Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Over 500 MPs, lords, and local councilors in UK say UBI pilots are urgently needed https://basicincometoday.com/over-500-mps-lords-and-local-councilors-in-uk-say-ubi-pilots-are-urgently-needed/

Trump’s Rural Health Adviser Fiddles While the Heartland Burns https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/jeff-colyer-coronavirus-rural-areas/

ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated for Deportation Is a U.S. Citizen, Says Lawyer https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/ice-medical-misconduct-us-citizen-deportation/

Progressive Challengers Could Shatter a Washington Narrative on Tuesday https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/progressives-house-races-election/

Hong Kong TV journalist arrested 'over report on police misconduct' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/03/hong-kong-tv-journalist-arrested-over-report-on-police-misconduct

Shell’s climate poll on Twitter backfires spectacularly https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/03/shells-climate-poll-on-twitter-backfires-spectacularly

The real reason Trump is terrified of losing the presidency: fear of prosecution https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/03/donald-trump-fear-lose-election-prosecution

Supreme court to hear Obamacare case that may lead to 20m losing insurance https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/03/supreme-court-to-hear-obamacare-case-20-million-may-lose-insurance

Trump's Online SNAP Program Helps Amazon and Walmart, But Leaves Rural People Behind https://inthesetimes.com/article/snap-rural-food-benefits-independent-grocers

A little voting levity.(?)
https://thenib.com/2020-election-stickers/

"Older workers often face age discrimination"

For the first time in nearly 50 years, workers over 55 face higher unemployment than those 35-54 https://basicincometoday.com/for-the-first-time-in-nearly-50-years-workers-over-55-face-higher-unemployment-than-those-35-54/

#overpopulation #oldnews #dumballover
https://www.independent.com/2019/01/21/we-have-population-problem/
One thing that is too often missing from COVID-19 (and other natural disaster) discussions is #ecology. The difficult question is how to factor fairness into human ecology discussions. The state of the world right now means the rich get to decide who should be culled from the population.

The key to creating software that is easy to understand and maintain is to clearly define and encapsulate the functional and non-functional subject matters in your system under development. I was first exposed to this concept about 28 years ago, and the method for doing it was already quite mature at that time.
https://xtuml.org
https://xtuml.github.io/xtuml.github.io/xday/xday2020.html

#FOSS at the next level.

@lightweight To be fair, Microsoft isn't unlike other companies in this regard. Most of the software in the world is overly complex and hard to maintain. OTOH, Microsoft has added extra complexity in anticompete measures, and its closed source nature makes for less opportunities for refactoring and less avenues to improvement.

Like most capitalistic software companies, quality and security come second to cost and marketing concerns (and corporate ego massaging).