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
Very glad to see this well-written Engadget article encouraging @torproject use, but wishing it would have flagged the other challenges besides speed -- like getting blocked or captcha'd into submission -- and highlighted *that* as a reason we all need to use it more, in addition to making deanonymization harder.
https://www.engadget.com/tor-dark-web-privacy-secure-browser-anonymous-130048839.html?src=rss
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Boy Wonder just looked at a pile of new books and said "it seems like buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies" and like
Damn, kid
Good that the new Twitter logo is the close window icon
@webmink @kharijohnson @osi @ed I'm too quick to snark, but my frustration comes from this being a recurring thing -- editors never fully corrected https://www.wired.com/story/ofrak-iot-reverse-engineering-tool/either.
Does Wired not read the Internet? (Or the Open Source Definition) https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-upsets-the-ai-horse-race/
How will the Overture Maps Foundation affect or relate to OpenStreetMap? What is their reason for existence? https://www.engadget.com/amazon-microsoft-led-group-shares-data-for-open-alternative-to-google-maps-160001416.html?src=rss
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On the one hand, I'm getting a bunch of utility out of ChatGPT.
On the other hand, I got rickrolled by the goddamned AI.
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#newpipe has been removed from #google search recently. The homepage https://newpipe.net is not listed in Google search results anymore. This is due to a #DMCA. For now, only our landing page is affected.
More info in our blog post:
https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/
@sri There was a PostmarketOS talk at #FOSSY! https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/81/ -- but yeah, I think a mobile track would be great. F-Droid, Mobian, Plasma Mobile, Phosh...
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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?
John Sullivan
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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
