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
"In it, they demanded records of all devices using Google services that had been near the woman’s home when the burglary was thought to have taken place." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761
Tips on getting around Boston on public transportation without using nonfree software: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/MBTA
"This code may only be used under the BSD style license found at" -- it's not copyleft, but it's not not copyleft
Theory: Many young people aren't familiar with the concept of copying/sharing a program.
@maiki@mastodon.sdf.org It's a fair question; I think the answer is that no company should be able to set exclusive terms for such a thing, except perhaps terms that prevent others from setting exclusive terms.
Absolutely not okay that North Carolina State Board of Elections' "Am I registered / where do I vote" form is a Google Doc, requiring software usable only on Google's terms. Nobody should be encouraged by the state to use a particular company's product in civic processes.
"Tiki is, effectively, the LARP of the cocktail world—a sub-genre
wherein pirates are commonplace and the drinks are as dressed up as
their hosts." https://punchdrink.com/articles/new-school-tiki-drinks-cocktail-recipes/
Not sure what I think about ethics of cloning in general, but someone needs to clone this thing right now: https://www.entertainmentbin.com/new-deep-sea-creature-named-after-metallica/
I am really looking forward to hearing Shannon Dosemagen speak as a #LibrePlanet2020 keynote on her work for the environment with Public Lab using free software tools. Work that previously received an FSF award: https://www.fsf.org/news/environmental-activist-shannon-dosemagen-joins-fsf-conference-keynote-lineup
Anyone have a reusable Chemex filter that they like? That doesn't lead to watery coffee with sludge at the bottom? (The grind is already very coarse IMO.)
John Sullivan
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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."
John Sullivan
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Good to see that progress within #Fdroid https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/16/statistics_2019.html
John Sullivan
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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
John Sullivan
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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
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
