apparia

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I have never had a LinkedIn account, both out of general anti-data-vacuuming-social-media, and specifically anti-whatever-the-fucking-corphead-psychos-are-doing-on-LinkedIn tendencies, and managed to find a decent job out of uni just fine (software field). I'm now looking for a job again and the number one piece of advice I'm being given by concerned parties is "get on LinkedIn".

I'm curious how many people into the whole "privacy" thing have had to make this choice, and which way you went with it.

Do the advantages (which it seems mainly boil down to "networking") outweigh the icky feeling I'd get making an account? Of course only I can actually answer that question, but it sums up my conundrum.

[–] apparia@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

My assumption for the key icon was something to do with PINs/passkeys, which kind of reinforces OP's point.

[–] apparia@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Ngl I really want to know what the tick icon actually does now.

[–] apparia@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

And "a11y" is the most obscure -- dare I say... inaccessible -- fucking abbreviation of "accessibility". For years I only saw them in passing and assumed both these things were like, quirkily-named Javascript frameworks or niche standards documents or something, despite knowing quite well the concepts they actually refer to.

[–] apparia@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

I recently started watching this, but I think I have similar feelings to you, because once it went out to the wasteland I started getting less enthused and stopped watching after a few episodes. I've been meaning to get back to it and see it through -- although it sounds like you're not particularly rosy on it, hearing there's a "game show episode" makes me think I need to at least see what that's about.

I do really like the soundtrack; New Pulse in particular has a quintessentially cyberpunk feel for me.