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
omfg Wikipedia yes I did mean /wiki/
Okay Caran d'Ache, why is it "6 Bicolor (no U) Colour (U) Pencils"?
Finished Zero Star Hotel by Anselm Berrigan. Starting the Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas, taking me back to a workshop with him over 20 years ago. #poetry
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Yahoo! Pipes for ActivityPub
"Whatever you do, always
give 100%. Unless you're donating blood." --Bill Murray #quote
how long until we say "email, it's like ActivityPub"
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I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
I've learned a lot over the last 9 months about how running a small retail business truly is a constant battle against grifters, many of them large and institutional. Today's skirmish -- the bank's new "cash deposit processing fee", assessed because I GAVE THEM TOO MUCH MONEY.
"The Detroit Electric car company withered until it finally went out of business in 1939"
Don't worry, your login wasn't exposed, just your SSN (and we'll wait till almost the end of the page to tell you that). To make up for it, here's some free credit monitoring, maybe. https://www.getevolved.com/about/news/cybersecurity-incident -- better evolve a little more.
#Apple rejects MS-DOS emulator from the App Store? https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-rejects-pc-emulators-from-app-store Seems like a long time to hold a grudge?
In my household, among other roles, I am definitely Senior Vice President of Avocado Operations. What are your titles?
This happened recently in my store:
Me: Nice to meet you, My name is John.
Customer1: Nice to meet you too, my name is Janet. And what's your name?
Customer2: I'm Gary.
Siri: HI, MY NAME IS SIRI.
"I would like to get in touch with you.
Please advise if I am contacting the right person."
"Spinoza didn't have a fridge / Joan of Arc didn't have a fridge / and me and Greg don't have a fridge" --Anselm Berrigan, "The position of the planets on the human forehead" #poetry
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Last day to get your FOSSY submissions in! Due in 10 hours from now, you can submit after making an account on the FOSSY site: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
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Lol Neil Gaiman says
"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."
This is one of the better ones I have seen.
In case thou were't wondering how the paper wrap on the bottom of an Impossible burger fries up, the answer is beautifully golden brown.
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Reminder that we extended the CFP for FOSSY to give folks the weekend. You've got until Tuesday the 18th to get your talks in: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
Any good #poetry podcasts out there? Where people discuss poetry. Less interested in people reading poems in entirety.
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
