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Are there any software engineers here working from prison?
by deadbabe 2y ago
Are there any software engineers here working from prison?
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- dvektor 2y agoYeah there are two of us in the Maine system working as developers, both for [0]Unlocked Labs. [0] https://unlockedlabs.org https://unlockedlabs.org
- i_love_retros 2y agoThey mentioned in the article that LinkedIn got blocked because of the chat feature. Do they quite heavily restrict what sites you can access then?
- dvektor 2y agoYeah it's essentially on a case by case basis. All the remote workers at this point have earned considerable trust and have more access than a typical college student does. I think I am one of only a couple that weren't required to be a post-graduate to apply, so there is at the very least a few years worth of opportunities to mess up the privilege before that trust is given. But yes, all the typical things you would imagine still obviously blocked (social media, adult content, etc)
- i_love_retros 2y agoInteresting, thanks for the info.
- qingcharles 2y agoA lot of jurisdictions even ban any item that has been printed from the Internet from being sent to a prisoner. I was writing code in jail, but they wouldn't allow any computer books in. An elderly nun bought and smuggled "C# in a Weekend" into the jail for me so I could teach coding.