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
Story in my feed, "Google Pixel 7 Phones Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now" YOU DON'T SAY
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Accidentally installed GNU Guix on PinePhone Pro 😄
Just two days of constant kernel rebuilds, a few cross-compilation quirks fixes and here we go! :)
This probably should've addressed the related question of how all human agriculture massacres insects. Signed, vegan on the fence about eating insects.
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Did you know CC has monthly office hours with the legal team? Come and ask us anything (or just chat): https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/
Next one starts in about 30 minutes!
people make 15s YouTube videos of reading single tweets?
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So what’s the best way to search for/find accounts on the broadest possible set of fediverse servers? I’m considering criticizing an “open” organization for not being here yet, but I realize it’s actually very hard to know for certain if they do/don’t have an account.
Well, at least Gigi Sohn got to be a question on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me? #goals
cc @bergmayer
How do I feel about this? "AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules"
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Could there be a bigger disaster for the #samsung mobile baseband software stack team? Internet-to-baseband remote code exscution. Seriously? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
- IMHO, all that SIP/SDP should happen in an unprivileged userspace proccess under Linux - not in the cellular baseband cpu/OS.
I've learned many new vocabulary words from reading Ashbery over the years. Not sure if that's a plus or not, just a fact. Tonight's is "pellucid" -- adj, transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. As in, "Yet the froth of activity / before mealtimes crowded the pellucid element, frosting it slightly." #poetry
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This description of a cursed magic rock from an old issue of Dragon Magazine is basically just a cell phone.
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and we are live!! you can back the MNT Pocket Reform (open hardware 7" mini laptop) campaign now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
and we are very thankful for spreading the word!
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Today please enjoy half of one pie because a circle is tau thank you for your attention
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"Holding down the fort this week."
Is there a less colonalist phrase for when only one team member is available?
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Nearly to the point of self-hosting Mastodon just so I can write a plugin that removes "Let's be clear" and close variations from all posts in my timeline.
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If I could change one thing about the way we talk about copyright, it would be to replace "protected" with "encumbered," at least in the library context. An out-of-print book from 1950 with a dead author and a defunct publisher is not "protected" by copyright; it's encumbered. 60-year-old newspaper articles, 10-year-old political ads, on and on - vast swaths of in-copyright material with no commercial life but some remaining intellectual value aren't protected by copyright. They're encumbered.
The PinePhone FLOSS modem firmware provides a local SMS command interface. But it's stopped answering my messages. Ghosted by my own phone!
https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md
Mysterious NYT correction: "A picture caption with an article...misidentified the brand of office chair that Brandi Susewitz was examining on her visit to Sitecore's office. It was not a Herman Miller Aeron chair."
so what chair was it???
Ashbery vowel sounds:
"withers wrung, stalls swept, a stray colt consoled, mud / drained, dried, blown off into the sun."
("The History of Photography")
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
