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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Already sick of big company customer service blaming "the AI" for their screwups that have nothing to do with AI (just involved...a computer).
I really hate when I have to type "killall orca".
Currently ordering some notebooks that are hardback but the name of their size is paperback. Not happy about it.
John Sullivan
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🗳️ Nominations for the 2025 PSF Board election are open!
Help shape the future of the PSF — nominate yourself or someone you think would be a great PSF Board Director by Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html
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Will also give a lightning talk Sunday August 3rd at 17:30 UTC:
"An Impatient Application of Reproducible Builds"
There should be a live stream, I think at:
John Sullivan
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#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
John Sullivan
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hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam
linux user: omg you got it working?
John Sullivan
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I'm all excited to watch the livestream of #FOSSY2025 today! The link for all of the streams is:
https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/
Just over a half hour to today's #FOSSY keynote with @conservancy staff about the VIzio law suit!
Perhaps the problem of journalists incorrectly calling Meta's AI "open source" is about to solve itself: https://www.engadget.com/ai/is-mark-zuckerberg-flip-flopping-on-open-source-ai-231310567.html?src=rss (but not before making the mistake a few more times)
John Sullivan
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Proud to announce @ramereth is the recipient of it's inaugural Distinguished Service in Software Freedom. Presented by @pono one of his former students, now at @conservancy helping plan and run #FOSSY25
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
Congrats to @ramereth !! So well deserved. #FOSSY25 https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
Great shout out from Gunner (Aspiration) in the #FOSSY25 keynote about importance of @fdroidorg for mobile app freedom!
John Sullivan
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I'm watching the opening remarks for #FOSSY! You can watch the livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/f2wDfw2nPN0
Thanks to #OpenSignal for hosting the stream! (And for doing all the a/v for the conference!)
John Sullivan
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I’m speaking about what we've learned while spinning up a network of #AcademicOSPOs for the #ScienceOfCommunity track at #FOSSY on Friday! I can’t wait to meet more people working in this space and hear what they're up to. 😊
John Sullivan
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My colleague and I will be presenting
Never Mind the Checkboxes, Here's Reproducible Builds
at #FOSSY2025 on Saturday
You probably do not need to bring earplugs, but no guarantees.
and the keyboard/battery case (working state very uncertain)
If anyone coming to #FOSSY25 wants a free PinePhone Pro that won't boot (probably just needs reflashing but *might* have deeper issues) in a chipped but functional case, let me know. I realize, a very hard offer to refuse.
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
