Here’s the original post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61773916

I spent my remaining $1,000 to get a lawyer regarding this. It was worth doing, I think because this could have set me up for a long time in a $600/mo apartment and I’ve been homeless recently (this story is really fucking complicated and I’m not willing to get into it for any reason). The legal advice boiled down to essentially my lawyer contacting theirs and reviewing a potential contract. The verdict? “It doesn’t hold water and there’s likely no real money there. They are trying to exploit you.” - which was something I thought may be happening anyway. If it smells like shit… etc.

So, if you receive this an offer like this - run. I don’t want to list the company name for potential doxxing reasons because their hiring pool is very limited. Down side is that I’m very broke now. It was worth a shot, I guess.

I’m also now in a really bad position because I just drained my bank account for a lawyer in the hopes of potentially being set up for years and the odd chance of kicking off a revolution via potentially hundreds of thousands of lost US jobs.

I’m going to be homeless again in a few weeks, but at least this time I have a car. If mods are ok with it, I’d like to link my webcomic (and therein is a support link, though it’s kind of buried).

Fuck AI.

  • recursive_recursion@piefed.caEnglish
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    35 minutes ago

    Volunteer admin of fedecan here.

    As far as I can see the site and link is fine.

    Reading your previous post, I’d also like to suggest poisioning the data if you decide to take the job.

    Personal recommendation is to deliberately put a tiny pebble in your shoe or something like this, I’ve taken this idea from a CIA agent video.

    • the point of this is that you can easily add subtle differences or inaccuracies while wanting to still be intentional in your desire for quality.

    Ex:
    I’ve learned that out of everything I’ve done, writing SQL while walking backwards is painful but fun (don’t ask). If I ever desperately need to apply for a AI SQL related job (very unlikely) then this is what I’ll do.

    Anyways enough rambling, hope this helps and best of luck to you🫡🍀

    • Lyrial@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      28 minutes ago

      I have to say that I am rightly confused as to what Fedecan (while it seems like a cool project at first glance) has to do with any of this. And like I said in the previous post - poisoning the data doesn’t pass muster when they need measurable results from actual dimensions to surface finish. You can get away with one of them. Both isn’t going to happen when they use a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) that measures both.