Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by AlexandrB on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:10PM
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It's such baffling UX to show just the first Tweet in a thread with no indication that others exist or that they could be accessed by creating an account. What is the purpose of this? Site just seems broken if you've never visited before.
I also get a "enable notifications" modal popup when visiting the page that prevents me from even seeing the first Tweet. Just great.
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by lukewrites on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:23PM
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Thanks. I'm glad nitter still works, and am increasingly frustrated with people who choose to post on twitter instead of somewhere that doesn't lock down content behind a login.
Muscle memory lasts a long time, but there's a reason people don't default to blogging on medium.
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by nickthegreek on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:54PM
(#38436528)
Why is that extreme? They made fake accounts, pushed fake speakers who would "back out" every year. The only thing extreme here is the lengths in which the organizes went to repeatedly commit fraud. Do you think Microsoft thinks it was cool to say higher up at their organization would be speaking?
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by gustavus on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:11PM
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> The organizer responded, claiming he tried so hard to get women speakers but it’s… too hard. For a paid (!) conference w a price of €789 / $870 per person.
Well as long as you put in the effort and tried hard, lying is perfectly morally acceptable.
No system can survive for long if a breakdown of trust become endemic
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by wendyshu on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:16PM
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"There have been 1000s of events chasing the same small sub-group of female speakers.”
Who would have thought, it's hard to find female coders in order to present some fantasy where there are a lot of female coders because there aren't a lot of female coders.
Everything on a woman's resume is doubted because it may have been due to affirmative action. Infuriating.
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by potatosalad21 on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:06PM
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What's pathetic is there are lots of female coders out there, I work with many. But they don't usually self-promote that much and they aren't all young and Instagram worthy attractive like the fake speakers created by this creep so they might as well not exist.
Re:Organizer invents fake women speakers for DevTernity and ...
by wlonkly on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:27PM
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They've done it for several years now, and the fake women have always pulled out of the conference at the last minute, so I think we already know how far they would have gone.
There's another post about how the organizer has run a woman coder Instagram influencer sockpuppet/catfish for many years, too.
> “While I was legitimately on the agenda as a speaker (I was invited to speak six months ago), at this point I’m definitely not participating,” Howard said.
I also get a "enable notifications" modal popup when visiting the page that prevents me from even seeing the first Tweet. Just great.
Muscle memory lasts a long time, but there's a reason people don't default to blogging on medium.
It's strange that now Uncle Bob seems defending that person by calling out "Cancel culture".
Well as long as you put in the effort and tried hard, lying is perfectly morally acceptable.
No system can survive for long if a breakdown of trust become endemic
Who would have thought, it's hard to find female coders in order to present some fantasy where there are a lot of female coders because there aren't a lot of female coders.
Everything on a woman's resume is doubted because it may have been due to affirmative action. Infuriating.
Do we doubt men's resumes because they could have been a legacy admission, or hired by a buddy from school?
If they can’t get women to speak I’ll volunteer for clout!
There's another post about how the organizer has run a woman coder Instagram influencer sockpuppet/catfish for many years, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439794
https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney/status/1729055140555207086
https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/17287527133646031...
https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1728986396403417219
https://twitter.com/ScottWlaschin/status/1729053636150604284
https://twitter.com/svenpet/status/1729086904346513539
https://twitter.com/ICooper/status/1729094832809971962
https://twitter.com/tastapod/status/1729081069193117721
https://twitter.com/sandimetz/status/1729165151004483836
https://twitter.com/samnewman/status/1729311024220692582
https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizo...
> “While I was legitimately on the agenda as a speaker (I was invited to speak six months ago), at this point I’m definitely not participating,” Howard said.
Found these accounts but no mention of canceling.
https://twitter.com/allenholub
https://twitter.com/thiagoghisi
https://twitter.com/davefarley77
https://twitter.com/romero
And LOL.
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin