Yup. I’m Bo7a.

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  • Bo7a@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.worldFriendica's marketing is terrible.
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    12 days ago

    The growth mindset that is intrinsic in questions and comments like this is counterproductive to the goals of the fediverse in my opinion.

    The goal of federated services is not to be the biggest anything in the world. But instead to give places for people who actually care about the quality of The contents they interact with and that it was created by humans.

    If that means that this part of the grand scheme of media stays small… So be it.









  • How do you go from « saying no to cash » to « c-levels are the issue » in the context of ethical considerations for engineers that enable AI in military industrial complex?

    I am not sure I get what this word soup is saying. No offense intended but maybe try re-wording this if you want to discuss.

    PS: foundry is not an AI platform, the engineers I am talking about are usually 20-ish year old java and python devs, and it is easier to understand how someone in that group might not even know how evil evilcorp is.


  • Devil’s Advocate (damn near literally this time around)

    Try being a young engineer at the top of your game and saying no to an offer where the yearly salary makes google engineers jealous. Not everyone can say no.

    Palantir offers like 400k/year to run-of-the-mill forward deployed engineers for foundry (Civilian platform) where the job is 99% actually helping customers with interesting engineering problems.

    I can’t even imagine what they are offering folks working on gotham (govt/military side.)

    I guess what I’m trying to say is that while a ton of those engineers are soulless sociopaths, some of them just took a job that pays super well and they don’t personally align with the goals of the C-levels. And in fact - a ton won’t even know what those goals are.

    Remember - Our enemy is the c-suite, not the level 1 support agent. Even at evilcorp. Thankfully I am in a position where my kids are grown up and the money treadmill isn’t set on hardmode for me anymore. I can say no. But even for me it is sometimes difficult.




  • Yup.

    I had to get it out of my last role but I liked a lot of the people I worked with. So I gave a 60-day resignation. Which would give them time to bring in a new person to fill the role. And give me time to hand over different platforms and processes. And teach him how to do the job.

    24 hours later I was laid off on the spot and my accounts all shut down.

    Now a month later they have hired a new guy and he’s messaging me on LinkedIn begging for help.

    I feel sorry for him. But fuck that…



  • If you have a hatred of hierarchy and a love of nature send me a DM. I’m interviewing people for an intentional community.

    The first 5 people that pass the vibe check will get a one dollar, 99 year lease, on .5 acres to call your own. As long as you also partake in fixing/improving central infra.

    Oh and one heavy caveat… You gotta be cool with winter. We are in Canada.





  • Finally, some criticism that makes sense! I will be sure to start feeding the foxes too. We already feed the birds, squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, bunnies, raccoons, stray cats, fish, black flies, and mosquitoes (with varying levels of ‘on purpose’).

    What is one more species?

    Seriously - This cruel bastard spends $500(cad) per month on feeding wildlife in the winter. What a piece of shit. And those raccoon houses we built so they’d be happy further from the house and stop tearing up our insulation? TORTURE FACILITIES filled with soft straw, eggs, fruit, and cat food.