Eliza commits homeless @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me

oh yeah boost my selfies idc

flirting/being lewd with me is okay but CW it please or do it in DM

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Non-profits have to remain apolitical and so I can't even /appear/ to represent the foundation I'm president of when talking politics, so:

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It isn't easy to just drop a job that you fucking hate when 1) the money is good, 2) not knowing what else you're gonna fucking do

Gonna go bathe

It's hard to find programmers on fedi who have voluntarily given up on programming as a career path, otoh it's hard to find people who've changed careers at all

I am wearing a t-shirt and pajama pants today and none of y'all can fucking stop me

If you think this sounds great let me show you how a root canal is done sometime

I assure you, this is not something a computer can even come close to doing

computer-controlled endodontics

root canal via robot

Trust me you don't want this

@artemis is right

History without context always looks more awesome than it actually is. Because often something like "wow a woman did that!" was because men saw it as beneath them, not because women were seen as having the merit they obviously did. Women have a long, long history of not being recognised for their contributions.

Yeah, I am extremely uncomfortable with the not-so-distant history of programming.

Men came to dominate programming when typing stopped being seen as a woman's job, and programming began being seen as a science.

Until about the 80's, most men couldn't even touch type.

Secretarial work became dominated by women because men believed typing was menial work and that they were above it

Men didn't even type their own letters, they dictated and read them (hence the origin of the phrase "dictated but not read")

This is why many pioneers in programming were women

It was considered secretarial bitchwork

I'm like carbon, I can have up to four bonds at once

This doesn't mean getting licensed should require you move heaven and earth or require lots of money (ideally, no money) but it should show that yes, you know what you're doing, you won't get someone killed, and that you understand your obligations to others for your work; that is to say, you understand their life is in your hands and work accordingly.

This is an argument for licensing programmers, actually. You need a license to do wiring, design a bridge, and countless other things. We have these requirements for a reason.

Yes, licensing is gatekeeping.

It's gatekeeping that keeps people alive.

This is a case of "the rights of others not to be harmed trump those of the individual" which isn't exactly an easy pill to swallow but is nonetheless essential to humanity's survival.

The open source philosophy of "the user's are the QA department" would get someone killed if we actually applied this philosophy like most people in FOSS imply we should.

Open-source programmers often forget their software might run in life-critical applications, too.

There is no substitute for actual QA.

There's no substitute for safety culture, actually. Or being careful.