Notices by Sam Schlinkert (schlink@octodon.social), page 2

Happy 203rd birthday to Ada Lovelace, the first computer scientist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

A Dutch church is holding an around-the-clock service that has lasted more than 800 hours, to shield a family from deportation

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/europe/netherlands-church-service-deportation-intl/index.html

I wrote out a quick blog post about my BASH functions for mindlessly running Syncthing in a tmux session

https://sts10.github.io/2018/11/27/syncthing-and-tmux.html

'In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal'

"This decision by the Copyright Office will make it legal to bypass that software lock, but actually doing it is another matter altogether... The thing is—as DRM becomes legal to crack, companies are committed to making it much harder to do so."

Sounds like, with this decision, DRM cracking is less of a legal issue, but will remain a technical issue and maybe become a sort of arms race

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair

Purism has announced a new USB security token. They partnered with NitroKey (shape looks similar to NitroKey's).

"One of the most exciting opportunities the Librem Key opens up to us is in integrating with our tamper-evident Heads BIOS to provide cutting-edge tamper-evident security but in a convenient package that doesn’t exist anywhere else."

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-key/

'Open Source Devs Reverse Decision to Block ICE Contractors From Using Software' (via Motherboard)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pawnwv/open-source-devs-reverse-decision-to-block-ice-contractors-from-using-software

Some ~ interesting ~ statements about open source quoted here, including from Eric Raymond

was just reminded that "crown shyness" is a thing and has such a wonderful, beautiful name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

I didn't realize secure messaging app Briar had released a 1.0, after a security audit. Looks like they (still) don't have an iOS client though.

https://briarproject.org/news/2018-1.0-released-new-funding.html

Today I was bummed to find out that the Purism Librem 5 phone likely won't be able to run apps like Wire or Signal -- the company calls them "walled gardens", adding "their server software is proprietary."

For encrypted comms, they write, "Matrix is the proper solution and that is why we have partnered with them."

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Via Motherboard:

"Cloudflare has confirmed to Motherboard that the company terminated service to Switter because of FOSTA, but also said it's 'a very bad law.'"

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgvga/cloudflare-switter-down-fosta-sesta

#FOSTA #switter

Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages after #deletefacebook, according to TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/

oh hey I wrote about my 13-month journey from (basically) Googling "what is linux?" on my 4-year-old MacBook Air to finally buying and using a System76 Oryx Pro.

https://sts10.github.io/2018/01/05/switching-to-linux.html

TIL about MaaStodon: "Mastodon instance hosting for everyone, from 3€/month" https://maastodon.net/

Very cool!

actually, here's a real sign that something's ~ going on ~ https://octodon.social/media/rKAbOBJck-zEoIbfbP4

Hi Fediverse!

Do you have a favorite notebook to write in? Preferably something not much smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches, lined, and that stays open.

I'm thinking this? (Doesn't have to be a composition notebook though.) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009PL4ZTC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2MB9B94L254TB&psc=1 https://octodon.social/media/X0yt-wHU4veyHuPFijo

"Rust can and should become the systems language of the web" https://mgattozzi.com/rust-wasm