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The San Francisco Police Department illegally spied on Black-led protests against police violence in 2020. Watch @eff and @ACLU_NorCal ask a court to hold SFPD accountable at a livestreamed hearing. eff.org/press/releases/livestr

"Chapter 7: Advancing Software from a Craft to a Profession" ... love that title.

💶🏆💵 Know an individual, team, or organization creating #OpenSource #software for good? Tell them to apply for the 2022 Pizzigati Prize, which celebrates software #developers and awards cash grants. #FreeSoftware #FLOSS

nten.org/article/apply-for-the

Reason #125 to choose us:

We're a one-stop shop.

We offer a range of services alongside translation, like management of social media and media campaigns, subtitling, edition, copyediting, simultaneous interpretation and content writing.

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TIL that the word "robot" derives from the Czech word "robota."

"Robota," is Czech for "corvee," i.e. the labor that feudal peasants were required to provide to the sovereign or lord in feudal Europe.

The word "robot" was introduced to English via the 1920 sci-fi play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Czech writer Karel Čapek. In the play, a factory creates artificial people who at first are happy to serve humans, but eventually revolt and kill everyone...but also learn how to love. 🤯

Canon can't get enough toner chips, so it's telling customers how to defeat its DRM.
arstechnica.com/?p=1824817

The data indicates that Agile projects aren't scalable and produce lesser quality than PSP, TSP, or RUP projects. This means that software quality has probably declined over the last 15 - 20 years.

For some good news, open source software does fall into the upper half of the quality levels; open source is more quality driven than (e.g.) financial software.

Capers Jones is proposing an overhaul of software education and oversight similar to what occured in medicine. He makes a strong case that is more realistic than the "just throw more programmers at it" proposals that are popular in the software industry.

Could you imagine a call for everyone to learn to be a doctor? Starting in grade school?

"We all have bodies that we use every day, so we should all learn how to do surgery!" /sarcasm

Via Alexandra Bradbury, art by twitter.com/lizar_tistry

The Teamster and UAW wins are not so straightforward, but they create real opportunities.

In Iowa city, Chomp, a food delivery app owned as a cooperative has outcompeted the tech giants.

It provides an exciting model for restaurants to bounce back from the pandemic, with six cities across the US seeking to replicate their success.

This is the first issue of a weekly newsletter about cooperative success stories and ideas about the future of the movement.

getrevue.co/profile/coop_excha

Capers Jones data on pair programming should make it go away. To summarize, pair programming is much less effective than formal inspections (formal code review), and adds over 50% more in cost.

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New Hampshire residents and those in surrounding areas can support a new piece of free software legislation to be introduced in the New Hampshire state legislature on
**Tuesday, January 11th** at 10:30 a.m. EST.

House Bill (HB) 1273
Our Freedom to Write and Read Everything" (SOFTWARE) Act

The 77th edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

linmob.net/linbits-77-weekly-l

The end of the year in Linux Phones, let's have a last LinBits: A new #Maui Shell for phones and tablets, #postmarketOS v21.12, #Mobian on the PinePhone Pro, #GTK 4.6.0, an app-list replacement prototype and more!

Of the companies that market stalkerware—sometimes under the guise of child safety or employee-monitoring software—@evacide told the TED audience, “Do these companies know that their tools are being used as tools of abuse? Absolutely.” eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/watc

RT @kwiens: And the winner for Privacy Worst in Show #ces2022 awarded by @eff is a light bulb that spies on you. Boo! t.co/af17ipuz

So grateful for having a real winter this year. ❄❄❄🙏❄❄❄

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Strong words from Capers Jones, "The software industry has the worst metrics and worst measurement practices of any industry in human history. It is one of very few industries that cannot measure its own quality and its own productivity. This is professionally embarrassing."

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