Robert Rodney
@Bobbydigs
Idealist technology lover patiently impacting the world we live in, one minute at a time. Founder of Kidbo where we try to make parenting simple.
Seeking senior web3 developer. Must have at least 7 weeks of experience.
LibreOffice has come a long way. blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/1…
blog.documentfoundation.org
German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice - TDF Community Blog
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools. In doing so, the state wants to reduce its dependence...
Mask type matters .. or I guess double-masking?
A driverless minibus in China. We are indeed transitioning into a large-scale reskilling era in which the next generation of workers will face a jobs environment far different than what exists today.
One time, probably in ‘00, my niece said she’d wanna be in the Olympics if she was a boy “Girls are in the Olympics, too,” I said “I know,” she replied. “But they gotta do everything in a bathing suit.” I laughed my ass off But I think about it every time I watch the Olympics
“Black women hold 10% the wealth of white men in America, but we are the most educated demographic, and the fastest growing demographic of entrepreneurs.” -Kelauni Jasmyn of BTN Ventures bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
bloomberg.com
New Effort Bets on Pittsburgh as a Hub for Black Venture Capital
Kelauni Jasmyn is aiming to create a “digital Wakanda” for Black tech entrepreneurs — far from Silicon Valley.
Doctor: Googling stuff online doesn't make you a doctor Every sysadmin or IT person ever:
This has been brewing for a while... cnbc.com/2021/04/30/eu-…
cnbc.com
EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
Apple has "abused its dominant position" in the distribution of music streaming apps, the European Commission said.
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software arxiv.org/abs/2103.00352
When distribution is proprietary, distribution wins (Comcast vs Netflix), when distribution is commoditized, best product wins (chrome vs IE), when product is commoditized, best service wins (Amazon vs others), when service is commoditized, best network wins.
"Understanding our tools is one of the most important and overlooked priorities for a lot of technology." youtu.be/XA2WjJbmmoM
Facts.
Can't say I saw the writing on the wall for this one... bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
bloomberg.com
Overpaying for TV Again? Get Used to It.
YouTube TV’s price hike is cable all over again.
“It is simply too easy to create a ‘scientific’ veneer for racism.” Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings nature.com/articles/d4158…
nature.com
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
Nature - More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
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