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Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 2:12p |
Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog) This
Matrix blog entry describes a planned reputation-management system that, it is claimed, accomplishes some of the same goals as government backdoors without the need to compromise end-to-end encryption. " Just like the Web, Email or the Internet as a whole, there is
literally no way to unilaterally censor or block content in Matrix. But
what we can do is provide first-class infrastructure to let users (and
room/community moderators and server admins) make up their own mind about
who to trust, and what content to allow. This would also provide a means
for authorities to publish reputation data about illegal content, providing
a privacy-respecting mechanism that admins/mods/users can use to keep
illegal content away from their servers/clients." | | 2:54p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-flask-cors), Fedora (kleopatra, nextcloud, and phpMyAdmin), Gentoo (ark, libjpeg-turbo, libraw, and libxml2), openSUSE (bind, kernel, php7, and transfig), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-alt, kernel-rt, rh-python36, virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1, and virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2), and Ubuntu (collabtive, freetype, linux, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-oem, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-snapdragon, and linux-oem-osp1, linux-raspi2-5.3). | | 3:52p |
[$] The accelerating adoption of Julia The Julia programming language has seen a major increase in its use and popularity over the last few years. We last looked at it two years ago, around the time of the Julia 1.0
release. Here, we will look at some of the changes since that release, none of which are major, as well as some newer resources for learning the language, but the main focus of this article is a case study that is meant to help show why the language has been taking off. A follow-up article will introduce a new computational notebook for Julia, called Pluto, that is akin to Jupyter notebooks. | | 5:33p |
Firefox 82.0 and ESR 78.4.0 Firefox 82.0 has been released, with improvements " that make watching
videos more delightful" and improved performance. Firefox ESR 78.4.0 is also available with various stability, functionality, and security fixes. See the release notes ( 82.0, 78.4.0) for details. |
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