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
@o0karen0o@mastodon.technology @lightweight Unfortunately there are still those in the FOSS community who don't advocate for FOSS or lead by example. It's very frustrating.
@conservancy@mastodon.technology @mako Sometimes capitalism works for us (FOSS community). xtUML, the descendent of the Shlaer-Mellor method, now only has FOSS tool sets. (See https://xtuml.org for more info.) The big marketing might of IBM finally drove the tools to go open or vanish. Now the xtUML users are wholly community driven.
@subMedia Your link is not right.
This might sound silly, but the number of times Mattermost has shown up in Chrome ads, after searching it and other open source team platforms, has made me distrust Mattermost more.
I'm really wary of profit motivated open source platforms after the GitHub acquisition by Microsoft. The rising stars that seem to collect the most users also look ripe for acquisition by some corporate giant.
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Historical climate emissions reveal responsibility of big polluting nations - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/05/historical-climate-emissions-big-polluting-nations UK much less than I would have expected...
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Impressive. This is the example the ueber wealthy should follow https://brightvibes.com/1064/en/martial-arts-star-donates-entire-714-million-fortune-to-charity
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Interesting - so TechSoup for non-profits is helping Microsoft pressure non-profits to squander their resources and lock themselves into proprietary software in the cloud, too. Not at all impressed with these folks. https://www.techsoup.net.nz/blog/important-changes-microsoft-donation-program
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People need to be shown that voluntarily making your business dependent on the whims and competence of another business (no matter how colossal) you don't own... is a very very daft thing to do. See https://davelane.nz/mshostage for more detail.
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Sooo. 3ish billion people are having their cages and confidence rattled... This sort of thing was inevitable. Fingers crossed that this event becomes a canonical example of "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Time will tell.
@lightweight Microsoft Windows is the perfect case study that shows that this won't matter to Facebook users, who'll just accept it as part of using a computing device. Remember "Save early, save often"? :-(
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I wrote about how to use Signal without giving out your phone number.
https://blog.yaelwrites.com/how-to-use-signal-without-giving-out-your-phone-number-using-a-chromebook-and-an-old-phone/
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Good article about religion and freedom in Aotearoa... https://www.webworm.co/p/cityimpact
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Teppo Rämä gave a terrific presentation on marine fungi yesterday (he's a mycologist specialising in arctic marine fungi).
I was amazed to learn that there are fungi which parasitise diatoms! There are also marine fungal species which have demonstrated the capacity to degrade polyethylene microplastics.
He shared a slide which showed a massive increase in fungal activity following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; very interesting from a bioremediation perspective.
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#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore #data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful | World news | The Guardian
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The definitive CO2/CH4 comparison post https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/09/the-definitive-co2-ch4-comparison-post/
Ahead of the Glasgow climate summit Biden and EPA emphasis reducing atmospheric methane. Leading to many bad comparisons between CO2 and methane in the press. This post gives the most relevant science needed for an honest comparison. 1/2
Of course, pledging allegiance to any branding based on perceived popularity is not very punk, so a lot of younger punks must have started life as "Chickenshit Conformists" (to quote the DKs).
I had kind of gotten out of the local "scene" while the kids were young, and when I did, I was surprised by all the PBR. Back in the 80s, we were just drinking what were could steal from our dads. Generic beer was really more prevalent than PBR, and PBR wasn't any more prevalent than other domestics in the same price range. The PBR craze didn't make sense to me. (And not just because it tastes like shit.)
Rumor of Pabst Blue Ribbon as the "punk" beer seems to have been started as a marketing campaign targeting hipsters. Side eye to all the younger punks in town drinking PBR.
The trouble with giving to organizations is the endless stream of spam you receive in return. It even goes so far as to push you to give after death.
#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
