John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
Was always sad to see Mozilla promoting a proprietary extension and centralized service over the objections of many many many people, even sadder to see them formally make it part of Mozilla, sadder yet to see them becoming just like any other company that runs and shuts down centralized services, and the saddest to see them do it without ever following through on their initial statements that all of this would become open source https://www.engadget.com/apps/mozilla-is-shutting-down-its-read-it-later-app-pocket-183247576.html -- I see there is https://github.com/open-pocket/open-pocket
John Sullivan
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"Privacy on Trial: Meta’s DOJ Battle"
Meta claims it’s not a monopoly., and respects privacy.
The FTC disagrees.
For those who reject Surveillance Capitalism—where your data is the product—Purism offers a bold alternative.
Read Full Article: https://puri.sm/posts/privacy-on-trial-metas-doj-battle-vs-purisms-user-centric-philosophy/
I didn't know about this system before; seems like an opportunity for the USFG to use its negotiating leverage against DRM. (Also while I dislike taxpayer dollars funding DRM, I do not support firing everyone.)
GNU has its own version of bikeshedding bikeshedding where we can't talk about what color to paint the shed until we talk about whether "bike" and "shed" are the correct terms for the thing to be painted, if that's what we are going to call the activity being proposed -- but is it an activity, and is it actually a proposal...
"no-reply@replies.uber.com"
bad11.org must've been taken https://endof10.org/
I heard something about this once before, years ago, what was it...
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-grants-itself-the-power-to-brick-switches-with-pirated-games-162129077.html?src=rss
John Sullivan
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Today is the last day to submit for FOSSY! Whether you are a veteran to the FOSS speaking scene or a first time speaker or even first time FOSS conference attendee, we want to hear from you!
Join us in IRC/ XMPP or send us an email if you have any last minute questions about your talk! conference@sfconservancy.org
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
Join us in IRC/ XMPP or send us an email if you have any last minute questions about your talk! conference@sfconservancy.org
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
I was so glad to get all these emails from suppliers about how they are completely absorbing the costs of tariffs! Then I woke up and looked at my real inbox, eyebrows singed by the heat of the ever more expensive dumpster fire therein. This man has very obviously never actually been anywhere near a real business. Changing prices is a lot of work -- hope someone studies just the cost of that, among all the other negative impacts.
Is WPA3 in #Debian expected to work?
John Sullivan
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If "community" to you means more than "the people using the software/service we own," you will find your people at #FOSSY. Talk
submissions are open until Monday, April 28th:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
submissions are open until Monday, April 28th:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
John Sullivan
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We haven't done the full lifecycle analysis, but we strongly suspect using more #fountainpens filled via bottled ink instead of disposable ballpoints/rollerballs is a nice thing to think about doing for your #EarthDay small positive changes list.
Feel old.
This is a good, insightful testimonial piece on Lifehacker and has the potential to be a great interview series. People I know should respond to the call :) https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-much-convenience-do-you-compromise-for-online-privacy
John Sullivan
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A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉
If you have a talk about FOSS on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁
The submission thing is open until April 28:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
John Sullivan
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As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland
Good to see this happening in Japan -- I think scrutiny of deals around preinstallation of software on #Android devices is important for the future growth of projects like @fdroidorg
, and of mobile freedom in general. #google
Do you think these two NYT advice columnists, published on the same day of the paper edition, knew they were separately answering the same question? Scroll to the questions about office attire..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/business/do-dogs-belong-at-work.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/style/in-laws-wedding-attendance.html
One thing it should obviously not be is a platform actually owned and run privately by government officials (truth social, X..).
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
