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If you're kind enough to mention my name when joining, I get a tenner.
Happy to answer any questions.
#JoinAUnion #TradeUnions
To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the startYes, we were aware that pol...
@shockwaver@strangeobject.space I really like the term "temporarily-abled" for describing abled people for this reason. All abled people are only temporarily abled, unless they die suddenly while their bodies are still intact. The more people recognize the ephemeral nature of ability, the more compassionate we become as a society, I hope.
“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”
Maintainer: *introduces commercial features*
“Not like that”
Maintainer: *works for a large tech co*
“Not like that”
Maintainer: *takes investment*
“Not like that”
Lots of men in tech
see women in tech either
as sexual tensions for their own enjoyment or as mentoring opportunities,
but never as their equals.
This needs to stop.
#WomenInTech
There's this course called the Missing Semester (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) that teaches you the practical stuff like using the CLI, shell scripting, Git, Vim, etc. It was created for CS students who apparently don't learn these things in class. But as a biochemistry/microbiology major turned bioinformatician, I need the CS course instead!
I've got a lot of web dev content in my feed reader and that's cool but every once in a while someone posts something completely unrelated to tech and I AM HERE FOR IT!
Don't be afraid to write about your hobbies, music, movies, life. I love to read that. 💜
ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to).
Oh so now I have to remember to use a whole NEW set of pronouns? What's next, memorizing everyone's individual name out the billions of possible names???
I get that white guys have absolutely no reason to have to understand that their experience is not everyone’s considering the entire planet is catered to their perspective, but it is 2024 and the rest of us are very tired.
Massive thanks to our cohort of friendly, helpful and collaborative volunteers who made #SOOCon24 possible. Thanks for giving up your time to support the event 👏🏻
Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that.
Raising retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder.
Far as I'm concerned it should be 59.
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Join us tomorrow afternoon at State of Open Con for a meetup of the Women of Open Source community!
2pm at the back of the delegate experience area, near the job board.
See you there!
#WomenOfOpenSource #WOOS #SOOCon #SOOCon24 #StateOfOpenCon
This isn't a subtoot of anyone, I'm just responding to something I read earlier and immediately forgot the source of:
The reason that queer and trans people are so afraid right now is not because it's necessarily *worse* for us than it was in the 1990s.
For me, it's worse now because it represents such an incredible backslide from the very recent past. It's also worse now because of how violent, specific, and individual the threats are.
There is a sense that the gloves are off, and hurting us is overtly the point - the veneer of civility is gone. The fact that most people (off the Fediverse, largely) are not responding uniquely to this unique level of hostility is worrying, to me!
There's also a demographic problem happening right now that was never present before: As we come out, and as we choose to be visible, our true number becomes more apparent. The other side doesn't seem very chill about the fact that like three queer or trans people could simultaneously citizen's-arrest every cop in the US!
The transphobes are responding to the actuality of trans people now, not the fictional idea that someone, somewhere, was transgender. That is new, and I think it's dangerous.
#trans #queer
It's truly an astounding failure of our society to let large companies just openly steal all information they can and then sell it on as if it's something they're making and the whole thing is totally normal and ethical.
The wonders of the tech industry never cease.
Framed this way, I feel like any team that has had layoffs needs to be very deliberate about not performing heroics to keep things running. **Let things fail** if they require going above and beyond. Otherwise the floor will be raised and it will no longer be “above and beyond”, just the expecta
Shared this privately, but it's worth repeating it publicly:
As a platform showing advertisements, you MUST have controls in place to allow people to opt out of certain categories of ads, e.g., those featuring violence, casinos/gambling, weight loss/AI body tuning, or alcohol/drug consumption.
Not having that makes your platform unsafe and promotes an unhealthy society.
asking for a friend— can anyone hook me up with someone who knows about #techunions (#unionizing at a #tech company)? she and some of her colleagues just got screwed out of a raise based on sales and workflow metrics they had no control over and they’re ready to revolt
It's hard to see why "clean" Git commits are useful if you've never done a good `git blame` or `git bisect`.
It's also hard to see how useful `git blame` and `git bisect` can be if your Git commits are a mess.
Not sure where I'm going with this.
#git
github tip: you can use "redirect.github.com" when referencing an issue/PR from another repo inside an issue/PR in your repo
this will avoid your issue getting backlinked into the other repo's issue, reducing noise.
example:
"github.com/nodejs/node/6969"
becomes:
"redirect.github.com/nodejs/node/6969"
The plenary speakers for #StateOfOpenCon are up on the website - and, the whole schedule is packed with fantastic expertise. Exciting to be a liaison for all of these speakers! Some community tickets are available. https://stateofopencon.com
Even if you ignore everything else, all the theft and fraud and exploitation, all the waste, all the manipulation, all of it. Generative AI is still unreliable. I don't understand why people are so eager to use an unreliable tool. Like, yeah, I love those wobbly hammers! It makes no sense.
LinkedIn loves to tell me that my post has received a bunch of impressions, but I haven't gotten a single conversion from it, so I guess that tells me everything I need to know about that platform.
I don't put projects on the back burner. I put them under the floorboards, where the ever-louder beating of their hearts drives me slowly to madness.
#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes
not sure who to attribute this to - there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out.
stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly
The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
Oof, just heard about a massive dick move scenario for corporations that somehow hadn't occurred to me before:
1) Mandatory Return to Office
2) Employee moves to be near office
3) Employee is laid off
Like, seriously, fuck these companies into the sun
It *really* grosses me out when I see/hear YouTubers and Podcasters promoting BetterHelp. They should have gone out of business when this happened.
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2023169-betterhelp-inc-matter
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-ban-betterhelp-revealing-consumers-data-including-sensitive-mental-health-information-facebook
Jamie Tanna
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#union.
