John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

@davisr Hmmm.. I haven't tried it in several years, but I certainly wish I'd thought to try it in this case. (Maybe I still will to see if it handles the case differently..)

@mjg59 I tried to explain this a lot and was told it wasn't a concern.

Monthly #Debian keyring update done: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/-/tree/2026.01.25?ref_type=tags

@pbx copyeditor

I don't remember seeing weather forecasts vary this much. The one I look at says < 1" of snow for us. The one a friend showed me said 18"-21" of snow for us.

that feeling when you unloaded a palette off a freight truck, brought it all in, and days later realize...it was someone else's order.

NPR: "The Aurora Borealis was visible in much of the US last night due to a solar storm"

How many Diamine #fountainpen ink names can you fit in a headline?

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5683125/the-aurora-borealis-was-visible-in-much-of-the-u-s-last-night-due-to-a-solar-storm

Very glad to hear @pj and Search Engine covering the #fediverse! Check out the new Mastodon instance run by him, @Casey and @kevin at https://theforkiverse.com.

"Are you still taking notes? /
The Holy Ghost could get inside you /
You'd do whatever you put your mind to /
Will you read me what you wrote?"

I don't think I'm saying anything new to a lot of people here, but I'm remembering times in the last 10 years people oversimplifying the problems out of a well-meaning desire to have clear ethical lines shot down / shouted down projects that would have significantly advanced user freedom over forest/trees complaints about potential "SaaSS" elements in those projects.

Free software's going to have to find a better strategy against SaaSS given, on top of all the other obstacles and challenges to it, purely local computing is enroute to becoming financially/physically impossible. Ethical, freedom-respecting ways to use shared/distributed storage and shared/distributed computing? Dust off that Franklin Street Statement and try again? AI/LLM has been the problem but may "just" be a subset of this problem.

Finished Orbital, started Flesh -- got to keep up with the Bookers. #books

That cell was the only formula -- all other cells were static amounts with no more than two places. Huh? 2/2

I just spent 30m chasing a penny in #LibreOffice Calc while updating a cash flow forecast. One of the cells was a simple formula (99% of an amount, formatted as currency). The displayed result was $11.74. But a subsequent formula that summed that cell with some others apparently came to a different conclusion, reducing the amount by 0.01, causing my sum to differ from the bank statement by a penny even though all of the individual transaction amounts matched. 1/2

I think this was probably a smart strategic decision to shut down given present circumstances but FFS: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5668292/the-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-votes-to-end-operations

I worry that, like with other kinds of public infrastructure, we won't ever find the resolve to restore it, much less be bold with new similar initiatives.

Renewed my @conservancy sustainership. I wish I could do more, but I can at least do that. I'm looking forward to more Outreachy internships, more OpenWRT One type devices, more copyleft advocacy, and more FOSSY in 2026!

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