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
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for reasons that ought to be obvious, we ought to run our electric system with regard to reliability and environmental impact, and not profit. But unfortunately we elected a movie star president in the '80s and there was money to be made
We are past the point of people trying to outstupid other people and onto the point of presenting a different kind of stupid.
Software developer position ads are perfect expressions of the ignorance of employers. It's hard to even contemplate applying at a place that thinks that describing their technology stack describes their actual product development needs. It gets even worse when the ad blatently tells you how little a company values knowledge over cost.
Looks like Bill Gates is looking to push the fantasy that he's a climate change expert. Probably will have the same results as the fantasy of him being a computer expert; cost society much, but make him richer.
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A friend asked me how to automatically start #GNU #Screen directly via #SSH's configuration file. Here's how to do it:
Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config similar to this one:
Host screen_on_server
Hostname server.example.org
RequestTTY yes
RemoteCommand screen -RD
and then just call
$ ssh screen_on_server
and you'll get connected to an existing screen session if present, otherwise you'll a new new one.
Should work with #tmux, too, maybe different options.
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."
Sarah Jaffe's new book, Work Won't Love You Back, is very good.
Copyleft licenses only protect software from abuse as long as governments allow it.
Is open source just one long chain of unpaid internships into the corporate software world?
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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/
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Regarding nomadic indigenous caretaker agriculture and stewardship: https://makiruz.tumblr.com/post/642967185339400192/i-have-a-lot-of-feelings-on-how-indigenous-groups
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An asexual critique of sex positivity and enthusiastic consent
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
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all my theory is from Pete Seeger songs sorry academics
Mr Fish on Trump
https://thenib.com/clearance/
A cartoon about racism.
https://thenib.com/dig-in/
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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.
#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
