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
I do not need a touch screen on my vacuum cleaner.
Argh is what I have to say about this situation: https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/
John Sullivan
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Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running once again into the same difficulties we experienced over and over, we’re wondering whether maintaining support for this device is still worth the effort…
https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/
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Now available in the store: Ada & Zangemann, a children's book by @kirschner, illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. CAE's @johns helped translate the German to English.
"This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology."
From age 6 to 106.
Meanwhile, spoofing my user agent like it's 2003 so I can actually sign in to my credit card account.
Did they think they weren't going to get a paper check from a stationery store run by a shunner of proprietary JavaScript? DYKWIA?
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Olives in your Negroni
Did Ticketmaster buy Duke Energy? They want an $8.50 convenience fee to pay the power bill online (whether with credit card or bank account).
Olives in your Negroni
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I think I'm finally fed up with (neo)mutt's inability to handle switching networks (ie, moving from home to work, or enabling and disabling VPN). Failures include just blocking, not interruptible with C-c; or claiming to look up the hostname and failing. Having to kill it leads to lost flags if I neglected to manually sync before moving.
"The pilot, who asked to be identified only by his nickname, Hacker, for security reasons, and other members of his unit would review..."
"An estimated 80 percent of visitors to the Louvre in Paris...come just to see the Mona Lisa, according to the Louvre."
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"What makes this news more interesting is the fact that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has abandoned its Threads account but is still maintaining its self-hosted Mastodon accounts online." #Media https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
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Despite my many disagreements with Richard Stallman, I sincerely hope that he enjoys a full recovery from lymphoma and we have many future opportunities to discuss those disagreements.
John Sullivan
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Our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn will be on the FTC round table discussion discussion "Creative Economy and Generative AI" tomorrow. He's joining a panel of artists, policy makers, union organizers and other activists as the one to represent the FOSS and greater software communities. You can watch the webcast at 19:00 UTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2023/10/creative-economy-generative-ai
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Crazy Alan's Emporium in Chapel Hill, NC, is now on Mastodon! We'll be posting regularly about the beautiful and fun new items we get in, as well as our community events, product reviews, and announcements about any store hours / availability changes. We are excited to be part of the #fountainpen and #stationery communities here!
Sometimes when it looks like there's no on one to pass the torch to, it's because the person who had it snuffed it out.
John Sullivan
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I will never get tired of hearing "the first conference I attended / spoke at was" about a conference I organized. I know I'm not alone here, so if you want to make a conference organizer's day, let them know how much you enjoyed attending an event and what impact it's had for you.
John Sullivan
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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
