John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

@settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!

Today at @CERN for a lecture on best practices for archiving/referencing/describing/citing (open) source code in #openscience publications: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1232613/ (with @SWHeritage, of course!)

@fdroidorg honoured and proud to be part of #FDroid board. Such a great community working for #SoftwareFreedom in the mobile phone area.

I guess at the back of my mind, I always assumed that the Leatherman brand name was chosen for a kind of old-timey association with hard-wearing workwear: things like boots, work gloves, heavy aprons, tool belts, a holster for the tool itself. Nope. The multitool is named after its creator, Tim Leatherman. I had to go fact check it, because if someone told you, "This knife is named after Tim Leatherman", wouldn't you be suspicious?

Does anyone know if the main ink manufacturers publish the size of the glitter they use in their shimmer inks? I'm guessing it's gotta be in the 0.1 mm range or less, but unsure how or where to verify.

#FountainPen #ink

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!