Zettelkasten changed everything for me, I didn't hear about it until my early 40's myself. I also had no idea you weren't just supposed to be summarizing verbatim.

It did take a huge amount of effort to go through the conversion process of my notes, but now it makes things much easier and works how my mind works to link concepts and ideas.

CentOS isn't the CentOS of previous years, which may have something to do with it. IBM killed it and now it's some sort of Fedora stream type thing that just reused the name?

Due to the gross incompetence these companies operate at, it's too hard to tell the difference.

Unfortunately, unlike cyber security, there are no off the shelf products that are being sold to help companies with general incompetence.

I was going to say that isn't my experience, but then I realized I haven't dealt with sending a resume into the void, that while I send in a resume, i've always landed my next gig through my network.

Building a network is absolutely key, people who enjoy working with you remember you and at some point you just become set

Very true, however this hits the first time job seekers the worst - can’t ever build a network if you never start working (maybe through open source contributions?)

People manipulating and pretending to be someone they are not has been going on since the internet has been a thing and provided the ability to be anon. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" is like 1996.

And theft murder has been a thing for as long as there have been people, as have all sorts of bad things. So what? We can just do anything?

Yeah I do too, and they related similar experiences. The SB's typically have 3-4 men on the go at any one time.

Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity

Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI

That's because it's not investing, it's speculating at best, and usually just gambling. Investing is just another word we've lost in recent years from people trying to justify to themselves that they aren't acting like fucking idiots.

Reminds me of Carlin's bit about the softening of language.

How don't they manipulate you?

They are designed to get you to buy things you don't need, and they do that through manipulating human traits. They make you feel you will be lesser/incomplete/not as good as unless you have such and such product. This is not "appealing" to people - it's stone cold corporate manipulation with only one goal in mind.

People have way less control over how they react to what they take in then they think they do.