Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 40

>> … on average, when Craigslist’s opened erotic services in a city, the female homicide rate went down 17 percent.
> 17 percent. That’s not the homicide rate for female sex workers. That’s the homicide rate for all women.

Whoa. https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e

I probably shouldn't edit it because of Wikipedia's policy, but maybe we should get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Implementations updated with all known implementations

I'm always afraid I'm going to end a professional call absentmindedly with "Love you, bye"

@nightpool Fun fact: a collaborator of mine, Christopher Allen, was both largely responsible for TLS/SSL design and also was wholeheartedly against certificate authorities (he wanted SPKI/SDSI)

Thus, I like to call him "TLS CA", a name he doesn't like to be referred to as

@nightpool are you trying to get me to say "petnames"?

Because the answer is petnames https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md

Mes is getting close to being able to compile tinycc. This is awesome, because due the way mes is written (as a C interpreter that can compile its scheme interpreter and vice versa), once we can compile tinycc we can compile gcc and then the whole GNU toolkit, no bootstrap binaries required! Take THAT "trusting trust" attacks! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2018-04/msg00033.html

Oh hey look, another company scraping millions of peoples' data and then losing the whole damn thing in one big, stupid breach https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-firm-leaks-48-million-user-profiles-it-scraped-from-facebook-linkedin-others/

We have got to change the way we interface with our identity in society so that this stuff isn't so feasible.

#contextpatrol https://infosec.exchange/@crowd42/99936869366230790

you've heard of paperkey now get ready for pepperkey, back up your keys to spicy vegetables

smol endian

This is why I only use & support Free & Open Source Software in my personal life. This man is going to prison. Prison.

"A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore disks” he made to extend the lives of computers had no financial value, instead ruling that he had infringed Microsoft’s products to the tune of $700,000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24/recycling-innovator-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-on-computer-restore-discs-must-serve-15-month-prison-term/?noredirect=on