Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I have my doubts about whether an accurate measure that purports to be about developers' deepest experiences can EVER come from the authority that can also fire them.

I really do. It could fill a book, the number of muddying pitfalls of surveys that are risked here: social desirability bias, reference bias, lack of pilot testing, leakage of corporate jargon that constrains responses, top-down constraint on categories, practice effects, task impurity

It frustrates me that people in software space ask us so often what our items are and so little about how we create research practices and communicate with participants. It is obvious to me as a scientist that you need to create a "research situation" if you want to collect "research data." Shoving a link into a bunch of people's inboxes and never doing ANY of the work to explain, situate, contextualize, and make clear to them that their experiences are valued and for what? It's not gonna fly.

But achieving this REALLY does rely on us having an honest relationship between an individual and a data collection situation. People must understand it, be bought into it, and bring trust with them and be motivated (for whatever variety of reasons) to give you an accurate response. There's no substitute; I fear a lot of "research" that at the point of data collection was never in any way understood or believed to be "research" by the people whose responses are supposed to be our insight

I think this is very relevant to all these software organizations who are trying to stretch their new muscles of developer experience. I get asked TONS of questions about what constructs should be measured for developers, but you know what? Too many questions about finding the magic "content" not enough about unlocking a really good reflective self-report PROCESS imo

This narrative is the same for every violent clash at protests in the past ~seven years (maybe longer, idk): a leftist group is peacefully protesting, a right-wing group shows up and openly assaults the protesters for *hours*, and police watch and do nothing. At this point it’s a playbook being run by the violent right and police in implicit coordination, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0.AUdX.RBfy685XvxHg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

At the entrance to the Popular University for Gaza Encampment in Montreal. #VivaIntifada #FreePalestine

https://jabberwocking.com/charts-of-the-day-heres-a-partisan-history-of-the-culture-wars-since-2000/

Person on the internet: "What terrifies me is how the Democratic party of the U.S. is becoming increasingly elitist and white."

Reality: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/09/u-s-congress-continues-to-grow-in-racial-ethnic-diversity/
"A quarter of voting members of the U.S. Congress identify their race or ethnicity as something other than non-Hispanic White, making the 118th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date."

https://kolektiva.media/w/4HQCxSpSMxH6r4WQB9MCoc

On This Day in Anarchist History we remember the Haymarket Affair; the police massacre that is widely accepted as the origins of May Day.

What will the Supreme Court ruin this term? A few ways to find out. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/5/3/2238548/-Cartoon-Supreme-Court-fortune-telling

The dangerous Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA now has a House version, and some lawmakers are seeking to attach the bill to must-pass legislation. Legislation of this magnitude deserves to pass—or fail—on its own merits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about #bureaucracy : unreliable CI and insignificant #style #bikeshedding .

Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.

Hint: give everyone a freaking #linter that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.

#opensource #coding #nitpicking #contributing

InterLibrary loan lives!

Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive.

The long tail holdings are needed!

384 libraries are now getting docs through one system.

Go @internetarchive go #ILL

Oh! I'll be tabling at TCAF in Toronto May 11 -12. It's free—come by and say what's up.

Lately I’ve been really hooked to #balatro.
I found out it uses the #löve2d engine, and I remembered something about Löve games being unintentionally cross platform.

And here we are: Balatro running natively on #linuxmobile (OP6 + #postmarketos + #phosh )
To run:
* Copy Steam game files from other PC using manage/browse local files
* Install Löve `sudo apt install love`
* Run the game `love Balatro.exe`

#linuxgaming

I've tagged a new release of mobile-broadband-provider-info:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20240407

It has updated providers, support for mms attachment size and we switched the build system to meson.

#gnome #phosh #LinuxMobile

It would be nice to believe that our problem is bad behavior by the people on top and that punishing them would solve these problems. The reality is that the problems are much deeper, much more widespread, and much more entrenched.

And yes, money comes into it too, which shouldn't be the case, but punishing specific elected leaders won't change that.

Electoral Commission chief claims photo ID requirement for voting didn't cause 'any major problems' - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/02/local-elections-2024-latest-results-live-tory-conservative-labour-lib-dem-green-south-blackpool-mayor-london-west-midlands-tees-valley?page=with:block-66349fc78f08f2f07401a1b2#block-66349fc78f08f2f07401a1b2 clueless: the main issue is how many people didn't even bother to try to vote because of 'voterID #uk

Tonight, it occurs to me that 'prosperity' might just require good company, a tasty meal, and a good beer. Not a whole lot of capital investment required for that.

This means mass movements cannot have a single, well-defined message. They are open, diffuse and decentralized. Those who do not fully grasp the ethos of the movement (including people who are mentally unstable) can join in. Like anyone else, they can make statements or engage in behaviors that go against the movement's aims or are simply abhorrent. Parasitic individuals and groups often join in to co-opt the movement, to push their own agenda, or just to spew hate and incite violence.
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