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
How the gas industry is trying to keep crappy heaters on the market https://grist.org/energy/how-the-gas-industry-is-trying-to-keep-crappy-heaters-on-the-market/
#capitalismsucks
Firms That Backed Gov. Charlie Baker’s Pro-Charter Initiative Scored Millions in Contracts With Massachusetts Pension Fund https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/charlie-baker-charter-schools-massachusetts-pension-fund/
#capitalismsucks
Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/
What Can the Biden Admin Do to Make Our Food System More Resilient? Make it More Local. https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-usda-food-system-supply-chains-resilient-local-agriculture
Making things more local should also be applied to all industry. Globalization should be to benefit local outcomes, not to abuse persons or environments outside the local sphere.
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Hi all! We're the folks behind Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech), a project which aims to build out a digital configuration commons for tech co-ops and democratic tech collectives. Our approach aims to maximise sharing, co-operation and reuse for setting up and maintaining libre software infrastructure. We have a public matrix room at `#coopcloud:autonomic.zone`, feel welcome! The project is currently in public alpha and super young ☁️ 🎩 💻
#introductions #tech #coops #coopcloud #commons
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"In conservation biology terms, [open source] maintainers can be thought of as a keystone species. A keystone species is small in population size but it has an outsized impact on its ecosystem."
- #NadiaEghbal, 2020, 'The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure'
https://soundcloud.com/longnow/making-and-maintenance-our-open-source-infrastructure
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Ugh: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/446192/dhbs-refuse-to-release-information-on-cyber-security-systems I don't think the problem is lack of capital investment - the private IT security pros would say that, though. I suspect the problem is lack of skilled IT staff & training for regular staff. And the use of MS Windows & a raft of other EOL'd, unsupported proprietary software. If there was a "Health IT" department that developed *open standards* for IT procurement and focused on #FOSS health IT, it'd attract the best & brightest. Cut loose the dead wood in IT.
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Happy #coopsday!
Working on a book titled "250 facts about co-operatives".
It won't be sold conventionally - you can read it free online on Mutual Interest Media Co-ops site.
The only way to get a print-copy is to join Mutual Interest (www.mutualinterest.coop) as a member-owner, after which you can get a free copy (you only pay for postal fees).
Really fortunate that my dad has the equipment and experience in printing and designing books.
If someone wants to help with editing let me know.
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"Meet.coop began as a collaboration between three tech co-ops in May 2020. It is set up using open source software (BigBlueButton) and runs on co-operatively owned hardware powered by renewable energy. It currently has 105 members across Europe, Asia and South America, including brands such as Friends of the Earth International and The Tor Project."
- #RebeccaHarvey, 2021
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Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210701140931.htm #environment
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"Lytton and the surrounding area has experienced tragic losses from the fire. We are still trying to account for all our people, and countless family homes were lost. We are raising funds to support community members during this horrible emergency and to help us rebuild. On behalf of Lytton First Nation we have created this page and we are a qualified donee with Charity status and can provide tax receipts.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lytton-first-nation-community-emergency-support
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Schumer Amendment Shorts States Billion in Covid-19 Relief Funding https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/covid-relief-schumer-small-towns-american-rescue-plan/
Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors https://theintercept.com/2021/07/01/scientific-american-palestine-israel/
One of the surest ways to demotivate workers is to waste their time. Most "all hands" meetings are wasted time for most of the workforce. DeMarco and Lister talk about ceremonial status meetings in #Peopleware. They define a ceremonial meeting as time bound. i.e., the meeting ends due to the clock and not due to solving an issue. They also talk about how status meetings are often "status affirmation" meetings; they affirm that the boss has the status to waste your time.
I was having trouble getting started this morning, then got notification of an important company announcement. The head of our division came on, said we had won new business, then turned it over to a financial guy to talk for 20 minutes. After that, I was so pumped I melted my keyboard coding so fast. /sarcasm
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hey if you’re all like “I’m a kiwi, I’d love to have an account on that cool Cloud Island place” but you’re also like, not able to afford it
hit me up, I’m generally happy to sponsor accounts
or if you know someone who’d benefit from or like to be here, again, hmu (or have them hmu)
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Oopsie. https://www.privacysharks.com/exclusive-700-million-linkedin-records-for-sale-on-hacker-forum-june-22nd-2021/ How could this happen to a $2 trillion corporation like Microsoft? Hmmm.
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"A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera revealing how the oil giant is using its power and influence to water down US climate legislation."
The story that revealed just that:
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/06/30/exxon-climate-change-undercover/
While many of you use #Github or any other #microsoft product/service, remember that Microsoft partners with Exxon Mobile:
"ExxonMobil is optimising oil and gas operations with Microsoft
XTO Energy subsidiary is using technologies like Dynamics, Azure and machine learning to improve capital efficiency and support Permian production growth'
https://www.technologyrecord.com/Article/exxonmobil-is-optimising-oil-and-gas-operations-with-microsoft-87758
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.
#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
