John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and recently former board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
John Sullivan
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Someone at #FOSSY said they are related to a person who helped write Magnifica Humanitas.
1) please introduce yourself, you said you were on Mastodon.
2) Pope Leo didn't write it?!
John Sullivan
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Learned a lot of great things at #FOSSY
First and foremost, us #fediverse folks NEED to have a Fediverse primer for a session. Fossy is more focused on general FOSS and a LOT of folks there didn't know what the Fediverse was or how to use it. Hoping to start work on a "The Fediverse Is..." presentation that I can hopefully give next year.
The amazing @benpate@mastodon.social suggested us having a Fedi related booth. We can help folks onboard with QR codes, answer questions, have starter packs, etc.
And thank you to @karen@floss.social for excellent advice on presenting and speaking.
It was an incredible time and I recommend everyone go next year and donate to sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Not certain if I can go next year yet, but I'll remain hopeful.
Is there a free software point of sale system? There wasn't, but I would sure love to know if there is now.
If the play button hasn't been pressed, nothing should be moving. #cranky
I don't like that all of my business insurance payment confirmation numbers start with Q.
This is cool: https://www.engadget.com/2220912/google-pixel-old-smartphone-data-center/ (leaving aside the question of what "education software" they are being used to support). Also surprising to me: "Take the Google Pixel Fold from 2023. Via SPEC benchmarks, the researchers claim the Fold's single-threaded performance often outguns a server like the ASUS RS720-E11. On a larger scope, Google Research claims the single-threaded performance of many modern smartphones is on par with modern multicore servers."
Moment of extreme joy this evening discovering an unread Becky Chambers novel in my stack. To save me from continuing to slog through the other book I've been "reading."
I guess I was naive to assume my electric car rental would include a charging cord?
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#FOSSY is coming right up in just over 2 weeks in Vancouver, Canada and you should come! It's gonna be great.
Register to let us know you're coming, and do get in touch if you're having trouble finding accommodation!
So over "2FA" messages that are just coming back to you via the same channel you've already demonstrated control of. Isn't that still 1FA? (Click a "you've received a secure message" link in a text, which then asks you to enter the phone number wherefrom you already visited the link to begin with, so they can text you a verification code...)
Tried to write "and copyright is made up" and it was autocorrected to "and copyright is made IP".
@luis_in_brief yes but don't get frustrated and start yelling about Ratpoison at your gate.
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Just marveling at this terms of service update GamersNexus caught LG pushing out to the owners of their (not at all cheap) TVs
The Post Office just misdelivered us a package whose actual intended recipient was the Post Office.
@Andres4NY https://clicks.tech/communicator looks maybe fun at least
@liw "The Mosquito Knows" comes to mind https://poets.org/poem/mosquito-knows
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One aspect of retail we've forgotten after generations of conglomerated big box stores and subsequent online conglomeration is that of curation of products.
When you went into a family-owned hardware store in 1985, you got experts who chose products based on a balance of price and quality. Maybe they only had two kinds of hammers or one brand of bolts, but somebody selected those. There was some level of trust in what you were getting.
Now that labor is on us to filter from dozens of types and brands, based on reviews that are gamed by botnets, against manufacturers who change up the models yearly to dodge bad reviews. It's a race to the bottom because we don't have local curators who are personally invested in your returning to their store.
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Is there a book written in present tense that you like? The one I'm reading now -- award-winning -- is really getting under my skin. Partly because (I think) of the tense and partly because of such glimmer trains as, "She also spies a teddy bear that your dad brought back from Colombo along with a sexually transmitted disease, which was his parting gift to your Amma. The disease was called despair."
@neil you know, I'm kind of for it.
Remember that time Bezos claimed a child tax credit? #primeday
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and recently former board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
