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Pia Waugh: Gather-ing some thoughts on societal challenges
On the weekend I went to the GatherNZ event in Auckland, an interesting unconference. I knew there were going to be some pretty awesome people hanging out which gave a chance for me to catch up with and introduce the family to some friends, hear some interesting ideas, and road test some ideas I've been having about where we are all heading in the future. I ran a session I called "Choose your own adventure, please" and it was packed! Below is a bit of a write up of what was discussed as there was a lot of interest in how to keep the conversation going. I confess, I didn't expect so much interest as to be asked where the conversation could be continued, but this is a good start I think. I was particularly chuffed when a few attendee said the session blew their minds
I'm going to be blogging a fair bit over the coming months on this topic in any case as it relates to a book I'm in the process of researching and writing, but more on that next week!
Choose your own adventure, please
We are at a significant tipping point in history. The world and the very foundations our society were built on have changed, but we are still largely stuck in the past in how we think and plan for the future. If we don't make some active decisions about how we live, think and prioritise, then we will find ourselves subconsciously reinforcing the status quo at every turn and not in a position to genuinely create a better future for all. I challenge everyone to consider how they think and to actively choose their own adventure, rather than just doing what was done before.
How has the world changed? Well many point to the changes in technology and science, and the impact these have had on our quality of life. I think the more interesting changes are in how power and perspectives has changed, which created the environment for scientific and technological progress in the first instance, but also created the ability for many many more individuals to shape the world around them. We have seen traditional paradigms of scarcity, centralisation and closed systems be outflanked and outdated by modern shifts to surplus, distribution and open systems. When you were born a peasant and died one, what power did you have to affect your destiny? Nowadays individuals are more powerful than ever in our collective history, with the traditionally centralised powers of publishing, property, communications, monitoring and even enforcement now distributed internationally to anyone with access to a computer and the internet, which is over a third of the world's population and growing. I blogged about this idea more here. Of course, these shifts are proving challenging for traditional institutions and structures to keep up, but individuals are simply routing around these dinosaurs, putting such organisations in the uncomfortable position of either adapting or rendering themselves irrelevant.
Choices, choices, choices
We discussed a number of specific premises or frameworks that underpinned the development of much of the world we know today, but are now out of touch with the changing world we live in. It was a fascinating discussion, so thank you to everyone who came and contributed and although I think we only scratched the surface, I think it gave a lot of people food for thought
- Open vs closed – open systems (open knowledge, data, government, source, science) are outperforming closed ones in almost everything from science, technology, business models, security models, government and political systems, human knowledge and social models. Open systems enable rapid feedback loops that support greater iteration and improvements in response to the world, and open systems create a natural motivation for the players involved to perform well and gain the benefits of a broader knowledge, experience and feedback base. Open systems also support a competitive collaborative environment, where organisations can collaborate on the common, but compete on their specialisation. We discussed how security by obscurity was getting better understood as a largely false premise and yet, there are still so many projects, decisions, policies or other initiatives where closed is the assumed position, in contrast to the general trend towards openness across the board.
- Central to distributed – many people and organisations still act like kings in castles, protecting their stuff from the masses and only collaborating with walls and moats in place to keep out the riff raff. The problem is that everything is becoming more distributed, and the smartest people will never all be in the one castle, so if you want the best outcomes, be it for a policy, product, scientific discovery, service or anything else, you need to consider what is out there and how you can be a part of a broader ecosystem. Building on the shoulders of giants and being a shoulder for others to build upon. Otherwise you will always be slower than those who know how to be a node in the network. Although deeply hierarchical systems still exist, individuals are learning how to route around the hierarchy (which is only an imaginary construct in any case). There will always be specialists and the need for central controls over certain things however, if whatever you do is done in isolation, it will only be effective in isolation. Everything and everyone is more and more interconnected so we need to behave more in this way to gain the benefits, and to ensure what we do is relevant to those we do it for. By tapping into the masses, we can also tap into much greater capacity and feedback loops to ensure how we iterate is responsive to the environment we operate in. Examples of the shift included media, democracy, citizen movements, ideology, security, citizen science, gov as an API, transnational movements and the likely impact of blockchain technologies on the financial sector.
- Scarcity to surplus – the shift from scarcity to surplus is particularly interesting because so much of our laws, governance structures, business models, trade agreements and rules for living are based around antiquated ideas of scarcity and property. We now apply the idea of ownership to everything and I shared a story of a museum claiming ownership on human remains taken from Australia. How can you own that and then refuse to repatriate the remains to that community? Copyright was developed when the ability to copy something was costly and hard. Given digital property (including a lot of "IP") is so easily replicated with low/zero cost, it has wrought havoc with how we think about IP and yet we have continued to duplicate this antiquated thinking in a time of increasing surplus. This is a problem because new technologies could genuinely create surplus in physical properties, especially with the developments in nano-technologies and 3D printing, but if we bind up these technologies to only replicate the status quo, we will never realise the potential to solve major problems of scarcity, like hunger or poverty.
- Nationalism and tribalism – because of global communications, more people feel connected with their communities of interest, which can span geopolitical, language, disability and other traditional barriers to forming groups. This will also have an impact on loyalties because people will have an increasingly complex relationship with the world around them. Citizens can and will increasingly jurisdiction shop for a nation that supports their lifestyle and ideological choices, the same way that multinational corporates have jurisdiction shopped for low tax, low regulation environments for some time. On a more micro level, individuals engage in us vs them behaviours all the time, and it gets in the way of working together.
- Human augmentation and (dis)ability – what it means to look and be human will start to change as more human augmentation starts to become mainstream. Not just cosmetic augmentations, but functional. The body hacking movement has been playing with human abilities and has discovered that the human brain can literally adapt to and start to interpret foreign neurological inputs, which opens up the path to nor just augmenting existing human abilities, but expanding and inventing new human abilities. If we consider the olympics have pretty much found the limit of natural human sporting achievement and have become arguably a bit boring, perhaps we could lift the limitations on the para-olympics and start to see rocket powered 100m sprints, or cyborg Judo competitions. As we start to explore what we can do with ourselves physically, neurologically and chemically, it will challenge a lot of views on what it means to be human. By why should we limit ourselves?
- Outsourcing personal responsibility – with advances in technology, many have become lazy about how far their personal responsibility extends. We outsource small tasks, then larger ones, then strategy, then decision making, and we end up having no personal responsibility for major things in our world. Projects can fail, decisions become automated, ethics get buried in code, but individuals can keep their noses clean. We need to stop trying to avoid risk to the point where we don't do anything and we need to ensure responsibility for human decisions are not automated beyond human responsibility.
- Unconscious bias of privileged views, including digital colonialism – the need to be really aware of our assumptions and try to not simply reinvent the status quo or reinforce "structural white supremacy" as it was put by the contributor. Powerful words worth pondering! Explicit inclusion was put forward as something to prioritise.
- Work – how we think about work! If we are moving into a more automated landscape, perhaps how we think about work will fundamentally change which would have enormous ramifications for the social and financial environment. Check out Tim Dunlop's writing on this
- Facts to sensationalism – the flow of information and communications are now so rapid that people, media and organisations are motivated to ever more sensationalism rather than considered opinions or facts. Definitely a shift worth considering!
Other feedback from the room included:
- The importance of considering ethics, values and privilege in making decisions.
- The ability to route around hierarchy, but the inevitable push back of established powers on the new world.
- The idea that we go in cycles of power from centralised to distributed and back again. I confess, this idea is new to me and I'll be pondering on it more.
Any feedback, thinking or ideas welcome in the comments below It was a fun session.
Simon Lyall: Gather Conference 2016 – Afternoon
The Gathering
Chloe Swarbrick
- Whose responsibility is it to disrupt the system?
- Maybe try and engage with the system we have for a start before writing it off.
- You disrupt the system yourself or you hold the system accountable
Nick McFarlane
- He wrote a book
- Rock Stars are dicks to work with
So you want to Start a Business
- Hosted by Reuben and Justin (the accountant)
- Things you need to know in your first year of business
- How serious is the business, what sort of structure
- If you are serious, you have to do things properly
- Have you got paying customers yet
- Could just be an idea or a hobby
- Sole Trader vs Incorporated company vs Trust vs Partnership
- Incorperated
- Directors and Shareholders needed to be decided on
- Can take just half an hour
- when to get a GST number?
- If over $60k turnover a year
- If you have lots of stuff you plan to claim back.
- Have an accounting System from Day 1 – Xero Pretty good
- Get an advisor or mentor that is not emotionally invested in your company
- If partnership then split up responsibilities so you can hold each other accountable for specific items
- If you are using Xero then your accountant should be using Xero directly not copying it into a different system.
- Remuneration
- Should have a shareholders agreement
- PAYE possibility from drawings or put 30% aside
- Even if only a small hobby company you will need to declare income to IRD especially non-trivial level.
- What Level to start at Xero?
- Probably from the start if the business is intended to be serious
- A bit of pain to switch over later
- Don't forget about ACC
- Remember you are due provisional tax once you get over the the $2500 for the previous year.
- Home Office expense claim – claim percentage of home rent, power etc
- Get in professionals to help
Diversity in Tech
- Diversity is important
- Why is it important?
- Does it mean the same for everyone
- Have people with different "ways of thinking" then we will have a diverse views then wider and better solutions
- example "Polish engineer could analysis a Polish specific character input error"
- example "Controlling a robot in Samoan", robots are not just in english
- Stereotypes for some groups to specific jobs, eg "Indians in tech support"
- Example: All hires went though University of Auckland so had done the same courses etc
- How do you fix it when people innocently hire everyone from the same background? How do you break the pattern? No be the first different-hire represent everybody in that group?
- I didn't want to be a trail-blazer
- Wow'ed out at "Women in tech" event, first time saw "majority of people are like me" in a bar.
- "If he is a white male and I'm going to hire him on the team that is already full of white men he better be exception"
- Worried about implication that "diversity" vs "Meritocracy" and that diverse candidates are not as good
- Usual over-representation of white-males in the discussion even in topics like this.
- Notion that somebody was only hired to represent diversity is very harmful especially for that person
- If you are hiring for a tech position then 90% of your candidates will be white-males, try place your diversity in getting more diverse group applying for the jobs not tilt in the actual hiring.
- Even in maker spaces where anyone is welcome, there are a lot fewer women. Blames mens mags having things unfinished, women's mags everything is perfect so women don't want to show off something that is unfinished.
- Need to make the workforce diverse now to match the younger people coming into it
- Need to cover "power income" people who are not exposed to tech
- Even a small number are role models for the future for the young people today
- Also need to address the problem of women dropping out of tech in the 30s and 40s. We can't push girls into an "environment filled with acid"
- Example taking out "cocky arrogant males" from classes into "advanced stream" and the remaining class saw women graduating and staying in at a much higher rate.
- Paul Spain from Podcast New Zealand organising
- Easiest to listen to when doing manual stuff or in car or bus
- Need to avoid overload of commercials, eg interview people from the company about the topic of interest rather than about their product
- Big firms putting money into podcasting
- In the US 21% of the market are listening every single month. In NZ perhaps more like 5% since not a lot of awareness or local content
- Some radios shows are re-cutting and publishing them
- Not a good directory of NZ podcasts
- Advise people use proper equipment if possible if more than a once-off. Bad sound quality is very noticeable.
- One person: 5 part series on immigration and immigrants in NZ
- Making the charts is a big exposure
- Apples "new and noteworthy" list
- Domination by traditional personalities and existing broadcasters at present. But that only helps traction within New Zealand
Francois Marier: Replacing a failed RAID drive
Here's the complete procedure I followed to replace a failed drive from a RAID array on a Debian machine.Replace the failed drive
After seeing that /dev/sdb had been kicked out of my RAID array, I used smartmontools to identify the serial number of the drive to pull out:smartctl -a /dev/sdb
Armed with this information, I shutdown the computer, pulled the bad drive out and put the new blank one in.Initialize the new drive
After booting with the new blank drive in, I copied the partition table using parted.
First, I took a look at what the partition table looks like on the good drive:$ parted /dev/sda unit s print
and created a new empty one on the replacement drive:$ parted /dev/sdb unit s mktable gpt
then I ran mkpart for all 4 partitions and made them all the same size as the matching ones on /dev/sda.
Finally, I ran toggle 1 bios_grub (boot partition) and toggle X raid (where X is the partition number) for all RAID partitions, before verifying using print that the two partition tables were now the same.Resync/recreate the RAID arrays
To sync the data from the good drive (/dev/sda) to the replacement one (/dev/sdb), I ran the following on my RAID1 partitions:mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb2 mdadm /dev/md2 -a /dev/sdb4
and kept an eye on the status of this sync using:watch -n 2 cat /proc/mdstat
In order to speed up the sync, I used the following trick:blockdev --setra 65536 "/dev/md0" blockdev --setra 65536 "/dev/md2" echo 300000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min echo 1000000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
Then, I recreated my RAID0 swap partition like this:mdadm /dev/md1 --create --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 mkswap /dev/md1
Because the swap partition is brand new (you can't restore a RAID0, you need to re-create it), I had to update two things:
- replace the UUID for the swap mount in /etc/fstab, with the one returned by mkswap (or running blkid and looking for /dev/md1)
- replace the UUID for /dev/md1 in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf with the one returned for /dev/md1 by mdadm --detail --scan
In order to be able to boot from both drives, I reinstalled the grub boot loader onto the replacement drive:grub-install /dev/sdb
before rebooting with both drives to first make sure that my new config works.
Then I booted without /dev/sda to make sure that everything would be fine should that drive fail and leave me with just the new one (/dev/sdb).
This test obviously gets the two drives out of sync, so I rebooted with both drives plugged in and then had to re-add /dev/sda to the RAID1 arrays:mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda2 mdadm /dev/md2 -a /dev/sda4
Once that finished, I rebooted again with both drives plugged in to confirm that everything is fine:cat /proc/mdstat
Then I ran a full SMART test over the new replacement drive:smartctl -t long /dev/sdb
Simon Lyall: Gather Conference 2016 – Morning
At the Gather Conference again for about the 6th time. It is a 1-day tech-orientated unconference held in Auckland every year.
The day is split into seven streamed sessions each 40 minutes long (of about 8 parallel rooms of events that are each scheduled and run by attendees) plus and opening and a keynote session.
How to Steer your own career – Shirley Tricker
- Asked people hands up on their current job situation, FT vs PT, sinmgle v multiple jobs
- Alternatives to traditional careers of work. possible to craft your career
- Recommended Blog – Free Range Humans
- Job vs Career
- Job – something you do for somebody else
- Career – Uniqie to you, your life's work
- Career – What you do to make a contribution
- Predicted that a greater number of people will not stay with one (or even 2 or 3) employers through their career
- Success – defined by your goals, lifestyle wishes
- What are your strengths – Know how you are valuable, what you can offer people/employers, ways you can branch out
- Hard and Soft Skills (soft skills defined broadly, things outside a regular job description)
- Develop soft skills
- List skills and review ways to develop and improve them
- Look at people you admire and copy them
- Look at job desctions
- Skills you might need for a portfilio career
- Good at organising, marketing, networking
- flexible, work alone, negotiation
- Financial literacy (handle your accounts)
- Getting started
- Start small ( don't give up your day job overnight)
- Get training via work or independently
- Develop you strengths
- Fix weaknesses
- Small experiments
- cheap and fast (start a blog)
- Don't have to start out as an expert, you can learn as you go
- Just because you are in control doesn't make it easy
- Resources
- Careers.govt.nz
- Seth Goden
- Tim Ferris
- eg outsources her writing.
- Tools
- Xero
- WordPress
- Canva for images
- Meetup
- Odesk and other freelance websites
- Feedback from Audience
- Have somebody to report to, eg meet with friend/adviser monthly to chat and bounce stuff off
- Cultivate Women's mentoring group
- This doesn't seem to filter through to young people, they feel they have to pick a career at 18 and go to university to prep for that.
- Give advice to people and this helps you define
- Try and make the world a better place: enjoy the work you are doing, be happy and proud of the outcome of what you are doing and be happy that it is making the world a bit better
- How to I "motivate myself" without a push from your employer?
- Do something that you really want to do so you won't need external motivation
- Find someone who is doing something write and see what they did
- Awesome for introverts
- If you want to start a startup then work for one to see what it is like and learn skills
- You don't have to have a startup in your 20s, you can learn your skills first.
- Sometimes you have to do a crappy job at the start to get onto the cool stuff later. You have to look at the goal or path sometimes
Books and Podcasts – Tanya Johnson
Stuff people recommend
- Intelligent disobedience – Ira
- Hamilton the revolution – based on the musical
- Never Split the difference – Chris Voss (ex hostage negotiator)
- The Three Body Problem – Lia CiXin – Sci Fi series
- Lucky Peach – Food and fiction
- Unlimited Memory
- The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness
- The Setup (usesthis.com) website
- Tim Ferris Podcast
- Freakonomics Podcast
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- Clothes, Music, Boy – Viv Albertine
- TIP: Amazon Whispersync for Kindle App (audiobook across various platforms)
- TIP: Blinkist – 15 minute summaries of books
- An Intimate History of Humanity – Theodore Zenden
- How to Live – Sarah Bakewell
- TIP: Pocketcasts is a good podcast app for Android.
- Tested Podcast from Mythbusters people
- Trumpcast podcast from Slate
- A Fighting Chance – Elizabeth Warren
- The Choice – Og Mandino
- The Good life project Podcast
- The Ted Radio Hour Podcast (on 1.5 speed)
- This American Life
- How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- The Hard thing about Hard things books
- Flashboys
- The Changelog Podcast – Interview people doing Open Source software
- The Art of Oppertunity Roseland Zander
- Red Rising Trilogy by Piers Brown
- On the Rag podcast by the Spinoff
- Hamish and Andy podcast
- Radiolab podcast
- Hardcore History podcast
- Car Talk podcast
- Ametora – Story of Japanese menswear since WW2
- .net rocks podcast
- How not to be wrong
- Savage Love Podcast
- Friday Night Comedy from the BBC (especially the News Quiz)
- Answer me this Podcast
- Back to work podcast
- Reply All podcast
- The Moth
- Serial
- American Blood
- The Productivity podcast
- Keeping it 1600
- Ruby Rogues Podcast
- Game Change – John Heilemann
- The Road less Travelled – M Scott Peck
- The Power of Now
- Snow Crash – Neil Stevensen
My Journey to becoming a Change Agent – Suki Xiao
- Start of 2015 was a policy adviser at Ministry
- Didn't feel connected to job and people making policies for
- Outside of work was a Youthline counsellor
- Wanted to make a difference, organised some internal talks
- Wanted to make changes, got told had to be a manager to make changes (10 years away)
- Found out about R9 accelerator. Startup accelerator looking at Govt/Business interaction and pain points
- Get seconded to it
- First month was very hard.
- Speed of change was difficult, "Lean into the discomfort" – Team motto
- Be married to the problem
- Specific problem was making sure enough seasonal workers, came up with solution but customers didn't like it. Was not solving the actual problem customers had.
- Team was married to the problem, not the married to the solution
- When went back to old job, found slower pace hard to adjust back
- Got offered a job back at the accelerator, coaching up to 7 teams.
- Very hard work, lots of work, burnt out
- 50% pay cut
- Worked out wasn't "Agile" herself
- Started doing personal Kanban boards
- Cut back number of teams coaching, higher quality
- Spring Board
- Place can work at sustainable pace
- Working at Nomad 8 as an independent Agile consultant
- Work on separate companies but some support from colleges
- Find my place
- Joined Xero as a Agile Team Facilitator
- Takeaways
- Anybody can be a change agent
- An environment that supports and empowers
- Look for support
- Conversation on how you overcome the "Everest" big huge goal
- Hard to get past the first step for some – speaker found she tended to do first think later. Others over-thought beforehand
- It seems hard but think of the hard things you have done in your life and it is usually not as bad
- Motivate yourself by having no money and having no choice
- Point all the bad things out in the open, visualise them all and feel better cause they will rarely happen
- Learn to recognise your bad patterns of thoughts
- "The Way of Art" Steven Pressfield (skip the Angels chapter)
- Are places Serious about Agile instead of just placing lip-service?
- Questioner was older and found places wanted younger Agile coaches
- Companies had to completely change into organisation, eg replace project managers
- eg CEO is still waterfall but people lower down are into Agile. Not enough management buy-in.
- Speaker left on client that wasn't serious about changing
- Went though an Agile process, made "Putting Agile into the Org" as the product
- Show customers what the value is
- Certification advice, all sorts of options. Nomad8 course is recomended
Russell Coker: 802.1x Authentication on Debian
I recently had to setup some Linux workstations with 802.1x authentication (described as "Ethernet authentication") to connect to a smart switch. The most useful web site I found was the Ubuntu help site about 802.1x Authentication [1]. But it didn't describe exactly what I needed so I'm writing a more concise explanation.
The first thing to note is that the authentication mechanism works the same way as 802.11 wireless authentication, so it's a good idea to have the wpasupplicant package installed on all laptops just in case you need to connect to such a network.
The first step is to create a wpa_supplicant config file, I named mine /etc/wpa_supplicant_SITE.conf. The file needs contents like the following:
network={ key_mgmt=IEEE8021X eap=PEAP identity="USERNAME" anonymous_identity="USERNAME" password="PASS" phase1="auth=MD5" phase2="auth=CHAP password=PASS" eapol_flags=0 }
The first difference between what I use and the Ubuntu example is that I'm using "eap=PEAP", that is an issue of the way the network is configured, whoever runs your switch can tell you the correct settings for that. The next difference is that I'm using "auth=CHAP" and the Ubuntu example has "auth=PAP". The difference between those protocols is that CHAP has a challenge-response and PAP just has the password sent (maybe encrypted) over the network. If whoever runs the network says that they "don't store unhashed passwords" or makes any similar claim then they are almost certainly using CHAP.
Change USERNAME and PASS to your user name and password.
wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant_SITE.conf -D wired -i eth0
The above command can be used to test the operation of wpa_supplicant.
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant eth0: Associated with 00:01:02:03:04:05 eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PROPOSED-METHOD vendor=0 method=25 TLS: Unsupported Phase2 EAP method 'CHAP' eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=0 subject='' eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=0 subject='' EAP-MSCHAPV2: Authentication succeeded EAP-TLV: TLV Result - Success - EAP-TLV/Phase2 Completed eth0: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully eth0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:01:02:03:04:05 completed [id=0 id_str=]
Above is the output of a successful test with wpa_supplicant. I replaced the MAC of the switch with 00:01:02:03:04:05. Strangely it doesn't like "CHAP" but is automatically selecting "MSCHAPV2" and working, maybe anything other than "PAP" would do.
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wired wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant_SITE.conf
Above is a snippet of /etc/network/interfaces that works with this configuration.
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OpenSTEM: Conversations on Collected Health Data
There are more and more wearable devices that collect a variety of health data, and other health records are kept electronically. More often than not, the people whose data it is don't actually have access. There are very important issues to consider, and you could use this for a conversation with your students, and in assignments.
On the individual level, questions such as
- Who should own your health data?
- Should you be able to get an overview of who has what kind of your data? (without fuzzy vague language)
- Should you be able to access your own data? (directly out of a device, or online service where a device sends its data)
- Should you be able to request a company to completely remove data from their records?
For society, questions like
- Should a company be allowed to hoard data, or should they be required to make it accessible (open data) for other researchers?
A comment piece in this week's Nature entitled "Lift the blockade on health data" could be used as a starting point a conversation and for additional information:
Technology titans, such as Google and Apple, are moving into health. For all the potential benefits, the incorporation of people's health data into algorithmic 'black boxes' could harm science and exacerbate inequalities, warn John Wilbanks and Eric Topol in a Comment piece in this week's Nature. "When it comes to control over our own data, health data must be where we draw the line," they stress.
Cryptic digital profiling is already shaping society; for example, online adverts are tailored to people's age, location, spending and browsing habits. Wilbanks and Topol envision a future in which "companies are able to trade people's disease profiles, unbeknown to them" and where "health decisions are abstruse and difficult to challenge, and advances in understanding are used to aggressively market health-related services to people — regardless of whether those services actually benefit their health."
The authors call for a campaigning movement similar to the environmental one to break open how people's data are being used, and to illuminate how such information could be used in the future. In their view, "the creation of credible competitors that are open source is the most promising way to regulate" corporations that have come to "resemble small nations in their own right".
Binh Nguyen: Social Engineering/Manipulation, Rigging Elections, and More
Lev Lafayette: GnuCOBOL: A Gnu Life for an Old Workhorse
COBOL is a business-orientated programming language that has been in use since 1959, making it one of the world's oldest programming languages.
Despite being much criticised (and for good reasons) it is still a major programming language in the financial sector, although there are a declining number of experienced programmers.
Ben Martin: Making surface mount pcbs with a CNC machine
Time to stock up on some SOIC microcontrollers for some full board productions. It will be very interesting to see if I can do an SMD usb connector. Makes it a nice complete black box to do something and talk ROS over USB.
Stewart Smith: Using Smatch static analysis on OpenPOWER OPAL firmware
For Skiboot, I'm always looking at new automated systems to find bugs in the code. A little while ago, I read about the Smatch tool developed by some folks at Oracle (they also wrote about using it on the Linux kernel).
I was eager to try it with skiboot to see if it could find anything.
Luckily, it was pretty easy. I built Smatch according to their documentation and then built skiboot:make CHECK="/home/stewart/smatch/smatch" C=1 -j20 all check
Due to some differences in how we implement abort() and assert() in skiboot, I added "_abort", "abort" and "assert_fail" to smatch_data/no_return_funcs in the Smatch source tree to silence some false positives.
It seems that there's a few useful warnings there (some of which I've fixed in skiboot master already), along with some false positives around the preprocessor/complier tricks we do to ensure at compile time that an OPAL call definition has the correct number of arguments specified.
So far, so good though. Try it on your project!
Pia Waugh: Pia, Thomas and little A's Excellent Adventure – Week 3
The last fortnight has just flown past! We have been getting into the rhythm of being on holidays, a difficult task for yours truly as the workaholic I am! Meanwhile we have also caught a lot more fish (up to 57 now, 53 were released), have been keeping up with the studies and little A has been (mostly) enjoying a broad range of new foods and experiences. The book is on hold for another week or two while I finish another project off.
Photos are added every few days to the flickr album.
My studies are going well. The two (final) subject are "Law, Governance and Policy" and "White Collar Crime". They are both great subjects and I've been thoroughly enjoying the readings, discussions and thinking critically about the issues therein. The White Collar Crime topic in particular has been fascinating! Each week we look at case studies of WCC in the news and there are some incredible issues every single week. A recent one directly relevant to us was the ACCC suing Heinz for a baby food advertised as "99% fruit" but made up of fruit concentrates and purees, resulting in a 67% sugar product. Wow! The advertising is all about how healthy it is and how it developed a taste for real foods in toddlers but it basically is just a sugar hit worse than a soft drink!
Fishing and weather
We have been doing fairly well and the largest trout so far was 69cm (7.5 pounds). We are exploring the area and finding some great new spots but there is certainly some crowding on weekends! Although Thomas was lamenting the lack of rain the first week, it then torrented leaving him to lament about too much rain! Hopefully now we'll get a good mix of both rain (for fish) and sunshine. Meanwhile it has been generally much warmer than Canberra and the place we are staying in is always toasty warm so we are very comfortable.
Catchups in Wellington and Auckland
We are planning to go to Auckland for Gather later this month and to Wellington for GovHack at the end of July and then for the OS/OS conference in August. The plan is to catch up with ALL TEH PEEPS during those trips which we are really looking forward to! Little A and I did a little one day fly in fly out trip to Wellington last week to catch up with the data.govt.nz team to exchange information and experience with running government data portals. It was great to see Nadia, Rowan and the team and to see the recent work happening with the new beta.data.govt.nz and to share some of the experience we had with data.gov.au. Thanks very much to the team for great day and good luck in the next steps with your ambitious agenda! I know it will go well!
Last week we had our first visitors. Thomas' parents stayed with us for a week which has been lovely! Little A had a great time being pampered and we enjoyed showing them around. We had a number of adventures with them including some fishing, a trip to the local national park to see some beautiful volcanoes (still active!) and a place reminiscent of the Hydro Majestic in the Blue Mountains.
We also visited Te Porere Redoubt a Maori defensive structure including trenches, and a visit to the site of an old Maori settlement. The trench warfare skills developed by the Maori were used in the New Zealand wars and I got a few photos to show the deep trench running around the outside of the structure and then the labyrinth in the middle. There is a photo of a picture of a fortified Maori town showing that large spikes would have also been used for the defensive structure, and potentially some kind of roof? Incredible use of tactical structures for defence. One for you Sherro!
Wolverine baby
Finally, we had a small incident with little A which really showed how resilient little kids are. We were bushwalking with little A in a special backpack for carrying children. I had to step across a small gap and checked out the brush but only saw the soft leaves of a tree. I stepped across and suddenly little A screamed! Thomas was right on to it (I couldn't see what was happening) and there had been a tiny low hanging piece of bramble (thorny vine) at little A's face height! He quickly disentangled her and we sat her down to see the damage and console her. It had caught on her neck and luckily only gave her a few very shallow scratches but she was inconsolable. Anyway, a few cuddles later, some antiseptic cream and a warm shower and little A was perfectly happy, playing with her usual toys whilst Thomas and I were still keyed up. The next day the marks were dramatically faded and within a couple of days you could barely see them. She is healing super fast, like a baby Wolverine She is happily enjoying a range of foods now and gets a lot of walks and some time at the local playgroup for additional socialisation.
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Russell Coker: Nexus 6P and Galaxy S5 Mini
Just over a month ago I ordered a new Nexus 6P [1]. I've had it for over a month now and it's time to review it and the Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini I also bought.Security
The first noteworthy thing about this phone is the fingerprint scanner on the back. The recommended configuration is to use your fingerprint for unlocking the phone which allows a single touch on the scanner to unlock the screen without the need to press any other buttons. To unlock with a pattern or password you need to first press the "power" button to get the phone's attention.
I have been considering registering a fingerprint from my non-dominant hand to reduce the incidence of accidentally unlocking it when carrying it or fiddling with it.
The phone won't complete the boot process before being unlocked. This is a good security feature.
Android version 6 doesn't assign permissions to apps at install time, they have to be enabled at run time (at least for apps that support Android 6). So you get lots of questions while running apps about what they are permitted to do. Unfortunately there's no "allow for the duration of this session" option.
A new Android feature prevents changing security settings when there is an "overlay running". The phone instructs you to disable overlay access for the app in question but that's not necessary. All that is necessary is for the app to stop using the overlay feature. I use the Twilight app [2] to dim the screen and use redder colors at night. When I want to change settings at night I just have to pause that app and there's no need to remove the access from it – note that all the web pages and online documentation saying otherwise is wrong.
Another new feature is to not require unlocking while at home. This can be a convenience feature but fingerprint unlocking is so easy that it doesn't provide much benefit. The downside of enabling this is that if someone stole your phone they could visit your home to get it unlocked. Also police who didn't have a warrant permitting search of a phone could do so anyway without needing to compel the owner to give up the password.Design
This is one of the 2 most attractive phones I've owned (the other being the sparkly Nexus 4). I think that the general impression of the appearance is positive as there are transparent cases on sale. My phone is white and reminds me of EVE from the movie Wall-E.Cables
This phone uses the USB Type-C connector, which isn't news to anyone. What I didn't realise is that full USB-C requires that connector at both ends as it's not permitted to have a data cable with USB-C at the device and and USB-A at the host end. The Nexus 6P ships with a 1M long charging cable that has USB-C at both ends and a ~10cm charging cable with USB-C at one end and type A at the other (for the old batteries and the PCs that don't have USB-C). I bought some 2M long USB-C to USB-A cables for charging my new phone with my old chargers, but I haven't yet got a 1M long cable. Sometimes I need a cable that's longer than 10cm but shorter than 2M.
The USB-C cables are all significantly thicker than older USB cables. Part of that would be due to having many more wires but presumably part of it would be due to having thicker power wires for delivering 3A. I haven't measured power draw but it does seem to charge faster than older phones.
Overall the process of converting to USB-C is going to be a lot more inconvenient than USB SuperSpeed (which I could basically ignore as non-SuperSpeed connectors worked).
It will be good when laptops with USB-C support become common, it should allow thinner laptops with more ports.
One problem I initially had with my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was the Micro-USB SuperSpeed socket on the phone being more fiddly for the Micro-USB charging plug I used. After a while I got used to that but it was still an annoyance. Having a symmetrical plug that can go into the phone either way is a significant convenience.Calendars and Contacts
I share most phone contacts with my wife and also have another list that is separate. In the past I had used the Samsung contacts system for the contacts that were specific to my phone and a Google account for contacts that are shared between our phones. Now that I'm using a non-Samsung phone I got another Gmail account for the purpose of storing contacts. Fortunately you can get as many Gmail accounts as you want. But it would be nice if Google supported multiple contact lists and multiple calendars on a single account.Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
Shortly after buying the Nexus 6P I decided that I spend enough time in pools and hot tubs that having a waterproof phone would be a good idea. Probably most people wouldn't consider reading email in a hot tub on a cruise ship to be an ideal holiday, but it works for me. The Galaxy S5 Mini seems to be the cheapest new phone that's waterproof. It is small and has a relatively low resolution screen, but it's more than adequate for a device that I'll use for an average of a few hours a week. I don't plan to get a SIM for it, I'll just use Wifi from my main phone.
One noteworthy thing is the amount of bloatware on the Samsung. Usually when configuring a new phone I'm so excited about fancy new hardware that I don't notice it much. But this time buying the new phone wasn't particularly exciting as I had just bought a phone that's much better. So I had more time to notice all the annoyances of having to download updates to Samsung apps that I'll never use. The Samsung device manager facility has been useful for me in the past and the Samsung contact list was useful for keeping a second address book until I got a Nexus phone. But most of the Samsung apps and 3d party apps aren't useful at all.
It's bad enough having to install all the Google core apps. I've never read mail from my Gmail account on my phone. I use Fetchmail to transfer it to an IMAP folder on my personal mail server and I'd rather not have the Gmail app on my Android devices. Having any apps other than the bare minimum seems like a bad idea, more apps in the Android image means larger downloads for an over-the-air update and also more space used in the main partition for updates to apps that you don't use.Not So Exciting
In recent times there hasn't been much potential for new features in phones. All phones have enough RAM and screen space for all common apps. While the S5 Mini has a small screen it's not that small, I spent many years with desktop PCs that had a similar resolution. So while the S5 Mini was released a couple of years ago that doesn't matter much for most common use. I wouldn't want it for my main phone but for a secondary phone it's quite good.
The Nexus 6P is a very nice phone, but apart from USB-C, the fingerprint reader, and the lack of a stylus there's not much noticeable difference between that and the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 I was using before.
I'm generally happy with my Nexus 6P, but I think that anyone who chooses to buy a cheaper phone probably isn't going to be missing a lot.
- [1] https://etbe.coker.com.au/2016/06/01/i-just-ordered-a-nexus-6p/
- [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.lux
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POWER8 sounds great, but where the heck can I get a Power VM so I can test my code?
This is a common question we get at OzLabs from other open source developers looking to port their software to the Power Architecture. Unfortunately, most developers don't have one of our amazing servers just sitting around under their desk.
Thankfully, there's a few IBM partners who offer free VMs for development use. If you're in need of a development VM, check out:
- MiniCloud, hosted by the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
- OSU Open Source Lab, hosted by the Oregon State University
- SuperVessel Cloud for Power/OpenPOWER, hosted by IBM China
So, next time you wonder how you can test your project on POWER8, request a VM and get to it!
Chris Neugebauer: linux.conf.au 2017 wants your talks!
You might have noticed earlier this week that linux.conf.au 2017, which is happening in Hobart, Tasmania (and indeed, which I'm running!) has opened its call for proposals.
Hobart's a wonderful place to visit in January – within a couple of hours drive, there's wonderful undisturbed wilderness to go bushwalking in, historic sites from Tasmania's colonial past, and countless wineries, distilleries, and other producers. Not to mention, the MONA Festival of Music and Arts will probably be taking place around the time of the conference. Coupled with temperate weather, and longer daylight hours than anywhere else in Australia, so there's plenty of time to make the most of your visit.
linux.conf.au is – despite the name – one of the world's best generalist Free and Open Source Software conferences. It's been running annually since 1999, and this year, we're inviting people to talk abut the Future of Open Source.
That's a really big topic area, so here's how our CFP announcement breaks it down:
linux.conf.au is well-known for deeply technical talks, and lca2017 will be no exception. Our attendees want to be the first to know about new and upcoming developments in the tools they already use every day, and they want to know about new open source technology that they'll be using daily in two years time.
Many of the techniques that have made Open Source so successful in the software and hardware world are now being applied to fields as disparate as science, data, government, and the law. We want to know how Open Thinking will help to shape your field in the future, and more importantly, we want to know how the rest of the world can help shape the future of Open Source.
It's easy to think that Open Source has won, but for every success we achieve, a new challenge pops up. Are we missing opportunities in desktop and mobile computing? Why is the world suddenly running away from open and federated communications? Why don't the new generation of developers care about licensing? Let's talk about how Software Freedom and Open Source can better meet the needs of our users and developers for years to come.
It's hard for us to predict the future, but we know that you should be a part of it. If you think you have something to say about Free and Open Source Software, then we want to hear from you, even if it doesn't fit any of the categories above.
My friend, and former linux.conf.au director, Donna Benjamin blogged about the CFP on medium and tweeted the following yesterday:
At @linuxconfau in Hobart, I'd like to hear how people are USING free & open source software, and what they do to help tend the commons.
Our CFP closes on Friday 5 August – and we're not planning on extending that deadline – so put your thinking caps on. If you have an idea for the conference, feel free to e-mail me for advice, or you can always ask for help on IRC – we're in #linux.conf.au on freenode – or you can find us on Facebook or Twitter.
What does the future of Open Source look like? Tell us by submitting a talk, tutorial, or miniconf proposal now! We can't wait to hear what you have to say.
Colin Charles: Speaking in July 2016
- Texas LinuxFest – July 8-9 2016 – Austin, Texas – I've never spoken at this event before but have heard great things about it. I've got a morning talk about what's in MariaDB Server 10.1, and what's coming in 10.2.
- db tech showcase – July 13-15 2016 – Tokyo, Japan – I've regularly spoken at this event and its a case of a 100% pure database conference, with a very captive audience. I'll be talking about the lessons one can learn from other people's database failures (this is the kind of talk that keeps on changing and getting better as the software improves).
- The MariaDB Tokyo Meetup – July 21 2016 – Tokyo, Japan – Not the traditional meetup timing, since its 1.30pm-7pm, there will be many talks and its organised by the folk behind the SPIDER storage engine. It should be fun to see many people and food is being provided too. In Japanese: MariaDB コミュニティイベント in Tokyo, MariaDB Community Event in TOKYO.
Tim Serong: Thunderbird Uses OpenGL – Who Knew?
I have a laptop and a desktop system (as well as a bunch of other crap, but let's ignore that for a moment). Both laptop and desktop are running openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm usually in front of my desktop, with dual screens, a nice keyboard and trackball, and the laptop is sitting with the lid closed tucked away under the desk. Importantly, the laptop is where my mail client lives. When I'm at my desk, I ssh from desktop to laptop with X forwarding turned on, then fire up Thunderbird, and it appears on my desktop screen. When I go travelling, I take the laptop with me, and I've still got my same email client, same settings, same local folders. Easy. Those of you considering heckling me for not using $any_other_mail_client and/or $any_other_environment, please save it for later.
Yesterday I had an odd problem. A new desktop system arrived, so I installed Tumbleweed, eventually ssh'd to my Laptop, started Thunderbird, and…# thunderbird
…nothing happened. There's usually a little bit of junk on the console at that point, and the Thunderbird window should have appeared on my desktop screen. But it didn't. strace showed it stuck in a loop, waiting for something:wait4(22167, 0x7ffdfc669be4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_TKILL, si_pid=22164, si_uid=1000} --- rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) wait4(22167, 0x7ffdfc669be4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_TKILL, si_pid=22164, si_uid=1000} --- rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) wait4(22167, 0x7ffdfc669be4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set) --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_TKILL, si_pid=22164, si_uid=1000} --- rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
After an assortment of random dead ends (ancient and useless bug reports about Thunderbird and Firefox failing to run over remote X sessions), I figured I may as well attach a debugger to see if I could get any more information:# gdb -p 22167 GNU gdb (GDB; openSUSE Tumbleweed) 7.11 [...] Attaching to process 22167 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin... [...] 0x00007f2e95331a1d in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) break Breakpoint 1 at 0x7f2e95331a1d (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f2e95331a1d in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f2e8730b410 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 #2 0x00007f2e8730cecf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 #3 0x00007f2e8730cfe2 in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 #4 0x00007f2e86ecc845 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #5 0x00007f2e86ec74b8 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #6 0x00007f2e86e9a2a9 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #7 0x00007f2e86e9654b in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #8 0x00007f2e86e966b3 in glXChooseVisual () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 #9 0x00007f2e90fa0d6f in glxtest () at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mozilla/toolkit/xre/glxtest.cpp:230 #10 0x00007f2e90fa1003 in fire_glxtest_process () at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mozilla/toolkit/xre/glxtest.cpp:333 #11 0x00007f2e90f9b4cd in XREMain::XRE_mainInit (this=this@entry=0x7ffdfc66c448, aExitFlag=aExitFlag@entry=0x7ffdfc66c3ef) at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:3134 #12 0x00007f2e90f9ee27 in XREMain::XRE_main (this=this@entry=0x7ffdfc66c448, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7ffdfc66d958, aAppData=aAppData@entry=0x7ffdfc66c648) at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:4362 #13 0x00007f2e90f9f0f2 in XRE_main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffdfc66d958, aAppData=0x7ffdfc66c648, aFlags=) at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:4484 #14 0x00000000004054c8 in do_main (argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7ffdfc66d958, xreDirectory=0x7f2e9504a9c0) at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mail/app/nsMailApp.cpp:195 #15 0x0000000000404c4a in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffdfc66d958) at /usr/src/debug/thunderbird/mail/app/nsMailApp.cpp:332 (gdb) continue [Inferior 1 (process 22167) exited with code 01]
OK, so it's libGL that's waiting for something. Why is my mail client trying to do stuff with OpenGL?
Hang on! When I told gdb to continue, suddenly Thunderbird appeared, running properly, on my desktop display. WTF?
As far as I can tell, the problem is that my new desktop system has an NVIDIA GPU (nouveau drivers, BTW), and my laptop and previous desktop system both have Intel GPUs. Something about ssh'ing from the desktop with the NVIDIA GPU to the laptop with the Intel GPU, causes Thunderbird (and, indeed, any GL app — I also tried glxinfo and glxgears) to just wedge up completely. Whereas if I do the reverse (ssh from Intel GPU laptop to NVIDIA GPU desktop) and run GL apps, it works fine.
After some more Googling, I discovered I can make Thunderbird work properly over remote X like this:# LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 thunderbird
That will apparently cause glXCreateContext to return BadValue, which is enough to kick Thunderbird along. LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 works equally well to enable Thunderbird to function, while presumably still allowing it to use OpenGL if it really needs to for something (proof: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 glxgears fails, LIBGL_ALWAY_SOFTWARE=1 glxgears gives me spinning gears).
I checked Firefox too, and it of course has the same remote X problem, and the same solution.
sthbrx - a POWER technical blog: Optical Action at a Distance
Generally when someone wants to install a Linux distro they start with an ISO file. Now we could burn that to a DVD, walk into the server room, and put it in our machine, but that's a pain. Instead let's look at how to do this over the network with Petitboot!
At the moment Petitboot won't be able to handle an ISO file unless it's mounted in an expected place (eg. as a mounted DVD), so we need to unpack it somewhere. Choose somewhere to host the result and unpack the ISO via whatever method you prefer. (For example bsdtar -xf /path/to/image.iso).
You'll get a bunch of files but for our purposes we only care about a few; the kernel, the initrd, and the bootloader configuration file. Using the Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64el ISO as an example, these are:./install/vmlinux ./install/initrd.gz. ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
In grub.cfg we can see that the boot arguments are actually quite simple:set timeout=-1 menuentry "Install" { linux /install/vmlinux tasks=standard pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false --- quiet initrd /install/initrd.gz } menuentry "Rescue mode" { linux /install/vmlinux rescue/enable=true --- quiet initrd /install/initrd.gz }
So all we need to do is create a PXE config file that points Petitboot towards the correct files.
We're going to create a PXE config file which you could serve from your DHCP server, but that does not mean we need to use PXE - if you just want a quick install you only need make these files accessible to Petitboot, and then we can use the 'Retrieve config from URL' option to download the files.
Create a petitboot.conf file somewhere accessible that contains (for Ubuntu):label Install Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus kernel http://myaccesibleserver/path/to/vmlinux initrd http://myaccesibleserver/path/to/initrd.gz append tasks=standard pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false --- quiet
Then in Petitboot, select 'Retrieve config from URL' and enter http://myaccesibleserver/path/to/petitboot.conf. In the main menu your new option should appear - select it and away you go!
Brendan Scott: Windows 10 to Linux
There is a lot of noise at the moment about Microsoft's new operating system called Windows 10. Without repeating all the details you can have a look, say here or here or here. The essence of the story is that Microsoft is making it very difficult to avoid the new operating system. The advice being given is to not install the upgrade – which is anything but easy, since Windows 7 is supported until 2020.
The reality is that staying with Windows 7 is only delaying the inevitable. There is no reason to believe that Mircosoft's offering in 2020 will be any better at respecting your ownership and every reason to think it will be worse. If you are one of these people considering sticking with Windows 7 then you have only two choices:
- swallow your pride and update (either today or sometime in the next 4 years); or
- migrate off the platform. If you migrate then, in practice, that means Linux (since Apple has similar beliefs about who really owns your computer).
In my opinion, if you actually want to own your own computer, you have to install Linux.
OpenSTEM: Swiss Professor starts Cybathlon
The Cybathlon will challenge assistive device developers to create technologies that thrive in day-to-day activities.The prosthetic arm from the M.A.S.S. Impact team. (Credit: ETH Zurich)
While working as a professor in the sensory-motor systems lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Robert Riener noticed a need for assistive devices that would better meet the challenge of helping people with daily life. He knew there were solutions, but that it would require motivating developers to rise to the challenge.
So, Riener created Cybathlon, the first cyborg Olympics where teams from all over the world will participate in races on Oct. 8 in Zurich that will test how well their devices perform routine tasks. Teams will compete in six different categories that will push their assistive devices to the limit on courses developed carefully over three years by physicians, developers and the people who use the technology. Eighty teams have signed up so far.
Riener wants the event to emphasize how important it is for man and machine to work together—so participants will be called pilots rather than athletes, reflecting the role of the assistive technology.
"The goal is to push the development in the direction of technology that is capable of performing day-to-day tasks. And that way, there will an improvement in the future life of the person using the device," says Riener.
Read more at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/06/22/a-sneak-peek-at-the-first-cyborg-olympics/


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In the case of Tennessee Titans left guard Andy Levitre, the Titans haven't got what they paid for yet. But it's way too premature to label a guy who signed up for six seasons as any level of a bust.
Levitre inked a six-year, $46.8 million deal on March 14 with a $10.5 million signing bonus and $13 million guaranteed.
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"I know I haven't been playing well this season," Levitre said. "I don't want to say it was from my [knee] surgery after last season, I've had some other issues going on. I've been having a little struggle staying healthy this season. But I'm just trying to play the best I can, get an offseason program under my belt so I can get some of the strength back that I lost last offseason.
"I hate to use that as an excuse, I'm not one to point at something else. It's my issue, I've got to deal with it."
"Some other issues" haven't landed him on an injury report this season.
I appreciate his honest assessment of his play this year. A guy of his stature needs to stand up and acknowledge how he's played. All guys should. Many do not.
"I didn't feel like my lower body was stable [early on], I didn't feel like I was moving around very well," he said. "I've gotten a lot better than I was in training camp, but I can still tell I'm not playing the way I want to play. It can be fixed, but there's really no excuse.
"I know I can do better, I want to do better. My body's just kind of running its course with this. ... It's issues I'll address in the offseason."
Levitre's off year also has him atop the Titans' list of penalty offenders. He's been flagged seven times, two more than anyone else on the team.
Coach Mike Munchak regularly puts a list of top offenders up on a screen in front of the team.
"I've never had it be that big of an issue before," Levitre said of his penalties. "It's never good, it's one of those stats you never want to have. Unfortunately I've had a lot this year.
"It's a lack of discipline, a lack of technique. Obvious you never want to have penalties, but it's something that can be fixed, so that's a good thing."


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Al-Soaib Law Firm
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Hazim AL-Madani Law Firm
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Levant Law Practice
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Al Tamimi & CompanyRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Al-Fraih Law OfficeRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
Full Service Law Firm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia+966 (11) 464-0202
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Alem & AssociatesRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Mozilla Lets Companies Build Their Own Firefox Browsers
With its Build Your Own Browser program, Mozilla wants to make it easy for enterprise customers to install personalized Firefoxes.
The next version of Firefox, 3.5, should appear by the end of June and the new program will be implemented with it. Build Your Own Browser consists of two parts: individually customizable browsers and help installing them on desktops across the enterprise. Mike Beltzner, Firefox's director at Mozilla, describes the benefits in an interview: configuring bookmarks to corporate sites or portals and adapting the page design to the company logo, and that across all company desktops. The enterprise can use a Mozilla Web application to establish the look and feel for their browser, and as soon as it's configured, the application will send it to the company along with an enterprise-wide installation program.
The optical treats are provided by Personas, an add-on program that Mozilla released the end of March. This tool could code logos at top and bottom in the company colors, thereby providing an individualized and easily changeable browser skin. The Personas tool has gained quite a following since its launch, as Mozilla Labs reports, with 5 million downloads in the first ten weeks.
Firefox 3.5 is available in 70 languages in its current beta version. Release is scheduled to be within the next couple of weeks.
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