Sean

@seanlinsley
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tech interestsrust+wasm, p2p, oss funding
othersco-ops, clean energy, sustainable agriculture
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Show threadSean3h ago
@thomasfuchs a silver lining is that cities are slowly but surely rebuilding their streets to no longer give cars the highest priority, making it practical for more people to not need a car
Sean5d ago
Jessica🏳️‍🌈5d ago
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

Show threadSean5d ago

@glyph true, but I think the iOS precedence does make it more likely.

If I were working at Apple in a leadership position and involved in this project, this would be the first step in a 20 year plan to take large market share from Windows. So it'd be pointless to kneecap the Neo; you'd want it work as well as it can so as people need more power they're happy to pay more b/c of the trust established

Show threadSean5d ago
@glyph Apple's in a unique position here: like on iOS, they could force app memory onto disk if they're in the background and using too much memory. they could even publicly shame the app, saying on screen what happened to explain slower access times as it's rehydrated into memory
Show threadSean5d ago
@glyph honestly for average use cases (browsers, docs, spreadsheets) 8 GB is plenty. If memory hogs like browsers could just intelligently reset to avoid using swap there'd be no need to do the manual 'quit everything' cycle to free memory
Show threadSean6d ago
@jack under the current system of capitalism, yes that's terrible. And then there's my tax dollars funding war crimes and genocide. But I don't have control over those things, and am no longer willing to spend my limited time on the planet hating everything because that's not an empowering force; it's a paralyzing force. I'll do what I can when I can
Show threadSean6d ago
@jack I'm tired of hating the world for what it is, and would rather focus my energy on helping where I can. Moralizing peoples choices is antisocial
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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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@thomasfuchs most people aren't skilled and lucky enough to get the few jobs in the middle, so they opt for high pay and cognitive dissonance if they're skilled (or experts at those kind of interviews), or average pay if they're not
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@thomasfuchs big tech pays way above market rate, and people like to live in the most expensive cities. There's a bimodal distribution of tech jobs: a lot of high-paying big tech jobs where you suffer the cognitive dissonance of working for big tech, a tiny number of jobs with positive social impact while still having good pay, and a large number of jobs with sub-par pay but at least aren't evil