John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Alright, I officially invite anyone reading this to join me, starting April 1st, on a #30DayFOSSChallenge to reduce their reliance on proprietary software.

I have a page about the challenge here: https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html

I will also be putting up a weekly blog about my own experience with the challenge. My first one is already up, explaining where I'm starting from and what I expect on the road ahead: http://blog.nullarch.com/index.php/2023/03/25/30dayfosschallenge-week-0/

If you're joining me, let me know!

#FOSS #opensource #linux #FLOSS

https://archive.org/details/SeaGL2022-Sumana_Harihareswara-Keynote A video recording of my @SeaGL closing keynote from 2022 is up

25 minutes of standup #comedy/#jokes on

the "look but don't touch" license
empowerment and exhaustion
#opensource maintainers' spidey sense for complex, headache-inducing systems
my family's bug reports
what it's like, making performance art about this life we live
& more

US Congress is like "We're gonna ban a website to prove that we're not like China".

NASA is currently looking for a project scientist for the Transform to Open Science Project Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Come join our team and advocate for Open Science in Space and Earth Sciences!

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/713595300

#NASA #OpenScience #TOPS

If you have been suffering from mysterious crashes in apps on the #PinePhone, sometimes with *Apps fail with 'DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Cannot allocate memory* in the logs, cheer up.

Despite the Debian freeze, an updated mesa library made it into bookworm that fixes the crash.

Sometimes the internet really delivers.

Hey folks! Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted mailing-list management software that are alternatives to #Mailman? I just had to shut down signups to my lists because of DDoS attacks to the form (someone is attempting to sign up 1-2m users to the list/day).

I need a #FLOSS, self-hosted solution - absolutely no proprietary software, and no services hosted elsewhere!

I was told it would be a fun run!

Next week I'll be at #CERN to give a lecture on « #OpenScience Best Practices for Source Code Preservation » https://indico.cern.ch/event/1232613/ cc: @swheritage

Check out also the other 4 lectures in the series, delivered by friends and colleagues, as there is some great stuff in there!

Douglas Rushkoff's 4 Point Plan For Changing The World:

* Denaturalize Power
* Trigger Agency
* ReSocialize People
* Cultivate Awe

https://rushkoff.medium.com/dont-get-people-to-do-anything-9d59a1cf29a0

@paul No sweat, German to the rescue:

Spaßbremse = person who stands in the way of other people wanting to have some fun while doing stuff.

Betriebsbremse = person whose behaviour undermines the efficiency of an organisation.

Stinkstiefel = person who combines the first two traits.

This is why, against my better judgment, I still read Hacker News.

Have a presentation you are itching to give?

#TIL #LWN apparently keeps a list of upcoming deadlines!

https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/

And if you are looking to attend events:

https://lwn.net/Calendar/

If you are attending in-person events, please take responsible health precautions!

Interesting funding opportunity for FOSS projects supporting digital base technologies and infrastructure:

https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/applications/

> We invest in projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem. Examples include libraries for programming languages, package managers, open implementations of communication protocols, administration tools for developers, digital encryption technologies, and more.

Minimum project cost 150k EUR, currently funding curl, OpenSSH, WireGuard...

Have to choose, what should be self-hosted first? With timeframe for second indeterminate.