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Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

    Time Event
    3:09p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), openSUSE (gd, grilo, nodejs14, and transfig), Oracle (nodejs:14 and squid), Red Hat (kernel and shim and fwupd), SUSE (apache2, atftp, gd, and python-Pillow), and Ubuntu (apache2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, and vim).
    5:45p
    FSFE: Youth Hacking 4 Freedom
    The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is organizing the coding
    competition "Youth Hacking 4 Freedom" (YH4F) for European teenagers
    (14-18). Six winners will receive a cash prize and a trip to Brussels.
    There will be an opening event October 10 and registration will remain open
    until October 31.

    On Monday 1 November 2021, a five-month coding phase starts and the participants focus on coding until March 2022. Participants may bring all their imagination to the competition; they may code any type of software they want, as long as it is Free Software. The software project can be a stand-alone program written from scratch, or you can modify or combine existing programs. Everything is welcome! The participants will have the chance to briefly follow each other’s work and exchange ideas.
    10:57p
    [$] A fork for the time-zone database?
    A controversy about the handling of the Time Zone Database (tzdb) has
    been brewing since May, but has come to a head in recent weeks.
    Changes that were proposed to simplify the main database file have some
    consequences in terms of time-zone history and changes to the
    representation of some zones. Those changes have upset a number of users
    of the database—to the point where some have called for a fork. A
    September 25 release of tzdb with some, but not
    all, of the changes seems unlikely to resolve the conflict.

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