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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Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.
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Rough sketches of a few speakers at the just concluded #fossy conference here in Portland.. I leave it as an exercise to match the speaker to the talks!
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Gave a talk at #FOSSY yesterday about #ReproducibleBuilds and #BootstrappableBuilds and how close we are to actually counter the infamous #TrustingTrust attack.
The slides are packaged as a Debian package, including a signed .buildinfo file, so you should be able to recreate my slides bit-for-bit identically!
https://www.aikidev.net/~vagrant/talks/2023/fossy/
However, my actual talk included a fair amount of non-determinism, thanks for all the great questions!
https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/118/
Videos should be available soon!
Is this real/accurate? https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/internet-archive-takes-action-against-ebook-piracy (IA sends takedown notice to GitHub for DRM removal tool?)
Home from #FOSSY and today's mood is jet lagged inspiration.
"The businesses that have trouble paying for the data that’s needed are the same businesses that are not investing in training or equipment.” is really one of the worst arguments I've heard. I'd counter that the businesses that have no trouble paying for hot takes like this dude's are the same businesses that are not investing in training or equipment. https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #righttorepair
Awesome to hear at #FOSSY about @outreachy "grandmentees" -- mentee whose mentor was a mentee of a mentor
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Looking forward to getting into Non-profit boards at 4:30pm (PDT) today at #FOSSY -- Let's Talk About It! https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/32/
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Great panel on the right to repair this morning at #FOSSY hitting lots of great energetic work in progress, including proposed legislation, normalizing device repair, educating and listening to less technical users, and a lawsuit. And of course, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved!
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Stuart Geiger highlighting importance of recognizing varied types of contribution to open source projects in his talk at #FOSSY.
One example he cites is the "All Contributors" bot, which is a nice way to continuously update your README with contribution credits in areas like design, accessibility, translation, user testing, bug reports, ...:
https://github.com/all-contributors/app
Underlying spec:
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Very sad to hear that Ian Denhardt, GNU social developer, former intern and friend has passed away.
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#FOSSY sticker exchange pile in the ballroom: Grab some classics or some local Portland rarities!
RIP Milan Kundera -- Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Joke were very important books for me at the time: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1151021446/milan-kundera-dies-unbearable-lightness-of-being
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This week feels like summer is in full swing.
We have been reviewing your talk submissions.
We are still looking for more volunteers.
And we are going to #FOSSY this week in #portland organized by @conservancy We will have a table there, so come and say hi!
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We're excited to attend #FOSSY with
@conservancy this week! If you're already planning to attend make sure you stop by the #GNOME booth! If you haven't signed up yet, you can join us by registering online: https://2023.fossy.us//
ATL wifi blocks imaps and vpn and forces me to enter my email address (you can reach me at info@example.com, friends). Good work.
Finally found the intersection of motivation, no meeting, < 35C, and no rain, to go for a run. First in 10 days. :(
Spent a good part of the day fixing issues with my #PinePhone proximity sensor. Sorry but I just don't think "sensor:modalias:of:Nlight-sensorT*Csensortek,stk3311:*" is a reasonable syntax. Anyway, it works now.
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
