Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

I have a meeting tomorrow about funding for Groups and a few other features 😉

#groups #pixelfed #soon

If you make websites for a living, know that you are *extremely likely* to be wealthier than the people on whose devices your code will run. This matters to *how* that code runs.

Let's say you're a webdev in the US, building for the US market exclusively. There's huge variability in cost of living across geos, but even so, Indeed shows a an average base salary for a webdev of ~$80K/yr:

https://www.indeed.com/career/web-developer/salaries

Median* household* income, meanwhile, is closer to $70K/yr:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255221

RT @Rainmaker1973
This is a detail of the right forearm of Michelangelo's Moses (c. 1513–1515). The blue circle highlights a small muscle called extensor digiti minimi, which only contracts when the little finger is lifted

[source, read more: https://buff.ly/3xsSG5L]

Taking on monopolies is hard. To add to recent books we have these academic papers. The New Deal had effective response. What will be this century's?

Monopoly Month on SSRN – Part 1.

This month we are highlighting papers that examine a range of topics related to monopolies, including their regulation, specific cases and monopoly theory. We aim to showcase the latest papers on monopolies, as well as popular papers from earlier years.

https://blog.ssrn.com/2023/02/10/monopoly-month-on-ssrn-part-1/

#Housing #LateStageCapitalism

Just found out that you can add emojis to your @zotero library. Please take this away from me, I am #procrastinating with this the whole morning. <3 @phdlife #academicChatter

After a month of intensive lecturing on the history of environmental economics, I've concluded that history of economics as a field is a bit like the price of carbon:

everyone loosely agree that its value should be $300 the ton, but the market price has been stuck at $8 for 20 years

#histecon #historyofecon #envhist @historyofeconomics

"Call for Letters of Inquiry: Institutional Support for Open Source Software in Research

Grants of up to $750,000 over two years will be awarded to U.S. higher education institutions to launch university Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)"

https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/ospo-loi

lmao, "we found out your epic posts were overloading the mainframe sir"

Some engineer did a fantastic job of saving probably their entire team's jobs by pulling that whopper of a lie out of their ass

Bonjour! #croissants au levain are for brekky #breadposting #breadbaking #baking

1/5 I have recently noticed a shift by the FTC to a more traditional progressive approach to enforcement and away from the original NeoBrandesian (NB) positions of the Biden administration. Given the media attention paid to the left-leaning progressive stance of Biden administration antitrust enforcement, these changes are noteworthy. Several recent events indicate this centrist shift.

Lol. I tried posting a tweet to tell people about my latest Techdirt story (about Mastodon) and I got this error message (and it's the only tweet I've tried today).

Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂

Real Firefox with Gecko 🦎!

Apple's over a decade long ban on competitive third party browsers has almost certainly cost Firefox significant market share and 100s of millions in lost revenue.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/

Pantheon Desktop (from the @elementary team) is a master piece on #NixOS 🤌🧑‍🍳

If I'm switching distros, I might as well go all in. I'm switching to Pantheon too 😲 Excellent work @danirabbit 💖️

The trackpad gestures are sublime. The hardware/peripheral configuration is on point. I can tweak the keyboard shortcuts to suit my muscle memory. Outstanding job by the #Nix contributors who pulled all this together ⭐️

@grahamc The notification settings might be what you're looking for 👍

Yet another team at work getting totally f'd by "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in drafts.

The tape-tearing tiktok you didn’t know you needed:

All this business about Stata allowing you to make tables of your estimates is nonsense. Nobody should be showing anyone their estimates, because they are ESTIMATES.

Come back to me when you have truth, then we'll put it in a table.

New report from NTIA says the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers and recommends policy changes to fix it. https://ntia.gov/report/2023/competition-mobile-app-ecosystem

Forward thinking and designed for real life with an improved sideloading and alt store experience, power profiles management, and using a next generation UI toolkit. OS 7 Helps you get the apps you need, Empowers you with new features and settings, and evolves our developer platform. Download it now for a pay-what-you-can price! https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-available-now/

Got lots of setting up to do now with the release of #elementaryOS 7.

The whole family uses it, including our kids - it's so great to have a focused, polished Linux distro for them to do their homework, watch their streams and invite us parents to their Stardew Valley farm every now and then.

Thanks @danirabbit and everyone involved!