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Things free-software actually needs a replacement for, rather than more Alexa clones:

- the thing that remembers your wifi networks & passwords across Android devices

- the thing in GMail that notices "due dates" and creates optional reminders for them

- The thing that notices when email & SMS contacts have the same name and provides a button to merge them

- Yours?

REMINDER FOR U.S. FRIENDS: The day after President's Day, don't forget to take your president down, clean it, and toss it into your neighborhood compost dump.

#thinkglobally #actlocally

HarfBuzz is looking for an Emacs developer who knows a right-to-left writing system (like Arabic) to help port Emacs's text chain to use HarfBuzz.

https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/1070774354928005125

Okay. Okay. I was researching where bitmapped fonts are still in use (like LCD displays, for example), and discovered another one I hadn't noticed before:

https://shop.subversivecrossstitch.com/pages/font-charts

(cross-stitching)

Cashier: "…and are you a member of our rewards club?"
Me: Nope.
Cashier: "Oh; is it your first time shopping at our store?"
Me: Nnnnno... I just don't feel like 'belonging' to everything in the world.

In other news, if I go missing, it's because I was buried under a pile of GNOME Bugzilla-is-migrating-to-GitLab emails and suffocated.

R.I.P. Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, of Slashdot & NewsForge EIC fame. He gave me my first break as a tech journalist and a crazy amount of leeway on topics.

I'm accustomed to nobody wanting to discuss this sort of thing, but I'll never be okay with it.

If you don't understand why somebody you disagree with — even disagree with fanatically — feels how they do, then you cannot have productive debate. If you're unwilling to try to understand why, then you don't have any high ground, you just have a difference of opinion.

An easy practice to engage in? No. Important? Yeah.

New rule, Red Hatters: you're not allowed to reject a conference talk proposal about fonts when your company conference has literally 40 "keynote" talks, half from the banking and insurance industry and half from your own executives.
#NowToMuteTheRedHatSummitHashtagOnTwitterBeforeILoseItEntirely

@cwebber Do you, by virtue of your deep W3C connections, know of any good, actively-developed ActivityPub terminal/curses clients? #askingforafriend #friendtomyself

"Paying for online journalism" and "autoplaying video" are mutually exclusive, people.

Honestly, where do people get this "THE MEDIA is not reporting on the Austin bombings!" stuff?
- It's the top story on Google News, an aggregator.
- That shows that CNN, NBC, and CBS (at least) are covering it
- You can follow links in all of those stories to the prior coverage of the earlier events
- They interrupted NPR Morning Edition today to do a live update on the latest incident in the FedEx sorting facility.

I mean, seriously....

I really hope that every restaurant he goes to starts charging Ajit Pai tenfold for all his food. There's no law against that.

Are you going to SCALE 16x on March 8–11? Will your brain liquefy if you're forced to sit through yet another monotonous talk on 'container orchestration' or 'blockchains'? Good news; you can come to the Libre Graphics track instead:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x/schedule/friday

Do it for your health!

In other news: there are just TWO WEEKS LEFT to submit a session proposal to Texas Linux Fest.

https://2018.texaslinuxfest.org/call-for-papers-9

Come to Austin the weekend of June 8 & 9! You won't find a better city to spend a weekend in, and you get to do it before the summer heat wave hits, so all the software freedom on display will be nice and cool.

Hey Mozilla, can we please skip the part where you spent years telling us that "Library" is a totally normal term that people use instead of "bookmarks" and just get to the part where you change it back to what literally everybody wants it to be? Kthxbye