Mastodawn

are you a full-stack dev with broad, modern JavaScript experience? there’s currently a rare opportunity to join my team and help us keep improving our trust & safety systems 👀 backend stack is MongoDB/Express, frontend is React/RTK https://jobs.lever.co/vrchat/cda69202-9770-4e3c-b476-f138e2a5b2c3

VRChat - Engineer II - Trust and Safety

Join the VRChat Team! VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised $100M to date with the support of investors, Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. Come and join the mission! Job Overview We’re looking for a full-stack web developer to join our Trust and Safety team. You will be instrumental in developing and refining critical safety, moderation, and anti-abuse systems to ensure safe user connections and experiences. This role involves working with Node.js, React, and MongoDB to build

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Sean 2d ago

On the subject of open source becoming slop, the sad truth is a lot of the code effectively always was, like ImageMagick which has always been highly untrustworthy because it's written in C. If your code can't be audited for security, it can't be fully reviewed. We should be pushing everything to be rewritten in verifiable languages like Rust

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Sean 2d ago

RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116226477076027421

This was me in the early days of the trend, cutting myself off from people who expressed interest in AI. I later realized that this social media bubble behaves similarly to the extreme right: largely generating reactionary discourse on how bad the world is. How about we build a better future instead?

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]l/116226477995710817

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Sean 2d ago

Yes some people are de-skilling themselves, so what? It's their lives. The internet left has a bit of a moralizing problem because of the social media dopamine loop. Log off if you find yourself pulled into internet arguments

Sean 2d ago

Since Mastodon loves to hate on AI, here's my position. It's a very powerful tool to do research (explore a problem space) with a pseudo-expert on everything, able to pull data from the internet exponentially faster than you can. But it shouldn't be used to generate final output for other people (whether it's an email or a PR) because those are skills that you need to develop initially and maintain over time. AI as theft only matters if copyright and capitalism should be preserved

Sean 6d ago

Graham Perrin Mar 10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157

call for testing

Sylve - FreeBSD management plane

At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:

＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.

Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂

Docs: https://sylve.io/

@FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #sylve #OpenZFS #ZFS #bhyve #CFT

Sean Mar 9

Amelia Bellamy-Royds

Mar 9

We're back to chilly temperatures in Edmonton this week (7-day high is +1°C) after significant melt last week.

When walking through residential neighbourhoods yesterday, I carefully slid my way across many, many icy patches where I could see traction gravel underneath the ice, where it had sunk to the bottom of a puddle that then froze over top.

So, here's a product idea, please implement & send me royalty cheques:

Floating sidewalk traction material.

I'm thinking gravel-sized wood or bark chunks (chunky being important, not shavings). Spread it over your puddle-prone walkway sections once, and maintain anti-slip protection for multiple thaw-freeze cycles! In the spring, sweep it up & put it in your compost.

Someone, make it so. By next autumn, please. And convince the city to provide it for free as an alternative to the gravel. With the right wood chipper, city workers could make it themselves!

#YEGwx

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Sean Mar 7

A major improvement that Monster Train brings to the formula is zero-cost retries. You can retry a round or even an entire battle as many times as you want. Misclicks no longer waste hours of your life, and bad strategies can be rethought.

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Sean Mar 7

Instead I'd recommend playing:

Monster Train 2 is Slay the Spire, but better in every way except for maybe vibes (depending on the person)

Cobalt Core has a "furries in space" theme, great music, unique gameplay that's pretty forgiving

Sean Mar 7

Slay the Spire 2 has the same art style? Probably a waste of money then: if they couldn't redo the art they won't have made meaningful improvements to the game

The first game was amateurish with almost no story and with 90% of runs failing to RNG. People just liked the vibes

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