sashimimono

I would like to, but... have you tried to use thunderbird on an "older" linux laptop nowadays? Even with 8 gigs of ram, and a non-fancy memory-saving windowmanager, thunderbird is almost unusable now (large imap mbox), firefox even worse. I don't see why all that additional bloat is needed, or wanted. Please keep in mind, that a lot(!) of people are not able to afford buying new hardware every now and then anymore. And this is getting worse. First the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine, now the war in Middle-East. Shortage of ram/storage/everything (thanks ai) and massivly increased costs of energy, housing, food, insurance, everything. And in the years to come, I am afraid, that will be getting worse. Please think about it, when adding the "next cool feature", 'Keep the internet affordable'. --thunderbird user since 1.0

Do spend some time or bucks on proofreading. Looks odd, when there is a major grammar mistake in your advertisement images.

Regarding "Insist on camera ON phone screens.", DON'T do that.

Remember you try to hire a ${coder, admin, } not the next tv-news-presenter, beeing on screen is not a mandatory needed skill in most jobs.

By asking for something, that makes people uncomfortable, you will exclude a lot of likely brilliant candidates.

People who refuse to do video interviews may be for example: - people who value privacy, not only their own, but most likely yours too - people who feel very uncomfortable beeing watched by strangers and who think or even know that they will perform significant worse than in an audio-only interviewsituation - people who simply don't own a camera - people who use textonly computers offjob - poeple who have experienced that your 'standard'-videochat-app may not work, maybe because they use linux, bsd, os/2 or nonstandard operatingsystems - people who don't have broadband internet, yes there are still people like that - people who pay for every bit send, and yes having a not so cheap phone/internet contract is still common in some areas - people who feel uncomfortable to let strangers in their bedroom, even virtualy - people who have disabilities or cosmetic issues that they fear may distract you - people who have disabilities where moving and out-of-sync pictures distract them - people who tend to refuse unreasonable requests and who therefor regard you as unqualified to be their next employeer - ...

All of them have good reasons not wanting video interviews.

You, as an employer, may miss your best fit.

Don't get me wrong, I like manga and anime as well. And it's not about gender equality. It's that these type of images (unhealthy big breasts, trying to force their way out of way too tight clothes) give a unwelcoming impression to women.

Even if a lot of your friends tell you "I don't mind", believe me, deep inside they feel at least slighty uncomfortable. Women learn to pretend, because if you speak up, you'll be excluded. It's that simple.

Next time you need to choose an image for your project, ask yourself: "whats the message I want to get across" and "do I realy need boobs for it?"

And if the second answer is yes, you'd be better working on a page for lingerie ;)

@CactusBlue: Cool, I realy like the reasons and as much I feel welcomed by the idea of moving to a new home, the same I feel strongly pushed away by the used images of oversexualizied stereotypical boobproviders, completely not cool. And no, this has nothing to do with peoples love to manga and stuff. Many women just feel that they as a single person, and as women in general, are reduced to the size of their bodyparts, if constantly shown stuff like this - even when it's not meant that way. Think twice, if that's the picture women get from your internet, is this their internet as well? I wonder, do I want to live where everyone judges women just by their bust size? And will your little sister want to live there? The current internet is stupid enough, make the new places better.

The beautiful idea of having "free/libre/opensource software" is worth nothing, if there is no code available at all.

Please correct me if I am wrong here, but did he take this position also when meta made occulus as closed as possible? Running any opensource stuff on it? Connecting it to an free operating system? You could not even buy one here, at least not without selling your personal data.

I have a unpleasant feeling that this well intended talk is only a move to protect his future work and foremost business.

(but I do hope that I am wrong)