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
John Sullivan
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My publisher, @pragprog, is having a flash sale on all books! Including mine! Which you should totally buy and read and use and gift to friends and enemies alike!
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John Sullivan
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The #Linux kernel plan for a plan (if a plan is needed) is in place.
lol Zoom "Note: The meeting host must have end-to-end encryption (E2EE) disabled for the Join from your browser link to display for participants."
@martijnbraam just to be safe
@davisr Hmmm.. I haven't tried it in several years, but I certainly wish I'd thought to try it in this case. (Maybe I still will to see if it handles the case differently..)
@mjg59 I tried to explain this a lot and was told it wasn't a concern.
Monthly #Debian keyring update done: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/-/tree/2026.01.25?ref_type=tags
@pbx copyeditor
I don't remember seeing weather forecasts vary this much. The one I look at says < 1" of snow for us. The one a friend showed me said 18"-21" of snow for us.
that feeling when you unloaded a palette off a freight truck, brought it all in, and days later realize...it was someone else's order.
NPR: "The Aurora Borealis was visible in much of the US last night due to a solar storm"
How many Diamine #fountainpen ink names can you fit in a headline?
Very glad to hear @pj and Search Engine covering the #fediverse! Check out the new Mastodon instance run by him, @Casey and @kevin at https://theforkiverse.com.
John Sullivan
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Update self-hosted software to a new major version.
It's a total non-issue and everything works brilliantly.
Whole process takes a couple of minutes.
Thanks, @forgejo team!
"Are you still taking notes? /
The Holy Ghost could get inside you /
You'd do whatever you put your mind to /
Will you read me what you wrote?"
John Sullivan
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Did you notice it's 1/15 and I've not been here trying to raise the last of our match? That's because we made our largest challenge ever already! \o/
But! Two new donors challenged us to raise another $40k by 2/5!
I know there's so much going on right now, but #softwarefreedom remains a key longterm issue. We're preparing for the Vizio trial to bring consumers rights, running an amazing #Outreachy round & working hard for our member projects.
Help spread the word!
I don't think I'm saying anything new to a lot of people here, but I'm remembering times in the last 10 years people oversimplifying the problems out of a well-meaning desire to have clear ethical lines shot down / shouted down projects that would have significantly advanced user freedom over forest/trees complaints about potential "SaaSS" elements in those projects.
Free software's going to have to find a better strategy against SaaSS given, on top of all the other obstacles and challenges to it, purely local computing is enroute to becoming financially/physically impossible. Ethical, freedom-respecting ways to use shared/distributed storage and shared/distributed computing? Dust off that Franklin Street Statement and try again? AI/LLM has been the problem but may "just" be a subset of this problem.
Finished Orbital, started Flesh -- got to keep up with the Bookers. #books
That cell was the only formula -- all other cells were static amounts with no more than two places. Huh? 2/2
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
