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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The #SCaLE21x CFP is now open! Tag someone who you want to see speak or exhibit at SCALE in March 2024. https://ow.ly/FwRW50PymnW
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Every donation matters, no matter what size. Your support of Let's Encrypt will still have an impact on our work!
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A: "I prefer 'OSI' to 'AI'."
B: "OSI?"
A: "Opaque statistical inference."
Did these record labels really just argue that because something is available on a *streaming* service, there is no reason to worry it may become unavailable? https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/
A chunk of the back of my #PinePhone case spontaneously fell off. Concerning; possibly related to the fact that the speaker also stopped working. Least effort solution right now is just to buy a replacement -- I know some of you have PinePhones collecting dust -- let me know if you want to sell.
Wondering why he didn't just call it E Corp
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Secondly... there's a EULA that says something like "By choosing 'I agree' blah blah blah" -- there's no "I agree" button, just continue. I guess I didn't agree to the EULA after all.
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Applications are now open to participate in the Outreachy internship for the December 2023 cohort.
Remember, interns have access to one-on-one mentorship, work with mentors remotely, get a stipend of 7,000 USD, and have a community where they can learn and grow their tech careers.
Submit your initial application as soon as possible; the deadline is August 22, 2023.
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2023-08-08/december-2023-initial-applications-open/
NYT correction from Sunday: "An article on July 30 about the poet Shane McCrae misspelled the surname of a writer. She was Virginia Woolf, not Wolff."
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Call me a skeptic if you will, but a private equity firm buying a major publisher — the same PE firm that owns OverDrive — is bad news. Sorry to see it happen. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/books/booksupdate/paramount-simon-and-schuster-kkr-sale.html?unlocked_article_code=CJhj7luVEK1RFWdWLl9stuuX-7wjhiiVMv06f-7he4gRLnnRaJqtPM2xU6YZMdLyLmlr-8WQjaHBAYCBpMurGz0UIh1TdQwS7jF9YWlgA1qdrZVpWXAkVqF8J8qQRrk7FAlb1_40rmu55Ax6-rj1mftMBXc6b_j7fW2cRTmVpwcj-8g62kq-eYGO0laJdvfq4I-Y95OEPnATVfZs7Tw9ZTs8sPUI5jkLU1JhzaGs1wZ495F3Ka7iZXGvLQ1RoPfqOikShasVgThn9NLdAAOJFaT3mO-B0HPNQHdVG50WiWIboZ5X9p6WLVEIG3u7p-6lI0lOnvnBO0zbs7MBwb-ZgiQw3hn371J2SgGm7BAeFOV21LYeni6TC8E&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@joeyh It might matter if you officially canceled your account at that time (there's a separate ToS section for that). But if not, they (and probably others) say that any continued use means agreement to the revised terms: "Customer's continued use of the Service after those 30 days constitutes agreement to those revisions of this Agreement. For any other modifications, your continued use of the Website constitutes agreement to our revisions of these Terms of Service."
@joeyh I think it isn't the case because the ToS say you agree they can be changed at any time. So part of this thought experiment would be that such clauses are not allowed.
The result of the thought experiment could be that ToSes would be even worse, since they would have even more incentive to be as broad as possible at the start.
I hope "Surrounded by Idiots" (a #book about #management ) starts by saying "don't keep this book on your office shelf".
What would the world look like if companies had to continue following the ToS version in existence at the time your data was generated? So every new ToS version would only apply to data generated from that point on?
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A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.
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Sourceware 25 Roadmap
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-25-roadmap.html
Preparing #Sourceware for the next 25 years.
In the last couple of years we have started to diversify our hardware partners, setup new services using containers and isolated VMs, investigated secure supply chain issues, added redundant mirrors, created a non-profit home, collected funds, invested in open communication, open office hours and introduced community oversight by a Sourceware Project Leadership Committee with the help from @conservancy
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My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.
I am not making this up.
Interesting to see the mad scramble of proprietary software / silo companies updating their ToSes to say you explicitly consent to your data being used to train #AI -- while also taking the approach that they don't need consent (or compliance) to train on copyleft licensed works.
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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
