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#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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Securus buys location data from one data broker (3Cinteractive) who bought it from another broker (LocationSmart) who bought it from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon. This abuse of customer data is why we made AweSIM. #privacy
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Deputy US Marshal abused Securus phone tracking system to track personal contacts. Requested "all her [victim's] social media data, call history, text messages, and cell phone location data 24/7-365 without any restrictions". #privacy https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bqew/us-marshal-securus-phone-location-tracked
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"If Nextcloud would fall behind the big tech solutions in functionality and usability, then people would stop using it. Therefore, we have ambitious plans to keep pushing Nextcloud forward to be the leader in the marketplace."
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Invest via their community share offer and become part of the new learning platform #coop
"MyCoolClass is a new co-operative owned by teachers, workers, and investors.
Our mission is to bring fairness and equity to a sector defined by rampant profiteering and exploitation, in which both teachers and students are both exploited by platform owners"
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We have some news for you.
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#OpenStreetMap has one tile rendering server for all of USA, and that server can no longer keep up with peak US traffic.
If you, or your company,are interested in hosting a rendering node in the US (or elsewhere), please contact us.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/637
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Tune in to our new episode! @katherined and @dsearls talk to @kyle of @purism about how to advertise without being creepy.
Visit the following link for full episode - https://www.reality2cast.com/114
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@etbe @lightweight When LinkedIn first started it was about (business/professional) networking (at least that was what they said). Sure networking can aid in job hunting by allowing you to advertise yourself, but that is a pull relationship. Nowadays LinkedIn is all about pushing.
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TIL that Mutt is already 25 years years old. AAAND: It's got an awwwwwsome birthday picture: http://www.mutt.org/
I never have experienced the fear of "switching tasks will kill my critical process" on Linux or OS/2, but it seems to be a valid fear on Windows systems still today.
In the USA, the Republicans are killing themselves. (Just not fast enough.) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220609173704.htm
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I guess my habit of turning off WiFi/BT on my #Librem5 with the hardware kill switch when I leave the house isn't just good for battery life: https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-tracking-iphone-airtags-1849042375 #privacy #security
Weird I removed the @ from a series of replies and they weren't kept as a series. Only the first reply was still attached to the original posting. I wonder if it's a big in Mastodon or Librem Social?
Maybe the problem with software is that like art the measure of it is more subjective than objective. One could argue that a running system is objective, but that compares more to the value of art (i.e., how well it sells), than an objective measure of quality.
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Much of the subject matter separation is much more visible in the physical universe. e.g , it's easier to see the difference between energy source and motive translation and understand how such subject matter domains can be swapped (battery vs gas or car engine vs jet engine) to fit the application.
The build upon problem applies to art as well as software; not many builds pastiches of bad art.
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OP was just regurgitating the XP-agile mantras of building from the bottom up. This always falls apart when you get too large, which is kind of what the reply is talking about. You can't build quality from crap. Not to say that, in the small, the original code is crap; it probably works quite well, but it crosses subject matter boundaries. The crossing of subject matter boundaries fights against the subject matter separation needed for in the large software quality.
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One of the most significant papers from Japan's sample return mission to asteroid Ryugu was published in Science today.
It's a monumental result, according to other planetary scientists. Essentially, we now have access to pristine materials from the very earliest days of the solar system, some 4.5ish billion years ago and we can study them on Earth.
A big deal.
@lightweight I think the title of the Dead Kennedy's album, "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death", says it best.
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LinkedIn is a steaming pile. No wonder Microsoft was falling all over itself to acquire it: it fits right into their offerings.
#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
