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Comment Re:The bottle was leaking for years (Score 1) 128

Unless their parents own the company, anyone in hiring has been on both sides. And within the past 10 years (at least), job seekers have had to pack their resumes with keywords in order to get through HR. Yes, people should ideally take the time to tailor their resume to the position to which they're applying, but it's a lot less effort (and usually pays off) to just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks so you can get at least a phone interview.

Also, in the time it takes to customize a resume, the position might be closed, and nobody wants to spend hours mentally reviewing their past experience to highlight parallels with the position they're applying to, especially when there's no guarantee they'll even get to submit that resume, let alone that anyone important will look at it. There's risk involved. If there's a job I really want, I'll tailor my resume. If it's a job that would be lucky to have me.... not so much.

Also, (and I can't believe I'm arguing in favor of Java devs here) if a Java dev is applying, it's likely because they're willing to do the work, not because they don't understand the difference. Many devs avoid JS because they *do* understand it, not because they don't. "I'm willing to pay you a half-million dollars to stab yourself in the eye, but it says here you've never stabbed yourself in the eye before. What makes you think you can do this job?! Idiot!"

Also worth noting that Java and JS are not mutually exclusive, and many Java projects include JS these days, so unless JS is absent from their resume, being a Java dev is probably a point in favor. Plus you mentioned C#, which is basically "Microsoft Java."

Finally, it's ironic because any dev who's been working longer than, say, 5 years has experience in technologies, frameworks, or even just parts of an API a language that are obsolete today. Everyone has had to transition to new technologies and methods, even if they stay in the same role at the same company using the same tools. Being able to pivot isn't the exception; it's the rule.

Point being, a keyword mismatch is an HR-level problem. IMO, nobody doing hiring should toss a good resume just because the experience doesn't match the requirements.

In theory, I agree that a polished resume is a good sign, and I try to present myself well on paper... but as a counterpoint, my good friend of over 30 years never put his resume in anything but plaintext format, uses keyword salad at the end, and he's also one of the best devs I know, and has always had more work than he has time for. I would be interested to learn how well a polished resume correlates with workplace success though, because I might be wasting my time.

Submission + - Ubuntu Linux 25.10 quietly kills off GNOME on Xorg as Wayland takes over (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Ubuntu 25.10, known as âoeQuesting Quokka,â is taking a big turn under the hood. Canonical has dropped support for the GNOME desktop running on Xorg. Starting with this release, the default âoeUbuntuâ session now uses Wayland only. Yes, folks, thereâ(TM)s no longer an option to log into GNOME on Xorg.

Submission + - Pavel Durov exposes U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors (x.com) 3

schwit1 writes: Pavel Durov blows Tucker Carlson’s mind by exposing U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors—and bans them from telling their own company

This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.

“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a back door and not tell anyone about it.”

“Using this process called the gag-order, you know there are certain legal procedures.”

Carlson, stunned, asked: “Not tell his own employer about it?”

Durov confirmed: “Yes, exactly. If you tell your own boss, you can end up in jail. Like, gag order.”

Carlson: “Actually?!”

Durov: “Yeah.”

Carlson: “So your employees have a legal obligation to act as fifth column spies? Saboteurs against you, your employees?”

Durov didn’t hesitate: “That’s one of the reasons I didn’t move to the U.S. with my team.”

Comment Never Enable WAN Access (Score 3, Insightful) 23

The original announcement isn't clear, but based on the relatively low number of affected devices (there must be hundreds of thousands of these routers in use), it seems that only "savvy" users who enabled forms-based logins on the WAN port may have been affected.

Installing a private key and enabling SSH on a non-default port (as the attackers did) is likely much more secure, if the device absolutely must be accessible, or enabling the VPN -- again with public/private key pairs.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft! (Score 1) 37

Sorry I should have been more explicit:
The only reason I even keep a windows partition around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting at home, and because my work PC has been Linux-only for years, so I already have it covered, thanks.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft! (Score 1) 37

The only reason i even keep windows around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting.
But with steam doing an increasingly good job with Proton, and Microsoft forcing increasingly clueless shit like this and privacy-raping shit like Recall on users, I'm finally 101% done with them.

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