Notices by Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social), page 6

For everyone who has ever discovered to their horror when switching to a new phone that Google Authenticator doesn’t store authentication data in the cloud (and by “everyone” I mean “me”), there’s wonderful news.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23696058/google-authenticator-app-account-syncing-multiple-devices

@thomasfuchs I keep the Local feed for mastodon.social up in a Mona column. The federated timeline is too noisy to be useful.

WTF Apple? Sting’s not THAT old…

T-Mobile acquiring Mint Mobile.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ryan-reynolds-mint-mobile-acquired-t-mobile-1235554919/

Margaret Atwood responds to the banning of "The Handmaid's Tale" from a high school library.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-virginia-book-ban-library-removal/673013/

"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."

Nice gold checkmark you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/4/23585612/twitter-gold-checkmark-business-subscription

My column about apps on Mastodon appears in print today. I'm told it did very well on the web after publishing on Friday. It got MANY boosts and Favorites here on Mastodon (thank you!), so I assume that's where a lot of traffic came from. It'll be very interesting to see what kind of print-reader feedback I get via email.

This is a gift link to the story, so it should get at least some of you past the paywall if you don't have a subscription. If not, use archive.ph.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/twitter-mastadon-elon-musk-apps-migration-17746197.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvYXJ0aWNsZS90d2l0dGVyLW1hc3RhZG9uLWVsb24tbXVzay1hcHBzLW1pZ3JhdGlvbi0xNzc0NjE5Ny5waHA=&time=MTY3NTAxMzY5ODkxMg==&rid=YmE1NjU5MDMtMDM4OS00MDYwLWE1YzItNTYwNzYwZDQ2NDc5&sharecount=MQ==

I've been so excited about the explosion of new Mastodon apps that I decided to write about it in my column, with a focus on @ivory and @icecubesapp. A thousand flowers blooming!

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/twitter-mastadon-elon-musk-apps-migration-17746197.php

Oh this is too good. Since Twitter is now blocking Mastodon links, someone has created a link shortener to hide them. Gotta love the URL:

https://spacekaren.sucks/