The “For the People Act” of 2021 Would Make the U.S. a Democracy https://theintercept.com/2021/02/14/democracy-voting-campaign-finance-hr1/
Sarah Jaffe is hanging around too many of the delusional when she writes, "computer programmers...work is closer to the jobs of other creatives...rooted in our old notions of artistic work." She also talks about how harmful this attitude is to happiness, because those same (delusional) programmers are then taken advantage of in the workplace.
"The video-game programmer may have more in common with the Uber driver than she previously thought."
I continue to really like #rust as a programming language. Even though I'm writing more #raku these days, I still love Rust (and am writing something in it right now).
That said, it's increasingly clear to me that Rust is _primarily_ targeted at the Big Tech usecase (aka "at scale") and only secondarily interested in the Free Software usecase.
Today's news that the Rust Foundation is reserving *half* of its board seats for Big Tech provides additional confirmation.
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
Regarding nomadic indigenous caretaker agriculture and stewardship: https://makiruz.tumblr.com/post/642967185339400192/i-have-a-lot-of-feelings-on-how-indigenous-groups
The Biden Administration's Continued Push for Julian Assange's Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/julian-assange-extradition-biden-journalism/
Is this a Trump effect? ;-)'Pay gap widens between female and male scientists in North America' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00387-3
Mr Fish on Trump
https://thenib.com/clearance/
A cartoon about racism.
https://thenib.com/dig-in/
Thomas: "...[P]laying copyrighted music as a deterrent to the First Amendment-guaranteed right to openly film police is, if not BHPD official protocol, at least a technique that has been deployed by more than one officer."
Back in 2019, anti-racist activists experimented with playing copyrighted music at Nazi rallies to make them unpostable on social media. At the time, I warned that this would end badly.
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Why did I get into software development? I had fun doing it.
Why am I considering getting out of software development? It's become just a job.
Has anyone had experience implementing Shleepay? https://github.com/shleeable/shleepay It's a Docker-supporting fork of Drew Devault's Fosspay open source patronage/micropayment app (uses Stripe to accept one off and repeating payments)... thinking I might fire up an instance as a live demo for tonight's NZ-based FOSS meetup. What could possibly go wrong?
Out of interest, are there any representatives of the Software Freedom Law Center on the Fediverse? Given that this flagrant violation (i.e. relicensing) of the GPL in the WordPress marketplace is more the rule than the exception, I'm wondering if anyone else has taken issue with it previously - what's the precedent?
Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi's Linux OS - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os/
#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