Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@borkdude
If this is a linux command line application similar to ansiweather

You shoud be able to use the toot app to direct the output to fedi

ansiweather -l London
Weather in London => 11 °C - Wind => 4.02 m/s SW - Humidity => 91 % - Pressure => 1012 hPa

ansiweather -l London > toot

You do need to set up toot so it is logged in but it works really nicely. Also works in reverse in that if you do toot < file.txt the contents of the file will be tooted.

@Staren
I am not sure how to advise with regard to jobs, but I will have a go:

1. Keep it positive, you said your ADHD makes programming harder, but you like game design, so perhaps take a look at some other roles that fall within the development process.

2. I know the Godot game engine people are here @godotengine so maybe follow them as there may be people who can advise or offer help.

3. Follow tags like #Jobs may seem obvious, but sometimes the simple things get overlooked.
What coding skills do you have, make a list and see if you can follow those tags too. If an employer is looking for those skills, then any posts should appear in your timeline.

4. Trunk https://communitywiki.org/trunk is a sort of directly thing that lists topics so there may be people or topics you can follow. @kensanata@octodon.social is one of the admins.

5. The Trans comminity should be supportive, maybe @TransRadioUK can help you reach out. They will certainly be more able to help you break down the barriers that get put between community members gaining employment.

6. With employment, I think there are more options post pandemic, certainly remote working has become more of a thing, but you may still, at times need to meet face to face with people.

7. Another tip is keep learning, share what you are learning how you are getting on, ask and answer questions. This demonstrates that you are open to learning, improving skills and serious. it also hopefully gets you noticed.

@aral

There is far more intellectual interaction here on Fedi, the only mainstream social I am on is LinkedIn, which is more like the others echo chamber for people trying to self promote rather than what it is meant to be is professional networking.

@bhaugen @xjix @Zee@social.coop @smallcircles @the_Effekt @LibertyForward1

The Torbay Development Trust run a time bank system, seems to work pretty well.

https://www.torbaycdt.org.uk/

Just replying with this as people may be able to use this and your resources for ideas etc.

@sickburnbro

We need safe spaces now for Artists to share their works.

@Cwmderiboy

Agreed, teaching maths people won't use when they know their career path is a waste of time, if you are studying then those subjects than those subjects should have maths as part of the ccurse that is specific to that subject, if you are that interested you will also practice and develop further.

By the time you start studying at A'level and beyond you should know how much maths is involved.

@HauntedOwlbear @dannyjpalmer

Socia media seems to have a huge impact on journalism and the compensation people get for their work. People don't like paywalls but perhaps what needs to happen is transparency as to how much the journalist (who is out there facing danger in some cases) is actually compensated.

I think recent course cases have started to highlight the problem, with the games industry games are quite expensive, but the work needed to produce games is also highly skilled (as is journalism).

The difference is a news paper costs <£2 a game will cost you more than >£20 for example, so the income from 1 game is huge based on millions of sales.

I think we are starting to see people demanding not only a wage that allows them to live but also a reflection of their skill level, taking into account how hard it is find people with the right skills.

Perhaps this is the start of a fight against capitalism, where the owners make billions when the people doing the work stuggle to make ends meet.

@KevinDunseath @ChamomileHangover

You can perhaps read in to the sort of person that is. At least here we can have intellectual conversations and you HAVE to interact with people and use the right tags, boosts etc to make connections as no AI is going to help you as there isn't any.

@dannyjpalmer @HauntedOwlbear

Expecting people to have a degree, years of experience for low salary seems to be quite common (gets commented on LinkedIn) we need to change how we recruit people, the employers who are sensible will get the best, the rest with unrealisic want lists will hopefully continue to struggle and eventually fall out of existance.

@dannyjpalmer

I feel the Fediverse could be an opportunity to promote Journalism properly, what do you do? and how? what makes good journalism? (probably similar to good science). If people know what makes something 'good' or ideally' 'excellent' then they can start to challenge and recognise bad journalism.

Perhaps we need to get back to basics, forget university courses, if you want to be a journalist, you get a job at a low level in a news paper office and shadow people and learn on the job and in the field.

You earn credentials and respect by actually writing good, well referenced articles.