Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Somebody should come up with a balance sheet that has employees listed as assets.

@fribbledom Insight into outsourcing and ageism nicely summed up.

@fribbledom The big problem with this is that you can't compare lines of code across languages. There is also a mix of interpreted and compiled languages listed, so comparing object code sizes is also irrelevant.

One could find one of Capers Jones' books or papers with published average LOC per function point and do a (still flawed, but much more accurate) comparison of function points.

Nobody Seems to Grasp How Screwed We Are https://inthesetimes.com/article/nobody-seems-to-grasp-how-screwed-we-are

Got back on LinkedIn. What an advertising shitshow that platform has become. It's really more about capturing your data, pushing Microsoft products, pushing paid advertising, and a venue for job search/head hunting, than a professional connection site. I know that it was always that way, but the signal to noise ratio seems much worse than before.

I've noticed GitHub is going quickly in that direction as well. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit. No wonder IBM took over OS/2 development.

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/

@chris I work on an open source repo in GitHub for a client. When Microsoft bought Github, I retained my account for client work on their repositories, but moved my own project repositories to notabug.org.

@xj9@merveilles.town

@fribbledom you must be on GitHub. ;-)

@claudius ...or discarding audience members who refuse to load Spotify.

@stephaniewalter@mastodon.design :-) People should do this when they work unpaid overtime as well. It would at least give you a nice paper trail that shows both you and the company were aware of the amount of extra exploitation involved.