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jalcine

@jalcine@todon.eu

My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf/about.
I'm most likely reading, ranting or starting shit offline.
l talk politics a lot.

pfp: my eyes and nose poking out as I'm smiling hard

header: myself at karaoke taken by https://union.place/@betsyvr

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jalcine, to random
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I will say: this hearing with Code for America has shown me how little effort upper management (read: none) in attempting to understand themselves with any sort of union relationship outside of union-busting through plausible deniability (and of course, hiring law firms that do it as a service).

This is a civic tech NGO that aims to work with people who need aid and resources and refuses to engage a means of support that'd uphold a huge number of the people we serve IF they had similar support in their places of work or study.

It's a fucking oxymoron that's really irritating.

jalcine, to random
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More than a quarter MILLION workers are going to go on strike. We're almost there. https://teamster.org/2023/06/teamsters-authorize-strike-at-ups/ (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/BJ7c)

jalcine, to random
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Super excited to see this book off the press at A Book Apart: You Deserve a Tech Union. It's both exciting to see such a narrative in a mainstream tech publishing house known for excellent content and empowering to know that more workers will be able to have an accessible means of understanding why, in fact, they deserve a union. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/r7s4)

jalcine,
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It's written by the ever-capable and warm @beep and you can preorder it at https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

jalcine, to random
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Got literally called out by Code for America today for talking about them on social media. Surveillance is a wonderous thing.

jalcine, to random
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Despite being told (and @cfaworkers asking for it), Code for America has yet to provide every job description we've asked for (only began when compelled by the NLRB).

If I didn't do a high priority task for months (over two quarters), I would have been ... well, fired.

jalcine,
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This is what happens at any organization, especially places where leadership is actively fighting against unionization. The act of relinquishing a modicum of control will send any person with authority into a place of immediate defense, deflection and diminishing of workers.

jalcine,
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Code for America's gone on the record that they're pulling in a labor consultant (that's not a lawyer). The workers have no voice of this, and this is a conventional approach by organizations to union-bust. Again, it's jarring and antithetical to the values CfA "lives by".

Like what the fuck?!

jalcine, to random
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post shit on your website and keep a backup of it on your computer; screw the "clouds"

jalcine, to random
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I love this feature of Matrix, tbh.

jalcine, to random
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(inhales) you do NOT need javascript to submit a form in 2023 (or 2013, or in 2003) using the defaults that have been around. please please please stop making it a requirement. your PMs are lying to you. The CSR team is lying to you. please make the Web normal again and not just a fucking runtime. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/GJ8l)

jalcine, to random
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I'm tempted to auto-generate friendly for mobile reading version of content from articles I find useful information from. For example, workers.org keeps me appraised but I'd like to pull the information onto my eReader so I don't have to be on my computer a lot. I can see this being a script made from the weekly issues (either just pulling the PDFs or finding the matching HTML articles and convert them into a bundled ePub). It'd make it easier to read (for… https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/beZy

jalcine, to random
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Before the xenophobic comments come up, mind you that America's spent that kind of money on NYPD easily in two years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuba-to-host-secret-chinese-spy-base-focusing-on-u-s-b2fed0e0. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/_Jxo)

jalcine, to random
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The more I work on Koype (the thing I use to power Micropub on my site), the more I wonder if writing it in Rust was a bad idea. I want it to be easy to run anywhere, but I also want to heavily encourage modification without having to need a compiler. I could work on opening up parts of its system to run in a scriptable language (like LuaJIT) which would open up doors to a lot of other functionality. But then the core system itself would be still locked to Rust. I've… https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/-HKo

jalcine, to random
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I'm really thinking about implementing a WebDAV client for this project, so I can let people bring their own storage systems for this project because I don't want to only keep it on the local file system, but doing this in Rust means that I really do have to implement the client from scratch and I don't wanna do that. I could wrap one from C++ but also lol, I don't want to do that. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/ne9s)

jalcine,
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Of course, there's a few object storage client libraries out there. That would be a shoo-in as a wrapper for the vfs crate (though I need it to finish my PR for random access support). But people don't just share out authenticated object storage URLs for applications to use. I really might have to implement this client. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/Y0u4)

jalcine,
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It could live on the Web! I'm thinking about something that I could use my own existing infrastructure as well as making it easy for those using things like Box or Dropbox - for those who don't manage their own infrastructure.

I'll check out remoteStorage, it looks pretty straightforward! (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/4WMm)

baldur, to random
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I wish I was more optimistic about large language models, but everything I’m seeing at the moment leads me to think that the best case scenario is a massive acceleration of Silicon Valley’s worst instincts and an ongoing degradation of our software ecosystem.

jalcine,
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That's truly the only lever for it, right now at least.

jalcine, to random
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Real question: who's working on a visual editor that could rival things like Instagram or TikTok? I know this is the text land, but this space is going to (slowly) die out in twenty years if it doesn't try to align with the graphical space that we're in when it comes to sharing media. I picked up Instagram today and the simple means of making a text post or overlaying it over a video felt more … it felt way more human. You can hear my voice and see my face (though just my voice makes it more human IMO). Having auto-transcriptions/captioning is a big boon as well. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/op9G)

jalcine, to random
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I'm going to switch to digest mode for the SWICG mailing list. Despite's Evan earnest (and successful) attempts to move it back into a functional state, there are other folks (mainly one, Melvin) on there that have been passively pulling in the kind of ideas and technology that run counter to a safe Web. Because they also have a louder voice (and the passive backing of a [abuse-enabling built system, IMO]), it's not worth engaging it anymore.

It shouldn't also be lost on anyone that I've slowly moved away from open social Web things in recent years as I've gotten more involved in activism (and I do plan to return to this space because it is vital to the health of the Web) but I'll be doing it from afar. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/2CCJ)

jalcine,
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That "system" is Nostr. And frankly, I do not trust anything Jack Dorsey explicitly endorses. That man has passively caused more harm to people and the Web than most people are willing to admit (especially because he still has the ears of the celebrity class). And because of the inability to break away from these abusive systems, we're going to find new ones pop up with more of these things embedded in them, rinse the history of the past mistakes and deepen the grooves of the damages from before. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/_cUl)

exchgr, to random
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why is so much of tech media treating AI as a forgone conclusion? what am i missing here? are they bought?

jalcine,
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@exchgr tbh I kinda think they are (and are choosing to "look on the bright side" of shit too much)

jalcine, to random
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Is it possible to reimagine a Web without JavaScript? Frankly, and again, this is from a cursory observation, but this does not seem like a priority of functionality for any Web engine maker (like WebKit, Gecko, Servo or Blink). Why? (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/k10n)

jalcine, to random
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So Intuit is giving money to politicians (or lobbying as neoliberalism defines it) to fight against the work I do at Code for America around free (and open source!) tax filing. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/intuit-lobbying-taxes_n_64623a10e4b018d846bf3e59. Private companies engaging and working like this are always no good (despite the coating of goodness they give you). (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/ZR59)

jalcine, to random
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So glad this came RIGHT before I take off tonight for DC! I'm fighting the urge to start reading this now. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/KlgK)

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