Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#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
Joined May 2019
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CommunityBridge.com - Privacy Workshop: Intro to Basic Security Tools
How to Check what information is coming in and out of a system, using netstat, tcpdump and nmap
Join us at 3pm - Wednesday the 26th of January
See more detail here https://communitybridge.com/privacyworkshop
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I sure this will go over like a lead balloon, but still...
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization
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State lawmakers across the country are hearing more from farmers, mechanics, independent repair shops, and everyday people: copyright restrictions shouldn’t stand in the way of the right to repair. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/copyright-shouldnt-stand-way-your-right-repair
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The soft deadline for the #FOSSASIA #cfp hit a few hours ago, but there's still time before the hard deadline
FOSSASIA had some great content last year and is nicely situated timewise for Asia, AU and NZ and also for the Americas
https://eventyay.com/e/6b901f56/cfs
The virtual conference is 7th to 9th of April
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[Full-time] Open Source Engineering Manager at RStudio https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10821/open-source-engineering-manager-at-rstudio/ #jobs
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If you run (or participate in) an organisation that advocates for open technology or open source software... and you're active on Twitter but not in the Fedisphere... I encourage you to remedy that clanging dissonance. It's both free and easy to walk the talk (and be ideologically consistent). I can assist if you don't know what I'm talking about.
"Happy to report that <some customer/user group> decided to fund a bug bounty program for <my program>!"
Somehow this rings as an admission of failure to provide quality software, but it's probably read as great news in the FOSS community. (i.e., funding!)
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Happy to report that the European Commission's Open Source Programme Office decided to fund a bug bounty program for #Mastodon!
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Stats nerdery (but important)
One way to get people to move toward FOSS alternatives.
https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/
At this last stage of my career, I have never seen an objective choice on methods, processes, or even programming languages be made. Thus my focus has switched more to software metrics. I have my own subjective preferences in some areas of software development (some of which appear to be strongly correlated by existing metrics data), but without metrics we are all chickens running around with our heads cut off.
Early in my career I was mostly writing single use programs, so my focus was more on which programming language to use. As I moved into bigger teams and projects, the focus shifted from programming languages to processes and methods. Reuse, scheduling, and productivity all became more important to be in focus. Software team management became more interesting, but in seeing how little autonomy my managers possessed, it never became a destination goal.
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My first blog post on GEO.coop, and expanded version of a toot I posted here on Christopher Alecander...
"An organization of this type completes the movements and communities of which it is a part, preserves their structure, makes them deeper, makes them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them..."
https://geo.coop/blog/reading-nature-order-vision-living-world
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San Francisco passed a landmark ordinance requiring transparency and a process for community input in decisions about police surveillance. But the SFPD, aided by the rich and powerful, thinks it's above democratic control. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Breed-files-ballot-measure-seeking-to-expand-16786369.php
@josias@floss.social One of my colleagues, Cortland Starrett, taught Executable and Translatable UML (xtuml.org) to younger students. Some of our colleagues in Japan have also done this using xtuml with robotics. Cort and I were talking about language popularity at lunch, and he commented that one thing he did was to have his students write the same simple program in (IIRC) python and ruby to compare how little difference language choice makes.
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🚨 NEW: Private data on 500,000 vulnerable people held by a contractor of the global Red Cross around the world have been compromised.
The growing culture of data colonization, especially by nonprofits, must stop. This is why I quit my last job: Lives continue to be put at risk in the name of revenue and #SurveillanceCapitalism.
"Your actions could potentially cause yet more harm and pain to those who have already endured untold suffering."
Indeed.
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If you care about your and your family’s privacy, are your technology choices protecting it? If you value your freedom, does your tech provider respect it? Are you looking for options that do not lock you into creating user accounts, sharing personal data or viewing annoying ads from third-party advertisers? https://puri.sm/posts/finding-better-alternatives/
@Matt_Noyes @GuerillaOntologist @bhaugen @datatitian @ntnsndr @aral @FreeScholar @Framasoft @tierra_comun
Reach is a two way street. One can limit their reachability and help those who want to reach them install new avenues, which may turn into escape routes, that encourage others to follow.
#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
Joined May 2019
