@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org2024-04-16 11:47:50
Are you hiring a research software engineer? Which competencies are you looking for?
Check out this paper and let us know if these competencies match your expectations.
#RSEng
https://buff.ly/46o1zNm<…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-04-13 15:02:33
I've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.
But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”
There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!
The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.
This is bad.
The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”
The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”
These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.
@cybeardjm@masto.ai2024-04-15 17:37:15
Mimi (5w old now) has a new enemy... it's blue and usually on 1 of my feet...
Meanwhile, uncle cat is watching and trying to avoid contact as much as possible...
#Kitten #Cats #CaturdayEevryday
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2024-03-15 20:29:44
Cowboys cut Michael Gallup and Leighton Vander Esch during first week of NFL free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_cut_michael_gallup_and_leighton_vander_esch_during_…
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social2024-04-15 21:27:01
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-16 07:13:32
The first version of a dutch NL ID wallet is available, it's a minimal viable product version, planning to go live is 2026. You can find the code here:
https://github.com/MinBZK/nl-wallet/releases/tag/v0.1.25-beta-20240326
More information…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2024-04-13 08:39:00
The #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer project now has a written Code of Conduct documenting our practices!
I encourage you to read it: https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/gla<…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-15 07:13:17
A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Idan Amit, Dror G. Feitelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08303 https…
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2024-05-16 23:50:53
Doesn't every American in a beef with their neighbor fly the US flag upside down as a way of showing their displeasure? 🤔
"At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display"
NYT article, *not* paywalled.
https://www.
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-15 08:34:22
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11457 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
