gojira @gojira@librem.one

If any of you are aspiring product developers and you contact me or anyone else, please do not suggest a paid review. If you are being paid directly by the company it is an ad not a review, I'm not against doing an ad but don't expect me to call it a review

Hi Fedi,

Just got laid off a month after buying our first house because the company is "right-sizing" its staff.

We have moved to a small town in NC hoping for better life, thinking our jobs will last us years. Now we're panicking, as jobs here are scarce.

If anyone knows of any remote US opportunities for a generalist (can do basic coding, web design, BFA in graphic design, but spent last couple years with data analysis/entry for a remote office) do let me know.

Boosts appreciated ❤️

In Japan – the Fukui Prefectural Police Echizen Police Station have created the "Virus/Trojan horse removal fee payment card" and the "Unpaid charges/delinquent charges payment card".

The fake cards, designed to combat telephone scammers, are positioned intentionally at convenience stores to assist police at identifying victims and safeguarding them from financial harm. When someone tries to purchase the card the police are immediately notified.

Upon placement in stores in November 2023, it immediately stopped 3 elderly people from being scammed in November and December.

No additional information has been released regarding the success rate. However, the police officers who came up with the idea were given a promotion in February, 2024.

Information via @topilaron, @ten_forward, and @fukuinpmedia

There are 3 new package and ISO mirrors available for Sparkers in USA and Asia, thanks to Astian, Inc. https://sparkylinux.org/new-mirrors-in-usa-and-singapore/ #linux #sparkylinux

We fucked up, the internet was supposed to be a fun weird thing with hamsters dancing and now it’s a thing where you pay bills and your boss spies on you

I sometimes wonder why automated phone systems bother to ask me for ID or case numbers for authentication, when the moment I am authenticated and move on to a human, they spend the next couple minutes reauthenticating me.

Handy #LibreOffice Calc tip! Press Ctrl+; to insert the current date, or Shift+Ctrl+; for the current time. Want a date and time that's always updating? Use the =NOW() function. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060102.html #foss #opensource

The web is dead to me. Managed to keep the thousands of ads at bay for years but now the "consent" and newsletter popups and the non existence of "reject" button, instead several misleading steps to just look at a paragraph or two of text doesn't seem worth my time.

And even if I jump through the artificial hoops, there's no guarantee that a human wrote the text

Either I'll build agents to fetch the data I need or I'm not engaging. The concept of www is no longer fit for humans as consumers.

Windows users seem to have 2 states of being:

1. Windows is the only useful operating system, I don't like or dislike it, I just use it

2. Why does Microsoft keep making Windows worse, why do we keep seeing more and more ads

Is there anybody that actually likes Windows

Please be reminded that anything I boost does not mean I endorse the post. It just means that I find it entertaining and I think you would too.

So if I boost some sussy, unhinged shit, that does NOT mean I agree with OP

i.e lolicons being down bad, shit takes, etc.

I genuinely cannot believe I have to post this.

Firefox developers are working on a new 'translate selected text' feature for a future release, meaning you won't need to translate entire web pages https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefox-translate-selected-text-feature

Deep breaths

Hmm, I'm beginning to see the issue here with one way Federation from Threads.

I should do a video on how Ubuntu killed the commercial desktop distro

are people already familiar with this story about hard-boiled eggs or did i just stumble upon an absolute gem of a cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection? (annals of the history of computing, january 1983, volume 5, issue 1)

The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host "thousands" of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs (Jessica Lyons Hardcastle/The Register)

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/06/ai_hacking_defcon/
http://www.techmeme.com/230507/p4#a230507p4

SparkyLinux is a no-frills Linux distribution anyone can use https://www.zdnet.com/article/sparkylinux-is-a-no-frills-linux-distribution-anyone-can-use/ #linux #debian #sparkylinux

I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

Sparky 2023.01 + Persistence, please test https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2023-01-persistence/ #linux #debian #sparkylinux

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.