Notices by Sam Schlinkert (schlink@octodon.social)

do any of y'all have trouble abandoning a (long) book, even if it's become a slog for you to open it?

'US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors' (via TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-security-risks-backdoors/

'Backdoor found in Ruby library for checking for strong passwords'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-found-in-ruby-library-for-checking-for-strong-passwords/

ok what's the best FOSS calendar service that has a web app and works well on iOS? I'd consider paying a monthly fee even

cc @switchingsocial

any of y'all on Scuttlebutt? (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) What's it like? From the intro video, it seems both fascinating and real complicated for users...

Excited for Cory Doctorow's upcoming book, 'Radicalized'

"In Cory Doctorow's new novella, corporations provide welfare: but only if you use their DRM’d devices: toasters that won’t toast third-party bread, dishwashers that won’t wash third-party dishes."

Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41447687-radicalized

Amazon (pre-order): https://www.amazon.com/Radicalized-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B07HWY7XG8/ref=sr_1_1

ha, love this. Riot.im's new device verification flow involves keys represented by series of emoji (it used to be 45 characters)

Riot.im has also just reached version 1.0

More here: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/the-big-1-0-68fa7c6050be

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

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

In #Rust, can I assign a field _after_ I define an instance?

I think I'd like to create a method on &self to calculate the value of this field... but I don't want to re-calculate the result every time I need to access the value.

Tips for MOVING from one Mastodon instance to another

In Settings, you can...

1. Export some of your data from your old account (if you want). This includes who you follow/block/mute. Note that you can't take your _followers_ with you, but they can definitely choose to follow your new account! (see 1st screenshot)

2. Set your old account to show that's it's Moved to another account (your new account) (see 2nd & 3rd screenshots)

3. Obviously: toot about your new account from your old account

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/