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
I've learned many new vocabulary words from reading Ashbery over the years. Not sure if that's a plus or not, just a fact. Tonight's is "pellucid" -- adj, transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. As in, "Yet the froth of activity / before mealtimes crowded the pellucid element, frosting it slightly." #poetry
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This description of a cursed magic rock from an old issue of Dragon Magazine is basically just a cell phone.
@pikurasa I had to pause for a few days, still have a quarter or so left. Will you read the next book in the series?
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and we are live!! you can back the MNT Pocket Reform (open hardware 7" mini laptop) campaign now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
and we are very thankful for spreading the word!
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Today please enjoy half of one pie because a circle is tau thank you for your attention
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"Holding down the fort this week."
Is there a less colonalist phrase for when only one team member is available?
(Boosts appreciated)
Nearly to the point of self-hosting Mastodon just so I can write a plugin that removes "Let's be clear" and close variations from all posts in my timeline.
@evan I said "rarely" partly because I think communication is required. Throwing the seat back without warning is antisocial behavior IMO.
@noodles Curious what you are using it for. I have one that I haven't touched for a while..
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If I could change one thing about the way we talk about copyright, it would be to replace "protected" with "encumbered," at least in the library context. An out-of-print book from 1950 with a dead author and a defunct publisher is not "protected" by copyright; it's encumbered. 60-year-old newspaper articles, 10-year-old political ads, on and on - vast swaths of in-copyright material with no commercial life but some remaining intellectual value aren't protected by copyright. They're encumbered.
The PinePhone FLOSS modem firmware provides a local SMS command interface. But it's stopped answering my messages. Ghosted by my own phone!
https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md
Mysterious NYT correction: "A picture caption with an article...misidentified the brand of office chair that Brandi Susewitz was examining on her visit to Sitecore's office. It was not a Herman Miller Aeron chair."
so what chair was it???
Ashbery vowel sounds:
"withers wrung, stalls swept, a stray colt consoled, mud / drained, dried, blown off into the sun."
("The History of Photography")
Dry time with Kakimori pigmented ink on Regalia paper is unfortunately untenable. Two great things that don't go great together. #fountainpens
Wordle but you track how many consecutive days you've plugged in a USB-A cable the right way up in 1 guess vs how many days it took 3
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Has anyone managed to run Guix System on pinephone? Share your experience.
Please boost! 🙂
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People often talk about their software "stack" when really they mean their software "house of cards".
@tahnu Actually looks like I was wrong about the example this morning -- it *was* just gmail rejecting my upstream SMTP server. But I have had issues with them looking into the prior headers in the past.
I guess I need to get serious about finding a solution to this problem of my mail to gmail users being rejected because of my laptop VPN IP -- even though the mail is actually delivered by an upstream SMTP server that gmail has no issue with.
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
