Honestly, applying is a numbers game these days. A lot of us vets that are on the market are finding that the application to interview rate is on the low single digits. A lot of white collar work gigs get several hundred applicant, so you’ve got to apply quickly and have a resume that stands out.

Also, there are a lot of ghost jobs and ai agents mucking everything up. So if you can get your resume directly in front of a hiring manager, you’re going to have a better chance of getting a screening interview.

Shit was rough when I graduated college in the 00’s, but I can’t imagine graduating these days now that a lot of employers want to replace entry-level roles with Claude.

Every generation gets less and less opportunities than the one proceeding it.

This looks like “Illusion Diffusion.” This crap is everywhere right now.

IMHO, if you have that many enterprise clients, you can’t just nuke product support without a press release that explains the rationale. It’s safer to explain the reasoning and as the last few sentences indicated, help them transition to a new IDE that works with your product.

That blog post struck me as something pretty boring. It has the stink of a legal and PR team. What was the pissy / self-indulgent part?

I think anyone running Open AI would make that call.

Anyone in that role would be worried about Musk using end users as a way to acquire model distillation data to feed Grok with GTP.

Musk is a direct competitor, has been feuding with Open AI for years, and he has shown that he’s totally ok with acquiring data in aggressively shady ways.

Where’s your 25 year old leather belt that has wear marks near every hole? Documenting your progression into middle age like tree rings.

Looks like a hotel. Best just to ask the front desk for extra towels.

Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.

That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.

Ahh. Make sense.

Depends on the topic.

Since traffic is low, most eyeballs come from feeds like /all, and that can be good for some niche communities and bad for others.

For example, I’ve seen certain software / hardware user group communities really struggle. Weird example - if people try to start user groups or developer communities for Microsoft or Apple products, their questions and or news posts can get downvoted and shredded with unconstructive comments. Basically, all of those communities get their new posts screened by a bunch of OSS evangelist, because that’s most of us here. Those posts get murdered in the crib.

Speaking for Lemmy, I feel like political and meme communities are alive and well, but smaller specialized niche communities still haven’t been able to get a foothold.

The collective user base is pretty small, so only the broader interest communities get engagement and or survive c/all.

Aside from Bluesky, is there anything that actually has a big community of active users? What’s worth checking out? Every project I pop into still feels early and has pretty low engagement.

You’re right. I’m an idiot.

To be fair, Brandan Carr is who Trump has running the FCC. He is corrupt as fuck, he’s made some bonehead moves, and he drafted large parts of project 2025.

Results may vary if you’re reporting this to his FCC.

The Gen X and Millennial version is shitting on Telsa and panel gaps.