Hello Fediveres,
I am a 44-year-old software developer who is fed up with meaningless, purely profit-focused work, vibe AI slop, and a Big Brother antisocial networks, that snoops on data at every turn.
I'm looking for a new challenge, true to the motto: #MeaningfulPurposeFirst. Do you have any ideas? Can you help me #boost the word in this great Fediverse?
#FediHire
You are awesome! Thank you so much for all the boosts and the support. Some more details:
I am the team leader of a small international team of developers and live in Bavaria, Germany.
I mainly work with #dotnet C#, #Typescript, and React. Privately, I am currently looking into #Elixir. I am also helping my family become digitally confident #DIDit.
I am convinced that only an economy oriented toward the common good is truly sustainable. Your support gave me a nice boost to start looking into alternatives. I'll keep you updated!
> I am convinced that only an economy oriented toward the common good is truly sustainable.
This! We're definitely on the same page here.
@rojun
Thanks for pointing that out, I have added some more details here:
Here are a few visions for a new web, that aim to de-enshittify the Internet, clean up AI slop, improve privacy, strengthen democracy, share wealth equitably, and improve life for all instead of just yourself and your boss ( mostly your boss ):
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web
A new opportunity will not come find you. Don't wait around waiting to get hired. Those days are gone. Proactively join forces with good people you know.
Here's my #WIP Like it? Jump in.
https://gitlab.com/we-glue-earth/we.glue.earth
i support this
I don't support indieweb's Amazon integration. The website is not very informative to me, as a web developer, and as a longtime blogger. I already knew how to own my domain, host my site, own my data, etc. My OpSec was compromised when I became a whistleblower, illegally terminated, evicted, hacked, legally harassed etc.
Fuck capitalism. Don't cling to it. Clinging to it causes even more suffering. Join in the killing of capitalism. Save Earth.
I came up with some ideas that challenged capitalist institutions in a big way. So I was physically persecuted.
"It suits the tyrants to keep the revolutionaries starving, too busy fending for day-to-day survival, to revolt." ~ Aristotle.
That's where I am coming from. Illegally terminated, evicted, persecuted by the police even as a homeless person. I finally escaped that situation, and am writing up a big exposé about the truths they tried to bury, with me.
As promised, here the big exposé I am working on ( yes, it's a work-in-progress ).
Please let me know if you can access it alright, because I am seeing some unexpected errors on Gitlab pages.
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
Also, coming soon: The JS microframework I wrote to write this exposé.
Why are harshness and anger forbidden? Why is society so obsessed with pleasure, agreeability, biddability, compromising individual integrity for the sake of fitting in with the group?
There is a rebellion, long suppressed, a volcano, long dormant, a revolution, that's coming to head in these interesting times we live in.
Here's a relevant article:
Oye, mira. Decolonial social science reveals more than policy failure, it reveals how colonial systems taught us to suppress truth and call it healing. This piece examines the emotional demands of white supremacy: the pressure to “let go,” to be quiet, to forgive without justice. It’s about spiritual bypassing as a form of control, and the liberatory power of remembering what we were told to forget. Grief is not weakness. Rage is not a flaw. Forgetting is not freedom. Read the full piece. Sit with it. Share it if it calls you in. #OyeMira #DecolonialSocialScience #SpiritualBypassing #LiberationWork #StructuralHealing #MemoryAsResistance #OyeMira | 21 comments on LinkedIn
It's a WIP, an RFC. It's how things are done on the Internet, through drafts, ideas, and proposals from the community. The end state is for wealth to be so evenly distributed, that money is largely irrelevant. People work, produce, consume less, because everyone's a millionaire. Crime/wars are things of the past. In addition to the security of having one's material needs met, one has the security of knowing that everyone's needs are met, and nobody need rob them.
You know that tech utopia, where technology brings you abundance and leisure?
- Where you don't say: "A robot took my job. Oh no! I feel useless. How will I find a job in this AI market?"
+ Where you say: "A robot took my job. Hooray! Now I can live in a cottage by the lake, and read books for a lifetime, because my needs are met. And so are my neighbor's. And money is for bean counters."
That vision is knocking at your door, in case you'd like to take delivery.
Let's say that future starts to arrive, where wealth is spread more evenly, and the bottom of humanity is lifted from material poverty. Let's say the dividends of decades of feverish innovation and grinding in the trenches are paying off. What would you expect to see? One of the signs of those times would be people having leisure, working less, even not working at all, because they are provided for. Immediately the Puritan Work Ethic is offended! People do NOTHING?
It would be a world of Volunteers. People do what they do, because they want to do it, for fun, for love, for service, for self-development. People show up, as farmers, pastry chefs, SysAdmins, coders, seamstresses, singers. Young ones show up to apprentice, and learn from the volunteer tradesmen.
The Maslow Hierarchy of Human needs is rebuilt, one layer at a time, leaving noone behind. Unlike the shaky pyramids robber pharoahs clambered on slave heads to climb.
Yes, there is no scope for people to live in luxury, while ignoring the poverty and misery of other people. That means, no Gucci, Armani, Ferrari, Lamborghini, GulStream. That means you don't get to live large, and go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
Sounds crazy, right?!?
You are so much better, smarter, you hustled. What did THEY do? Why should you not ride a limousine and party in the back with pretty people and safely ignore the stinky homeless bums.
ikr?
@abeorch @sobfly @fediverse @gadgetbridge @myfear
Hey.. thanks for the shout out! There's a fantastic list of projects at https://delightful.coding.social/delightful_fediverse_apps/ you might want to check out. My own work - https://emissary.dev - is a tiny part of this list.
I'd probably start at the intersection of your skills and interests. You're sure to find projects that would love your help.
And, if that ends up being somewhere close to Go + HTML + weird new use cases, then let me know if you'd like to talk :)
@sobfly
I don’t have specific recommendations but a quick search yielded <https://techjobsforgood.com/> If you try it, let me know whether it helps.
Was Gutes für die Zukunft - Demokratiebildung?
@afelia sucht für Aula:
@sobfly being 44 I just started working as a software developer in the public sector in a research project on reducing student drop off rates at a local university. 70% salary drop. Still worth it.
So, my suggestion: Scan university websites (and I don't even have a degree, but they recognize experience anyways, even in Germany)
rembrandx
Kristof
rtn
CassandraVert
abeorch
rojun
Ashwin Dixit
Khleedril
PRESIDENT OF THE OCCULT CLUB
Daniel Lakeland
Ascendor
Ben Pate 🤘🏻
Lenni
Mark Connolly moved to @
Hippasus500 aka jwn2
Kajetan Hundhammer
mirabilos
CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂
Kore Nordmann