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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Talk about the NHS is too focused on how much money is spent on it, not how the money is spent.
Public services like the NHS should mutualised - government gives it a budget and every UK citizen has one vote in electing the board of directors that is in charge how it is spent.
Same should apply for other public services like public transportation.
Am a big fan of worker coops (earn my living as a member of one!) but think in these services consumer ownership makes most sense imo.
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Seems to me that a convenient side effect of this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/437849/microsoft-email-users-in-nz-told-to-act-quickly-after-mass-hack from Microsoft's perspective is that it'll hasten (ignorant) people's/organisations' shift from running MS Exchange servers (that they've already paid for) to MSFT's cloud-based systems... that they perpetually paid for... **rubs chin**...
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In solidarity with unionizing Amazon employees:
* Make no purchases
* Don't watch Prime TV
* Show your support
Virtual boycott from 3/7 to 3/13
Forget 5 an Hour — the Minimum Wage Should Be 4 https://theintercept.com/2021/03/05/minimum-wage-raise-15/
No, Dr Seuss and Mr Potato Head haven't been 'cancelled'. Here's the difference https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/06/dr-seuss-mr-potato-head-cancel-culture
However, you can't prove or disprove a hypothesis with no metrics, so anecdote becomes the metric; this causes people to complain about "big design up front" and "abstraction", both of which are productivity and quality enhancers when done right, but popular hypothesis of how to do both have led to an aversion of both.
The software world needs to start maturing before we have a real software crisis. #immatureSoftware
This has resulted in a reduction in reliability, because software isn't a mature field. While an EE level of CAD (automation) exists, it is little used. While metrics exist, they are little used. Repeatability is not considered a desirable trait. Untrained practitioners learn by development of small systems, and best practices in such development do not lead to best practices in the development of large systems. Some of this is the fault of bad hypothesis treated as theory. 2/n
I saw electrical engineers get replaced by CAD and outsourcing. The outsourcing was mostly skilled labor, because EE is a mature field; it is easy to judge skill level in mature fields due to more repeatability and established metrics. The CAD replaced the problematic and tedious area of board layout and the tedious area of schematic drawing. It also helped verification.
Software, OTOH, is mostly just outsourcing without a reduction in tedium or increase in automated verification. 1/n
It might be true that, "anyone can learn to code", but saying, "anyone can become a software developer", is an entirely different proposition. It's about time for the software world to adopt an attitude that software development is a profession that requires people with actual formal training and that such people have the same worth as other highly skilled fields.
Is contributing to FOSS projects the unpaid internship of the software world? Does throwing a minimum wage on it make it feel more professional or more like flipping burgers?
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#phosh 0.9.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.9.0
Now supports #GNOME's OSD DBus protocol, indicates microphone hardware kill switch state, fixes around the overview including long-swipes. Requires libhandy >= 1.1.90
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Movie Nights on CommunityBridge.com presents- An engaging series of films to spur conversations on our future as a cooperative society,
working together to build an inclusive economy for all. Sunday nights at 7pm ET, we will view a short film and share our thoughts on solutions and actions we can take as individuals and organizations working towards
positive change.
Our March Series on Rebellion and Cooperatives starts
on 3/7 at 7PM ET... more info:
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Social.Coop members -- tired of using surveillance capitalist platforms for video conferencing? Sign up for your account on our new BigBlueButton instance. Open source and cooperative.
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Third-party cookies are dying, and Google wants to perpetuate targeted ads with new “privacy-preserving” technology. But its FLoC proposal creates new privacy issues, and could exacerbate problems with discrimination and exploitation.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/03/us-militia-membership-military-police-american-patriot-three-percenter-website-leak
The climate crisis can't be solved by carbon accounting tricks https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/03/climate-crisis-carbon-accounting-tricks-big-finance
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Pretty messed up that a mom had to have this conversation w/ their 7-yr-old: "Every time you ride your bike down this block, there are probably 50 cameras that watch you going past. If you make a bad choice, those cameras will catch you." #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/02/ring-camera-fears/
The Fate and Future of American Democracy Hangs On the Minimum Wage https://medium.com/the-shadow/the-fate-and-future-of-american-democracy-hangs-on-the-minimum-wage-a6e1ab67ebea
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Encourage your favourite tech pundits to be brave. Most aren't speaking out like Bernard Hickey here: https://thekaka.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus-reclaiming-our-information because the strangle-hold that the Frightful Five have over our media in NZ means that those pundits (usually contractors) can't afford to piss them off or be seen as "too controversial" by their Frightful Five-partner or otherwise totally dependent customers. We need to encourage the to do the right thing.
#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
