Notices by Henry Edward Hardy (hhardy01@mastodon.social)

@luricaun

And actually test the process of recovering from backups...

I have seen a business lose critical systems when it turned out their "backups" only filled one dvd... and left an essentially unrecoverable open file...

@codewiz @sohkamyung

Bernie, this is the really bad timeline where Donald Trump is President of the United States. Just so you aren't surprised again. :)

WTF Larry. Joi Ito is not a victim here; he's one of Epstein's enablers.

"A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret

A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, M.I.T. and reputation laundering."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/business/lessig-epstein-ito-mit.html

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

Well, I agree with a lot of Ivan's concerns in his diatribe.

Having said that, his whole, construtivism has never been proven and all the trials failed. All I can say is, it worked for me. I had nothing but access to a DEC PDP8e. And the manuals. No instruction, no supervision. That's how I learned to program & be a system administrator when I was 14.

Deployment was a hard problem. We hadn't 50,000 FTE for field deployments, we had at most, a total 23 FTE in all OLPC!

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

I laughed so hard when some business mag had Nic pose at my desk in the garden, with all the laptops up in the ceiling conduit and cords hanging directly down to my lovely black shuttle box and my two 24 inch monitors...

I realized Bernie, that we are who NIc only pretends and aspires to be, and we know it and he knows it. :)

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

It only failed by the terms Nic set, of 100 million laptops for $100 each. But that was never a plan, it was BS which the press lapped up. They gave Nic a bye when the crank fell off at the launch w/ UN secretary general. Lol

On its own terms, what we actually did do was great, and transformative for the maybe 5 or 10% of users who really embraced and fully adopted. If you think about Haiti Nepal Mongolia Peru Rwanda people who had nothing, now had a computer & internet.

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

Overall I am very proud of the work we did at OLPC and successor orgs. We put hundreds of thousands awesomely cool rugged low power open source and open firmware linux boxes into the hands of kids in the poorest countries in the world.

When school break ended in Uruguay and we were sending out 25,000 or 30,000 apps per hour to Uruguay alone, my heart was full of joy. Truly.

We did what we did, and what was left undone, we are still doing. We will never be defeated!

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

I was one of those OLPC employees who knew in general about the Windows deal(s). In fact, the week I started, I spoke out against any MS deal at an all-staff meeting, directly to Nics face. Went over like a lead balloon.

I didn't take my employers trade secrets and publicize them.

Having given my word of keeping the information confidential, per Systems Administrator's Code of Ethics. Also per the Code, I directly communicated to my employer and all staff, my concerns.

@codewiz @BarkMarnett

Yes and adding to that, as you know I was senior systems administrator of OLPC for a year. Many of us internally protested and spoke against the Microsoft deal, which I did know about to some degree.

At the end of 2008, more than 50% of the FTEs were fired, and almost all of us let go just happened to be people who opposed the Microsoft deal. But Microsoft was only the tip of the iceberg. It was Nics old boy network and plutocrat greenwashing club all the way down.