John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

The quote attributed to Rove (1/2):

People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

#quote

Fun story about Karl Rove and The National. And a great (alleged) quote. Not sure about the part where the journalist who reported the quote is getting a royalty cut from the song it's used in...

https://pitchfork.com/news/karl-rove-reviews-the-nationals-rove-referencing-walk-it-back/

#music #thenational

I really did not want to like this expensive Lo-Fi dry vermouth, but unfortunately it's delicious. Not such a fan of their "gentian amaro", which is shocking since I think my daily Blood Gentian Level is at least 12%.

@pikurasa Yeah, in the end I decided I enjoyed it quite a bit. Just wasn't what I expected. Now also have the next book, but haven't started yet.

What makes anyone think I want my glasses case to loudly snap shut?

I heard you like Ubuntu, so...

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1180030817/jonathan-butler-on-his-jazz-album-ubuntu

@virtuous_sloth @evan I can probably also be a qualified yes provided the product very clearly informs the user at start that updates are on by default -- because automatic update checking can itself be a security issue (divulging location etc).

@evan Qualified no because users should be able to enable/disable that, but default should be no.

@mlinksva It would be easy to prove that it's just an unmodified redistribution. Should redistributors who are just recompiling *have* to prove that in order to keep the name? Probably not, but I do have a small amount of sympathy for the point that recompiling can introduce problems, like via the compiler used even if source unmodified.

"For reasons unclear, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs maintains a ranking of cities by dumpling consumption per capita"

Yet another reason we need #reproduciblebuilds -- trademark concerns around recompiled binaries.

Cincinnatians: Check out my mom's
art at VADA gallery, opening reception tonight from 17:00 - 20:00!

https://vadagallery.wordpress.com/

#art #cincinnati

Oh thank god:

"The Virtual Keyboard has been removed to improve the customer experience. Please pay close attention to the new instructions when logging into your TreasuryDirect account."

@penaddict This is one of those moments where it's great that you provide full-text RSS, so I can still read, thanks!

@penaddict Yeah appears to be Squarespace blocking my VPN IP. Off the VPN works okay :/

@penaddict Computer. Could it be VPN related? I can test.. but that would be an odd way to block.

@penaddict Getting an SSL error (MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_OCSP_RESPONSE_FOR_CERT_MISSING) from penaddict.com this morning.