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Bradley M. Kühn
Bradley M. Kühn
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Software freedom activist since 1992. #Copyleft theorist & #FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures.
Co-Editor-in-Chief of #copyleft-nostr:npub1lckrrfqundrvg4hvsh4cs00v93pfmnk5p48ulxm7g92pn95jqy6qlg48s2.
Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of #Mastodon's license: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/stet-and-agplv3
Day job: Software Freedom #Conservancy (#SFC) — bio below
1ˢᵗ #Linux: 0.99pl12
Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated.
Pronouns: he/them
Your donation to SFC will be matched: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer
Professional Bio: https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn
copyleft-next: https://next.copyleft.org
Personal Blog: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog
This is the toughest time to work at a charity. When a charity posts its fundraiser, the total ask has been vetted 100 times: it's the amount that the org needs to keep going for the coming year.
Unlike your local PBS/NPR station, #SFC doesn't have a service we can interrupt to
pitch appeals for donations (& we probably wouldn't even if we did).
#SFC is short $48k with just days to go.
If you want me & my colleagues to work for #SoftwareFreedom in 2026, please give.
Hey, weird Mastodon question to #AskFedi. If I post something "Followers only" and @-mention someone who *doesn't* follow me, do they get to see it? (What I am looking for *is* "my followers, plus anyone I explicitly @-mention), but not sure if that's what #Mastodon's "Followers only" does or not.
(I realize this is a bit "hey would you net.search this for me" too, but I just worked an 18 hour day so give me a break. 😛 )
(1/7) I suppose #Fediverse isn't the place people are discussing #RobReiner. But after 36 hours of deliberating whether to say anything, I feel compelled. This thread will be long,but I start w/ most important part:
It's an “open secret” in the #FOSS community that in March 2017 my brother murdered our mother. About 3k ppl/year in USA have this experience, so it's a statistical reality that someone else in FOSS experienced similar. If so, you're welcome in my PMs to discuss if you need support…
I learned today YA set of records about me that are public & I can't un-public them.😡
It's an open secret in #FOSS: those of us who are “FOSS celebrities” always live with a low-grade fear of doxing & harassment. It's a perfect storm:
* We are low-grade famous to *just* enough people to attract a few problematic folks.
* Such folks — which are *very* few, to be clear — have tech skillz to do harassment efficiently.
My white male privilege makes it easier for me than others who face this.
Age makes you more cautious. I used to carry Debian CD's with me & do all my upgrades while in flight without electricity or Internet — just to test myself I could hack my way out of a screwed up GRUB or problematic #Linux build.
I'm taking my spouse's laptop all the way from #Debian buster to trixie this morning (going through bullseye to bookworm first), & I'm actually nervous. I *think* it's just because it's my spouse's machine.
Ironic thing is upgrades are so much safer these days.