Options make me laugh: They seldom can be cashed, and they usually must be given back when employment is terminated.

Gimme actual company stock instead.

I recently attended a workshop on LinkedIn marketing tools. One interesting point:

While the site has long been a professional networking and recruitment platform, the pandemic gave LinkedIn management time to pause and ponder the bigger picture. Their conclusion: At the bird's eye view, LinkedIn constitutes a pool of white collar people, many of which are high earners. It therefore goes that the next step is to advertise high ticket events and products that match the estimated income level suggested by one's recent job titles and employers. Basically, it's slated to become social media for busy professionals with ads to match that market segment.

Considering how ridiculous its job search results already are, I fail to see how this will improve anything.

The money would have been better spent on redesigning the job search's user interface to be able to edit the filters for all job alerts in one page. Currently, one cannot edit the filters at all. Instead they must create a new alert with the correct filters and delete the old alert. I've randomly contacted their developers and even mentioned this to a LinkedIn Senior VP who visited a local event. They never fixed it.

... they never think of laying off the management team and the board members.

Nothing new. Phages were fairly common in USSR and preferred over antibiotics for those very reasons.

WhatsApp has become largely irrelevant. Instagram is not far behind.

Basically, every time something is bought up by a megacorporation, people know that it's time to move on.

X development has slowed down because nowadays X skips its native GPU drivers and instead leverages the kernel's own GPU support via X's generic modeline driver.

Wayland is still too buggy for daily use, espcially with video apps. Also, GNOME on Wayland cannot be reloaded ("F2 r" works as before with GNOME on X.org), and the GNOME shell extention to open windows maximized doesn't work on Wayland.

The few distros that still support 32-bit x86 mostly do for the Geode LX and similar VIA processors that provide a barebone 686 instruction set without PAE. Heck, older Geodes are not even barebone 686, but rather 585 with all the bells and whistles. That ought to remain the base platform.

For everyone else, there's essentially zero reason for remaining on 32-bit CPUs.

Expecting mere users to become developers and start contributing patches, instead of routinely inquire when the bug they reported will be fixed, is the real problem. That rejection of users is what's toxic. This is how most users end up giving up on FLOSS and going back to commercial software.

Knowing that many MFT cameras in Panasonic's LUMIX range are actually Olympus bodies with Leica lenses, I cannot help but wonder what will the impact be.

Instagram is owned by Facebook, and there are signs that data is shared between the two services. Heck, they even have the same GDPR statement.

Computer says no. Let's ban Bell Canada instead.

Boghossian has two accomplices, and yet the university's ire seems to be directed at him specifically. Someone seems very keen on making this personal. I cannot help but wonder why.

I've been on LinkedIN forever. There's hardly any local employer or recruiter that uses it. However most expats and most locals who worked abroad at some point are there as users.