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Alley is hiring a software (which I would consider to be a front-end website developer). Must have experience in PHP, WordPress and/or Laravel, Modern JavaScript and TypeScript (including React and Node), using the Unix command line. Salary range is $85k-125k, and 100% remote position. Apply at careers.alley.com/job/software….
Wisevu is hiring a WordPress website developer, fully remote position. Monthly salary range is $1500-$4000 CAD. Required experience in custom theme and plugin development, back-end logic using WordPress APIs and PHP. More details at wisevu.com/online-marketing-jo….
Farm Credit Canada is hiring 3 senior web developers in either Regina, Saskatchewan or Calgary, Alberta. Salary range is $105,145 - $142,255. Looking for experience in Angular 19+, ASP.NET Core 8+, TypeScript, SCSS, NodeJS, Yarn, Azure DevOps, Git, SQL Server and Entity Framework 7+. More details and apply at fccfac.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e….
Price Industries Limited is hiring a web developer in Winnipeg, MB who has experience in Angular (or similar frameworks), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and RESTful APIs. No salary range listed. Apply now at jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/pri….
Certn is hiring a senior frontend developer, 100% remote position in Canada. Salary range is $106K – CA$159K. Need experience in TypeScript, and React. Details at jobs.ashbyhq.com/certn/ea14264….
Serve Robotics is hiring a senior front-end engineer who has experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, Redux, Vue), and SPA programming. Location is either Calgary, British Columbia, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, or Toronto, all of these are 100% remote. Salary range is $155K – $190K. Apply at serverobotics.com/careers?ashb….
Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 11/12/2025 Worker Type: Permanent Language(s) Required: English Term Duration (in months): Salary Range (plus eligible to receive a performance based incentive, applicable to position) : $105,145 - $142,255 Are you passiona…
@hub If I had to guess, Wisevu most likely wants someone from a third-world country, or a place in the world where the exchange rate gives them a lot more.
The company just doesn't want to explicitly mention this. Or they hope someone in a first world country applies, and doesn't think about how much they make per hour (then the company can save a ton, and not pay them what they are worth).
Cuando íbamos a entrar en el portal nos han interrogado los del bar con terraza de abajo.
Alguien les ha estado tirando huevos y hielos desde algún piso de nuestro edificio.
En pocos minutos he tenido la oportunidad de desenvolver toda la pericia policial adquirida de haber visto 4 temporadas de Vera en Filmin.
Por el perfil psicológico he descartado los pisos de estudiantes, de agüelas y familias.
Por el informe de balística (el dibujo que han dejado los huevos al impactar) descarté los pisos superiores. Las líneas de impacto de la yema no dibujaban una estrella sino un cometa.
Por el contexto socio-cultural mi hipótesis es que han sido unos niños jugando al truco-o-truco con lo que han pillado en la nevera.
Lo caros que están los huevos y la coyuntura Halloweeen apoyan mi tesis.
In just under 5 minutes, @jmd2000 is switching the old wooden barn temporarily for an old wooden Crypt. Join him for 3 hours of non-stop dead people. I promise, you're not gonna wana miss this one. hkcradio.com.
AIRPODS, AirPods Battery Low , “Boris’s AirPods Pro” need charging, says my phone. Right next to that, it says Boris’s AirPods Pro, 100% Charged. One of you jerks is lying, and you are the same jerk.
Ugh as someone of both a user of Hearing Aids and Air Pods, Aids more than Pods naturally because I'm generally a sensable person, I feel your pain. The Battery Widget is just yet one more thing Apple needs to entirely rip the fuck out and redo.
mh- personal stuff, family related, LGBTQIA included, transphobia
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I haven’t posted this publicly until now because I was terrified of the backlash I might get — but I need to share what’s happening because I don’t have many other options.
My family just found out that I openly support LGBTQ+ people, including trans folks. Since they learned this, they’ve started taking away things that matter to my future: they’re canceling my plans for school and cutting my phone bill. They’ve also threatened to cut off my internet entirely unless I stop supporting trans people and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community. I feel scared, alone, and angry — and I’m worried about what their decisions will mean for my education, my mental health, and my ability to stay connected to supportive people.
I’m asking for help. If this message reaches even a few kind people, it could make a huge difference. Please boost this post and share it where you can. If you’re able to offer advice, resources, or even just a few words of encouragement, please send them my way. If you can’t share publicly but can DM me, I would be so grateful — even small help matters.
Thank you for reading, for caring, and for standing with people who are being pushed aside for who they support. 🏳️⚧️ Your solidarity means more than you know.
@BorrisInABox I mean, yeah, I realize it's not the same noise cancelling as you get with, say, Airpods, but still… I prefer wired light headphones for my on-the-go computing…
All I know is that, I replaced my originals from 2017 because a cable shorted out. The version that replaced them got a firmware update that artificially limited the volume, and I couldn't use them anymore because my hearing is too bad. So that pair only got used twice in the six years I had it. Oh well.
The ambeos use generic tips with, I think, a 6 or 7 millimeter nozzle. There's nothing special about those. Lots of in-ear monitors use them. The Airpods tips are specific to Airpods.
Does anybody perhaps have a copy of Microsoft's original SAPI4 documentation (as well as any code examples they may have produced at the time) lying around somewhere? CC @datajake1999
@hub @fabrice J’avais juste le tee-shirt. Et j’étais entouré de gens qui continuent à fair vivre cet esprit et cette culture, chacun·e à son niveau. Je n’ignore rien, je n’oublie rien, mais c’était le bon tee-shirt pour une bonne soirée. :-}
You may not agree with what your favorite company is doing, but please be kind to the ones who answer the phones. they did not make the upper level decisions. Don't take it out on them. They probably don't much like it either.
People use ableist insults because they think the worst you could possibly be is genetically defective in some way.
No, the worst you can possibly be is deliberately cruel and terrible, choosing to do things that dehumanize others. Having the faculties to not say something shitty but doing so anyway is worse than so many of the things these people think are good insults.
Wo wir jetzt wohnen, kamen tatsächlich viele Gruppen verkleideter Kinder zur Tür. Das war so aufregend und toll, dass ich zwischendurch vor Freude Tränen in den Äuglein hatte. :D
Ich hab verkleidet im Flur gehorcht und über die Videoklingel geguckt, während Henrik mit Schweinemaske Süßes verteilt hat. Für echte Interaktion war mir das alles zu wild, weil halt #Autismus aber auf die Weise indirekt dabei zu sein, war richtig toll!
Ich mag unbedingt nächstes Jahr ganz viel dekorieren.
Sigh, openvpn has terrible error reporting. It exits when it can't open a file, but it doesn't tell me why it couldn't open it. Doesn't even look at errno to report it.
Why the heck is there a call to bash and install dependencies / npm install embedded in the FAA's TFR pages? (Updated: amused to learn, informally, there's already a ticket filed against this one at the FAA).
Been thinking a lot lately about the deep tension between abstraction and context.
What do I mean by "abstraction" and "context"?
Abstraction to me, fundamentally, is separation. Distance. It's that which can be lifted up out of its context and sent far away. A software library. A bylaw. A statistic. Containerization. Commodification. Securitization.
Whereas "context" is embedded & embodied. Relational. It is tied to a moment in time, a particular place, a person, a feeling. It's closeness.
Neither abstraction nor context is inherently bad. We need both. We need the ability to look at our lives & worlds and see patterns to lift out. There are so many wonderful things abstraction has given us. But we also need a respect for and appreciation of context. Both because our abstractions are always incomplete and often wrong, and because much of the joy in life is in context. The here and now. The specific things that bring you joy, your specific needs, the specific people you love.
What concerns me is how society privileges and emphasizes the abstract over the contextual.
Some examples of this:
STEM vs the Humanities: Employers and society in general tend to favor and admire people with STEM backgrounds over humanities backgrounds. Even within STEM, the "hard sciences" are seen as more valuable than the "soft sciences", where hardness and softness are largely judged by how much abstraction they require (with, for example, physics and math being seen as very 'hard').
Securities Fraud: As Matt Levine likes to say, "Everything Is Securities Fraud". Why?
"When a company harms some class of people in some bad but essentially non-monetary way, it is hard to quantify the damages as money; when a company harms its shareholders, you can just see how much the stock went down."
The more measurable - that is, the most abstractable - the harm, the more likely you are to get justice for it.
Even within the financial industry, a highly abstract domain, securities stand out as especially abstract and thus valuable:
Patrick Mackenzie writes:
"I think our level of awareness is less than where it should be at the moment. Partially this is for Seeing Like A State style reasons. Securities are so legible . They have conveniently surveillable mark-to-market prices and trade continuously. [...] Loans, on the other hand, remain quite illegible."
Speaking of Seeing Like a State, that book is full of examples of overvaluing abstraction and legibility - and it also shows that this preference is nothing new.
For example, Scott documents the rise of fiscal forestry:
"The early modern European state, even before the development of scientific forestry, viewed its forests primarily through the fiscal lens of revenue needs. [...] Missing, of course, were all those trees, bushes, and plants holding little or no potential for state revenue."
In Germany, this "fiscal lens" was imposed on the forest itself. "To this end, the underbrush was cleared, the number of species was reduced (often to monoculture), and plantings were done simultaneously and in straight rows on large tracts. The German forest became the archetype for imposing on disorderly nature the neatly arranged constructs of science."
The neat and orderly nature of the German forests mean unskilled (and thus cheaper) labor crews could carry out maintenance and logging.
Yields were more uniform and easy to turn into standardized products. The forests were easier to study scientifically: "Now that the more complex old-growth forest had been replaced by a forest in which many variables were held constant, it was a far simpler matter to examine the effects of such variables."
These abstracted German forests were better for many human purposes, but worse in one crucial way—they could not survive. Germans had to invent a new term: waldsterben, or "forest death".
Given the long growth cycles of trees, it took nearly a century for the fact that the forests were dying to become clear. Or perhaps I should say, "clear to the people in charge". Who knows what the plants and the animals and the people who relied on the forest knew?
This is a recurrent problem with abstraction. Because it is inherently more visible than the contextual, and because it is more likely to be wielded by those in power, it can be hard to alter.
Ideally, the abstract is valued in equal measure to the contextual. Just as abstractions can help make the contexts of our individual lives better, so can feedback from individuals and contexts about issues with the abstractions make the abstraction better.
But we do not value abstraction and context equally. And so the forests die.
As someone in tech, I am particularly concerned with how tech perpetuates this dynamic.
The tech industry constantly tries to commoditize human needs, replacing real relationships in all their complexity and interdependency with context-less, ephemeral "relationships" mediated by apps. Instead of asking a neighbor or a new friend for help fixing a broken screen door, we hire someone on TaskRabbit. Instead of asking someone we know to cook us something when we're sick, we order a meal online.
One of the best ways to build a close relationship with someone is to ask them for help. But—if we can afford it—we no longer have to bear the exquisite vulnerability of asking for help. Instead we can pay someone to perform a service for us. It's a transaction. No vulnerability needed.
Another vital element of relationships is rupture and repair. This is when you tell a person they've hurt you or failed to meet your needs in some way, and they work with you to re-establish trust and a sense of connection. We perform a grotesque simulacrum of rupture and repair when we report an issue on an app like Uber Eats. A faceless customer support agent, completely unrelated to the person who failed us, gives us a refund.
The Amish are remarkable for their care in determining what technologies they'll adopt. This applies to engineering innovations like cars and televisions, but also to new social technologies. For example, starting in 1955, the Amish refused to pay Social Security taxes.
"The Amish objected to participating, in part on the basis that they believed they were religiously obligated to take care of each other and should not be transferring that obligation to the state." - David Friedman
The Amish have a point. While I am a strong supporter of Social Security, I can't deny the problems that shifting the burden of care from individual relationships to the abstract state has created. There is a much greater distance between those giving care and those receiving it—a distance that can lead to shame, resentment, and fears of exploitation. The often-mocked refrain "Get government out of my medicare!" speaks to degree of dissociation possible with such an abstract system.
"Is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question that we re-visit and re-negotiate every minute we are with them; obligation and love form an endless Möbius strip"
If anything, the limitation of this big book is actually that it’s not big enough, that it gestures towards — without fully including – so very much that is within the ken of its ambition. Bu…
"By contrast, Graeber argues that purely monetary debts – such as the $14k I owe in student debts to a variety of banks – legitimize violence and exploitation precisely because they take an otherwise irreducibly complex human relation and reductively simplify it into a number. When you quantify a debt with financial precision [..] you take what was a human relationship of mutual imbrication and co-implication into a financial one based on a kind of moral dominance."
"Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank—pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule—we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone, that debt will live on. [...] children unborn when their nation went into debt will somehow still be on hold as the debt’s guarantors. This will appear normal. This will not seem a monstrous perversity."
If money is an abstraction that tends to replace human relationships, capitalism is a way of structuring a society that rewards and accelerates that replacement—and modern, highly financialized capitalism the most extreme version of that.
See again Matt Levine's contention that everything is securities fraud—at the rate we're going, maybe someday soon, it will be.
That's an interesting take. I'll admit my default is towards abstraction and while I can see that it has its issues, I can see the issues in context more glaringly. Context has high variance. If you're well-embedded in a good community with plenty of people willing to help you, outcomes will probably be better than depending on an average bureaucracy. But a lot of people aren't. Vulnerable people who are unlikable or friendless or lonely, without systems to take care of them, simply don't get the help they need.
This was most starkly brought to my mind by a post I read recently, remarking that some disabled people aren't allowed to be unlikable, because if they are, it may mean death to them (less dramatically, not eating that day, not being helped to the toilet, etc).
I think my society tends to prefer contextual, individual solutions. Until recently, nursing homes were seen as family failure, for example. Having seen what this can do to people (abandonment, care burden) it's very hard for me not to come on the side of abstraction.
But it's totally fair to remind us that it also has its costs.
Apologies if this is too wordy or takes things in a different direction from which you were thinking.
That said, some people (including myself!) have a tendency to see the failure modes of context and think "we can fix this with abstraction!" And sometimes this is true, but sometimes it's not, and what you actually need is to improve things at the context level.
To use your nursing home example: yes, institutional and societal support is so important in reducing unequal care burdens but also professional nurses cannot actually replace the experience of being cared for by loved ones.
You write: "If you're well-embedded in a good community with plenty of people willing to help you, outcomes will probably be better than depending on an average bureaucracy. But a lot of people aren't."
100% true. But "good community" and "well-embedded" and "people willing to help you" are all dynamic, changeable things. And if we only focus on abstract solutions instead of asking what's failing at the relational level, we miss the opportunity to change them.
Right, that's certainly true. If that can be improved, it's very much worth working on it. I just think it's very hard to improve; people have been doing context since forever. And it's even harder to improve it at scale precisely because it's so variable.
But there are things that can help. People having fewer working hours comes to mind. Being less afraid of strangers. That sort of thing. And yes, that's all worth doing.
![> The early modern European state, even before the development of scientific forestry, viewed its forests primarily through the fiscal lens of revenue needs. [...] one might say that the crown’s interest in forests was resolved through its fiscal lens into a single number: the revenue yield of the timber that might be extracted annually. [...] Missing, of course, were all those trees, bushes, and plants holding little or no potential for state revenue. Missing as well were all those parts of trees, even revenue-bearing trees, which might have been useful to the population but whose value could not be converted into fiscal receipts.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/719723 "> The early modern European state, even before the development of scientific forestry, viewed its forests primarily through the fiscal lens of revenue needs. [...] one might say that the crown’s interest in forests was resolved through its fiscal lens into a single number: the revenue yield of the timber that might be extracted annually. [...] Missing, of course, were all those trees, bushes, and plants holding little or no potential for state revenue. Missing as well were all those parts of trees, even revenue-bearing trees, which might have been useful to the population but whose value could not be converted into fiscal receipts.")
![> [It] is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question that we re-visit and re-negotiate every minute we are with them; obligation and love form an endless Möbius strip, through which our complex interdependence on each other makes the idea of paying off that debt – and of thereby severing the relationship – a sort of bitter joke. Precisely because it is a non-monetary “debt,” its function is to be an unpayable and unbreakable bond, one whose dividends never end and one that could and will never default.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/719717 "> [It] is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question that we re-visit and re-negotiate every minute we are with them; obligation and love form an endless Möbius strip, through which our complex interdependence on each other makes the idea of paying off that debt – and of thereby severing the relationship – a sort of bitter joke. Precisely because it is a non-monetary “debt,” its function is to be an unpayable and unbreakable bond, one whose dividends never end and one that could and will never default.")
![This is just a thought experiment, of course, but the point of it is to bring out and make explicit that contrast. While the perversity of paying off your debts to your parents hardly needs comment – or of them garnishing your wages to pay for the hospital costs of birthing you – it is just as unspeakably normal for our debts to banks to seem, always and forever, the first thing we need to honor and respect. [...]
Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank – pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule -- we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone, that debt will live on. Banks will not only claim the right to be paid back, but the moral force of the world’s political and ruling classes will assent to the proposition that children unborn when their nation went into debt will somehow still be on hold as the debt’s guarantors. This will appear normal. This will not seem a monstrous perversity.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/719713 "This is just a thought experiment, of course, but the point of it is to bring out and make explicit that contrast. While the perversity of paying off your debts to your parents hardly needs comment – or of them garnishing your wages to pay for the hospital costs of birthing you – it is just as unspeakably normal for our debts to banks to seem, always and forever, the first thing we need to honor and respect. [...]
Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank – pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule -- we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone, that debt will live on. Banks will not only claim the right to be paid back, but the moral force of the world’s political and ruling classes will assent to the proposition that children unborn when their nation went into debt will somehow still be on hold as the debt’s guarantors. This will appear normal. This will not seem a monstrous perversity.")
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •@hub If I had to guess, Wisevu most likely wants someone from a third-world country, or a place in the world where the exchange rate gives them a lot more.
The company just doesn't want to explicitly mention this. Or they hope someone in a first world country applies, and doesn't think about how much they make per hour (then the company can save a ton, and not pay them what they are worth).