Posts by Definitely Not a Bot

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

Re: Quite why LinkedIn still has the draw in terms of having to use it when job hunting is beyond me

I've had more than a few agency job offers that turned out to be from companies that specifically stated "no agencies" in the job description. Not sure how they thought that was going to work, but hey ho.

Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks

Re: Snap open source

flatpack and snap aren't installed by default on MX. Discover on MX KDE has buttons to install them as backends, but that's about it. Hardly a lifeline.

Re: Yes, please!

What is this urge people have to demand the critic be better skilled than the makers of the thing they're criticising? I don't have to be a michelin-star chef to know when I've been served a shit sandwich.

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

Re: Creeping Americanisms... - Thank you and you are very very welcome!!! :-)

They're not new. The change to American spellings is a relatively recent one (coinciding with the move to .com, iirc), while the concerns about an increasingly americentric focus seem to have kicked off soon after Lester died, but the owners have been American for donkeys years.

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Re: 5,000 metric tons (more than 11 million pounds)

The rocket equation is sadly a hard limit for the foreseeable future.

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

Re: Am I the only one?

Pulled it up by its strings, obviously.