Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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Let me guess, a European lawmaker had a little chat with Microsoft that went something like this:
Europe: If you don’t allow users to change their search engine, we’re going to break up your monopoly.
Microsoft: Did you know, we’re now offering our users the option to select their preferred search engine on Windows 11.
US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason excuse for cuts by US employers: report
My experience with this is receiving emails with “we will not proceed with your application” and absolutely no indication what or why, for positions that I’m uniquely qualified for.
I’m still looking, don’t use Assumed Intelligence, and want to work, but it’s not going well.
I suspect that your needs for human written applications is being thwarted by bots filtering your applicants before you even see them.
GitHub Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
Bean counters too stupid to understand Assumed Intelligence bought into the hype and thought that they’d save money. Just like with drugs, the first one is free, now that they’ve fired all the expensive experienced employees, they’re in for a serious amount of hurt, which they’ll pass on to us as “increased operating costs”, which they did to themselves.
You are not comparing like for like.
Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.
In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.
The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn’t set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.
Basic things mostly work, but it’s not “cool” enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.
We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn’t.
Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn’t.
It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s still being worked out by the community.
You also have to remember that there have been many “failures” along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.
I’m a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they’re evolving day by day. I’m not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they’re just different.
I suspect that this is about to get very interesting.
TIL about mosquito dunks
I would love to read this article, but the number of advertisements on every screen full with a sign-up panel at the bottom make this impossible.
I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.
I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.
I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.
I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.
With a little luck it will experience a “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” before the IPO 😁
I want to make sure that the schmucks who financed this abomination in the first place pay dearly for it, rather than fleecing the subsequent hapless small investors and the rest of society who don’t understand and will buy into the hype.
Can we please have the bubble burst before the IPO?
I have some bad news for you … the rest of the world outside school uses even more paper.
In other news, bananas are found to have human-like attributes.