Notices by christa (christa@void.holdings)

@lzg at employer where I had my sabbatical we were expected to give a presentation about what educational thing we did on our (month long) sabbatical after we got back. was always surprised that people mustered presentations that weren't just "I managed to stop thinking about work"

@anna it really depends and is more complicated than I fully understand. as tim says, US government employees are generally unionized. many of my friends are in non-unionized term-limited positions that have basically no protections, though - this is a way many of the "tech to public sector" pipelines have happened recently, as a hack to more closely match private sector salaries more onerous hiring processes. also, many folks working for government are contractors.

@anna I'm not sure about the legal question because there are so many different categories of workers, even having worked as a fed. but, I think the reality is that even if there are legal protections for your job (there might be, not sure), you'd have to pursue legal action to see them out. who knows what that looks like.

this might be an interesting read (in general don moynihan is a good read on these sorts of things): https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-will-trumps-executive-orders

@nkavassalis hiiiiii

@kingrat every day. and yet I keep commuting to things outside of work that require brainpower. baffling

plates: the inferior serving vehicle

accurately and respectfully clocked by bartender at dinner as going to nosferatu

here's your inbox! no you can't use it to contact us.

today I got to learn how to forcibly install homebrew packages that have been disabled due to deprecation (`HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 brew edit <package>; HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 brew install <package>`)

every day is a winding road etc

anyone else trying to install ruby 3.0 on a mac to run legacy applications will likely run into this, too, since openssl 1.1 has been disabled in homebrew as of a few weeks ago and is required by ruby < 3.1

here are options suggested by an rvm maintainer - I found I was able to just forcibly install openssl@1.1 by doing what's in my previous toot

https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/5507#issuecomment-2458706085

don't hack me

@krusynth I love ruby! dhh's empire of shit is his own! the install has been a real pain lately, though, but I blame that largely on the march of time and a patchwork reliance on opensource maintainers for all of our toolchains

@krusynth I do totally get your frustration, though. installs have been a real pain for me the last while when I've been working on older applications

@scott @kingrat @sfstandard I mean fwiw no candidates are giving us non policing options. I’m annoyed by the question and it accurately reflects the mayoral candidate positions

I saw this on tiktok and it actually seems to work for now - if you're using google for search and don't want the annoying AI summaries, you can add `udm=14` (or, seemingly anything with `udm`) to any search and it removes them

had a very cute morning delivering about 18k signatures with other volunteers and organizers for the @sftransitact to the SF department of elections! the petition boxes were painted as little muni buses 🥹

next step is validation by the DoE (we need 10k valid to qualify for ballot in November) and then four months of getting the word out

if you’d like to get involved with the campaign, now’s the time! https://sftransitact.com

@ntnsndr ! came back for a second visit?

did my first native seed collecting today - spent the morning collecting ready heads from miner’s lettuce (an edible here in SF) with other folks at sutro stewards. little black seeds that were extremely satisfying to pop out of their green pods. step one of preparing to plant them again in the fall on the mountain

a former coworker of mine and her family are trying to help their sibling with mental illness escape an abusive situation while institutionalized by the state. they are raising funds to secure a private lawyer to help her come home.

if you're able to donate, please consider. thank you

https://gofund.me/aa2518f5

ok I’ve learned my lesson never to pre buy merch for the meet

@horse oh gosh. I try to keep my lists maintained in a way that I can at least keep up on posts of people I choose, which is a huge sell over twitter. but that means intentionally keeping exclusive lists (where member posts are removed from home timeline) for some, and putting noisy things onto others. hometown, the masto fork I run, allows for this - vanilla mastodon doesn't. I like it.