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
Spectrum Business last month: "Turn on Autopay or else you'll be charged an extra $5 next month."
Spectrum Business this month: "Now that you have Autopay on, here's a $10 increase in your bill for no explained reason -- charge labeled 'business wifi'. Isn't Autopay great!"
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OK, this is cool:
1. Look up a podcast on https://podcastindex.org/
2. Check the number at the end of the URL in your browser. Example: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/270016 -> 270016
3. Follow <number>@ap.podcastindex.org. For example, @270016 .
4. Get podcast updates over ActivityPub! Including audio!
h/t @samsethi
So why doesn't "block all video" in Firefox block video backgrounds?
why is nobody talking about the potential synergies between lab grown meat and AI
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Sad to learn this. Lyn Hejinian's book My Life was very influential for me -- I didn't know #poetry could be like that until reading it. I'm glad there are still books of hers I haven't read yet.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/08/remembering-lyn-hejinian-1941-2024/
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It's that time at @outreachy when we have to start figuring out how many internships we can offer in the coming round. I hate the hard choices we have to make when we're short on funding when there are strong interns and mentors.
Please help us by making a donation, and if you work at a company that might sponsor, please ask them to sign up!
outreachy.org/sponsor/
Would like to see the minutes of the #LAMY meeting where they decided to still put a blue cartridge in the Pink Cliff or Violet Blackberry Safari #fountainpen, even when selling them in a set with cartridges and bottles of their actual matching ink colors.
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Check out this video for notebooks, planners, fountain pens, and not-so-fountain pens that I've been using lately.
What do you mean someone runs a kitchen I'm not allowed to enter?! Ghastly.
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We need your help to advance user freedom on mobile devices -- if you are interested and have a few hours a month to contribute to building a solid organizational base to support the worldwide F-Droid community's amazing work, please nominate yourself (or another willing person) for the F-Droid board of directors: https://f-droid.org/2024/02/28/help-advance-mobile-device-user-freedom-nominate-candidates-for-the-f-droid-board-of-directors.html
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Most common conversation topic in the store today: #LAMY needs to print the names of their colors on the #fountainpen ink boxes.
(We'd settle for even the SKU.)
h/t to the car in front of me with the "I downloaded this car on Limewire" bumper sticker
For those who have been on the edge of their seats, Bank of America was able to accept my cash deposit today. They had "cash capabilities".
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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”
China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”
China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”
EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”
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For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that
The perfect trope doesn't exi--oh.
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I would have a lot more sympathy for Apple's DMA complaint that it may have less ability to shield users from "objectionable or harmful content" if their definition of "objectionable or harmful content" they've been shielding their users from hadn't included
- telling users that things were cheaper outside the app store
- pointing out that you could subscribe to a service through a web browser
- noting the existence of jailbreaking and the ability to turn off parts of Apple's code
Actual words spoken to me at Bank of America today -- "We do not have cash capabilities today."
"ghost kitchen" may be the most overly dramatic term for the most mundane thing
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
