Looks like business world is finally waking up to what we’ve know for a long time: many companies are astroturfing the job market with fake job openings.

CNBC

'Ghost job' postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to the stalling jobs picture

Since the beginning of 2024, job openings have outnumbered hires by more than 2.2 million a month.

I’m just saying, we didn’t have these polar vortex problems before all those traffic circles went in here in Atlanta :illuminati:

Well friends, it finally happened. A VPN provider finally reached out to wag some money in my face to promote their service here. It seems a bit alarming that running a VPN service is apparently so profitable that providers are able to spend all this money on advertising (seems like half of podcasts have VPN sponsors and the other half are sponsored by square space) I still own guardllama.io so maybe I need to set up my own VPN service under that name 😂

Many of my former employees and coworkers at IBM got the boot today 😞

Oof. I have to make some changes to infosec.exchange and related services - I just got a massive bill from Fastly. I’m hoping it’s a mistake, but I can’t afford to risk it not being a mistake so will be working to reroute traffic through a server in Hetzner.

Some day, I am going to write a book based on the more unusual reasons provided by people/bots trying to register infosec.exchange accounts.

For $reasons, I had 5 24 packs of coke cans to give out for Halloween. In my 6 decades Halloween, I don’t think I’ve ever seen kids that excited. One ran down the street screaming “I GOT CAFFEINE!” Yeah, that was probably ill advised, but it was not as bad as those Nickleback CDs

I’m sure the Azure outage was definitely not caused by an MS employee needing a break from Teams