Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

@shauna@social.coop ah! No, no, I’m glad you didn’t have to go through it! I’m also glad others are aware of how ridiculous their hiring pipeline is (and how incredibly biased)! Just like… people should stay away from their postings. They’re not worth the energy to even read.

@shauna@social.coop were you the individual who posted a thread about these hiring questions earlier this year? In frustration with Canonical, I wrote a thread detailing the current set of questions they asked and about my experience interviewing with them last year (terrible, obviously) and someone linked me to a thread where someone had a similar experience… I don’t remember who posted it. You’re obviously (and unfortunately) familiar with Canonical’s bullshit questions as well, so… sorry if they put you through that too : (

I wish I could block Canonical on job postings, because they flood job boards for every region with these postings.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse @waitworry@sakurajima.moe seeing those posts… that was the second time in two days I did not interact and call them all the things in my head. I’m very proud of myself.

@voxofgod@jorts.horse @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse @waitworry@sakurajima.moe “WAIT ARE THEY UNDERGOING ACTIVE OXIDATION OR NO!?”

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse the same one that continues to militarize the police despite years of protests against how the police kill Black people over 2.50 in subway fare or a loose cigarette? I dunno! Maybe they're not that good actually! Maybe the ones who sign all these deals with capitalist fuckbags to destroy the environment, maybe they're... I dunno... maybe they're part of the fucking problem.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse I DUNNO GUYS MAYBE THE NON-FASCIST PARTY THAT VIOLENTLY BROKE UP STUDENTS PROTESTING THE GENOCIDE WE'RE ACTIVELY FUNDING AND SUPPLYING ARMS TO

MAYBE THEY'RE ALSO FASCISTS YEAH

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse Things you can't talk about lest you risk the election for democrats:

Genocide against Palestinians
Violence against Black people
Laws against trans people
Indigenous rights?

hmmmm and yet there goes the election anyway you fuckwads.

There's this part of me that wants to make a snarky comment in public that "you know the democrats, the ones who have capitulated to capital every chance they had, are just gonna roll over and do whatever the fascists want, right? They're all invested in it. Their stocks, their war hawk profiteering, their private schools. Fund the police! Good jobs building bombs! You think these fucking people are gonna do anything more than say they'll resist then spend all their energy trying to justify why they're actively letting it happen anyway?"

there are only a few that statement doesn't apply to, and the party really seems to hate them.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse The people that blame people concerned about the fucking genocide really hit me. "I don't think your entire family dying is worth risking a theoretical threat to MY safety", and then throwing a fucking tantrum about it. _When they didn't let anyone even talk about it_

Like, you literally told people you don't care if those people die and made goddamn sure it wouldn't be talked about, so what fucking right do you have to be salty that they didn't prioritize you when you wouldn't even consider letting them ask for others to be prioritized?

I can’t stop watching the haka video now that I’ve had a chance to watch it with sound and headphones. It’s just so fucking good!!

@dylan@dair-community.social It's rare that I say something like this, but I am going to suggest the engineering students probably aren't in the most well situated place to say what actual practicing engineers are doing at this time.

Usually that just feels like me going all ivory tower but I think I know far more people who do not use it than actually do.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social "It would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in October of last year."ah, yes, because whether or not it's genocide depends on whether you think it's deserved?"I'm well aware of the definition of genocide"fuck you starmer

heeeeeeeeeey #scientists #scienceJobs

strange question, maybe: I usually do not contact people about jobs once I've applied to them because I don't wanna bug them or make a bad impression. But, you know, maybe I'm doing that wrong? I applied to a couple low level computational biologist positions (I'm a comp chem kid who did protein work) that I seem to hit all the qualifications for. The job postings actually mention the PI for the group that the position is in!

Would it be a faux pas to just... out and out email them? And if I did, what would I say? "HEY WHAT'S UP I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW I APPLIED TO YOUR JOB POSTING AND ALSO I'M A SUPER FUCKING COOL LADY"?

#jobHunting

refusing to automate my certificate renewal so it can act as a dead man's switch

This is the sort of toxic behavior in open source development that pushes minorities (and especially women) out. It's theft of our work: it denies us the history of contributions to the project and improves their own "standing".

No one, no one, gets into the nitty gritty of why someone seemingly "hasn't contributed". The more lines of code and commits that are attributed to @Gargron@mastodon.social, the more sway he has in the project. Anyone would just take a look and say "Oh, Gargron committed the most, it's his project".

This is not "atypical" behavior. Almost every woman I know has had code stolen from them. I've had it happen numerous times at work (which then shows up as a lack of contributions at review time) and for open source projects.

It has real and lasting consequences, both for the community and for the person whose work has been stolen. It's fucked up, it's awful, and Emelia deserves better (we all do).

(cc @thisismissem@hachyderm.io)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/thisismissem/statuses/113465993207356999

@saraislet@infosec.exchange @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I suspect AIDS unfortunately played a large role in cutting off newer generations from accumulated wisdom, as well, since we lost so many people who would have been queer elders.

(not only that, but the fact that LGBTQ people arise in every demographic means there's different challenges in forming communities together; we need to find each other somehow, then form community, and if that community isn't already there or we don't have a model of how to build it...)Honestly I think the only learning the White trans community does about surviving fascism is what we learn from Black families and Black community💯💯💯 This is yet another reason why there are so many attempts to 'split' minority communities from forming bonds, I suspect. If they get us to embrace whiteness and reject actual humans, the only model for 'community' we have is fundamentally broken and based entirely on oppressive structures.

@dalias@hachyderm.io ooof! Alright, I admit that I didn't expect $150+ based on you saying they were cheap. That's not impossible but maybe more than I want to spend on that particular device since I have some... mixed feelings about improving the use of cameras like that.

tl;dr: anti-generative-AI is anti-fascist.

Weird time to throw this out there, but I’m still looking for work! #getFediHired #getFediGigs #lookingForWork #tech

Contract or permanent, part time or full time, doesn’t matter! I’ve learned a lot of Rust recently and am proficient in C++, C, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, Linux, Cloud stuff, HPC, chemistry, simulations, MPI and scaling! Mostly backend but I can, and have, done full stack work on React!

What I’m mostly looking to do is help build software that helps people, so I’m NOT interested in “AI”, defense, finance, oil+gas, startups, or anything of that sort. If you know of open positions or even if you’re looking for someone to help on a project, let’s chat! I make a mean fucking #jupyterNotebook, too.

I am also totally available to tutor chemistry, too.

Boosts welcome and appreciated!

CV on request; see my codeberg profile here: https://codeberg.org/astatide

#rust #chemistry #tutor #tutoring #cpp #rustLang #chapelLang

It's always been the case that the investments in "AI" are about devaluing labor and shifting money from one portion of the economy straight into the pockets of tech. However, it's absolutely worth pointing out that we now have no chance of regulating this. I seriously doubt the ruling against Google for being a monopoly will stay, and even if it does, whatever tiny chance of having teeth it could have had is gone. Given that tech's fusion with the defense and finance industries is pretty much complete at this point, it's probably no surprise that they're kissing his ring, yeah? I mean. They wanted him in. Badly. They would have continued doing fine under Biden, but that isn't the point here.

So generative machine learning models that are used to replace creative people are going to continue doing that; whatever trickle of money flowed into the pockets of creatives in a professional capacity is... probably not going to continue. If you have the means, _do not use those services as a replacement for a person you'd hire_. If you have a company, employ a human, even if on contract: it'll be cheaper than paying Altman and the quality will be much higher. If you wish to buy art, buy it from an artist you know. Every dollar you do not give to them but instead give to a group of people heavily impacted by this 'technology' counts double: -1 dollar for tech, +1 dollar for people who almost certainly share your anti-fascist views.

I know it seems weird to give buying suggestions, but I would like to point out that capitalism's trick of replacing the meaning of the word "commerce" with itself has led to the idea that any transfer of money carries with it the values of capitalism. That is not true, has never been true, and certainly does not need to be true for you to shift money away from these fuckheads.

Heeeeeeey linux cats!

I would like to learn how to do kernel work and closer to the grain hardware work. Anyone know of any reasonably-priced device (wifi card? PCI-E card? even if it's a laptop, so long as it's relatively inexpensive for the whole shebang) that oh my god no one gives a shit about enough to write a driver but it would be super cool if it did work?

If you know of any listing of anything of this type or anything, that would be really helpful. I dunno what my price point is but given that it's education to increase my skillset for employability (and to possibly help stave off more compute lockdown in the future) I do have some budget for it. I'm not really a hardware kitten so I'm not quite sure where to begin to look for this kind of info.

Boosts very much appreciated!

#linux #hardwareHacking #linuxDriver #linuxDevelopment #linuxHardware #tech #techPosting