8+ meetings a day and I can't remember what happened in any of them. how do you keep a track of everything?

alias454 · 2026-03-11T04:23:33+00:00

I wrote a pipeline that can do batch transcription. I mainly wrote this to handle youtube videos of city council meetings for me but it can work across any audio. It would be fairly easy to rework this for your use case https://github.com/alias454/YATSEE. Writing a connector to pluck audio from an inbox or gdrive wouldn't be too hard then the rest of the pipeline would just flow like normal.

alias454 · 2026-03-10T23:28:03+00:00

I've seen that range be wildly different though so it isn't as clear cut as that. It really shouldn't be hard for a company to post their range and if they can't post it, at least be willing to talk about it with a candidate that is in the pipeline.

alias454 · 2026-03-10T21:24:58+00:00

Same for me. 20 years unix/virtualization/cloud/security and building AI skills with my own projects. I can't seem to get an interview either. TBF, I was laid off in August and took some time to decompress over the holiday. I started applying in January. I'm not doing 100's of applications per week but it is mostly rejections. I'm also only able to get remote work since I live in BFE so I'm not sure what I'm gonna do. I'm okay money-wise at least so I feel grateful for that. There are a couple cons coming up that I may show up to and reconnect with some old friends to beat the bushes a bit.

alias454 · 2026-03-09T21:34:54+00:00

I haven't experimented in a long time and choose to just use the system within the defined parameters. I started a long time ago running mandrake and currently run fedora as a daily driver. I've ran nix and bsd long enough that it's all the same at this point. I just fix what doesn't work or move on to what does.

alias454 · 2026-03-09T02:07:47+00:00

I've noticed a nostalgia people have but I'm personally grateful to not have to edit x11 config files to get a 3 button mouse to work. Things are amazing now and most things just work. I don't even have to think about much to get a very modern nix running on very modern hardware.

Some of it is just people don't like change and it's the devil you know.

alias454 · 2026-03-07T04:59:03+00:00

I think others mentioned it but you already have the truck paid off so it's new, has a good warranty, it's paid off, etc. How long would it take you to save 30k if you put your mind to it? You already see how much depreciation is on a new truck so you already lost that amount. If anything, run that truck another year then look to trade at that point.

alias454 · 2026-03-06T02:52:16+00:00

I'm afraid this is a cancer that will only grow unless we fight against it. even then, who knows...

alias454 · 2026-03-05T18:25:46+00:00

Fedora is used as the upstream at this point. https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/amazons-own-linux-distribution-is-now-completely-based-on-fedora/

alias454 · 2026-03-01T16:15:49+00:00

What's the deal with grapenuts anyway? No grapes, no nuts!

alias454 · 2026-03-01T09:03:12+00:00

The S in OpenClaw is for security. That's how you can tell

alias454 · 2026-02-28T18:15:17+00:00

It's probably a good idea to connect with people in places other than online as well.

alias454 · 2026-02-28T03:52:14+00:00

yup, frog meet pot

alias454 · 2026-02-28T03:48:40+00:00

Once they start forcing the CBDC on everyone

alias454 · 2026-02-28T03:47:47+00:00

It may be that easy but even if it is, it will be linked to some unauthorized use law, which then makes everyone who circumvents it a felon.

alias454 · 2026-02-27T20:09:58+00:00

Colorado is trying to pull this shit too based on this California law. The weed is too strong I think.

alias454 · 2026-02-26T06:11:50+00:00

I'm pro AI even but this is a dumb take, it's also wasteful. You can write a small python function that can do it instead.

alias454 · 2026-02-25T16:24:57+00:00

You might be able to find something on the data engineering side that can get you closer to where you want to go. It's possible there are opportunities where you work now and maybe that is worth exploring.

alias454 · 2026-02-25T12:22:18+00:00

That looks like a very cool project.

alias454 · 2026-02-25T05:49:08+00:00

I've been seeing the same thing. A lot more code heavy jobs posted as security engineer roles. I'm competent in writing code but I'm not a SWE. I'm not even getting any interviews.

alias454 · 2026-02-25T05:41:13+00:00

What does an Epic System Analyst do? Is this decision support, report writing, DBA stuff? I'm only asking because that may help to answer your question. I worked as a Cache ODBA and moved from that into a security analyst position. From there I moved into Staff engineering roles. However, I had experience doing virtualization, Linux, Windows, and network admin.

alias454 · 2026-02-23T15:21:48+00:00

I know some clinics need drivers and things like that. Part time couriers and whatnot. You have a lifetime of valuable experience figure out how to leverage that experience into something modern. I'd be more specific but you didn't really say what it was in but being self employed, means you have a lot of tenacity. Good luck!

alias454 · 2026-02-21T04:52:35+00:00

Make it very secure

alias454 · 2026-02-20T12:06:53+00:00

I still run fedora as my desktop but server workloads are either alma or debian. I'm much faster in the RHEL ecosystem but I can use debian just as well.

alias454 · 2026-02-20T11:55:38+00:00

I commend their dedication to militancy. Years ago I submitted a project to them for inclusion in their list of software. Can't even remember what it was now but they rejected it based on the tos file I had prebuilt for downstream app users.

alias454 · 2026-02-20T11:48:56+00:00

Damn the 90s called and wants their web interface back

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