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The only real answer here is talk to an actual lawyer rather than a bunch of Joe Blows on the internet. Case in point: Laws will vary depending on country and you haven’t specified what country you’re in. The set of laws you’re subject to are possibly entirely different than the set of laws each commenter here is familiar with. Never take legal advice from the internet.

But if you’re only looking to publish the source code as a resume item, it’s not worth the legal exposure or time/money to talk to a lawyer. Find something else to write and put on your resume.

Non-snarky answer: My guess is that after not answering any questions they’d assume you’re just trying to waste their time and tell you to leave or actually be arrested for trespassing.

An interview is just a test.

Whenever I speak with students/new grads about interviewing I actually specifically advise them that an interview is not a test. Yes, you need to have a certain level of base skills, but beyond that, an interview is much more like a date than a test. I say this because you can do everything right and still be rejected. It doesn’t mean that you did anything wrong or there’s anything with wrong with you, but rather there just wasn’t a match between you and the company you were interviewing with at that point in time. There are so many factors entirely outside of your control that determine if you’re given an offer or are rejected to the point that I find it really tough to consider it a “test” in the academic sense where you need to score a certain value to pass or fail it.

Likewise, it’s incredibly common for students/new grads to focus heavily on the technical skills while completely ignoring the soft skills. The best thing you can do in an interview is make the interviewer like you and want to work with you. It’s amazing how many people will overlook subpar technical skills either consciously or subconsciously if they feel comfortable with you (the amount of borderline incompetent people I’ve seen hired that are otherwise smooth talkers is astounding). It seems like the author of the linked to article here might be falling into that trap too. He writes about his technical experience heavily but does not touch on the soft skills at all, even questioning at one point that he may simply be bad at interviewing which is a strong sign to me that he’s not presenting himself well in the interview.

This is something that transcends software engineering. If you’re a sociable and likeable person you’ll go far further in life than the person that is quietly a genius but doesn’t work well with others. I wish more people folks in this industry would focus on that side of the coin instead of simply saying “grind Leetcode more to get more offers.”

!fishing@lemmy.world looks like the biggest per https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fishing, but there’s also not many recent posts.

If you’re not overweight and simply want to become more athletic I personally think the most important thing to do is to find an activity you enjoy. That’s something you have to discover for yourself.

For example, I can’t stand working out for the sake of working out at a gym. But I do get really motivated by climbing, hiking, trail running, and skiing. Climbing builds strength and has a certain level of problem solving involved too so it’s mentally stimulating. Hiking and trail running are excellent cardio and have clearly defined goals to reach a certain summit or some endpoint. And skiing is just a blast in all forms. All of that keeps me active and having fun while I’m doing it. That makes me want to do it more which allows me to set bigger objectives and then it builds on itself.

Don’t feed the trolls y’all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Watkins_(Lostprophets_singer)#Sexual_offences_and_criminal_activity

Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.

He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?

I tried for years to breakup with Google search, but always kept coming back to it for one reason or another. I started using Kagi a few months ago and have not even thought about Google since then. I really can’t recommend it enough, especially now that the $10/month plan is unlimited searches.

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Your question seems to be confusing between browser and search engine. These are two separate pieces of software.

But to answer both:

• Browser: Firefox. Google has demonstrated clearly that they cannot be trusted as the sole owner of the web which is what is about to happen as Chromium (which Brave is based on) fully takes over. Mozilla (makers of Firefox) is the last holdout. If you care, this is case in point about how Google having a monopoly on browsers will kill the free web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity.
• Search engine: Another +1 for Kagi. It has completely replaced Google for me.

ActivityPub protocol so that anyone can run their own instance, but can also be blocked if anything heinous happens.

The overlap between the users who will run their own instance and the users you want for a dating app is the empty set.

(Speaking as someone that runs a personal Lemmy instance here)

I’ll be honest with you: I have better things to do with my time than debunk the same old re-hashed covid vaccine bullshit. It’s been almost three years since the vaccines were given to billions of people. If the clinical trials did truly miss awful side effects or there was something else wrong with them we’d know by now. It’s all bullshit and always has been. I’m done wasting my time debunking something that obviously has no credibility.

There’s no mass conspiracy about any of this stuff. If you want to get to the root of it just follow the money. Who profits from you and other people clicking on and reading these outlandish articles that promise to shed light on some massive conspiracy that the whole world is otherwise missing? The people that run the websites. They collect their ad revenue by peddling bullshit. If you’re not paying for something, you are the product, not the customer.

Also assuming you’re not just a troll with this comment…

You’re posting links to this website “vigilantnews.com”. Have you looked into who is behind it? According to their about section, it’s made up two people. One simply called “The Vigilant Fox” and another named Dallas Ludlum. (https://vigilantnews.com/about)

The latter, Dallas, runs a blog dressed up as a newspaper with clearly a hard right take on politics here: https://conservativecompass.substack.com. He’s also quite active on Quora for giving job seeking and career advice: https://www.quora.com/profile/Dallas-Ludlum.

More interestingly, from a reverse image search, this person’s headshot also shows up on an eastern European photographer’s website here: https://sebastianszulfer.com/en/services/headshots-portraits/. Yet Dallas claims to be on the east coast of the US on his Twitter account. Traveling to Europe just for a photo is quite the trek.

At best, the sources you’re listing are simply one or maybe two person’s opinions dressed up as a newspaper in order to generate pageviews and thus ad revenue. At worst, between the anonymous “Vigilant Fox” persona and the fake headshot profile photos, it’s likely this is part of a larger fake information dissemination campaign.

Is that “challenging the narrative” enough for you?

Considering the amount of flat out incorrect or wildly off-base code GPT has generated on surprisingly simple tasks over the past nearly year now, no, I’m not too worried about my job. I find it handy for time to time in replacing stuff I previously used a search engine for which makes it a productivity booster for me, but for anything novel or not straightforward (aka, anything outside of its training set, which is what I’d ideally want to use it for), it’s less than useful or actively harmful in trying to lead me down the wrong path. Overall, it still requires a human with significant knowledge in the field to know how to use the information these tools generate and how to put the pieces together to do something useful. I don’t see how that could change until there is an actual reasoning artificial intelligence brain developed which is a BIG ask, if it’s even possible in our lifetimes, or ever.

…or maybe we’ll all be out of a job in 10 years. Humans are quite bad at predicting the future and I am indeed human.

And for what it’s worth, no I did not RTFA. I’ve spent enough time reading articles prophesizing the doom of software engineering due to generative AI and don’t feel like wasting more time on the topic.

This should be multiple choices because different platforms are used for different topics. For example:

• Reporting a bug in an open source project: Whatever their bug tracker is where others can find the issue and chime in with more info/a fix.
• Asking for help in setting something up: A support forum of some type. Depending on size and activity level of project this would take different forms.
• Reporting a security issue: Something confidential with the developers so they have a chance to fix it before its publicly known.

Point being, there’s no single platform for all projects or even all use cases within a single project.

You know, you’re never going to change that map if you tell everyone living in one of those red states that their home is part of “dumbfuckistan.”

if they say they don’t care what pronouns I use for them

I’m taking it at face value then and using whatever I think is appropriate. There’s no point in wasting time playing games with this.

I’m sure it is, but when you throw in property taxes, insurance, HOA dues, PMI, and the big one: maintenance costs (which will vary dramatically on a case-by-case basis), comparing mortgages to rent becomes an apples-to-oranges comparison. For me personally, I spent $50k in the first six months of owning my home on maintenance & repairs alone. That could have paid for 2+ years of rent. Not to mention the ~$30k or so you’ll pay to sell it if you’re only going to be there for a few years.

Keep in mind too that the mortgage interest deduction is now capped at the first $750k. For people in HCOL areas, that’s starting to become a fairly low limit.

But yeah, I’m with you on the sense of stability is worth something too and that’s hard to put a dollar figure on. Most people want that stability, but there’s also people that want flexibility or may move around a lot such that buying a home every other year doesn’t make sense. My overall point is that it’s not always cheaper to buy and that renters can and do come out ahead, especially when they’re also investing excess funds appropriately.

For sure, I’m not trying to say that buying a house is a bad idea by any means, just that for some people you can rent and still come out ahead of a homeowner. It seems like people always compare a mortgage payment to their rent and think “wow, owning is so cheap compared to my rent!” and then forget about all the other costs associated with owning that can easily result in monthly costs double that mortgage rate. For example, I pay much more for my house now than I did when I was renting. Yes, it’s building equity but if I took the difference in costs and invested it in index funds over the long term could easily be equal to or exceed money earned from property appreciation. Plus, index funds are far more liquid than real estate is and I never have the mow the lawn of my portfolio. But on the other hand the stability and sense of ownership in a home is worth something as well which is harder to put a dollar figure on. If that’s worth something (as it is to me) then buying is likely worth the premium.