Welcome to the on going saga of our Hero's quest to find employment as a (backend) Software Developer. At this moment our Hero contemplates navel lint his dire plight. He scans the online landscape and job boards for signs of employers.

He can wield #C with extreme delicacy & finesse; compose functional code of #Erlang; use #Java, #Javascript, #NodeJS adeptly. Even understand the arcana of #Forth and has constructed a #RabbitMQ cluster with careful planning.

Yet our intrepid Hero is passed by again and again, like last year's Xmas toys. None glance in his direction as he rises from his chair to play with his faithful dog, Clicquot. Maybe tomorrow will yield new mysteries.

http://www.snert.com/resume/

#GetFediHired #FediHire

@brouhaha Let's bring back core memory. Its cost per bit may become competitive again.

its funny being in a small community like #retrocomputing and there being famous people in it, but only in it

like out there somewhere, there's like super prominent people in the hacky sack community, and they get crowded at hacky sack conventions and people are like "hey look, it's John Hackysack"

Carbon Engine Framework (EVE Online) is now open-source.

https://github.com/orgs/carbonengine/repositories

Just read an excellent state of the fediverse post.

https://gfsc.community/why-we-discontinued-our-mastodon-server/

"There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life" - Lin Yutang

How about some Maté, a traditional South American infusion of Yerba-maté (Holly genus) leaves

Maybe with a Chocolate chip cookie biscuit?

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

Just as urgent as imagining the peaceful, just livable world we want so badly, it seems to me, is letting go of the habits, thought patterns, ambitions, and internalized illusions that block movement towards those visions

The individualist, libertarian view of freedom as a purely negative set of freedoms that impose no greater obligations on people just... hasn't aged very well, has it? Uncharitably rewritten, the four freedoms of the FSF can be summed up as:

- You’re not the boss of me.
- You’re not the boss of me.
- You’re not the boss of me.
- You’re not the boss of me.

There's no concept of any obligation to anyone else anywhere, in the GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache or any "open" software license.

Britain is currently running on an electricity generation mix that is over 90% renewables. The amount generated is in fact 112% of demand and the rest is being exported. That means that, were it not for the need to currently keep gas running to provide frequency and voltage stability, the country could technically be running on wind, solar and a bit of hydro.

Way cool.
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/06/for-americas-250th-we-created-commemorative-stamps-of-trojan-builders/

We bought an ebike for my youngest son today. Trying to get him to come for lunch, I jokingly told him that the shop wouldn't let him buy an ebike if he hadn't had lunch. "I'll be very surprised if they ask me about that," he said.

We got to the shop, looked at some bikes, and found one we liked the look of. They were locked up, so I went to find an assistant to unlock the one we wanted to try. I took the opportunity to have a quiet word.

Just as my son was about to get on the bike to try it, the assistant said, "Wait. Have you had a good meal? I can't let you try a bike unless you've had lunch."

The look on my son's face was priceless 😀

#parenting #ParentHumour

Because of the existence of pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a human body is more than one.

Those who do a tax return and are having or had to change to paid software to do their tax return may wish to sign this petition...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

Ethernet frames per GitHub issue

Beating the heatwave with fun!

📊 #datavis #job:

Data Journalist at Oceanographic and Kanaloa, London: https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/we-are-hiring-data-journalist/

via https://bsky.app/profile/tomoprater.carbonbrief.org/post/3mp6mze2gfc2z

A Fedi version of Queer Eye:

Five autistic queer Fedifolk (one in a fur suit) travel to help out a regular person each episode.

By the end of the episode, the team have degoogled the recipient, installed a thoughtfully selected Linux distro on their formerly-windows machine, replaced much of their software with open source alternatives, stocked their home library with Murderbot novels and cozy queer SF, and given the recipient a new Special Interest to hyperfocus on.

#FediQueerEye

#getfedihired
I'm a data analyst with over 10 years' experience using R and data to support decision-making in transport planning. I hold a Graduate Diploma in Statistics/Operations Research and I'm currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Data Science. https://about.me/minga https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindamaher
#rstats #transportplanning #transportationplanning

Reserved 2038 as an #EMFCamp phone number before deciding on something else. If anyone wants 2038 for a fun unix time related idea let me know and I'll coordinate handing it over.
(Otherwise I'll have a go at setting up a unix time talking clock, so advice on how to do that is welcome)