John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Current status: On hold for T-Mobile to ask how to do something without installing their app, being asked every 30 seconds by the recording if I've installed the app yet. Rage is building.

"We need a song that all of us can sing / A true reflecting. A moody, bright, expansive song. / In all this glass, when every face is seen, / These mirrors will hold conversations with the sun."

from "Liquid Cities" by Lorenzo Thomas

#poetry

Nothing says "we're winning the war on inflation" like getting rid of the penny.

Petition to rename 2FA to 39173847291748FA

From my browser tab -- I guess the intent could be that there is a trademark on the combination of the logo and Login? But it sure looks like they think they own Login. #Delta #Trademark

@purpleidea Not with ODT etc

TIL you can print files from the command line with "libreoffice -p" ! Life is better.

@number6 but when open source / free software, the code is still out there to be used and potentially picked up by some other individual or entity. Very different dynamic from proprietary or hosted.

Food for thought: Answering the phone on behalf of someone else, and taking messages, are now skills that just have to be taught in the professional settings where they are needed -- no longer things that a lot of people grew up doing at home. Also contemplating what it means that young kids may not be allowed their own phone yet, while at the same time living in a household that has no shared phone at all.

I feel like we've entered an era of "nobody ever got fired for requiring 2FA"

Was always sad to see Mozilla promoting a proprietary extension and centralized service over the objections of many many many people, even sadder to see them formally make it part of Mozilla, sadder yet to see them becoming just like any other company that runs and shuts down centralized services, and the saddest to see them do it without ever following through on their initial statements that all of this would become open source https://www.engadget.com/apps/mozilla-is-shutting-down-its-read-it-later-app-pocket-183247576.html -- I see there is https://github.com/open-pocket/open-pocket

I didn't know about this system before; seems like an opportunity for the USFG to use its negotiating leverage against DRM. (Also while I dislike taxpayer dollars funding DRM, I do not support firing everyone.)

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/us-libraries-cut-ebook-and-audiobook-lending-programs-following-trump-executive-order-205113868.html

GNU has its own version of bikeshedding bikeshedding where we can't talk about what color to paint the shed until we talk about whether "bike" and "shed" are the correct terms for the thing to be painted, if that's what we are going to call the activity being proposed -- but is it an activity, and is it actually a proposal...

"no-reply@replies.uber.com"

bad11.org must've been taken https://endof10.org/

#badvista

I heard something about this once before, years ago, what was it...
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-grants-itself-the-power-to-brick-switches-with-pirated-games-162129077.html?src=rss

#bricknintendo