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⦿ Scientific Excellence and the Debian Social Contract | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 13, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Gemini Clients: Comparing Moonlander, Telescope, Amfora, Kristall, and Lagrange (Newer and Older) | Techrights
⦿ 2022 Starts With Censorship of Christmas and Other Greetings at the EPO | Techrights
⦿ White House Asking Proprietary Software Companies That Add NSA Back Doors About Their Views on ’Open Source’ Security | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/debian-social-contract/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/irc-log-130122/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/moonlander-telescope-amfora-kristall-and-lagrange/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/munich-staff-representatives-censored/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/white-house-security-theatre/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/easyos-3-2-1/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/ffmpeg-5-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/14/opensuse-leap-15-2-eol/#comments
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✐ Scientific_Excellence_and_the_Debian_Social_Contract⠀✐
Posted in Debian, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 9:53 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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Corporate Politics in Debian
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/debian-injustice.webm
Summary: The Debian Project turns 30 next year; in spite of it being so
ubiquitous (most of the important distros of GNU/Linux are based on Debian) it
is suffering growing pains and some of that boils down to corporate cash and
toxic, deeply divisive politics
THE Debian_Project, despite the widespread adoption of GNU/Linux globally,
certainly isn’t going through easy times. The Debian_Social_Contract ought not
be undermined by political hacks (pseudo-tolerance); it should prioritise
science. Yesterday, for the second_time_in_a_row, Debian revealed that it had
only recruited one Debian Developer per month. As I show in the video above, in
past years and even some recent years they could recruit half a dozen or more
per month. Last night Dr._Norbert_Preining sadly announced that he would leave
many Debian packages orphaned; those of us who use Debian know just how
important those packages are (even KDE!) and finding a person to fill his shoes
would be very difficult as he’s very experienced.
“Suppression of speech in the name of appeasing passive-aggressive bullies is
always a bad strategy.”But his decision did not exactly shock me. Going a few
years back, he said that his “demotion to Debian Maintainer is – as far as I
read the consitution [3], the delegation of DAM [4], and the DAM Wiki page
about their rights and powers [5], not legit since besides expulsion there is
not procedure laid out for demotion, but I refrained from raising this for the
sake of peace.”
They did the same thing to Daniel Pocock and then acted all shocked when he was
upset, especially considering the fact that this was done as retribution for
his FSFE ‘whistleblowing’ (telling Fellows, as their elected representative,
that the FSFE wasn’t giving them their money’s worth). The attacks on Dr.
Preining left him bruised as colleagues were choosing sides along superficial
lines. People who didn’t (and still don’t) write any code were sucking the fun
out of the project and sucking the life out of the community by dividing it
along lines such as “pronouns”, not technical work. The video above goes
through some of the events that interjected toxic politics into this technical
project, causing scientists such as Preining to gradually lose interest, at
least judging by the frequency of his posts in recent years.
Debian needs to regain stability, not by gagging people but by re-evaluating
the way it treats dissent. Suppression of speech in the name of appeasing
passive-aggressive bullies is always a bad strategy.
“I presume it is part of the sea change in the project that occurred with the
TC takeover / intrigue which shoehorned 4th place choice, systemd, throughout
the distro,” an associate of ours noted yesterday. “There have been many other
scandals since then. There are two conflicting situations affecting all
potential developers there and elsewhere. One is that volunteer project members
want to focus on the code and not CoCs and other barriers to focusing on the
code. The other is, as RMS points out, you can ignore the politics but the
politics won’t ignore you. Those two facts cause problems where they collide.”
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_January_13,_2022⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 7:17 am by Needs Sunlight
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Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 9:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Comparing Six Gemini Clients
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/six-gemini-clients.webm
Summary: There are many independent implementations of clients (similar to Web
browsers) that deal with Gemini protocol and today we compare them visually,
using Techrights as a test case/capsule
THE Gemini “newcomers” often ask what to download rather than how to install or
set up one’s own Gemini capsule (this typically comes next). So we habitually
present the differences between Gemini clients, which target different kinds of
users with different needs, platforms (operating systems), and system capacity
(some lack a GUI and cannot even attach a screen; some are literally blind).
Well, the latest addition to the ‘gallery’ is Kristall, which is thus far our
favourite Gemini client because of its decent GNU/Linux (and Qt) integration,
not to mention built-in support for some very rudimentary HTML. Kristall is
officially packaged for OpenBSD and select GNU/Linux distros.
“Kristall is officially packaged for OpenBSD and select GNU/Linux distros.”The
video above shows Moonlander, Telescope, Amfora, Kristall, and Lagrange, of
which I have multiple versions installed. In the video the earlier version
Lagrange is shown before the recent one. Lagrange is being developed quite
frequently and quickly, whereas Kristall was last worked on back in November.
There are other clients such as Castor, which was last updated 4 months ago.
This_one was last updated 10 hours ago.
At the time of writing Lupa_is_aware_of_1,590_active_capsules, so it’s very
likely this count will exceed 1,600 some time in the weekend. █
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✐ 2022_Starts_With_Censorship_of_Christmas_and_Other_Greetings_at_the_EPO⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 7:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇SUEPO_et_al_censored⦈_
Benoît_Battistelli 'deleted' holidays and António_Campinos is ‘finishing the
job’
Summary: The nihilists who run the EPO want a monopoly on holiday greetings; to
make matters worse, they’re censoring staff representatives in their intranet
whilst inconsistently applying said policies
THE FOLLOWING message was circulated earlier this week by the Local Staff
Committee Munich (LSCMN) and sent around by members of SUEPO. So naturally, as
usual, a copy landed on our lap, alleging “Censorship of Christmas wishes”.
“So people out there can see what sort of chronic sociopaths and liars we’re
dealing with here.”At the “[e]nd of 2021,” the message said, “the Local Staff
Committee Munich (LSCMN) requested the sending of a mass-email on Office email
addresses to share its Christmas greetings to staff. The Office rejected the
request and answered: “the Office does not send mass e-mails with Christmas
greetings to staff but posts a Christmas message on its website. You are kindly
invited to adopt the same approach on your intranet page.” Shortly afterwards,
Ms Romano-Götsch and Mr Menidjel sent their own greetings by_mass-email to
staff. Once again, the Office applies double standards. We hope that in 2022
the Office will put an end to unnecessary and arbitrary censorship of the staff
representation and become a modern and open organisation worthy of the 21st
Century.”
So people out there can see what sort of chronic sociopaths and liars we’re
dealing with here. As a reminder, Romano-Götsch elevated her career by propping
up a dictator; staff still loathes her for it. How’s this_one for a shameless
and deliberate lie?
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇EPO quality lies⦈
Here’s the full publication from Munich Staff Representatives:
Personalausschuss München
Staff Committee Munich
Le Comité du Personnel de Munich
Munich, 12.01.2022
sc22001mp
§ Censorship of Christmas wishes⠀➾
Unhappy ending to 2021 – Happy New Year to everybody in 2022!
Dear colleagues,
For staff the final months of 2021 were full of disappointment:
- A Salary Adjustment of 0% (which corresponds to a real-terms cut in
salaries of up to 5% because of inflation);
- Plans to abolish Flexitime (a system which requires minimal
administrative effort, does not cost a dime to the Office, and is
well appreciated and frequently used by staff);
- No progress on Fixed-Term Contracts (an unfair system for a
vulnerable younger generation: Just imagine being on a contract when
the next Coronavirus crisis comes).
During the very last days of 2021 we were disappointed yet again.
This_is_what_happened: In these times of greatly-reduced personal
contact the Local Staff Committee Munich thought it would be nice to
email Christmas wishes to all our colleagues in Munich and to inform
them about our plans to organise a General Assembly.
The reply by the Office was not what we expected:
“Please be informed that the Office does not send mass e-
mails with Christmas greetings to staff but posts a
Christmas message on its website. You are kindly invited to
adopt the same approach on your intranet page.” (Email from
the Administration, 16.12.2021)
Censorship yet again! Furthermore, we are not sure how to reconcile
the statement “the Office does not send mass e-mails with Christmas
greetings“with the fact that shortly afterwards both Roberta Romano-
Götsch and Razik Menidjel sent Christmas wishes en masse:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Mass_E-mails_at_EPO⦈_
Unfortunately,_the_absurdness_does_not_stop_here: A similar request
by the Berlin Local Staff Committee to email Christmas wishes to
their colleagues was actually approved by the Administration.
We have, of course, asked the Office for the reasons for all these
inconsistencies. So far we have not received any answer.
One_of_our_wishes_for_2022: That the Office will put an end to
unnecessary and arbitrary censorship and become a modern and open
organisation worthy of the 21st Century.
Happy New Year to Everybody!
Your Staff Committee Munich
What a way to start the year, eh? We’ll soon publish The EPO’s Overseer/
Overseen Collusion parts XXXXI and XXXXII. █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣽⣭⣭⣷⣼⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠒⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠓⠒⠒⠒⠒⢺⣍⣽⣭⣹⡱⠒⠒⠶⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣤⣶⠀⠐⠛⣿⠛⢿⣆
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠁⢿⣙⠛⠿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣭⣭⢿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⢿⣫⣛⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡜⡀⢸⢛⣛⡿⢿⠹
⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣷⠀⠉⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣶⢶⡇⠀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢯⡽⣿⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠇⠈⢳⣿⡶⠏⢀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠉⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠒⠒⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣺⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠀⠀⠀⡄⢰⣆⡀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠲⣶⣾⠀⠀⠀⢰⣷⣼⣾⠁⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡿⣛⣲⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⡟⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠄⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⠶⠦⠤⢤⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⠿⠁⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣷⠀⢀⣀⢀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣀⣀⣀⠀⢠⣶⣶⣄⣀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣿⡿⠿⠟⠷⢿⣋⣛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣐⣲⣀⠀⠘⣻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢊⣩⣴⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣤⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⡄⠈⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠷⠶⠶⠶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⢿⡿⠿⠿⠗⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢽⣛⣛⣻⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⠿⠷⢶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠻⠽⠿⢿⣿⡛⠹⡶⠶⠿⣭⠉⡽⡟⠛⣛⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣈⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣬⣍⣉⣉⣛⡛⠛⢻⠿⠿⠶⢿⣿⣿⣿⡦⠀⢠
⣿⠶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⡉⠀⠀⠐⠒⠃⠠⠈⠐⡓⡛⣛⡇⠶⠿⠯⢭⡽⣟⣛⣛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡖⠀⠀⠟⠈⠿⠅⠀⠈
⣿⠀⠘⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⡄⣤⣀⣉⠉⠀⠐⠲⠶⠒⢉⣩⣭⣍⡻⢛⣳⣾⣿⣽⣽⣿⣟⣛⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣤⣴⣤⣀⡀⢀
⣿⠀⠀⠈⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡇⢹⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⡛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣽⣿⣟⣻⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠀⠀⠀⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⢸⢿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡄⢨⣍⣉⣉⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣖⣂⣸
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣼⣵⣶⢹⢻⡟⣿⡟⡇⡗⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⡗⡟⣿⣿⣿⠟⡟⣿⣿⣻⣽⣿⣻⢟⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⠿⠝⡟⣯⣫⢻⡯⢿⡟⣟⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣯⣺⣼⣥⣯⣥⣧⣧⣿⣽⡷⣼⣿⣧⣯⣽⣿⣮⣥⣧⣿⣿⣭⣾⣿⣧⣾⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣭⣧⣿⣿⣼⣮⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⡿⣿⢿⠿⣿⠟⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⢹⡿⢿⣿⠿⠿⣿⢿⢿⠿⡏⡿⣟⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡸⢇⣇⢿⣸⣸⣿⣇⢿⣸⣯⣇⣇⣿⣸⣸⣿⣿⣇⣿⣸⣽⣸⣸⣇⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡛⠛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣿
⣿⣏⣒⣊⣐⣒⣒⣒⣺⣒⣲⣒⣀⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣒⣲⣲⣐⣒⣒⣒⣀⣒⣐⣒⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡗⠚⠚⢒⠑⠚⠀⠁⠀⠀⡄⡄⠒⠒⡖⠒⢲⣾⣶⣾⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠒⠒⢺⠛⢲⠒⠒⠖⣒⠐⠒⠒⠒⠒⠠⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡿⢿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⢯⣘⣏⣀⣿⢯⣽⣳⣶⡟⢷⣽⠿⣾⡉⣿⠯⢯⣘⣏⣀⣿⢯⣿⣳⣴⣟⢷⣼⠿⣾⡉⣿⣿
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Roy Schestowitz
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GAFAM Finger-pointing for White House
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/log4j-misdirection.webm
Summary: The US government wants us to think that in order to tackle security
issues we need to reach out to the collective ‘wisdom’ of the very culprits who
created the security mess in the first place (even by intention, for
imperialistic objectives)
THE very same companies that back-door_their_own_software (i.e. deliberately
make their products not secure) have been asked by the American administration
for their views on the security of Free software and security of such software,
which isn’t defective by design, maybe just by accident, occasionally.
We’ve already commented on this ludicrous situation in passing (in our Daily
Links). The biggest_National_Security_threat (Microsoft) is infiltrating_panels
on_security, diverting attention away from the biggest threats to lesser
threats, which are usually the solution, too. Lobbying? Outright political
corruption? Both?
Either way, the above video concerns this new_article, which is only one of
many. We already listed about half a dozen earlier today. The author is so
clueless that he calls the Linux_Foundation the “Linux Open Source Foundation”
and names IBM/Red Hat as if they’re separate entities. The same for GitHub and
Microsoft. To quote: “The full tech participant list includes Akamai, Amazon,
Apache Software Foundation, Apple, Cloudflare, Facebook/Meta, GitHub, Google,
IBM, Linux Open Source Foundation, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat and VMware.”
Of the above, only the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) actually speaks for
Free/Open Source software. Yes, Zemlin’s PAC is little but a front group for
some of those other companies.
Why are all the companies invited (assuming Red Hat is just IBM) to discuss
this matter dripping “conflict of interest” and how can this establish trust?
Why don’t they also discuss the threat posed by proprietary software? Some of
the headlines that emerged afterwards want us to think that “Open Source” — not
Microsoft et al — is the real “national security” threat. We’ll omit links to
those “reports”… (FUD)
“…any real plan has to eliminate Microsoft from both the desktop and the
supporting infrastructure. That is a staffing problem, not a technical one.”
–Techrights associate“Speaking of politics,” an associate noted today,
“notice that the US’ concern about critical infrastructure is shifting all of
the blame and attention on to FOSS. At the same time only the big, proprietary
vendors are invited to the planning sessions with the government. They bring in
clowns instead of the big names. They should at least be consulting with Bruce
Perens, Bruce Schneier, Dan Geer, Moxie Marlinspike, Eugene Spafford, Daniel
Bernstein, Paul Vixie etc. (notice that Spaf’s quote about Windows is now
missing from pretty much every page that includes his old quotes…)”
And “even RMS and Linus Torvalds could add benefit if they had not been
reframed as controversial by the attackers now moving in and out of DC. Wietse
Venema is in the US too… Phil Zimmermann is still around too. Many of those
involved in LibreSSL and OpenSSL are in the US as well… the list of
knowledgeable, skilled, experienced people is long. No need for them to include
any frauds, charlatans, or poseurs. But that’s what we get when Microsoft reps
got in on the campaign team. Microsoft created the problems, and therefore is
unable to solve them and it would be inappropriate to even have them involved.
There’s a famous quote which goes approximately like this, “we cannot solve our
problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” As such Microsoft
representatives have to be cleared from the room long, long before discussion
can start. Ransomware is just one symptom of microsoftianism. Even if Windows
is retained for a shorter period on the desktop, servers could run FreeBSD with
OpenZFS.The snapshotting feature would make data restoration much less
inconvenient. However, any real plan has to eliminate Microsoft from both the
desktop and the supporting infrastructure. That is a staffing problem, not a
technical one. Even Microsofters, such as Mitchel Lewis, observe that, but most
don’t dare speak up. I presume fear of NDAs and non-disparagement clauses in
various contracts, especially terminations.”
“Microsoft created the problems, and therefore is unable to solve them and it
would be inappropriate to even have them involved.”
–Techrights associateThe number of articles we saw about Log4j that cited
Microsoft as if it was a security expert was truly worrying. Since when does
Microsoft get to play “concern troll” about “Open Source”?
“About the disappearance of the Spafford quote,” our associate noted: “It used
to be cited everywhere but most of those sites are gone and the rest seem to
have redacted just that one quote.” █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Reality_2.0_Episode_95:_What_Was_Web_2.0?⠀⇛
New episode of the Reality 2.0 podcast is uploaded
and out today: Reality 2.0 Episode 95: What Was Web
2.0? Tune in to our new episode! Doc Searls and
Katherine Druckman talk to Petros Koutoupis about
Air Tags and the generations of the web.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_5.17_Mainlines_Support_For_More_Obsolete_MIPS-Based
Wireless_Routers_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
While the MIPS CPU architecture itself is at the
end of the road, kernel developers still are busy
with MIPS considering the Loongson hardware that is
popular in China and lots of older MIPS hardware
out there lacking mainline Linux kernel support.
For Linux 5.17 several more older, consumer-grade
network routers are seeing mainline support.
With MIPS-specific code for Linux 5.17 the Loongson
2K1000 reset driver has been merged, support for
the TX4939 SoC and RBTX4938/RBTX4939 boards removed
with no known users remaining, MIPS support for the
Broadcom BRCMSTB PCIe controller, and other fixes
and clean-ups. Plus there is support for more MIPS-
based devices (routers) using the Broadcom BCM47xx
MIPS-based SoCs.
# ⚓ Intel’s_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Continues_With_Multi-Tile
Preparations_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
In addition to Intel’s open-source Linux graphics
driver developers being quite busy preparing for
upcoming Intel Arc “Alchemist” (DG2) graphics cards
on the consumer side, they have concurrently been
preparing for Xe HP “Ponte Vecchio” hardware too.
One of the big undertakings on that side from the
driver perspective is bringing up multiple tiles.
For Ponte Vecchio’s multi-tile / chiplet design,
Linux driver work for multi-tile support has been
going on for months. The driver needs to adapt to
support multiple GT instances and the multiple
memory regions off a single PCI Express device.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Planning_To_Stick_With_Linux_5.15_By
Default_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
It turns out Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is planning to use
the Linux 5.15 kernel as its default kernel. It
makes sense in that Linux 5.15 is also a long-term
support kernel, but unfortunate in that Ubuntu LTS
releases haven’t always used LTS kernel versions
and v5.15 will be a half-year old already by the
time the “Jammy Jellyfish” ships in April. This is
a choice particularly unfortunate for those with
recent hardware but at least there is the Ubuntu
Mainline Kernel PPA and other non-default options
available.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Will_Use_Linux_5.15_Kernel⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will come with the Linux 5.15
kernel by default.
That’s the current plan according to Canonical’s
Sebastien Bacher, who says “the plan is to use 5.15
for the LTS but the oem and hwe variants will get
5.17 as some point”.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Libre_Arts_–_Streamlining_Inkscape_for_the_masses⠀⇛
It’s not a heavily guarded secret that I have an
undying love for Inkscape. For me, it’s one of
those applications I’m really excited to use every
time I have some silly need for a vector graphics
editor. Which is why everyone actively involved
with the project is my personal hero, and I’m only
happy to chat with them every once in a while about
how the project is doing.
This time, I spoke to Chris Rogers (Vectors team,
i.e. PR and communication), Tavmjong Bah
(developer), Martin Owens (developer), and Adam
Belis (UX guy).
Q: So, first off, I love a lot of things going on
with Inkscape lately. There was a, well, not a
moment, but quite a long period of time, actually,
when I was a bit scared for the project. Long dev
cycles, not enough developers etc. Things seem to
be so much better these days. What would you
attribute it to? What did you have to change?
CRogers: better organisation internally helped. A
move to RocketChat and Gitlab to track issues and
multiple groups for different parts of the project
seem to really have helped. Also, sharing successes
and mutual respect and gratitude creates
motivation, and it’s easier to do that with
organised chat and group structures.
# ⚓ The_8_Best_Open-Source_Writing_Software_for_Linux⠀⇛
Writers are always looking for some exciting tools
to compile their written pieces. Despite the
various options in the market, there is always an
ongoing need to look for open-source options, which
won’t burn a hole in the pocket.
If you are a Linux user, you are in luck, for there
are plenty of excellent open-source apps that you
can use on your machine. A majority of these apps
offer premium-grade type features for free.
If you’re raring to go, then check out these top
open-source writing tools enlisted below.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ 12_Best_Practices_for_Writing_Bash_Scripts⠀⇛
Bash shell refers to Bourne Again Shell which can
be found as the default shell in most of the Linux
distributions. A Bash Script is a file where
multiple shell commands are scripted to perform a
particular task. If you are familiar with bash
script then this article is for you, in this
demonstration I have included 12 best practices to
write a bash script to enhance the efficiency of
the bash script and make it more readable.
# ⚓ How_to_Build_Docker_Images_In_a_GitLab_CI_Pipeline_–
CloudSavvy_IT⠀⇛
One common use case for CI pipelines is building
the Docker images you’ll use to deploy your
application. GitLab CI is a great choice for this
as it supports an integrated pull proxy service,
meaning faster pipelines, and a built-in registry
to store your built images.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up Docker
builds that use both the above features. The steps
you need to take vary slightly depending on the
GitLab Runner executor type you’ll use for your
pipeline. We’ll cover the Shell and Docker
executors below.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_OpenLiteSpeed_Web_Server_on_Rocky_Linux_8_–
VITUX⠀⇛
OpenLiteSpeed is a fast open-source web server
application that comes with a built-in fast PHP
module. This guide will show you how to install and
configure OpenLiteSpeed on Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS
8.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Podman_(Docker_Alternative)_on
Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
Podman is an open-source tool for managing
containers, images, volumes, and pods (group of
containers). It’s used the libpod library APIs for
managing container lifecycles and supports multiple
container image formats, including OCI (Open
Container Initiative) and Docker images.
Podman is OCI (Open Container Initiative)
compliance container engine. It’s compatible with
the Docker CLI interface and allows you to run
container rootless (running container without root
privileges). Podman was released as part of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, designed to be the next
generation of Linux container tool with faster
experimentation and development of features.
For this tutorial, you will learn how to install
Podman on the Ubuntu 20.04 system. You will be
installing Podman and learn the basic usages of
podman for managing Docker containers, images, and
volumes.
# ⚓ How_to_create_an_RDS_instance_on_AWS_using_Terraform⠀⇛
In this article, we will see how to create an RDS
MySql Instance. Before proceeding, I assume that
you are familiar with the basics of Terraform and
AWS RDS Service. If you want to learn to create an
RDS MySql instance from the AWS console then search
for “How to setup an RDS MySql (Relation Database
MySql ) instance on AWS”
# ⚓ How_to_Install_NEOS_CMS_with_Nginx_and_Let’s_Encrypt_SSL_on
Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛
Neos is a free and open-source content management
system (CMS) that allows you to build complex
websites easily without needing to code. You can
create a blog, news website, portfolio page, or a
company website using it. It offers a rich set of
features such as inline editing, supports multiple
websites on a single installation, built-in SEO
tools, human-readable URLs, plugin manager, device
preview, and supports multiple templates. It
supports modern-day technologies such as REST API,
JSON, GraphQL, and oEmbed.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install
Neos CMS on a server running Rocky Linux 8 OS.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_5.16_in_Ubuntu_20.04_&_21.10_|
UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Linux Kernel 5.16 was released a few days ago.
Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu
21.10, and/or Linux Mint 20.x.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Elasticsearch_on_Rocky_Linux
8⠀⇛
In this guide, we will learn how to install and
configure Elasticsearch on Rocky Linux 8. This
guide will also work on other RHEL 8 based distros
like Alma Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 8.
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics
engine built on Apache Lucene. It provides a
distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search
engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free
JSON documents. Elasticsearch has quickly become
the most popular search engine and is commonly used
for log analytics, full-text search, security
intelligence, business analytics, and operational
intelligence use cases.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Kibana_on_Rocky_Linux/Alma
Linux_8⠀⇛
In this guide, we will learn how to install and
configure Kibana in Rocky Linux 8. This guide will
also work on other RHEL 8 based distros like Alma
Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 8.
Kibana is a proprietary data visualization
dashboard software for Elasticsearch, whose open
source successor in OpenSearch is OpenSearch
Dashboards. It is a data visualization and
exploration tool used for log and time-series
analytics, application monitoring, and operational
intelligence use cases. It offers powerful and
easy-to-use features such as histograms, line
graphs, pie charts, heat maps, and built-in
geospatial support. Kibana also acts as the user
interface for monitoring, managing, and securing an
Elastic Stack cluster — as well as the centralized
hub for built-in solutions developed on the Elastic
Stack.
# ⚓ How_to_View_and_Monitor_Disk_Space_Usage_From_the_Linux
Command_Line_–_CloudSavvy_IT⠀⇛
While it’s usually pretty clear if your system is
running out of memory or using too much CPU time,
disk usage is another key metric that can sneak up
on you over time if you leave your server
unattended. You’ll want to regular check your disk
usage using these commands.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_LAMP_Stack_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
LAMP is a collection of open-source software
commonly used to serve web applications that have
been around since the late 1990s. LAMP is an
acronym that stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL/
MariaDB, and PHP and provides the components needed
to host and manage web content and is still
arguably the most utilized stack deployment for
developers and web applications today.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install the LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on
Debian 11 Bullseye using the most up-to-date
packages instead of the default Debian 11
repository versions.
Note, you can install LAMP on Debian 11 using this
method without the newer repositories; use the same
commands without importing any third-party
repositories.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Latest_Zoom_on_Ubuntu_&_Other_Linux
Distributions_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛
Zoom, a.k.a. Zoom Meeting, is video conferencing
software that is available for all major platforms,
including Linux. It is very popular among working
professionals and students.
And I believe you all are familiar with zoom
features. That’s why we are directly moving to the
Download and Installation step for Zoom in Linux.
In this following guide, you will see the download
and installation steps for Zoom, which include
steps for all major Linux distributions and
removing steps.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_WordPress_with_LAMP_Stack_on_Debian_11
Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
WordPress is the most dominant content management
system written in PHP, combined with MySQL or
MariaDB database. You can create and maintain a
site without prior web development or coding
knowledge. The first version of WordPress was
created in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
and is now used by 70% of the known web market,
according to W3Tech. WordPress comes in two
versions: the free open source WordPress.org and
WordPress.com, a paid service that starts at $5 per
month up to $59. Using this content management
system is easy and often seen as a stepping stone
for making a blog or similar featured site.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install self-hosted WordPress using the latest LAMP
Stack – Apache, MariaDB, and PHP versions available
on Debian 11 Bullseye.
# ⚓ 3_tools_for_troubleshooting_packet_filtering_|_Enable
Sysadmin⠀⇛
Nmap, Wireshark, and tcpdump are helpful tools for
troubleshooting your network. This article shows
you how to use them with a real-world example,
because when you’re trying to learn a new
technology or technique, sometimes the best way is
to walk through a scenario.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Liquorix_Kernel_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Liquorix Kernel on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of
you who didn’t know, Liqourix Kernel is a free,
open-source general-purpose Linux Kernel
alternative to the stock kernel with Ubuntu 20.04.
Liquorix Kernel is popular amongst Linux Gaming,
multimedia, and ultra-low latency requirements and
often boasts the latest Linux Kernels, having
multiple branches to choose from the stable, edge,
and development.
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 through the step-by-
step installation of Liquorix Kernel on Ubuntu
20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same
instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other
Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
# ⚓ How_To_Setup_and_Limit_Hotspot_Data_on_Your_Android
Device⠀⇛
Suppose you have an emergency situation and need an
internet connection badly, but you don’t have any
cellular data or Wi-Fi connection nearby. And
noticed that some of your friends or colleagues are
with you at this moment who are having cellular
data on their phones. The thing is, you have to use
your Android device to complete the task. So what
to do now? Turn on your friends’ or colleagues
phones’ cellular data and hotspot and Wi-Fi of your
phone. Just connect your device to their hotspot.
The setup and limit hotspot data procedure on your
Android is as easy as pie.
Similarly, you can set up your hotspot on your
Android device and also limit the users according
to your requirements. Normally, if you’re giving
your cellular data to another user through a
hotspot, then the rate of data consumption is huge.
As a result, you need to limit your users at a
time, though there’s an option called Unlimited
users that will be in the hotspot setting. Let’s
start with the setup and limit hotspot data on your
Android easily.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Steam_Deck_on_track_for_the_end_of_February_|
GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Good news, following the previous delay and even
with the pandemic and global shortages Valve has
announced that the Steam Deck is still on track to
ship by the end of February.
Writing in a fresh post, Valve said that testing
for the Steam Deck Verified program is underway,
which we already knew since Portal 2 got recently
officially verified. It’s also currently still the
only one.
# ⚓ Discord_Overlay_for_Linux_‘Discover_Overlay’_gets_a_new
release_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
While Discord continues to not support Linux with
their official overlay, there is at least Discover,
which helpfully gives you some options to show
chatters on your screen. Useful for those of you
with a single-screen who want to see who is
chatting, plus good for videos / livestreams for
viewers to see it too.
# ⚓ Quiet_ocean_survival-adventure_Aquamarine_launches_January
20_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
A quiet survival adventure about perception and
discovery in an alien ocean. The crowdfunded game
Aquamarine is now confirmed to be launching on
January 20. According to the official announcement
on Steam that includes “Windows, Mac and Linux”.
“You play as a lone space traveler known only as
The Seeker, whose starcraft is intercepted by a
malicious signal while orbiting an uncharted planet
covered in water. Forced to eject from her
malfunctioning starcraft, The Seeker is marooned on
a tiny island surrounded by an endless alien ocean,
with nothing but her amphibious survival pod.
Throughout her underwater journey to reach her
crashed starcraft, she’ll uncover the lost history
of this planet reclaimed by the elements, and learn
the true nature of why she ended up here.”
# ⚓ Humble_subscription_service_is_dumping_Mac,_Linux_access_in
18_days_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
Humble, the bundle-centric games retailer that
launched with expansive Mac and Linux support in
2010, will soon shift a major component of its
business to Windows-only gaming.
The retailer’s monthly subscription service, Humble
Choice, previously offered a number of price tiers;
the more you paid, the more new games you could
claim in a given month. Starting February 1, Humble
Choice will include less choice, as it will only
offer a single $12/month tier, complete with a few
new game giveaways per month and ongoing access to
two collections of games: Humble’s existing “Trove”
collection of classic games, and a brand-new
“Humble Games Collection” of more modern titles.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ 6_Reasons_Why_You_Should_Try_the_Lightweight_Xfce_Desktop⠀⇛
Xfce is a rather humble desktop environment. It has
been around for decades, but it has existed largely
in GNOME’s shadow as a more lightweight option that
just so happens to also be based on GTK. Fewer
developers work on Xfce and hence, there are fewer
apps made with Xfce in mind.
Yet year after year, people continue to use Xfce.
It receives updates, and numerous Linux-based
operating systems ship Xfce as the default
interface.
So, despite the other options available, why might
you want to use Xfce?
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_Beta_Introduces_Fingerprint_Support,
GNOME-Style_Overview,_and_More_Improvements⠀⇛
KDE finally announced the KDE Plasma 5.24
beta version. This release brings a vast
array of exciting new improvements, many of
which we will be looking at here.
The last release, KDE Plasma 5.23 marked the
25th anniversary of KDE. And, KDE Plasma 5.24
will be their first release for 2022, let’s
dive in!
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ EasyOS_version_3.2.1_released⠀⇛
Version 3.2 was released only a few days ago:
https://bkhome.org/news/202201/easyos-
version-32-released.html
A few minor tweaks, plus one big change;
lives video editor replaced with flowblade.
Release notes here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/
releases/dunfell/3.2.1/release-notes.htm
Download:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/
releases/dunfell/3.2.1/
Feedback welcome on the forum:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/
viewforum.php?f=63
I would like to know what you guys think of
flowblade!
# ⚓ Flowblade_video_editor_now_in_EasyOS⠀⇛
Easy 3.2 has LiVES video editor; however, it
still has bugs. The developer is working on
it, but in the meantime I do need something
that works in Easy. So, I looked at the
alternatives, and eventually settled on
Flowblade.
Flowblade is written in python, and I had
initially rejected it as it requires python2.
It also has two dependencies that I really
didn’t want to include, ‘frei0r’ and ‘gmic’,
as I thought the number of dependencies was
getting a bit too high. Besides, gmic seems
very similar to ‘imagemagick’ that is already
in Easy and required by ‘lives’ and ‘obs’.
# § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾
# ⚓ EndeavourOS_Atlantis_Quick_overview_#Shorts_–
Invidious⠀⇛
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ curl,_GNOME,_KDE_Updates_Arrive_in_Tumbleweed_–
openSUSE_News⠀⇛
openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed
finished off 2021 with multiple snapshots and
2022 is starting off the same by producing
nine snapshots so far this year.
The latest Tumbleweed snapshot, 20220112,
updated Mozilla Firefox to major version 96.0
and addressed almost 20 Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The browser
added a new feature for printing that allows
users to choose to print only the odd/even
pages.The browser now defaults all cookies to
having a SameSite=lax attribute to helps
defend against one-click attacks. While
gnome-desktop had a version bump to 41.3,
gnome-shell 41.3 fixed some crashes, improved
window tracking and updated translations.
GNOME’s window manager mutter 41.3 fixed a
mixed up refresh rate in multi-monitor setups
and fixed orientation changes on devices with
90 degree adjustments. Command line utility
hdparm 9.63 added a patch and has a new
–sanitize-overwrite-passes flag. Other
packages to update in the snapshot were rdma-
core 38.1, libpipeline 1.5.5, rdma-core 38.1,
vim 8.2.4063 and wayland 1.20.0.
# ⚓ openSUSE_Leap_15.2_Reached_End-of-Life⠀⇛
As of January 4, 2022, openSUSE Leap 15.2
will no longer receive security and
maintenance updates as the version is now EOL
(End-ofLife).
openSUSE Leap 15.2 was released 18 months ago
(July 2, 2020) and is based on the SUSE
Enterprise Linux 15 operating system family.
The openSUSE Project recommends that Leap
15.2 users should upgrade to the latest
version of openSUSE Leap 15.3 as soon as
possible, which will be supported by software
updates and security patches until November
2022.
# ⚓ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_week_2022/02⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The holidays are over and people are
returning to their computers, submitting a
lot more than during the last weeks. Out of
the 6 snapshots built and tested,5 made it
out to the mirrors (0107, 0109, 0110, 0111,
and 0112).
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ CentOS_Community_Newsletter,_January_2022⠀⇛
The first CentOS Dojo of 2022 is scheduled
for February 3rd and 4th, immediately before
the first day of FOSDEM 2022. We expect to
publish the schedule to the event wiki page
by the time you read this newsletter. The
event will be held online, and registration
is free! Join us for two days of CentOS
content and networking.
# ⚓ Red_Hat_expanding_Training_and_Certification
offerings_to_address_new_challenges⠀⇛
Throughout 2021, Red Hat recognized an
increased demand for virtual training and
testing options as much of the IT workforce
continued to adjust to working from home. We
expect that to continue, so here’s what we’re
doing to meet demand and help organizations
train up their existing staff and identify
qualified professionals with open source
skills.
IT leaders report skills gaps as the top
barrier to digital transformation, ranking
technology skills training as their number
one non-technical funding priority for 2022.
Industry leaders recognize that training and
certification will be a critical component to
the success of organizations in the coming
year. As a result, we expect to see continued
focus on virtual training and
transformational learning, particularly
focused on the three areas we’ll outline in
this blog post..
# ⚓ CPE_Weekly_Update_–_Week_of_January_10th_–_14th_–
Fedora_Community_Blog⠀⇛
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
(https://libera.chat/).
# ⚓ No._656:_On_missionaries,_MLK_and_C-sections_–_plus,
New_York_Tech_gets_in_Linux_–_Innovate_Long_Island⠀⇛
The New York Institute of Technology is
collaborating with an IBM software subsidiary
to introduce new curricula centered on the
Linux open-source operating system.
North Carolina-based Red Hat – the world’s
leading supplier of open-source enterprise
solutions, including “turnkey curriculum
materials” designed to help academic
institutions launch and sustain Linux
curriculum programs – is lending its
expertise to the New York Institute of
Technology Red Hat Academy. Instructors will
initially offer Red Hat System Administration
1 and 2 courses, preparing New York Tech
students to become Red Hat Enterprise Linux
system administrators.
Linux has become what New York Tech calls
“the de facto standard for running critical
workloads in the cloud,” aligning the Red Hat
Academy with the Old Westbury-based New York
Tech’s mission to “provide career-oriented
education to future makers, doers and
innovators,” according to College of
Engineering and Computing Sciences Dean Babak
Beheshti. “Our collaboration … provides yet
another opportunity for our students to gain
practical, real-world experience to help
secure sought-after and industry-recognized
skills and certifications,” Beheshti added.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu_Blog:_Design_and_Web_team_summary_–_17
December_2021⠀⇛
Happy Christmas and New Years everyone! I
hope you are all ready for a well deserved
break.
The Web and design team at Canonical run two-
week iterations building and maintaining all
of the Canonical websites and product web
interfaces. Here are some of the highlights
from our final iteration of the year.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ PinePhone_Pro_Explorer_Edition_Available_for_Pre-Order⠀⇛
Pine64, makers of popular single-board computers
(SBCs) and the Pine Phone KDE edition, is gearing
up to ship the Explorer Edition of its PinePhone
Pro, reports Liam Tung.
# ⚓ Game_Boy_Becomes_Super_Game_Boy_With_A_Pair_Of_Pis_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
The extra processing power in this case comes from
a Raspberry Pi Pico which is small enough to easily
fit inside of a donor NES case and also powerful
enough to handle the VGA directly. For video data
input, the Pico is connected to the video pins on
the Game Boy’s main board through a level shifter.
The main board is also connected to a second Pico
which handles the controller input from an NES
controller. Some fancy conversion needed to be done
at this point because although the controller
layouts are very similar, they are handles by the
respective consoles completely differently.
# ⚓ 3.5-inch_Tiger_Lake-U_SBC_promoted_for_healthcare
applications⠀⇛
Nexcom’s Linux-ready, 3.5-inch “X200” SBC runs on
an 11th Gen U-series CPU and offers triple and
4Kp60 support, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, SATA, M.2
M- and E-key slots, and -20 to 70°C support.
Nexcom announced a 3.5-inch SBC that runs Linux or
Win 10 on an 11th Gen Tiger Lake-U processor, which
it previously adopted for its NDiS B360 signage
player. Other 3.5-inch Tiger Lake-U boards include
Commell’s LE-370, Ibase’s IB953, Aaeon’s GENE-TGU6,
and Kontron’s 3.5”-SBC-TGL.
Nexcom pitches the X200 board as an ideal solution
for visual inspection or imagery analysis in the
healthcare field, noting its triple independent
display and 4Kp60 support. Other cited applications
include signage and security, which Nexcom also
promotes for use in hospitals. The board offers an
ISO 13485 medical device certification.
# ⚓ Have_you_checked_out_our_winter_sale?_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
Start the year with a new Arduino hardware
component. Or two, or three! Dozens of our products
are currently discounted at 20% for our annual
winter sale. Just head over to the Arduino store
and pick out all the modules, shields and carriers
that fit your needs.
We even have the MKR IoT Carrier and full MKR IoT
Bundle on sale, to help you make 2022 the year of
your first Internet of Things project. There are
all kinds of connectivity available, from LoRa to
GSM and NB communication, so you can get to work on
a connected project that hooks straight up to
Arduino Cloud, too.
# ⚓ OnLogic_unveils_Karbon_800_Series_Alder_Lake-S_embedded
computers_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
We’ve already seen the newly announced Intel Alder
Lake-S desktop IoT processors in some COM Express
and COM HPC modules, and quickly mentioned Vecow
ECX-3000 rugged computer, and now, OnLogic has just
announced the Karbon 800 Series, a family of Alder
Lake-S embedded computers.
There will be four Karbon 800 models at launch,
equipped with up to an Intel Core i9 16-core
processor, 64 GB of DDR4 ECC or non-ECC memory, as
well as single and dual PCIe Gen 4 slots, and
optional “ModBay” hot-swappable bays to add
connectivity and storage option up to a six 2.5-
inch SSD RAID array or 14 Ethernet ports.
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_install_GitEye_GUI_Git_client_on_Ubuntu_22.04
|_20.04_LTS⠀⇛
GitEye is a graphical Git client for Windows,
OSX, and Linux available in both 32-bit and
64-bit versions. Here we learn the steps and
commands to install GitEye on Ubuntu 22.04
Jammy JellyFish and Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.
CollabNet is the developer behind GitEye to
offer a desktop application for easily but
graphically managing Git projects with
functions of distributed version control in a
graphical interface. Apart from GitEye,
CollabNet also offers products related to
cloud and ALM (Application Lifecycle
Management).
# ⚓ Encyclopedia_Of_Broken_UserAgent_String_Detections_–
otsukare⠀⇛
This is not a comprehensive encyclopedia, but
these are patterns we have met in the past
for identifying user agent strings which are
broken or future fail.
Do not use these ! and if your code is using
one form of these, please change it. Tell me
if you found new ones.
# ⚓ Christopher_Davis:_Lifetimes,_Clones,_and_Closures:
Explaining_the_“glib::clone!()”_Macro⠀⇛
One thing that I’ve seen confuse newcomers to
writing GObject-based Rust code is the glib::
clone!() macro. It’s foreign to people coming
from writing normal Rust code trying to write
GObject-based code, and it’s foreign to many
people used to writing GObject-based code in
other languages (e.g. C, Python, JavaScript,
and Vala). Over the years I’ve explained it a
few times, and I figure now that I should
write a blog post that I can point people to
describing what the clone!() macro is, what
it does, and why we need it in detail.
# ⚓ SpiderMonkey_Newsletter_(Firefox_96-97)_|
SpiderMonkey_JavaScript/WebAssembly_Engine⠀⇛
SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in
Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an
overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly
work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 96 and
97 Nightly release cycles.
# § Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt_6.3_Alpha_released⠀⇛
You can find initial list of new
features in the Qt 6.3.0 from What’s
New in Qt 6.3 documentation. But please
note the documentation is still under
construction and will be updated until
we are ready for the final release.
As usual, you can add the Qt 6.3 Alpha
to the existing online installation by
using the maintenance tool. Or you can
do a clean installation by using the Qt
Online Installer. Qt 6.3 Alpha source
packages can be downloaded from the Qt
Account portal and the download.qt.io
as well.
# ⚓ Qt_6.3_Alpha_Released_With_New_Qt_Quick
Compiler_For_Commercial_Customers_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
The Qt Company just announced Qt 6.3
Alpha as the first formal test release
for this next Qt6 toolkit update. The
Qt Company also lifted the lid on their
new Qt Quick Compiler where they are
aiming for QML to run at “a speed close
to native” for that interpreted
language.
Qt 6.3 has been working on a new “Qt
Language Server” module, there are a
number of new functions in the Qt Core
module, Qt Quick has added a
MessageDialog that will provide a
native dialog message box on supported
platforms, “qmltc” as the new QML type
compiler, the Qt Wayland Compositor
module adds a Qt Shell that supports
all windowing system features handled
by Qt, Qt Wayland can now support
creating custom shell extensions,
support for Wayland’s Presentation Time
protocol, and a variety of other
additions.
# ⚓ The_new_Qt_Quick_Compiler_–_get_QML_to_run_at_a
speed_close_to_native⠀⇛
As most of you know, QML is an
interpreted language. The flexibility
of any interpreted language always
comes with a potential decrease in
performance. As we are very convinced
of many other potentials of QML, we
strive to reduce – if not to completely
eliminate – this unpleasant potential.
We implemented changes in the last Qt5
releases and especially in Qt6 helping
to take a significant step towards our
long term goal: make QML run at a speed
close to native. This blog post
explains what is new. The upcoming two
blog post will elaborate the technology
and its development history.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust_1.58.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
More information on “captured
identifiers” (the ability to use in-
scope variables directly in format
strings) can be found on this page.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Apache_NetBeans_on_Fedora_35_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how
to install Apache NetBeans on Fedora
35. For those of you who didn’t know,
The NetBeans (also known as Apache
Netbeans) is an open-source and award-
winning IDE (integrated development
environment) application for Windows,
Linux, and Mac. It offers excellent
debugging capabilities, coding,
plugins, and extensions with multiple
out-of-the-box features.
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 Apache
NetBeans IDE on a Fedora 35.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Rapid-Reload_Vacuum_Cannon_Totally_Demolishes_Those_Veggies_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
[NightHawkInLight] has been developing his design for a
vacuum canon for a while now, so it seems fitting to drop
in check out the progress. The idea is pretty
straightforward, take a long rigid tube, insert a close
fitting piston, magnetically attached to a projectile,
and stopper the open end with something easily destroyed.
The piston needs to be pulled into the tube with some
force, to pull a vacuum against the stopper. The
interesting bit happens next, when the piston exits the
other end of the tube, with the vacuum at its maximum,
there is a sudden inrush of air. Apparently this inrush
of supersonic velocity, and the momentum of the mass of
air is sufficient to eject the projectile at considerable
velocity, smashing through the plug and demolishing the
target. So long as the target is of the soft and squishy
variety anyway.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ This_DIY_Microscope_Design_Is_All_Wet_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[Robert Murray-Smith] wanted to recreate how some
ancient microscopes worked: with a drop of water as
a lens. The idea is that the meniscus of a drop of
water will work as a lens. This works because of
surface tension and by controlling the attraction
of the water to the surface, you can actually form
convex and concave surfaces.
What’s interesting is that this doesn’t require a
lot of equipment. Some plastic, a hole punch, some
pens, a flashlight, and some other odds and ends.
Then it’s just a matter of grabbing some puddle
water and examining the critters inside. Of course,
with a single lens, these are more properly
magnifying glasses. Some claim that people in China
built such instruments thousands of years ago.
[Robert] mentions [Antonie van Leeuwenhoek] as the
father of the microscope, although he wasn’t the
first to build such a device. He did create amazing
glass lenses using a method he kept secret but has
been worked out using modern science.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ EVerest:_The_open_source_software
stack_for_EV_charging
infrastructure⠀⇛
Even if you’d never buy a
Tesla, electric vehicles
(EVs) are the future.
There’s only one big
problem. Unlike a gas-based
car, where you can always
find a gas station when you
need to top off, there’s
nothing like enough
electrical charging
stations. One big reason
for this is that there’s no
standardization to speak of
behind those chargers. The
Linux Foundation (LF) plans
on changing this with the
new LF Energy EVerest
project.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Using_EM_Waves_to_Detect_Malware_–_Schneier_on
Security⠀⇛
I don’t even know what I think about
this. Researchers have developed a
malware detection system that uses EM
waves: “Obfuscation Revealed:
Leveraging Electromagnetic Signals for
Obfuscated Malware Classification.”
# ⚓ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope
200_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased
to announce the release of diffoscope
version 200. This version includes the
following changes:
* Even if a Sphinx .inv inventory file
is labelled "The remainder of this
file is compressed using zlib", it
might not actually be. In this case,
don't traceback, and simply return
the original content.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/
diffoscope#299)
* Update "X has been modified after
NT_GNU_BUILD_ID has been applied"
message
to, for instance, not duplicating the
full filename in the primary
diffoscope's output.
⚓ Microsoft_pulls_new_Windows_Server_updates_due_to_critical_bugs⠀⇛
Microsoft has pulled the January Windows Server cumulative updates
after critical bugs caused domain controllers to reboot, Hyper-V to
not work, and ReFS volume systems to become unavailable.
⚓ Ivanti_Updates_Log4j_Advisory_with_Security_Updates_for_Multiple_Products_ _|
CISA⠀⇛
Ivanti has updated its Log4j Advisory with security updates for
multiple products to address CVE-2021-44228. An unauthenticated
attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an
affected system.
⚓ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora
(cockpit, python-cvxopt, and vim), openSUSE (libmspack), Oracle
(webkitgtk4), Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE
(kernel and libmspack), and Ubuntu (firefox and pillow).
⚓ Google_says_open_source_software_should_be_more_secure_•_The_Register⠀⇛
In conjunction with a White House meeting on Thursday at which
technology companies discussed the security of open source software,
Google proposed three initiatives to strengthen national
cybersecurity.
The meeting was arranged last month by US national security adviser
Jake Sullivan, amid the scramble to fix the Log4j vulnerabilities
that occupied far too many people over the holidays. Sullivan asked
invited firms – a group that included Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM,
Microsoft, and Oracle – to share ideas on how the security of open
source projects might be improved.
Google chief legal officer Kent Walker in a blog post said that just
as the government and industry have worked to shore up shoddy legacy
systems and software, the Log4j repair process – still ongoing – has
demonstrated that open source software needs the same attention as
critical infrastructure.
⚓ This_Week_In_Security:_NPM_Vandalism,_Simulating_Reboots,And_More|
Hackaday⠀⇛
We’ve covered quite a few stories about malware sneaking into the NPN
and other JavaScript repositories. This is a bit different. This
time, a JS programmer vandalized his own packages. It’s not even
malware, perhaps we should call it protestware? The two packages,
colors and faker are both popular, with a combined weekly download of
nearly 23 million. Their author, [Marak] added a breaking update to
each of them. These libraries now print a header of LIBERTY LIBERTY
LIBERTY, and then either random characters, or very poor ASCII art.
It’s been confirmed that this wasn’t an outside attacker, but [Marak]
breaking his own projects on purpose. Why?
It seems like this story starts back in late 2020, when [Marak] lost
quite a bit in a fire, and had to ask for money on Twitter. Two weeks
later, he tweeted that billions were being made off open source devs’
work, citing a FAANG leak. FAANG is a reference to the big five
American tech companies: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and
Google. The same day, he opened an issue on Github for faker.js,
throwing down an ultimatum: “Take this as an opportunity to send me a
six figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else
work on it.”
§ Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
* ⚓ Pegasus_used_to_target_El_Salvador_activists,_journalists:_Report_|
Cybersecurity_News_|_Al_Jazeera⠀⇛
The mobile phones of dozens of journalists and activists in El
Salvador have been hacked since at least early 2020 and
implanted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware typically available
only to governments and law enforcement, according to a new
report by a watchdog group.
The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said on Wednesday it
had identified an operator of the spyware working exclusively
in El Salvador and targeting journalists and activists, many of
whom were investigating alleged state corruption.
While the researchers could not conclusively determine the
hacks came from El Salvador’s government, the report said “the
strong country-specific focus of the infections suggests that
this is very likely”.
* ⚓ NSO_spyware_found_targeting_journalists_and_NGOs_in_El_Salvador_|
ZDNet⠀⇛
The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab along with Access Now
have found the Pegasus spyware developed by the now-sanctioned
NSO Group was used to target journalists and non-government
organisations operating in El Salvador.
In total, the investigation found 35 individuals were targeted
across 37 devices, with Citizen Lab having a high degree of
confidence that data was exfiltrated from devices belonging to
16 targets.
§ Environment⠀➾
* § Energy⠀➾
o ⚓ crypto:_does_mining_monero_pay_off?_–_maybe_better_of_boinc⠀⇛
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Nigeria_Ends_Twitter_Ban_After_Seven_Months⠀⇛
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✐ Links_14/1/2022:_FFmpeg_5.0_and_Wine_7.0_RC6⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 6:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ 4_areas_where_LINUX_still_FAILS_compared_to_other_operating
systems_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Succumbing_to_the_Ecosystem_|_Self-Hosted_62⠀⇛
Alex got some new devices for Christmas, and we set
off to figure out how to integrate them into his
network.
# ⚓ Hackaday_Podcast_151:_The_Hackiest_VR_Glove,_Plotting_Boba
Fett_With_Shoelaces,_ECU_Hacking,_And_Where_Does_Ammonia_Come
From?_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and
Managing Editor Tom Nardi are back again to talk
about all the weird and wonderful stories from our
corner of the tech world. Canon had to temporarily
give up on chipping their ink cartridges due to
part shortages, and that’s just too perfect to
ignore. There’s also some good news for the
International Space Station as the White House
signals they’re ready to support the orbiting
outpost until 2030.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Open-Source_Raspberry_Pi_Graphics_Drivers_Add_Double
Buffer_Mode_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Mesa’s V3D and V3DV drivers providing open-
source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support,
respectively, for newer Broadcom VideoCore
hardware now has a double buffer mode
implemented. This is a win for numerous
workloads for these drivers most notably used
by modern Raspberry Pi single board
computers.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ FFmpeg_5.0_“Lorentz”_Released_with_New_Encoders,_Decoders,
Muxers,_and_More⠀⇛
Coming about nine months after the release of
FFmpeg 4.4 “Rao”, FFmpeg 5.0 “Lorentz” is here to
introduce several new encoders and decoders, such
as the ADPCM IMA Westwood encoder, ADPCM IMA Acorn
Replay decoder, Apple Graphics (SMC) encoder, MSN
Siren decoder, GEM Raster image decoder, speex
decoder, bitpacked encoder, as well as VideoToolbox
ProRes encoder.
New muxer and demuxers are present as well in this
major release, including the AV1 Low overhead
bitstream format muxer, Argonaut Games CVG demuxer,
Argonaut Games CVG muxer, Westwood AUD muxer, and
an experimental IMF demuxer.
# ⚓ FFmpeg_5.0_Released_For_This_Popular,_Open-Source
Multimedia_Library_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
FFmpeg 5.0 is out today as a shiny feature update
to this widely-used open-source audio/video
handling suite.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_FFmpeg_on_Rocky_Linux/Alma_Linux_8⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_ssh_through_host(jumpserver)_to_reach_another
server⠀⇛
There might come a time where you can only access a
remote server by logging in to an intermediate
server (firewall/jump host) first. The server could
be in a private or isolated network that is only
reachable from the intermediate server. When
accessing the server, you first need to ssh to the
intermediate server before doing another ssh to the
destination server. If there is another remote host
that can only be accessible from the second server,
the chain can be long.
In this guide, we will learn how to simplify the
process using the options that ssh client provides
us including using the SSH ProxyCommand command.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Jitsi_Meet_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
In this article you will learn how to install Jitsi
Meet on Ubuntu 20.04.
Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted open source
JavaScript WebRTC application used primarily for
video conferencing. It incorporates voice, high-
quality videoconferencing and instant messaging
services with end-to-end encryption for secure
communications.
# ⚓ How_to_enable_a_dark_theme_on_your_Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to enable a dark theme
on your 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_Export_Your_Servers_Logs_with_Rsyslog_in_Centos_8⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to Export Your
Servers Logs with Rsyslog in Centos 8
In this article, we’ll walk through setting up a
CentOS/RHEL 8 Rsyslog daemon to deliver log
messages to a remote Rsyslog server. This
configuration ensures that disc space on your
machine is available for other purposes.
In CentOS 8, the Rsyslog daemon is already
installed and operating by default. Issue the
following commands to see if the rsyslog service is
active on the system.
# ⚓ How_to_convert_from_CentOS_Linux_8_to_CentOS_Stream_8⠀⇛
CentOS Linux 8 was discontinued at the end of 2021.
Check out more information about that in this in
this article CentOS Linux 8 will end in 2021 and
shifts focus to CentOS Stream.
The team at CentOS decided to shift focus to CentOS
stream, an upstream version of RHEL. CentOS stream
places itself between Fedora Linux and RHEL. It is
not 100% RHEL clone but ahead of RHEL development.
Other distros that are 100% compatible with RHEL 8
have come up including Rocky Linux and Alma Linux.
# ⚓ Kafka_and_ZooKeeper_contains_Podman⠀⇛
Apache Kafka and ZooKeeper is a distributed data
store with optimization for ingesting and
processing streaming data. Streaming data generated
thousands. A streaming platform needs to handle
this constant influx of data sequentially and
incrementally process the data. Visit Apache
Kafka’s site for more info. Also, try the tutorial
Apache Kafka WebUI for those who want Web
interface.
# ⚓ How_to_install_RoundCube_Webmail_on_Ubuntu_18.04/20.04_and
Debian_9/10⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to install
RoundCube Webmail on Ubuntu / Debian
Roundcube is free open-source web-based email
client written in PHP. We can access webmail client
in our browser, meaning that instead of using
Desktop based Web Clients we can access our mailbox
in Browser. It has suppoprt for LAMP/LEMP Stack, We
can import mails from mailboxes like Google,Yahoo
etc. It has features like Message Filter, MIME
Support, Spell Checking, Folder management etc.
# ⚓ How_to_Make_iptables_Rules_Persistent_after_Reboot_on
Ubuntu_and_CentOS_System⠀⇛
iptables is a powerful tool to help configure
access to various ports on your computer or server.
It provides the level of control that makes it
possible to configure what network traffic is
permitted or denied to the system.
The main quirk about iptables is that, by default,
the configurations for iptables will not persist
after a reboot. After configuring your system’s
iptables rules, there is one more important step
thay you must do in order to make sure the rules
are still there after a reboot.
In this tutorial, you will see how to make iptables
rules persistent after reboot on Ubuntu and CentOS
based systems.
# ⚓ Upgrade_PHP_from_7.2/7.3_to_7.4_on_Ubuntu_–_LinuxWizardry⠀⇛
If you are running an older version of Ubuntu,
chances are you have either PHP 7.2 or 7.3 running.
PHP 7.2 was originally released on November 30,
2017, and stopped receiving active support on
November 30, 2019 meaning known security issues
will not be fixed. It’s therefore important to
upgrade.
By default, older versions of Ubuntu have the
packages for PHP 7.4, so here’s how to upgrade.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_PHP_8_on_Ubuntu_20.04_using_a_PPA_–
LinuxWizardry⠀⇛
PHP is by a long stretch, one of the most popular
server-side programming languages in the market.
It’s is ised by over 50% of all websites. Popular
websites like WIkipedia, WordPress, Facebook,
Magento, and Laravel are all written in PHP.
PHP 8.0 is the latest major release of the PHP
language. It introduces several breaking changes,
performance improvements, and lots of new features
such as named arguments, JIT compiler, union types,
match expression, and more.
This article will show you how to install PHP 8 on
Ubuntu 20.04 and integrate it with Nginx and
Apache. At the time of writing, the default Ubuntu
20.04 repositories include PHP 7.4 version. We’ll
install PHP from the ondrej/php PPA repository.
# ⚓ Apt-Get_–_Command_Not_Found_!_–_buildVirtual⠀⇛
The Advanced package tool, commonly known as APT,
is a application which allows for the management,
installation and removal of software packages on
Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.
Apt greatly simplifies the process of managing
software applications on Debian Linux by automating
the download and installation of software packages,
from local or remote software repositories.
APT is not a single command, rather it is a
collection of tools distributed as package, which
includes tools such as apt, apt-cache and apt-get.
This is great for admins as it makes software
management much easier – but what happens when it
doesn’t work, and you get the “Apt Get – Command
Not Found” message? This article looks at how you
can troubleshoot the apt command.
# ⚓ What_Is_POSIX?_How_It_Relates_to_Linux⠀⇛
When you use Linux, you may hear people talking
about POSIX compliance. What does that mean? This
article will explain POSIX’s relation to Linux and
the attempt to standardize operating systems.
# ⚓ Network_Intrusion_Detection_Using_Snort⠀⇛
This document takes you through the basics of
intrusion detection, the steps necessary to
configure a host to run the snort network intrusion
detection system, testing its operation, and
alerting you to possible intrusion events.
Snort is a software-based real-time network
intrusion detection system developed by Martin
Roesch that can be used to notify an administrator
of a potential intrusion attempt. The ever-
increasing amount of Internet crackers, armed with
“ready-to-run” exploits, as well as the
sophisticated attacker that’s intent on defacing
your web page necessitates the use of a method to
track their activity and alert you to this.
o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The_Wine_development_release
7.0-rc6_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 7.0-rc6 is now
available. This is
expected to be the last release candidate before
the final 7.0.
What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
The source is available from the following
locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.0/wine-7.0-
rc6.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/7.0/wine-
7.0-rc6.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
# ⚓ Wine_7.0-rc6_Released_With_Another_47_Fixes_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Wine 7.0 is inching towards release but for this
week is the seventh weekly release candidate.
Wine 7.0-rc6 is now available with another 47 bugs
fixed. Among the games seeing fixes this week
include Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, Saints Row: The
Third, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, Deus Ex:
Human Revolution, Sniper Elite 4, Lego Stunt Rally,
FIFA 11, Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and a
variety of other new and old Windows games. There
is also other software like MinGW’s GDB debugger,
Homesite+, Logos 8 Bible Software, WeChat, PuTTY,
and other applications seeing fixes.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Get_Surviving_Mars_and_expansions_in_the_latest_Humble
Bundle_plus_a_big_sale⠀⇛
Want to get a copy of Surviving Mars and plenty of
extra content? Check out the Humble Surviving Mars
Bundle. Plus, there’s a Winter Sale on at Humble. A
really great city-builder and you can get the base
game for next to nothing thanks to this!
# ⚓ God_of_War_is_now_on_Steam_and_runs_out_of_the_box_on_Linux
with_Proton_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Something that still doesn’t quite feel right
somehow is seeing the likes of a PlayStation logo
on Linux. Anyway, the smash hit God of War is now
on Steam and works right away on Linux. You can
thank Steam Play Proton for that.
It’s hard to believe the changing face of gaming
sometimes. Previously console exclusive games now
coming to PC more often. A trend I hope to see
continue for years to come. Of course the new
release comes with the kinds of things you would
expect like enhanced graphics, ultra-wide support,
NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR and so on.
# ⚓ Lilbits:_Steam_Deck,_Apple’s_AR_headset,_a_Linux-friendly
video_capture_card_and_more_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
Valve has confirmed that its Steam Deck handheld
gaming PC is on track to begin shipping in
February, following a short delay. And Apple may be
looking at a somewhat longer setback for the
virtual reality/augmented reality glasses it’s
reportedly been developing since 2015: originally
expected to ship this year, they may not be ready
until 2023.
In other tech news, Google is rolling out a highly
anticipated (and much needed) update for Pixel 6
phones that should bring a bunch of bug fixes,
Google Voice continues to get less useful over
time, and the Humble Choice game subscription
membership is about to drop support for Linux and
Mac games from the archives.
# ⚓ Steam_::_Steam_Deck_Deposit_::_Steam_Deck_–_January
Update⠀⇛
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Connect_is_getting_better_and_better⠀⇛
If you use the Plasma desktop on your Linux,
as you should, and you also happen to have an
Android phone, then the most convenient way
to pair the two and share data and whatnot is
through the use of KDE Connect. This is a
built-in application available in all the
modern releases of the Plasma desktop, and it
lets you easily pair and control your phones.
I’ve tested the solution several times in the
past, including an early release for Windows,
and overall, the results were quite decent.
Now, recently, I encountered a real usability
problem as part of my Slimbook Pro
adventures. For some odd reason, the computer
wouldn’t mount the Nokia 5.3 phone using the
MTP protocol, which corresponds to the “File
Transfer” option when you connect an Android
device via USB. No such problem with any
other Android device, including an almost
identical Nokia 5.4. So I decided to power on
KDE Connect, and thus, this little review was
born.
# ⚓ Year_in_Review:_Calamares_|_[bobulate]⠀⇛
It’s the start of a new year, which means
some retrospective – let’s look at what
happened in Calamares in 2021. Calamares is
an independent Linux system installer.
Independent in the sense that it is developed
outside of any specific distribution, but it
supports Arch derivatives, Debian, Fedora
derivatives, and openSUSE derivatives. KDE
Neon and KaOS. Probably Gentoo and Slackware
and Nix, also, although I haven’t heard of
any. Some day it will install FreeBSD, as
well.
Calamares was started in 2014, back then
mostly by Teo, Anke, Aurélien, with a
changing cast of characters. I can find over
100 different contributors in the git
history.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ #26_Contact_Me_·_This_Week_in_GNOME⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from January 07 to
January 14.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ ExTiX_Deepin_22.1_Live_based_on_Deepin_20.3_(latest)
with_Skype,_Spotify,_Refracta_Snapshot_and_kernel
5.16.0-exton_::_Build_220114_|⠀⇛
I’ve released a new version of ExTiX Deepin
today (220114). This ExTiX Build is based on
Deepin 20.3 released by Deepin Technology
211123.
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2022-
02⠀⇛
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)!
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.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Some_site_updates_–_debian.social_blog⠀⇛
Pleroma has been updated to version 2.4.1. We
also suffered some downtime during the 11th
of January. Upgrading to the latest version
fixed our issues.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Looks_Like_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Will_Be_Powered_by_Linux
5.15_LTS,_Ship_with_GNOME_42_–_9to5Linux⠀⇛
Canonical recently shared a few details about
their plans for the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
operating system series regarding the GNOME
and Linux kernel stacks.
Due for release on April 21st, 2022, Ubuntu
22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is currently
under heavy development, and it will be
Canonical’s next long-term supported (LTS)
series, which will receive software and
security updates for at least 5 years.
Being an LTS series, Ubuntu 22.04 will be a
more conservative release, like all previous
Ubuntu LTS releases, which means that it
won’t ship with bleeding-edge technologies,
but stick to well tested ones instead.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Solderable_OSM_module_showcases_i.MX8M_Plus⠀⇛
iWave’s solderable, 45 x 45mm “i.MX 8M Plus OSM LGA
Module” runs Linux on an NPU-equipped i.MX8M Plus.
Highlights include up to 8GB LPDDR4, up to 256GB
eMMC, WiFi/BT with optional 802.11ax, a -40 to 85°C
range, and support for 2x GbE, 2x CAN-FD, and PCIe
3.0.
iWave, which last March announced an iW-RainboW-
G40M (i.MX 8M Plus SMARC SOM) module, has announced
a much smaller module with the same NXP i.MX8M Plus
SoC and the same iW-RainboW-G40M name. Fortunately,
the new module is also referred to as the i.MX 8M
Plus OSM LGA Module. The 45 x 45mm module adopts
SGET’s recent Open Standard Module (OSM) v1.0 form
factor for solderable, LGA packaged compute
modules.
# ⚓ Fish_Discover_How_To_Drive_Raspberry_Pi_Powered_Tank_|
Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛
There’s an amusing joke about some fish in a tank,
idly wondering how they drive it. Build them an FOV
(fish-operated vehicle), however, and it seems they
do more than idly wonder – they actually drive the
thing to actively seek out food. At least, that’s
the conclusion of a paper in the February edition
of Behavioural Brain Research, available on Science
Direct and reported on the Raspberry Pi blog. Why
that blog? Well, the computational brains behind
the FOV is a Raspberry Pi 3B+.
Created by researchers at Ben-Gurion University,
Israel, the FOV consists of a life-support chamber
(an aquarium half-full of water) towered over by a
mast. On this mast are cameras, looking down at the
fish below, and connected to the Pi 3 running
motion detection software. Beneath the chassis are
wheels, allowing the whole assembly to trundle
around. There’s also a LIDAR sensor that reads the
FOV’s surroundings, preventing the piscine
perambulators from crashing.
When a fish swims near one of the four tank walls,
the camera picks up the movement, and the Pi
directs the wheels to move the FOV in the
appropriate direction. Fish being what they are,
the movement can be a little erratic, but they soon
learn to guide the FOV toward a pink patch on the
wall, which nets them a tasty reward.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ How_To_Setup_and_Limit_Hotspot_Data_on_Your_Android
Device⠀⇛
# ⚓ AYN_Odin_handheld_Android_game_console_begins
shipping_January_17_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_Circuit:_OnePlus_10_Pro’s_Impressive_Launch,
More_Android_12_For_Nokia,_Honor’s_Powerful_Magic_V⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pre-orders_for_the_Motorola-branded_M1A_Wireless
Android_Auto_Dongle_are_live_–_TalkAndroid.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Khadas_Tea_–_A_MagSafe_Hi-Fi_headphone_amplifier_to
play_lossless_audio_on_smartphones_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX
Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_To_Track_And_Find_A_Lost_Android_Phone_|_Screen
Rant⠀⇛
# ⚓ Motorola_MA1_adapter_brings_wireless_Android_Auto_to
all_cars_–_9to5Google⠀⇛
# ⚓ Why_is_Android_12_so_buggy?_It’s_complicated_–_The
Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ Foldable_Pixel_might_have_appeared_in_Google’s
Android_12L_beta⠀⇛
# ⚓ T-Mobile,_Verizon,_Sprint_&_AT&T_Android_12_update
tracker:_Eligible…⠀⇛
# ⚓ T-Mobile_is_finally_starting_its_own_Android_12
update_for_Samsung’s_Galaxy_Note_20_duo_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ 6_best_teleprompter_apps_for_Android_–_Android
Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ BlackBerry’s_Android_apps_will_reach_end_of_life_this
summer_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Firefox_Focus_unveils_‘total_cookie_protection’_for
Android_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube_is_testing_a_new_Smart_Downloads_feature_on
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ coocaa_&_Flipkart_kickstart_2022_Android_11_Releases
on_Republic_Day⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL:_temBoard_7.9_for_PostgreSQL_14⠀⇛
A new maintainance version for temBoard 7 is
just released. This 7.9 version includes
PostgreSQL 14 support, bugfixes and
performance improvements.
temBoard is a monitoring and administration
tool for PostgreSQL instances fleet. Its non-
intrusive design eases deployment without
weakening your PostgreSQL instance. temBoard
alerts you, allows you to handle locks,
bloat, configuration and more remotely.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL:_OraDump-to-PostgreSQL_v5.1_has_been
released⠀⇛
New version of OraDump-to-PostgreSQL has been
released with the following improvements:
improved migration of spatial data
(SDO_GEOMETRY)
SSL connection to PostgreSQL server is
supported
# ⚓ PostgreSQL:_pgAdmin_4_v6.4_Released⠀⇛
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to
announce pgAdmin 4 version 6.4. This release
of pgAdmin 4 includes 13 bug fixes and new
features. For more details please see the
release notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical
management tool for PostgreSQL. For more
information, please see the website.
# § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ Share_your_free_software_journey_and_help_others
start_their_own:_Join_us_on_Jan._20_—_Free_Software
Foundation⠀⇛
We’re inviting you to a live session on
January 20, starting at 14:00 EST (19:00
UTC), in the #fsf channel of the Libera.Chat
IRC network. During this time, we’ll be
having an impromptu discussion about our own
free software journeys, and opening a
convenient place for you to share your own
with us. Although it’s not necessary to
participate in the IRC session to submit your
story to the campaign, we hope that you’ll
take the time to join us! To access the story
submission form, please visit the event page
on Thursday, or any time over the following
weekend.
# ⚓ Share_the_story_of_your_free_software_journey!_–
January_20,_2022⠀⇛
Each of us has our own story to share about
how we came to free software. For some, it
might have been something as simple as
learning about it from a friend. Others may
have come to GNU/Linux through an article
online or in a magazine, and at least a few
lucky members of our community will have
grown up with free software being used in the
home. As part of our Freedom Ladder
initiative, we want to take the time to
highlight these stories, and distill what we
can from them in order to help more and more
people join the free software movement. Our
stories may differ widely, but we’re
confident that we can learn something of
value from each of them, and use them as
tools to help lead others to freedom.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Toilet_Paper_Warmer_Is_A_Unique_Chinese_Luxury_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[Handy Geng] lives in Baoding, China, where average
winter temperatures can get as low as −7.7°C (18.1°F).
Rather than simply freezing in the cold when using the
bathroom, he decided he could do better. Thus came about
his rather unique toilet paper heating system.
The build uses a gas burner heating up a wok. Toilet
paper is fed into the wok body via motorized rollers
salvaged from what appears to be an old counterfeit money
detector. The wok is then shaken by a second motor in
order to more evenly heat the toilet paper within. The
burner can then be turned off, and the lid of the wok
opened in order to gain access to the toasty toilet
paper.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Improving_An_Already_Phenomenal_Star_Trek_Prop_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
When Star Trek: Voyager was in the development
phase, concept art was created for a new style of
tricorder to be used by the crew of the titular
starship. But as it often the case with a younger
sibling, the show ended up having to largely make
do with the hand-me-down props from Star Trek: The
Next Generation, which had recently finished its TV
run.
Trek aficionado [Mangy_Dog] completed a jaw-
dropping recreation of this unused tricorder design
back in 2019, but unable to leave well enough
alone, he’s recently completed a second version
that truly raises the bar for fan replicas. It’s
not hyperbole to say that the prop he’s created is
of a far higher quality and fidelity than anything
they would have had during the actual filming of
the show.
Now you might be thinking that building the second
version of the tricorder was easier than the first,
and indeed, [Mangy_Dog] learned some important
lessons from the earlier build. But that’s not to
say that construction of this new replica, which
was actually done on commission, went off without a
hitch. In fact, he almost immediately ran into a
serious problem. When he attempted to order a new
display from Nextion, he found the quality had
dropped significantly from the ones he’d used
previously. The viewing angles and color
reproduction were abysmal, so he was forced to go
back to the drawing board and not only find a new
display, but a completely new graphics chip to talk
to it.
# ⚓ 3D_Printering:_Getting_Started_With_Universal_Bed_Leveling
|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Last time we talked about how Marlin has several
bed leveling mechanisms including unified bed
leveling or UBL. UBL tries to be all things to all
people and has provisions to create dense meshes
that model your bed and provides ways for you to
adjust and edit those meshes.
We talked about how to get your printer ready for
UBL last time, but not how to use it while
printing. For that, you’ll need to create at least
one mesh and activate it in your startup code. You
will also want to correctly set your Z height to
make everything work well.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ White_House_hosts_open-source_software_security
summit_in_light_of_expansive_Log4j_flaw_–
CyberScoop [Ed: They ask the wrong people, as
usual]⠀⇛
Tech giants and federal agencies will
meet at the White House on Thursday to
discuss open-source software security,
a response to the widespread Log4j
vulnerability that’s worrying industry
and cyber leaders.
Among the attendees are companies like
Apple, Facebook and Google, as well as
the Apache Software Foundation, which
builds Log4j, a ubiquitous open-source
logging framework for websites.
# ⚓ Serious_Security:_Linux_full-disk_encryption
bug_fixed_–_patch_now!⠀⇛
Lots of people “run Linux” without
really knowing or caring – many home
routers, navigational aids, webcams and
other IoT devices are based on it; the
majority of the world’s mobile phones
run a Linux-derived variant called
Android; and many, if not most, of the
ready-to-go cloud services out there
rely on Linux to host your content.
But plenty of users and sysadmins don’t
just “use Linux”, they’re responsible
for hundreds, thousands, perhaps even
millions of other people’s desktops,
laptops and servers on which Linux is
running.
Those sysadmins are usually responsible
not merely for ensuring that the
systems under their jurisdiction are
running reliably, but also for keeping
them as safe and secure as they can.
# ⚓ Researching_with_the_Lumen_Database:_Q&A
Sessions_for_Interested_Researchers⠀⇛
Lumen is an independent and one-of-a-
kind research project at Harvard
University’s Berkman Klein Center,
studying cease and desist letters
concerning online content. We collect
and analyze requests to remove material
from the web. Our goals are to educate
the public, to facilitate research
about the different kinds of complaints
and requests for removal–both
legitimate and questionable–that are
being sent to Internet publishers and
service providers, and to provide as
much transparency as possible about the
“ecology” of such notices, in terms of
who is sending them and why, and to
what effect.
# ⚓ This_new_malware_wants_to_create_backdoors_and
targets_Windows,_Linux_and_macOS⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Seeing_squid_more_clearly⠀⇛
The last common ancestor of cephalopods and
vertebrates existed more than 500 million
years ago. In fact, a squid is more closely
related to a clam than it is a to a person.
Even so, the two lineages independently
evolved camera-lens-style eyes with very
similar features: a single lens in the front
and a cup-shaped, image-sensing retina in the
back.
The similarity has had scientists wondering
for decades how squid and their cousins get
their eyes. In research published this week
in BMC Biology, a Harvard lab moves closer to
unraveling the mystery.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Neptune,_GeckoLinux,_Slackel,_UbuntuDDE_&_Touch,_qBittorrent_…⠀⇛
First PING 2022 and there are already interesting things
to collect with this broom, almost everything from this
first week of the year … with the inevitable exception of
Linux Mint 20.3, whose launch we echoed yesterday.
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ What_makes_Linux_the_sustainable_OS⠀⇛
Battling the pandemic has created a shortage of
microchips needed to produce new computers. In
addition, some newer proprietary operating systems
come with higher minimum standards for those
systems. This conundrum has created an opportunity
for those of us who use Linux in our daily lives.
Linux has long been noted for adding life to aging
hardware. That ability has been a boon to those
folks who use computers every day.
I have helped many folks refurbish and refit older
computers using Linux in the past year. Linux-based
computers consume less power and start up much
quicker. The Gnome desktop is great, but many older
computers are better suited to LXDE or XFCE
environments, which require fewer resources to run.
# ⚓ Survey_Shows_60%_Of_VFX_Designers_Are_Using_Linux⠀⇛
VES (Visual Effects Society) is an organization
that represents visual effects designers,
animators, studios, film makers and other related
stakeholders from many different countries around
the world. They have thousands of members from many
different companies specialized in VFX field, some
of which have made the most iconic films in the
world.
VES has published the results of a survey they
worked on between October-November of 2021 about
studio software platforms used by their members. 88
Unique studios have participated in the survey,
which collectively own more than 59,000 artist
workstations (Or computers).
The survey aimed to explore which software
platforms are most common in the VFX industry, and
the key findings could be quite surprising for you.
# ⚓ My_sunk_cost_fallacy_relationship_with_my_home_desktop⠀⇛
However, this machine dates from early 2018 so it’s
only about three years old now. Three years is a
pretty aggressive replacement cycle for desktop
machines today, especially when I bought it as a
relatively good machine that I was expecting to
last me for at least five years. And more
importantly, there’s the sunk cost fallacy. I want
this machine to work, and I want to persuade myself
that magically it will work well enough for me not
to do anything (or at least anything substantial).
Just as I expected back in August of 2020, I’ve
done nothing so far and just coasted along, and so
far that has actually worked out in the sense that
I’ve avoided both total failure and too many issues
(although I had one alarming incident). It’s easier
to do nothing than to act.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Full_Circle_Weekly_News_#244⠀⇛
# ⚓ A_YouTube_Studio_Tour_2022_(Warning:_Way_Too_Long!)_–
Invidious⠀⇛
One of the most often requested videos is the
“YouTube studio tour.” Because of the requests, and
because I’m constantly getting new equipment, it’s
a good idea to do an updated studio tour every few
months, where I discuss the equipment that I use to
make my video content.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ USB_Changes_For_Linux_5.17:_Overdue_Xen_pvUSB_To_DWC3
Multi-Stream_Transfer_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Landing this week as part of the various subsystems
overseen by Linux’s second-in-command Greg Kroah-
Hartman were the USB changes for Linux 5.17.
There were many USB (and Thunderbolt) changes for
Linux 5.17 such as Synopsys’ DWC3 “Multi-Stream
Transfer” feature, Xen pvUSB making its debut after
being out-of-tree since its start in ~2008, various
power management changes, and more. Some of the USB
subsystem highlights for 5.17 include:
- Multi-Stream Transfer (MST; not to be confused
with DisplayPort’s MST – Multi-Stream Transport)
for the Synopsys DesignWare Core SuperSpeed USB 3.0
controller. Synopsys added Multi-Stream Transfer to
improve bulk streams performance for SuperSpeed and
SuperSpeed Plus with their DWC3 controller with
this latest Linux kernel driver code. Synopsys has
found this Multi-Stream Transfer mode for DWC3 can
lead to a “significant performance improvement” for
UASP transfers.
# ⚓ Linux_5.16_speeds_up_games_and_boosts_system_performance_–
Market_Research_Telecast [Ed: Automated translation]⠀⇛
Linux 5.16 took a week longer than originally
expected. Linus Torvalds decided to give the kernel
a little more time to mature. The triggers were not
problems or alarming test results, but simply the
concern that testing could be too short due to the
holidays and the week “between the years”.
# § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Mesa’s_“Copper”_Is_A_Step_Closer_To_Being_Brazed_–
Phoronix⠀⇛
A draft merge request has been opened for
landing “Copper” within Mesa.
Copper came about over the past year by Red
Hat’s Adam Jackson with participation from
Mike Blumenkrantz and others. This DRI
interface extension can lead to much greater
efficiency for Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan
implementation, and native WSI handling for
it. Copper would help improve upon the
Gallium3D architecture and provide
substantial benefits for Zink.
On Thursday Blumenkrantz opened the draft MR
for merging Copper with hopes for getting the
code into shape for mainlining but not
necessarily in the immediate future. Pushing
Copper out as more of a longer-term effort is
it depending upon other open merge requests
such as Zink external memory support, sparse
textures, and other bits.
# ⚓ Leaks⠀⇛
It’s come to my attention that there’s a lot
of rumors flying around about what exactly
I’m doing aside from posting the latest info
about where Jason Ekstrand, who coined the
phrase, “If it compiles, we should ship it.”
is going to end up.
Everyone knows that jekstrand’s next career
move is big news—the kind of industry-shaking
maneuvering that has every BigCo from
Alphabet to Meta on tenterhooks. This post is
going to debunk a number of the most common
nonsense I’ve been hearing as well as give
some updates about what else I’ve been doing
besides scouring the internet for even the
tiniest clue about what’s coming for this
man’s career in 2022.
[...]
Unfortunately, this turned out to be bogus,
no more than chaff deployed to stop us from
getting to the truth because we were too
close. Later, while I was pondering how buggy
NVIDIA’s sparse image functionality was in
the latest beta drivers and attempting to
pass what few equally buggy CTS cases there
were for ARB_sparse_texture2, I stumbled upon
the obvious.
It’s so obvious, in fact, that everyone
overlooked it because of how obvious it is.
Jason has left Intel and turned in his badge
because he’s on vacation.
As everyone knows, he’s the kind of person
who literally does not comprehend time in the
same way that the rest of us do. It was his
assessment of the HR policy that in order to
take time off and leave the office, he had to
quit. My latest intel (no pun intended)
revealed that managers and executives alike
were still scrambling, trying to figure out
how to explain the company’s vacation policy
using SSA-based compiler terminology, but
optimizer passes left their attempts to
engage him as no-ops.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ tickrs_–_terminal_realtime_ticker_data⠀⇛
One way of keeping alert regarding your financial
position is to use a stock ticker. This is software
that provides live updates of stock prices and
enables you to easily monitor your investments.
tickrs is a stock ticker that is written in Rust.
It’s published under an open source license.
Terminal-based software is light on system
resources (very useful on low specified machines),
can be faster and more efficient than their
graphical counterparts, they do not stop working
when X is restarted, and are great for scripting
purposes.
# ⚓ QOwnNotes_22.1.6_–_Neowin⠀⇛
QOwnNotes is a open source (GPL) plain-text file
notepad with markdown support and todo list manager
for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that
(optionally) works together with the notes
application of ownCloud (or Nextcloud). So you are
able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and
edit or search for them later from your mobile
device (like with CloudNotes) or the ownCloud web-
service. The notes are stored as plain text files
and you can sync them with your ownCloud sync
client. Of course other software, like Dropbox,
Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used
too.
# ⚓ yt-dlp_vs_youtube-dl⠀⇛
It’s well known that videos are not nearly as easy
to save from a website as things like images or
text. Although web browsers do not feature a
default way to save videos directly to our hard
drive, open source projects like yt-dlp and
youtube-dl fill this gap quite nicely.
As you can tell from the names, these tools work
especially for YouTube, where most of the world’s
videos are found these days. But they can also work
for a variety of other sites – actually, most any
site that you come across. And, usually, if there
is a site that these tools can’t work with, the
developers will work on adding support for it into
the next release of their software.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
yt-dlp and youtube-dl on major Linux distros. We
will also go over their pros and cons to help you
see which one is better.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ SSH_Bastion_Host_Best_Practices⠀⇛
Overall, the core concept of security hardening a
bastion host is to run a bastion server with
minimal components and reduce the attack surface as
much as possible. As you will find below, most of
the controls required to secure bastion hosts are,
in fact, the same as hardening an operating system.
Below, we present a few important things to
consider while designing a bastion host.
# ⚓ SSH_and_HTTP_to_a_Raspberry_Pi_behind_CG-NAT⠀⇛
This modem is on AT&T’s network, but regardless of
the provider, unless you’re willing to pay hundreds
or thousands of dollars a month for a SIM with a
public IP address, the Internet connection will be
running behind CG-NAT.
What this means is there’s no publicly routable
address for the Pi—you can’t access it from the
public Internet, since it’s only visible inside the
cell network’s private network.
# ⚓ Kali_http_server_setup⠀⇛
There are multiple ways to set up an HTTP web
server in Kali Linux. Apache, NGINX, and Python are
a few of the ways this can be accomplished.
Since you are looking to set up a web server on
Kali, it might be safe to assume that you are
trying to spoof some other website, or dupe users
with some sort of phishing ploy. In that case, all
three web server types have their pros and cons,
with Python being the quickest one to get up and
running.
Whatever the purpose of your web server may be,
nefarious or not, you will learn how to install and
configure a simple HTTP server using either Apache,
NGINX, or Python in this tutorial. Follow through
our step by step instructions below to see how it’s
done.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Fathom_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Many admins and website owners use
Google Analytics to get advanced statistics of
their website. Today, I will show you how to
install Fathom Analytics on Debian 11.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Kibana_Dashboard_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_LTS
–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Analyze the data collected by the Elasticsearch
search engine software visually by installing
Kibana Dashboard on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish or
20.04 Focal Fossa.
Elasticsearch is a popular enterprise search engine
software to collect data, index, and analyze it.
The software is open-source, hence distributed to
use free of cost. The key feature is it can examine
and index a wide variety of data types that can be
structured or unstructured. For example, it can be
text-based data, numerical data, data with time
information, or data with geographic information.
But this Elastic Seach doesn’t offer itself a
graphical option to analyze data, hence to get that
we use Kibana, an open-source analysis, and
visualization platform. Together with Elasticsearch
and Logstash, it forms the Elastic Stack and
enables the data collected by Elasticsearch to be
visualized. Users can have various types of
visualizations representation of their data such as
line diagrams, pie charts, donut charts, or
histograms. And allows the display of time series
or geographical data. Kibana can be operated both
on-premises and cloud-based.
# ⚓ Install_CouchDB_using_Docker_and_Docker-compose⠀⇛
CouchDB is an open-source NoSQL document database
that stores data in JSON-based format and offers
HTTP-ready REST-API out of the box.
It can be used as a database backend for web,
mobile, or even desktop apps. In contrast, it uses
JSON for documents, an HTTP API, & JavaScript/
declarative indexing.
Although, CouchDB can be installed on Ubuntu or
Linux using Snap, many developers may require to
install it using Docker.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_MySQL_Workbench_in_RHEL_Systems⠀⇛
This article piece assumes that you already have
the famed MySQL software installed on your RHEL-
based Linux system and are ready to exploit
database administration to the fullest.
You log in to the MySQL shell and create the needed
databases and their associated tables. You create
the needed relationships between these database
tables and start managing your data.
However, this approach does not give you the needed
dynamic control in managing your data. Also, it
takes too much time switching between databases,
creating users and data, viewing linked data, and
executing other database-related queries.
# ⚓ Installing_Arch_Linux_Using_archinstall_Automated_Script_
[Complete_Guide]⠀⇛
In this guide, we explain the super easy way of
installing Arch Linux using automated script
archinstall. Intended for beginner to advanced
users.
o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Run_(some)_Windows_apps_on_Haiku_operating_system_thanks_to
Wine_port⠀⇛
Haiku is free and open source operating system
designed to be compatible with BeOS, a legacy
operating system from the 1990s. Haiku itself has
been under development for two decades, but it’s
still considered beta software (and it only hit
that state a few years ago).
While there’s a relatively limited number of native
apps available for the platform, one potential
solution to that app gap could be on the horizon: a
developer has been porting Wine to Haiku, which
makes it possible to run some Windows applications
on Haiku.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Humble_Bundle_Removing_Mac,_Linux_Games_From_Trove
Library⠀⇛
Subscribers can only download Mac and Linux
versions of Humble Trove games until January 31
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ I_Tried_System76’s_New_Rust-based_COSMIC_Desktop!⠀⇛
If you didn’t know already, System76 developers
have been working on a new Desktop Environment
(dubbed COSMIC) written in Rust: a memory-safe and
superfast programming language.
Creating a desktop environment from scratch is no
small feat. That involves creating everything from
the compositor, panel, window manager to the APIs
for your desktop environment and other back-end
tasks.
It is not an easy task, and maintaining it is
another story.
# ⚓ Top_10_best_Desktop_Environments_for_2022_Linux_and_against
Linux_|_systemd-free_linux_community⠀⇛
First we should explain the reason for the title,
then we should explain why has this become a trendy
catchy titling of pseudo-media, what is pseudo-
media, who they serve, and how can there be real
linux development without this consuming black
hole?
How were desktop environments conceived and
developed, and why were they developed? Many
technical reasons:
1 as hardware became quickly more able to display
more complex graphics than the old text terminals,
it became possible to display graphical images that
weren’t drawn by grouping alphanumeric symbols
together in lines, then digital drawings (CAD),
then low resolution photographs that kept climbing
in higher and higher levels, then video and high-
fidelity audio.
2 the competitive conditioning developed through
living in capitalism, elevates marketablility as an
unquestionable value, and since operating systems
with higher graphic capabilities became popular,
coders engaged in a rat race to outscore large
corporate graphic projects.
3 MS-win became nearly a global monopoly in
computer systems, so the (conditioned) goal was
clear, to provide “cheaper” “less binding” software
that were equally pretty and offered similar
utility. Those who argued the system is not its
graphical abilities but its ability to perform
other tasks without much graphical feedback, and
just provide adequate information and control for
those tasks, became less and less popular
themselves, to the extent people called them
hopeless romantics.
# ⚓ In_practice,_there_are_two_types_of_window_managers_in
modern_X⠀⇛
As part of its nominal mantra of “mechanism, not
policy”, the X Window System uses a user provided
window manager. As far as most X programs are
concerned, all window managers are supposed to be
equal (assuming that they implement some standards
for interoperability, such as EWMH and ICCM). The
various Unix desktops (GNOME, KDE, etc) have some
extra stuff between their own programs and their
own desktop window manager, but theoretically all
‘foreign’ window managers are about the same.
Unfortunately, this is not the practical reality in
modern X. In practice the world of window manager
environments has split into two types, one of which
is not equal to the other. There are compositing
window manager environments, which are found in
pretty much every significant X desktop, and also
non-compositing window managers. Many stand alone X
window managers, such as fvwm, are non-compositing,
as you can see in Wikipedia’s comparison of X
window managers.
# ⚓ Exploring_System76′s_New_Rust_Based_Desktop_Environment⠀⇛
System76’s objective is to create something that is
faster, more customizable, and free of the
limitations of the GNOME desktop environment, and
let’s face it, we’re all curious as to how this
desktop will look like.
This post will explore how this new desktop
environment is shaping up.
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Norbert_Preining:_Future_of_“my”_packages_in_Debian⠀⇛
After having been (again) demoted (timed
perfectly to my round birthday!) based on
flimsy arguments, I have been forced to
rethink the level of contribution I want to
do for Debian. Considering in particular that
I have switched my main desktop to dual-boot
into Arch Linux (all on the same btrfs fs
with subvolumes, great!) and have run Arch
now for several days exclusively, I think it
is time to review the packages I am somehow
responsible for (full list of packages).
After about 20 years in Debian, time to send
off quite some stuff that has accumulated
over time.
KDE/Plasma, frameworks, Gears, and related
packages
All these packages are group maintained, so
there is not much to worry about.
Furthermore, a few new faces have joined the
team and are actively working on the
packages, although mostly on Qt6. I guess
that with me not taking action, frameworks,
gears, and plasma will fall back over time
(frameworks: Debian 5.88 versus current 5.90,
gears: Debian 21.08 versus current 21.12,
plasma uptodate at the moment).
With respect to my packages on OBS, they will
probably also go stale over time. Using Arch
nowadays I lack the development tools
necessary to build Debian packages, and above
all, the motivation.
I am sorry for all those who have learned to
rely on my OBS packages over the last years,
bringing modern and uptodate KDE/Plasma to
Debian/stable, please direct your complaints
at the responsible entities in Debian.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ First_Look_at_Some_of_the_GTK4_Apps_in_GNOME_42⠀⇛
For this first look, I want to focus on three
important apps, namely the Nautilus (Files)
file manager, GNOME Text Editor (a.k.a. the
Gedit replacement), and the GNOME Software
graphical package manager.
Nautilus 42, which is probably the most
important app in the GNOME desktop
environment, is shaping up to be one of the
best file managers on the Linux desktop. The
GTK4 look and feel is very modern, and, if
you’re coming from GTK3, you’ll immediately
notice the differences.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# ⚓ The_9_Best_Linux_Distros_for_Privacy-Focused_Users⠀⇛
The proliferation of cyberattacks and increasing
security breaches is a matter of great concern in
the open-source community. However, there is still
hope to overcome these breaches, considering the
ongoing stress on privacy-focused Linux distros.
These open-source Linux OSes combine best-in-class
tools, encryption, and virtualization tactics to
counter threats. If privacy ranks high on your
agenda, and you need to switch to a high-end
security-oriented Linux OS, then you should check
out the nine Linux distros listed below.
# ⚓ EndeavourOS_and_Manjaro:_An_in-depth_Comparison_Between_Two
of_the_Best_Arch_Linux_Based_Distros⠀⇛
If you have ever tried using Arch Linux, you know
it is almost impossible to install it without
proper documentation and Linux knowledge. That’s
the charm of Arch Linux, actually.
But since Arch Linux lies on the expert end of the
Linux distros spectrum, there exists several Arch-
based distributions that try to make things easier
for the common folks.
Manjaro and EndeavourOS are two of the most popular
choices when it comes to an ‘Arch-based Arch
alternative’.
So let’s take a look at the differences between
these two. Why should you choose one Linux
distribution over another?
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ openSUSE_15.2_Reached_End-of-Life_–_openSUSE_News⠀⇛
Users of openSUSE Leap 15.2 will not be
receiving security and maintenance updates as
the version is now EOL (end of life) as of
Jan. 4, 2022.
EOL ends updates for the operating system
minor version. Those who continue to use EOL
versions will be exposed to vulnerabilities
because these discontinued versions no longer
receive security and maintenance updates.
This is why users need to upgrade to the
newer minor release; openSUSE Leap 15.3!
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_plans_to_redesign_the_Anaconda_installer⠀⇛
The community of Fedora It has been proposed
to redesign and modernize the graphical user
interface of Anaconda, the installer used
primarily by Red Hat Spectrum and RHEL
clones.
As can be read in an entry published in the
Fedora community blog, The intention is
rewrite the Anaconda graphical interface with
web technologies and employing Cockpit. Until
now (and it will surely continue to be the
case in future versions of Fedora) the
graphical interface of the installer has been
built with GTK, but some members of the
community have begun to see that it is time
to modernize and improve it.
From Fedora they believe that Cockpit is a
mature solution with great support for the
installer backend: Anaconda DBus. In
addition, it seems that there is
understanding with those responsible for
Cockpit, since they have provided their
support and have knowledge of what Anaconda
managers might need, something to which is
added the increasing support that Cockpit has
according to words published in the blog
post.
# ⚓ Extracting_dependencies_from_Python_packages_|_Red
Hat_Developer⠀⇛
Python’s easy-to-learn syntax and rich
standard library, combined with the large
number of open source software packages
available on the Python Package Index (PyPI),
make it a common programming language of
choice for quick prototyping leading to
production systems. Python is a good fit for
many use cases, and is particularly popular
in the data science domain for data
exploration and analysis.
Thus, Python’s rapid rise on the TIOBE Index
of the most popular programming languages
shouldn’t be a surprise. PyPI hosts more than
3 million releases of Python packages. Each
package release has metadata associated with
it, which makes the packages themselves an
interesting dataset to explore and experiment
with.
In this article, you’ll learn how to extract
metadata and dependency information from
Python package releases. You’ll also see how
this process works in Project Thoth, which
provides Python programmers with information
about support for the packages they use,
along with the dependencies, performance, and
security of those packages.
# ⚓ How_to_ward_off_the_Great_Resignation_in_financial
services_IT_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛
The fight for talent is real: According to
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in
September 2021, 4.4 million U.S. workers quit
their jobs. That is 6 times the population of
Luxembourg.
Globally, the “Great Resignation” has led to
increased challenges and potential growth
delays, with 73 percent of CEOs citing labor
shortage as their biggest external concern
that is most likely to disrupt their business
in the next 12 months, according to research
by Fortune and Deloitte.
Financial services CIOs should build a
culture that retains industry-leading talent.
The upshot for CIOs in financial services:
You must adapt to recruit and keep talent –
and build a culture that retains industry-
leading talent. After recently interviewing
more than 20 former financial services IT
leaders who departed for other companies, I
learned that it isn’t about a bad boss or
poor pay. They all fondly remembered their
time at the firms, yet that wasn’t enough to
keep them.
# ⚓ Red_Hat_Statement_on_White_House_Open_Source_Security
Summit⠀⇛
Matt Hicks, executive vice president of
Products and Technologies at Red Hat, Chris
Wright, senior vice president and chief
technology officer (CTO), and Mark Bohannon,
vice president of Global Public Policy at Red
Hat, along with representatives from other
technology industry leaders, today attended a
meeting hosted by the White House National
Security Council focused on cybersecurity and
efforts to advance open source security. Red
Hat is the industry’s leading provider of
open source software solutions.
# ⚓ The_Red_Hat_ecosystem:_Then_vs._now⠀⇛
Once upon a time, the Red Hat ecosystem was
oriented around one platform: Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
Those days are gone.
While RHEL remains one pillar of Red Hat’s
offerings, the Red Hat ecosystem evolved to
include a variety of other products and
services through acquisitions and new
development. Concurrently, key facets of the
relationship between Red Hat, Linux and open
source have changed in important ways.
Let’s examine the state of the Red Hat
ecosystem in the 2020s and its relationship
to the larger software market. We’ll look at
the major products and services Red Hat
offers — and how those services interact with
third-party tools and software, such as Linux
distributions based on RHEL.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Canonical_Shapes_the_Future_of_Snapcraft_(and_Snap
Packs)_–_itsfoss.net⠀⇛
There has been some controversy surrounding
Snapcraft in recent months that was not
looking good for Canonical’s packaging
system, but nothing from official sources,
but discussions in the community. Now,
however, reliable information about the
future of Snapcraft and Snap, the package
format created by the Ubuntu developer not
only for Ubuntu, but for the entire GNU /
Linux ecosystem.
Quickly commenting on what has nothing to do
with this news, let’s say that if two or
three years ago the support for Snap was more
prominent, especially from commercial
developers, while Flatpak grew and settled in
the community, the Tables have turned and it
is now when the second seems to be
establishing itself as the most widespread
and appreciated alternative, at least among
the main Linux distributions.
Thus, Flatpak has been improving a lot in
recent times, while it is increasingly
possible to find more applications in this
format, in Flathub at least. Snap is not bad
either, but it has been dragging problems for
years that have not been solved, beyond its
centralized model, which is not going to
change (Flatpak falls into the same practice,
since almost everything is in Flathub). For
example, the slow startup of Snap
applications.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ PinePhone_Pro_Explorer_Edition:_Linux-based_smartphone
launches_for_US$399_with_the_Rockchip_RK3399S⠀⇛
Additionally, the 160.8 x 76.6 x 11.1 mm device has
a 6-inch and 720p display protected by Corning
Gorilla Glass 4. The PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition
has relatively thick bezels by modern smartphone
standards, along with an 8 MP front-facing camera
and a 12 MP rear-facing one, specifically the Sony
IMX258. A 3,000 mAh battery powers the device,
which supports up to 15 W charging.
Currently, the PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition
supports fewer operating systems than the original
PinePhone, which works with over 20 OSes. Still,
the Explorer Edition can run Arch Linux ARM and
Manjaro ARM, among others. The PinePhone Pro
Explorer Edition is pre-orderable now for US$399.
For reference, PINE64 states that all orders placed
before January 18 will ship later this month.
Please note that the company will ship the
smartphone from Hong Kong, so you may incur customs
duties and taxes, depending on where you live.
# ⚓ Compact_industrial_computer_builds_on_Raspberry_Pi_CM4⠀⇛
Edatec’s compact, $113-and-up “CM4 Nano” industrial
box is built around the RPi CM4 with HDMI, MIPI-
DSI/CSI, GbE, WiFi/BT, 3x USB 3.0, 40-pin GPIO, a
12-18VDC input, and -25 to 60°C support.
Edatech has launched a 103 x 62 x 21.5mm industrial
system that runs Linux on a Raspberry Pi Compute
Module 4. The company compares the box, which
offers access to the CM4 Nano carrier board, with
the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC. Touted advantages include a
full-size HDMI port with USB-based touchscreen
support, a wide-range 12-18VDC input, and an RTC.
There is also a wider operating range, which is
variably listed at -25 to 50°C and -25 to 60°C.
# ⚓ Slimbook_4K_grabber,_a_good_choice_for_Linux⠀⇛
Today we are going to present a device that can be
of great help to those who are dedicated to making
screencasting from Linux: Slimbook 4K grabber.
Although Linux has seen a great improvement as a
desktop operating system over the last decade,
there are still areas where it is almost useless,
and sometimes not because of you. Captors are one
of those segments because few of the manufacturers
mainstream they support the system, not even
through Android or ChromeOS (which would bounce
back to GNU / Linux thanks to the kernel).
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Pico_Does_PID_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
If you wanted to, say, control a temperature
you might think you could just turn on a
heater until you reach the desired
temperature and then turn the heater off.
That sort of works, but it is suboptimal —
you’ll tend to overshoot the goal and then as
the system cools down, you’ll have to catch
up and the result is often a system that
oscillates around the desired value but never
really settles on the correct temperature. To
solve that, you can use a PID — proportional
integral derivative — loop and that’s what
[veebch] has done with a Rasberry Pi PICO and
Micropython.
The idea is to control an output signal based
on the amount of difference between the
actual temperature and the desired
temperature (the proportional error). In
addition, the amount is adjusted based on the
long term error (integral) and any short term
change (the derivative). You can also see a
video about using the control loop to make a
better sous vide burger, below.
# ⚓ New_free_resources_for_young_people_to_create_3D
worlds_with_code_in_Unity⠀⇛
# ⚓ Network_interface_routing_priority_on_a_Raspberry
Pi⠀⇛
As I start using Raspberry Pis for more and
more network routing activities—especially as
the Compute Module 4 routers based on Debian,
OpenWRT, and VyOS have started appearing—I’ve
been struggling with one particular problem:
how can I set routing priorities for network
interfaces?
# ⚓ Ghost_in_the_ethernet_optic⠀⇛
You see, Smart SFP’s are a bit of a
terrifying concept. SFP’s are (until now
apparently) actually quite simple devices
that “simply” take input electrical signals
and turn them into optical signalling, or
carry them down a Direct Attach Cable (DAC)
The proposed smart SFP said, “Hey there is
plenty of space in this thing! Why not also
put a little FPGA, and an ARM core that can
share the ethernet link, that way we can do
more things!”
# ⚓ Throwback_to_2021,_More_from_Librem_5_in_2022_–
Purism⠀⇛
We’ve had a really good year of not only
adding more functionality for the phone to
the Linux kernel and the mainline.
We have continued to ship out more Librem 5s
each month and continued to communicate more
reliable shipping estimates.
The Librem 5 phone has become quite usable in
2021 and will get much better in 2022. Here
is a complete run-down from our team.
# ⚓ This_clock_counts_down_to_retirement_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
For most people, the idea of retiring is a
very exciting thought. Finally, after decades
of hard work, you can clock out for the last
time and spend the rest of your life relaxing
and enjoying your leisure years. RdRnr318’s
coworker updates her whiteboard every day to
countdown the number of days until she gets
to retire. To save Martha some effort and
reduce the office’s marker budget, RdRnr318
built this “Nearly-Autonomous Retirement
Countdown Display” to replace the whiteboard.
This device does exactly what it says on the
tin: it shows a countdown timer with the
number of days until Martha reaches her
retirement. It also displays the countdown in
seconds, minutes, and hours, so Martha can
get granular with her retirement daydreams.
This device needs no buttons for setting the
time, because RdRnr318 programmed it
specifically for Martha. Her retirement date
is hardcoded and there is a real-time clock
with a battery backup, so it can
automatically calculate the countdown even
after losing power.
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_source_maintainer_threatens_to_throw_in_the_towel_if
companies_won’t_ante_up⠀⇛
Yet another developer of open source software has
tired of companies utilizing the code he helps
maintain without giving anything back to support
the project.
On Tuesday, Christofer Dutz, creator of Apache
PLC4X, said he will stop providing community
support for the software if corporate users fail to
step up and open their wallets.
[...]
“This is my final attempt,” he wrote. “If this also
doesn’t help with getting at least some form of
financial attribution for my hard work, I will
close down my business and there will be no further
form of support from my side.”
This lack of financial support is particularly
remarkable given his claims about the potential
value that can be accrued by running Apache PLC4X.
In a previous blog post he describes prototyping a
data collection system using the software that
would have saved the unnamed customer €20m.
# § Web Browsers⠀➾
# § Mozilla and Mint⠀➾
# ⚓ Available_Linux_Mint_20.3_with_the_pragmatism
and_ease_of_always_–_itsfoss.net [Ed: Late one,
might be plagiarised]⠀⇛
Linux Mint 20.3, whose code name is
Una, is already among us to continue
the path of the most popular Ubuntu
derivative, which is mainly responsible
for facilitating the transition from
Windows to Linux thanks to the fact
that in its three editions it offers
desktops of the style that has
generally spent the Redmond giant.
We start with what is the most visible
face of this distribution: the desktop
environment Cinnamon. This time we find
the version 5.2.5 along with certain
aesthetic changes and accompanied by a
large number of graphical tools that
make life easier for the user, among
which are TimeShift for the creation
and management of snapshots and the
driver manager.
Seeing that the desktop is essentially
more of the same, applications end up
having more prominence. In the first
place it has been mentioned Hypnotix
IPTV, the streaming application that
supports TV channels, movies and
series. According to distributors,
Linux Mint 20.3 looks better than ever
thanks to the addition of support for
dark mode. In addition, it supports the
Xtream API, has incorporated M3U
support and local playlists and
included a search function to find TV
channels, series and movies.
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_and_Mozilla_join_forces_to
standardize_the_Firefox_package⠀⇛
Clement lefebvre has announced a
agreement between Linux Mint and
Mozilla that will affect how Firefox is
served to users of the well-known
derivative of Ubuntu. The project
leader has made it clear that this
alliance is both commercial and
technical.
The core part of the agreement is that
the Firefox build supplied through the
Linux Mint repositories will start
using the default settings used by
Mozilla and not the Linux Mint one.
This means that the default page will
no longer be ‘https://
www.linuxmint.com/start/‘and the
default search engines will be those of
Mozilla’s partners (Google, Amazon,
Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc) rather than
those used by the distribution (Yahoo,
DuckDuckGo, etc). Another issue
affected is that the code changes from
Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian will no
longer be incorporated, although the
package format will remain Deb.
For Mozilla, the goal of its alliance
with Mint is to make Firefox work as
equally as possible across
distributions to facilitate maintenance
and simplify development and bug fixes.
This strategy is by no means new on the
part of the foundation, but it is a
path that it began to follow many
months ago to improve the development
of Firefox for Linux, since most of the
users of the open source system do not
use the browser builds provided by
Mozilla, but rather those offered by
distributions. That, for many years,
made the resolution of bugs extremely
difficult.
# ⚓ Firefox_is_the_most_popular_web_browser_of_2021
–_itsfoss.net⠀⇛
Surprise! Notice what you expected,
right? In short, it doesn’t matter how
many years we’ve been doing our year-
end survey, because in the browser
section Firefox always wins… and the
2021 survey is no exception. Do we
leave it like this? No, because
although we know how squared we are for
many things Linux users, in the nuances
is the interest.
Thus, it does not matter that Firefox
has won the majority favor of the
public for another year, because what
is really interesting is to see how
much support it maintains in relation
to previous years, as well as to see
the rest of the table and the movements
that may have occurred in the same. And
is that the world of browsers is not
the most changing, but it evolves, even
when it may seem otherwise.
On the other hand, and with regard to
the survey in general, this year there
were not as many votes as the previous
ones, but there was not as much time to
vote either. In any case, with more or
less votes, what is relevant in the
results of the survey is not the raw
participation, but rather the
percentages that are distributed among
the different options and on which we
are going to influence to assess the
whole.
# ⚓ Personalize_Firefox_with_Colorways⠀⇛
New users will similarly have the
choice to opt into this new experience
and they will be guided through the
customization process. An additional
notification for colorway selection
will be integrated into the welcome
experience. This notification will be
visible only after downloading Firefox
94 for the first time.
# ⚓ [Old] Introducing_new_Colorways_for_Firefox
94⠀⇛
Today, Firefox is launching Colorways,
a new feature that allows our users to
express their most authentic selves and
to bring them joy while browsing the
web. As we challenge what the browser
has been, and expand and define the
vision of what Firefox browser is and
can be, part of that challenge is to
ask ourselves “who is it for and who
can use it easily and feel included in
the experience?”
We caught up with Mikal Lewis, Senior
Director, Product Management for
Firefox, to hear more about his vision
for Firefox and the impetus for
launching Colorways.
# § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Fuzz_Testing_YottaDB⠀⇛
Every day, we find fault with our software,
so that you don’t!
Robustness in software is a mark of quality
that’s often easy to lose in development.
Thanks to Zachary Minneker of Security
Innovation, Inc., we are implementing fuzz
testing to make our software even more
robust. Fuzz testing provides us with one
more way to generate test cases to test that
the software does not do what it is not
supposed to do. As expected from a new form
of testing, we have discovered bugs that we
did not know existed, and which no user has
reported to us.
# ⚓ How_To_Connect_R_Shiny_to_Postgres_Database_–_The
Definite_Guide⠀⇛
Today you’ll learn how to connect R and R
Shiny to the Postgres database – one of the
most well-known open-source databases.
There’s no better way to learn than through a
hands-on example, so you’ll also create a
fully-working interactive dashboard with R
Shiny.
We assume you already have the Postgres
database installed, as well as a GUI
management tool like pgAdmin. Installation is
OS-specific, so we won’t go through that
today. You can Google the installation steps
– it shouldn’t take more than a couple of
minutes.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ You’ll_be_able_to_write_your_next_Klingon_opera_in
LibreOffice⠀⇛
Star Trek’s fictional species of space
vikings have technically had their own
language since The Trouble with Tribbles way
back in the original TV series, but the film
series started expanding Klingon into a semi-
functional language during the 1980s. With a
combination of canon works and the help of
enthusiastic fans, Klingon has become a
somewhat “real” language over the few
decades, complete with its own promotional
institute and official translations of such
works as Hamlet, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and A
Christmas Carol.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_Source_Sabotage_Incident_Hits_Software_Supply
Chain_|_eSecurityPlanet⠀⇛
An astonishing incident in recent days
highlights the risks of widespread dependence
on open source software – while also
highlighting the free labor corporations
benefit from by using open source software.
Marak Squires, an open source coder and
maintainer, sabotaged his repository to
protest against unpaid work and his failed
attempts to monetize faker.js and color.js,
two major NPM packages used by a huge range
of other packages and projects.
The software industry relies on various
interdependent ecosystems and resources. This
incident shows a well-known and unsolved
issue for the software supply chain: the
dependency hell. It’s especially true in the
world of Nodes.js and JavaScript, but it’s
also a common concern with open source
software in general.
Hackers try to infect legitimate apps during
a supply chain attack to distribute malware.
In the case of faker.js and color.js, we have
a pretty rare variant that leverages the
highest privileged access.
# ⚓ When_open-source_developers_go_bad_|_ZDNet⠀⇛
Chances are unless you’re a JavaScript
programmer, you’ve never heard of the open-
source Javascript libraries ‘colors.js’ and
‘faker.js.” They’re simple programs that
respectively let you use colored text on your
node.js, a popular JavaScript runtime,
console, and create fake data for testing.
Faker.js is used with more than 2,500 other
Node Package Manager (NPM) programs and is
downloaded 2.4 million times per week.
Colors.js is built into almost 19,000 other
NPM packages and is downloaded 23 million
times a week. In short, they’re everywhere.
And, when their creator, JavaScript developer
Marak Squires, fouled them up, tens of
thousands of JavaScript programs blew up.
# ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_Rcpp_1.0.8:_Updated,_Strict
Headers⠀⇛
The Rcpp team is thrilled to share the news
of the newest release 1.0.8 of Rcpp which hit
CRAN today, and has already been uploaded to
Debian as well. Windows and macOS builds
should appear at CRAN in the next few days.
This release continues with the six-months
cycle started with release 1.0.5 in July
2020. As a reminder, interim ‘dev’ or ‘rc’
releases will alwasys be available in the
Rcpp drat repo; this cycle there were once
again seven (!!) – times two as we also
tested the modified header (more below).
These rolling release tend to work just as
well, and are also fully tested against all
reverse-dependencies.
Rcpp has become the most popular way of
enhancing R with C or C++ code. Right now,
around 2478 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp
for making analytical code go faster and
further, along with 242 in BioConductor.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Sylvio_Almada_Cabral_appointed_as_AFRINIC_Board_director⠀⇛
AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for
Africa. AFRINIC Board consists of nine members, six
of whom are elected to represent sub-regions, two
are from independent regions and one seat is
occupied by the CEO.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Etel_Adnan’s_Missing_Arab_Companions⠀⇛
Etel Adnan, whose work is being celebrated in an
exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, was Arab
American. Although she lived in Paris for the past three
decades, before that Adnan lived in Sausalito,
California. I am an Arab American; so are Ralph Nader,
Leila Ahmed, Rashida Tlaib and Naomi Shihab Nye. You’ll
find us engaged in all fields—education, industry,
medicine, journalism, community service, sports, politics
and the arts– and practicing many faiths.
I offer this as context for the splendid exhibition
featuring Etel Adnan at New York City’s prestigious
showplace, The Guggenheim. Although contrary to what some
claim, recognition of her talent did not arrive late in
Adnan’s life. For years, her work has been widely
exhibited and celebrated in Europe. Moreover, while she
surpassed any specific religious identity, Adnan was an
unequivocally proud Arab woman.
o ⚓ The_Future_Of_Sports_Can_Be_Changed_By_NFTs,_Virtual_Reality,_And
DAOs⠀⇛
One of the hottest gifts in Wisconsin over the holiday
season was Packers “common stock,” allowing fans who buy
in to hold a small percentage of ownership in the NFL
franchise. The Packers are selling 300,000 shares of the
stock priced at $300 to raise money for stadium
improvements at Lambeau Field and sold more than 100,000
in the first week alone. Many are skeptical of why fans
are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on shares
that, by rule, cannot provide them with any financial
benefit. You can find an explanation by looking at a
seemingly unrelated technology: non-fungible tokens. An
examination of the market for NFTs not only provides
insight into the “common stock” phenomenon, but may also
provide a glimpse at a different future for how we
support and even participate in the decision-making
process of our favorite sports teams.
o ⚓ Natalie_Eilbert,_by_User_4357⠀⇛
There’s there there. A sweet empty vacuum bag smells of
industry, its provenance. I try a xylophone note, a sound
like burnt yellow. Approximations don’t mimic; they stand
in a room full of doors. My legs are hungry for money,
hang over a man’s ribs. I argue I am trying to be myself
when I sever a cucumber. Each object presents its
presiding objects. An elbow grinds into a caramelizing
thigh bruise. I remove an article, an article too
particular to understand. A kitten sleeps, shaped as a
pair of slumped lungs. I must laugh at my brain fog,
seran wrap over my eyes. Is authorship anything? I am a
single combination of cells, dander under a god nail,
duplicating. I press my thumb to my femoral nerve until a
white light blinks myself open. You enter me, a door
warped. In the crease, there.
o ⚓ Strange_and_Intimate_Encounters_With_Kathy_Acker⠀⇛
McKenzie Wark met Kathy Acker in Sydney in 1995 at a
reading for 21C Magazine, a publication both wrote for at
the time. That evening, they ended up sitting next to
each other at a dinner party. Kathy began talking to
McKenzie and, just like that, the rest of the room fell
away. At the end of the night, McKenzie drove Kathy back
to her hotel, idling momentarily at the entrance until
Kathy asked impatiently, “Well, are you coming up or
not?” Quickly and unceremoniously, their clothes came off
and they found their way to the futon. There was a lot of
sex and then some talking about the sex. As in her
writing, Kathy invited sexual frankness.
o ⚓ IndieWeb_Search_results_are_also_feeds⠀⇛
I decided to write feeds to accompany search result pages
so that I could subscribe to content that matches a
particular query. For example, I currently subscribe to
the search page for my domain name and “coffee.” This
lets me monitor changes in the search results. If new
content makes its way onto the first page, that content
will show in my feed reader, no matter when it was
published. This is a whole new way to discover content.
If a page has managed to make its way to page one on a
term I care about, the content is probably going to be at
least somewhat interesting to me (assuming the term is
competitive).
o ⚓ Microwave_Sampler_Is_Like_Time_Domain_Mixer_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[Gregory] is building some microwave gear and wanted to
convert a 3.3 GHz signal to a 12 MHz intermediate
frequency. You might think of using a mixer, but you’d
need a local oscillator of nearly 3.3 GHz which is not
only hard to build, but also will be very close to the
signal of interest which is not a great idea. Instead,
[Gregory] opted for a sampler, which uses an effect you
usually try to avoid — aliasing — to allow downconversion
with a much smaller local oscillator. You can see the
design in the video below.
In the case of converting 3.3 GHz to 12 MHz, the local
oscillator is around 100 MHz. How does that work? Watch
the video and find out. The final project will triple the
3.3 GHz signal and we presume the 12 MHz downconvert is
to easily phase lock the frequency using a PLL (phase-
locked loop).
The circuit is little more than an electronic switch and
a capacitor. The first part of the video covers the
theory of operation. About 7 minutes in, the whiteboard
talk gets more practical, using diodes as switching
elements. At the very end, we see he has a PC board
design but it isn’t generally available. Still, the
theory explanation is well worth the 20 minute watch.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Senator_Blumenthal_Blames_TikTok…_Due_To_A_Popular_And
Widely_Championed_Science_Experiment_Gone_Wrong⠀⇛
Senator Richard Blumenthal seems to fill our pages
with every possible moral panic about an internet
he doesn’t understand, but on which he’s made a
name over-reacting to. This goes back over a
decade, honestly, since well before he was even a
Senator.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Monster_in_the_Academic_Room⠀⇛
The Lyle Center and the computer university
For 16 weeks I met 8 students at the Lyle Center /
Department of Regenerative Studies, College of
Environmental Design. The Lyle Center stands on a
hill, overlooking the main campus. Yet there’s very
little it shares with the university. The two
institutions differ in location, architecture, and
mission.
# ⚓ The_Supreme_Court_Is_Poised_to_Make_Critical_Decisions_in
School_“Culture_War”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Second-hand_English-language_bookstore_opens_in_Tallinn_Old
Town⠀⇛
While not the first second-hand bookstore to have
opened in the heart of Tallinn’s UNESCO-listed Old
Town in recent years, Rüütel & Matilda is currently
the only one of its kind in business.
The founders say it is run as an NGO, with the
express aim of encouraging the art of reading, in
the traditional way.
# ⚓ Stop_Using_Pie-Charts⠀⇛
This article shows failures of pie charts, and
provides some alternative plots (and matplotlib
code) to use in their place.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Soviet-Era_Auto_Dialler_Uses_Magnetic_Rope_Core_Memory_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
We’ve seen a few interesting magnetic core memories
on these fine pages over the years, but we don’t
recall seeing too many user programmable magnetic
core memory devices. This interesting Russian
telephone auto dialer in its day would have been a
very useful device, capable of storing and dialing
forty user programmable 7-digit numbers.
[mikeselectricstuff] tore into one (video, embedded
below), and found some very interesting tech. For
its era, this is high technology stuff. Older
Russian tech has a reputation for incredibly
ingenious use of older parts, that can’t be denied.
After all, if it works, then there’s no need to
change it. But anyway, what’s interesting here is
how the designers decided to solve the problem of
programming and recalling of numbers, without using
a microprocessor, by using discrete logic and core
rope memory.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Tragically_Wrong’:_Supreme_Court_Blocks_Biden’s_Vaccine
Mandate_for_Large_Employers⠀⇛
Blocking an executive order from the White House
that public health experts said would prevent
hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations, the
right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on
Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s
vaccine-or-test mandate for large private
employers, claiming the Labor Department does not
have the congressional authority to impose such a
requirement.
The court ruled 6-3 against the mandate, which
would have applied to employers with 100 or more
workers. Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena
Kagan, and Stephen Breyer dissented.
# ⚓ Long_term_exposure_to_air_pollution_may_heighten_COVID-19
risk:_Study⠀⇛
The association was strongest for particulate
matter, with an average annual raise of 1 ug/m3
linked to a 5 per cent increase in the infection
rate. This equates to an extra 294 cases/100,000
people a year, indicating the findings, which focus
on the inhabitants of one Northern Italian city.
While further research is needed to confirm cause
and effect, the findings should reinforce efforts
to cut air pollution, say the researchers.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ AWS_is_Not_a_Dumb_Pipe⠀⇛
The telcos didn’t go down without a fight.
They successfully got so many regulations
passed against VoIP that it served a serious
barrier to entry for more than a decade. The
hyperscalers have an even better card to play
than regulation: open source. By bringing the
cost of software down to zero, they can
commoditize their complement. If AWS open
sourced all higher-level services, they would
still be a “dumb pipe”, but with fewer
competitors.
# § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_Source_Litmus_Chaos
Engineering_Moves_Up_Cloud-Native
Stack⠀⇛
The open source Litmus
chaos engineering project
has reached a new level of
maturity in the Cloud
Native Computing Foundation
as usage and features grow.
# ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_Energy_&
EVerest_Join_Forces_To_Create_An_Open
Sourced_EV_Charging_Software [Ed:
More ‘greenwashing’ from the so-
called ‘Linux’ Foundation not_staying
in_its_lane]⠀⇛
Yesterday, I met with Marco
Möller, CEO and cofounder
of Pionix, and Dr. Shuli
Goodman, executive director
of Linux Foundation Energy
(LF Energy), who shared
some details and insights
about a major problem in
electric vehicle charging
and how their project,
EVerest, is designed to
solve that problem. EVerest
is an open-source software
stack designed for EV
charging infrastructure and
LF Energy just announced
the project partnership on
its website.
In a nutshell, EVerest is a
stack of several software
packages run on most Linux
distributors. The goal is
an open-source software
stack for EV charging
infrastructure that runs on
any device, from AC home
chargers to public DC
charging stations. Marco
told me that the problem
the software is solving is
a critical issue of EV
owners having trouble
finding a working EV
charger.
# ⚓ The_OpenSSF_and_the_Linux
Foundation_Address_Software_Supply
Chain_Security_Challenges_at_White
House_Summit_–_Linux_Foundation⠀⇛
Today marks an important
moment in the Linux
Foundation’s history of
engagement with public
sector organizations. The
White House convened an
important cross-section of
the Open Source developer
and commercial ecosystem
along with leaders and
experts of many U.S.
federal agencies to
identify the challenges
present in the open source
software supply chain and
share ideas on ways to
mitigate risk and enhance
resilience.
At the meeting, the Linux
Foundation and the Open
Source Security Foundation
(OpenSSF) represented their
hundreds of communities and
projects by highlighting
collective cybersecurity
efforts and sharing their
intent to work with the
administration across
public and private sectors.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Human_Rights_Groups_Warn_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty
Must_Avoid_‘Chilling_Effect’⠀⇛
Ahead of a United Nations session next
week, nearly 130 academics and advocacy
groups asserted that “it is vitally
important to apply a human rights-based
approach” to drafting a potential
cybercrime treaty.
“A convention without such safeguards
or that dilutes states’ human rights
obligations would place individuals at
risk and make our digital presence even
more insecure.”
# ⚓ Nearly_130_Public_Interest_Organizations_and
Experts_Urge_the_United_Nations_to_Include_Human
Rights_Safeguards_in_Proposed_UN_Cybercrime
Treaty⠀⇛
The proposed treaty will likely deal
with cybercrime, international
cooperation, and access to potential
digital evidence by law enforcement
authorities, as well as human rights
and procedural safeguards. UN member
states have already written opinions
discussing the scope of the treaty, and
their proposals vary widely. In a
letter to the committee chair, EFF and
Human Rights Watch along with partners
across the world asked that members
include human rights considerations at
every step in the drafting process. We
also recommended that cross-border
investigative powers include strong
human rights safeguards, and that
global civil society be provided
opportunities to participate robustly
in the development and drafting of any
potential convention.
Failing to prioritize human rights and
procedural safeguards in criminal
investigations can have dire
consequences. As many countries have
already abused their existing
cybercrime laws to undermine human
rights and freedoms and punish peaceful
dissent, we have grave concerns that
this Convention might become a powerful
weapon for oppression. We also worry
that cross-border investigative powers
without strong human rights safeguards
will sweep away progress on protecting
people’s privacy rights, creating a
race to the bottom among jurisdictions
with the weakest human rights
protections.
We hope the Member States participating
in the development and drafting of the
treaty will recognize the urgency of
the risks we mention, commit to include
civil society in their upcoming
discussions, and take our
recommendations to heart.
# ⚓ EFF_Asks_Appeals_Court_to_Rule_DMCA_Anti-
Circumvention_Provisions_Violate_First
Amendment⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF_Threat_Lab’s_“apkeep”_APK_Downloader,_Now
More_Capable_and_Available_in_More_Places⠀⇛
In addition to the ability to download
Android packages from the Google Play
Store and APKPure, we’ve added support
for downloading from the free and open
source app repository F-Droid. Packages
downloaded from F-Droid are checked
against the repository maintainers’
signing key, just like in the F-Droid
app itself. The package index is also
cached, which makes it easy to run
multiple subsequent requests for
downloads.
You can now download specific versions
of apps from either the apk-pure app
store, which mirrors the Google Play
Store, or from f-droid. To try it,
issue the following command to see
which versions are available:
Once you’ve picked a desired version,
download it with this command:
# ⚓ Microsoft_touts_first_PCs_to_ship_natively_with
secure_Pluton_chip [Ed: This is not_about
security_at_all]⠀⇛
Asked why the chip is initially
disabled, the spokesperson said
enterprise customers “have told us they
extensively test and evaluate any new
security-related software or feature
that will be introduced into their
network and can choose to enable Pluton
on their devices as they see fit. As
Pluton rolls out into market and we
have time to assess the customer demand
for factory enablement, we will review
enabling [it].”
The Pluton processor is aimed at
delivering greater protection than the
existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
as it’s a dedicated security chip that
handles security features such as
BitLocker, Windows Hello, and System
Guard.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ San_Francisco_Police_Illegally_Used
Surveillance_Cameras_at_the_George_Floyd
Protests._The_Courts_Must_Stop_Them⠀⇛
By Hope Williams, Nathan Sheard,
and Nestor Reyes
The authors are community
activists who helped organize and
participated in protests against
police violence in San Francisco
after the murder of George Floyd.
A hearing in their lawsuit
against the San Francisco Police
Department over surveillance of
Union Square protests is
scheduled for Friday. This
article was first published in
the San Francisco Standard.
A year and a half ago, the San
Francisco Police Department
illegally spied on us and
thousands of other Bay Area
residents as we marched against
racist police violence and the
murder of George Floyd. Aided by
the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of
Northern California, we have
taken the SFPD to court.
# ⚓ Survey_on_the_Digital_Services_Act:_EU
citizens_want_the_right_to_use_digital
services_anonymously⠀⇛
Internet users should be given
the right to use digital services
anonymously, i.e. without having
their personal data collected.
According to a representative
opinion poll conducted by YouGov
among 10,064 EU citizens in
December 2021 64% of respondents
are in favour of such a right
(with 21% opposed).
Next week, Members of the
European Parliament will vote on
their final position on the
Digital Services Act. At the
request of the Civil Liberties
Committee (LIBE), an amendment on
introducing a right to use
digital services anonymously will
be voted.
# ⚓ Apple_to_allow_alternative_payment_system
for_1st_time_in_S._Korea⠀⇛
The move came as a new law went
into effect in the country in
September last year, restricting
app store operators, such as
Google and Apple, from forcing
their in-app payment systems on
developers.
In November, Google pledged to
provide an alternative payment
system on its app store in South
Korea at a slightly reduced
service charge in an apparent
move to abide by the country’s
new law.
# ⚓ [Reposted]_Using_Foreign_Nationals_to
Bypass_US_Surveillance_Restrictions⠀⇛
What’s most interesting to me
about this new information is how
the US used the Australians to
get around domestic spying laws:
[...]
# ⚓ FBI_Honeypot_Phone_Company_Anom_Shipped
Over_100_Phones_to_the_United_States⠀⇛
Anom, the encrypted phone company
secretly commandeered by the FBI
and which surreptitiously
provided all of its users’
messages to the authorities,
shipped many more devices into
the U.S. than previously
understood, according to multiple
files obtained by Motherboard.
The news highlights that although
much of the Anom operation
focused on devices overseas, Anom
phones were still present in the
U.S., raising questions about how
many total devices were in the
country during the years-long
undercover operation.
# ⚓ The_FCC_proposes_new_data_breach_rules
for_phone_companies⠀⇛
The current rules give
telecommunication providers seven
business days to notify the FBI
and Secret Service of data
breaches that leak customer
proprietary network information,
or CPNI. In most cases, the
company cannot notify customers
about the breach until seven
business days after information
has been relayed to federal law
enforcement. The proposal
suggests doing away with that
mandatory waiting period and adds
the FCC to the list of agencies
that companies will have to
notify in the case of a data
breach. It also says that they
would have to send out
notifications even in the case of
inadvertent breaches.
# ⚓ Meta_sued_for_$3.2_billion_in_UK_class
action_lawsuit_alleging_Facebook_exploited
data⠀⇛
Meta, the parent company for
Facebook, is being sued for £2.3
billion ($3.2 billion) in a class
action lawsuit in the United
Kingdom for allegedly exploiting
user data.
The senior adviser to British
watchdog group Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA), Liza Lovdahl
Gormsen, is suing Meta on behalf
of people who used Facebook in
the U.K. between 2015 to 2019 for
allegedly making users give
personal data in order to get on
the platform and earning billions
of dollars from the tactic,
Reuters reported.
# ⚓ Facebook_faces_$3.2_bln_UK_class_action
over_market_dominance⠀⇛
Social media giant Facebook
(FB.O), now known as Meta
Platforms, faces a 2.3 billion
pound plus ($3.2 billion plus)
class action in Britain over
allegations it abused its market
dominance by exploiting the
personal data of 44 million
users.
Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, a senior
adviser to Britain’s Financial
Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog
and a competition law academic,
said she was bringing the case on
behalf of people in Britain who
had used Facebook between 2015
and 2019.
# ⚓ Unsafe_anywhere:_women_human_rights
defenders_speak_out_about_Pegasus_attacks_–
Access_Now⠀⇛
A new investigation led by Front
Line Defenders reveals the
hacking of two women human rights
defenders (WHRDs) from Bahrain
and Jordan using NSO Group’s
notorious Pegasus spyware. The
hacking discovery comes on the
heels of the Pegasus Project
revelations of governments in the
MENA region and beyond using the
spyware to perpetrate human
rights abuses and repress
activists and journalists.
The impact of surveillance on
women is particularly egregious
and traumatizing given how
governments have weaponized
personal information extracted
through spyware to intimidate,
harass, and publicly smear the
targets’ reputations. As a
result, women targets of
surveillance live in a perpetual
state of fear, become socially
isolated and restricted in their
social lives, work, and activism.
As expressed by one of the
victims, Ebtisam Al-Saegh,
“personal freedoms are over for
me, they no longer exist. I am
not safe at home, on the street,
or anywhere.”
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Language_of_Violence⠀⇛
That day, Brooks hit Sumner as he sat writing at a
desk. The blows held such force that it snapped his
cane into several pieces. He continued to beat him
with the part of the cane that had a golden head.
Sumner was nearly killed in the attack and the
Senate floor was drenched in his blood. He would
not be able to return to the Senate for three years
due to debilitating injuries and chronic pain that
would be with him for the rest of his life. Brooks
was arrested and tried, but he only had to pay $300
and received no jail time. Many historians and
scholars believe that this incident played a large
role in the lead up to the American Civil War.
There were several other incidents like this one in
the Capitol over the years. Several attempts at
assassination. Some coup attempts, most notably the
one that targeted Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the
notorious “Business Plot.” And some might say that
these attacks were examples of threats to “American
democracy.” But one would have to accept that the
United States was a democracy in the first place.
# ⚓ Hey,_Hey,_USA!_How_Many_Bombs_Did_You_Drop_Today?⠀⇛
Over the past 20 years, as documented in the table
below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped over
337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries. That
is an average of 46 strikes per day for 20 years.
This endless bombardment has not only been deadly
and devastating for its victims but is broadly
recognized as seriously undermining international
peace and security and diminishing America’s
standing in the world.
The U.S. government and political establishment
have been remarkably successful at keeping the
American public in the dark about the horrific
consequences of these long-term campaigns of mass
destruction, allowing them to maintain the illusion
of U.S. militarism as a force for good in the world
in their domestic political rhetoric.
# ⚓ Yemenis_See_U-15_Football_Victory_Over_Saudi_Arabia_as_Sign
of_Things_To_Come⠀⇛
SANA’A, YEMEN – As the Saudi war against Yemen
enters 2022, Yemenis seem more determined than ever
to hold victory ceremonies and forge ahead into
another year of struggle against the Saudi
onslaught – notwithstanding a new scorched-earth
campaign launched by the oil-rich kingdom, dubbed
Operation Happy Yemen Freedom. “As we did before,
surely nothing will prevent us from achieving more
victories during 2022, until the eventual
liberation of all our homeland,” a fresh-faced
teenager said during a sporting event at Althawra
Sports City Stadium in Sana’a, where damaged stands
could be seen, the result of a recent airstrike.
# ⚓ Treaties,_Constitutions,_and_Laws_Against_War⠀⇛
Of course, what counts as legal is not just what’s
written down, but also what gets treated as legal,
what is never prosecuted as a crime. But that’s
precisely the point of knowing and making more
widely known the illegal status of war: to advance
the cause of treating war as the crime that,
according to written law, it is. Treating something
as a crime means more than just prosecuting it.
There may be better institutions in some cases than
courts of law for achieving reconciliation or
restitution, but such strategies are not assisted
by maintaining the pretense of war’s legality,
war’s acceptability.
# ⚓ Abolish_NATO⠀⇛
Unfortunately, the article misses the point. The
point is that NATO should have been abolished when
the Cold War ended, which would, needless to say,
have meant that it would not have absorbed those
former Warsaw Pact countries and would not have
moved U.S. bases, missiles, and troops inexorably
closer to Russia’s borders.
The ostensible purpose of NATO was to protect
Western Europe from an invasion by the Soviet
Union, which, ironically, had been America’s
partner and ally in World War II. At the end of the
Cold War, the threat of such an invasion was non-
existent. Therefore, NATO’s ostensible mission was
over. NATO should have been disbanded immediately.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Very_Dangerous_New_Cold_War_in_Asia_That
Nobody_Should_Want⠀⇛
The word “encirclement” does not appear in the 2022
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed
into law by President Joe Biden on December 27th,
or in other recent administration statements about
its foreign and military policies. Nor does that
classic Cold War era term “containment” ever come
up. Still, America’s top leaders have reached a
consensus on a strategy to encircle and contain the
latest great power, China, with hostile military
alliances, thereby thwarting its rise to full
superpower status.
# ⚓ Why_Do_We_Let_Psychopaths_In_Suits_Get_Away_With_Murder?⠀⇛
I don’t know the names of the men who poisoned and
killed my father and my brother Stan, who died last
Thursday, but I know where they worked and why they
did it: just like Ruf, Dennis, Hunsucker and
Pettis, they intentionally and knowingly took
actions they knew would result in death when they
sold asbestos to my dad’s employer and got my
brother addicted to tobacco.
The asbestos industry knew as early as the 1890s,
and got definite confirmation in the 1940s that
their product caused mesothelioma, a particularly
brutal lung cancer that killed my father. Even
today, their executives are trying to avoid
responsibility for it: Johnson & Johnson is playing
bankruptcy games to avoid paying for cancers caused
by their asbestos-laced talcum powder, and not a
single executive is even slightly worried about
going to jail for all these dead people.
# ⚓ Automated_Warfare_Is_Nothing_New⠀⇛
Here’s a scenario to consider: A military force has
purchased a million cheap, disposable flying drones
each the size of a deck of cards, each capable of
carrying three grams of explosives—enough to kill a
single person or, in a “shaped charge,” pierce a
steel wall. They’ve been programmed to seek out and
“engage” (kill) certain human beings, based on
specific “signature” characteristics like carrying
a weapon, say, or having a particular skin color.
They fit in a single shipping container and can be
deployed remotely. Once launched, they will fly and
kill autonomously without any further human action.
# ⚓ Two_reasons_why_“The_Big_Lie”_is_a_bad_name⠀⇛
Now, while I think “The Big Lie” is a bad name, I
don’t think it’s bad enough to change it
retroactively. I’m just asking if we please can
take more care next time we come up with names like
this.
# ⚓ Madison_Cawthorn’s_Incitement_of_Insurrection_Should_Knock
Him_Off_the_Ballot⠀⇛
On January 3, 2021, Madison Cawthorn was sworn in
as the youngest member of the US House of
Representatives. The 25-year-old Republican from
North Carolina pledged in his oath of office to
“support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
# ⚓ Jan._6_panel_subpoenas_Facebook,_Twitter,_Reddit_and
YouTube⠀⇛
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021,
attack on the Capitol subpoenaed some of the
country’s largest social media and tech companies
on Thursday, arguing they had not been forthcoming
following an August request for information.
The four subpoenas were sent to Facebook parent
company Meta, Twitter, Reddit and Alphabet’s
YouTube.
# ⚓ Oath_Keepers_founder_Stewart_Rhodes_charged_with_seditious
conspiracy_for_Jan._6_role⠀⇛
The founder and current leader of the right-wing
militia group Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was
arrested Thursday for seditious conspiracy along
with 10 of the group’s members — the first charges
of sedition leveled against those who allegedly
planned and executed the attack on the U.S. Capitol
on Jan. 6, 2021.
It’s a significant moment that breaks down a key
argument leveled by Trump allies — argued most
prominently in the Wall Street Journal last week —
that the breach was not truly an insurrection
because no one had been charged with sedition.
# ⚓ FBI_arrests_Oath_Keepers_leader_on_Jan._6_charges⠀⇛
Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of the
Oath Keepers and 10 other members of the far-right
militia group with seditious conspiracy for their
role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the Justice
Department announced Thursday.
Stewart Rhodes, 56, was arrested Thursday in Little
Elm, Texas, and also faces charges for crimes
related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol.
The Oath Keepers leader and founder has said he was
present at the riot but never entered the Capitol.
But members of the group were seen donning
paramilitary gear and using a military formation to
pass through crowds and enter the Capitol.
# ⚓ FBI_arrests_Oath_Keepers_leader_on_charge_of_seditious
conspiracy_involving_Jan._6_attack⠀⇛
The Justice Department has unsealed a major
indictment charging the leader of the Oath Keepers
militia group along with multiple other members
with seditious conspiracy related to their alleged
coordination in advance of the Jan. 6 attack on the
U.S. Capitol.
The three indictments mark the Justice Department’s
first Jan. 6 use of the seditious conspiracy
charge, which accuses Oath Keepers leader Stewart
Rhodes and other members of the group of conspiring
to “oppose by force the execution of the laws
governing the transfer of presidential power” from
outgoing President Donald Trump to incoming
President Joe Biden.
# ⚓ Republicans_Seem_Like_They’re_Pretty_Much_Done_with
Presidential_Debates⠀⇛
The RNC will vote on whether to officially adopt
the change prohibiting candidates from
participating in commission debates next month
during its winter meeting in Salt Lake City.
# ⚓ RNC_threatens_to_bar_candidates_from_participating_in
official_presidential_debates⠀⇛
The party also requested that the commission make
its moderator selection process transparent, as
well as adopt a code of conduct for debate
moderators.
# ⚓ RNC_moves_to_require_presidential_candidates_to_skip
traditional_commission_debates⠀⇛
The Republican National Committee (RNC) alerted the
Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on
Thursday that it plans to require GOP presidential
nominees not to attend debates run by the
commission going forward.
“The RNC will initiate the process of amending the
Rules of the Republican Party at our upcoming
Winter Meeting to prohibit future Republican
nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored
debates,” wrote Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the
letter, which was obtained by The Hill.
# ⚓ Democracy_in_America⠀⇛
Countries all over the world think of themselves as
democratic. There are places with a much higher
percentage of voting among the people than in the
United States. Are they more democratic? In some
places voting is mandatory. Some countries have one
party rule, but the people vote. Some countries
like Iran have a select group of people who decide
who can and cannot run for office yet they think of
themselves as democratic. In this case, many people
are voting but not for their preferred candidates.
In the United States, for most members of Congress
and the President, it is Wall Street that decides
who’s in and who’s out.
The United States thinks of itself as the world
leader in democracy. So let’s look at it closely.
It now costs literally billions of dollars to run
for president, and of the two who are given any
chance to win, one of them is going to lose. They
can lose by 1 percentage point or less, but nearly
50 percent of those who voted will not have any
representation at the executive level. And with a
low voting turnout, compared to other democracies,
tens of millions who are eligible but don’t vote
are in no way represented by the victor. We do not
build coalitions with other parties; we do not even
permit other parties to be in the running. In so
many ways, we do not have a two-party system but
more like one and one half, as both parties
represent the interests of Wall Street, not Main
Street. A Princeton/Northwestern study in 2014
identified the US as an oligarchy, not a democracy.
It concludes that what the donors want is what is
usually promoted and voted on in Congress, even if
that does coincide with public opinion. Big Money
rules and gains more and more power with each
successive election to Congress or the White House
and neither party objects to the point of trying to
reverse that, especially with Citizens United.
(Individual Democratic senators have pushed to
repeal it but it steadfastly remains part of our
electoral landscape.)
# ⚓ Will_Democracy_Die_Before_Our_Eyes?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Destroying_Democracy:_China_in_Hong_Kong⠀⇛
That same year, students and professors at the
University of Hong Kong erected a statue, called
“Pillar of Shame,” to commemorate the 1989
Tiananmen massacre. The tall sculpture by a Danish
artist lasted until the end of 2021 when, in the
dead of night, it was carved in half and removed.
Two other sculptures of the same event at two other
Hong Kong universities were also removed. The
ongoing eclipse of civil society by the PRC
authorities could not have been more starkly
demonstrated.
It Can Happen Here
# ⚓ Overthrow_Democracy?⠀⇛
In post-insurrection America today, one party has
quit governing and sounds like a 24/7 talk radio
station. A new book by the leading scholar on civil
wars—How Civil Wars Start, by Barbara F.
Walter—warns that the growing normalization of
violent language, threats, and acts can become
self-fulfilling. Timothy Snyder, author of the
best-selling On Tyranny, thinks it “pathetically
naive” to assume that the GOP won’t try to overturn
the results if it loses the 2024 presidential
election.
Can we erect stronger levees to hold back the red
tide of creeping fascism… before Trump, Manchin,
and GOP governors entrench minority rule? Here’s a
scorecard of 10 key variables that might answer
that question, labeled either with a + (plausible)
or a—(uphill): [...]
# ⚓ Germany_convicts_Syrian_ex-colonel_in_‘historic’_torture
trial⠀⇛
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former
Syrian colonel to life in jail for crimes against
humanity in a “historic” verdict hailed by victims
as a victory for justice, as the first global trial
over state-sponsored torture in Syria drew to an
end.
Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing
the murder of 27 people and the torture of 4,000
others at the Al-Khatib detention centre in
Damascus, also known as “Branch 251″, in 2011 and
2012.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Julian_Assange:_A_Thousand_Days_in_Belmarsh⠀⇛
Alison Mason of the Julian Assange Defence
Committee reiterated those observations long made
about the imprisonment at a gathering outside the
Australian High Commission in London on that day.
The WikiLeaks founder was wrongfully confined “for
publishing the war crimes of the US military leaked
to him by whistleblower Chelsea Manning.” She,
along with supporters, had gathered before the High
Commission “because Julian’s country could save him
with a simple phone call.” Mason’s admirably
simple reasoning: that Australia had “a bargaining
chip with AUKUS and trade deals.” If only that
were true.
The continued detention of Assange in Belmarsh
remains a scandal of kaleidoscopic cruelty. It
continues to imperil his frail health, further
impaired by a stroke suffered in October last year
and the ongoing risks associated with COVID-19. It
maintains a state of indefinite incarceration
without bail, deputising the United Kingdom as
committed gaolers for US interests. “Julian,”
stated his fiancée Stella Moris, “is simply held at
the request of the US government while they
continue to abuse the US-UK extradition treaty for
political ends.”
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Environmental_Justice_Advocates_Raise_Alarm_After_White
House_Exits⠀⇛
The Biden administration’s commitment to the
advancement of environmental justice is the target
of fresh doubt Thursday following departures in
recent days of two key officials focused on the
issue.
The administration’s top environmental justice
official, Cecilia Martinez—who served as senior
director for environmental justice at the Council
for Environmental Quality—announced her resignation
last week.
# ⚓ Reversing_the_Chicago_River⠀⇛
Today, there’s still some remnants of Chicago’s
trouble with waste water. On the South Branch of
the Chicago River, there’s a section called Bubbly
Creek. It literally bubbles with gases that are
emitted from the decomposition of blood and guts
from the meatpacking businesses that dumped their
waste there in the early 1900s (the same
meatpacking businesses chronicled in Upton
Sinclar’s The Jungle).
# ⚓ General_distribution_of_postal_ads_to_be_prohibited⠀⇛
A new bill could regulate that people will have to
indicate they do want ads, rather than having to
indicate the opposite. If passed, it will mark the
end of the yellow “no advertisement” stickers.
Minister for the Environment, Climate and
Sustainable Development Carole Dieschbourg is
working on a draft bill, expected to be filed in
the not too distant future.
# ⚓ ‘Terrifying’_Hot_Streak_Continues_as_NOAA_Says_2021_6th
Warmest_Year_on_Record⠀⇛
Amid rising public alarm about human-caused global
heating, U.S. government scientists announced
Thursday that 2021 was the sixth hottest year since
records began in 1880.
“Failure to act together with the global community
will all but ensure more devastating impacts and
even irreversible climate tipping points.”
# ⚓ 2021_was_hot_as_hell,_NASA_confirms⠀⇛
The last eight years have been the eight hottest
years on record, NASA and the National Oceanic
Administration (NOAA) confirmed today. 2021 ranks
as the sixth hottest year on record, the agencies
said, as global average temperatures trend upward.
Rankings aside, there were plenty of red flags
throughout 2021 to show us how remarkable the year
was for temperature extremes.
# ⚓ Big_Bank,_Corporate_Destruction_of_Forests_Worsening
Climate_Crisis:_Report⠀⇛
A new report published Thursday details how some of
the world’s biggest corporations and banks are
exacerbating the global climate emergency by
fueling the destruction of the world’s tropical
rainforests.
“Halting agriculture-driven deforestation to halve
emissions and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is
not an option but a necessity.”
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Historic_Offshore_Wind_Farm_Is_a_Very_Good
Thing⠀⇛
The Biden-Harris White House announced
Wednesday that The Department of the Interior
is offering a lease sale for offshore wind in
the New York Bight, off the coast of New York
and New Jersey. The sale will allow companies
to put in enough wind turbines to generate 7
gigawatts (GW) of green energy, or possibly
more. That would power 2 million homes.
# ⚓ With_Billions_in_Fines,_U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce’s
Ranks_Are_‘Packed_With_Rogues’⠀⇛
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an ultra-
powerful business lobby, does not disclose
its members, but it represents the interests
of America’s largest corporations — some of
which have a long record of breaking state
and federal laws.
A new report from consumer watchdog group
Public Citizen details how 111 known members
of the Chamber — including major polluters
and banks that back fossil fuels — have
violated state and federal laws at least
15,896 times since 2000, totaling more than
$156 billion in fines and penalties.
# ⚓ Jack_Dorsey’s_Block_to_build_an_open_bitcoin_mining
system⠀⇛
In a tweet thread on Thursday, Block’s
general manager for hardware, Thomas
Templeton, laid out the company’s plans about
building the mining system.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Top_Global_Brands_and_Asset_Managers_Still_Lack
Adequate_Anti-Deforestation_Policies,_Report_Finds⠀⇛
Heinz, Jimmy Choo and BlackRock are among
hundreds of household names doing “little or
nothing” to end deforestation, a major new
report has found.
The new Forest 500 report, published today by
environmental group Global Canopy, assessed
350 top companies and 150 financial
institutions that fund them, finding that a
third of companies have no policies in place
at all to ensure their products are not
driving deforestation.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Crypto’s_Heavy_Carbon_Footprint⠀⇛
But the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency has
environmentalists on edge, as the digital “mining”
of it creates a massive carbon footprint due to the
staggering amount of energy it requires. Based on
data from the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Indexfrom
Digiconomist, an online tool created by data
scientist Alex de Vries, the carbon footprint of
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is
equivalent to that of New Zealand, with both
emitting nearly 37 megatons of carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere every year, according to a February
2021 CNBC article.
To understand why this is a problem, it’s important
to explain what goes into creating a cryptocurrency
like Bitcoin. Unlike fiat money, which is regulated
through central banks, transactions in Bitcoin are
tracked through a public ledger consisting of a
network of computers around the world: the
blockchain. “Mining”—a process in which
computational puzzles are solved in order to verify
transactions between users, which are then added to
the blockchain—allows this validation to take
place, which is an energy-intensive process.
# ⚓ Ossoff_Unveils_Bill_to_Ban_Stock_Trading_by_Lawmakers,
Immediate_Family⠀⇛
Two Democratic senators on Wednesday unveiled
legislation that would prevent congressional
lawmakers and their immediate families from trading
stocks while in office, as new polling shows that
an overwhelming majority of voters across the
political spectrum support such a reform—something
that Republicans putting forward competing
proposals are trying to capitalize on.
“Members of Congress should not be playing the
stock market while we make federal policy.”
# ⚓ The_Great_Resignation,_Perhaps_Not_as_Great_as_We’ve_Been
Led_to_Believe?⠀⇛
The latest figures came out on Jan. 4, 2022, and
showed that 4.5 million people voluntarily left
their positions in November – an “all-time high,”
according to the agency responsible for collecting
the data. That’s 3% of the nonfarm workforce, which
headlinesalso proclaimed a record level.
But is it?
# ⚓ ‘Workers_Are_the_Best_Guarantors_of_Their_Own_Safety_When
They’re_Organized’⠀⇛
The January 7, 2022, episode of CounterSpin
included an archival interview with Barbara Briggs
that originally aired June 5, 2015. This is a
lightly edited transcript.
# ⚓ Jon_Ossoff_Introduces_Legislation_to_Ban_Members_of
Congress_from_Trading_Stock⠀⇛
# ⚓ Senate_Finance_Chair_to_Billionaire_Developers:_Explain_How
Opportunity_Zone_Tax_Break_Is_Helping_the_Poor⠀⇛
The chair of the Senate Finance Committee is
demanding information from several billionaire
developers to determine whether they are abusing a
Trump tax break that was supposed to benefit poor
communities.
# ⚓ Reps_for_Casino_Developer_Defend_the_Destruction_of_Nearly
600_Housing_Units_in_Reno⠀⇛
Representatives for a prominent casino developer
this week defended his decision to raze nearly 600
housing units to redevelop part of Reno’s downtown
into an entertainment district and floated his
“vision” to contribute land for a publicly funded
affordable housing project.
Many of the several hundred people at a virtual
town hall Monday welcomed the idea of better
affordable housing in the area but met the proposal
by Jacobs Entertainment with skepticism. The idea
floated by Jeff Jacobs, who has demolished 15
motels that were used as last resort housing,
includes 850 “affordable and workforce housing
units” built above public parking garages that
would ostensibly provide parking for his nearby
planned entertainment venues. Jacobs wouldn’t build
the housing; rather, he would contribute land for a
project to be built and operated by the Reno
Housing Authority.
# ⚓ Chronic_Underfunding_of_Public_Housing_Is_Putting_1.2
Million_Families_at_Risk⠀⇛
# ⚓ After_Navient_Forgives_$1.7B,_Progressive_Say_Cancel_All
Student_Debt⠀⇛
As one of the largest U.S. educational lenders on
Thursday agreed to pay $1.85 billion to 39 states
to resolve predatory lending claims, progressive
lawmakers and advocates renewed calls for the
cancellation of all outstanding student loan debt.
“All student loans are predatory because no one
should have to go into debt to get an education.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_Political_Representation_Doesn’t_Represent⠀⇛
The brand name emblazoned on our system of
governance is “the republic.” It is a system of
periodic elections for legislators and top
administrators who, once elected, are said to
represent their electorate. There have been times
when the elected have actually represented the
people who elected them. But not many.
Why is that failure so familiar? Why is it so
normal to see elected representatives go their own
way, regardless of the needs to their constituents?
Sometimes, there is real corruption, involving
backroom deals and money changing hands. But most
often, the failure is owing to a mythological
structure called “representationism.” It requires
that people see what officials do as “representing”
the people, though they clearly do not. It is an
ideological disguise that hides the ethical
pollution (rather than corruption) to which
political proposals or actions fall prey. The
notion of ethical “pollution” signifies that each
enactment includes counteractions that neutralize
it. That happens, for instance, when proposals get
bogged down in procedures so that the means prevent
themselves from arriving at their proposed ends.
# ⚓ Missouri_Governor_Mike_Parson_Tries_to_Stick_it_Where_the
Sun_Don’t_Shine⠀⇛
Note to Missouri governor Mike Parson: You’re
getting this “Show-Me State” business all wrong.
Parson tried to charge Elad Gross, a candidate for
state attorney general, $3,618 for documents Gross
requested under the state’s Sunshine Law, claiming
more than 90 hours of required “research and
processing” at $40 per hour. The “processing”
involved having attorneys redact information from
the requested documents. The state’s Supreme Court
ruled against Parson last June.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Justice_Roberts_Is_Wrong:_Federal_Judges’
Conflicts_of_Interest_Threaten_the_Entire_Judiciary⠀⇛
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Bin_Laden,_Trump,_and_the_American_Empire⠀⇛
The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is
a convenient time to take stock of the causes of
America’s decline.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Now’s_Our_Chance—We_Can_Reverse_Democracy’s
Decline⠀⇛
Seven out ten of Americans believe the U.S.
democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.”
And in this moment is our chance not only to pull
back from the brink but to leap forward—aware that
democracy is our “tap root” trouble: For progress
on any of the crises weighing on us—whether
climate, economic inequity, or lagging public
health—depends on governance accountable to the
American people.
# ⚓ Jayapal_Warns_‘Our_Democracy_Doesn’t_Survive’_Without
Action_on_Voting_Rights⠀⇛
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal stressed Thursday
that the stakes couldn’t be higher for U.S.
democracy as House and Senate Democrats pushed
ahead with their last-ditch effort to pass voting
rights legislation in the face of relentless GOP
opposition.
“Our democracy doesn’t survive without this,”
Japayal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus (CDC), said during a morning
press call with fellow lawmakers from the
Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Asian
Pacific American Caucus, and the House Democratic
Caucus.
# ⚓ Ohio_Supreme_Court_Rules_That_GOP-Drawn_District_Maps_Are
Unconstitutional⠀⇛
# ⚓ Schumer_Announces_Procedural_Plan_That_Will_Lead_to_Vote_on
Filibuster_Changes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Schumer_Unveils_Last-Ditch_Plan_to_Force_Floor_Battle_Over
Voting_Rights⠀⇛
In a last-ditch push to overcome GOP obstruction,
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer late Wednesday
unveiled a plan to temporarily evade the filibuster
and bring voting rights legislation to the floor of
the upper chamber for debate.
Outlined in an internal memo distributed to
congressional Democrats, Schumer’s strategy
involves several obscure procedural maneuvers that
began Wednesday night in the House, which moved
just before midnight to replace the text of an
unrelated NASA bill with language from the Freedom
to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act.
# ⚓ Trump_Is_Still_Casting_Himself_as_the_Victim_to_Keep
Political_Control⠀⇛
# ⚓ Manchin_Joins_Sinema_in_Destroying_Democratic_Hopes_to_Pass
Voting_Rights⠀⇛
As conservative U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday
joined his right-wing Democratic colleague Kyrsten
Sinema in announcing his opposition to abolishing
the Senate filibuster, progressive observers
excoriated the pair—who recently supported a
filibuster carve-out to raise the debt ceiling—for
obstructing their party’s landmark voting rights
legislation.
“Sinema and Manchin voted last month to abolish the
filibuster for the debt ceiling—but won’t vote to
abolish the filibuster for voting rights.”
# ⚓ ‘Shame_on_Her’:_Sinema_Sparks_Fury_by_Choosing_Filibuster
Over_Democracy⠀⇛
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was met with a
torrent of outrage on Thursday after she delivered
a floor speech reiterating her opposition to
weakening the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, striking
a major blow to her party’s plan to finally
overcome Republican obstruction of voting rights
legislation.
“If Democrats re-elect her in Arizona in 2024,
shame on them.”
# ⚓ Critics_Lambaste_Sinema’s_Opposition_to_Filibuster
Changes⠀⇛
# ⚓ “The_Coming_Coup”:_Ari_Berman_on_Republican_Efforts_to
Steal_Future_Elections⠀⇛
Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman warns the
Republican Party is laying the groundwork to steal
the 2022 midterms and future elections through a
combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression
and election subversion, that together pose a
mortal threat to voting rights in the United
States. Republicans, many of whom are election
deniers, are campaigning for positions that hold
immense oversight over the election process.
“What’s really new here are these efforts to take
over how votes are counted,” says Berman. “That is
the ultimate voter suppression method, because if
you’re not able to rig the election on the front
end, you can throw out votes on that back end.”
# ⚓ There_Are_Many_Ways_to_Steal_a_Midterm_—_and_the_GOP_Is
Laying_the_Groundwork⠀⇛
# ⚓ Fake_GOP_Elector_Refuses_to_Explain_Involvement_in
Electoral_College_Plot⠀⇛
# ⚓ “Biggest_cyber_breach_in_history”_as_techs_scramble_to_be
heard_above_Omicron_din [Ed: A bit of a distraction from the
greater_perils]⠀⇛
The devil child of the moment, if you want to call
it that, is the very technically named Log4j
computer vulnerability, which has left governments
and corporations world wide open to attack and
scrambling to patch, or repair, their systems. It
is being called the biggest cyber security breach
in history.
With the news bandwidth consumed by Omicron and the
public immured to cyber scare stories, the scale of
the recent Log4j story and the implications it has
for the secure operation of government services and
infrastructure is only just becoming more broadly
understood.
# ⚓ Google_calls_for_new_government_action_to_protect_open-
source_software_projects [Ed: Meeting stacked by the worst
culprits, as_usual]⠀⇛
Following a summit on open-source security hosted
at the White House Thursday, Google has called for
increasing government involvement in identifying
and securing critical open-source software
projects.
In a blog post published shortly after the summit,
Kent Walker, president for global affairs and chief
legal officer at Google and Alphabet, said that
collaboration between governmen
# ⚓ White_House_Convenes_Open-Source_Security_Summit_Amid_Log4j
Risks⠀⇛
The virtual summit, led by deputy national security
adviser Anne Neuberger, included executives from
Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and
Microsoft Corp. , among others, along with
specialist open-source software organizations such
as GitHub Inc., the Apache Software Foundation and
the Linux Open Source Foundation.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency, the Commerce Department, the Defense
Department and the Energy Department were among the
federal agencies present.
# ⚓ Twitter,_Meta_among_tech_giants_subpoenaed_by_Jan._6
panel⠀⇛
Months after requesting documents from more than a
dozen social platforms, the House committee
investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued
subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and
YouTube after lawmakers said the companies’ initial
responses were inadequate.
The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson,
demanded records Thursday from the companies
relating to their role in allegedly spreading
misinformation about the 2020 election and
promoting domestic violent extremism on their
platforms in the lead-up to the insurrection on
Jan. 6, 2021.
# ⚓ Congress_subpoenas_Meta,_Alphabet,_Twitter,_and_Reddit_over
January_6th_Capitol_attack⠀⇛
The committee requested records from dozens of
companies on a voluntary basis last year, but it
says the response from the aforementioned four has
been “inadequate” so far. “Two key questions for
the Select Committee are how the spread of
misinformation and violent extremism contributed to
the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps
— if any — social media companies took to prevent
their platforms from being breeding grounds for
radicalizing people to violence. It’s disappointing
that after months of engagement, we still do not
have the documents and information necessary to
answer those basic questions,” said committee
chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) in a statement.
# ⚓ CSTO_troops_to_complete_withdrawal_from_Kazakhstan_by
January_19,_Russian_Defense_Minister_says⠀⇛
The withdrawal from Kazakhstan Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping forces,
which began on Thursday, January 13, will end by
next Wednesday, January 19, Russian Defense
Minister Sergey Shoygu said during a meeting with
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Menace_to_Public_Health’:_270+_Doctors_Denounce_Covid
Misinformation_on_Joe_Rogan⠀⇛
Doctors, healthcare workers, and scientists from
around the world warned streaming company Spotify
that its most listened-to podcast, “The Joe Rogan
Experience,” is endangering millions of people by
giving a platform to guests who spread
misinformation about Covid-19—without the company
making an effort to correct false statements.
“Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate
the spread of misinformation on its platform, the
company presently has no misinformation policy.”
# ⚓ ‘A_Menace_to_Public_Health’:_Doctors_Demand_Spotify_Puts_an
End_to_Covid_Lies_on_‘Joe_Rogan_Experience’⠀⇛
Yet Rivera was even more horrified to discover that
people in her life, whom she considered to be
“quite wise and discerning,” were hoodwinked by
Malone’s patina of academic credibility,
considering his views on the vaccine legitimate.
“When I saw they were falling victim to this, I
spoke to some colleagues and we said something has
to be done at this point,” she says.
Rivera is one of 270 doctors, physicians, and
science educators who signed an open letter calling
on Spotify, which obtained exclusively streaming
rights to the Joe Rogan Experience in a reported
$100 million deal, to take action against
misinformation on the platform, such as that
contained in the interview with Malone. “With an
estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE,
which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the
world’s largest podcast and has tremendous
influence,” the letter reads. “Spotify has a
responsibility to mitigate the spread of
misinformation on its platform, though the company
presently has no misinformation policy.”
# ⚓ Oath_Keepers_Founder_Arrested_on_January_6_Sedition
Charge⠀⇛
# ⚓ 11_Right-Wing_Oath_Keepers_Charged_With_Seditious_Acts_Over
Jan._6_Plot⠀⇛
Eleven members of the so-called “Oath
Keepers”—including the right-wing extremist group’s
leader—have been charged with seditious conspiracy
for actions related to the January 6, 2021 assault
on the U.S. Capitol.
The Department of Justice unsealed the indictment
Thursday a day after it was handed down by a grand
jury.
# ⚓ ‘Fuck_Em’:_Indictment_Reveals_Top_Oath_Keeper’s_Reaction_to
Endangered_Lawmakers_on_Jan._6⠀⇛
The indictment charges that Rhodes and 10 other co-
conspirators “coordinated travel across the country
to enter Washington, D.C., equipped themselves with
a variety of weapons, donned combat and tactical
gear, and were prepared to answer Rhodes’s call to
take up arms at Rhodes’s direction.” While painting
Rhodes as the ringleader, the indictment alleges
that “some co-conspirators also amassed firearms on
the outskirts of Washington, D.C., distributed them
among ‘quick reaction force’ (‘QRF’) teams, and
planned to use the firearms in support of their
plot to stop the lawful transfer of presidential
power.” (Read the full indictment embedded below.)
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Pennsylvania_Court_Reverses_Student’s_Expulsion_Over_A
Snapchat_Post,_Reminds_School_Students_Still_Have_Rights⠀⇛
Do you want cheer fucked? Because this is how you
get cheer fucked.
# ⚓ REPORT_on_the_proposal_for_a_regulation_of_the_European
Parliament_and_of_the_Council_on_a_Single_Market_For_Digital
Services_(Digital_Services_Act)_and_amending_Directive_2000/
31/EC_:_(COM(2020)0825_–_C9-0418/2020_–_2020/0361(COD))⠀⇛
The Rapporteur welcomes the Commission’s proposal
on a Digital Services Act. Digital services are an
important backbone of our economy, bringing new
opportunities for both consumers and businesses,
using the various digital services on a daily
basis.
At the same time digital services have created
serious challenges and risks. The nature, scale and
importance of digital services for the economy and
society have changed dramatically since the current
legislation was put into place. An updated
regulatory framework on digital services,
establishing clear responsibilities is necessary to
address these challenges and to ensure a level
playing field in the digital Single Market and a
safer digital space for the users.
The Rapporteur acknowledges the horizontal nature
of this Regulation, but at the same time considers
that the one size fits all approach fails to tackle
the problems with illegal products and services
sold through online marketplaces. The Rapporteur is
of the opinion that stricter rules on online
marketplaces must be introduced in order to create
a level playing field and ensure the principle of
“what is illegal offline should also be illegal
online”.
The Rapporteur welcomes the Commission’s aim to
increase the transparency of online advertisement
and recommender systems, but is of the view that
the Commission’s proposal lacks concrete
obligations to ensure accountability and to prevent
the amplification of illegal content. The
Rapporteur thus sees a need to propose further
transparency measures and requirements in order to
ensure user protection by design and by default.
Lastly, the Rapporteur welcomes the focus on the
implementation and enforcement provisions and
believes that given the cross-border nature of
digital services, the hybrid enforcement model
suggested by the Commission could ensure an
effective and efficient enforcement of this
Regulation. However, the Rapporteur finds it
necessary to strengthen some provisions to ensure
that no Member State becomes a safe haven for
online platforms.
o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Biden’s_Lackluster_And_Mediocre_Press_Freedom_Record_After
One_Year_As_President⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_After_Decades_of_Delay,_Canada’s_National_Child-
Care_Plan_Proves_Strong_Public_Systems_Are_Possible⠀⇛
After decades of contentiousness, it’s surprising
how quickly Canada’s new national child-care
program has become as familiar and comfortable as
your dog’s favourite squeeze-toy.
# ⚓ 200_Inmates_Hunger_Strike_Over_‘Inhumane’_Rikers_Island⠀⇛
A hunger strike by around 200 prisoners at New York
City’s Rikers Island jail entered its sixth day
Thursday, as demonstrators continued to protest
“deplorable” and dangerous conditions including
lack of medical care during a surging Covid-19
outbreak at the notorious lockup, where 15 inmates
died last year.
“There’s no safety for us. There’s no one to help
us. It’s scary in here.”
# ⚓ Confronting_Christian_Nationalism_in_the_Spirit_of_Desmond
Tutu⠀⇛
In the wake of one visit, he sent a small postcard
that my mom framed and placed on the bookcase near
our front door. Every morning before school I would
grab my glasses resting on that same bookcase and
catch a glimpse of the archbishop’s handwritten
note. This wasn’t inadvertent on my mom’s part. It
was meant as a visual reminder that, if I was to
call myself a Christian — which I did, serving as a
Sunday school teacher from the age of 13 and a
deacon at 16 — my responsibility was to advocate
for policies that welcomed immigrants, freed those
held captive by racism and injustice, and lifted
the load of poverty.
Given our present context, the timing of his death
is all too resonant. Just over a year ago, the
world watched as a mob besieged the U.S. Capitol,
urged on by still-President Donald Trump and
undergirded by decades of white racism and
Christian nationalism. January 6th should have
reminded us all that far from being a light to all
nations, American democracy remains, at best, a
remarkably fragile and unfinished project. On the
first anniversary of that nightmare, the world is
truly in need of moral leaders and defenders of
democracy like Tutu.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_To_Honor_MLK’s_Birthday,_Senate_Must_Override_Jim
Crow_Filibuster⠀⇛
U.S. democracy is in crisis, as Republican
supporters of the January 6th Capitol insurrection
restrict or even eliminate democracy’s core tenet
of one person, one vote. Former President Donald
Trump is driving democracy’s demise, spouting the
Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him
through massive voter fraud. Countless audits, over
60 court cases and both Democratic and Republican
state Secretaries of State confirmed President Joe
Biden trounced Trump by over seven million votes.
# ⚓ The_Texas_Abortion_Ban_Could_Usher_in_a_Wave_of_Pregnancy-
Related_Deaths⠀⇛
Since Texas the Senate bill banning abortion (SB 8)
went into effect in September, the three full-
spectrum doulas that work with the Dallas-based
based Afiya Center have seen a troubling rise in
the number of women forced to continue their
pregnancies after being blocked from accessing
abortion care. Women at 15 and 20 weeks of
pregnancy, some of whom are victims of domestic
violence, are having parenthood imposed upon them
with little choice.
# ⚓ Lyra_Mckee_and_the_Truth_That_Breathes_Beyond_Borders⠀⇛
To know Lyra McKee, you must first know something
about the Troubles. They began in 1968 when
Northern Ireland’s government – pro-British, mostly
Protestant – started crushing the civil rights
protests of the minority Catholic population, which
had been shut out of jobs and political power. The
resulting partisan fury between Catholic
“Republicans” who wanted a free Ireland, and
Protestant “Unionists,” proud to remain in the UK,
metastasized into paramilitary groups led at one
extremity by the Irish Republican Army [IRA], and
the other by the Ulster Volunteer Force [UVF].
Their bombings and killings lasted 30 years until
1998, when the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
Lyra was a “Ceasefire Baby,” one of thousands of
children meant to thrive, free from violence and
factional terror. But with “peace,” and the
assurance that Northern Ireland remained in the
United Kingdom, the UK Government settled into a
policy of imperial neglect, further impoverishing
the six northern Irish counties still under its
control.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ America’s_Struggling_Satellite_TV_Companies_Once_Again
Propose_A_Terrible_MegaMerger⠀⇛
For decades, like clockwork, somebody at Dish or
DirecTV will try and float the idea that the two
satellite TV companies should merge. Usually
they’ll do this by seeding the idea at trusted news
outlets that additional consolidation is just what
the U.S. media sector needs. Granted regulators
have always balked at the idea of a Dish and
DirecTV merger, given that it would only reduce
competition in the pay TV space, leading to more
layoffs, more price hikes, and even worse customer
service (cable TV customer service is among the
worst in any industry anywhere thanks to this
“growth for growth’s sake” mindset).
# ⚓ New_Washington_Law_Requires_Home_Sellers_Disclose_Lack_Of
Broadband_Access⠀⇛
For decades the U.S. newswires have been peppered
with stories where somebody bought a house after
being told by their ISP it had broadband access,
only to realize the ISP didn’t actually serve that
address. Generally, the homeowner then realizes
they have to spend a stupid amount of money to pay
the local telecom monopoly to extend service.. or
move again. Time after time, local ISPs are found
to be flat out lying when they claim they can offer
an essential utility (broadband), and the home
buyer has little recourse thanks to the slow,
steady erosion of U.S. state and federal telecom
regulatory oversight.
# ⚓ Another_Layer_Of_Centralization⠀⇛
Moxie Marlinspike tried building “web3″ apps and
reports on the experience in his must-read My first
impressions of web3. The whole post is very
perceptive, but the most interesting part reveals
yet another way the allegedly decentralized world
of cryptocurrencies is centralized.
Below the fold, I explain the details of yet
another failure of decentralization.
# ⚓ IFF_releases_the_second_edition_of_the_Connectivity_Tracker
#MapTheDigitalDivide⠀⇛
IFF’s #connectivitytracker for Jan 2022 is here!
Our report provides an overview of the state of
internet access from Jan 2020 to Oct 2021. In this
edition of the report, we analyze the data on
telecom and internet connectivity, the digital
divide in the context of access to online
education, and the progress of government schemes
aimed at improving internet access. We also aim to
collect data on internet shutdowns (for which we
need your help).
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Josh_Hawley_Was_The_Democrats’_Partner_In_Trying_To
Regulate_Big_Tech;_Then_The_Public_Realized_He_Was_A
Fascist⠀⇛
Karl recently wrote about how Congress’ antitrust
efforts are flailing (even with the plan to hold a
hearing on Senators Klobuchar & Grassley’s
antitrust bill) and one reason why the efforts have
stumbled may be Senator Josh Hawley’s decision to
really show off his fascist side.
# ⚓ It’s_Deja_Vu_for_Yet_Another_Misguided_Tech_Regulation
Proposal_–_Disruptive_Competition_Project⠀⇛
Substantive and procedural concerns in tech
regulation bills in the House and Senate are
starting to feel like deja vu for yet another
misguided anti-tech proposal.
On June 11, 2021, House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law
Chairman Cicilline introduced H.R. 3816, the
American Choice and Innovation Online Act, along
with a number of other anti-tech bills. Despite
concerns raised by the New Democratic Caucus to
House Leadership and the Judiciary Committee
requesting that a legislative hearing be held on
these bills, these bills were rushed to a marathon
48-hour markup, less than two weeks after
introduction. During the markup, on June 23-24,
2021, many members of the House Judiciary Committee
complained about the process and not having time to
understand the bills before being forced to vote.
Nevertheless, all six bills were voted out by House
members of both parties and are waiting for floor
consideration.
[...]
The prohibition on treating products, services, and
lines of businesses differently in S. 2992, as
discussed previously on DisCo, could bring an
abrupt end to the digital conveniences that
Americans have come to know, enjoy, and rely upon
during the pandemic. There is a disjunct between
the small faction in the Congress that is leading
members down the primrose path that ultimately will
make its members walk the plank and kill these tech
services as we know them by voting for this bill
and the U.S. voters, who value these services.
Voters will be the bellwether as to which course
was correct.
But the problems surrounding this bill listed above
are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
the untold consequences that can result from its
passage. Doing the same thing over and over again
expecting different results is futile, among other
things. Rather than have a repeat of the 28-hour
markup over two days that played out in June 2021,
why not hold a hearing to allow the public and
other interested stakeholders to provide input? If
Senators believe the bill is in the best interest
of the American people, it need not be the subject
of another rush job.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ BRAIN_Biotech_AG:_BRAIN-Engineered-Cas_(BEC)
Considered_a_Patentable_Technology⠀⇛
# ⚓ BRAIN_Biotech_AG:_BRAIN-Engineered-Cas_(BEC)
Considered_a_Patentable_Technology [Ed: EPO pretends
that life_and_nature_are_“inventions”_meriting_a_patent
monopoly]⠀⇛
Zwingenberg, Germany, January 11th, 2022.
BRAIN Biotech AG (“BRAIN”) received an
international search report and a written
opinion from the European Patent Office (EPO)
as international searching authority (ISA).
The favorable written opinion states that the
BRAIN-Engineered-Cas (BEC) nucleases for
which patent protection is sought under the
Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) are – with
regard to the BEC nuclease sequences –
inventive, are industrially applicable and
are also not otherwise excluded from patent
protection. Hence, the respective sequences
of the BEC nucleases are considered
patentable by the EPO.
# ⚓ Profits_Over_People:_Why_Weren’t_the_Vaccine
Manufacturers_Nationalized?⠀⇛
On January 20, 2021, the day Trump left
office, 392,641 people had died of Covid; as
of December 18, 2021, 411,359 people died
during the first 11 months of Biden
presidency – and Biden has another three
years in office.
Often forgot, during the seven years of World
War II (1939-1945), 407,316 U.S. military
personnel were killed.
# ⚓ John_Nichols_on_How_“Coronavirus_Criminals_&_Pandemic
Profiteers”_Hurt_World’s_Response_to_COVID-19⠀⇛
We speak with The Nation’s national affairs
correspondent John Nichols on the occasion of
his new book, “Coronavirus Criminals and
Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those
Who Caused the Crisis,” which takes aim at
the CEOs and political figures who put
profits over people during the coronavirus
pandemic. The chapters cover notorious
figures such as former President Trump, Mike
Pompeo, Jared Kushner and Jeff Bezos. “In the
United States alone, hundreds of thousands of
deaths occurred that did not have to occur,”
says Nichols. “Globally it’s in the millions,
and the U.S. could have played a huge role in
addressing that.”
# ⚓ Confessions_of_a_“Human_Guinea_Pig”:_Professor_Quits
Vaccine_Trial_over_Moderna’s_Corporate_Greed⠀⇛
Jeremy Menchik, a self-described “human
guinea pig” who volunteered for Moderna’s
COVID-19 vaccine trials, dropped out to
protest the company’s greed in reaping
profits from the ongoing pandemic while doing
little to resolve global vaccine inequity.
Menchik is launching a new website —
mrna4all.org — where other vaccine trial
participants can join the effort to pressure
vaccine makers to scale up production to
vaccinate the world. “That they have to be
accountable to their guinea pigs and they
have to advance policies for public health
not just private profit … I think that must
be unnerving to them,” says Menchik, an
associate professor at Boston University. “We
have to treat this pandemic as a global
crisis, as a global public health emergency.”
# ⚓ After_Year_of_Vaccine_Profiteering,_Pfizer_Hikes
Prices_on_125_Drugs⠀⇛
After raking in enormous profits from its
coronavirus vaccine in 2021, the U.S.-based
pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has kicked off
the new year by hiking the prices of more
than 120 of its drugs, resulting in
significantly higher costs for patients amid
a deadly pandemic.
That’s according to a new report released
Thursday by Patients for Affordable Drugs
(P4AD), which found that pharmaceutical
companies have raised the prices of 554
medicines this month alone. Pfizer led the
way with 125 price hikes to start 2022,
leading P4AD to label the company the
industry’s “poster child for greed.”
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Monster_Energy_Buys_A_Brewery;_Trademark_Lawsuits_Are
Almost_Sure_To_Follow⠀⇛
Did you all just hear that? That tiny, nearly
silent series of screams you hear all around
you? Well, that was the entire craft beer
industry crying out in fear and pain. Why?
Well, because Monster Beverage Corp announced
that it is going to be a brewery.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Major_Online_Services_Help_Identify_Pirate_Streaming
Site_Operators⠀⇛
DISH Network and Sling TV are homing in on
the alleged operators of SportsBay.org,
SportsBay.tv, Live-NBA.stream, and
Freefeds.com. In an amended complaint filed
this week, the companies now name two
defendants who were unmasked after Google,
Cloudflare, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
domain companies and others complied with
subpoenas.
# ⚓ Google_‘Censors’_The_Pirate_Bay_and_Other_Pirate
Domains_in_Several_Countries⠀⇛
For several years Google refused to
completely remove pirate site domain names
from its search results, but that is no
longer the case. After removing The Pirate
Bay in the Netherlands, similar measures were
taken for France, Brazil, and Norway. These
removals, which are rooted in ISP blocking
orders, also affect many other pirate sites.
Meanwhile, law firms in Sweden and the UK
have submitted similar requests.
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