Update

Due to a change in family responsibilities, I've had to work with a lot more documents in many more ways much more frequently than I have had to in the past. A lot of the tools and approaches are the same that I have used, but I'm using them all …

In those late 20th century days of FOSS ascendancy, any adoption of FOSS by some organization, whether a business or a government, might be heralded loudly in headlines or comment sections or even by the organization PR departments themselves. Stencils proclaiming a company's "love" for Linux are the archetype from …

Welp. My brain reached for the name of the tool used to show the process identification numbers (PIDs) for processes using various ports.
But, it couldn't come up right away with fuser.

So, here I am, leaving a memento of sorts to help me.

Getting older, have a lot beyond …

I wish I could say I was more shocked or disappointed to read the statement from the Free Software Foundation today. But I'm not. I was surprised, a little, when I saw people starting to talk about it, I didn't have any idea what the FSF's next move would be …

I've spent a good part of the day flailing away at the keyboard trying to cram a lot of disparate thoughts about this weekend's news into a text file, but decided my three lines in the exchange below captured the moment as well as anything might for a while:

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Germany's smartphone tracker is open source (Apache 2.0) with a version available on the F-Droid repository. This is the sort of thing that encourages confidence in claims about how the application works.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.corona.tracing/

The multi-colored 3.5" floppy disk pack gave the effort a sort of festive air, as if somehow the huge, colorful murals spread across either side of the dining area in my favorite tacqueria across town were witness to the process via small-but-inedible emissaries.

My only connection was over our …

Katherine Maher, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced her resignation as CEO this week, Thursday, 4 February 2021.

In her announcement, she pointed to WMF's adoption of a Universal Code of Conduct as one of the achievements under her watch.

She also pointed to WMF's financial …

I've struggled to find good ways to talk about the different levels at which people and groups of people participate in furthering software freedom.

I've found it especially difficult to do this for participation that seems so typical for a particular kind of group, the corporation.

Corporate particpation seems to …

Ok, I'm going to start a new variant of my writing discipline, which I'm calling Fifteen Minutes of Rant

The precursor to this exercise was something I started a few summers ago, when I was really interested in having some basis for making and evaluating and budgeting for writing assignments …