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
Pretty cool: https://xikipedia.org/ (but maybe needs some license notices added?)
John Sullivan
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I'm currently working on a new personal project, but I also happen to have some free cycles for smaller advisory, coaching, or consulting engagements.
Would you like my decades of experience applied to your pursuits, while also helping me pay my rent? Sure you would!
Find more info here: https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2026/02/availability
John Sullivan
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Hear me out: "Insultant".
It's like a consultant, but I get paid to tell you your stupid ideas are shit and to stop doing dumb things.
John Sullivan
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We are here at the shop working on the massive shipments and tons of new stuff to get out. Please don't take any risks to see us today -- but if you do need us, we are here.
John Sullivan
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My publisher, @pragprog, is having a flash sale on all books! Including mine! Which you should totally buy and read and use and gift to friends and enemies alike!
Use code `Brrr` at checkout for a 43% discount.
• Forge Your Future with Open Source: https://fossforge.com
• Business Success with Open Source: https://fossbiz.com
John Sullivan
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The #Linux kernel plan for a plan (if a plan is needed) is in place.
lol Zoom "Note: The meeting host must have end-to-end encryption (E2EE) disabled for the Join from your browser link to display for participants."
Monthly #Debian keyring update done: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/-/tree/2026.01.25?ref_type=tags
I don't remember seeing weather forecasts vary this much. The one I look at says < 1" of snow for us. The one a friend showed me said 18"-21" of snow for us.
that feeling when you unloaded a palette off a freight truck, brought it all in, and days later realize...it was someone else's order.
NPR: "The Aurora Borealis was visible in much of the US last night due to a solar storm"
How many Diamine #fountainpen ink names can you fit in a headline?
Very glad to hear @pj and Search Engine covering the #fediverse! Check out the new Mastodon instance run by him, @Casey and @kevin at https://theforkiverse.com.
John Sullivan
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Update self-hosted software to a new major version.
It's a total non-issue and everything works brilliantly.
Whole process takes a couple of minutes.
Thanks, @forgejo team!
"Are you still taking notes? /
The Holy Ghost could get inside you /
You'd do whatever you put your mind to /
Will you read me what you wrote?"
John Sullivan
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Did you notice it's 1/15 and I've not been here trying to raise the last of our match? That's because we made our largest challenge ever already! \o/
But! Two new donors challenged us to raise another $40k by 2/5!
I know there's so much going on right now, but #softwarefreedom remains a key longterm issue. We're preparing for the Vizio trial to bring consumers rights, running an amazing #Outreachy round & working hard for our member projects.
Help spread the word!
I don't think I'm saying anything new to a lot of people here, but I'm remembering times in the last 10 years people oversimplifying the problems out of a well-meaning desire to have clear ethical lines shot down / shouted down projects that would have significantly advanced user freedom over forest/trees complaints about potential "SaaSS" elements in those projects.
Free software's going to have to find a better strategy against SaaSS given, on top of all the other obstacles and challenges to it, purely local computing is enroute to becoming financially/physically impossible. Ethical, freedom-respecting ways to use shared/distributed storage and shared/distributed computing? Dust off that Franklin Street Statement and try again? AI/LLM has been the problem but may "just" be a subset of this problem.
Finished Orbital, started Flesh -- got to keep up with the Bookers. #books
That cell was the only formula -- all other cells were static amounts with no more than two places. Huh? 2/2
I just spent 30m chasing a penny in #LibreOffice Calc while updating a cash flow forecast. One of the cells was a simple formula (99% of an amount, formatted as currency). The displayed result was $11.74. But a subsequent formula that summed that cell with some others apparently came to a different conclusion, reducing the amount by 0.01, causing my sum to differ from the bank statement by a penny even though all of the individual transaction amounts matched. 1/2
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
