Why #Navajo is the world’s hardest language to learn
The tonal #NativeAmerican#language differentiates words based on #pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
by Tim Brinkhof, November 27, 2023
"Concentrated in #Arizona and #NewMexico, the Navajo are one of the largest Native American groups in the United States. Consisting of up to 400,000 tribal members, they are thought to have originated from northwestern #Canada and were forcibly moved to their present location by the federal government in the 1860s during #TheLongWalk.
"Traditional Navajo families live in circular mud-and-log homes called hogans, create intricate ceremonial paintings made of sand, and hold four-day runs (a ritual called kinaalda) to celebrate young girls turning into adult women.
"Arguably, the most important aspect of Navajo culture is their language. Also known as #Diné#Bizaad (the “people’s language”), Navajo is similar to #Apache, from which it separated between 1300 and 1525 AD. Both Navajo and Apache belong to a language family called #Athabaskan, which, providing evidence for their geographic origin, is also spoken by native tribes in #Yukon, #Alaska, and #BritishColumbia. As with other Native American languages, #globalization and #discrimination threaten Navajo’s survival. In 2017, the number of fluent speakers was estimated at 170,000, less than half of the tribe’s population.
"Learning Navajo isn’t easy. Compared to other complicated but more widely spoken languages, like Korean or Arabic, there are limited resources available to non-speakers. Mastery of Navajo language also requires a level of familiarity with Navajo customs, something even some Indigenous people no longer have access to.
"That said, the most daunting aspect of learning Navajo is the language itself. Described by linguists Robert W. Young and William Morgan as a 'hopeless maze of irregularities,' its unique grammar, syntax, and tonal pronunciation are so indecipherable to outsiders that, during the Second World War, the American army used Navajo as a form of military code."
We are thrilled to announce that the latest version of sparklyr is on CRAN. sparklyr is the popular and powerful #RStats interface for #Apache#Spark, including Spark clusters hosted in #Databricks.
Thanks to the new Spark Connect protocol, you can access Spark’s powerful distributed computing features from RStudio Desktop, a Posit Workbench instance, or any running R terminal or process.
Which web server is the fastest and most suitable for you if it has to distribute the network requests to different services located in virtual operating systems. It should also be relatively easy to configure 🤔 :BoostOK:
However, I'd first consider looking at PSGI/Plack (https://plackperl.org/). If you can switch to that, your Perl code is pretty-much server-agnostic at that point. Makes it much easier to switch servers if you need to.
@miyagawa could probably answer questions about that, too (he wrote PSGI/Plack)
@negative12dollarbill@Npazo What they mean is that “runs on #Apache and #Perl” isn’t specific enough to offer a recommendation. Is the web app using #CGI or the #mod_perl extension to Apache httpd? Does it rely on custom additions to the Apache configuration? etc.
You can try using #PSGI as @ovid suggested, but there may be more work involved and I don’t know how familiar you are with the app you inherited.
I ended up writing this on my lunch break today. It's bugged me for years that #HTML doesn't have a way to #include partial without using #JavaScript without recourse to #PHP, #Apache#serverSideIncludes, or build tools that output HTML.
The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ. In October 2023 validation was maintained for over two dozen projects, including: the #Apache web server, #ApacheCamel & #Erlang
Call for volunteers!
I'm in the tech team of a wonderful little dub and roots internet radio station: https://omyradio.net/
We run self hosted on open source tech. And we really need some more people in the tech team. Please contact me if you are interested.
It's a very small community of enthusiasts. Spanning both dj's and regular listeners.
Skills we need is linux, apache, hosting, web techs and stuff like that. We have a video chatroom based on Jitsi. We run the radio stream on liquid soap.
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📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #44/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 #Okta hit by another #breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
➝ 🔓 💸 #LastPass breach linked to theft of $4.4 million in crypto
➝ 🇮🇳 #India's Biggest Data Leak So Far? Covid-19 Test Info of 81.5Cr Citizens With ICMR Up for Sale
➝ 🔓 ✈️ #Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked #Boeing
➝ 🇳🇱 ⚖️ Dutch hacker jailed for extortion, selling stolen data on RaidForums
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed
➝ 🇮🇷 🦠 Iranian Cyber Spies Use ‘#LionTail’ Malware in Latest Attacks
➝ 📉 Security researchers observed ‘deliberate’ takedown of notorious #Mozi#botnet
➝ 🇮🇳 📱 Apple warns Indian opposition leaders of state-sponsored #iPhone attacks
➝ 🌍 Four dozen countries declare they won’t pay #ransomware ransoms
➝ 🇷🇺 How #Kopeechka, an Automated Social Media Accounts Creation Service, Can Facilitate #Cybercrime
➝ 🇪🇺 EU digital ID reforms should be ‘actively resisted’, say experts
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #FSB arrests Russian hackers working for Ukrainian cyber forces
➝ 🇺🇸 FTC orders non-bank financial firms to report breaches in 30 days
➝ 🇨🇦 📱 #Canada Bans #WeChat and #Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices
➝ 🇺🇸 #SEC Charges #SolarWinds and Its #CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
➝ 🇺🇸 🤖 #Biden Wants to Move Fast on AI Safeguards and Will Sign an Executive Order to Address His Concerns
➝ 🦠 📱 #Avast confirms it tagged Google app as #malware on Android phones
➝ 🦠 🇰🇵 North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Experts with #KANDYKORN#macOS Malware
➝ 👥 💸 EleKtra-Leak #Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit #AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on #GitHub
➝ 🦠 🐍 Trojanized #PyCharm Software Version Delivered via #Google Search Ads
➝ ✅ 🤖 #GooglePlay adds security audit badges for Android #VPN apps
➝ 🔐 Microsoft pledges to bolster security as part of ‘Secure Future’ initiative
➝ 🆕 FIRST Releases #CVSS 4.0 Vuln Scoring Standard
➝ 🆕 #MITRE Releases ATT&CK v14 With Improvements to Detections, ICS, Mobile
➝ ⛔️ 🦠 #Samsung Galaxy gets new Auto Blocker anti-malware feature
➝ 🍏 🔐 #Apple Improves #iMessage Security With Contact Key Verification
➝ 🔓 Researchers Find 34 #Windows Drivers Vulnerable to Full Device Takeover
➝ 🔓 🪶 3,000 #Apache#ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to RCE attacks exposed online
➝ 🗣️ #Atlassian CISO Urges Quick Action to Protect #Confluence Instances From Critical #Vulnerability
➝ 🔓 🩸 “This vulnerability is now under mass exploitation.” #CitrixBleed bug bites hard
➝ 🐛 💰 HackerOne paid ethical hackers over $300 million in #bugbounties
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden
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:matrix: So the dev teams of two major #Matrix homeservers, #Synapse and #Dendrite, have announced that they will fork their work to change from the non-reciprocal #Apache license to the reciprocal #AGPLv3. That is a good step in the right direction. #Copyleft is the only effective way to ensure software public goods remain open.
However the effect is not much change yet, because they will require a #CLA for contributions to be merged. Revert to a #DCO would ensure future protection.
The #Matrix project is re-licensing its servers (synapse, dendrite, ..) from #Apache to #AGPL, following the spate of similar measures by many other projects. Good that they didn't choose a non-FOSS license.
But they're also changing the sign-off from #DCO to #CLA. That is very disappointing.
PS: If you are starting a FOSS project, consider adopting a #copyleft license. It should be abundantly clear by now that the push for permissive licenses is an attempt to extract free labour.
I just lost half a day because of a very unusual bug on a Plesk server that caused seemingly arbitrary 403 errors and redirects to the default Apache page that's shown when the site doesn't exist.
It was also my first time touching #WordPress in years so troubleshooting it was made more difficult in that I wasn't familiar with how the various plugins my client installed were supposed to work together.
It made no sense whatsoever because it wasn't a problem with the site. The server would randomly blacklist your IP address and give you a 403 Forbidden page sometimes and a Plesk default page at other times.
Apparently there was a package update to the server that installed an additional package that doesn't play well with Plesk servers, the mod_evasive module.
First time in 20-some years of managing servers that I've seen anything this freakishly random. Seriously felt like there was a cruel person on the other end just messin with me.
CISA added CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS: 10.0 critical severity, disclosed 26 October 2023 by Apache) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. This is after the Netherlands NCSC and Rapid7 reported exploitation in the wild yesterday 01 November 2023. Rapid7 attributed the exploitation to 'HelloKitty' (hellokittycat?) ransomware actors. Link:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/11/02/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog
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