John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Disappointing, and a reminder that I don't actually know what a monopoly is (clearly not a "know it when I see it" situation): https://www.engadget.com/apple-wins-appeals-court-ruling-against-epic-games-191331514.html -- but hopefully irrelevant anyway, with other forces (EU) pushing Apple to allow users to install software from outside the App Store. iF-Droid? #apple #iphone #fdroid

What an encouraging story -- university students in Lithuania push back against proprietary 2FA requirement and win: https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230418-01.en.html

Paid $10 today to send a 4 page FAX.

A bit crushed to learn that the new #Murakami book release date I've been looking forward to on my calendar (today) is the release date *in Japan*. Probably another year to wait for a translation I can read.

#books

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.

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.