[11:20] schestowitz[11:20] schestowitzI just finished my eighteenth Ocarina of Time Randomizer run. Its a blast. It shuffles everything around while guaranteeing the game is beatable. This Kotaku article gives a great summary of how it works and why its so fun.
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[11:29] schestowitz[11:29] schestowitzLast weekend I went to the Linux Days in Voralberg (Austria) to host a booth with Tobias and Kai. It was hosted at the Fachhochschule (a sort of university for applied science) in Dornbirn and it was my first time attending this event.
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[11:50] schestowitz[11:50] schestowitzThe Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year ( 160 a year) if they don't agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta's regulator, the Irish DPC, is likely to agree to any way that Meta can bypass the GDPR. However [11:50] schestowitz , the company may also be able to use six words from a recent Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling to support its approach.
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[11:52] schestowitz[11:52] schestowitzOn 26 September, at EDRis event, we created a space for people with lived experiences of intrusive surveillance to share their stories with EU policymakers and national and international journalists. We heard from journalists, human rights defenders and privacy experts, who spoke about the decisive and protective role of encryption in allowing them to work, socialise, organise, expre [11:52] schestowitz ss themselves, and care for others safely, without the fear of being put under arbitrary suspicion.
[11:52] schestowitzTogether, with top experts in the field like Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation; Dunja Mijatovi, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe; Carmela Troncoso, Assistant Professor at EPFL and expert in security and privacy, we also discussed what is the historical context that current threats to encryption emerge and what can be done to build a truly safe onl [11:52] schestowitz ine space for all.
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[12:08] schestowitz[12:08] schestowitzOddly, the single keynote address at the event to celebrate GNUs 40th birthday in Biel, Switzerland wasnt scheduled at the start of the day, but in the early afternoon, at 2 pm local time. This eccentric scheduling only seemed to make sense, given the fact that the speaker was Richard Stallman, GNUs founder who has always marched to his own beat.
[12:08] schestowitzOfficially billed as a hacker meeting, Biels GNU community pretty much pulled out all of the stops for a relatively small one-day event. The speakers roster included the likes of Nextcloud co-founder Bjrn Schiele who talked about The Next 40 years of Free Software; Matthias Kirschner, president of FSFE who opened the day with The FSFEs Work: An Overview for Free Software Hackers; and [12:08] schestowitz Swiss Parliament member Jrg Mder, who was on hand to talk about GNU Taler, GNUs privacy-aware online payment system.
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[13:13] schestowitz[13:13] schestowitzWe had green LEDs in the 1950s, and red LEDs by 1962. But blue diodes were hard to develop, and we did not have a truly usable one until 1993, at which point we were able to develop white LEDs with such brightness that they could be used in place of traditional light bulbs. It took just three decades for the white LEDs to replace incandescent light bulbs on store shelves entirely.
[13:13] schestowitzRGB lighting has gained a long-fascinating image as an ongoing trend in popular culture, associated with gamers in particular.
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[13:17] schestowitz[13:17] schestowitzI have nothing to do with this company, King said in her Instagram post. Ive never heard of this product or used it! Please dont be fooled by these AI videos.
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[13:23] schestowitz[13:23] schestowitzOne toolbox language I've had my eye on is Picat,1 a "logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications". I'm not sure where I first learned about it, maybe around the same time I encountered MiniZinc? The userbase is extremely small, and as with many small communities, the documentation assumes you have the same background as the inventors. But it's also an [13:23] schestowitz incredibly interesting language and I'd like to try explaining why.
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