I'm stoked to be helping out with the "FOSS For Education" track for #FOSSY, a free and open source software conference hosted in Portland this July by @conservancy
Let's get a variety of perspectives to be present and seen. Go for it and submit a proposal. :)
About the "FOSS For Education" track: https://2023.fossy.us/pages/tracks/#education
Call for Proposals: https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
General FOSSY info: https://2023.fossy.us/
#foss #teacher #education #edtech #highered #k12 #oer23 #openeducation #oer
I appreciate the warning on Colorverse NASA Blue ink: "Avoid direct sunlight; keep out of children." Okay! #fountainpens
“You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.” --Bernard DeVoto, "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto" #cocktails #quotes
Disappointing, and a reminder that I don't actually know what a monopoly is (clearly not a "know it when I see it" situation): https://www.engadget.com/apple-wins-appeals-court-ruling-against-epic-games-191331514.html -- but hopefully irrelevant anyway, with other forces (EU) pushing Apple to allow users to install software from outside the App Store. iF-Droid? #apple #iphone #fdroid
Congrats to @highvoltage on being re-elected DPL!
What an encouraging story -- university students in Lithuania push back against proprietary 2FA requirement and win: https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230418-01.en.html
NPR leaves Twitter (for now): https://www.engadget.com/npr-is-ditching-twitter-over-government-funded-media-label-on-its-main-account-155556726.html (good on ya)
Have people started using #ChatGPT to guess passwords yet?
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.
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).
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.