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karen

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cyborg lawyer

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Not only is the CfP open, but in what I think is a new innovation for conferences, we're also taking proposals for topics you'd like to see keynote panels on! You don't have to serve on the panel. We'll pick some of the best suggestions and bring together the right people. We want to make sure we're covering the topics that people most want to hear about!

https://2024.fossy.us/

karen, to random
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A friend really needs to avoid using their hands due to medical issues and can't type... what software should I recommend they use? Any great FOSS solutions these days?

karen, to random
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This story about an insulin pump software failure is just terrible.

It's not just the software on the actual devices that is critical but also the related mobile software. And attacks can be trivial - anything that runs down the battery could be catastrophic.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/health/tandem-insulin-pump-app-recall/index.html

karen, to random
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Has anyone successfully used TransferWise/Wise's alternative to facial scanning/biometric data collection to set up an account with them? They say it can take longer but we've been waiting over a month since we sent email under the policy. Do they actually ever do this or is it just words in their policy?

https://wise.com/us/legal/facial-scan-notice

karen, to random
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It's that time at @outreachy when we have to start figuring out how many internships we can offer in the coming round. I hate the hard choices we have to make when we're short on funding and there are strong interns and mentors.

Please help us by making a donation, and if you work at a company that might sponsor, please ask them to sign up!

outreachy.org/sponsor/

karen, to random
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In the big room at #FOSDEM about to hear the first keynote. So excited for my keynote after with @sphakos @anna and @ElegantTolly at 11am celebrating 1000 @outreachy interns!!! It's always such an honor to participate at FOSDEM.

karen, to random
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tfw you remember there's a photo of you somewhere on the internet that would be really handy to have that you can't find, yet know that it's surely popping up in "AI" generated images.

karen, to random
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OK, Australians, I know today is tomorrow for you and you all get to live in the future, but here in the US there's still time to make our match challenge with just $358 left to raise in 6 and a half hours. help us make our tomorrow's tomorrow more software freedom respecting! @linuxaustralia

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen, to random
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OK, the number is now just $1,394! If you're waiting until the last minute to renew, this is it! There's only 8.5 hours left until AOE today!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen, to random
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Today is the last day of @conservancy 's match challenge and we still have about $15k to raise. I'm going to make some posts NPR style today until we make progress against our goal! At this point, all amounts help move the bar and make getting to our goal attainable! I'm using so folks can skip these posts if they want to!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

karen,
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You can read about my own health situation that inspires me to be passionate about the software we rely on. As a "cyborg lawyer" I know that we need to have real control over the software we use, and that it's not a matter of if our software will fail, it's about what we'll be able to do when it does fail.

This importance of this work is long term, but critically important. I hope you will support it.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/19/a-note-from-karen-2023/

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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Getting shocked by my defibrillator unnecessarily while pregnant (once I had time to process it) really stands for the proposition that our technology may not be made for our situation, despite the best of intentions by manufacturers. Things change, companies go out of business. Having access to the complete and corresponding source code (and the scripts to control compilation and installation) is a basic part of integrity in our critical technology.

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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And because our technology has much less of a chance of being made for everyone if it's not made by everyone, it's important to have initiatives that help folks that face challenges from all different backgrounds get started in contributing to this field.

You can see the incredible work that our Outreachy team did this year.

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-01-11/outreachy-2023-in-review/

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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And, NPR style... donations are starting to come in! Please help us make our match goal today. If you are reading this, you are probably somewhat tech savvy and understand how important these issues are. We must do better with our technology infrastructure, and planning for an unknown future can only happen if we can modify our key software.

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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Fediverse! You've done an incredible job getting our number down to $12,233! Can we raise that today? I think we can!

We don't have tote bags or mugs, but we do have t-shirts for our Sustainers, and, most importantly, every donation is a step forward for #softwarefreedom! We are a lean organization - no development staff, just people who care so much about free software that work as hard as we can to make real incremental progress every day for this cause.

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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I'm most proud about @conservancy that we just keep doing concrete things to improve the state of software freedom. We do a lot of advocacy and philosophy, but *talk is, as they say, cheap. We don't necessarily do the best job of promoting our work because we're so focused on the doing, but every month it's more and more, from writing to government agencies, to supporting our member projects, to our law suit to supporting @outreachy internships.

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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Oh my gosh, people, we're now only have
$6,759 left to raise! Can you help? I think we can do this!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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We may not have pictures of puppies or kittens in our fundraiser, but we do have a picture of the first baby!

Check out Elijah (and Oliver!) 's match donor interview:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/jan/15/supporter-interview-with-elij-and-oliver/

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

karen,
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The magic number has come down to $5,883! Please help spread the word. While our deadline is AOE today, we don't have a ton of time left! That would be $11766 we could use on defending the GPL, advocating for copyleft, running internship programs and generally hustling all day every day for your software freedom and rights!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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We now need about $4800 in donations to meet our match. Maybe some software freedom loving Australians can help? Or west coasters at the end of their day?

We're so close! Tell a friend! Buy a Sustainership as a gift! kick in just a few dollars more! Anyone have any other ideas how to promote?

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen,
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Scratch that, the number we need to raise to meet our ambitious match challenge is now $2,215! Donate now and you could be the one to push us over the top!!!!

Let's bring this home, I'm so excited about all of the work we're going to do this year for software freedom!

http://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
#SFCdrive

karen, to random
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I'm so proud of the work that @outreachy does! Check it out: https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-01-11/outreachy-2023-in-review/

karen, to random
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Um, I know you're sick of me asking, but if we can just raise $16,794 for @conservancy , not only will we meet our match challenge but I will also stop posting about it! We have just 2 more days to get there...

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

karen, to random
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Folks, @conservancy 's got 10 days left on our match challenge and $40k to raise. It would be so sad to leave so much money on the table for software freedom.

We work hard and get real, concrete results: we're establishing a legal right to request source code on copylefted code. We give paid internships to folks that need them most. We educate students. We support free software developers. We advocate for this cause with our hearts and souls.

Please spread the word. https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

karen, to random
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Big news on the Vizio case - the court rejected Vizio's arguments in their summary judgment motion. The decision cuts to the core of the case, with clear and conclusive language. Now on to our motion for summary adjudication...

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/

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