Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What is "good" in a software context?

For technical merits of software, it means that the software meets it's requirements.

For development merits of software, it means the software is easily maintainable and development time was predictable.

For social merits of software, it means that the software is provably working in the interests of the user.

For moral merits of the software, it means the software is provably working in the interests of society.

Refusing to Work for Low Wages Is a Serious Moral Failing https://rall.com/comic/refusing-to-work-for-low-wages-is-a-serious-moral-failing

ICE Subverting Biden's Priorities for Detention and Deportation https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/ice-biden-priorities-deportation/

Time to get rid of ICE.

The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/worker-shortage-slavery-capitalism/

Law Enforcement Groups Drive Anti-Protest Laws, New Analysis Shows https://theintercept.com/2021/05/09/police-anti-protest-greenpeace-voting-rights/

‘More than a job’: the meal delivery co-ops making the gig economy fairer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/11/more-than-a-job-the-meal-delivery-co-ops-making-the-gig-economy-fairer

Rising food costs are causing global hunger while the rich are getting richer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/11/what-has-grown-most-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-billionaire-bank-balances-and-food-bank-queues

U.S. Labor Shortage? No, We Have a Crisis of Low Wages. https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-shortage-jobs-report-low-wages-biden-covid

The Real "Big Lie" Is That Billionaires Are Tolerable - Great wealth should be seen as deranged hoarding. https://inthesetimes.com/article/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-snl-billionaire-superyacht-class-war

Fully vaccinated. :-)

@fribbledom Flatt and Scruggs

Enslaved by civilization? Time to be barbaric. #fuckcivilization #fucktherulingclass #fuckcapitalism #enjoylife

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent Found it. https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/open-search-foundation-home/

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent The MetaGer website also has links to some open source search work, IIRC.

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent I think we are at a point now of ineffective search engines. An effective search engine should be company agnostic, non-tracking, open, relevant (topical and up to date), and thorough (all results). Unfortunately, users are stuck with Google and Bing. Both fail the company agnostic, non-tracking, open, and relevant aspects. Aggregators can fight the non-tracking, but all the other flaws exist. Open source search is badly needed.

@varx @human_equivalent @dynamic I thought there were effective search engines before Google; I was happy with Alta Vista. My choices in browsers were limited, being an OS/2 user, and search engines are driven by browser inclusion.

@varx @dynamic I agree; it can be used in some places and not others.

@dynamic It was never more portable than those, but it did seem to have better spam filters. Anti Microsoft kept some people away from Hotmail. As far as Yahoo! <shrug>...for me Yahoo! always seemed kind of pushy and advertising driven. Way more than Google twenty years ago. Google did have the appearance of less evil back then; certainly way less than Microsoft or AOL.