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The draft Online Safety Bill establishes a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online.
This bill is really important and has potential implications for anyone running online services. This bill aims to protect both adults, children and young people from online harms.
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DebConf 21 Schedule
The schedule for this years DebConf has been published. The following is from the announcement e-mail
The schedule for DebConf21 Online has just been finalized, and is now public.
DebConf21 will run from Tuesday, August 24th, to Saturday, August 28th. Despite that, we have a schedule full of activities, and those 5 days will be full of content for the Debian community.
Talks will be presented in two parallel “rooms”. “Talks 1” will have talks in
English, while “Talks 2” will host some talks English, but also talks in the
Indian languages (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu), organized by the Debian India community, and well as talks in Portuguese, organized by the Debian Brazil team.
You can check out the [1]full schedule, and the full [2]list of talks. For
those interested, we also provide a [3]mobile-friendly schedule.
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The Hubble Space Telescope: From Cosmological Conflict to Alien Atmospheres
Write up : 7th March 2021
This is a really interesting talk and overview of what the HST has undertaken since launch in 1990.
Some highlights
Gravitational lensing, found galaxies magnified 50x and detection of galaxies 10x fainter.
Precision cosmology & Hubble Constant calculations via several methods
Exoplanet Atmospheres
Exoplanets e.g 57 Pegasi
Exoplanets found from transiting host star
Planetary Atmospheres plus detection of organic molecules
Earth size Exoplanets (Trappist 1b and 1c)
The talk also makes reference to academic papers, which can be easily searched for, so for example
With the last point in the list above, this paper was
De Wit, et al 2016 Nature 537,69 – if you search for this you find
arxiv 1006.01103 which is publication in the above journal 2016Natur 537
The 537 refers to the volume, and 69 is the first page of the article, in this case the article is on pages 69 to 72.
So using the references from the talk you can do further reading.
Well worth watching
Space Telescope Science Institute
Public lectures
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Cosmological Conflict to Alien Atmospheres
Tue 2nd March 2021
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The Milky Way vs. Andromeda: When Galaxies Collide
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Online and remote learning : Lets not forget privacy.
This is an excellent article by the Free software foundation on the importance of maintaing user / learner privacy while they are learning online.
Some interesting points being raised and some serious concerns about privacy, use of webcams and monitoring of students during tests etc.
Learners need to ask questions and not just accept this as the new normal.
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