Notices by Chris Adams (acdha@code4lib.social)

The U.S. Library of Congress is hiring a GS-14 #accessibility specialist eligible for remote work:

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/809242000

#a11y #section508 #wcag #getfedihired cc: @jobs

@SecureWaffle @GossiTheDog They _must_ do that if they want to sell Windows in Europe, where they have a requirement that third-parties get the same access as their own security products do.

This is healthy in a way: if the kernel & Defender teams work out what it'd take for the latter to run in user space, I'd bet that MVP API would cover most other users with minimal additions since they all care about the same kinds of activities.

All of those goo.gl short links are about to break, exactly as predicted a decade ago. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

“this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of a core piece of free software technology that would quickly become a seminal piece of collaborative software, the bedrock under every version control system and arguably the single most important piece of social software ever created.

Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix, on this month in 1974 the world was given diff.”
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/06/14/fifty-years-of-diff-and-merge/

@inthehands Ah, yeah, that's what I get for leaving the reply window open while I got lunch. Sorry about the redundancy but I'm glad to see more attention to the root cause vs. just ragging on HR.

@inthehands This is going to get so much worse with outsourced services job descriptions banks and, especially, LLMs to give false confidence that the listing, screen questions, etc. are okay because they have fewer glaring errors. The obvious grammatical or technical errors were embarrassments but they did at least give readers a cue that there wasn't a skilled reviewer in the loop at that stage.
Now ever penny-pincher is going to think they can pay HR even less because the tools do the work.

A sad open source plea: “I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over.”
https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

@marick I think Diamond has held up better – I haven’t seen accusations of the outright misrepresentation in service of right-wing tropes which characterizes Haidt’s big books - but I think you’re right to reconsider contrarianism. It’s such an easy path to a rush of self-satisfaction that I think it almost inevitably leads to errors over time as the writer relaxes their self-doubt – Nate Silver used to be a better writer when he had to worry about what an editor would say, too.

This is why every news organization should have a Mastodon server:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/tech/meta-social-media-nightcap/index.html

The combination of “publish or perish” and not paying enough for review seems unlikely to survive the LLM era:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/CAABBF887348FB2D1C0329E0A27BE6

“But the technology company left one of its internal databases exposed to the internet without a password” … is it too much to ask for a breach of contract lawsuit to encourage the others? https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/leaky-database-two-factor-codes/

Probably the most important lesson from that $50k scam story is that thanks to decades of lax businesses being breached, scammers have most of our private data and use it to sound legitimate.

Also the cumulative cost of telcos not having reliable caller ID far outweighs the profits they made from skimping on it. Perhaps we should tax them accordingly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/scam-tips-columnist-50k/

@Wolven you weren’t kidding. This is terrible:

@futurebird I want cameras on buses and a simple policy: block the bus twice and you lose your license for 6 months. 3 times and it’s a year.

@inthehands at least it’s not pumpkin spice?

@apodoxus @vaurora a softer form of this is confirmation bias: I’m objectively a smart person, doing well on this test was important to my career & most of my peers’, therefore it must be measuring something real.

I used to support neuroscientists & one thing they’d remind everyone of is that humans are notoriously prone to believing we’re being rational when we’re constructing a story that explains the present.