https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tech-jobs-market-in-2026-part-3-hiring

The goal is to make the job market as Sisyphean as possible. You will likely get crushed by the boulder at some point.

#tech #jobmarket #ai #technology

Considering job hunting... family makes it complicated though since moving rn would be a big deal...

My company: You need to use AI. (Tool that mostly saps value)

Also my company: We might not be renewing Rider. (Tool that I have actually come to appreciate)

I am once again reminding you that militarized borders are a modern invention, like a century old. Before the 1900s, "immigration" was just people traveling a place.

Wellp instead of finishing my mail protocol, I got my spacebar server up, runing, and joinable. Also got what should be the admin api up.

Not the worst outcome, but I need to reserve my tomorrow for Not This, so... it's gonna be at least another week before I get to the mail protocol, and the automated backups.

so much to do, so much taking more time than expected...

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadiansOrg/116856025293516580

It's important to remember that the data centre fight is just our local part in the larger fight against a tech industry that wants to dismantle democracy, eradicate social safety nets, commodify every aspect of human society, and concentrate as much wealth and power in itself as it can.

#cdnpoli #canada #bcpoli #vanpoli #vancouver

Computers were nice; I miss them

I'm currently backing up each database individually, adding each new database to the list by hand, which is not great.

It would make a lot more sense if I checked the database for a list of databases, and then dumped each one from the list.

Spacebar now runs on my server!

next up I think?:

• Automating 1700 daily database backups (These will live on-server since their primary defense will be against things like "File Corruption" and "Admin did something stupid and deleted something they really shouldn't have")

• Locking down the Spacebar Instance so that when i invite people to it, they have a limited set of access

• Automating 17:00 daily Data backups (Most data is in one place... maybe gzip the data folder?)

• Automating backup rotation. (I do not need over a week of daily backups.)

• Restore Testing?

• Remembering that I promised to get a rough draft of the email protocol finished tomorrow sorry guys

#homelab

One nice thing about RSS - no one knows when you unsubscribe. You can dissapear in peace.

Quick message to all fediverse newcomers:

Moderation in the fediverse is done by humans. There are no bots scanning your posts to decide whether to ban or hide what you write based. This has some important consequences:

1) If you see a rule-breaking post, click the "report" button and write a report. The actual living, breathing creatures who run your instance will review the report.

The location of the report button varies depending on your client/app software: it's usually near "reply" or "boost."

2) The text you write in a report matters, because it will be read by an actual person. The mods are not just counting the number of reports.

3) If you're talking about a sensitive topic like suicide, you should not bleep it out or try to disguise it with "algo-speak." Do not write things like "sui-de" or "unalive yourself". You won't be banned for typing the actual word out. You should instead use a content warning for your post to warn your readers. Some users who don't wish to see certain topics can voluntarily apply word filters to their own timelines, and bleeping words is rude because it bypasses their filters.

4) If you get a DM saying something like

Your account has been automatically disabled due to suspicious activity. Please click here to verify your identity

One thing I do not like about Mastodon is how hard it is to see replies to a picture.

I had a weird dream that included Github moving away from supporting Git and starting to only support an Apple specific version control system, or documentation stuff...

@deivudesu @pluralistic I feel like we went wrong when people switched from web forums and e-mail lists (decentralized) to Facebook and apps (centralized).

Whew someone is really unhappy with @briankrebs. The bots have been hammering defcon.social and now mastodon.social.

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

Wow. From hledger's AI policy:

Can engaging with the AI phenomenon be ethical ?

Great question. Let's carefully avoid answering it!

• Choosing to avoid AI use entirely will become increasingly hard if not impossible. [...]
• It is here and will continue to unfold and impact us all for at least the next N years. It shouldn't be left only to the boosters and zealots.

"Can punching babies be ethical? Well, baby punching is here and will continue to unfold, and we can't leave baby punching to the baby punchers. It's called ethics."

#hledger #LLM

Here's the thing. The highly capable assistant they say to treat it as would have caught that. They would have reached out to the manager in charge of the position and gotten that information.

But because of how the slop machine works, no one is going to notice that the job description is wrong. No one who would know is even involved!

"Lets pretend we are an HR manager for this demonstration. Someome has told you to put out a job posting by the end of the day"

Okay so there is a problem of short timelines for important task. Not great.

"We write up our prompt for the job title and Copilot will write up the posting"

Wait.

No one consulted the team on what they actually need. Your post is going to be completely generic and the job description could be way off. The tools listed in the posting might not even match what your team is actually using!

You know, I think that friction was nessasary, actually.