Notices by Elizabeth K. Joseph (pleia2@floss.social)

Thrilled to see a remix of our original IBM z16 3-d model published by some enthusiasts in the #mainframe community!

https://www.printables.com/model/1138508-mainframe-z16-5-part-model

This one makes it easier to have multi-color prints, and is scaled to go with Barbie 😁 #MainframerBarbie

"What are you watching?"

"Aquaman"

"Oh, is it good?"

"No" 😂

What else is surgery recovery for if not catching up on goofy comic book movies I've missed?

Attending #CPOSC and why you should go to small, regional conferences: "CPOSC 2024" https://princessleia.com/journal/2024/04/cposc-2024/

Just gave my talk at #CPOSC ! 🐧🎉

Slides (PDF): https://princessleia.com/presentations/2024/Will_your_open_source_project_run_on_a_mainframe_Or_on_a_smartwatch_-_CPOSC_2024.pdf #IBMZ #ARM #RISCV #OpenPower #IBMPower

We're in Philadelphia for a couple weeks!

And one of my side quests while we're visiting is making my way out to the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference on Saturday, April 6th to give a presentation on "Will your open source project run on a mainframe? Or on a smartwatch?"

https://cposc.org/schedule

None of this is in the least bit surprising to me, especially since I know how good we're getting at analyzing vast amounts of data. I just didn't want to believe in this future, so I'm certain part of this was my own optimistic denial having a bit too much space in my head.

I've been reading "Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance" and it's forcing me to come to terms with how naive my take on "open data" is when it comes to data about people 🙁

Even when data is "anonymized" (lol), with enough information from other sources (some of which was hacked/leaked out of compliance with the law) a number of organizations spend a lot of money to bring it all back to us, mostly without regard for ethics.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307735/afterlives-of-data

My Smith-Corona Skyriter is working! No more getting stuck, and the type alignment is better (not 💯 but I'm tired of messing with it for now and want to write 😅).

The s390x open source team at IBM for #LinuxONE works to get the latest versions of open source software running for #Linux on IBM #zSystems

In January 2023 currency was maintained for over a dozen projects including #couchbase & #cAdvisor 🧑💻🎉

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2023/02/06/linuxone-open-source-report-january-2023

I recently fell in love with the Noble Blood podcast. It's great, but there are two things I specifically love about it:

1. History stories
2. A single narrator (not a conversation)

History fan friends, what else should I check out podcast-wise? #podcast #history #stories