I didn't even know they did that, Glad I don't have an account with them. I'm partially deaf, most music I can't understand what someone singing. Those fun things people do of like "most common misheard lyrics" is basically my life. On the plus side I enjoy music from around the world because unintelligible music is unintelligible no matter where it's from. They're very few artists I feel like I can understand, and realistically I'm probably wrong.
In real life, I read lips to help augment my terrible hearing. Fun fact during the mask man dates during COVID, was probably the worst time for me. A lot of people I could hear talking as I could hear noise but I could not make out what it was. Leading to a lot of awkward conversations.
Anyhoo, that's all to say that for music that I do like I do have to see the lyrics. It's what converts the noise into words.
So, fuck you Spotify, My life's difficult enough already, I'm not paying your shitty service so you can charge me for my impairment.
I would say, it because the lyrics aren't something Spotify made. No one's picking up Spotify because only Spotify has lyrics. Spotify isn't writing the songs. Regardless of what someone might think of Spotify or Spotify free, it's withholding something that they have that they didn't make from people that perhaps need it. It'd be like if broadcast TV or any on demand video service (YouTube, Disney, Netflix, etc.), said hey you didn't pay no more closed captions for you (where a free version is applicable, of course).
If Spotify wants to put stuff behind a paywall it can be features of the platform.
My personal opinion is Spotify sucks, full stop. The CEO is a real piece of work. This just goes on the pile of reason Spotify sucks.
Many of my family is in this. They keep getting bigger vehicles because they get the sense of safety. They cannot grasp how bad that mentality is and how wrong they are. And with bigger vehicles, it means that much less room for error too. And most people suck at driving. Not all the time, but that one time you make a mistake (as we all do) could be a big one in an oversized vehicle.
There's a "modern" version of the Atkins diet, the keto diet. Same rules as far as I can tell, just rebranded. I went nuts. I couldn't stop thinking about bread. Sound of it, smell of it, taste of it... It haunted me day and night. I'd often find myself looking up bread maker reviews, comparing different bread makers on Amazon... Don't remember what I had when I finally gave up, wasn't nearly as awesome what you did. But I can tell you I did not buy a bread maker afterwards.
I've been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn't specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal breaker...
My job I'm classified as remote. And I like it that way. Recently they have decided that a bunch of people even if remote will now have to come on site at least hybrid. For "collaboration". I even noted that in my employment contract I had in there that I was to work from home, to which HR said that they really don't care.
My last year-end review was stellar. Top marks, praises from multiple departments, even got a promotion.
But I happen to live to close to a location, so there's 'simply nothing that can be done'. So I've already started looking for different work.
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
This is status quo for every large corporation. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, Roku.... They all, ALL, push boundaries to see what they can get away with to not only sell you something, but also make you the thing they sell. Sometimes they're bold enough to make it public what they're doing, sometimes, it's a leak that happens when people find out how little the company actually cares about it's users (Apple, so many user data leaks).
So someone looking to buy a new machine has a few options. They have MacOS, Windows, Chromebook, or Linux. And there's a high probability that when they're at a shop be it online or in person looking for a Linux machine it's probably going to be Ubuntu.
You don't get to tell the user, "well you picked the wrong distro, lol" when all they wanted was something that runs the software and hardware they want. The vast majority of users want something that just works, not have to become some expert.
And also, it's rather dismissive, I show an example of Linux doing the same thing that Apple and Microsoft do... Ubuntu is still Linux.
To downplay these differences and claim that all distributions are the same is ignorant. Anyone who wants to get the most out of Linux should be aware of the wealth of options available.
That's the definition of not being user friendly. And it's not like shoes. Because trying on a pair of shoes takes minutes, at a store that generally has hundreds of shoes available. And shoes literally do one thing. Your average user does not have nor want to spend nights and weekends troubleshooting the distro they're 'trying out' to see if it works best, then to continue troubleshooting it down the road.
But I do like how you ignored a lot of what of what I said, because it didn't fit your response. Because unlike you apparently, I think of people besides myself. You also make wild assumptions about me. Should I show you my RHEL installation? CentOS? My Debian servers... I have dedicated hardware and VMs. And I also run Windows. Do I get to have an argument now... do I pass your weird gatekeeping threshold?
And that's still not addressing the circle jerk where far to many people put linux on some pedestal, worship it, and assume their better than everyone because "btw, I use arch". Like every distro isn't going to try to milk as much money out of it as they can if they think they can get away with it. Ubuntu is the most approachable distro (that I'm aware of) and often gets suggested, especially to new uses. Linux is not immune to the problems that plague MacOS or Windows.
Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break....
I was building up some packer stuff. Vsphere-iso plug-in. Tests were going fine and then for reasons I didn't understand it said it could no longer find the cd creation tool it has just been using.
So I try a few things, nothing works. So I figure I have nothing to lose, I make a new folder to house all the tools in one place. Update Windows system environment path. Restart everything. VScode didn't have my path statement, Google is of 0 fucking help, and now packer doesn't work. I least it's the weekend now.
Do a search for 'why yaml is bad' and you'll get a lot of stories.
Constant passing problems, especially when the yaml gets very large and complex. After I implemented a new feature I was pulled into a call with 12-15 people demanding to know why it didn't work. The new feature worked fine, The guys yaml had the wrong amount of white space and so it didn't parse.
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
I won't go on my 2 hour rant off everything wrong. But a short version is the writing for them is lazy and undeveloped. Both of them represent the most uninteresting form of a power fantasy. The modern Batman of 'having a plan for everything' and being this overburden angsty character is just awful. If Batman was a d&d character, he has loaded dice and is throwing that 20s on intimidation. And for Superman he's just not interesting, because with the amount of power he's been given and the amount of abilities he has the fact that lex luthor is somehow a villain of his is laughable.
Batman used to be the world's greatest detective. And for me the last time I saw Batman be Batman was the '90s animated series. And frankly the most recent movie The Batman also did a very good job I thought in that regard.
Superman used to have limits. He was fast but not infinite speed fast. He was strong but not infinite strength.
In both cases it feels like the people who write for these characters use one simple rule... This my favorite character so he win. Neither character feels like their struggles are earned, because the writing is forced. Like it used to be if Superman needed to save somebody you weren't 100% sure he'd be able to get there in time, stop the bad guy save the people! Modern Superman is like, a being a hundred light years away, tripped and their falling! They need your help before they get a boo-boo and I have no doubt Superman would get there somehow and then save a hundred worlds along the way. (An over-exaggeration I know but I want to get the point across at how lazy I feel the writing is). Or the fact that anybody fears Batman when most of his villains barely fear him. You have members like Green lantern, Martian manhunter, Superman, and Wonder woman who act like in any way Batman is a threat to them.
I'll stop ranting cuz I can honestly go on. But I will say with the massive decline for me personally with these two, I've been far more receptive of some of the other DC characters that I used to overlook when I was younger. I can't believe I 100% slept on the flash like that dude is straight boss. Or plastic man! So at least some good came of it.
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
He's always been incompetent. He was fired from PayPal for that very reason. He's used his parents emerald business money to fabricate a career. He's paid his way into being the engineer he clearly idolized but couldn't actually earn himself. He bought Tesla, he bought Twitter, the "HyperLoop" was a hundred year old idea called a vac-train. Even the biggest selling point for SpaceX, were just plans NASA had decades ago but the technology didn't exist at the time to pull it off. I mean the Boring Company... we've been successfully digging subway tunnels for a long time... the London Underground opened in 1863. New York had theirs in 1904. Elon in 2018 debuted a claustrophobic tunnel that was less than 2 miles long...
If it wasn't for daddy's money, he would have been a nobody. But he bought his way into some sort of 'relevance' and has conned a lot of people who don't understand science out of a lot of money. His greatest accomplishment is being a great conman.
It doesn’t take long for mold to grow on empty beer bottles. Considering beer bottles get returned for a refund, you have to assume that the brewery will make an effort to reuse as many as possible....
I'll give you my thoughts as someone who's sat in as part of the tech interview portion. And I don't want what's below to discourage you as you are seeking that internship which will be great to add and really fill that thing out. An internship should grant you a lot of leniency during the interviews. But I'll give you my thoughts ignoring that fact, more like what you'd expect once you're done with the internship and your resume was sent to me for consideration.
What is it you want to do in IT? Generally, I'd say you want to sort of customize the resume to highlight what they might be looking for. For example, for your windows domain section, you list Active Directory and Powershell. Did you add to anything? Create anything? Because if your powershell is just 'Get-ADUser' that's not all that impressive. Writing a script that manages something in AD is. If you can apply something like that and sort of pull out "deployed multiple users" and "updated a GPO"... because both of those things as worded is BAU. It would be weird if you listed "Deployed multiple user accounts in all the wrong OU's". You say in their appropriate OUs... how was that determined? What was special for the website, what did it do, what was it's purpose? You list it but there's no details so I'd be left to assume you wrote a "Hello World" basic HTML with <html><body><h1>Hello World</h1>.... with CSS changing the background to a solid color. What exactly did the bash script do? Why a script and not just a shell command?
You will absolutely need to be ready to fully explain any of these. How did an ArrayList determine the difficulty? (For example). How did you organize the OUs and GPOs? How did you manage the AD server? What was your DR plan and how did you test it? How did you set up the firewall and what authentication was in place for SSH? Were your linux machines on the domain or just the windows machines?
I also see nothing about git or other version control system and that would immediately concern me. You list a few tools (ufw, cron, cerbot) but nothing like VSCode or IntelliJ, GitLab or GitHub. Or whatever tools you used. But again, add/remove things from your resume that best fit the roll you're applying too. If it's more programming, stress that more and the administration less (but don't completely remove it, just work on emphasis). Was any of this a capstone project? Did you participate in any competitions (like Business Professionals of America... but Canadian) or really any competitions? What sets you apart from your classmates for a position at any company (internship or full employment). Also, this might be hit or miss with people, but it might be worth considering dropping the fast food all together from this and add an object about what your seeking from an internship. If asked about no experience, you can just say you have no prior relevant working experience in IT and that's what your looking to gain from the internship. Because most managers I've worked with, would just look right past it since it has none of the keywords they're looking for and I as the technical person, simply don't care.
Right now, you have no real world experience with this, just a bit of homework. Highlight what the purpose was of these sections, looping back, what was the purpose of the web site? What did the SSH have to do with the website that you set up HTTPS on? What were you backing up and why? Speaking just for internship, you may want to highlight your certs first and not your irrelevant fast food experience.
Anywho, hope this helps. Getting that first foot in the door can be difficult, but once in and you start networking (not the technical kind, the interpersonal kind) it gets a lot easier. And as a tip, when you first get in a place, that's the single best time to shine as that'll propel your career. I don't mean like do a bunch of free work. But I've seen people lose their jobs because they would party every night and then give low effort (or sleep) on the job. Play video games, at the job... taking an absolute excessive amount of smoke breaks (where any given hour they're at their desk for 15ish minutes)... or do the absolute bare minimum. Express interest in projects (if you actually are), be honest, deliver a product you'd want if you were the customer.
Ideally I’d like to become a network engineer. I’m eligible to challenge the CCNA with a significant discount once I complete this semester.
You'll want to get some network project on there than for sure! And don't wait on the CCNA if that's the route you want. I assume you have the CCENT (if that's that still a thing)?
The website was something I threw together in order to document my networking labs and to feature my small homelab
That's some good stuff to add. There's a ridiculous amount of documenting in tech. I spend a non-significant time updating people on my projects.
I don’t know how I would properly showcase a OSPF lab on GNS3 in my resume
Actually GNS3 and how you used it might perk up some interest. You'd just describe the overall project. Something like "Planned network design for OSPF in GNS3 first before deploying"
I'm not really interested in programming and I’ve been thinking of removing the Java project entirely from my resume.
That's backwards. Cisco is moving where knowing programing will be what separates the techs from the engineers. And there's a decent chance you'll be working with non-Cisco devices too (virtual networks like in vmware/aws/gcp/azure) as well. Highlighting you can code is going to set you apart.
So my take away, is down play the website a little bit. Just stress that you developed your own project tracker with it. But for certain add in some network project(s).
Ah yes, the age old approved sexism! Lot of ya spending a lot of time trying to justify this and spin it as not sexism...
I love the fact that y'all found another reason why I need to apologize for just existing.
As a man, I've been physically assaulted by multiple girlfriends, was raped by one, and knew several women who's favorite saying to tell me was 'you can't rape the willing, if he gets hard that's consent'. But no, I love this narrative of all men are just evil.
But I'll get down votes because I don't fit that circle jerk narrative.
There should be no algorithm. It should be done by a human. There are no amount of lines of code I will ever make up for knowing intent and what the current situation is.
If it's going to be closed by software it needs to prioritize safety 100% of the time. If more pressure is needed and that pressure needs to come from a human.
Honestly there's a lot of things I know all contributed to where I am. But I'm fairly certain I would have a far worse life if I hadn't gone to college.
Eat shit Spotify. ( lemmy.world )
Steam announces game recording beta. ( store.steampowered.com )
Basically nvidia shadowplay for linux
You can fit two cars there ( lemmy.world )
What's the most stupid trend (or fad) you participated in yourself?
How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?
I've been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn't specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal breaker...
Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 ( www.youtube.com )
A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
I love making pizzas with my bread maker ( lemmy.world )
Been using my bread maker to make pizza dough and make pizza at home. Cheaper and more rewarding then ordering out.
Programmer Pain Chart ( lemmy.world )
Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break....
Not really sure whether S-expressions or Python indentation-based scoping get more hate... ( programming.dev )
...from people who seem to refuse to install paredit or coloring plugins for either?...
You are transformed into an animal of your choice, and must send a message to the president in order to turn back. wdyd?
idk just a random scenario stuck in my head...
Black Myth: WuKong - Official WeGame Event Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
I tracked my SOT on my Pixel 8 for 2 months across stock and GrapheneOS ( lemmy.world )
Charts...
Name a Superhero you just can't stand
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Beer bottles can get quite nasty before people return them -- how good are industrial beer bottle dishwashers?
It doesn’t take long for mold to grow on empty beer bottles. Considering beer bottles get returned for a refund, you have to assume that the brewery will make an effort to reuse as many as possible....
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A bit late ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.
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Too soon ( sh.itjust.works )
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
What was your best decision in life?
For me, it was learning English. Although I do make a few mistakes here and there, I'm mostly perfect on it....