Bo7a @ Bo7a @lemmy.ca

Yup. I'm Bo7a.

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Neighborhoods full of community became individuals in houses.

I'm about 12 years older than you and what you have written pretty much sums up my life on the outskirts of the South Shore of Montreal. All those Creeks are gone. The train tracks that used to support 20 kids playing everyday have been fenced off. The BMX track is now a golf course. And the forests are all reduced to a line of single trees dividing subdivisions.

But the quoted bit is the part that hurts my heart the most. I grew up in a community. When I had my kids I created a community for other kids and their families to feel part of.

We would do small cookouts, babysit for each other, play music together. Once in awhile someone would pop out a projector and bring it outside and we'd have a community movie night.

My kids' kids don't see this. They live in basically the same place but the community left and only the individuals remain behind.

I alias h to history | grep

I would bet we have a lot of the exact same thoughts on why this happens, and probably how to solve it. My only disagreement - and it is not a strong one - is the impossibility of forgiveness.

If they mature and leave, or even better, commit to being a monkey wrench for a bit before leaving... I think I can find space for them in my community.

I haven't either. But I can see how a young person without a lot of knowledge of the world and the impending weight of 50 years of work ahead of them, possibly with a family to feed, or an extended family to take care of due to the inherently predatory healthcare system where they were born, might make that choice. And I understand it, regardless of "forgiveness".

How do you go from « saying no to cash » to « c-levels are the issue » in the context of ethical considerations for engineers that enable AI in military industrial complex?

I am not sure I get what this word soup is saying. No offense intended but maybe try re-wording this if you want to discuss.

PS: foundry is not an AI platform, the engineers I am talking about are usually 20-ish year old java and python devs, and it is easier to understand how someone in that group might not even know how evil evilcorp is.

Devil's Advocate (damn near literally this time around)

Try being a young engineer at the top of your game and saying no to an offer where the yearly salary makes google engineers jealous. Not everyone can say no.

Palantir offers like 400k/year to run-of-the-mill forward deployed engineers for foundry (Civilian platform) where the job is 99% actually helping customers with interesting engineering problems.

I can't even imagine what they are offering folks working on gotham (govt/military side.)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that while a ton of those engineers are soulless sociopaths, some of them just took a job that pays super well and they don't personally align with the goals of the C-levels. And in fact - a ton won't even know what those goals are.

Remember - Our enemy is the c-suite, not the level 1 support agent. Even at evilcorp. Thankfully I am in a position where my kids are grown up and the money treadmill isn't set on hardmode for me anymore. I can say no. But even for me it is sometimes difficult.

What about substitution in your mind.

My way is probably not going to help but it might.

I see ln -s in my mind as the word link. And the sentence in my head is 'link THIS HERE' where 'this' is the source and 'here' is the target

Get an uncooked one and eat it. It tastes like peas.

And rusty rams parked at every bar in red deer.

My front door faces the back by normal standards. The side of our house facing the road has no door. Our one door opens onto the porch, and having that porch face the road instead of the forest would have been ridiculous.

You would not believe the number of people who walk up the driveway, don't see a door, and get absolutely flummoxed about where to go... The gravel path CLEARLY goes around to the other side of the house, but that is not hint enough. We have had people knock at our bedroom window instead of following the path to find a door.

Hah! Fair jab. In my defense that title was just a blown up way to attempt to keep me onboard without a raise. Being director of IT in a startup with only one IT person is definitely not filled with director-level tasks. That title, and the bullshit that came with it, are a big part of why I left.

Nice try, troll. I'm posting here for the real humans. Not to convince you of anything.

edit to add: only one of us came into a thread espousing their views without being prompted. Maybe work on that before accusing others.

Finally, some criticism that makes sense! I will be sure to start feeding the foxes too. We already feed the birds, squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, bunnies, raccoons, stray cats, fish, black flies, and mosquitoes (with varying levels of 'on purpose').

What is one more species?

Seriously - This cruel bastard spends $500(cad) per month on feeding wildlife in the winter. What a piece of shit. And those raccoon houses we built so they'd be happy further from the house and stop tearing up our insulation? TORTURE FACILITIES filled with soft straw, eggs, fruit, and cat food.

Yes! Your deeply intellectual take based on my comparison of chickens shitting and screaming to how IT managers act is surely correct about how I live my life, and how those chickens live.

Fun fact - Our chickens live freely in the forest during the day, and have a nice safe place to sleep at night. We don't force them to come home, but they know what lives out in the forest and choose to come back to where they are safe and have friends.

Oh and we don't eat them. But if you wanna call pulling their non-viable eggs out from wherever they left them today violence then I have a few bridges to sell you in manhattan.

My CV looks something like:

• Jr Support agent > Sr Support agent > Lead Support agent
• Tech engineer
• DevOps engineer
• DevOps lead
• Sysadmin > Sr SA > lead SA
• Technical Architect> Solution Architect > Sr Arch > Enterprise Arch
• Director of IT
• Raising chickens

Chickens might shit everywhere, scream constantly, and flap their wings just to get attention, much like managers. But they can't make you polish that shit into a product to sell. And if one gets out of line you can just eat them.

"new". Fucking scum.

I am only one data point. But I left a well-paying job working for a US startup primarily due to the current climate at the border. I will definitely take a pay cut once I find something Canadian or European, but I think the peace of mind knowing I will never be put in the position of risking my job for refusing to enter the US will balance it out. I hope...

It would probably be the most point and click on one of the gaming-centric immutable distros. I think nobara is basically a shell for gaming that just happens to have a linux kernel so that might be a good one.

I, myself, am old... And I use standard distros due to ancient muscle memory and shell scripts from the age of dinosaurs. Usually debian based. Right now I'm on PopOS for my daily driver and really digging it.

Lutris is a GUI app with normal point and click interface. So even on a 'normal' distro I think it may be like 6 clicks to get the battle.net client installed, and then inside bnet you can install wow or hearthstone (and probably the others, but I can't vouch directly) just as you did in windows.

Lutris will even give you a nice little bnet icon if you want :)

I have played wow on linux since vanilla. Maybe we can help you? These days you can just open lutris and type battle.net and hit install. honestly it is dead simple and my FPS i better in linux than the same hardware in windows.

[edit]And now I see this was already answered. By bad. Long day today...