Campbell Vertesi

Software engineering lead at Microsoft, speaker, classical music rocker. Rarely post, too busy building things.

[Campbell Vertesi @campbellvertesi]

read book X which I purchased from your store, I had to manually strip the DRM from it. Please encourage the publisher to release a DRM-free version in the future." #drmsucks #DRM #nodrm (2/2)

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Dear NoDRM (maintainer of the awesome DeDRM plugin for Calibre, https://t.co/4q4RCUlLLI ), I'd like to offer a piss-in-the-wind feature request: a config flag to automatically send an email to the relevant eBook store every time I have to strip DRM from a file. "In order to (1/2)

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eBook publishers insist on stupid DRM schemes? Why does adobe digital editions not have even a Linux CLI? Why are leaders so set on limiting their customers, rather than offering flexibility? (2/2)

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I love my new #remarkable2 but it rubs my nose in so many missed opportunities. Why don't they even acknowledge their own open source community? Why ignore the tremendous value being created there? Other companies would kill for an organic community like that. Why do major (1/2)

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Of all the Christmas Carol film adaptations, the Muppet Christmas Carol is the closest to the source material. That, and Caine's fantastic performance give it an edge over the Alistair Sims to make it the best Christmas Carol.
#christmasfilms #christmascarol #controversialopinion

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realizing the consequences of our actions. #Matrix #socialmedia (2/2)

[Campbell Vertesi @campbellvertesi]

#chatgpt wrote that last toot better than I did:

Just like the human battery facilities in The Matrix, social media feeds off of our constant attention and personal information to sustain its own existence. We willingly plug ourselves in and feed it, without fully (1/2)

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trap, the more electricity and data we feed them.

The machines from The Matrix are suckers. Capture human brains and we will build power plants for them.

#disconnect #socialmedia #algorithms #data (2/2)

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"Social" media is The Matrix battery banks, but powered by hate instead of bioelectricity. The algorithms use personal data to generate individualized information worlds which trap people through emotional attention, especially from outrage and fear. The more people they (1/2)

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information. #nomeetingday #disconnect #leadership #strategy (2/2)

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Easily my most valuable #workhabit as a strategic leader: one "no meeting day" per week, one "disconnected day" per month. No matter how crazy or in the weeds I have to get, it forces me to keep one eye on the big picture, prioritize my time, and integrate incoming (1/2)

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Intro to Andor 1975 (spoilers) #Andor #starwars #StarWarsAndor #fantrailer

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Surveillance capitalism spy microphones are "a colossal failure." Good news! Now please shutter the whole department.

#surveillancecapitalism #privacy #amazon #alexa

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#Nostalgia fodder for my generation.

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#lanparty #feelingold #90stech

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Microsoft is tremendously supportive of OSS now. What a time to be alive.

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- "[open source company] is one of our biggest partners, so we have to meet their policy of only open source.

What I notice is that they are all examples of "open source contagion", even without license protections like in GPL3.

I also notice that IT'S WORKING and even (1/2)

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sure it has top flight support for the #microsoftcloud"
- "more than 90% of the cloud market is #Linux based; if our numbers don't match that it's because we're turning off Linux users with a poor experience."
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Some of the arguments I've seen for contributing to #opensource while working for #microsoft with some of the biggest companies in the world:

- "if we want developers to use this product, it has to be open source"
- "[big customer] uses [OSS framework] so we have to make (1/2)

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#toxicmasculinity is defeated one example at a time.

#internationalmensday #MensDay #positivemasculinity (2/2)

[Campbell Vertesi @campbellvertesi]

Yesterday was international Men's day - male-identifying people, I hope you take a moment this weekend to reflect on the influences for positive masculinity in your life. Who showed you that it was OK to be emotional, to cry, to love, or just to cook and do the dishes. (1/2)