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Upgrading to a Broadcom 9600-24i on TrueNAS Dragonfish
Earlier this year, PG&E hiked up our electricity rates significantly in California. What last year was painful but acceptable electric bill each month rapidly became unacceptable, and so we started looking for opportunities to lower our consumption. One of the first things to come to mind here is the NAS we use for media storage/backups/etc.
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Transgender Day of Vulnerability
“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.” ― Élie Wiesel, Night A week ago, the trans community and our allies celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility — the day we’re supposed to proudly shout to the world that “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re still listening to This Year” or whatever. Visibility is important: If you
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Interview Theater
I’m tired of your interview process. I’ve worked in tech on Linux and Windows based servers since 2003 — and I was doing it for fun before that. I installed Slackware off of repurposed Windows 95 beta floppies. I remember when you had to recompile the kernel to raise the number of file descriptors. Does having been
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My Resignation from Netflix
(Note: This is a copy of my resignation letter that was delivered to my team and members of the Trans* ERG) Greetings, I have resigned from Netflix as of 11/21/2021. This isn’t how I thought things would end, but I am relieved to have closure. When I was looking to change teams at Netflix, when
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Arbitration is a Joke
When I joined Netflix I signed an employment agreement that contains a “Mandatory Arbitration” clause. Like many people, I didn’t fully comprehend what I was signing. Now that I do, I encourage workers to push their employers to remove these clauses for all current and future employees. What is a “Mandatory Arbitration Clause”? In “The
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It Was Never About Dave
It Was Never About Dave My last meeting as Co-VP of the Netflix Trans* ERG was supposed to be October 5th. It was a positive day for me, because my ERG work was the most gratifying work I’d ever done — but it was also a huge amount of emotional labor. I was excited to be able to
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Jerle (CW: Suicide)
CW: Suicide I didn’t know I was trans when Jerle (Damiya, Kate) took her own life. I had just been diagnosed with a pituitary macroadenoma the year before. When I said I was starting testosterone replacement therapy while talking with her on IRC, she immediately told me that I was taking the wrong hormone. I
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Her Name Was Zoey
Last Saturday, my friend and metamour Zoey Frandsen (Twitter, Facebook) passed away unexpectedly at the age of 32. Zoey was a polyamorous, pansexual trans woman. There is now an obituary which deadnames her, treating her chosen, legal name as if it was some kind of nickname. There is a picture of her before she transitioned,
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