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akareilly

@akareilly@hachyderm.io

She/her/they
I once worked with goats. I moved into tech.This was a mistake. Expect sheep, wool, and textile history. Also birbs. Infosec on occasion. I use content warnings for topics and images that can trigger PTSD. I do not use them to shield people without trauma from experiencing racism, sexism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. If you can ignore politics, you’re not likely in need of content warnings for much of anything, really.

Avatar: me holding a baby goat.

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akareilly, to random
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If you want many eyes on your open source project, you need to get rid of assholes.

Bad community management is a security risk.

Assholes bully sole maintainers.
Assholes gatekeep and keep maintainer numbers low.
Assholes waste time on the mailing list with petty bullshit.
If you fundraise, assholes are bullying your grant writers and community managers.

Some of the best security contributors don't write a single line of code. They yeet assholes.

daniel, to random German
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I have a date with a spacecraft today! 🥰

akareilly,
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@daniel @neuronenstern So you're near DC? If you're going to the National Mall to see the other Air and Space Museum, try the Mitsitam Café at NMAI - like a culinary museum.

akareilly, to random
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:elmo-fire.gif:

What’s your “BURN IT ALL DOWN” tech management suggestion?

I’ll go first: Hire semi-feral burned out primary school teachers as managers. The combination of the rage of a thousand suns with the ability to talk about feelings might be just the thing your teams need.

akareilly, to random
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Hey there software developers who complain about managers as a concept,

Maybe devaluing glue work and only promoting surly software developers or MBAs to management is the issue, not the concept of having someone coordinate efforts and be a bridge between you and other teams.

A bad implementation of a good idea
doesn’t make
the good idea
a bad idea.

akareilly,
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If you don’t officially have project managers, someone is doing the work by trying to gently prod you to do something and they are burning the fuck out doing it.

akareilly, to random
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The idea that someone can’t be held accountable for their shitty behavior because the government is after them is a deeply harmful one.

The creepy enemy of my enemies is not my friend. The swastika tattooed asshole enemy of my enemies is not my friend.

You can fight against government overreach AND tell a creep that they will get legal representation to avoid harmful precedents, but not a damned thing more and they can get wrecked otherwise.

akareilly, to random
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Voting or not voting can be a matter of getting time off, or needing accessible polling places. It's also, for some people, avoiding both domestic and foreign addresses being available to any asshole with your name and birthdate, including unhinged stalkers. Voter privacy needs to be a core issue if the Democrats manage to win the House and Senate. Want people to vote? Make it safe. Want people to vote? Destroy data brokers.

Plus, stop aiding and abetting genocide.

akareilly, to random
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“My husband can’t dine indoors because every restaurant is currently violating the ADA” is not a piece NPR will ever publish; it is, however, both a more accurate summation of the problem, as well as one that invites action rather than acceptance.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor

chargrille, to random
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-africa-urges-top-court-impose-emergency-orders-107860651

akareilly,
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@chargrille
It’s easy! 202 224 3121 and give the operator your ZIP

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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When running, what's the absolute worst?

akareilly,
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@xahteiwi If I’m running, it’s the large carnivore behind me.

futurebird, to random
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Many people have been amusing themselves by giving their cats buttons that say words: "pets", "toy", "food", "mad" etc.

Cats will readily learn to press buttons if it prompts a reaction from humans. There is a lot of over-interpreting cat behavior. The words are so suggestive... but it seems fun for the cats and people.

It is ... telling that multiple cats enjoy pushing the "mad" button over and over. Maybe because humans find it funny? Or maybe because it is true.

akareilly,
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@jollyorc @futurebird
Merlin is a meowdel. He is style and grace and does not have an office job pressing buttons.
He has one meow for everything, so he would only use one button marked "FIX IT!" anyway.

akareilly, to random
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The people who oppose reparations by saying that that they weren’t born when their grandparents committed atrocities

are the same people who get so emotional about holding their current government to account that they will blame people in a separate occupied land for what happened in the past.

If the past has nothing to do with why people are dying today, you can’t have it both ways. Either stop shipping weapons and stay out of it, or support international human rights standards.

akareilly,
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Love your culture.
Love your art.
Love your textile art traditions.
Love your poetry.
Love your music.
Love the activists.
Love the people who cared for the vulnerable.

You can do all this and recognize that some of our ancestors were actively involved or stayed silent while horrible things were done to innocent people. Including robbing them of all the things they loved about their people.

akareilly, to random
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The absolute bare minimum of human decency is to leave children out of fights between adults.

akareilly,
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Doubt all you want but can we at least agree to stop bombing the hell out of Gaza and send in international organizations to check?

If this is the most “moral military” then surely they have nothing to hide from the UN, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and assorted diplomats, correct?

akareilly, to random
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If you think Iceland's Eurovision fans are just now learning about Palestinian music artist Bashar Murad, go read this article from 2019:

https://grapevine.is/music/2019/06/05/just-being-palestinian-is-political-queer-palestinian-musician-bashar-murad/

I was at the show after Eurovision and Bashar Murad and Hatari were met with wild applause.

akareilly, to random
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Disasters are averted, roughly, like this:

Clueless bossman says "YOLO, let's do it live! Just launch now!"

Engineers say "Dude, you can get wrecked, but this ship isn't getting wrecked today"

Clueless bossman's pet engineers chime in with "It'll be fine! This bad thing you're whining about never happens! MAN UP WEAKLINGS!

The engineers with a clue refuse and build redundancy and failsafes, addressing edge cases.

The bad thing that never happens, happens, but nobody dies.

akareilly,
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@passenger @quidcumque

I would say that people who just want to bask in good vibes should join the cannabis industry instead, but the organic pest control alone is too much responsibility.

akareilly, to random
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THIS IS NOT A POST PRAISING NAZIS

THIS
POST
IS
NOT
PRAISE
FOR
NAZIS

"Fun" fact:

Anyone blaming DEI for the erosion of Boeing's safety record is less informed on diversity in STEM than the German engineers who were whisked away to the US after WWII. The bar is in hell! If Werner Von fucking Braun is more likely to judge someone based on their engineering skills, that regressive right-wing asshole who can't meet the standards set by war criminals should not be anywhere near a plane.

akareilly,
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The problem with Boeing is that a bunch of bean counting assholes from McDonnell Douglas were allowed to take over a company run by engineers.
McDonnell Douglas planes were on my "oh hell no, rebook my flight" list for years. Now there's a Boeing plane on that list.
People who paid attention to the lessons learned from Challenger and other aerospace engineering disasters were pushed out by the same MBA-toting football bats who enshittify everything they touch.

Diversity in STEM is good.

akareilly,
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Boeing executives think they know better than their own engineers and NASA how to make planes.

They are not smart people.

Elon Musk thinks he's better than NASA.

He is not a smart man.

akareilly,
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http://nalfl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Karl-Sendler-Biography.pdf

https://www.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/women-at-nasa/rocket-fuel-in-her-blood-the-story-of-joann-morgan/

"In spite of working for all of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and being promoted to a senior engineer, Morgan was still not permitted in the firing room at liftoff — until Apollo 11, when “Karl Sendler went to bat for me.”

Without her realizing, Sendler had had to go all the way to the top to ask permission from Debus. When Sendler called Morgan into his office to share the good news, he was “practically gleeful”

akareilly,
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https://www.nasa.gov/general/katherine-johnson-a-lifetime-of-stem/

The engineers who got people safely to the Moon had to get where they were through mountains of bullshit, and excelled.

DEI is essential. DEI means not accepting mediocrity.

akareilly,
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/

"One day, her daughter decided to “play astronaut” and pushed a simulator button that made the system crash. Hamilton realized immediately that the mistake was one that an astronaut could make, so she recommended adjusting the software to address it, but she was told: “Astronauts are trained never to make a mistake.”
During Apollo 8’s moon-orbiting flight, astronaut Jim Lovell made the exact same error that her young daughter had..."

akareilly,
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/470870426/challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-shuttle-disaster-dies

Does your organization have a person like Bob Ebeling? Do people pay attention to their warnings?

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