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samcarter

Now already ~~27~~ 29 talks at https://tug.org/tug2024/program.html !

samcarter replying to Skillmon

:thumbsup:

Skillmon replying to samcarter

thanks for sharing, I hope it'll work and try to attend (if dayjob permits).

samcarter replying to Skillmon

It worked yesterday and today -- I'm confident it will work tomorrow as well :)

Skillmon

We'll see tomorrow :)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

>  This event has already finished

samcarter replying to Skillmon

The link to the public web cast is at the top left of the page

Skillmon replying to samcarter

registration is closed :(

samcarter

In case anyone is looking for an advanced git course - tomorrow afternoon: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1334738/contributions/5814285/

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Good!

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

It was mentioned at the Dante meeting, so people should now be aware :)

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Do they know there is a bursary for TUG '24? We had zero submissions till now.

samcarter

https://tug.org/tug2024/abstracts/pfahler-colorblind.txt also looks very interesting

Joseph Wright replying to samcarter

Yeah ... so am I ;)

samcarter replying to Joseph Wright

Wow! There are so much more presentations than last week!   
  
Looking forward to your siunitx talk!

CarLaTeX replying to Joseph Wright

Good!

Joseph Wright

TUG2024 is starting to look more healthy

samcarter

Another factor could be that the meeting in Bonn also came with a big discount for Dante members and had the Dante general assembly on the day before. This might have encouraged additional attendees which are missing in Prague.

Joseph Wright replying to samcarter

True - for a 'day job' conference it's not so bad at all, but TeX is not most attendee's day job - I'm lucky that the team have some funds to cover it

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Yes, this is a big problem, too

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

At Dante a couple of people mentioned that they are deterred by the relatively high conference fee. Maybe people saved up during the years of online conferences and then splashed out to go to Bonn, but can't afford to do this every year?

CarLaTeX replying to Joseph Wright

I thought of the war. Maybe Prague it's seen as too close to it.

Joseph Wright replying to CarLaTeX

I think you've got the situation that it's actually just 'down the road' once you look globally, so for people outside western Europe, a second trip to the same area isn't 'worth it'

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

<3

samcarter

![IMG_20240407_214425.jpg](/image?hash=1c0514fdd1eb1fa134d32e0cad269f18ca01aded3ee65cb66d2feef21d595260)  
  
^^^ this little duck wanted to come home with me from Weimar

samcarter

I am also very surprised!

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

How is it possible? The Bonn meeting was full of people!

samcarter

**If you'd like to come to TUG'24 in Prague and did not yet register, please do this as soon as possible. Also submitt talks if possible.  
At the Dante meeting it was mentioned that TUG'24 is at the risk of being cancelled due to too few registrations and talks submitted :(**

frougon

Follow-up to an [earlier message of mine](https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=347&id=174868&year=2024#c174868): [xz Outbreak (CVE-2024-3094) - Part 2](https://infosec.exchange/@fr0gger/112211836264840207) by Thomas Roccia. Nothing really new, “just” a synthetic single-page presentation of backdoor setup mechanisms we've known since the last weekend.  
  
Unrelated: if you had one of the infamous `liblzma` versions 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 on your system, some people [suggest](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068348) to rebuild the initramfs. This is unlikely to harm, at least...

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Hmm, my areas of interest require some understanding of mathematical principles, but I have started too late, so at times I find it difficult.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

Yes, I know. But that's not what she did, she had absolutely no idea what the professor was talking about.

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Many streams of linguistics actually heavily rely on mathematisation of languages, but it's still tough for us, linguists to comprehend maths and abstraction. That's where we struggle the most.

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

:D Quite complicated

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

African Linguistics, Literature and Arts, and Arabic (I usually jokingly say "taxi driver")

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

What was she studying?

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Haha! That's a cool place to do assignments :)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

when we both still went to university my wife used to accompany me to my maths lectures. She always said it was the perfect background noise to concentrate on her assignments.

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

lol

samcarter

b) make me want to jump up and go furniture shopping

samcarter

a) it will be very calming and the perfect background noise for going to sleep

samcarter

I'd like to hear context read formulas in Swedish. I wonder if

samcarter

Best April fool's I've seen today: https://fosstodon.org/@context/112195267671157407

निरंजन replying to frougon

:joy: :joy: :joy:

frougon

You're welcome, happy Easter from felidae to all, including cute, appetizing rodents! :-)  
  
TODO: check if my desktop environment `/usr/bin/tex` notifies `systemd` when it has started, and how.

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

<3

Skillmon replying to frougon

that overview of the GitHub activity of the malicious user are very interesting and hint at the longterm planning of all of this (as well as the strange conversations you shared earlier). Very interesting read, again thanks for sharing!

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

thanks, same to you (and all the other rabbits or beings celebrating it)

frougon replying to निरंजन

Glad to hear that. In order to dedramatize the ongoing after-the-fact process, a nice hashtag was found: #xzorcist. :)

निरंजन replying to frougon

Hehe, thanks. This helps.

frougon

[Explaining the xz backdoor to non-technical people](https://infosec.exchange/@masek/112189323619514361) (in German but there is a Translate button; [Nürburgring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring) is a complex with two automobile circuits, AIUI). :-)