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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@mako is one of the big thinkers about software freedom. I like the following two essays a lot.
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-when_free_software_isnt_better.html
"Infrastructure is very important for free software, and it's unfortunate that so much free software development currently relies on sites that don't publish their source code, and require or encourage the use of proprietary software." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration
"Great idea, terrible execution! The SCOTUS should have deemed this item unconstitutional!" panning really is an art form. (it's about a coffee filter)
"It takes a lot of beer to make wine."
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Good to see that progress within #Fdroid https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/16/statistics_2019.html
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More reason why nonfree apps (and their Web sites!) shouldn't be trusted with the personal information of every voter in the country -- whether that's Israel or anywhere else in the world. https://u.fsf.org/2-v
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I'm at @SANERconf in London, Canada this week to present recent work—starting this morning with our (frankly impressive!) results on applying graph compression techniques to the @swheritage archive. Preprint: http://bit.ly/swh-graph-saner20 #SANER2020
And DefectiveByDesign is at https://hostux.social/@endDRM
FYI FSF is now on Mastodon at https://hostux.social/@fsf since https://status.fsf.org/fsf is no longer federating fully until GNU social finishes ActivityPub support (we are still posting there as well, though)
@cwebber &bitlbee
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Apple canceled the project to encrypt iCloud backups two years ago due to pressure from the FBI because it "would deny them the most effective means for gaining evidence against iPhone-using suspects" #privacy
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LA: This Friday, join EFF, @NTEN, @fightfortheftr, @DemandProgress and others for a rally outside ICANN’s offices in Los Angeles. Help us make sure .ORGs are protected! https://www.eff.org/event/savedotorg-protest-icann
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We're hiring!
Are you a software engineer who cares deeply about CI/CD, code review, and development environments? Apply to work with the Release Engineering team (a part of our Engineering Productivity team) at the Wikimedia Foundation!
#remote #jobs #remotejobs #hiring #opensource #freesoftware #wikipedia #wikimedia
Why is a bag with a battery "smart"?
If you're coming to FOSDEM or CopyleftConf and want t-shirts or anything from shop.fsf.org, order with code FOSDEM20 before Wednesday 15th noon Brussels time to get in-person delivery without shipping charges :) (deadline extended!)
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Learn #python and #datascience (or volunteer to mentor) at the sixth "Community Data Science Workshops" in #Seattle in January/February! Register before noon Sunday January 12 at: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Winter_2020)
@kyle Exciting. Reminds me of my joy seeding torrents and hosting an Apache server all the way back on my Nokia e61. Did similar with N900 and OpenMoko. Somehow that became less possible over the years..
If you're coming to FOSDEM or CopyleftConf and want t-shirts or anything from https://shop.fsf.org, order with code FOSDEM20 before Wednesday noon Brussels time to get in-person delivery without shipping charges :)
@kyle if you can teach me how to give out your number in Mandarin, I am happy to share the wealth...
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2020 is the year of Linux on the Desktop because only GNU/Linux users run desktop machines anymore
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
