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
Super great that UNC Chapel Hill police are sharing important public safety info -- photo of a suspected shooter at large -- on Twitter and not on their own public alert site.
I so wish I could reply to every SMS OTP I receive with "Dear Company, Thank you. Sincerely, John"
I often don't eat breakfast until I've been up for a couple hours and it's no problem. But tell me I have to fast before a morning doctor's appointment and I'm ravenous as soon as I wake up.
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Hashtags didn't start out as a software feature on Twitter.
@chrismessina proposed their use, and for a long time, they were just a cultural norm.
It was months later that Twitter engineers turned them into links that went to a search result screen.
Same thing with @-addressing. It was a practice for blog comments that came over to Twitter, but there was a long time that there were no affordances in the UI to support them.
Same with retweets. People starting using "RT", and it took off.
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And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid is probably the album I've listened to the most over the last 10 years (even though it's 2 hours long).
RIP Brian McBride
https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSR9gCFKHNE
So sad to learn of Brian McBride's passing -- he was known in the wider world for his music as Stars of the Lid, but I knew him from his amazing work and mentorship in the narrow world of high school and college policy debate. So smart, talented, and kind, and carried himself in a way I always wanted to emulate -- just total genuine coolness.
https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/
Dear all online publications, when you are writing about someone's death, maybe ditch the usual "You May Also LIke" sidebar.
John Sullivan
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Linux on a Commodore 64 (Via Emulator and Speed up - a real C64 would need a RAM expansion and would take a week to boot): https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64 #linux #update #release #c64 #commodore
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I shouldn't have to say this, but what a particular version number refers to shouldn't ever change. If you do a bad release, bump the version. Pull the old version if you are particularly concerned people might get a really bad version, but FFS don't just update what the version points at.
One of my greatest frustrations with contemporary computing is SCROLLING.
Why is this worse than it used to be, and why does it keep getting worse?
ohio.gov "blocking" VPN IPs by just returning 404. For a hot second I thought the state had gone missing. But no, just awesome digital government.
This doesn't seem good: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article278145272.html
(Bacardi added by Ukraine to war sponsor list)
Bacardi owns many brands, including favorites like Angel's Envy.
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Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy https://zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-founder-ian-murdock-would-have-been-amazed-at-its-legacy/ by @sjvn
I talked with Debian fathers, Bruce Perens and Bdale Garbee about Debian #Linux's early days.
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The #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Adds #Poetry and #Translation As Qualifying Works for Membership
The overwhelmingly positive results (90% yes for poetry; 83% yes for translated works) affirm that SFWA members are eager to welcome poets and translators into the organization.
https://www.sfwa.org/2023/08/21/sfwa-poetry-translation-qualifying-works-membership/
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Somebody at Google thought they’re being funny. I don’t think this is funny. It’s wrong. The exact opposite should be true. Whatever remains must *not* be an empty page.
John Sullivan
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if I can’t have an Amtrak station in the town I live, I should be allowed to have one of those hand pumped rail carts to ride to the next town over on the line
John Sullivan
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This Android tablet asks for your password in order to turn it off. But if you just keep holding down the power button, it turns off. Eh?
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
