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
Facebook is for assholes.
How about if we just kill all the conservatives and libertarians? Is that a reasonable solution to ecological disaster? Might hit my target of 50% of the world population.
The words, wellbeing and wellness, are starting to evoke a kneejerk reaction that says, "My fucking wellness is none of your fucking business!"
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Updated the little tz program (0.4) which now correctly support light or dark terminal themes (thanks @meowgorithm).
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Of course, it's rare that we get digital assets by downloading them direct to our devices or transfering them from laptops - these days, it all comes through an app and "just works." So why not deliver everything via app?
For the same reason I had to do a Kickstarter, as it turns out. The market for audiobooks is monopolized by Amazon, through its Audible division. Audible has a mandatory DRM policy.
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Deb Haaland confirmed as first Indigenous US cabinet secretary https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/15/deb-haaland-interior-secretary-first-indigenous-native-american-cabinet
The Blob Is Back Under Biden - While his administration is only in its infancy, the president appears wedded to a foreign policy from the last century. https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-foreign-policy-donald-trump-the-blob
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The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool.
Make no mistake, as warned, the Investigatory Powers Act (2016) gives authorities across the UK some of the most far-reaching and draconian surveillance powers found anywhere in the world....
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I work in healthcare, some of our staff work closely alongside the Ambulance Service and I've never heard of a unit being delayed by a protest.
In areas which are busy with people (including sports/royal events) the service has contingency plans including the use of paramedic bicycles which can get around a crowd a lot quicker than any motor vehicle (these bikes are often widely used in pedestrianised areas of town for routine duties outside of special events)
Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists https://theintercept.com/2021/03/15/gab-hack-donald-trump-parler-extremists/
Job-hunting is stressful and humiliating enough. Now robots judge our resumes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/15/job-hunting-technology-algorithms
They can make things worse for me
Sometimes I'd rather die
They can tell me lots of things
But I can't see eye to eye
Well, I know they know the way I think
I know they always will
But someday I'm gonna change my mind
Sometimes I'd rather kill
- Blood Stains by Agent Orange
UBI Gains a Friend in High Places https://basicincometoday.com/ubi-gains-a-friend-in-high-places/
We've known this for decades now, but somehow need to keep repeating it.
The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/american-dream-broken-upward-mobility-us
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Is anyone here involved with an US based coop that sells coffee online? Have an idea on how to promote them.
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libhandy 1.2 just got released! 🎉 It comes with new cool widgets and many fixes, more at https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/12/libhandy-1-2.html.
Tired of working on software at companies that are riding legacy code into bankruptcy. I'm always hopeful that companies will learn that continuous improvement can't be achieved via forever refactoring, but still find them clinging to legacy code like it was created by magic and the magic is lost. (This is exacerbated when the original creates move into management and/or leave the company leaving no developers who understand the architecture or have the domain knowledge.)
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Folks I work with in Apia, Samoa, have just put out descriptions for two education technolgists/learning designers... have a look if you're interested in a change of scene!
I've never been very good at bullshit. I wonder if that has had an adverse effect on getting a new job? Of course, I'm very aware that my age is working against me.
OTOH, what do I have to bullshit about? Is this just #impostersyndrome talking?
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Can you help fund
Beneath Our Feet
A film about the relationship with soil through the eyes of a workers co-operative in North Wales. An organic farm that embraces both permaculture and the ‘open-source’ technology movement.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beneath-our-feet-release#/
#farming #foodsovereignty #food
#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
