Kevin

He/Him

Sysadmin doing Linux and Linux adjacent things

Mastodon - [email protected]

[Kevin @BaronVonClack]

@mattcassinelli From the big feature photo at the start of WWDC, everything shortcuts!

Else if support in shortcuts

Group conversation support in Shortcuts

Expanded Get What’s On Screen capabilities in Shortcuts

Store data in Shortcuts

Faster shortcuts and actions indexing in Spotlight

Redesigned Shortcuts editor

Screenshot and notification automations in Shortcuts

[Kevin @BaronVonClack]

@mattcassinelli I would love to see this in 1Password, or Apple releases an API that apple can open up to allow this feature to work with other password apps.

I understand if Apple doesn't though

[Ben Thompson @benthompson]

It's actually super important that the Siri demo was kind of slow, because it emphasized it was real. Would be even better if it were live, though.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

Spending 3 hours tailoring your resume for a job they already gave to someone internally.

[Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms @shift_in2_turbo]

May Day started in the United States to commemorate the deaths of striking workers in 1886.

[Kevin @BaronVonClack]

@GergelyOrosz

[techknight @techknight2]

well https://t.co/Ik6BckFSBW aka Ask Jeeves kinda just went silently into the night

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

No one has ever inflicted so much psychic damage to such annoying people. Unbelievably based.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Apple announces the old CEO can be traded in for $83 in store credit, valid only toward the purchase of a new CEO.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

this is legit funny

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

A bank we work with uses an AI tool to screen every resume that comes in.

Here's how it works.

We send them a candidate. Their internal recruiter runs the resume through the tool. If it scores an 8/10 or higher, the candidate gets an interview. Anything below that, auto rejected.

We sent them a candidate a few weeks ago for a Python Developer role. She just ended a project for us at a competing bank with excellent references. The skills they actually needed for the role? Python, FastAPI, SQL. She had all three, used daily in her last job.

The tool scored her a 7.5.

Rejected.

We pushed back and asked why.

Turns out the job description had everything and the kitchen sink listed. Fifteen skills, half of them "nice to haves" that had nothing to do with the actual work. The AI weighted all of them equally and her score got dragged down by gaps that didn't matter.

We pushed back on the internal recruiter citing she had the main skills + excellent references. We got her the interview and she got the offer.

This is where internal recruiting teams are headed.

AI tools layered on top of ATS systems, scoring candidates before a human ever reads the resume. In theory it saves time. In practice, it rejects qualified people because nobody bothered to write a clean job description.

The tool isn't the problem, the inputs are. If your JD is a wish list instead of a job description, your AI is going to reject the exact people you're trying to hire.

We're early in this. The tech will get better. But right now, a lot of great candidates are getting filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they can do the job.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

For anyone still assuming this is about Anthropic: no, it’s about how it’s unacceptable to ban paying customers from your AI tool without justification, and no appeals path.

Called it out when Google did the same w Antigravity customers

Anthropic’s is worse: banning a company!

[Kevin @BaronVonClack]

@Captain2Phones Yeah I should have made it more clear, that's what I was asking about :-) I was actually pretty close on the other ones.

I guessed 3% LGBTQ, 2% 250k over salary, and 10% agree with political violence

[Michael Fisher @Captain2Phones]

This is the most worthwhile website you will visit this month.

I got every question wrong (WAY wrong) and instead of discouraging me ... it made me hopeful for the future. For the first time in years.

https://t.co/1Dv6j2Ex3A

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Huh?

You bailed in the middle of trial after cutting a sweetheart deal with Live Nation, tried to pressure the rest of us to accept it, but we pressed on and won the trial without you.

Congrats to consumers, not to you.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

If there's one thing I've learned the past few years in this job market, it's don't make your job your whole personality.

My father was a sr. director at the same company for 10 years. When they got acquired, he was treated like a line item on a spreadsheet. A decade of loyalty and ended up getting whacked like it was nothing.

Last year, I was laid off myself. I was going to finish the year as the #2 recruiter out of ~100 and was also one of the the top producers in company history.

I know people who made work their entire world at the expense of their personal relationships.

Sacrificed marriages, missed their kids growing up, burning personal relationships they had for a company that forgot their name 30 days after their badge stopped working.

Everyone learns this eventually.

Whether it hits you at 25 or 55, you will realize that when things get tough, the corporate world spits you back out like nothing.

This doesn't mean to just quiet quit and stop trying.

I still work hard. Life is expensive and I want to create as many memories as possible with my kids. But trust me when I say it will not come at the expense of my relationship with them.

At the same time, I'm building my golden parachute so I can get out of this rat race on my own terms.

Just remember this: your company will never love you back.

[j aubrey 🤠 @jaubreyYT]

Why are they acting like this isn’t an insanely depressing photo

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

"ICE tried to identify a user without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user."

This is why they're pushing age verification.

[Beyond FPS @beyond_fps]

This thread is so funny, it shows why Linux can't become mainstream as it is now.

And these threads always end up with "just do sudo pacman xyzqwe" "just search the solution with some LLM, 1 minute job", or "wrong distro, use XYZ distro".