Ah, yes, just over five attempts for every human alive. I assume they took the reply addresses at face value and have forwarded 45 billion cease & desist letters to Microsoft's Redmond office?
chaorace
joined 2 years ago
Could have been MMANAA 😔
If you hate job boards then you need to find individual company "Careers" pages and go from there.
How you go about this varies a lot by skillset and industry, but I'll just throw out a random example: lots of Linux jobs exist in the DevOps space (think Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, NixOps). It just so happens that lots of medium-sized software companies need DevOps people, so you can pretty easily find companies looking for DevOps hires just by browsing Y Combinator's Startup Directory
With that being said, I get the impression from the way your post is worded that you're looking to break into a new career without having yet established a concrete plan. My advice would be to step back and consider specific options first. Almost all jobs like these require industry-specific certifications (e.g.: CompTIA, ITIL, AWS, Azure, Cisco, etc.). You need to look at your options, pick a certification, earn it, then go job hunting. Certifications are great for securing entry level jobs and the standards body issuing these will often provide an online directory of partner companies who are currently hiring.
You'll understand when you're older, son
Ugh... they got Plasma everywhere!
I am of two minds:
- He's not wrong
- It doesn't matter at this point
It's a mess, but honestly so are a lot of critical FOSS projects (e.g.: OpenSSH, GNUPG, sudo). Curmudgeons gonna curmudgeon. There was a point of no return and that was years ago -- now that Wayland's finally becoming useable despite itself it's probably time to come to terms with the fact that better alternatives would have arisen had anyone thought they could truly manage it.
Good for them. No cyclical mass layoffs and any paycuts always happened in the c-suite first. The U.S. game industry could stand to learn a thing or two from their Japanese predecessors, I think it's safe to say.
Alright, enough cheerleading for a faceless multinational megacorp... I just had to give credit where it was due so that I can still take myself seriously the next time I criticize the games industry for inevitably shitting its pants again.
When will it end? The streets run red with figurine paint
No, I am not contradicting myself. Let me say it again with the ambiguity removed:
- Cox Media isn't an advertiser, they sell a dressed-up analytics service. Think spreadsheets (that's literally the service they're selling in this copy, a monthly report spreadsheet).
- The "technology partner" selling this data to Cox is accessing it by bypassing the normal and correct operation of the device using malware.
- What does not "exist" is a shadowy cabal of smartphone manufacturers scheming to hide listening devices in the pockets of their consumers.
I'm sure you still believe this is a load of apologia and frankly you can think what you want, but you should probably know that I'd already read about the Cox story when it first broke and specifically chose my words with that knowledge in mind.
Read the document:
The growing ability to access microphone data on devices like smartphones and tablets enables our technology partner to aggregate and analyze voice data during pre-purchase conversations.
Key word is "technology partner". They're buying voice transcripts ripped from someone else's spyware and selling the service of scraping it for keywords and maybe somehow tying that back to an individual by cross-referencing the hit against data from traditional above-board ad platforms.
Google isn't buying transcripts, Facebook isn't buying transcripts. It's Cox Media buying shady recordings stolen from spyware-compromised devices and then trying to whitewash it into something sellable with their (unverifiable) cross-analytics middleware.
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You may be interested in reading this post about the process of packaging Steam.
tl;dr: It's mostly an annoyance reserved for packagers to deal with. Dynamically linked executables can be patched in a fairly universal fashion to work without FHS, so that's the go-to approach. If the executable is statically linked, the package may have to ship a source patch instead. If the executable is statically linked & close-source, the packagers are forced to resort to simulating an FHS environment via chroot.