Thanks very much for your advice. I’ve reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I’ve been using, hopefully that gets me further.

I’m also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

Thanks again.

Nah, he’ll be put in charge of women’s health and reproductive rights.

I think a capsule, permanently drifting through space, frozen, with a plaque on the side saying “this is a warning to everyone” sends a much clearer message.

And Smart Tube Next for Android TV devices.

I’ve been saying it for years, recreate the Global, god damnit! Best sci-fi tech ever.

Here’s a source: https://lemmy.ml/post/19567861

• DVD: 55%
• Blu-ray: 26%
• UHD: 18%

Dvds still account for around half of physical media sales. Far from obsolete.

Mastadon has definitely improved it’s user onboarding process. When I first tried, and failed, to use it 3 years ago it was awful. Signing up a year ago was a painless process. It may not be fully ready for the mainstream just yet, but it’s definitely getting there.

Because video creation can be a better source of revenue for creators than a blog post and some people still like to get paid for their expertise?

Just played Tell Me Why, as it was free. Played well on the deck with all the graphics turned up. I enjoyed the story, and it’s nice to see a game with good queer representation, both trans and gay. It wasn’t a long game, maybe 10-12 hours, low on the replayability unless you’re a completionist. Light puzzle solving, great theming, and a nice soundtrack. Overall I’d give it a 6/10. I didn’t regret my time playing.

If you have a way of installing android apps from the web on your TV, Smart Tube Next is very good. Sponsor Block is integrated if you want to use it, but I mostly am just glad it doesn’t serve ads.

Finally a Google product I don’t mind then sending to the graveyard.

Had a similar incident, but he was 35, she was 18, and they’d been together 6 years. Bonus, they were Christian 🤮

I keep getting “can’t connect to server” when I try to log in. Anyone else having the same issue that was able to get around it?

Playing oh so much Vampire Survivors. The number of unlocks just keeps going up, but it’s keeping my ADHD brain engaged.

I just left one of the UK’s largest VMWare customers, in a team working directly on VSphere and ESXI products. The team was just starting to tool up for a new internal project to manage VMs within the company using some of the newer features in these tools. We had well over 1 million VMs across more than a dozen datacenters. The cost of running this is expected to go up by 30 times or more.

While it’s going to take some time, they’re now looking at migrating to a different solution. So Broadcom are going to get their extra pay for a while, but not forever.

I’m 4 weeks away from my voluntary redundancy. I was planning on leaving the job this year anyway, as I wanted to move, so to get a nice paycheck with it was a definite bonus.

Of the people that chose voluntary redundancy, it was mostly those without ties to the area, those that could move, young enough to re-skill, or old enough to retire. The ones that were forced into redundancy have families, mortgages, history in the area, enough baggage to cause inertia. Part of my reasoning to take the voluntary redundancy was to help save at least one person from that.

So absolutely, consent matters. It just sucks that this is happening at all.

The company’s stated reasons for redundancy was to move skills to other locations in the country. This is after a year’s long effort to co-locate in order to facilitate collaboration. What it really seems to be is that our location has very high staff retention, and therefore high salaries, and the company thinks it can hire younger and cheaper elsewhere. The skill and knowledge lost with this move is staggering, everyone can see that, but profit is the most important factor the company cares about, so it’ll inflict its own wounds to get profit up. Capitalism is weird.

I’d buy that for a monthly subscription!

The same thing you can make sangria in?

Are the podcasters getting paid for these translated versions? If so, and at the same rate, then I don’t personally see an issue. If not, then yes, it’s exploitation.

Edit: and as long as the AI voice isn’t reused for other content without consent from the owner of said voice.