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Welcome back to DebConf24, talks start at 2:30 PM (KST) (05:30 UTC) with 'Leveraging Deterministic Updates to Improve the Customer Experience on Debian' in Venue Bada, 'Beyond Yocto: Exploring Debian for Embedded Linux Development' in Venue Somin, 'Python BoF' in Venue Pado. 2 non-streamed sessions are also planned, 'Translating in Debian' in Venue CEO, and 'FAIme web service DIY workshop' in Venue Hyorim. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian




Join us at 11:00 M (KST) (02:00 UTC) for Reproducible Builds: The First Eleven Years in Venue 4: Bada, perf in Action: Real-World Applications in Venue 5: Somin, Local Groups BoF in Venue 6: Pado. Stick around at 11:30 AM (KST) (02:30 UTC) for Debian on Chromebooks: What's New and What's Next? also held in Venue 5: Somin.#debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


The first talks for today begin streaming at 10:00 AM KST (01:00 UTC). What happens if I delete setup.py?: a live demo of upgrading to PEP-518 Python packaging in Venue 5: Somin, Debian Brasil BoF in Venue 6: Pado. There are 2 non-streamed sessions planned: Introduction to LibreOffice Korean Translations (Wiki & UI Translations) in Venu7: CEO, and DebConf bursary team BoF in Venue 8: Hyorim. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


How podcasting is turning into an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach ~50% of US weekly listeners (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

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Welcome back to the 2nd day of the 24th Debian Developers Conference, held this year in Busan, Korea. Live streaming for most talks is available via your web browser. Our full schedule and links to viewing is updated each day: debconf24.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian





in reply to Debian

Nice!
From Europe many talks are in the middle of the night! Will recordings be available?
Thank you and have a good conf!


The 25th Debian Developers Conference starts tomorrow in Busan, South Korea. Now is a great time to have a look at the schedule, regardless of whether you are here or attending from your computer! debconf24.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf #debconf24 micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


DebConf24 welcomes its sponsors! bits.debian.org/2024/07/debcon… DebConf24, the 25th edition of the Debian conference is taking place at Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. Thanks to the hard work of its organizers and sponsors! #debian #debconf #debconf24 micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


DebConf24 welcomes its sponsors! bits.debian.org/2024/07/debcon…


DebConf24 starts today in Busan on Sunday, July 28, 2024 bits.debian.org/2024/07/debcon…


Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna

Ruské úrady údajne nenašli žiadne dôkazy o násilnom zápase alebo kriminálnom motíve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm

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Varovanie MZV všetkým občanom SR pri cestách do Ruskej Federácie - pobyt v blízkosti okien sa z bezpečnostných dôvodov vôbec neodporúča...


X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesign…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Have you ever checked your weather app and wondered what 'chance of rain' really means? ☔️ Does it mean 20% of the area will get wet, or raindrops will be 20% smaller than usual? Or something completely different?

Watch this video to learn more 👇

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🕐 24/07 15:11



26 Security Hardening Tips for Modern Linux Servers linuxtoday.com/security/26-sec…


CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to "a bug in the Content Validator" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billi…
#theregister #IT
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From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938

arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.



The first new Lyme disease vaccine in over two decades passed a key milestone last week — putting it on a timeline to potentially hit the market in 2026 if trial results are favorable.
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No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1

A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un

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#Windows

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TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type “im 12” and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for “being underage” thanks to twitch’s bots thinking that were underage

youtube.com/watch?v=eYf60wpdJA…
#til #todayilearned
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Yes, yess, yeeessss....

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in reply to Erwin

Pořád si říkám, jestli to nebylo už delší dobu připravené. No snad se jí to podaří a vyhraje.
in reply to Archos

@archos doufejme že mají nějaké eso v rukávu. Ale tak konečně mají Američané koho volit.


We have landed. Debian Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers have started to arrive for this years Debian Developers Conference held in Busan, South Korea. #debian #korea #DebConf24 #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1721… #debian


This dumb password rule is from SecureAccess Washington.

Central authentication for all Washington State services
(DoL, ESD, etc).

Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily
lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit,
providing no useful feedback.

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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2024) bits.debian.org/2024/07/new-de…


Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Link: github.com/veggiedefender/open…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies. #press

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Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue

CALLY: [V.O. scream] Blake.
[Space. Exterior. A freight ship called Scorpio is in flight. Scorpio interior: flight deck. A blonde man is the only occupant of the flight deck. His name is Dorian. He bends over to check something on the ship's instruments. Finished, he moves around the flight deck.]

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This dumb password rule is from Virgin Media.

Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no
spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character
must be a letter.

Feb 2020 Update: policy remains the same but the description is hidden
leaving you to guess the acceptable length/chars. Users are now lef...

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/vi…

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Reducing 3D Printer Waste: 10 Tips to Minimizing Filament “Poop” fabbaloo.com/news/reducing-3d-… #3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing


Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables (Bloomberg)

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This dumb password rule is from Banque de Tahiti.

You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e.g. `µ`).

No accessible version available.

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#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules