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Speaking of hypocrisy...a bunch of conservatives at a company I used to work for are looking for a government handout to restore the pension income they lost when the company declared the pension bankrupt. Of course, these guys are blaming the government, not the company management that borrowed against the pension to elevate their bonuses or the Reagan administration that made it possible for companies to borrow against the employees' pension funds. PBGC was already a bailout.

White hypocrisy includes many liberals in the USA. Still...it's nice to see this from a mainstream media outlet.

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Colleague at work trying to tell me that the chat status indicator is sacrosanct. My response was to throw a copy of Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister) at his head.

I only allow the chat app to run, because some people don't seem to know how to use email anymore. I disable notifications, because I'm supposed to be working.

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It's nice to have some real investigative journalism that is willing to print some hard truths rather than a black and white narrative.
rall.com/2022/03/29/the-left-m

Ted Rall is willing to talk about how you should both oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's current political policies.

For most college sports fans, the post season just makes you feel bad about a team that had a good season.

“Solar & wind are now the cheapest bulk power sources in 91% of the world, and the UN’s International Energy Agency (IEA) expects renewables to generate 90% of all new power in the coming years. The energy revolution has happened. Sorry if you missed it”

"They can superinsulate your house to net zero standard in a single day whilst you’re at work, and meanwhile they’ve dropped in a very efficient heat pump core for mechanicals, and put on a super-insulated solar roof”

theguardian.com/environment/20

Dr Rachel Clarke on Twitter

"Is everyone aware that in one week’s time, the government is expecting all NHS staff either (a) to pay for their own LFTs or (b) to stop self-testing & potentially come to work with Covid, infecting vulnerable patients?"

"Is everyone really OK with this?"

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twitter.com/doctor_oxford/stat

In our latest update on the Freedom Ladder campaign, we're sharing what we learned in our mission to create introductory free software resources that keep people moving forward to full software freedom. u.fsf.org/3h9

This seems well supported, plausible, and extraordinarily bleak. resilience.org/stories/2020-06 as humans continue to prioritise stupid things like wars of acquisition, fulfilling unsustainable personal ambitions, and generally getting more stuff. #climatecatastrophe #civilisationcollapse

Yesterday, during a bike ride to the picturesque Microsoft hyperscale datacenter in Middenmeer (NL), I learned that Microsoft and Google store over 2 million liters of Diesel there, of which half is burned during monthly and yearly tests of their emergency generator. I suppose this is commonly known, their way to reach 99,999 percent availability, I just never pictured datacenters having *that* many chimneys... Biking past them also lets the hyper-ness of their scale sink in 😱

Security self-sufficiency means identifying those areas where you are dependent upon other companies, and choosing solutions that allow you to revoke trust easily, hold your own keys, and audit your digital supply chain. puri.sm/posts/security-self-su

Its nice that Indiana's Senators are openly admitting their racism. /sarcasm

Don’t be stuck wanting an app, information or entertainment; prepare now, and you’ll have your own software oasis no matter what happens to the broader internet. Here is how you can host your own local services in the case of an internet outage on a Librem 14💡 puri.sm/posts/prepping-your-co

Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacy

Dear Free Software Friends. Daniel Pocock is harassing members of our communities yet again and forging mails so that it appears to originate from Debian lists. Please be careful.

Note that he is not part of Debian and has been banned from the project, contrary to his claims that he quit.

Debian has issued a statement on Daniel Pocock last year, which you can find here: https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211117
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