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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
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Event |
| 12:25a |
[$] Poker and FOSS The intersection of games with free and open-source software (FOSS) was the topic of a miniconf on the first day of this year's linux.conf.au, which was held January 13-17 in Gold Coast, Australia. As part of the miniconf, Bradley M. Kuhn gave a talk that was well outside of his normal conference-talk fare: the game of poker and its relationship to FOSS. It turns out that he did some side work on a FOSS-based poker site along the way, which failed by most measures, but there was also an element of success to the project. The time for a successful FOSS poker project likely has passed at this point, but there are some lessons to be learned from the journey. | | 3:40p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (thunderbird), CentOS (firefox), openSUSE (chromium, firefox, GraphicsMagick, log4j, nodejs8, phpMyAdmin, singularity, and virglrenderer), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (man, nodejs10, openssl-1_1, and php7), and Ubuntu (php5, php7.0, php7.2, php7.3 and spamassassin). | | 3:50p |
Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911) The CentOS Project has announced the release of CentOS 8-1911, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. See the release
notes for details. | | 8:34p |
[$] The dark side of expertise Everyone has expertise in some things, which is normally seen as a good thing to have. But Dr. Sean Brady gave some examples of ways that our expertise can lead us astray, and actually cause us to make worse decisions, in a keynote at the 2020 linux.conf.au. Brady is a forensic engineer who specializes in analyzing engineering failures to try to discover the root causes behind them. The talk gave real-world examples of expertise gone wrong, as well as looking at some of the psychological research that demonstrates the problem. It was an interesting view into the ways that our brains work—and fail to work—in situations where our expertise may be sending our thoughts down the wrong path. |
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