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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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One of the most important things a manager can learn to do is listen to the words that come out of someone's mouth. Not the vibes, or amount of eye contact. Sometimes the manager is being objectively rude, and is being gently called out for it, but will interpret a flat affect as aggression.

Step back, ask yourself if you're the asshole here, and stop punishing people for being neurodivergent or chronically ill. Being told politely that you can do better is a gift.

akareilly,
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If you waltz into a meeting
with many people
that had an agenda
that determines how fast YOUR project gets done,
and change the subject?

The person trying to stick to the agenda is not the one being disrespectful.

akareilly,
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“Hi Susan! OMG I am sooooo happy that you want to talk about something else and we will for sure get to that but we have five people here and I’m thrilled to talk about the project plan! Come on, it’s going to be fun!”

is not better than

“Hey Susan, please schedule a separate meeting for that. We have an agenda.”

You don’t need someone to act like they’re a children’s entertainer and stare at your eyeballs or whatever “tone” suits you if you weren’t raised in a barn to begin with.

akareilly,
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I’ll make up a song about this to the tune of The Wheels on the Bus or Baby Beluga or whatever if that’s what you need but that costs extra.

akareilly, to random
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Tapping the sign again:
You can fight against a harmful legal precedent without making a sexist creep into some sort of Hacker Jesus.

akareilly,
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"Don't Free This Asshole, Just Jail Him For the Gender-Based Violence and Rightwing Bullshit Instead of Anything that Creates Blowback for People Doing Ethical Hacking and Journalism" doesn't roll off the tongue the same way.

by the way this still doesn't point to one person. Cool!

snarfed.org, to random

Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.

Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

akareilly,
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@snarfed.org@snarfed.org The GDPR applies to US-based companies that offer services to people in EU Member States. It applies to not-for-profit organisations. It will apply to you. Figure this out before launch.

Besides, consent matters even if you don't get fined for ignoring it.

akareilly, to random
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Move south and you're safe. This was a lie.
Move south again and you're safe. This was a lie.
Move south again and you're safe. This was a lie.
Now Palestinians are in Rafah and can't go south. They are up against a wall. There is nowhere to go.

The population in Gaza is half children.
Over a million people, hundreds of thousands of children, are at risk of being murdered.

Call your governments. Not one more bullet should be shipped to the occupying forces.

akareilly,
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This isn't about who is doing the killing.
No matter who does the bombing, no matter what happened to past generations, there are some actions that can not be excused, full stop.

The appropriate time for discussing what comes next has space for talking about history and the feelings of the people with all the firepower. Right now, what we are seeing must simply STOP.

akareilly, to random
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There is nothing a Palestinian child can do to deserve the hell on earth that is life in occupied, bombed, starved, plagued, and water- deprived Gaza.

The bombs must stop.
The attacks on medical personnel must stop.

"Never again" means everyone.

iamcanehdian, to science

Accurate. The resurgence of a disease we got rid of lays squarely on the shoulders of idiots.

akareilly,
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@meena @onepict @rosamundi @violetmadder @cmsdengl @iamcanehdian

The standard medicine to woo pipeline starts with doctors.
Misogynist, gaslighting doctors ignore pain, disabling conditions, and fatal disease in a person with a uterus. That person has a child. They don't trust a damned word about vaccines from some asshole who diagnoses women with hysteria that turns out to be endometriosis, autoimmune disease, heart attacks, cancer, etc.

Remember from Twitter?

tante, (edited ) to random
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This interview with Linus Torvalds on the qualities that maintainers need (in contrast to developers) and maintainer fatigue summarizes a few things I keep bringing up:

  • maintenance is not "bugfixing" as a lesser/different kind of coding, it's about experience, about having done a lot of things to give context to what you are seeing and to have some understanding of what second order consequences a choice might have
  • maintenance is about collaboration and cooperation with others, about bridging gaps between contributors and their goals

I'd have added that maintenance is #care work: Caring about and for the project/product and its development and sustainability, caring about and for the social structure that the project/product is built upon, caring about and for the people who will be using the product/project or who will otherwise be affected.

#Maintenance doesn't work without empathy, about thinking through long term consequences.

Move slow and fix stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWfUaFNSPhM

(With some luck I and a collaborator might get some time to speak more about this at #rp24)

akareilly,
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@tante It doesn't help that grants will not fund maintenance. Grants fund new shiny objects. The one time a request for proposals had the word "maintenance" in it, I was warned that an internal battle was lost so it was best not to put maintenance activities in the plan.

This is a bigger issue in open source grant-funded software than many people may know. You could get a collaborator from any number of tech nonprofit organizations.

akareilly, to random
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-rebound-can-happen-even-without-paxlovid/

Rebound exists. Your immune system is complex and weird. Viruses are complex and weird.

Paxlovid rebound isn't really a thing. Paxlovid doesn't make COVID worse, and this bullshit is keeping life-saving medication out of the reach of high-risk patients.

Helengraham, to Scotland
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So I have a question ,in a few months I move into a house next to the NC500 route that has parking space in front of it .Its an eyecatching house likely to attract attention as other more normal homes on the route do.I have very good reasons for not wanting folk looking in my windows,wandering around my garden etc .I know this happens all summer and you cant post a private sign.Can I post an admission £15 sign to prevent access

akareilly,
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@Helengraham

Private gardens are excluded. Doesn't stop tourists being muppets about it, but you don't have a legal obligation to put up with it.

There's no set boundary distance that I know of, but courts have ruled in favor of homeowners on account of security needs. The basic right to privacy is also protected despite access laws. If someone can look in your windows after strolling through a private garden, they are too close.

https://www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/practical-guide-all/property/houses-and-gardens
https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/3048/Access-Legislation-in-Scotland

akareilly, to random
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You don't hate project management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of project management

You don't hate product management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of product management.

Go find the people those tech bros were talking over last year. Hire them. Listen to them.

When something underrepresented people have been arguing for becomes trendy, it gets diluted by mediocre overrepresented people in tech.

Break the cycle. Stop building mediocre teams.

akareilly,
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Seriously, the number of times some goddamn zygote has mansplained things like OKRs to me is high.

I argue for the most lightweight and efficient version that actually helps the software developers, and some punkass explains that no, the process should take three times as long and have more parts and should involve more labor.

I say this will annoy everyone and make work slower, and instead of engaging in a discussion, the asshole acts as if I just can't grasp the concepts and explains again

akareilly,
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"This doesn't help."
"You don't understand it"
"Actually I've had to deal with this on projects ten times the size of this one"
"You don't understand it"
"No, I understand it, it's just not helpful"
"Here's this book that explains it with storyline for your ladybrain!"
"No thanks, I and the devs don't need to be treated like children"

Which person would you rather work with?
It doesn't matter, you're getting Mr. Ten Pages of OKRs for Implementing One API.

akareilly,
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You don't have to give a damn about racism and sexism and tech.

Do an experiment.

Find the most mediocre and annoying men on your team.

Are they also the ones who make sexist jokes? Do they argue against diversity in tech?

You may find that there's overlap. People are who excellent aren't threatened by a wider pool of potential coworkers. They aren't afraid to learn. They're reading the goddamned book about a thing, and doing the thing BEFORE teaching it, instead of "teaching" it.

akareilly, to random
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People are sitting in poorly ventilated rooms without masks because the Belgian government doesn’t have laws forcing any public health measures

and they won’t DIY protecting their community

while they discuss

DIY software development to protect their communities

because people use technology filled with surveillance capitalist junk because governments don’t have laws forcing privacy-protecting measures.

akareilly, to random
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I don’t think healthy people can truly understand what post-viral illnesses feel like.
You don’t want ME/CFS, POTS, Long etc.

It’s not just being tired.

Imagine being nauseated every day for years. YEARS. Ever had a hangover? Imagine a hangover for years.

Treatment? AHAHAHAHA. Dr. House MD is about an asshole doctor. If you’re not chronically ill you might think “no thanks” but if you’re disabled? YES PLEASE, because a TV show about differential diagnosis is a fantasy series.

akareilly,
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Wear a mask. You have no idea how much post-viral illnesses suck.

akareilly, to random
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If you're at it's likely you've been in a poorly-ventilated, crowded room with someone carrying the flu, RSV, or COVID.

It's not too late to wear a mask to protect yourself.

Please consider wearing a mask on your trip home. Don't attend mass infection events and get into a train with cancer patients, babies, people with asthma, etc.

akareilly,
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Think of it as access control for your face holes.

akareilly,
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@whitequark Good masks are helpful, but individual masking is not as effective as everyone wearing masks. It’s best when all the asymptomatic COVID carriers are not spreading the virus.

akareilly,
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@whitequark At least in Germany, when people are wearing masks they are usually FFP2 or FFP3 masks. They can be purchased at drug stores.

akareilly,
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@whitequark Germany has a large anti-science, anti-vaxx, and anti-mask movement and the doctors are reluctant to prescribe Paxlovid. Compliance with mask mandates was not very high. We do benefit from having manufacturers of medical equipment here, but with the bog standard ableism that everyone else deals with, it doesn't result in widespread safety for immunocompromised people.

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