Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's nice to see so many things in life you could make better; it sucks to know that no one will ever pay you to make things better.
#capitalism

Do you think there'll be a The Southman movie featuring an indigenous ancestor of Africa, South America, or Australia? ... Me neither, but it could probably be just as grand (maybe even the same story).

Speaking of hypocrisy...a bunch of conservatives at a company I used to work for are looking for a government handout to restore the pension income they lost when the company declared the pension bankrupt. Of course, these guys are blaming the government, not the company management that borrowed against the pension to elevate their bonuses or the Reagan administration that made it possible for companies to borrow against the employees' pension funds. PBGC was already a bailout.
#dumballover

White hypocrisy includes many liberals in the USA. Still...it's nice to see this from a mainstream media outlet.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mideast-hypocrisy-western-embrace-ukraine-83734095

Colleague at work trying to tell me that the chat status indicator is sacrosanct. My response was to throw a copy of Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister) at his head.

I only allow the chat app to run, because some people don't seem to know how to use email anymore. I disable notifications, because I'm supposed to be working.

#donotdisturb

It's nice to have some real investigative journalism that is willing to print some hard truths rather than a black and white narrative.
https://rall.com/2022/03/29/the-left-must-continue-to-avoid-the-ukraine-trap
#rall
Ted Rall is willing to talk about how you should both oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's current political policies.

@purism You're doubling down on the slap in the face? You might have intended the target to be prospective customers, but those of us who have been waiting a long time and still have a longer wait (I'm not expecting my L5 order of 5/2019 to get processed in 10 days) are not necessarily waiting to get just any Purism product.

I also don't think my ordering an L5 now will result in a 10 day turn around. :-p

@purism This is worded like a slap in the face to those waiting for their Librem 5s. :-(

For most college sports fans, the post season just makes you feel bad about a team that had a good season.

@lightweight ...highly efficient Unix IT department/system getting replaced by Windows in the company. This was a company with tens of thousands of computer users. This was back when a Windows NT server could only support 50 users and would crash more than once a week. Even accounting for greed driving support burden (backups, antivirus, app installation, etc.) down to the user; more servers, more IT staff, less data security, etc., are huge costs, that made little sense.

@lightweight I don't think this article even touches the extent of Microsoft bribery, because most of it is probably legal (or legal enough to make pursuing it too costly); bribes to professors and influencers have been documented in the past, but the bribes to corporate IT departments haven't been documented enough. (I'm playing a little loose with "bribe" to include strongarm tactics.)

I've been fostering this suspicion, since the late '90s, where I saw a well working and...