@lunduke The thing about Scrooge McDuck levels of money is that you have way more money than you need, and you can walk away from any paying job and still have way more money than you need in investment revenue. If you can't, then you're just a greedy bastard who should be called, "Scrooge".
Finally, things seem to start moving in the right direction:
Meet @forgefed, an ActivityPub / Federation protocol for networked version control services like GitHub or GitLab.
Little progress made in tackling #air #pollution in #Europe, research says | #Environment | The Guardian
@ben hmmm...meat can thrive in a forested area...grain not so well. I've seen plenty of happy cattle in wooded pastures...never a happy combine.
The fix is on the production side.
Python tenet: 'explicit is always better than implicit' ... except when you're talking about things that save typing like g-strings, no block delimiters, terse collection specifiers, etc.
#notatenet #learningpython
I see that python has good container mechanisms, but object handling is not anything exciting. #learningpython
You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006687787/facial-recognition-police.html #privacy #security #libremone #librem5 #purism #bigtech
One-third of car firms have cut jobs amid Brexit uncertainty - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/one-third-of-car-firms-have-cut-jobs-amid-brexit-uncertainty #brexit cast a terrible shadow from the future...
Without #encryption we will lose all #privacy. This is our new battleground | #EdwardSnowden | Opinion | The Guardian
sudo flaw lets Linux users run commands as root even when they're restricted:
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html
#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