My current goal is to get a job as a developer and work towards combining my career with my revolutionary activity. But I’d like to build skills that are as applicable as possible to digital revolutionary struggle. Any thoughts?

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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      Can confirm, also some parallel path for training and spreading knowledge in the industry is desperately needed. Like for continuing education on applied electrical engineering. So much knowledge, practice and the like is siloed off and proprietary in each individual tech company. Lots of the smaller government contractors are staffed with engineers who are shockingly incompetent as a result, it's like the blind leading the blind, repeating rules of thumb from 1989 hardware electronics.

        • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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          Definitely. Something as simple as the basics for "how to get a custom pcb made" world be good to have somewhere independently controlled and with up to date information for people interested in turning their arduinos into something mass produced

            • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              The number one thing I've seen there is that in a lot of companies it's common for the team doing the schematic and the layout to be totally different. like to the degree where the design engineers will often act as if they're above working with the proles (layout techs). This is especially common in older east coast companies with roots in MIC work.

                • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  It's something that's definitely been segmented since they were doing this shit with wire wrapping and literal drawings done by drafters. It's mostly division of labor, like how anyone can be trained to use solidworks. I elaborated here

                • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  I typed up a whole rant about that in particular but I hit something wrong and lost it and also my edible is kicking in, so I'll get back to you.

                  • Leftoid [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    My chocolate is kicking in, and I'm a high level pot mage. .... lemme try to channel that lost idea.

                    The production pipeline from schematic to device is horribly fractured in corporate practice. This practice is unsuitable for a distributed group of revolutionaries. In order to arrive at usable devices for direct action one must vertically educate individuals on the entire design chain and pipeline, allowing them to then specialize and develop the skills of others as work flows through the design pipeline. In order to accomplish this a process of deontolgization and re-delegation must take place over the whole of the design, production, and supply chains.

                    We are talking about a very large re-organization of knowledge. A technological revolution of sorts.

                    How'd i do?