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 case you thought the RIAA had gone away or gotten less evil: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
Eh, don't get Edge
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Question for the hardcore free-culture folks in the internet: do you listen to music that is released only in final, mixed form? Or do you insist that the musician has to also provide separate instrument tracks?
Serious question; I'm interested in the takes (presumably there are many points on this continuum, although I hope to find a few at least who are far into the "must have all components" range). Boosting appec.
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In a world where technology can mean the difference between life and death, can we afford the restrictions proprietary software places on progress? Watch "Rewind," our latest video created to celebrate #fsf35: https://u.fsf.org/rewind
@n8 I think we get sorted in buckets somehow. 95% of the spam I get at my personal account is auf Deutsch.
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Want to honor your free software heroes? Nominate someone who's doing a terrific job at empowering computer users for a Free Software Award by October 28th: https://u.fsf.org/357
...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/
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
