Hiring for a new position and was overwhelmed by over 3,000 applications in the first 2 days the ad was up. Struggled to sort through them. Then one applicant supplemented their online application with a postal letter. I stopped looking. She got the job.

"well we can't have rules because what if people break the rules and lie about it"

people who say this make me feel absolutely insane

and before anyone says "well clearly nobody ever says that" people are saying it all the fucking time about AI disclosures actually

cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/piefed-v1-9-is-released-shared-bl…

New features

• Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.
• Edit comments inline, without loading a separate page - wjs018
• Fediverse statistics at piefed.social/statistics
• 2-factor authentication (TOTP) - can be added to your account in the ‘Security’ page in your settings.

For admins

• Auto-ban based on the bans that instances you choose, with keyword matching on the ban reason. Go to /admin/users/auto_ban. Try putting ‘piefed.social’ in as the instance and ‘spam’ as the keyword filter. It’ll cut down on the work involved in running your instance SO much.
• Voting pattern graph on user profiles to help spot automated voting.
• Reset the password of any user.
• Lots of inauthentic behaviour reports for finding bots and serial downvoters, see /admin/votes and PM me for an instructional video. It’s a lot to take in but the video will explain it all.

API

• edit matrix user id when saving user profile data.
• scheduled post endpoints - wjs018

Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.

To upgrade from 1.8.x or earlier

git pull
git checkout v1.9.x

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh

Donations

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Silvery Spey
#silentSunday #monovember day 15 #monochrome #trees #river #reflections

Whenever you see people exhorting the Great Man Theory of corporate leadership, the very next thing you'll learn is that this presumptive Great Man has been a sociopathic asshole forever, and everyone around him has had to build a entire fortress of psychological and social scaffolding to shield themselves and others from their relentless abuse and constant bullshit.

And one thing you can say for sure about moneyed shitheads is that they know class solidarity.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/jensen-huang-nvidia-workplace-allegations-executive-outbursts-resignation-3039203-2026-11-15

@hugoestr @otfrom

Here’s most recent “howto” by @adamgreenfield : LIFEHOUSE (one article, links to book etc)

https://www.adamgreenfield.site/against-fire-and-ice-lse/

& here’s my 2014 collection of links / essays towards “hackers tribes” / hackerspaces / community building governance practices … (plus a digression towards #UnCivilization , which I find is inevitably & logically following ;))

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes

@georgetakei
That does not look like Joseph Joestar.

@pamela Crunchy is fine with the shift to cooler temperatures; Soup is not so happy about it

@ai6yr
This 319 is in the area, but probably some others too. It's looking busy up there 😐

https://www.flightradar24.com/AAY348/4295bd4f

SID SYNTH now have its own little page at https://sid.lukhash.com 👾 #c64 #chiptune

@doktorzjivago @mans Ja, nu ska man bara hitta mynt att ringa med. Vet knappt hur dagens mynt att ut...

if you rename your variables from like "velDistBonus" to "extra_distance_when_player_is_moving_fast" you will achieve a state of inner calm

it's a big shame that techbros decided to associate llamas with chatbots now, if i was a llama i'd be very upset about that

Government ethics chief accused of groping former police colleague’s breasts

Stuart Sterling leads the Ethics and Integrity Commission (EIC), a body that works with the prime minister to promote the ‘highest standards in public life’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stuart-sterling-ethics-chief-misconduct-allegations-northamptonshire-police-b3085031.html

(What a surprise. Not.)

I love to keep my devices for a very long time.

It's cheaper, it's better for the environment, I don't need nor want all these new flashy things, and I'm too busy and lazy to take the time to shop and migrate to new devices every two years.

The things that always end up forcing me to upgrade is either the software that becomes incompatible or the battery that dies and I cannot change. This is exhausting, and shouldn't happen.

This is not inevitable. We could build devices and software more resistant to time (some already are, but aren't always accessible in many contexts sadly).

I am well aware this is part of the planned-obsolescence capitalist scheme. But I'm still going to share my frustration about it and push against it every way I can.

We could have nice things.

#PlannedObsolescence #Capitalism

The Indie Beat Television is streaming music videos 24/7!

#owncast #streaming #music #musicVideos #indieMusic #indie #TheIndieBeat #TIBtv

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

@gabrielesvelto what’s the source of this news?

@0xabad1dea yeah the Kortjewantsbrug is a much more modern design