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Notices by Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com), page 13

  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 21:32:05 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/255
    https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj

    This is absolute madness.
    In conversation Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 21:32:05 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. Many packages suddenly disappeared · Issue #255 · npm/registry
      from GitHub
      https://www.npmjs.com/package/infinity-agent https://www.npmjs.com/package/timed-out https://www.npmjs.com/package/pinkie-promise All dependencies of webpack-related modules
  2. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 21:52:57 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Just got word that I'll be speaking again at this year's #LibrePlanet! I was going to attend regardless, but I'm very excited to be able to continue to build off of last year's talk.

    The title of this year's talk is The Ethics Void. Here's a rough abstract:

    Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research—each of these fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in law. And this is for good reason: these are fields that have enormous consequences.

    Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. Last year, I introduced numerous topics concerning #privacy, #security, and #freedom that raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.

    My previous talks can be found here:
    https://mikegerwitz.com/talks

    ---

    For this talk, I want to solicit the community at various points. I know what _I_ want to talk about, but what are some of the most important ethical issues to _you_? Unfortunately there's far too much to fit into a 40m talk! Also feel free to e-mail me at mtg@gnu.org.
    In conversation Friday, 05-Jan-2018 21:52:57 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  3. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 23:08:45 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    As is necessary, the processor exploits have been given press-friendly names: Meltdown and Spectre.

    https://meltdownattack.com/
    https://spectreattack.com/ (same site)

    Intel's inadequate response:

    https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/

    A write-up by Project Zero:

    https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.fr/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

    I won't have the time to get into the low-level details tonight, but this is nasty. There are plenty of things I can say here to reiterate various topics, but I don't think that'd be constructive just yet; let's let others discover some corollaries for themselves.

    Happy New Year!
    In conversation Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 23:08:45 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
      Posted by Jann Horn, Project Zero We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mi...
  4. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 00:59:49 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    My holiday vacation (as in, not-at-work) is over. Suddenly the snow and howling winds don't mean "let's build an igloo with the kids!". I'm back to the grumpy "gah I have to wake up and start my car, brush it off, scrape it off, shovel this shit, drive to work in slush with controlled sliding, and walk into my first day back to work cold and grumpy, mis-typing my password five times because my fingers are half-frozen and my password is all muscle memory."

    Well, off to bed! Let it snow!
    In conversation Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 00:59:49 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  5. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 00:13:27 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Happy New Year, everyone. You know what that means: be sure to add that extra year to your copyright headers!

    Copyright (C) 2017, 2018 Mike Gerwitz
    In conversation Monday, 01-Jan-2018 00:13:27 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  6. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 13:26:06 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    How convenient that there's a new #Replicant release (announced yesterday) to fix the very issue I just started having about an hour ago:

    https://blog.replicant.us/2017/12/third-replicant-6-0-release/
    In conversation Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 13:26:06 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Third Replicant 6.0 release
      By GNUtoo from Replicant
      Third Replicant 6.0 release
  7. Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 21:20:56 EST Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation
    A huge huge huge thank you to all our supporters, members, and donors! We did it! OVER the fundraising goal of $450,000!
    In conversation Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 21:20:56 EST from status.fsf.org at 42°21'30"N 71°3'35"W permalink Repeated by mikegerwitz
  8. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 21:50:57 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Embedded/systems programming just makes me feel good, as a hacker. I screwed up a bounds check on an AVR board while using the onboard piezo buzzer and it started reciting the program as music. It was quite beautiful. On PCs I just get boring segfaults.
    In conversation Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 21:50:57 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  9. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 22:23:24 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Ugh one of the most frustrating things about Twitter is when people post images of text to get around the character limit. It isn't text, and it's a slap in the face to anyone who needs accessibility features.
    In conversation Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 22:23:24 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  10. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 22:04:47 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
    @bjoern The issue was that using something like "GPL-3.0" isn't clear to the user---especially users inexperienced with licensing---that it won't be compatible with future versions of the GPL. When a user chooses a license for her project, there's nothing suspicious about "GPL-3.0".

    If it's "GPL-3.0-only", though", users will wonder what the alternative to "only" might be.
    In conversation Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 22:04:47 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:06:03 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • dave stranding
    @dthompson Took 15m of my car defrosting today before I could chip away at the sheet of ice covering my back windows.

    Hopefully your travels were safe and well. Aside from the turning around.
    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:06:03 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:02:11 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    According to rms, SPDX has agreed to change their license identifiers to clarify GPLvN only vs. GPLvN+:

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html

    That's great news!
    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:02:11 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:31:01 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • dave stranding
    @dthompson I think it's reasonable to call it at this point. :) I can't wait to observe the fallout over the coming days and months.
    In conversation Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:31:01 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  14. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:21:07 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    in reply to
    • Mike Gerwitz
    • dave stranding
    @dthompson Oh, Jones just took the lead, actually, by <1000 votes.
    In conversation Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:21:07 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  15. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:20:34 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • dave stranding
    @dthompson Jones is within ~3000 votes now, with remaining in his favor. This is going to be close! I wonder if this is how sports people feel during a good game...I'm not a sports guy. ;)
    In conversation Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:20:34 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  16. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:09:07 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • dave stranding
    @dthompson I'm anxious too. This is one hell of an election season. It's going to be a big deal either way, but as I speak now, we're 50/49 Moore, with the gap continuing to close.
    In conversation Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 22:09:07 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  17. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 23:34:47 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    in reply to
    • Mike Gerwitz
    My statement was ambiguous: I meant a gift idea for my wife to buy for me, not something for me to buy her. She was hounding me for ideas and I had none.

    I have plenty of ideas for her, and she has no interest in computer science. ;)
    In conversation Friday, 08-Dec-2017 23:34:47 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  18. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 22:52:06 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Finally came up with a Christmas gift idea for my wife: The Reasoned Schemer. I've been wanting to read it since before my son was born just over six years ago. I'm likely familiar with much of the material, but I still expect to learn something. I absolutely loved reading The Little Schemer many years back---the style and approach is wonderful. I already knew Scheme at the time and it was still enlightening and captivating---the most elementary material was an adventure. I haven't had the chance to read The Seasoned Schemer yet.

    The Little Schemer is what introduced me to the Y Combinator (the actual combinator, not the company), actually.
    In conversation Friday, 08-Dec-2017 22:52:06 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
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