This is among the reasons I never post pictures of my son. I understand and accept risks to my own identity, but I don't own his online identity--I'm merely a steward of it until he's an adult. I hope at that point I can hand it off to him untarnished and unexploited. #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
At my second job out of college, I had the perfect work setup that no other job has ever met. My development machine was a *NIX workstation, and the lab benches were set up by the systems group on a separate bench with it's own *NIX workstation.
The job wasn't the most interesting, but I've come full circle in that regard. Now stuck in a shitty Windows PC/Windows Network/Microsoft tools environment.
#fuckMicrosoft
I wonder if anyone has really validated the "many eyes" concept in open source with respect to the number of eyes and number of open source projects. I'm not questioning the efficacy of code review, but just looking at numbers.
In order for code review to be effective, the set of reviewers must cover all the aspects that the code affects. That ranges from coding language to solution subject matter. It must also cover platform concerns like operating system and hardware.
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #climatechange #climatecrisis
Disappearing Peruvian glaciers
It is common knowledge that glaciers are melting in most areas across the globe. The speed at which tropical glaciers in the Peruvian Andes are retreating is particularly alarming, however. In the first detailed investigation of all Peruvian mountain ranges, a research team has ascertained a drastic reduction of almost 30 percent in the area covered by glaciers between 2000 and 2016.
Large, long-term study suggests link between eating mushrooms and a lower risk of prostate cancer
Results from the first long-term cohort study of more than 36,000 Japanese men over decades suggest an association between eating mushrooms and a lower risk of prostate cancer.
#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