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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-08-05
“So, do you think one day robots will have human rights?”

“Perhaps,” the robot said, “but first I want to see all humans have human rights.”

“What do you mean? All humans do have human rights. It’s in the name.”

“Then I first want to see all humans considered human.”

“Oh. Yeah.”

(Micro SF/F stories)

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
https://scriptingosx.com/2020/06/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2020-08-05/

(From github.com): Token Reverser: Words list generator to crack security tokens https://github.com/dariusztytko/token-reverser.git

Oh! While it's best viewed on a laptop screen (or larger screen), it's also 'mobile-friendly'. I've just set the screen orientation to landscape, which fixes a problem with some buttons. So, it works on a phone, but really looks better on bigger screen :) https://artatomic.itch.io/data-meditations-an-abstract-koi-pond

Today, we're releasing the full text of THE MAKING OF THE TECH WORKER MOVEMENT by @bentarnoff@twitter.com, a ~50 page zine that tells the story of how the tech worker movement was made, and how it remade the people who participated in it. https://logicmag.io/the-making-of-the-tech-worker-movement/full-text/

Keep a notebook where you write down your ideas, inspirations and wishes. Keep reading your old notes and improve upon them.

If something stays on the list for long enough, start working on it: you probably have given it enough thought now and it clearly seems worth it.

(From holzschu.github.io): A-Shell: Terminal for iOS https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/

📣 Beehive 0.4.0 is out! 📣

New Hives:
- Twitch
- Instapaper
- Rocket Chat
- ipify
- Cloudflare DDNS
- Mixcloud

Added more Events & Actions for various bees and services, Mastodon among them!

...and many more new features & bugfixes!

Get it here:

https://github.com/muesli/beehive/releases/tag/v0.4.0

Announcing airbreak, a toolkit to jailbreak inexpensive CPAP machines to turn them into emergency #COVID19 ventilators by unlocking all operational modes and allowing custom software extensions. https://airbreak.dev/

(From www.schneier.com): Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html

Just want to mention to anyone working on covid-19 visualizations: avoid calculating and displaying 'mortality rate'. We don't have data to give this, so any rates will be wrong.

#coronavirus #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #datavis #datafam

Wrangling Pythons
As I noted in my last Weekly News Summary, several open source projects for MacAdmins have completed their transition to Python 3. AutoPkg, JSSImport and outset announced Python 3 compatible versions last week and Munki already had the first Python 3 version last December.

Why?

Apple has included a version of Python 2 with Mac OS X since 10.2 (Jaguar). Python 3.0 was released in 2008 and it was not fully backwards c
https://scriptingosx.com/2020/02/wrangling-pythons/

If you're providing online services, communications or network infrastructure for other people and you have any kind of basic ethical foundation for what you do:

This talk by Paul Vixie gives a good overview about the problems with the current DoH (DNS over HTTPS) advancements by commercial traffic interceptors like Cloudflare and how Mozilla/Firefox is selling you and your private data out to them.

This is an hour *really* well spent!

https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZxTdEEuyxHU&list=PLskKNopggjc6NssLc8GEGSiFYJLYdlTQx #SysadminLife #TalkRecommendation