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Tools: MacOS Mojave Dark Mode with Safari in Reader mode is blissful

I don’t always work in Dark Mode on Mojave but I’m is liking a lot more than I expected. I guess I’m using it about 70% of the time. In particular, I use the Reader feature from Safari to block out the distractions and other bits of branding ‘chrome’ that make it difficult to read. […]

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Retail IoT is still coming into its own in 2019

Retailers see some tantalizing possibilities for using IoT technology in their businesses, but 2019 seems likely to feature more pilot programs and small-scale testing than widespread upheaval.Bridging the gap between online and in-person shopping, increased automation, and new ways to engage with customers (mostly by showing them ads) are all concepts with major upside for retailers, but the technology has only recently started to take hold.[ Related: What is the IoT? How the internet of things works. ] Some of IoT’s presence in the retail world isn’t retail-specific. Companies use asset-management systems, integrated HVAC and other smart-building tech just like many other industries, according to analysts, but physical retailers have been having a tough time across the board lately, and investments in new technology can quickly fall down priority lists.To read this article in full, please click here

JT65 with SDR

JT65 is a slow protocol for propagation reports. In short it takes 60 seconds to send 13 characters. Then you wait 60 seconds for a reply, and repeat.

The 60 seconds are actually 1 second silence, 46.872 second of signal, then another 12.128 seconds of silence, allowing for clock drifts and for a human to choose the reply.

The mode is this slow in order to add a lot of redundancy and to make it easier for the receiver to dig out a signal way below the noise floor. It was originally meant for making contacts by bouncing signals off the moon, which has a path loss of ~250dB. Someone even managed a JT65 moonbounce on 10 Watts using JT65 with gear you and I could buy/build!. That’s the power of a low energy light bulb!

I wanted to do propagation experiments with SDR, with low power in various frequency bands, but couldn’t find a GNURadio module for JT65. So I made one.

The JT65 specification is very well written, except for the parts it says “the code is the specification”. Which would normally be fine, but the code is in Fortran and Fortran is terrible.

JT65A is Continue reading

Cloudflare’s Response to a Privacy Framework

Cloudflare's Response to a Privacy Framework
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Cloudflare's Response to a Privacy Framework

Why We Weighed In on US Privacy Efforts

Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better internet, and privacy has to be at the heart of that effort. That’s why we submitted comments last week on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s request for comment on its proposed approach to advance consumer privacy.

We think it is important for Internet infrastructure companies like us to be a part of the conversation about the future of internet privacy. We want to advocate for an internet that remains accessible to all, while becoming more secure and protective of privacy.

What is NTIA and what is it trying to do?

In 2018, we’ve seen high profile data breaches and data misuse, Europe’s sweeping data protection law – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – come into effect, and California pass its own comprehensive Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). All of this has captured the attention of Washington, D.C. lawmakers and regulators.

On September 25, 2018, NTIA began a process to solicit feedback from stakeholders on a proposed approach to consumer data privacy.  NTIA is the Executive Branch agency in the Department of Commerce that is principally Continue reading

IBM reinforces enterprise multicloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion

IBM is looking to make it easier for customers to move to multicloud environments by adding automation tools to its cloud services, and the company is extending its relationship with cloud migration specialists ServiceNow.The driving idea behind both moves is to help customer simplify what can be a daunting task – moving new and legacy applications to multicloud environments be they based on IBM's own cloud service or others such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Red Hat.As a backdrop to the new services, IBM last month said it would buy open-source software pioneer Red Hat in a $34 billion stock acquisition.  For IBM the deal could mean many things. It makes it a bigger open source and enterprise software player for example, but mostly it gets Big Blue into the lucrative hybrid-cloud party targeting its towering competitors Google, Amazon and Microsoft among others. Gartner says that market will be worth $240 billion by next year.To read this article in full, please click here

Weekly Show 416: From Reactive To Proactive NetOps With Cisco NAE (Sponsored)

Today's sponsored Weekly Show dives into Cisco's Network Assurance Engine. This software creates a real-time and continuously updated model of the network that IT can use to assess the impact of changes, get deep visibility into network state, and move network ops from reactive to proactive. We hear from an IT engineer inside Cisco who uses NAE in production.

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