Watching my @frameworkcomputer Framework 12 make its way across the globe to me is so exciting!
Apparently the no tax on tips applies to YouTube streamers? (making up to 150k and some other caveats) https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/no-tax-on-tips-apparently-also-applies-to-your-favorite-streamer-182932748.html
I'm not sure that's what people had in mind when supporting this.
@Parker51 Thank you! It has been intense and amazing -- it's Crazy Alan's Emporium in Chapel Hill, NC. The store has been open for decades, but we bought it from the original owner 2 years ago.
2 years ago today that we were handed the keys to a #fountainpen store.
This seems pretty bad. Is it not pretty bad?
Google will require developer verification to install #Android apps
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
sheening #fountainpen ink as opsec -- it's really hard to shoulder surf anything being written in LAMY Violet Blackberry with that blinding gold sheen.
I don't think it's bad to accept corporate sponsor money - especially for events. But advertising for them while I walk around is too much. If you're a community event organizer, and creating an event-related t-shirt, I encourage you to consider not offering "logo on t-shirt" as a sponsor perk. They'll sponsor you anyway.
This... is a very good question: "If everyone on the Supreme Court is getting seven-figure book deals, who will be left to judge publishing-related cases?"
https://lithub.com/why-the-supreme-court-shouldnt-make-millions-from-publishing-books
Anybody know any cool cases that fit the Kobo H2O Aura 2 #ereader? Wading through all the mislabeled junk on Amazon is a lot of work to buy from a place I don't want to buy from.
🗳️ Nominations for the 2025 PSF Board election are open!
Help shape the future of the PSF — nominate yourself or someone you think would be a great PSF Board Director by Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html
Will also give a lightning talk Sunday August 3rd at 17:30 UTC:
"An Impatient Application of Reproducible Builds"
There should be a live stream, I think at:
#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
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.