Exploring Contributors Centrality Over Time

At the end of my previous post we concluded with yet another question. Indeed, on the 2017 KDEPIM contributor network we found out that Christian Mollekopf while being a very consistent committer didn't appear as centrality as we would expect. Yet from the topology he seemed to act as a bridge between the core contributors and contributors with a very low centrality. This time we'll try to look into this and figure out what might be going on. My first attempt at this was to try to look into the contributor network on a different time period and see how it goes. If we take two snapshots of the network for the two semesters of 2017, how would it look? Well, easy to do with my current scripts so let's see!

KDE: Elisa 0.1.1, KDE Plasma 5.13 and More

• 0.1.1 Release of Elisa

  The Elisa team is happy to announce the first bug fix release for the 0.1 version.

• KDE Plasma 5.13 Is Making Great Improvements On Its Wayland Support

  KDE Plasma 5.13 that is due for release in June will have a great number of improvements to its Wayland support for allowing the KDE Plasma desktop to work much better on this alternative to the X.Org Server. KDE developer Roman Gilg has provided a nice summary of some of the Wayland improvements in the queue for the Plasma 5.13.0 release due out towards the middle of June.

• This week in Usability & Productivity, part 15

  I’ve initiated a big project: overhauling KDE Open & Save dialogs for greater usability and productivity.

• Latte bug fix release v0.7.5

  Latte Dock v0.7.5   has been released containing important fixes and improvements! Hopefullly this is going to be the last stable version for v0.7.x family. During the next months the next stable branch (v0.8.x) is going to appear.

Security: IBM, Windows Freezes, 2FA and More

• IBM Launches Open-source Toolkit to Safeguard AI Systems

  On 17th, April 2018, IBM Security announced the launch of an open-source toolkit at the RSA conference in San-Francisco. The Open-Source library entails framework-agnostics software that contains defenses, attacks as well as bench markings to safeguard artificial intelligence systems. This open-source library is also known as Adversarial Robustness Toolbox is designed to assist in protecting Artificial Intelligence system (AI) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) into the “Open-Source Community”.

• Cincinnati Police review: 911 operator said she couldn't hear dying teen's final call from Seven Hills [iophk: "Microsoft Windows kills"]

  The review also found Smith said she tried to document the call when it came in, but she told supervisors her computer screen froze, preventing her from entering any information immediately. That information could have been helpful to police searching for Kyle.

• What happened? A timeline of events preceding the discovery of dead teen Kyle Plush

• Just How Random Are Two Factor Authentication Codes?

  So technically speaking, Google could omit certain hard-to-remember sequences. But it's probably not a great idea. "You can’t take out too many things because you want the full space of possible values for entropy," Smetters says. In essence, your algorithm would produce fewer codes; generally speaking, the fewer codes your algorithm produces, the easier it is to crack. Plus, she says, many patterns are probably memorable to people for different reasons.

• GCHQ warns public ‘absolute protection not possible’ as it briefs power and transport firms on cyber attacks [iophk: "Windows TCO"]

• The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming

  In 2005 security-software provider PC Pitstop LLC promised a $1,000 prize to the first user to spot the offer deep in its terms and conditions; it took four months before the reward was claimed.

What is Open Source Programming? How to Get Involved?

Open Source Programming simply means writing codes that other people can freely use as well as modify. It is essential for authors to license their code, it enables them to have a copyright for those codes. Therefore, for a code to be declared safe and free for all to use, whether it’s available in the Github or in a public-repo; the author is required to license their own code. This is to avoid cases of individuals being sued by the author for using, modifying or even embedding the code without being granted a license to do that.