Tom Rini @trini@society.oftrolls.com

BTW: Glimpse, which is a fork of that other open-source image editor with the shitty name, has a version you can download and eff around with now.

https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/nearly-beta-ready

WireGuard removed from Google Play Store due to donation link https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-October/004596.html

And apparently, andOTP has also been removed by Google recently due to a donation link. https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP/issues/396

It's just a page that says you can click this link to support the developers, there is no in-app payment. yet the Google overlord banned them from Play.

This is just pure evil.

Important read: Bradley Kuhn no longer #FSF director: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

His thoughtful post reminds me, FSF has a separate class of voting members. Did #RMS resign as a voting member or just as dir/president? It's unclear.

Per the bylaws, the voting members are effectively "in charge" of the organization because they are the ones who name the board of directors. https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/fsf-amended-bylaws-current.pdf

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #stallman

there should be a "Spooky Linux" distro:
* updates every October
* leaves lots of zombie processes
* vulnerable to spectre

Regular reminder: If you interact with helpline people via chat or phone, and you're given a survey afterwards, just give them top marks for everything.

Even if the agent didn't help you at all, they're just an underpaid cog in a much larger machine. Giving anything other than a perfect score might seriously ruin their day.

"Between 10,000 and 100,000 calculations later, #Arrhenius had rough, but useful, results - published in 1896. If CO2 levels halved, he concluded, the the Earth's surface temperature would fall by 4-5C. There was a flipside to his calculations: doubling CO2 levels would trigger a rise of 5-6C."
- "The Father of Climate Change"
https://theguardian.com/environment/2005/jun/30/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment2

via
Climate Technology Primer
https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part-1-review-of-basics/

"CO2-driven warming arguably discovered 1856 by Eunice Foote"

via baez

#climatechange

Whoo boy, this is the most public statement I've ever signed:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

Let's hope some good for #GNU comes of this all.

Actually I think this one's more applicable.

#tired #coffee #CoffeeDuck

https://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/comic/caffeine/

Keeping the legacy of Sir Terry Pratchett alive forever.
For as long as his name is still passed along the Clacks*,
Death can't have him.

* Nowadays called the Internet.

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

😥 😢 😭

Yes Virginia, there are people who will go to the police to complain a hit man they hired did not fulfill the contact https://loweringthebar.net/2019/07/again-i-must-remind-you-re-hit-man.html

Greta Thunberg's UN speech, now even more metal https://youtu.be/CLxpgRqxtEA

old guy tip: if you find yourself writing a long defense of the actions of another person, and you feel like you've reached a point in your writing where it makes sense to quote the "dictionary definition" of a particular word that is commonly used, that's a really good sign that you might want to pause and seriously reconsider whether the subject of your defense deserves your defense.

Idea to those other kernel folks out there: how about we allow multiple drivers for a single piece of hardware in the Linux kernel, but require that in such situations each driver maintainer must regularly compete against each other in battle for title of "official driver"