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In aviation you only use phonetics, hams are much less consistent about it so it looks weird from the outside.

Ed is a fixture in the leftist tech community, he's good at calling this kind of thing out and has been doing it forever

Having been on the other end of this repeatedly (as an engineer with a desk near the door, not a hiring manager) and I hate it when people do this.

People are becoming much more adverse to bring panhandled or solicited in a way they cannot ignore, in the same way spam calls are more annoying than spam texts. It's not "initiative" or "extra mile" shit, it's taking advantage of someone's politeness to waste their time.

It also looks hopelessly boomerish, up there with expecting the firmness of a handshake to land a job. I've seen this happen dozens of times and the resumes always end up in the trash within minutes. I've never seen anyone hired this way.

It's still associated with a credit card and your google account requires another phone number to create.

We need an established secure anonymous/subpoena-resistant chat app at this point. Signal is great for a minimal threat model but we're kinda past that now given everything going on.

Simplex was a decent option but they're going down the crypto rabbit hole and their project lead is...not someone who should be trusted by anyone in the crosshairs right now.

To provide some opinionated context for this unhinged rant:

The community developing nix had a falling out with a couple highly unsavory groups that basically consisted of the Palmer Lucky Slaughter Bot Co. and a couple guys who keep trying to monetize the project in extremely sleazy ways. This wasn't some sort of Stalinistic purge, it was people rejecting having their name attached to actual murder and sleazy profiteering.