Hey, I was fired last July and I went through the same process, I actually asked a similar question on Lemmy and the feedback I received helped a tonne in landing more interviews.

Here are the steps I believe helped me:

1. Make sure your CV is machine parseable, search for open resume, upload your cv see what it detects. Ideally, generate your CV using that tool.
2. Create your own portfolio website, here is mine for reference https://souperk.gr/ (I have a public repository, feel free to copy if CSS isn’t your strong suite)
3. Check that toggle on LinkedIn to signify you are actively searching atm (don’t remember how, but you should see a ribbon on your avater if it’s active)

For me, landing more interviews was the hard part. Once I got a few interviews going, landing an offer was easy.

I have tried Zen and I like it, I will give ForeDragon a spin, thanks 🙏

I like Arc’s user experience with vertical tabs. They are bigger, easier to organize and they are cleaner. Also, the sidebar toggle is hard to work with, ideally I would prefer the ability to toggle with a shortcut or reveal on hover.

Aside Arc, Zen browser has a good vertical tab experience.

Overall, I still main firefox for my personal browser, though it’s UX is still lacking.

Maybe add some decent vertical tabs too?

So you are basically building a classifier that tries to assert if a user will like a video. While many are against any kind of “algorithm” within the fediverse, I believe that it’s a necessity. But, I think allowing users to tag content and then building classifiers that allow you to filter based on that would be a more aligned with the fediverse.

Anyway, cosine similarity has worked for a lot of things, so I think it’s a solid foundation to get you started. Another thing you can try is using an embedding model, specifically a model that receives a segment of a video and yields a matrix with the property that similar input will result in outputs relatively close to each other (cosine or euclidean distance).

Another thing to consider is building a platform that will permanently store data. If you can come up with a set of endpoints, I can implement something in python to get ypu started. I don’t have experience with video processing so I cannot help you with that, but the crud aspect is no biggie.

There are a lot of things to unpack here.

First of all, your friend is at vulnerable place and this is not the time for you two to explore a romantic relationship. You will definetely regret rushing things, you sound like a kind person and you don’t want to exploit her. Try to be there for her, give time and space for something romantic to develop.

When the time has come try to be clear and formal, ask her for a date, like you are meeting a new person. Dating someone you know for a long time can be confusing and messy, invest the time to understand the romantic side of your relationship.

Also, you deserve to be with someone that appreciates the whole you. De-transitioning should something you do because you want to and not something you do because someone else wants it. You are allowed to change your mind, but make sure you do it for the right reasons.

Last but not least, as far as the equipment is concerned, there are always strap ons 👌

PS the concept of love can be complex and confusing. There is a lot of research around it, but IMO the bottom line is that there are two sides of it you need to be aware. 1) there is limerance which is a feeling and 2) there is love which something you do

This need is probably something you can discuss with your therapist.

I ended up setting up a postal server on my vps (see here). Their docs are pretty easy to follow through and it’s probably the cheapest option (assuming you already use the and have a domain).