Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Mobile-zombie-free zone" sign spotted at a playground in #Rålambshovsparken in #Stockholm recently.

Ironically that made me pick up my own phone to take this photo, acting like another of those infamous zombies. In my defense I did not actually enter the playground, so strictly speaking I did not violate the sanctity of the mobile-zombie-free zone. Also, the phone (#Librem5 yay!) was back in pocket directly without further zombie-like behaviour. 🙂 #ShotOnLibrem5

For example: I meet someone & find out they're 'in IT'... turns out they train or support people using Windows/Apple products. I find it hard to disguise my lack of enthusiasm for their work. The way I see it, they're helping people develop a perceived dependence on & entitlement to proprietary software often accompanied by a disdain for things they don't understand. It's like teaching someone to drive a petrol car & implicitly denigrating use of public transportation.

Cue the jealous girlfriend meme with Microsoft, Canonical and Red Hat:

https://siliconangle.com/2024/05/10/microsoft-red-hat-open-source-partnership-rhsummit/

#FOSS #RedHat #Microsoft #Canonical #Azure

The ACLU is going after Mastercard's "policies on adult content".

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

Finally. This was from 3 years ago: https://thenib.com/payment-processors-vs-porn/

If Robert Mann were a right-wing blowhard, he'd be all over cable TV, celebrated as the latest and greatest example of a American hero willing to stand up the Stasi Thought Police. https://www.patreon.com/posts/civility-is-not-103930633

One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies that profit so wildly from these fees went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite far-right-wing, Trump-appointed judges, who predictably did what they wanted.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.

Emotional rollercoaster of starting new projects:

- This is cool
- I've spent 18 hours on this
- This is awful
- I'm awful
- The world is awful
- This is cool (goto 1)

I think something that sustains me and keeps me able to do work I'm proud of is this: I am comfortable with the fact that all important, deeply loved work has an expiration date. And you never know what that date is, but it's coming for you.

We've heard a number of bells toll in our household at the same time. It is really interesting to recognize turning points when they happen, not just afterward.

What's ahead, I'm not sure, but I am sure that things are changing.

The US hasn't even tried to make an ultra affordable EV. Not even an attempt!

Instead, we make Cybertrucks that no one wants, and then work the refs to kneecap better, smarter companies, to try and prevent anyone else from being successful at doing it.

Everyday, I hear people prattle on about how the US Venture Capital industry is so innovative and forward-looking. Yet of all the billions spent (wasted), none of them were smart enough to fund a company making ultra low cost EVs.

The fact that women's reproductive health is so systematically SPECIFICALLY an area of research fraud really makes me feel some kind of way

Wild case: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468784724000722?via%3Dihub

Hey Fediversians, is anyone going to #GPN https://gulas.ch ? I'm looking for roommates today.

#conference #hacking #germany

#gmobile 0.2.0 is out 🚀 . This version adds the udev rules and first hwdb entries to mark keys and buttons as not unblanking the screen on press (like volume rockers or menu/back capacitive buttons).

phoc 0.39.0 will make use of this. We moved things into a library rather than phoc itself so other compositors can make use of it too.

#phosh #gnomemobile #udev #LinuxMobile

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/gmobile/-/releases/v0.2.0

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Reading about the Collabra psych journal and holy moly, a journal with open access fees that I can personally actually afford myself???????

Something I tell my software students a lot when they’re looking for jobs is to remember that a shockingly large number of job descriptions are written by people in HR who have next to zero understanding of the industry, the specific team, or the business need.

All they’ve got to work with is fragments they’ve heard without comprehension, coming to them through a terrible game of corporate telephone.

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It's really interesting to see health, achingly and terribly slowly, BEGIN to acknowledge the scale of the problem. Ironically in many ways health research has gone backwards in terms of not respecting or investing in high quality observations, as MDs churn out salami-sliced papers with stats they farm out to somebody else. The med school<>med publishing cycles are really something else. Can't tell you how many friends I've had consult on med papers' stats and get treated like shit by MDs.

Folks outside of science may not be familiar with this but there is an absolutely massive struggle across so many fields to think about whether our scientific conventions around evidence from the 1900s are suitable to this century. I am firmly on the side of observational causal inference; the principle of "randomization" is almost never ACTUALLY implemented in the real world and our ecological validity suffers. We need all forms of evidence. RCTs are not possible for MOST questions.

This Saturday and Sunday I'm tabling at TCAF at the Toronto Reference Library, Table 2063. It's free—if you're in the city come say what's up and buy some comics.

This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/