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
...and now a 15% refund on May 2020 premiums, announced in a very self-congratulatory email. So, your idea of relief is, 15% off one month, 13% more for 12 months?
Dear health insurance company: Thanks for all the "free" COVID-related services -- and the 13% rate increase.
Happy Monday, surveillance devices are scary: https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/ -- Amazon has provided Alexa data to police 2,000 times so far this year.
Apple now blocking WordPress updates for iOS according to https://www.imore.com/wordpress-says-apple-has-blocked-it-updating-its-ios-app #drm #userfreedom
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Next week is our Nextcloud online Contributor week – join us! https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-online-contributor-week/
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Students shouldn't be forced to use Zoom, Skype, and other nasty proprietary software to access an education. Support their #UserFreedom: sign our petition! https://u.fsf.org/34d
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What's your favorite intro/guide that y'all link to these days when you invite folks to Mastodon, other than joinmastodon.org?
Wrote this 10 years ago: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2010/fall/lending-a-solved-problem and the problem has only gotten worse: https://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/no-one-should-have-to-wait-eight-months-for-a-library-book/ #libraries #drm
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Big news: Geoffrey Knauth has been elected president of the FSF, and Odile Bénassy has joined the board of directors! Congratulations to Geoff, and welcome to Odile! https://u.fsf.org/34q
When did we start calling the most direct way to load something on a device "side"loading?
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The SeaGL cfp is open! SeaGL welcomes new speakers! This year it wants tech talks, culture talks, performance art and FLOSS topics
Talks are 20 minutes with 10 min for Q&A
#SeaGL again holds office hours if you'd like some help or encouragement for your talk proposals, every Wednesday at noon Pacific between July 22 and August 19
https://seagl.org/news/2020/07/14/CFP-open.html
cfp closes August 19th
SeaGL is November 13th - 14th
#cfp #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #OfficeHours #FLOX #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
By the time DRM-enabled monopolies are investigated as monopolies, years of freedom & positive innovation have already been lost. Eliminate the state-sponsored subsidy of DRM locking users to one App Store and stop this from happening in the first place. https://m.signalvnoise.com/on-apples-monopoly-power-to-destroy-hey/
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We're hiring a #postdoc to work with @swheritage, @Inria and @MSFTResearch on large-scale #reproducibility in software engineering.
Full details and application instructions at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/07/17/paris-based-postdoc-on-large-scale-reproducibility-in-software-engineering/
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It's easy to forget, amidst all the threats to our software freedom, that ours is an inherently positive story, celebrating creativity and skill. Check out this beautiful comic by Sacha Chua @sachac, read more, and share with #userfreedom: https://u.fsf.org/34b
I want to expand a coalition of people around one set of issues, who have conflicting positions on other issues. To be successful at this, I believe listening in good faith to existing or potential coalition members expressing feelings/concerns is vital. I want to be better at it.
@ademalsasa thank you!
Is this the part of the play where we make a bunch of noise until customers get reimbursed for the books they lost access to? https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-discontinuing-the-kindle-cloud-reader getting pretty tired of this
A clear example of "defective by design": https://happygamer.com/youtuber-overlord-gaming-creates-a-video-to-prove-denuvo-causes-fps-loss-in-titles-72959/ (yes, DRM does make your computer do other things more slowly, how could it not?)
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
