On a train to #Dagstuhl, I finally got to read the nice write-up about on-device local-web-to-app tracking: https://localmess.github.io/assets/bridges-to-self-localmess-usenix-security-26.pdf

TL;DR summary: You might want to uninstall (or deactivate if pre-loaded) all #Facebook and #Yandex apps from your phone. That kind of behavior is pretty clearly malicious - not even just ethically wrong, but seems actually illegal (at least in the EU, though IANAL).

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I’ve grumbled about the ludicrous price of conferences a lot recently. To put this in perspective:

I am off to a Dagstuhl seminar soon. The total cost of attending this three-day event (train to the airport, flight, taxi to the venue in the middle of nowhere, food, accommodation, and attendance) is less than just the registration fee for SOSP last year and EuroLLVM this year. And I expect to get far more out of it than either.

Last year I taught at a week-long summer school (PLISS). If I had paid the registration fee, the total cost of attending would have been slightly more than the cost of registration for either of the other events.

But both of those events are bigger! Yes, but does that make them more useful? I don’t have time to talk to most of the attendees and so much of the program is full of talks that could have been prerecorded videos (which I could watch without travelling) that the actual face-to-face time with other people is smaller.

Computer science really needs to rethink the ‘spend huge amounts of money going to massive conferences’ model. It excludes people who aren’t backed by well-funded institutions. And the value for attendees is quite low (far lower than for a lot of more focused smaller events).

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📢 "#ResearchSoftwareEngineering: Discovering and Bridging Knowledge Gaps" is out now in IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering: https://s.dlr.de/cise-special-issue-rseng.

This special issue collects work that has been started during the #Dagstuhl Seminar 24161 "Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps" (April 2025): https://dagstuhl.de/24161.

Over 5 papers, it lays out how #RSEng and #SoftwareEngineeringResearch should collaborate in the future for mutual benefit.
#RSE s can leverage state-of-the-art methods and tools from software engineering research to create better software that enables better research. SERs can gain insights into an understudied area of SE practice, and develop new research questions and agendas that produce the methods and tools required for state-of-the-art software engineering in research contexts.

The issue has been guest-edited by @danielskatz, Caroline Jay, Lars Grunske and myself.

🧵 The following thread posts present each of the collected papers.