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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #158
Date: 18-11-2023
Duration: 2 hrs 35 mins
Topics Discussed
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Philip Durbin joined us and told us about the open source research data repository software, Dataverse, that he had been working on for the past 11 years.
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He also runs Boston Open Dev, a monthly in-person meetup in Boston for people interested in technology!
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Ishan Sharma and Philip Durbin told us about Steve Jobs' resignation from Apple and his subsequent ventures with NeXT and Pixar.
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We talked about the OpenAI and Sam Altman drama.
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Text messaging
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Rich Communication Services (RCS)
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Mohit Gangwani talked about how Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' is Not Secure.
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Philip Durbin informed us about Bump, a popular contact information sharing application back in the day.
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Mohit Gangwani shared Downloading Images from Russian Satellite.
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Security and privacy
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Jaden Furtado shared his Cyber Security Medium blogs.
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Tanay Kamath shared a thread on How to DELETE 99.9% of your digital footprint from the internet.
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Harsh Kapadia shared his notes on Tor.
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Philip Durbin talked about Quiet, a private, P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS.
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Jaden showcased Amass, an in-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery tool that he used to find all the subdomains of Harsh’s domain harshkapadia.me.
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Computer Networking
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Harsh Kapadia talked about what Autonomous Systems (ASs) and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are, and how ASs peer with each other at IXPs.
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Wilfred Almeida shared Nym, a service that claims to be superior to Tor and VPNs to protect communication patterns, IP addresses and metadata of users.
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Harsh Kapadia shared Microsoft Reveals Custom 128-Core Arm Datacenter CPU, Massive Maia 100 GPU Designed for AI.
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Aditya Oberai shared Hour of Code.
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Aditya Oberai shared his talk Understanding Role-Based Access Control with ASP.NET Web APIs for .NET Conf 2023.
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Harsh Kapadia talked about Google confirming they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024.
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Harsh Kapadia talked about DuckDuckGo’s new web browser.
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We talked about how Google admitted to paying Apple 36% of Safari search revenue in exchange for default status on all of Apple’s devices.
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Aditya Oberai and Ishan Sharma talked about how Epic Games created a Fortnite parody campaign video of Apple’s 1984 Macintosh commercial to protest against the monopolistic practices of Apple’s App Store.
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