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
sheening #fountainpen ink as opsec -- it's really hard to shoulder surf anything being written in LAMY Violet Blackberry with that blinding gold sheen.
Please open to the page in your Podcaster's Bible that says thou shalt re-insert old episodes (as "classics" or "best of" or whatever) in your feed in order to maintain consistent regular content. Now rip that page out and burn it to ashes, then flush the ashes. Thank you.
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I don't think it's bad to accept corporate sponsor money - especially for events. But advertising for them while I walk around is too much. If you're a community event organizer, and creating an event-related t-shirt, I encourage you to consider not offering "logo on t-shirt" as a sponsor perk. They'll sponsor you anyway.
This... is a very good question: "If everyone on the Supreme Court is getting seven-figure book deals, who will be left to judge publishing-related cases?"
https://lithub.com/why-the-supreme-court-shouldnt-make-millions-from-publishing-books
Anybody know any cool cases that fit the Kobo H2O Aura 2 #ereader? Wading through all the mislabeled junk on Amazon is a lot of work to buy from a place I don't want to buy from.
Mild Prophet Song spoiler
Already sick of big company customer service blaming "the AI" for their screwups that have nothing to do with AI (just involved...a computer).
I really hate when I have to type "killall orca".
Currently ordering some notebooks that are hardback but the name of their size is paperback. Not happy about it.
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🗳️ Nominations for the 2025 PSF Board election are open!
Help shape the future of the PSF — nominate yourself or someone you think would be a great PSF Board Director by Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html
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Will also give a lightning talk Sunday August 3rd at 17:30 UTC:
"An Impatient Application of Reproducible Builds"
There should be a live stream, I think at:
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#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
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hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam
linux user: omg you got it working?
John Sullivan
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I'm all excited to watch the livestream of #FOSSY2025 today! The link for all of the streams is:
https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/
Just over a half hour to today's #FOSSY keynote with @conservancy staff about the VIzio law suit!
Perhaps the problem of journalists incorrectly calling Meta's AI "open source" is about to solve itself: https://www.engadget.com/ai/is-mark-zuckerberg-flip-flopping-on-open-source-ai-231310567.html?src=rss (but not before making the mistake a few more times)
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Proud to announce @ramereth is the recipient of it's inaugural Distinguished Service in Software Freedom. Presented by @pono one of his former students, now at @conservancy helping plan and run #FOSSY25
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
Congrats to @ramereth !! So well deserved. #FOSSY25 https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/
Great shout out from Gunner (Aspiration) in the #FOSSY25 keynote about importance of @fdroidorg for mobile app freedom!
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I'm watching the opening remarks for #FOSSY! You can watch the livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/f2wDfw2nPN0
Thanks to #OpenSignal for hosting the stream! (And for doing all the a/v for the conference!)
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I’m speaking about what we've learned while spinning up a network of #AcademicOSPOs for the #ScienceOfCommunity track at #FOSSY on Friday! I can’t wait to meet more people working in this space and hear what they're up to. 😊
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
