That thing where you don't have the tribal knowledge needed for a change, but you didn't know you needed the tribal knowledge when you made the change. #maintainingBadCode
For those forced to use AWS for services, and have to sign in to a "root account" for your organisation - which now *requires* 2FA... it's very very tricky, because only one person (generally speaking) will have the 2nd factor... which creates a massive liability for organisations (e.g. mine) where the person with the second factor is unavailable when you urgently need to access the root account. One would have thought AWS would have a smarter system. One would be mistaken.
OpenSSL will release a HIGH severity issue fix on March 25:
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2021-March/000196.html
Hey guys, Thunderbird is STILL hiring developers. You can help modernize an application used by ~20,000,000 people and growing!
The open source community can make something better than Outlook, but only if folks come and build it.
Opinion: America Needs to Transform Its Relationship To Work https://basicincometoday.com/opinion-america-needs-to-transform-its-relationship-to-work/
Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal https://grist.org/climate-energy/harvard-boston-college-students-find-obscure-law-that-could-make-university-fossil-fuel-investments-illegal/
Corporate climate pledges earn failing grades from investors https://grist.org/business-technology/corporate-climate-pledges-earn-failing-grades-from-investors/
"But their findings also show eating some unprocessed red meat, such as beef, pork or veal, could be protective, as people who consumed 50g a day were 19% less likely to develop dementia."
Study really seems to show that a balanced diet (and healthy lifestyle) is a good way to protect against dementia.
If it is public money, it should be public code as well! I support @fsfe's call for more #publiccode: https://publiccode.eu/
...we'll still boost the cries of revolution. I think that at the core we all know that we know nothing, or at least know that we can prove nothing. Was Steve Mellor right, or was Robert C. Martin right? ( I know it was Steve, but I can't prove it in a manner that doesn't cost a huge amount of money.) That is the price we pay for not making software metrics universal. That is why I harp on software metrics. The function point data is relevant.
I should probably wax poetic on software engineering in the Librem chat room I made, but none of the other members ever post a counterpoint. I have the same effect here, but do occasionally get a boost. Maybe if eveRyone is so agreeable, I should write a book, but OOA Book is pending and I haven't quite raised the courage to piss off my customers. What price courage? Many of us are unwilling to sacrifice meaningful employment in the name of software engineering rightousness, but...
Joe Abercrombe gets it wrong in his chapter, "The Life of a Drinker", because he describes an alcoholic. Only 10% of heavy drinkers are alcoholics. Alcoholism is an addiction, whereas heavy drinking is a choice. How good or bad a choice all depends upon behaviors associated with the drinker. Some would say always bad due to health risks, but not everybody wants to live to their best potential age.
Notice and appeal matter. @Facebook is hunting for conspiracy theorists, but they’re catching punk bands. https://www.eff.org/takedowns/facebook-treats-punk-rockers-crazy-conspiracy-theorists-kicks-them-offline
#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