Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Having locals who got paid to farm? The impact was dramatic. Paying farmers forced landowners to either invest in their land, or sell to someone who would.

Landowners actually started making MORE money from farming. They were more likely to keep land in farms than develop it.

My grandpa's neighborhood started growing high-revenue crops like fruits, vegetables, and nuts instead of low-ticket industrial crops. The food system became more responsive to consumer needs.

There are 2 things to know about US agriculture.

1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer.

2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves.

There IS a fix to both problems!

Thinking about: my brother surviving a campus massacre and growing up to run the covid ward of the same regional hospital while restaurant owners organized protests, seeing lab software shut itself off on the computers of colleagues from other countries, how science & school is always us trying to reach out & hold hands against it all, my brave teacher friends teaching while being put on lists, endless time my wife and I sit down & perform the calculus of where we put our bodies and swallow risk

What we better name, we can better know:

"developers experiencing code review anxiety [...] may believe that they are unable to manage their code review anxiety (low anxiety self-efficacy), believe that they are likely to break production (probability bias), and believe that this will be the end of their career as an engineer (cost bias), all of which increases their code review anxiety."

source: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

Reminder: instead of using StackOverflow for your questions about GTK and the GNOME software stack, use the GNOME Discourse instance:

https://discourse.gnome.org

You can also use it for applications and the overall GNOME desktop.

#gtk #gnome #development

If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

Challenge: Allwinner D1 put JTAG pins on the SD card socket, so I went searching for a “SD card breakout” and all I could find was a $30 PCB from Sparkfun (excluding shipping). No thanks!

Solution: use $5 free credit from #pcbway and get 5 of them made.

And it took less than 5 days to manufacture and ship.

Now that’s DIY!

(Anyone want one? I only need 1!)

An extreme opinion: #CI #tests should be self-contained. Ideally, nothing that changes state outside of the current repository should affect the success of the job.

This means your CI is only good if you keep a local copy of all your dependencies.

But you can reduce the guarantee a bit: pin your dependencies! Don't let *their* changes mess up *your* reliability, unless the Internet breaks.

This way you improve on 2 problems: reliability and supply chain safety.

#reproducible_builds #nix

@brembs @knutson_brain
@neuralreckoning

A question that came up in a recent (in-person) discussion: Has anyone compared the reproducibility or the validity of bioRxiv preprints with published journal articles? Are preprints less reliable than peer reviewed journal articles? It would seem we have enough examples now to check this.

Student protestors are portrayed as anywhere between naive and brainwashed. Now listen to this. Nothing naive here.

#Israel #Gaza #Chicago #Palestine #StudentProtests

Buy a shit-load of palm oil from Malaysia, get a free orangutan. I kid you not.

As the world's biggest importer of palm oil, New Zealand should be in line to receive a virtual buffoonery of orange apes.

Instead of playing PR games with a critically endangered species, it would be better for all if Malaysia just stopped destroying the orangutans' habitat.

https://www.dw.com/en/malaysia-plans-orangutan-diplomacy-to-boost-palm-oil-sales/a-69023254

#Orangutan #Malaysia

Last year, Kate Raworth put together a definition of capitalism. She prefaced it with:

“Let’s open up the black box of capitalism. I discussed what it means and what it does with Bernie Sanders and Martin Wolf on BBC Radio 4. Here’s how I defined it – how would you put it differently?”

Unfortunately, she put it in an image without an image description, so here follows the text in this image…

1/4

I used to be involved in political demonstrations a lot more when I was younger. I still see their value.

People would tell me, I shouldn't expect the demonstration to 'work', ie I shouldn't expect it to change the thing I'm protesting. I don't.

My take has always been that we demonstrate mostly to change ourselves, to give each other courage and resolve to do the small day-to-day small things and work that create real change.

That's still why I get up each morning. The work still needs doing

NEW EPISODE!

"When Driving is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts."

One-third of people in the US can’t drive. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, a low-vision nondriver and activist has written a new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency." We talked with Anna about building a system that works for everyone.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/05/07/125-when-driving-is-not-an-option-with-anna-zivarts/

#thewaroncars #podcast #transportation

In coalition with 19 other organizations, we told Meta to #StopSilencingPalestine. Read the company’s response and our statement here: https://stopsilencingpalestine.com/our-letter-and-meta-s-response/ 

Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

Life hack: I edit /etc/motd to include a reminder what a given Linux system does in my home network and include a list of the most commonly used (read: forgotten) commands. For instance my Pi-Hole includes a reminder about how to update and restart.

I have been seeking to document the very real brain worm problem in society for quite a while.

This is Kali Baba. Kali Baba taught me many things, but one of them stands out above all others, that pretty thoroughly summarizes everything else he taught and how he lived his life. As he said to me years ago:

"Me helping you, you helping me, God helping everybody. You no helping me, me no helping you, God also no helping."

And it's true, you know, strange as it may seem. Call it what you will, but the Universe responds to solidarity. There isn't much I know for sure, but I do know this.