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
Shell’s climate poll on Twitter backfires spectacularly https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/03/shells-climate-poll-on-twitter-backfires-spectacularly
The real reason Trump is terrified of losing the presidency: fear of prosecution https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/03/donald-trump-fear-lose-election-prosecution
Supreme court to hear Obamacare case that may lead to 20m losing insurance https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/03/supreme-court-to-hear-obamacare-case-20-million-may-lose-insurance
Trump's Online SNAP Program Helps Amazon and Walmart, But Leaves Rural People Behind https://inthesetimes.com/article/snap-rural-food-benefits-independent-grocers
A little voting levity.(?)
https://thenib.com/2020-election-stickers/
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Zoom's cancellation of several university events shows the dangers of infrastructure-layer takedowns https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/when-academic-expression-depends-internet-tech-infrastructure-companies-must-find
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Don’t tell people to “Google it.” That’s your job, not theirs
https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/09/27/dont-tell-people-to-google-it-thats-your-job-not-theirs/
(submitted by anoncake)
"Older workers often face age discrimination"
For the first time in nearly 50 years, workers over 55 face higher unemployment than those 35-54 https://basicincometoday.com/for-the-first-time-in-nearly-50-years-workers-over-55-face-higher-unemployment-than-those-35-54/
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Growing numbers of ‘newly hungry’ forced to use #UK #FoodBanks | #Society | The Guardian
#overpopulation #oldnews #dumballover
https://www.independent.com/2019/01/21/we-have-population-problem/
One thing that is too often missing from COVID-19 (and other natural disaster) discussions is #ecology. The difficult question is how to factor fairness into human ecology discussions. The state of the world right now means the rich get to decide who should be culled from the population.
The key to creating software that is easy to understand and maintain is to clearly define and encapsulate the functional and non-functional subject matters in your system under development. I was first exposed to this concept about 28 years ago, and the method for doing it was already quite mature at that time.
https://xtuml.org
https://xtuml.github.io/xtuml.github.io/xday/xday2020.html
#FOSS at the next level.
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@jordan31 @Matter @plausible
It's unfriendly to developers who want to take away other people's rights. That's a feature, not a bug.
I mean, you might as well argue that commercial software licenses are unfriendly to developers. After all, they don't let you sell copies of the software as part of your own bundles.
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Law enforcement agencies in the United States are notoriously secretive. That’s why we need @PCLOB_GOV to investigate what, where, and how surveillance was done against protestors this summer. Thank you, @RonWyden, @RepAnnaEshoo, and @RepBobbyRush. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/members-congress-join-fight-protest-surveillance-transparency
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International Day Against DRM is scheduled for December 4th: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/streaming_services_beware_international_day_against_drm_idad_coming_dec_4
Seems I ran my tournament very early!
One good you could celebrate is by checking out https://adrian.geek.nz/movies !
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"There's been some recent discussion about whether the X server is abandonware. As the person arguably most responsible for its care and feeding over the last 15 years or so, I feel like I have something to say about that."
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
I've always hated the saying, 'Perfection is the enemy of good.', because software managers/developers often use it to excuse building up technical debt; all experienced software developers know that technical debt never gets paid down to zero.
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A new Windows malware. Linux and MacOS not affected: https://www.cert.govt.nz/individuals/alerts/malware-being-spread-via-email-attachments/
Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept over 'editorial freedom' https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/journalist-glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept
Punk saw the future from the 80s.
"At Data Control
They know everything about you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Te6eZmFTtM
Your lack of foresight doesn't mean I need to work unpaid overtime. #notfungible
#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
