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GNU/Linux

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #236

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 1005

Applications

=> ↺ Alan Pope ☛ Alan Pope: Simple RSS Mastodon Bot

• Linux Matters I recently started presenting Linux Matters podcast with my friends Martin Wimpress and Mark Johnson.

• In episode 4 (that link will only work once the episode is released) I briefly talked about some simple bots I setup on the Ubuntu Social Mastodon instance (which, incidentally I talked about in episode 1).

=> ↺ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

• Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch Ubuntu 23.10, the Mantic Minotaur, as planned, to use the CUPS Snap as its printing system and the Printer Application Snaps as drivers for non-IPP-driverless printers.”

=> ↺ Jan Grulich: PipeWire camera support in Firefox

• We finally reached a major milestone with Chromium 110, which was a release where we finally got screen sharing enabled by default on Wayland, and since then you no longer have to go into the preferences and enable the flag you need. That doesn’t mean my work there is over, but I’ve shifted my focus to something related but slightly different and that is PipeWire camera support.

=> ↺ Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2023

• Improve PGP/GPG encryption support: the project aims to enhance the experimental PGP/GPG encryption support in LibreOffice by addressing several shortcomings, such as the need to select recipients anew for every save and the difficulty in finding the right keys.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] How I set up a server for testing new Grafana versions and other things

=> ↺ It’s FOSS ☛ How to Update Snap Packages in Ubuntu

• Snap packages are automatically updated. But you can still control the updates manually. Learn all about Snap updates here.

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] How to install Microsoft Fonts on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] How to install FreeOffice on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] How to install Wire Desktop on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] How to install Sublime Text on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] How to install WPS Office 2019 on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ DebugPoint ☛ Enable Fractional Scaling in Fedora with GNOME

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS introduced fractional scaling in 2020 by introducing 100%, 125%, 150%, 175% and 200%. It is available in Settings under the Display page.

• But in the Fedora workstation with the default GNOME desktop, only 100% and 200% scaling are available.

Desktop Environments/WMs

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ Emmanuele Bassi: Configuring portals

• One of the things I’ve been recently working on at Igalia is the desktop portals implementation, the middleware layer of API for application and toolkit developers that allows both sandboxed applications to interact with the host system. Sandboxing technologies like Flatpak and Snap expose the portal D-Bus interfaces inside the sandbox they manage, to handle user-mediated interactions like opening a file that exists outside of the locations available to the sandboxed process, or talking to privileged components like the compositor to obtain a screenshot.

• Outside of allowing dynamic permissions for sandboxed applications, portals act as a vendor-neutral API for applications to target when dealing with Linux as an OS; this is mostly helpful for commercial applications that are not tied to a specific desktop environment, but don’t want to re-implement the layer of system integration from the first principles of POSIX primitives.

=> ↺ Medium ☛ Gotam Gorabh: GSoC 2023 [Week 1 Report]: Create a New “System” panel in GNOME Settings

• Project Title: Create a New “System” panel in GNOME SettingsMentor : Felipe BorgesContributor : Gotam Gorabh

• This summer I’m working on a project titled Create a New “System” panel in GNOME Settings, which aims to create a New System panel. This blog summarizes my progress during the bonding period and the first week of the Google Summer Of Code 2023.

Distributions and Operating Systems

=> ↺ Barry Kauler ☛ How and why EasyOS is different page updated

• Easy keeps evolving and the documentation falls behind. As the “How and why EasyOS is different” page may be the first stop for those checking out Easy, I have updated it:

• https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.html

• Tomorrow afternoon, after returning from a family engagement, plan to do a complete recompile in OpenEmbedded, updating many packages.

• After that, some sanity testing, then likely to release Easy 5.3.2. We can test that, with a view to releasing 5.3.3 that will be announced on Distrowatch. That’s the plan anyway.

Debian Family

=> ↺ Jonathan Carter: MiniDebConf Germany 2023

• This year I attended Debian Reunion Hamburg (aka MiniDebConf Germany) for the second time. My goal for this MiniDebConf was just to talk to people and make the most of the time I have there. No other specific plans or goals. Despite this simple goal, it was a very productive and successful event for me.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Linux Gizmos ☛ Cortex M0 based dev kit is equipped with barometric air pressure sensor

• The DPS310/368 Kit2Go from Infineon is a low-cost development board powered by the XMC100 industrial microcontroller. The compact embedded board can be quickly integrated into IoT and embedded applications since it supports the Arduino IDE platform.

=> ↺ Linux Gizmos ☛ Milk-V Mars single board computer features RISC-V StarFive processor

• The Milk-V Mars is a new single board computer built on the StarFive JH7110 RISC-V processor.

=> ↺ Fabio Alessandro Locati: Fedora on Pine64 ROCKPro64

• Recently, I was looking for a couple of Single Board Computers (SBCs) for a project I’m working on. Given the characteristics I was looking for, there were not many options; in the end, I opted for the ROCKPro64 by Pine64.

• Once I received the SBC, I immediately tried to put Fedora on it. The process proved slightly more complex than I was expecting since I assumed that U-Boot (or some other boot loader) was already present on the board.

=> ↺ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2023): A slow week

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Liliputing ☛ Lenovo Tab Extreme now available (high-performance, high-price Android tablet) – Liliputing

=> ↺ XDA ☛ Contacts synced with your Google account may suddenly disappear from your Android phone, but it’s reversible

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ ARM’s latest CPUs push Android phone makers toward 64-bit only devices | Engadget

=> ↺ Gadget Bridge ☛ Best 6 Ways to Take Screenshots and Share Them on Android

=> ↺ Android Police ☛ Android 14 Beta 2.1 is causing issues with the Google Camera app

=> ↺ Giz China ☛ Beware of this malware that can hack your Android device

=> ↺ WCCF Tech ☛ Google Has Changed How Contacts Sync on Android and People Aren’t Going to Be Happy

=> ↺ Gadget Bridge ☛ [Working] Fix Qualcomm Crash Dump Mode on Android phones: Best 3 ways

=> ↺ Phone Arena ☛ Why is your Android phone so slow? Doesn’t matter, here is how to fix it! – PhoneArena

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ How To Turn Any Article Into A Mini-Audiobook With This New Android Feature

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ FSFE ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] Interoperable Europe Act: Committee of the Regions fails to substantially promote Free Software

=> ↺ 2023-05-24 [Older] FLOSS Weekly 733: Open Source Science – Tim Bonnemann, Open Source Science

Content Management Systems (CMS)

=> ↺ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe Brockmeier: WordPress, poster child of the LAMP stack, turns 20

• WordPress turned 20 over the weekend. Older than that, if you count the b2 codebase WordPress forked from. 20 years for a project is quite an accomplishment, but WordPress hasn’t merely survived for 20 years. The open source CMS powers a huge chunk of the Internet and has shown how commerce and community can coexist successfully for the long haul.

• It’s hard to convey how impressive WordPress was when it was launched, if you haven’t dabbled with the CMSes of the time. By the time WordPress 1.0 was released, I’d fussed with static site generators (Blosxom), phpWebLog, and even Slashcode. Standing up a CMS on shared hosting was non-trivial.

• Here was WordPress. Easy to install, easy to use, ran well on minimal hardware if you didn’t have heavy traffic, and entirely free. It was just a few steps and you could have a blog running in five minutes on a shared hosting account. You could have a site set up in an hour if you were happy with a stock theme.

Leftovers

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] A Tennessee County Misuses Opioid Funds

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Green Party response to Keir Starmer’s speech on the future of the NHS

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis Too

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Don’t Chug Poppers, FDA Warns

=> ↺ HRW ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Universal Social Security Can Reduce Poverty, Inequality

Proprietary

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] OpenAI CEO rolls back threat to quit Europe over regulation [Ed: Microsoft blackmailing countries]

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] YouTube Stories are going away on June 26th

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Long Story Short: YouTube Stories Are Shutting Down

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] 10 Horror Movies That Will Make You Log Off Social Media, Possibly Forever

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] YouTuber Ordered to Read His Defamation Sentence Every Week on Camera

=> ↺ Variety ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] YouTube Pitching Advertisers on Unskippable 30-Second Ads for TV Content

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] Anti-regime activists in Canada accuse Cuba of using YouTube channel to intimidate them

=> ↺ EIN Presswire ☛ Ace Cloud Introduces Advanced Linux VDI Services for Enhanced Virtual Desktop Experience

Privatisation/Privateering

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Greens urge radical railway rethink as Transpennine Express enters last week of contract

Security

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] CISA Releases One Industrial Control Systems Advisory

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] CISA Warns of Hurricane/Typhoon-Related Scams

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] CISA and Partners Update the #StopRansomware Guide, Developed through the Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF)

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Hitachi Energy’s AFS65x, AFS67x, AFR67x and AFF66x Products

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Hitachi Energy’s RTU500 Series Product

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC Series CPU module

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Horner Automation Cscape

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Moxa MXsecurity Series

=> ↺ CISA ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory Guidance detailing PRC state-sponsored actors evading detection by “Living off the Land”

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Amazon’s Palm-Scanning Tech Also Knows How Old You Are

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] You can now use Amazon’s palm-reading tech to buy alcohol

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Africa Day 2023: Remembering the Past and Looking for a Better Future

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Africa needs peace and stability to develop, says AU Chairperson Assoumani

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Thinking the ‘unthinkable’: How China could change Canada’s conversation about nuclear subs

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] BRICS Membership: A Game-Changer for Saudi Arabia’s Economy?

Environment

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] Video: Shell shareholders meeting cut short as security carry climate activists away

=> ↺ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Role of Renewable Energy in Mitigating Climate Change as part of Saudi Vision 2030 [Ed: The biggest polluters do the biggest greenwashing; person X promises climate response by [some year X is already retired or dead]]

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Almost 1580 XR climate activists arrested on A12, 40 prosecuted

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Netherlands: Police arrest 1500 climate activists at protest

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] One XR climate activist still detained, other 48 activists released

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] XR climate activists want to block A12 in The Hague, about 3000 protesters expected

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] UN numbers say meat is bad for the climate. The reality is worse.

=> ↺ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] John Kerry highlights role of China in dealing with climate change

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] Canada’s Prairies Are on Fire. The Time for Bold Climate Action Is Now.

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] In-N-Out — and the Whole California Business Lobby — Is Fighting a Landmark Climate Bill

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Spain Runs on Green Energy for 9 Hours for First Time

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] South Africa braces for winter with severe power outages

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Green Party response to new Ofgem price cap

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Amazonia and the World

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] The secret world of moss, ancient ancestor of all plants and vital for the health of the planet

Overpopulation

=> ↺ Vox ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Why the new Colorado River agreement is a big deal — even if you don’t live out West

Finance

=> ↺ Thousands of employees may be laid off in Rolls Royce, emphasis on making operations economical

• Aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce is planning to lay off thousands of employees. The company hired consultants led by McKinsey & Co. to advise the company on the issue.

• According to the information, the company plans to lay off 3,000 non-manufacturing staff out of the total number of its employees present all over the world. Apart from laying off employees, the company plans to merge its non-manufacturing departments. The company has civil aerospace, defense, and power systems divisions in non-manufacturing. Through this, the company wants to make its operations economical.

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Canada’s competition rules under review as fed-up consumers face high prices and few choices

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Greens respond to Chancellor’s statement on recession being a price worth paying

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Greens pledge to bring democracy to private sector housing and end feudal leaseholds

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Banks in the Netherlands still not doing enough to fight tax avoidance

=> ↺ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] The Aussie who turned Morgan Stanley into a ‘killer machine’

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Hong Kong political party disbands amid China crackdown

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Taiwan says Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through strait

=> ↺ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Greens call for compassionate and rational approach to migration

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Keir Starmer Is Keeping New Labour’s Authoritarianism Alive

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Germany’s new, ‘holistic’ national security strategy delayed again

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Amsterdam streets renamed by activists in protest against TikTok queues

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Ron DeSantis’s Censors Go After Inspirational Poem About Unity

=> ↺ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] White House, Advocates Slam Florida School’s ‘Censorship’ of Inauguration Poem

=> ↺ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Censorship at the American Psychological Association

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Belarus court rejects appeal from journalist Andrzej Poczobut

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Amazon again accused of breaking labor laws at unionized warehouse

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] Unions Can Organize High-Turnover Workplaces

=> ↺ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Rust out: why boredom at work can be harmful and what employers can do about it

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] For Airline Workers, a Willingness to Strike Gets the Goods

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Lululemon promises 2,600 new jobs after exemption from some immigration rules

=> ↺ France24 ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] ‘Daughters of Anarchy’: Iranian women fight for the right to ride motorbikes

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] In Turkey, the Real Opposition Is on the Left

Monopolies

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] As of today, Microsoft could consummate the Activision Blizzard purchase without fear of sanctions from a U.S. court: investment bank Macquarie recommends going ahead [Ed: It’s quit revealing that Microsoft pays Florian for shilling again]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] As of today, Microsoft could consummate the Activision Blizzard purchase without fear of sanctions from a U.S. court: investment bank Macquarie recommends going ahead [Ed: It’s quit revealing that Microsoft pays Florian for shilling again]

Patents

=> ↺ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Entry into force of the Unitary Patent package appears as a risky bet’ [Ed: Much worse: it's illegal. This will bruise the EU very badly, as EPO corruption crosses over to it.]

=> ↺ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Unfortunate’ that rules for judges Unified Patent Court came so late [Ed: No, it's illegal. This entire system is illegal and it will explode, sending the EU into a crisis.]

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] Judge Newman and the On-Going Attempts to Remove Her from the Federal Circuit

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] Ericsson strikes down patent underlying KPN’s $32 million jury verdict from August 2022: PTAB invalidates all challenged claims

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s reforms of discretionary denial rules are fair and balanced: abuse of all sorts must be curbed, including extortion and circumvention of litigation estoppel

=> ↺ 2023-05-24 [Older] The Quest for an “Artificial Intelligence” Inventor [Ed: Stupid buzzwords misused by the patent litigation fanatics]

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Optis v. Apple FRAND ruling could be delayed by Justice Marcus Smith’s new merger case (Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard); GenghisComm sues Toyota over SEPs; updates on Nokia-OPPO, KPN-Ericsson

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28 [Older] Europe grapples with Last Generation climate protests

Software Patents

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Google fined $32.5 million for infringing on Sonos patent

=> ↺ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Avanci Broadcast patent pool adds ETRI, KPN, NEC, NERC-DTV, thereby increasing coverage of ATSC 3.0 standard-essential patent families to 80%

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