"A rare photo of a telecoms engineer hatching. He still has part of the eggshell on his head."

HT @isotopp & @schnedan

Rezz in a synthwave world! 💜

Wonderful arts by Kobold Kurios (https://koboldkurios.carrd.co/) inspired in part by Blinding Lights by The Weeknd.

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike

In my spare time I maintain osgameclones.com, a curated listing of over 1000 #OpenSource game clones and remakes. I usually see projects fall off and get abandoned, but recently I learned that OpenSA, a remake of the obscure 1999 🇦🇺 #RTS Swarm Assault, was completed shortly after being added in 2021!

https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa

It's great to see open source games reach the finish line, especially those showcasing odd gems like this. Made with the #OpenRA engine, pretty cool!

#GameDev #RetroGames

“Pivotal moment:” Wind and solar overtake coal in China in historic first

"China is, by some distance now, the biggest greenhouse gas polluter in the world because of its population and the scale of its industry, and what happens in its grid, and how quickly it can reach peak emissions is critical for the course of climate change action. Some believe it may already have reached that peak."

#News #ClimateChange #Energy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/pivotal-moment-wind-and-solar-overtake-coal-in-china-in-historic-first/

"Pivotal moment:" Wind and solar overtake coal in China in historic first | RenewEconomy

Total capacity of wind and solar in China has overtaken coal for the first time, and solar alone is predicted to overtake coal within two years.

^{Giles Parkinson (RenewEconomy)}

Even for those of us who have worked on, and warned about, climate risks for decades, this news is extremely disturbing.

#climatechange

Read:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4806281-climate-change-earth-systems-collapse-risk-study/

🐉 I'm just a noodle, wigglin' and noodlin' everywhere I go 🎶🏃‍♂️

📸 Aldoril1975 (Furtrack) #FursuitFriday

The officially best news of the $interval:

World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):

https://worldofgoo2.com/

I just watched Matt Denton’s video making his scaled-up Lego motorbike, which I got to ride at @emf

I really like the way the couple of necessary bits of metal support have been disguised!
https://youtu.be/rAm-lMeZ-uE?si=GfUYyag8ZnZStog_

An illustration for Latharn of them enjoying a quiet day of reading at their local park ^^

#UnasArt #furry #furryart #furryartist #furryartwork #UnaPanthera #commission #illustration #characterillustration

I will remind the world yet again: the Luddites were a labor movement, concerned with workers' safety and lifestyle, they were not anti technology.

They are the literal heroes of that story.

Today is both #fursuitfriday and Jeetix’s birthday! 😋

Pic by KaisunDerg

I just re-watched some of @breakingtaps videos and it gave me the motivation to really push on with my own projects. To see someone build their own fricking microchip semiconductors and still sometimes make oopsies that could have (in hindsight) easily been prevented makes me more confident about making mistakes.

We generally see only the finished projects and a straight path to the end result when other people present their hobby projects. However, i am completely sure that each and everyone, even the most skilled, cannot have their projects succeed in one single try. _Especially_ when those projects push against the boundaries of their skill set and knowledge.

Go ahead and be proud of your mistakes, it means that you learned something. Write bad code, make mistakes in your PCBs, blow up some transistors, get the polarity wrong on ICs. It does not make you bad at what you do!!! I dont know who needs to hear this but I certainly do.

Really, really cool video around building a micron pitch lithography machine in your garage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuVS7MsQk4Y

video by @breakingtaps !

Building a $2,000,000 machine in 2 months

Try SendCutSend 15% off for your next project! https://sendcutsend.com/breakingtaps/My descent into madness, chasing one micrometer.Watch this ad-free on Neb...

^YouTube

BOOP INCOMING

#FursuitFriday #fursuiting #fursuit #fursuiter #furries #fursuits #fursuiteveryday #fursuitphoto

📸 by DracorumOrder ^^

If Codeberg is trying to "compete" against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors' rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/

Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate.

Generative AI is a climate disaster

Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Content warning: "After careful consideration, we have decided to proceed with other candidates whose qualifications more closely align with the specific needs of the role at this time" :boost_ok: Reveal/hide

A lot of people are looking for a job right now, and I've seen many of them on fedi taking the automated messages from recruiters at face value and questioning why exactly are they not a good fit for this role. Especially when the role still stays open for a while.

The rejections come in multitude of different wordings.
"You already possess a lot of important skills for this position but unfortunately, we have other candidates who are a closer match overall."
"Although your background is impressive, we regret to inform you that we have decided to pursue other candidates for the position at this time. At this stage, we have decided to move forward with candidates that have more experience as fullstack developers and more experience with our tech stack."
"Even though your profile seems very exciting, we decided to shortlist other candidates who match our qualification profile for the advertised job even better."

This all is bullshit.

All these texts are just a part of a standard template not even for rejection; the messages that you're getting are the messages sent automatically after recruiter clicks on "end the process for this candidate" button.
They're not even sent at that moment; instead, often they're sent by a cron job that fires, say, precisely at 8:00 on every day Mon-Fri (even when that's a public holiday) and send rejection messages to all the candidates who are no longer in hiring process but didn't receive the rejection message yet.

I've had a couple of recruiters later telling me this explicitly (when the rejection with this reason just didn't make any sense not just because of my profile).

And on this screenshot, the most recent case in point.
This company felt that I match their requirements very closely. So closely, that I passed all five interview stages successfully and they made me a job offer.
For reasons outside the scope of this post, the conditions the offer came with really didn't suit me. We discussed this for a few more days, they decided that they won't compromise on these conditions, and gave me time to think if I'm going to accept their offer.
I thought about it for a few days and eventually had to reject the offer. They personally thanked me for the information, wished me good luck... and the next day, exactly at 8:00, I'm getting this automated message. It's beyond ridiculous.

So whenever you get a bullshit message telling you that your profile is very exciting but they decided to move forward with other candidates whose profiles are even more exciting but you should not hesitate and please contact them whenever there is another role... it's just a very elaborate way of saying "your application process for this role is over". It doesn't mean that they found your profile exciting, or that they even looked at your profile. It doesn't mean that profiles of other candidates are now exciting, or that there even are any other candidates. It doesn't mean that they rejected you because you're not a good fit, or that they rejected you at all (as opposed to, say, you rejecting them, or them restructuring the company and cancelling the job opening). It doesn't mean that they want you to apply to them in the future. It only means one thing: that you won't be getting the job you applied to, period. Nothing more.

Wondering what exactly happened to my lovely beach weather this #FursuitFriday...

📷 Oracle Sage
🪡 @selkiesuits

IF YOU ARE EUROPEAN HOLY FUCK PLEASE SUPPORT THIS

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

To be successful, a European citizens' initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries.

telegram link:
https://t.me/leonsmeme/6677

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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