Notices by Nire Bryce (nirebryce@hachyderm.io)

@hrefna

the boom on that sail swings wherever the prevailing wind is blowing

@dalias Mozilla is working hard on further reducing it's marketshare

- you can do 'retweets' via RSS,
- you can do 'only see who i follow'
- you can do 'only publish to some people' (subscriber-only feeds, though they are hacks)
- you can share arbitrary length things and arbitrary filetypes through rss
- the posts are yours because they live on your blog or whatever

you just need a contacts list that lets the magic happen. I don't have the cycles to go deep on it.

a lot of people derisively say "you are describing RSS"

instead I'm pointing at inspiration

when people describe what they want for social media what i usually end up hearing is

[contacts list that uses something that looks like carrrd]
x [webhost + RSS]
x [account blocking]

some people claim software engineers aren't engineers but i think you're thinking about it wrong.

upper management regularly demands you do the equivalent of getting 600 pounds of steam pressure out of your boiler rated for 440 and damn the consequences

how can that not be Engineering. The computer industry has roots in the Navy, not mechanical engineering

# to all people designing mobile interfaces:

there is no hover tooltip. if you can't figure out a non-cryptic icon, you have to put it in the threedots menu even if you keep the icon in the interface

looking at you, gmail Android "mark unread" command it took me 5m to track down

You probably don't have enough fiber in your diet if you live in the United States.

Call 811 to find a local source.

Why is it called Premature Optimization when Performance Anxiety is already right there

https://vxtiktok.com/@glassmenagerie/video/7361458310886821163?_t=8ltEEeGEtkU&_r=1

the US Public School System taught gen z Occupy Berkeley style tactics without realizing.

Wrote it into the bones by traumatizing them with active shooter drills and the threat and reality of school shootings.

In the 80s into the present, they remade the exteriors of schools to be easy to quash protests in.

By now, the retrofits and new builds for shooter-resistant schools are everywhere, since no one fixed the shooting problem. meant to be held by a small force against a motivated opponent with tools meant to get in.

The built the courtyards to be swept. To quash student protests easily.

Without realizing they were working against themselves, now they build the buildings TO BE HELD.

the reality is the students aren't trapped in the building, surrounded by cops, like the cops thought.

the cops are trapped between the barricaded doors, and the support crowd that moved to encircle the cops when the cops started the initial push.

i swear, you could solve public transit in the US if you just got:

- the software people who truly love the field
- to talk to the municipal politics people who are actually doing it for the love of the job
- to talk to the train planning people who are actually doing it for the love of the job and or hobby
- to talk to the physical security and penetration testing people
- to talk to the mining engineers
- so they can then plan and pull off a complicated heist to rob the treasury

@thomasfuchs every so often I think about the mix of:

reputation is fragile and permanent, but easy to shed if you don't care about it

things are stated confidently as just a function of language now, so it's hard to know who actually knows anything in a sea of confidently-stated opinions (and no reputation/accountability mechanisms to make bad advice stick to a person giving it)

plus the abdication of journalism

not my post just passing on:

https://bsky.app/profile/pompoison.bsky.social/post/3knrbodjzzm2b

# SEEKING PLAINTIFFS

https://forms.gle/Yfq7HUKGa4J8cPVo8

@thomasfuchs and costs basically nothing to serve

@inthehands WHAT

hey especially hachyderm folks, I've got someone in a bit of a bind.

Brilliant young software person (some infosec leanings, but no formal training there. But some portfolio stuff), iOS based internship.

End of university

looking for jobs that can get them at least residency/visa but ideally immigration, as they risk eventual deportation to a country that's less chill about trans people.

having trouble getting in the door to most places, most jobs she can find don't sponsor visas etc.

I have a girlfriend but she uses Cohost so you wouldn't know her

@thomasfuchs codeberg has seemed pretty good but i haven't checked recently about AI policy

@irenes @aredridel there's low code selfhosting stuff like runtipi now, but you have to write your own 'packages' (docker containers and rdns configs) if you want to add things not in the repo so they're compatible with the dashboard + etc

it does not have p2p comms apps on it yet