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#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
Stumbled across the "Clean Network" initiative this morning. Sounds like a threat to freedom.
Go Boilers!
Had someone state that you don't want a problem the Friday afternoon before a release. I was about to reply that is true for any Friday afternoon, but then remembered Gerald Weinberg's statement of crisis, "It may look like a crisis, but it's only the end of an illusion."
This is so true in software development, especially when you don't use good metrics like function points. The illusion is the schedule, which often has little basis in known values.
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Please help spread the word: EFF is seeking an experienced media strategist or journalist to run our press team. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/dream-job-alert-media-relations-director-eff
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Hey, it turns out that it is in fact possible for values-driven companies to stop participating in practices that are known to cause people harm, even when it may impact revenue.
Now, where are the nonprofits?
https://mashable.com/article/lush-quit-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-social-media-harms
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The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy - Karl Bode @ VICE (2018): https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites
Gives me some hope that if people have to give up "must see" movies/TV anyways (or resort to piracy), that gives free culture an opportunity to get a foothold...
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This Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control https://www.synack.com/blog/this-microsoft-windows-rce-vulnerability-gives-an-attacker-complete-control/
TL;DR it's still worst practice to use Remote Desktop for anything other than running a honeypot.
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The American Dream is dead and buried, so why is it still fucking up our lives?
The most productive places for knowledge work:
1. Off-site office with a door.
2. Onsite office with a door.
3. Don't count on being very productive in any other circumstances.
P.S. Turn off phone, messaging, and email.
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It's currently 60 degrees F here in NW Montana. We've had maybe an 1/8 inch of snow so far this year. Last year, Winter didn't ever really arrive, and it's starting to look like we're gonna have a repeat this year. Starting to think Winter just isn't going to be a thing anymore. 😧
Microsoft must really be trying to increase usage numbers for LinkedIn Learning, because the company I'm working at has tied both goals and bonus to employees using a certain number of hours of LinkedIn Learning.
Both the goal and the bonus amount are pretty insulting, especially to someone late in career. Learning really is its own reward, if it's something you need or want to learn, so providing access to *good* learning is good. LinkedIn Learning isn't good learning.
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Your power company wants you to financially help them provide power to people who can't pay their utility bills in deadly weather conditions. Why? So they don't have to cut into their own profits. #capitalism
New chip hides wireless messages in plain sight https://ece.princeton.edu/news/new-chip-hides-wireless-messages-plain-sight
Flow is important to characterize, but it is also to understand what conditions cause one to enter and exit flow. This is especially important in knowledge work. Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister cited studies on interruptions to flow and the cost of reattaining it. Newer studies would be beneficial to understanding productivity in knowledge work.
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Dec 6, 9am PST: Join this virtual discussion on how platform coops provide a viable alternative to the gig economy, and how policymakers, governments & communities can cultivate a strong ecosystem for platform coops through policy & structural changes. 💜
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Ranting about simultaneous translation
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Tech enthusiast: "I want smart lights, smart tv, everything, and connect them all to my digital assisstant!"
Tech worker: *looks wistfully into distance* "I should get a small place in a little town, with a garden, make my own furniture."
#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
