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Di4na

@Di4na@hachyderm.io

SRE. Elixir Dev. Learner in Resiliency. French.
All Opinions are my own. And i have a lot.

Co-Founder and President Haruspex.dev

dom. He/him.

Blog: Softwaremaxims.com

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grimalkina, to random
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The answer to "how can we make more technology work better and more for everyone" PROBABLY can't hinge on "individual software developers are responsible for knowing internalizing and perfectly executing every single thing in the world and perfectly understanding the needs of billions of people" eh?

mononcqc,
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@grimalkina one of the sentences that hit me in Dekker’s Repentance as Rebuke (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-022-00412-2) speaks to the futility of that:

> It isn’t as if engineers resist goals that arise at the level of an organization in interaction with its environment. They make them, or see them as, their own goals. These are no longer decisions and trade-offs made by the organization, but problems proudly owned by individuals or teams of engineers.

maia, to random
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NEW BY ME: pt. 6: tattling on pcTattletale

my in depth article on yesterdays breach and defacement of stalkerware provider pcTattletale, there is some wild shit in there!

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/fuckstalkerware-6

Patricia, to random
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I have thought probably 20 times over the past few days “Patricia, this is very harsh and if it were you you would be very upset” and yes, I would. But I land at this every time:

The author I’m sure is very sensitive to criticism of their work, but their work is literally made to affect other people. To change their entire day to day. Teams broken up, folks losing their jobs, all sorts of pretty drastic changes. To coddle their feelings seems disproportionate to the effect they are actually trying to produce in the world.

If they are successful they will change the day to day of tens of thousands of people. So a certain level of honest analysis is not only fair, but to be honest, sorely lacking.

Patricia, to random
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Like parents, managers tend to constantly overestimate the positive influence they have, and tragically underestimate the negative influence they have.

It sucks. But people aren’t malleable things we shape. And tbh, even if they were, how dare we think we have that right?

Having power others should terrify us.

Di4na, to foss
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Btw, if you liked my "I Am Not A Supplier" blogpost, I am searching for a job.

Happy to pick a job that is mostly going to tell people working on this about the reality of the maintainer life. Just saying.

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/resume

#foss #opensource

trechnex, to random
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"Work-Life Balance"

Most professions: "You work your stated hours, then you go home."

Software engineering: "You work more than your stated hours, do unpaid portfolio side-projects to demonstrate 'passion', and if you burn out then it's your own fault for not following the instructions in a blog post about mindfulness."

Patricia, to random
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Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

Patricia,
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Seriously so far the good parts of Team Topologies are the parts they have taken from other peoples work.

Patricia,
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Help. Why do folks love this book?

Patricia,
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I posit that this book is result of a bunch of folks who are personally struggling to understand how anything is ever built by anyone.

Patricia,
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I can’t. “This is how you simplify things for these silly dev folks who struggle to understand even basic stuff.”

“How to break down large domains”

If you think that there is a Perfect Org Breakdown for all the things I believe you don’t know anything about anything.

Patricia,
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This book is made for cherry picking quotes to support whatever you want. Just make sure no one else can be bothered to read it.

slightlyoff, to random
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Late-stage tech has sorted a basket of otherwise equally talented nerds by who could talk to people with money, not by who could talk to people that have problems that need solving.

Di4na, to elixir
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I am looking for a new job. Elixir/erlang SWE and/or ops/SRE related. Size of the company does not matter. I have some ethical rules (gambling, blockchain and probably most AI company,...). I only work remotely from France. Yes I would prefer a FTE french contract, but I can do self employed contracts.

You can find more about my career at https://www.softwaremaxims.com/resume

senj, to random
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The notion that a text generator would reliably spit out facts if you trained it on enough internet posts is mostly an admission of how unfamiliar these dweebs are with Posting

icejam_, to random
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While it's engaging to dunk on large tech companies for their misadventures in "AI", the bit that worries me is that they are so big and make so much money that it fundamentally doesn't matter.

Google can piss away all of its profits this year on Gemini and they still will be the de-facto search engine for the whole market. We saw how legitimate the competition is yesterday, when Bing went down.

Kurt, to random
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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mhoye, to random
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As always, domestic abuse is the flagship infosec threat model, the one where the victim has the least resources, the least recourse, where they're closest to immediate physical harm.

That this industry has failed at and mostly abandoned the idea of even pretending to try dealing with a threat model that's difficult and unprofitable and mostly hurts women is not news, but this new Windows Recall feature is next-level professional negligence.

mhoye,
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@heathborders

There's a missing third panel to that called "what happens all the time", that says "I'm going to hit her with a wrench for no reason and then look through her computer because I can."

The guy opposite him is wearing a police officer's hat and says "That's fine."

evacide, to random
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A lot of people who are not experts in domestic abuse think they're making a clever point by informing me that if an abuser has physical access & login credentials, the game's already over.

I am very tired and do not have the energy to explain why making spying easier for abusers is bad, actually.

petrillic, to random
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Mediocre white guy: I don’t know why you make such a big deal of abuse. I’ve never had an issue.

Me: <vibrates> you are so close to getting it.

SpamapS, to random
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I always felt like "Site Reliability Engineer" was inadequate to describe what I do... https://medium.com/@Spamaps/the-sociotechnical-reality-engineer-8a51e31c841b

sue, to random
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Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

sue,
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In my experience the folk who get most upset at the suggestion that they are in some way privileged are approx 100% white 🤡

whitequark, to random
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me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

whitequark,
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afaict the compiler driver calls wasm-opt unconditionally if:

  • it is on PATH
  • you pass -On with n>0 to the linker

so to make it not spend 10 minutes of real time in wasm-opt you need to pass -O0 to the linker. i only figured this out by reading the sources of the compiler driver.

nobody should be figuring out compiler options by reading the sources of the compiler driver. nobody!

brainwane, to random
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Revisiting and appreciating @HeyChelseaTroy 's https://chelseatroy.com/2023/04/21/whats-the-point-of-tech-conferences/

"concentrate the right groups of people into a space to catalyze conversations that lead to Big Things"

"Cons become worth it from the conversations that happen between folks who otherwise might not have met, that endure beyond the event itself"

"I (and you) have almost certainly benefited from cons we’ve never been to and never heard of."

brainwane,
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The "Cons are not industry newsletters" part is particularly interesting, as I also think about it through the lens of public professional recognition and public mastery validation, and how culturally discouraged it is in our subculture to say "I am seeking the professional respect of my profession."

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2018/the-ambition-taboo-as-dark-matter/
@HeyChelseaTroy

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