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Your irregularly nonscheduled blogging program will continue returning shortly. Or at length. We'll see.
Woke up with a case of nausea and uselessness this morning. Took all day to get back to something like normal. And here we are, sort of. Cue Frank.
Version 3.0.0 of the pandas data analysis and manipulation library for Python has been released. Notable changes include a dedicated string type (str), new "copy-on-write" behavior, and much more. This release also removes a number of features that were deprecated in prior versions of pandas; developers…
At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi Groves ("49016") and Liam Wachter said that they had discovered a number of flaws in popular implementations of OpenPGP email-encryption standard. They also released an accompanying web site, gpg.fail, with descriptions of the discoveries. Most of those presented…
That’s a screen grab of an email we’re sending out for the MyTerms launch in London. Links:
Be there in a Zoom square. Or in old-fashioned reality.
We cannot fix email delivery, but we can sidestep it entirely. Public-inbox archives like lore.kernel.org store all mailing list traffic…
The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USER environment variable received…
Because depending on Big AI for privacy won't work
In Consumer AI Is Outpacing Enterprise, the VC firm Mayfield quotes Vanessa Parli, Managing Director of Programs and External Engagement at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI): "'If we can build AI and…protect our privacy,' she said,…