RE: https://mas.to/@HourlySneps/116429606401706216

Just a reminder that in the Fediverse, we have lovely rare elusive murderkittens for your periodontal timeline cleanse.

@bmann.ca my blood sugar spiked just reading that. Sounds amazing.

Yeesh. Application is in the pipes for an amazing-sounding, though somewhat beneath me salary-wise (it's NFP community sector, so not surprising) job I'm very keen to at least explore further.

It's right on the edge of what I could tolerate for distance to an on-site job. In theory, should be […]

RE: https://union.place/@tim/116426691453325273

SW-ISAC Alert

The Pro-Russian botnet is now using account invites to evade various mitigations in place.

Please review your invite codes, and who's allowed to use them.

ref: about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal...

@quillmatiq @evan

The non-tech user needs the tech to be invisible. Their entry point to the network needs to be a hallway of wide open doors through which they can see their friends, connections and communities.

I hope the open web related groups are committing to user and community […]

@quillmatiq @evan

Loving this thread, thank you!.

I think you’re aiming for the “build Purpose not Product” space I was stumping for last year. We should have people loving and working on AP and on AT and heck, every damn near any tech that they think is good.

But if you really want user […]

A so-close-it’s-blurry snapshot of the right eye and ear of a tortie-patterned but Siamese-coloured cat who is getting all up in the photographer’s bizniz trying to lobby for extra servings of kibble

Leelo(o) Ten has both the Siamese AND street cat creds, and I suppose I’m lucky she’s generally happy and well socialized or her food drive would have prompted her to try to murder and eat us by now.

Photo: my view while attempting to do any work at all when […]

[Original post on cosocial.ca]

Most Siamese are smart cats and even an “average” Siamese seems to develop some sort of skill or aptitude for a particular type of trouble, like opening fridges or fetching specific varieties of tomato from the neighbours’ gardens.

But barn and street cats? The stupid ones don’t survive, so the […]

My cat rescue portfolio has a general focus on secondhand Siamese cats. 7 fully Meezer-compliant models; 1 flame colourpoint who resulted from a tri-colour mama and unknown tom; one B&W tuxie polydactyl barn cat, who trained into a complete Siamese attitude and vocabulary; and the current […]

Dammit the fat cat has leveled up again and finally realized she can reliably open cupboard doors.

Of course she *started* with the food cupboard, but is now trying all the doors. Including the ones over the fridge. So I may be out of luck for being able to relocate the kibble bin as my next […]

Aww. Long-distance long-term BFF I have seen way too little of just messaged “was dozing off and thought of you - love ya!”

And with all the things there are to hate about how these digital FOMO generators and corporate entrapment trackers have ruined us … that’s just so nice that that can […]

@thisismissem.social

I suppose it’s usual for me to not be able to sort cause from effect the last week or two of a semester. Bad sleep/no sleep does go with those weird “what day is it again? “ spells

@thisismissem.social is this a common occurrence for self-employed /multi-contract/portfolio career people? Because my last year and a half of no “day job” while juggling two school programs and short gigs makes this happen a LOT. I’ll be having a functional Tuesday that is followed by what at […]

@scream

@clawhammercrone.bsky.social

Doesn't fix it, but there's a lot of sympathy out there ... 🤣

OK what the heck did apple do with that last iOS update? My battery is not hangin' on all of a sudden.

@clawhammercrone.bsky.social

oh yah.

My mother-in-law's phrasing for that phenomenon is "you can never be a prophet in your own land".

Open Social Awards | New_ Public The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the breakthrough products of developers building on open protocols such as ATProtocol and ActivityPub.

Did you know there is an award for cool open social web software coming up? With actual prize money of EUR 10,000?

Deadline is May 1.

I'm told 16 submissions are in so far.

With great thanks to our friends at New Public to who have made this possible. (I'm on the jury.)

https://newpublic.org/OSA

@cameron.stream

awww, what's it done to you lately?

admittedly, I've not hung out with nearly enough oceans, mostly just really big lakes. I like listening to them, though. I suppose they'd be good to shout at, as nobody else could hear over them and you won't sound like a maniac.

@joncounts @Niall

yeah, I get that. gotta think about it some more. I'm trying to de-googlify myself too and that is running hard. I've used gmail since the days of "you have to wait for an invite for gmail's upcoming release".

I also don't want to cast out all good babies with the fashy […]

@Niall

aw, damn. guess I need to drop that as well.

shame, iNaturalist has a lot of potential in the citizen science contribution realm. they don't need my PII for that, though, just approximate locations.

A screenshot of an email I received with a "special offer" of a chance to win a trip to a horror-themed clown motel.

Why the hell is EventBrite spamming me at all, first thing ...

and second, why the hell does EventBrite think this is remotely aligned with my interests, or location?

@reiver

I really think @vernissage needs a lot more attention than it is getting.

I can see it being more appealing to those who want to post photographs, period. The dev doesn't seem to be aiming for Yet Another Insta Analogue, and the visuals are more like the Glass system, with photo […]

I'm comfortable doing this to this point, because I'm neither scraping anything that isn't posted out there to be read at this point, nor providing it any specific personal information, just using it to collect thoughts that I would otherwise be struggling to remember. Will have to see how the […]

Step 4: For jobs I've done that I cannot readily find a currently posted description ...

well, that's next, and I think what I will do is search linkedIn for the same job *titles* I once held, then in a separate AI chat (so there's no recursion in the bias, at least) ask it to construct the job […]

Step 3: Tell it I'm considering just finding current postings for job descriptions TODAY that are, or are very close to, roles I have been successful at in the past.

(This is not hard. The past roles I've had are currently posted with both my most recent employers and many, many similar orgs) […]

Step 1: ask the bot what I should give it to have it tailor a resume to a job posting for me.

It started writing a "Resume and Cover Letter Prompt Guide" for me.

Step 2: Complain to it that I have done so many different things over decades that I cannot even remember what to "Brain dump" on it […]

The result I want: tailored resumes. Based on a better "master" resume than what I currently have, which is based on 2023-era LinkedIn-based "transition support" services that I'm pretty sure just fed my one prior job description to the chatGPT they were using at the time.

I shall record and […]

Since I am still needing to finish my "AI for Future Professionals" unit, and since one of my prior excursions behind enemy lines still has me with a free Pro license to a certain evil empire's genAI that has a name that rhymes really well with genAI ...

Gonna make my little project in part 2 […]

@travisfw heh. I don’t think I was clear enough on what I meant by “technical”. The social “media” model is not the fail point because of the literal nuts-and-bolts of how to exchange our info. We can completely recreate all kinds of messaging and connectivity constructs from the protocols on up […]