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
NPR leaves Twitter (for now): https://www.engadget.com/npr-is-ditching-twitter-over-government-funded-media-label-on-its-main-account-155556726.html (good on ya)
5 out of the 10 books on the NYT BR combined fiction bestseller list (yesterday) are by the same person. It's been that way for a long time. I don't know what to do about that, but I think people might like some changes made to the way the list is built / presented.
If you sent me an email and are wondering why I didn't answer yet, I probably didn't get it. Sporadic email issues due to bad MX records due to bad instructions from Gandi plus terrible sysadmin (me).
I just tried to click an old answers.yahoo.com link and got kinda sad.
Have people started using #ChatGPT to guess passwords yet?
Turns out nowadays if I want my Screen session to not die when the graphical desktop environment crashes (or I log out of it), I have to start Screen from a VT and then reattach from the DE and do a lot of "export DISPLAY=:0.0" in the individual Screen terminals just like it's...some year a long time ago.
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Should Justice Thomas be removed from the Supreme Court?
Please boost for a more significant result.
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Twitter labels NPR as "state-affiliated media": https://www.engadget.com/twitter-designates-npr-as-us-state-affiliated-media-165306913.html
but not the BBC.
NPR, please don't righteously beg for Musk to take you back. Time to leave.
A big part of my life has been explaining to athletes in hotel bars what the very much nonathletic event going on around them is (debate tournament, FLOSS conference, #fountainpen show).
Last night, after many years on planet Earth, I had a sudden realization that I could use the seatbelt and buckle the dinner carryout bag into the passenger seat to keep it upright and stable.
The dog just literally ate my rent check.
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@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!
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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!)
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@fdroidorg honoured and proud to be part of #FDroid board. Such a great community working for #SoftwareFreedom in the mobile phone area.
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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?
Ticketmaster sends out customer service surveys..
Colorado wheelchair #righttorepair law forces company to give customers access to previously internal app used to configure wheelchair speeds etc. Still proprietary, but a step..
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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.
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
