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diff --git a/technical/reviews/linux.conf.au-2018.md b/technical/reviews/linux.conf.au-2018.md deleted file mode 100644 index 657bb64..0000000 --- a/technical/reviews/linux.conf.au-2018.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,136 +0,0 @@ -# linux.conf.au 2018 - -## Making Technology More Inclusive Through Papercraft and Sound - -By Andrew Huang. - -I like how the talk goes over a range of cross-domain topics: - -- high-level motivations - -Improving inclusiveness is necessary to make open-source actually -empower people; right now a very small subset of the population is -computer-savvy enough to take advantage of it. If the situation does -not improve, a handful of developers will hold a lot of power over -lots of alienated users, and lawmakers may resort to "preposterous" -solutions to attempt to regain control, e.g. license bonds for -software developments. - -- Kickstarter campaign management -- design choices & rationale - - "China-ready" - - "patience of a child" constraint -- gory hardware details -- the end result - -## QUIC: Replacing TCP for the Web - -By Jana Iyengar. - -Starts by introducing impressive application performance improvements, -although where were those measured? E.g. rural areas? - -Advantage that can already be inferred from the layer view: QUIC needs -fewer handshakes than TCP+TLS. - -Achieves 0-RTT when the server's cryptographic credentials are known. - -Supports "stream multiplexing": the upper layer (e.g. HTTP) can -transfer multiple objects independently in a single connection. -Losing part of one object does not block the others: retransmission is -managed at the stream level, not at the connection level. - -On top of UDP: allows userspace (Chrome) implementation. - -> If you think of layers as a set of functions, things that you want -> done, UDP is not a transport protocol. - -I.e. UDP does not provide reliability, same-order delivery… - -Jana was "in the SCTP bandwagon". - -They actually have *better performance improvements* for *bigger -latencies*? Nice. - -> § QUIC improvements by country - -👏 - -(Of course the end goal is probably to make sure regions with poor -connections do not miss out on the adfest; still, these remain welcome -technical improvements) - -Transport headers are encrypted to prevent "middlebox ossification". -They left a *single* byte unencrypted (the flags byte): this allowed -middleboxes to observe that it kinda had the same value on most -connections, assume that this was a "nominal" value, and block traffic -when this value differed. - -## You Can't Unit Test C, Right? - -By Benno Rice. - -- Mentions [Check](https://libcheck.github.io/check/) and - [Kyua](https://github.com/jmmv/kyua). -- Factor your boilerplate into libraries, especially the ugly hacks. -- Keep `main` small so that you don't need to test it so much. - -## Changing the world through (fan-)fiction - -By Paul Fenwick. - -Reading fiction is a convenient way to get us to think through -concepts we had not considered before. By re-purposing a familiar -setting, *fan*fiction lowers the barrier to entry to the writing -exercise: it makes it easier for the writer to get their point across -and to reach their audience. - -Some recommendations: - -- The Last Ringbearer -- [My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal] -- [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality] - -Our media teaches us what is normal. Hence fiction opens up ways to -improve the status quo by acquainting us to new ideas. - -Another recommendation: Steven Universe. - -Mainstream and folklore stories feature a fair amount of unhealthy -relationships; this is problematic because repeated exposure helps -normalization[^I find that SMBC is a positive example of this effect: -it regularly (and, AFAICT, fairly randomly) features gay couples in -comics where the joke is *not* about homosexuality]. - -In Japan, doujinshi is considered normal and "adding value to the -brand", whereas similar things are flagged as "copyright infringement" -in other countries. - -[My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal]: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal -[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]: http://www.hpmor.com/ - -## Lessons from three years of volunteering to teach students code - -By David Tulloh. - -Takeways: - -1. Volunteering in schools is easy and fun. -2. We should care about what is taught in schools. -3. We should get involved and support schools teaching IT. - -CSIRO: Australian program to get professional developers to teach in -schools. - -[Pixees](https://pixees.fr/) seems to be a French equivalent. - -Tried to move students from "programmers" to "developers" by evoking: - -- automated testing -- version control -- bug tracking -- code review - -An audience member noted that while programs ala CSIRO are helpful, -this should be organized at the government policy level. - |