George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

So multifocal contact lenses are bullshit?

This is just "things are still blurry but now it's your fault somehow and also you're paying for it."

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Anyone experience in being an independent scholar with a PhD?

Seriously thinking of changing paths after completing the PhD so any experiences and advice appreciated!

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter @academiccommunity

Social networks should be small enough to reflect a sense of identity and community, big enough to enable discovery of tangental ideas, but not so big that all shared context is lost and we just turn into a bunch of factions dunking on each other: https://crookedtimber.org/2023/05/05/the-protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-mastodon/

Okay. $dayjob has gotten to the point where I need to do something about it.

I'm officially looking for other opportunities in the sysadmin/IT/devops/etc space. I've been a linux/unix sysadmin generalist for ~20 years now and I'd like to apply my considerable skills and experience to the aid of some organization seeking to do good things in the world.

You can find my resume at https://github.com/48kRAM/resume (Yes, my resume has a Makefile)

Open to both remote positions but also to relocation. I enjoy having my hands on hardware and fixing problems. And, of course, I'll bring all the retro gaming nerdery with me.

I'd love to #getfedihired :)

Thanks

@freemo @mc My Math background did get me involved in undergrad research alongside PhDs and many things that I should have received credit for.

There was a competition that might have been to replace an older system that had been publicly defeated. Perhaps I ended up homeless while working on this and I was treated like trash by faculty. Some areas of research are kept separate from everything else. I still won't talk about what it actually was but consider a part of infrastructure going down and what happens in the chaos. That's the last clue.

A while after that I was more seasoned in Comp Sci. I was doing research with equipment that only I could get. A select few believed in it and I got treated like shit again. My equipment, my money and my hard work were being mocked. I started my own personal research and poured my all into it.

I made sure to send links to the faculty and students who treated me so poorly. The links were to publications where my work was referenced by a legend. They did the impressive part of the work but my contribution was acknowledged.

So there's a killer comeback that only a few know of. The best part is that I was willing to credit the University in some way but I was roasted by faculty and students on my way to try to get them involved.

Perhaps I handled it like a Mathematician. They didn't get undeserved credit nor did I ever mention them by name so their name wouldn't be present in any of the work.

I don't believe I have ever made more than 20k in a year. I continually have problems with employment. I was treated nicely and encouraged by the right person and as a last resort, I showed a department that maybe they had a lapse in judgement. I still get angry about it but I pushed for changes that should have made a positive impact. They likely wouldn't credit me if my proposals were made into policy. Universities love to cover things up.

Just thought I'd share that little gem for those of you who had to deal with academia and its unique values.

I'm deleting my #WashingtonPost app. My prepaid subscription was cancelled months ago--but I've still had access to the paper because of it. Today with the Post comparing Thomas' situation *favorably* to Abe Fortas, who resigned the second it was clear his friend was corrupt WITHOUT ACCEPTING ANY GIFTS, is the last straw. #Thomas was compromised when he cast the deciding vote in #Shelby and Citizens United, giving men like Crow unlimited power in government. Paying #Crow back isn't a solution.

Synthetic gasoline promises neutral emissions—but the math doesn’t work

E-fuels sound like a panacea, but there's not enough spare electricity to make them.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/synthetic-gasoline-promises-neutral-emissions-but-the-math-doesnt-work/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Watch Duty kept me super well-informed about #wildfires in California last year. Now it's expanding its coverage — not just to Oregon as I first heard, but throughout the western US.

Highly recommended! https://www.watchduty.org

#apps #Oregon #Washington #Idaho #Montana #Utah #Wyoming #Colorado #Arizona #NewMexico

A tip I have for anyone just joining Mastodon is to follow many accounts & to make them as diverse as possible. It’s a great way to connect with new people & to learn lots of interesting stuff. Also it makes your home feed fill up pretty quickly.
And personally, I’ve found that people here are really up for chatting & helping with with what’s needed.
#MastadonTips #TwitterMigration #MakingFriendsOnMastodon

My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you. I've spent the last two years building Shopify's in-house cloud developer environment, and I have extensive experience building developer tools as one of members of the Homebrew package manager's Project Leadership Committee.

Welcoming signal boosts: Come work on my team!

We are hiring a Senior Digital Security Trainer. You'll work with journalists, media organizations, whistleblowers and other mission-aligned groups to develop their digital security hygiene.

Many of us have nontraditional backgrounds in security, so we intend to cast a wide net. Even if you don't think you fully match the job description, if you're excited a out it we want to hear from you. https://grnh.se/4bd2fe535us

Isn’t it time for Clarence Thomas to resign?

FYI #QOTO has temporarily silenced mastodon.social until they get their spam attack under control at which point the silence will be removed.

Hello, world!

Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!

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You can also use the form to volunteer your expertise as a professional, researcher, etc.

Help us do #journalism! And please share :)

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I have a terrific local park with an amazing variety of plants and animals, including this guy.

Layoffs have been hitting some folks I know pretty hard, either directly, or through having to add others' responsibilities on to their own.

My company is hiring for a half dozen positions. One of the positions (Sr Systems Engineer) is on my team. Each of them is a real position that we're actually interviewing to fill.

Domaintools is a great company, filled with some of the smartest and best people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I've been with FSI and DT (FSI was bought about a year and a half ago by DT) for a total of over 9 years now, and I'm still hyped about my job, the learning opportunities, the people, and the impact we make on the world.

If the layoffs impacted you, and there's a fit, come work with me. If you're unhappy with your position, but the move still sounds like a good idea, come work with me and open your spot for someone else!

Reach out to me with any questions, or if you'd like to ask me to officially recommend you for the position to the hiring manager.

https://www.domaintools.com/company/careers/opportunities/

I'm sure my mastodon reach is nearly non-existent, buuut.

I'm strapping on my job helmet. Looking for someone with infrastructure/sre chops? I’ve done a lot of different things including networking, systems automation (terraform, shell, others), refining development environments with Nix. Autoscaling CI builders (didn't even use containers!), automating manual processes to free up QA time, those are the kinds of things I dig.