Good catch. I’m out of the job search market for going on five years and a lot has changed since then. It makes sense that the market is flooded and AI is probably being developed to “do it for us”.

I do still get feelers from recruiters though, and the jobs they share require a BS in CS or equivalent experience (usually 4+ yrs on the job). Would I get my CS degree again knowing what I know now? I think so. I learned a lot and met a lot of folks through internships. But none of my jobs have cared about my degree. They like my social skills, perfectionism and restlessness.

I’m just one person on an anonymous social platform. Take my opinions with a grain of salt. Developers definitely still have work, but you are right the the current outlook seems* bleak.

Coding for network security companies is a possibility.

*I haven’t asked anyone in the know.

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/71732414-its-always-dns

For the first time in over thirty years, the community college near me has had many members of the community advisory board (reps from various local businesses) that rep’d tech firms not even come to the advisory board meetings.

I take that to mean they’re riding the AI bubble, hoping to phase out much of their human workforce. That said, someone has to maintain the local infrastructure, and while data centers don’t employ many workers, they need some staff to watch over the systems. I also think networking still is a strong field, and obviously cyber security.

I have worked with several folks that were much better at their job because of self-hosting, so your experience there maybe isn’t as worthless as you think.

My advice would be to talk to recruiters and department heads and ask what they see themselves needing.

Its always DNS.

But seriously, I’m not familiar with qui, but there could be a whitelist approach to access by default. Maybe it’s blocking access until you whitelist or configure it to accept all.

Its not likely your local firewall is an issue since you can access other services, but the fact that you don’t know means you should find out. I think Debian uses ufw by default, but I think Debian ships with it disabled.

In the Marvel Universe™ some things just “can” happen because Hollywood. Like when Ultron could see the whole internet, or like the “nexus” where the "whole world’s internet runs through.

In this case, I believe Spidey tapped into the well-established stream of realtime unencrypted video feeds from private and public sources, and simply searched every single one in realtime and foundna match, using a program that had never even trained on faces at all.

In light of the far-fetched nature of all of it, I don’t really draw lines between Flock/Axon, etc., and what happened in the film.

Flock is much, much worse. They store your shit and share access and search tools with the highest (and lowest) bidder. If anything, I prefer Spidey’s approach better, as it seems limited to only the good guys in the movies, and only occasionally (Ultron, Vision if he was bad, probably more that I’m forgetting) used by bad guys.

That said, I can totally see why you would see it the way you describe. It’s not pretty. All the crazy movies we watched growing up and now weren’t supposed to be an instruction manual…

And you

I can think of a few professions and life-choices that would benefit from that requirement.

Not the double bounce?!

And he said to me, “Sir–” they always call me sir because I help them and they respect me – “Sir, you are the best at everything,” and its true; once I was in a room and everyone laughed at all my jokes. That’s very rare: being able to run the most powerful nation – well we used to be, and I’m making America great again. “…and sir,” he was crying. Did I mention he was crying? That was the oranges of this story. He was so thankful for me.

tl;dr I try but its mostly moot.

I have a few triggers I try to avoid like the plague. I do what I can to avoid them, but that gives me anxiety, too.

One category of trigger is related to depictions of sexual violence (or even non-consent) in media, which can be hard to avoid unless you only consume media you’re familiar with.

Driving with all the road-ragers is another. I can’t avoid it, so now I get anxiety days before I have an appointment, thinking about the 40 minute drive to the office.

But I can mostly avoid my demanding, demeaning family. I can mostly avoid police and their dogs.

Yep. I feel this. Nothing like random effective weightlessness that causes me to double over and clench and grunt. And the privacy of my home, no less.

Like the part where one person having a machine learning “super lawyer” is a bad thing (hint: it is), and the fix is for everyone to have one. 'Cause those have worked out great so far with the court-imposed sanctions for hallucinations in official court filings.

AI is this decade’s pet rock.

My worst ones, I black out and come to in a puddle of sweat, shaking and crying.

Usually, its more like I’m at the top of a rollercoaster. My insides clench up like I’m waiting for the guillotine to drop. My eyes fill with tears, shaking, etc.

I loved his appearance on “Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum” (Lex from Smallville). He want political there, but very personal and open about his Bipolar disorder.

Krita rocks!

After reading your post body, I realize this isn’t what you’re looking for, but at least for honorable mention reasons:

https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mit-opencourseware

Full disclosure: am a guy.

Holding your breath allows you to tense up and clench more than you can while breathing. Taking a deep breath eliminates some “tensing” muscles from the equation. Still, with some effort (or anxiety, probably) you can still clench up while breathing.

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New post or as an edit to this post? I think doing an update would be good. Just have to sit down and think it through.