John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and recently former board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
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#FOSSY is coming right up in just over 2 weeks in Vancouver, Canada and you should come! It's gonna be great.
Register to let us know you're coming, and do get in touch if you're having trouble finding accommodation!
So over "2FA" messages that are just coming back to you via the same channel you've already demonstrated control of. Isn't that still 1FA? (Click a "you've received a secure message" link in a text, which then asks you to enter the phone number wherefrom you already visited the link to begin with, so they can text you a verification code...)
Tried to write "and copyright is made up" and it was autocorrected to "and copyright is made IP".
@luis_in_brief yes but don't get frustrated and start yelling about Ratpoison at your gate.
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Just marveling at this terms of service update GamersNexus caught LG pushing out to the owners of their (not at all cheap) TVs
The Post Office just misdelivered us a package whose actual intended recipient was the Post Office.
@Andres4NY https://clicks.tech/communicator looks maybe fun at least
@liw "The Mosquito Knows" comes to mind https://poets.org/poem/mosquito-knows
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One aspect of retail we've forgotten after generations of conglomerated big box stores and subsequent online conglomeration is that of curation of products.
When you went into a family-owned hardware store in 1985, you got experts who chose products based on a balance of price and quality. Maybe they only had two kinds of hammers or one brand of bolts, but somebody selected those. There was some level of trust in what you were getting.
Now that labor is on us to filter from dozens of types and brands, based on reviews that are gamed by botnets, against manufacturers who change up the models yearly to dodge bad reviews. It's a race to the bottom because we don't have local curators who are personally invested in your returning to their store.
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Is there a book written in present tense that you like? The one I'm reading now -- award-winning -- is really getting under my skin. Partly because (I think) of the tense and partly because of such glimmer trains as, "She also spies a teddy bear that your dad brought back from Colombo along with a sexually transmitted disease, which was his parting gift to your Amma. The disease was called despair."
@neil you know, I'm kind of for it.
Remember that time Bezos claimed a child tax credit? #primeday
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@bkuhn this is a super important point. Many FOSS projects out there that are already, today, using LLM-gen-AI. (If it's 50/50 at SFC, I (1) speculate it's much larger overall, and (2) have preliminary data confirming it in a recent paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18341 )
FOSS leaders (including SFC) can take various stances: 1) ignore the problem, 2) tell them "don't do that" and look away, 3) provide guidance on if/how/when to use LLM-gen-AI.
SFC chose (3), which is both bold and needed.
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@bkuhn @noodles I didn't even bother to check the contract. But they were adamant about it on the phone. It was a slow leak and a short rental, so I did what presumably every previous renter had done and filled it back up and returned it with no further comment. Possibly because I did not pay for any of their extra insurance, yes. But this is a change from the norm earlier in my life that I remember, also without extra insurance.
"Jefferson spent about 13 percent of his salary on wine during his first presidential term."
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Chat GPT to me just now: There’s no NYC mayor named Mamdani. New York City’s current mayor is Eric Adams (as of June 11, 2026). If you mean a different official named Mamdani (e.g., a borough president, council member, or candidate), tell me which office and I’ll explain...
"If you're not around the table, you're going to be eaten on that table." --Alexander Stubb
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and recently former board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
