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
Turns out nowadays if I want my Screen session to not die when the graphical desktop environment crashes (or I log out of it), I have to start Screen from a VT and then reattach from the DE and do a lot of "export DISPLAY=:0.0" in the individual Screen terminals just like it's...some year a long time ago.
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Should Justice Thomas be removed from the Supreme Court?
Please boost for a more significant result.
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Twitter labels NPR as "state-affiliated media": https://www.engadget.com/twitter-designates-npr-as-us-state-affiliated-media-165306913.html
but not the BBC.
NPR, please don't righteously beg for Musk to take you back. Time to leave.
A big part of my life has been explaining to athletes in hotel bars what the very much nonathletic event going on around them is (debate tournament, FLOSS conference, #fountainpen show).
Last night, after many years on planet Earth, I had a sudden realization that I could use the seatbelt and buckle the dinner carryout bag into the passenger seat to keep it upright and stable.
The dog just literally ate my rent check.
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@settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
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Today at @CERN for a lecture on best practices for archiving/referencing/describing/citing (open) source code in #openscience publications: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1232613/ (with @SWHeritage, of course!)
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@fdroidorg honoured and proud to be part of #FDroid board. Such a great community working for #SoftwareFreedom in the mobile phone area.
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I guess at the back of my mind, I always assumed that the Leatherman brand name was chosen for a kind of old-timey association with hard-wearing workwear: things like boots, work gloves, heavy aprons, tool belts, a holster for the tool itself. Nope. The multitool is named after its creator, Tim Leatherman. I had to go fact check it, because if someone told you, "This knife is named after Tim Leatherman", wouldn't you be suspicious?
Ticketmaster sends out customer service surveys..
Colorado wheelchair #righttorepair law forces company to give customers access to previously internal app used to configure wheelchair speeds etc. Still proprietary, but a step..
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Does anyone know if the main ink manufacturers publish the size of the glitter they use in their shimmer inks? I'm guessing it's gotta be in the 0.1 mm range or less, but unsure how or where to verify.
We really need to standardize menu abbreviations for vegetarian and vegan. I appreciate any effort at all, but "v", "vg", "V" -- none of these are helpful. Neither are pictures of carrots. Or leaves.
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Alright, I officially invite anyone reading this to join me, starting April 1st, on a #30DayFOSSChallenge to reduce their reliance on proprietary software.
I have a page about the challenge here: https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html
I will also be putting up a weekly blog about my own experience with the challenge. My first one is already up, explaining where I'm starting from and what I expect on the road ahead: http://blog.nullarch.com/index.php/2023/03/25/30dayfosschallenge-week-0/
If you're joining me, let me know!
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https://archive.org/details/SeaGL2022-Sumana_Harihareswara-Keynote A video recording of my @SeaGL closing keynote from 2022 is up
25 minutes of standup #comedy/#jokes on
the "look but don't touch" license
empowerment and exhaustion
#opensource maintainers' spidey sense for complex, headache-inducing systems
my family's bug reports
what it's like, making performance art about this life we live
& more
A state law in Utah that regulates the *specific hours* that minors can use "social media"..
Today, remembering writing this: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2010/fall/lending-a-solved-problem
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US Congress is like "We're gonna ban a website to prove that we're not like China".
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
