Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

This weekend I finished the krokbragd pillow I was ⁨#weaving⁩ for my mom. I used a Damascus edge for the fringe and hid the fringe in the fabric. It took three tries to hand stitch the seams in an envelope fold I was happy with. Now I just wait for the pillow form to arrive!

It's a complicated loom but no one understands it but its weaver. Shaft.

Apparently naming your floor loom is a thing weavers do. Right now my top pick is "Shaft" because of course it needs to be a pun and having a theme song is icing on the cake.

Off the loom! #krokbragd #weaving

@yaelwrites That's awful! Take care of yourself!

@dredmorbius I like how both were spun.

My local yarn shop sells natural-color wool from sheep living in the county south of here and the skeins actually have pictures (and names!) of the sheep the wool is from. I just need to decide on a project before I buy it all. ⁨#weaving⁩

I'm over halfway through with this krokbragd ⁨#weaving⁩ project. It's amazing how much faster this is on a floor loom compared to on a rigid heddle.

Akamai is acquiring @linode https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode

I'm finally getting to the fun part of this project where patterns start to emerge. ⁨#weaving⁩

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism @aral That's because it was only after that proposal that we discovered the project existed and that our repo was being used in this way. We were surprised and (perhaps naively in retrospect) didn't expect people would use us as a generic public source repo.

@koherecoWatchdog @aral @purism @LibreSolutionsNetwork Again we didn't intend on this platform being used as a public repo for everyone. I understand you still are angry about this but I assure you it this was not out of "DDG loyalty" as you put it, or some conspiracy, but instead from discovering: "people are using us to host their own projects and as a platform to attack other companies? We aren't set up for that."

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism @aral Oh I think I remember this! From what I remember we were trying to protect ourselves from liability since the goal with source.puri.sm was to host our own development projects and help outside contributors contribute to them.

We didn't intend on it being a free public GH replacement, or a generic web host for arbitrary content, and didn't expect people would use it for things like that. That would take much more infrastructure.

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism You seem to be using some pretty strong language such as "loyalty" for some reason. I simply am unaware of a better alternative at this point but would be happy to consider one if it becomes available. If you know of better options please let me know.

@phaethon @purism We're working on it as we get CPU supply! We just manufactured a new batch that arrived at our warehouse a few weeks back and we are starting to contact customers so we can ship them out.

I finally fired Google. In this post I write about how I got locked in, how I got out, and what took me so long. #privacy https://puri.sm/posts/i-finally-fired-google/

@arjen Public statements like that demonstrate that it's not just our customers who have been surprised and disappointed by unexpected delays--we have too. It's one reason we've been reluctant to give people estimates until we have their particular phone in our warehouse ready to ship. All we can do is keep our head down and continue to work hard to get everyone their hardware, with ever-improving software.

@arjen The reason it feels abnormal is because outside of crowdfunding, companies develop products in secret so you can't see the delays and then announce when they are complete. With crowdfunding you get to see all the ugly details and delays, and how long it really takes to do things from scratch. And that's without a pandemic!

We recently announced we are moving away from crowdfunded projects, to develop things privately and announce when they are done, so we can avoid this kind of risk.