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
Someone the other day was insistent with me that Sailor Kiwaguro #fountainpen ink was not water resistant (smeared easily) even after drying for over half an hour. They might as well have told me the sky was ivy green. It was coming out of a fine nib pen, was on watercolor paper, and the amount of water was just drops from a brush. Any theories / corroborating experiences? It has to be the paper, right? But I know a lot of people who use it on watercolor paper generally.
Continuing to complain about 2FA practices, sending a numerical code from a short numerical "from" address is terrible and cruel.
I'll be at all of @conservancy #FOSSY25 next week -- hope to see many of you there!
Let me know if you'll be around.
The class I had with Alice Notley was one of my best and most memorable. "Descent of Alette" is a book/poem I'll keep forever (later in life I would think, "Hey, this is like Lisp!"). A big loss: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/anselm-berrigan-reflects-on-his-mother-alice-notley
Bets on how long it takes to cancel a Spectrum Business account over the phone (the only way to do it), immediately saying no to any promotions offered to stay? HINT: Currently at 40 minutes, and 3 people.
Fraud on my credit card to buy... GEICO auto insurance? This is some seriously risk averse risk taking behavior.
Funny that the company whose system can't tell if I'm saying "Yes" or "No" wants to use my voice to verify my identity.
@bremner I'm already reading the news!
You know, one of you could have maybe said, hey, John, maybe now is not the time to read a book about the sudden presence of a new secret police force in a previously democratic society.
@bkuhn As usual, the Onion is on it https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/
@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.
@mattl@social.coop @evan Progress is Evan's middle name.
@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
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
