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
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Come See Us at FOSSY!
Interested in free and open source software? Want to hear insights from researchers, community leaders, contributors, and advocates working on and with FOSS? Join us next weekend at the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference! We will be running the Science of Community track on Friday August 2nd and Saturday August 3rd. We're excited to have a number of awesome presenters speaking about their work.
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The "mini" pen show is tomorrow! This is a "mini pen show" as in, 3 guest #fountainpen vendors plus door prizes and sales, but we also do have plenty of mini pens to show you. Details at https://www.crazyalansemporium.com/2024/07/24/saturday-july-27-mini-pen-show-at-crazy-alans-emporium/ . If you didn't get an email about it, you can join our mailing list at https://www.crazyalansemporium.com/newsletter/ .
I officially dislike the Sharpie S-Gel, which has managed to get ink on two pairs of pants on consecutive days, and on my notebook holder. And while it has a nice bold line, it's very fussy about paper and angle. Getting ink where it's not supposed to be is apparently not just a #fountainpen problem.
(But if you like the S-Gel, I'm still happy to sell you some.)
I believe I would gain 15 minutes per day if web establishments would stop trying to return search results while I'm typing.
omfg Wikipedia yes I did mean /wiki/
Okay Caran d'Ache, why is it "6 Bicolor (no U) Colour (U) Pencils"?
Finished Zero Star Hotel by Anselm Berrigan. Starting the Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas, taking me back to a workshop with him over 20 years ago. #poetry
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Yahoo! Pipes for ActivityPub
"Whatever you do, always
give 100%. Unless you're donating blood." --Bill Murray #quote
how long until we say "email, it's like ActivityPub"
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I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
I've learned a lot over the last 9 months about how running a small retail business truly is a constant battle against grifters, many of them large and institutional. Today's skirmish -- the bank's new "cash deposit processing fee", assessed because I GAVE THEM TOO MUCH MONEY.
"The Detroit Electric car company withered until it finally went out of business in 1939"
Don't worry, your login wasn't exposed, just your SSN (and we'll wait till almost the end of the page to tell you that). To make up for it, here's some free credit monitoring, maybe. https://www.getevolved.com/about/news/cybersecurity-incident -- better evolve a little more.
#Apple rejects MS-DOS emulator from the App Store? https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-rejects-pc-emulators-from-app-store Seems like a long time to hold a grudge?
In my household, among other roles, I am definitely Senior Vice President of Avocado Operations. What are your titles?
This happened recently in my store:
Me: Nice to meet you, My name is John.
Customer1: Nice to meet you too, my name is Janet. And what's your name?
Customer2: I'm Gary.
Siri: HI, MY NAME IS SIRI.
"I would like to get in touch with you.
Please advise if I am contacting the right person."
"Spinoza didn't have a fridge / Joan of Arc didn't have a fridge / and me and Greg don't have a fridge" --Anselm Berrigan, "The position of the planets on the human forehead" #poetry
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Last day to get your FOSSY submissions in! Due in 10 hours from now, you can submit after making an account on the FOSSY site: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
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
