Notices by Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)

@elmoneto Esses programas não tem uns negócios chatos de detecção de virtualização?

@elmoneto Parece que a maioria das licenças permite. https://www.autodesk.com/support/account/admin/manage/virtualization

@cadusilva A minha resposta curta é: doce ilusão a deles.

Esperanza Spalding took a photo of Milton Nascimento to the Grammy ceremony. Their album was running for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and Esperanza said she was the only one of the two of them to get a seat at the tables in the main floor. Milton was refused a seat because “he wasn’t considered important enough”, she said.

(I couldn’t find American media covering this, so I’m going to drop the primary source here: Esperanza’s own Instagram profile. https://www.instagram.com/esperanzaspalding/reel/DFl8G6wPAKH/)

@elilla Não é golpe porque eles têm as “checagens e balanças” deles, sabe? 🙄

@Tati Feliz aniversário!

ZSA is hiring a front-end developer. They make my favorite keyboard, all interactions I had with them throughout the years have been really nice, and their team is pretty small—so I think this is a very cool opportunity. (To be clear, my relationship with them is of a user of a Moonlander Mark I. I've given them an interview and used their tech support several times.) https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/zsa-frontend-developer-with-a-love-of-keyboards-writing-and-small-teams

Sobre o Golfo do México.

@yamakat Eu gosto muito, mas depende do modelo. Esses bichinhos são resistentes. O meu T480 de 6 anos atrás continua maravilhoso.

@jwildeboer That’s what keeps haunting us (my peers and I)—our career ladders are actually roller-coasters. Whenever we think we hit a peak, there’s always a very steep slope we need to work our way out of—barriers older generations seem to be unaware of or choose to ignore.

@jwildeboer That’s what I see too—I’ve been organizing Outreachy for almost six and a half years. I have managed almost 700 successful internships in FOSS. We receive almost 15,000 applications a year. I witness their enthusiasm and their hard work every single day.

The thing I struggle with the most right now? Finding proper mentorship now that I’m at a mid-senior level. Breaking into more leadership roles. Finding that “one chance” someone’s willing to give.

@mwfc @autistic_enby It’s the established way for international collaboration—we’re speaking English right now because it’s our common language. That speaks volumes about colonization and imperialism.

@autistic_enby @mwfc Most Brazilians might start coding in Portuguese, but it gets old fast when you can’t use things like ç.

@mwfc I personally worked on this project: https://tainacan.org/ and had a minor involvement with this one: https://github.com/mapasculturais/mapasculturais

@baconandcoconut 100%. Two years ago I was surrounded by brilliant people from the global majority talking about how difficult it is to climb that ladder; I've been facing some of those issues for a while now that I've become a more senior professional. Entering is hard, staying — and being appointed for and trusted in leadership positions — is even harder.

@hipsterelectron This may be something I'll write about after taking care of my FluConf submission! But I do see a lot of resentment towards engaging with FOSS in "unconventional" ways; and I see that the most when I notice "older generation" folks giving me more credit for being introduced to FOSS in what they consider to be "the proper way" (e.g. in higher education, via a "hardcore" local FOSS group following RMS and his FOSS principles).

@hal_pomeranz And isn't our whole thing about remixing it? Modifying it? We're running with it and creating something new. We're expanding it.

Another thing: I'm tired of this one-dimensional expectation that people should work FOSS solely on principles defined by generations that came before us, and that anything else is considered to be undignified.

I need people in positions of power in the free and open source ecosystem to ask themselves: is it really that you're not seeing enthusiasm at all from younger generations, or is it that you're looking for it in the wrong place, or engaging with it in the wrong way? How much of that perception isn't fueled by the fact a lot of them aren't exactly like you'd expect them to be (and I'm asking this VERY broadly on purpose)?

The global majority is very much interested in and engaged with the development and maintenance of free and open source ecosystems. I will die on this hill.