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#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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Read our advice for staying safe in demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest
I came into the company from a much better software organization (who unfortunately was coupled with bad corporate management #anothertrainwreck). Wishing I was closer to a big city, so jobs were easier to find. #fml
Company has a complex operation application existing in an older product software written in spaghetti code. They decide they need the application on the newer product, but set the requirements as "must work exactly like the older software". (They already had planned to kludge in much existing software to save time on a compressed schedule.) I rewrote the code in a much cleaner fashion, so it works the same. Old guard can't deal with new design; hands off further dev to new temp. #trainwreck
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DHS should not be flying surveillance aircraft over protesters demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqmxn/dhs-flew-two-surveillance-aircraft-over-breonna-taylor-protests
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Anger and Confusion After Facebook Suspends Environmental and Indigenous Groups' Accounts Ahead of Pipeline Protest | Common Dreams News
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/22/anger-and-confusion-after-facebook-suspends-environmental-and-indigenous-groups
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This is both fascinating and delightful! http://techrights.org/2020/09/23/iis-collapse/
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@purism made it!
Today I looked for a online radio application for my notebook and found #shortwave.
Looking at its homepage I've been surprised by the information that it is using #libhandy and compatible with the #Librem5.
Now listening to #radioparadise happily. Nice application!
Trump Is Waging War on the VA's Union, and Workers Are Living in Fear https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-war-union-labor-workers-department-veterans-affairs
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Would you like your local credit union, building society or other coop to allocate larger share of its charitable donations to fund new coops? Or use Meet.Coop* instead of Zoom?
I'm starting a new org "Members For Cooperation Between Cooperatives".
If you interested in joining fill out this super short form:
https://forms.gle/bhXWPBZUQqEUjK4V9
If you would like to help build a website for the org, let me know.
More info:
https://community.coops.tech/t/help-with-a-website-for-a-new-cooperative-organisation/2321
A lot of software developers are rather myopically targeted at a specific software technology. This is a great thing, if you have a known need for that software technology in your project, but it can become a roadblock for moving beyond that technology. The roadblock is much more pronounced if the need is to move to a new abstraction level. Software developers are uncomfortable with step changes. Most programming learning begins with a 3GL and it tends to stick.
Software metrics is the only thing that can save the world from the continuous avalanche of bad software, but most software developers are not interested in (afraid of?) software metrics. They can move you out of your comfort zone just as easily as a new language or development method, but they are the only real path to choosing the best language/development method/tools for your specific project.
#dumballover
World is #unprepared for remote learning. Imagine the situation of millions who can't afford to stay at home.
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#Crisps, #chocolate and #cheese worst offenders for #recycling, report says | #Environment | The Guardian
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Yes, this is an important social and environmental change I want to see. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2018765320/cutting-the-grass-cut-it-out And, best thing about it, it's all about changing expectations, not extra effort. This involves *less* effort to do the right thing.
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Not every dollar police spend on surveillance tech comes straight from police budgets. There are other troubling and less transparent ways police find money to buy equipment:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/how-police-fund-surveillance-technology-part-problem
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Big Oil’s Climate Plans Fail at Every Metric
https://earther.gizmodo.com/big-oil-s-climate-plans-fail-at-every-metric-1845146708 #bigoil #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
We all know that Subhumans are from Canada and the UK, not the USA.
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Melting #Antarctic #ice will raise #SeaLevel by 2.5 metres – even if Paris #climate goals are met, study finds | #Environment | The Guardian
#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
