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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New from IFTF: we have a Grants Administration Committee!
https://iftechfoundation.org/committees/grants/
IFTF is exploring the possibility of disbursing #grants for small projects related to #InteractiveFiction. We continue to explore ways to foster and support the ecosystem !
No concrete details/timeline right now but the committee hashing out details/processes for our first grant disbursement. We'll need applications, and independent advisors to help with the selection. Keep watching this space for more details!
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Howdy, all! Could you do everyone a favour?
If you're posting about a show, movie, sporting event, etc, could you please put that stuff behind a content warning so as not to spoil it for the rest of us? Thanks!
Signed,
An F1 fan tired of having race results spoiled by social media
Story in my feed, "Google Pixel 7 Phones Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now" YOU DON'T SAY
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Accidentally installed GNU Guix on PinePhone Pro 😄
Just two days of constant kernel rebuilds, a few cross-compilation quirks fixes and here we go! :)
This probably should've addressed the related question of how all human agriculture massacres insects. Signed, vegan on the fence about eating insects.
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Did you know CC has monthly office hours with the legal team? Come and ask us anything (or just chat): https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/
Next one starts in about 30 minutes!
people make 15s YouTube videos of reading single tweets?
@luis_in_brief Arguably the fact that you have to search is already evidence of your point, but still something I'd like to know too.
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So what’s the best way to search for/find accounts on the broadest possible set of fediverse servers? I’m considering criticizing an “open” organization for not being here yet, but I realize it’s actually very hard to know for certain if they do/don’t have an account.
Well, at least Gigi Sohn got to be a question on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me? #goals
cc @bergmayer
How do I feel about this? "AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules"
@josh One thing that helps me with the tracking is to be intentional about the time spent in the first place -- ie, I'm spending 3 hours on this draft, go. Then I tend to record time spent using either pen and paper or my scratchpad/inbox Nextcloud notes file, to be moved to a spreadsheet as part of daily scratch notes review. To me time spent on something is in the category of "needs to be captured immediately" rather than waiting to fire up a specific tool to put it in a particular place.
@BrideOfLinux Your article also has a factual date error I think :) "began on February 10 and will officially run through February 20"
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Could there be a bigger disaster for the #samsung mobile baseband software stack team? Internet-to-baseband remote code exscution. Seriously? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
- IMHO, all that SIP/SDP should happen in an unprivileged userspace proccess under Linux - not in the cellular baseband cpu/OS.
@shauna I'm curious whether, if you get a second Samsung phone, and use it to take a picture of the broken one, if your picture will in fact show an unbroken Samsung phone.
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!
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
