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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Want a gift that promotes freedom instead of restriction? Take a gander at the FSF's annual Giving Guide for ethical tech recommendations: https://u.fsf.org/377
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I participated in the FSF history quiz during the FSF's 35th anniversary event. Today, I have received the FSF water bottle. Thanks <3
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All aboard for software freedom! Our fall fundraiser is underway: help us achieve our goal of adding 500 new members by December 31. Join today, and share our messages with the hashtag #UserFreedom: https://u.fsf.org/joinfall20
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The schedule for Guix Days online is released! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-2/
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All aboard for software freedom! Help us achieve our goal of adding 500 new members by December 31: join today, and share our messages with the hashtag #UserFreedom: https://u.fsf.org/joinfall20
Watching Bucs v Panthers (on delay), pretty sure I just heard Brady call "pro bono pro bono" at the line. #worldscollide
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Link rot is such a pervasive problem for anything that's older than 1-2 years. I wish more folks at all levels of managing websites would have some awareness that keeping URLs stable or setting up redirects is important for our collective memory.
@mikegerwitz Right, even if not explicitly directed, this is the effect of Google's policy.
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Is your open source project still using Slack for its community? Consider:
Mozilla has migrated their chat to Matrix: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix
Mattermost now offers hosted service with special pricing for OSS projects: https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/
There are probably even more I'm not aware of.
There are good Free options now. Time to get out of the proprietary SaaS lock-in.
@n8 nextcloud
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by "never allow" I mean "never explicitly allow" -- we should insist that sharing the tools *is* allowed in order to achieve the exemptions. But lack of clarity means people will be hesitant to share the tools and put themselves at risk.
A huge problem with the DMCA exemptions process: the exemptions never allow sharing of tools to achieve the allowed circumventions. So stuff like https://torrentfreak.com/google-takes-down-repositories-that-circumvent-its-widevine-drm-201113/ makes them near useless. Freedom to dice your veggies how you like, but oh, obtaining a knife is illegal.
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boost from birdsite, alternatives to Slack
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Need just a few more days? You can now submit your #LibrePlanet session until Monday, Nov. 16 12:00 EST. And don't forget to join us on March 20 & 21 for LibrePlanet 2021 with keynote Julia Reda! https://u.fsf.org/36y
An example of the kind of "grassroots" lobbying Google does against the AGPL: https://github.com/osresearch/spispy/issues/32
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
