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Software Engineer | History Scholar | Passionate about online privacy, and the preservation of knowledge. Expect random linguistics facts and dry British wit. "An it harm none, do what ye will"
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submitted 4 days ago • 266 comments

“In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at their mercy, and no public responsibility. And to symbolize this state of things,

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Took a job upgrading some legacy code from Visual Basic to something more modern. Something more modern was still .NET 4.8. I can’t even find documentation on the functionality I have to replace because they don’t exist anymore and I’m having to upgrade OpenGL from 1.x to 4.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Life as a contractor is weird. 2 weeks ago I was an Archivist dedicating all my time and energy into preserving what I thought was a pretty cool collection of maps and historic papers documenting the creation of GPS. Company I worked for lost the contract and when I interviewed to keep the job …

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t escape it. I’ve been trying to find work outside of IT and thought I’d finally gotten out. After 4 years of a job I enjoyed, a new company took over the contract and want to put me to work doing dev-ops.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I just realized something upsetting on my way to work today. With Musk buying a position in US government he is in a prime spot to force the closure of NASA and funnel all of its funding to himself and Space-X.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

If you listen to “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” with autotune applied and about 5% slower than normal it sounds very threatening. Whoever recorded this should not be allowed to make Christmas music.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Work for a company I’ve said for years I wouldn’t and continue to be able to pay my bills, or lose my job in a couple months and have no guarantee of even being able to make half of what I am now. I hate being a government contractor. 1/2

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Enjoying the evening watching the St Louis Symphony Orchestra play The Muppets Christmas Carol #SLSO

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who needs a laugh should look at the book “English as She is Spoke” by Pedro Coralino. It’s what happens when a Portuguese person who can’t speak English or French but has way too much confidence, teaches English by translating from Portuguese to French and then French to English.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE #ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION. REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription. In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

submitted 82 days ago • 392 comments

I accidentally looked at the news today and realized it might be a good idea to prepare for the next 4 years. New passport and a bug-out bag for if things get too bad are a must but also finding alternatives for all the things that’ll rise 25% and more in price with the tariffs.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Had an amazing night out seeing Post Modern Juke Box Live. #PMJTour

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Decided I wanted to use my drawing tablet today. "Forgot" I was using Gentoo and have been troubleshooting things for the last 2 hours instead...fml

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I've been seeing a lot of profiles with many thousands of followers that appear very much to me like bots reposting random things but mostly posting ads for something. Am I just really out of touch with social media, or have the bots taken over BlueSky already?

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments