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Many Colors, Maybe Moved

seeking employment in tech, breaking the facade of everything being fine 

.? Hi fedi!

So…this is very not working, so it's (past) time to try asking yall.

We have a low-level security certification (so we figured for months that's where we were headed), but we're beyond being particularly picky. We can code, or do helpdesk, or whatever really. We know things and we learn quickly.

Would you, or do you know anycreature who would, be willing to talk with us and maybe give us a chance, instead of summarily rejecting us because we don't have all the pretty pieces of paper? I really think that's all we need: a real chance to prove ourself.

We'd give more information upfront, but we're already /very/ uncomfortable with this post, so we're gonna leave it there. Sorry for the vagueness.

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HPMoR spoilers 

@josh The final arc literally begins with Voldemort pointing a gun at Harry. <_< Harry also later shoots another gun. @chjara@mk.absturztau.be

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completely uninformed political commentary, violence 

@Firaas Ah, I've been wondering why some of the protest signs referred to Egypt in the reports, that makes sense now. Thanks!

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Johann150 🔜 39c3 ⁂ :ipv6: :open_access: ☮

damn i wish some politicians would read GAR#185

UNDERSTANDING that the primary purpose of copyright is to promote the creation of new works;

NOTING that it is very difficult to motivate people who have been dead for a quarter century;

PUZZLED why the World Assembly nonetheless insists upon this as the minimum term for copyright;

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Charles ☭ H

What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering? 

What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering?

One time, a film maker called me up because she wanted to use a hubub of voices as a music statement but it wasn't coming off. I listened to the audio and knew just the thing! A resonant 70s style low pass filter would keep the timbres but jettison the words. I ran her vocal recording through my synthesiser and proudly returned with the improved audio.

She listened. "This does sound a lot better," she said, "but you've completely prioritised the men's voices and removed the women."

Cis normativity aside, she was right. My process had made altos much softer and pretty much nuked sopranos. I had to go back and organise each audio sample by vocal range and run the filter multiple times. It was time consuming, but the result was much nicer.

She noticed this because she knew what it was to be silenced according to vocal range - something that has gradually faded from my mind as its no longer a regular occurrence for me. If I'd been working with a fellow tenor or a bass, we might never have noticed. The audio would have been worse and the while project subtly effected by unconscious bias.

Instead, when the film was released, a reviewer praised the sound in that section.

Unconscious bias isn't just unfair, it makes *your* work worse.

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noyb.eu napisał ten wpis Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:20:16 +0100 RT @maxschrems
We unfortunately had to file a #criminal report with the Corruption Prosecutor (WKStA), following @DPCIreland's "procedural blackmail" - demanding @noyb.eu to sign an "NDA" (in DPC's and Facebook's favor) in exchange for our procedural rights.. 😑

Details: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-removes-noyb-gdpr-procedure-criminal-report-filed

Good job.
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completely uninformed political commentary, violence 

Reading about the current situation in Sudan is wild.

So apparently they had a dictatorship which ended with some major protests, and turned into a power sharing agreement between the military (who helped topple the dictatorship) and democracy.

The military got annoyed by some of the changes so they did a coup, arrested the prime minister and declared that they were in charge.

They were immediately met by protests so big, that they felt fire under they asses and now let the PM out declaring they want to go back to essentially the previous power-sharing agreement.

But the other forces also see the fire, so they are doing a very parent move and going "If you don't know how to share it, you cannot have it at all.".

I have no idea how this will turn out in the end, but I love the energy.

Obviously this is all extremely violent and people died, so that massively sucks, but there might be some hope for a proper and accelerated democratic transition.

I am very interested in opinions form people who know more about (see CW), although I dunno how much of that is possible on Fedi.

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@robryk Wait, are those like Mobilizon-style Events? lol, that's quite far from barebones :D

The UI seems a bit ee~h, but good enough that maybe I should just try it out. Lack of likes bothers me a tad, but definitely not a dealbreaker. Thanks for the tip!

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@robryk Maybe a tad _too_ barebones for me, but I'm not sure. Can you point me to an actual instance so I can see the UI? Does it even have one?

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Nvm, for whatever reason I was under the impression that Elixir was some JS framework, while it's pretty clearly much more reasonable. Pleroma it is then.

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So I'm looking into self-hosting a microblogging fedi thingy and when looking at my options one thing really stands out – what is wrong with Friendica?

I haven't seen anyone using it, but I cannot figure out why. I would have guessed that PHP might be the reason, but all(?) the alternatives are written in JS, so that's not much of a comparative advantage.

Recommendations and anti-recommendations for the general choices very welcome.

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Names in mathematics are so bad and so nondescriptive that I'm genuinely shocked that they came up with a name as plain and useful as "zero divisor"

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Somewhat surprizingly I did not find this because of research related to any recent discussions, but just by repeatedly clicking "Random" on Wikipedia, a pasttime I heartily endorse.

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Very interesting stuff about protests and social change, although sorely lacks a "Criticism" section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversit.

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Absolutely fascinating bloke, clearly a visionary even if he wasn't completely right about the future: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_

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@freemo That is close enough to "deserve" that the difference in values remains. I guess I should just mute some phrases related to this at least for a while...

My point was he went to protests with the same goals as antifa do (at least that's what I get from your description of what he was doing), and they manage not to kill people when they do that. I see this as at least negligence on his part, which eventually resulted in people dying. And I'm _really_ bothered by suggestions that more people should do the same. :/

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@freemo That's clearly a massive difference in our values -- I don't believe any person deserves to die. There might be dire circumstances when killing a person is morally permissible, or even the correct ethical choice, but it's always a tragedy and a failure.

My point was they don't (usually? mostly hedging here because I would be really impressed if they actually managed not to do that even on accident over all those protests) kill people, it's not a coincidence that they say "punch a nazi" rather than "shoot a nazi".

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@freemo A joke heavily implying a person did deserve to die, a position you also advocated in non-joke contexts. And you joked about that death quite a lot, sure looks like glee. :/

I don't get this, at least in Europe antifa often go to protests to do just that, and they manage it without guns and killing people. I also haven't heard about them killing people in the US, but that I might have missed. Eh, I'm really glad I can avoid the US.

I also want to immediately point out that I understand why that guy was not found guilty, but repeating what he did that lead to the situation, well I think that is just irresponsible (and also was in his case, but he at least has he excuse of some ignorance).

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@freemo Oh come on, I have been bothered enough by you taking such glee in human death, but now you are suggesting actually trying to cause more?

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TIL that ignorance of the law doesn't always hurt

In many criminal law systems you are not committing a crime when your (possibly mistaken) view of the factual situation doesn't constitute a crime, even when what you are actually doing does constitute a crime, as long as your mistake is "excusable". For example, if you take someone else's items believing they're your own (e.g. because they are very similar in appearance), you aren't committing larceny. (PL ref: art. 28 KK, CH ref: Art. 13 StGB)

Similarly, if you believe that factual situation matches a situation where a justification (e.g. self defense, or higher need) would cause your action not to be a crime, it is not a crime even if you were mistaken, as long as the mistake was excusable (e.g. if you destroy a car window to reach a realistic looking doll which you believed to be an unconscious child, you aren't committing the crime of property destruction). (PL ref: art. 29 KK, CH ref: Art. 13 StGB)

What I learned today is that you are not committing a crime when you are excusably mistaken _about the law_. Obviously, definition of "excusability" of the mistake does lots of work here -- IIUC the standard test is (a) would a typical person similar to you in education and background suspect it's a crime (b) did you have an opportunity to learn/ask whether this action is legal. (PL ref: art 30 kk, CH ref: Art. 21 StGB[*])

I find this very surprising, because it's a direct contradiction of 'ignoratia iuris nocet'.

[*] the Swiss law narrows it down to people who didn't and couldn't have known that it's a crime; I'm not sure if that should be understood in the everyday literal meaning of that phrase -- the context in StGB seems to suggest that it's intended to be slightly wider, so I suspect that this phrase has some specific meaning.

h/t to @freemo who caused me to look up all those things

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