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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We need trusted members of the Open Web and Open Source communities to take on the hard problems in the social web, like people search and content search.
https://makerscabinet.com selling their measuring stick: "To celebrate the coronation of Charles III we’re giving you 15% off
our very own ruler…" 👏
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Looking for a job where you can contribute to #FreeSoftware projects? Check out @fossjobs! They list technical and non-technical positions exclusively for paid free and #OpenSource jobs.
You can use this opportunity to work with organizations that improve and involve FOSS or open hardware projects.
Do you know some missing opportunities? Submit it.
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I don't think enough biology teachers explain that, for the rest of his life, whenever he heard a bell ring Ivan Pavlov felt the urge to give a dog a biscuit
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The German language is actually quite veggie:
Da haben wir den Salat (There we have the salad) = What a mess!
Gurkentruppe (cucumber troop) = bad team
Tomaten auf den Augen (tomatoes on the eyes) = blinded
Bohnenstange (bean stick) = tall person
Spargel (asparagus) = thin person
Erbsenzähler (pea counter) = nitpicker
Interessiert mich nicht die Bohne (I'm not interested a bean)= I don't care at all
wie Kraut und Rüben (like cabbage and turnips) = messy
Enjoy our langveg!
I've received many fortune cookies with no fortune in them over the years. But tonight for the first time, I received a fortune cookie wrapper/packet, fully sealed and inflated with air, with no fortune cookie (or fortune) at all inside. I think maybe I got Nietzsche's order by mistake.
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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
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OH: move slow, fix things
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
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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
Paid $10 today to send a 4 page FAX.
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)
5 out of the 10 books on the NYT BR combined fiction bestseller list (yesterday) are by the same person. It's been that way for a long time. I don't know what to do about that, but I think people might like some changes made to the way the list is built / presented.
If you sent me an email and are wondering why I didn't answer yet, I probably didn't get it. Sporadic email issues due to bad MX records due to bad instructions from Gandi plus terrible sysadmin (me).
I just tried to click an old answers.yahoo.com link and got kinda sad.
Have people started using #ChatGPT to guess passwords yet?
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
