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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PeerTube v3.1 is out!
Better transcoding features, more pleasant interfaces, possibility to easily subscribe to a remote account and... so many great features!
Political labels have become as confusing as punk rock labels. Maybe we need to combine them. VoterA, "I'm a post-hardcore Democrat." VoterB, "I'm a pop-punk Republican."
Why Biden’s climate agenda might be very, very ‘quiet’ https://grist.org/politics/why-bidens-climate-agenda-infrastructure-package-might-be-very-very-quiet/
Ohio Democrat Mulling Senate Run Defended Anti-Abortion Laws as State Health Director https://theintercept.com/2021/03/22/ohio-abortion-amy-acton/
Biden's Keystone XL action not enough. It all has to go.
Minnesota Police Ready for Pipeline Resistance as Enbridge Seeks to Drill Under Rivers https://theintercept.com/2021/03/23/enbridge-line-3-mississippi-minnesota-police/
Yes, Blame Christian Fundamentalism for the Atlanta Murders https://theintercept.com/2021/03/23/atlanta-shooting-sex-addiction-religion-morality/
Some Younger Amazon Workers in Bessemer, New to Unions, Are Still Undecided https://theintercept.com/2021/03/23/amazon-union-bessamer-bernie-sanders/
Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/24/big-banks-trillion-dollar-finance-for-fossil-fuels-shocking-says-report
US sinks to new low in rankings of world's democracies https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/us-world-democracy-rankings-freedom-house-new-low
Democrats Take the First Steps to Make Biden’s Infrastructure Bill a Climate Bill https://inthesetimes.com/article/democrats-biden-infrastructure-climate-build-green-jobs
Colectivo Could Soon Become the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S. https://inthesetimes.com/article/colectivo-coffee-union-busting-labor-ibew
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Reminder:the real existential threat to Free Software isn't the make-up of the FSF governance board. It's US multinational corporations funding legal reports encouraging companies to shun Copyleft licensed software, calling it "too risky" for business use. (of course, if you want to see a real legal minefield, take a gander at any proprietary EULA... if you can find one - they tend to be completely hidden). Also: the shade thrown by Github and MSFT on Copyleft at every opportunity..
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Accessibility report: I setup a Nextcloud form asking for accessibility requests for a presentation. There was one form response suggesting captions, which we had via jitsi
We had one blind person who could not use the form. I need to file a bug with NC f about that and colors
For the blind person, we tested jitsi and BBB ahead of time. There were difficulties with the available browsers, but we made it work
The jitsi recording did not have the captioning, so I need to work on that as well
@fribbledom @penguwin@chaos.social I always feel sorry for those who grew up never knowing personal computing before DOS/Windows. Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, and Apple (II, Lisa, and Mac) were the computers where my school friends and I learned to program.
I always feel that Microsoft's monopoly set computing back 30 years.
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Kudos to the @suntimes Ed Board for raising the alarm: "Under the guise of helping small businesses, lawmakers are trying to repeal or eviscerate Illinois’ pioneering Biometric Information Protection Act." https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/3/16/22334405/biometric-protection-bipa-illinois-law-legislation-editorial
Baby talk is never mean or angry. Don't we all prefer baby talk? ;-)
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There are a couple serious reasons why #Librem5 is much more expensive than #Pinephone, apart from the product quality:
1. @purism intentionally choose #hardware manufacturers supporting #FOSS to change the #industry https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/
2. @purism pays professional developers to work on #phosh #freesoftware #mobile interface, which is installed on most Pinephones https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked-Questions#310-why-did-purism-decide-to-create-the-new-phosh-interface
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#Convergence aka #Desktop mode works fine on both #smartphones for light tasks. But what is "light"? This is where they differ.
#Librem5 (left) smoothly plays two videos simultaneously (one of which is 60 fps), whereas #Pinephone is struggling with single 30 fps video.
Why? Librem 5 has 30% faster CPU clock speed, 140% faster RAM standard, roughly double the GPU performance. More details: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones.
#innovations #gadgets #tech #Librem5vsPinephone
A good metrics program can help you to decide the direction needed for changes. Capers Jones' Applied Software Measurement has data showing what languages and processes are most productive for different sizes of projects and different development targets, but to really tailor your development, you need to collect your own metrics.
Whenever you have a big change in your software environment (platform, personnel, or requirements) it's time to reexamine your past software development practices. What worked for a highly constrained platform isn't always the best fit for a less constrained platform. The processes needed for a small team don't usually fit a much larger team. The practices for an embedded system might no longer work if it moves to a web-based application. #donotfearchange
#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
