National Grid | Remote from NY, MA, ME, CT, PA, NJ, RH, NH | Full-Time
National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along with green energy efforts and DEI. My current team is hiring at least 3 more people to work on replacing the current mobile app that serves all of National Grid's customers in the US. There are many other roles open as well, though not all teams provide remote options.
Discord is one crisis away from imploding if they don't get serious about moderation tools and parental controls. They're turning a blind eye to the issues around tweens/teens interacting with much older folks online in pursuit of growth.
Ugh. Why would Discord, a tool for making private communities be on the hook for moderation and parental controls? Let's stop it with this tired "but think of the children" argument. It's not Discord's job to parent people's kids.
I'm pretty sure the parent is talking about the court of public opinion. Every few weeks like clockwork now the New York Times or the Verge runs some breathless story about how IG/YouTube/Messenger/whatever is harboring pedophiles; it's easy to see how Discord could be next. The difference is, those other companies are big enough to manage the PR hit and fallout; I'm not sure Discord is the same.
If you run a service that predators use in service of their goals, and you're in a position to do something about it, then I think you're obligated to do so, especially if no one else is in a similar position to do something about it.
I've had a personal experience recently where I had to report a situation involving older people and a minor to Discord. (Discord banned the minor, which I guess is one way of dealing with the situation, but it leaves something to be desired.)
Not every call for "think of the children" is a baseless call made by a strawman that just loves censorship or something. "Think of the children" is a silly phrase when it's about rock music. It's not silly when it's about a dark creepy alleyway that people keep complaining about running into pedophiles in.
I love using Discord, but I hope they focus enough on keeping it safe and take their position seriously.
Their permissions system and moderation tools imo outclass anyone else out there. I haven't seen parental controls but I'm curious what moderation deficiencies you're referring to.
I think the parent comment is more concerned about the prospect of young Discord users being allowed to communicate with a very large and diverse set of users/servers, which includes a lot of adult/fringe/pornographic/political content, easily allowing them to receive direct messages from others in these communities.
The way we currently do it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile thing to do!
If we were all slightly less lazy and were willing to separate things more like other countries, it would work much better. Or, be willing to pay the true costs of many of the materials.
It's very worth it. I can't find the link now, but there was a great article about traditional wier/retention pond building in Africa that both provided water but also helped recharge the local wells. The system had fallen into disrepair, and one local evangelized rebuilding the structures. It really took the entire community to rebuild and maintain, but improved the quality of life massively.
You can definitely get the hardware for <$15 in bulk if you source it yourself. There's a huge variation in quality though, as with most of the China stuff. If you're willing to deal with the caveats&lock-in of the Gimbal Beacons you can get those for $5.
Feel free to hit me with beacon questions, I've got a bunch of varieties sitting on my desk right now.
Shorter range, proprietary setup/configuration process, cycle IDs (crashing some android bluetooth stacks). They really want you to pay for the backend - wouldn't be surprised if they're sold at cost.
The batteries don't last as long as advertised either, but that's pretty much been true for all of the devices I've tested.
The other one on iOS is edge-dragging to go back/forward in the navigation stack. Neither of these things is -hard- to implement with current tech either!
I'd pledge in a second if there was any mention of fixing the rules that made it boring to watch in the first place. Everything became a wedge or a spinning can o' doom.
Great news, I've avoided touching my iPad reader because of the whole scraping issue to get at some of the data. Now I can justify updating for iOS8 + the new API. (just hope it gets approved in time)
It's been viable for at least a year in other forms. (Have a small demo system) However, there are some technical and social challenges associated with such a database. Most notably it would be very easy to poison the well as a thief/opportunitist. There's zero security around what beacons represent themselves as, it takes less than a second to clone one with a smartphone app.
National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along with green energy efforts and DEI. My current team is hiring at least 3 more people to work on replacing the current mobile app that serves all of National Grid's customers in the US. There are many other roles open as well, though not all teams provide remote options.
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