✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@octodon.social

A tiny dust tornado whips up and spins along the ground, tossing dried leaves. The soil here is dry and empty of nutrients from over-farming in the desperate times before. At some point it was declared useless for crops and the town sprouted up. Looking at the dead earth below makes you wonder how long the town, and the people, can survive.

He sits on a bench, in octodon.social. Octodon is a mid-sized town in the confederation.

“Yea, I was there,” he starts, looking at nothing in particular.

“I was there when the brands came to Birdsite” He fidgets a little on the bench, obviously uncomfortable.

“They came, and the people started to turn. Turn into _them_.” He almost spits the word.

“Said they had to curate their personal brands.” His eyes have a deep sadness to them as he looks at the clear sky.

@deshipu @benhamill ugh dudes this is 100% inaccurate https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/24993/is-there-a-way-to-use-bcrypt-with-passwords-longer-than-72-bytes-securely

@benhamill Whenever I see a length limit on a password field this tells me one thing "we store your password, not its hash".

Telling angry people that being angry and shouting doesn't help will never make them less angry.

Also, it's incorrect. Sometimes turning the volume way up is the only way to get heard.

If you don't like being shouted at, practice listening at normal volumes.

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The gender-neutral term encompassing both nephews and nieces is nibling

Hey fediverse! I am looking for work in Portland, OR, or remotely!

I have over 4 years of technical support experience, and am a self-taught programmer (python).

Looking for (very) junior programming jobs, software testing (again, junior), or technical support!

All my various links can be found at http://archangelic.space

Hey! I'm looking for work, gigs, opportunities related to writing, narrative design, producing, social media, presenting, organising, project management, performance. Primarily interested in arts & culture, community development, games, tech for arts/good, travel/cross-cultural, though am open to other suggestions.

I'm based in Melbourne, Australia & seek local or remote positions.

See more: http://creatrixtiara.com

Boosts appreciated!

(inspired by @pixelpaperyarn )

because it rarely hurts to ask...

me: a fast learning, self-starting (no really), skilled front-end dev with a dangerous (that's a good thing) amount of backend knowledge including some clojure. (:tada:)

you: somebody with a full time position NYC or remote for same.

boosts welcome. :D

How can you tell if the whispers you think you're hearing are auditory hallucinations or just the muted chatter of coworkers and paranoia that you keep hearing them mention your name but they really aren't?

I'm a bit concerned. Moderate paranoia is common for me, but this seems excessive, even for me. To add to that, I've had a noticeable (to me, which may or may not be paranoia also) problem with stuttering lately, very abnormal.

The final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.