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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"[O]ne of Hollywood’s greatest tricks has been convincing the creators, whom Hollywood itself is exploiting, that the copyright tool they’re using for said exploitation is in the interest of artists." - @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/19/stop-rushing-to-copyright-as-a-tool-to-solve-the-problems-of-ai/
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"Move fast and break things" is just a euphemism for "Move fast and externalize the costs".
@communiteatime @noodles Next year, co-located Debian MiniConf.
I really wish the New York Times would cover the new Barbie movie just a little bit more.
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Never had as much envy for a conference as watching the posts about #fossy
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Responding to the "Start every phone call by saying 'My phone's about to run out of battery' so you can end the call whenever you want" meme by proposing a cryptographically verifiable remote attestation protocol for battery state
@downey @josh The HTML FORM element, jk. https://framaforms.org/abc/en/ is pretty good; also have made plenty of use of Drupal webforms if you have a Drupal instance available.
Starting to have a Chartreuse freakout. Will I ever see it again?
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The first video from #FOSSY is out! 🎉 If you have been following our writing, you know our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn wrote about the recent RHEL policy change. As a continuation of that discussion, he led a keynote panel at the conference to discuss the issue with representatives from AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle.
You can view the video and more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/
You can view the video and more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/
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@bigzaphod s/old/cool/
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Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.
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Rough sketches of a few speakers at the just concluded #fossy conference here in Portland.. I leave it as an exercise to match the speaker to the talks!
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Gave a talk at #FOSSY yesterday about #ReproducibleBuilds and #BootstrappableBuilds and how close we are to actually counter the infamous #TrustingTrust attack.
The slides are packaged as a Debian package, including a signed .buildinfo file, so you should be able to recreate my slides bit-for-bit identically!
https://www.aikidev.net/~vagrant/talks/2023/fossy/
However, my actual talk included a fair amount of non-determinism, thanks for all the great questions!
https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/118/
Videos should be available soon!
Is this real/accurate? https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/internet-archive-takes-action-against-ebook-piracy (IA sends takedown notice to GitHub for DRM removal tool?)
Home from #FOSSY and today's mood is jet lagged inspiration.
"The businesses that have trouble paying for the data that’s needed are the same businesses that are not investing in training or equipment.” is really one of the worst arguments I've heard. I'd counter that the businesses that have no trouble paying for hot takes like this dude's are the same businesses that are not investing in training or equipment. https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #righttorepair
Awesome to hear at #FOSSY about @outreachy "grandmentees" -- mentee whose mentor was a mentee of a mentor
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
