24-MAG appears to be yet another in a long string of fake hiring identity theft scams. Beware! Since they are routing people through mercor I have to also question the legitimacy of that site as well. Hadn’t heard of it linked it in their email to me. Yes, I’ve written about hiring scams on this blog before. Please take note of the address. Red Flag One No person to person interview. Everybody can Zoom or … Beware 24-MAGRead more
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Amazon Tried to Replace Visa Workers with AI
When Amazon tried to replace visa workers with AI (after replacing U.S. citizens with visa workers) it found out the hard way AI write code just as shitty as the visa workers only it writes it faster! High Blast Radius The new buzz-phrase in America is High Blast Radius. You’re going to see more and more high blast radius outages, not fewer. Why? Because MBAs have been purged of morals, ethics, and dignity. Throw anyone … Amazon Tried to Replace Visa Workers with AIRead more
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IV For A Dead Horse
This morning I got an email about bug 37134 from the LibreOffice bug tracker. They flagged it as spam. Up until you got to the link it wasn’t spam. It did serve as a good reminder to me about just how long this bug has been open. I felt compelled to offer the developers some sage advice given my 40+ years in IT. LibreOffice is a Legacy Product Please click on the link and take … IV For A Dead HorseRead more
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RPATH Notes
Few things are more frustrating when first developing your own libraries than RPATH. There have been numerous hacks over the years. Gnu even gave us libtool because POSIX dlopen() just kinda sucked. Hey, for the end user, dlopen() mostly works. It finds dynamically linked libraries in the system standard search paths, all is well with the world. For the developer working on dynamically linked libraries or worse yet, plugins that use dynamically linked libraries from … RPATH NotesRead more
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Ubuntu F’ed Networking Again!
I’ve lost count of the number of times Ubuntu F’ed Networking over the course of my career. Was that the 2008 edition when the ISO ran great, it installed, and after it installed updates, all wifi using Broadcom chips ceased to work? It was great! They were used in something like 80+% of all laptops and I don’t know how many of those USB Wifi dongles. Ubuntu just can’t be used for anything that matters. … Ubuntu F’ed Networking Again!Read more