Jacky (is looking for work)

My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf. US-based Software engineer by trade, skeptical liberation seeker for life but I'm usually tired, reading or hungry. Consistency with frustrating news is a sign that your heart is still working.

My profile image is of Jean-Bertrand Artiside, the only president of Haiti's 200+ year existence. The header image is of myself at karaoke, taken by B (npub1gfh…mase)

About: https://jacky.wtf/
Reading Log: https://bookwyrm.social/user/jacky
Support: https://jacky.wtf/support/

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jalcine_at_todon.eu@momostr.pink

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2024-07-10 02:15:50

If any CEO is following me and uses Lattice and has any sense of respect for humans, drop the company today. https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment
They're working on making AI employees. Exactly what that sounds like.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahfranklin_today-lattice-makes-history-and-leads-the-activity-7216472651043676160-_tyR
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/759/780/318/659/665/original/ceb8c34265d9ee68.png

2024-07-09 01:37:58

Trying to prep using the interior colony to go fight against other colonies that'll refuse to submit: https://todon.eu/@QasimRashid@mastodon.social/112753204250514742

2024-07-08 20:48:18

That bit about police cars being engineered at a higher grade that consumer cars but they still don't be catching people...
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/07/portland-faces-400000-cost-to-replace-burned-out-police-cars-still-no-arrests-in-arson-investigation.html

2024-07-06 19:15:14

tired: bring back 'real journalism'
wired: support emancipatory media outlets and divert your funds to help them grow

2024-07-06 18:01:58

God. This calendar... Every single day, there's been some sort of white violence on ... everyone.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul

2024-07-06 12:13:52

5,000 Africans killed so far in attempts for migrations. This is violence by border control (and lack of international support for reliable immigration).
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-89-bodies-found-after-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-mauritanian-coast-2024-07-05/
https://www.reuters.com/world/migrants-dying-unprecedented-numbers-canary-islands-route-ngo-says-2024-06-12/

2024-07-06 11:54:15

In 1993, the United States created a paramilitary group in #Haiti (FRAPH). This followed the forced deposing of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was forced out by the paramilitary group formed by the Duvalerism-centered soldiers.
The United States needed to avoid any sort of democracy in the country as to avoid its ability to dump weapons and waste and juice the foreign representatives it had there that backed tourism, like Disney (which led to them shooting things like Pirates of the #Caribbean on Haitian soil with no payouts to the locals and indigenous who lived there) and Royal Carib (the popular American-owned and second largest in the world). The United States makes money when they keep Caribbeans - Africans anywhere - in a state of subjugation.
Jimmy Carter and Colin Powell were the US representatives for said paramilitary group. They ignored the request of the Haitian people to evict the American-installed paramilitary force and instead instigated violence even more. Then-President Bill Clinton used Haiti as a campaign chip "as an attempt for restoration", when then-senator #JoeBiden elected to dismiss the country entirely if it just "sank into the ocean".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_for_the_Advancement_and_Progress_of_Ha%C3%AFti
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207184539/http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1994/165/165p21b.htm

2024-07-05 01:02:01

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a what who? (Lol)

2024-07-04 11:45:46

My sincere condolences for those forced to celebrate the horrific declaration of colonial intent by the gentried class today. As with ever, the 4th of "Lies" is a celebration of the wealthy declaring their sustained intent to continue the decimation of land on their notions of Christo-nationality.
In the same way that Indigenous Peoples' Day is now commemorated as a day of reflection, today's one to think of the millions of people lost to fulfill the colonial perversion that is the United States of America.

2024-07-04 02:13:35

https://www.avclub.com/neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault-1851576240
> The second woman, known as K, says she was 18 in 2003, when she met Gaiman at a book signing in Sarasota, Florida
He ... did this again last year (the book signing) at a lot of local libraries (I'm very close to that city hence my awareness)

2024-07-04 01:06:58

Bars from @npub1lwd…3dp0 https://organizingmythoughts.org/take-a-deep-breath-and-think-about-what-you-need-to-do-2/

2024-07-02 15:44:40

I love reading because people will say A but then you read B, C and D and it shows how not only A is wrong but was warned against by B, C and D for decades!
Then I can go mute people who keeping boosting A

2024-07-01 15:05:53

Supreme Court is speed running all of the bullshit it can get done before November, no?

2024-07-01 00:08:27

Biden did a good. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjeerggvqw1o
Would be nice to know how rapid benefits would be restored for folks, veteran benefit systems are clunky

2024-06-30 23:40:38

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2024-06-30 23:21:50

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Lol I'm half-serious here but maybe having a Web not focused or solely centered on Web browsers could have led to more experimental ideas for sending things around the Web

2024-06-30 23:20:00

*climbs onto the podium of the standards bodies*
WHATWG fucked up the Internet and is why we can't get past the browser duopoly*
*runs as RFCs and company logos are flung in my direction*

2024-06-30 15:12:57

What the fuck is happening with Mozilla? https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/25/firefox-now-lets-you-choose-your-preferred-ai-chatbot-in-its-nightly-builds/

2024-06-30 05:30:50

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hahaha I should not be laughing but bro they went for the some of the hardest core horror manga, what were they expecting?!

2024-06-30 02:57:06

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It's not Vote Or. It has to be Vote AND.

2024-06-30 02:39:55

A poem by Brendan Joyce. The immediate interpretation will make you believe revolution is the issue. But it's to highlight the fixation of elections contributes to more death (by lack of direct action).
From https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/brendan-joyce-love-and-solidarity-review
#poem
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/703/240/915/981/077/original/9d251b382ace61b1.png

2024-06-29 16:02:13

Zionism is the baby child of American imperialism in the middle East. If American tax dollars stopped going to Israel, the state would crumble today.
- Kwame Ture

2024-06-29 15:38:18

This is why I routinely avoid non-critical folks who don't have intersectional lenses. What ICE has will be expanded and shared with correctional facilities. What the DEA does will be expanded to hunt down folks trying to run abortions.
It's never a problem until it's bugging white people. https://chaosfem.tw/@DivineKestrel/112697955280336273

2024-06-29 12:25:00

The next time I end up working somewhere they strongly have conviction that AI and ChatGPT-adjacent tools are worthwhile, I'm going to keep bringing this up during the meetings: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
(This happened at the last role and it was ... definitely part of the reason why someone left before me for another job)

2024-06-29 01:43:17

TORRENT WINDOWS TODAY - MICROSOFT
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware

2024-06-28 21:50:10

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I'm looking for one of those https://donotreply.cards/ about explaining how ActivityPub works. I'm glad that you believe that everything in the public from the perspective of the replying POSTER is public but this is about the original poster.
When inboxes in ActivityPub, see https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/#inbox for context, gain the ability to actively REJECT content from a set of sources, people can "reply" all they want. What 'completes' it is both sides presenting it.
This is outside the technical aspect and more about the social impact of it. We don't explain mTLS, socket transfer, brotli compression and the like when talking about AP because it's _irrelevant to the social experience_.

2024-06-28 21:43:39

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> Once you've made data public you can't really un-public it.
This doesn't have to rely on public info. This can be done by making the audience field in the AP spec more actionable or controlling what kind of context can be dropped from an inbox. So yes, it can be easily done even if it's public.

2024-06-28 21:22:25

Which #Fediverse or #IndieWeb app is adding this?!
Truly the last thing I'd want this to have is to be able to post into a "particular feed" so only those who are subscribed to it could (this would be what allows one to have a 'nerd' account, a 'plant' account, etc all under one handle)
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/696/339/918/106/906/original/04623b05762a84e4.png

2024-06-28 21:11:04

This photo is ten years ago. Oy. It's of Edward Crawford.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/696/296/018/627/975/original/076153e505fb4bbe.jpeg

2024-06-28 14:08:55

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2223-the-black-antifascist-tradition
*Taps on the window to remind folks that facism is an integral part of American policy making and it's been here - not evenly distributed - yet*

2024-06-27 12:24:46

Just going to lean in and say it: outside of real concerns with public transit around one's safety in more dense cities that don't provide adequate services for people, most folks who have options avoid buses and public transit because they don't want to be seen as poor.
In my time understanding class consciousness and how it manifests in everyday behavior, it plays out each time. I'm able to find folks who benefit more from community engagement on public transit. Whereas, especially where I'm based in Florida, folks avoid it nor even acknowledge its existence. That allows for the degradation or eventual dismantling of the service (since it comes at no harm to even working folks for whom having more predictable bus services would benefit in reducing their gas and maintenance costs).

2024-06-25 17:11:27

Using #Discord as a forum is a weird experience. Even trying to view this feels overly .. crowded? And search seems overloaded with searching in channels, people - like a "omni-search" that's more likely to give something _I don't need_ versus actionable info.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/678/367/793/252/074/original/f9319fb07fe9e237.png

2024-06-25 16:34:53

Woy! is a good outlet for news on #Haiti that doesn't succumb to Western ideas of Haiti as a blight on the Western hemisphere. This recent title hits with a proverb that easily explains Western propaganda: in order to have you justify their violence, they'll (centrist news, politicans and everyone in-between) tell you what they need to have you cheer on their violence.
https://open.substack.com/pub/woymag/p/le-yo-vle-touye-chen-yo-di-l-fou
The Haitian people and the Haitian state are two completely different beings and the rarest time they aligned was when the only elected president in its 200-year history, Aristide, was elected (and then deposed by the United States two decades ago: https://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/17/exclusive_aristide_talks_with_democracy_now)

2024-06-23 18:10:00

I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/667/271/089/395/416/original/f89b56dae80ea8ed.png

2024-06-23 15:34:27

I need more material on the history of Microsoft. I know it effectively began as a shield for IBM to avoid antitrust issues and that Gates got insider access that allowed him to leapfrog. But I want to learn more about the political relationships they've managed to develop, especially outside the United States.

2024-06-22 17:27:17

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1. Fixed the first one.
2. Whiteness is a construct and is deployed across phenotypes, geographical markers and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory. This is how folks like the Karshadians are able to also deploy a sense of whiteness on a global scale: https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/. In short, in the way that I can't run from my Blackness because of whiteness, society will not allow you to run from that. It's on how you utilize it that makes a difference.
3. I'm going off the word of the founder of Elementary, who's highlighted that (and you've blocked?). To follow your example regarding System76's COSMIC, what's available to people (i.e. a layperson isn't building Comet from source, they're pulling it from AppCenter) is what they'll perceive as available. If you haven't updated it, that's on you to fix (and that's easy it sounds like).
This is something Angela Davis wrote about as well.

2024-06-22 17:22:11

Anyway, happy birthday to the 🐐, the woman that reignited my joy for books, Octavia muddaufugging Bulter. Some time ago, I preordered a book based on her essay, "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" and I'm going to read that today

2024-06-22 17:13:48

I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @npub1p09…m5vl's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.
I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.

2024-06-22 15:41:18

The person who gave us ARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson. Reading about this in "The One Device" by @npub10zp…fkta, which, as a book (only halfway through), has been really eyeopening in the history of personal computing that Apple leans into.

2024-06-22 02:57:00

It is weird that we got apps for everything. Like Carvana has an app

2024-06-21 12:13:18

With a slighty revamped work page - https://jacky.wtf/work and a more networked LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-alcin%C3%A9/, surely someone can see the value of adding a software engineer to their team?
If not, let's talk and let's see if I can convince ya :) https://cal.com/jackyalcine/chat?duration=20&date=2024-06-21&month=2024-06
#GetFediHired #FediHere

2024-06-20 22:23:00

https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-are-all-in-on-ai/
Posted without comment except this one: no shit.

2024-06-14 23:53:19

I wish someone had a This Week in Fedi Dev newsletter (if one exists and I don't know, this is an invitation to link one) because there's things like https://github.com/Letterbook/, https://fedify.dev/, https://elk.zone/home and the like that aren't Mastodon and we need more things like this

2024-06-14 17:04:14

I know there's still a big contingent of people who believe that, at its core, the United States can be a force for good.
And I want to remind you that it's never been the case for those who don't fit the image or ideology of the core of America: colonial Europeanized identities (or an alliance to it), wealth (by means of forced capital extraction) and imperial moves (like having thousands of bases around the world and being the largest contributor to child slavery around the globe).
This is the type of shit that a state government aligned to those values and its acolytes sign off on.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

2024-06-14 00:49:08

the phrase "diversity of thought" is such a red flag

2024-06-11 13:11:05

Do we need another website making tool?
Feel free to boost. Also feel free to reply with some wishlist items for a CMS/website maker that you have in mind

2024-06-11 01:46:56

What was that about privacy? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/apple-generative-ai-wwdc/678648/

2024-06-08 15:34:50

Rehashing this campaign.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/581/728/107/541/765/original/bdc886f6fe36f0c3.jpeg

2024-06-06 13:52:24

wow using Chrome without an ad-blocker is like walking around in NYC after it rains and garbage ain't get picked up yet

2024-06-04 14:15:12

Glad I found this photo in Nextcloud because the use of the term "racism" gets confused as "ouchie, my feelings" and it's not that at all.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/558/764/772/678/729/original/52c8a7dc3e2cc30b.jpg

2024-06-03 16:31:04

*fixes ties and brushes pants*
*clears throat*
You want a software engineer. I know it (lol). But fr, if you know of a place looking for a fullstack dev, swing them https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-alcin%C3%A9-6a9ab730a/ (or e-mail me at jackyalcine@fastmail.com)
#LookingForWork #GetFediHired

2024-05-27 12:44:44

When are we doing the install parties to help people get away from Microsoft's ever growing consumer surveillance?

2024-05-26 02:10:10

I'm reminded how folks considered Medium to be some bastion of blogging.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/504/956/729/557/590/original/9f2ee3a7921fae6b.png

2024-05-25 16:31:33

..... It's Google Photos all over again https://infosec.exchange/@krelnik/112501601910674910
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/google-dev-apologizes-after-photos-app-tags-black-people-as-gorillas/

2024-05-25 01:17:31

Netflix got a documentary about Reading Rainbow (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7WysZSOtZz) and the way I almost came to tears seeing LeVar for no good reason lol
Me watching it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOG3XwX9Yw

2024-05-23 14:49:48

made a LinkedIn account, please weep with me

2024-05-17 01:23:31

This book, "The Source of Self Regard" has been a hit for me and I'm still halfway through.
This is the first page, written in 2019.
@npub1ny7…uv57
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/453/809/108/551/434/original/fc425b14a3f0d30f.jpg

2024-05-15 14:39:40

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This could solve an issue for federated identity for the Fediverse! (https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/jTss)

2024-05-07 13:12:09

Can I kick it?
KICKING IT AND ITS FORMS ARE NOW BANNED FOR BEING A FORM OF PROTEST

2024-05-06 23:10:35

Every time I learn something about the USA, I do feel like I've been lied to.

2024-05-01 03:22:02

Journalism students are being held under threat of arrest to not leave their dorms. Investigative journalism is about to come back HARD.

2024-04-27 23:06:41

I'm in volume 4 of Kernel, a techno-optimist magazine with contributions I'm more than glad to be next to.
You can get your copy at https://shop.kernelmag.io/products/kernel-4?variant=40975508635721
I was inspired to write for them after reading two articles in volume 3, namely "When the computer is the witness" and "No girls on the Internet"!
(also more people should try doing this! I didn't think it'd work out but here we are!)
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/345/678/996/741/394/original/9539941ffb8ea3da.jpg

2024-04-22 11:54:04

Waking up to read the White House is deciding to ignore the statement of the young students protesting the government's need to feed genocide and for media outlets to call them "hate-filled foreign students" is the first loud bell of the covert fascist alignment domestically of the American project.
Biden's already opened claimed to be a Zionist so it shouldn't be too shocking but this is now a soft declaration of anti-dissent sentiment.

2024-04-21 19:10:12

Hearing Shawn Fein mention the importance of literature that shaped his ability to organize and the role that faith in members and their capabilities touches home for me. Organizing people is about making their collective voices louder than their opposition. Organizing workers turns into making corporate (mis)management incapable of abusing their private governance and forces them to treat them as people.
#LaborNotes2024

2024-04-21 16:13:55

Fuck Eric Adams!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_o1RlOwhA/
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/310/093/086/224/862/original/bd60b75fadb31a88.mp4

2024-04-20 13:45:26

Sydette Henry (AKA The Black Amazon).
I'm not going to be able to do her justice here. An unwavering beacon in how online civil spaces can look like for ALL people (because of her focus on keeping online spaces safe for BIPOC trickles up), she needs help raising money. I've thrown in and I'm willing to match up another $200 for any other contributions folks can make.
#MutualAid [@mutualaid](https://a.gup.pe/u/mutualaid)
https://gofund.me/21319c1b
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/112/303/844/279/848/134/original/15cfa31c7e1b0e80.jpg

2024-04-16 00:08:51

Mark every single ad you're forced to watch as inappropriate.

2024-03-29 13:31:36

Has anyone tried out https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome?

2024-03-28 16:29:07

How often do you check your bookmarked posts on Mastodon?

2024-03-27 23:54:57

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What are the laws like in Washington that companies opt to be based there?
It's like Delware for incorporation, $PLACE for money and $PLACE for land.

2024-03-27 22:41:45

TIL that Nintendo USA is in the same place as Amazon, Microsoft and a bunch of tech companies.

2024-03-23 03:54:01

How do I know you're not a bot?