Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 33

Freddie Oversteegen dies at 92. Accomplishments during WWII include smuggling Jewish children to safety, blowing up bridges with dynamite, and oh yeah, seducing Nazis at bars to come on a walk with her and then "liquidating" them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

@algernon People can grow and change... it isn't easy though. It's good for people to hear that a past pattern doesn't have to be one they're stuck in for life. I too have had many patterns I'm embarassed about looking back.

We should make it okay, and encouraged, for people to change for the better as they mature.

@selfsame @eq I once had a forkbomb in my buddy list status message. A friend wondered what it was and ran it in in the nearest shell they had open. As it turns out it was on one of their company's production servers.

Oops. Don't copy paste strange commands from the intarwebs, kids!

Wow, somehow I had never seen the Free Speech Flag before. It's brilliant and I love it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

@phoe Oh, I have a Patreon page, I'm just not advertising it really: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

I think it would take hitting $1500 / month for me to be able to totally work full time on this stuff though, and that seems like a lot to raise. In the unlikely event that somehow I got that much coming in per month, I could switch to working on building cool fediverse-converging-with-distributed-games things full time.

That seems like a lot to raise though.

@zatnosk Yes, I have a demo of encrypted content addressed storage working that could be used for peer to peer distribution of content on distributed social networks while preserving privacy and without peers / hosts being liable for content, inspired by tahoe-lafs and libchop but composeable with existing URI schemes

Hope to write up a paper today

Software freedom should be for everyone, but to reach everyone we have to *care* about reaching everyone, especially people in marginalized groups.

I've put a lot of effort into trying to convince people of this who don't want to hear it. This has been a source of stress for me and today I'm dumping it. Focusing on helping the projects that do care rather than trying to convince people who don't.

"blockchains" are very vaguely defined, and cover ground with a lot of useful ideas and a lot of serious costs and tradeoffs. Weighing costs and tradeoffs for your use case: great. Thinking "blockchains will solve everything" without doing analysis on "what do you mean by blockchain" and once you do that "what are the ramifications to the these choices" is... erm...

Nothing is a magic cure-all, not even blockchains.

the greatest minds of my generation were lost to the blockchain hype train

I still think tagging could be a better CW system than current CWs tend to be if implemented with UIs that expected that purpose. Let people flag certain topics with the sensitive property and you could still get that behavior.

Imagine if you never want to see a thing matching a specific topic again, and you could just select that topic and say "mute posts tagged with this topic"?

Privilege isn't a sin, but it's a responsibility and a debt to be repaid https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-privilege/

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"Researchers Blame ‘Monolithic’ Linux Code Base for Critical Vulnerabilities" https://threatpost.com/researchers-blame-monolithic-linux-code-base-for-critical-vulnerabilities/136785/

And here's the paper: "The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed" http://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Biggs_LH_18.pdf