Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

New episode is out!

@dsearls and @katherined talk to @kyle about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Full episode here: https://www.reality2cast.com/133

https://youtube.com/shorts/bCR-S0nWRZE

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I feel that Gen X was well trained for the day when an evil rich dude bought the mall where we all hang out so he could demolish it.

This is our moment.

We're gonna need a lot of skateboards. And a scrappy mutt.

And a montage.

We have a new homestead on the Fediverse. To borrow an analogy from @kyle, We're trying out our own tiny house. Let's see how this goes over here in our own space thanks to @mastohost #NewDigs

Exciting news! We've set up a new account using our own domain at @reality2cast@reality2.social and I'm about to make the move. #Migration

Today's video (Day 61!!!) is on using systemctl to manage SystemD services. Sound confusing? It's not, I promise! https://90daysofmayhem.com/posts/day_61/

Heading to Vegas next week for my first
AWS re:Invent. if you will be there as well, and want to chat about all things #OpenSource #developer #community, let’s connect! :) #reInvent #awsreinvent

My thoughts on the Twitter to Mastodon shift and whether big tech will follow suit.
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/Twitter-Exodus-Devs-Leave-but-Big-Tech-Won-t-Land-in-the/post/1431977

Every Toot down in Tootville liked Fediverse a lot
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Tootville, did not!
The Grinch hated Fediverse! The whole federation!
Now, please don't ask why, there is no explanation.
It could be his app's round trip times weren't tight,
It could be, perhaps, the bots weren't counted right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been his net worth's $42B too small.

@katherined To me interoperability is almost always a good thing. It can become a bad thing when "embrace" moves to "extend" and "extinguish."

For instance, it was great when Slack was interoperable with IRC. It allowed it to attract all sorts of community rooms to move from IRC. The downside was when they extended the protocol beyond IRC and ultimately extinguished their IRC support, closing the door behind them after everyone walked through.

I was interviewed about supply chain security (around 15 min mark) in a longer CNBC feature about manufacturing phones in the USA. In short, it's less about trust concerns with any particular country/govt., and more about reducing the links in the supply chain to reduce the opportunities to tamper with hardware.

Our Made-in-USA-electronics Librem 5 USA phone also got a number of shout-outs. Pretty neat!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w #security #supplychain #infosec #manufacturing

The #SCALE20x call for papers is open through December 2nd https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/cfp