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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Today's weather report says "a thunderstorm cannot be ruled out...Probability of Thunderstorms: 0%"
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Happy birthday, #Debian
On this day in 1993, that's 30 years ago, Ian Murdock announced the imminent release of a new Linux distribution.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt
A "sleep vacation" being a vacation that includes lots of sleep. Not a vacation *from* sleep.
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Viel zu lange ging dieses #Buch an mir vorbei. Klare Leseempfehlung und aktueller denn je: Ada und Zangemann
Wahrscheinlich hatte ich es zu sehr unter "Kinderbuch" in meinem Kopf einsortiert. Dann hatte ich das Glück einer Lesung von @kirschner zu lauschen.
Eine wunderbare Geschichte, um denen, deren Rechner wir zu Weihnachten updaten, zu zeigen, warum wir so gerne in Hackspaces tüfteln, warum freie Software toll ist und warum wir wissen sollten, wie unsere Geräte funktionieren.
Up at midnight reading about how I should plan a sleep vacation. Yeah.
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The #SCaLE21x CFP is now open! Tag someone who you want to see speak or exhibit at SCALE in March 2024. https://ow.ly/FwRW50PymnW
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Every donation matters, no matter what size. Your support of Let's Encrypt will still have an impact on our work!
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A: "I prefer 'OSI' to 'AI'."
B: "OSI?"
A: "Opaque statistical inference."
Did these record labels really just argue that because something is available on a *streaming* service, there is no reason to worry it may become unavailable? https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/
A chunk of the back of my #PinePhone case spontaneously fell off. Concerning; possibly related to the fact that the speaker also stopped working. Least effort solution right now is just to buy a replacement -- I know some of you have PinePhones collecting dust -- let me know if you want to sell.
Wondering why he didn't just call it E Corp
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Secondly... there's a EULA that says something like "By choosing 'I agree' blah blah blah" -- there's no "I agree" button, just continue. I guess I didn't agree to the EULA after all.
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Applications are now open to participate in the Outreachy internship for the December 2023 cohort.
Remember, interns have access to one-on-one mentorship, work with mentors remotely, get a stipend of 7,000 USD, and have a community where they can learn and grow their tech careers.
Submit your initial application as soon as possible; the deadline is August 22, 2023.
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2023-08-08/december-2023-initial-applications-open/
NYT correction from Sunday: "An article on July 30 about the poet Shane McCrae misspelled the surname of a writer. She was Virginia Woolf, not Wolff."
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Call me a skeptic if you will, but a private equity firm buying a major publisher — the same PE firm that owns OverDrive — is bad news. Sorry to see it happen. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/books/booksupdate/paramount-simon-and-schuster-kkr-sale.html?unlocked_article_code=CJhj7luVEK1RFWdWLl9stuuX-7wjhiiVMv06f-7he4gRLnnRaJqtPM2xU6YZMdLyLmlr-8WQjaHBAYCBpMurGz0UIh1TdQwS7jF9YWlgA1qdrZVpWXAkVqF8J8qQRrk7FAlb1_40rmu55Ax6-rj1mftMBXc6b_j7fW2cRTmVpwcj-8g62kq-eYGO0laJdvfq4I-Y95OEPnATVfZs7Tw9ZTs8sPUI5jkLU1JhzaGs1wZ495F3Ka7iZXGvLQ1RoPfqOikShasVgThn9NLdAAOJFaT3mO-B0HPNQHdVG50WiWIboZ5X9p6WLVEIG3u7p-6lI0lOnvnBO0zbs7MBwb-ZgiQw3hn371J2SgGm7BAeFOV21LYeni6TC8E&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@joeyh It might matter if you officially canceled your account at that time (there's a separate ToS section for that). But if not, they (and probably others) say that any continued use means agreement to the revised terms: "Customer's continued use of the Service after those 30 days constitutes agreement to those revisions of this Agreement. For any other modifications, your continued use of the Website constitutes agreement to our revisions of these Terms of Service."
@joeyh I think it isn't the case because the ToS say you agree they can be changed at any time. So part of this thought experiment would be that such clauses are not allowed.
The result of the thought experiment could be that ToSes would be even worse, since they would have even more incentive to be as broad as possible at the start.
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
