[Nottingham] [Talk] *TONIGHT* 8:30pm Thursday 23/07/2020: Tracking the Tracking...

[Martin]

Folks,

>> Staying virtual until we evolve onwards around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and
>> the resultant COVID-19...
>>
>> (See: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus )
>>
>> NLUG continues socially online!
> 
> 
> 
> *TONIGHT* 8:30pm (BST) Thursday 23/07/2020 (That's 7:30pm _GMT_  )

>> *Tracking the Tracking*
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>> Or... Whatever happened to the Coronavirus tracking apps... ??
>>
>> Good or bad? Definitely lots to discuss...
>>
>> And really? The pandemic is over and done??


Good session as always, even though minus our northern contingent...
Hopefully they are not cut off by the latest BT non-redundant-operation
fire?

See:

Smoke on the Tyne: Blaze at BT exchange causes major outages across
North East England - Flames contained – but expect slow 'staged
restoration' of services

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/23/bt_fire/

"We are currently experiencing a fire in one of our exchanges in
Newcastle Upon Tyne..." ... "taken out internet for a large number of
providers"...


Meanwhile, more locally, a few good beers and giggles were had,
including guest star appearances from Kristina and Isaac. All welcome!


So, the highly hyped Coronavirus tracking apps so far have no track
record!... See:

Coronavirus: The great contact-tracing apps mystery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53485569

Contact tracing app 'working in Ireland'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53525712

/Really/ ? How much??!

The /only/ successe that I've read of doing anything much at all with
mobile or dedicated hardware apps is the system rolled out in
Singapore... But then those CCTV/surveilled devils are already spooked
out to saturation for every step they take... There is also Israel who
achieved similar 'tracking' without the need for any special apps... And
what of China?...


Further on...

Here's in brief a few fun links for other things that may or may not
have been mentioned on the night:


Linus builds Linus’ new PC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI

There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora33-Desktop-Btrfs-Proposal

Fedora Developers Evaluating Compression Options For Btrfs-By-Default
Proposal
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Btrfs-Compression-Option

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=Nottingham#.XxKx9BF7nVM
ISS Sighting Opportunities

ORBIT - A Journey Around Earth in Real Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KXGZAEWzn0

SpaceX Developments in Boca Chica (StarShip!)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nasaspaceflight&sp=CAI%253D


Next talks possibly to include:

A tour of Desktops;

Unacknowledged 'high speed' video instructions to a BBC computer terminal.

? ;-) ;-) :-)


And the Blue Monkey did flow fine!


Stay safe!
Martin