Main project of the moment: updating gradle, kotlin, groovy and related things in Debian.
@codegouvfr alors attention, la semaine prochaine ce sera le #DebCamp qui précède la #DebConf proprement dite, laquelle aura lieu du lundi 14 au samedi 19 juillet inclus, soit dans 11 jours.
Bien que l'événement soit en principe ouvert à toutes des contraintes réglementaires et de sécurité (vigipirate) ont imposé cette année une inscription préalable, et la date de clôture est maintenant passée : il n'est plus possible de venir sur place si l'on est pas déjà inscrit.
Following the examples of corporations and nations on climate targets, I too commit to making curl and apache mostly bugfree by 2040.
If you also have targets in your job, this might be good for you as well.💁🏻♂️
Quand l'excellence ne suffit pas : les parcours contrariés des femmes en informatique
"Aussi, ces résultats suggèrent-ils que le problème n’est pas tant de pousser les femmes dans les filières et les métiers de l’informatique, mais de leur permettre de se sentir à leur place pour qu’elles puissent s’y maintenir, ce qui pose plus largement la question de la culture professionnelle de ce milieu et des contextes de travail."
Un peu déçu mais pas complètement étonné que le message "tolérance zéro sur les propos racistes et sexistes au travail" ne fasse pas consensus complet dans un groupe en formation dans mon organisation syndicale. Y'a encore du taf.
Canicule - Le ministère de la Santé conseille de ne pas sortir entre midi et octobre
https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/07/02/canicule-le-ministere-de-la-sante-conseille-de-ne-pas-sortir-entre-midi-et-octobre/
@annika maybe because the latter ones are so good at mansplaining?
i keep finding it bizarre that we can't see what posts a profile directly posted, without boosts, on #mastodon... wtf? makes me want to do less boosting, which is bad, no?
This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration. Learn how you can take part ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived/
Vous ne l'attendiez plus, le voici, le voilà, le thread des propositions de l'APU du vieux Lille pour lutter contre les expulsions locatives
#DroitauLogement #expulsionsLocatives
Ces propositions font suite au rapport dont je vous ais parlé la semaine dernière et partent d'un travail d'enquête au long cours sur le terrain, travail qui a permis de relever de nombreux dysfonctionnements dans "l'accompagnement" des locataires expulsables.
Les 10 propositions ci dessous semblent toutes naturelles à la lumière de ce travail
Director of engineering at Canonical blogs about how their hiring process, contrary to public opinion, is very excellent, requires no changes but does seemingly need fifty thousand words justifying it. And notably does not discuss the part where Mark Shuttleworth rudely interviews you at the end.
Canicule – La Bretagne ferme sa frontière face à l'arrivée massive de réfugiés climatiques
https://www.legorafi.fr/2019/06/24/canicule-la-bretagne-ferme-sa-frontiere-face-a-larrivee-massive-de-refugies-climatiques/
I feel sincerely sorry for the #Canonical teams that will remain permanently understaffed because some C-level decided long ago that they would only hire unicorns. It's a policy that doesn't scale well.
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But you also want them to be “excellent” and “outstanding”: this is where it gets challenging, as the set resulting from this intersection gets fairly narrow with experienced candidates.
Outstanding and experienced candidates are in high demand everywhere, they are also likely to be successful as self-employed consultants, and more likely than others to (rightly) assess that this flawed hiring process is a losing game, statistically not worth spending time/energy on.
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It's all the fault of the candidates if they don't get through. This is of course “technically true” given a process that can't be wrong.
This process — like many others — is obviously designed to test candidates patience and willingness to go through questionable corporate practices without complaining or even showing frustration about them.
Therefore, you are primarily looking for *compliant* candidates. Good girls, good boys that performed well in high school.
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You went through the trouble of writing and publishing a 4150+ words -wall of text- article (that's a 17 to 23 min read, or 7 to 11 printed pages, or close to the median length of a research paper) in which it appears that you are aware of the subpar public reputation of #Canonical hiring process, where you express some frustration about candidates that “underperform” or don't even apply, but yet there is very little (as in: no) questioning of that process.
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