lwriemen

@lwriemen@librem.one

#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

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glyph, to random
@glyph@mastodon.social avatar

LB: if you are a founder of an actually useful business that uses "AI" technology in some defensible way, you should be glad that everyone viscerally hates it so much in public. the sooner we can get out of this "AI" hype cycle, the sooner your investors will stop demanding that you slather "AI" branding all over everything, the sooner you can talk about what your product specifically does and what value it provides and stop blathering about "AI" vaguely.

lwriemen,

@pmcneil @libroraptor @glyph Try LyX if you really want to havew WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Meant). LibreOffice will be more familiar, but LyX will be a step up.

glynmoody, to opensource
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before - https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/open_sources_new_mission/ "'s license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way"

lwriemen,

@glynmoody It's a bit of a stretch to say that Perens is concerned with vs . The author and Perens like to express their dire forecasts in terms. This allows them to state FOSS is dying and punk is dead. The view is only valid if you state that such movements exist to make a profit.

siderea, (edited ) to random

There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se.

The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.

🧵

CC: @Gargron

lwriemen,

@siderea I wonder how much science was linked to the Omni article. It's been a long time assertion of fans of Windows, but I haven't seen anyone link to studies that give size a larger correlation than Windows' inherent lack of security.

Linux_Is_Best, to microsoft

Microsoft, quietly, has published a guide on how to download and install Linux.

No... Seriously... It is not a joke...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).

The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.

That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯

lwriemen,

@Linux_Is_Best Every option includes wiping Windows and installing Linux instead. ;-)

mcc, (edited ) to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Today's enshittification:

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/17725942479127?mkt_tok=Nzc4LU1FVS0yODEAAAGOoRg54PgTNgY6pGi8ZGCBo4RBceJYESjZG-ZTFTEPwCxC_xAx_R-KrDPcvdVF2feeZqO7NY8cMhIffMIHFn0dVK2zbT0IpKxC1k4SS3vEaNM&utm_campaign=ai_subprocessor&utm_content=help-center&utm_medium=email&utm_source=figma

Figma is adding "AI" and made all user content eligible as input. They sent an email to all users making a big benevolent show of allowing us to opt out. But

  1. You're opted in automatically. Opting out requires action.
  2. ONLY team/organization leaders can opt out. Do you, for work reasons say, do work on someone else's org? You're at their mercy.
  3. "This setting doesn't apply to files in personal drafts, where AI features are always enabled"
lwriemen,

@mcc
Company: <Any>
License: Prioprietary
Enshittification: Expected

djlink, to random
@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

I've seen a lot of "I've spent years learning this tool and now it's wasted". Majority of that gamedev knowledge is transferable, it's not gone. It might be different on a new tool but you'll know how to do it, it's easier to search the equivalent then not knowing at all.

lwriemen,

@djlink "separation of concerns" is a skill in software development that allows one to broaden the reuse potential. Many developers tend to think of their product in terms of software language, processor, operating system, graphics library, or some other non-functional requirement, but the product's functional requirements dictate none of those.

johnshirley2024, (edited ) to random

Used to be that if you didn't vote for Democrats you were creating a vacuum filled by conservatives. Now if you don't vote for Democrats, locally and nationally, you're permitting the takeover of fascists. The choice really is that stark now. I hear anarchist & Marxist friends saying, what about us? You can have anarchism or Marxism--locally. You can create communes and communities, and demonstrate locally how it works. A display of that alternative. Meanwhile vote against fascists.

lwriemen,

@johnshirley2024
This sounds like it was lifted straight from a DNC email. Fear mongering is a powerful technique in political marketing. Don't vote your conscience! Vote against <scary thing>! Meanwhile, ignore this list of other bad things we continue to support. The blame for the rise of fascism lies with both parties; the Democrats have just been slower to normalize it.
https://rall.com/2023/08/08/can-you-vote-for-a-third-party-take-the-test

mkwadee, to climate
@mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk avatar

was world’s hottest month on record, scientists confirm | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/08/july-2023-worlds-hottest-month-climate-crisis-scientists-confirm

lwriemen,

@mkwadee
...and the gold medal goes to ... !

siderea, to random

(h/t @Archie8 via @dynamic)

2023 Feb 12: Wired:

"God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter"

by Paul Ford

Excerpt:

Twitter’s troubles are due not just to Musk, who appears to be both shooting himself in the foot and cauterizing the wound with his own brand of flamethrower. No, Musk is merely the vehicle. The real reason Twitter lies in ruins is because it was an abomination before God. It was a Tower of Babel.

[...]

God does the wrath thing a lot in the Old Testament, punishing humans who would challenge divine authority. It makes sense to read the story of Babel in that light. But having lived through the past couple decades of the internet, I believe the story carries a different lesson. I’m an atheist, so take this theory with a grain of salt, or maybe even a pillar: God wasn’t keeping us out of heaven, smiting us for our arrogance. God was protecting us from ourselves.

[Continued]

lwriemen,

@GeoWend
so...all small towns are fascist except the one you live in?

@siderea @JoeLamport

brendannyhan, to random

New at Nature: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w
Our key findings:
-Median Facebook user gets 50.4% of content from like-minded sources
-But reducing exposure by 1/3 for 3 months had no measurable effect on attitudes

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lwriemen,

I'm not sure this study showed anything. By its own admission, Facebook might not have been a large enough influencer vs. outside sources. I think a valid study would have to isolate the participants.

subMedia, to random

Challenge accepted

lwriemen,

@subMedia Err...the small town's already got you. Don't let some country shithead define, "small town".

glynmoody, to climate
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Florida rocked by home insurance crisis: ‘I may have to sell up and move’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/florida-hurricane-insurance-crisis-climate some Floridians may not think the is happening, but all the insurers do....

lwriemen,

@glynmoody how long until non-hurricane related flood insurance is mandatory? (at least for those places < 1m above sea level)

wjmaggos, to random
@wjmaggos@liberal.city avatar

Money doesn't trickle down. It rises, like hot air. The more money you have, the more you can make by investing it. The less you have, the quicker the crappy stuff you can buy breaks down. And generally, the less healthy of a lifestyle you can lead, resulting in more health care costs etc. It's crazy that we let that metaphor take hold.

lwriemen,

@wjmaggos Had an older relative describe trickle down to me, when Reagan was first elected, as, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining!"

breadandcircuses, to politics

I’ll be blunt. We have no hope of averting climate chaos or preventing the catastrophic collapse of our modern society without SYSTEM CHANGE.

Keeping capitalism in charge means a death sentence for billions of humans — most of them poor and in the Global South — along with complete extinction for uncounted plant and animal species.

The fake “democracy” we have in the Global North is nothing but a game show owned and produced by oligarchs. As long as they remain in control of the system, nothing meaningful will change. How you vote doesn’t matter, because every important candidate is approved in advance, vetted and managed by those men behind the curtain.

Either capitalism dies or we die. It’s that simple.

lwriemen,

@zrb @NatureMC @cian @breadandcircuses I don't think you can define "capitalism" without using the word, "accumulation", applied to goods and services and tempered with demand.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

If you are a white leftist and you talk “both parties are the same they are both capitalist” you will loose most of your black audience. I think it ought to be obvious that this isn’t because blackfolks love Democrats (in most cases, there is always someone being simple in any group) —no. it’s because the difference between the parties is material and obvious and these are unstable times.

When I hear such talk I wonder if the speaker is working on voter suppression.

lwriemen,

@futurebird Interesting spin on the "no third parties" argument. Whose intelligence are you actually insulting?

petersuber, (edited ) to Battlemaps

Ronald Reagan appointed an named James Watt to head the department, which is a major player in US environmental policy. Watt didn't think it was important to protect the because "I do not know how many future generations we can count on until the Lord returns."
https://newrepublic.com/article/173705/good-riddance-architect-gops-environmental-culture-wars

I'm old enough to remember this well. It was a stellar example of public harm caused by private delusion, tolerated and applauded by millions.

lwriemen,

@petersuber This is why I find politicians like Mike Pence much scarier than Trump.

janeadams, to fediverse
@janeadams@vis.social avatar

THREAD: I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it.

(1/10)

lwriemen,

@janeadams These are great. Next steps is to talk about FOSS alternatives to platforms like Adobe, because the social media tech giants aren't the only ones collecting our data and abusing our trust. ;-)

lwriemen,

@janeadams I don't use tools like that, so I'm not much help. Maybe someone else will chime in.

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

lwriemen,

@strypey mojeek has their own webcrawler bot for searches, but its results tend to be hit or miss.
metager also uses bing heavily, but allows you to filter out websites; I find bing more relevant with Microsoft affiliated websites filtered out.

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