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GNU/Linux

=> ↺ DebugPoint Weekly Roundup 22.04: Salix 15, Seagate collaboration for DNA based storage

• It’s been a quiet week all around in the distro and desktop space. A bunch of app updates made it a worthy one.

• Major updates includes Slackaware-based Salix 15.0, Linux Kernel 6.0 rc4 and more updates.

Desktop/Laptop

=> ↺ FOSS Weekly #22.33: Features of Fedora 37, Ubuntu 22.10, GNOME 43, KDE 5.26, Explaining Linux to Beginners and More

• Linux is user friendly. It’s just selective about who its friends are. But once you befriend Linux, you’ll have the best friend for life.

• Any operating system could be complicated. In Linux, you have the opportunity to take control of the system completely. Right?

=> ↺ [Older] The Year of the Linux Desktop – by Matt Hartley

• One of my biggest grievances with the current state of Linux journalism is the sheer volume of puff pieces passed off as quality content. I’ll be among the first to admit there are some decent technology writers still puttering around. Yet despite years of experience in the tech space, far too many of them fall victim to the deadly writing assignment “Year of the Linux Desktop” type articles.

• Editors often assign puff piece articles with one laser focused thought in their tiny little brains – eyeballs on the article in question. These editorial minions of mediocrity have no interest in furthering the adoption of Linux on the desktop. They simply wish to make their monthly readership quotas so they can assign additional puff pieces to a willing batch of wet behind-the-ear tech writers.

• And this brings us to the hottest Linux topic next to a new Ubuntu release announcement – The Year of the Linux Desktop. (Insert dramatic music here…or something)

• The concept of this topic is nothing new. It’s been recycled off and on for years by countless publications. In 2017, Linux enthusiasts were told by a well known presenter for the Linux Foundation that this would be the year of the Linux desktop. Well, perhaps not exactly.

=> ↺ [Older] 9 great reasons why I need to write this article about switching to Linux

• I don’t believe it’s any secret that PCWorld is laser-focused on topics they can cultivate into advertising dollars. I get it. We all have to eat. PCWorld’s focus is illustrated with its emphasis on hardware, mobile devices, and proprietary software. All of which is perfectly reasonable.

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ I’ve been waiting for this Steam Deck feature for MONTHS! – Invidious

=> ↺ When Not to Use Linux – Invidious

• Today we will talk about the cases where using Linux may not be the best approach. There are cases to boot up a Windows or Mac computer and not use Linux and we will discuss these.

=> ↺ 257: Linux Action News

• Linux goes underwater, Microsoft kills the Teams’ Linux app, and the nasty GRUB bug some of us could not avoid.

=> ↺ 79: Self-Hosted

• We’ve made some changes since the last episode, and share why we have doubled down on Self-Hosting as much as possible.

• Plus, Chris tries out Immich, a high-performance Google Photos alternative.

Kernel Space

=> ↺ Linux 5.19.8

=> ↺ Linux 5.15.66

=> ↺ Linux 5.10.142

=> ↺ Linux 5.15.67

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ Mike Blumenkrantz: SP33D2

• For this edition of the blog, we’re hopping off the usual tracks and onto a different set entirely: Vulkan driver optimization. I can already hear what you’re thinking.

• Vulkan drivers are already fast. Go back to doing something useful, like making GL work.

• First: no they’re not.

• Second: I’m doing the opposite of that.

• Third: shut up, it’s my blog.

• How does one optimize Vulkan drivers? As we all know, any great optimization needs a test case. In the case of Vulkan, everyone who’s anyone (me) uses Zink as their test case. The reasons for this are many and varied because I say they are, but the important one to keep in mind is, as always, drawoverhead.

Applications

=> ↺ OBS 28 Is Even Better Than I Hoped! – Invidious

• I’ve been waiting patiently for OBS 28 to finally go stable, now that it’s here and I’ve had a chance to try it I can honestly say it’s much better than I was hoping

=> ↺ Best Marketing & SEO Software For Linux

• Being one of the safest and risk-free types of operating systems and trusted computer ecosystems on the web, Linux became a popular OS among the vast majority of software developers, programmers, and online marketers. The

=> ↺ Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screenshot – LinuxLinks

• flameshot is an excellent utility for capturing custom areas of a desktop. It’s really easy to use, has a good range of annotation tools which have recently been expanded, and is sleek

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How To Configure Static IP Address In Linux And Unix

• Setting IP address after a fresh Linux installation is one of the mandatory skill that every Linux and Unix administrator should learn. We can easily assign IP address in Linux that has GUI mode. However, configuring IP networking from command line mode is entirely different! This step by step tutorial describes how to configure static IP address in Linux and Unix operating systems from command line mode.

=> ↺ How to install Thunderbird on Debian 11 Bullseye – Linux Shout

• Thunderbird is Mozilla’s developed open-source email client available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other popular operating systems. The secure and free e-mail client “Mozilla Thunderbird” supports all common e-mail accounts, can encrypt outgoing messages on request, offers an integrated RSS reader, and is highly expandable. If you want, you can even use Thunderbird as a Twitter client.

• The Mozilla e-mail client is easy to use and offers a tabs view, so you can, for example, cleanly separate emails from chats. By clicking “Compose” you can write new emails and add appointments and addresses optionally. For large mail stocks, there are practical tools for a better overview. So you can highlight important messages, hide read ones, or sort the mail into different folders. Very cool are the virtual folders, where you can automatically sort mails with certain criteria.

=> ↺ ‘Forever loading’ error with Jitsi and Google Meet – formicapunk

• I had this issue preventing me to start a call, which happened on two different browsers. It turned out that the pulseaudio service was hung, and no audio devices were available for the browser to use.

=> ↺ Uncover: Quickly Discover Exposed Hosts on the Internet from Linux – TREND OCEANS

• Recently, I’ve written a detailed guide on the Smap alternative to Nmap that takes advantage of the Shodan API to generate identical output like Nmap, except it also fetches open port data from Shodan as an add-on to standard Nmap.

• No doubt, Shodan is an amazing way to find devices connected to the internet. However, it is not the only search engine. There are several platforms like Censys and Fofa that offer you the chance to check if the device is connected to the internet.

• If you have a list of IP addresses and check it on Shodan (to know whether they are exposed to the internet), in a very rare situation, you might not see any result declaring that they are not exposed. You leave that situation for further investigation. However, it is recommended to check IP addresses on multiple platforms to verify that they are 100% not exposed to the internet from anywhere.

• To achieve this, you can take the help of various tools that help you perform all search engine searches from one tool without letting you manually visit each search engine for testing.

• Of all those tools, one is the Uncover tool, which can give you the power to perform tests on hosts to check whether they are exposed to the internet.

=> ↺ Subfinder: Fast Passive Subdomain Enumeration Tool in Linux – TREND OCEANS

• Today, most of the vulnerability or exploitation is done over the subdomains of a website where developers have less interest, which gives an attacker an open invitation to exploit their main website.

• In some cases, the developer doesn’t even know which subdomain was created. From a security point of view, if you are doing security research, then it is your responsibility to know how to get a list of subdomains of the root domain.

• Now, there are multiple ways to find a subdomain. For example, if you are a site admin and have access to a DNS record, then you can easily view the list of registered subdomains. In case you are not a site admin and just a security researcher looking for a subdomain of the root site to check a security flaw, then you should take the help of the subfinder tool.

=> ↺ How To Install KDevelop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – idroot

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install KDevelop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, KDevelop is a free-to-use IDE that is Linux based. It provides editing, navigation, and debugging features for several programming languages such as C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript, and PHP, as well as integration with multiple build systems and version-control systems, using a plugin-based architecture.

• This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the KDevelop IDE on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

=> ↺ How to format source code in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

=> ↺ How to View Saved WiFi Password in Linux Mint

• A simple guide to view saved WiFi password in Linux Mint (all versions – Cinnamon desktop) for beginner’s.

• If you use wireless connections and frequently connect to a list of WiFi access points, then you tend to save the password for seamless connectivity in Ubuntu and other systems. However, you may forget the password after a certain period. Here’s how you can quickly find it out.

• After continuous use of any system, you may forget about the WiFi password which you set up a while back. Because in most cases, the passwords are saved in your system, and you do not need to enter them again to connect. Linux Mint and other distros do it for you.

=> ↺ How to Try Ubuntu’s New Installer on Your Current Install – OMG! Ubuntu!

• Itching to play around with Ubuntu’s new installer on an existing install? With the new Ubuntu Desktop Installer Snap, you can!

• Of course, it should be obvious to you that doing a fresh install of Ubuntu using the latest canary build is the only real way to “test” the revamped Flutter-built installer (y’know, to see if it actually installs anything). But not everyone wants to download a 4GB .ISO, create a USB, or go through the hassle of that.

• Some folks (hi 👋) just want to get a feel for the “experience” the new installer offers. Y’know, gawp at the visual changes between this subiquity-based creation and the GTK Ubiquity installer most of us are (intimately) familiar with, i.e. click through the steps to see how it compares.

=> ↺ How to Install Containerd Container Runtime on Ubuntu 22.04

• Containerd is a high-level container runtime that supports OCI Image Spec and OCI Runtime Spec (Open Container Initiative). Containerd is created with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness, and portability for container deployment and lifecycle. It’s designed to be easily embadlable to latge system such as Docker and Kubernetes. Under the hood, the new Docker version uses the Containerd for managing container lifecycle. And for Kubernetes, you can use Containerd as your container runtime via the CRI to manage containers lifecycle on the Kubernetes Cluster.

• This tutorial will go over how to install the Containerd Container Runtime on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. This tutorial will go over two different methods for installing Containerd, manually by downloading the binary package or and installing Containerd via the APT repository. By the end of this tutorial, you will have the container environment for your development, you can also use this as part of the Kubernetes cluster installation.

=> ↺ Bash 09 – Functions | Linux.org

• We have covered all of Bash, except for Functions. Functions can be very helpful for a script.

• If you have any programming experience, then you should already have an understanding of the Function. A Function is a set of commands that you utilize multiple times. We can set the Function up one time and called as many times as we need.

=> ↺ How to install Wine 7 on Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21

• Taking advantage that I had to make some tweaks to play a game I like, I will show you how to install Wine 7 on Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21.

• The reality is that Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21 comes with Wine 6 which is a great version but not the latest. We already know that with Wine you should use recent versions to take advantage of the improvements they incorporate.

• But what is Wine? If you are a newbie, you probably don’t know. So, Wine 7 is the latest stable branch of a project that has been with us for many years. With wine, we can have a layer of compatibility that allows us to run Windows software on Linux.

• Thanks to an active development, Wine 7 comes with many interesting new features. For example, the inclusion of the Windows-on-Windows 64bit architecture (WoW64) that allows us to install 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux systems.

=> ↺ How to Install Zoom on Debian 11 Bullseye

• In the era of COVID-19 and possible future situations similar to it, Zoom has become an essential tool for business and education. The platform provides high-quality video and audio, making connecting with colleagues and customers accessible from any device. Zoom’s screen sharing feature is also valuable for presentations and collaboration. Additionally, the ability to record meetings has proved helpful for training purposes. For businesses, Zoom’s enterprise features are a significant advantage. Single sign-on and integration with calendaring systems make it easy to deploy and manage Zoom across an organization. Additionally, support for large-scale deployments ensures that businesses can meet their communication needs, even as they grow.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn to install Zoom on Debian 11 Bullseye using the downloaded Zoom deb package or installing the Flatpak third-party package manager, with some tips for maintaining or removing software in the future.

=> ↺ How To Use Your Webcam On Linux – by Matt Hartley

• There was a time not too many years ago when using secondary devices like webcams would have been a nightmare with most Linux distributions. Then one day, a single individual changed everything with a single focus – making webcams work with Linux distributions of the era.

• French programmer Michel Xhaard took the bull by the horns and forever charged history for Linux-loving webcam users. He did so for free, and I thank him for getting us where we are today. Well, at least for those of us with webcams working flawlessly.

=> ↺ [Older] Samba on Linux the Easy Way – by Matt Hartley

• Samba file sharing isn’t tricky. There, I said it. End of the article? Not so fast home slice.

• Intermediate to advanced Linux users would likely agree with the previous statement. And to a lesser degree, I do as well. Once you understand what is needed, a basic Samba share isn’t a big deal.

• Things go 43 degrees to “full funky-town” when you try to follow the ridiculous “guides” elsewhere on “the interwebs.” Imagine flocks of Linux newbies circling a single guide. Now picture newer Linux users getting Samba to work right (gasp) the first time, every time?!

• Thank you for reading Gloves Off Linux. This post is public so feel free to share it.

=> ↺ >[Older] Terminal Prompt Warrior – Forget TimeShift and OBS

• After reading the OMG Ubuntu article, it got me thinking – what if TimeShift, BackInTime, and other similar backup tools were to disappear? Think about it, a world filled with Linux users who cannot locate simple GUI applications to handle their data backups reliably! It would be chaos, would it not?

• Now let’s unleash further madness…what if OBS lost its principal developer?

• Poof, OBS is gone! Then shortly after, SimpleScreenRecorder, among other similar GUI applications, disappeared! What would we do? Well, I’m about to tell you. Keep reading.

• After reading the rest of this article, you’ll realize it’s not that big of a deal. Best of all, you will learn to do things using the terminal that may not have occurred to you previously.

=> ↺ How to Install MariaDB 10.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source databases next to its originator MySQL. The original creators of MySQL developed MariaDB in response to fears that MySQL would suddenly become a paid service due to Oracle acquiring it in 2010. With its history of doing similar tactics, the developers behind MariaDB have promised to keep it open source and free from such fears as what has happened to MySQL. Many Linux distributions include MariaDB as their default database management system due to this assurance from the developers.

• MariaDB 10.6 brings several significant improvements, including improved performance, scalability, and new features such as a crash-safe replication mechanism and improved SQL compatibility. In terms of performance, MariaDB 10.6 includes several optimizations that can help to speed up database operations. For example, the new version contains several changes that can help to reduce disk IO and improve caching strategies. In addition, MariaDB 10.6 introduces a new storage engine called MyRocks, which is designed for modern hardware architectures and can provide significant performance improvements. In terms of scalability, MariaDB 10.6 includes several changes that make it easier to run large databases on multiple servers. The new version introduces sharding support, dividing databases into numerous pieces spread across various servers. In addition, MariaDB 10.6 includes several changes that improve the ability to replicate databases across multiple servers. Finally, regarding SQL compatibility, MariaDB 10.6 introduces several features that make it easier to port applications from other database systems. Also, the new version includes support for Oracle’s PL/SQL language and introduces a compatibility mode that can make running MySQL applications on MariaDB servers easier. As a result, MariaDB 10.6 is a significant release that includes many improvements that users of all types will welcome.

=> ↺ How to Install NVIDIA Drivers on Fedora 36 Linux

• When it comes to graphics processing, speed is often of the essence. For any Linux user who relies on their system for gaming or graphic design, having the fastest drivers possible is essential. While most modern Linux distributions come with NVIDIA drivers pre-installed, these are often not the most up-to-date or well-supported drivers available. The Nouveau open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards is typically slower than Nvidia’s proprietary driver and lacks support for the latest hardware features and software technology. In most cases, upgrading to proper NVIDIA drivers will provide a much better experience. In some situations, the improvement in speed and performance can be substantial.

• The following tutorial will teach you how to install the Nvidia Drivers on Fedora 36 Linux from the Nvidia Proprietary Repository RPM Fusion or Nvidia RPM Cuda REPO using cli with the command line terminal.

=> ↺ How to Install LibreCAD on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

• LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple, and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors, and developers. LibreCAD has been downloaded over 1 million times and is used worldwide for industrial design, mechanical engineering, architecture, gardening, and more! The developers have worked hard to make LibreCAD easy to use yet powerful enough for advanced users. For example, LibreCAD supports multiple layers, and unlimited undo/redo, an excellent patterns. In addition, LibreCAD can be extended with plugins written in C++ or Python. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced CAD user, LibreCAD is a great choice for your next project.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install LibreCAD on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using two methods with APT using the default Ubuntu repository or by importing the official LaunchPAD PPA and installing the most up-to-date version using the command line terminal.

=> ↺ How to Install Calibre E-Book Reader on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• Calibre is free and powerful software that helps you manage your e-books. With Calibre, you can automatically catalog your books, fetch metadata for them, or convert them into different formats. Additionally, Calibre’s network features allow users to download content from over 1,000 websites that are updated daily. Overall, Calibre is an excellent software for managing your e-book collection.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Calibre on the Linux Mint 21 LTS release series using two different methods: APT and Flatpak using cli in the command line terminal.

=> ↺ How to Install HandBrake on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder that can be downloaded for free and supports Mac, Windows, or Linux to convert videos in many different formats into more commonly used ones like MP4 with minimal file size reduction – making it efficient at reducing the amount of data consumed on your hard drive while also helping save time! For example, I had a 2-hour movie in MKV format that was 6.5GB. After using Handbrake to convert it to MP4, it was only 1.2GB without any noticeable loss in quality! Not only does this save a ton of space on my hard drive, but it also means that the movie will take less time to download if I ever need to put it on another device. In addition, Handbrake can compress video files without changing the format, which is excellent for reducing the file size of more extensive videos without sacrificing quality. Overall, Handbrake is a handy tool that I would highly recommend to anyone looking to reduce the file size of their video collection.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Handbrake on Linux Mint 21 LTS using the command line terminal with various methods to install the transcoding software and update and remove the software if needed.

=> ↺ How to Install MariaDB 10.6 on AlmaLinux 9

• Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL in 2010 led to fears that the popular open-source database would become a paid service. In response, the original creators of MySQL developed MariaDB, and MariaDB is now one of the most popular open-source databases. Like MySQL, it is free and can be used for various purposes, including web development, data analysis, and application development. The developers behind MariaDB have promised to keep it open source and free from the same fears that led to its creation. This commitment has helped to solidify MariaDB’s position as a leading open-source database.

• MariaDB 10.6 brings several significant improvements to the popular open source database, including improved performance, scalability, and new features such as a crash-safe replication mechanism and improved SQL compatibility. In terms of performance, MariaDB 10.6 includes several optimizations that can help to speed up database operations. For example, the new version contains several changes that can help to reduce disk IO and improve caching. These changes can result in a significant performance boost for high-traffic databases. MariaDB 10.6 also introduces a new replicated log that is much more resilient to crashes and other failures. This feature can help to ensure that data is always safe and available, even in the event of an unexpected shutdown. Finally, MariaDB 10.6 includes several improvements to SQL compatibility, making porting applications and data from other database systems easier. MariaDB 10.6 is a significant step forward for the popular open source database and will provide substantial benefits for users looking for a high-performance, scalable, and feature-rich option.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install MariaDB 10.6 on AlmaLinux 9 using the official RPM repository straight from MariaDB.org to have the latest updates and security fixes for the 10.6 series.

=> ↺ How to Install KiCad on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• KiCad is a free software suite that makes it easy to design and simulate electronic hardware. It has an integrated environment for schematic capture, PCB layout (including 3D rendering), manufacturing file viewing, and SPICE simulation, all in one place! The software is a powerful tool for both experienced engineers and beginners alike. Developed over 25 years ago, this program has been continuously improved upon by its dedicated team of developers who work around the clock to ensure that every user can get something out of their time spent using it! KiCad offers a wide range of features, making it easy to create complex designs with high accuracy. The software is also constantly being updated with new features and improvements, so users can always be confident that they are using the best tool for their needs. If you are looking for a powerful and user-friendly electronic design and simulation suite, then KiCad is perfect!

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install KiCad on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series by importing the official LaunchPAD PPA and installing the most up-to-date version using the command line terminal.

=> ↺ How to Install Kate Text Editor on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• Kate is a powerful and intuitive editor that may be the perfect fit for you. With its robust yet straightforward interface, Kate offers everything from word processing to development tools in one place, saving time! And with 200+ languages available onboard alongside plugins galore (think code hooks), this tool will help maximize productivity, whether it’s coding or content creation. Even better, Kate is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License, so users are free to download, use, and distribute the program as they see fit. So if you’re looking for an all-in-one solution that can help you streamline your workflow, Kate is worth checking out!

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Kate Text Editor on Linux Mint 21 LTS using the command line terminal, including how to update and, if required, remove the software using the cli commands.

=> ↺ How to Install digiKam on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• An excellent digital photo management application is essential for anyone who likes to take photos. DigiKam is a superb option for Linux, Windows, and macOS users. It provides comprehensive tools for importing pictures from your camera or external storage devices such as SD cards/USB disks without breaking out the manual hex editors! The app also has excellent features like editing remotely through Dropbox integration which means no more juggling between different screens while trying not to miss anything important. Another great feature of DigiKam is its ability to tag photos with GPS location data. This makes it easy to organize and find photos later, whether looking for all the images you took on your last vacation or just those taken near your current location. Whether you’re a professional photographer or just someone who likes to take pictures, DigiKam is an excellent option for managing your digital photos.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn to install the digiKAM on Linux Mint 21 LTS using three methods: apt package manager using the default apt repository or a newer version from a launchpad ppa or flatpak package manager, along with some tips for maintaining or removing digiKam in the future.

=> ↺ How to Install MakeMKV on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• MakeMKV is a free, open-source tool that can convert video clips from DVDs and Blu-rays, usually encrypted. The output will have most information preserved but not changed; it’s perfect for people who want their media without hassle or headache caused by software limitations like those found with other transcoder apps. For example, many commercial DVDs and Blu-rays are copy-protected with CSS encryption. This encryption can prevent some software from being able to read the disc properly, but MakeMKV doesn’t have that problem. It can read the discs and convert the video without any issues. This makes it an excellent tool for people who want to convert their media collection to digital files. There are many uses for MakeMKV beyond just converting CSS-encrypted discs. It can also be used to create backups of discs, extract audio tracks from video files, and more. It’s a versatile tool that any serious media fan should have in their arsenal.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install MakeMKV on Linux Mint 21 LTS utilizing the command line terminal using the recommended Launchpad PPA repository MakeMKV team to provide the most up-to-date version.

=> ↺ How to Install CMake on Fedora 36 Linux

• CMake is a well-known compiler that has gained much popularity in recent years. The main reason for its popularity is that it is open-source and cross-platform, so developers can use it on any operating system they want and don’t have to worry about licensing fees. Additionally, CMake can generate wrappers and executables in any combination, making it very versatile.

• While some compilers are designed to only work with specific languages or operating systems, CMake can be used with any programming language and on any platform. This makes it an ideal choice for developers who want the flexibility to work on various projects. CMake is also constantly being updated with new features and improvements, so developers can be confident that they are using an always up-to-date tool. With its many benefits, it’s no wonder that CMake has become so popular in recent years.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install CMake on Fedora 36 Linux workstation or server using the command line terminal with two methods: dnf package manager with the native app-stream or compile method.

=> ↺ How to Install UNRAR on Fedora 36 Linux

• UNRAR is a powerful tool for extracting compressed files, and Windows users widely use it. RAR files are much smaller archives and compress better than ZIP for most files by compressing files “together,” saving more space. UNRAR is not natively pre-installed on Fedora 36 but can be easily installed from its repository. Once installed, UNRAR can be used to extract RAR files with a simple command. In addition, UNRAR offers several features for manipulating archives, such as the ability to list the contents of an archive or extract only specific files. As a result, UNRAR is a valuable tool for anyone who needs to work with compressed files.

• The following tutorial will show you how to install UNRAR on Fedora 36 Linux workstation or server using the command line terminal and the most commonly used commands.

=> ↺ How to Install Linux Kernel 6.0 on Fedora 36 Linux

• The Linux Kernel 6.0 brings many new features and improvements, making it one of the most significant releases in recent years. One of the most anticipated features is support for the latest AMD “Zen” CPU architecture, which promises substantial performance gains for users with this CPU. With these and other improvements, including the early phase of rust code, virtualization improvements, GPU driver support, scheduler changes, and much more, the Linux Kernel 6.0 will significantly boost your system’s overall performance.

• Most users may not be required to update to Linux Kernel 6.0 immediately, but for users seeking better performance on existing hardware or having new hardware that their current kernel does not support or has relatively low support, then upgrading immediately would be beneficial. If your system is running fine and you are happy, do not pre-upgrade your kernel and wait for the official release in Fedora; I would advise you to keep the current kernel, given Fedora’s schedule of releases.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Linux Kernel 6.0 on Fedora 36 Server or Workstation using the Linux Vanilla third-party repository that is well known or using Fedora’s upstream, along with how to downgrade back to the original Fedora kernel if you run into issues.

=> ↺ How to Install Blender on Linux Mint 21 LTS

• Blender is a powerful 3D creation suite that is free and open-source. It supports the entire 3D pipeline, from modeling and rigging to animation and rendering. It is made by hundreds of people worldwide, including studios and individual artists, professionals and hobbyists, scientists, students, VFX experts, animators, game artists, modders, and more. Blender is an open-source project with a community that spans the globe. It is unique with its vast array of features and capabilities; it is an excellent tool for anyone interested in 3D creation.

• In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Blender on Linux Mint 21 LTS release using two different methods: APT and Flatpak, using the command line terminal along.

=> ↺ Install MySQL Workbench on Oracle Linux 8 – kifarunix.com

• In this tutorial, you will learn how to install MySQL Workbench on Oracle Linux 8. MySQL Workbench is graphical user interface tool that is used by GUI centric database administrators/architects/developers to administer and manage MySQL servers and databases. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more.

=> ↺ How to install Telegram on Pop!_OS 22.04 – Invidious

• In this video, we are looking at how to install Telegram on Pop!_OS 22.04.

=> ↺ How to install Gacha Universal Beta on a Chromebook

• Today we are looking at how to install Gacha Universal Beta on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.

=> ↺ How to copy files to multiple locations on Linux

• You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.

• Using a series of commands to copy a file to multiple locations or a number of files to a single location can be time-consuming, but there are options to speed up the process. This post explains some of them.

=> ↺ How to deploy microk8s during the installation of Ubuntu Server 22.04 | TechRepublic

• There are numerous ways to deploy Kubernetes. But when your server of choice is Ubuntu Server, the options can be a bit confusing. This is in part because Kubernetes dropped support for Docker, so getting the pieces up and running can be a bit of a challenge.

=> ↺ Easily Install FortiClient VPN on Oracle Linux – kifarunix.com

• In this tutorial, you will how to easily install FortiClient VPN on Oracle Linux. FortiClient VPN allows you to create a secure and an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection tunnel using IPSec or SSL VPN “Tunnel Mode” connections between your device and the FortiGate Firewall.

=> ↺ Connect to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10 [Beginner’s Guide]

• This beginner’s guide helps you remotely connect to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10. We show you the easy steps with an example.

• If you work in a networked environment at your work or set up a small network at home (wired or wireless), you are often required to remote connect to your Ubuntu machine (or any Linux machine).

• Although I have created this guide in Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10, the following steps ideally should work for any Linux distribution which supports Xrdp for remote connection.

• Technically, there are many ways of connecting to any system over the network (internet or intranet). You can use a client such as Remmina (which is an excellent client) to connect via VNC, and RDP protocol. You can even connect via ssh with X forwarding as well.

=> ↺ How to enable PXE boot with VirtualBox | TechRepublic

• PXE stands for Preboot Execution Environment and is a client-server interface that makes it possible for computers to be booted from a remote server on a network. This makes it possible for you to work with automated provisioning of servers and workstations over a network.

=> ↺ Prometheus Certified Associate Exam is Now Generally Available

=> ↺ How to Run a Local Script on a Remote Linux Server

• Scripting repetitive tasks improves the efficiency of system administration. That’s great for local machines, but what if you oversee remote servers? Can you run a local script on a remote computer? Yes!

=> ↺ How To Install FileZilla on Linux Mint 21 – idroot

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FileZilla on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, FileZilla is the most popular cross-platform, open-source FTP client which allows us to upload or download the file to FTP server. FileZilla is available for Windows or Linux on both server and client sides.

• This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a FileZilla FTP client on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).

Games

=> ↺ Prison Architect is getting a ‘Free for life’ update (and yes it’s free)

• Double Eleven and Paradox Interactive just announced a new free update coming to Prison Architect named ‘Free for life’. The update will release on September 12th. Sounds like it’s going to be quite a useful update too, although it doesn’t really contain anything huge it’s still a few welcome additions for this 7 year old game (yes it’s really that old).

=> ↺ Fight against socks and sandals, grey suits and more in Fashion Police Squad

• What do people have against socks and sandals exactly? Fashion Police Squad is a funny new first-person shooter from Mopeful Games and No More Robots and might be one of my favourite games this year. Note: key provided by the publisher.

=> ↺ Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes out with free update and Free Weekend

• Crusader Kings III has a big free update out now, plus the Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes event pack is out now. You can also try the game free this weekend.

=> ↺ Classic racer Re-Volt returned to Steam — here’s how to work it on Steam Deck / Linux

• Re-Volt is a retro delight from the year 1999 that originally came to GOG in 2013. Sadly it was pulled from sale when it was found to contain code written by the community, that the release did not have permission to use. Now it’s back and on Steam too.

=> ↺ Proton Experimental fixes up Red Dead Redemption 2, gets more games working

• Recently Red Dead Redemption 2 had a big update which amongst other things, added in FidelityX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0. Sadly, it broke it on Linux and Steam Deck but Valve already have a fix out but you need to pick it manually for now.

=> ↺ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive improves startup time, Steam Deck Steam Input improvement

• Valve has put out an update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that not only makes it startup faster but improves Steam Input handling on Steam Deck too.

=> ↺ Paper Animal RPG takes inspiration from Paper Mario and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

• Paper Animal RPG is a rather cute looking upcoming game. Currently in development from Cuddling Raccoons Studio it’s a mixture of exploration, dungeon crawling, combat and a little relaxation by the campfire too.

=> ↺ The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow releases September 28th

• The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow is an upcoming folk horror narrative-driven point and click adventure, with a really great mixture of animated pixel-art and Native Linux support. Coming from Cloak and Dagger Games and Wadjet Eye Games, nice to see more fully supported games like this.

=> ↺ The new Library Mode in Wine manager Bottles looks awesome

• Here’s an update I missed recently somehow. Bottles, the application you can use for managing various Windows games and apps installed with Wine had a fresh update with a fancy new Library Mode. Where do these developers find the time to constantly improve Bottles? Amazing.

=> ↺ Bottles Devs (Lutris Alternative) and their Talk at the Linux App Summit – Boiling Steam

• The devs behind the now famous Bottles have recently shared with everyone the recording of their talk at the Linux App Summit, an event co-sponsorted by GNOME and KDE. Bottles is a piece of software that works on top of WINE to make it easy to create specific prefixes for various purposes, including running Windows games. It can definitely replace PlayonLinux and Lutris in many use cases.

=> ↺ Week 11: Finalizing the activities

• The coding period is coming to an end in a few weeks, and this is the time for complete devotion towards making the activity ready to be merged. The visual representation of the activity is close to completion, and the working of a few parts is left. The implementation of the idea is improved significantly with the help of mentors. One thing I learned when implementing something in the code is that the activity should be “scalable” for the future. It should adapt to the requirements.

Distributions and Operating Systems

SUSE/OpenSUSE

=> ↺ Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Available for Testing

• Leap Micro 5.3, which is a modern lightweight host operating system, is now available for beta testing on get.opensuse.org.

• The beta version is only expected to be available on openSUSE’s website for a couple weeks before it quickly transitions to a release candidate.

Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM

=> ↺ Here’s What’s Coming to Fedora 37

• Fedora 37, an upgrade to one of the best Linux distributions, is around the corner. It is due for release next month, as early as October 18, 2022, if all goes as planned.

• And the beta release should be available on September 13, 2022.

• Let me highlight some of the best Fedora 37 features you might want to keep an eye on.

=> ↺ Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2022-36 – Fedora Community Blog

• Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The F37 Beta will be released on Tuesday.

• I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

=> ↺ Madeline Peck: Start of Sep Update

• But even this image needs some final details. Lines on the ruler and pencil. A line for the toe on the left foot. Add some space between the coffee mug and the pocket to get rid of the tangent. Shift the mane a little over to the right. And finally, add the name of the Lion on the hello tag. Voting for the name is over here!

• The next step for the lion would be making a sticker sheet so anyone who wants to make a banner or design with them, would have multiple expressions and ability to kind of position the lion in inkscape like a paper doll.

• I’ve led a few design team meetings recently which has been great!

• Another project I’ve been working on is creating a set of 10 icons for Fedora Element chat, which will lead to making a project proposal for Outreachy to get a design intern to work on the rest of them! Which will be cool.

=> ↺ Strong impacts require soft skills – Major Hayden

• My first full-time job was purely technical. Most of my interview centered around my abilities to manage and maintain Linux servers since the company had very limited Linux knowledge. Once I was hired, my main responsibility was maintaining a single Red Hat Linux 9 server. Yes. A single server. And no, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Linux 9. (It was 2005.)

=> ↺ Ansible: A beginner’s guide to IT automation | Enable Sysadmin

• It’s always better to work smarter and not harder. Imagine that every time you need to receive some important data, you have to repeat certain tasks. You have to follow the same steps over and over and over. Each set of steps takes an hour to complete. Now multiply that set times 10. Who has that kind of time?

=> ↺ Quiet quitting: 9 IT leaders weigh in

• You can’t open a newsletter, website, or magazine in the past few weeks without seeing mention of “quiet quitting.” This terminology is misleading – it’s not representative of employees’ actions. Boundary setting would be more apt; Work-life balance also fits. What these workers are experiencing is most definitely the cusp of burnout, exacerbated by two years of a stressful pandemic, an experimental year of hybrid work, and a reimagining of what their life should look like.

• As Jason Feifer, editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, says, “We have a serious cultural problem, which is that as soon as we give something a new name, we treat it like it’s a new thing. Quiet quitting isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s very real. We’ve spent decades trying to figure out what makes work meaningful.”

• However, organizations should pay attention to this trend. “If companies have one person coasting or quiet quitting it might just not be the right fit. But if there are multiple people feeling this way across the company, the problem isn’t with the workers, it’s with the system they are engaging with,” notes Feifer.

=> ↺ CISO: A day in the life | The Enterprisers Project

• A mentor of mine once remarked: While many people look for a work-life balance, the role of a CISO fits much better if you embrace a work-life blend.

• This is especially true for those working at home or in a hybrid model. Cybersecurity is not a 9-to-5 job, especially if your organization includes multiple time zones. As such, you need to enjoy the challenges and responsibilities that come with cybersecurity.

=> ↺ Manual action required to update Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite and IoT (version 36)

• Due to an unfortunate combination of issues, the Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite and IoT variants that are running a version from 36.20220810.0 and later are no longer able to update to the latest version.

=> ↺ Fedora Community Blog: CPE Weekly Update – Week 36 2022

• This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

• We provide you both infographics and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

=> ↺ Fedora Devs Plans to Replace DNF with DNF5 in Fedora Linux 39

• There is a proposal for Fedora 39 to use DNF5 for software package management to improve performance and user experience.

• One of the most important aspects of any Linux distribution is the tools we use to manage software. Of course, we’re talking about the command line tool we use to install, remove, and update the package base.

• These tools significantly impact the overall user experience and perception of a particular Linux distro.

• So, the APT tool is available for all Linux distros that use the DEB package format, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. Correspondingly, it is DNF for RPM-based systems like Red Hat and Fedora.

Debian Family

=> ↺ New Version of Raspberry PI OS Lands as Supply Chain Frustrations Mount

• Raspberry Pi UX engineer Simon Long announced the new release in a Raspberry Pi blog post. Long said that there wasn’t much new in this version.

• “This time around, it is mostly a wrapping-up of all the bug fixes and new versions of software which have been released since the previous image in April; but there are a few small tweaks to the user experience,” Long said.

=> ↺ Why did Debian Linux replace Google with DuckDuckGo? – LinuxLinks

=> ↺ DuckDuckGo is a Microsoft front basically

• In a world where data has become a valuable resource, securing it is a priority. However, personal information is under constant threat, from tech companies used daily to vicious hackers.

• While user privacy regulations seem promising, much of the responsibility still falls on your shoulders. For instance, you choose which services to use. And in some cases, these decisions are influenced by the convenience factor. Instead, it should be a calculated choice, considering privacy and security as primary criteria. However, some people might simply use the default services without a second glance. In the case of Debian, users will automatically have more privacy than before.

• Recently, Debian decided to feature DuckDuckGo, a more privacy-focused search engine, as their default one. Many users already chose it instead of Google, but Debian decided to make it official in the Chromium browser.

=> ↺ The New Raspberry Pi OS Update Brings in Sweet Little Improvements

• If you’re an enthusiastic fan of the little computer, you may know that the Raspberry Pi can be used as a fully-fledged desktop computer. Not to forget, it is also at the heart of various electronic/IoT projects.

• While many Linux distributions offer images for the Raspberry Pi, the company maintains its official OS for the Pi known as Raspberry Pi OS.

• If you didn’t know, Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian. Specifically, Debian 11 Bullseye for the current version. It is lightweight and uses LXDE as its desktop environment.

=> ↺ Debian Downloading Guide for Beginners

• Debian is a universal, free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) for everyone. With this, we want to help many Debian new comers especially those whose English is not they language who do not know where and which file to download in order to install and run Debian on their computers. Finally, this tutorial accompanies the other one, Debian Downloading Guide for Older Versions, you can also read if you wish. Now let’s start downloading.

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ What to Expect From Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

• Canonical is known to release frequent updates for its most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu. After Jammy Jellyfish, Canonical released Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu as a short-term release.

• Since Kinetic Kudu is available with only nine months of support, it will be released to the wider public on Oct 20, 2022. Here’s what you can expect from the Ubuntu 22.10 release.

=> ↺ Kubernetes ML optimizer, Kubeflow, improves data preprocessing with v1.6 | VentureBeat

• More often than not, when organizations deploy applications across hybrid and multicloud environments, they use the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system.

• Kubernetes itself helps to schedule and manage distributed virtual compute resources and isn’t optimized by default for any one particular type of workload, that’s where projects like Kubeflow come into play.

• For organizations looking to run machine learning (ML) in the cloud, a group of companies including Google, Red Hat and Cisco helped to found the Kubeflow open-source project in 2017. It took three years for the effort to reach the Kubeflow 1.0 release in March 2020, as the project gathered more supporters and users. Over the last two years, the project has continued to evolve, adding more capabilities to support the growing demands of ML.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Khadas VIM1S low-profile SBC features Amlogic S905Y4 quad-core Cortex-A35 SoC – CNX Software

• The company will provide both Ubuntu 22.04 and Android 11 (with Linux 5.4) images for the board through their OOWOW system that conveniently allows the installation directly from their servers.

=> ↺ MaxLinear AnyWAN URX850, URX851, and MxL25641 Intel Atom SoCs target broadband routers and gateways – CNX Software

• The company can also provide the AnyWAN Hardware Development Kit URX851 and AnyWAN Hardware Development Kit MxL25641 for earlier development, and the solutions can run Yocto-based prplOS (formerly known as prplWRT) and RDK-B, or MaxLinear UGW (Universal Gateway Software) based on OpenWrt. Since the AnyWAN processors are mostly designed for OEM and ODM manufacturers, there’s very little information available publicly.

=> ↺ GENE-ADP6 – An 3.5-inch SBC with Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-P processor, DDR5 RAM – CNX Software

• AAEON GENE-ADP6 is a 3.5-inch SBC equipped with a choice of Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-P (and Alder Lake-U) processors and the first from the company to support DDR5 memory, of which up to 64GB can be installed through two SO-DIMM sockets.

• The single board computer also supports SATA and NVMe storage, up to two 8K displays (and up to four independent displays), 2.5GbE networking, USB 3.2 ports, four RS232/RS422/RS485 interfaces, and further expansion through three M.2 sockets for wireless connectivity (WiFi, 5Gm, 4G LTE…) as well as the already mentioned NVMe SSD storage.

=> ↺ Mini-PC features Jasper Lake processor, Wi-Fi 6E and dual HDMI ports with 4K support

• Similarly to the GK3V Mini-PC featured recently, GMKtec is built around the 11th Gen Jasper Lake processor with the following specs…

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ PiGallery2: Blazing Fast Photo Hosting on a Raspberry Pi

• While there are dozens of self-hosted photo gallery server projects available for the Raspberry Pi, PiGallery2 was designed for speed, low resource usage, and ease-of-use. Plus it was specifically built with the Raspberry Pi in mind. Here’s how to install and use it.

=> ↺ The Official Handbook 2023 is out today!

• With over 200 pages of incredible projects, detailed tutorials, how-to guides and the best reviews of Raspberry Pi equipment and components, the official Handbook 2023 is the very best book for Raspberry Pi aficionados. And you can pick up a copy today from Raspberry Pi’s Press Store.

=> ↺ This piece of art knows when it’s being photographed thanks to tinyML | Arduino Blog

• Nearly all art functions in just a single direction by allowing the viewer to admire its beauty, creativity, and construction. But Estonian artist Tauno Erik has done something a bit different thanks to embedded hardware and the power of tinyML. His work is able to actively respond to a person whenever they bring up a cell phone to take a picture of it.

• At the center are four primary circuits/components, which include a large speaker, an abstract LED sculpture, an old Soviet-style doorbell board, and a PCB housing the control electronics. The circuit contains an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense along with an OV7670 camera module that can capture objects directly in front. Tauno then trained a machine learning model with the help of Edge Impulse on almost 700 images that were labeled as human-containing, cell phone, or everything else/indeterminate.

=> ↺ Building an experimental wave drive tank | Arduino Blog

• There are many ways to make a thing ambulatory beyond simply slapping on some wheels. James Bruton often experiments with these unique drive mechanisms, whether they are practical or not. In his newest video, he built what he calls a “wave drive” to propel a tank-like robot. This experimental wave drive tank features a 3D-printed body and remote Arduino-based control.

• This drive mechanism works using motion similar to someone doing the worm dance move, which is very much like how flatworms swim through water in nature. For a more technical visualization, imagine a spinning helix projected onto a 2D plane. The result looks like a sine wave, hence the name. The bottom of the wave makes contact with the ground and friction provides grip, letting the mechanism roll forward. That helix visualization also mirrors the physical implementation here, as a screw-shaped drive shaft guides tracks as it spins.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ 8 simple tips to speed up your Android phone in seconds

=> ↺ Five things the iPhone 14 stole from Android | Android Central

=> ↺ Unlocked version of Samsung Galaxy A03s gets Android 12 update in the US – SamMobile

=> ↺ Google is working on ‘clear calling’ for Android phone calls – The Verge

=> ↺ How to quickly set an alarm on your Android phone

=> ↺ Bring Android Customization To A New Level With Icon Pack Studio

=> ↺ Google Pixel owners just got a crucial Android 13 software update | T3

=> ↺ Google outs first beta for the first Android 13 Quarterly Platform Release – comments

=> ↺ Google’s Pixel Android Tablet is Likely to Get a ‘Pro’ Variant in 2023 | Tech Times

=> ↺ Google is working on a new Android feature called Clear Calling

=> ↺ Delete these hair-raising Android apps before they gain full control of your phone and money – PhoneArena

=> ↺ How to Use an Android Phone as a Wi-Fi Hotspot – TechPP

=> ↺ How To Update Android TV?

=> ↺ With Redmi A1, is Xiaomi Resurrecting the Android One Dream, but Without Google? – TechPP

=> ↺ 5 ways to free up storage space on your Android phone

=> ↺ 8 Best Ways to Fix NFC Not Working On Android

=> ↺ Android beta program resumes with new QPR1 Beta 1 build, hints at Pixel tablet | Android Central

=> ↺ Here’s what’s new in Android 13 QPR1 Beta 1

=> ↺ Android 13 QPR1 details Pixel 6 Pro face unlock – 9to5Google

=> ↺ 5 reasons for Android users to try NVIDIA GeForce NOW – 9to5Google

=> ↺ Google working on new feature to improve call quality on Android – Phandroid

=> ↺ Top 20 Best War Games for Android Devices in 2022 | UbuntuPIT

=> ↺ The best racing games on Android in 2022

=> ↺ Why Android-Based Mobile Phones Are Great For Mobile Gaming

=> ↺ Twitch brings a themed Android 13 icon to your Pixel phone

=> ↺ Android 13 QPR1 Beta Program Officially Open for Pixel Phones

=> ↺ RuggON Upgrades its VIKING Mobile Data Terminal with Android 11 OS and GNSS Dead-Reckoning Technology

=> ↺ BeReal ‘add friends’ not working on Android? Here’s the fix

=> ↺ CD Projekt just released Cyberpunk 2077′s Roach Race mini-game on Android for free

=> ↺ Fastway To Deploy Verimatrix Content Security Technology within New Google Android Set-Top Boxes | Business Wire

=> ↺ Android devices are getting new accessibility and sharing features – The Verge

=> ↺ Asus’ ROG 6 Android gaming phones are available for preorder in North America – The Verge

=> ↺ Jumpstart your fall with new Android widgets, watch faces, and accessibility tools from Google

=> ↺ Android team releases another Privacy Sandbox preview – SD Times

=> ↺ Here’s a list of every carrier that supports eSIM on Android

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ The syslog-ng Insider 2022-09: 3.38; SQL; disk-buffer; nightly;

• This is the 104th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

=> ↺ SFP#16: Free Software in France with Hugo Roy

• In this episode of the Software Freedom Podcast, Bonnie Mehring speaks with Hugo Roy about his long involvement with the FSFE. Hugo is also very active in the French Free Software community and gives us an overview of the standing of Free Software in France.

=> ↺ SFC offers project membership to Sourceware; three video-chat discussion times with SFC available

=> ↺ iTWire – Nextcloud announces integration with Cisco Webex App Cloud

• Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has released its embedded app on Cisco’s Webex App Cloud with effect from Thursday.

• The app allows Webex users to look at and edit documents on a Nextcloud instance while working on the Webex app.

=> ↺ Static site hosting hurdles

• Which leads me to that detail I say it’s often overlooked:

• How to serve a static site?

• The short but surprising answer is that although we imagine and operate as if we actually were in the early 2000s, that’s far from the real requirements in 2022…

SaaS/Back End/Databases

=> ↺ Open source matters in data analytics: Here’s why

• It’s been a little over a year since I wrote my article on Opensource.com, introducing the Cube community. As I worked with our community members and other vendors, I’ve become more convinced of the benefits of open source in data analytics. I also think it’s good to remind ourselves periodically why open source matters and how it provides long-term benefits for everyone.

Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

Open Access/Content

=> ↺ How Did the Free Sharing of Scientific Knowledge And Culture Become the Worst Crime Our Justice Systems Could Think Of?

• There’s an interesting observation to make here, though, and this is that courts are ordering Internet censorship — an extremely grave reduction in liberty, normally unthinkable outside of wartime — for one “crime”, and one “crime” only: the free sharing of knowledge and culture, which must apparently be stopped at any cost.

• This is a measure so extreme, it’s not used for genocide, premeditated murder, or anything else in the crime catalog. There is but one “crime” that is so horrendous, such a grave crime against the whole of humanity, that it merits Internet censorship as ordered by would-be respectable judges:

• The free sharing of scientific knowledge or popular culture. This is apparently the worst, and only, conceivable crime that merits this worst of prevention.

=> ↺ Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone

• How many Sci-Hub users are there? The download requests came from 3 million unique IP addresses, which provides a lower bound. But the true number is much higher because thousands of people on a university campus can share the same IP address. Sci-Hub downloaders live on every continent except Antarctica. Of the 24,000 city locations to which they cluster, the busiest is Tehran, with 1.27 million requests. Much of that is from Iranians using programs to automatically download huge swaths of Sci-Hub’s papers to make a local mirror of the site, Elbakyan says. Rahimi, the engineering student in Tehran, confirms this. “There are several Persian sites similar to Sci-Hub,” he says. “So you should consider Iranian illegal [paper] downloads to be five to six times higher” than what Sci-Hub alone reveals.

• The geography of Sci-Hub usage generally looks like a map of scientific productivity, but with some of the richer and poorer science-focused nations flipped. The smaller countries have stories of their own. Someone in Nuuk, Greenland, is reading a paper about how best to provide cancer treatment to indigenous populations. Research goes on in Libya, even as a civil war rages there. Someone in Benghazi is investigating a method for transmitting data between computers across an air gap. Far to the south in the oil-rich desert, someone near the town of Sabhā is delving into fluid dynamics. (Go to bit.ly/Sci-Hub for an interactive map of the website’s data and see what people are reading in cities worldwide.) Mapping IP addresses to real-world locations can paint a false picture if people hide behind web proxies or anonymous routing services. But according to Elbakyan, fewer than 3% of Sci-Hub users are using those.

Programming/Development

=> ↺ Ruby 3.2.0 Preview 2 Released

• We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0-preview2. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements.

=> ↺ Item Views in Qt Quick

• A substantial amount of work has gone into improving TableView and TreeView in Qt 6.3 and 6.4, and more is also in the works. In this post I’ll give a quick overview over what has been done so far.

=> ↺ Visually impaired, blind children benefiting from new coding project

• Thousands of African primary and high school pupils have since 2017 been introduced by Tangible Africa to coding concepts, through coding App games.

• [...]

• Bona uBuntu programme co-ordinator Robyn Fick welcomed the coding classes and collaboration with Tangible Africa.

=> ↺ reprepro-rebuilder

• I’ve come up with a new reprepro wrapper for adding rebuilds of existing Debian packages to a local repository: reprepro-rebuilder. It should make it quicker to update local rebuilds of existing packages, patched or unpatched, working wholly out of git.

Java

=> ↺ Kubernetes Liveness Probe Saves the Day

• We’ve been running dockerised Java applications on Kubernetes for a while now, all with readiness probes configured. Due to Blue/Green deployment the application would receive frequent no-downtime upgrades, and all pods would get redeployed. This would also clear any existing Java memory (and hide the problem we’re about to discuss).

• We’ve started running stress tests against the application in order to push it to its limits, and the following happened.

Leftovers

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Famine by October? Somalia & East Africa Face Humanitarian Crisis Amid Climate Change, Ukraine War

• We look at the devastating effects of climate change and global inequity in East Africa, and how many countries face drought and a looming famine, with guests in Mogadishu, Somalia, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The current unprecedented drought, that is a result of four consecutive failed rainy seasons, with the fifth and the sixth projected to also be below average, is causing a huge food insecurity,” says Adam Abdelmoula, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia. “I think the agenda for Africa now is food sovereignty,” adds Million Belay, coordinator at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.

=> ↺ The Covid Debacle Rolls On

• Covid finished off 1.04 million Americans, the highest toll of any nation and hardly an advertisement for the public health system in the heart of the Exceptional Empire. Compare that to China’s 5200 covid deaths out of a population of 1.4 billion. The U.S. population clocks in at 330 million. Which country took this lethal virus seriously enough to protect its citizens? Hint, not the capitalist behemoth, with patients intubated from sea to shining sea.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Microsoft unveils SQL Server release candidate for Linux

=> ↺ Microsoft is googlebombing “Linux” again to promote proprietary software nobody needs. It says “open and cloudy world” as if this proprietary software of Microsoft is “open” rather than affront to it

• Remond modernizes database management system for an open and cloudy world

Linux Foundation (the proprietary openwash agenda)

=> ↺ Open 3D Foundation Welcomes New Members OPPO and Heroic Labs as Community Optimizes Software to Embrace Mobile-First Gaming

=> ↺ Open 3D Foundation Welcomes New Members OPPO and Heroic Labs as Community Optimizes Software to Embrace Mobile-First Gaming – Linux Foundation

• As gaming increasingly becomes a mobile-first experience, OPPO and Heroic Labs are joining as Premier and General members, respectively, of the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF). The two companies are working with the community to optimize the open-source Open 3D Engine project for mobile gaming.

=> ↺ Linux Foundation, World Bank Launch Free Quantum Computing Training Course

=> ↺ Kubernetes 1.25: KMS V2 Improvements

=> ↺ Open source security gets a boost with new scorecard and best practices

• There is no shortage of challenges when it comes to securing open source software and no shortage of ideas for how to mitigate risks.

• It is the stated mission of the OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation) to help improve the state of open source security, and that is precisely what it is doing. The OpenSSF is part of the Linux Foundation and has multiple ongoing efforts across different aspects of the software development lifecycle.

Security

=> ↺ Nmap 7.93, the 25th anniversary edition, has been released – Help Net Security

• Nmap is a widely used free and open-source network scanner. It’s used for network inventorying, port scanning, managing service upgrade schedules, monitoring host or service uptime, etc. It works on most operating systems: Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, and BSD.

=> ↺ CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories | CISA

• CISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 08, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.

=> ↺ CISA Adds Twelve Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA

• CISA has added twelve new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in the “Date Added to Catalog” column, which will sort by descending dates.

=> ↺ Ransomware attacks on Linux to surge

=> ↺ A Windows 11 Automation Tool Can Easily Be Hijacked

• The attack is based on Microsoft’s Power Automate, an automation tool that was built into Windows 11. Power Automate uses a form of robotic process automation, also known as RPA, in which a computer mimics a human’s actions to complete tasks. If you want to get a notification each time an RSS feed is updated, you can build a custom RPA process to make that happen. Thousands of these automations exist, and Microsoft’s software can link up Outlook, Teams, Dropbox, and other apps.

• The software is part of a broader low-code/no-code movement that aims to create tools people can use to create things without having any coding knowledge. “Every business user now has the power that the developer used to have,” Bargury says. His company exists to help secure low-code/no-code apps.

=> ↺ Ransomware Gang Accessed Water Supplier’s Control System

• Now, security researchers who specialize in industrial control systems cybersecurity (ICS) and who have analyzed the data published by Cl0p think the gang could potentially have interfered with the systems of South Staff Water (SSW), a UK water supply provider.

• “They appear to have had sufficient access in the environment to conduct further operations in the environment, if desired,” Mark Plemmons, senior director of threat intelligence at the ICS cybersecurity company Dragos, told Motherboard in an email.

=> ↺ Chile says gov’t agency struggling with ransomware attack

• Chile’s cybersecurity incident response team said an unnamed government agency is dealing with a ransomware attack that targeted the organization’s Microsoft tools and VMware ESXi servers.

• Chile’s CSIRT said the attack started last Thursday but did not respond to requests for comment about what group was behind the attack or what department or agency was attacked.

=> ↺ FBI and French officials arrive in Montenegro to investigate ransomware attack

• The attacks, which were carried out Friday and Saturday, crippled government-run transportation services and online platforms for information, as well as water and electricity systems.

• According to Public Administration Minister Maras Dukaj, 150 devices within 10 government agencies were infected, and many government websites are still down.

=> ↺ Investor lawsuit against SolarWinds over breach dismissed

• Security firm SolarWinds has avoided a lawsuit filed by investors in Delaware last year, with Delaware Court of Chancery vice-chancellor Sam Glasscock dismissing the suit.

• Investors sued the directors of the company, claiming they were aware of the risks that the firm’s software posed, but failed to act to prevent devastating attacks that came to light in 2020. The attacks were given the moniker SUNBURST.

• The suit was filed on 4 November 2021 in the Delaware Chancery Court, by the Construction Industry Labourers Pension Fund, the Central Labourers’ Pension Fund, and two individual investors.

=> ↺ Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]

• Security updates have been issued by Fedora (mediawiki), SUSE (libEMF, libnl-1_1, libnl3, mariadb, nodejs16, php8-pear, postgresql12, and rubygem-rake), and Ubuntu (linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, and tiff).

=> ↺ Rethinking Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

• The Biden administration has pointed, with alarm, to the national security implications of both cybersecurity and cryptocurrency. It’s just a matter of time before the government begins worrying about their intersection—cryptocurrency security. All of the United States’ international adversaries are in the business of exploiting bad cybersecurity, and many of them monetize their exploits using cryptocurrency. There’s nothing more natural for North Korean state hackers, Russian organized crime, or partially privatized cyberspies in China and Iran than to steal cryptocurrency to finance their national security operations. They’ll find an open door; because, as bad as overall cybersecurity is, the security of cryptocurrency is worse.

• You only have to follow cryptocurrency news casually to be struck by the size and frequency of cryptocurrency security failures. That’s not your imagination, or press bias. Cryptocurrency really does have worse security than other digital technologies, and there’s a good chance it always will.

=> ↺ Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security – Schneier on Security

• Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. [...] Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software.

=> ↺ Reproducible Builds in August 2022

• Welcome to the August 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In these reports we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, almost all software is distributed to end users as pre-compiled binaries. The motivation behind the reproducible builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised.

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation

=> ↺ The rise of Linux malware: 9 tips for securing the OSS

• Linux is the most secure operating system on the market; for years, that has been one of the open source platform’s best selling points. However, as with anything regarding technology, it’s only a matter of time before criminals catch up. This has been the case with every operating system, software and service. At this point, to say Linux is immune to malicious software would be a fallacy.

• The sad truth is if it’s connected to a network, it’s vulnerable. It doesn’t matter what operating system you use — the longer it’s in play, the more likely it will become a target. And Linux is no exception.

• Over the past few years, Linux has had a target drawn on its back. Given how enterprise businesses now live and die by open source technology, including the Linux OS, it should come as no surprise that this has become a reality, and it’s not going to go away. In fact, if I had to guess, I’d say that the rise of malicious software targeting Linux deployments will become staggering over the next decade.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ EFF to California Governor: Protect Abortion Data Privacy

• EFF also supports two other California bills that would protect the data privacy of vulnerable people who seek medical sanctuary in California. S.B. 107 would protect trans youths who visit to obtain gender-affirming care, and A.B. 2091 would protect people who visit to obtain abortion.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Bomb defused on Wednesday, Pont Buchler reopened to traffic

• A bomb from the Second World War was discovered during expansion work at the central railway station in Luxembourg City on Wednesday, prompting preventive evacuations. At around 2.50pm, the defusing work was completed.

=> ↺ Explained: What Is Waqf Act And Who Owns The Waqf Land In India

• Finally, The Waqf Act, 1995 was enacted and implemented on November 22, 1995. This Act established the Central Waqf Council and the State Waqf Board. These two bodies are responsible for the administration and supervision of auqaf along with the Chief Executive Officer who is a subordinate to the board. Further, this act provides for the power and functions of the Council, the Board(s) and the Chief Executive Officer, and also the duties of mutawalli.

=> ↺ 6.1 lakh Waqf properties across India, most in UP, West Bengal, Karnataka

• Most of the encroachments are reported in Punjab (5,610), followed by Madhya Pradesh (3,240) and West Bengal with 3,082. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have reported 1,335 and 862 encroachments, respectively.

=> ↺ The Navy Is Withholding Court Records in a High-Profile Ship Fire Case

• Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays, 21, has been charged with aggravated arson and hazarding a vessel in the 2020 fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard. Mays has maintained his innocence.

=> ↺ Where Is the Line Between Public & Private Policing in St. Louis?

• The email was not from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the police force that employs them and that residents fund with their taxes. Instead, it was from a retired city police detective named Charles “Rob” Betts, who also employs them at his private company, The City’s Finest.

=> ↺ Nuclear Experts: Demilitarized Zone at Zaporizhzhia Plant Needed to Avoid Chernobyl-Level Catastrophe

• The International Atomic Energy Agency is calling for a safety and security protection zone to be immediately set up around the facility in order to avoid a nuclear disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. This week it released a long-awaited report urging Russia and Ukraine to create a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, after visiting it last week. “Their warnings are pretty clear: Unless the fighting stops, unless the shelling around and on the plant site stops, … then the plant is really skating on thin ice,” says Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists. We also go to Kyiv to speak with Olexi Pasyuk, deputy director of Ukrainian environmental group Ecoaction, who says the IAEA report will have limited impact on the fighting but helps raise awareness of the risks. “This is what Ukraine wanted to hear … that the only way to have it safe is to demilitarize the area,” says Pasyuk.

=> ↺ The “War on Terror” at 20+ Years: A Retrospective

• Numerous questions remain about where the public stands 20 plus years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. What do Americans think about our past wars, and would the public stomach renewed violence in the name of fighting al Qaeda, ISIS, or some other Islamist movement that’s hostile to the United States if a future president (or the current one) recommitted the U.S. to the “War on Terror”?

Environment

=> ↺ A Smartphone That Lasts a Decade? Yes, It’s Possible.

• If a smartphone were designed to last a decade, it would probably be made so that we could simply open it up to replace a part like a depleted battery or a cracked screen. Many of its components would be able to be upgraded — if you wanted a better camera, you could just swap out the old one for a newer, more powerful one. You could also download software updates from the phone’s maker indefinitely.

• Sensible and sustainable, right?

=> ↺ Campaigners Raise ‘Serious Concern’ Over New Climate Minister’s Pro-Drax Stance

• Graham Stuart, who joined the newly formed cabinet this week, is regarded as a green Conservative who has described climate change as “one of the greatest challenges we will face in this lifetime”.

Energy

=> ↺ Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

• Liz Truss’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks. Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. 

=> ↺ LEAK: EU plans ‘revenue cap’ on power firms, mandatory electricity savings at peak hour

• “The Commission proposes a limit of €200/MWh” on so-called “inframarginal” electricity generators, the proposal says in reference to renewables, nuclear and lignite, which have low operating costs and have benefitted the most from high gas prices.

• Producers of renewable and nuclear electricity are making “enormous revenues” from the crisis, explained Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.

=> ↺ EU seeks to cap energy company profits and cut electricity use

• In addition, “we will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours,” Ms von der Leyen said. In the EU, gas and electricity plants are activated at peak times to cope with surges in demand, meaning that if usage is reduced at those moments, the use of expensive gas can be avoided.

=> ↺ EU to consider emergency cuts in power usage, price caps, profit grab…

• The unprecedented plan to step into energy markets also includes a levy on fossil-fuel producers, a price cap on Russian gas imports, measures to increase liquidity for energy companies if needed and a mandatory target reduction of electricity use. The EU is coming under mounting pressure to curb the spike in energy prices and avoid social upheaval as the heating season nears.

=> ↺ Von der Leyen unveils energy crisis plan ahead of key meeting

• The EU plan favours a “smart savings of electricity” while acknowledging that electricity demand is expected to increase due to, for example, the electrification of road transport.

=> ↺ New Report Debunks Manchin’s Lies About the Mountain Valley Fracked Gas Pipeline

• Titled Why Everything Manchin Says About the Mountain Valley Pipeline Is Wrong, the analysis by Oil Change International (OCI) spotlights and counters three prominent claims that Manchin has made about the pipeline project as he attempts to usher it toward completion despite the threat it poses to the environment and communities in its path.

=> ↺ Steve Baker Leaves Climate Denial Group for Ministerial Post

• Baker reportedly accused campaigners of “child abuse” for “terrifying children” with warnings about climate change at a meeting in parliament earlier in the summer.

=> ↺ Orbán: There won’t be enough energy in Europe because of the war and the sanctions

=> ↺ The government to order temperature to be kept at 18 degrees in public institutions

=> ↺ The Case Against Nuclear Power: A Primer

• Thanks everyone for showing up for this talk. I think it’s a vitally important topic, but I’ll admit, it’s a bit disheartening that it’s now a subject of debate on the Left.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ These Books Are for the Birds (and Bugs)

=> ↺ What Do Ocean Preserves Really Safeguard? That Depends

=> ↺ Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?

• MBGA Bolsonaro has denied the existence of massive intentionally lit fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling the public reports “lies” despite data produced by his own government monitoring satellites showing tens of thousands of fires. The MBGA Bolsonaro forest-clearing fires have raged like never before in Brazilian history. The fires are intentional to clear land for development, as armed men in combat boots crunch across smoldering ashes whilst hunting down/killing obstructionist environmentalists.

Overpopulation

=> ↺ That’s Enough Monarchy Now

• No doubt millions of people felt a heartfelt attachment to the Queen, which will be displayed fully in the next few days. But the anachronistic nature of monarchy is also fully on display, in the obvious absurdities and pantomime procedure, with Heralds Pursuivant and Royals buckled with the weight of their unearned medals.

Finance

=> ↺ Opinion | What Insurance Tells Us About Our (In)Capacity for Climate Resilience

• Insurance is a key safety net of western modern life, and many take the insurance of property for granted. House and contents insurance, it is envisaged, will be there if disaster strikes. However, a lack of meaningful action to mitigate climate change is putting this sense of security at risk. For households, there is growing uncertainty about what the future may hold. There are examples, worldwide, of insurers withdrawing from certain markets and households being less and less likely to be able to access or afford property insurance. 

=> ↺ How to Compare and Negotiate Funeral Costs

• Prices for funerals have always been steep. Funeral homes charged a median of $7,848 for a viewing and burial last year, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, and $6,970 for a cremation. Those costs don’t include the charges from cemeteries, which can add thousands more. ProPublica recently investigated one cemetery whose charges could run into the tens of thousands of dollars.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ MC5 Gateway – Sources and Links5

• MC5 Gateway – Sources and Links

=> ↺ A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are now investigating

• Harri Hursti has bought about 200 used voting machines without incident, but the one he purchased on eBay last month is now the subject of a state investigation, with Michigan officials determined to find out how the device ended up for sale online.

=> ↺ Police investigating how Michigan voting machine wound up for sale online

• The machine was purchased by a cybersecurity expert in Connecticut who alerted Michigan authorities and is now waiting for law enforcement to pick up the device. CNN determined the machine was dropped off at a Goodwill store in Northern Michigan, before being sold last month on eBay by a man in Ohio.

• In an interview with CNN, the Ohio man said he purchased the machine online at Goodwill for $7.99 before auctioning it on eBay for $1,200.

=> ↺ Survey Says Muslims More Islamophobic Than Americans

• Islamic activists have spent two decades falsely accusing Americans of Islamophobia for being concerned about Islamic violence.

• What does it mean that more Muslims believe that Muslims are violent than Americans do?

=> ↺ ‘See you all in Court!’ Trump threatens Lincoln Project after new ad appears on Fox News

• Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Thursday morning to attack the Lincoln Project and threaten them with a lawsuit after Fox News agreed to run one of their latest ads attacking the former president.

=> ↺ Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures

• Louis Brandeis once said, “we can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” It’s part of a long American tradition that abhors the gathering of power into just a few hands.

=> ↺ Helsinki Committee: Chief judge unlawfully appointed several judges

• Documents obtained by the Helsinki Committee show that Varga proceeded unlawfully on several judicial applications. In 5 cases out of the 11 vacancies announced in 2021, he did not initiate the appointment of the first-ranked judge, nor did he reach out to the National Judicial Council for approval to deviate from the ranking. On one occasion, he declared the fourth-ranked applicant the winner, which is not allowed under the law even with the National Judicial Council’s consent.

=> ↺ ‘A Disgrace’: Ron Johnson Says He Opposes Same-Sex Marriage Bill

• Speaking at a Common Sense Citizens of Washington County meeting last week, Johnson said his comment in July signaling that he saw “no reason to oppose” the Respect for Marriage Act was issued just to get reporters to stop pressing him.

=> ↺ Isle de Jean Charles Community Members Moved into the First Federally Funded Resettlement Project in Louisiana Despite Visible Engineering Issues

• Once he signed, Chris would become the first lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles to commit to moving into one of the newly built homes provided by Louisiana’s Office of Community Development (OCD).  The New Isle subdivision is the first federally funded resettlement project built for a coastal community facing immense risk from the climate crisis.

=> ↺ Another public institution is hardly a cure for corruption in Hungary

Misinformation/Disinformation

=> ↺ When Teens Find Misinformation, These Teachers Are Ready

• Between lessons about the Revolutionary War and the functions of Congress, juniors in several history and U.S. government classes at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs are taught to defend themselves against disinformation.

• The students, many of them on the cusp of voting age, spend up to two weeks each fall exploring how falsehoods, prejudices and opinions can lurk in the many places they get information. They learn to trace the origins of documents, to validate a website by leaving it to consult other sources and to train a critical eye on the claims made by TikTok influencers and on YouTube videos.

=> ↺ Silencing The Lambs. How Propaganda Works.

• In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ Vice, Exploring a Sale, Weighs a Content Deal With a Saudi-Backed Firm

• After Saudis killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Vice Media joined many other American companies in publicly distancing themselves from the Saudi Arabian government, whose agents carried out the killing.

• Now, Vice is in talks to expand its business in the kingdom.

• The youth-focused digital media company is exploring a deal with MBC, a media giant partly owned by the Saudi government, to start a new content partnership in the region, according to two people with knowledge of the talks who would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43

• We don’t often write obituaries on Naked Security, but this is one of the times we’re going to.

• You might not have heard of Peter Eckersley, PhD, but it’s very likely that you’ve relied on a cybersecurity innovation that he not only helped to found, but also to build and establish across the globe.

=> ↺ Family charged with attempted murder of daughter pleads not guilty

• It was revealed in 2021 that the victim, a Muslim woman from Afghanistan, had been in a relationship with a Sri Lankan Christian man who her family did not approve of.

• [...]

• The victim’s father, brother and brother-in-law were charged with one count each of attempted murder and unlawful detention.

=> ↺ Private Police in St. Louis Are High-Ranking, Off-Duty Officers

• Among the roughly 200 St. Louis police officers whose names appeared earlier this year on an internal list of officers who had sought and received approval from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to moonlight for The City’s Finest were four of the six district commanders who hold the rank of captain. The list, obtained by ProPublica through a public records request, also included two of the department’s highest-ranking officers, Maj. Ryan Cousins, who oversees the department’s murder, rape and arson investigations, and Maj. Shawn Dace, who oversees South Patrol, which includes two districts. It’s not clear if all of those officers currently work for The City’s Finest.

=> ↺ Jefferson Parish Sheriff Clears Deputy Who Slammed Woman to the Ground

• The incident involved JPSO Deputy Julio Alvarado, a 17-year veteran, and Shantel Arnold, 34, a Black woman who is under 5 feet tall. It drew national attention after the brief video clip was covered by ProPublica, WWNO and The Times-Picayune | The Advocate.

=> ↺ Warren Introduces Bill to Repeal ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws Enacted by GOP in 27 States

• “Democrats are making clear that we stand in solidarity with workers everywhere.”

=> ↺ Let Roe Go: Winning Abortion Rights

• Of course, the abortion-rights battle must be waged on all fronts. But legal and legislative victories will only be won securely as a result of winning broad and deep political support—persuading a majority of people of the justice and necessity of the cause. That is the kind of political work that created the conditions for Roe v. Wade—independent, risky personal and collective political action, including civil disobedience, that highlighted the plight and right of pregnant women, and the hypocrisy and cruelty of criminalizing abortion.

=> ↺ Brazil, Amazon, World: Ballots and Bullets

• Channel 4 News in the UK understands the global repercussions, that the Brazilian election “will determine the future of the Amazon rainforest, and the world’s fight against climate change”. It’s on the right track but not enough. The fight against climate change means protecting the world’s rainforests, respecting their Indigenous custodians, learning from Indigenous knowledge, applying serious initiatives like the Green State Vision which was launched by West Papua’s independence leaders at COP26, where it was ignored. It means ceasing all other forms of extractive plunder now, understanding that the planet’s future depends on this. This is a matter of universal human rights (and those of other species) if ever there was one. It’s no project for a criminal against humanity. Lula is Brazil’s and the world’s best chance. To begin with he’s promised an Indigenous Ministry if he wins the election, and the good news is that a record number of 181 Indigenous people have registered as candidates.

=> ↺ What Liberal Admonishers of Left Psychiatry Critics Get Wrong

• “On the Left,” Ritts tells us, “common criticisms seek to explain how psychiatry can inadvertently medicalize injustice.” While Ritts is correct that this is a common criticism, it is by no means the only criticism, and for most Left critics, it is not even the most heartfelt one.

=> ↺ Ciudad Juárez: Haitians in Limbo

• “The police took our money, and if you have the bad luck of coming across a patrol they’ll take your money,” Noel warned. At the time of the interview, Noel’s family had been in Mexico almost a year and Ciudad Juárez for two weeks, searching for a place to live and seeking a legal way into the United States, possibly via political asylum, where he has long-established relatives. According to the young migrant, the Caribbean island nation of an estimated 11.5 million residents is immersed in political and criminal violence; a family home was burned down by arsonists with differing political opinions.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ Complaint about Canada’s phone cartel – anarcat

• I think it’s absolutely scandalous that telecommunications providers in Canada can charge so much money, especially since the most prohibitive fee (the “non-prepaid” plans) are automatically charged if I happen to forget to remove my sim card or put my phone in “airplane mode”.

• As advised, I have called customer service at Fido for advice on how to handle this situation. They have confirmed those are the only plans available for travelers and could not accommodate me otherwise. I have notified them I was in the process of filing this complaint.

• I believe that Canada has become the technological dunce of the world, and I blame the CRTC for its lack of regulation in that matter. You should not allow those companies to grow into such a cartel that they can do such price-fixing as they wish.

Monopolies

Copyrights

=> ↺ The Beatles’ Unheard ‘Revolver’: An Exclusive Preview of a Blockbuster Archival Release

• Except the world hasn’t heard it yet. Because in 2022 there’s more to Revolver than we ever knew. Over a few summer days in Abbey Road, the legendary London studio the Beatles called home, Rolling Stone gets a one-on-one exclusive tour of the brand-new Revolver, as good-day sunshine streams through the windows. Producer Giles Martin, son of the band’s wizardly producer George Martin, spins unheard outtakes from the sessions, along with the revealing new mix of the Beatles’ most wildly experimental album.

=> ↺ New FAQ on NFTs and CC0

• CC has been following how people are creating and trading NFTs, and how the marketplace of creative works is transforming. We keep seeing NFTs linked to works published with CC’s open licenses or the CC0 public domain dedication — so often that CC0 NFTs have their own hashtag: #cc0summer. We know that there are many in the CC community trying to figure out how CC tools interact with NFTs — as are many others who are hearing about CC for the first time as they explore NFTs.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

=> ↺ EISMORK Wordo: LURID

Technical

=> ↺ Running gotwebd behind nginx

• The latest release of the Game of Trees control version systems includes a brand-new repository web interface: gotwebd. It was written by tracey@ and it’s going to replace the “old” CGI script, also written by him.

=> ↺ Classic Chips

• I found a few classic chips which I ripped out of some equipment heading for the scrap pile.

• [...]

• The chip at right center appears to be a Mostek Z80 8-bit CPU. The top-right chip is a DMA controller. I thought at first that the chip on the bottom right might be an early Intel CPU, but I believe it is actually a bus interface, evidently tied to the Z80.

=> ↺ Freezr “P.E.B.C.A.K.”

• SSH through Android hotspot didn’t workout, even though by default SSH should work out-of-the-box on any Linux distribution… I am pretty sure the reason is that is not allowed. However it consumed 5 mega doing anything therefore I won’t use it anyway…

=> ↺ Video – talk about NixOS deployments tools

• At work, we have a weekly “knowledge sharing” meeting, yesterday I talked about the state of NixOS deployments tools.

• I had to look at all the tools we currently have at hand before starting my own, so it made sense to share all what I found.

• This is a real topic, it doesn’t make much sense to use regular sysadmins tools like ansible / puppet / salt etc… on NixOS, we need specific tools, and there is currently a bunch of them, and it can be hard to decide which one to use.

Science

=> ↺ Using Renewable Energy at Home

• I recently switched our power and gas supplier to The Energy Co-op because I wanted our apartment to start using renewable energy. Although we’re not literally using power that comes straight out of wind turbines and solar panels (The Energy Co-op works by buying and retiring RECs for their subscribers), I feel good about redirecting our monthly bill to fund renewable energy facilities. It’s a little more expensive, but I think it’s still worth it for me.

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ Yes, 9.9.99 (2)

• ivan, I remember like yesterday the release of Dreamcast and the date 9.9.99 and the HUGE promotional effort put behind that console.

• I bought it less than a week later, with Crazy Taxi and some “winter games” type of game, as well as one of the Madden NFL titles, and I don’t think I bought any other games for that console, lol! I played the hell out of those three, though.

=> ↺ Wouter Spekkink Micro Log

• Checking in with gemini again after not giving it any attention for a looooong time. I also considered taking down my capsule, given that I didn’t update it in almost a year now. I decided against it everytime it crossed my mind. I had a look at my favorite capsule (Joneworlds). It is a shame that the story has concluded, but at the same time it is a nice opportunity to start exploring the gemini space for other cool stuff.

Programming

=> ↺ Cursed whitespace sensitive C

• I’m coming in strong today with a small meme prototype, that actually turned out interestingly.

• It all started with me having a stupid idea: writing C with a whitespace sensitive syntax, ala Python. Knowing it wouldn’t be too hard to hack something in that vein, I started working and got something done in a couple of hours. I present to you…

=> ↺ Git – How to prevent a branch to be pushed

• I was looking for a simple way to prevent pushing a specific git branch. A few searches on the Internet didn’t give me good results, so let me share a solution.

• Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink  Send this to a friend

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