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
Got back on LinkedIn. What an advertising shitshow that platform has become. It's really more about capturing your data, pushing Microsoft products, pushing paid advertising, and a venue for job search/head hunting, than a professional connection site. I know that it was always that way, but the signal to noise ratio seems much worse than before.
I've noticed GitHub is going quickly in that direction as well. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit. No wonder IBM took over OS/2 development.
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#phosh 0.4.5 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.4.5
This one adds a torch/flashlight quick setting, improves support for external screens and switches to structured logging. There's also a rather long list of internal fixes as well as translation updates (thanks a lot for that)!
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/
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We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption
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Work at Google. Work at Facebook. Work at Palantir. Heck, work at Phillip Morris or Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. But don’t you dare be proud of it. And don’t you dare tell me you’re working to bring about a better world for everyday people. Don’t you fucking even dare.
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https://puri.sm/jobs/ On-Site EE position and PureOS GTK App Dev position posted https://puri.sm/job/pureos-gtk-application-development/ come join!
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The Google v Oracle ruling will be hugely consequential for software development. Even if the Supreme Court finds fair use, that may be small comfort for startups that can't afford to litigate to protect their right to reimplement APIs https://www.forbes.com/sites/martingiles/2020/10/07/supreme-court-google-and-oracle-api-software-case/#23adea3b592c
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Electric cars really do cost less to own than gas-powered vehicles, report says
https://www.engadget.com/electric-cars-cost-less-to-own-than-gas-vehicles-133913554.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
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If you like, use or even produce Podcasts, you should read this. And you should demand podcasts to be available via RSS. Having a show locked into Spotify or audible is _not_ a podcast. You're just handing them your audience for free.
https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/10/08/podcast-privacy-tracking-listener-data
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@stephaniewalter This is a great idea! I wonder though about the tax implications. Would the receiving organization have to pay taxes on the gift they received from you? Any experience with that?
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@purism While fixing #convergence related issues in #phosh, #phoc and the kernel for the #librem5 I wanted things to be more automatic. So #phosh can now enable a 'docked' mode on screen plug: windows become moveable automatically (and get their close button back), #squeekboard gets disabled and there's a quick setting that lets you toggle that too:
Question for all those who normally work in an office job away from home, but also do work from home on the side: with COVID-19 making you do your office job at home, do you find it harder to work on the side job?
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Introducing: Fund Your App
Vote for the mobile phone apps you desire to see working on the #librem5 phone!
https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/
"Fund Your App is a great way to show how far we have come with the Librem 5 and PureOS, it also allows people to vote on what is our app development priority."
Providing 500 each to 50 homeless people resulted in a savings of 100 per person according to new unconditional cash grant experiment https://basicincometoday.com/providing-7500-each-to-50-homeless-people-resulted-in-a-savings-of-8100-per-person-according-to-new-unconditional-cash-grant-experiment/
Fed Lending Saved Corporate America. It Could Do the Same for Cities and States. https://theintercept.com/2020/10/08/city-state-budget-crisis-fed-coronavirus/
World’s garment workers face ruin as fashion brands refuse to pay 6bn https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/08/worlds-garment-workers-face-ruin-as-fashion-brands-refuse-to-pay-16bn
UN accused over failure to investigate 'war on drugs' killings in the Philippines https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/08/un-accused-over-failure-to-investigate-war-on-drugs-killings-in-the-philippines-duterte
Europe's migration 'crisis' isn't about numbers. It's about prejudice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/08/europe-migration-crisis-prejudice-eu-refugee-orban-christian
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● NEWS ● #ITWire ☞ US report says big four tech firms need to be reined in https://www.itwire.com/technology-regulation/us-report-says-big-four-tech-firms-need-to-be-reined-in.html unacceptable that #microsoft is left out http://techrights.org/2020/08/01/microsoft-loves-trump/
#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
