The CEO of the company you work for

Oh ye of little faith

All things that go up must come down. Icarus’ wings will melt from the sun’s heat. The web will crumble under the weight of llm bots. Markets will crash due to llm’s not living up to their hype. Big tech will be broken up. Billionaires and the trillionaire will be taxed to death. Regulators will lose interest. Let’s have hope.

I don’t think it’s possible to reclaim LinkedIn. It’s not exactly a democratic platform and I doubt user outrage will change anything unless their user attrition rate goes through the roof. They can just tweak their algorithms, mute or limit the reach of users to hide discontent from others too. Better to just leave and try to get #fedihired instead.

They did the same shit to me. I refused and pestered them with numerous e-mails demanding them to just delete my account instead of reopening it. Finding a link to their contact form was a nightmare (it’s hidden all the way at the bottom of their privacy policy). I also emailed legal@linkedin.com, dpo@linkedin.com, helpdesk@linkedin.com, support@linkedin.com and a number of other generic addresses just to be sure they would receive something.

I got three LLM sounding replies where they asked me to follow a link to verify my identity with a government issued identity document, but after a couple more e-mails where I wrote that providing Persona or LinkedIn with my identity documents is against my personal security policy, they just caved and reopened my account calling it a “temporary measure to protect my account”. Set a new password, logged in and deleted my account immediately. Good riddance.

Don’t use it

https://github.com/luka-hash/plan9cursors

Acme

Harvard’s CS50 (Introduction to computer science) is available for free on edx.org. It starts with Scratch and goes on to C the second week. Excellent lectures by David Malan and lots of weekly exercises you can do and submit for review that will give you a solid foundation to build on.

You can do some gaming, but it’s limited. I play a bit of Terraria and BG2 on my laptop that runs OpenBSD. I prefer Linux for gaming though.

https://www.playonbsd.com/games/

Looks good! ReiserFS is an interesting choice. Any particular reason for it?

Ah, thanks for clarifying! I self-host Gitea on a rpi and just push my dots to it.

How you apply them? What desktop environment or window manager are you using?

Manually resolving dependencies, piping fortune through cowsay and playing Tux Racer for the most part… /s

I run Slackware on my gaming pc too. You can use it as a daily driver like any other distro. It doesn’t have a specific use case. It is what you want it to be.

You’re not sure?

Of course! All Slackers unite!

Thanks, yours too!

Sure thing!

Wallpaper (Lofi cat):

https://images.hdqwalls.com/wallpapers/cat-lofi-looking-outside-xx.jpg

Xfce/Xfwm theme (inspired):

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1585133

Icon theme (DarK SVG):

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1187019

Xresources:

https://okturing.com/src/17135/body

Hello fellow slacker!

I’ve been running Slackware for a long time and have no intention of switching unless Pat steps down and Slackware goes down with him. As long as my base install receives updates, I’m good. I take care of the rest.