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
Clearly tonight's #cocktail will be a Manhattan.
"Final Cut Pro for iPad gets support for external drives" do you not hear yourselves?
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It seems to have happened without much fanfare, but about a month ago @purism has released the Librem 5 hardware layouts under GPLv3 (as original PADS and converted KiCad projects), joining the schematics that were already available from the start.
measure twice drink once
Jenny Xie, "The Rupture Tense", p47, first time I've ever seen "VPN" used in #poetry.
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A new @fdroidorg board of directors has been appointed, steering the governance of this great community which is so crucial for user freedoms!
My term as part of the founding board has ended, as planned, to make room for new blood. All the best for the new board members Juliana Sima, Peter Serwylo and Sebastian Crane (who serves as Chair), as well as the continuing directors @mlemweb, Andrew Lewman, @kirschner, @johns, @downey, and #fdroid's technical lead @eighthave!
How do I disable all web page animated/video backgrounds forever and ever? In Firefox preferably.
Here's a complete list of people on the Department of Homeland Security's new AI safety board: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2024/04/dhs-fills-out-ai-safety-board-with-major-tech-execs/
CEO of Delta? Sure, why not. Sadly don't see anywhere near enough representation for free software / open source, or social interest organizations in general.
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The April 2024 issue of Pen World, the journal of #fountainpen writing, is here -- and we are in it!
just realized my inbox is full of unread articles about decluttering :(
Bad enough that Wired @willknight continues to call Llama 3 "open source", spreading Meta propaganda. Error is compounded when it's in the context of an article where at least one of the other models discussed actually *is* open source (taking Mistral's Apache 2 license statement at face value).
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/
https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source by @ed
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme Llama 3 license same problems as Llama 2 license
well maybe someone just silver spray painted a bunch of cardboard and duck taped it together over a 4-wheeler. can't be sure
just saw an actual Tesla truck on my actual road
I guess this is good? But I'm a lot less interested in having companies be required to do repairs than I am in making sure they don't obstruct repairing by others.. in fact, a little worried that those goals will end up in conflict.. https://www.engadget.com/eus-new-right-to-repair-rules-force-companies-to-repair-out-of-warranty-devices-081939123.html #righttorepair
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Congratulations to Andreas Tille our newly elected Debian Project Leader. #debian https://micronews.debian.org/2024/1713587115.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #debian
Sorry, "auto brewery syndrome"? This is not real. Or, it is real, and I have it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/belgian-whose-body-brews-alcohol-170113547.html?guccounter=1
Very much wishing I'd come up with this poem title, "Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC" https://poets.org/poem/self-portrait-combination-taco-bell-pizza-hut-kfc #poetry
Today's thing I hate about computers now is the in-browser JavaScript "windows" that can't (easily) be resized. Pretty fun scrolling through a big list of items when you can only see 1 line at a time in the "window".
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
