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GNU/Linux

Applications

=> ↺ CTparental: Linux Parental Control Software With Category-Based Website Filtering, Computer Usage Limits – Linux Uprising Blog

• CTparental is a free and open-source parental control software for Linux. It helps parents control their children’s online activities, such as the websites they visit, and the amount of time they spend on the computer.

• The tool uses a web UI to control its various settings, and it features blacklist / whitelist website filtering, computer access time, the ability to force safesearch for websites such as Google, YouTube, DuckDuckGo and Bing, and more.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How to Install elementary Tweaks Tool

• This quick tutorial demonstrates the steps to install elementary Tweaks tool/Pantheon Tweaks Tool. The elementary Tweaks tool is a handy utility specially designed for elementary OS. It gives you various options to change certain settings for elementary.

=> ↺ How to install and configure Redpanda on Ubuntu 22.04

• Redpanda is a Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform that boasts of being 10x faster and 6x more cost efficient. It is also JVM-free, ZooKeeper-free, Jepsen-tested and source available. It is distributed as a single binary with everything thus allowing you to deploy in minutes. It works natively with Kafka tools.

Games

ScummVM ☛ ScummVM 2.7.0: Call for testing!A few months have passed since we released ScummVM 2.6.1. It’s time to prepare for a new release!Our lovely developers added support, yet again, for a bunch of new ancient games that require testing:Soldier BoyzGLK Scott Adams Interactive Fiction games (C64 and ZX Spectrum)GLK Scott Adams adventures 1-12 (TI99/4A format)ObsidianPink Panther: Passport to PerilPink Panther: Hokus Pokus PinkDriller/Space Station OblivionHalls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II

=> ↺ Proton 7.0-6 Released with Support for UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection

• Proton 7.0-6 is here with support for new games, including the critically acclaimed UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection, as well as Gotham Knights, Heroes of the Dark, King under the Mountain, NinNinDays2, Super Arcade Racing, 雀姬 (Mahjong ladies), and Crazy Machines 3.

• This new Proton release also brings improvements to video games that were already supported, such as Septerra Core, Persona 5 Royal, Vampire Survivors, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Enemy Mind, Out There Somewhere, Zeepkist, Overcooked! All You Can Eat, Quake III: Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, Marvel Snap, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Scarlett Gately Moore: KDE Snaps, snapcraft, Debian packages.

• In the snap world, I have been busy trying to solve the problem of core20 snaps needing security updates and focal is no longer supported in KDE Neon.

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ Felix Häcker: #81 FOSDEM Weekend

• Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 27 to February 03.

=> ↺ Daniel García Moreno: Hackweek 2023

• Hack Weekis the time SUSE employees experiment, innovate & learn interruption-free for a whole week! Across teams or alone, but always without limits.

Distributions and Operating Systems

=> ↺ Escuelas Linux 8.0: A Major Upgrade for the 25th Anniversary

• Escuelas Linux is a unique distribution that focuses on the educational side of things, with the likes of Bodhi Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian powering it.

• It features a comprehensive set of educational software and resources that are of use to schools, colleges, and even universities.

• In a recent announcement, they introduced the 25th-anniversary edition of Escuelas Linux and also thanked the many people who contribute to the Linux ecosystem.

=> ↺ Back from holiday got some catching up to do

• I took one of my laptops, and did some work on EasyOS, but mostly was in holiday-mode. Here are commits for woofQ, I was away from Jan 26 to now:

• https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commits/b267f9a1f6daaf2bb8e342440de7e700b28e9884

• While away, thought a bit more about non-English translation, and just now have posed a question on the Puppy Forum:

• https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=7943

• Have lots of to-do notes scribbled on pieces of paper, will need to organize and prioritize them.

New Releases

=> ↺ Slax Linux 15.0.1 and 11.6: Experience the Power of Simplicity

• Using Fluxbox window manager, Slax is a minimalist, modular, and portable Linux distribution. It is designed to run from a USB stick or other removable media, making it easy to carry around and use on any computer. In addition, the distro has a small footprint and is customizable, allowing users to add or remove modules as needed to create a customized operating system.

• If you run Slax from a read-only media, such as a CD/DVD, it only saves system modifications in memory, which you lose when rebooting. However, if you start Slax from writable media, such as a USB drive, any changes to the operating system are preserved and restored the next time you boot.

• Yesterday, the distribution’s primary developer, Tomas Matejicek, announced the release of two new Slax versions. So let’s have a look at what’s new.

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ Fedora Community Blog: Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2023-05

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ Enable This Nautilus Setting to Move Files Faster on Ubuntu

• On Fedora I can drag a file over a folder in Nautilus and, if I don’t let go, the folder I’m hovering over opens right there, where I am, not in an extra window or a new tab. macOS also has a similar feature in its file manager Finder called “spring loaded folders” (and gives users options to control the hover duration to trigger it).

• Written out in words this feature sounds cumbersome, so here’s a GIF to demonstrate it…

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Your Android Phone is Turning Into a USB Webcam

=> ↺ Fairphone 4 gets its long overdue Android 12 update

=> ↺ Your Android phone may seamlessly work as a webcam with upcoming software update

=> ↺ Razer Edge: Teardown video reveals new Android gaming handheld internals following release – NotebookCheck.net News

=> ↺ OnePlus Ace 2 teased as brand-first “triple-chip” Android smartphons – NotebookCheck.net News

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

=> ↺ Carbonyl Lets You Use a Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal

• Browsing the internet in your terminal is cool, but limited. Image support can be sketchy, and JavaScript may as well not exist. If you plan on consuming media, you’re out of luck.

• Carbonyl is a Chromium fork for your terminal. It’s a full-fat browser that adheres to, and is compatible with modern standards, meaning that pages behave as they should, and you can even watch streaming video, within the Linux terminal!

Leftovers

=> ↺ Tech Power and Cooperation

=> ↺ Black Hand: The Devil Himself

• How an elite London night club fell under the control of an intelligence-linked sex blackmail agent, self-described satanist and antique dealer named Horace Dibben.

=> ↺ Lauded rebel fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88

• Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at age 88. The company that owns the Rabanne brand on Friday announced the death of the designer known for perfumes and metallic, space-age fashions. Fashion and beauty company Puig described Rabanne as a “visionary designer” and “among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century.” Rabanne’s fashion house shows its collections in Paris and is scheduled to unveil the brand’s latest ready-to-wear designs during the upcoming Feb. 27-March 3 fashion week. Coco Chanel reportedly called Rabanne “the metallurgist of fashion.” He used various kinds of metal in his designs, including the chain-like mail associated with Medieval knights.

=> ↺ Only 400 Russian citizens have registered for Latvian language test

• This year, thousands of citizens of the Russian Federation residing in Latvia will have to pass a language test to extend their residency permits in Latvia. The Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office (PMLP) has intended to send out reminders to all these people, which has caused some controversy in society, Latvian Television reported on February 2.

=> ↺ CORS, CORB, CORP, COOP, COEP, C…

• I recently watched“A Hipster History of CORS”, a talk from Strange Loop 2022 by Devdatta Akhawe, Head of Security at Figma. Devdatta does a great job of taking a complex, even boring, subject like CORS and weaves it into a funny, interesting narrative history. He connected many previously disparate dots in my head, making me go “Ah-ha! That’s why things are the way they are on the web.”

• For example, when working on myReadlistsproject, I ran into an issue where I couldn’t use JavaScript to read the contents of an image fetched from a third-party website. I couldn’t understand why there was a limitation there. “I fetch images all the time withbut I guess JavaScript’s not gonna let me?”

=> ↺ Office occupancy crosses 50%, a post-pandemic high

• Office occupancyhit a new post-pandemic record this week, at 50.4%, according to swipe data from Kastle Systems.

• Why it matters:Are the offices half-full or half-empty? Some executives might see crossing the 50% milestone as a sign of a comeback. But the figure has largely plateaued since September, hinting at a new reality where people work from home a lot more.

=> ↺ The Rise Of Cities In Eurasia

• The earliest large settlements didn’t have monarchs.

=> ↺ Seoul city to crack down on teen use of ‘room cafes’

• These businesses provide private spaces and simple food, but some teenagers are reportedly using them for sex and booze.

=> ↺ China hotel, catering job openings surge on post-Covid demand recovery

• There’s also high demand now for drivers, plane and train crews, and tourism and factory workers.

=> ↺ China to fully resume travel with Hong Kong, Macau on Feb 6

• Group tours between China and Hong Kong and Macau will resume.

=> ↺ The easy work option might not always be the best

• Inevitably, any career decision comes with a degree of uncertainty and risk. It is often our appetite for certainty that can derail us.

=> ↺ The workplace rights of arts workers can no longer be ignored

• The Albanese government’s new Centre for Arts and Entertainment Workplaces can strengthen the arts sector by improving the pay, safety and welfare of its workers.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Scientists Discover Ants Can Sniff Out Cancer in Urine

• This is incredible.

=> ↺ CYBER: One Man’s Obsession With Being 18 Forever

• Tech CEO Bryan Johnson wants to reverse the aging process. Is it even possible?

=> ↺ Brain health, concussions, sports: A long-term connection?

• The Michigan Alumni Brain Health Study will examine whether sport participation and concussions are associated with later-life brain health in former U-M athletes and nonathletes.

=> ↺ Most Americans support a tobacco ban

• The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of menthol cigarettes (62%), aCDC studypublished inPreventing Chronic Diseasefound.

• Driving the news:Researchers asked nearly 6,500 people in 2021 about what extent they might support prohibiting tobacco sales.

• What they’re saying:“These findings can inform federal, state, and local efforts to prohibit all tobacco product sales, including menthol cigarettes, reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related disparities, and advance health equity,” the researchers wrote.

Security

=> ↺ Feds say cyberattack caused suicide helpline’s outage

• A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials tell The Associated Press. Lawmakers are now calling for the federal agency that oversees the program to prevent future attacks.

=> ↺ Former Ubiquiti Employee Who Posed as Hacker Pleads Guilty

• Former Ubiquiti employee Nickolas Sharp has admitted in court to abusing company-provided credentials to steal data and then attempting to extort Ubiquiti.

=> ↺ Atlassian Warns of Critical Jira Service Management Vulnerability

• A critical authentication vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center allows attackers to impersonate users.

=> ↺ High-Severity Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in VMware Workstation

• VMware patches CVE-2023-20854, a vulnerability that can be exploited by a malicious hacker to delete arbitrary files.

=> ↺ Nonstop Health data and source code appear to have been leaked on hacking forum

• Nonstop Health offers health insurance solutions to employers who have more than 50 employees receiving benefits.

=> ↺ Exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite Vulnerability Starts After PoC Publication

• Critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability exploited in attacks shortly after PoC is published.

=> ↺ GoAnywhere MFT Users Warned of Zero-Day Exploit

• GoAnywhere MFT users warned about a zero-day remote code injection exploit that can be targeted directly from the internet

=> ↺ VMware workstation 17.0.1 fixes arbitrary file deletion issue – https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0003.html, (Fri, Feb 3rd)

=> ↺ Tallahassee Memorial hospital victim of suspected ransomware attack

• Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is postponing all non-emergency patient procedures as officials manage an Information Technology security issue that occurred late Thursday night, according to a memo from the hospital.

• As of 1 p.m. Friday, the hospital also had canceled non-emergency procedures for Monday, Feb. 6.

• The IT security breach is a suspected ransomware attack, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Manipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems

• Interesting research: “Facial Misrecognition Systems: Simple Weight Manipulations Force DNNs to Err Only on Specific Persons

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Latvia Says Traders Use Turkey, Kazakhstan, Armenia to Dodge Russia Sanctions

• By Andrius SytasVILNIUS (Reuters) – Traders are using Turkey, K

=> ↺ Bloomberg: Turkey could approve Finland’s Nato bid by March

• Finland has done enough to resolve Turkey’s security concerns, anonymous sources told the news agency.

=> ↺ Latvian sports officials criticize IOC’s “pressure and manipulation” over Russian athletes issue

• Representatives of Latvian sports organizations and athletes who participated in teleconferences organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) got the impression that IOC President Thomas Bach was aiming to achieve a result already decided upon – namely, to allow athletes from the aggressor states Russia and Belarus to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris next year.

=> ↺ The Islamic Republic is on the path to committing a mass atrocity. The world should pay attention.

• The persistent and systematic nature of the Baha’i experience strongly suggests that it would be worthwhile to freshly examination the community’s vulnerability in the current context to determine whether this already beleaguered community is at increased risk of larger-scale abuses.

=> ↺ Russian War Report: Satellite imagery indicates a build-up of air defense missile systems in southern Russia

• Satellite imagery suggests the build-up of air defense missile systems in southern Russia while Ukraine warns of a potential spring Russian offensive.

=> ↺ Chinese authorities impose communications crackdown on Tibetans in Drago county

• They are subjecting residents to random cell phone checks.

=> ↺ Lithuania threatens to boycott OSCE event if Russian MPs are invited

• The Lithuanian delegation will not take part in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly session, if Russian lawmakers are allowed to attend it, Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, who leads the Lithuanian the delegation, says.

=> ↺ Russian propagandist attacks Lithuania: ‘Why do we put up with their existence?’

• Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov on his TV show on the Rossiya-1 channel attacked Western countries supplying Ukraine with weapons and threatened that “they’ll give everything, until we deal with them harshly and clearly”, according to a report by Newsweek.

=> ↺ Bloody toll: At least 363 women killed in Myanmar by junta troops since coup

• The women died mostly from small arms fire, artillery blasts and torture.

=> ↺ Germany Confirms Approval Of Leopard 1 Tank Deliveries To Ukraine

• Germany has approved the export of Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine from industry stocks, a government spokesperson said on February 3 at a regular news conference in Berlin.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

=> ↺ D.C. Circuit Court rules that Justice Dept. Improperly Withheld Bureau of Prisons Records

Environment

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ EU Agrees On Price Caps On Russian Refined Oil Products

• European Union countries agreed to set price caps on Russian refined oil products to limit Moscow’s funds for its invasion of Ukraine, the EU said on February 3.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Police: Monkey thief charged with other crimes at Dallas Zoo

• Police say the man charged in the taking of two emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo has also been charged in two other recent incidents there involving holes that were cut in the fences for animal enclosures. Dallas police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said during a news conference Friday that 24-year-old Davion Irvin has been charged with two counts of burglary to a building in connection with the cutting of the enclosure fences for a clouded leopard and langur monkeys.

Finance

=> ↺ Japan’s workers haven’t had a raise in 30 years. Companies are under pressure to pay up

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=> ↺ The media got the layoff story wrong

• Today’sastonishing employment number—US government statisticians estimate more than half a million jobs were added to the economy, nearly three times what was expected—highlight the problem with coverage of corporate layoffs.

=> ↺ All the big tech layoffs of 2023

• The tech industry is reeling from the combination of a rough economy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and not to mention some obvious business missteps. And while that led to job cuts in 2022, the headcount reductions have unfortunately ramped up in 2023. It can be tough to keep track of these moves, so we’ve compiled all the major layoffs in one place and will update as the situation evolves.

=> ↺ Silicon Valley’s golden age is fading as Google, Meta cut workers

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Pressure and Fences: EU Wants To Seal Itself Off from Refugees

• More refugees are arriving in Germany than at any time in recent years, and districts and cities are overwhelmed. But the system for redistributing migrants among EU states is unlikely to be improved anytime soon, with leaders instead increasingly betting on deportations and exclusion.

=> ↺ Health, sex, money: Lord Rothermere toasts Daily Mail founder’s winning formula

• Despite the free-flowing champagne, on Tuesday night Rothermere appeared to be a beer man.

=> ↺ Twitter’s Latest Chaotic Move Will Kill the Site’s Best Bots, Account Owners Say

• From Virginia Woolf quotes, to anime, to images of fruit, bot account owners are saying their goodbyes as Twitter plans to charge for its API.

=> ↺ News UK proposes merger of Scottish Times and Sunday Times into seven-day operation

• A legal obligation for The Times and Sunday Times to remain separate was removed last year.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War

• Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to be a “dangerous organization.” The far-right paramilitary group grew out of the street gangs that helped topple Ukraine’s president in the US-backed 2014 coup.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ UK Train Unions’ New Strike Suspends Service Of 15 Lines

• “Train drivers have not had a pay rise in four years. What option do we have but striking?,” Workers’ leader Whelan said.

=> ↺ Helsinki saw ‘exceptional’ number of protests in 2022

• Protestors hit the streets to demonstrate about issues like Russia’s attack on Ukraine, climate change, as well as rising petrol prices.

=> ↺ Women in solidarity action call on Barutçu Tekstil boss: Reinstate laid-off workers

• Women workers were laid off in Barutçu Tekstil in Bursa after they joined a trade union. Feminist Rebellion Against Poverty and the women’s committee of the union visited the women who are on day 111 of their sit-in in front of the factory.

=> ↺ CEO departs firm at centre of Helsinki City salary debacle

• Some workers reported being underpaid, overpaid and even not being paid at all over the course of several salary cycles.

=> ↺ Study: Immigration needs tripling to maintain Finland’s labour force

• The business-backed think tank Etla Economic Research Institute calculates that yearly net migration of 44,000 people is needed to stabilize the size of Finland’s labour force.

=> ↺ Record waiting time in courts for victims seeking justice

• With case processing time having doubled since 2007, justice minister Peter Hummelgaard faced a barrage of criticism in Parliament

=> ↺ A Massachusetts bill could allow prisoners to swap their organs for their freedom

• This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. What is the value of a human organ? It’s a question that’s been on my mind since I heard about a disturbing proposed change to the law in Massachusetts that would allow…

=> ↺ Copenhagen changes name of new baby ‘mothers’ groups’ to allow groups with dads

• Neonatal mothers’ groups known as mødregrupper in Copenhagen will be given a new name, barselsgrupper (‘parental leave groups’) in a move that is hoped will get dads involved during their parental leave.

=> ↺ Italian PM Meloni in Stockholm to discuss migration with Swedish PM

• Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s Prime Minister, is visiting Stockholm on Friday to meet Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and discuss EU issues, including migration.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ Senate Passes Updated Bill C-11 as Heritage Minister Rodriguez Suggests Government Will Reject Any Amendments that Have an Impact

• Bill C-11 entered what may be its final phase yesterday with a near split screen: at the Prime Time conference held at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa was Heritage Minister Pablo Rodrigueztelling an industry audiencethat he would reject any Senate amendments that have an impact, stating “there are amendments that have zero impact on the bill and other that may have some and we will not accept them.”

=> ↺ Finland applies for EUR 61.5 million in EU funding for communications projects

• Finnish operators applyfor a total of EUR 61.5 million in funding from the European Commission under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for five communications projects. On 2 February 2023, the Ministerial Finance Committee endorsed the applications.

Monopolies

=> ↺ The FTC is preparing a wide-ranging antitrust lawsuit against Amazon

• The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) isreportedly preparingan antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.

=> ↺ What the YouTube strike means for Big Tech’s return to office plans

• A group of YouTube contractors went on strike today outside the Google office in Austin, Texas, after the tech giant announced a return to office by Feb. 6. The workers are employed by Cognizant, which is a subcontractor for Google parent company Alphabet.

=> ↺ YouTube Music workers strike at Google’s Austin offices

• YouTube Music workers in the Austin, TX area who voted to unionize are striking. TheAlphabet Works Union-CWA (AWU-CWA), which represents the contractors, says this is the first time a group of Google-affiliated workers has gone on strike.

• Cognizant, an Alphabet subcontractor, staffs the (more than 40) striking workers. They say Alphabet’s current return-to-office date of February 6th threatens their safety and livelihoods since their $19-per-hour pay makes it hard to afford relocation, travel and healthcare costs. The AWU-CWA says most contractors were hired to work remotely, and nearly a quarter of them don’t live in Texas.

=> ↺ Why Apple Watches Keep Calling 911

• Dispatchers for 911 are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned by skiers who are very much alive.

Trademarks

=> ↺ Trademark Registration: 100% THAT BITCH

• The phrase comes from Lizzo’s 2017 song Truth Hurts (remade in 2019) that has become a viral sleeper hit.  The original line in the song is “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch.” But Lizzo herself did not create the phrase. Rather, Lizzo apparently saw a social media meme about being 100% that bitch and then added it to her song.  The examining attorney concluded that “evidence that consumers may associate the phrase with the famous singer/song because it was a lyric in the singer’s song does not entitle the applicant as a singer-songwriter to appropriate for itself exclusive use of the phrase.”

• On appeal, the TTAB reversed the refusal.  Unlike patents and copyrights, trademark law is not designed to reward the creative endeavor of invention or authorship.

Copyrights

=> ↺ AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images

• Popular image generation models can be prompted to produce identifiable photos of real people, potentially threatening their privacy, according to new research. The work also shows that these AI systems can be made to regurgitate exact copies of medical images and copyrighted work by artists.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

=> ↺ Sitting in O’Hare

• The first part of my weekwas spent in Adams, Massachussets. I flew into Albany, New York on Sunday. Oddly, this location’s scenery reminded me of Colorado around the Glennwood Springs/Aspen area. Not an exact match, but it reminded me of it strongly. It makes sense since this too is a ski area.

• I stayed in a high rise hotel. Odd since I was in the small town of Pittsfield. I never expect to see a high-storey building in a small town. This hotel was very hostile to its guests especially with the parking situation. The parking garage was closed “for renovations.” I put that in quotes because there were no construction workers to be found the entire time I was there. The available parking was a block away at a bank. They “offered” valet service for the parking. I put that in quotes because the valet service started at 0730 and I had to be out and about before that every single day I was there.

=> ↺ Fountain Pens

• Recently I have gone fountain pen mad. It all started from seeing the Muji fountain pen. It is an aluminium affair which has a knurled pen grip area and feels very industrial chic. At a low low price of 18, it was a bit of a no brainer. Something clicked and I felt a need to find out more. Queue reading reviews and watching videos. Then I fell into the rabbit hole.

=> ↺ Album #165: Let’s Stay Together

• Al Green pops up frequently enough on DJ Time Traveller’s weekly radio show that I’m familiar-ish, but this was the first album I’ve listened to. It’s starts strong and keeps going. His voice is versatile. The instrumentation never veers too far in to sappiness, nor does it ever really take centre stage. From start to finish, it’s a pleasure to listen to.

=> ↺ minimalism

• Perhaps one problem with minimalism isn’t what it removes, but what it leaves: the computer, with all it’s storage, and access to the internet. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not one for rolling back the internet, but I am one for not being sucked into and controlled by the internet. How do we solve this?

=> ↺ Learn better

• Better learning is not reading a book in order it’s going backwards in a course when you’re not sure it’s writing to the author when you think he’s wrong It’s summarising

Technical

=> ↺ Finally, I switched over to OpenBSD

• I have been wanting to move my daily driver over to one of the BSDs for some time now, I have written in the past about my experience’s with FreeBSD [0]. At the time, the limiting factor was the hardware I was running and the issues that caused. However, now that I have the mini-pc new hardware I thought this would a good week to try it out. One evening I took the plunge, backed up $HOME on my current Alpine Linux setup and installed OpenBSD. It was super simple, and I was up and running in a shell within 15 minutes.

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ Getting rid of google: The really easy stuff and why I may have wrote my previous post a bit too fast

• So I haven’t updated in a bit, but I still wanted to start things off by finishing my series of posts on getting rid of google and reduce internet surveillance.

• Here, I’ll discuss hoping out of Youtube (well, more or less) and Gmail and explain where I really was too hasty last time, before giving some first thoughts on it all.

=> ↺ Zaibatsu downtime notice

• On Saturday the 11th of February, the Mare Tranquillitatis People’s Circumlunar Zaibatsu (zaibatsu.circumlunar.space) will be taken offline for an operating system upgrade. This phlog (and all the others hosted here!) will obviously be unavailable during this time. I will endeavour to keep the Gopher downtime as short as possible!

=> ↺ And into February

• I originally started this entry at 09:40 this morning, because I knew I’d be too tired this evening after work. Here I am finishing the entry at 21:27. It has been this way lately: finish work, have dinner, then tea, entertain two cats, and then it’s time for bed. I must be getting old, because I’m usually awake quite early, therefore I go to bed early.

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