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Thursday, November 19th, 2015

    Time Event
    12:36a
    Hiring Open Source Maintainers is Key to Stable Software Supply Chain (Linux.com)
    Brian Warner talks
    about why Samsung has an open-source group     in this Linux.com article.
    "If you want the full economic and technical benefit of consuming
    open source, you hire people who are already influential in the projects
    that matter to you. You then ask them to continue doing exactly what they
    do: write great code, manage great releases, and contribute to the overall
    stability of the project. This is the single best way to ensure stability
    and predictability in your software supply chain.    "
    2:13a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 19, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 19, 2015 is available.
    5:00p
    Thursday's security updates

    CentOS has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (C6; C5; C7: multiple vulnerabilities) and postgresql (C6; C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated libpng (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated strongswan (authentication bypass).

    Fedora has updated kernel (F23; F22: ), krb5 (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), m2crypto (F23; F22: denial of service), monitorix (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities), perl-IPTables-Parse (F23; F22: predictable temporary file names), python-django (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), and rpcbind (F22: denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated xscreensaver (13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (O7; O6; O5: multiple vulnerabilities) and postgresql (O7; O6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHEL 5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), postgresql (RHEL 6; RHEL 7: multiple vulnerabilities), postgresql92-postgresql (RHSC 2: multiple vulnerabilities), and rh-postgresql94-postgresql (RHSC 2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities) and postgresql (SL6; SL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated nvidia-graphics-drivers-352, nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates (privilege escalation).

    11:01p
    Langridge: No UI is some UI

    At his blog, Stuart Langridge takes issue with a recent Medium post by Tony Aubé titled No UI is the New UI. Aubé's premise is that "invisible" applications—those that use text-messaging or voice-recognition rather than on-screen interfaces—are the future of UI design. Langridge, however, contends that "until very recently, and honestly pretty much still, a computer can’t understand the nuance of language. So 'use language to control computers' meant 'learn the computer’s language', not 'the computer learns yours'." More to the point, "understanding you is laughably incomplete and is obviously the core of the problem, although explaining one’s ideas and being understood by people is also the core problem of civilisation and we haven’t cracked that one yet either." There is less reason to be optimistic about language-based interfaces, he concludes: "I will say that point-and-grunt is not a very sophisticated way of communicating, but it may be all that technology can currently understand."

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