Skip Navigation

azdle

@ azdle @news.idlestate.org

Posts
17
Comments
69
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • CV/Resume generation?

    Jump

  • Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I've had I've applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.

    In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it's just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)

  • CV/Resume generation?

    Jump

  • I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I've applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.

    Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I've been unemployed for almost 6 months.

  • Excuse me, but what the f#@£?

    Jump

  • Donating to Mozilla doesn't change any behavior in Firefox.

    Also, donations to Mozilla don't go towards Firefox development. As far as I'm aware the only way to "give" money to Mozilla Corp (who work on Firefox, as opposed to the Mozilla Foundation) is to subscribe to the VPN service they resell.

  • What are you working on?

    Jump

  • I'm in the process writing my own version of webscript.io, an old service that died back in 2017. It was a dead simple service that would run a Lua script for each HTTP request that came in to a URL. It sounds pretty trivial, but it was remarkably useful for hacking together little scripts for things like watching webpages for changes, little custom APIs for DIY IoT devices, translating from one API to another, and other simple stuff like that.

    I've got enough of it built that I've been able to make a few actually useful things with it already. A few different job posting website scrapers were the first thing I made. I also made a little script that queries a live traffic api and sends my wife an estimated drive time for her commute home. The plan with that one is to watch the drive time as it's getting closer to the end of the day and if it starts spiking earlier/worse than normal, it can email her letting her know she should leave early if she can.

  • Psychonauts, 3D platformer with crazy creativity

    Jump

  • I've been wanting to play this for years, it seems right up my street, but I've never been able to get it working. No matter how much I fiddle with in-game settings, steam input, or proton, I can't get it to do anything but immediately look down and spin the camera.

  • Removed

    Lemmy 0.19.4 HTTP server not binding to port - federation broken ?

    Jump
    1. Post your actual configs and logs or people will only be able to guess. (Censor any secrets.)
    2. My guess: It's probably your nginx config.
    3. Why are you using 0.19.4? That version is over a year old.

  • things rust shipped without (2015)

    Jump

  • I'm curious, have you used Rust much? Most of those changes just feel like "rust should be more familiar to me" changes.

    Also:

    As Rust 2.0 is not going to happen, Rust users will never get these language design fixes

    Isn't necessarily true for most of your suggestions. Since most of them are just changes to syntax semantics and not language semantics they could be made in an edition.

  • Tablet (w/ stylus) suggestions for Linux

    Jump

  • Edit: Oh, I just saw your budget. This is ~$800, so maybe not.

    There's the Starlite 5: https://us.starlabs.systems/products/starlite?variant=55242571612540

    I've got one. It's got an x86 processor and runs standard fedora just fine, including pen input.

    Though, I don't use it for much because I haven't found any note-taking software that I actually like using. I used something back in college that just created SVG pages in an HTML notebook which I absolutely loved, but I can't find it now. It wasn't open source so I'm guessing it might have just died.

  • 52 Weeks of Cooking - weekly themed cooking challenge. Cook something new!

    Jump
  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • So what you meant was: this isn’t enough evidence to change my mind.

    No.

    One thing getting more upvotes than another isn't somehow evidence that reddit is manipulating anything. There's no immutible law that the original source of something should naturally get more upvotes than anything else. I find that the opposite is most often the case, even when the re-blogged story is crap.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • That is not a repost, this is an other article from ProPublica

    Ah, I just assume that was a slightly different title for the same article. Maybe a mod made the same assumption.

    Are you joking with me? They are using a paraphrased title.

    Well, the first part is. But, I don't know what "munching" means. The second part of the Ars title actually says what it's about. Don't get me wrong, I can probably make a guess. But when you're scrolling social media, I don't think anyone is stopping to think about what a title really means. If it's not obvious at first glace most people are just scrolling by. The Ars title, at least to me, skims as "AI bad" since those are the words anchoring each end of the title, that's probably enough all by itself to get some people to upvote.

    I am really curious, what sort of evidence you want/expect to see?

    Literally anything vaguely conclusive. I'm not saying you should go find more evidence for me or anything. I'm just trying to explain why I don't find your evidence here convincing.

    I suspect that Reddit has more than enough money to be competently shitty. So, if they are doing what you suggest, unless they fuck up or decide they don't care, you might not be able to find solid evidence.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I don't think that shows what you say it does.

    First, deleting a repost is clearly not evidence of any kind of bias.

    Second, maybe Ars is just more popular/trusted? Maybe it's more upvoted because the Ars title is more meaningful, it's super well known that people mostly only read the title.

    I'm not saying reddit isn't manipulating things, I'd be shocked if they weren't. But this isn't really evidence that they are.

  • A community for sharing experiences of switching FOSS/open-source/no big tech/more private/whatever

    Jump

  • !degoogle@lemmy.ml

    Despite the name, in practice it seems to be all about getting away from all big-tech.

  • Fediverse server (only)

    Jump

  • I agree that would make sense. I think it'll come with time.

    To others, I'm pretty sure what OP is suggesting is just a generic activity pub server that all the various front ends could use.

    I'm pretty sure this is what the original (?) authors of the AP spec intended and that's why they specified a client-server protocol. My understanding is that (almost?) no one uses that API though, they all just specify their own.

  • If you build it they will bike

    Jump

  • Oh the irony of using a sharrow with that slogan.

  • Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

    Jump

  • It's not even over USB by default. It's an internal binary driver API. The USB part is a custom firmware for the ESP that exposes that api via USB that the people giving the talk wrote because it's useful for pentesting / development of exploits for other Bluetooth devices.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Yep, I'm seeing it now too. 👍

  • FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights

    Jump

  • I know this website seems sketchy/scammy AF, but I found that these actually do a good job dimming the LEDs to reasonable levels, but keeping them visible.

    https://www.lightdims.com/store.htm

    I imagine (mostly because of all the "patent pending" bs) that this is a film you just just buy from somewhere else way cheaper, I just don't know what it is.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Idea Not Found

    Tried creationg an account and still don't see it.

  • Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

    Jump