Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Can FLOSS exist under non-FLOSS ownership, and if not, can FLOSS exist on a platform under non-FLOSS corporate ownership?

The specific use case in mind is FLOSS software on GitHub. To me, Microsoft buying GitHub invalidated it as a platform for hosting my FLOSS repositories, so I moved to notabug.org.

GitLab is a tricky platform as well, since it isn't fully open source, but it seems to have been declared good enough by many who left GitHub.

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise https://grist.org/climate/the-water-is-coming-florida-keys-faces-stark-reality-as-seas-rise/
#climatechange

Minnesota Sheriff Barricades Pipeline Resistance Camp's Driveway https://theintercept.com/2021/06/28/minnesota-sheriff-pipeline-camp-barricade/
#ACAB #capitalismsucks

Computer class in high school in 1981 was a math elective taught by the calculus teacher, but it wasn't a taught class. It was free study and the grade was pass/no pass. Pass just meant you could show the teacher a program you had worked on in class. The computers were all Commodore PETs. I don't remember anyone doing anything too amazing. There was no after hours access and nobody I knew had a PET at home. My group of friends had VIC-20, Atari, TRS-80, and APPLE-II at home.

The trouble with learning an interpreted language is that you also get to learn about the limitations of an interpreted language. i.e., you might have to learn a compiled language in resource constrained environments. The ease of learning an interpreted language doesn't produce additional skills in it's areas of difficulty, so learning a compiled language is probably a better first step.

Naming GPU events, "doorbells", is an idiotic kind of obfuscation.

C++ hating #currently

One Way to Boost Workers and the Labor Movement? Give Unions Power Over Unemployment Insurance. https://inthesetimes.com/article/unemployment-insurance-ui-ghent-unions-labor

Chicago Nurses Are Going on Strike—And Management Is Bringing in Scabs Through a Text Blast https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-nurses-strike-seiu-nnu-cch-stroger

No Evil But Plenty of Union Busting at Vegan Food Company - Two former workers at No Evil Foods in Asheville, North Carolina, sound off on the company's recent layoffs. https://inthesetimes.com/article/no-evil-foods-union-busting

"People under time pressure don't think faster." - Tim Lister. Tom DeMarco calls this piece of wisdom, "Lister's Law", in his book, Slack.

Consider this variation of Parkinson's Law from Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister)(3rd ed.), "Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day." Unlike Parkinson's Law, this one has studies to back it up. Pressure doesn't work on knowledge workers.

These Spotify-like services will be the death of humanity; when you've heard the nth variant of <some band>'s song, there is no alternative left but to shoot yourself in the head. Whole bars filled with suicides due to bad music.

Feeling ready to eat my cholesterol higher. #livefastdieyoung

It gets harder and harder to come up with a unique band name.

Thinking about the electronics shortage, and whether there's really a shortage or a gluttony. Overconsumption and overproduction are big issues in the world. e.g., how many new cars are really needed vs how many are made and bought. Agriculture has many well documented issues, including throwing pigs into a wood chipper due to decreased demand and grain rotting in government storage.
#eattherich #capitalismsucks