asbestOS

there's a lot i want to do with qubes os.. some of it just tools i wanna have or use, but some of it in the form of contributions. the barrier to entry is way too high though! qubes builder is so difficult to use, and salt states are so slow and obtuse to test

#qubes #QubesOS

on the one hand, netbsd being an antifascist icon would be sweet

on the other hand, the us government fucking them up would be not sweet

the vpn stays on during sex

other profiles:

• @xyhhx@438punk.house - personal posting, local (montreal/tioh:tiake) posting, punk music, canadian politics
• @xyhhx@merveilles.town - other personal posting, minimalism, degrowth, solarpunk, environmentalism, collapse preparedness
• @xyhhx@donotsta.re - fedi shenanigans, tech stuff, usa/world politics, oomfs
• @xyhhx - probably gonna be a backup for donotsta.re now
• @xyhhx@corteximplant.com - fedi shenanigans, public stuff, le cyberpunk instance (will probably just migrate to donotsta.re)
• @xyhhx@books.solarpunk.moe - books im reading!

dead:

• @xyhhx@nso.group - techposting

Last quarter, I led a team of engineers on an initiative to grow my company’s artificial intelligence data centers, which use millions of gallons of water per day. My work with AI is exponentially accelerating the destruction of the planet, but once a month, I go camping to reconnect with my own humanity through nature. I also bike to and from the office, which definitely offsets all the other environmental destruction I work tirelessly to enact from sunup to sundown for an exorbitant salary. Check out this social media post of me biking up a mountain. See? This is who I really am.

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

i'm not convinced job hunting will be successful for me in the short to mid future, and frankly my hopes for the industry as a whole are very bleak. im trying to think of ways to keep using the skills i have to work on things that make me feel good

what if: a software coop, but:

• we have a strong code of ethics (ethical source, no ai, etc)
• open bookkeeping like opencollective
• we solicit sponsorship to pay for our work
• becoming a sponsor grants rights to vote on project ideas, with capacity that reflects coop's engineers' capabilities
• this eventually grows to engineering teams that could handle either/both wider varieties of projects and more parallel work

what does fedi think?

specifically i'm trying to solicit advice on maximising my chances of success in starting this and also perhaps others who would be interested in participating

examples of software coops that i can model would also be great!

@theresnotime infrastruktur fuchs goes hard