Boing Boing – NARA recovers famed 1982 Grace Hopper lecture recorded on obsolete media format

Aug 272024
 

Hopper delivering the 1982 lectureU.S. Navy computer scientist and COBOL inventor Grace Hopper gave a famed lecture in 1982 that was recorded using an obsolete video medium for which no player now exists. Yesterday, the NSA posted it on its YouTube channel, reflecting years of demand for it to be made public and work by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to retrieve the footage: “NARA’s Special Media Department was able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1′ AMPEX tapes and transferred the footage to NSA to be reviewed for public release.” — Read the rest

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jwz – Today in ACAB

Aug 272024
 

Albuquerque’s Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right To Leave Their Body Cameras Off Even more troubling, Medina said he “purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate.” Since “he was involved in a traffic collision,” he reasoned, he was “subject to 5th Amendment protections.” Think about the implications of that argument. Body cameras are supposed to help document (and perhaps deter) police misconduct. But Medina is suggesting that cops have a constitutional right to refrain from recording their interactions with the public whenever that evidence could be used against them. By turning on their cameras in those situations, he argues, police could be incriminating themselves….

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Planet PostgreSQL – Keith Fiske: Announcing an Open Source Monitoring Extension for Postgres with pgMonitor

Aug 272024
 

Crunchy Data is pleased to announce a new open source
pgMonitor Extension.
Crunchy Data has worked on a pgMonitor tool for several years as part of our
Kubernetes
and
self-managed Postgres
deployments and recently we’ve added an extension to the tool set.
Two primary scenarios motivated the creation of the pgMonitor extension :

Quicker Metrics: Monitoring metrics often need quick response times to
allow for frequent updates. We’ve noticed that certain metrics become slower
as the database grows. This impacts not only common metrics but also more
complex business metrics that could require several minutes to generate.
Version Compatibility: New PostgreSQL versions can break existing metrics
due to changes in the catalogs. Managing different metric sets for various
PostgreSQL versions is tedious and can be challenging.

Benefits of the pgMonitor extension
The…

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Deeplinks – Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones

Aug 272024
 

This article was originally published by The Legal Aid Society’s Decrypting a Defense Newsletter on August 5, 2024 and is reprinted here with permission.
Police departments and law enforcement agencies are increasingly collecting personal information using drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to high-resolution photographic and video cameras, police drones may be equipped with myriad spying payloads, such as live-video transmitters, thermal imaging, heat sensors, mapping technology, automated license plate readers, cell site simulators, cell phone signal interceptors and other technologies. Captured data can later be scrutinized with backend software tools like license plate readers and face recognition technology. There have even been proposals for law enforcement to attach lethal and less-lethal weapons to…

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