[NBLUG/talk] PD article - "Santa Rosa tech founder Darin Chong, 50, was a leader at work and in the community" & other local tech news

[Brad Morrison]

Hi NBLUG,

Although I remember seeing the article in the PD about Darin Chong's 
business, CuneXus Solutions, I don't remember meeting him or seeing his 
name around much. Apparently, he was pretty well known before he passed 
away this week and worked for Redwood Credit Union for many years. Which 
then got me wondering how much open source software a large, local 
financial institution like RCU uses in their operations... any ideas?

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-tech-founder-darin-chong-50-was-a-leader-at-work-and-in-the-co/

I also saw that the PD was trying to reach out to local employees of 
Twitter about the recent changes surrounding the now completed sale of 
the company to Elon Musk and specifically his plans to cut roughly 3,700 
jobs at Twitter and require remote employees to return to the office:

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/tell-us-are-you-a-twitter-employee-recently-affected-by-changes-at-the-com/

I also heard back from someone at DeepNet (https://deepnet.com/) about 
possibly using their office space for future indoor meetings. 
Apparently, they have moved into their new Santa Rosa offices on 
Cleveland Ave pretty recently. While they are still getting settled, 
this person seemed to think that future NBLUG meetings being held there 
were a possibility, but not before 2023. So we may have another option 
for indoor meetings besides Round Table Pizza...

I'm still hoping that someone else will contribute to the same 
Thunderbird variable width bug report that I contributed to and maybe 
get little bugs like this that have turned off a surprising number of 
users over the years, but still persist - 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773184

I'm still not sure how many NBLUG folks use Thunderbird, but I now 
realize that using it as an email client is not nearly as common in the 
open source world as I had assumed...

I have also tried to drum up attention for the LineageOS bug on the 
Libera IRC that is still affecting my ability to utilize the always-on 
VPN with my Sonic VPN via OpenVPN for Android on my OnePlus 6T. I am 
experiencing the same problem with the 9/29/22 update to LineageOS 19.1 
as this bug report 
(https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5231), although I 
have a different device 
(https://download.lineageos.org/fajita/changes/). It looks like these 
changes 
(https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/323146/) 
are responsible for the problem. This bug report may be related 
(https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5179). All 3 
devices are different manufacturers Xiaomi 
(https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/apollon/), Google 
(https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/taimen/), and OnePlus 
(https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/fajita/), so the problem seems 
widespread within LineageOS, but I don't know anyone outside of Derek 
and I that use LineageOS within NBLUG.

Maybe some of the laid off Twitter employees will have some free time on 
their hands...

Over and out,

Brad
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