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limer

@ limer @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech.

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  • Smells like non technical reasons

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  • The group of repos also is an alternate 4chan.

    I have no clue about the code, haven’t looked, but it has consistent work done and some people use it. In this context, I would feel less good about the code if Pepe was not in the picture

  • Why Privacy Still Matters in the Digital Age - blog post by me

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  • In my campaign I used to have a cursed scroll of reading. Which provided such provoking and interesting content based on one’s feelings and desires, it trapped the person into reading it for a very very long time unless saving throw.

    I can imagine how much more effective it would be if one could reply to that reading, and enter another level of entrapment.

    And here we have cursed scrolls in real life. Me 30 years ago would never have guessed .

    Unrelated, but this is where I stop doomscrolling for the day. So long until tomorrow, unless I make my daily saving roll

  • Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

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  • Texas Austin layoffs 20 years ago poll: 1/3 did fast food, 1/3 jail

  • Finding coding gigs nowadays

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  • This, what you said, is so important. In my years doing my own business, I have had literally hundreds of scammers, some smarter than me. Its best to just not even try to talk to people trying to contact you first in these platforms.

    And many many scammers will post jobs, and one cannot tell by seeing if this is a new account. Some of my multi year assignments have been initiated by sketchy new accounts. At the same time existing accounts of clients usually have their own preferred coders. If you get to talk to an existing account with a history, check out the reviews and be wary. There may be a reason they are seeking out new blood.

    I think its ok to go off site to talk to the new job candidates. Often, cannot have decent conversations in platform. And an in depth talk is free for all, and will often give clues in the first few minutes of talk.

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    Things I learned the hard way:

    • Never agree on anything until can see the existing code and talk about everything.
    • Milestone payments only. Stay away from any lump sum payments or percentage cuts.
    • Full payments in escrow first.
    • Never reply to people you don’t know who seek you out, only seek out jobs.
    • In first contacts ask questions first, don’t talk about qualifications. If questions good then customer knows you know the tech well.
    • Learn to walk away if instincts kick in

  • Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?

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  • People who support the server have greater voting rights; no revenue steam. But I think it would be cool to sell pirate plushies!

    Unrelated: If you code it’s not hard to insert ads in between the comments on your own lemmy instance. It would be a cool experience but probably would create significant vitriol and site wide bannings by most, if not all, major instances for trying.

    The problem for most monitization is psychological only ; many ideas would be an unwinnable uphill battle. Yes, can put ads in but also be a leper with zero traffic. You could probably put in perks if have good coding skills or can hire good skills; but if public relations done wrong then you are “poison to the community”.

    You could try to do awards ( Reddit gold) but may get laughed off the platform. It’s a tough crowd

  • Finding coding gigs nowadays

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  • Freelancer platforms that have paying stuff do exist, but it requires effort to learn how to use them; and during the long learning curve, one is usually grossly underpaid and sometimes scammed and or cheated.

    If in financial emergency it’s often better to not try this and try menial work outside industry. But one can find it as a decent resource stream after some trial and error which can take a year or more to learn

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  • Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

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  • And just like that, contract law was born

  • Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

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  • Free snacks can change the human race

  • Angry Democrats Turn Off the Flow of Money

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  • Almost all poll messages are scams too. Run by organized crime outside of the USA

  • Nancy Pelosi Gets a Surprising New Primary Challenger

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  • I think she is too old to be a boomer, that generation was 1946 to 1964. She was born 1940

  • Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over

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  • Yet here we are, it and the plugins handle too much of my daily traffic. It’s easy to dismiss the piss poor coding, but is done at our peril.

    Everyone of us has personal data stored in those God awful plugins, in their thousands of basic security holes

  • DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

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  • I learned several new things by reading the parent bug and this

  • Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over

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  • Word press code, and plugins, do not sanitize out of the box. You have to call an additional function, each time, that is not provided automatically. Many home made plugins miss that; many popular plugins used to be home made ones

  • Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over

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  • Legacy systems still handle more traffic than modern ones, I’d wager

  • 'Should be terrifying to everyone': Prosecutor fired by Trump delivers blunt warning

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  • That was only clear to those who think the USA is a working democracy, where the purple states have fair elections. It was clear to idealists or uninformed.

    To those who understand why computer ballots should not be used, or just plain cynical, it was clear the choice was out of our hands

  • 'Should be terrifying to everyone': Prosecutor fired by Trump delivers blunt warning

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  • Temporary lull, only