Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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Linux security for beginners
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Linux security for beginners
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@Absinthe Ada Lovelace
@Absinthe Some of my local schools have very few men working in them, if you couple that with any single parents who are female, you are left with very little in the way of positive role models who are in the same world as the rest of us, sure a footballer is a role model, but they live in a world very few can break into.
@Absinthe There is a desire here to get more girls in to STEM what I think really works is the right role model., Sadly this is lacking in quite a few sectors. People want to be social media influencers rather than doctors or nurses, careworkers are branded low skilled, so is it any wonder. Doctors are nurses are so highly valued in the UK they are not even given full PPE during the current crisis.
Children keeping tags on the current crisis are going to pick up on all of this.
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Thoughts on the day...
So it would seem that there is a huge push to get girls/women/ladies/female persons into STEM and programming specifically. There are people working on "scholarships" or "free tickets to cons" and such for them as underrepresented class of persons. I am wondering the actual specific reasons? Is it because we have an actual shortage of programming persons? Or because this class of persons desires to be in programming, but is somehow being shut out? There doesn't necessarily seem to be lack for this class of persons in other STEM fields. Could it also be due to the fact that this class of persons is traditionally paid less than their boy/man/dude/male person counterpart performing the same job as an attempt to lower the cost to businesses employing such? I am curious of the pushes that are being done, because I never trust the motivation given for anything that affects so many aspects of something.
Without turning this into an essay, I want to raise a few more questions?
Does the industry gain anything in the field from diversity itself? Does a programming team benefit from having a person of a specific gender, race, religion, national origin <insert the rest of the eoe protected classes> from the fact that they are in fact a member of that class.
Should the industry and its players change itself, (customs, culture, mores, language, and so on) to allow for such integration, or would the marriage of such new culture to an existing culture naturally change it organically?
Is this done in other industries where they are made up lacking a certain class of person and strong encouragement, support etc. is made to interest, entice, or otherwise bring members of that lacking class into it?
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#PinePhone #UbuntuTouch Edition Now Available for Pre-Order http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/135911#comment-24371 #gnu #linux
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You can now follow @Wasabi for live status updates from our CDN.
@schestowitz If this is anything like so called "smart motorways" there are going to be serious flaws, lets close the hard shoulder, make it an extra lane and put drives and who need to stop in an emergency at risk, not so smart idea.
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#ProtonMail Officially Announces #ProtonMail Bridge for #Linux
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Following on from today's successful Overleaf introduction
Teaching with Overleaf webinar - Thurs 2 April - covering: How to create a project template; sharing that project with your students; best practices for organizing projects & providing feedback on student projects. Hope you can join us - https://bit.ly/33OR2w5 #AcademicChatter
@schestowitz Just as with Care work these jobs are low paid as they are seen as low skilled., they are anything but low skilled, customer service is a real skill, get it right you get more customers, get it wrong you lose customers now and in the future. A workforce that is well paid is happy this leads to better productivity and you are better place to face customers better. If you are fed up having to go to food banks because your salary is so low you are forced to, it is probably harder to help customers whos problems seem trivial by comparison.
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"Tourism means a tourist economy with many low-paying jobs and few opportunities for younger people and young families." https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/31/the-fault-lines-of-a-failed-society-begin-to-open-up-into-chasms/
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