tagyro

Just today I installed an irc server, well three, and will try to convince my small group of friends to switch our comms to that. Nice to see the protocol evolving.

Playing the devil’s advocate, my domains get constantly scanned from DO ips. I know it’s not feasible but some basic kyc on DO’s side would probably help.

Accenture …that tracks

I’ve had multiple instances of my Mac unlocking while I was more than 5-6 meters away. At some point I decided not to trust the time of flight calculation and disable it.

I’m going to post this every time there’s a new markdown to pdf submission: quarto (https://quarto.org) is my go to tool. You can use it in R Studio, visual studio code or the cli. Uses pandoc under the hood, has support for latex and many more niceties.

And why is that a problem? Their website, their content, their choice.

And Anthropic illicitly used code I wrote to train their models.

Definitely not.

I work to put food in the table.

if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you

This is not an isolated case, I have multiple job ads that get reposted every couple of months

Meta laid off around 2,000 employees this year and in April they announced a further 10% planned cut in their workforce [0].

Employees were told to work from home and were sent emails at 4AM informing them they've been let go. Those that weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move. Remaining employees can now opt out of being tracked at work for half an hour [1]. Meanwhile, @Meta is raking in record profits.

ClickUp reduced headcount by 22% - and the CEO tweeted that the "business is the strongest it's ever been". In the same tweet, the CEO motivated this cut by their intention to build the "100X organization" ...[2] A week before the layoffs, they posted this video [3].

Webflow fired most of its staff, with some finding out about it after more than 24 hours [4] (while being on a locked visa, which means they'll have to leave the country!).

Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees (~20% of its workforce) [5] and hired over 1,000 interns (one could say replaced).

My question for anyone still working at these companies:

Why are you still working there?

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/technology/meta-layoffs-a...

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno

[2]: https://x.com/DJ_CURFEW/status/2057522382315929802

[3]: https://www.tiktok.com/@clickup/video/7638681657058364702

[4]: https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/tech/bloodbath-at-california-t...

[5]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

I'll give you an example I've experienced myself:

I save all the jobs I apply to, so it's fairly easy to check/compare and I found plenty of cases where job ads get reposted after some time.

In one instance, I applied for a role in December '25, got a (boilerplate) rejection email a couple of days later (although my profile directly matched the job requirements and I had previous experience working in that specific field), job ad goes offline and re-appeared 3 months later - exact same time and job description.

I'll write a full article in a year or two, but here's the short version: some weeks ago, as I was looking for job offers, I found one that was interesting. As I didn't knew the company, I wanted to do my due diligence and check them out. I open the website and find a ClickFix (the "prove you're not a bot" type) attack on their main page.

I spent over 2 hours and a small (but bigger than 0) amount of my own money to report the issue by emailing and even trying to call them (they didn't have any dedicated responsible disclosure page or contact). After some time, they finally answered my emails, took down the website and "fixed" the issue.

When I finally applied for the role, got ghosted for a week and only after I wrote them again, asking for an update, I got rejected as they allegedly were looking for someone more junior - though the job title was explicitly "Senior XXX Lead".

Some years ago, I went to interview (in person) at a big European financial institution. As I got there around lunchtime, I happened to get to the front door at the same time as some employees were returning from lunch who, very kindly, held the door open for me.

I was in their office around their computers, unsupervised and unaccompanied, for 10-15 minutes, enough time to plant some O.MG USB-C cables.

During the interview, I had a chance to talk to the CTO and told them what happened and how I was allowed access in the office, and immediately saw his face change and quickly change topic, and end the interview.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't get the job - I should have probably kept my mouth shut.

Tant pis

If the price for some sort of functioning Siri is my privacy, I’m happy with the current dumb Siri

I almost fell for a very sophisticated phishing attack last December and most of the "verifiable" information was from my LinkedIn account.

For each role I had described some of the tasks and accomplishments and this was used in the phishing message.

Since then, I removed my photo, changed my name only to initials and removed all the role-specific information.

It's a bit of a bummer as I'm currently in the process of looking for a new job and unfortunately having a LinkedIn profile is still required in some places, but once I find it, I'll delete my profile.

not really

Wero acquired iDeal and integrated it (as well as Payconiq)

yes, they were (theoretically) a python developer, should have mentioned this was an ML role (your guess is right, slice just before the last char)

Just to be clear: the main problem is not that they did not know what `:-1` was - there are many weird syntax additions with every version - understandable.

IMHO the problem is that there's usually a single interviewer that decides go/no go.

We all have biases, so leaving such an important decision (like hiring an EM) to one person is, (again IMHO) ...stupid .

somewhat off-topic: I had an interview for an Engineering Manager position with the Head of Engineering.

They had some leet code problem prepared and I tried solving it and failed.

During the challenge, I used some python string operand (:-1) (and maybe some other stuff) that they didn't knew.

In the end, I failed the challenge as I didn't do it in the O(n) way...

These kind of stupid challenges exemplify what's wrong with hiring these days: one interviewer, usually some "vp"/"head of" decides what is the "correct" way to write some code, when they (sometimes) themselves couldn't write a line of code (since they've been "managers" for a millennia)

ps. they actually did not know what `:-1` means ...I rest my case

4real

better yet, listen to a 1h meeting and compare notes/action points

Using (Safari) screen reader (I do, I have a hard time reading text on white background), the `=` becomes visible

IMHO this is a dumb test

off-topic comment: Vercel announcing this via 3rd party links, with tracking - FU Vercel

Actual LinkedIn post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/troy-ruhanen_today-is-a-big-d...

care to expand/provide some more info?

I dropped a message to the creator :fingers_crossed: they open the motherboard database so we can make contributions

For disclosure, this was created by "Ronin Wilde" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdXj75VSMo

I found it useful and thought others might also like it.

We have a saying:

You know how you measure eternity?

When you finish learning German.

it's in the picture: personal advertising

[I know you were sarcastic, just wanted to make it clear for ...future generations]

I have to admit, I never got into micro-transactions and loot craetes. I did play CS, but never cared about skins and focused on head shots - I am ignorant in this aspect.

I must have misunderstood - I prefer ethernet over wifi and I took your comment as more favourable towards wifi - in that case, my bad ^^

[off-topic rant]

Two companies, both (quasi) monopolies in their field.

Company A built its fortune by exploiting people.

Company B built its fortune by building (somewhat) decent products.

Company A developed a very advanced approach to hiring: specific questions to assess a candidate’s psychometric profile, screens to weed out bad choices, and a laser focus on the "top 0.1%".

Company B made it very public that hiring well is vital and encouraged every employee to think about it and participate. They even published an Employee Handbook years ago [0]

Today, many startups copy Company A’s playbook: crafting advanced questionnaires, trick questions, and trying to detect behavioural traits in their candidates.

No startup (that I know of [1]) has adopted Company B’s strategy.

Take your pick on who Company A is. Company B is Valve.

[0]: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_Handbook_LowR...

[1]: I kjnow of one that <<pretends>> to

mmm ...let's agree to disagree

I wired my whole place with 10Gb - couldn't do it in the wall (as in, hidden) so I have flat cables around the door frame and wall corners. I was willing to accept the cables, just to get 10Gb.

And, IMHO, it's worth it.