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
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When did Amazon break the ability to just buy MP3s? They seem to have now somehow wrapped it up with Amazon Music streaming, and if the stream doesn't work, you can't get to the menu to buy the MP3? I'm guessing the stream doesn't work because I don't have EME in my browser?
John Sullivan
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One great way to help out at FOSSY is to sign up for volunteering: https://nextcloud.sfconservancy.org/apps/forms/s/GF8gkmQfSFdyHoaNPiTWeCCx
One 3 hour shift is all it takes to get a ticket to all 4 days of incredible talks and community building opportunities!
One 3 hour shift is all it takes to get a ticket to all 4 days of incredible talks and community building opportunities!
John Sullivan
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We'd like to start posting regular updates about new apps and updates in our repository. What frequency would you prefer?
#AndroidAppRain #FDroidUserSurvey #FDroid
In the US, you can only apply online for an EIN for your small business M-F between the hours of 7am and 10pm Eastern. The IRS turns the form off at 10pm.
John Sullivan
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Please boost:
The #FOSSY conference is looking for volunteers! FOSSY will take place in #Portland Oregon July 13-16.
You'll get a free ticket to an amazing conference with talks ranging from:
- #OpenSource community, goverance, and DEI
- open source in education
- open source in business
- gaming
- containers
- ARM servers
- XMPP
Register to volunteer here: https://2023.fossy.us/attend/volunteer/
Dangerously close to actually yelling at some kids to get off my lawn.
John Sullivan
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🌐 Location announcement!
We are happy to officially announce that #SeaGL 2023 will be held at the University of Washington, in the Husky Union Building (aka The HUB).
Come join on November 3rd and 4th.
🗺️Directions: https://hub.washington.edu/about/plan-your-visit/#directions
😷Health and safety policy: https://seagl.org/health_and_safety_policy
And, for those who can't make it to #Seattle you can also join online as this will be a hybrid conference!
John Sullivan
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As one of the signers of the Franklin Street Statement, I strongly support people using Free and Open Source Software for their social networking.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090218125143/http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
Updated #PineTime to InfiniTime 1.13 (https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases) using ITD. Looking forward to the improved battery life. #Pine64
Something I'm seeing: People so concerned about keeping a c3 from prioritizing other social causes over its actual mission that *they* are the ones prioritizing other social causes (fighting against the aforementioned social cause) over the actual mission.
John Sullivan
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We're hiring! My team at Polytechnic Institute of Paris / @TelecomParis is recruiting a tenured associate professor of software engineering (all sub-fields welcome!).
Job description: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/associate-professor-of-software-engineering-at-telecom-paris-cdi
Deadline: 4 September 2023.
Feel free to contact me for inquiries.
John Sullivan
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Just found myself writing code that involves the term `absolute_relative_position`. I probably definitely need to rename this.
John Sullivan
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John Sullivan
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I will be presenting about #ReproducibleBuilds at #FOSSY this year:
Breaking the Chains of Trusting Trust: Reproducible Builds and More!
https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/118/
Pretty excited, and a lot of interesting developments in recent years!
Excited to join the #FOSSY organizing team for the home stretch! Check out the schedule: https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/
John Sullivan
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
Sailor Shikiori Yodaki is a great ink match for this Sailor 1911S Fried Egg Jellyfish. Yes I said those words and yes they are about a pen.
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
