• Tja@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    I don’t know how you guys use LinkedIn but for me it got me two job changes where I more than doubled my salary (via recruiters) and I find much more interesting technical discussions than on any other social platforms.

    If you only follow recruiters and salesmen you get what you follow.

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    4 hours ago

    LinkedIn is worth many billions of dollars. No lottery would pay out enough money to buy it.

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    I don’t think we want to close the recruiter & c-suite containment system

    It does a great job of keeping them all in one place so we can leave them to their fart sniffing and occasionally visit like it’s a zoo

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      The downside is they tend to feed off of each other and make things even worse. It’s part of why the AI hype train is so bad is they’re ping ponging their bad ideas off each other.

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      Can we stop forcing the unemployed to interact with it, please

      I go there and I start making fun of AI chuds. It keeps adding more suggested chuds in my feed.

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    In case you’d like to know just how fucked the entire Linkedin edifice is, now is once again the time to trot out this piece of trivia.

    Windows users only: Hold down all four modifier keys on your keyboard, Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win, and press L.

    You can never unlearn this piece of knowledge. You’re welcome.

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        I don’t use windows. Is this serious or are you joking? If true, this is pretty much like TV remotes that have a Netflix or Hulu button.

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          I find those buttons (well, the YouTube button) quite useful. Shortcut to the statistically most used apps.

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          Yeah it’s real, Microsoft has built keyboard commands into the keyboard for awhile. Windows Key + E opens Windows Explorer. Think that existed in XP.

          Ctrl shift Esc opens task manager.

          Win r (run)

          Then obviously all the basics Ctrl x,c,v,p,z,y,f Ctrl t and Ctrl shift t for browsers

          (All of those last set should match Mac OS, just substitute Ctrl for Cmd)

          Most of them work in Mint and Debian as well.

          Although a good feature was updating Ctrl V to Win V which allows you to paste from your clipboard, so all those times you copy data, then copy something else and forget you did and try to paste, you can hit win v, and paste which selection you needed.

          I use Linux for Home, and Mac/Windows for work…

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          Its true, its how the weird special keys on certain keyboards functions. Its just a convoluted keybind integrated into Windows.

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    This is one of the few good things having the same job for 20 years has been. Never needing to create a linkdin account. I’ve been told in the past it’s still good to have, but i think that period of time is long gone. Glad i never gave them my info and time.

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    it’s the only social media I have that still has my real name attached. I use it to keep in contact with old coworkers, keep and host my resume, and I like their daily games. It also makes it easier to spitefully apply to other jobs at 2am but then those jobs actually call me and I realize I don’t want to have to learn 30 new people’s names and a new set of nightly charting requirements all over again. Doesn’t mean I don’t threaten my boss occasionally anyway.

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    why are people so against linked in? i thought it was t as bad as twitter? (I’m not on it)

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      It’s not that it’s more evil than other social media, it’s just such a shit platform. Everybody is posting their performative BS to try and look professional, it’s a massive circlejerk. Nothing of value posted there

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        Follow better people. Just yesterday I saw CVE analysis, a discussion about concurrency in Postgres vs MySQL and a guide/infographic about architectures for multi region disaster recovery again with an interesting discussion in the comments.

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        Posts on it are mostly garbage, but it still seems the best place to find jobs, at least in my own engineering experience.

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        Dealing with that level of performative bullshit is genuinely agonizing to me. LinkedIn is like my idea of personal hell – everyone, everywhere, up their own ass and completely full of shit, all the time – and I have resolved to never have a net worth or job title that would necessitate using it.