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    To the HR and recruiting professionals or anyone familiar, do background checks of potential employees usually rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them?
  • It depends on how the company goes about it. The larger the company, the more established the HR department. They may use their HR platform to conduct the check which may find any and everything. The smaller companies may only check recent background with a local firm. Price is the name of the game. The more in-depth the background check, the more it costs. If you are going to work in a bank or with kids, be prepared to for the company/school to use the state equivalent of the FBI. For mom and pop shops, they may just take your word on the application. If you see a national HR platform like Paycom, then the results can vary depending on the package the company purchases.

  • Don't mind me
  • I have this on a platter hard drive somewhere. Oh how I've missed you old friend.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.
  • They act like its the computer daydreaming. No, its wrong. The machine that is supposed to provide me correct information. It didn't it. These marketing wizards are selling snake oil in such a lovely bottle these days.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.
  • You can doubt all you like but we keep seeing the training data leaking out with passwords and personal information. This problem won't be solved by the people who created it since they don't care and fundamentally the technology will always show that lack of care. FOSS ones may do better in this regard but they are still datasets without context. Thats the crux of the issue. The program or LLM has no context for what it says. That's why you get these nonsensical responses telling people that killing themselves is a valid treatment for a toothache. Intelligence is understanding. The "AI" or LLM or, as I like to call them, glorified predictive textbars, doesn't understand the words it is stringing together and most people don't know that due to flowery marketing language and hype. The threat is real.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.
  • As someone who frequently interacts with the tech illiterate, no they don't. This sudden rush to put weighed text hallucination tables into everything isn't that helpful. The hype feels like self driving cars or 3D TVs for those of us old enough to remember that. The potential for damage is much higher than either of those two preceding fads and cars actually killed poeple. I think many of us are expressing a healthy level of skepticism toward the people who need to sell us the next big thing and it is absolutely warranted.

  • Private way to use Google Maps on iOS
  • I struggle with this too because the (and I will age myself with this phrase) yellow pages features baked into maps is one of the most helpful tools Google ever melded together. The removal of those extra clicks and copy and paste make it a pain to move from. I try and help with Open Street Maps, but the sheer volume of data is hard to overcome.

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  • I have nipples @jarfil@beehaw.org , could you milk me?

  • Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners
  • That is a fun fact. A personal fun fact is I remember that the Secret Service is part of the Treasury department because of the cult classic, Wild Wild West.

    Edit: spell check

  • Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners
  • If the Secret Service existed when Andrew Jackson was the President, we would already have had this figured out.

  • Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently
  • In this vein, I saw a comment on Lemmy that speaks to this. I'm paraphrasing but it really woke me up. The person said that Americans choose on edge cases and not standard use case. I realized I felt that way about ICE cars vs EV and I am a cyclist. It is amazing how we can have blinders on.

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  • Quality systems or management cause I'm both and do all the time?

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    Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence!
  • I can't wait to give this a try! I love star trek games.

  • fatherverse @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    I did it!

    So who has the stogies and bad joke books?

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    Anyone ever do the Rimworld room math for their place?

    I was just standing there, looking at my bathroom and figured out that my bathroom is 2x3 square room based on the Dubs Hygiene mod fixtures. I have over 900 hours in the game. Am I broken? lol

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    Memes @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    An oldie but a goodie...

    Nevar F0rget!

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    fatherverse @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    Fatherverse chat

    Howdy. Let's chat.

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    fatherverse @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    Baby monitor recommendations

    My wife thinks I'm insane but, what experience do you have with baby monitors and what steps did you take with commercial products to make sure they weren't vulnerable like most IoT garbage out there?

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    main @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    It is getting wild out there.

    So, I got curious and set my feed to all. Wow, there a lot of arguments about defederation due to the Beehaw decision. Many Many people positing on "the death of Reddit" and the refugee crisis. I get some of the concerns about moderation and ideology but the amount of navelgazing is unreal. Ill just stick to local for a bit until things settle down.

    So, how are you finding the big, wide fediverse outside of our pleasant little pocket? With all of the thinkpieces being posted about how Lemmy is never going to work, I wanted to see some fresh takes from the good folk at midwest.social.

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    Chat @midwest.social Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social
    It's Monday.

    How are we all doing?

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    InevitableWaffles Inevitable Waffles [Ohio] @midwest.social

    Mid 30's IT/Medical Device support and quality guy. I like cycling, video games, and singing.

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