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Minnie "Calabaza" Mel

My wife is dying. We need to leave this state before the laws get worse.

I am the only source of income.

My job isn't enough. Please send me something. I'll work multiple if I have to.

Here is my resume: https://nextcloud.aberrata.net/s/JFCDCfxGejxXQoM

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@lucifargundam @RadicalEdward @freemo

I was thinking exactly the same thing, just not sure on the figure to give metas minus reputation.

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Jake Williams

If you're starting out in security and find the breadth of stuff you "need to know" daunting, I want to give you some perspective:

1. The field has broadened - dramatically. The "baseline knowledge" grows every year. Anyone saying otherwise is lying or uninformed.
2. You don't have to "know everything" to make a significant impact.
3. All the people you are looking up to now stand on the shoulders of giants, whether they admit it or not. I know I sure do.
4. Stop measuring yourself by what you don't know. You'll never know it all.
5. This is a field where you need to be comfortable with lifetime learning. Your skills will quickly become irrelevant (despite Microsoft's best efforts) if you stand still.
6. I spend at least an hour a day reading/practicing new skills. Still. It's my antidote to stagnation.
7. Pick a few areas of specialization, especially when you're starting out. You can't know more generally than a 20yr veteran. But if you pour all your focus into some new technology, you'll quickly outpace them *there*.
8. They still may be seen as more valuable, because context. But your value isn't measured against others. It's based on what you contribute to the broader team.
9. Develop a learning plan and stick to it.
10. Build your network and treat people well. People matter more than computers on SO MANY LEVELS.

Cross posted from the bird site.

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@preslavrachev
I think we can add promoting evidence based science along side open access to science to that. Sure with the latter, the science community need to find a way for science to share reseach and be properly compensated for that.

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Quokka

Regarding the position of scicomm.xyz on #Meta and in the Fediverse, #FediPact etc.

After discussion between myself and the other mods and considering the views expressed by the people on our instance we have decided that pre-emptive blocking of Meta is warranted.

There is more detail on the background and explanation of this decision in a post on our companion site, here:
about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=

Thanks to our people for their comments and suggestions to help us reach this decision.

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@uanews

Crash!! I thought it imploded, unless it crashed in to something then imploded as a result.

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Brian O'Meara

Remember that attendees at #Evol2023 can report incidents of potential misconduct to our safety officer: evolutionmeetings.org/safe-evo during and for a few weeks after the conference ends. So if you've experienced or *observed* excluding, bullying, intimidation, harassment, or more, please reach out to them: evolutionsafetyofficer@gmail.com

#SafeEvolution

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@RadicalEdward

How do you design a service a reputation, when it only exists on paper, surely you start at 0 and build it up.

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Radical Edward :hackers_town:

LOL Meta is assigning instances a reputation

rest assured we here at Hackers Dot Town remain quite disreputable

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HeavenlyPossum

@zleap @darcher

I absolutely believe he’d kill everyone in Moscow to stay alive and in power

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@neil I can't comment from an admin viewpoint, but I would guess they would need to be aware of who they are federating with so they can decide if they should actully federate with that instance / domain or block them.

Signing up to an instance you read the terms and learn what the vaues of that instance are, do they block certain content, if so, you can agree to sign up or move to another instance.

I think by our very nature of being here, we want privacy or at least have more control over what happens to data for example. We can there fill in as much of our own user profiles as we want, this information helps oters find us, but as there are no algorithms then it is up to US as users to post content or find others that have posted content we want to interact with. So we can make more informed choices, the result is we find people with similar interests world wide rather than the software finding people who are local geographically.

I think utimately it may be down to us as users, we can choose to block meta as we can block users or domains directly, so that is the power here, rather than putting that responsibility on the admins, we use the tools we have. It may be we perhaps find a way to block a domain, but have exceptions to allow select people we know to communicate with us.

I don't trust meta, facebook or any of them to be honest, and their behaviour is why the fedi exists in the first place. But respect others may want to interact, if people on this new service adapt to how the fedi works, rather than expecting us to adapt to how they do things on facebook it will be better for all of us.

I can't comment from an admin viewpoint, but I would guess they would need to be aware of who they are federating with so they can decide if they should actully federate with that instance / domain or block them.

Signing up to an instance you read the terms and learn what the vaues of that instance are, do they block certain content, if so, you can agree to sign up or move to another instance.

I think by our very nature of being here, we want privacy or at least have more control over what happens to data for example. We can there fill in as much of our own user profiles as we want, this information helps oters find us, but as there are no algorithms then it is up to US as users to post content or find others that have posted content we want to interact with. So we can make more informed choices, the result is we find people with similar interests world wide rather than the software finding people who are local geographically.

I think utimately it may be down to us as users, we can choose to block meta as we can block users or domains directly, so that is the power here, rather than putting that responsibility on the admins, we use the tools we have. It may be we perhaps find a way to block a domain, but have exceptions to allow select people we know to communicate with us.

I don't trust meta, facebook or any of them to be honest, and their behaviour is why the fedi exists in the first place. But respect others may want to interact, if people on this new service adapt to how the fedi works, rather than expecting us to adapt to how they do things on facebook it will be better for all of us.

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Neil Brown

Idly pondering if instances setting terms of use to prevent Meta from using data of users of those instances is a sensible plan.

Does federating with an instance require acceptance of terms put forward by that instance, and if yes, why?

If yes, is that desirable that every admin needs to read the terms of every server with which their instance federates? That sounds horrific.

Do admins have money to enforce a breach? Many seem to be just scraping by to support their infrastructure.

#lawfedi

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Peter Gleick

A turning point. Mastodon is a far better source of information on the Russian situation now than Twitter. Follow the Russia and Ukraine hashtags.

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@jeff

I agree

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Jeff

Putin Blinks.

Random thought. An embarrassed and weakened Putin is so much more dangerous.

#Russia

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@justafrog @dogwelder

Ah Ok

I thought this would be a discussion on Harrisons contribution to the Beatles. and his post Beatles works but never mind.

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Science & Design, Inc.

Want an easy way to help people in #Ukraine and #Russia safely access the internet? Run a #Snowflake proxy directly from your browser.
👉 relay.love

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Eugen Rochko

@mastodonmigration I am not aware of any secret deals with Meta. As far as I can tell people are just making stuff up. There is little to comment on until Meta's platform launches.

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Chris Merle

#EndStageCapitalism sucks. I miss the old days when…

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Loukas Christodoulou

We'll see a lot of vague references to the Russian Civil War (1918-21) in the coming days. Some things to keep in mind.

✳️It wasn't just 'reds vs whites'. The 'greens', independent peasant self-defence forces, were usually even bigger, and the 'blacks', anarchists especially in Ukraine, were also bigger locally.

✳️It wasn't a 'Russian' civil war. It concerned the 1914 territory of the Russian empire, meaning Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan were also involved, to name a few.

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