Jernej Simončič �

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I've been hearing from recruiters and hiring managers that now, basically every cover letter and resumé is "perfect". Good grammar, spelling, everything about the job posting is mentioned, etc. etc. Because you can just use an AI tool to spit out a perfect looking page.

Which of course means that then it's all a test of how good can they straight up lie their way through the interview process.

So if you want to know why hiring has gone even more to shit unless you directly know someone who is hiring, blame AI.

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Illustration: Aida Amer/Axios

ChatGPT is great if what you've always dreamed of is a computer which will tell you that you are smart and attractive

PSA: Don't install Call of Duty WWII on PC. There's apparently an RCE exploit via game chat people are using to hack each other's PCs.

https://cyberinsider.com/call-of-duty-wwii-game-pass-launch-stained-by-reports-of-rce-attacks/

Call of Duty: WWII Game Pass Launch Stained by Reports of RCE Attacks

Call of Duty: WWII players report being hacked mid-game via an RCE exploit, days after the title was added to Microsoft’s Game Pass lineup.

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Today I remembered an old boss who would do the rounds after lunch before a long weekend and say something to the effect of "Okay, I have established that all of you are here for the day. None of the managers will be coming around the floor to check if you are here for the rest of the day. Do what you will with this information."
@nina_kali_nina At least GTK+ on Linux had support for low-colour modes. Windows port never bothered with that.
@nina_kali_nina Oh, I don't think GTK+ ever supported 256 (or lower) colours on Windows. IIRC I added a check for high-colour mode in the installer, but it was probably just a warning (even the 486 my father bought in '95 always ran in 24 or 16-bit mode [24-bit worked until DirectX was installed on Windows 95, afterwards only 16-bit colour was supported]).
@nina_kali_nina I used PSP 4.10 for a long long time, since it just had a nag screen; IIRC 4.11 was the first one that stopped working after 30 days.

Spotted this on Hacker News, and most interesting thing to me (aside from the guy thinking he invented shared source) is the way he talks about open source communities. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425545

It's pretty clear the only value this guy ever saw from having an open source community was free labour. Now he's got AI agents, he sees it as being basically the same thing but 100% under his control. Why would he need to let outside humans contribute?

Future of post-open-source? Considering a "source-visible, non-runnable" license | Hacker News

One of the most reliable things I learned, early on in my years of watching politics and working with organizations, is that when someone tells you that they believe, what they want to do, or who they are, it saves a ton of time if you just believe them and assume they're completely serious until proven otherwise.
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Dot matrix printer being dot matrix printer
@nina_kali_nina  I weirdly enjoy the sound of dot matrix printers.
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IBM 1403 Chain Printer (cover lifted)
https://youtu.be/FiEGoVzmyvs
IBM 1403 Printer

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My first one (not mine, but I recognize the sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkYy1U3iKKU

NEC PinWriter P2200 - Awesome Face

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@nina_kali_nina my new ringtone, thank you

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Neat effect! You do FFT and map the frequency to the radius of the circle?

Also, I have nightmares about getting my junkpile-find dot matrix Epson to print legibly enough to turn in a school report the next morning...

@jannem I just print the line numbers to the existing page 
@nina_kali_nina That’s a lot faster and smoother (and maybe a little quieter) than my ImageWriter II. :D

@nina_kali_nina Sounds like a pretty fast one, assuming that printing the ASCII art you just posted above. Mine was more like 1s to print a full line in both directions. 😅

I wasn't paying for supplies back then but I presume ribbon ink wasn't a rip-off, unlike today's inkjets 🙃

@dermoth this one has multiple quality settings, and it's roughly as fast as a slow inkjet on the lowest quality