[09:28] schestowitz[TR][09:28] schestowitz[TR]In care facilities and hospitals, being able to tell when beds are occupied or free is vital knowledge for the staff, as they can move onto other tasks more quickly with up-to-date information. Adam Milton-Barkers hospital bed occupancy detection system aims to accomplish this goal by combining embedded machine learning models and connected hardware for gathering real-time data.x
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[09:34] schestowitz[TR][09:34] schestowitz[TR]After moving the poudriere jail (pkg01) to the new host (r730-01), I noticed this message from Nagios: [...]
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[09:46] schestowitz[TR][09:46] schestowitz[TR]Chinese police are calling up people who have booked flights to leave the country and interrogating them about where they are going and when they plan to be back, sources in the country tell Radio Free Asia.
[09:46] schestowitz[TR]A passenger who recently left China who gave only the surname Su said people she knows are all reporting the same phenomenon.
[09:46] schestowitz[TR]"If you are due to get on a plane [leaving China], you will get a call from the local police station the day before, asking in great detail where you are going and when you are coming back," Su said.
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[09:51] schestowitz[TR][09:51] schestowitz[TR]And so I decided to get myself a new laptop - a Slimbook Titan no less. Why? Well, first I wanted a powerful mobile system that I can use for all sorts of purposes, including gaming. After all, that's what the Y50-70 did for a fair share of its life span. Second, I wanted a Linux-only machine so I can fully and totally prepare for the inevitable move away from Windows sometime in 2025 or so [09:51] schestowitz[TR] . I already did a lot of preliminary work in this regard, and even just recently turned the previously dual-boot Y50-70 into a Linux-only system. Highly encouraged by that experience, including the hybrid graphics support, I decided, yes, I want a new machine, a powerful machine, with solid graphics, and it's going to be Linux only, and I'm going to tweak it into a total productivity host equivalent to what I get with Windows. Slimb [09:51] schestowitz[TR] ook Titan, it is.
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[10:10] schestowitz[TR][10:10] schestowitz[TR]New START was an Obama-era treaty that limited both the United States and Russia to holding 1,550 nuclear warheads each and ensured mutual surveillance of the weapons via official inspections. Nuclear experts have been warning since last month that Putin was likely to pull out of the treatyRussia told the U.S. in January that it would let the treaty expire in 2026 if it was dealt a "stra [10:10] schestowitz[TR] tegic defeat" in Ukraine. The U.S. State Department also said that it had been prevented from doing inspections that verified Russia was abiding by the treaty. Notably, New START did not cover the shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons that experts have worried that Putin might use since early in the war in Ukraine.
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[10:10] schestowitz[TR][10:10] schestowitz[TR]The West African nation has been wracked for seven years by violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, which has killed thousands, displaced nearly 2 million people and caused a humanitarian crisis.
[10:10] schestowitz[TR]Successive governments' failure to effectively address the problem led to two coups last year, with each military leader vowing to stem attacks and secure the country, albeit with little success.
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[10:23] schestowitz[TR][10:23] schestowitz[TR]In all, nearly 151,000 new vehicles were registered last year, with passenger cars accounting for about 82,000 of them, Statistics Finland said on Tuesday.
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[10:24] schestowitz[TR][10:24] schestowitz[TR]Further charging points will be opened in Orivesi, Kangasala, Forssa and Pello this spring, the association added, saying it aimed to establish 80-100 stations across Finland over the next few years.
[10:24] schestowitz[TR]Each station will have between two to four charging points, with the possibility of adding more in the future. The network will provide 50-100 kW charging points.
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[10:42] schestowitz[TR][10:42] schestowitz[TR]The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online.
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[10:50] schestowitz[TR][10:50] schestowitz[TR]Ng mentioned a rumour that some people died in Prince Edward station on August 31, 2019, saying that some people had continued to lay flowers at the station to commemorate what became known as the 831 incident.
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[10:53] schestowitz[TR][10:53] schestowitz[TR]In the midst of ongoing nationwide protests over the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government continues to crackdown on the public with mass arrests and public executions, among other limitations to peoples freedoms. As a part of this crackdown, the Iranian regime is now targeting UK Iran International journalists. The UK Metropolitan Police labelled it a serious and [10:53] schestowitz[TR] grave situation and advised Iran International to relocate due to the hostile intentions of foreign states. Iran International followed the advice. Previously UK-based journalists are temporarily reporting from existing studios in US until appropriate measures are put in place in the UK to ensure their safety.
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[10:57] schestowitz[TR][10:57] schestowitz[TR]Companies can no longer offer severance agreements that prevent employees from making disparaging remarks about their former employer, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday.
[10:57] schestowitz[TR]The big picture: The federal agency said these agreements require employees to waive their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, and that such policies are a violation of the act.
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[10:58] schestowitz[TR][10:58] schestowitz[TR]Employees reported a 71% drop in feelings of burnout, and there was a 65% reduction in sick days taken, according to trial results collated in a report published by Autonomy, a UK think tank, based on research by academics at the USs Boston College and the UKs Cambridge University. There was also a very slight overall rise in revenue, and companies told researchers they mostly felt satisfied [10:58] schestowitz[TR] that productivity was maintained.
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[10:58] schestowitz[TR][10:58] schestowitz[TR]The submission provides PIs information and analysis of some of the topics listed in the call. The widespread use of new technologies presents both opportunities and challenges for the protection of human rights, including the right to life and the right to privacy. PI believes that is essential that states take a human rights-centered approach in their use of these technologies, and ensure that [10:58] schestowitz[TR] their use is consistent with international human rights law. By doing so, states can ensure that new technologies are used to enhance the protection of human rights, rather than to facilitate the commission of human rights violations.
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[11:07] schestowitz[TR][11:07] schestowitz[TR]According to DataReportal, there were 5.74 million internet users in Zimbabwe at the start of 2023. Thats 34.8% of the population. This data is from the Internation Telecommunications Union. That sounds too low, doesnt it?
[11:07] schestowitz[TR]The latest Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authoritys (Potrazs) sector report we have is for Q3 2023 and it talked about an internet penetration rate of 63.9%.
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[11:07] schestowitz[TR][11:07] schestowitz[TR]Networks connected to the Internet rely on other networks - a.k.a, Autonomous Systems, or ASes - to transmit data. Consequently, the connectivity of a network depends on the connectivity of other networks. AS Hegemony is a metric to evaluate these interdependencies based on BGP data collected from public large-scale measurement platforms (RIPE RIS and Route Views).
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[11:10] schestowitz[TR][11:10] schestowitz[TR]This blog series starts with an introduction to the issue and follows with upcoming posts on the growth of digital licensing within higher education, the gradual disappearance of course packs, the emergence of open access, the huge expenditures on transactional licensing that demonstrate a commitment to pay for materials where fair dealing does not apply, and the actual role of fair dealing [11:10] schestowitz[TR] (rather the false caricature painted by lobby groups). I covered many of these issues in a series five years ago, titled Misleading on Fair Dealing. This series will update the data, demonstrating that far from refusing to pay licensing fees, universities have continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on licensing access to materials. I am grateful to University of Ottawa law students Ephraim Barrera and Brianna Workman fo [11:10] schestowitz[TR] r their assistance on this project.
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[11:44] schestowitz[TR][11:44] schestowitz[TR]The release manager for openSUSE Leap Lubo Kocman is expected to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.5 soon. The first Beta release is syncing on mirrors globally for people to download it and test it out.
[11:44] schestowitz[TR]Users can begin testing the beta versions to find bugs before the general release, which is scheduled for official release at the beginning of June, according to the roadmap.
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