Mastodawn

Jul 31, 2023

Boosts appreciated!

Welp, part of some layoffs today :c Final day of employment is Aug 31, so not the end of the world. On top of that, got another month and some weeks of severance pay. Very fortunate to have that, despite the news of the layoff. Also fortunate to be a software engineer and finding another job with better pay is a lot easier than most others.

Just unfortunate, it was a pretty sweet gig. On to the next!

PS: Anyone looking for a web dev with 8+ years of experience (primarily front-end with, some back-end), hit me up!

I've been loving #Elixir and #Phoenix #LiveView lately -- would love to find a #remote job doing that if one were available :) I've also been doing React.js forever professionally and that's what this past job was primarily in, and a simple Phoenix LiveView service I got up and running for some internal forms.

#Layoff #Employment #Optimism #JavaScript #React #ReactJS #Job

Jul 30, 2023

Why would Joe Biden lie to us about the importance of cops?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

#ACAB #AllCopsAreBastards #FuckCops #AbolishNotDefund

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Reuters

Jul 24, 2023

Unicorn Riot Jul 23, 2023

“I didn’t kill that man. They all going to burn in hell for that, I swear.”

The final article in our investigative series on the Case of Marvin Haynes focuses on the trial that led to Haynes’ conviction & life sentence for a murder despite no evidence.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/the-case-of-marvin-haynes-part-four-the-trials-of-marvin-haynes/

The Case of Marvin Haynes - Part Four: The Trials of Marvin Haynes - UNICORN RIOT

The final in our investigative series focuses on the murder trial in which no evidence tied Haynes to the 2004 murder, yet he was convicted.

UNICORN RIOT

Jul 21, 2023

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It's FOSS Jul 21, 2023

@fosserytech @sc @alternativeto Thank you for the mention!

Here are our RSS feeds 👇

Main portal: https://itsfoss.com/rss/

News: https://news.itsfoss.com/latest/rss/

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Jul 16, 2023

To think that police brutality will go away if we "just get the right people in power!" and "pass the right laws!" all while racism is at an all-time-high right now and *their* people are saying the *exact same thing* -- how can you possibly believe that you'll get it all fixed? How can you look at someone's family who is suffering from this and say "I'm sorry, but we just didn't vote for the right politicians; we didn't vote hard enough; we'll try harder... next election cycle..."

Fuck that and fuck thinking voting away fascism and racism is a "realistic" and "sensible" plan.

#Politics #ACAB #Socialism #BlackLivesMatter #Anarchism

Jul 16, 2023

Reformers be like: Through small, sensible, and realistic changes in the legal system, in 70 years we will finally no longer have black people being murdered by police. Until then, I'm sorry black people, but you and your loved ones must suffer while we do what's best for you.

I'm not sure I want to understand how reformers think--the hubris required to believe that non-radical changes will bring about radically different outcomes.

#Politics #ACAB #Socialism #BlackLivesMatter #Anarchism

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/nyregion/new-rochelle-police-shooting-jarrell-garris.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytmetro

Jarrell Garris Fatally Shot by New Rochelle Police

A New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer shot Jarrell Garris, 37, after he was accused of eating some grapes and a banana without paying, his family’s lawyer said. The police said he tried to grab an officer’s gun.

The New York Times

Jul 11, 2023

Moving back heavily into RSS feeds. Please send me your blogroll/feed recommendations! Preferably for the following categories: #Programming #TTRPG / #DnD #FOSS #Anarchism

If you think there's some feeds I'm missing out on not in those categories then feel free to mention em!

#Blogroll #RSS #blog #blogging #request

Edit: In the replies to this toot have been some great suggestions! One that I recommend that hasn't been said so far is https://ttrpgs.com/index.xml by @malin!

Thanks everyone for the boosts/favorites/suggestions!

Jul 9, 2023

@malin Saw you commenting on this thread (https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/553) and I'm super excited to see if all of those examples you gave were possible in Typst one day :D

#FOSS #TTRPG

Multi-column Float Elements (Figures, Tables, Code Blocks, etc.) · Issue #553 · typst/typst

Supersedes: #137. I want to be able to break the column rules for figures and tables to the full size of the page and I want to be able to float these elements. I believe these two must be tackled ...

GitHub

Jul 1, 2023

Do you vote in polls?

This is scientific research. Boosts are appreciated.

#poll #science

Yes

57.7%

No

42.3%

Poll ended at Jul 2, 2023 at 3:46am.

Jun 21, 2023

For any #ttrpg people looking for a #reddit alternative, here is one: https://ttrpg.network

It's a #lemmy server that just started up.

The TTRPG network - a site dedicated to TTRPG discussion, memes, news, etc.

Lemmy