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
@kfogel @bkuhn @markgalassi @tusharhero Second order optimizations? My time spent yesterday was largely removing cruft (RIP livejournal posting from Emacs, shoutout @hober) that was generating warnings and complicating reusing the .emacs on multiple machines. So the only future thing this work made more efficient is...editing my .emacs.
@bkuhn At this point I'm willing to compromise and provide a seat to PC interface. It can log me out every time I actually stand up, but otherwise leave me be. What drives me bonkers at the moment is not being able to stay logged in long enough to do the job(s) I logged in for even with full attention -- ie reconciliations of bank statements against books, or anything that requires going back and forth or gathering info. I cope partly by printing out statements, which has its own risks.
It's been a really long time since I "lost" an hour fiddling with my dot #emacs. Felt "good". And reported a very tiny bug!
Finished The Book of Love by Kelly Link. Enjoyed it enough that I wanted to rush into another of hers (Get in Trouble is an unread one on my shelf) but going to read Prophet Song by Paul Lynch instead because I have rules. #books
whoever named whole pickles half sour, figure it out
AND THE ANSWER WAS TO CONNECT THE TWO DEVICES WITH ETHERNET AND WAIT. WHAT DOES THE APP EVEN DO
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
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.
John Sullivan
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No, your honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.
@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
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
