Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
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"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"
"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"
"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"
"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"
What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".
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Tor is a volunteer-run service that provides both privacy and anonymity online by masking who you are and where you are connecting. Review our guide on using Tor for Linux to get set up. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-tor-linux
@fribbledom I don't think the USA has ever been a high trust society in my lifetime. Maybe the lack of trust is just finally hitting the average, white upper middle and richer classes?
How Can We Rebuild Working-Class Politics? Let’s Go to “Strike School.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/jane-mcalevey-strike-school-labor-unions-left
Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/
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The fact that a lot of people use a particular software application does not, for a second, suggest that it's the best of its kind... nor even any good at all.
The market is largely ignorant, and therefore very vulnerable to marketing. Also, most pundits have a strong incentive to find the products of the richest software author the best (because they tend to spend the most on marketing with "independent" IT journalism titles). All this leads to incredible mediocrity in the software world.
Just got done with Kevin Mattson's new book, We're Not Here to Entertain. He's the kind of person I wouldn't have gotten along with back in the '80s punk scene. Sure that punk fit in this small defined package. It's a decent book for catching the horrific feeling of the Reagan presidency; helped confirm my opinion of Trump as Reagan II.
Trouble is he tries to define punk as only existing between 80-85, white male, suburban, and straight edge. There are many omissions to support his view.
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Alex Pentland, one of the world's most cited computer scientists has a radical yet easy-to-implement vision on how data cooperatives could be the future of how the most valuable asset in the modern economy is owned.
My new article.
In just three months, 6 million more Americans have fallen into poverty https://basicincometoday.com/in-just-three-months-6-million-more-americans-have-fallen-into-poverty/
Bolivians Return Evo Morales's Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup https://theintercept.com/2020/10/19/bolivia-returns-evo-morales-party-to-power-one-year-after-a-u-s-applauded-coup/
How Trump Gutted OSHA and Workplace Safety Rules https://theintercept.com/2020/10/20/trump-osha-workplace-safety-covid/
@fribbledom Unit tests are a must, but test driven development is an error prone method of analysis. It's popular with "coders" (those who feel that code is their most important output), because it represents continuous coding. Management likes it, because they get to remove some of what they consider overhead in their processes. (i.e., it helps move coding closer to a manufacturing process than a knowledge process.)
The real problem is the loss of independent test.
That thing where you're told to work harder when you thought you were getting paid to work smarter.
This radiant model wants you to stop worrying and love nuclear energy https://grist.org/energy/this-radiant-model-wants-you-to-stop-worrying-and-love-nuclear-energy/
The biggest fight over cap and trade isn’t about what you think it is https://grist.org/climate/the-biggest-fight-over-cap-and-trade-isnt-about-what-you-think-it-is/
Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/why-new-zealand-rejected-populist-ideas-other-nations-have-embraced
The Māori Party defied the odds because Labour has left Indigenous voters wanting https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/oct/19/the-maori-party-defied-the-odds-because-labour-has-left-indigenous-voters-wanting-nz-election
Vast majority of Europe's key habitats in poor or bad condition – report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/vast-majority-europe-key-habitats-poor-bad-condition-report
Cornel West: 'George Floyd's public lynching pulled the cover off who we really are' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/19/cornel-west-george-floyds-public-lynching-pulled-the-cover-off-who-we-really-are
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
