FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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it is a truth universally acknowledged that a japanese composer writing an upbeat song must be in want of a female vocalist to sing “pa-paya”
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idk. the tech job market is generally pretty fucked rn. where are the jobs that benefit normal people. my friend who works on a farm doesn't need to battle with the idea of his field funding mass surveillance. he goes out, picks vegetables all summer, and sells them to the local farm. everyone around here benefits from his work in a pretty direct way.
my options as someone versed in tech feel super limited in this sense. if i want to actively harm the world, i can work for a military contractor or in surveillance. or both. if i want to at least keep the status quo, which isn't really much better, i can sell my soul to insurance companies, banks, or someone in a financial sector. but those people aren't helping anyone in local communities.
what do i do. where are the jobs that benefit society. why did we as a society decide that technology should be used as a tool to do widespread harm. i don't want to do that.
my options as someone versed in tech feel super limited in this sense. if i want to actively harm the world, i can work for a military contractor or in surveillance. or both. if i want to at least keep the status quo, which isn't really much better, i can sell my soul to insurance companies, banks, or someone in a financial sector. but those people aren't helping anyone in local communities.
what do i do. where are the jobs that benefit society. why did we as a society decide that technology should be used as a tool to do widespread harm. i don't want to do that.
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computer jobs are grunt work for the ultra wealthy. why did i specialize in this field.
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2988. Maslow's Pyramid
title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
(https://xkcd.com/2988)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2988)
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It's strange how power-only USB cables seem to be prone to spontaneously developing cuts in them
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going back in time to the original USB committee meetings. I'm gonna appear out of a portal, wearing an eyepatch and a dozen scars, and yell at them to explicitly forbid power-only USB cables before collapsing into a heap of dust on the floor
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90 minutes 'til go time:
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"Trains are like crabs. "
submitted by u/PaSe_Sam
https://redd.it/1flcau6
#fuckcars
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The abstract seems pretty clearly “fine, here’s something you can CITE that yes, autistic humans also have emotions” so I imagine that the authors are just as annoyed by this headline as I am
(abstract without ridiculous headline: https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/78/4/7804205070/25222/Affective-Contact-in-Autism-A-Phenomenological )
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The current government likes to say that the new budget's reduced income tax will start to compensate for households' cost of living increases from the past few years
As expected, the greatest benefit will be to those who have high salaries. But what's worse is now it turns out that the amount of money you receive if you're on disability will be *reduced* compared to the previous budget!
"Det ska löna sig att arbeta" aka "if you can't work, your life needs to be made miserable"
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My least favorite thing about the modern commercial internet is when I'm very clear about what I want, and I can't find it, because the search engines are helpfully "correcting" my search to make it make sense.
No, I don't want a device that scales analog video to HDMI, I want a device that takes HDMI and scales it to analog video! that's the exact opposite of what I want!
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So Cards Against Humanity just sued M*sk for ruining a piece of land they bought in Texas for their customers...
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I remember thinking “damn, covid is gonna suck but people gotta support universal healthcare after this” and that just… didn’t materialize.
Then I was like “wow, long covid sounds bad but at least this we’ll get more people to research ME/CFS and such” but now it seems like long covid is just gonna get swept under the rug like ME/CFS has this whole time.
I’m sick of this shit.
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"This will also never happen."
submitted by u/Bitter-Gur-4613
https://redd.it/1flhkg0
#fuckcars
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I was off on the keyboard and instead of "systemctl list environment" I wrote "ayarwmns liar wncieonmwnr"
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Huh, you expected me to bring food? No no, you have hired a professional catearing service, not a catering service! gently puts a pair of cat ears on your head
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SHELVE YOUR KNIFE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
