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GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ GNU World Order 497

• latte dock , layer-shell-qt , libgravatar , libkcddb , libkcompactdisc , libkdcraw , libkdegames from the Slackware kde package set.

Applications

=> ↺ 8 of the Best Video Editors for Linux

• The good thing about Linux video editing software is that they are often free, easy to use and full of professional features. If you’re looking to try video editing on Linux, check out these eight video editing software options.

=> ↺ 5 Best Free and Open Source Font Editors

• Linux users may not have a plethora of fonts, but there are many lovely and usable fonts. Different Linux fonts are supplied with different Linux distros.

• A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor.

• Most computer fonts are in either bitmap or outline data formats. Bitmap fonts consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image of each glyph in each face and size. Outline or vector fonts use Bézier curves, drawing instructions and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph, which make the character outlines scalable to any size.

=> ↺ 20 Best IRC Clients For Linux Systems

• In computing, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and is widely regarded as the first mainstream text-based communication mechanism. At its peak, IRC chat enjoyed overwhelming popularity and served millions of people before losing ground to modern-day chat services like Facebook.

=> ↺ 9 Best Google Drive Clients for Linux in 2023

• One of the best cloud storage contenders to emerge is Google Drive — the popular cloud storage application that allows you to store data and access it from a Google account securely. Unfortunately, despite

=> ↺ Green Metrics Tool helps developers measuring & optimizing software power consumption

• The Green Metrics Tool (GMT) is an open-source framework that allows the measurement, comparison, and optimization of the energy consumption of software with the goal of empowering both software engineers and users to make educated decisions about libraries, code snippets, and software in order to save energy along with carbon emissions.

• While the firmware of battery-powered embedded devices and the OS running on your smartphone are typically optimized for low power consumption in order to extend the battery life, the same can not be said of most software running on SBCs, desktop computers, and servers. But there are still benefits of having power-optimized programs on this type of hardware including lower electricity bills, a lower carbon footprint, and potentially quieter devices since the cooling fan may not have to be turned on as often. The Green Metrics Tool aims to help in that regard.

=> ↺ Best Free and Open Source Software – January 2023 Updates

• Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Open source software at its finest.

• It’s been a very productive month in January with many new and updated group tests published.

• As always, we love receiving your suggestions for new articles or additional open source software to feature. Let us know in the Comments box below or drop us an email.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How to Install KubeSphere on Linux Step-by-Step

• KubeSphere is an open-source enterprise-grade Kubernetes container platform that provides streamlined DevOps workflows and full-stack automation. It offers an intuitive and user-friendly web interface that helps developers build and monitor feature-rich platforms for enterprise Kubernetes environments.

=> ↺ How To Use the Touch Command in Linux: A Simple Guide

• Many Linux users, especially newbies, confuse the touch command for being the one that creates files. While it can do this, the command can do much more.  For example, if you use VPS hosting on your Linux machine, you can use the command to alter the timestamps of folders and files.

=> ↺ This Indicator Shows CPU, GPU, Memory Usage on Ubuntu 22.04 Panel

• There are several Gnome Shell extensions to display system resource usage in Ubuntu, but in this tutorial I’m going to introduce an indicator that works in not only GNOME, but also Unity, MATE, and Budgie desktop environments.

=> ↺ How to Test DNS Speed using Two Popular Tools on Windows and Linux

• How do you know which DNS server will offer the best speed? The answer is simple: you need to check and compare the speeds of various DNS servers to find out which one works best for you.

Games

=> ↺ Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer – Part 23: Ready, Set, Go!

• If you look at the commercial Linux gaming catalogue at the turn of the millennium, in amongst all of the 3D shooters and strategic simulations being released, one glaring omission seems to have been the lack of any racing games. Loki Software never ported any to Linux, nor did any of the other porting houses. This left a void for the free gaming community to fill.

=> ↺ Marvel’s Midnight Suns gets an update to help Steam Deck

• Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a great strategy game from the developer of XCOM, and now it should actually much better on Steam Deck.

=> ↺ Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now

• A free and open source survival sandbox game pack for the voxel game engine Minetest, MineClone2 is as close to Minecraft as you can get without playing Minecraft. A big new release has rolled out with version 0.82.0 with lots added.

=> ↺ Slavic fantasy-adventure The End of the Sun gets a demo

• In the mood for something just a bit different? The End of the Sun is a Slavic-fantasy adventure and you can try it out now.

=> ↺ Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory open source project ET: Legacy has a new release

• ET: Legacy continues carrying the torch of the classic multiplayer title Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, with a new release out that has lots of fixes.

=> ↺ Adventure puzzler Myst now Steam Deck Verified, will adjust graphics automatically

• Myst, the remake of the 1993 classic, has been updated and is now Steam Deck Verified so you can go and get as confused as I was by it.

=> ↺ GE-Proton 7-48 out now with updates to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton

• GE-Proton v7-48, the community supported version of the Proton translation layer, is out now with upgrades to various components to continue making Steam Deck and Linux gaming better.

Desktop Environments/WMs

=> ↺ Budgie 10.7 Release Brings in UX Improvements and New Tools

• We recently covered the key feature additions arriving with Budgie 10.7 release. And now, the new release has landed. There are impressive things that you can expect with the upgrade. Here are the highlights.

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ GNOME 44 Wallpapers

• As we gear up for the release of GNOME 44, let’s take a moment to reflect on the visual design updates.

• We’ve made big strides in visual consistency with the growing number of apps that have been ported to gtk4 and libadwaita, embracing the modern look. Sam has also given the high-contrast style in GNOME Shell some love, keeping it in line with gtk’s updates last cycle.

=> ↺ GNOME 44 Alpha is Out, Shaping Up to Be A Moderate Release

• GNOME 44 Alpha has been out for testing, offering the first sneak peek into the latest changes and improvements in this popular desktop environment. The GNOME desktop environment has long been a favourite among popular distributions.

• After I glance through the changes, I must say this release is high on under-the-hood bug fixes and optimizations. A few key native apps get major feature changes. However, GNOME Shell and mutter see moderate enhancements.

• Let’s take a look at the key features.

Distributions and Operating Systems

=> ↺ Escuelas Linux 8.0 Educational Distro Celebrates 25 Years of Promoting FOSS

• 

• Escuelas Linux 8.0 is dubbed as the 25th-anniversary edition of the Debian/Ubuntu/Bodhi Linux-derived GNU/Linux distribution and it’s available in two editions.

• The 64-bit edition is based on the upcoming Bodhi Linux 7.0 distribution, which in turn is derived from the well-tested Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) long-term supported operating system series. On the other hand, the 32-bit edition is based on Bodhi Linux 6.0 and its Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” base.

=> ↺ Joe Brockmeier: Poking at Distrobox

• I’m probably late to the party, butDistroboxhas to be one of the best open source projects to drop in the past few years.No matter which Linux distro I standardize on, there’s inevitably something I want to run that runs best or only on another distro. Or I just want to dip into a shell for $distro real quick to verify whether a certain package exists, or what the package name is, the default config for an application, etc.

• Or I’d like to run two instances of an application with different profiles, without having to set up a whole virtual machine.

• Distrobox provides an easy answer for many of those use cases. Distrobox lets you run “any Linux distribution inside your terminal.” There’s a slight asterisk next to “any” in the form of “the distribution has to have a ready made Docker container you can pull.” But the number of distros I’d like to run and the number of distros that don’t have an official container are few and far between. The only exception that comes to mind is Slackware, which has a container on Docker Hub but it hasn’t been updated in about 7 years.

Reviews

=> ↺ New Nitrux Not Up to UI Standards

• Overall, the NX desktop suffers from an identity crisis. It is confusing to use mainly because its KDE appearance is a shell with incomplete functionality. Easy things lack any straightforward navigational tools.

• I found Nitrux to be very unappealing. The developers could remove some of this bad user experience by providing a demo video or some on-screen quick-start details to provide initial orientation,

• The identity crisis does not subside quickly. It takes too much time to guess and discover otherwise hidden user functions. Experienced Linux users might keep playing around with Nitrux.

• I doubt newcomers will overcome the UI barriers, and I do not see this KDE retread called the NX desktop offering much for seasoned users who are used to high-end power features to get through their daily workload.

SUSE/OpenSUSE

=> ↺ SLE-Micro in the Public Cloud

• The time has arrived to get out of, what is probably one of the longest, ‘soft launch’ periods, and make the availability of SLE-Micro images in the Public Cloud more widely known.

=> ↺ December 2022: Giving Back Month at SUSE

• This blog is the first part of a series showcasing our people who are passionate about collaborating and engaging in projects, events, and activities outside of their traditional job scope. The SUSE Global Engagement Calendar is a company-wide communication channel that allows employees to participate in high-impact events and activities aligned to a specific theme

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ How to get buy-in on new technology: 3 tips

=> ↺ Digital transformation trends: What’s flourishing and what’s fading

=> ↺ Unlock your business potential with open leadership

• When a leader of any kind begins to take on transforming or modernizing their business, whether it’s a small team or an entire organization, it requires change in multiple directions.

=> ↺ Beyond the STIG: What hardening really means

• “Hardening,” as a software concept, is a common term but what the practice actually entails and why it matters for contemporary IT organizations is not often explored.

Debian Family

=> ↺ Debian and the adventure of the screen resolution

• Iread somewhere a nice meme about Linux: Do you want an operating system or do you want an adventure? I love it, because it is so true. What you are about to read is my adventure to set a usable screen resolution in a fresh Debian testing installation.

• The context is that I have two different Lenovo Thinkpad laptops with 16” screen and nvidia graphic cards. They are both installed with the latest Debian testing. I use the closed-source nvidia drivers (they seem to work better than the nouveau module). The desktop manager and environment that I use is lightdm + XFCE4. The monitor native resolution in both machines is very high: 3840×2160 (or 4K UHD if you will).

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 772

=> ↺ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 772

• Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 772 for the week of January 22 – 28, 2023.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Purism Places Purpose Over Profit

• Purism started in 2014 by crowdfunding a laptop with a vision to create a future that respects privacy, security, and freedom.

• We knew then that we wanted to compete with the largest technology companies and needed to stay true to our beliefs in protecting our customers.

• We knew that a regular C corporation requires maximizing shareholder value above all else. We knew that we needed to put our customers’ digital rights above our profits.

• There is an abundance of evidence showing large technology companies abuse their power to restrict and control their customers.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ US thinking of further tightening export curbs on Huawei: report

• Huawei had to confine itself to using the open-source version of Android, which has none of these apps. Google applied for an exemption to continue supplying Huawei, but did not get one. Microsoft was more successful, obtaining a waiver from the Department of Commerce to continue supplying the Shenzhen firm with its Windows operating system that Huawei uses on its laptops.

=> ↺ Google Play Games for Android gets its new icon

=> ↺ Bad batch of Android apps with millions of downloads discovered in Play Store — delete them now | Tom’s Guide

=> ↺ Millions of Android owners urged to learn ‘essential’ trick | The US Sun

=> ↺ People are only just realizing there’s an Android setting that makes your phone much kinder to your eyes | The US Sun

=> ↺ Android 13 is one of the weakest updates in Android history

=> ↺ Nokia G60 5G confirmed to be Android 13 compatible by Nokia Mobile now – Nokiapoweruser

=> ↺ BharOS versus Android: Everything to know about “desi” mobile OS in 5 points | The Financial Express

=> ↺ Best Android games like Dark Souls in 2023

=> ↺ New Samsung Galaxy S23 may have big advantage over its Android rivals | Express.co.uk

=> ↺ Google bans 12 popular Android apps! Millions must delete them now | Express.co.uk

=> ↺ Google TV is getting an Android homescreen widget

=> ↺ New, oddly familiar Google Play Games icon makes its debut on Android

=> ↺ OnePlus Could Be the Next Android Brand with Folding Smartphones

=> ↺ The teased Material You redesign of Fitbit on Android appears to have been scrapped or delayed – PhoneArena

=> ↺ Android 14′s Compatibility Shake-Up: What Apps Will be Affected?

=> ↺ LineageOS 20 brings Android 13 to Pixel 2 and 2 XL, plus more

=> ↺ Android 13-based LineageOS 20 arrives for the Google Pixel 2 family and more

=> ↺ The Fairphone 4 to finally receive Android 12 update on February 1 | Android Central

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

=> ↺ Firefox Nightly: A Variety of Improvements At January’s End – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 131

FSF

=> ↺ Executive Director Karen Sandler receives honorary doctorate from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

=> ↺ greedy lawyer

• Sandler was nominated by the student body in recognition of her outstanding work at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), her many years of FOSS leadership, and her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all.

Programming/Development

=> ↺ MicroBlocks is a visual programming IDE for 32-bit microcontrollers

• Most electronics education platforms have good documentation in English, but it may be more difficult to find details instructions in other languages. The good news is that MicroBlocks also offers a few tutorials in German, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish. The source code is available on Bitbucket which includes the Arduino/PlatformIO firmware for each supported board and the IDE written in GP Blocks.

• Another reason MicroBlocks project caught my eyes is that I had seen several people share something about “MicroBlock” (note: no “s”) on Facebook last week. But it happens to be a visual programming IDE for the KidBright32 education board in Thailand, and MicroBlocks and MicroBlock are completely separate open-source projects albeit with a similar use case… You’ll find more details about MicroBlocks on their website.

=> ↺ Reading & Parsing JSON Data with Python: A Simple Tutorial

• JavaScript Object Notation is a standard format mostly used by APIs and websites to store data objects using text. In simple words, JSON supports data structures that can represent objects as text. Also used in contemporary databases such as PostgreSQL, JSON is derived from JavaScript, as you might have already guessed. Though XML and YAML

=> ↺ Dirk Eddelbuettel: #39: Faster Feedback Systems – A Continuous Integration Example

• Today we have a fairly nice illustration of two aspects we have stressed before:

• Fewer dependencies makes for faster installation time (apart from other desirable robustness aspects); andUsing binaries makes for faster installation time as it removes the need for compilations.

Leftovers

=> ↺ Dear Pepper: Avert Your Eyes

• You can’t make eye contact when you feel that the world is coming at you through a fire hose.

=> ↺ An invitation to reconsider: The role of the actor

• In the third installment of “An Invitation to Reconsider,” Yonatan Laderman reflects on the concept of actor as “malleable vessel.” The actor, Laderman writes, must “learn to be faceless” so that they may “become everyone.”

=> ↺ Stuart Langridge: Ronin

• In 1701, Asano Naganori, a feudal lord in Japan, was summoned to the shogun’s court in Edo, the town now called Tokyo. He was a provincial chieftain, and knew little about court etiquette, and the etiquette master of the court, Kira Kozuke-no-Suke, took offence. It’s not exactly clear why; it’s suggested that Asano didn’t bribe Kira sufficiently or at all, or that Kira felt that Asano should have shown more deference. Whatever the reasoning, Kira ridiculed Asano in the shogun’s presence, and Asano defended his honour by attacking Kira with a dagger.

Science

=> ↺ More Effective and Efficient Fluid Filtration for Solution Sterilization

Education

=> ↺ Study: Finnish is taught needlessly as second language to many children

Hardware

=> ↺ Profit from Samsung’s memory chip business falls by a stunning 90%

• Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw its quarterly profit collapse after suffering a steep drop in demand for memory chips that resulted from consumers buying fewer electronic gadgets. In its fourth-quarter earnings results published today, the South Korean company revealed that profit from its semiconductor business fell by a stunning 90%, to just 270 billion won

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ COVID-19 Still Int’l Health Emergency: WHO

• The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO’s highest alert level.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Skype Linux App Gets Colour Options, Realtime AI Voice Translation

• Skype (remember that?) continues to release new updates of its desktop apps, including on Linux. In this post I look at what’s changed in the latest update.

Security

=> ↺ Wladimir Palant: Password strength explained

• The conclusion of my blog postson the LastPass breachandon Bitwarden’s design flawsis invariably: a strong master password is important. This is especially the case if you are a target somebody would throw considerable resources at. But everyone else might still get targeted due to flaws like password managers failing to keep everyone on current security settings.

• There is lots of confusion about what constitutes a strong password however. How strong is my current password? Also, how strong is strong enough? These questions don’t have easy answers. I’ll try my best to explain however.

=> ↺ Parent firm of Indian defence contractor hit by Windows Alphv ransomware

• The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.

=> ↺ Meet SH1mmer, the big bad Chromebook exploit no one is talking about

• SH1MMER, a dangerous new ChromeOS exploit that was released on Friday the 13th, has flown under the radar for two weeks….

=> ↺ The ultimate list of reactions to the Cyber Resilience Act

• The European Commission’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) as drafted may harm Open Source, and perhaps all other non-industrial software. A list of most relevant responses.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Is it finally time to get serious about enterprise data sharing?

• These days, when marketers and tech companies discuss digital transformation, they’re often talking about 5G deployments or digital twins. Whereas five years ago, when people talked about digital transformation or Industry 4.0, the focus was on data sharing and building out ecosystems.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ ‘Country of love’: Gandhi’s five-month opposition unity march ends in disputed Kashmir

• The march led by Rahul Gandhi, scion of the influential Gandhi family, sought to challenge what his party said was a “hate-filled” version of the country.

=> ↺ Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership — with Sweden

• When a reporter asked how long Finland could wait for Sweden, Haavisto said: “We have patience.”

=> ↺ Death Toll From Pakistan Mosque Suicide Bombing Rises to 83

• Pakistani officials say the death toll from the previous day’s suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 83

=> ↺ Russia Warns New US AMB Against Confrontational US Policy

• Sworn in on Jan. 9, Tracy is the first woman to occupy the post of U.S. Ambassador to Russia.

=> ↺ Biden Says “No” To Sending Fighter Jets to Ukraine

• President Joe Biden’s remarks came as debate picked up steam over whether to arm Ukraine, which has been in conflict with Russia for nearly a year, with Western-made fighter jets.

=> ↺ Opinion: It’s Time To Turn the Tables on Moscow

• Battle tanks don’t prevent negotiations, they set the conditions for them. The West’s decision to send Leopards to Ukraine shows a determination to see Kyiv win the war against the Russian aggressor.

=> ↺ Mass-market military drones have changed the way wars are fought

• Mass-market military drones are one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023. Explore the rest of the list here.

=> ↺ When might China invade Taiwan? Depends who you ask

• U.S. military leaders can’t seem to agree on a timeline for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

=> ↺ Kiribati says it will rejoin Pacific islands diplomatic grouping

• Kiribati’s exit from the Pacific Islands Forum last year had suggested it might tighten ties with China.

=> ↺ Self-Exiled Buddhist Leader Of Russia’s Kalmykia Resigns Over ‘Foreign Agent’ Label

• The self-exiled supreme lama of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, who was the first religious leader in the country who publicly condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, has announced his resignation.

=> ↺ Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong

• NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.

Environment

=> ↺ Climate warming threatens Lithuania’s oldest horse race

• The traditional Sartai Horse Race may be cancelled again this year. The weather has been too warm for a natural ice cover and the racetrack requires a major reconstruction. Neither the government nor the municipality wants to shoulder the costs.

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ Climate Fund invests €10 million in Norsepower for accelerating emissions reductions in the shipping industry

• has decided on a capital loan of at most 10 million euros to rotor sail manufacturer Norsepower for increasing its production capacity. Norsepower’s products save significant amounts of fuel and can enable emissions reductions measured in the millions of carbon dioxide tonnes during the next decade.

=> ↺ Huawei unveils a solar power backup product in South Africa. How good is it?

• Huawei held the Mate 50 launch in South Africa recently and while it was exciting that they are bringing their flagship devices to Africa, what was even more exciting was the other products around the launch. Namely their power backup solution in the form of the Huawei iSitePower-M.

Overpopulation

=> ↺ Thailand hands out 95 million condoms to beat STDs, teen pregnancy

• January 31, 2023 2:09 PM

• Thailand plans to distribute 95 million free condoms to curb sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy as the South-east Asian nation seeks to promote safe sex ahead of Valentine’s Day.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Meet the Man Who Brought You George Santos

• Chris Grant, the founder of Big Dog Strategies, consulted on more than a hundred Republican campaigns last year. His hero: Karl Rove.

=> ↺ A George Santos Guide to Lying

• Learning to fib with the New York congressman.

=> ↺ What Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did the Term Become So Powerful?

• For many on the right, the problems America faces mostly stem from wokeness, a word that means . . . what? David Remnick talks with a linguist of slang to unpack the power of a word.

=> ↺ A Close Rudy Giuliani Associate Alerted FBI’s Assistant Director to Charles McGonigal’s Alleged Albanian Graft

• A key potential witness against Charles McGonigal stayed in Rudy Giuliani’s guest room as the investigation against the former Special Agent in Charge developed.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ Insects in food give rise to Lithuania’s latest wave of conspiracy theories

• As the Covid pandemic and vaccination are losing their political salience, Lithuania’s conspiracy theorists have found a new topic: insects in food.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Journalist banned from Twitter says it’s important that users not self-censor

• In an exclusive interview with JURIST Friday, VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman, banned from Twitter in mid-December, said it is important that people not self-censor amid the turmoil surrounding Elon Musk’s newly-acquired social media platform.

=> ↺ Türkiye warns citizens of possible Islamophobic attacks following Quran burnings in Europe

• Türkiye warned its citizens Saturday about possible “racist, xenophobic and anti-Islam attacks… in the US and Europe following public burnings of the Quran in Denmark on Friday and in Sweden last weekend. In a press release, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in strongest terms what it called the latest “hate crime.”

=> ↺ NCAC and SPLC to co-host an online event on fighting for press freedom in U.S. high schools

• NEW YORK – Student journalists play an essential role in their schools by covering complex and, at times, controversial issues that aim to broaden interest in contemporary issues among their peers and community members.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ Prosecutors proceed with case against Vietnamese influencer

• Nguyen Phoung Hang used livestreams to criticize politicians and celebrities.

=> ↺ BBC coverage review finds too many journalists ‘lack understanding of basic economics’

• But the reviewers emphasised there was “plenty to applaud” in the BBC’s economics coverage.

=> ↺ Academic Freedom Lecture to feature N.Y. Times columnist

• Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s 32nd annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Aussie integrity rises in global rankings

• Australia’s global integrity ranking has risen after the Albanese government passed laws to set up a national anti-corruption watchdog. The annual Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International has registered a two-point increase for Australia to 75.

=> ↺ Philippines Department of Justice: ICC lacks jurisdiction to investigate death of civilians during war on drugs

• Secretary Jesus Remulla of the Philippines Department of Justice held a press conference Saturday regarding the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to authorize an investigation into the deaths of civilians..

=> ↺ Amnesty International calls for increased global action on Myanmar coup anniversary

• Amnesty International Monday called for increased global action and solidarity with the people of Myanmar on the two-year anniversary of the 2021 coup by the military junta or Tatmadaw.

=> ↺ Only 11% of Tunisia voters cast ballots in second round of parliamentary elections

• The Tunisian Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) Sunday announced that the total turnout of voters at the nation’s second round of parliamentary elections was estimated to be 11.3 percent.

Monopolies

=> ↺ Suddenly, everyone is gunning for Google

• Episode 440 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

=> ↺ Three New Supreme Court Cases:

• by Dennis Crouch

Patents

=> ↺ UPC sunrise functionalities practice period announced

• The Unified Patent Court has announced a practice period will be held from 13 tot 24 February 2023 to try out the CMS sunrise functionalities which, as of the first of March, will enable users to opt out European patents from the jurisdiction of the UPC.

=> ↺ Chamberlain Closes on Overhead Door

• The Chamberlain Group v. Overhead Door Corp., 21-CV-00084 (E.D. Tex. 2023)

• Overhead door won a jury verdict in this case back in March 2022.  However, Judge Gilstrap ordered a partial new trial because Overhead Door had failed to disclose key features of its products until just before trial. New Jury, New Verdict.

=> ↺ Newly Released GAO Report Shows Previous Leadership’s Improper Influence on PTAB and Need for Improved Transparency

• Many in the IP world suspected improper influence at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under former Director Andrew Iancu, previously a partner at a firm with a long history of representing non-practicing entities (NPEs). But a new final report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that covers Iancu’s tenure…

Software Patents

=> ↺ $2,000 awarded for IP Edge entity AdaptFlow Technologies home network patent prior art

• The ’064 patent generally relates to a home network system that personalizes the selection of information content and was asserted against Roku.

• We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

=> ↺ This is Bananas!

• So I will have to disagree with Telepta and allegedly also all monkeys (who would possibly indulge with my second objection and more experience cancelling my first).

=> ↺ 🔤SpellBinding — AELVSUO Wordo: COWLS

=> ↺ A Hopeful January

• It’s only Monday night and I’m already exhausted. But in the good way, I’m pretty sure. Figured I should write a quick informal post about the semester so far to help me process and unwind.

• Job searching has kept me busy but I feel like I’m still not quite able to put all the time into it that I’d need to see the results that I’d like. It’s tedious but I get some amount of enjoyment out of it and seeing some of the opportunities out there. I’m hoping the little bits of time I’ve been putting into the search will add up and eventually be enough to get some decent offers by the time I graduate.

• Job searching has also helped me appreciate all the skills I’ve collected. I feel like I’m in a good spot. It’s been great for motivation.

=> ↺ Memory vs Reason

• Me and Halo are so evenly matched at Baduk even though we have so opposite strengths and weaknesses that the other’s playstyle looks like magic.

• I’ve got a lot of tesuji and sabaki and proverbs and shape patterns so when he runs into a stone I’ve played five moves earlier he thinks I’m kidding when I say I placed it there for a reason.

• He on the other hand can estimate the score in a way that I just can not. I am always shocked when the scores come in whileche has a pretty good idea.

Technical

=> ↺ Eulogy for a Beautiful Disaster – Itanium, 2001-2013

• In November 2012, as part of the release of the new “Poulson” Itanium processors, Intel also announced details of Poulson’s successor, “Kittson” – and it was exciting. Kittson was supposed to share a socket and uncore with future Xeon-EX processors, and was intended to be built on Intel’s shiny new 22nm lithography. Specs were few on the ground, but Intel was making noise about doubling performance generation to generation, as they had with Poulson. Kittson seemed like a perfect fit for the future DragonHawk Superdomes, with a mix of Itanium and Xeon cells, and it seemed like Itanium was getting an extended roadmap and a soft landing, even without an HP-UX port.

=> ↺ Inbox Zero

• Since early 2000′s I used to manage email with Mozilla Thunderbird. At some point (around 2006, maybe?) a new interesting feature was added, something called now Saved Search[1]. Saved searches looked like folders, but instead of real paths, they stored a query and the results showed up as content. Just exactly as views work on relational databases.

=> ↺ Matrix To MMS-Over-Email Bridge: Step 2 — Matrix Over Email

• This step was considerably harder than the last, but the end result turned out to be pretty simple.

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=> ↺ 2023 Week 3/4: Thoughts and Photos

• I haven’t been posting many logs on Gemini recently, but Rob’s Capsule has been busy in other ways. I finally posted a beginner-friendly Rubik’s Cube solution guide in the “Twisty Puzzles” section of the capsule, as well as an example scramble to follow along with. I plan to continue expanding the puzzle section with solution guides and puzzle information, as well as a few other interactive puzzles.

=> ↺ Build a new capsule generator

• Just like almost every body who runs a static website, I have build and rebuild my own generator.

• It is part of the fun, I guess.

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=> ↺ Thoughts on Gopher

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