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Someone asked me to follow them on Mastodon. I couldn't find them in the app. He sent me the direct link and it opened up a browser on my phone, refusing to recognize the app.

I finally added them directly from a browser by by remembering which server I was in, log into that, visiting their link again, adding them from my logged in server, and then it finally appeared in the app.

And if I'm dealing with thet level of monkeying around, how many others are? How the hell are we supposed to contribute and add content and find social circles when we're fighting with the UI?

Lemmy seems to have figured out how to not make a sucky experience with multiple servers.

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Do people not realize it's already a war on AI in the job market?

There's a 90% chance your company is already using AI to generate job postings.
Then you have smart applicants who are using AI to generate custom cover letters and applications.
Then you have HR teams using AI to summarize applicants resumes/cover letters.

This is the shit show we're in. And if you're still meticulously hand crafting your letters and unemployed, sorry to break it to you.

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Totally. You become part of the system so you know it's strengths and weaknesses, and can help dismantle it.

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‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases (www.404media.co)

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A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.

Fucking hell in c/[email protected]