I'm not sure what I have to do to tell recruiters to fuck off re: the finance industry.

I have no interest, I'm an upstream kernel maintainer, I want to be an upstream kernel maintainer, I want my career to be about upstream kernel maintainership, that's it, your mid-level job doing business logic in C++ ain't that guys.

No matter what I do to my linked in profile to make that bloody clear doesn't seem to dissuade them...

@ljs sir would you like to talk about an opportunity in finance industry
*angry shrieks echo from diogenes' barrel*

@wagi @ljs would sir like to consider an opportunit... *swipes left*

@ljs i'm pretty sure they don't even read the profile :(

I have "Recruiters: I'm pretty happy with my current job and will only consider opportunities where I get to do low-level work in C or Rust, ideally open-source on the Linux kernel or related projects" in there and that hasn't made any difference either.

@sven @ljs one would expect that at this point they would at least have a LLM read your profile and filter you out, eh.

@vbabka @sven they probably do, and it's hallucinating hard

@lkundrak @wagi story of my life 😭

@sven tempting to add something like but like obviously as with you it will have no impact I imagine lol

@wagi I still feel some weird need to have it.

Is definitely useful for book promotion at least

@ljs lol, yes, but I at least try to be professional there.

Mastodon is for shitposting instead!

Edit: oh, I thought you meant adding „but obviously you’re just gonna ignore this and spam me anyway“ to that text which I actually considered

@sven lolll I meant just adding what you added but yeah that's a funny idea.

I try to be vaguely professional there also kinda

@ljs For some years I kept getting recruiters offering me positions in NFT (non-fungible tokens) because I contributed to "nft" (nftables command line tool) lmao

@ljs @wagi I don't have LinkedIn and I work at a bank anyway, so I don't know if deleting it will help.

@ffmancera @ljs Now imagine what offers get people contributing to crypto/

@ljs @wagi [PATCH 00/384] *swipes left*

@wagi @lkundrak @ljs Very good advice, actually!
Whoever sends such a huge series most likely failed to work with the community from the beginning, and now it's too late. They should start over.

@ptesarik @wagi @ljs *temper tantrum*
*externally maintained*

@lkundrak @wagi @ljs Please, not that guy again…

@ptesarik @lkundrak @wagi @ljs you're scared of His second coming?