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I was laid off in October after 13 years at Amazon and am still seeking a new opportunity.

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  • @Gargron @scott recent enough Mastodon also pops an OPEN link to the thing you just posted after posting, in the bottom left (at least if you're using the multicolumn layout). After that, you can just keep the started thread open and reply to the last post in it as you go.

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  • Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides

    Map of the calculated magnetic anisotropy. (Credit: Beeson et al., Adv. Mat., 2025)
    Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that they tend to rely on so-called rare-earth elements. Although firmly in the top 5 of misnomers, these abundant elements are hard to mine and isolate, which means that finding alternatives to their use is much desired. Fortunately the field of high entropy alloys (HEAs) offers hope here, with [Beeson] and colleagues recently demonstrating a rare-earth-free material that could be used for magnets.

    Although many materials can be magnetic, to make a good magnet you need the material in question to be both magnetically anisotropic and posses a clear easy axis. This basically means a material that has strong preferential magnetic directions, with the easy axis being the orientation which is the most energetically favorable.

    Through experimental validation with magnetic coercion it was determined that of the tested boride films, the (FeCoNiMn)2B variant with a specific deposition order showed the strongest anisotropy. What is interesting in this study is how much the way that the elements are added and in which way determines the final properties of the boride, which is one of the reasons why HEAs are such a hot topic of research currently.

    Of course, this is just an early proof-of-concept, but it shows the promise of HEAs when it comes to replacing other types of anisotropic materials, in particular where – as noted in the paper – normally rare-earths are added to gain the properties that these researchers achieved without these elements being required.

    hackaday.com/2026/01/29/rare-e…

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  • At the end of the day, Linux is the worst operating system that has yet been developed, except for all of the other operating systems. And it's still unusably bad on some basic levels. One day, I believe, we will have good computer systems. But I may not live to see them.

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  • Linux? Pah! All the power of the digital world at your fingertips and... it can't hibernate properly.

    macOS? This dude won't even let me install whatever programs I want without a whole song and dance routine. Is this a general purpose computer or a little etch a sketch for kids?

    Windows? Don't even get me started on this spyware crap that's holding multiple industries hostage. After the revolution, no one will even want to use windows.

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  • I'm a woke centrist, I use macOS, linux, and windows. And all of them irritate me for different reasons!

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  • RE: https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/115981267745589573

    "posts on fediverse can't go viral"

    trolley problem meme i made years ago: [exists]

    haters said it couldn't be done. and yet

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  • @ShadowJonathan The Tuttle/Buttle gap.

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  • @ShadowJonathan how has nobody mentioned post 10 yet this is literally who the post is referencing

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    Looking for work. Part-time permanent, or contract work specifically. 3 days a week (24 hours) is ideal.Remote work is welcome, I am based in Sydney Australia and will be working during daylight hours here, but not necessarily 9am-5pm.I am a software developer that likes clean code and functional programming. Most of my experience has been as a full stack web developer and I have years of experience in both organisations as well as a freelancer, working directly with clients. I am proficient across the entire stack: HTML, CSS + preprocessors, JavaScript + frameworks, SQL, Node, Python, Linux, Bash, Docker and more.My favourite languages are Rust and Elm, and I have professional experience in both.I am happy to learn anything to fill in the gaps, and I am confident I can. I have always enjoyed learning about the problem space that the software operates in, thinking about the "why" behind what I am doing makes the work more meaningful.To learn more about me as a Software developer and see some of my past work please see my portfolio at https://sashin.devIf you are interested in hiring me, please get in touch at chain-owl-empathy@duck.com #FediHire #fedihired #getfedihired #fedihiresashin Boosts are welcome and appreciated.If you would prefer not to see these please mute the hashtag #fedihiresashin
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    I am still looking for work.I am a software developer, based in Sydney, Australia. I have years of experience across working within organisations as well as a freelancer engaging with clients directly.Most of my experience has been as a full stack web developer, I have a lot of experience designing user interfaces with CSS and other frameworks, as well as writing business logic on the backend (good with working with APIs, databases etc). I like being able to see the big picture, how everything interacts with each other, how the parts fit into a cohesive whole.I like being connected with the "why" of what I am doing.You can see some of my work, as well as the source code behind it here on my portfolio: https://sashin.devIdeally I would like a permanent part-time remote role. I am also open to contract work.If you are interested in hiring me, please get in touch at chain-owl-empathy@duck.com#FediHire #fedihired #getfedihired I want to start making this #fedihire posts more frequently. I am adding this tag #fedihiresashin so that anyone that would like to could mute it.Boosts appreciated :)
  • I really need a job.

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    I really need a job. I've been looking for 5 years. I make about $60k/yr building the occasional web app for one company and a non-profit, but it isn't cutting it.I am hard to classify. I've been a CTO or chief architect of small startups and small companies. I have a agile, plastic mind, and I can figure out pretty much any problem thrown at me. I've designed pci cards, I've tuned dye lasers, I'm a reasonably good audio engineer, I can make furniture and frame a room, I can do nearly anything. Most of the things I've done well I've done without prior specific expertise. I'm good when I'm in over my head.I've led small teams, sure, but that's nothing compared to having led punk bands on tour across the country, bringing everyone home alive and having no-one spend more than a few hours in police custody. I have a wildly diverse set of experiences, which I can apply in useful ways.Most of all, I want useful work, to not be tossed into the trash because I'm over 50.#getfedihiredPS: I live in SF
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    I suppose it can't hurt to try this, right?I'm a Systems Administrator by trade, and I'm looking for work! I have 20+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure, and I worked my way up from the Help Desk.My last role (9.5 years) was working in the NOC of a private insurance provider, where I supported global IT operations.Some of my highlighted skills:-Active Directory-PowerShell Scripting-SCCM and SCOM-VMWare and Hyper-V-Microsoft Server 2016/2022-Microsoft Exchange-Azure Administration-Azure Migrations-SaaS-Rubrik Backups-Application Packaging-Change Management-Agile-Disaster RecoveryI'm open to remote work, and I'm also looking to relocate to the greater Chicagoland area, preferably around Schaumburg.#GetFediHired #FediHired #LookingForWork