Engineer
Solar Punk
User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.
Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.
Leonardo da Vinci's handwritten resume, by @openculture
https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/the-resume-of-leonardo-da-vinci-1482.html
My favourite part:
"And if any of the above-named things seem to anyone to be impossible or not feasible, I am most ready to make the experiment in your park, or in whatever place may please your Excellency"
which today would be something like:
"Oh, so you don't think I can code without copy-pasting from Stack Overflow. Well, watch me."
People For Bikes, the main bicycle industry lobbying group, is trying really hard to keep ebike repair tools and manuals out of the hands of independent repair shops through carveouts for ebikes from right to repair laws on the grounds of battery safety.
This is very similar to the tactics used by car companies to keep car owners locked to dealerships for repairs.
Yes, batteries can be dangerous. But what's even more dangerous is that people will improperly dispose of broken bikes when they don't have access to the documentation and diagnostic tools manufacturers make, but only license to official shops.
Besides the battery thing is a big red herring. The stuff they're holding back isn't battery repair tools, it's documentation of everything else like controllers and throttles and sensors. They would rather brick your bike than let you have control over it. #RightToRepair #Ebikes #FelonyContemptofBusinessModel
Still waiting for a sustainable, repairable tablet. We need FairPhone and @frameworkcomputer to team up and bring us a mobile computing device suitable for the 21st century.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW0h4&feature=share
#JohnsonAndJohnson are trying to hold on to a #patent on #bedaquiline that should be expiring. This #tuberculosis drug was developed with large taxpayer funding. #JandJ trying to squeeze more money from patients runs counter to their credo:
"We believe our first responsibility is to the #patients, #doctors and #nurses, to #mothers and #fathers and all others who use our products and services."
#JNJ can do the right thing for patients, for world health, and for their shareholders by ending this naked money grab and saving 6,000,000 lives over the next 4 years.
Johnson and Johnson is trying to extend their patent on life saving tuberculosis medication. This will result in 6 million unnecessary deaths. Call them out. Spread the word.
nixCraft 🐧
Juan Carlos Muñoz
Luz Change
Jordan (Damn Good Tech)
William Hughes
CubeOfCheese