John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

(and it's possible none of this is #LibreOffice's fault -- maybe #Wayland could be to blame? It happens most often upon switching back to the window after being somewhere else)

Ask me how many times a day I get burned by the #LibreOffice race-ish condition where I hit C-f and then start typing but the C-f handler doesn't leap into action until after the other keystrokes have been processed as normal input, so I end up accidentally replacing the contents of a spreadsheet cell that I also can't easily find because where was focus...and then the cursor jumps to the search box.

Always a bummer when there's a cool thing for a while, which then inspires a formal organization to run/lead the cool thing, and then the formal organization ends up messing up the cool thing. (NaNoWriMo "closing down") https://lithub.com/nanowrimo-is-shutting-down/

Other tales like this?

Do we really not have bipartisan and public consensus for "you can't pardon anyone who gave you 6 figures in campaign contributions"?

Currently installing the #Debian VM on my #CalyxOS Pixel. So excited!

(Probably) proving once again that the biggest security issues with encrypted communication are the persons using it.

What does it mean if I have a Sailor Pro Gear 21k #fountainpen with just "M" on the nib, vs one (Realo 1911) that has "H-M"? I thought all of Sailor's Ms these days were H-Ms..? The M was bought within the last 5 years; the H-M I have no way of knowing but the other nib markings look contemporary.

Got my first vendor/distributor email about a tariff driven price increase. Here we go.

Trying to understand the ramifications of living jn a world where we have not only tequila bottle dog toys but *reposado* tequila bottle dog toys. I just hope it's not over-oaked.

TIL that the Big and Little Dippers are not constellations. Quality liberal arts education I had.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
https://lithub.com/next-week-amazon-is-stripping-away-your-ability-to-download-your-ebooks/

I think they have a point here and I'm glad that someone, anyone, is pushing against #Apple's "unapproved apps still need to be approved" stance. The sort of one-and-a-half party approach to third-party distribution.

https://www.engadget.com/apps/apple-is-deeply-concerned-about-altstores-porn-app-005013457.html?src=rss

After reading this, I'm left wondering, did Murakami kick off the cats in Japanese fiction motif? Or is he just another practitioner? (He is not mentioned in this article.)

In Tumultuous Times, Readers Turn to ‘Healing Fiction’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/books/healing-fiction-japan-korea-before-the-coffee-gets-cold.html

I'm a little behind on the news, but this is an amazing story. Import ban lifted for the very noble reason that they lost the only copy of the ban.

India Scraps Import Ban on Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/asia/india-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-book-ban.html

Well, that's a bummer, I found these @letsencrypt email reminders very helpful https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/ending-expiration-emails/ -- but it is a lot of "stamps" I guess. (Also, I did not receive the official email about this..)

I don't have writer's block, maybe just writer's detour, which is something like I sit down to work on some poetry and instead out comes a few paragraphs of an article on nonprofit governance.

The plant-based Kraft dinner comes in the same sized box as original Kraft dinner, but with 1.25oz less pasta. #vegan

some level of respect for the spammers sending "American Express" mail from "expressamerican" as the domain.