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Thu May 20 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven, but only poorly after waking around four. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds up to 5 mph increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Work ---------------------------------------- - 10 AM business team meeting Done. - FINISH Entrata buildings Done. - open Entrata bug report about incorrect escaping of quotation marks from input No. - open Entrata feature request to search unit marketing numbers and/or unit numbers WITH building number No. - open Entrata feature request to have "sort numerically" and "sort alphabetically" buttons for building reordering No. Didn't feel like going out in the heat at lunch, but paced around my apartment for fifteen minutes. Home ---------------------------------------- Vacuumed. https://friend.camp/@garbados/106265990217439805 Structural Advantages for Software Developers to Leverage and Destroy https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/leverage-and-destroy.html > …if we can pay for our labor without paywalls, we can build post-scarcity systems. > It is not enough to produce free alternatives to scabware if we cannot support the labor and materials to steward our offerings through every cycle of their development and usage. > Medieval guilds represented classes of tradespeople and established shared norms for working conditions and applied standards. They maintained common infrastructure for passing knowledge from elders to initiates while supporting the livelihoods of all members. > Guilds enshrined their power through civil law and trade secrets, advantages dismantled by industrialization. Such trade secrets would be even harder to maintain in the information age, and most of the guild members believe information wants to be free. > FOSS as a practice abhors trade secrets, and yet our works seem to one another as arcana, lost while still living but for the expertise of a few. We know that secrecy allows vulnerabilities to fester and multiply, but plagued by reinvention we struggle to distribute our knowledge. Secrets emerge not from avarice but from how thin we spread our labor. I hope the day comes that this struggle lies behind us, when the craft has become accessible to all people. Until then we stand in a unique position as workers: we control the labor and expertise that constitute the means of production -- just as Medieval guilds did. What they're talking about aren't commodifiable secrets, but the results of specialization in a domain too broad and deep for anyone to wield truly expert knowledge in more than a few areas. I don't see how restricting dissemination of that knowledge (if such a thing is even possible) to guild members would strengthen the guild — reorganizing the practitioners doesn't change the volume of knowledge. There's also the issue or effortlessly reproducible artifacts. It takes valuable expert knowledge to produce a high-quality cryptographic library, for example, but once completed it can be easily reused. Does a guild restrict reuse through licensing? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html > If you remember two things about her, it’s that she vaulted to fame with that enduring close-up in the video for her version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” — and then, that she stared down a “Saturday Night Live” camera, tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II and killed her career. > But O’Connor doesn’t see it that way. In fact, the opposite feels true. Now she has written a memoir, “Rememberings,” that recasts the story from her perspective. “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she writes, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.” > O’Connor saw herself as a protest-singing punk. When she ascended to the top of the pop charts, she was trapped. “The media was making me out to be crazy because I wasn’t acting like a pop star was supposed to act,” she told me. “It seems to me that being a pop star is almost like being in a type of prison. You have to be a good girl.” > Now O’Connor’s memoir arrives at a time when the culture seems eager to reassess these old judgments. The top comment on a YouTube rip of O’Connor’s “Behind the Music” episode is: “Can we all just say she was right!” Few cultural castaways have been more vindicated by the passage of time: child sexual abuse, and its cover-up within the Catholic Church, is no longer an open secret. John Paul II finally acknowledged the church’s role in 2001, nearly a decade after O’Connor’s act of defiance. https://freeradical.zone/@NerdyPepper/105894883708184012 Hmm, "dither brushes" is an interesting term related to 1-bit art (and other digital art, I guess). Tiny bit of work on Torch & Sword. I'd like to move it from beta to RC1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Minus_One https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/ Watched a couple episodes of the Silver Spoon anime. Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, coffee (100 cal) Lunch: two hot dogs, cucumber (1000 cal) Dinner: orange, Japanese curry with potato (700 cal) Total calories: 1800 -22

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