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The #FreeSoftware movement is fundamentally a political movement advocating for folks' freedoms.

To say that politics have no place in the Free Software movement is to say that the Free Software movement shouldn't exist.

But it's an attractive line to those looking to exploit the #FOSS software that the movement produces while subverting the movement itself.

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The #FreeSoftware movement is fundamentally a political movement advocating for folks' freedoms.

To say that politics have no place in the Free Software movement is to say that the Free Software movement shouldn't exist.

But it's an attractive line to those looking to exploit the #FOSS software that the movement produces while subverting the movement itself.

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New employment status, new #introduction post.

I'm Luke, a #programmer/ #Hacker. I'm involved with #Parabola #GNU/ #LinuxLibre :parabola: since 2011 and so contribute to a bunch of upstream projects. The Parabola build server is in my living room. #homelab.

I briefly tried to co-found a
#OpenSourceHardware/ #FreeSoftware #coop, but I'm now trying to do
crowd-funded improvements in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Please consider sponsoring me if anything in my #DailyStandup posts seems useful to you.

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New employment status, new #introduction post.

I'm Luke, a #programmer/ #Hacker. I'm involved with #Parabola #GNU/ #LinuxLibre :parabola: since 2011 and so contribute to a bunch of upstream projects. The Parabola build server is in my living room. #homelab.

I briefly tried to co-found a
#OpenSourceHardware/ #FreeSoftware #coop, but I'm now trying to do
crowd-funded improvements in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Please consider sponsoring me if anything in my #DailyStandup posts seems useful to you.

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I mostly follow people, not hashtags. If I follow you out of nowhere, it probably means that someone I follow boosted one of your toots, and I liked it. So I follow lots of friend-of-acquaintances.

Very-specific hashtags are usually fine, but many of them are way too spammy. Like, # linux is unbearable.

#feditips? Or maybe I'm the one using Mastodon wrong.

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I mostly follow people, not hashtags. If I follow you out of nowhere, it probably means that someone I follow boosted one of your toots, and I liked it. So I follow lots of friend-of-acquaintances.

Very-specific hashtags are usually fine, but many of them are way too spammy. Like, # linux is unbearable.

#feditips? Or maybe I'm the one using Mastodon wrong.

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Whenever I see someone who always gives a middle initial or middle name, I wonder why.

In my case, it's because there's a "Luke A. Shumaker" out there with the same birth-year/home-state/alma-mater and there have been just enough mix-ups that I decided "fuck it, putting my middle initial on everything."

Did I mention we use the same bank?

Plus, as a software engineer, I like having the initials "LTS".

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Whenever I see someone who always gives a middle initial or middle name, I wonder why.

In my case, it's because there's a "Luke A. Shumaker" out there with the same birth-year/home-state/alma-mater and there have been just enough mix-ups that I decided "fuck it, putting my middle initial on everything."

Did I mention we use the same bank?

Plus, as a software engineer, I like having the initials "LTS".

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I'm on the look-out for a Pentium Pro box/mobo that can take more than 4GB of RAM (since the Pentium Pro was the first x86 CPU that could do that).

So I'm keeping an eye out for a Data General AV8600, HP NetServer LXr Pro8, NCR Worldmark 4380, Unisys XR/6, or Axil Northbridge NX801. If anyone has leads on how to acquire any of those, or leads about other PAE-capable PPro boxes, I'd greatly appreciate it.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #homelab

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I'm on the look-out for a Pentium Pro box/mobo that can take more than 4GB of RAM (since the Pentium Pro was the first x86 CPU that could do that).

So I'm keeping an eye out for a Data General AV8600, HP NetServer LXr Pro8, NCR Worldmark 4380, Unisys XR/6, or Axil Northbridge NX801. If anyone has leads on how to acquire any of those, or leads about other PAE-capable PPro boxes, I'd greatly appreciate it.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #homelab