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Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?
That quote stood out for me as well.
I can't speak for the OP, but what breaks my heart every now and so often is that hate speech against Russians is totally acceptable in the English speaking Internet. It's bad that it happens, that no one seems to bother makes it worse.
Most companies that I have interacted with view any vendors outside the G7 with suspicion. Even Poland seemed to raise more security concerns than say France.
In that note, Russia is on a whole different level. It's viewed with the similar level of distrust as China.
Take it for what it is - a personal anecdote. Yet, it's hard to imagine this kind of experience not having an emotional response.
Nobody speaks for my love, not this Russian peep, not you, not HN. Only me.
They are faulting everyone else for their own problems, whatever those are. It's not my problem (or fault) they have problems and I'm sure as shit not going to add to the problems I have by spending extra effort to decode what they mean when they can't say what they really mean.
This is what real IT is like outside the bubble areas, no matter how many times a desperate shortage is announced in SV or NYC or where-ever.
Whether or not one can find a job is hugely dependent on the individual's skillset, and very importantly, social abilities. The latter being a thing that laid-off IT people tend to completely discount, IME.
I've been running private instances of both Gnu Social as well as Matrix for my family...and as easy as Gnu Social was to set up...the documentation was always lacking - in my opinion - at least for non-techs. I had to dig up stuff myself, experiment, etc. My wish is for so many more people to set up their own, decentralized/federated/distributed instances of social network-esque systems...Gnu Social made it a little burdensome for non-tech folks...And while matrix is not much easier, there certainly seems like there is plenty more documentation for matrix - even after only being "on the scene" for a short time. Granted I can't say its very easy for non-techs to set up their own matrix instance...but there appears to be so much more attention/popularity with matrix, that already is has lead to more documentation being out there...my hope is that this results in more people - including/especially non-tech people - creating their own instances...which would also lessen burdens for folks like admin of LoadAverage.