Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think you have to be a certain type of personality to see value in scrum. #agile is broad enough to have mass appeal, even if you know how tainted is the Agile Manifesto by 'code is king' thinking. When you wrap agile in process, it becomes decidedly less agile, and scrum is one of the heaviest processes I've encountered. (Yes, that does include CMM.)

Of course, there's always a difference between process and 'process in company <x>', but scrum seems like agile meets Taylorism.

Question authority! Politicians, police, pundits, gurus, parents, ...

If you never question, you'll never uncover the data (or lack of data) supporting the pillars of said authority.

Work instituted a policy of using 3/4 of our PTO by Sept 30. The claimed justification was to avoid having everyone take time off at the same time after COVID-19 passes.

I've been in software 30+ years, usually at big corporations. This policy is meant to reduce cash liabilities for coming layoffs in Q4 (following Q1 layoffs earlier this year). #FTFY

Good to have my friends with me.

@fatboy Most GUIs get in the way of productivity; more designed for the common user than designed for any level of use.

OS/2's WPS has been the only GUI I was comfortable in using full time. Of course, it was fully configurable.

I've never been comfortable with Apple's GUIs (too restrictive). Microsoft Windows is just awful (always needs cygwin with X loaded). I find Gnome useable, but Linux has always been a command line first OS. The Linux GUIs are steadily improving, but...

@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz Yep. It's hard to find interesting people here. Especially if your view of interesting is "punk rock" not "pop music" levels. ;-)

@mkwadee I'm still seeing a check mark.

@LeoSammallahti I believe I remember Bernie praising Germany's system of two paths post high school and talking about apprenticeships. Might have been in his book.

I am always tempted to see what this tastes like.

Bernie endorsing Biden sends a message opposite his campaign message of "Us. Not me." If it was up to us, Bernie would run for President as an independent. In his book, he talks about how the anti-Trump strategy is a no win. Time to show more backbone #bernie.

Joe Biden has been telling progressives to fuck off. We need to respond in kind. The Democratic Party's capitalist wing needs to realize that anti-Trump is meaningless to people who won't see their life outcomes improved.

Biden hasn't thrown in support for Green New Deal, so world outcomes aren't going to be improved either.

Reconnecting with my LP collection during work from home mandate...I discovered an insert in my Neil Young Tonight's the Night album. Never realized I had an original issue copy. Bought it used many years ago, when the only metric I used was free of scratches.