Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Sorry @lightweight but in this case you've got it exactly backwards. Trickle down economics is the idea that it's best to let The Market™ redirect income into the pockets of the 1%, because from there it 'trickles down' to everyone else (in the form of goods+services, wages+salaries etc). By this logic, govts taxing and spending on social and environmental goals distorts The Market™, because that's money the 1% don't get, so it can't then 'trickle down' from them to benefit everyone else.

This is a good, brief post on the software supply chain situation from the perspective of an open source maintainer: https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/

For better or for worse, a supply chain has emerged. We can agree that “supply chain” isn’t the right wording, and that the problem shouldn’t exist. But here we are. And here we will be. I do expect some big changes in the open source ecosystem that companies and other critical software providers need to adhere to, which almost certainly won’t be a positive for small open source authors/maintainers

Today I learned that the appropriate expression, referring to someone who is anxious about something, is to be "on tenterhooks". I thought it was tenderhooks, but I was wrong. Good to get it right.

In case anyone still think's it's A-Ok for us to have critical digital infrastructure and data storage dependencies outside of NZ... consider https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/475218/telikom-says-cable-repair-could-take-up-to-two-months - we are just as much on the "ring of fire" as PNG. This could be us. Could we currently cope if our international data connectivity was compromised. I'd suggest that no, we could not. We've become so complete obliviously dependent on foreign services, our economy and rule-of-law would stop dead. Society wouldn't be far behind.

Mom's sharing our closely held family gardening secrets on one of those other social media sites, smh.

If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.app/

#opensource #freesoftware #polyglot #linguistics #coding #programming #volunteer

Big (BIG) sigh. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full

Finally wrote a post that's been stewing for a while: What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub

Many researchers, entrepreneurs, open source sustainability commentators, et al. assume that GitHub activity is a reasonable proxy for FLOSS as a whole. It's not.

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/what-you-miss-by-only-checking-github/

Goes over some examples, a marketing graphic that made my eyebrows go up, research about how unrepresentative GitHub can be, and some tools to try.

Yup - use proprietary software at your peril... https://www.lifewire.com/that-popular-android-app-could-be-sharing-your-data-with-others-6543726 I disagree that there's 'no such thing as a free lunch' - there're plenty of #FOSS apps for Android that aren't collecting or selling any of your data. Install via F-Droid rather than Google Play.

TIL
https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/

I don't side with the NZ Initiative on much, but I agree that this is a pretty crappy legacy for the Min of Ed: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475124/are-open-learning-classrooms-actually-good-for-children

The excellent free open source video editing software Kdenlive made by @kde now has a Fediverse account, you can follow at:

➡️ @kdenlive

Kdenlive is available for Linux, Mac and Windows from https://kdenlive.org

If you're sick of permanently renting Adobe's "creative cloud" just to access Premiere, maybe give Kdenlive a go instead?

#KdenLive #KDE #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #VideoEditing #Videos #Productivity #Office #Film #AdobePremiere #Adobe #Alternatives #NLE #Video

I agree that the word 'winner' is misleading in this context. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff #billionaires #bunkers

Google, Microsoft can get your passwords via web browser's spellcheck https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-microsoft-can-get-your-passwords-via-web-browsers-spellcheck/