Tessa Racht 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 @nergdron@witches.town

@punsandpotions @mimtschan YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@mimtschan did someone say.... LORDI???

https://witches.town/media/ImcWZst7NZtSJQJrYtE https://witches.town/media/BIcJthKRsUQaYAirc0Y https://witches.town/media/gzu0eMvE8mSrKN8FgCs

@mimtschan @amphetamine yeah. I'm not saying it's easy to find. but it's definitely possible. signs I've learned to look for are:

- diversity on the engineering team, not just the company itself.
- especially women, gays, and people of colour.
- ask about anti-discrimination, harassment, and other similar social policies when talking HR stuff in interviews. if they have to think about the answers to those questions, it means they aren't serious about solving those problems.
- ask about process about tech decisions. are they dictated by some cis het white man at the top? or does the team make decisions about technical direction?

@mimtschan @amphetamine yeah. it's not the default, but it's certainly out there. and that's the nice thing about there being a big demand for tech workers, once you've got a little experience you can afford to be more picky.

@mimtschan @amphetamine I wouldn't say it's a given thing that you're naive to want to change. what it means is that this is something specific to look for when looking for work and applying for jobs. yeah, a lot of shitty companies does this wrong, because capitalism is the death of good. but you can find places that do it relatively right, I know, I'm at one of them.

so don't give up hope darling.

@kara oh I'm totally on the edible train too. smoking is too hard on my longs, and I like a long, powerful stony experience. 😄

@elzikat@cybre.space awww well I love teaching things and helping out friends, so don't hesitate to reach out! 😄

@bee I yeah, I love that bioware shit, and DA:I is about my favourite game they've made so far. I've replayed that one three times now. lemme tell ya, my Qunari Inquisitor didn't go over well with pretty much anyone, but she was awesome. 😄

@kara haha awwww. we should some time. it'd be nice.

@elzikat@cybre.space awwww I could explain them to you if you're interested. ❤

@bee I always do Isabella, she's definitely my type, but I'm going after Merrill this time. she's a cute cinammon bun and deserves love too. 😄

ALSO I love video games so if you ever wanna talk games, HMU girl!

anyone wanna get really stoned and watch all the music/driving sequences from Baby Driver with me? none of the garbage cishet subplot, just all of the beautiful audio-visual magic?

@Sheinicorn THIS IS SUCH A LOOK.

@samis yeah, I'm thinking more for desktop and laptop usage. cloud hardware isn't my problem to fix, thankfully. 😉

replaying Dragon Age 2 because I need some sword lesbians in my life, but it's hard to take the Arishok seriously when I'm blasting Pony by Ginuine in the background. 😂

for those interested in the real world affects of patching the Intel PTI bug, Phoronix is doing some testing with the 4.15+git kernel:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-more-x86pti&num=1

looks like the biggest impacts are in IO, with IO on NVMe devices showing the biggest differential.

really wishing Apple, Motorola and IBM weren't such shit companies and that PowerPC was still a viable option. I really loved that architecture.