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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Sourceware 25 Roadmap
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-25-roadmap.html
Preparing #Sourceware for the next 25 years.
In the last couple of years we have started to diversify our hardware partners, setup new services using containers and isolated VMs, investigated secure supply chain issues, added redundant mirrors, created a non-profit home, collected funds, invested in open communication, open office hours and introduced community oversight by a Sourceware Project Leadership Committee with the help from @conservancy
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My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.
I am not making this up.
Interesting to see the mad scramble of proprietary software / silo companies updating their ToSes to say you explicitly consent to your data being used to train #AI -- while also taking the approach that they don't need consent (or compliance) to train on copyleft licensed works.
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You wouldn't download a spinning jenny
lol "Signing in using your GitLab.com account without a pre-existing GitLab account is not allowed. Create a GitLab account first, and then connect it to your GitLab.com account."
I heard you like GitLab so
Very glad to see this well-written Engadget article encouraging @torproject use, but wishing it would have flagged the other challenges besides speed -- like getting blocked or captcha'd into submission -- and highlighted *that* as a reason we all need to use it more, in addition to making deanonymization harder.
https://www.engadget.com/tor-dark-web-privacy-secure-browser-anonymous-130048839.html?src=rss
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Boy Wonder just looked at a pile of new books and said "it seems like buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies" and like
Damn, kid
Good that the new Twitter logo is the close window icon
Does Wired not read the Internet? (Or the Open Source Definition) https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-upsets-the-ai-horse-race/
How will the Overture Maps Foundation affect or relate to OpenStreetMap? What is their reason for existence? https://www.engadget.com/amazon-microsoft-led-group-shares-data-for-open-alternative-to-google-maps-160001416.html?src=rss
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On the one hand, I'm getting a bunch of utility out of ChatGPT.
On the other hand, I got rickrolled by the goddamned AI.
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#newpipe has been removed from #google search recently. The homepage https://newpipe.net is not listed in Google search results anymore. This is due to a #DMCA. For now, only our landing page is affected.
More info in our blog post:
https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/
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"[O]ne of Hollywood’s greatest tricks has been convincing the creators, whom Hollywood itself is exploiting, that the copyright tool they’re using for said exploitation is in the interest of artists." - @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/19/stop-rushing-to-copyright-as-a-tool-to-solve-the-problems-of-ai/
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"Move fast and break things" is just a euphemism for "Move fast and externalize the costs".
I really wish the New York Times would cover the new Barbie movie just a little bit more.
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Never had as much envy for a conference as watching the posts about #fossy
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Responding to the "Start every phone call by saying 'My phone's about to run out of battery' so you can end the call whenever you want" meme by proposing a cryptographically verifiable remote attestation protocol for battery state
Starting to have a Chartreuse freakout. Will I ever see it again?
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
