Notices by Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)

@dalias @nixCraft It may also be that the Indian guys work really well together and are located in an adjacent time zone.

That person may even have been placed on a team after being deemed qualified after a long trial process, but no appropriate team placement.

I've had a similar experience as I worked at a place where my team lead was in Uruguay, the guy I should have work with the most in Vancouver and my HR contact was in Indonesia while I was in Central Europe.

Idea: Find a sugar daddy but donate all the money to UNRWA.

Sanction Israel now.

@chris Bud Light.

In Germany, if the domain name doesn't have 24 in it, the website only works between 9 and 4, excluding a one hour lunch break.

What is the CI/CD tool that you hate the most an why is it Jenkins?

The biggest surprise to me about the current #Automattic layoffs isn't the scale of it or that they're discriminating against those that were older than 40 — it's that there was a QA team.

@tiny_m @chris As someone who used to work there, I don't think this is about money as it is about power over others, with a bit of envy sprinkled on top.

Shave off your 40+ age group and replace them with fresher meat, and you'll have enough narcissistic supply for the next couple of years at least, even if the money ends up being in short supply.

@goatsarah This is also one of the main the reasons for the age discrimination in our industry.

@chris To a large extent, the issue sadly lies with the artists themselves who have both stopped publishing physical media and only put their works on to Spotify and YouTube.

What's worse than having a toothache?

Having a toothache while a German engineering guy is explaining dental hygiene to you.

@alexadeswift Don't forget that it is as good as impossible to do this without coordination. We can vote with our wallets as much as we can but it will never be as effective as a group effort.

@chris @dustinrue

Meanwhile, Lenovo sends someone wearing an IBM polo shirt to meet you in your office to replace your Bluetooth/WiFi module when it starts glitching out.

@chris @dustinrue The keyboard issues were the last straw for me. I know they've improved and will accept it if any future employer insists on me having a Mac, but I will not spend my own money on their products in the future.

@dustinrue @chris I've worked in warranty services. It's is very difficult to reproduce some things, especially if they require real-world workload to happen.

One of my old machines had a GPU glitch, but it's not like I'm willing to lose my machine for a week for them to tell me there's nothing wrong with it.

@chris That's the Framework machine?

I've been wondering about how Firefox has felt like it's pretty much abandoned at this point, especially as I've been looking into techniques such as speculative loading and such.

So who's forking Firefox these days?

@chris Ah, this is how the Matrix happened, didn't it?

I recently found out that in my native language, "a professional" is synonymous to "a full-time alcoholic", but you'd usually only know this if you're an AA member.

The nuances of language never cease to amaze me.

@jnv @chris I'll just put this here.