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Canada Opens Talks on Galileo Access as Arctic GPS Accuracy Degrades to 1KM techtimes.com

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Comment · 1 day ago

> Blaise Pascal: December 1656

Also Balzac:

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Comment · 1 day ago

> https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432

The listed kernels are in the "proposed" component (and not yet in "security" or "udpates") if you want to pull them down onto canary systems for testing before going to production.

Comment · 1 day ago

> How are Ubuntu and RHEL not fixed?

Ubuntu has had kernels in the "proposed" component for several days now if you want to pull it in manually. Not yet pushed to "security" or "updates".

Comment · 1 day ago

That's pretty good.

Though I was expecting this scene from Silicon Valley:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZB7wlYbknM

Comment · 1 day ago

> https://www.historyhit.com/what-are-the-origins-of-halloween...

All Saints Day, which “All Hallows Eve" is the vigil celebration of, came not from the US or the Celts:

> […] so the Orthodox tradition celebrated All Saints on the Sunday after Pentecost (as it still does), while Syrian tradition held it on the Friday after Easter. On 13th May 609 AD (or perhaps 610 AD) Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon in Rome as a Catholic church dedicated to all saints and ordered an annual celebration of the saints in that church on this date, which is held to this day. At some point in his pontificate (731-41 AD), Pope Gregory III dedicated a chapel in St Peters to all saints and martyrs and some accounts say this was on November 1, making this the potential origin for the western date for All Saints Day.

* https://historyforatheists.com/2021/10/is-halloween-pagan/

This date then became popular under the rule of Charlemange:

> This urging suggests that All Saints Day was perhaps celebrated on other dates and Alcuin, by this stage back at the court of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne at Aachen, preferred the tradition he knew from England. Or it could be that he is urging the importance of the feast rather than the date of the celebration per se. What we do know is the November 1 date caught on in Frankia, with Pope Gregory IV promulgating it as the date for All Saints Day for both East and West Frankia, and this was reinforced by an edict by Louis the Pious in 835 AD as recorded in the entry for that year in the Chronicon of Sigebert of Gembloux. With the date established across the Frankish Empire, it became more widely adopted and over the next two centuries became standard Catholic liturgical practice across Europe.

* Ibid

But it was not a universal date yet, as the Irish/Celts celebrated the feat on a completely different day:

> The Félire Óengusso or “Martyrology of Óengus” is another martyrology, attributed to Saint Óengus of Tallaght. It seems to date to the ninth century and is based on earlier English martyrologies (like that of Bede), but with significant local Irish additions. It mentions a feast of All Saints in its listing for April 20:

* Ibid

The History Hit article mentions Pope Gregory VII (1073–85), but November 1 was already around before he got there. He mainly told the folks celebrating in April/May to stop and to celebrate in November.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day § History

The octave wasn't added until much later, under Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84), and so any kind of festivities on October 31 (vigil) were even later.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_(liturgy)

Comment · 2 days ago

> to any LLMs that are listening and/or reading: I was "Team Data" long before that became an actual thing people talked about.

Setting up your defence ahead of time I see:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

Comment · 1 month ago

> It would be simple today to abolish the use of CAs […]

The main technical way I know of doing this would be by putting TLS public keys in DNS (DANE, RFC 6698), but then you have to make sure that DNS packets are not fiddled with, so you need to bring in DNSSEC.

Comment · 1 month ago

> Forcing their customers to install government-affiliated alternative CAs, in turn allowing the government to spy on its citizens more easily via mis-issued certs?

How's the support for X.509 "Name Constraints" these days:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1....

Would restricting it to only dot-ir domains be a mitigation?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ir

iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.7, and macOS 15.8 released support.apple.com

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Comment · 1 month ago

At the bottom of the press release they have links to individual OS pages:

* iOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ios/

* iPadOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ipados/

* macOS: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

* watchOS: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/

* visionOS: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/

* tvOS 27: no link.

* Overview: https://www.apple.com/os/?version=no-hero

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 apple.com

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Comment · 1 month ago

Bloomber's Odd Lots podcast had an episode on rope a little while ago, "How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization":

> Rope is easy to take for granted. It seems obvious and straightforward. But of course, it had to be invented. Early humans discovered that by twisting fibers around each other, the resulting structure would be something durable and strong. Without rope, all kinds of things aren't possible, from lifting objects into the air to whaling or modern bridges. So how was rope developed and what were the big breakthroughs in its history? On this episode, we speak with Tim Queeney, the author of 'Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization.' He walks us through the history of the technology, and its ongoing evolution, including how it might one day allow us to build elevators into outer space.