Came here from Reddit! Just hoping to talk to other people about my interests, idk how much I'll post though lol.
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Hello. Been here since April already. I'm a late Baby boomer, dad to one, granddad to four. Quite introvert and reserved (unless alcohol is involved) but if you poke me enough I might engage in conversation with you. Self-deprecating sense of humour.
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Most of the time live in the UK but my SO lives in the US and I spend a couple of months a year over there, she spends time here too. We'll eventually settle in one place but for now we both have active jobs so this has been a good compromise for the last 15 years. Add step-dad to one and step-granddad to two.
Religious beliefs - confirmed atheist - but I respect others' beliefs if that's what they choose and they live by their convictions (not just the one hour they attend their place of worship a week.)
Sexual orientation - I am a heterosexual male, however. I strongly believe that others may have different preferences, or be uncertain what their preferences are and I respect and accept this. I also encourage others who have narrower views to do the same.
I currently work in a technical support role in Civil Aviation, where most of the systems are now at the trailing edge of technology.
I feel that the Fediverse is a good thing and I hope it succeeds. But I do feel I've been here before with Fidonet and BBSs (bulletin boards), Usenet (internet newsgroups but before they were polluted by the Google Groups interface) and of course #IRC. Big Tech turned the internet into a consumer and business tool and monetised it by capturing the users in their walled gardens (yes, F.., T.., R.., G..,) Some of these I do still use to engage with less tech-savvy family and friends.
Updated to add my Mastodon link
Hi all, I've also recently joined Beehaw from reddit. Im a queer AuDHD agender person originally from the Solomon Islands but now living in Australia. I'm a single parent to an almost 2 year old who is obsessed with dinosaurs, dogs and babies. My kid is amazing but OMG toddlers! I spent most of my career working in community services mostly with communities who experience significant systemic discrimination but recently moved into IT. I'm still working not for profit but now in the IT team. While I was studying my IT degree I did a minor in Internet Communications and got offered post grad to research, simply, community, power and politics online. I turned it down because I needed to make some money and didnt think becoming an academic would achieve that (and also i was about to have a baby) but now I'm watching the shit show that is reddit and thinking about what a great thesis it would make! I'm excited to participate more on the platform without the fear of harassment I often had on other platforms. The rules and values of beehaw make me a lot more comfortable to post.
Hey all, I heard about Lemmy from Mastodon and thought I’d give it a shot. I was never much of a reddit user besides occasional lurking, mostly because the quality of discussions seemed pretty hit or miss. BeeHaw seems a lot nicer though, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
I use he/him/his pronouns. If privilege was a game of bingo, my particular demographics would likely be the free space. I try to acknowledge that and use it for good.
By day I’m a staff software engineer at a relatively large tech company (which means I write more docs than code most of the time), and by night I’m a cooking enthusiast, musician, sci fi novel fan, and exhausted parent of a toddler.
Hey there. I'm yet another redditor that has joined lemmy today to see what the world looks like beyond the walls of the pile of crap that my former digital home has turned into. Still learning how things work around here but definitely like the general vibe of things.
Yet another Reddit refugee checking in. I find much of the modern social internet overwhelming and exhausting (looking at you, Discord...) so I was glad to find out about Beehaw. I have entirely too many interests and hobbies, which I tend to rotate through as the whim strikes me. At the moment, it's mostly Gunpla kits, Nintendo Switch (I am the filthiest of casuals), and container gardening (50/50 chance I lose interest before I get a single vegetable).
Hey all! Zach here.
Bit of a refugee, bit not. I've had a Mastodon for a bit now, and have been interested in federated networks and p2p stuff since even before that. Mostly lurked on Reddit, primarily due to the sheer size of the place (unless you post in the first few minutes of a thread in the major subs, your comment is likely to get buried). Most of the time things didn't feel conducive towards having a normal conversation, so I would just hold back.
I'm a software engineer, currently working for a company that creates mobile + cashless solutions for casinos and resorts. Fun stuff. Background in cyber security and cryptocurrencies. Mostly self taught, since I got my first PC when I was 7. Went to college for a bit, learned nothing I hadn't taught myself, and dropped out. Seems that worked out just fine.
In my free time I'm an avid gamer. Pretty decent (better than my IRL friends at least) at FPS', played a lot of CoD and then CS:GO while growing up. Currently jumping around between RDR2 (RedM) and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Before that, I was on a Rust kick. Most mainstream studios have completely shit the bed the last few years with a few exceptions, so I enjoy playing games that have lasted for a while and maintained communities around them. Not to say I don't ever try new releases, I'm just not often sucked into them how I used to in the past.
Two dogs, one cat, and an axolotl. Fortunate enough to have found my better half at a young age, and we've been together since.
Glad to have found Lemmy and a community like this one in the wake of Reddit's decisions. I'm looking forward to engaging with people again. Cheers everyone.
Here from Reddit (Apollo user).
I am a HS Biology teacher with a previous career in game development. Very involved in gamification and VR in education (creating in VR, the apps that can be used in a classroom are lacking at the moment).
If it dates me, I had a Digg account back in the day and have spent more time on MySpace than Facebook.
Fellow HS teacher here. Definitely interested in your thoughts on VR--I imagine you're imagining things like visualizing parts of cells?
Sure! Gallery walk experiences of anything that can be represented with a 3D model is a fairly straightforward first step for VR in the classroom. This last year I had students use the “nanome” app to look at receptor proteins and the compounds they interact with and they can attempt to see where they think the active site might be as a 3D puzzle exercise.
For a while, Labster was doing interesting work in the VR space with immersive Biotech labs (they gambled on Google’s VR hardware and software platform and pivoted to remote learning apps when Google dropped support). I liked how they made it safe/memorable to mess up a lab. For instance, there was a chemistry lab where it would tell you to wear goggles but would continue the experience if you didn’t actually do the goggles step. At a later stage, if you mixed compounds wrong, the reaction explodes and if you hadn’t worn goggles, you go “blind” (game over / restart level). Students talk about such moments amongst themselves as if they’re discovered an Easter egg, and when you instruct them to wear goggles during a real lab they are a little faster to comply. :)
Heya everyone. Found this place when I was looking for Reddit alternatives after getting the shut down message in Apollo. Checked the list of alternatives on a subreddit and was immediately grossed out by transphobic sites and fucking VOAT of all places being in the list, so randomly running into this place after that was very relieving.
Big into tabletop RPGs, started with Pathfinder 1st edition a long time ago but have mostly been playing D&D 5th edition with some sprinklings of OSR and PbtA-influenced games (well, game, singular. Blades in the Dark is super fun though!) Like most tabletop fans probably, I'm also into fantasy/sci-fi media.
Happy weekend!
Hi, im a redditor. Probably won't be for long though.
Im a c# and typescript developer, computer enthusiast, avid book and comic reader, and a fantasy and scifi fan. Im very introverted and agoraphobic, unskilled at social stuff, badly overweight and less-than-optimally-active, and just started on anti-depressants. Other than that im an utterly boring person.
Oh fun, another C# dev. I don't do much C# anymore due to job direction but it's my favorite language hands down. What kind of dev do you do? I'm mostly in the cloud these days doing backend stuff.
What kind of dev don't I do? At work we are building a webapp for making exercise programs. I'm working with C# and VB (both .net framework and .net 7), Typescript (frontend), Javascript (EmberJs mostly), some PHP (our old CRM system), Azure and MySQL administration, Azure VM Windows and Linux administration, and devops. So very much fullstack. Its a small company so it used to be only me and the CTO doing dev. Luckily we've gotten more good developers the last few years and now we're 7 devs.
Private I'm doing powershell stuff. Sometimes typescript stuff. I used to do a bit of gamedev but not much anymore.
Hi I am prymu and I am a reddit referee. I am from poland and am interested in geopolitics and technology of all sorts. Lately I have found myself to be a server admin for my own "homelab" (it is just 1 server for now). I also am interested is aviation and ai art (stable diffusion)
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I'm an asexual tomboy that's studying web dev to give a turn to her career (I worked in OSHA) and I'm loving it!
Doing formal studies and already passed my first year, now I'm going to complete some courses to prepare for the next and last year and hopefully get a job after the internship.
I love strategy and building video games, I like K-pop (well, mostly I like Super Junior), writing, and language learning (currently learning Korean).
I've seen some devs here, can you guide me to some places where I can find projects to build organized by concepts, tools, and/or difficulty?
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