The smile and handshake is certainly coming back in a world where a machine generates a document to be processed by other machines.

Seems human judgment is removed in areas it could add value to the individuals involved in the process.

Ah, the vicious cycle again, oh boy 🥲

I had to cash out my 401(k) while looking for a job. Thought I was on the start to a good track, but the house of cards collapses easily.

Sending applications that make you enter the information multiple times, have some ATS system with poorly implemented OCR autofilling among other issues. The chance to even have a chance at a job via interview is ridiculous.

To add insult to injury, at my previous job most people were referred by relatives or hired a VERY long time ago. It seems the world just hates anyone under 40? Including those damned millennials, right??

It’s fun to be expected to break your back for a system when nothing rewards you.

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Since my latest special interest has been compilers, previous obsessions about digital logic design snowballed into a curiosity about mobile tinkering :-)

I think when I tormented myself with Arch and went through half the system binaries it helped me develop a tolerance to computing torture

Haven’t used Google Scholar since I was in school, but glad it still works!

Any tips for managing bookmarks with an improved method from… “Autistic heap (corpus) of websites haphazardly chucked into similarly named directories”?

Low-key I wish I knew how to extend the functionality of Firefox or how to write plugins.

Great suggestions for Wiby and Marginalia! I will check those out. What was that service called that lets you download Wikipedia in its entirety? I was thinking of saving a local copy for information archiving purposes.

Occasionally I’ll throw my query into Google instead of DDG. If it’s an item on EBay, I used to be able to find it through DDG, but now I most turn to site-specific searching.

Annoying, but I guess infinite convenience of a tool that we expect to work has to grind to a halt to allow for more value to be siphoned by the corporation.

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Oh wow so I’m much more autistic than I thought… Had heard of both terms simultaneously out of context, so just assumed they meant literal eye contact.

Any tips?