today's leftovers
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pngcheck), Fedora (qemu), Mageia (admesh, busybox, emacs, libarchive, netkit-telnet, ruby, rxvt-unicode, and shadowutils), Oracle (bcel and kernel), Red Hat (389-ds-base, bcel, dbus, firefox, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, thunderbird, and usbguard), Scientific Linux (bcel), SUSE (containerd, firefox, grafana, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libtpms, net-snmp, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (pillow).
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Microsoft Soundscape to Go Open Source Marking the End of the Project [Ed: Sourav Rudra is killing "It's FOSS". He habitually promotes proprietary software (NOT FOSS) and even Microsoft.]
The Soundscape project was a fascinating experimental research effort undertaken by Microsoft to use sound-based technology to help visually impaired people navigate their surroundings.
Launched back in 2017, it used 3D audio cues and augmented reality to enhance a user's awareness by guiding them through places.
Soon after, they also launched an iOS app to showcase their progress.
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IDN is crazy | daniel.haxx.se
IDN, International Domain Names, is the concept that lets us register and use international characters in domain names, and by international we of course mean characters outside of the ASCII range.
Recently I have fought some battles against IDN and IDN decoding so I felt this urge to write a lot of words about it to help me in my healing process and maybe mend my scars a little. I am not sure it worked but at least I feel a little better now.
(If WordPress had a more sensible Unicode handling, this post would have nicer looking examples. I can enter Unicode fine, but if I save the post as a draft and come back to it later, most of the Unicodes are replaced by question marks! Because of this, the examples below are not all using the exact Unicode symbols the text speaks of.)
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Everything Open call for proposals [LWN.net]
Everything Open is, seemingly, the future form of the conference once known as linux.conf.au; see this page for a discussion of the reasoning behind the change. The inaugural event will be held March 14 to 16 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for proposals has gone out now, with a deadline of January 15. "Our aim is to create a deeply technical conference where we bring together industry leaders and experts on a wide range of subjects."
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PostgreSQL: FOSDEM PGDay registration announcement
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the FOSDEM PGDay 2023 conference, which will be held on February 3rd, 2023, at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel in Brussels.
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RationalPlan 6 - Baselines, Improved Scheduling, MS Project Integration
Stand By Soft launches RationalPlan 6 a new major version that comes with lots of new features and improvements especially for the web based interface. To be noted the possibility to work with baselines and Earn Value Management technique, generating reports, clients management, improved projects scheduling with timescales up to seconds, custom columns and new filters, data export etc. Compatibility with Microsoft Project files was also enhanced, while integration with Google Drive was updated to the latest V3 version.