Adam Monsen @meonkeys@fosstodon.org
Adam Monsen
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Nonprofit ops/infra jobs alert -- boosts appreciated:
Freedom of the Press Foundation (where I work) is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer. Budgeted base salary range is $90-$110K/year, remote-friendly for folks working in PT to ET time zones. Working in NYC office is also an option.
Responsibilities will include building out our Continuous Delivery infra using Kubernetes, and supporting the SecureDrop open source project and other technical initiatives by FPF. More:
Sounds like it still relies on some online parts which you can't self-host (no idea if _these_ are FLOSS, but since you can't self-host, I'm guessing proprietary):
"For the technically savvy home user, we'll soon release the necessary pieces to run the entire experience in a household behind a firewall."
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/mycroft-voice-assistant
so... when?
Is Mycroft 100% FLOSS? Or does it require some proprietary bits?
Adam Monsen
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The other keynotes are @_sagesharp_@twitter.com, @lishevita@twitter.com & @abbycabs@twitter.com! I'm *even more* humbled to be at the top of the program with those three! @seagl@twitter.com 2019 is going to be great!
Adam Monsen
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As a lifelong Seattleite and most-of-my-lifelong free software person, I am *incredibly* honored to be giving one of the keynote addresses at @seagl@twitter.com this year.
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RT @nathanhandler@twitter.com
The fourth and final @seagl 2019 keynote has just been announced. We are very excited to have @makoshark presenting - https://seagl.org/news/2@seagl@twitter.com/30/keynote-benjamin-mako-hill.html
https://twitter.com/nathanhandler/status/1178711618386980864
Adam Monsen
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My team is hiring for a bunch of open positions, all remote! I will also be interviewing for other teams in my org 😄
🇺🇲 Senior SRE: https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/69642/senior-software-engineer-and-site-reliability-engineer/job
🇺🇲 SRE: https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/73140/software-engineer%2c-sre/job
🇦🇺 Senior SRE: https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/73297/software-engineer---site-reliability-engineering/job
🇺🇲 SRE Manager: https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/73404/software-engineering-manager%2c-site-reliability-engineering-(sre)-%26-emerging-cloud-services/job
pandoc ( https://pandoc.org ) can convert Word .docx files to Markdown. This is fantastic.
It failed for me once ("couldn't parse docx file") so I used LibreOffice Writer to convert the offending .docx to .odt and was able to convert _that_ to Markdown.
pandoc -s in.odt -t markdown -o out.md
@chest_bot open chest
Change is hard. RMS has stepped down from the FSF and MIT. He's done great good and great harm. This is a massive win for diversity and inclusion. All credit to the brave people who spoke up and took risk to help get the right thing done. Show the FSF you support this change and the mission of their organization independent of any individual's actions by becoming a member. https://my.fsf.org/join
Adam Monsen
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FSF/Stallman
Trisquel works (not on the System76 laptop, but on an old ASUS laptop). Yay!
I'm trying to get something from https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html running on my System76 Galago Pro laptop. I need keyboard, monitor, mouse, and wifi to work. "Live" version preferred, I just want to try it out. Any recommendations?
PureOS USB disk doesn't boot, no idea why. Guix doesn't have a live version. Trying Trisquel next.
@Purism I set up a torrent using https://openbittorrent.com ( following https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-torrent-files-share-transmission/ ). Here's the torrent file: https://adammonsen.com/tmp/pureos-8.0-gnome-live_20190714-amd64.torrent . Maybe you could host that .torrent file?
I didn't include the SHA-256 checksums file from https://downloads.puri.sm/live/gnome/2019-07-14/checksums.sha256sum , figuring folks should download that from you to verify files.
@Purism can I download PureOS with bittorrent? I'm getting 100 KiB/s using the link on https://pureos.net/download/
Adam Monsen
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Yikes. Hacked sites could take over iPhones for years. https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/29/google-iphone-secretly-hacked/
#infosec
Richard Stallman will be speaking about free software and your freedom. His speech will be nontechnical, admission is gratis, and the public is encouraged to attend.
Seattle Public Library (Central Branch) - Main Auditorium, 1st Floor, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104
Tue Sep 6, 2019, 4pm - 8pm Pacific
https://www.fsf.org/events/richard-stallman-free-software-and-your-freedom-seattle-wa-1
Adam Monsen
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You may think your Gmail account is private, but Google disagrees. Google told a judge that users have "no legitimate expectation of privacy." https://www.cnet.com/news/google-filing-says-gmail-users-have-no-expectation-of-privacy/ Proton = privacy.
I'm disappointed with what Firefox does on first startup. They should get rid of the google API calls. Yes, this is hard. Yes, they can.
