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"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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As is generally the case, I think Glyn is spot on with this one: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-free-software-open-source-would-lose-its-meaning
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So I've been working on this draft for some time; this weekend I finally got into into publishable shape. If the trope that every equation in a book or article halves your readership is correct, I would assume that about 0.2 people will read this. 😀
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This is nice to verify, but it shouldn't surprise anyone. Religion is largely unrelated to moral, civil behaviour.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/16/ending-religion-lessons-in-schols-leads-to-overall-decline-in-belief-not-morals
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Taliban forces pepper-spray women’s rights protesters in Kabul - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/taliban-forces-pepper-spray-women-rights-protesters-kabul #afghanistan
The Airbnb et al. scam economy. https://inthesetimes.com/article/rural-housing-crisis-vacation-rentals-bans
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Check out the Cooperative Journal, via Ebony Gustave...
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Leading #UK f#racking firm taken over by green #energy group | Fracking | The Guardian
The company has no interest in doing any fracking, which is good.
#HydraulicFracturing #FossilFuels #Gas #RenewableEnergy #Renewables
Disturbing New Report Shows Dire Conditions For Grocery Workers - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/kroger-grocery-survey-disturbing-new-report-shows-dire-conditions-for-workers
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UK Government Apparently Hoping It Can Regulate End-To-End Encryption Out Of Existence | Techdirt - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220108/14054448251/uk-government-apparently-hoping-it-can-regulate-end-to-end-encryption-out-existence.shtml
#uk #encryption
Everyone in software has their ignorances; Capers Jones wrote, "design methods such as the unified modeling language (UML)". UML was birthed by (OO) analysis and design methods, but it is not a design method. The Three Amigos created RUP as their unified method.
I've seen him refer to Object Oriented (OO) as a method as well. Of course to be fair, I've also seen other people spout this ignorance of OO and UML. OO usually refers to a set of anecdotal rules that users of OOPLs follow. #UncleBobSux
Capers Jones has commented on bad news project deliverables not reaching upper management. He appears to think the fix to this problem is better use of tracking tools. When you combine this with the DeMarco and Lister books, like Peopleware, you realize all kinds of dystopian software metrics scenarios. This is one of the roots of developer angst over software metrics collection.
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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. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/livestreamed-hearing-friday-eff-will-ask-court-issue-judgment-against-sfpd-illegally
"Chapter 7: Advancing Software from a Craft to a Profession" ... love that title.
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💶🏆💵 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
https://www.nten.org/article/apply-for-the-2022-pizzigati-prize/
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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. 🤯
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Canon can't get enough toner chips, so it's telling customers how to defeat its DRM.
https://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
#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
