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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Check out this video for notebooks, planners, fountain pens, and not-so-fountain pens that I've been using lately.
What do you mean someone runs a kitchen I'm not allowed to enter?! Ghastly.
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Most common conversation topic in the store today: #LAMY needs to print the names of their colors on the #fountainpen ink boxes.
(We'd settle for even the SKU.)
h/t to the car in front of me with the "I downloaded this car on Limewire" bumper sticker
For those who have been on the edge of their seats, Bank of America was able to accept my cash deposit today. They had "cash capabilities".
@kevin This may be a dumb/irrelevant question, but does it work with Wayland? (I use Barrier, which does not, which means I can't go between my Pine64 devices running Mobian)
@evan "Your humanity is muted."
@greene Did you check inside the cap?
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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”
China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”
China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”
EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”
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For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that
The perfect trope doesn't exi--oh.
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I would have a lot more sympathy for Apple's DMA complaint that it may have less ability to shield users from "objectionable or harmful content" if their definition of "objectionable or harmful content" they've been shielding their users from hadn't included
- telling users that things were cheaper outside the app store
- pointing out that you could subscribe to a service through a web browser
- noting the existence of jailbreaking and the ability to turn off parts of Apple's code
@kyle I just learned some people actually call them "cloud kitchens"!
@dneary @mitchellh But I was trying to make a deposit!
(I have had other troubling experiences where banks wouldn't give me my money -- most recently with Santander, who has a secret monthly ACH maximum, does not allow wire transfers online or over the phone, and insisted the only way I could get my money out after hitting the ACH cap was in person -- no branches in my state -- or via paper check.)
Actual words spoken to me at Bank of America today -- "We do not have cash capabilities today."
"ghost kitchen" may be the most overly dramatic term for the most mundane thing
@mjg59 yep, amazing, hard to argue with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg01452.html
Also this reminds me of people checking photo ID when signing GPG keys. If you have no training/practice in identifying an official ID (as I'm 99% sure most of the volunteers at the polls do not either), the requirement is not worth much, which means all of the cons of the requirement easily outweigh the supposed benefits.
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
