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The American Standards Association (ASA), now the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), began work on ASCII on October 6, 1960. The encoding scheme had origins in the 5-bit telegraph codes invented by Émile Baudot. The committee eventually decided on a 7-bit code for ASCII.
7 bits allow for 128 characters. While only American English characters and symbols were chosen for this encoding set, 7 bits meant minimized costs associated with transmitting this data (as opposed to say, 8 bits).
The first 32 characters of ASCII were reserved control characters. These characters were used to relay special instructions to other devices, like printers. For example, a user could advance a line, delete a character, and on some devices, ring a bell (such as on the Teletype Model 33 ASR).
ASA published the first version of ASCII in 1963 and revised it in 1967. The last major update to the standard occurred in 1986. ASCII first saw commercial use in the American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) TeletypeWriter Exchange (TWX) network.
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Littledata surveyed 5,985 sites in May 2022 and found the average server response time was 416ms.
Base45/Zlib/COSE/CBOR is CBOR format data signed in COSE format, compressed in Zlib format, and converted to Base45 format.
EUDCC (EU Digital COVID Certificate) is used as the data format for QR codes. EUDCC is the common format for the COVID-19 vaccination certificate in the EU, also known as DGC (EU Digital Green Certificate) or Green Pass.
DenCode supports decoding only, and the decoded result is expressed in JSON format. The validity of the signature is not verified.
Based on the public EU technical specifications, here is a simple decoder of the QR-code, it displays all the information in the Health Certificate QR-code with many technical explanations on the steps. A lot of the technique used by the EU Green Certificate are coming from the IETF. The code itself is heavily based on open source code.
In a podcast geared towards CTOs, Matthias Jugel, the CTO of UBIRCH shared what went into the technology and explained how to simply decode the content of the QR-Code.
This repository contains a proposal for encoding and signing the Electronic Health Certificate (HCERT), as a candidate to be adapted and adopted by eHealth authorities and other stakeholders as they see fit.
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1073 of 28 June 2021 laying down technical specifications and rules for the implementation of the trust framework for the EU Digital COVID Certificate established by Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
The Digital Green Certificate comes in to facilitate safe and free movement.
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/2301 of 21 December 2021 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1073 laying down technical specifications and rules for the implementation of the trust framework for the EU Digital COVID Certificate established by Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1073 of 28 June 2021 laying down technical specifications and rules for the implementation of the trust framework for the EU Digital COVID Certificate established by Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
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“As people realise it’s not going to end soon, this is when cracks begin appearing.”
While people may not be able to travel far, especially those in lockdown with travel limits, Scott says there are ways to find space close to home by going “somewhere you can see the horizon, you feel less crowded, less stressed and less pressure”.
“We know being cooped up in small spaces, especially in environments with lots of noise and activity, is not good for our mental health.”
She recommends going to the top of a hill, the beach, a forest and parks or, if you live in the inner city, even the middle of a football field. She says research shows even virtual reality, for example putting on a nature documentary, also works.
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“We call it zoning out instead of relaxing. You zone out on Netflix or a packet of chips, but even though you haven’t done anything, you haven’t relaxed. You wake up the next morning and you’re still tired.
The pandemic has shown how difficult it can be for the US to succeed with major technology projects. We asked leading thinkers what they would do to change that.
There are a number of reasons people are seeking a change, in what some economists have dubbed the ‘Great Resignation’. For some workers, the pandemic precipitated a shift in priorities, encouraging them to pursue a ‘dream job’, or transition to being a stay-at-home parent. But for many, many others, the decision to leave came as a result of the way their employer treated them during the pandemic.
Psychologists have now tested the influence of personality on people’s mental health during the pandemic – and their results suggest that introverts found it much harder to cope with the isolation than many had expected. Besides highlighting some common misconceptions about different personality types and their need to socialise, the insights from these studies can help us all to navigate life post-lockdown
But there are easy ways to avoid the intensity and minimise the inevitable lethargy, he says. These include reducing the size of the video chat window and not using full screen, and using an external keyboard to create greater distance between oneself and the grid of prying faces.
Crucially, Zoom users can also diverge from the default settings and use the hide self-view button, or even periodically turn their camera off altogether if feasible, “to give oneself a brief nonverbal rest”, Bailenson writes.
A new report in MIT Technology Review looks at why, almost a year into the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seemed totally unprepared for actually getting shots into people’s arms.
According to Technology Review, the agency knew it needed a robust, one-stop shop that could be used by patients, clinics, employers, and government officials. But instead, the CDC spent $44 million on something called the Vaccine Administration Management System —-VAMS— built by consulting firm Deloitte (via no-bid contracts) which was so inadequate that it has driven some states to try to patch together their own vaccine distribution systems instead.
Enjoy this amazing aerial flight through a future cyberpunk city. With calm ambient and rain sound in the background. This City gives you the vibes from the atmosphere of Blade Runner, or the Game Cyberpunk 2077, but also reminds of Mute City from the Game F-Zero or the City of Tron.
Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, according to a new study. The result is an encouraging sign that the authors interpret to mean immunity to the virus probably lasts for many years, and it should alleviate fears that the covid-19 vaccine would require repeated booster shots to protect against the disease and finally get the pandemic under control.
The study, published January 6 in Science, contrasts with earlier findings that suggested covid-19 immunity could be short-lived, putting millions who’ve already recovered at risk of reinfection.