The Thirsty Robot

 Here's some of what you missed at The Thirsty Robot: Technical Musings Jitsi Backgound Removal It was immediately noticed by the attendees that Jitsi's UI had changed (Jitsi is the videoconferencing platform that The Thirsty Robot uses...). Other than the obvious changes to the screen furniture (which used to be called 'chrome' before that became the name of a browser), background detection is now available so that the background to any video can be replaced with a still image, whilst leaving the person's head in the video intact (both physically, metaphorically, and in the video). Github mentions a number of other open source projects that were used as references: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5860 Including one (deepbacksub: 501 lines of C++) which a regular attender at The Thirsty Robot has their own fork of... and has mentioned in previous meetings.  The addition of background removal should. increase the appeal of Jitsi, and attendees wasted no ti

Here's some of what you missed in the discussion at 'The Thirsty Robot': Technical Musings: Vulnerable to attack... We started by talking about how to practice penetration testing - the art of seeing if a web-site (or network, or cloud server, or...) has any virtual 'open door' or probably more likely: 'doors accidentally left slightly ajar'. As always, it was noted that trying out techniques on other people's sites requires their permission, but we did gather some links to places which are designed to be tested: Vulnerable web-sites: https://securitytrails.com/blog/vulnerable-websites-for-penetration-testing https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/top-5-deliberately-vulnerable-web-applications-to-practice-your-skills-on/ https://dst.com.ng/15-vulnerable-sites-legally-practice-hacking-skills/ And some vulnerable applications: https://owasp.org/www-project-vulnerable-web-applications-directory/ https://github.com/OWASP/OWASP-VWAD https://resources.in