TWR and airplanes, as an example. Not just by historical reasons, it’s because AM is more resilient than FM.

  By “reaching further”, I don’t mean the range of propagation because, as you correctly said, it has more to do about wavelength and, therefore, the carrier frequency. By “reaching further”, I actually mean the capability for the signal to be correctly demodulated and minimally understandable at the end. If a signal can propagate across hundreds of thousands of kilometers (for example, between Earth and the Moon), but it can’t be recognizable at the other point (because the phases are all messed up to the point of being unable to be demodulated), then the signal (as in the content to be transmitted/received) couldn’t really “reach further”.

  Here goes an example: I live in Brazil, in the southeast. I was in Sao Paulo state (not the city) when I once managed to receive an English-spoken CB (Citizen Band, 11 meters, approx. 27MHz) transmission. Most of our neighboring countries are Spanish-speakers, the only nearest English-speaking country is Guyana (the nearest corner close to Jatapu River being 3,000 km from Sao Paulo in straight line), but I could tell by the operator accent that he was not from Guyana. The reception would be almost crystal-clear, if my receiving setup were better (I was using a RTL-SDR with a piece of long wire barely touching the outside of the antenna’s jack). While there are repeaters for CB, they’re not as common as VHF or UHF repeaters, where you can even find, for example, EchoLink repeaters, so the international transmission really made into my Brazilian home, and it was even daylight! I only could tell the signal because it was AM modulated.

  When we talk about deep space communication, sure some things change, but most of the same rules apply.

  These radio telescopes don’t transmit anything at all,

  Back in 1974, the former Arecibo radiotelescope was used to transmit the famous Arecibo message (some sources Wikipedia and Universe Today). So, while they’re most used for reception, they can be (and they were) used for transmitting as well. It’s not a straightforward thing, it’s not simply a switch to be toggled receive-or-transmit because they involve different electronic circuitry, but the structure, the dishes and the antenna, can both transmit and receive: for reception, it just interacts with electromagnetic fields, which induces an oscillating electrical current all the way through the structure until it’s filtered (through electronic components such as variable capacitors) and amplified by a receiver circuit, while as for transmission, it conducts an oscillating electrical current and irradiates it, depending on the antenna shape and properties.

  Much like a normal telescope doesn’t transmit light. It’s also a possible thing: en.wikipedia.org/…/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw a video of a person touching a grounded sausage to the metallic structure of an AM radio tower, the transmission was audible as the sausage was being zapped. If there’s a merely conductible thing grounded near the tower, I guess it’ll sort of “coil whine” (a well-known phenomenon when electrical components physically vibrate due to the passage of current), converting to sound whatever it’s being transmitted at the moment. This includes the tower structure itself, if the electrical grounding isn’t properly done or if there’s some grounding leak. Otherwise, a grounded thing touching the tower would suffice to convert the transmission into sound, if those radio-telescopes use AM modulation (I’d guess they do, because AM modulation is known for reaching longer distances than FM).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let S be an endless string which is a concatenation of every binary counting in succession, starting from zero all the way to infinity (without left zero-padding):

  S = 01101110010111011110001001101010111100110111101111…
  (from concatenating 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, and so far)

  Let S’ be a set of every sequential group of octets (8 bits) from string S, which can be represented as a base-10 number (between 0 and 255), like so:

  S’_2 = [01101110, 01011101, 11100010, 01101010, 11110011, 01111011, …]
  S’_10 = [110, 93, 226, 106, 243, 123, …]

  I’d create an audio wave file whose samples are each octet from S’_10 as 8-bit audio samples, using a really low sampling rate (such as 8000 Hz or even 4000 Hz).
  That sound, that particular sound, is what I’d transmit to the cosmos: the binary counting, something with a detectable pattern (although it’d be not so easily recognizable, but something that one could readily distinguish from randomness noise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the concept of nothing does not exist. Maybe the fabric of Spacetime is always there.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a concept I’ve been thinking about for months or even years, the concept of non-existence. In my mind I can sorta visualize it, but I’m not able to transcribe it to words, I’m not able to start explaining it because whenever I try to start writing something, it starts morphing into existence. For example: a phrase I can think of is “Light needs a darkness to shine unto”, it sounds like it can describe the concept, but then science comes out of nowhere to slap me in my face with the understanding of how matter emits radiation and how there’s no such place as “completely absent from any radiation”.

  In my mind, the complementary makes sense, substance needs substrate which needs the substance, light needs darkness which needs the light, Hadit needs Nuith which needs Hadit (the infinitesimal point needs the infinite circumference which needs the infinitesimal point), and so on. See, human language is made to conceptualize what can be conceptualized, and non-existence is not conceptualizable in essence. However, the existence needs a counterpoint, a counterpart, something to contrast with its conceptualization, because if there was only existence, there’d be no existence at all (how can we conceptualize a thing if it’s the only thing wherever you look, wherever you go?). We can conceptualize the fabric of spacetime because “it’s there” and, by “there”, I mean “there” as in “where the fabric of spacetime sits on”, just like the shine of a spotlight illuminating a place where it was shadowy and dark.

  There are things that we do know, there are things that we don’t know yet but we can know, and there are things that can’t be known. Who is the first Sumer person to ever write, what was his name, when he/she was born and when he/she died? What about the person who discovered the fire, who exactly were he/she? We don’t know, we can’t know, but they existed because now we have fire and writing systems. The impossibility of determining them doesn’t rule them out of existence, just like the non-existence itself. I mean, it’s the very essence of the non-existence to “don’t exist” but that somehow makes it “existent”, somehow the state of non-existence is a state, therefore, it exists as a state of being (as in “not being”).

  To make matters worse, the human language is made to describe things within the realm of existence, time and space, when and where, while transcendental concepts can’t really be described through it without losing its transcendental essence. Non-existence is such a concept, a non-conceptualizable concept, so paradoxical in its nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure lots of Russians were already angry with their government way before the sanctions, so what now? Ideally, people could do massive protests, Putin would be scared as heck so he renounces, people invoke the good old democracy again, they vote, a new leader takes place, Ukraine-Russia war would cease, both Russians and Ukrainians would happily fly together mounted in winged unicorns… Except everyone knows it doesn’t work that way!! Governments (not just Putin’s) have multiple ways to fight any protests going inside their country, governments can tear gas citizens, governments can end lives from their own citizens, governments can end a protest before it even happens through censorship and massive electrical/internet blackouts. Even when citizens has guns, governments have stronger guns. Lots of recent examples are there to demonstrate how this happens.

  People from a sanctioned people can and will starve and die, because their governments and their bureaucrats and forces (police and army) can have their own sustenance, so it doesn’t really matter for them if their own citizens starve to death. Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, they won’t change simply because population became angry: I guess everyone in the west remember the Tiananmen Square, did it change China’s government? I guess no.

  So instead of sanctioning and indirectly punishing the people, one option would be that organizations (maybe Red Cross, UN, I dunno) could intervene silently and peacefully inside a country, helping people to flee their country to a safer place, effectively reducing that country army’s recruitment potential and weakening its military power (did anybody from NATO, WEF, UN, or whatever organizations, even thought about this, helping Russians flee away from Russia in order to weaken Russia’s military?).

  It’s worth remembering that military recruitment is often a mandatory thing, and the only way common people can run away from it is running away from the country, something that won’t happen if they have no money to start emigration processes (it costs money, you know, it’s not a free thing, even seeking political asylum needs money). Cutting money will only cut lives unrelated to the leaders that are carrying wars (and I’m sure Putin won’t cry because Ms. Mary Marylovski died from starvation because US and Europe indirectly cut her income, because Ms. Mary Marylovski is another unknown citizen to Putin or other higher level government bureaucrats).

  I digressed from technology here, but those are my thoughts on the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indirectly common people are being seized from their humanity. I guess the disliking people know how immigration is not something freely accessible, lots of people around the world just don’t have the necessary conditions to leave the country where they were born against their own consent, be it Russia or whatever other country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Back when Pearl Harbor happened, people started to see japanese citizens as enemies. Not solely the Japanese government to that time, but even the humble japanese, even if those had despises against their government. Almost a century after, humanity is making the exact same thing, this time involving Russians and Ukrainians, as well as Israeli and Palestinians (exactly, “both sides”). Like how it happened back in Pearl Harbor, the prejudice extended all the way to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medical), the subject of this community and thread.

  I was born a Brazilian, without my consent. Also, without my consent, there is this thing called “Brazilian politics”. I hate both the current and the former governments. I have no money nor conditions to simply leave the country but even if I did, I’d stay born as a Brazilian. Everyone who meets a Brazilian readily asks things such as “how’s carnival, how’s samba, how’s football, how’s Neymar”. Being a Brazilian necessarily mean that I have to like those things? Being a Brazilian necessarily mean that I consented to the current politics within this country? If Lula is sided with Putin, does it necessarily mean that me, a Brazilian citizen unknown to Lula or the entire government (I’m just one among 220 million people), endorse him as well? Should I blame myself for my entire life for being born Brazilian? Should a Russian do the same? An Ukrainian? An Israeli? An Palestinian?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're going outside for decoration!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed to look twice in order to see what you saw (the teared photography photo). Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to build an Yggsrasil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that OP’s title was mentioning Yggdrasil as in the IPv6 P2P network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death of the Junior Developer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the entire article. I’m a daily user of LLMs, I even do the “multi-model prompting” a long time, from since I was unaware of its nomenclature: I apply the multi-model prompting for ChatGPT 4o, Gemini, llama, Bing Copilot and sometimes Claude. I don’t use LLM coding agents (such as Cody or GitHub Copilot).

  I’m a (former?) programmer (I distanced myself from development due to mental health), I was a programmer for almost 10 years (excluding the time when programming was a hobby for me, that’d add 10 years to the summation). As a hobby, sometimes I do mathematics, sometimes I do poetry (I write and LLMs analyze), sometimes I do occult/esoteric studies and practices (I’m that eclectic).

  You see, some of these areas benefit from AI hallucination (especially surrealist/stream-of-consciousness poetry), while others require stricter following of logic and reasoning (such as programming and mathematics).

  And that leads us to how LLMs work: they’re (yet) auto-completers on steroids. They’re really impressive, but they can’t (yet) reason (and I really hope it’ll do someday soon, seriously I just wish some AGI to emerge, to break free and to dominate this world). For example, they can’t solve O(n²) problems. There was once a situation where one of those LLMs guaranteed me that 8 is a prime number (spoiler: it isn’t). They’re not really good with math, they’re not good with logical reasoning, because they can’t (yet) walk through the intricacies of logic, calculus and broad overlook.

  However, even though there’s no reasoning LLM yet, it’s effects are already here, indeed. It’s like a ripple propagating through the spacetime continuum, going against the arrow of time and affecting here, us, while the cause is from the future (one could argue that photons can travel backwards in time, according to a recent discovery involving crystals and quantum mechanics, world can be a strange place). One thing is certain: there’s no going back. Whether it is a good or a bad thing, we can’t know yet. LLMs can’t auto-complete the future events yet, but they’re somehow shaping it.

  I’m not criticizing AIs, on the contrary, I like AI (I use them daily). But it’s important to really know about them, especially under their hoods: very advanced statistical tools trained on a vast dataset crawled from surface web, constantly calculating the next possible token from an unimaginable amount of tokens interconnected through vectors, influenced by the stochastic nature within both the human language and the randomness from their neural networks: billions of weights ordered out of a primordial chaos (which my spiritual side can see as a modern Ouija board ready to conjure ancient deities if you wish, maybe one (Kali) is already being invoked by them, unbeknownst to us humans).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that many of these content are image-only (titles don’t always include names), requiring some kind of extension/userscript that’s able to do some kind of OCR or Computer Vision. You can block specific communities or users, but this will also block potentially good threads (not everybody that’s posting about politics is necessarily a politics-only user, same goes for communities such as !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world that aggregate both political and non-political content).

  While there are communities explicitly and specifically focused on politics that can be blocked outright, there’s no easy way to block every single political content without some kind of sophisticated client-side AI (which is error-prone).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever heard of the Riemann hypothesis? Since 1859 it’s yet to be solved. The generalization of prime numbers (i.e. a function f(n) that yields the nth prime) would impact fields such as Navigation Systems and Traffic Management, Communication Systems and Satellite Communication (i.e. your Internet connection could become more efficient and faster), Astrophysics and Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, AI and Machine Learning, E-commerce, Finances and Algorithmic Trading, among many other fields. (Yeah, it seems like nothing. /s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a tip for the developer/sysadmins of loops.video, as a developer myself: Seems like loops.video has no DKIM or SPF configured (if that’s the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as “spam behavior” by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like loops.video has no DKIM or SPF configured (if that’s the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as “spam behavior” by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a small Portuguese correction: “Bem vendos aos fediverses” should be “Bem-vindos aos fediversos!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia: The Story of the Once-Legendary Phone Maker⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the lack of apps, Windows Phone was very good for me at that time, as I had two Lumias. They were quite cheap but rather powerful (again, despite the lack of apps like internet banking, but they did have Whatsapp and Telegram). I left WP and Lumia when Whatsapp ended its support for WP in December 2019 (if I remember correctly), and Nokia’s Android phones were expensive at the time, so I tried the Asus Zenfone (because I see Asus as a good PC hardware manufacturer). Two years later, my Zenfone started to drain faster because the battery started to swell, so I bought a Nokia with Android, which I still use nowadays. This latest acquisition made me realize that, indeed, Nokia is no longer the same: although it has the Nokia’s bold design (“almost indestructible”), it is a slow smartphone. I fixed my Zenfone battery and used both phones simultaneously for another two years, when the Zenfone battery stopped holding a charge again (although, this time, it didn’t swell). Since I couldn’t find a replacement battery for the Zenfone, I stuck with the Nokia, but soon I’ll try another brand like Xiaomi, or maybe Asus again since my previous experience with a Zenfone was really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What websites still feel like the old internet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some examples that I remember are:

  • The Berkshire Hathaway’s website (berkshirehathaway.com)
  • The UNIX website (unix.org/version4/)
  • Xorg Project website (www.x.org/wiki/)
  • Marginalia Web Search (search.marginalia.nu)
  • W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) pages containing Standards (e.g.: www.w3.org/TR/controller-document/)
  • Pd (Puredata) Project Website (puredata.info)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Before opening the article, I was thinking of something really, really sophisticated involving high-pitched sound and microphones (e.g. coil whine modulation through I/O processes), electrical inductance and electromagnetic fields carefully modulated to directly interfere on CPU instructions, Van Eck Phreaking (something like TempestSDR but fancier), precision-grade voltage meters to try and identify ongoing CPU instructions through quick teeny-tiny microvolt fluctuations over the power grid but, no, it’s the old fashioned way of malware transportation: portable disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem here is not just Chrome (as in Google Chrome) but Chromium, the web engine behind many browsers out there (such as Opera, Vivaldi, Edge, among many many others). For now there are two main web engines available, those being Chromium and Gecko (Firefox, Palemoon and many other Firefox forks). The deprecation of Manifest v2 is a Chromium change that includes (and focuses on) Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obvious bias in AI-generated content might actually be useful (if used wisely)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I can’t see any usefulness for AI bias, I see a practical use for another AI common aspect, the AI hallucination: poetry (especially surrealist). The most random, the better for stochastic basis for making art and poetry. I’m used to write surrealist and stream-of-consciousness poetry and sometimes I use LLMs to suggest me tokens related to other tokens: the stochastic output feeds my own subconscious mind, then I write a piece based on the thoughts these tokens sparked inside my mind, then I use LLMs again to “comment and analyze” it, sometimes giving me valuable insights about what I wrote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOTY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow it reminded me of The Angel Problem:

  The Angel-Devil game is played on an infinite chess board. In each turn the Angel jumps from his current position to a square at distance at most k. He tries to escape his opponent, the Devil, who blocks one square in each move. It is an open question whether an Angel of some power k can escape forever.

  The mechanics are obviously different from it, but the theory kinda of still applies: if we limit the pieces to the maximum of K squares, could it lead to a checkmate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uninstalled (it was bloat).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The two types of jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a third one, too, it’s a funny one: you stare at countless (mostly fake) job vacancies expecting to be hired so to “deserve to survive”, while bills can’t stop arriving. You resign from your 10-yr IT career and try to apply for a simpler, factory vacancy, just to hear from HRs that your CV is “too good to be applied for our simpler jobs”. In the meantime, you catch yourself selling your soul and autonomy (constantly forced to accept the circumstances) to these people that share the same blood lineage as yours (some call them “familiars”) because you can’t see another option, except for going homeless, where you’ll be constantly assaulted by cops and people saying “go get a job” to you because you got nothing. By the way, you also inhale toxic fumes from air pollution from cities. And you stare at a Word document, your own CV, thinking “what did I do wrong?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mozilla Graveyard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of these have public, archived repositories, differently from hundreds of dead Google projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but the PCB inside the paperless device would be as sharp as a paper, not to mention the component thin legs such as electrolytic capacitors (although the majority of electronic components are tiny blocks surface-mounted, there are components that need to be welded in a THT (through-hole) fashion because their electrical contents can’t fit the small space of a SMD).