Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

🪴 Indoor plant friends: what is the best way to deal with watering when on a 2-week vacation?

(Assume all my friends are also on vacation because Sverige in July.)

The glass bulb thing did not work last time.

Do the plastic water bottle spikes or rope methods actually work?

Deutschland will launch a €3.5 million annual sovereign tech fund to support engineers working on open source software government agencies and industry rely on.

Good for the intellectual commons. Good for national security.

#PublicMoneyPublicCode

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/germany-launch-sovereign-tech-fund-secure-digital-infrastructure

Being able to set multiple timers with Siri apparently won’t happen until macOS Inland Empire. #WWDC2022

Is there anything immigrants to Sverige can do other than feel helpless, ignored, and denigrated during elections? #SvPol

When is Apple Watch going to track big spoon and little spoon cuddle time?

These are critical sleep tracking metrics affecting my health and well-being.

#WWDC2022

Mozilla finally released a Firefox add-on for language translation using local machine learning. It’s based on Project Bergamot <https://browser.mt/> and implemented in WebAssembly.

Sadly, like Apple’s, no support yet for Svenska (Swedish).

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

Backblaze will save my ass again, but not my gists, stars, or contribution history to other repos I assume.

That time I accidentally deleted my Github account thinking I was deleting an account on a service I had signed into using my Github account

If you are cisgender, the responsibility is on you to fight for trans, nonbinary, intersex folks.

If you are straight, the responsibility is on you to fight for gay, lesbian, bi, pan, a,aro folks.

Those in positions of privilege & power are the ones most responsible for change.

3. Be visible for the people who don’t yet feel comfortable being their authentic selves publicly.

If you aren’t ready, it’s ok. We’re still here supporting and fighting for you.

2. March with a tribe stronger than the corporation that pays your bills. If you don’t have one, this is a great month to connect with like-minded queers on some interest or cause. Your employer does not need your help promoting its brand during a protest. Wear a different shirt.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month!

1. It’s a protest and a party, but mostly a protest. Equality and equity are still far from achieved worldwide.

“That rainbow flag waves in defiance here more often than joy.” —LaDonna Witmer

Written British English is like, “Just use a tonne of extra lettres, silieaount vowels, and irregular consonant jukstapositions in plaeces for humourous internationalisation.”

I considered replacing my Fitbit with an Oura Ring, but €314 and then also a €6/month membership is way more than Apple Watch.

The monthly subscriptions for every damn piece of hardware have to stop.

Let’s see what’s on the Information Superhighway this morning

I dare a country music artist to write a song about a parent in Texas losing a child to gun violence.

The only 2 things I want from #WWDC2022:

1. watchOS with third-party watchfaces (the only feature keeping me on a Fitbit)

2. IP67 waterproof iPad (I like to read in the bathtub)

Nothing has captured what I feel experiencing my birth country (USA) from afar (Sverige) quite like this essay and poem by LaDonna Witmer, a poet who moved her family to Portugal.

https://wordsbyladonna.substack.com/p/same-song-different-verse