Show more
Old Fucking Punk  

I saw electrical engineers get replaced by CAD and outsourcing. The outsourcing was mostly skilled labor, because EE is a mature field; it is easy to judge skill level in mature fields due to more repeatability and established metrics. The CAD replaced the problematic and tedious area of board layout and the tedious area of schematic drawing. It also helped verification.
Software, OTOH, is mostly just outsourcing without a reduction in tedium or increase in automated verification. 1/n

1
Old Fucking Punk  

It might be true that, "anyone can learn to code", but saying, "anyone can become a software developer", is an entirely different proposition. It's about time for the software world to adopt an attitude that software development is a profession that requires people with actual formal training and that such people have the same worth as other highly skilled fields.

0
Old Fucking Punk  

Is contributing to FOSS projects the unpaid internship of the software world? Does throwing a minimum wage on it make it feel more professional or more like flipping burgers?

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Guido Günther  

0.9.0 is out 🚀 : source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-

Now supports 's OSD DBus protocol, indicates microphone hardware kill switch state, fixes around the overview including long-swipes. Requires libhandy >= 1.1.90

Thanks @devrtz @dos, @exalm@floss.social

@purism

1
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Micky Metts  

Movie Nights on CommunityBridge.com presents- An engaging series of films to spur conversations on our future as a cooperative society,
working together to build an inclusive economy for all. Sunday nights at 7pm ET, we will view a short film and share our thoughts on solutions and actions we can take as individuals and organizations working towards
positive change.

Our March Series on Rebellion and Cooperatives starts
on 3/7 at 7PM ET... more info:

communitybridge.com/upcoming/

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Matt Noyes  

Social.Coop members -- tired of using surveillance capitalist platforms for video conferencing? Sign up for your account on our new BigBlueButton instance. Open source and cooperative.

wiki.social.coop/meet.coop-reg

1
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Third-party cookies are dying, and Google wants to perpetuate targeted ads with new “privacy-preserving” technology. But its FLoC proposal creates new privacy issues, and could exacerbate problems with discrimination and exploitation.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/goog

0
Old Fucking Punk  

US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m

0
Old Fucking Punk  

The climate crisis can't be solved by carbon accounting tricks theguardian.com/commentisfree/

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Kyle Rankin  

Pretty messed up that a mom had to have this conversation w/ their 7-yr-old: "Every time you ride your bike down this block, there are probably 50 cameras that watch you going past. If you make a bad choice, those cameras will catch you." washingtonpost.com/technology/

0
Old Fucking Punk  

The Fate and Future of American Democracy Hangs On the Minimum Wage medium.com/the-shadow/the-fate

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿  

Encourage your favourite tech pundits to be brave. Most aren't speaking out like Bernard Hickey here: thekaka.substack.com/p/dawn-ch because the strangle-hold that the Frightful Five have over our media in NZ means that those pundits (usually contractors) can't afford to piss them off or be seen as "too controversial" by their Frightful Five-partner or otherwise totally dependent customers. We need to encourage the to do the right thing.

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
Matt Noyes  

Food sovereignty has different meanings in the global north and south. Great to see the organizing in Guatemala to start an OFN instance.

0
Old Fucking Punk boosted
mushroom 🍄  
@lightweight this extension is really nice
I used it to embroy fun things :cirno_smile:



1
Old Fucking Punk  

Pollution is so bad in this Chicago neighborhood, people are on hunger strike to stop it grist.org/justice/chicago-hung

0
Old Fucking Punk  

Massachusetts' Progressive Lawmakers Push Congress to Abolish Qualified Immunity theintercept.com/2021/03/01/qu

0
Old Fucking Punk  

Whole Foods was getting in trouble for employee treatment, even before Amazon bought them, now Trader Joe's...Progressive hipsters are facing tough choices these days.

Trader Joe’s employee says he was fired for requesting better Covid protections theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m

0
Old Fucking Punk  

Huge iceberg breaks off from shelf in Antarctica – video theguardian.com/world/video/20

0
Old Fucking Punk  

This is a dangerous viewpoint. I wouldn't rule out a Trump reelection, especially if Biden drops the ball on enacting progressive policies that help the working class.

Trump has captured the Republican party – and that's great news for Biden theguardian.com/commentisfree/

0
Old Fucking Punk  

Didn't they say this in 2016(2015?)?

Republican predicts Trump won’t be party’s presidential nominee in 2024 theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f

0
Show more
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml