Discord asking for gov ID is deceptive, and misses the point of Discord

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#Discord

I'm likely a blend of the Confidant and the Specialist :D

How agency recruiters can sell retained searches - Talnet Social Always start with the retainer - though I actually call it an engagement fee, "Retainer" sounds scary. If you hit a wall selling the engagement fee, you can st

How recruiters can sell retained searches
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#recruiters #recruitment #headhunters #recruitmentagency

From the victorinox community on Reddit: 3 new models with a locking blade coming out this month. The Victorinox Synergy, Synergy X and Onefold. Available in red, blue and silver. Explore this post and more from the victorinox community

New locking blade Victorinox models 😮
#victorinox #pocketknives #multitools

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Linkedin Genius

#recruiers #linkedin

The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" ino.to/cAa0ohM

I chuckle every time I see this term :D

Are They a Great Job Candidate or Just Using AI? 5 Questions to Tell Hiring managers are worried about job candidates using AI. Here’s how to tell if someone is leaning on AI during an interview.

Amazon’s guidelines offer a list of basic tells for recruiters to look out for, like candidates typing during interviews.
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#Recruitment #Hiring

Canada Responds to U.S. Tariffs with Retaliatory Measures Quebec Premier François Legault, accompanied by Christine Fréchette, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, and Sonia LeBel, President of the Treasury Board, held a press conference at 1 p.m. reg...

Financial assistance for quebec businesses. To qualify, companies must generate at least $3 million in revenue, which, according to Christine Fréchette, represents a business with around thirty employees.
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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.

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A magazine ad showing the Hyper7. It's a dedicated word processor all-in-one, with a PS/2 keyboard, a monochrome backlit LCD monitor device left, twin vertically mounted 3.5" floppies device right, and a thermal printer device rear. The screen on the device shows a multi-application operating system, including word processor, spreadsheet, rolodex, drawing program, graphing program, disk utility, telecommunications terminal, and tutorial. The only thing it's lacking is a way to program on the thing.

Word processors used to be an appliance. (Source.)

While Canada is supporting Canadian businesses, Canadian businesses need to be supporting Canadians.
No price gouging - we must hold Canadian companies accountable.

#BuyLocal #BuyCanadian

JavaScript Temporal is coming | MDN Blog A new way to handle dates and times is being added to JavaScript. Let's take a look at Temporal, what problems it solves, the current state, and what you'll find in the new documentation about it on M...

JavaScript Temporal is coming - looks neat!

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#JavaScript #Temporal #WebDesign

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws Flaws also allowed access to one year of location history.

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01...

Google goes gaga over the Gulf of Mexico “We will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.”…

This is nonsense..

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#GulfOfMexico

This is a great take. At the end of the day, users don't care which tech was used - engineering teams do. Also, modern frontend frameworks / libraries are more often than not used on apps that would do completely fine without a virtual DOM.

How costly is it really to host the most advanced DeepSeek model with R1?

Once we know that, then we can truly understand how much of a breakthrough this is.

If China is dumping the price intentionally, them most likely are paying with our data.

The Online Scientist - Step-by-step guide to archive your research website for free What happens to your research project website when funding ends? Research websites often disappear, taking valuable information with them. Don’t let that happen! Follow along on a step-by-step tutoria...

Great suggestions on how to go from a more dynamic website to a static HTML website at the conclusion of a research project so that your research remains publicly visible.

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How to Get a Word Count for Any Folder in Your Obsidian Vault Word Count A Python script that will count the words in a …

How to get a word count for any folder in your obsidian vault

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#Obsidian #ObsidianMD #Python

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Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos | TechCrunch With TikTok's future in the U.S. uncertain, it feels like major social media platforms are working overtime to ship features to attract the millions of

Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos

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#Bluesky #ATProto

Good work :)

This is a masterpiece!

#recruitment #recruiters

I'm not really involved in it and I can imagine how much work it is. Being a content creator is the definition of tremendous amounts of work and delayed gratification.

TikTok Shutdown: Why building on proprietary platforms is a risky game

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#bluesky #tiktok

Welcome to Canada | Bienvenue au Canada 🇨🇦
We still have TikTok | Nous avons encore TikTok

Government Monitoring Those With "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies New documents reveal flurry of intelligence activity following Luigi Mangione's arrest

If you expressed “negative sentiment” toward insurance companies on social media following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, the government was watching.

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We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

#bluesky #atproto

InMail Outreach: See Who Received More Attention from Recruiters Recruiters sent 5% more InMails in 2024 than in the previous year, with business development, sales, and healthcare pros seeing the biggest increases in InMails.

Is the market finally picking up?

In 2024, LinkedIn InMail outreach grew by 5%.
80% of executives plan to hire in 2025.

Top 5 professions getting more InMails are:
Business Development (+44%)
Sales (+35%)
Healthcare Services (+33%)
Finance (+28%)
HR (+28%)

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