🎂 NGI TALER's partner, @glsbank, turned 50 & celebrated half a century of socio-ecological #banking last weekend at Bochum!
💡 On Sunday, @leoo presented the workshop "Wer weiß, was du kaufst? Datenflut beim Bezahlen", tracking the path of our #data when we conduct #digital payments! The workshop used the @Taler project as an example to show that there is #another, #better, #privacy#preserving way, built on #free#software!
🚀 It was amazing to have a full house and hear wonderful comments!
Learn how to split strings and get the first element in R using base R, stringi, and stringr. Check out my latest post for examples and tips. Give it a try and share your experiences!
Insightful essay from Bruce #Schneier and Barath Raghavan - using James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State" and showing how abstraction of socio-technical systems now lets us "See like a Data Structure".
"Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got. We don’t live in that world anymore. Not only has technology become entangled with the structure of society, but we also can no longer see the world around us without it. The separation is gone, and the control we thought we once had has revealed itself as a mirage. We’re in a transitional period of history right now." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/seeing-like-a-data-structure.html
Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation took 11 days to confirm a massive data breach that may have affected 560 million customers. The company acknowledged the breach in a regulatory filing late Friday evening. @theverge has more: https://flip.it/VAfuAE #Tech#TicketMaster#Data#DataBreach#Technology