Nina Kalinina

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Or, as my "professional" email signature says, "IT expert and mixed media artificer".

A late millennial, yet I grew up with a ZX Spectrum and used an i486 as my main PC well into 00s.

I have a degree in electrical engineering, majored in industrial and microelectronics, but somehow ended up building massively distributed computer systems. SCADA with sensors scattered across hundreds of miles, L7 balancing for millions of users, corporate video call infrastructure, helping to delete ~petabyte of data a day, and until recently keeping the lights on for a major cloud provider. I learned a lot during my long-ish career, and this knowledge makes me sad and keeps me up at night sometimes.

I never post here in a "working adult" capacity, and wouldn't dare to speak for my current or past employers. Instead, I engage in playful shitpost and creative exploration of technologies that have no commercial applications.

Feel free to DM me, I'll try to reply to all!

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5 months ago

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5 months ago

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

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in reply to Nina Kalinina 5 months ago

We have chosen this way. Look around yourself and see, how people reacts, when phone beeps - lot of them stops everything and just jump away to check the phone no matter what they were actually doing. I even noticed, that some people actually tend to remind me "your phone beeped" even though they just seen me intentionally leave it for later 😀

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in reply to Schmaker 5 months ago

@schmaker I feel like this choice was pushed on people, though

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That depends on definition of being pushed.

If there is no threat, then it's not a push, but a decision (imho)

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in reply to Schmaker 5 months ago

@schmaker it is a default behaviour that is difficult to override, I'd say that's harassment

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in reply to Nina Kalinina 5 months ago

I must admit I actually really like the async way modern chats use.

I can have a conversation with my friends over multiple days, no need to check if they're available or not, they'll reply when they have time. No pressure.