Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html

I have had to tell it several times to not modify the tests in order to make them pass. it has repeatedly invented tests either in the code, or in its responses, that do not reflect the actual requirements and betray that it does not understand the task

With search engines deteriorating and generative AI poisoning the well...

...it's time to bring back web rings and link lists.

Do you have any favorite link lists?

"oh you can't download this video." "oh this audio is only available to pro subscribers." you fucking fool. you have transmitted the file to me over the internet. it's already on my computer. I can do with it whatever I want

@darkuncle

Any engineering can become reverse engineering if your documentation sucks enough

Before weaving, people had to tie thousands of individual strings to their bodies

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https://www.lireo.com/10-ways-to-improve-accessibility-on-websites-and-social-media/