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- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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I'm proud of what cyberia.club has done with capsul.org, our home-grown "cloud" VPS provider over the past couple of years. We keep it running day in and day out, and others have joined us in our repos / made a fork, embarking on their own journey.
https://sequentialread.com/capsul-rumors-my-demise-greatly-exaggerated/
@loveisanalogue very cool! Do you have the sheet music for this somewhere? Are covers okay?
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Please caption your images, describe what's in the links you're sending people toward, describe the videos you're sharing, make sure you use words on your posts that verbally describe their contents so people's filters work on them. If you can't do that consistently, consider switching to unlisted posting by default or ask for help. For image descriptions, "caption please" in a post will nearly always inspire a reply or two with help allowing screen reader users to enjoy your posts.
We do have people who need such accommodations on this instance; please use the tools (built-in or social) provided.
@drwho@hackers.town what area are you in? I'd contact a local college art department and a local insurance company.
Unfortunately, the value of most oil paintings is very market driven, but the insurance folks especially usually know the right appraisal people.
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Want to work as a SRE (full remote) for the Tor Project?
https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10775/onion-services-sre-at-the-tor-project/ 
@FirstProgenitor I suspect there may also be a "what is she's not a cis woman?" thing going on.
Before I realized I was nonbinary, I preferred dating people who liked men because, for some reason, I felt more 'seen'. For some mysterious reason that I couldn't figure out. I wonder what that might have been. :P
There's also maybe some toxic privilege stuff happening, or whatever else.
But like, for a lot of people, especially if they look like conventionally attractive young women, the scale on "should I do something about Gender Thing?" is tipped a bit towards "wait a few years until you're too old to easily do Hot Girl Shit, and then check back", IMO.
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If you read about Jean and Jorts, please read this too.
the extended metaphor for workplace accommodations nobody asked for
graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2021/12/16/jean-and-jorts-the-extended-metaphor-for-workplace-accommodations-nobody-needed-but-my-brain-insisted-on/
"Abled people spend a significant amount of time designing things they just assume will work for disabled people because they think that disability awareness is a matter of *morals* and not practicality. They think that ‘being a good person and having good intentions’ is enough to understand what’s needed, because they’re trying, and that’s the important thing. Nope. The important thing is that it actually provides a solution to a problem, and if you don’t speak to disabled people before buttering them with margarine, you may find a horde of angry people who don’t really care that you thought you were doing a good thing with your weird ramp if it’s so steep it’ll tip a person into traffic, or your metal studs in the pavement help one group of people while providing a major slip hazard for others."
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Now I discover
that the templates have been put
up for deletion
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White people know this. Hell, all non-Black folk know this. They profit off us: our fuckups, our mental illness, our lack of knowledge of how money works in this society.
I dunno the answers. But I want to strive to work towards our betterment. The freedom we were promised but never got (because that would be "ReVeRsE RaCiSiM!1!").
We're gonna get free. Free of just being the workers in their warehouses. Free of being their excuses of excessive policing and rousting of the homeless.
And I'll dedicate the rest of my lifeforce to making this the truth.
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@sidd_harth0_5h4h I can't hear you I'm too busy minmaxing my gender
organic chemistry / hormones / quesiton
@polymerwitch you might want to reach out to four thieves vinegar collective, if you haven't. Do you know them/want more info or an introduction?
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Friend of mine will be doing free online Javascript classes on matrix. Mostly self-directed, in a classical setting, but with (more or less) 1:1 support from them whenever you get stuck. You'll be working on a project of *your* choice. The teaching is text-based, but you don't need to be good at expressing problems in text!
Marginalized folks particularly encouraged.
~3 hours a week, skipping sessions not an issue, schedule tbd with participants
more info: https://twitter.com/joepie91/status/1471084098634530819
matrix room: #open-js-class:pixie.town
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I know there are folks on the fediverse who work for companies like Google and Amazon (Ive seen your bio's, you cant hide from me).
I wanna know: how many Black devs do you work with? How many black devs -- or fuck, just Black folks in general -- have been hired on around your sphere?
I can definitely guess as to what these statistics are, but I wanna know forreal. Let me know.
My take on addressing gender and racial staffing inequities in tech (corpo levels)
@somarasu IMO, we prevent the "white dude company" phenomenon by capping the numbers of white dudes folks hire at all stages of company development.
If, when the company is young, they only hire white people then, ten years later, the employees with seniority will all be white.
(tiny soap box time)
Also, ignore cultural 'fit', use better metrics for developer performance, anonymise pull requests when possible, and prefer contract to hire models based on performance metrics. If metrics overall show patterns, address the systematic issue in your company rather than ignoring it and deciding that it's the employees fault. Promote/give bonuses to whole teams when they do well. Deliberately ensure that every reporting chain has at least someone of a similar gender or culture to folks, and ideally, that there isn't a clear dominant pattern in that reporting chain. Use anonymous surveys for diversity stuff (religion, sexuality, etc) and run training on how to be inclusive for folks in those categories. Set clear expectations that delaying your colleagues work or wasting their time will eventually impact your own performance reviews. Have users rate the actual work done by devs, rather than just the dev perspective on performance.
(end soap box)
@somarasu I've worked a job where there was one black employee in my department. He was in management and left after about seven years. There were so few women there that, at one point, I had matched with all (three) of my female-presenting colleagues under the age of 35 on bumble. There were about 140 people in the department at the time.
@socketwench also starry liner sounds 💯
@socketwench I have a hooded hip/thigh length cloak that I adore. If you'd like, you can trace the pieces for a pattern.
The biggest trouble I have with cloaks is getting them to stay on comfortably. I usually need actual shoulder tailoring for that. I usually estimate yardage based on a circle with the radius of the hem length.
Do you have a piece you can use as a basis?
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on the Amazon warehouse disaster (long)
The Amazon warehouse collapse reminds vee of my own brushes with companies that put their profit over worker safety in such a flagrant manner.
The thing is, from the inside, it's never quite so flagrant. There's never a human being telling you to your face "Yes we're putting you at risk to keep our profits up". It's always a policy, an oversight, a glitch, something that's being worked on.
My first real job was a call center in Florida. I remember when hurricane season hit and we were given a number to call each day before leaving for work to check if the office was open. It always was. Every time.
I remember one particular day we had a predicted hurricane landfall set for my commute hours. I decided not to go; I'd be spending half an hour on the road right when it was projected to hit; no way. I tried to call in, using the automated PBX garbage we were instructed to. It was "down".
I tried to call my manager, couldn't reach him. I eventually called HR directly and was told if I didn't submit my call-in to the PBX I'd be considered a no-show and terminated. When I explained the PBX was down, the rep repeated their statement verbatim. I explained again, they repeated again.
They didn't know (or rather wouldn't tell) who to contact about the PBX being down. They said it was an oversight in process and they'd look into having someone to call for next time.
That's when it kind of clicked for vee, you know? I refused to go in; I got "lucky". The office got closed basically by order from the state. Next time I went in for work, parts of the building were damaged; I got seated next to a blown out window. I got rained on during my shift.
In my next manager meeting I relayed this story to him. He nodded slowly and jumped into an obviously rehearsed speech about "Yes our policy says you must call the PBX to call in. It being down is an oversight. We will consider revising the policy in the coming weeks"
They never did. They didn't because this was all deliberate. Never tell your workers "We're abusing you", but put up velvet ropes so they can't exit the planned path. The planned path being abuse.
It's never flagrant. They never bold-faced tell you. They just wall you in, force you to follow a protocol, and claim any abuse baked in is "a glitch", then never fix it. They blame the slow wheels of business, every time. A fix is coming, once all the stakeholders sync up.
Then people die because with no humane, basic respect for their safety and dignity, they're left with the choice to submit to the abusive system or be victimized "by policy"
I'm not surprised this happened.
The thing is, from the inside, it's never quite so flagrant. There's never a human being telling you to your face "Yes we're putting you at risk to keep our profits up". It's always a policy, an oversight, a glitch, something that's being worked on.
My first real job was a call center in Florida. I remember when hurricane season hit and we were given a number to call each day before leaving for work to check if the office was open. It always was. Every time.
I remember one particular day we had a predicted hurricane landfall set for my commute hours. I decided not to go; I'd be spending half an hour on the road right when it was projected to hit; no way. I tried to call in, using the automated PBX garbage we were instructed to. It was "down".
I tried to call my manager, couldn't reach him. I eventually called HR directly and was told if I didn't submit my call-in to the PBX I'd be considered a no-show and terminated. When I explained the PBX was down, the rep repeated their statement verbatim. I explained again, they repeated again.
They didn't know (or rather wouldn't tell) who to contact about the PBX being down. They said it was an oversight in process and they'd look into having someone to call for next time.
That's when it kind of clicked for vee, you know? I refused to go in; I got "lucky". The office got closed basically by order from the state. Next time I went in for work, parts of the building were damaged; I got seated next to a blown out window. I got rained on during my shift.
In my next manager meeting I relayed this story to him. He nodded slowly and jumped into an obviously rehearsed speech about "Yes our policy says you must call the PBX to call in. It being down is an oversight. We will consider revising the policy in the coming weeks"
They never did. They didn't because this was all deliberate. Never tell your workers "We're abusing you", but put up velvet ropes so they can't exit the planned path. The planned path being abuse.
It's never flagrant. They never bold-faced tell you. They just wall you in, force you to follow a protocol, and claim any abuse baked in is "a glitch", then never fix it. They blame the slow wheels of business, every time. A fix is coming, once all the stakeholders sync up.
Then people die because with no humane, basic respect for their safety and dignity, they're left with the choice to submit to the abusive system or be victimized "by policy"
I'm not surprised this happened.
@socketwench cloak project? 👀
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
