Notices by taedryn 🏳️‍⚧️ (taedryn@dice.camp)

Hey all, looks like I'm in the market for a new job for real this time. Senior software developer, skilled in Python, automation, system design, and a bunch of other stuff, really good at getting along with people, also a teacher and good technical writer. Looking for jobs that make the world a better place to be. Like, I'll take a serious pay cut to work in the right place. Primarily remote required. Please boost, thanks!

Oof. I wasn't feeling particularly dysphoric going in, but I sure feel it coming out. Victoria's Secret is not a place for the faint of heart.

This picture is going to be printed in history books as a turning-point for transgender people in the US. The open question is, which direction will the turn be in?

I don't know, and I don't have ideas for what I can do, but we are on the cusp of big, scary changes that will affect everyone, not just trans people, not just minorities.

If you were waiting for a call to action, here it is. They just banned her from the MT House using the rules of decorum. What better metaphor for where we are?

Signal is becoming a liability.

I started using it because it would do both encrypted and SMS messages, and by using it, I was contributing "low value" traffic (cat pix, "how u" msgs) to a system where I wanted to help protect those doing "high value" communication (political resistance, privacy activists, etc.).

The fact that it did both SMS and encrypted meant that I was following security best practices by default, without effort. As my friends joined, we talked over secure channels. 1/?