Notices by divVerent (divverent@misskey.de)

@icedquinn@blob.cat That is how I feel as a German in the US: one side considers me nazi, the other side considers me commie.

When in reality I just believe both sides are wrong in many things.

@ecosurrealism@jorts.horse If it reaches my Fediverse accounts, being a non-swearer, I'm gonna reply with:

@sun@shitposter.world @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @lain@lain.com Oh, disparate impact IS strong evidence that something is wrong. But it's not irrefutable.

And you refute this evidence by proving the capabilities tested are necessary for the job.

@lain@lain.com @cjd@pkteerium.xyz So you say construction jobs can't e.g. include a strength test in the interviewing process if 10% of men but just 5% of women would pass it?

That doesn't make sense. If the test is actually relevant for job performance, it's definitely OK. But THIS quite surely isn't about a test relevant for job performance.

@lain@lain.com @cjd@pkteerium.xyz Job interviews aren't illegal and never have been.

My main objections are:

- Only relevant things for the position should be allowed in the interviewing process. If I am going to program computers, why would I be required to name all US states and US presidents? If I ever need that info for my job, I can just look it up.

- "Re-interviewing" (or re-testing) already hired people is uncommon and weird, and probably shouldn't be legal, indeed. Continued employment should be based on actual job performance, not some sudden "tests".

@lain@lain.com @cjd@pkteerium.xyz Disparate impact is ALWAYS the intent of interviews. You want to hire the ones fit for the job, not random people.

The question here is, how relevant are these questions for the job? And I bet not very much.

@Moon@shitposter.club @meowski@fluf.club @vriska@lizards.live He won't end up in jail, sadly. He'll post bail, then use his experience with the broken US legal system to delay, delay, delay. You know, can always appeal, and appeal that, etc.

He can easily draw this out for 5 years or more.

(I wish to be proven wrong on this)

A toy that #ElectroBOOM definitely would enjoy.

#warning #label #electric #electro #power #USB #meme

@coolboymew@shitposter.club So? Same with most other games.

Fun fact, in #Xonotic, we the developers cannot even allow all these things if we wanted to, because we too are bound by the terms of the #GPL license we received some assets under. Thus, if you e.g. post video footage on YouTube, it is either fair use or illegal (unless you provide source material for the entire video which is, honestly, rather tricky) - we cannot blanket permit it (even though we would actually like to). Whether it is fair use is not up to us, but only to the law in your respective country.

We also never have sued anyone, though. And neither did any contributor as far as we know of.

@lain@lain.com At this point they're just trolling.

But it worked for Boaty McBoatface, so this could work too...

@JapanAnon@pl.anon-kenkai.com Why did you post the pic then, you food porn spreader? To minors, even... ?

@Moon@shitposter.club @clacke@libranet.de There is one big problem that is kinda unavoidable in the current design of voting machines - secrecy of the vote.

With paper voting, you can reasonably well prevent an attacker from knowing you vote and your identity together by covering your hand while voting and using your own pen. Breaking secrecy then requires both a camera (to know who is voting) and a pressure sensitive table to detect where you laid out the paper and what you actually checked with the pen. Highly unusual, and if this were to be built, the next countermeasure would be putting the paper on your leg while voting, and not on the table (or to put a book or similar between ballot and table). Plus, a pressure sensitive table would likely look and feel very different from a normal one, so this won't be very covert.

With computer voting, however, the trust problem is much worse. Nobody can distinguish a good voting machine from one that simply streams screen content and touch positions to a remote machine, breaking any and all secrecy - and software attestation won't help in any form either as of course one could do all this on a glass plate between screen and machine to intercept.

@fluffy@social.handholding.io No, because Switzerland has a hole and Russia is two unconnected sections. But you could topologically merge the two into one real country.

Don't do that though, Vladimir.

@fluffy@social.handholding.io At least Norway is simply connected, unlike Russia (Königsberg!) or Switzerland (Büsingen!)

@fluffy@social.handholding.io So there exists a homeomorphism from Norway to "a real country". That is good enough for me.

#security #murica

@Moon@shitposter.club @alex@gleasonator.com @georgia@netzsphaere.xyz Yeah, the difference elsewhere. Nazi ideology as e.g. described in Mein Kampf required killing people, while communism nowhere says that.

But actual implementation of communism never happened without mass murder.