𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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⦿ Someone Is Very Desperate to Knock My Account Off Twitter | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 17, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Good News, Bad News (and Back to Normal) | Techrights
⦿ What IBM Does Not Want You to Watch | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/ibm-censorship/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/irc-log-170122/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/relying-on-microsd-as-an-os/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/the-real-ibm-history/#comments
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http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/deepin-20-4/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/gnome-42-alpha/#comments
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✐ Someone_Is_Very_Desperate_to_Knock_My_Account_Off_Twitter⠀✐
Posted in Deception, IBM at 3:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Weeks ago: FSFE_Misuses_FSFE_Budget_to_Issue_Frivolous_Takedown_Requests
Against_Critics | Criticising_Microsoft_and_the_OSI_is_“COVID-19
Misinformation” | Time_for_a_Twitter_Boycott?
Summary: Many reports against me — some successful — are putting my free speech
(and factual statements) at risk
Received hours ago:
Hello,
Twitter is required by German law to provide notice to users who are
reported by people from Germany via the Network Enforcement Act
reporting flow.
We have received a complaint regarding your account, @schestowitz,
for the following content:
Tweet ID: 1465090995901632514
Tweet Text: Racist #ibm (or #redhat this past March and late 2019):
we need to remove RMS, he’s transphobic. Just ignore our past and how
our second-largest client, Nazi Germany, gassed trans people.
That’s…. “old news” (forget about it, you MUST!)
Tweet ID: 1468707132937756684
Tweet Text: Come on, people. Give #IBM a break. It’s not like it’s
some Nazi company. Oh… [url]
We have investigated the reported content and have found that it is
not subject to removal under the Twitter Rules (https://
support.twitter.com/articles/18311) or German law.
Sincerely,
Twitter
In context:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Twitter_censorship_and_IBM⦈_
For the record, all that I said in those tweets was factual and moreover backed
by evidence in the URLs. Maybe Twitter’s staff doesn’t wish to be seen as
helping to cover up IBM's_past_with_Hitler. Someone even threatened_to_sue_me
over_a_"tweet".
IBM and the Twitter… █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_January_17,_2022⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 6:24 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-170122.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-170122.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-170122.gmi
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§ Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾
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✐ Good_News,Bad_News(and_Back_to_Normal)⠀✐
Posted in Debian, GNU/Linux at 3:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 948cc5f102085cd52f4d356b486c2586
Major Incident and Recovery
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/hardware-crash.webm
Summary: When many services are reliant on the integrity of a single, very tiny
MicroSD card you’re only moments away from 2 days of intensive labour
(recovery, investigation, migration, and further coding); we’ve learned our
lessons and took advantage of this incident to upgrade the operating system,
double the storage space, even improve the code slightly (for compatibility
with newer systems)
THE good news is that Gemini is expanding faster than we predicted earlier this
month. Lupa is now just 11 capsules short of 2,000 and yesterday we received
some E-mails asking about Gemini downtime (we also got some inquiries over IRC,
which means the Gemini capsule really matters to people).
“These things are inherently fragile; telling people to reduce the number of
write operations is almost unreasonable because what good is a system you
cannot use (or program) as you wish?”So why was it down? The short story is, it
was a hardware failure. Not the fault of GNU/Linux or anything like that (in
fact, credit to GNU/Linux for letting us fetch another complete backup of the
entire system despite the whole file system being in read-only mode). There was
no panic, just frustration, and based on what we heard about MicroSD-based (for
boot) systems such an error was inevitable and almost predictable. The latest
backup (before the “emergency” one was initiated) had been marked only a few
days old (contents at most a couple of days behind).
All the services are now back online, the operating system was replaced by
Debian 11, and the machine has twice as much storage space as before, which
ought to permit us to do things we didn’t even dare when space was tight. To
reduce future downtime I also bought a spare disk (card actually) and will work
on improving/reducing D-R time, as it’s likely that a similar incident will
happen later this year or next year. These things are inherently fragile;
telling people to reduce the number of write operations is almost unreasonable
because what good is a system you cannot use (or program) as you wish?
“We’re hoping that tonight and tomorrow we can make up for the lost
time…”Debian 11 is quite nice, but of course imperfect (perception is an
impossibility). It’s the first time I use Debian 11 (my wife, my sister and
myself all use Debian 10 on our laptops) and maybe I’ll get to write some
positive things about it some time later this year (once I gain more
experience/s with it).
We’re hoping that tonight and tomorrow we can make up for the lost time; I
hardly slept yesterday (stayed awake for about 20 hours straight, then just 4
hours of sleep) and we have a bunch of things lined up that I never managed to
publish as restoring services (like IPFS and Gemini) was more pressing a task,
more urgent a need.
The hardest part (to me personally) was having to go to Town for replacement
components, knowing that few shops still exist (even fewer because of the
pandemic) and the bigger shops are full of unmasked people who don’t respect
people’s perimeter (it’s not helping that our_government_likes_to_pretend
COVID-19_is_just_some_past_event). █
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✐ What_IBM_Does_Not_Want_You_to_Watch⠀✐
Posted in IBM, Videos at 4:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Minutes ago: Someone_Is_Very_Desperate_to_Knock_My_Account_Off_Twitter
Video_download_link
http://techrights.org/videos/ibm-germany.webm
Summary: Let’s ‘Streisand it’…
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Posted in News_Roundup at 2:21 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LVFS_Activity_Going_Wild_Ahead_Of_New_Security_Disclosure
Requiring_Firmware_Update_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that
integrates with Fwupd for delivering firmware
updates primarily to Linux users is surging with
around three times the normal traffic volume.
Unfortunately, this boost in traffic appears to be
due to vendor(s) releasing new system firmware
updates ahead of disclosing a presumptive security
issue.
# ⚓ Folio_Improvements_For_Linux_5.17,_Large_Folio_Patches
Posted_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Back in November memory folios were merged into
Linux 5.16 as a fundamental change to the memory
management code. Now for Linux 5.17 there are
improvements for folios merged and then out likely
for Linux 5.18 is introducing the notion of large
folios.
Linux’s memory folios is designed to let file-
systems and the page cache manage memory in chunks
larger than the default page size. With Linux 5.16
the core memory management and page cache changes
landed for supporting folios. Most benchmarks of
folios put the performance benefit in the 0~10%
region.
# ⚓ Some_Older_AMD_Systems_Can_Boot_Faster_On_Linux_5.17+_–
Phoronix⠀⇛
A change merged overnight with the libata subsystem
updates for Linux 5.17 means that some older AMD
hardware will be able to boot quicker by avoiding
an otherwise mandated sleep period.
Merged this morning were the ATA subsystem updates
for Linux 5.17. Usually the ATA changes don’t
amount to many noteworthy changes but “Add support
for AMD A85 FCH (Hudson D4) AHCI adapters” got my
attention… Yeah, the chipset from the early AMD
“Fusion” APU days.
# § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ AMD_Radeon_Open-Source_OpenGL_Driver_Expands_Its
Sparse_Texture_Capabilities_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
At the end of last year AMD introduced OpenGL
sparse texture support into its RadeonSI
Gallium3D driver. This functionality for Vega
GPUs and newer flipped on ARB_sparse_texture
support while now with the very latest Mesa
22.0-devel code ARB_sparse_texture2 is now
flipped on too.
ARB_sparse_texture2 updates OpenGL’s sparse
texture support with further additions by
NVIDIA. ARB_sparse_texture2 adds new built-in
GLSL texture lookup functions, changes the
behavior around reads from uncommitted
texture memory, specifies standard virtual
page sizes for internal formats used by
sparse textures, and support for creating
sparse multi-sample and multi-sample array
textures.
# ⚓ NVIDIA_CUDA_11.6_Brings_Convenient_“-arch=native”,
Defaults_To_New_“GSP”_Driver_Mode_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
NVIDIA has released CUDA 11.6 as the latest
version of their widely used but proprietary
GPU compute stack. With CUDA 11.6 there are
some good improvements and new features in
store.
CUDA 11.6 has numerous changes for advancing
the NVIDIA compute stack including the
convenient “-arch=native” compiler option
(similar to “-march=native” with classic
system code compilers), beginning to make use
of the GPU System Processor driver code path
by default on capable hardware, various
performance optimizations, and other updates.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ This_Indicator_Shows_Laptop’s_Battery_Health_in_Ubuntu
20.04,_21.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Want to check your laptop battery status in Ubuntu
or other Linux? There’s a small indicator applet
that can do the job in GNOME desktop.
“Battery Status” is the free and open-source
indicator applet developed by Lorenzo Carbonell, a
software developer behind touchpad-indicator and my
weather indicator.
It displays an icon on GNOME top bar in system tray
area, along with the battery remaining time. By
clicking on the applet, it shows battery percentage
based on both current and original maximum
capacities.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Record_your_terminal_with_script_and_scriptreplay⠀⇛
A fascinating thing about humans is that we each
have a particular learning style. Some people
prefer to read about how something’s done. Some
people prefer to follow instructions from the
start, while others prefer to get an overview
before engaging. Other people like to listen to
instructions from an instructor or a podcast. And
yet another group wants instructions in the form of
a video.
The trouble with video is that it can be difficult
to produce and compress, and it is a lot of work to
change once it’s done. And besides that, viewers
can’t copy and paste Linux commands out of a video
into their terminal.
[...]
The script and scriptreplay commands allow you to
record a terminal session and then play it back
later. There’s no video involved. Instead, plain
text files called typescripts are used, so the
files are small and users can copy commands during
playback.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Neos_CMS_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Neos CMS on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who
didn’t know, Neos CMS is a free and open-source
Content Management System (CMS). Neos 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.
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 the Neos Open Source Content
Application Framework on an AlmaLinux 8. You can
follow the same instructions for Fedora, RHEL,
CentOS, and Rocky Linux distributions.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_use_PHP_Composer_on_AlmaLinux_8⠀⇛
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that
allows you to download and install all the required
PHP packages needed for your project. It is a
command-line tool that installs all libraries and
dependencies for your project from the
packagist.org repository. It is used in modern PHP
frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, Drupal, and
Magento 2.
In this post, we will show you how to install and
use Composer on Alma Linux 8.
# ⚓ LINUX_Basics:_How_to_Move_Files_in_Linux_Using_mv_Command⠀⇛
One of the most basic operations you’ll need to
conduct on a Linux system is moving files and
folders. You can move or transfer files using the
given GUI in any system, but you might be curious
if the terminal has a command that allows you to
swiftly move files to different directories.
The mv command is what you’re looking for, and it’s
simple to use because of its short and
straightforward syntax. In this tutorial, you’ll
learn how to move files with the mv command.
# ⚓ Getting_Started_with_GNU_PSPP_with_Practical_Examples⠀⇛
This tutorial is a basic guide for GNU PSPP.
Divided into three exercises, we hope this will be
sufficient for beginners to understand the basics.
Now let’s start PSPP!
# ⚓ How_to_install_FirewallD_GUI_on_Rocky_Linux_8_|_Almalinux_8
–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Here in this article, we learned the simple steps
and commands to install a graphical user interface
(GUI) to manage FirewallD on either Alamlinux or
Rocky Linux 8. However, the steps are the same for
CentOS, Redhat, Oracle Linux, and other RPM-based
distros.
FirewallD is a command-line tool to provide a
system firewall feature to protect Linux unwanted
access by disabling and enabling ports and services
access to outside or local networks. However, if
you are using a Graphical interface user then the
command line may seem a little bit difficult to
use. Therefore, to make things easy we can use GUI
tools available to manage FirewallD such as one
from firewall-config or Plasma firewall
# ⚓ How_to_migrate_from_CentOS_8_to_Rocky_Linux.⠀⇛
Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution that is
intended to be a downstream, complete binary-
compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux operating system source code. The project’s
aim is to provide a community-supported,
production-grade enterprise operating system.
# ⚓ How_to_migrate_from_CentOS_8_to_CentOS_Stream_Server:⠀⇛
Before 2021, CentOS was regarded as an enterprise-
stable, production-ready operating system that had
been cloned from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It had a
few tweaks to set it apart from RHEL, but
essentially, it was RHEL without the cost of a
subscription.
That was the “old” CentOS. The “new” CentOS, aptly
called CentOS Stream, will take a similar approach
to Fedora, which acts as an upstream source for
RHEL. This means that new features will be
introduced into CentOS Stream, where the bugs are
worked out, and ultimately the new updates trickle
down to RHEL.
# ⚓ How_to_install_build-essential_on_openSUSE_–
PragmaticLinux⠀⇛
Coming from Debian or Ubuntu and interested in
building C or C++ software programs on openSUSE?
You’ll probably frantically search for a way to
install package build-essential on openSUSE. Only
to realize that this package does not exist on
openSUSE. No worries though, because openSUSE
offers an alternative and equivalent approach to
installing package build-essential. This tutorial
shows you how.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_MySQL_Workbench_in_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
There are two approaches to achieving your MySQL
database administration goals. One is through a
command-line client and the other one is via a
graphical user interface. Both of these two
approaches are evident with MySQL.
Most users rely on phpMyAdmin to administer and
manage their MySQL databases. However, the GUI
spectrum of phpMyAdmin does not match the graphical
tools MySQL Workbench has to offer.
The MySQL Workbench database management tool is
unmatched in its execution of database visual
designs. Also, MySQL workbench has a dynamic user
platform from database administrators, database
architects, to database developers.
# ⚓ How_to_create_an_IAM_Role_in_AWS_using_Terraform⠀⇛
In this article we will see how to create an IAM
Role. Before proceeding, I assume that you are
familiar with the basics of Terraform and AWS IAM
Roles. If you want to learn more about IAM Roles
then click here. In this article we will create a
role and assign it administrator’s permissions.
# ⚓ How_to_Create_Sudo_User_on_Ubuntu_/_Debian_Linux⠀⇛
Hello Techies, as we know that root is the admin
user in Linux who has all rights on all commands
and files. It is not recommended to use root user
to perform administrative tasks but assign
administrative privileges to a local user via sudo.
An ordinary user who has admin rights is known as
‘sudo user’.
In this post, we will learn how to create a new
sudo user on Ubuntu and Debian Linux. Let’s assume
we want to create user with name ‘sysops’ name.
# ⚓ Install_Rclone_In_Linux_And_Unix_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛
In this post, we will learn how to create a new
sudo user on Ubuntu and Debian Linux. A sudo user
is an ordinary user which can perform
administrative tasks.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_updated,_more_tweaking_for
Steam_Deck_+_Vulkan_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Valve continues to tweak more of their games ahead
of the Steam Deck release in February and their
focus now appears to be on CS:GO with a fresh
update out.
A few more Steam Input improvements came for
controllers, with their newer “FlickStick” mode
enabled in the game options instead of the Steam
Input Configurator and there’s also refinements to
the behaviour. For those not aware, FlickStick
created by Jibb Smart is in essence a quick way to
turn to face any direction in a game, allowing you
to be more accurate and speedy with gamepad sticks.
Valve added support for it to Steam Input directly
in 2021, now it has better native support in CS:GO.
# ⚓ Penguin_Heist_game_hits_25,000_sales_with_5%_on_Linux_|
GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time developers
That Fish / That Other Fish have announced their
Early Access game seems to be doing reasonably
well. Released back in July 2021, it’s recently hit
over 25,000 sales.
“The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is the one
and only 4 player CO-OP physics-based heist game
featuring a bunch of kleptomanic penguins. You’ll
experience a blend of physics-based platforming
with stealth, strategy, and action. You have full
freedom to achieve the missions in your own way.”
# ⚓ Mad_Experiments_2:_Escape_Room_releases_on_March_8_|
GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
March 8 will bring more puzzle / escape room antics
with Mad Experiments 2: Escape Room from
PlayTogether Studio.
“Trapped in Professor Cheshire’s mysterious
mansion, players will have to explore and cooperate
to get out of the rooms in the allotted time. Each
room has its own secrets, puzzles… and story bits
on Hildegarde and Professor Cheshire Learn more
about Hildegarde’s journey at the Cheshire
Institute. From the library to the secret room to
the dormitory, meet new characters, secrets,
challenges, and strange events. Will Hildegarde
find a way to escape? And will you?”
# ⚓ We’ll_always_have_Paris_is_a_narrative_adventure_about
loving_someone_with_dementia_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Cowleyfornia Studios, developer of Sarawak have
recently announced their next story-based adventure
game with We’ll always have Paris. This will be an
emotional one about loving someone with dementia.
Much like the previous game, it will support Linux
as the engine was developed on Linux.
“This is the story of Simon Smith, a retired chef
who lives with Claire, his wife of fifty years.
Claire is slowly losing her memory, and Simon must
balance his love for her with his desire to
maintain normality and autonomy over the confusion
that is infiltrating both their lives.”
# ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_Changes_Games_By_Scanning_Barcodes_|_Tom’s
Hardware⠀⇛
Creating a custom interface is one of the most
exciting aspects of creating a retro gaming system
with the Raspberry Pi. Tons of themes and original
UIs have emerged over the years, but Neil, from
YouTube channel RMC – The Cave, has taken things to
the next level by creating a retro game shop
replica as part of his retro games museum that
functions as a front end for his emulation
platform.
Instead of selecting a game from a menu on the
screen, users choose a game from the physical store
shelves and scan it using a barcode scanner. Once a
game is selected, it will automatically load for
the user to play. The glue that makes all of this
work, is a Raspberry Pi 3B and a little Linux
magic.
# ⚓ Ys_IX:_Monstrum_Nox_gets_improvements_ready_for_the_Steam
Deck_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox from developers Nihon Falcom,
PH3 GmbH, Engine Software and publisher NIS
America, Inc. has released an update to get the
game ready for the Steam Deck. There’s no native
port here though, it continues to rely on the Steam
Play Proton compatibility layer.
Released on Steam back in July 2021, the latest
update version 1.1.2 brings with it local co-op and
some improvements to the aspect ratio support.
# ⚓ Valve_continues_tweaking_their_new_Store_Hubs_for_tags_|
GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
With Valve’s latest store updates experiment that’s
ongoing, they gave a new look to Store Hubs for all
the various tags and they just release an update
with plenty of tweaks.
Steam Labs Experiment 13 that was announced back in
December gave the same refresh that other parts of
Steam had seen, to upgrade the browsing experience
with more information and to better make use of all
the data they have. More personalization, items
from your wishlist and more.
# ⚓ Humble_Bundle_Drops_Linux_and_macOS,_Gives_Customers_Mere
Weeks_to_Save_Their_Games⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mac_and_Linux_Support_for_Humble_Choice_Subscription
Service_Ending_Soon_|_Windows-Only_Launcher⠀⇛
# ⚓ Humble_Bundle_Will_Be_Moving_To_A_Subscription_Service⠀⇛
# ⚓ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_–_2022-01-18
Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
Between 2022-01-11 and 2022-01-18 there were 22 new
games released on Steam with Linux clients. For
reference, during the same time, there were 235
games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux
versions represent about 9.4 % of total released
titles.
# ⚓ Acid-Damaged_Game_Boy_Restored_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
The original Game Boy was the greatest selling
handheld video game system of all time, only to be
surpassed by one of its successors. It still
retains the #2 position by a wide margin, but even
so, they’re getting along in years now and finding
one in perfect working condition might be harder
than you think. What’s more likely is you find one
that’s missing components, has a malfunctioning
screen, or has had its electronics corroded by the
battery acid from a decades-old set of AAs.
That latter situation is where [Taylor] found
himself and decided on performing a full
restoration on this classic. To get started, he
removed all of the components from the damaged area
so he could see the paths of the traces. After
doing some cleaning of the damage and removing the
solder mask, he used 30 gauge wire to bridge the
damaged parts of the PCB before repopulating all of
the parts back to their rightful locations. A few
needed to be replaced, but in the end the Game Boy
was restored to its former 90s glory.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_Desktop_Guide_[A_Beginner's_Manual]⠀⇛
We give you a getting started guide with KDE
Plasma desktop in this comprehensive article.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME_42_Alpha_is_Out_–_And_Includes_a_Lot_of_GTK4
Apps⠀⇛
Now, this isn’t a fully detailed, commit-by-
commit or blow-by-blow rundown of everything
that’s been updated, upgraded, or even just
tickled lightly under its hin. Nor is this a
fancy showcase of the best new features in
GNOME 42 — it’s way too early for that.
What this post is, is a quick overview of the
most visible user-facing changes.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Deepin_20.4_Becomes_Even_More_Beautiful_with_the_New
UI_Improvements⠀⇛
There are a bunch of changes and visual
improvements that make Deepin 20.4 a
wonderful Linux distribution. Here’s what’s
new!
Deepin is a Chinese-made Linux distribution
that caters to the average desktop user. It
is a popular choice among users who want a
beautiful Linux while being stable. The
distro is so polished and has so many in-
house developed apps that one forgets this is
a Debian-based Linux distribution.
The Deepin Desktop Environment, or DDE for
short, is one of the best-looking Linux
desktop environments out there. In fact,
Deepin is now a fashion in computing ready to
compete with Windows 11 and macOS. DDE is
just gorgeous and without exaggeration, we
can say that it is a work of art.
Now with version 20.4 out it is time to have
a fresh look and see how it matured.
# ⚓ Deepin_20.4_Released_with_Updated_Kernels,_Installer
Improvements,_and_More⠀⇛
Deepin 20.4 is here almost two months after
Deepin 20.3 and brings updated kernels and
various other improvements, as well as bug
and security fixes.
The distribution now ships with both Linux
5.10.83 LTS and Linux 5.15.6 LTS kernels, but
the former is used by default for new
installations, though you can easily select
the latter from the advanced options of the
boot menu.
# ⚓ Deepin_20.4_Released [Ed: Ripoff artist]⠀⇛
Deepin 20.4 is now available for download.
Deepin 20.4 is here with tons of new
improvements and features like updated
kernels. Deepin 20.4 is the fourth
maintenance update to the latest Deepin 20
series.
# ⚓ 深度操作系统20.4发布_–_深度科技社区⠀⇛
深度操作系统（deepin）是一个致力于为全球用户提供美观易用、安全稳定服务的Linux发行版，同时也一直是排名最高的来自中国团队研发的Linux发行版。（了解deepin国际排名）
深度操作系统20.4同步上游内核版本，升级LTS内核至5.10.83，Stable内核至5.15.6，进一步提升兼容性。修复系统安全漏洞，增强安全性。从功能层面社区积极响应了用户反馈问题，开发并集成了大量实用功能，以便为用户带来更好体验。
# ⚓ Qubes_OS_4.1.0-rc4_has_been_released!_|_Qubes_OS⠀⇛
The fourth release candidate for Qubes 4.1.0
is here! There are no major changes to
report. We’ve just focused on fixing bugs
that were discovered and reported in the
third release candidate.
If you’re currently using any Qubes 4.1.0
release candidate, a regular update is
sufficient to upgrade to the latest one.
Otherwise, read on for more about how to get
started with testing Qubes 4.1.0-rc4.
# ⚓ Parted_Magic_2022_01_18_News⠀⇛
This version of Parted Magic updates to Linux
5.16.1 and fixes a few minor problems with
the Secure Erase and NVME Secure Erase
programs.
Manufacturers are starting to get a bit
carried away with the length of names given
to drives. The names are now limited to 15
characters, so the Secure Erase GUI should
now fit well on everybody’s screen. If there
is still any doubt to what drive is what, do
a mouse over and the entire name will be
shown in the tool tip.
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Announcing_the_D-Installer_Project_|_YaST⠀⇛
As you may know, YaST is not only a control
center for (open)SUSE Linux distributions,
but it is also the installer. And, in that
regard, we think it is a competent installer.
However, time goes by, and YaST shows its age
in a few aspects.
During summer 2021, the team discussed how
YaST should look in the near future.
# ⚓ Call_for_Papers_Opens_for_openSUSE_Conference_2022_–
openSUSE_News⠀⇛
The call for papers for openSUSE Conference
2022 is open!
The call for papers is open until April 14.
This leaves a less than 90 days to submit a
proposal. The dates of the conference are
scheduled for June 2 – 4. The organizing team
is preparing for a hybrid conference
involving both virtual talks and live talks
from the Z-Bau in Nuremberg, Germany.
Registration for the conference has also
begun.
# ⚓ SUSE_releases_NeuVector,_the_industry’s_first_open
source_container_security_platform_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛
Since the close of the NeuVector acquisition
three months ago, SUSE worked through the
technical and legal considerations involved
in open sourcing our eponymous cloud-native
container security platform. NeuVector is an
industry-leading security and compliance
solution adopted by leading companies around
the world. Open sourcing the NeuVector
codebase not only makes NeuVector the
technology of choice for the open source
community, it also provides an even greater
level of assurance to customers in highly
regulated industries including government and
federal customers, which is critical for
proving a product they can trust and rely on.
# ⚓ Open_source_powers_Indonesia’s_ongoing_fight_against
COVID-19⠀⇛
The eventual solution, which comprised a 7-
region national scale cloud, is primarily
being used for disaster detection and
prevention and has all workloads orchestrated
via Kubernetes, using SUSE Rancher.
The solution was deployed seamlessly, on-
time, and under budget as a result of open
source components working together. Most
importantly, the end result is the solid
infrastructure backbone enabling the
Indonesian Government to tackle the crisis
effectively.
# § Slackware Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Absolute64-20220117_released⠀⇛
Based on Slackware64-current.
After the 3rd release candidate by Slackware,
Absoute has ditched spacefm/udevil —
switching to qtfm/udisks2 (still no gvfs).
Spacefm seems to have been abandoned and I
was beginning to have issues with devil.
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Red_Hat_Insights_Resource_Optimization_is_released⠀⇛
Last summer we released the public beta of
the Resource Optimization service. During
public beta, we received a lot of feedback
from customers, which we used to enhance
Resource Optimization in several areas. We
are now announcing that this service is
generally available for our Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers.
# ⚓ Automating_DNS_based_GSLB_with_Infoblox_DTC_and_Red
Hat_Ansible_Automation_Platform⠀⇛
Companies are pushing data closer and closer
to the edge to meet the demands of users who
are increasingly sensitive to delays in
application responsiveness. These changes to
the way data is delivered and consumed
presents challenges to IT organizations. In
this post we’ll talk about how an
organization can provide optimum uptime while
also delivering data as quickly as possible.
An Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is
one solution, but it often relies on
expensive software and hardware to direct
network traffic to available resources across
datacenters. In addition to the traditional
DNS infrastructure, an ADC solution often
employs Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
to dynamically reply to a Domain Name System
(DNS) query with the IP address of the
closest, or healthiest, server.
Beyond the monetary cost of maintaining two
separate DNS solutions, an ADC introduces
another layer of complexity to a network.
# ⚓ Perform_unit_tests_using_GoogleTest_and_CTest [Ed:
Several times in recent days Stephan Avenwedde promotes
Microsoft vendor lock-in for developers]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Artificial_Intelligence_(AI):_7_trends_to_watch_for
in_2022⠀⇛
Of the many technologies with the potential
to deliver significant value in the near
future, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems
firmly planted atop the list for CIOs.
Indeed, nearly all (95 percent) of the CIOs,
CTOs, and technology leaders surveyed by IEEE
agreed that AI will drive the majority of
innovation across almost every industry
sector in the next one to five years.
“In 2022, expect AI engagements to become
larger, more strategically significant, and
more mission-critical – with a focus on long-
term scalability.”
# ⚓ Future_of_work:_A_case_for_the_3-day_weekend⠀⇛
Since around 2010, the “future of work” has
been a leading topic for business leaders,
entrepreneurs, and employees. A key question
has been how emerging technologies such as
AI, robotics, and smart machines will affect
humans in the workforce.
Then COVID-19 struck.
Seemingly overnight, orderly debates about
the future of work morphed into chaotic
discussions about the “present of work:”
Specifically, could employees work securely
using mature technologies like video
conferencing, mobile telephony, and cloud
computing services?
Forced to shut down their physical offices,
corporations resorted to work models
predicated on what futurist Carmen Alfonso
Rica called a “massive, forced adoption of
remote working.”
# ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Mindshare_Committee_Quarterly
Report_–_Q4_2021⠀⇛
The Mindshare Committee is establishing a
Quarterly Report, with this post being our
first edition. It covers activities from the
Mindshare Committee and related teams for the
months of October, November, and December of
2021. As we kick off these reports, we
welcome feedback on how we can improve in the
related Mindshare ticket.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Mint’s_Brand_New_Edge_ISO_is_Available_to
Download!⠀⇛
Linux Mint 20.3 release brings in several
improvements. However, it is powered by Linux
Kernel 5.4 LTS.
So, users with newer hardware may find it
troublesome to boot or run into other
incompatibility issues with an older Linux
Kernel.
Fortunately, Linux Mint 20.3 now has an Edge
ISO featuring Linux Kernel 5.13.0-25.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ The_PinePhone_Pro_could_be_the_first_Linux-based_smartphone
worth_a_look⠀⇛
Pine64 is now accepting preorders for the PinePhone
Pro, billed as the “fastest mainline Linux
smartphone on the market”.
Successor to the original PinePhone from 2019, the
PinePhone Pro is designed to fill a gap in the
market for a Linux-based smartphone with sufficient
raw power to compete with iOS and Android
alternatives.
The device is also set apart by its swappable
backplate, under which is found a removable
battery, SD card slot and privacy switches that let
the user cut access to the cameras, microphone, Wi-
Fi and more.
# ⚓ Jetson_powered_system_offers_a_choice_between_PoE_and_MIPI
SerDes_cam_links⠀⇛
Nexcom’s IP67 protected “ATC 3530” in-vehicle and
V2X computer runs Nexcom Aided Linux (NAL) on an up
to 21-TOPS Jetson Xavier NX and offers a choice of
4x GbE with PoE or 4x MIPI-CSI-2 SerDes camera
connections with V-By-One support.
Nexcom announced a compact, rugged, AI-enabled edge
AI system designed primarily for in-vehicle and
vehicle-related applications including vehicle-to-
everything (V2X). The ATC 3530 also supports M-to-
M, X2X, ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition),
car recognition, AIoT gateways and nodes,
industrial systems, and “cloud-edge AI over mesh
wireless” applications. The ATC 3530, which updates
an earlier, Jetson TX2 based ATC 3200 system for
ADAS, supplies an in-house, Ubuntu 18.04 based
Nexcom Aided Linux (NAL) stack with Nvidia Jetpack
4.5 integrations that runs on Nvidia’s Jetson
Xavier NX module.
# ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_is_now_available_in_quantities_for_70
cents_and_up⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller has been
available for one dollar in single quantities for
about half a year, with at the time, 500- and 3400-
pieces reel pricing to be determined.
But Raspberry Pi Trading has now started to sell
the chip in bulk with reels of 3,400 and 500 pieces
directly to businesses for a unit price of
respectively 70 and 80 cents via the new Raspberry
Pi Direct website. Distributors have been selling
reels for a while, but closer to 85 cents to 95
cents per unit.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ AutoStrap_is_a_self-tightening_strap_that’s_like
something_out_of_Back_to_the_Future_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
For wearable devices, attaching them to an
arm or leg can be an annoying process since
the straps used often have complicated
tightening/locking mechanisms. This is what
inspired one Instructables user who goes by
The Puma to create the AutoStrap, a self-
tightening strap system for wearable
electronics similar to Marty McFly’s power-
lacing shoes in Back to the Future.
# ⚓ Arduino_Week_2022:_Call_for_speakers_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
This year, Arduino Day is becoming Arduino
Week. Taking place on 21-26 March, 2022,
we’ll have more talks, events and
presentations than ever before.
Naturally you can expect the usual excitement
from the annual Arduino festival. From makers
to education and industry, we’ll be bringing
you the biggest and the best Arduino has to
offer. But there’s also a strong focus on
community for the first week-long event. And
that means we want to hear from you.
# ⚓ Plot_designs_onto_cups_with_CylinDraw_|_Arduino
Blog⠀⇛
Most plotters are planar, meaning they move
in a single plane — though they often have
the ability to move the tool up and down in
the third axis. But if you convert one axis
of the drawing plane into rotation, you get
cylindrical plotting. That is how the rotary
axis on a CNC machine works. If the tool
moves in a third axis, you can even do
conical plots. That’s exactly how CylinDraw
makes it possible to plot directly onto cups
and glasses.
CylinDraw is an open source “cup-specific”
plotter and engraver. It is a 2.5 axis
machine with a rotary axis, similar to the
famous EggBot egg plotter. Except instead of
drawing onto the elliptical (in cross
section) surface of an egg, CylinDraw plots
onto the straight or sloped surface of cups,
bottles, and similar objects. By equipping a
Dremel or other rotary tool, you can also
engrave onto a surface instead of drawing. If
you do draw, the software also lets you swap
pens to get a full color palette.
# ⚓ I2C_To_The_Max_With_ATtiny_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
The Arudino is a powerful platform for
interfacing with the real world, but it isn’t
without limits. One of those hard limits,
even for the Arduino MEGA, is a finite number
of pins that the microcontroller can use to
interface with the real world. If you’re
looking to extend the platform’s reach in one
of your own projects, though, there are a
couple of options available. This project
from [Bill] shows us one of those options by
using the ATtiny85 to offload some of an
Arduino’s tasks using I2C.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Motorola_Moto_Tab_G70:_Cheap_Android_tablet_launches
with_a_2K_display_and_a_large_battery_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Working_on_Digital_Wellbeing_Widget_That
Displays_Screen_Time_for_Android_Users:_Report_|
Technology_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Motorola_Moto_Tab_G70:_Cheap_Android_tablet_launches
with_a_2K_display_and_a_large_battery_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Top_11_Android_Secret_Security_Codes_You_Need_to
Know⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_6_Best_Selfie_Apps_for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ No,_iPhones_Aren’t_More_Expensive_Than_Android
Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2022_will_be_a_‘decisive’_year_for_Android_TV_on
smart_TVs_–_9to5Google⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Padloc,_The_Open-source_Password_manager_for_teams_and
enterprise_that_works_everywhere⠀⇛
Padloc is a dead-simple password manager app for
users who want to get the job done without any
distractions and clutter.
Padloc is a free, open-source solution but also
offers a web service that helps the user to sync
and store their passwords and keys in an encrypted
web vault for a fee.
Users also can download and install the app on
their machine and sync up to 50 passwords, credit
cards info, and login credentials, with up to 2
connected devices.
However, the project itself is an open-source
project that is licensed under GPL-3.0 License,
which means you can install its component and run
your server.
# ⚓ The_Apache_Software_Foundation_Announces_Open_Source_data
orchestration_platform_Apache®_Hop™_as_a_Top-Level_Project⠀⇛
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-
volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of
more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today Apache® Hop™ as a Top-Level Project
(TLP).
Apache Hop —the Hop Orchestration Platform— is a
flexible, metadata-infused data orchestration,
engineering, and integration platform. The project
originated more than two decades ago as the
Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) platform Kettle
(Pentaho Data Integration), was refactored over
several years, and entered the Apache Incubator in
September 2020.
“We are pleased to successfully adopt ‘the Apache
Way’ and graduate from the Apache Incubator,” said
Bart Maertens, Vice President of Apache Hop.
“Apache Hop enables people of all skill levels to
build powerful and scalable data solutions without
the need to write code. As an Apache Top-Level
Project, Hop is developed and used by people across
the globe. Hop’s full project life cycle support
helps these data teams to successfully build, test
and run their projects in ways that would otherwise
be hard or impossible to do.”
# ⚓ QtPass_is_a_free,_open-source_multiplatform_Password
manager⠀⇛
QtPass is an open-source, free password manager GUI
for the standard Unix password manager “pass”
application.
The “pass” password manager is a command-line open-
source feature-rich application that follows Unix’s
philosophy.
# ⚓ Entrepreneurship_for_Engineers:_Side_Business_or_Full
Time?⠀⇛
Around this time of year people often wonder about
their career trajectories and think about goals for
the new year. If you’re the creator and/or
maintainer of an open source project, you might
also be wondering if now is the time to make your
part-time open source project a full-time job or
continue working on it in your spare time.
Hearing from other entrepreneurs can be useful in
making this kind of decision, but when asked how to
determine if something is ripe to go from side
hustle to business, the entrepreneurs I spoke with
often responded with a version of, “I wish I knew.”
That’s because whether or not an open source
project might be monetizable is one question,
whereas whether or not a particular person is going
to be able to pull off that shift — and whether
that is the best career move at the time, for that
person — is another entirely.
# ⚓ Another_use_for_the_syslog-ng_elasticsearch-http
destination:_Zinc⠀⇛
There is a new drop-in replacement for
Elasticsearch, at least if you don’t mind the
limitations and the alpha status. However, it
definitely lives up to the promise that it provides
an Elasticsearch-compatible API for data ingestion.
I tested it with the elasticsearch-http()
destination of syslog-ng, and it worked perfectly
after I modified the URL in the configuration
example I found.
So, what is Zinc? It is a search engine written in
Go that provides an Elasticsearch-compatible API
for data ingestion. You cannot use Kibana with it,
only its own web interface. If you are not into
graphs and dashboards, and want to search text
messages, then it is perfect. The application
itself is a single binary and it does not have any
external dependencies. It is lightweight and easy
to configure, as practically there are no
configuration options at all.
Note: Zinc is still in alpha state. There are no
guarantees that later versions will be compatible
at any level. Error messages can sometimes be
cryptic and you might run into unexpected behavior.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ LibreOffice_7.3_RC2_is_available_for_testing⠀⇛
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team
is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 is
available for testing!
LibreOffice 7.3 will be released as final at
the beginning of February, 2022 ( Check the
Release Plan for more information ) being
LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 the forth and last pre-
release since the development of version 7.3
started in mid June, 2021. Since the previous
release, LibreOffice 7.3 RC1, 117 commits
have been submitted to the code repository
and 65 issues got fixed. Check the release
notes to find the new features included in
this version of LibreOffice.
# ⚓ OpenOffice_users:_Getting_messages_about_documents
being_made_in_a_newer_version?_–_The_Document
Foundation_Blog⠀⇛
Many OpenOffice users are seeing warnings
when trying to access files in the
OpenDocument Format (eg .odt, .ods).
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Notes_on_packaging_Krita_with_G’MIC⠀⇛
Krita 3 and later are compatible with G’MIC,
an open-source digital image processing
framework. This support is provided by G’MIC-
Qt, a Qt-based frontend for G’MIC. Since its
inception, G’MIC-Qt was shipped as a
standalone, externally built executable that
is an optional, runtime dependency of Krita.
Krita 5 changes the way G’MIC-Qt is consumed.
In order to support CentOS and macOS, G’MIC-
Qt has been converted into a dynamically
loadable library that is a dependent of
Krita.
This file reviews these changes, and how to
package Krita accordingly.
# ⚓ Qt_WebAssembly_clipboard⠀⇛
Clipboard use on desktop platforms is
ubiquitous. Most people use it without
thinking. Copy, Paste, and Cut keyboard
strokes are in-grained into muscle memory.
On the web, it can present security issues as
someone could read or write to your clipboard
without you knowing.
Up until now, Qt for WebAssembly’s clipboard
was text-only and only within the app itself.
Qt 6.3 will have better clipboard support
between host and app but also adds copy/
pasting of images.
# ⚓ Attempting_to_compile_Shotcut_video_editor⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Numbers:_Performance_benefits_of_the_new_Qt_Quick
Compiler⠀⇛
In my previous post, the history and general
architecture of the new Qt Quick Compiler
technology was explained. As promised there,
the performance numbers are presented in this
post.
# ⚓ Monetizing_cross-platform_use_cases_faster_and_easier
with_Qt_Digital_Advertising Platform⠀⇛
Many of you have been raising the question:
when will Qt provide a full framework to
monetize my Qt-based cross-platform
application, implementing an advertising
campaign directly on my user interface?
Now all the community and Qt users in general
can start in no time implementing and
managing advertising campaigns targeting
cross-platform use cases. We are excited to
announce that Qt Digital Advertising 1.0 has
been released!
# ⚓ Ads_may_be_coming_to_KDE,_the_popular_Linux_desktop
[Ed: Misleading clickbait. KDE and #Qt are not the same
thing]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt_Launches_Digital_Advertising_Platform_To_Integrate
Ads_Into_App_UIs⠀⇛
The Qt Company this morning announced Qt
Digital Advertising 1.0 as its new ad
platform that allows for developers to easily
integrate advertising campaigns into Qt-
based, cross-platform applications.
The Qt Company devised Qt Digital Advertising
as a way for the community and Qt users to
integrate and manage advertising campaigns
within Qt-powered programs. This is a new
plug-in for the Qt toolkit for managing and
monetizing campaigns for any Qt-based
application.
# ⚓ Parsing_PNGs_Differently_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
There are millions of tiny bugs all around
us, in everything from our desktop
applications to the appliances in the
kitchen. Hidden, arbitrary conditions that
cause unintended outputs and behaviors. There
are many ways to find these bugs, but one way
we don’t hear about very often is finding a
bug in your own code, only to realize someone
else made the same mistake. For example,
[David Buchanan] found a bug in his multi-
threaded PNG decoder and realized that the
Apple PNG decoder had the same bug.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an image
format just like JPEG, WEBP, or TIFF designed
to replace GIFs. After a header, the rest of
the file is entirely chunks. Each chunk is
prepended by a four-letter identifier, with a
few chunks being critical chunks. The
essential sections are IHDR (the header),
IDAT (actual image data), PLTE (the palette
information), and IEND (the last chunk in the
file). Compression is via the DEFLATE method
used in zlib, which is inherently serial. If
you’re interested, there’s a convenient
poster about the format from a great resource
we covered a while back.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Video:_BK_and_the_early_days_of_UNIX⠀⇛
“The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan
(LCA 2022 Online) Enjoy!
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ How_curiosity_helped_me_solve_a_hardware_problem_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
I typically have a dozen computers up and running
on my home network—yes, 12. And I am responsible
for several more in other locations. With so many
computers, there are always failures of various
types, and I ultimately diagnose many of them as
hardware problems. But it can be difficult to
diagnose which hardware component is causing the
issue.
Just this week, I had a perplexing problem that I
misdiagnosed the cause of on my primary
workstation—twice. This article takes you through
the process I followed. I show you where and why I
went down the wrong path and how easy it can be to
do so.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by
Debian (slurm-llnl), openSUSE (apache2,
ghostscript, and watchman), Red Hat
(kernel and telnet), SUSE (apache2,
ghostscript, and kernel), and Ubuntu
(clamav).
# ⚓ Ubuntu_introduces_the_Ubuntu_Security_Guide_to
ease_DISA-STIG_compliance⠀⇛
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu,
the world’s most popular operating
system across private and public
clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security
Guide tooling for compliance with the
DISA Security Technical Implementation
Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The
new automated tooling builds on
Canonical’s track record of designing
Ubuntu for high security and regulated
workloads, powering U.S. government
agencies, prime contractors, and
service providers. The Ubuntu Security
Guide enables agencies and
organisations to comply with the most
stringent security requirements by
automation and at scale.
“With the Ubuntu Security Guide, we
extend the Ubuntu experience to ease
compliance with DISA security
requirements. It is now very easy for
DevOps teams and administrators to
follow these requirements,” says Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos, Product Manager for
security.
# ⚓ CIS_benchmark_compliance:_Introducing_the
Ubuntu_Security_Guide⠀⇛
The CIS benchmark has hundreds of
configuration recommendations, so
hardening and auditing a Linux system
manually can be very tedious. Every
administrator of systems that need to
comply with that benchmark would wish
that this process is easily usable and
automatable. Why is that? Manual
configuration of such a large number of
rules leads to mistakes – mistakes that
cause not only functional problems, but
may also cause security breaches. In
fact, one of the top reasons for
security breaches the last few years is
due to misconfigurations, according to
Verizon data breach investigations.
Let us introduce the Ubuntu Security
Guide (USG). The Ubuntu Security Guide
is a new tool available on Ubuntu 20.04
LTS that makes automation easy and
greatly improves the usability of
hardening and auditing with CIS, while
allowing for environment-specific
customizations. In the rest of this
blog, we go through the major use cases
such as CIS compliance, audit, and
customization.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_Security_Guide_to_simplify_DISA-STIG
compliance [Ed: Compliance with standards set by
people who mandate and impose back doors
universally]⠀⇛
The new tool will help enterprises
comply with the Defense Information
System Agency’s (DISA’s) Security
Technical Implementation Guide (STIG).
A US Department of Defense security
configuration standard, DISA-STIG
contains guidelines for hardening
systems’ security posture. The standard
also doubles as a checklist for
securing protocols, services, and
servers to reduce attack surfaces.
Currently available for Ubuntu 20.04 or
later versions, the new Ubuntu Security
Guide is an easy-to-use compliance and
auditing tool.
# ⚓ Buttercup:_a_simple_user-friendly_Password
manager_for_all_platforms⠀⇛
Buttercup is a lightweight password
manager for desktop and mobile. It
comes with a strong 256bit AES
encrypted vault that keeps your
passwords and credentials secure and
safe.
Buttercup is a completely free, open-
source solution which means you can
download and use it without worrying
about lock-in or fees.
The project is consistent with several
open-source child projects that include
desktop, mobile, and Buttercup Core
repositories.
Buttercup organizes all of your
passwords, and key entries in
collections or groups, which are
organized under different accounts.
The mobile app uses React Native, while
the desktop app uses React and
Electron.
# ⚓ UK_Government_to_Launch_PR_Campaign_Undermining
End-to-End_Encryption⠀⇛
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK
government has hired the M&C Saatchi
advertising agency to launch an anti-
encryption advertising campaign.
Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the
“think of the children!” rhetoric we’re
seeing in this current wave of the
crypto wars. The technical
eavesdropping mechanisms have shifted
to client-side scanning, which won’t
actually help — but since that’s not
really the point, it’s not argued on
its merits.
# ⚓ Revealed:_UK_Gov’t_Plans_Publicity_Blitz_to
Undermine_Chat_Privacy_–_Rolling_Stone⠀⇛
The UK government is set to launch a
multi-pronged publicity attack on end-
to-end encryption, Rolling Stone has
learned. One key objective: mobilizing
public opinion against Facebook’s
decision to encrypt its Messenger app.
The Home Office has hired the M&C
Saatchi advertising agency — a spin-off
of Saatchi and Saatchi, which made the
“Labour Isn’t Working” election
posters, among the most famous in UK
political history — to plan the
campaign, using public funds.
# § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/
Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_Linux_Saw_A_Massive_Rise_In_Malware
Attacks_Last_Year [Ed: Microsoft-connected
Crowdstrike spreading_lots_of_anti-Linux
FUD_at_the_moment_to_sell_its_proprietary
products_and_to_help_Microsoft]⠀⇛
Crowdstrike actually expects…
# ⚓ Linux_malware_rises [Ed: Once again,
Microsoft-connected firm smears "Linux" all
over the media]⠀⇛
The number of malware infections
targeting Linux devices rose by
35 per cent in 2021, and it looks
lie the writers want to recruit
IoT devices for DDoS (distributed
denial of service) attacks.
According to a Crowdstrike report
in 2021 XorDDoS, Mirai, and Mozi
were the most prevalent families,
accounting for 22 per cent of
Linux-targeting malware attacks
observed in 2021.
Mozi saw an explosive growth in
its activity, with ten times more
samples circulating in the wild
the year that passed compared to
the previous one. XorDDoS use
increased by123 per cent.
# ⚓ Linux_Malware_Sees_35%_Growth_During_2021
[Ed: Slashdot is giving a megaphone to
Microsofters against Linux]⠀⇛
The number of malware infections
targeting Linux devices rose by
35% in 2021, most commonly to
recruit IoT devices for DDoS
(distributed denial of service)
attacks
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The_dangers_of_DigiYatra_&_facial
recognition_enabled_paperless_air_travel
#SaveOurPrivacy⠀⇛
The Ministry of Civil Aviation’s
DigiYatra scheme is scheduled to
take flight this year. The scheme
aims to make air travel paperless
by using facial recognition to
authenticate the identities of
passengers. It presents privacy
risks of profiling and data
exploitation without any remedies
or regulatory framework.
# ⚓ Ashling_Murphy,_Jill_Meagher,_can_apps
counter_harassment_of_women?⠀⇛
On 10 January, the British
Government endorsed an app for
women’s safety. The app allows
women to broadcast their
movements to somebody else.
Similar apps already exist in
Saudi Arabia, keeping husbands
and fathers in control of womens’
lives.. Inside, the UK app could
be the same binary code, sugar
coated to look like a tool of
empowerment.
Two days later and a woman in
Ireland, Ashling Murphy, was
murdered in broad daylight. The
Irish press was quick to compare
this with the murder of Sarah
Everard in London but the story
that came to my mind was the 2012
murder of Jill Meagher. Jill
emigrated from Ireland to
Melbourne, much like my own
mother. Jill was abducted in a
main road and shopping district
where I used to go almost every
day.
[...]
One of my female interns in the
Outreachy program wrote about a
sponsor, Google, stalking her. In
response, all she received were
threats and insults. Google set
about discrediting my intern and
I just as Facebook has tried to
discredit Frances Haugen. The
Google employees claim they are
the victims of harassment and
abuse: how can they equate
themselves with the trauma
experienced by women like
Ashling, Jill and Brittany?
# ⚓ Dubmphones_are_smartphones,_again⠀⇛
Almost four years ago, I
explained why and how “Dumbphone
is the new Smartphone. Especially
for traveling”. In that post,
remembering how years ago what we
called “smartphones” took a wrong
turn, I summarized why and how
you don’t want to cross a border
with your main smartphone.
# ⚓ Facebook_critics_say_its_metaverse_could
quickly_become_a_virtual_hellscape_|_WIRED
Middle_East⠀⇛
Only 6 percent of Arabic hate
content is flagged as such when a
user posts on Instagram, Politico
reported in October. The Facebook
algorithms used to identify
terrorist content in Arabic
wrongly take down posts 77
percent of the time, WIRED
reported the same month. And
Facebook employs just 766 Arabic-
speaking moderators to check
posts by 220 million Arabic-
speaking users, French daily Le
Monde revealed.
Each piece of information, pulled
from a dossier of internal
documents provided by
whistleblower Frances Haugen,
seemed to be a damning new piece
of evidence of how Facebook
struggles to police content, not
just in the Middle East but
globally. So when Mark Zuckerberg
announced that he was
rechristening the company Meta,
in tribute to growing ambitions
to build tech for the metaverse,
the online forum Reddit exploded
with warnings. “Facebook has
ruined our reality, now it’s
coming for the metaverse too,”
said one thread. “It’s another
opportunity for Big Tech to
colonize our lives in the name of
profit,” said another. “We don’t
have to stop it, we just don’t
have to use it,” said one popular
post on the thread, which
received 4,500 upvotes.
# ⚓ The_U.S.-Russia_cyber_relationship_just
got_even_more_complicated⠀⇛
Two Middle East women′s rights
activists are the latest
identified Pegasus victims, and
the United Kingdom government is
planning an ad blitz against end-
to-end encryption.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Cross-country_Exposure:_Analysis_of_the_MY2022_Olympics_app
–_The_Citizen_Lab⠀⇛
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing have
generated significant controversy. As early as
February 2021, over 180 human rights groups had
called for governments to boycott the Olympics,
arguing that holding the Games in Beijing will
legitimize a regime currently engaging in genocide
against Uyghur people in China. Some governments
including Canada, the United Kingdom, and the
United States have pledged to diplomatically
boycott the Games, meaning that these countries
will allow athletes to compete at the Games but
will not send government delegates to attend the
event.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the
organization responsible for organizing the Games,
has been criticized for failing to uphold human
rights. In December 2021, the United States House
of Representatives voted unanimously to condemn the
IOC and stated that the IOC had violated their own
human rights commitments by cooperating with the
Chinese government. Following professional tennis
player Peng Shuai’s 2021 sexual assault accusation
against Chinese Communist Party leader Zhang Gaoli
and her subsequent disappearance, Human Rights
Watch stated that “the IOC has vaulted itself from
silence about Beijing’s abysmal human rights record
to active collaboration with Chinese authorities in
undermining freedom of speech and disregarding
alleged sexual assault.” According to IOC
documents, Zhang Gaoli headed the steering
committee charged with securing and organizing the
2022 Games.
# ⚓ Concern_activist’s_phone_infected_with_spyware_during
Dublin_conference⠀⇛
Ebtisam al-Saegh’s phone hacked by Pegasus
software, human rights groups say
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# § Open Invention Network Legitimising More Software
Patents (Instead of Fighting Them)⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_Invention_Network_expands_Linux_patent
protection [Ed: IBM- and Microsoft-funded front -
- fronting for OIN and Linux Foundation agenda -
- continues to promote software patents agenda]⠀⇛
Today, everyone — yes, even Microsoft —
use Linux and open-source. It’s been
years since Linux was under attack by
SCO for imaginary copyright violations,
and then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
claimed that Linux violated over 200 of
Microsoft’s patents. So over 15-years
ago, the Open Invention Network (OIN)
patent consortium was formed to defend
Linux against intellectual property
(IP) attacks. Even so, Linux and open-
source software are still under attack
from patent trolls and other attackers.
That’s where the Open Invention Network
(OIN) steps up by expanding its patent
non-aggression coverage by updating its
Linux System definition.
# ⚓ Open_Invention_Network_Expands_its_Patent_Non-
Aggression⠀⇛
Open Invention Network (OIN), the
largest patent non-aggression community
in history, announced today that it has
increased its patent non-aggression
coverage through an update to its
definition of the Linux System. To keep
pace with innovation Open Invention
Network regularly revises and expands
its Linux System coverage. This is the
ninth expansion of the software
packages and libraries protected under
the Open Invention Network cross
license.
# ⚓ Open_Invention_Network_expands_coverage⠀⇛
The Open Invention Network has
announced an expansion of its “Linux
System Definition”, which is the set of
software covered by its patent-
protection umbrella.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Google_v._Oracle:_The_End_of_an_Era_–_Software
Freedom_Law_Center⠀⇛
The Supreme Court’s April 3rd decision of the
long-running dispute between Oracle and
Google brings to a last victorious conclusion
the free software movement’s legal campaign,
which began more than thirty years ago.
Though the Justices have only now resolved
the issue of API copyright, it was among the
first of the legal problems with which FSF
and I dealt.
The heart of the free software movement’s
long-term strategy was to harness the power
of independent reinvention. Writing from
scratch new programs that implemented both
sides of all major software APIs was the
technical pillar of our master plan.
Licensing those programs on terms that
protected the resulting commons—giving every
user rights to study, copy, modify and share,
with copyleft restriction on downstream
licensing—was the legal pillar. The master
plan of GNU was the independent
reimplementation of both sides of all Unix
APIs, thus allowing anything that could be
done by general purpose computers to be done
by software in which users had rights and
free invention could flourish. When FSF and I
started working together, in 1993, the
Foundation—which was made possible by Richard
Stallman’s 1990 MacArthur prize—was new, and
the 1991 GPLv2 license brilliantly
constructed for Stallman by Jerry Cohen was
even newer. Gaining broad legal acceptance
for GPLv2 and assessing the risk from the
patenting of purely software inventions were
immediate legal problems in need of my
attention. But the threat posed by broad API
copyright was the most urgent. The urgency
arose because the issue was already headed
for the US Supreme Court.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocast⠀➾
# ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_160⠀⇛
A theme of funding open source development runs
throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla
accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO
standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the
usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.
# ⚓ Destination_Linux_261:_KDE_Roadmap_Interview_with_Nate
Graham⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re
joined by Nate Graham from KDE to talk about Plasma
and all things KDE. Then we’re going to discuss an
exciting announcement from Pine64. All of this and
so much more this week on Destination Linux. So
whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source
or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.
o § DRM⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Beat_of_a_Different_DRM_–_Purism⠀⇛
Canon made big news this past week when it started
telling customers how to defeat the Digital Rights
Management (DRM) in its toner cartridges because of
supply chain issues with the chips they normally
use to enforce it. That Canon explained how to
bypass the DRM when it suited them, and that it
didn’t negatively affect the operation of the
printers or the customer, made it clear that DRM
and the chips that enforce it offer little if any
benefit to customers. Instead, DRM is only in place
so the vendor can exert remote control over their
product after the customer buys it. Computer
vendors are marching to the beat of this DRM, and
their ultimate goal is to exert the same sort of
control printer and smartphone vendors enjoy into
laptops and desktops.
# ⚓ You_Don’t_Own_Your_Movies,_Music,_Books,_Games_(DRM_Is
Evil!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_Cinnamon_(Edge)_Edition_now_available_for
download⠀⇛
When using a Linux-based operating system, you
should always use the most recent kernel, right?
Actually, no. While new kernels do add fixes and
support for new hardware, they can also be less
stable and cause bugs.
Unfortunately, if you have extremely new hardware,
sometimes you must use a newer kernel in order to
boot, as older kernels do not yet support some of
your devices. For instance, Linux Mint 20.3 “Una”
was released recently and it comes with Linux
kernel 5.4. If that older kernel does not support
your computer, it may not boot.
Thankfully, all is not lost. Today, the Linux Mint
developers release an “Edge” version of the
operating system. No, it doesn’t come with
Microsoft’s Edge browser. The “Edge” moniker simply
means it comes with a more modern kernel for those
with very new hardware. You see, Linux Mint 20.3
Cinnamon (Edge) Edition comes with the much-newer
kernel 5.13.
# ⚓ Platform_Firmware_Runtime_Update_&_Telemetry_Feature
Submitted_For_Linux_5.17⠀⇛
Last September I was the first to call attention to
Intel working on a new feature to allow updating
some system firmware components without needing to
reboot such as for mission critical servers that
try to avoid downtime at all costs. That Intel
“Seamless Update” feature also known as Platform
Firmware Runtime Update and Telemetry (PFRUT) has
now been sent in for mainlining with Linux 5.17.
Intel sent out the revised patches in December for
implementing Platform Firmware Runtime Update and
Telemetry for Linux systems as outlined by the ACPI
specification. This provides a new “pfr_update”
kernel driver behind the new “ACPI_PFRUT” kernel
configuration build option. There is also a basic
user-space tool for demonstrating how firmware
updates are submitted to the kernel driver for run-
time updating and also accessing the telemetry
support.
# § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Intel’s_Former_Vulkan_Driver_Lead_Dev_Lands_Great
Role_For_Improving_Linux_Graphics⠀⇛
Jason Ekstrand who was the lead developer of
Intel’s open-source “ANV” Vulkan Linux driver
left Intel in December and has now revealed
details about his new role.
Ekstrand’s prolific work on the Intel ANV
driver over the past number of years has made
him one of the top five contributors to Mesa
by commit count even with only being involved
in the open-source Linux graphics scene since
2013. When he announced he was leaving Intel
came as a bit of a surprise, but at least it
turns out his new role will be still
benefiting the upstream open-source Linux 3D
graphics ecosystem.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ What_is_POSIX?_Why_Does_it_Matter_to_Linux/UNIX_Users?⠀⇛
You’ll hear the acronym, or read about it: POSIX,
on different online boards and articles.
Programmers and system developers seem to worry
about it the most. It can sound mysterious and,
while there are many good sources on the subject,
some discussion boards (brevity is part of their
nature), don’t go into detail as to what it is and
this can lead to confusion. What, then, is POSIX,
really?
POSIX isn’t actually a thing. It describes a thing
– much like a label. Imagine a box labeled: POSIX,
and inside the box is a standard. A standard
consists of sets of rules and instructions that
POSIX is concerned with. POSIX is shorthand for
Portable Operating System Interface. It is an IEEE
1003.1 standard that defines the language interface
between application programs (along with command
line shells and utility interfaces) and the UNIX
operating system.
# ⚓ [Old] Reasons_to_avoid_Javascript_CDNs⠀⇛
Many javascript projects have install instructions
recommending that people use a CDN like jsdelivr or
unpkg to include the code on their website. This
has the advantage that it’s quicker to get started
with, and it’s often claimed to load faster.
However, it also has downsides when it comes to
privacy, security, and systemic risk, and it may
actually be slower in some common cases. Here are
some reasons not to use a javascript CDN, and some
alternatives to consider instead.
The big javascript CDNs are used by huge numbers of
people — cdnjs brags that it’s on 12.5% of websites
on the internet, and serves more that 200 billion
requests per month, jsdelivr serves nearly 100
billion requests per month, and unpkg serves ~2.4
billion unique IP addresses per month. This means
that one of these CDNs going down, or an attacker
hacking one of them would have a huge impact all
over society — we already see this category of
problem with large swaths of the internet going
down every time cloudflare or AWS has an outage.
There’s a fundamental tradeoff here between
efficiency and resiliency, and when 12.5% of the
internet can have an outage because of one provider
going down, I think we’ve swung way too far away
from resiliency, as a society.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Mattermost_desktop_client_on_Debian_11_/
Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
So, in this post, you will learn how to install
Mattermost desktop client on Debian 11 / Ubuntu
20.04.
Hello, friends. We recently explained to you how to
install Mattermost on Debian 11. But the truth is
that although it can be used through a web browser,
it is also possible to use a desktop client.
# ⚓ BUILD_YOUR_NETWORK_FIREWALL_WITH_CLEAROS⠀⇛
Welcome again! today will learn to build a Firewall
with ClearOS. in the very last article I listed up
the top five firewalls. The one potentially useful
firewall, I was not able to cover in the article.
So today we will cover a complete step-by-step
installation guide for the same.
The firewall comes in a form of a dedicated OS and
can be downloaded from this link. The free-to-use
license of ClearOS comes under community license.
Yet the UTM is free having no official support.
But, still have a good support community and
documentation. Let’s go step by step. First, we
will have a look into the features of the firewall
followed by an installation guide. Finally, we will
give the final verdict in form of a conclusion.
# ⚓ Zsh_shell_installation_and_configuration_on_Linux⠀⇛
The Z-shell (zsh) is a modern and very powerful
shell: it incorporates and extends many feature of
other shells, like Bash. Although it can be used as
a powerful scripting language, it is mainly aimed
at interactive use, since one of its more prominent
feature is the advanced tab completion system. In
this tutorial we see how to install zsh in the most
commonly used Linux distributions, see what are its
startup and shutdown files and how to perform the
basic configurations.
# ⚓ How_to_install_and_manage_fonts_on_Linux⠀⇛
Fonts are a really important part of the user
experience. On the most commonly used Linux-based
distributions, there are many packaged fonts which
can be installed using the native package manager.
Sometimes, however, we may want to install some
fonts manually. In this tutorial we see how to
perform such operation, and, more generally, how
fonts are managed on Linux.
# ⚓ How_to_use_LUKS_with_a_detached_header⠀⇛
Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is the de-facto
standard block device encryption format used on
Linux-based systems. We already discussed some of
the features provided by it in a previous tutorial
about using a file as a LUKS device key. When using
LUKS, encryption metadata is stored on the header
which is created at the beginning of the encrypted
device (a copy of the header is created at end of
the device for redundancy, when using LUKS2).If
desired, it is possible to specify that the header
should be detached from the device: in this
tutorial we see how.
# ⚓ How_to_scrape_web_pages_from_the_command_line_using_htmlq⠀⇛
Web scraping is the process of analyzing the
structure of HTML pages, and programmatically
extract data from them. In the past we saw how to
scrape the web using the Python programming
language and the “Beautilful Soup” library; in this
tutorial, instead, we see how to perform the same
operation using a command line tool written in
Rust: htmlq.
# ⚓ Install_Node.js_17_&_NPM_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end
JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8
engine to build fast and scalable network
applications and back-end APIs. Node.js uses an
event-driven, non-blocking IO module that makes it
very lightweight and practical. It is a fantastic
choice for data-intensive real-time applications
across distributed devices.
NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript
programming language maintained by NPM, Inc. NPM is
the default package manager for the JavaScript
runtime environment Node.js and is arguably the
most available repository for Node.JS packages.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install Node.JS 17 from the node source repository
on Debian 11 Bullseye.
# ⚓ Install_UNRAR_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
UNRAR is widely known and used amongst Windows
users. RAR files are much smaller archives and
compress better than ZIP for most files by
compressing files “together,” saving more space.
UNRAR does not come pre-installed natively on
Debian, but it is available to install from its
repository.
The following tutorial will show you how to install
UNRAR on Debian 11 Bullseye and the basic commands
to use it on either your Debian desktop or server.
# ⚓ How_to_Add_Host_in_Zabbix_Server_to_Monitor⠀⇛
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool
for diverse IT components, including networks,
servers, virtual machines and cloud services.
Zabbix server is rich in template tools which
contain lots of predefined templates which we can
easily be used with your hosts.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Flightgear_on_Elementary_OS_6.0_–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at how to install
Flightgear on Elementary OS 6.0.
# ⚓ How_to_install_and_configure_Squid_Proxy_on_Rocky_Linux/
Alma_Linux_8⠀⇛
In this guide we will learn how to install and
configure Squid Proxy server on a Rocky Linux 8
server. This guide also works on other RHEL 8 based
distros like Alma Linux and Oracle Linux.
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth
and improves response times by caching and reusing
frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive
access controls and makes a great server
accelerator. It runs on most available operating
systems.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Flashforge_FlashPrint_5.2.1_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install Flashforge
FlashPrint 5.2.1 on a Chromebook. Please follow the
video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain
the process step by step and use the commands
below.
This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an
Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not
those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.
# ⚓ Install_PHP_8.1_on_Linux_Mint_20_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
PHP 8.1 is a significant update of the PHP language
that was “officially” released on November 25,
2021. As we advance from the existing PHP 8.0
release, this is a standard upgrade. The new PHP
8.1 brings enums, fibers, never return type, final
class constants, intersection types, read-only
properties amongst the long list of new features
and changes.
Linux Mint is known to be a desktop distribution
and not as a full-fledged web server. However,
developers may require to install PHP on their Mint
system for development purposes. In the following
tutorial, you will learn how to import the Ondřej
Surý PPA and install PHP 8.1 on your Linux Mint 20.
# ⚓ How_to_install_and_use_Firewalld_on_Rocky_Linux_8_–_Linux
Shout⠀⇛
Firewalls are one of the most essential parts of
security when we are going online. Here we learn
the steps and command to install, configure, and
how to use FirewallD on Rocky Linux 8 using CLI or
GUI.
Many of us who are not already Linux would already
be familiar with the firewall feature on Windows,
where it is very easy to turn On or Off ports or
services using GUI. However, what about Linux such
as CentOS, Rocky Linux, RedHat, AlmaLinux, and
more… If you are using full Linux Desktop then a
firewall would already be there but in most of the
cases without a graphical interface. Nevertheless,
Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu, and other Linux systems
provide the appropriate firewall GUI software
directly from their respective repository to manage
things with the help of mouse clicks.
But what if you just want a basic OS installation
with no graphical interface? Because minimal
versions of Linux would not even have the CLI
version of Firewall by default. Well, this is a
very small problem, if you have an active internet
connection and due to an in-built package manager
under Linux, we can install a firewall with just a
single command.
# ⚓ Overview_of_the_Wireshark_User_Interface_(GUI)⠀⇛
Wireshark is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
and it is developed by a community of enthusiastic
developers. Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is used
for capturing and investigating the traffic going
on a network. It is a very popular network protocol
analyzer among network professionals, security
analysts, and research scholars around the world.
The good thing is that it is open source and freely
available under the GNU General Public License
version 2. It is available for major OSes like
Windows, macOS, Linux, and UNIX.
Wireshark has many features like profound
inspection of network traffic, real-time capture,
offline analysis, R/W support for different capture
file types etc. It also organizes SharkFest, an
annual educational conference, around the world for
imparting knowledge of their product. These
conferences are focused on the best practices of
using Wireshark.
# ⚓ How_to_install_DragonFly_BSD_6.2.1_plus_MATE_desktop_and
some_applications._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show how to Install
DragonFly BSD 6.2.1 plus MATE and some
applications.
# ⚓ Using_the_Linux_look_command_to_select_lines_from_files_|
Network_World⠀⇛
The look command on Linux can be handy for
selecting particular lines from text files with
sorted contents. Let’s look into how it can be used
and where you might run into some problems.
# ⚓ How_to_Change_Domain_Name_on_WordPress⠀⇛
This tutorial explains how to change the domain
name on WordPress.
By reading this article you will learn how to edit
your WordPress site URL both from the WordPress
dashboard and from your server through phpMyAdmin.
In case you do not have access to your dashboard
through your new URL, you can achieve it from your
server. This method includes the use of a plugin to
update all the URLs in your site content.
All steps explained in this article include
screenshots making it easy to follow them.
# ⚓ Expanding_Your_Nextcloud_Instance_Using_Linode’s_NVMe-
Backed_Block_Storage⠀⇛
Nextcloud is a very popular self-hosted alternative
to Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud hosting
providers. It’s not only the go-to choice for
individuals, either. Nextcloud has a number of
enterprise-level deployments.
Given the above, we decided to install Nextcloud on
a Linode Dedicated CPU and see just what it would
take to configure it to use Linode’s new NVMe-
backed block storage. This article was the result.
# ⚓ Analyze_Network_Traffic_Using_Brim_Security_–
kifarunix.com⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how you can
analyze network traffic using Brim security tool.
Brim is an open source desktop application that can
be used to analyze structured network traffic data
like;
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Old_Firewall_Reborn_As_Retro_PC_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
In two follow-up videos (here and here), he builds
an enclosure (instructions on Thingiverse) and
tries out several other operating systems. He was
able to get the Tiny Core Linux distribution
running with the NetSurf browser, but failed to get
Windows 2000 or XP to work. Returning to Windows
98, he tweaks drivers and settings and eventually
has a respectable retro-gaming computer for his
efforts. The next time you’re cleaning out your
junk bins, have a peek inside those pizza-box
gadgets first — you may find a similar gem.
# ⚓ Building_a_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer_–_Part_9:_Ancient
Archaeology_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
After the demise of Loki Software, one of their
former employees found himself forced to work
behind a cash register for a living. Desperate to
get back to porting games, he found the email
address of an artist working for the Croatian
developer Croteam, creators of the game Serious
Sam. Croteam agreed to let him attempt to create a
port of the game to Linux, the first of many games
to come to the platform thanks to the work of Ryan
“icculus” Gordon.
The port of Serious Sam though would in the end
never leave the beta stage. Croteam later released
the source code to the game in 2016, with Ryan
himself returning to craft his own source port, but
his original effort languished for years with a
number of unfortunate bugs. One of these left the
game unbeatable as it prevented the player from
inflicting any damage to the final boss. Unbeatable
that is with the standard version of the game.
Our friends at Global Star Software released
Serious Sam: Limited Edition in 2002, a bizarre
budget retail variant of Serious Sam: The First
Encounter that only features seven out of the
fifteen levels. It also happens to be the only
version of the game that I possess on CD-ROM. I
initially dismissed the idea of playing Serious Sam
as I thought it would be too much for the hardware,
but the jewel case insists that the Rage 128 Pro is
compatible.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KStars_v3.5.7_Released⠀⇛
KStars v3.5.7 is released on January 18th for
Windows, MacOS, and Linux. This release
includes a number of new features and bug
fixes.
This feature is finally implemented in 3.5.7.
Many assumed it existed before and were
disappointed when they couldn’t drag the
mosaic panels around for finer adjustments.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Burn_My_Windows’_GNOME_Extension_Adds_3_New_Effects
&_Random_Mode_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
A couple of new Star Trek-esque effects have
been added to the ‘Burn my Windows’ GNOME
Shell extension.
If you’ve not yet heard about this bling-
tactic add-on, it animates closing windows
(and optionally dialogs) in some
spectacularly over the top ways — just like
Compiz of old.
Burn My Windows 8 is available from the GNOME
Extensions website and it adds there new
effects.
# ⚓ GNOME_42_Desktop_Environment_Is_Now_Available_for
Public_Testing⠀⇛
GNOME 42 alpha is now ready for public
testing to give the Linux and Open Source
community an early taste of what they can
expect from the next major release of one of
the most popular desktop environments for
Linux-powered operating systems, used on
desktop and mobile.
The biggest changes in the GNOME 42 release
around the GTK 4 and libadwaita components.
Some of the default apps distributed as part
of the GNOME stack have been ported to GTK 4
for a more modern look and extra
functionality. Here’s a first look at some of
them.
# ⚓ GNOME_42.alpha_released⠀⇛
Hi,
GNOME 42.alpha is now available. This is the
first unstable release
leading to 42 stable series.
While usually we don't highlight changes in
the announcement, this is
a big transitional cycle and here is what you
can expect for GNOME 42.
* Libadwaita is released and GNOME 42 will be
hard depending on it.
* A couple of apps and modules are migrating
to GTK 4 and libadwaita,
and this will continue in the next cycles as
well.
* Modules have ported to libsoup3.
* The gnome-desktop module can be built
against GTK 4 now and the internals
were split in 3 libraries.
* libgweather has been ported to GTK 4.
In addition, for the 42 Flatpak runtime the
following modules were removed.
You can still bundle them in your
applications, but they won't be part of the
runtime.
* cogl
* clutter
* librest
If you want to compile GNOME 42.alpha, you
can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot. Thanks to
BuildStream's build sandbox,
it should build reliably for you regardless
of the dependencies on
your host system:
https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/
42.alpha/gnome-42.alpha.tar.xz
The list of updated modules and changes is
available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/42/42.alpha/
NEWS
The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/42/42.alpha/
sources/
WARNING!
--------
This release is a snapshot of development
code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily
intended for testing and hacking
purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version
numbers to indicate development
status.
For more information about 42 release, the
full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed module lists, please
see our 42 wiki page:
https://wiki.gnome.org/FortyTwo
Jordan Petridis,
GNOME Release Team
# ⚓ GNOME_42_Alpha_Released_With_A_Lot_Of_GTK4_Porting,
Other_Improvements⠀⇛
The alpha release of GNOME 42 is now
available for testing.
GNOME 42 is working up to its release in
March while out today is the “42.alpha”
milestone. GNOME 42 components have been
seeing a lot of work porting from GTK3 to
GTK4, beginning to make use of libadwaita,
support for the dark mode / dark preference
option, and a variety of other improvements.
Some of the specific changes worth noting
with GNOME 42 Alpha include:
- The Baobab disk usage analyzer has been
ported to GTK4 and libadwaita.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# ⚓ Didiwiki_personal_wiki_retired⠀⇛
DidiWiki has been in the “Personal” menu category
for …forever. EasyOS, Quirky, and the pups before,
all had it. However, I just discovered that it is
broken, cannot create new wiki pages.
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ openSUSE_Begins_Annual_Survey_–_openSUSE_News⠀⇛
The start of an openSUSE survey has begun,
and users, open-source contributors and
community members are encouraged to take the
annual survey.
Last year the community started its end of
year survey and discussed the results during
a community meeting.
# ⚓ 3DT_Holdings_prepares_to_revolutionize_heart-valve
surgery_with_SUSE_Rancher_and_UberCloud_|_SUSE
Communities⠀⇛
“Our work with UberCloud and SUSE is playing
an important role in developing an innovative
solution for heart-valve disorder, one of the
health care industry’s most pressing
challenges.” Yaghoub Dabiri, Scientist, 3DT
Holdings.
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Firefox_96_on_Power⠀⇛
Firefox 96 is out and after some usage of it
I think I agree it’s definitely lessened the
load on the main thread, which is one of the
lead features in this release (and our
heavily multicore POWER9 systems can pick up
the slack for everything else). There are
also multiple improvements to HTML and CSS.
Some of you with Emacs muscle memory will
want to read the Developer section of the
Release Notes, though (I have the Command key
mapped instead so I can still use Mac muscle
memory: set ui.key.accelKey to 91).
Fortunately it all builds out of the box
using the PGO-LTO patch and .mozconfigs from
Firefox 95.
# ⚓ How_to_renew_your_Red_Hat_Developer_Subscription_for
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
Learn how to renew your no-cost Red Hat
Developer Subscription to continue accessing
support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
other Red Hat products.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ »_GNU_Linux_&_sustainability:_waste_avoided_&
resources_saved_–_another_printer_saved_from_trash_–
Brother_MFC-8420_works_perfectly_fine_with_GNU_Linux
Debian_10_|_dwaves.de⠀⇛
actually wanted give this printer to (still)
windows user, then realizing… there is no
f*** chance to install drivers within windows
10 for this elderly but just printing damn
fine reliable black and white laser printer
from brother, so…
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Canonical_Kubernetes_for_Financial_Services_|
Ubuntu⠀⇛
Adopting a container-first approach
represents an unrivalled opportunity for
financial institutions to increase system
efficiency and resource utilisation, improve
security, introduce automation, and
accelerate innovation.
Containers offer a logical packaging tool in
which applications can be decoupled from the
underlying infrastructure on which they run.
This allows container-based applications to
be installed easily and consistently,
regardless of whether the target environment
is a private or public cloud. With
containerisation, development teams move
fast, deploy software efficiently, and
operate at an unprecedented scale.
Despite the advantages, containers can be
hard to manage and to track individually, and
across multiple cloud platforms. Container
orchestration solves this issue by automating
the management and tracking of containers.
Kubernetes has established itself as the
leading open source platform for managing
containerised workloads and services.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_718⠀⇛
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter,
Issue 718 for the week of January 9 – 15,
2022.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ The_PinePhone_Pro_brings_upgraded_hardware_to_the_Linux
phone⠀⇛
Pine64 is launching a major hardware upgrade in its
quest to build a Linux smartphone. After the launch
of the original PinePhone in 2019, the organization
is now taking preorders for the PinePhone Pro, a
new smartphone it’s calling “the fastest mainline
Linux smartphone on the market.” The phone was
announced in October, and you can now secure a
unit. The MSRP is $599, but it’s up for preorder
now at an introductory price of $399.
Since Pine64 wants to make an open source Linux
smartphone, its choice of hardware components is
limited. Most big chip companies like Qualcomm or
Samsung don’t want to share open drivers or
schematics, and you saw that with the original
PinePhone, which was based on a 40 nm Cortex A53
SoC made by Allwinner. The PinePhone Pro is
upgrading things with a Rockchip RK3399 SoC. The
chip sports two Cortex A72 CPUs and four Cortex A53
CPUs, and Pine64 says it worked with Rockchip to
get the chip “binned and voltage locked for optimal
performance with sustainable power and thermal
limits.” Pine64 doesn’t cite a process node, but
other companies list the RK3399 at 28 nm. If that’s
true and you’re looking for something roughly
comparable in Qualcomm’s lineup, the Snapdragon
618/650 (a mid-range chip from 2016) would seem to
fit the bill.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Part_News:_Raspberry_Pi_Cuts_Out_the_Middleman⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi has just announced that they’ll
be selling their RP2040 microcontroller chips
by the reel, directly to you, at a decent
discount.
About a year ago, Raspberry Pi released its
first piece of custom silicon, the RP2040
microcontroller. They’ve have been selling
these chips in bulk to selected customers
directly, but have decided to open up the
same deals to the general public. If you’re
looking for 500 chips or more, you can cut
out the middleman and save some serious
dough.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Samsung_Exynos_2200_SoC_features_Xclipse_920_GPU_with
AMD_RDNA_2_architecture_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Free_instead_of_$2.99:_This_Android_fitness_app_helps
you_lose_weight_|_NextPit⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Self_Share_Makes_File_Transferring_Easy_for
Chromebook_or_Android_Users_|_Tech_Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ These_OnePlus_Phones_Will_Never_Receive_Another
Android_Update⠀⇛
# ⚓ Weird_Google_Keep_bug_only_affects_Samsung_devices
running_Android_12_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Galaxy_S10_5G_joins_the_Android_12_club_in_US_and
South_Korea_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_S10_5G_gets_Android_12_in_South_Korea
and_the_US_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ 24_advanced_tips_for_Android_12_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_may_add_a_new_screen_time_widget_for_Android
phones:_Report_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Open_source,_closed_wallets,_big_profits_–_nobody_wins_the
OSS_rock,_paper,_scissors_game⠀⇛
There’s much talk of the Open Source Sustainability
Problem. From individual developers to Google’s
White House lobbying, the issue seems simple but
intractable. Is the willingness of volunteer coders
a solid enough basis for the long-term health of
essential infrastructure?
This is, of course, balderdash. It’s not an open
source problem, it’s a software problem. All
software needs resources to adapt as the working
environment changes, resources the changed
environment may not provide. Look how many out-of-
support versions of Windows still limp on like
superannuated footy players in the Sunday leagues.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ ONLYOFFICE_Docs_v7.0_Adds_Online_Forms,_Password
Protection,_and_More_Improvements_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛
ONLYOFFICE is a popular open-source office
suite available for Desktop platforms
(including Linux) and web applications as
well.
If you have a Nextcloud or ownCloud instance,
you may already have ONLYOFFICE installed to
manage your documents.
Now, for its first major release in 2022,
ONLYOFFICE v7.0 has been announced with a
range of improvements and much-needed feature
editions.
# ⚓ ONLYOFFICE_v7.0_released:_fillable_online_forms,
password_protection_in_spreadsheets,_collaboration_and
usability_improvements_and_more⠀⇛
The developers of ONLYOFFICE Docs have
released version 7.0 of their open-source
online office suite. The new version of the
online editors comes with brand-new online
forms, new editing features, improved
collaboration and usability. Here is a brief
overview of what’s new around the suite.
The killer feature of ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.0 is
the ability to create and edit fillable forms
online. Based on the Microsoft Office content
controls, ONLYOFFICE forms offer the same
flexibility as Adobe forms but come with more
advanced field properties allowing users to
create model documents of various types, e.g.
sales contracts, DNA agreements,
questionnaires, etc.
Users can create fillable forms from scratch,
use an existing DOCX document or download a
template from the official ONLYOFFICE
library. You can share your form with others
and collaboratively edit it together in real
time. Once your form is ready, let other
people fill out the required fields.
# ⚓ Community_Member_Monday:_Baltasar_García_Perez-
Schofield_–_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛
Today we have a quick chat with Baltasar
GarcÃa Perez-Schofield, who recently became
a Member of The Document Foundation, the non-
profit entity behind LibreOffice…
[...]
I think that the open standards for document
formats are vital for any computer user, and
therefore defend the TDF’s existence. In that
sense, becoming a member was an honor for me,
and I also perceived it as a recognition for
the work I did.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Sam_Thursfield:_Status_update,_17/01/2022⠀⇛
I am keeping busy at work integrating
BuildStream with a rather large, tricky set
of components, Makefiles and a custom
dependency management system. I am
appreciating how much flexibility BuildStream
provides. As an example, some internal tools
expect builds to happen at a certain path.
BuildStream makes it easy to customize the
build path by adding this stanza to the .bst
file…
# ⚓ Entering_the_Job_Market?_Here_Are_the_Most_In-Demand
Programming_Languages_for_2022_–_Anto_./_Online⠀⇛
As we enter 2022, you might be looking for a
new job. The Great Resignation proves
beneficial to job hunters or switchers, as
employers are willing to provide higher pay
and more benefits to stem labor shortages.
Now is an excellent time for anyone wanting
to launch, boost, and even future-proof their
career. If you’re looking to snag a job that
is and will stay in demand, the World
Economic Forum recently listed their top 10
jobs of the future.
# ⚓ GCC_12_Moves_On_To_Stage_4_Development_With_Many_New
Compiler_Features_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
GCC 12 as this year’s annual GNU Compiler
Collection feature release has moved on to
“stage four” development with likely
releasing GCC 12.1 in April.
This transition was known and marks the end
of the stage 3 general bug fixing period now
with just focusing exclusively on regression/
documentation fixes. This is the final stage
focused on getting the next GCC feature
release ready for debut.
# ⚓ HTMLQ:_Like_JQ_But_To_Parse_&_Query_HTML_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Parsing and querying HTML through pure Unix
tools can be a massive pain and you’re much
better off using specialized tools, one of
those specialized tools in HTMLQ, which is
much like JQ. Between recording and upload,
the dev added the ability to remove nodes so
ignore that point.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ The__repr___in_Python⠀⇛
The __repr__() method of Python yields
a textual or string depiction of an
entity or an object. This process is
termed whenever the entity’s repr()
method is invoked. You can say that the
“repr” method and “__repr__” can be
used interchangeably for the same
purpose. The text reverted must be a
proper Python phrase that would be
castoff to reassemble the entity if
feasible. A “__str__” function of
python does the same, but there is a
slight difference between both the
functions. The __str__ method is
designed to produce a human-readable
version, useful for tracking or
displaying object information. The
__repr__ method, on the other hand, is
designed to provide an “official”
textual image of the object that may be
used to recreate it. We’ll focus on
both key Python entity methods in our
article today. Let’s have a fresh
start.
# ⚓ The_Python_Sort_List_of_Tuples⠀⇛
In Python, we utilize tuples to store
multiple elements in a variable. Tuple
lists may be sorted similarly to any
other list. However, tuples contain
numerous elements, so we are free to
rearrange the tuples based on item 1 or
item i. In this guide, we will look at
how to sort various lists of tuples
using multiple examples. We will go
over the various scenarios and the many
strategies employed to accomplish this.
We will mainly focus on some built-in
methods and sorting procedures to
achieve tuple sorting. The well-
organized nature and invariant
properties of tuples are dissimilar
from those in regular lists.
# ⚓ How_to_Remove_an_Element_From_a_Set_in_Python⠀⇛
This article describes how to remove
items from a set in Python. We utilize
certain built-in features, several
approaches to better understand this
topic. Let’s take a look at a set of
Python.
Disordered records will have unindexed
values. We cannot access the values of
the set via the index number, such as
we have done in a different list. The
values of a set are unchallengeable.
That is, we cannot change the value
once it is created. The data in the set
may remain of some type, such as
integers, floating-point values, or
integers.
# ⚓ How_to_Use_Xrange_in_Python⠀⇛
In Python, xrange is a commonly used
function that gives a series of numbers
from a given range. In Python 2, there
is a function that returns an xrange
object. When we need to iterate through
a loop, we use the xrange function. As
a result, the object created by xrange
is mostly utilized for indexing and
iteration. Keep in mind that the xrange
method is only supported in Python 2 at
this time. Because Python 2 is no
longer supported, we recommend using
Python 3 and the range() method instead
of xrange(). The range() and xrange()
methods can be used for loops to
iterate a specified number of times,
let’s say 10 times or 5 times. Although
Python 3 does not provide an xrange
function, the range function works
identically to the xrange function in
Python 2.
If you want to develop programs that
can be executed on both Python 2 and
Python 3, you should utilize the range
method. The range() returns a range
object (a type of iterable), while
xrange() returns a generator object
that can only be used to loop through
integers. The only specific range is
presented on demand, leading to the
term “lazy evaluation”. Both are used
in various ways and have different
qualities. The return type, memory,
operation usage, and performance are
all factors to consider. Let’s discuss
each factor with a corresponding
example for better understanding.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Eagle’s_Path:_DocKnot_7.00_(2022-01-17)⠀⇛
The recent 6.01 release of my static
web site generator was kind of a buggy
mess, which uncovered a bunch of holes
in my test suite and immediately turned
up problems when I tried to use it to
rebuild my actual web site. Most of the
problems were Unicode-related; this
release hopefully sorts out Unicode
properly and handles it consistently.
Other bugs fixed include processing of
old-style pointers in a spin input
tree, several rather obvious bugs in
the new docknot release command, and a
few long-standing issues with docknot
dist that should make its results more
consistent and reliable.
# § C⠀➾
# ⚓ C:_execve_function_usage⠀⇛
Execve() function is used for the
execution of the program that is
referred to by pathname. The exec
family is used mainly in the C
programming language and has many
functions. These functions execute a
system command in a separate process
from the main program and print the
output. In this article, we will
discuss some of the main functions of
the exec family and mainly execve
functions with some elementary
examples.
Now let’s look at the exec family in
the image attached. This picture shows
the syntax of all possible functions of
the exec family.
# ⚓ C:_inet_pton_function_example⠀⇛
# ⚓ C:_Connect_Function_System_Call⠀⇛
We cannot emphasize enough socket
programming and all its use-cases.
However, since it is a pervasive topic,
each of its components or the functions
used while doing socket programming
holds a crucial value and needs to be
studied separately. The connect
function or system call is also an
essential function used while doing
socket programming in the C programming
language. In this article, we will see
how we can use this function in the C
programming language.
# ⚓ C:_CHDIR_Function_Usage⠀⇛
We have already talked about the
“CHDIR” function of the C programming
language briefly while discussing the
“getcwd” function. However, this
article will specifically revolve
around the “CHDIR” function mainly used
to alter the current working directory
of a system. We will especially try to
explore how the behavior of this
function changes once it is used within
a C script. To do that, we will first
introduce you to the purpose of this
function, followed by its syntax. Then,
we will discuss the impact of this
function on the current working
directory of the shell in Linux.
Finally, we will conclude our
discussion by talking about some of the
errors that can be returned from
executing the “CHDIR” function of the C
programming language.
# ⚓ C:_Basename_Function_Usage⠀⇛
While dealing with the files in Linux,
you need to manipulate their paths.
There are certain functions of the C
programming language that can operate
on the file paths; however, as far as
the scope of this article is concerned,
we will talk in detail about the usage
of the Basename function of the C
programming language.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ “Martin”:_Algeria,_2008⠀⇛
On a 2008 visiting professorship in this unattractive but
popular seaside city, having rented my own apartment, I
had to deal with utility issues myself. My lodging was on
Rue d’Hasan ……(a name I’ve since forgotten). But it was
one of Algeria’s tens of thousands of streets, buildings
and squares named for martyrs of its painful and costly,
never-forgotten and never-recovered-from 1954-1962 war of
independence.
I’d placed my daybook on the desk between us as I offered
my ID to the woman. Until that remark—the whispered
single word, “mahteen”– she hadn’t spoken to me.
o ⚓ Woodstock_in_1969⠀⇛
Lang was also much involved with the 25th Anniversary
Woodstock Festival held at Winston Farm in Saugerties in
1994. The 1994 Festival drew about 350,000 people. The
Woodstock Film Festival honored Lang with its “Spirit of
Woodstock award” in 2011.
In all the years running into Lang at public events in
Woodstock, at the Post Office, or the supermarket, I
never saw him frown. He always had an upbeat and positive
expression on him. All Hail to Michael Lang.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Machine_Learning_Detects_Distracted_Politicians_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
[Dries Depoorter] has a knack for highly technical
projects with a solid artistic bent to them, and
this piece is no exception. The Flemish Scrollers
is a software system that watches live streamed
sessions of the Flemish government, and uses Python
and machine learning to identify and highlight
politicians who pull out phones and start
scrolling. The results? Pushed out live on Twitter
and Instagram, naturally. The project started back
in July 2021, and has been dutifully running ever
since, so by now we expect that holding one’s phone
where the camera can see it is probably considered
a rookie mistake.
# ⚓ AI_Camera_Knows_Its_S**t_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[Caleb] shares a problem with most dog owners. Dogs
leave their… byproducts…all over your yard. Some
people pick it up right away and some just leave
it. But what if your dog has run of the yard? How
do you know where these piles are hiding? A
security camera and AI image detection is the
answer, but probably not the way that you think.
You might think as we did that you could train the
system to recognize the–um–piles. But instead,
[Caleb] elected to have the AI do animal pose
estimation to detect the dog’s posture while
producing the target. This is probably easier than
recognizing a nondescript pile and then it doesn’t
matter if it is, say, covered with snow.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Library_the_Internet_Can’t_Get_Enough_Of⠀⇛
Dr. Macksey’s book collection clocked in at 51,000
titles, according to his son, Alan, excluding
magazines and other ephemera. A decade ago, the
most valuable pieces — including first editions of
“Moby Dick,” T.S. Eliot’s “Prufrock and Other
Observations,” and works by Wordsworth, Keats and
Shelley — were moved to a “special collections”
room on the Hopkins campus. After Dr. Macksey’s
death, a S.W.A.T. team-like group of librarians and
conservationists spent three weeks combing through
his book-filled, 7,400-square-foot house to select
35,000 volumes to add to the university’s
libraries.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_Did_Democratic_AG_Kill_Flint_Water_RICO_Case?⠀⇛
Prosecutors investigating Flint’s contaminated
water crisis were pursuing a racketeering case
against public officials whose austerity-driven
policies caused the health catastrophe, but after
newly elected Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel
took over in 2019, those charges were dropped.
“This adds a new tragedy for the people of Flint
who deserve to know the root causes of their
suffering and to hold any financial wrongdoing
accountable.”
# ⚓ Lawmakers_Seek_to_Weaken_Ban_on_Surprise_Medical_Bills⠀⇛
It’s been less than three weeks since a federal ban
on most surprise medical bills went into effect,
but Democratic and Republican members of Congress
are already teaming up with the for-profit
healthcare industry to weaken a key provision in
the law, The Intercept reported Monday.
The No Surprises Act is expected to protect
millions of people in the U.S. from costly bills
that private equity-owned providers foist upon
patients who inadvertently receive out-of-network
care during medical emergencies.
# ⚓ Where’s_the_Data?_The_Missing_Link_in_the_U.S._Response_to
Covid-19⠀⇛
Thus, when this week’s guest–a leading researcher
in molecular medicine had sharp words for the Biden
administration’s failure to collect critical data
on Covid cases, I paid attention.
Appearing in a January 13 presentation, Eric Topol,
editor-in-chief of Medscape and holder of an
endowed chair at Scripps Research, said,
# ⚓ Hospitals_Struggle_With_Sheer_Volume_of_COVID_Cases_Amid
Staff_Shortages⠀⇛
# ⚓ Brazilian_Senate_Investigation_into_the_Handling_of_COVID
is_Bad_News_for_Bolsonaro’s_Reelection_Bid⠀⇛
Bolsonaro might face charges for Violation of
preventive health measures, Crime of epidemic with
result of death, Charlatanism, Prevarication,
Irregular use of public funds, incitement to crime,
Falsification of private documents, Crime of
responsibility, and crimes against humanity.
The rapporteur, Senator Renan Calheiros, had
originally included in the final report of the CPI
the crime of genocide against Bolsonaro, for his
treatment of indigenous populations and based on
statements and actions of the president and his
allies violating indigenous rights and ensuring
support for loggers and land grabbers in indigenous
lands.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ IDrive_360_Adds_Endpoint_Cloud_Backup_Support_for
Linux_Machines⠀⇛
IDrive 360, a secure, enterprise-scale
endpoint cloud backup solution from IDrive,
has added backup support for Linux machines,
enabling IT admins to schedule and automate
backups for all of their organizational Linux
data into a single account through a unified
web console.
# § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Canceling_QR-codes_Russian_lawmakers
withdraw_controversial_vaccine_pass_bill
from_consideration⠀⇛
The Russian State Duma Council
unanimously agreed to withdraw
from consideration a
controversial bill that would
require QR-code vaccine passes
for accessing many public spaces,
parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav
Volodin announced on Monday,
January 17.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ From_the_airport_to_the_courtroom_Ukraine’s_former
president_Poroshenko_returns_to_the_country,_faces_arrest_on
treason_charges⠀⇛
On the morning of Monday, January 17, Ukraine’s
former president, lawmaker Petro Poroshenko,
arrived in Kyiv after spending nearly a month
abroad. An estimated 3,000–4,000 people met him at
Kyiv’s Zhuliany Airport; some of his supporters
carried Ukrainian flags and posters with pro-
Poroshenko slogans. At passport control, Poroshenko
was met by officials from Ukraine’s State
Investigation Bureau. His passport was taken away
for around 15 minutes, but then returned to him.
The state investigators attempted to serve
Poroshenko with a subpoena but he refused to take
the document. Poroshenko then proceeded to hold an
impromptu rally, addressing his supporters gathered
outside the airport and urging them to support him
in court.
# ⚓ Why_Xinjiang_Has_Been_a_Touchy_Subject_in_China_for
Centuries⠀⇛
Xinjiang’s largely flat terrain made it a primary
part of the historical Silk Road route. The
region’s geography and proximity to numerous
Eurasian cultures and civilizations have also made
it a contested land for centuries, with competing
narratives over its history and cultural traits.
The name Xinjiang, for example, translates to “New
Frontier” or “New Dominion” in Chinese, while
Uyghur nationalists refer to the region as East
Turkestan. Chinese scholars posit that Uyghurs
are descended from nomadic Uyghurs from modern-day
Mongolia and settled in Xinjiang in the ninth
century (joining other groups, including the Han
Chinese). Uyghur historians, on the other hand,
tend to stress their Central Asian Turkic origins,
with East Turkestan their historical homeland.
Regardless of the historical debate over the
lineage of Uyghurs, a distinct Muslim and Turkic
identity had emerged among portions of Xinjiang’s
population in the 18th century when China’s Qing
Dynasty reconquered the region. According
to historical records, the Chinese campaign split
the Uyghur population from the other Turkic groups
of Central Asia, which later came under the control
of the Russian Empire. Hostility toward Chinese
rule in Xinjiang among Muslims from a variety of
different cultural backgrounds culminated in
the Dungan Revolt from 1862 to 1877, with rebels
receiving support from both the Ottoman and British
empires. Despite the successful Chinese suppression
and pacification of Xinjiang afterward, nationalist
sentiment grew within the Muslim-Turkic population,
and the term Uyghur began to be used to describe
much of the local Muslim-Turkic population around
the Tarim Basin by the early 20th century.
# ⚓ Hollywood’s_Pentagon_Propaganda_and_News_Abuse_with_Robin
Andersen;_and_a_New_Book_on_Decolonizing_Podcasters_with
Nicholas_Baham_III_and_Nolan_Higdon_–_The_Project_Censored
Show⠀⇛
# ⚓ Are_Western_Wealthy_Countries_Determined_to_Starve_the
People_of_Afghanistan?⠀⇛
The figure of $10 billion is significant. A few
days after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in
mid-August 2021, the U.S. government announced the
seizure of $9.5 billion in Afghan assets that were
being held in the U.S. banking system. Under
pressure from the United States government, the
International Monetary Fund also denied Afghanistan
access to $455 million of its share of special
drawing rights, the international reserve asset
that the IMF provides to its member countries to
supplement their original reserves. These two
figures—which constitute Afghanistan’s monetary
reserves—amount to around $10 billion, the exact
number Griffiths said that the country would need
if the United Nations does not immediately get an
emergency disbursement for providing humanitarian
relief to Afghanistan.
A recent analysis by development economist Dr.
William Byrd for the United States Institute of
Peace, titled, “How to Mitigate Afghanistan’s
Economic and Humanitarian Crises,” noted that the
economic and humanitarian crises being faced by the
country are a direct result of the cutoff of $8
billion in annual aid to Afghanistan and the
freezing of $9.5 billion of the country’s “foreign
exchange reserves” by the United States. The
analysis further noted that the sanctions
relief—given by the U.S. Treasury Department and
the United Nations Security Council on December 22,
2021—to provide humanitarian assistance to
Afghanistan should also be extended to “private
business and commercial transactions.” Byrd also
mentioned the need to find ways to pay salaries of
health workers, teachers and other essential
service providers to prevent an economic collapse
in Afghanistan and suggested using “a combination
of Afghan revenues and aid funding” for this
purpose.
# ⚓ Corporate_Seditionists_are_no_Better_than_the_Seditionists
who_Attacked_the_Capitol⠀⇛
That’s why I took some comfort just after the
attack on the Capitol when many big corporations
solemnly pledged they’d no longer finance the
campaigns of the 147 lawmakers who voted to
overturn election results.
# ⚓ France:_Man_shouts_“Allah_Akbar”_in_the_street_and_injures
three_police_officers⠀⇛
The police quickly spotted the driver. He first
stopped and then got out of his vehicle. Enraged,
he attacked the police officers with the car keys
and punched them in the face. Finally he was
overpowered and arrested. The 36-year-old offender,
who was already known to the police, was taken into
police custody. He was brought in for an
investigation into his behaviour.
# ⚓ The_long_jihadist-extremist_quest_to_free_Aafia_Siddiqui_–
analysis⠀⇛
The precise details of how and why a man who
attacked a synagogue in Texas and then demanded to
have Siddiqui freed are not yet clear. However, the
use of her name has conjured up past instances of
attempts to swap her for people held by extremist
groups.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Fossil_Fuel,_Fuels_Doom⠀⇛
Check out all installments in the OppArt
series.
# ⚓ Protests_at_the_Pump⠀⇛
In October 1990, furious at the new liberal
government for raising gas prices by 65
percent, taxi drivers in Hungary set up
barricades and established roadblocks that
brought transportation to a halt around the
country. The price hike was partly in
response to cutbacks in petroleum deliveries
from the Soviet Union and supply problems
related to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait the
previous August. For four days, Hungarian
cities were paralyzed. Eventually, the
government had to back down.
# ⚓ Youngkin’s_Cabinet_Has_More_Fossil_Fuel_Ties_Beyond
Trump’s_EPA_Chief⠀⇛
# ⚓ Earth’s_Biosphere_Absorbs_the_Heat_Equivalent_of_32
Hiroshima_Nuclear_Explosions_Every_Second⠀⇛
In May 2020, I calculated that the entire
biosphere (atmosphere, oceans, land surface)
was being heated by 32 Hiroshima-equivalent
heat bombs per second.
While it is the atmosphere that initially
captures the IR (infrared = heat radiation
emitted upward from Earth’s surface) that
produces global warming, soon enough about
20-30% of that captured heat is absorbed by
the surface waters of the ocean — in a
continuous process. One could then say that
6.4-9.6 [6-10, so ~7] of the continuous heat
bomb output goes into the oceans and 22.4-
25.6 [22-26, so ~25] into the atmosphere —
and eventually into the oceans.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Members_of_Congress_Shouldn’t_Be_Getting_Rich_From_Trading
Stocks⠀⇛
In the chaotic early days of the pandemic, members
of Congress sat in closed-door briefings on the
emerging threat of the virus, before the public
knew of its severity. In a unique position to act
decisively, the impulse of many in attendance
wasn’t to prepare or somehow mobilize the resources
necessary to slow the spread of a deadly disease.
Some Democratic lawmakers raised an alarm, of
course. But their pleas for more funding were
bogged down by Congress’s usual dysfunction. For
other lawmakers, including top Republican and
Democratic leaders, the impulse was to profit from
the private information. So they did what any
decent American would: They rushed to buy and sell
stocks just weeks before the market crashed.
# ⚓ College_Football_Coaches_Making_$25,000_a_Day?_Let’s
Sideline_This_Lunacy!⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Inflation_Hawks_on_the_Path_to_an_Inflation_War⠀⇛
First, as fans of reality like to point out, the
jump in inflation over the last year is largely a
worldwide phenomenon, not something that can be
attributed to bad policies in the United States.
Our year-over-year (December 2020 to December 2021)
inflation figure was 7.0 percent, which is
definitely high. But the figure for the U.K. was
4.6 percent, for Canada 4.7 percent, for Germany
5.2 percent, and for Spain 5.5 percent. (These are
all inflation numbers from November 2020 to
November 2021, since December data are not yet
available.)
The jumps in inflation in these countries cannot be
blamed on the American Recovery Act (ARA) that
Biden pushed through Congress back in February or
Federal Reserve Board policy. Obviously, the US
inflation rate is higher than in these other
countries, but the point is that we would have seen
a substantial jump in inflation even if Biden has
not moved aggressively to restart the economy.
# ⚓ Colleges_Accused_of_Conspiring_to_Make_Low-Income_Students
Pay_More⠀⇛
Is this the latest ‘admissions scandal’?
Although it may be tempting to brand this case as
the latest college admissions “scandal,” this
lawsuit harks back to an investigation of 57
private, four-year universities conducted over 30
years ago by the Department of Justice on charges
of “price fixing.” In this case, price fixing means
limiting how the colleges compete for students by
agreeing with one another to offer similar
financial aid awards to admitted students.
# ⚓ With_Billions_in_Fines,_U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce’s_Ranks
Are_‘Packed_With_Rogues’⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_An_All-Out_War_on_Democracy_Is_Now_Underway_in
the_US⠀⇛
The following is adapted from the new edition of
Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just
published as a free e-book.
# ⚓ 5_Lessons_From_Hunter_S._Thompson⠀⇛
Fifty years ago, Rolling Stone asked Hunter S.
Thompson to cover the 1972 presidential campaign.
In some ways, the assignment made perfect sense.
Already a seasoned journalist, Thompson was basking
in the success of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
which the magazine had run the previous month. When
Random House published the book version to
enthusiastic reviews in 1972, Thompson consolidated
his position as the magazine’s most popular writer.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Another_‘Big_Lie’_Corporatists_Like_to_Tell:
Bipartisanship_Will_Lead_to_Progress⠀⇛
After the initial flush of optimism from the
passage of the landmark infrastructure bill, the
Biden Presidency is starting the year on a
political down note. Both the “Build Back Better”
and voting reform acts have stalled seemingly
indefinitely. Just as troubling his approval rating
and the public’s overall optimism about the
nation’s direction have plummeted to near historic
lows.
# ⚓ #FreeNavalny_Supporters_rally_in_cities_around_the_world
one_year_after_Alexey_Navalny_was_arrested_upon_returning_to
Russia⠀⇛
On January 17, 2021, Russian opposition leader
Alexey Navalny was arrested at Moscow’s
Sheremetyevo Airport immediately upon returning to
Russia from Germany, where he had spent months
recovering from a near-fatal poisoning. Navalny
would go on to spend the next year behind bars,
first in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina remand prison
and then in a prison colony in the Vladimir region,
where he is still in custody today. The Kremlin
critic was incarcerated under a reinstated sentence
after Russia’s Penitentiary Service accused him of
parole violations. Navalny was sentenced to two and
a half years in prison, but given the number of
ongoing criminal cases against him, the opposition
leader says he’s not counting the days until his
release. To mark the anniversary of Alexey
Navalny’s arrest, his supporters rallied in dozens
of cities around the world to call for his freedom.
Here’s what the rallies looked like from Moscow to
Miami.
# ⚓ Yes,_Mr._Debs,_the_Republican-Democratic_Party_is_alive_and
well⠀⇛
There’s just one problem with this line of
thinking. It’s dead wrong.
Just look at what the Democrats—who control both
the executive and legislative branch of the federal
government—have actually accomplished: They
overwhelmingly voted for a bloated, wasteful $770
billion defense bill at a time when the USA is
ostensibly in a rare moment of peace time.
# ⚓ Progressives_Rail_Against_Sinema_For_Choosing_Filibuster
Over_Voting_Rights⠀⇛
# ⚓ Is_Donald_Trump_the_Antichrist?⠀⇛
I passed on drawing a conclusion, but then the
lines lit up with a steady stream of people over
the next few hours offering their “proofs” that
Trump was, in fact, the Evil One come to ravage the
Earth. That first caller clearly hit a nerve.
It’s a fascinating question, however, whether put
literally or metaphorically.
# ⚓ Eight_New_Year’s_Resolutions_for_NPR_to_Consider_Now⠀⇛
Resolution One: Apart from excellent features
around the country and the world, NPR should give
voice to what civic groups are doing to improve our
country locally and nationally. NPR is heavy on
entertainment and entertainers and needs to fill
some of that airtime with news of the bedrock civic
community in America. The imbalance is serious from
the national to the local.
Resolution Two: NPR features many reports and
interviews on Race, but needs far more focus
on Class. Class exploitation by the rich and
powerful corporate supremacists feeds into racial
discrimination. The euphemism used is “inequality,”
but corporate-bred crime, fraud, and abuse
affects all people indiscriminately, which often
disproportionately harms minorities. A result of
the gross imbalance of time devoted to race and not
to class is that indiscriminate injustice is mostly
ignored.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ Substack:_The_new_wretched_hive_of_scum_and_quackery⠀⇛
Over the nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic,
we’ve been writing a lot about social media,
particularly Facebook (excuse me, “Meta”), Twitter,
YouTube, and Instagram (and now Tik Tok), as
amplifiers of antivaccine misinformation. Part of
the reason is that the pandemic
finally—finally!—appears to have awakened public
health authorities and government officials to how
dangerous antivaccine misinformation and
disinformation can be, after years and years of
attempts by bloggers, as well as a relatively small
number of academics, journalists, and health care
professionals, to combat it without much support.
As I said last week, everything old is new again,
and, belated cries of, “Who could ever have seen
this coming?” aside (the answer is: everyone who’s
been paying attention), it’s important to assess
the situation now, however we might have gotten
here. This brings me to Substack. Remember how I
used to refer to a certain antivaccine blog as a
“wretched hive of scum and quackery” in homage to a
line from Star Wars? Although there’s a lot of good
writing on Substack, a byproduct of its
freewheeling design and—shall we say?—lax attitude
towards content guidelines, Substack has now become
the new wretched hive of scum and quackery,
something that is not entirely counterbalanced by
the quality writing that’s there.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ UN_Chief_Urges_Global_Solidarity_on_Covid,_Climate,_and
Debt_Relief⠀⇛
During a virtual event to open the notorious annual
gathering of the World Economic Forum, United
Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on
Monday decried not only humanity’s poor handling of
the coronavirus pandemic but also unequal economic
recovery and inadequate climate action.
“Stand with us as we shape a global financial
system that works for all countries, not just the
wealthy few.”
# ⚓ Interview_With_Shrishail_Rana_–_Tweaking_Technologies⠀⇛
Shrishail Rana: Back in the days businesses were
localized and used to serve a more stable
population. However, with time the way individuals
live their lives and use computers has advanced. No
more system cleaners alone can do the needful. For
complete system optimization and security, advanced
tools with different options are the need of the
hour. Having this idea in mind, Tweaking
Technologies was, and the products it offers are
designed. Each software offered by the company
focuses on increasing productivity and offers
system security and storage optimization. Our users
know us for the quality and reliable apps we create
and deliver.
# ⚓ Corporate_Media_Largely_Ignore_Labor_Issues._Let’s_Make
Them_Visible.⠀⇛
# ⚓ All_Hail_the_Revolutionary_King:_Dr._Martin_Luther_King’s
Challenge_to_the_Democrats,_as_Biden_Finally_Speaks_out_on
Voting_Rights⠀⇛
On January 11, 2022 President Joe Biden made an
impassioned speech in support of the Voting Rights
Act and against the right-wing fascist take-over.
It was a critical speech in the fight between the
center-right Democrats and the arch rights fascist
Republicans and deserves our support. But, once
again we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s
birthday and fight to protect his revolutionary
legacy from Democratic Party white washers,
including their cover-up of their treachery against
him when he was alive.
The goal is to protect Dr. King’s historical legacy
and explain Dr. King’s independence from the
Democratic Party, his lifelong fight with the
Democratic Party, and to call on “social justice
groups” who have become adjuncts the Democratic
Party to have the decency to look history squarely
in the face. You don’t have to agree with Dr.
King’s independence from the Democratic Party, his
strong Black Liberation politics, his profound
internationalism, anti-imperialist, and pro-
communism, but please do not take the name of the
Revolutionary Dr. King in vain or use him to
advance the neo-liberal, anti-Black Democratic
agenda.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Martin_Luther_King’s_Radicalism_Would_Not_Be
Celebrated_Today⠀⇛
As we mourn Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate
his life, we must remember that he was violently
assassinated. His ideas were seen as radical and
dangerous. He critiqued liberals and moderates and
did not have the approval of most Americans. So
what if we instead celebrate King as a leader who
gave his life to a movement focused on Black
people, on poor people, on labor activism and anti-
war sentiments. What if we celebrate King as he
was: a radical?
# ⚓ ‘No_Celebration_Without_Legislation’:_King_Family_Leads
Voting_Rights_March⠀⇛
With the Democratic Party on the verge of failure
in Congress, the family of Martin Luther King Jr.
on Monday joined with other civil rights advocates
and faith leaders in Washington, D.C. to demand
lawmakers pass national voting rights legislation.
The MLK Day action comes amid a wave of voter
suppression efforts advanced by Republican-
controlled state legislatures and ongoing
obstruction from right-wing Democratic Sens. Joe
Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) to
change the rules of the filibuster—the Senate’s 60-
vote threshold rule that critics have dubbed a “Jim
Crow relic” used to block key democracy reforms.
# ⚓ Martin_Luther_King_Jr._and_the_Unfinished_Work_of
Abolishing_Poverty⠀⇛
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. warned in an essay
written shortly before his assassination on April
4, 1968, that turbulence and mounting anxiety in a
profoundly unequal and deeply divided country could
lead to a circumstance where “we’ll end up with a
kind of rightwing take-over in the cities and a
Fascist development, which will be terribly
injurious to the whole nation.”
# ⚓ Opinion_|_What_are_the_25_Best_Films_About_the_Civil_Rights
Movement?⠀⇛
Congress passed the Martin Luther King Day holiday
to make sure that we remember the man and the
movement. Both have been depicted in documentary
films, but this list focuses on fictional movies
about the civil rights movement and the Black
experience, including some that describe people and
events prior to the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v
Board of Education ruling and the 1955 Montgomery
bus boycott, which are often viewed as the key
events that catalyzed the modern movement. Quite a
few of these films, especially those made by
independent producers outside the Hollywood system,
are little-known, progressive, and deserve more
recognition.
# ⚓ MLK_Day_Special:_Dr._Martin_Luther_King_Jr._in_His_Own
Words⠀⇛
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He
was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine
Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years
old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a
civil rights leader, he also championed the cause
of the poor and organized the Poor People’s
Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr.
King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign
policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond
Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York
City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well
as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,”
that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he
was assassinated.
# ⚓ MLK’s_Poor_People’s_Campaign_Isn’t_Over._We’re_Planning_a
Mass_Protest_for_June.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Progressives_Counter_Cherry-Picked_Quotes_With_MLK’s_True
Legacy⠀⇛
As the FBI, right-wing political figures, and
others came under fire Monday for engaging in the
annual trend of dishonoring Martin Luther King Jr.
by sanitizing his beliefs, progressives in Congress
worked to honor his legacy of fighting for a more
just society.
“Let us not just celebrate the man, but remember
the values and vision that motivated him.”
# ⚓ Opinion_|_As_We_Honor_Dr._King,_We_Must_Remember_What_He
Truly_Stood_For⠀⇛
The following is excerpted from an email Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent to supporters on Martin
Luther King Day, January 17, 2022.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_As_Dr._King_Understood,_The_Right_to_Vote_Is_Both
a_Moral_and_a_Practical_Imperative⠀⇛
Voting rights and electoral fairness are currently
the most contested issues in our extremely
polarized political system. And the best way to
advance these essential values is to make clear the
inextricable link between the moral and the
practical.
# ⚓ You_Are_Not_One_But_Many⠀⇛
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your deep voice still hangs in the air, Melting the
cowardly silence. You are the one standing solidly
there Looking straight in the face of violence.
# ⚓ Sinema’s_MLK_Day_Tweet_Sparks_Online_Fury⠀⇛
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema set off a flurry of furious
condemnation Monday with a tweet to commemorate
Martin Luther King Jr. Day just days after she
helped sink Democratic Party hopes to pass voting
rights legislation.
The tweet by the corporate Democrat from Arizona,
stating that “today we remember the life and legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” came as
progressive lawmakers urged against remembrances of
Dr. King that gloss over or ignore his radical
legacy and vision.
# ⚓ The_Time_Is_Now_for_the_“Radical_Revolution_of_Values”_That
MLK_Called_For⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Old] Mohamed_Noor_To_Be_Resentenced_In_Justine_Ruszczyk
Damond’s_Shooting_Death⠀⇛
A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally
shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to
report hearing a possible rape happening behind her
home will be sentenced on a lesser charge Thursday
after his murder conviction was overturned in a
case that drew global attention and was fraught
with the issue of race.
# ⚓ Billionaires_‘Had_a_Terrific_Pandemic’_While_Inequality
Killed_Millions:_Oxfam⠀⇛
Oxfam International’s latest report on global
inequality finds that while the 10 richest
individuals in the world more than doubled their
collective wealth since Covid-19 hit in 2020, the
related result of this billionaire surge has been a
deadlier and more prolonged pandemic for the rest
of the world in which the incomes of 99 percent of
humanity fell, over 160 million people were forced
into poverty, and billions of the poorest were
denied access to life-saving vaccines.
“The predictability of it is sickening. The
consequences of it kill.”
# ⚓ Wealth_of_richest_98_same_as_bottom_552_million,_says_Oxfam
report⠀⇛
India’s richest families saw their wealth reach a
record high in 2021, even as 84 per cent of Indian
households saw an income decline amid the pandemic,
according to a report from non-profit Oxfam India
titled ‘Inequality Kills’. It said the richest 98
Indians own the same wealth as the bottom 552
million people.
# ⚓ Wealth_of_world’s_10_richest_men_doubled_in_pandemic,_Oxfam
says⠀⇛
Oxfam’s report, which was also based on data from
the World Bank, said a lack of access to
healthcare, hunger, gender-based violence and
climate breakdown contributed to one death every
four seconds.
It said 160 million more people were living on less
than $5.50 (£4.02) a day than would have been
without the impact of the Covid pandemic.
The World Bank uses $5.50 a day as a measure of
poverty in upper-middle-income countries.
# ⚓ World’s_10_richest_men_doubled_their_wealth_during
pandemic,_Oxfam_reports⠀⇛
The pandemic has plunged 160 million people into
poverty, the charity added, with non-white ethnic
minorities and women bearing the brunt of the
impact as inequality soared.
The report follows a December 2021 study by the
group which found that the share of global wealth
of the world’s richest people soared at a record
pace during the pandemic.
# ⚓ Ten_richest_men_double_their_fortunes_in_pandemic_while
incomes_of_99_percent_of_humanity_fall⠀⇛
In a new briefing “Inequality Kills,” published
today ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Davos
Agenda, Oxfam says that inequality is contributing
to the death of at least 21,000 people each day, or
one person every four seconds. This is a
conservative finding based on deaths globally from
lack of access to healthcare, gender-based
violence, hunger, and climate breakdown.
# ⚓ Palestinians_remove_Muslim_from_al-Aqsa_after_confusing_him
for_a_Jew⠀⇛
Later on Friday afternoon, the guards at the site
announced that they had been mistaken and that the
man was actually a Muslim from abroad. The guards
stated that they became suspicious due to the man’s
failure to answer their questions. The guards
referred to recent reports that a group of Jewish
Israelis were disguising themselves as Muslims in
order to freely enter the Temple Mount.
# ⚓ Indonesian_woman_flogged_100_times_for_adultery_while_her
male_partner_receives_just_15_lashes⠀⇛
The man was sentenced to 30 lashes. But he appealed
to the province’s Sharia court, which reduced his
punishment to 15 lashes.
# ⚓ Christian_woman_accuses_husband_of_detaining_her_in_Islam
theological_centre⠀⇛
The incident came to light when the woman
complained to the Pothanikad police station against
the husband Aslam, 33, of Kothamangalam, and his
family members charging them with dowry harassment,
wrongful confinement, and insulting modesty of a
woman. The police registered a case on December 7,
2021, based on her complaint.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Cable_repair_ship_to_set_sail_from_PNG_to_restore
communications_to_Tonga⠀⇛
The cable, which would normally carry almost all
communications traffic to and from Tonga, has been
out of action since shortly after the eruption of
the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano on Saturday.
# ⚓ Could_take_‘two_weeks’_to_restore_Tonga_internet_cable⠀⇛
“It could take up to two weeks to get it repaired.
The nearest cable-laying vessel is in Port
Moresby,” he added, referring to the Papua New
Guinea capital, more than 4,000 kilometres (2,500
miles) from Tonga.
Southern Cross is assisting Tonga Cable Limited
which owns the 872 kilometre cable linking Tonga
with Fiji and from there to the rest of the world.
# ⚓ Significant_tsunami_damage_feared_in_Tonga,_communications
still_cut⠀⇛
Internet and phone lines went down at about 6.40
p.m. local time on Saturday, leaving the 105,000
residents on the islands virtually uncontactable.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Copyright_Law_as_the_tool_of_choice_for_censorship
and_reputation_management⠀⇛
The purpose of copyright law is to induce and
reward authors for their original work by
extending property rights to the copyright
holder and qualifying its reproduction. The
two-fold rights this gives them includes
primarily an economic right to derive
financial reward for reproduction of their
work, along with an ancillary moral right to
prevent distorted reproductions of their
work. Of late, however, there has been a
shift in the use of copyright laws by
copyright holders. Instead of fulfilment of
economic objectives with the interest to
protect original work, copyright holders
weaponize copyright law as a tool to fulfil
of non-economic objectives to vindicate non-
copyright interests.This is often done to
censor legitimate content, capitalizing on
the fact that the copyright holders
intellectual property was a part of the
content itself, even though it may be
insignificant to the final essence of the
subject matter, or it may even qualify for
fair use due to the purpose for which it was
used. This article will discuss the
motivation for individuals and business
entities to shoehorn non-copyright claims
within copyright law as opposed to any other
speech regulation laws, share some examples
of such copyright abuse for reputation
management, and conclude by highlighting
takedown transparency as a potentially useful
next step in finding a way to rectify such
complexities.
# ⚓ It’s_Copyright_Week_2022:_Ten_Years_Later,_How_Has
SOPA/PIPA_Shaped_Online_Copyright_Enforcement?⠀⇛
Ten years ago, a diverse coalition of
internet users, non-profit groups, and
internet companies defeated the Stop Online
Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act
(PIPA), bills that would have forced internet
companies to blacklist and block websites
accused of hosting copyright-infringing
content. These were bills that would have
made censorship very easy, all in the name of
copyright enforcement. This collective action
showed the world that the word of the few
major companies who control film, music, and
television can’t control internet policy for
their own good.
We celebrate Copyright Week every year on the
anniversary of the internet blackout that
finally got the message across: Team Internet
will always stand up for itself.
While SOPA and PIPA were ultimately defeated,
their spirits live on. They live on in
legislation like the CASE Act and the EU
Copyright Directive. They live on in the use
of copyright filters on major platforms,
which exist because the largest entertainment
companies insist on them. They live on every
time you can’t fix a device you paid for and
rightfully own. They live on in the licensing
agreements that prevent us from owning
digital goods.
# ⚓ Welcome_to_the_Public_Domain,_Winnie-the-Pooh⠀⇛
This year, the public domain opened up to
include works from 1926 and a whopping
400,000 sound recordings. Of course, the real
fun is that the third Hercule Poirot novel by
Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun
Also Rises, and the original books of Winnie-
the-Pooh and Bambi are now free for anyone to
use.
In particular, the popular images of Winnie-
the-Pooh and Bambi have been dominated by one
rightsholder’s vision for a long time:
Disney. And while Disney’s versions of those
stories remain under copyright, their
exclusive hold on two cornerstones of
childhood has come to an end. This is a good
thing—it lets those stories be reinterpreted
and repurposed by people with different
takes. We can all decide whether the Disney
versions are the actual best ones or were
simply the only ones.
Public domain works can be used for such
lofty goals. Or they can simply be used for
fun, allowing anyone to participate in a
worldwide sport of joy. With so many more
uses suddenly available to so many more
people, we get a flood of works and get to
choose which ones we love most. And, of
course, we can try our hand at joining in.
# ⚓ Assessing_cultural_heritage_institutions’_needs
related_to_CC’s_public_domain_tools⠀⇛
As part of our Open Culture / GLAM program’s
celebration of Public Domain Day, we are
reaching out to practitioners and experts
working in galleries, libraries, archives and
museums (GLAMs) to help create a clearer
picture of the use of CCs’ public domain
tools, CC0 and the Public Domain Mark (PDM).
To do so, we are collecting information on
understandings, issues, needs, wishes and
expectations via a short survey in English,
French and Spanish.
# ⚓ Browser_Extension_Adds_Sci-Hub_Download_Links_to
Publishers’_Websites⠀⇛
As scientists and academics of all kinds turn
to Sci-Hub to freely access scientific
papers, a new browser tool aims to make
access even more straightforward. Currently
available from the Mozilla addon store but
also compatible with Chrome, ‘Sci-Hub
Injector’ embeds Sci-Hub download links into
popular publishers’ websites.
# ⚓ VPN_Provider_Agrees_to_Block_Torrent_Traffic_and_The
Pirate_Bay_on_U.S._Servers⠀⇛
VPN Unlimited has settled a copyright lawsuit
filed by several movie companies. The VPN
provider stood accused of failing to take
action against subscribers who were pirating
films. As part of the settlement, the company
agreed to block BitTorrent traffic and
prominent pirate sites including ‘Pirate
Bay,’ ‘YTS’, and ‘RARBG’ on U.S. servers.
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