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pacija··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
It is even weirder in my case. I am not applying for any jobs, recruiters reach out to me. After exchanging plesantries with HR ladies at video calls they ask me what are my salary expectations. I explain them there are two options. For full time employment I expect them to give me their best offer for me to consider. For consulting I expect them to give me exact goals so I can give them exact quote. I mostly never hear back from them, in rare cases they say their technical colleagues reviewed my resume and decided I am not appropriate candidate. I suspect most of them are just mining data about salary expectations.
pacija··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
The next step would be blunt "fuck you and your constitutions and amendments, we're in charge here, we own the guns (both police and army), the media, the businesses, and we won't go away peacefully regardless of your elections". It is already happening here in Serbia which used to be a civilized country.
pacija··on deSEC – Free Secure DNS
Unbound is caching, not authoritative. Zones with dns records are served from authoritative DNS servers such as bind. Unbound asks authoritative servers for records and caches them locally, giving faster response and reducing load on authoritative servers.
pacija··on deSEC – Free Secure DNS
Just use bind :)
pacija··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
I'm not that extremist. My dentist is cool, my childrens' pediatrician as well. I trust them entirely and I know they would never compromise their credibility or my health for financial gain. I always take medicine they prescribe (mostly generic stuff whose patents expired a century or so ago). They always steer me to healthy habits such as excercise and eating fruits instead of taking supplements etc.

Unfortunately, they are the only ones like that I know. Most other I encountered just peddle products for their financial gain. Snake oil salesmen.

I am aware I live in a dictatorship which drove a lot of smart and good people away from the country, skilled doctors and nurses were among the first to go. Hopefully it'll get better once we overthrow the dictator.

pacija··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Contemporary pharmaceutical companies, as well as contemporary government and private health institutions are my enemy. I would rather die than live using their products and services.

When more ethical entities take over their business I will gladly start using them once again, as I did back in the day before they turned evil.

pacija··on Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
As a Serb, I currently live in a dictatorship actively supported by everyone involved in EV boom. Those who want to profit from mining lithium in Serbia have determined my country should be a mining colony, and they do everything in their power, including financing corrupt murderous regime protested by hundreds of thoudands of Serbs for years, in order to poison our rivers and aral land and extract lithium.

https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/lithium-in-serbia-people-p...

So far we have been able to pause it, but evil never sleeps. Hopefully we overthrow traitors on next election. Won't be easy as all media turned into propaganda brainwashing machine, protesters are being run over by cars driven by pro-government thugs who are being pardoned by president, and instead of being jailed for attempted murder they get promoted, are being given high political functions, and celebrated as defenders of the nation.

Polluted cities getting cleaner for some. Clean rivers and beautiful forests getting poisounous ore pits for others.

pacija··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Long time ago I used these BSD-based appliances such as opnsense, beleiving I'll have it easier with their web interfaces than with editing config files in vi.

In the long run, after investing some time into learning actual BSDs I find editing a few config files much more convenient than clicking around in web interfaces.

OpenBSD is great for a router.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

pacija··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
There's a port of Unifi network controller for both FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

https://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/unifi10/

https://ports.to/path/net/unifi/main.html

I guess not officially supported but I use them, they work well.

pacija··on How to earn a billion dollars
Can't you crash on your sister's couch?
pacija··on We accepted surveillance as default
In my case firefox + arkenfox + ublock origin advanced mode require all sorts of weird clicking to enable similar tracking :)
pacija··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Serbia used to be parliamentary republic. Nominally it stil is. In fact it is currently governed by SNS, former political party turned criminal organization.
pacija··on CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
Of course. A port is a door. If service listening on a port is secure and properly configured (e.g. ssh), whole Internet can bang on it all day every day, they won't let through without proper key. Same for imap, xmpp or any othet service.

But what can you expect from people who provide services but won't even try to understand how they work and how they are configured as it's 'not fun enough', expecting claude code to do it right for them.

Asking AI to do thing you did 100 times before is OK I guess. Asking AI to do thing you never did and have no idea how it's properly done - not so much I'd say. But this guy obviously does not signal his sysadmin skills but his AI skills. I hope it brings him the result he aimed for.

pacija··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Well behaved governments will provide national minorities with everything they need to feel at home. Bilingual street signs, schools in minority's native language, churches, radio and TV broadcasts in minority's native language etc.

Any government who denies this to their national minorities should be promptly replaced as this kind of disrespect to other peoples' culture, religion and national identity inevitably leads to bad outcomes.

pacija··on A website to destroy all websites
Addiction & Tolerance. You choose to take bigger doses of Heroin more frequently instead of living a healthy life. Your logic seems a bit too simple.
pacija··on Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
Jail managers come and go. Base OS tools stay and are getting better and better. I would definitely stay away from ezjail as it us quite old, active development or even maintenance has stopped long time ago.

Author of the article seem to know what they are doing so I'm puzzled why they don't use `bsdinstall jail /path/to/jail` to implement basejail instead of manually unpacking archives.

No need for separate custom rc script to start `lo1`, it can be done with `cloned_interfaces` directive in rc.conf.

Updating and upgrading jails by passing `-b /path/to/jail` to `freebsd-update` works, but new recommended way has lately been `-j <jailname>`.

Cool article overall, the beauty of FreeBSD is also in possibility to do things in many different ways.

pacija··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
In my country it is already visible. New entry level corporate white collar jobs are scarce, and they pay like half or one third of entry level blue collar jobs, which there are plenty of. Just a few years ago it was the other way around.
pacija··on Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)
Well, I was thaught in my primary school in then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, quite some time ago, that majority of members of all Yugoslavian nations - Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians and Muslims (nowadays called Bosnians or Bosniaks), rose against traitorous, collaborationist official local regimes (both Croatian Ustaše and Serbian Četnici) which sided with fascists and nazis after king Peter II of Yugoslavia cowardly ran away to London. With help of our allies, UK, USA, France, Russia and others, we managed to liberate our country not only from temporary foreign nazi and fascist occupiers, but also from local parasites who lived on the back of working people - royalty, nobility, bankers, industrialists, capitalists etc.

Current mainstream global narative, along the lines of "Eurasia is in war with Eastasia. Eurasia has always been in war with Eastasia" is trying to convince me that the history I had been thought was a lie. So far I'm not convinced.

About PS: indeed, outfit looks similar (but not identical) to uniform of Yugoslav Pionir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Pioneers_of_Yugosla...

pacija··on Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)
Овене Србине, нека си им рекао истину свака част! Сви су ови споменици у сећање на жртве фашистичког терора, а не за лајкове и кликове. Победили смо фашисте ономад, и победићемо их поново!
pacija··on The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent
To realize one does not want to climb the ladder is fine. To realize there isn't any ladder to climb is enlightenment.
pacija··on XMPP vs. Matrix
It's apples vs oranges. I selfhost and use both, ejabberd / conversations for xmpp and synapse / element for matrix.

XMPP is traditional IM. I use it exclusively from Conversations client on Android / GrapheneOS and it is really instant, supports presence (knowing whether contact is actually online), rings for audio and video calls, gives feedback about whether user read the message etc. I use it mostly for 1:1 conversations, it has all but replaced SMS and phonecalls.

I consider matrix more like 'fast forum'. Perhaps things changed but last I checked (from element on Android / GrapheneOS) there was no presence so I have no idea whether contact will get my message immediately or not. No confirmation that contact read the message. Audio and video calls not working, not even ringing when phone is locked. Quite laggy in message delivery.

So, after some years of using both, XMPP is best for replacing one-to-one SMS, video and audio calls, while I enjoy hanging in public matrix rooms, treating them like '(not really) instant forums'.

pacija··on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
I guess you don't have children.
pacija··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
I have problem with 0.5l yoghurt bottles. Yoghurt is best when shaken before opening the bottle because its viscosity spreads evenly, otherwise you get watery yoghurt on top, bottom is too dense.

I enjoy having morning breakfast in the park, drinking yoghurt straight from the bottle. When I shake it, yoghurt sticks to the cap. When caps were removable, I'd put it aside so that yoghurt that stuck to the cap does not spill on my shirt, re-screw it after I finish and throw bottle and cap to the bin. Now it's hard to remove the cap and I spill yoghurt on my shirt frequently, so I go to greater lengths to tear the cap away and re-screw when I empty the bottle.

pacija··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
Ајсе Cрбине реци им како ствари стоје, ја покушавам ал сам увек флегд :)
pacija··on Social-Media Influencers Aren't Getting Rich–They're Barely Getting By
This is true in my case. I would not design a network for less than 200€/h, and no way I'd do it on weekends.

But I happily DJ on Saturday in a local club from 10PM to 4AM, help with carrying beer cases, setting up cables and equipment, for free.

pacija··on Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
Ah, the fascists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal

pacija··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
You know your movie quotes, my deepest respect, Sir :)

Moonraker :)

pacija··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
A new life awaits us in the Off-World colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
pacija··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
A lot of people basically don't have strong enough urge to fcuk. Something is skrewed with the chemistry. Social aspects are just noise around it.
pacija··on Trabant
There's a song by Atheist Rap, a Serbian punk rock band, who sings about the band happily touring around Vojvodina villages in a "Blue Trabant", until one night they left it parked near a pigsty which resulted in Trabant being eaten by pigs - a reference to it being plastic. Luckily, they managed to convert an engine into a power saw for sawing firewood.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5YgRvIhdtk

The track was quite popular so they made another one about Wartburg.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvG7vi3bFCY

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