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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When the US @HHSGov stripped @CDCgov of its control over infectious disease data about patients, it announced plans to collect, use, share, and store much more personal data than CDC ever had. We filed comments in opposition. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-expanded-hhs-surveillance-covid-19-patients
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WOW!!!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR:)
A search engine for #peertube
"PeerTube Index is a centralized search engine for PeerTube videos. We run a crawler that visits PeerTube instances to find videos and new instances. All found videos are made searchable by their name. We exclude videos marked as Not Safe For Work (NSFW) for now.
This site is not affiliated to Framasoft, the maintainer of the PeerTube software. "
How Northern California's Police Intelligence Center Tracked Protests https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/blueleaks-california-ncric-black-lives-matter-protesters/
Massachusetts State Party Leader Told College Democrats to Destroy Communication Records https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/alex-morse-massachusetts-college-democrats-destroy-records/
Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It. - On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare https://inthesetimes.com/article/china-gop-trump-biden-coronavirus-cold-war-sinophobia
People who think Trump is end of world but might not be willing to risk voting in person. ???
Postal Service does need protection from GOP, but is it being used as a diversion to foil progressive needs of the country from gaining media time?
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All the more reason to take control over your own location data and how it's shared, instead of hoping proprietary software funded by your data is operating in your best interests (it isn't): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-other-agencies-buy-access-to-mobile-phone-location-data/ #privacy
I'd like to see a graph of 3GLs vs. software quality and software productivity. My thesis is that it would be two level lines.
White House Plants Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Among Reporters in Briefing Room https://theintercept.com/2020/08/15/white-house-plants-pro-trump-conspiracy-theorists-among-reporters-briefing-room/
Agriculture is one of fifteen industries the DOL considers "low wage, high violation industries.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/agriculture-farm-workers-million-dollar-wage-theft
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This was not supposed to happen until 2050 or so. We are in deep trouble.
Arctic fires set record as sea ice, ice shelves melt - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/14/record-arctic-fires/
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My rule for social networks:
What you're reading here typically isn't anyone's opinion. It's merely a thought someone had and shared with you in written form.
We should really try and stop judging or criticizing people as if we're reading their master's thesis.
I've always been socially distant.
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Sigh. Few things are ever quite as good as they seem. After my fairly glowing reviews of Rutger Bregman's extremely optimistic "Humankind: a hopeful history" a couple weeks back, I have to admit that this rather less glowing review I've just read also rings true: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/10/humankind-by-rutger-bregman-review-a-hopeful-history-of-our-nature
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Social media is going to be intolerable the next six months with all the helicopter parents and celebrities nagging me every day to practice good hygiene, vote and get vaccinated. #yourenotmyrealdad
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FBI and NSA expose new Linux malware Drovorub, used by Russian state hackers | ZDNet
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Video games can make education more fun and engaging, but bad patents can limit game options and stifle game developers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/guitar-villain-ubisoft-patents-basic-teaching-techniques
Mistakes Google makes:
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-google/
"One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of defining software designs through design docs. These are relatively informal documents that the primary author or authors of a software system or application create before they embark on the coding project."
"informal" and then the use of "embark" for implementation show a very code-centric culture. This is the crux of the mistake. They are not unique in this.
It's one thing to strive and fail together, as happens in equal participation startups and fully shared cooperatives, but in the corporate world, the failure is mostly felt by the wage slaves. Too often a golden parachute appears for the leadership.
The path to independence from wage slavery is much harder in countries where the cost of failure is too high. The wage slave in the USA faces bankruptcy and starvation upon loss of income.
The reminiscence was for an act of creation, where they saw an idea come to fruition. Truly exciting! ... for them, not too exciting for the wage slave working to produce and maintain copies of the creation.
This was a company that rewarded you for unpaid overtime with a small bonus or promotion (both dependent upon how visibly you performed the unpaid overtime and how much ass-kissing you did), but paid lower than average salaries for the area.
This carries over into corporate culture.
#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
