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hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 10:40
I have followed the example of @BryceWrayTX and registered for the @eleventy International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
I got my ticket to the 11ty Conference! https://conf.11ty.dev/tickets/dfc532a103624df9827ba874c568f239 Do you want to go to there as well? #11tyConf
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 13:26
@mwl Absolutely no way. Not at the same time. You’ll have at least .25s to go “oh hey here comes the other one”
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 13:32
TFW you know which dog to blame by the pee spatter at the crime scene.
Like the Dexter of dog messes.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 14:40
@ben a qualified “yes” from me, with the main low-vision aspect being I’m old and pixels are small.
I think the text should say an image is AI-generated. Failing that, the alt text should say it. But it’s in the same category as “don’t use the alt text for attribution.” It’s information about the source and nature of the image, rather than its content.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 14:47
@onelson It was just common enough of a joke for classified work that some folks used it for wildly different contexts (I used it once to describe my job bussing tables at the steakhouse).
More of a meme than a tagline, and a meme that had already run its course. I use it as evidence they didn’t know how to sell this movie.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 16:16
reading a job description for backend engineer at Mozilla and
“Experience with automated bypassing of common web barriers by leveraging methodologies like proxy rotation, user agent and device fingerprint modification, and CAPTCHA challenges”
Like — yes I can but that’s not the point. We’re really rubbing in that saw about how things like anti-piracy measures only impact customers and security theater is only there to make the layperson think something’s being done.
Snitch-taggers get blocked. If I wanted to have this conversation with them I would’ve tagged them myself.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 16:40
@beaumains somebody who uses an @ mention or otherwise tries to get the attention of a party referenced in the original post that was not already referenced by said handle. Usually some version of “Explain yourself” or “this post is talking bad about you, what do you think of that?
Was more common on Twitter, but I see it here occasionally.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 16:41
@beaumains Exactly.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 16:43
@beaumains Sure! Niche jargon is funky.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 16:50
@shadowspar I try not to think about it while job hunting, because I know there are budget allocation reasons for it. But yeah it’s jarring.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 18:45
@KindlyWizard @ianbetteridge I mean while contracting at Amazon in 2005 and 2008 the main spot I bumped into coworkers outside the office was the therapist, so yeah.
hackers.town: 2024-02-16 Fri 19:08
got a headache and applying for multiple jobs did not ease it
swear to god if i see one more “why do you want to work at COMPANY”
…
i will attempt to come up with something relevant and hit submit