This Week I Learned - Week #21 2022
This Week I Learned -
* Google Cloud Whitepaper - Google Cloud security foundations guide, December 2021, 98 pages
* The height of outsourcing - Businesses that use the WhatsApp Business app can send unsolicited messages. Once the message is received, it will be subject to the business’s own privacy practices. The business may designate a number of employees, or even other vendors, to process and respond to the message. While Facebook will not show your messages with businesses in anyone's personal Facebook account nor automatically use your messages to inform the ads that you see, businesses will be able to use chats they receive for their own marketing purposes, which may include advertising on Meta. You can always contact that business to learn more about its privacy practices.
* Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) API standard can be significantly more verbose than REST and GraphQL, in part due to the usage of XML and because the standard includes more information, such as describing the XML namespace as part of the envelope system. This might be a reason why SOAP usage has declined for years.
* Building an ML model is one thing, but deploying it takes a completely different mindset and skillset.
Illustration by Meor Amer
* The online Manning book reading interface calls its full-screen mode, Zen. Of course, you can also use the F11 function key when you have to get into a immersive mode without other tab distractions.
* OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
* Myristica tree produces 2 spices nutmeg (from its seed) and mace from the aril of the seed)
* Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a rare condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individual. Some people describe this as an experience of possession. The person also experiences memory loss that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
* The United States has 393 million guns (46% of all the guns in the world).
* 98% of Wikipedia's readers don't donate; they simply keep reading.
* Non-cash payments using modes like UPI will account for 65% of all the transactions by 2026 against the 40% level estimated at present
* Only those organizations that have obtained a user license from the UIDAI can use Aadhaar for establishing the identity of a person. An Aadhaar number consists of 12 digits. Masking an Aadhaar number means replacing the first eight digits with some characters like "xxxx-xxxx" while only the last four digits of the original number are visible.
* In the banking industry, standards like Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)34 for payment cards and ISO 27001,35 ISO 27002 for risk assessment have to be carried out. However, in the case of Aadhaar, standards for data storage, sharing and transmission during collection are not available.
* Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof) [PDF] , 31 pages, 2017
* Biometric authentication is essentially a method of image recognition (or pattern matching) and always results in a probabilistic score, rather than a clear match/mismatch
* “RRR”—the title stands for “Rise Roar Revolt”—turns history into legend by way of heightened visual rhetoric. It’s based very loosely on the real-life stories of two Indian revolutionaries of the early twentieth century, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who contested the oppressions of British colonial power. There’s no record of their having met, let alone joining forces. The director, S. S. Rajamouli—who also wrote the screenplay, based on a story by V. Vijayendra Prasad (his father)—derives a magnificent outpouring of creative energy from the inspiring fantasy of their volatile connection. - The New Yorker
* Satyendranath Tagore, the brother of Rabindranath Tagore became India’s first civil servant in 1863.
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