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
@kyle Lotus 1-2-3 might argue with you, but Excel certainly took advantage of Microsoft's anti-competitive monopoly. Excel has never been the most capable. Recently I encountered it's limit on number of digits supported. Luckily Gnome's spreadsheet program didn't have that limitation. :-)
@kyle Is comparing it to Excel an insult or praise? >;->
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Hello again in honor of Earth Day here are some sketched notes on various fellows and how they communicate and use language, a topic I've gotten fascinated with from time to time
#earthday #animals #intelligence #language #sketchbook #whales #bears #cuttlefish #elephant #drawing #creativetoots #mastoart
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Available at http://tfsr.wtf/zines as transcripts or easily printable booklets, alongside many others, you can find our most recent additions: a 2020 interviews with Lorenzo Komb'oa Ervin & Bomani Shakur from Ohio Death Row; an anarchist from Avtonom.Org on resistance to the Ukraine war & repression in Russia; comrades from Lviv & Kharkiv about displacement & resistance to the Russian invasion!
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Call for tester.
We plan to release Tails 5.0 on May 3 or May 31. It will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It brings new versions of most of the software included in Tails and some important usability improvements.
You can help Tails by testing the beta for Tails 5.0 before the end of April.
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fundraising for afro-caribbean queer collective, please boost and share
Never heard of Tidelift, but I guess that's a good thing.
Tidelift is Connected to Microsoft and It Does Not Spread a Positive Message for the Free/Open Source Community
http://techrights.org/videos/tidelift.webm
The Vic was an okay venue, but I like to have more elbow room in the pit. I don't think I'd go to another big name punk show there. I prefer small venues, like the Melody Inn in Indy, or one of the local bars in Lafayette.
All ages venues are a blast. It's nice to interact with the young punks and hear the energy in their bands.
When I saw the Circle Jerks at the Vic in Chicago last month, the crowd at a nearby bar before the show were all going, but most of them were dressed like yuppies grown old. I almost thought it was going to turn into a Billy Joel concert.
Punk sweat pants sounds like it should be a joke, but it's merch from the Descendants and Alternative Tentacles. Maybe it's our aging population. My Descendants sweat pants even have a back pocket! 🤔
Unbalanced Equation | The Nib
https://thenib.com/unbalanced-equation/
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RT @SupportEricKing@twitter.com
Tuesday 4.19 Keep the calls and emails going!!!
Eric is still at USP Atlanta and en route to maximum security USP Lee in Virginia despite being threatened there by white supremacists. The Bureau of Prisons on every level is aware of this risk and is sticking to the
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SupportEricKing/status/1516384891058929675
@thegibson @endomain Sometime in my 40s, I developed chronic shoulder pain. Finally went to a doctor, who sent me to a physical therapist. She did some tests that showed that some of my shoulder muscles had become weakened to the point they no longer held my bone from pinching some nerves. She gave me some exercises that cleared things up. (In recurrent episodes, I just do the exercises again. If I would just make them a routine...) YMMV
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Are you still relying on a single infosec vendor? We live in an interconnected and interdependent world. Many people have realized over the past few years just how dependent they have been on outsourced infrastructure and supplies, and how unnerving it can be when those things are disrupted. In response, many people have changed their focus toward more self-sufficiency. Read how you can reduce dependence and increase your ability to manage your security. Read more at https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/
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Everyone is welcome to believe what they like - legislating belief is pointless. That said, there're are lots of beliefs that are dangerous. Believing in comforting fictions might make some people happy, but when, on a societal level, it causes us to not take action to counter existential threats, it's ignorant and tragic in the extreme. And, as usual, it's not the 'believers' who bear the brunt. It's those whose words the believers chose to ignore.
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This makes me despair at "the establishment" and its utter lack of intelligence, empathy, and conscience
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=nNyg1DhT5SI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyg1DhT5SI because of these selfish, principle-less people (everyone but the climate activist), humanity's going to hell in a handbasket.
@endomain only two? >;->
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During this time of rising tensions between the US and Russia, folks really need to be reminded:
Two bad things can be bad.
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I'm really struggling to work out why I have such a hard discussing technology with blockchain folks. We actually share a lot of opinions!
I think I've worked out the root of the misunderstanding today. It's that when folks say things like, "Web3 is about decentralization" we both understand this statement in fundamentally different ways.
I accept it from the angle, "Web3 as a technology fundamentally tries to decentralize things." And I think, frankly, that statement is false.
But I think folks mean to say, "The technology I want to build with web3 is fundamentally decentralized" and that statement is both unfalsifiable (I guess without like a brain MRI or whatever, maybe) but also plausible. You *can* use web3 as a platform to build more decentralized systems than most people enjoy.
I also think they approach it with fundamentally less skepticism about financial tech than I do. But as someone who did a fintech startup and exited, I think I'm much more jaded and realistic about what's possible within the current economic frameworks they're trying to enter. Basically every cryptocurrency instantly re-invents brokerages, a faster payment network that is less anonymous than the actual ledger sheet, KYC variants, and ways for 3rd parties to not give all their data to the bank in ways that the bank can still trust.
These two things add up to a very hard-to-articulate culture divide between me and a lot of blockchain-positive folks.
#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
