Wednesday, April 24th, 2019

Time	Event
3:00p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (dovecot, flashplugin, ghostscript, and jenkins), Fedora (glpi, hostapd, python-urllib3, and znc), openSUSE (apache2, audiofile, libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard, php5, and SDL2), Scientific Linux (kernel), SUSE (curl and dovecot23), and Ubuntu (advancecomp and freeradius). (Comment on this)
5:15p	[$] On technological liberty In his keynote at the 2019 Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW), longtime workshop participant Andrew Wilson looked at the past, but he went much further back than, say, the history of free software—or even computers. His talk looked at technological liberty in the context of classical liberal philosophic thinking. He mapped some of that thinking to the world of free and open-source software (FOSS) and to some other areas where our liberties are under attack. (Comment on this)
5:24p	Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report The Mozilla Blog introduces Mozilla's 2019 Internet Health Report. "In the Report’s three spotlight articles, we unpack three big issues: One examines the need for better machine decision making — that is, asking questions like Who designs the algorithms? and What data do they feed on? and Who is being discriminated against? Another examines ways to rethink the ad economy, so surveillance and addiction are no longer design necessities. The third spotlight article examines the rise of smart cities, and how local governments can integrate tech in a way that serves the public good, not commercial interests." (Comment on this)
9:57p	[$] Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction An April Fools joke that went sour seems to be at least the proximate cause for a rather large upheaval in the Devuan community. For much of April 1 (or March 31 depending on time zone), the Devuan web site looked like it had been taken over by attackers, which was worrisome to many, but it was all a prank. The joke was clever, way over the top, unprofessional, or some combination of those, depending on who is describing it, but the incident and the threads on the devuan-dev mailing list have led to rancor, resignations, calls for resignations, and more. (Comment on this)

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