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
Sarah Jaffe is hanging around too many of the delusional when she writes, "computer programmers...work is closer to the jobs of other creatives...rooted in our old notions of artistic work." She also talks about how harmful this attitude is to happiness, because those same (delusional) programmers are then taken advantage of in the workplace.
"The video-game programmer may have more in common with the Uber driver than she previously thought."
Sarah Jaffe's new book, Work Won't Love You Back, is very good.
Copyleft licenses only protect software from abuse as long as governments allow it.
Is open source just one long chain of unpaid internships into the corporate software world?
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I continue to really like #rust as a programming language. Even though I'm writing more #raku these days, I still love Rust (and am writing something in it right now).
That said, it's increasingly clear to me that Rust is _primarily_ targeted at the Big Tech usecase (aka "at scale") and only secondarily interested in the Free Software usecase.
Today's news that the Rust Foundation is reserving *half* of its board seats for Big Tech provides additional confirmation.
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
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Regarding nomadic indigenous caretaker agriculture and stewardship: https://makiruz.tumblr.com/post/642967185339400192/i-have-a-lot-of-feelings-on-how-indigenous-groups
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An asexual critique of sex positivity and enthusiastic consent
@lightweight Apple took the right approach to user friendliness; hide from the user the technical workings of a computer. This however made the Apple UI unacceptable to users who want to explore the technical workings.
Windows has always been user unfriendly, but it was shoved down our throats.
The Biden Administration's Continued Push for Julian Assange's Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/julian-assange-extradition-biden-journalism/
Is this a Trump effect? ;-)'Pay gap widens between female and male scientists in North America' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00387-3
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all my theory is from Pete Seeger songs sorry academics
Mr Fish on Trump
https://thenib.com/clearance/
A cartoon about racism.
https://thenib.com/dig-in/
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Thomas: "...[P]laying copyrighted music as a deterrent to the First Amendment-guaranteed right to openly film police is, if not BHPD official protocol, at least a technique that has been deployed by more than one officer."
Back in 2019, anti-racist activists experimented with playing copyrighted music at Nazi rallies to make them unpostable on social media. At the time, I warned that this would end badly.
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Why did I get into software development? I had fun doing it.
Why am I considering getting out of software development? It's become just a job.
@jamesvasile "it doesn't take that much to switch" :-(
I saw a similar program at a previous job targeting electrical/mechanical engineers that had mixed results. The employer would have never gone in the opposite direction. It's the "anyone can program!" attitude that I find offensive. It's the infinite monkey theorem without the Shakespeare qualifier. I think it is good to encourage people to try to attain any skill they want, with the expectation of encountering much failure.
Sometimes software developers have the worst understanding of what software development entails.
Practitioners of a skill set should help people who are interested in that skill set to get started, but we should also recognize when we should steer them in a different direction. All skills don't belong to all people.
@jamesvasile Ever wonder why we never see similar posts about being a physicist, electrical engineer, or doctor? Ever wonder what it says these posts are saying about software development? Ever wonder why managers think all software developers are fungible? #iamnotanumber
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Has anyone had experience implementing Shleepay? https://github.com/shleeable/shleepay It's a Docker-supporting fork of Drew Devault's Fosspay open source patronage/micropayment app (uses Stripe to accept one off and repeating payments)... thinking I might fire up an instance as a live demo for tonight's NZ-based FOSS meetup. What could possibly go wrong?
#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
