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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 5:16p |
Security updates for Wednesday Debian has updated mediawiki (cross-site scripting) and sox (code execution).
Fedora has updated erlang (F21:
command injection), freetype (F21: buffer
overflow), ntp (F21: multiple code
execution vulnerabilities), and qemu (F20: code execution).
Mageia has updated git (code execution), libjpeg (denial of service), and subversion (denial of service).
SUSE has updated kernel (SLES11 SP3; SLE11 SP3; SLE11 SP3; SLES11 SP2, SP1: multiple
vulnerabilities), ntp (SLE12: two code
execution vulnerabilities), openvpn (SLE12:
denial of service), popt (SLE11 SP3:
code execution), and xntp (SLES10 SP4:
code execution). | | 7:17p |
Kuhn: Toward Civil Behavior Bradley M. Kuhn talks
about abusive behavior in the FLOSS community. " In the politics
of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), some people regularly
engage in behavior right on that line: berating, verbal abuse, and
intimidation. These behaviors are consistently tolerated, accepted, and
sometimes lauded in FLOSS projects and organizations. I can report from
direct experience: if you think what happens on public mailing lists is
bad, what happens on the private phone calls and in-person meetings is even
worse. The types of behavior that would-be leaders employ would surely
shock you." (Thanks to Paul Wise) | | 8:54p |
[$] Type hinting for Python Python is a poster child for dynamically typed languages, but
if Guido van Rossum gets his way—as benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), he
usually does—the language will soon get optional support for static
type-checking. The discussion and debate has played out since August
(at least), but Van Rossum has just posted a proposal that targets
Python 3.5, which is due in September 2015, for including this "type
hinting" feature. Unlike many languages (e.g. C, C++, Java), Python's
static type-checking would be optional—programs can still be run even if
the static checker has complaints.
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