Irish speaker/writer; tech, politics + the future. Hope's not a 'nice to have'. It's our moral duty. she/her http://mariafarrell.com
"We need to rewild the internet": https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
"Your platform is not an ecosystem", https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
Fiction: "Burning Men" https://westerlymag.com.au/burning-men-by-maria-farrell/
Saw this Very Good Boy in our London park walk this morning. He was ever so poignantly watching his human children as they played on the swings and slides in the no-dogs area.
Setters really are such especially sweet family dogs. What am I saying? I love them all.
Looking for a new job as an Embedded Software Engineer.
I have 3 years of experience as an embedded software engineer in an R&D team. Mostly with embedded C, real-time operating systems, ESP32, communication protocols, and some hardware design.
I'm specifically looking for companies that work on sustainability, health, education, privacy, FOSS, or similar fields. In the eastern part of the Netherlands or hybrid/remote.
If anyone knows any interesting companies, please let me know!
Wrote about maintaining a human web and how the human.json project & the 'AI' blacklist for uBlock made browsing the web a bit better.
https://tzovar.as/maintaining-a-human-web-with-humans-json-aiblacklist/
My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers, writers – and of course SEO-scum trying to make quick buck – can’t...
#ScribesAndMakers 20 Mar: Self-promotion day. Shame optional.
My novella is on pre-order, set in a #solarpunk world and about a grandma who has to coordinate the defense of her village after a coloniser invades. She's a peasant and her country has no weapons, no army. The story doesn't focus on the war, we don't ever see the frontline. Rather it is my way of wondering how a country without a central government, or president and politicians, could function. https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
#sff #books
BlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/
People are asking if I was the rejected candidate? No. But I know who it was: an impeccably qualified person.
However, when I did apply previously I also was not shortlisted.
Nor were exceptionally qualified candidates I am aware of from the EDPS, European Commission, data protection experts...
https://www.politico.eu/article/big-tech-lawyer-key-in-picking-irelands-newest-privacy-commissioner/
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