Pretty much.

It’s bad. Very bad.

I spent the past month or so looking for my first job out or school. And so many places make you jump through hoops or have humiliation session interviews.

The place I accepted the offer from called me once for screening. Then set up a technical interview.

The technical interview was half of it talking about who I am. What I like to do. What I want to work on etc. and the other half them explaining what the job is, why it’s a great opportunity etc.

Next day I got the offer. Simplest process ever and not humiliating at all. Felt like the exception. There are decent people out there still.

Oof. Hard to say. I did it for so long and so early in life that I’m not even sure what would have happened had I not done it.

I don’t like mental meds though. And I don’t think any of them ever helped me. They have always either made me extremely risky behavior prone or just numb where the days blend together and months go by in the blink of an eye.

I was still a kid. At my first session I opened up hard. I spoke nonstop for the whole hour.

When I was walking out I asked them “now what?” And they replied “Now it’s a long battle”.

That stuck with me.

Same. And it’s not just the amount of content.

The amount of times I’ve had a reply with someone obviously trying to be pedantic and argumentative saying “define common thing” is off the charts.

Oh. Interesting. What do you keep when you export?

Isn’t adding repos considered creating a FrankenDebian?

How does Distrobox work? Is it as simple a

$ distrobox install app $ app

And it runs fine ?

What’s wrong with lemmy.ml?

Passkeys are basically passwords that you don’t send to the server. So they are safer against phishing.

Basically the server has a message. They will scramble it with your public key. And send it to you. Your private key unscrambles the message and then you send the message back to them. So if they receive the original message back. They know you are you. And they never got their hands on your private key at any point. It’s awesome.

2fa is an entirely different thing. And I do wish it was more standard how it works. Some places if you lose it you lose your account (bitwarden). Others you don’t (protonmail).

Everyone should use passkeys. 2fa you have to decide if your case warrants it.

Edit: example of passkeys:

Step 1: they have the message “cat”

Step 2: they encrypt it with your public key and it becomes “acm”

Step 3: they send you the encrypted message “acm”

Step 4: you decrypt the message “acm” into “cat” with your private key.

Step 5: you send them back the message “cat”

Only your private key would be able to decrypt something encrypted with your public key. So they now know you are you. And they never got a hand on your private key. It’s the same as a password except you never send it directly to the server.

Just go on Khan academy and do a lesson a day. It will take time(years) but you’ll learn.

RCS, Signal, or Lemmy

I wish. But I don’t know a single person that uses any of those.

The only problem this site has is lack of content. And the only thing that would fix it is more people.

No, we are sad because the decrease in posts lately have left behind the worst parts of reddit.

How so?

They obviously were landing pads for alien ships.

I feel most of these issues are just due to how small the userbase is.

I don’t play games with dark patterns anymore. And seems like almost all of them went deep into that territory which severely limits what I can play.

I welcome physical proof as well. But this isn’t Bigfoot or Loch Ness or anything like that. There’s a mountain of testimony spanning decades. Too much smoke for there to be no fire.

That’s not how it works. Evidence isn’t a “nice to have” on top of everything else, it’s the bare minimum. Everything else is hearsay.

When something is real it doesn’t beg for your trust, it begs for your eyes.