𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, February 08, 2022
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⦿ Not Even Scabs Can Save EPO Management | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] EPO Immune System: Nothing Can Touch Us! | Techrights
⦿ EPO Staff Goes on Strike, Plans Partial Work Stoppage/Slowdown to Condemn Unlawful Meddling Designed to Lower Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy (No EPC Compliance) | Techrights
⦿ Gemini Space Growing Tenfold in 2 Years Seems Possible and That’s Good News for the Planet and for Mental Health | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 07, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXV: In the Shadow of “Waite and Kennedy” | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-enters-collective-dissent-era/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-immunity-meme/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-staff-goes-on-strike/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/gemini-still-growing/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/irc-log-070222/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/waite-and-kennedy/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/fsf-390/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/kdenlive-21-12-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/plasma-5-24/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-enters-collective-dissent-era/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-enters-collective-dissent-era/
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✐ Not_Even_Scabs_Can_Save_EPO_Management⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 5a2f0b21ed2907b883a8c5fd60ece81f
The End of an Era at the EPO
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-enters-collective-dissent-era.webm
Summary: Having published the message_from_the_union, I now interject my
personal interpretation of the situation; I’ve decided to do a video or several
videos about the subject (maybe a lot more to come), mostly because the general
public or even some patent applicants have been misinformed by media inside the
EPO’s (its management’s) pockets
THE video above is long, but it covers many aspects of the state of patent law
with focus on the EPO and what happened to the EPO under the regime of Benoît
Battistelli and his younger_sidekick from France/Portugal. ‘Strike Regulations’
aren’t legal and so-called ‘Social’ ‘Democracy’ (misnomers) also has legal
lapses. French politicians have already openly stated that this regime severely
tarnishes the image of France all around the world; in the EPO, those French
dictators even attack French staff (like Prunier). It’s not about nationality
but about total domination and violation of all the laws on behalf of patent
litigation firms and multinational corporations (those who also lobby for the
illegal_UPC!). Yes, it’s about money. And they’re willing to lower_the_salary
of_patent_examiners_by_as_much_as_80%.
“EPO management has been concerned about our level of access to internal
insights/information, not because it’s illegal but because it embarrasses those
who break the law and then hide behind a veil of “immunity”…”The video above
shows the action_calendar [PDF] and instructions_in_English [PDF] or in_German
[PDF] (most of those who participate are physically based in Germany).
“There must be consequences for people who break the law, more so if they do it
consciously.”Where did we get these documents from? Well, duh. A lot of
internal material is being sent to us by staff, as thousands already saw it
already and there’s a need for the general public to know what’s going on. EPO
management has been concerned about our level of access to internal insights/
information, not because it’s illegal but because it embarrasses those who
break the law and then hide behind a veil of "immunity"…
If we do not stand for (and protect) the rule of law in EPOnia (Munich), it
will be lost or gradually eroded universally. There must be consequences for
people who break the law, more so if they do it consciously. █
“Pulses and impulses both come from the heart.”
–Jason Mechalek
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-immunity-meme/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/08/epo-immunity-meme/
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Posted in Europe, Law, Patents at 1:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Patent pending: 110% natural immunity⦈
Summary: The EPO‘s regime of unbridled impunity was taken_to_extreme_heights in
the heist era of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos
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Posted in Action, Europe, Patents at 2:20 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: SUEPO Central’s “Call for Action” will lead to a deliberate reduction
in so-called (faked) “production”, which ought to signal to the stakeholders
that nothing is rosy at the EPO
A NUMBER of hours ago the following message was circulated by the union of EPO
staff, which is a_very_popular_union (most of the staff has membership in it).
It’s loud and clear:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Action_plan_stamp._sign._seal⦈_
CALL FOR ACTION – SUEPO INDUSTRIAL ACTION PLAN 2022
NOTING THAT
* A series of ILOAT judgments have ruled that the EPO violated
both individual and collective rights of staff to freedom of
association since 2013;
* The EPO justice system proved to be inefficient and biased
against staff;
* Under these conditions staff has been subjected to several
major reforms detrimental to working conditions and staff's
well being;
* The EPO has no current financial difficulties and an alleged
financial gap predicted for 2038 has already been filled today;
* The new salary adjustment procedure causes a disastrous loss of
staff's purchasing power and does not reflect the massive
efforts made by staff during the pandemic.
DEMANDS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION
* Revises the EPO Service Regulations so that hey comply with
fundamental rights, and the principles of legitimate
expectations and acquired rights;
* Restores a deterministic career system;
* Suspend the implementation of the "exception clause" and the
"sustainability clause" of the new salary adjustment procedure;
* Reviews and eliminates the detrimental effects of the Education
Reform.
CALLS ALL MEMBERS
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇We_need_you⦈_
* To support massively the following Action Plan:
o Work to Rule/Go Slow
# Focus on search actions
# Apply thoroughly the EPC
# Object to redistribution of your file stock
# Defend against interference with the Divisions
o Strike on 22 March 2022 (AC meeting)
This will cause a collapse in patent grants/allowance rates. That’s the
intention. We’re going to prepare a video shortly, in which the situation and
the context can be explained to outsiders, not EPO insiders
“A strike is overdue there,” an associate of ours wrote just moments ago, “but
the management needs complete turnover and is not competent even to hire its
own replacements, nor honest enough.”
“It is very important that they bring up the lack of EPC compliance.” █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡋⢹⣿⣿⣿⢏⠂⣼⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢇⠃⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠻⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢛⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡉⠈⣻⣿⣿⣿⡿⡣⢁⣜⠉⠁⠂⠀⠙⠻⡟⠌⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⢿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠉⠉⠝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡈⠪⡻⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⡁⢀⣻⡿⠀⠀⣉⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⠿⡫⢊⣴⠋⠙⠻⣶⣄⡉⠒⡞⠌⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠢⢄⡀⢀⠀⠀⠈⢊⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⣳⣄⡐⠩⣻⠿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡿⢟⡫⠑⣀⡴⢿⣿⣷⡄⠲⠀⠉⢻⠏⠂⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣨⣾⣦⣀⣀⠀⠑⠙⢿⠟⠋⠠⠂⣰⡟⠉⡉⢲⡤⣌⣐⠚⠉⠭⠭⠭⠭⠍⠙⢂⣈⣤⠴⠛⠉⠳⡀⠙⣿⣿⣦⢈⠟⠕⠁⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⢑⢾⠀⣰⡏⢀⣾⣧⣼⡤⠀⣈⡍⢹⡟⠒⠒⢾⠛⢻⠉⢿⣿⣧⠀⠃⢀⣿⣆⠈⢁⢜⠁⠀⣠⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠑⠉⡻⢄⠘⢁⣽⣿⠃⢸⣿⠁⢸⠀⢸⡆⢸⡆⠀⠃⢸⣿⣿⣧⠀⢻⣿⠿⡫⠑⠁⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠩⢛⡻⢏⣀⣿⡟⠀⣿⡀⠸⠁⢸⣇⠈⡄⠀⣿⣿⠿⣓⠪⠑⠁⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⡀⠁⠐⠋⠩⠴⠛⠓⠒⠒⠛⠛⠲⠭⠉⠒⠈⢁⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⠾⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢛⣿⡿⣿⢿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡍⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣾⣽⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⡝⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⠽⢿⣿⣿⣟⡐⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣧⢼⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣇⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣼⣧⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠑⢧⣿⣿⣿⣷⡌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡅⢿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⠂⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡍⢁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡿⣿⣮⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣨⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣦⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡉⣹⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣎⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠏⢀⣼⣿⣿⣻⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢃⣌⣰⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣄⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣟⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣭⣿⣟
⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡎⣼⣿⣿⣧⣬⣸⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠿⠟⢻⠟⢛⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⢻⡟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⣩⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣧⢪⢮⣼⣮⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣰⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠞⢀⠨⠂⡜⢈⠉⣽⠓⠀⠀⡆⢰⠋⡁⠻⢀⠉⡏⢁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢆⡲⢾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣼⣟⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⣯⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣧⡌⠙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣾⡀⢠⡇⠀⠀⣽⣟⠀⣧⠀⢸⡀⠐⡢⠀⠀⠅⠘⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡳⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡾⢿⢿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⠿⠟⣻⣿⣉⣽⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡰⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣹⣿⠽⠹⡿⡿⡿⠷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠿⢿⠉⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⢻⣿⣿⠉⠃⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽
⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣴⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣺⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⡟⠿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡏⢿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣦⣾⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼
⣿⣎⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣧⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣸⣿⣿⣂⣿⣏
⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣄⣨⣀⣀⡀⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠘⡯⠁⠀⠀⣼⣿⡿⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣍⢩⣹⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣯⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣁⣈⣩⣉⡉⢹⣽⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⢻⣿
⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣂⣡⣄⣴⣯⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣴⡀⠀⠈⠄⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣏⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣧⣭⣿⢻⢻
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⡆⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠿⠫⣹⣍⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Summary: Some of the lessons we’ve learned this_past_year and the status quo in
Gemini Space, which lowers the entry barriers for authors online (GemText is
far easier and more approachable than HTML) and encourages self-hosting, self-
signing etc.
Gemini Space (or Geminispace as one conjoined word; some people abbreviate it
like that) grows faster than ever, which is good for the environment and good
for the minds (it helps tackle “addictive” aspects that were integrated into
the Web to usher in more surveillance, manipulation etc.) among several other
things…
Gemini Space isn’t difficult to host from one’s home, even over slow
residential connections. GemText is very light and simple as it does not
encourage the use of images, which can eat up a lot of bandwidth unnecessarily
(even for objects that are never viewed by the visitor).
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇TLS 1.2 in Geminispace⦈ In terms of security/privacy,
Geminispace is very good. Not perfect, but definitely good enough. Some people
still use the deprecated_TLS_1.2, so yesterday we loosened our restrictions —
though only after we had tightened them a few weeks ago — allowing (once again)
people with outdated Gemini clients to access our capsule. As the graph on the
right hand side shows, sooner or later, or maybe within a couple of years,
almost nobody will use TLS 1.2 anymore.
The video above covers some of the latest developments in Geminispace and in
our own capsule, including ways to tackle spiders among other bots. There are
search engines, research-centric indexers, and all sorts of things one
inevitably has to deal with after setting up a new capsule.
The sad thing is that the Web has become not a platform for shopping but a
battleground of misinformation, anxiety, and exploitation. More and more people
recognise the negative impacts of what became of the Web, gaming people’s
emotions for corporate gains and mental abuse, including gaslighting,
indoctrination, and incitement. Putting aside technical perils like DRM, bloat,
and “modern” aspects that leave blind people in the dark (there are other
accessibility-related perils)
“Much more can be said about the issues that Web users face and we hope that
the FSF and GNU will one day join Geminispace.”The Web wasn’t always like that.
Social control media didn’t always provoke for “engagement”, Google News (Gulag
News/Noise) did not always push spam, lies, and plagiarism, videos online
weren’t always censored for the slightest of “offence” (like using one
supposedly ‘bad word’), and it was never as centralised as it is today.
Much more can be said about the issues that Web users face and we hope that the
FSF and GNU will one day join Geminispace. It would do a lot towards
legitimising it and bringing new users to it. A year ago (in February and
March) the FSF’s Alex Oliva spoke_about_this and this morning I spoke to RMS
about it. Geminispace has quadrupled in size since I first spoke to them about
it and judging by the growth (e.g. total number of capsules) so far this year
we can expect it to more than double in 2022, having nearly_quadrupled_last
year. █
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Endorsement?
Courage
Pusillanimous_Hibernia
Cheese
Controversial_Christian_Bock
Battistelli’s_Swiss_Apprentice?
Facilitators_–_Spain
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Doyen_and_His_“Protégée”
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Bulgaria
Romania
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Budget_and_Finance_Committee
Loyal_“Habibi”
States_–_Monaco_and_Malta
Perfidious_Betrayal_of_Liberty
Belgium”?
Dubious”_Proposal
Independent_Slovenia
Tentacles_of_the_SAZAS_Octopus
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Everybody is entitled to their day in court.
Well, maybe not, if you happen to work for an international organisation.
Summary: The EPO‘s immunity is troublesome for a plethora of reasons; this sort
of problem has long been recognised in a broader context
As we mentioned in the last part, the immunities accorded to international
organisations mean that their staff are precluded from pursuing their
grievances before national courts of law.
Instead, staff are obliged to have recourse to internal dispute resolution
mechanisms involving opaque procedures, whose compliance with the most basic
requirements of due process is often open to question.
“The risk of a “denial of justice” arises because – unlike employees in the
national domain – staff of an international organisation have no access to a
domestic court of law in the case of a dispute with their employer.”The
internal means of redress provided by an international organisation is usually
supplemented by a final possibility of judicial review before an international
tribunal such as the ILOAT in Geneva.
These parallel legal systems have developed because of a general recognition
that the immunity of an international organisation could be problematic from
the rule of law perspective.
The risk of a “denial of justice” arises because – unlike employees in the
national domain – staff of an international organisation have no access to a
domestic court of law in the case of a dispute with their employer.
As a workaround, an approach to dispute resolution has been developed which
relies on what are called “internal justice systems”.
“As a workaround, an approach to dispute resolution has been developed which
relies on what are called “internal justice systems”.”The legal scholar Anne-
Marie_Thévenot-Werner – a professor of law at the Sorbonne University in France
– has written extensively on the topic, for example in an article entitled “The
Right_of_Staff_Members_to_a_Tribunal_as_a_Limit_to_the_Jurisdictional_Immunity
of_International_Organisations_in_Europe” which was published in 2014.
In this article Thévenot-Werner explains how national courts in Europe have
come to recognise that the immunity from national jurisdiction accorded to an
international organisation cannot be considered absolute because this could
lead to a “denial of justice”.
Such immunity is contingent on the guarantee of an effective legal remedy being
available to staff in the form of an internal dispute settlement mechanism
which provides “equivalent protection” to that provided by a national legal
system.
This principle is echoed in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR) which monitors compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights
(ECHR).
“In this way – or so the theory goes – even when states transfer certain
competences to international organisations, human rights supervisory bodies
such as the ECtHR can continue to hold states to account for the use of those
powers.”The ECtHR has found that the ECHR does not exclude states from
transferring competences to international organisations. However, states which
are signatories of the ECHR have a responsibility to ensure that their human
rights obligations will receive an “equivalent protection” within the context
of those international organisations in which they participate.
In this way – or so the theory goes – even when states transfer certain
competences to international organisations, human rights supervisory bodies
such as the ECtHR can continue to hold states to account for the use of those
powers.
The Court’s position is based on the consideration that if the contracting
states of the ECHR, were permitted to use their membership of an international
organisation as an “excuse” for evading their responsibilities under the
Convention this would lead to a “loophole” in human rights protection which
would be incompatible with the object and purpose of the ECHR.
According to the Court’s jurisprudence, the alternative means of legal process
on which staff of international organisations are obliged to rely must provide
“reasonable alternative means to protect effectively their rights under the
[European] Convention [on Human Rights]“.
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In its landmark judgment delivered in 1999 the ECtHR confirmed that
international organisations are obliged to provide their staff with “reasonable
alternative means” to protect their fundamental rights under the ECHR.
This was spelt out by the Court in the landmark judgments delivered in 1999 in
the cases of “Waite_and_Kennedy_v._Germany” and “Beer_and_Regan_v._Germany”.
Those judgments and their implications for international organisations are
discussed in some detail in the article In_the_Shadow_of_Waite_and_Kennedy:_The
Jurisdictional_Immunity_of_International_Organisations,_the_individual’s_Right
of_Access_to_the_Courts_and_Administrative_Tribunals_as_Alternative_Means_of
Dispute_Settlement” published in 2004. This article was co-authored by August
Reinisch, Professor of International and European Law at the University of
Vienna, and Ulf Andreas Weber, a practicing attorney in Berlin specializing in
employment law focusing on staff disputes in international organizations.
All of this sounds fine in theory.
“…some subsequent judgments of the ECtHR delivered in 2015 indicate that the
Court is extremely reluctant to pursue alleged breaches of fundamental rights
involving international organisations.”However, in practice, the internal
dispute resolution mechanisms of international organisations are rarely fit for
purpose and this often leads to a de facto denial of justice.
Moreover, as we shall see in the next part, some subsequent judgments of the
ECtHR delivered in 2015 indicate that the Court is extremely reluctant to
pursue alleged breaches of fundamental rights involving international
organisations. █
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⠀⠀⣀⢀⠀⡀⣀⢀⢀⡀⡀⢀⢀⡀⡀⣀⢄⠀⡀⣀⢀⢀⡠⡀⢀⢀⡀⡀⣠⢀⢀⡀⡀⢀⢀⡀⡄⣄⢀⢄⡠⣀⢀⢀⡀⡀⣤⢄⢀⡀⣀⢀⢀⡀⡀⣀⢀⠠⡀⣄⢠⢠⡠⣴⢠⢀⡀⡀⣀⢀⡀⡀⣀⢀⡀⡀⣀⢀
⠀⠃⠛⠘⠀⠃⠛⠘⠘⠃⠃⠛⢘⣃⠃⣛⠘⠘⡃⠛⠘⠘⡃⡃⠛⠘⠃⡃⠛⠘⠘⠃⠃⣙⣘⣃⡃⡛⣘⠘⠃⠛⠘⠘⠃⠃⠛⠘⠈⠃⠛⠘⠘⠃⠃⠙⠘⠁⠃⠛⠘⠘⠃⠋⠘⠈⠁⠉⣉⡬⠁⠁⠉⠈⠁⠁⠉⠈
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣵⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣽⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣛⣛⣟⣛⣿⣛⣛⣻⣟⣟⣿⣟⣻⣻⣛⣻⣻⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⣭⣽⣿⣿⣏⣿⡋⡟⣿⣿⣿⣯⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢻⣭⣭⠻⣟⣻⣿⣹⠹⠿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣯⣭⡽⠭⡟⣽⡏⡯⠿⢿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣞⡿⠳⢌⡿⡷⢿⢷⣡⠾⣿⡳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡿⠳⡸⢿⠶⡿⢆⣼⢽⡻⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢟⣟⠟⢴⡿⡓⢚⢿⡤⠮⢟⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡀⠸⡧⠶⠶⢸⠃⢠⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣠⡤⠀⣾⠰⠶⢦⡟⠀⢤⡀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢉⣤⡤⢸⣧⠺⠷⢾⡇⠠⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠈⢁⣄⣴⣇⣦⣀⣸⣠⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢉⣄⣰⣻⣶⣤⣄⣧⡄⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠈⣡⣀⣼⣿⣧⣤⣾⣇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠻⣟⢋⣽⣏⡛⡛⠗⠢⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡤⢻⣿⢛⣩⣿⡉⢛⡿⠂⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠞⢻⣟⠛⣉⣿⡉⢛⡗⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⢃⡁⣀⡃⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣯⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⡙⡃⠚⡃⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠁⠀⠀⣀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠁⠛⠃⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠃⠇⠛⠃⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠿⠆⠾⠀⠃⠇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠿⠇⠜⠶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠄⠐⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠅⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⡉⠀⠀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⢈⠀⡁⠘⠘⠐⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠄⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⢈⠀⡁⢈⢈⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Landing_a_new_syscall,_part_1:_What_is_futex?⠀⇛
Over the past 18 months, we have been on a roller-
coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system
calls. As part of this prolonged effort, the
futex_waitv() syscall has now successfully landed
in Linux 5.16.
A followup of the initial futex syscall, this new
interface aims to overcome long term issues that
have been limiting the way applications use the
Linux kernel. But what exactly is futex? This
series of posts will help answer that and other
questions around this tricky function.
If you’ve ever run strace in a multithread program,
chances are that the trace was filled with futex()
calls. If you are a Linux gamer trying to increase
the performance of your setup, you have probably
heard of futex as well.
Read on as I take a deep dive into this important
system call and how it is used to process
synchronization functions.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Best_PDF_Readers_for_Linux⠀⇛
The popularity of Portable Document Format (PDF)
files has increased drastically in recent years.
Being one of the most secure file formats to share
on the internet, PDF files rapidly increase. Almost
every Linux distribution is bundled with a basic
PDF reader, but these have some limitations.
So today, we will look at the best feature-rich PDF
reader you can use on Linux. Thanks to famous
developer communities like GNOME and KDE, many PDF
readers are available for Linux. These PDF readers
come with features to enable users to accomplish
more tasks and just read documents, while some come
with very basic features.
# ⚓ Kubernetes_Blog:_Spotlight_on_SIG_Multicluster⠀⇛
SIG Multicluster is the SIG focused on how
Kubernetes concepts are expanded and used beyond
the cluster boundary. Historically, Kubernetes
resources only interacted within that boundary –
KRU or Kubernetes Resource Universe (not an actual
Kubernetes concept). Kubernetes clusters, even now,
don’t really know anything about themselves or,
about other clusters. Absence of cluster
identifiers is a case in point. With the growing
adoption of multicloud and multicluster
deployments, the work SIG Multicluster doing is
gaining a lot of attention. In this blog, Jeremy
Olmsted-Thompson, Google and Chris Short, AWS
discuss the interesting problems SIG Multicluster
is solving and how you can get involved. Their
initials JOT and CS will be used for brevity.
# ⚓ Multiple_Perspective_|_Krita⠀⇛
We’ve released a new video! Ramon talks about the
new perspective assistant in Krita 5…
# ⚓ Rufus_Alternatives_For_Linux_In_2022_|_Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛
Rufus is a popular and free-to-use tool to create
USB installation media from bootable ISOs. Rufus is
mostly used to create a bootable USB drive so that
you can boot your system from the USB-like
Pendrive. Sadly, Rufus is not available for the
Linux-based operating system.
There are many best tools to create a bootable USB
disk from ISO for Linux-based operating systems. In
this post, we will discuss some of the best Rufus
alternatives for Linux in 2022.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Steven_Pritchard:_Recovering_a_ZFS_array⠀⇛
My story is almost identical, except the array in
question was much smaller, but to make matters
worse it was mostly cobbled together with old
hardware, including drives, so when the array died,
there were a lot of bad drives.
My array started life as 15 750GB drives in a RAID-
Z2. As the 750GB drives failed, they were replaced
with 1TB drives. Unfortunately, I continued to use
a mix of previously-used drives and some Seagate
drives that apparently weren’t Seagate’s best work.
The end result was that drives were failing rather
often, and due to like of time, attention, and a
ready supply of spare drives, I wasn’t great at
replacing them when they failed.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Zoom_on_Zorin_OS_16_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_To_Convert_AWS_Route53_to_Cloudflare_Let’s_Encrypt_DNS
challenge_with_acme.sh⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_install_LibreSprite_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install LibreSprite
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.
# ⚓ How_To_Run_Android_On_Your_PC_In_2022_:_Best_Android_OS_For
PC_In_2022_[64/32bit]⠀⇛
If you are looking for the option to run android on
your PC then you are in the very right place. This
post is dedicated to the list of best android OS
for 64 bit PC and 32 bit PC.
# ⚓ Understanding_the_OpenGitOps_Principles_for_Better_Software
Workflows_–_CloudSavvy_IT⠀⇛
GitOps describes a way of operating and managing
software using methodologies rooted in the Git
version control system. Use of GitOps-based
workflows makes it easier to develop, deploy,
maintain, and collaborate on software by requiring
the system’s characteristics to be defined as files
in a Git repository.
Git’s role as the single source of truth is implied
by the terminology. However, the actual
implementation of GitOps-driven processes has
historically been open to interpretation. This
ambiguity has now been resolved by the OpenGitOps
standards, a CNCF-backed attempt to define the
principles that lead to repeatable GitOps systems.
In this article, we’ll look at what the principles
are, why they matter, and how you can use them to
build scalable and maintainable software. The
standards have been developed using insights from
over 90 leading companies and interested parties in
the GitOps Working Group.
# ⚓ What_is_Grafana_and_When_Should_You_Use_It?_–_CloudSavvy
IT⠀⇛
Grafana is an open-source observability platform
for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces collected
from your applications. It’s a cloud-native
solution for quickly assembling data dashboards
that let you inspect and analyze your stack.
Grafana connects to a variety of data sources such
as Prometheus, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, and
traditional relational database engines. Complex
dashboards are created by using these sources to
select relevant fields from your data. Dashboards
can incorporate a varied range of visualization
components such as graphs, heat maps, and
histograms.
In this article, we’ll cover what Grafana does and
when it should be used. It’s important to recognize
there’s no universal use case though: Grafana’s
used to analyze your data, so every installation
will work differently and be tailored to the
specific dataset it’s showing.
# ⚓ Linux_Tail_Command_Examples_–_buildVirtual⠀⇛
The Linux Tail Command is often a go to tool when
troubleshooting a Linux system or many other
devices such as VMware ESXi hosts or Linux/Unix
based appliances.
The tail command allows us to output the last lines
written to a log file, which gives us a quick way
to check what the last events written to the file
were. This is very useful when troubleshooting an
issue in real time, as it lets us see what has just
happened or, as we will see, can let us watch the
log in real time.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_MySQL_Workbench_on_AlmaLinux_|_Rocky_Linux
8⠀⇛
Learn the steps to install MySQL Workbench software
on Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8 using the terminal to
manage MySQL database via the graphical user
interface. MySQL Workbench is a graphical modeling
tool and development system for MySQL databases.
Managing and modeling multiple databases is
complicated using the command line interface of
MySQL. Therefore, to make things easy Oracle also
offers a GUI software platform called – MySQL
Workbench. It offers a graphical user interface and
a set of tools for working with MySQL databases. It
provides extensive functions for daily work with
the databases and can be used to design, create,
edit, administrate and display databases. The
software is able to extract structures from already
existing databases and reproduce them clearly.
MySQL Workbench is available in a free and a
commercial edition. Developers can visually design
databases offline and host them on a MySQL server.
For advanced users who need additional functions,
extensions with scripting languages can be
integrated into the tool.
It is cross-platform software, hence can be used on
computers with the operating systems Linux, macOS,
or Microsoft Windows.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Nginx_PageSpeed_Module_on_Debian_11_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Nginx PageSpeed Module on Debian 11. For those of
you who didn’t know, The Google PageSpeed module,
also known as mod_PageSpeed, is an open-source
Apache HTTP or Nginx server-level package with
modules that helps optimize your site. The
Pagespeed module improves the performance and speed
of your website by optimizing static files on your
websites. The Pagespeed module optimizes images on
your websites, minify static files such as HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript, and many more.
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 Matomo open-source
analytics platform on a Debian 11 (Bullseye).
# ⚓ How_To_Install_and_Configure_Prometheus_On_a_Linux_Server⠀⇛
Prometheus is a free open source software
application used for event monitoring and alerting.
It was originally built at SoundCloud. It is now a
standalone open source project and maintained
independently of any company. To emphasize this,
and to clarify the project’s governance structure,
Prometheus joined the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation in 2016 as the second hosted project,
after Kubernetes.
Prometheus collects and stores its metrics as time
series data, i.e. metrics information is stored
with the timestamp at which it was recorded,
alongside optional key-value pairs called labels.
Metrics are numeric measurements, time series mean
that changes are recorded over time. What users
want to measure differs from application to
application. For a web server it might be request
times, for a database it might be number of active
connections or number of active queries etc.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_Laravel_on_Almalinux_|_Rocky_linux_8_–
Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Tutorial to learn the steps for installing PHP
Larvel framework on Rocky Linux or Almalinux 8
using the command terminal for developing web apps.
PHP doesn’t need an introduction, it has been
around for many years powering web applications
that need a dynamic programming language to work
but one thing it is definitely not (anymore):
modern.
Programming languages such as Ruby and Python
have become increasingly popular, especially in
recent years. They are “cool” and appeal better to
the next generation of coders. Whereas it is
unfortunate PHP is getting a bit old and you can
tell. This is exactly where Laravel comes into
play. We can consider it as a new generation PHP
framework and that’s what makes it so popular.
Inspired by Ruby on Rails and .NET, Taylor Otwell
created Laravel to get the most out of PHP and to
prove that more is possible. Also, he wasn’t
satisfied with the other PHP frameworks. They are
no longer contemporary. He doesn’t only want to
help developers be more productive but also to show
that clean programming with PHP can also be fun
again.
In this informative article, let’s touch the
initial phase to work with Laravel is to install it
on RedHat based Linux systems.
# ⚓ Free_Intro_to_Linux_Course,_Taken_by_Over_1_Million
Individuals,_Now_Available_in_Spanish⠀⇛
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Sweeney_Says_Epic_Won’t_Bring_Fortnite_To_Steam_Deck_Until
Linux_Beats_Down_Cheaters⠀⇛
In the specific case of the Steam Deck, the
Fortnite foul is the use of Linux. Sure, the Steam
Deck can (in theory) run Windows, but it’s not
optimized for it because it comes with the Linux-
based SteamOS by default. Tim’s stated concern is
that Linux makes it too easy for cheaters to cheat,
so Fortnite simply won’t be showing up on the Steam
Deck.
# ⚓ Crusader_Kings_III:_Royal_Court_DLC_and_a_big_free_update
are_out_now_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
The absolutely magnificent strategy game that is
Crusader Kings III has today grown much bigger,
with the Crusader Kings III: Royal Court DLC out
now plus a big free update.
Bringing even more role-playing possibilities,
Royal Court brings on the virtual fun of hearing
pleas from subjects, and dealing with all the
political fun that comes with having a court full
of people who need to be kept happy. You need to
climb the ladder a bit though to really show off,
as the Throne Room is of course only available for
those at the top, so time to get back-stabbing or
marrying someone nice perhaps?
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Plasma_5.24_released⠀⇛
Version 5.24 of the KDE-based Plasma desktop
is out; this is a long-term-support release.
Changes include various task-manager
improvements, a new overview mode,
fingerprint-reader support, improved Wayland
support, and more.
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_Desktop_Update_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
The KDE Plasma Desktop packages have been
updated to 5.24.0. This is a service release
update.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ SmoogeSpace:_How_to_Install_CentOS_Stream_9_Cloud
Image⠀⇛
You have probably started to install a CentOS
Stream 9 cloud image, and completely forgot
all the things you learned this time around.
No worries, past-self is going to write these
down for your usage.
First off, download the image you want. On
the day we are writing this, the latest image
is http://cloud.centos.org/centos/9-stream/
x86_64/images/CentOS-Stream-GenericCloud-9-
20220207.0.x86_64.qcow2 but it will most
likely be something much newer. They don’t
put a ‘latest’ in the directory, so open a
browser, search for qcow2, and then instead
of searching through 4000 entries from 2021-
08-30, press the up-arrow and jump to the
last entry on the web-page.
# ⚓ Fixing_Playback_in_Musecore_on_Fedora_35_|_Adam
Young’s_Web_Log⠀⇛
Recently, the playback on Musescore became
distorted. It was sped up, the notes were
dissonant (no that is not my writing!) and
they seemed to crackle and pop.
When both systems I have exhibited the same
problem, I knew it was an upgrade issue, and
not my hardware.
This phenomenon seems to have occurred a few
times over the years, and I tried many of the
recommended fixes. What finally worked was
changing the output from PulseAudio to Jack.
# ⚓ Hybrid_cloud_strategy_increasingly_popular_among
digital_transformation_leaders⠀⇛
This year’s Red Hat 2022 Global Tech Outlook
report came with some interesting insights,
including that AI/ML, edge and serverless
computing are top priority emerging
technologies for the year ahead.
# ⚓ IBM_Eagle_Has_A_Lot_of_Qubits⠀⇛
How many qubits do you need in a quantum
computer? Plenty, if you want to anything
useful. However, today, we have to settle for
a lot fewer than we would like. But IBM’s new
Eagle has the most of its type of quantum
computer: 127-qubits. Naturally, they plan to
do even more work, and you can see a preview
of “System Two” in the video below.
The 127 qubit number is both impressively
large and depressingly small. Each qubit
increases the amount of work a conventional
computer has to do to simulate the machine by
a factor of two. The hope is to one day
produce quantum computers that would be
impractical to simulate using conventional
computers. That’s known as quantum supremacy
and while several teams have claimed it,
actually achieving it is a subject of debate.
# ⚓ Speed_up_your_Ansible_playbooks,_create_quick
containers,_and_more_tips_for_sysadmins_|_Enable
Sysadmin⠀⇛
January 2022 was another excellent month for
Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we
published 23 new articles and received nearly
798,000 reads from more than 505,000 readers
across the site.
Today, we are looking back at our top 10
articles of January to give you a chance to
catch up on any of the great content you
might have missed. In this list, you will see
various topics covered, and we are confident
that some, if not all, will be of interest to
you.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Planning_phased_Ubuntu_22.04_Enterprise_Desktop
upgrades_with_Landscape⠀⇛
This amendment to Christopher Bullock’s
iconic quote reflects today’s reality, for
everybody. Ubuntu 22.04 will be available on
April 21, 2022, and System Administrators
working in organisations running Ubuntu 20.04
desktops need controls to comply with their
release management and change management
policies. Staggering upgrades is a common
practice to ensure the best IT support
experience.
Fortunately, it is simple to prevent the new
Ubuntu version upgrade notification through
the graphical user interface and command
line. This configuration can be applied to
many machines easily, and stop users from
updating to the next version of Ubuntu before
their scheduled upgrade window.
# ⚓ Enabling_Ubuntu_FIPS_140_in_air-gapped_environments⠀⇛
Many US military, government or critical
national infrastructure organisation
workloads that require FIPS compliance are
also required to be deployed in air-gapped
environments to provide an extra layer of
protection.
In order to reduce operational and security
risks by automating hardening, patch
management and compliance to security
standards like CIS and DISA-STIG as well as
the FIPS 140-2 certifications, we’ve
developed Ubuntu Advantage for your private
infrutracture and Ubuntu Pro for cloud.
In this blog we will look at what having a
FIPS compliant instance means and the
different ways you have to enable that in
your disconnected environment.
# ⚓ How_Snapcraft_helps_developers_map_out_their
application_dependencies_and_efficiently_build_snaps_|
Ubuntu⠀⇛
One of the core concepts of snaps is cross-
distro compatibility. Developers can build
their snaps once, and they should run well on
more than 40 different Linux distros. But how
does one take care of all the required
runtime dependencies? By providing them
inside the snap, as part of the bundle.
In the snap ecosystem, the functionality is
satisfied through stage packages, a list of
libraries and other runtime components
declared for every application included
inside the snap. What makes things rather
interesting is how this list is created. In
this blog post, we want to take you through
the journey of dependency mapping, and how
Snapcraft, the command-line tool used to
build snaps, can assist you in the process.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_bootloader_enables_OS_installs_with_no
separate_PC_required_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
Setting up a Raspberry Pi board has always required
a second computer, which is used to flash your
operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi
can boot. But the Pi Foundation is working on a new
version of its bootloader that could connect an OS-
less Pi board directly to the Internet, allowing it
to download and install the official Raspberry Pi
OS to a blank SD card without requiring another
computer.
To test the networked booting feature, you’ll need
to use the Pi Imager on a separate computer to copy
an updater for the bootloader over to an SD card—Pi
firmware updates are normally installed along with
new OS updates rather than separately, but since
this is still in testing, it requires extra steps.
Once it’s installed, there are a number of
conditions that have to be met for network booting
to work. It only works on Pi 4 boards (and Pi 4-
derived devices, like the Pi 400 computer) that
have both a keyboard and an Ethernet cable
connected. If you already have an SD card or USB
drive with a bootable OS connected, the Pi will
boot from those as it normally does so it doesn’t
slow down the regular boot process. And you’ll be
limited to the OS image selection in the official
Pi imager, though this covers a wide range of
popular distributions, including Ubuntu, LibreELEC,
a couple of retro-gaming emulation OSes, and
Homebridge. For other OSes, downloading the image
on a separate PC and installing it to an SD card
manually is still the best way to go.
# ⚓ Compute_module_offers_Alder_Lake_H,_P,_or_U-series_CPU
options⠀⇛
Avnet’s Linux-friendly “MSC C6B-ALP” Basic Type 6
module runs on Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake H-, P-,
and U-series processors with up to 64GB DDR5,
optional NVMe, and support for quad displays, 4x
USB 3.1 Gen2, 2x SATA, 2.5GbE, and PCIe Gen4 x3 and
x8.
Avnet Embedded, which has previously released
Intel-based modules such as its 9th Gen, COM-HPC
form-factor MSC HCC-CFLS, announced a COM Express
Basic Type 6 module a few weeks ago that supports
Intel’s 7nm 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs. The MSC C6B-
ALP is the first product we have seen to support
the lower-end Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-U series
of processors. The module also supports the mid-
range Alder Lake-H, which we have seen on
Congatec’s Conga-TC670 Type 6 and Conga-HPC/cALP
COM-HPC modules and Adlink’s Express-ADP Type 6 and
COM-HPC-cADP modules. Congatec’s modules also
support the higher-end Alder Lake-S.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ ElectroVoxel_robots_reconfigure_themselves_using
magnets_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
The ability to control magnetism is very
powerful and acts as the basis for huge
swaths of modern technology. Without
electromagnetism, we likely would never have
progressed into the digital age — we wouldn’t
even have electric motors. Now engineers from
MIT CSAIL are using electromagnetism for
something new: reconfigurable robots.
ElectroVoxel robots are cube-shaped modules
that can self-assemble into more complex
shapes. Each robot has electromagnet coils
lining its edges. An Arduino Nano with a
wireless transceiver drives those
electromagnets, allowing for untethered
operation. Power comes from LiPo batteries
and the frames are 3D-printed. By controlling
the current and polarity of each
electromagnet, the robots can cling to each
other. They can also move by using an
attractive edge connection for a pivot point
and repulsion for actuation. They can use
that movement for basic locomotion or to
reconfigure into new shapes.
# ⚓ MutantW_V1_–_An_open-source_ESP32_smartwatch_designed
with_Autodesk_Fusion_360_and_EAGLE_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Rahmanshaber is known for its DIY Raspberry
Pi handheld PCs such as MutantC v4, but
MutantW V1 is a completely different device
as an ESP32-based DIY open-source smartwatch
that he designed with Autodesk Fusion 360 and
EAGLE.
[...]
Everything is open-source under an MIT
license including the EAGLE design files, the
3D printed case made with Fusion 360, and the
firmware programmed in the Arduino IDE.
The smartwatch is equipped with a 1.7-inch
IPS LCD display (non-touch), two hardware
buttons, a NeoPixel RGB LED, a vibration
motor, as being powered by an ESP32 SoC
offers both 2.4GHz WiFi 4 Bluetooth LE
connectivity.
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Apache_Weekly_News_Round-up:_week_ending_4_February
2022_:_The_Apache_Software_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛
Welcome, February –we’re opening the month with
another great week. Here’s what the Apache
community has been up to…
# § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ Free_Software_Foundation:_390_new_members_take_their
first_step:_Our_gratitude_to_all_who_helped⠀⇛
January 20, 2022 marked the end of our most
recent fundraising campaign and associate
member drive. All said and done, the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) achieved a
benchmark of 390 new members.
January 20, 2022 marked the end of our most
recent fundraising campaign and associate
member drive. All said and done, the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) achieved a
benchmark of 390 new members. Of these new
members, we had a dozen “gift memberships” —
another great way to give friends, family,
and colleagues the gift of freedom.
Most importantly, new memberships mean new
connections in the movement. We are grateful
for all forms of participation in the free
software movement — everything from
contributing to the Free Software Directory,
to contributing code, to taking action in
activities such as last year’s International
Day Against DRM (IDAD), which took aim at
Disney+’s unethical streaming platform — we
wholeheartedly appreciate everyone’s effort.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Technical_Artists_–_The_New_Kingmakers_of_User
Experience?⠀⇛
Technical Artists have become the bridge
between art and code. Without Technical
Artists, UI Designers and Software Developers
cannot create immersive 3D experiences
effectively. Does that make Technical Artists
the new Kingmakers of User Experience?
# ⚓ New_3D_particles_features_in_Qt_6.3⠀⇛
Yes, I know, Qt 6.3 isn’t out yet. But as the
first beta was just released, it is a good
time to start speaking about the new
features. In this blog post, I will list my
three favourite new features available in Qt
Quick 3D particles module.
# ⚓ Vanessa_Christopher:_A_Story_About_Python_And_C.⠀⇛
So I was asked “what’s the difference between
python and C?” and I was like what?? I
actually do not know!!! Then i did a little
research and… let’s find out what I learnt.
# ⚓ Neil_Williams:_Django_Model_Mommy_moving_to_Model
Bakery⠀⇛
So this is a heads-up to all those using
Debian for their Django unit tests. Model
Mommy will no longer get updates upstream, so
model mommy will not be able to support
Django4. Updates will only be done, upstream,
in the Model Bakery package which already
supports Django4.
Bakery is not a drop-in replacement. Model
Bakery includes a helper script to migrate:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/
packages/python-model-bakery/-/blob/master/
utils/from_mommy_to_bakery.py
This is being packaged in /usr/share/ in the
upcoming python3-model-bakery package.
It is a tad confusing that model-mommy is at
version 1.6.0 but model-bakery is at version
1.4.0 but that only reinforces that Django
apps using Model Mommy will need editing to
move to Model Bakery.
# ⚓ Three_Ways_To_Improve_Your_Programming_Skills_|_Linux
Journal⠀⇛
The ability to write code is a huge
differentiator for every job role in an
enterprise Linux environment. As an
Operations and DevOps manager, I was
constantly challenged to improve my team’s
programming skills, and the team genuinely
wanted to be more proficient.
But how?
Structured training is a standard answer:
take a course! Our company, like many,
invested enormously in learning resources.
I’d sit with an engineer one-on-one and we’d
ponder the online portal together, puzzling
out the most appropriate Python learning
path.
There are two issues, however. Problem one:
classroom material is almost immediately
forgotten, if not directly applied. Problem
two: I’d lose visibility of progress for
days, weeks, or even months. I’d find out too
late the material was inappropriate or too
advanced.
# ⚓ Ryabitsev:_Cross-fork_object_sharing_in_git_(is_not_a
bug)⠀⇛
This is a few days old, but evidently there
is still need for this message: Konstantin
Ryabitsev explains how it is easy to cause a
commit to appear falsely to be part of a
GitHub repository…
# ⚓ Cross-fork_object_sharing_in_git_(is_not_a_bug)_—
Konstantin_Ryabitsev⠀⇛
Under the hood, git repositories are a bunch
of objects — blobs, trees, and commits. Blobs
are file contents, trees are directory
listings that establish the relationship
between file names and the blobs, and commits
are like still frames in a movie reel that
show where all the trees and blobs were at a
specific point in time. Each next commit
refers to the hash of the previous commit,
which is how we know in what order these
still frames should be put together to make a
movie.
Each of these objects has a hash value, which
is how they are stored inside the git
directory itself (look in .git/objects). When
git was originally designed, over a decade
ago, it didn’t really have a concept of
“branches” — there was just a symlink HEAD
pointing to the latest commit. If you wanted
to work on several things at once, you simply
cloned the repository and did it in a
separate directory with its own HEAD. Cloning
was a very efficient operation, as through
the magic of hardlinking, hundreds of clones
would take up about as much room on your disk
as a single one.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ 4_keys_to_writing_modern_Python_in_2022_|
InfoWorld⠀⇛
Although Python turned 30 years old
last year (2021), only in the last few
years has it enjoyed the great
explosion of adoption, growth, and
forward-thinking development that we’ve
come to associate with the language.
Many features of Python have remained
unchanged since its inception, but with
every passing year, and every new
edition of Python, along come new ways
of doing things and new libraries that
take advantage of those advances.
So Python has its old ways and its new
ways. Naturally, it makes sense to
learn how to work with Python using its
most modern and convenient features.
Here we’ll run down the key concepts
you need to understand to write modern
Python in 2022 — software that uses
Python’s latest and greatest idioms,
concepts, and capabilities.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Is_Your_Flashlight_A_Lumen_Liar?_Build_A_DIY_Integrating_Sphere_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
A lamp used to be simple thing: just stick a filament in
a glass bulb, pass a current through it and behold! Let
there be light. A bigger lamp meant a larger filament,
taking more power and a larger envelope. Now we’ve moved
on a bit, and it’s all about LEDs. There really isn’t
such a thing as ‘just an LED,’ these are semiconductor
devices, made from relatively exotic materials (OK, not
just plain old silicon anyway) and there is quite a lot
of variety to choose from, and a bit of complexity in
selecting them.
For [Torque Test Channel] the efficiency of conversion
from electrical power to radiant power (or flux) is the
headline figure of interest, which prompted them to buy a
bunch of lamps to compare. To do the job justice that
requires what’s known in the business as an integrating
sphere (aka an Ulbricht sphere), but being a specialist
device, it’s a bit pricey for the home gamer. So
naturally, they decided to build the thing themselves.
o ⚓ Industrial_Sewing_Machine:_Acquired_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
This is a compound walking foot machine. Let’s break that
down. ‘Walking foot’ means that that the foot — the many-
varied and interchangeable part that holds the fabric
down to the bed — has a set of feed dogs that help push
the fabric along the from top side at the same time that
the regular feed dogs feed the fabric from underneath.
The ‘compound’ part refers to the little middle bit,
which moves up and down at the same time as the needle
and also walks the fabric along.
Here’s a great visual explanation of the differences
between drop-feed, walking foot, and compound walking
foot machines. Compound walking foot machines are great
for my needs in that they give an even stitch through
multiple thick layers of fabric, which is what I need to
sew vinyl, canvas, and leather. Like I said in the first
post, industrial machines are purpose-built. This one is
for heavy duty use, and it spent many years doing
upholstery work. It even made a motorcycle seat!
o ⚓ A_Bugatti_Without_The_Inconvenience_Of_Wealth⠀⇛
There are many of us who might have toyed with the idea
of building a car, indeed perhaps more than a few readers
might even have taken to the road in a machine of their
own creation. Perhaps it was a design of your own, or
maybe a kit car. We think that very few of you will have
gone as far as [Vũ Văn Nam] and his friends in Vietnam.
In their latest video they compress a year’s work into 47
minutes as they craft a beautifully built replica of a
Bugatti supercar. If you haven’t got a few million
dollars but you’ve got the time, this is the video for
you.
The skill involved in making a scratch-built car is
impressive enough, but where there guys take it to the
next level is in their clay modeling to create the moulds
for the fibreglass bodywork. Taking their local clay and
a steel frame, they carefully hand-sculpt the car with
the skill of an Italian master stylist, before clothing
it in fibreglass and removing the clay. The resulting
fibreglass shell can be used to make the finished
bodywork, which they do with an exceptional attention to
detail. It might be a steel-tube home-made spaceframe
with a wheezy 4-cylinder Toyota engine behind the driver
instead of a 1000 HP powerhouse, but it surely looks the
part!
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ 3D_Printed_Maglev_Switches_Are_So_Hot_Right_Now_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
It doesn’t happen all the time, but over the years
we’ve noticed that once we feature a project, a
number of very similar builds often find themselves
in our tip line before too long. Of course, these
aren’t copycats; not enough time has passed for
some competitive maker to spin up their own
version. No, most of the time it’s somebody else
who was working on a very similar project in
isolation, and who now for the first time realizes
they aren’t alone.
Thanks to this phenomenon we’re happy to report
that yet another 3D printable magnetic levitation
switch has come to light. Developed by [famichu],
this take on the concept is markedly different from
what we’ve seen previously, which in a way makes
the whole thing even more impressive. It’s one
thing for multiple hackers to develop similar
projects independently of each other, as the end
goal often dictates the nature of the design
itself. But here we’re seeing a project that took
the same core concepts and ran in a different
direction.
# ⚓ Palm_Portable_Keyboard_Goes_Wireless⠀⇛
Long ago when digital portables where in their
infancy, people were already loath to type on tiny
keyboards, stylus or not. So Palm made a sweet
little portable keyboard that would fold up and fit
in your cargo pocket. And what do we have now for
luxury typing on the go? Rubber roll-up jelly
keebs? That’s a hard no from this scribe.
# ⚓ Hair_Today_Gone_Tomorrow:_Four_Men_Go_To_Fix_A_Wafer_Prober
|_Hackaday⠀⇛
I’ve had a fairly varied early part of my career in
the semiconductors business: a series of events
caused me to jump disciplines a little bit, and
after one such event, I landed in the test
engineering department at Philips Semiconductors. I
was tasked with a variety of oddball projects,
supporting engineering work, fixing broken ATE
equipment, and given a absolute ton of training:
Good times! Here’s a story that comes straight off
the oddball pile.
We needed to assemble a crack team of experts and
high-tail it to deepest darkest Wales, and sort out
an urgent production problem. The brief was that
the wafer probe yield was disastrous and the
correlation wafer was not giving the correct
results. Getting to the punch line is going to
require some IC fabrication background, but if you
like stories about silicon, or red-bearded test
engineers, it’s worth it.
# ⚓ Invisible_3D_Printed_Codes_Make_Objects_Interactive_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
An interesting research project out of MIT shows
that it’s possible to embed machine-readable labels
into 3D printed objects using nothing more than an
FDM printer and filament that is transparent to IR.
The method is being called InfraredTags; by
embedding something like a QR code or ArUco markers
into an object’s structure, that label can be
detected by a camera and interactive possibilities
open up.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Critical_Vulnerabilities_Affecting_SAP_Applications
Employing_Internet_Communication_Manager_(ICM)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Microsoft_Releases_February_2022_Security_Updates⠀⇛
Microsoft has released updates to address
multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft
software. A remote attacker could exploit
some of these vulnerabilities to take control
of an affected system.
# ⚓ Apple_+_Microsoft_=_character_confusion⠀⇛
A Mac-using client wanted to save a Microsoft
Word .docx as a plain text document. The
.docx was stored in an iCloud folder.
Downloading and opening the file in Word for
Mac, the client chose “Save without
formatting (.txt)”. What could go wrong?
Well, first of all, the .docx original had
carriage return + linefeed (CRLF) line
endings. The saved text file had only
carriage returns. Remember CR-only line
endings? From OS 9 and earlier?
Second, the .docx original was in UTF-
8 encoding, according to the “properties”
.xml files in the .docx archive and my own
character encoding check. The saved text, on
the other hand…
# ⚓ Citrix_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Hypervisor⠀⇛
Citrix has released security updates to
address vulnerabilities in Hypervisor. An
attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities
to cause a denial-of-service condition.
# ⚓ Adobe_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Multiple_Products
|_CISA⠀⇛
Adobe has released security updates to
address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe
products. An attacker could exploit some of
these vulnerabilities to take control of an
affected system.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Plausibly_Deniable_DataBase_(PDDB)_«
bunnie’s_blog⠀⇛
In practice, attackers need not go
nearly as far as rubber-hose
cryptanalysis to obtain passwords; a
simple inspection checkpoint, verbal
threat or subpoena is often
sufficiently coercive.
Most security schemes facilitate the
coercive processes of an attacker
because they disclose metadata about
the secret data, such as the name and
size of encrypted files. This allows
specific and enforceable demands to be
made: “Give us the passwords for these
three encrypted files with names A, B
and C, or else…”. In other words,
security often focuses on protecting
the confidentiality of data, but lacks
deniability.
A scheme with deniability would make
even the existence of secret files
difficult to prove. This makes it
difficult for an attacker to formulate
a coherent demand: “There’s no evidence
of undisclosed data. Should we even
bother to make threats?” A lack of
evidence makes it more difficult to
make specific and enforceable demands.
Thus, assuming the ultimate goal of
security is to protect the safety of
users as human beings, and not just
their files, enhanced security should
come hand-in-hand with enhanced
plausible deniability (PD). PD arms
users with a set of tools they can use
to navigate the social landscape of
security, by making it difficult to
enumerate all the secrets potentially
contained within a device, even with
deep forensic analysis.
# ⚓ Huang:_The_Plausibly_Deniable_DataBase_
[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang introduces PDDB,
a database meant to allow users to
(plausibly) deny the existence of
specific data within it.
# ⚓ Foundation_Statement_at_8_February_2022_Senate
Committee_hearing_on_Homeland_Security_and
Government_Affairs [Ed: And see the_distraction
tactics]⠀⇛
Chairman Peters, Ranking Member
Portman, and distinguished members of
the Committee: thank you for the
invitation to appear this morning.
My name is David Nalley, and I am the
President of the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF). The ASF is a non-
profit public-benefit charity
established in 1999 to facilitate the
development of open source software.
Thanks to the ingenuity and
collaboration of our community of
programmers, the ASF has grown into one
of the largest open source
organizations in the world. Today, more
than 650,000 contributors around the
world contribute to more than 350
ongoing projects, comprising more than
237 million lines of code.
Open source is not simply a large
component of the software industry — it
is one of the foundations of the modern
global economy. Whether they realize it
or not, most businesses, individuals,
non-profits, or government agencies
depend on open source; it is an
indispensable part of America’s digital
infrastructure.
# ⚓ cvtsudoers:_merging_multiple_sudoers_files_into
one_|_Sudo⠀⇛
We learned in my previous sudo blog
that cvtsudoers is not just for LDAP.
Version 1.9.9 of sudo extends the
querying possibilities of cvtsudoers
further and adds a brand new feature:
merging multiple sudoers files into
one. Both are especially useful when
you have complex configurations.
Querying lets you to better understand
what the various rules allow in your
sudoers file. Merging helps you to
combine multiple configurations into
one, so you do not have to maintain a
separate sudoers file on each of your
hosts.
# ⚓ SBOMs_Necessary_for_Software_Supply_Chain
Security⠀⇛
The report, which was produced in
partnership with OpenSSF, SPDX, and
OpenChain, is the first in a series of
research projects aimed at
understanding “the challenges and
opportunities” of securing open source
software supply chains.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ U.S._Government_Is_an_Astonishingly_Eager
Buyer_of_Cellebrite⠀⇛
INVESTIGATORS WITH THE U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service frequently
work to thwart a variety of
environmental offenses, from
illegal deforestation to hunting
without a license. While these
are real crimes, they’re not
typically associated with
invasive phone hacking tools. But
Fish and Wildlife agents are
among the increasingly broad set
of government employees who can
now break into encrypted phones
and siphon off mounds of data
with technology purchased from
the surveillance company
Cellebrite.
[...]
Cellebrite itself boasted about
its penetration of the executive
branch ahead of becoming a
publicly traded company in
August. In a filing to the
Securities and Exchange
Commission, the company said that
it had over 2,800 government
customers in North America. To
secure that reach, The Intercept
has found, the company has
partnered with U.S. law
enforcement associations and
hired police officers,
prosecutors, and Secret Service
agents to train people in its
technology. Cellebrite has also
marketed its technology to law
firms and multinational
corporations for investigating
employees. In the SEC filing, it
claimed that its clients included
six out of the world’s 10 largest
pharmaceutical companies and six
of the 10 largest oil refiners.
# ⚓ Meta’s_threats_are_a_huge_opportunity.
The_EU_must_NOT_waste_them⠀⇛
The parent company of Facebook
and Instagram, Meta, just warned
that if the current EU legal
framework remains, and other law
proposals now discussed by the EU
are approved, the company would
“probably have to walk away from
the continent”.
[...]
Imagine having the most obnoxious
in-laws one could have. You know,
the kind of folks that show up to
your door any moment, always
uninvited, always try to
eavesdrop, always stir up
quarrels between you and
everybody else for the fun of it,
always spoil your kids, and in
the best case always are a huge
waste of your time.
Yes, I know this can be real hard
to imagine, but stay with me for
a minute. Imagine relatives like
this saying, by their own
initiative, “unless you always
eat all the cake we bring, every
time WE bring, we won’t visit
anymore”. What would you do?
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Move_Aside_Solar,_We’re_Installing_An_Algae_Panel_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
[Cody] of Cody’sLab has been bit by what he
describes as the algae growing bug. We at
Hackaday didn’t know that was a disease
floating around, but we’ll admit that we’re
not surprised after the last few years. So
not content to stick to the small-time algae
farms, [Cody] decided to scale up and build a
whole algae panel.
Now, why would you want to grow algae? There
are edible varieties of algae, you can
extract oils from it, and most importantly,
it can be pumped around in liquid form. To
top it off, all it needs is just sunlight,
carbon dioxide, and a few minerals to grow.
Unlike those other complicated land-based
organisms that use photosynthesis, algae
don’t need to build any structure to hold
themselves up or collect sunlight; it floats.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Myanmar’s_Fight_for_Democracy_Is_Now_a_Scrap_Over_Phone
Records_|_WIRED⠀⇛
IN MYANMAR, THE phone records of pro-democracy
activists connect them together like suspects on a
cork board. When many of those activists fled the
military crackdown and went into hiding after the
coup in February 2021, they believed the trails of
phone calls, mapping out their association with
family members and colleagues, were safe on
networks outside the military’s control. Now they
claim that data is in peril.
Like all telecoms companies, Myanmar’s four major
operators keep a record of phone call
metadata—information about who calls who, when, and
for how long. Pro-democracy campaigner Kyaw (not
his real name) did not worry much about his
metadata even when the coup shocked the country.
The activist, who asked for his real name not to be
published because he is afraid of being arrested by
the military, believed his personal data was safe
because he was using a sim card made by Telenor, a
multinational headquartered in Norway—a country he
associated with democracy and human rights.
# ⚓ Resist_Myanmar’s_digital_coup⠀⇛
One year ago, as the Myanmar military sent tanks
down the streets and rounded up government
officials and activists, it shut down the internet,
mobile phone networks, radio, and television
channels. As it plunged the country into a
communications blackhole, the junta launched
concerted assaults at already threadbare
protections online to throttle expression and
information-sharing. Today, the military is ramping
up efforts to cement authoritarian control of
online space, alongside violent crackdowns, and
serious human rights violations. This is a digital
coup, and the world must resist.
Internet shutdowns continue to be wielded to shroud
serious human rights violations. Soon after the
coup and lasting almost three months, the military
imposed near-complete nationwide internet shutdowns
— including nightly communications blackouts and
online media and messaging platform bans. The
people in Myanmar were not able to communicate with
loved ones, share information, report on human
rights violations, or seek help amidst an
emergency. Contrary to the principles of net
neutrality and the norm of a free internet, the
junta lifted some disruptions to favor its own
“white-list” of organisations and corporations that
could access the internet, while the rest of the
country suffered the consequences of these
discriminatory and unequal shutdowns. The military
continue to order regional shutdowns — particularly
where active armed conflicts are ongoing, in
attempts to conceal thousands of reports of
assault, killings, arrests, detention, enforced
disappearance, ill-treatment, torture, torching and
gender-based violence committed by the junta.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Update_your_nixCraft_RSS_fee⠀⇛
The lesson is evident here, not to trust 3rd party
with your RSS feed or content. I will never forgive
Google for erasing Google Reader RSS/Atom feed
aggregator. I lost many readers because of that
move.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Peppermint_OS_2022-02-02_overview_|_A_lightning_fast,
lightweight_Linux_based_OS_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Peppermint OS 2022-02-02 and some of the
applications pre-installed.
# ⚓ Awesome_Linux_Tools_–_Cockpit_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Having a dashboard installed on your Linux server
can be a great way of enhancing remote management
capabilities, as well as getting an overview of its
resource usage. In this video, I’ll show you
Cockpit which is an awesome management system you
can install very easily.
# ⚓ Stack_Overflow_Goes_Down,_Developers_Panic!!_–_Invidious⠀⇛
The other day stackoverflow went what was supposed
to be a brief 1 hour maintenance which ultimately
lasted for 5 hours and there were some people who
absolutely lost there minds.
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_|_The_Best_Linux_Distro_of_2022_(NEW!)_–
Invidious⠀⇛
The final version of Linux Mint 20 lineup is out
with major improvements, impressive new features,
and one of the best desktop Linux experiences yet.
I installed Linux Mint 20.3 immediately after
release as this version brings a new and even more
attractive Cinnamon desktop, A more powerful Linux
kernel, and many improvements throughout the
system. Every release of Linux Mint is a big deal
and this new version is the culmination of Linux
Mint 20 series so I’m really excited to share the
long term review with you. Let’s jump right in and
see what’s new, what’s improved. and in this video,
we’ll also try to explore where exactly Linux Mint
stands in 2022.
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24:_PUT_SOME_GNOME_in_your_KDE!_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linus_just_DROPPED_his_BRAND_NEW_Steam_Deck…_video_–
Invidious⠀⇛
So LTT got their hands on the Steam Deck early and
I thought we should review what we’ve learned from
their video.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_5.16.8⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 5.16.8 kernel.
All users of the 5.16 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 5.16.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.16.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ inux_5.15.22⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_5.10.99⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_5.4.178⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_4.19.228⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_4.14.265⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_4.9.300⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Postfix_3.7_MTA_Released_with_OpenSSL_3.0_Support⠀⇛
The latest version of the popular mail transfer
agent, Postfix 3.7, makes maillog_file feature even
more useful.
Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer
agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic
mail. Designed by Wietse Venema, Postfix is a mail
server built with security in mind and specifically
designed to replace Sendmail.
Because of its modular pipeline-based architecture,
Postfix is versatile and integrates easily with
many other services, such as spam and antivirus
processing, as well as with message store software,
such as the Dovecot IMAP and POP3 server.
In addition, Postfix is also quite resource
efficient. Nowadays, many ISPs are using it to
handle millions of messages a day.
# ⚓ Weekly-ish_recap_—_7_February_2021⠀⇛
Highlights: Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets
essential color management support, Blender Studio
announces new open movie project, new releases of
Blender, BlenderBIM, Ossia Score, Mixxx, Shotcut,
PipeWire.
[...]
This is great news. The updated stable release
brings a ton of bug fixes and the 1.2 alpha brings
pretty much every new feature I shared with you
here and on Twitter, and then some.
# ⚓ Nyxt,_an_Emacs-style_browser_made_with_Common_Lisp⠀⇛
Nyxt Browser is a fully hackable web browser – all
its source code can be introspected, modified and
tweaked to your exact specification.
# ⚓ What_Is_Doom_Emacs_and_How_to_Install_It⠀⇛
Doom Emacs is a distribution that aims to create an
easy and approachable way to get started with
Emacs. Due to hundreds of pages of documentation
detailing its various functions. Emacs, by itself,
can be daunting.
This is helpful for the already acquainted user and
the bookworm. However, this hands-off approach does
not help someone that is just interested in trying
it out.
# ⚓ Audacious_4.2_Beta_Adds_Dark_Mode_&_New_Icons_for_Qt
Interface_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Audacious audio player announced the first beta for
the next major 4.2 release few days ago.
The new release improved the user experience for
those running the player in Qt interface, including
the dark mode theme and new Flat icon set.
The Qt dark mode will be default in Windows. For
other systems as well as the new icon set, there
are toggle options in the settings dialog.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_on_Rocky_Linux_8_(Step_by_Step)⠀⇛
VirtualBox is a free and open-source virtualization
tool and typically used at desktop level for
building the test environment. It is developed and
managed by Oracle corporation, that’s why it is
known as Oracle VM VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a
type-2 hypervisor for x86 and AMD64/Intel64
systems.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Jellyfin_Media_Server_with_Nginx_Ubuntu
20.04⠀⇛
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media streaming
solution that allows you to host your own media
server. It can be installed on Linux, Windows, and
macOS. You can manage your media such as movies, TV
shows, music, and photos, and share them across
multiple devices using Jellyfin. It also provides
applications for Android, Android TV, and Amazon
Fire TV. It offers several features including,
Supports DLNA, No playback limit, Fetch metadata
automatically from TheTVDB, TheMovieDB, and Rotten
Tomatoes, Automatic recordings, Supports hardware
acceleration, and many more.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_PHP_Composer_on_Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛
PHP Composer is the most used dependency manager
for PHP. It lets you declare the dependencies your
project needs, and it will manage (install/update)
them for you.
Downloading, installing, and updating dependencies
can be a pain and might distract you from actually
writing code. A dependency manager will make your
life as a developer easier by handling that for
you.
Before there was Composer, there were a few
different options to manage project dependencies,
such as PEAR and PHP Package Manager. Nowadays,
Composer has become the de facto standard for
dependency management in PHP.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_SQLite_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_VITUX⠀⇛
SQLite is a lightweight cross-platform relational
database engine. It is widely known for its
efficiency and its ability to be connected with
various programming languages. SQLite is released
under an OpenSource license, so it’s free to use.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install
and use SQLite on Ubuntu 20.04, the same procedure
will work on the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 version too.
Let’s start.
# ⚓ 20_Useful_Docker_Command_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛
Docker container is one of the most emerging
technologies now a days. Docker containers are
generally used in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/
Continuous Deployment) platform. Containers are the
light weight VMs (Virtual Machines) which make use
of underlying hypervisors resources like
(RAM,CPU,HDD and Kernel).
Docker command is used to manage containers and
images from command line. In this article we will
cover 20 useful docker command examples in Linux. I
am assuming docker is already installed on your
Linux system and your regular user is added to
docker group.
# ⚓ Install/Upgrade_to_Fedora_Rawhide_from_Fedora_Linux_35_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
Rawhide is the name given to Fedora’s latest
development version, which consists of a package
repository and contains all packages updated daily.
Each day it creates an incomplete set for
installers that are finished after testing with
other builds to produce final deliverables like
images or so forth; if successful, these become
included into RawHides tree on their release date
(Raw Hide).
# ⚓ Increase_DNF_Speed_on_Almalinux_8_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
Almalinux users may notice that the DNF download
speed can be slow compared to other distributions,
and this can be frustrating when you need to
download and install many packages.
Most users do not realize that a few minor tweaks
to some configuration files can increase your
download speed immensely.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
configure and increase your DNF update/upgrade
package manager speed on Almalinux 8 Workstation or
Server.
# ⚓ Install/Upgrade_XanMod_Kernel_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
XanMod is a free, open-source general-purpose Linux
Kernel alternative to the stock kernel with Ubuntu
22.04. It features custom settings and new features
and is built to provide a responsive and smooth
desktop experience, especially for new hardware.
XanMod is popular amongst Linux Gaming, streaming,
and ultra-low latency requirements and often boasts
the latest Linux Kernels before landing on most
distributions. Most desktop users are not even into
gaming but want a new kernel for better hardware
support, making XanMod one of the more popular
choices.
For more information on XanMod Kernel before
installing, visit the XanMod Kernel features
information page.
# ⚓ How_to_View_and_Change_File_Permissions_on_Ubuntu_Desktop
and_Server⠀⇛
Ubuntu is a multi-user operating system by design.
Multiple users would have access to the same system
in an enterprise system. However, individuals who
share file access run the risk of disclosing
sensitive information or losing data if other users
get access to their files or directories. This is a
significant security issue.
To solve this, Unix introduced file permissions in
its built-in security features, which allows users
to designate how much control they have over a
particular file or directory. This assures that
only authorized users may access, modify, or
execute a file or directory.
A Linux user’s understanding of file ownership and
permission is critical. This tutorial goes over
multiple ways to view and change the file
permissions, owners, and groups.
# ⚓ How_to_install_InfluxDB_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛
InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database. It
is used for storage and retrieval of time series
data in fields such as operation monitoring,
operations metrics, internet of things sensor data,
and real-time analytics. In this tutorial, we are
going to learn how to install InfluxDB on Ubuntu
20.04.
By default, InfluxDB uses the following network
ports for communication. If you need to change any
port configuration head over to /etc/influxdb/
influxdb.conf.
# ⚓ Virtuozzo_Linux_has_a_handy_trick_up_its_sleeves_many
admins_might_need_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
VzLinux is a bit of a chameleon, which can help you
in ways you never imagined. Jack Wallen shows you
how.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_ADB_on_Windows,_macOS,_and_Linux⠀⇛
Several features of the Android platform can be
accessed only through paths and methods that are
hidden away from the average user. These have
generally been done with the help of some command
line Android Debug Bridge (ADB) commands, a tool
that Google offers for developers to debug various
parts of their applications or the system, but
which we can use for all kinds of neat and hidden
tricks. A prerequisite to these tricks is
installing ADB on your computer. So, in this guide,
we will show you how to install ADB on Windows,
macOS, and Linux in quick and easy-to-follow steps.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_MySQL_Workbench_on_AlmaLinux_|_Rocky_Linux
8⠀⇛
Learn the steps to install MySQL Workbench software
on Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8 using the terminal to
manage MySQL database via the graphical user
interface. MySQL Workbench is a graphical modeling
tool and development system for MySQL databases.
Managing and modeling multiple databases is
complicated using the command line interface of
MySQL. Therefore, to make things easy Oracle also
offers a GUI software platform called – MySQL
Workbench. It offers a graphical user interface and
a set of tools for working with MySQL databases. It
provides extensive functions for daily work with
the databases and can be used to design, create,
edit, administrate and display databases. The
software is able to extract structures from already
existing databases and reproduce them clearly.
MySQL Workbench is available in a free and a
commercial edition. Developers can visually design
databases offline and host them on a MySQL server.
For advanced users who need additional functions,
extensions with scripting languages can be
integrated into the tool.
# ⚓ How_to_update_container_images_with_Podman_|_Enable
Sysadmin⠀⇛
Keeping your images current is standard procedure
for operating and managing a containerized
environment. Here’s how to do it.
# ⚓ Install/Enable_SSH_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
SSH or known by its full name Secure Shell
Protocol, is a cryptographic network communication
protocol that enables two computers to communicate
securely over an unsecured network. SSH is highly
used for remote login applications and command-line
executables such as terminal applications.
For users wishing to connect to servers or other
computers with SSH, the client and the remote
connection need to both have SSH installed and
enabled for this to be possible.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install and enable SSH on Debian 11 Bullseye
Desktop or Server and connect to a remote PC.
# ⚓ Install_7-Zip_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
7-Zip is a free, open-source file archiver software
used to compress files into archive containers or,
in more popular terms, zip files into archive
containers that can beat most other forms of
compression by 2 to 10% and strong AES-256
encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.
7-Zip isn’t as famous as some of the other
archives, but it is capable of having multi archive
format support across most known software. Another
benefit is that it supports all cross-platforms,
making it efficient to use amongst different
operating systems.
# ⚓ Install_Linux_Kernel_5.16/5.4_on_CentOS_8_Stream_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
CentOS 8 Stream, as many know, is a downstream
version of RHEL, which often means it is incredibly
stable but usually has very outdated packages in
terms of features and not security updates. CentOS
8 Stream currently features kernel 4.18, but some
users may require a more recent kernel for better
hardware compatibility, amongst many other things.
ELREPO has both Linux Kernel Mainline LTS versions.
The mainline version is the most recent stable
release of the Linux Kernel, and the current LTS
Kernel they are supporting is 5.4.
The following tutorial will show you how to import
the ELRepo kernel repository and install both 5.16/
5.4 kernels on CentOS 8 Stream Workstation or
Server.
# ⚓ Install_and_Setup_OCS_NG_Inventory_Server_on_CentOS_7_–
kifarunix.com⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and
setup OCS NG Inventory Server on CentOS 7. OCS
(Open Computers and Software Inventory Next
Generation) is an opensource assets inventory
management solution. It is used to inventor
hardware and software details of IT assets either
using the OCS Inventory Agent or SNMP polling for
assets that the agent cannot be deployed (e.g
routers, switches, printers. Inventoried results
can be visualized through a web interface.
# ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_to_KDE_Plasma_5.24_from_5.23⠀⇛
The KDE team announced the KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS
edition, which is available to download and
install. If you are planning to upgrade from the
prior version – here we give you quick steps to
upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.24 from 5.23.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Epic_Games_CEO_says_a_clear_No_to_Fortnite_on_Steam_Deck_|
GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Were you hoping to easily play Fortnite on the
upcoming Steam Deck? Well, Tim Sweeney the Epic
Games CEO has made it clear that it’s not going to
happen officially. The thing to remember right now
is that both Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye do
support Linux. Both for native Linux builds and for
Windows games run through Steam Play Proton.
However, it’s all user-space with no Kernel
modules.
# ⚓ Epic_won’t_update_Fortnite_to_run_on_the_Steam_Deck [Ed:
Microsoft-connected site uses "tweets" as sources to make
Linux seem bad and see the choice of image, too]⠀⇛
Epic Games doesn’t plan to update Fortnite so that
it runs on SteamOS, according to CEO Tim Sweeney,
meaning owners of the upcoming Valve Steam Deck
will likely have to install Windows to play the
popular battle-royale game.
In a series of tweets, Sweeney said that the
company doesn’t feel confident about its ability to
combat cheating in Fortnite when running on custom
kernel configurations. Fortnite isn’t on the Steam
store in any case, but Sweeney’s comments rule out
a Linux version that could run on the Steam Deck.
# ⚓ Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_II_recreation_fheroes2_adds_more
content_support_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
fheroes2 is a constantly improving game engine
reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II. A
new version was just released recently and it’s
become the absolute best way to play this classic.
A multi-platform project, one that was written from
scratch so there’s never any worry about a rights
holder appearing to take it down. It’s very much
like OpenMW for Morrowind and OpenXcom for the
original X-Com. It’s not a basic remake though, as
the developers are also trying to improve old
issues in the original.
# ⚓ Future_sci-fi_indie_RPG_Beyond_Mankind:_The_Awakening_now
on_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Time to go back to Earth and retake it. Beyond
Mankind: The Awakening from developer Brytenwalda
recently released a native Linux version, built
with the Unity game engine. The developer
previously worked on the Viking Conquest DLC for
Mount & Blade.
Beyond Mankind: The Awakening takes place in a
future destroyed by some sort of genetic mutation.
This caused certain types of people to go a bit
wild, and eventually it led to war and almost a
total annihilation of planet Earth. Mankind
survived in space – and now you’re part of the rag-
tag group trying to bring it all back to life.
# ⚓ Does_Dying_Light_2_Stay_Human_have_Linux_or_Steam_Deck
port?_–_Android_Gram [Ed: Might be a plagiarism site]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Steam_Deck:_Benchmarks,_Battery_Life,_and_More_–_Boiling
Steam⠀⇛
As we’re getting closer to the shipment of the
Steam Deck to the general public’s hands, and as
Valve gradually lifts the various embargoes
attached to the device, today we’ve learned even
more about it, thanks to the explosion of new
videos that have come out.
# ⚓ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_–_2022-02-08
Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
Between 2022-02-01 and 2022-02-08 there were 23 new
native Linux Steam games released. For reference,
during the same time, there were 136 games released
for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions
represent about 16.9 % of total released titles.
Here’s a quick pick of the most interesting ones…
# ⚓ Nobara_Project_Aims_to_Offer_an_Unofficial_Fedora_Linux_35
Spin_Tailored_for_Gaming_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛
Fedora 35 is an impressive Linux distribution that
debuted with GNOME 41 and introduced a new KDE
variant.
You can read our original coverage to know more
about it.
While Fedora Linux has constantly been improving
the desktop experience, it may not be an ideal
desktop distribution for every user. Moreover, even
if it includes open-source tools and utilities out
of the box, it is not geared to provide an
effortless gaming experience.
You need to install a few dependencies and
configure the distro to play a game without hassle.
Nobara Project by Thomas Crider (Red Hat Engineer)
a.k.a. Glorious Eggroll aims to change that and
offer an unofficial Fedora 35 Workstation spin
built for gaming.
# ⚓ I_love_FS_+++_0_A.D.:_Empires_Ascendant_+++_FOSDEM_+++
FSFE20:_Interns_–_FSFE⠀⇛
The real-time strategy game of ancient warfare, 0
A.D.: Empires Ascendant, is a Free Software game
created by an international group of volunteer game
developers. Programmers, artists, and historians
combined their skills to create this imaginary
ancient world. In a new episode, the host of the
Software Freedom Podcast, Bonnie Mehring, discusses
the growing popularity of the game with the game’s
project lead. Stanislas Dolcini says that the
decision to make the game Free Software made it
last for so many years, as many people could
contribute – and still can.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_is_out_now_and_what_a_beauty_it_is⠀⇛
KDE has today released the Plasma 5.24
desktop, filled with goodies across the whole
thing and this is an LTS release (long-term
support) that will continue seeing updates
until a final Plasma 5 release after which
Plasma 6 succeeds it. The environment that
will be powering the desktop mode on the
Steam Deck, it’s a very exciting time to be a
KDE user and no doubt the developers are
excited too.
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_Released,_This_is_What’s_New⠀⇛
In this post I run through the most notable
and noticeable changes shipping in KDE Plasma
5.24, plus tell you how you can try the
release out first hand.
While we on the subject: if you’re a fan of
KDE Plasma and you want to see more coverage
of the DE on omg! do let me know in the
comments. While Plasma is not a desktop
environment I’m super familiar with (thus I
don’t know my way around it very well) its
ballooning popularity —even the Steam Deck
uses it, well kinda— has me intrigued!
Okay, on to what’s new.
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_Released,_Adds_a_Touch_of_GNOME-ish
Feel⠀⇛
Today the KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24,
a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will
receive updates until Plasma 6 succeeds it.
After four months of development, KDE Plasma
5.24 still adds a lot of quality of life
improvements and small changes. This new
release is powered by Qt 5.15.3 and KDE
Frameworks version 5.91. Along with the
improvements found in those software stacks,
there’s plenty of goodness to go around
within KDE itself.
So let’s take a look at what’s in there.
# ⚓ Kdenlive_21.12.2_released⠀⇛
Kdenlive 21.12.2 is out with faster
performance when opening projects, added
stock LUTs, improved monitor zoom (more zoom
steps, higher zoom levels and usage of
current monitor center as reference for
zooming). This version also fixes time
remapping issues and alpha rendering among
others.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Year_MMXIX_summarized_in_5_minutes_–_The_Open
Sourcerer⠀⇛
Discovered that thumbnails generation in
Nautilus (GNOME “Files”) is extremely slow
compared to other file and image managers,
and reported the performance issue with my
initial observations. There have been some
community patches proposed there to alleviate
the problem by making use of multiple CPU
threads instead of a single one, but they
have not yet been reviewed as of early 2022.
I hope they will be considered eventually,
along with further possible performance
enhancements.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_163_released⠀⇛
It is time to release another Core Update for
IPFire. It comes with an improved Quality of
Service based on CAKE and various bug fixes
and a lot of package updates.
Before we talk about what is new, I would
like to ask you for your support. IPFire is a
small team of people and like many of our
open source friends, we’ve taken a hit this
year and would like to ask you to help us
out. Please follow the link below where your
donation can help fund our continued
development: https://www.ipfire.org/donate.
# § Slackware Family⠀➾
# ⚓ The_oldest_Linux_distro_just_got_a_major_update [Ed:
In ZDNet, 5 days ago means "just"]⠀⇛
Volderding says his focus for this release
was to modernize Slackware without alienating
fans at a time when Linux development is
moving away from its Unix-like structure.
“The challenge this time around was to adopt
as much of the good stuff out there as we
could without changing the character of the
operating system. Keep it familiar, but make
it modern,” he says in the announcement.
Prior to releasing the stable release,
Slackware’s maintainers built over 400
different Linux kernel versions before
settling on kernel version 5.15.19, which has
long-term support until at least October
2023. It tested just 34 kernel versions while
working on Slackware 14.2, according to
Volderding.
There’s a new desktop experience thanks to
Slackware 15.0′s inclusion of KDE Plasma 5,
version 5.23.5, and Xfce 4.16. KDE also
supports running under Wayland or X11. As
Linux news site Phoronix notes, Zenwalk has
also released a new version of its desktop
environment built on top of Slackware 15 and
based on Xfce 4.16.
On the packages front, version 15 also
brought on programming languages Rust and
Python version 3 while dropping Qt4 for Qt5.
# § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Should_You_Install_Arch_Linux_as_a_Server?⠀⇛
You can use any Linux distro you want to
build a server, including Arch Linux. But is
Arch a suitable candidate for installation as
a server?
While Linux distributions tend to make great
servers, you may be wondering if Arch Linux
would be a good choice for a server, given
its rolling-release nature. It could be if
you wanted to, with some caveats.
# ⚓ On_the_toolchain_current_status⠀⇛
Hi All,
Most of you are aware that our toolchain is
currently outdated. We always had very few
people
working on it through the years and I took
over once Barth left, because it was needed.
However, I have been having very little time
to work on Arch related stuff lately and the
toolchain is the most noticeable victim,
given it is one of the most time consuming.
In this meantime, a few things also happened
that compounded to the issue, among them, we
enabled LTO.
Right now I'm working on bringing new glibc
2.35 and also waiting on binutils release so
we
can bring the toolchain up to date. I'm aware
we also have a GCC release coming out soon,
and
the toolchain will need a new rebuild then.
For the future, we are trying to bring more
people to work with the whole toolchain, so
it is
not too much of a bus factor. We should have
at least two toolchain maintainers, not just
one.
I hope this serves to assuage the concerns
over the current status of our toolchain,
both present
and going future.
Regards,
Giancarlo Razzolini
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ 5_steps_to_migrate_your_application_to_containers_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
Generally, you consider it a good thing when
people want to use your application. However,
when the application runs on a server,
there’s a cost for popularity. With users
come increased demands on resources, and at
some point, you may find that you need to
scale your app. One option is to throw more
servers at the problem, establish a load
balancer like Nginx, and let the demand sort
itself out. That option can be expensive,
though, because there are no savings when
demand is low, and you’re running instances
of your app on servers devoid of traffic.
Containers have the advantage of being
ephemeral, launching when new instances are
available and fading away with decreased
demand. If that sounds like a feature you
need, then it may be time to migrate your app
to containers.
Migrating an app to a container can quickly
become disorienting. While the environment
within a container may feel familiar, many
container images are minimal, and they are
designed to be stateless. In a way, though,
this is one of the strengths of containers.
Like a Python virtual environment, it’s a
blank slate that lets you build (or rebuild)
your application without the invisible
defaults that many other environments
provide.
# ⚓ My_tips_for_maintaining_dotfiles_in_source_control_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
Ever started using a new computer, by choice
or because the old one let the magic smoke
out, and got frustrated at how long it took
to get everything just right? Even worse,
ever spent some time reconfiguring your shell
prompt, then realizing you liked it better
before?
This problem, for me, became acute when I
decided I wanted to do development in
containers. Containers are ephemeral. The
development tooling is easy to solve: A
container image with the tooling works. The
source code is easy to solve: Source control
maintains it, and development happens on
branches. But if every time I create a
container, I need to configure it
carefully—that’s going to be a pain.
# ⚓ Fedora_Linux_37_development_schedule_–_Fedora
Community_Blog⠀⇛
Fedora Linux 36 branches from Rawhide today.
While there’s still a lot of work before the
Fedora Linux 36 release in April, this marks
the beginning of the Fedora Linux 37
development cycle. The work you do in Rawhide
will be in the Fedora Linux 37 release in
October.
# ⚓ What_can_video_games_teach_us_about_edge_computing?⠀⇛
This post was inspired by a Compiler episode
on the same topic. Compiler is a Red Hat
podcast about all the things you’ve always
wanted to know about what moves tech forward,
straight from the people who know it best.
Check it out!
Let’s say you’re playing your favorite online
multiplayer game when—all of a sudden—things
start getting choppy. Your character isn’t
moving, other players start freezing up,
maybe the in-game music isn’t even coming
through.
# ⚓ Automate_and_deploy_a_JBoss_EAP_cluster_with_Ansible
|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
In my series introducing WildFly server
configuration with Ansible collection for
JCliff, I described how developers can use
Ansible to manage a standalone Red Hat JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
instance. I’ve also written about using
Ansible to automate Apache Tomcat and Red Hat
JBoss Web Server deployments. In this
article, we’ll go a bit deeper and use
Ansible to deploy a fully operational cluster
of JBoss EAP instances. I’ll show you how to
automate the setup of each JBoss EAP instance
and how to configure the network
requirements—notably, fault tolerance and
high availability—using features provided by
the WildFly Ansible collection.
# ⚓ 5_technical_debt_lessons_the_pandemic_taught_IT
leaders_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛
Veteran IT leaders have long understood the
impact technical debt has on an
organization’s digital transformation and
ability to respond rapidly to changing
demands. The global pandemic underscored that
understanding. Technical debt can create
talent, speed, reliability, and scalability
issues for organizations in the best of times
– and the worst.
Beyond confirming the burden of technical
debt, the impact of the pandemic has been
mixed. In some cases, IT organizations may
have gotten the go-ahead to address some
technical debt that may have hindered the
enterprise’s ability to pivot. In others, IT
functions had to make short-term decisions to
enable remote work, new digital commerce
solutions, or supply chain fixes that
increased their technical debt.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Tails_–_Tails_4.27_is_out⠀⇛
Update the Linux kernel to 5.10.92. This
should improve the support for newer
hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Drone_controller_board_runs_Linux_on_Zynq_UltraScale+⠀⇛
Topic’s “UAV & Robotics Platform” controller board
runs Linux, ROS, and PX4 on a Zynq UltraScale+ and
supplies WiFi/BT, GPS, multiple sensors, 4x motor
I/Os, and 2x MIPI-CSI. A dev kit adds cameras, PS,
debug, and more.
Last week, Netherlands-based Topic Embedded Systems
announced that it had renewed its Xilinx
Partnership status for 2022. The announcement
linked to its latest Xilinx collaboration, a UAV &
Robotics Platform (URP) drone controller based on
the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, which Topic used
on last year’s Miami MPSoC Plus module and Florida
Plus dev kit.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Intel_to_invest_$1_billion_in_foundry_innovation,
becomes_RISC-V_International_member_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Intel has just announced a $1 billion fund to
support companies bringing innovations and
new technologies to the foundry ecosystem.
The company says the fund will prioritize
investments in “capabilities that accelerate
foundry customers’ time to market – spanning
intellectual property (IP), software tools,
innovative chip architectures, and advanced
packaging technologies.”
What’s interesting is that it does not only
cover x86 architecture but also Arm and RISC-
V, with a focus on the latter, as Intel has
just become a Premier member of RISC-
V International, and partnered with several
companies offering RISC-V solutions including
Andes Technology, Esperanto Technologies,
SiFive, and Ventana Micro Systems.
# ⚓ Intel_invests_in_open-source_RISC-V_processors,
creates_billion-dollar_fund_|_ZDNet⠀⇛
RISC-V International, the global open
hardware standards organization, has
announced that Intel has joined RISC-V at the
Premier membership level. Let that sink in
for a minute.
Intel, which has made billions from its
closed-source, complex instruction set
computer (CISC) x86 processors, is joining
forces with RISC-V, the open-source reduced
instruction set computer (RISC) CPU group.
What next? Dogs and cats living together!?
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Chrome_rolling_out_new_Android_widgets_and_auto-
grouping_‘Journeys’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_Notes_for_Professionals_–_A_Free_eBook_–
Neowin⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_snooze_notifications_on_Android_12_|
TechRepublic⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Make_Your_Phone_Feel_New_Again:_10_Tips_for
Android_Devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Things_To_Consider_Before_Buying_a_Used_Phone:_Do’s
and_Don’ts⠀⇛
# ⚓ Galaxy_S22’s_Android_update_support_might_be_the
phone’s_most_exciting_feature⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_7_Best_Subscription_Tracking_Apps_for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_10_best_MMORPGs_for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_needs_to_prove_it’s_serious_about_Android
tablets_before_we_can_take_them_seriously_|_Android
Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_use_Repainter_to_improve_Android_12′s_Material
You_themes_on_Pixel_and_Galaxy_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_Auto’s_new_split-screen_mode_looks_like
CarPlay_and_I_think_that’s_great_|_T3⠀⇛
# ⚓ voice:_Three_ways_to_use_‘popular’_apps_on_Android
smartphones_with_voice_commands_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_TV_is_the_fastest_growing_platform_in_Q4_2021
–_9to5Google⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google’s_Go-To_Android_Image_Quality_Expert_Pursues
New_Role_With_Imatest_|_Business_Wire⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Lex_Pan_Law:_Why_we_support_the_OSI [Ed: Does Lex Pan Law
realise that_half_of_the_OSI’s_money_goes_to_Microsoft
stuff?]⠀⇛
Lex Pan Law is a full-service technology and
intellectual property law firm based in Portland,
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# § Web Browsers⠀➾
# ⚓ The_7_Best_Lightweight_Web_Browsers_for_Linux⠀⇛
Desktop users can’t help but agree that
modern browsers are rather resource-heavy.
The confluence of various technologies and
file types causes browsers to consume
extensive system resources, thereby marring
your web experience.
But what if you had a list of browsers that
not only offer feature-rich performance on
Linux systems but also have generously
lightweight requirements?
If you are struggling to keep your browser
afloat, and would happily switch to a lighter
browser version, then here’s a list of the
best lightweight web browsers for Linux.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Firefox_’97_Released_with_a_Modest_Collection
of_Changes⠀⇛
There aren’t many “big” changes in this
release (well, unless you count support
for Windows 11 scrollbars) but there
is, as always, a healthy chunk of
under-the-hood enhancements aimed at
improving the performance, security,
and privacy. Those loving Firefox’s
ongoing obsession with “colour ways”
will be delighted to hear six new
colour way themes are present in this
update, once again for a limited time
only.
Firefox will likely tell you about the
new schemes after you install the
update, but you can access them at any
time from the “Manage Themes” section.
# ⚓ Privacy_Preserving_Attribution_for
Advertising⠀⇛
Advertising provides critical support
for the Web. We’ve been looking to
apply privacy preserving advertising
technology to the attribution problem,
so that advertisers can get answers to
important questions without harming
privacy.
Attribution is how advertisers know if
their advertising campaigns are
working. Attribution generates metrics
that allow advertisers to understand
how their advertising campaigns are
performing. Related measurement
techniques also help publishers
understand how they are helping
advertisers. Though attribution is
crucial to advertising, current
attribution practices have terrible
privacy properties.
For the last few months we have been
working with a team from Meta (formerly
Facebook) on a new proposal that aims
to enable conversion measurement – or
attribution – for advertising called
Interoperable Private Attribution, or
IPA.
# ⚓ 4_Ways_To_Install_Firefox_97.0_On_Ubuntu_/
Linux_Mint_/_AlmaLinux_&_Fedora_|_Tips_On_UNIX⠀⇛
This tutorial will be helpful for
beginners to install firefox 97.0 on
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu
21.10, LinuxMint 20.3, Rocky Linux 8,
Almalinux 8, and Fedora 35.
Firefox or Mozilla Firefox is a free
and open-source web browser developed
by the Mozilla foundation and generally
utilized by thousands and thousands of
individuals in their daily actions.
# ⚓ Rust_API_for_the_Firefox_Profiler_–_Mozilla
Performance⠀⇛
Firefox Profiler is a tool for
analyzing the performance of both
websites and Firefox itself. You can
visit profiler.firefox.com to learn
more about and enable it.
Inside the Firefox codebase, we have
different profiler APIs to instrument
the source code. With these APIs,
threads can be registered with the
profiler, different parts of the code
can be annotated, and even more
information (payload) can be included
to a specific event inside the
codebase, like a render or reflow
event.
Inside the mozilla-central codebase, we
have various programming languages like
C++, JavaScript, Java and Rust. Since
the profiler is implemented in C++, we
have the most advanced API for that in
C++. You can check its documentation
out. Also, we’ve already had APIs for
JavaScript, and Java for some time. But
we didn’t have any canonical API for
the Rust codebases. We had some hacks
around bigger Rust projects like Servo
or Webrender to register threads and
add annotations, but they weren’t
shared across different projects.
Therefore we had a lot of code
duplications in the different parts of
the Firefox codebase. Also, it was
pretty tiring work if you wanted to
instrument your own Rust code with the
profiler API because you had to write
things from scratch.
To solve this issue, we wanted to work
on a new Rust API that every Rust
project inside mozilla-central can use
without the need of implementing
everything from scratch and having to
maintain that code. Instead, the
Firefox Profiler team would own the API
crate and maintain it, so other people
wouldn’t need to worry about it and
they would simply import the API crate
to their projects to use it. And this
work has been completed in the last
quarter! In this blog post, I will be
talking about this API and some of the
implementation details. You can also
see the documentation of this API here.
So let’s get into the details of this
API and how to use it first.
# ⚓ Improving_the_Storage_Access_API_in_Firefox_–
Mozilla_Hacks_–_the_Web_developer_blog⠀⇛
Before we roll out State Partitioning
for all Firefox users, we intend to
make a few privacy and ergonomic
improvements to the Storage Access API.
In this blog post, we’ll detail a few
of the new changes we made.
With State Partitioning, third parties
can’t access the same cookie jar when
they’re embedded in different sites.
Instead, they get a fresh cookie jar
for each site they’re embedded in. This
isn’t just limited to cookies
either—all storage is partitioned in
this way.
In an ideal world, this would stop
trackers from keeping tabs on you
wherever they’re embedded because they
can’t keep a unique identifier for you
across all of these sites.
Unfortunately, the world isn’t so
simple—trackers aren’t the only third
parties that use storage. If you’ve
ever used an authentication provider
that requires an embedded resource, you
know how important third-party storage
can be.
Enter the Storage Access API. This API
lets third parties request storage
access as if they were a first party.
This is called “unpartitioning” and it
gives browsers and users control over
which third parties can maintain state
across first-party origins as well as
determine which origins they can access
that state from. This is the preferred
way for third parties to keep sharing
storage across sites.
# ⚓ Mozilla_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Firefox
and_Firefox_ESR⠀⇛
Mozilla has released security updates
to address vulnerabilities in Firefox
and Firefox ESR. An attacker could
exploit some of these vulnerabilities
to take control of an affected system.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Comparing_LibreOffice_and_OpenOffice⠀⇛
While LibreOffice and OpenOffice have a
shared past, LibreOffice outstrips OpenOffice
in contributors, code commits, and features.
A search for comparisons of LibreOffice and
Apache OpenOffice returns over 8.3 million
results. That number comes as no surprise,
given that LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the
best-known open source office suites and
share a common past. However, what is
surprising is how shallow many of those
comparisons are. Many offer only a
superficial glimpse at either office suite
from the viewpoint of an unsophisticated and
undemanding user. Often, the comparisons are
obsolete. Even more importantly, many
comparisons strive for a false sense of
objectivity by declaring that any differences
are minor. However, by every possible
standard, LibreOffice outshines OpenOffice
and shows OpenOffice to be outdated. To
pretend otherwise is a distortion of the
truth.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by
CentOS (log4j), Debian (chromium,
xterm, and zabbix), Fedora (kate, lua,
and podman), Oracle (aide and log4j),
and SUSE (xen).
# ⚓ Microsoft_to_block_internet_macros_by_default
in_five_Office_applications [Ed: How many decades
did it take Microsoft to accept it was a bad idea
all along?]⠀⇛
In one of the most impactful changes
made in recent years, Microsoft has
announced today that it will block by
default the execution of VBA macro
scripts inside five Office
applications.
Starting with early April 2022, Access,
Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
users will not be able to enable macro
scripts inside untrusted documents that
they downloaded from the internet.
# ⚓ Penetration_Testing_with_Kali_Linux:_15_of_the
Best_Tools_to_Try_First_–_TechBullion⠀⇛
If you’re looking for a penetration
testing platform that has everything
you need, Kali Linux is your best
option. With over 600 tools included,
Kali has everything you need to assess
your IT security posture and find
vulnerabilities.
Please read on to learn which are the
fifteen best tools that are included in
Kali Linux. We’ll also discuss why Kali
Linux is such a great choice for
penetration testing.
# ⚓ Nmap_Vulnerability_Scanning_Made_Easy⠀⇛
The UK government recently started an
open-source GitHub repository to help
organizations scan networks for
vulnerabilities.
The idea behind the Scanning Made Easy
project from the National Cyber
Security Centre (NCSC) and its i100
industry partnership is to provide a
collection of Nmap scripts to users,
such as sysadmins, for detecting system
vulnerabilities.
The scripts should provide more
accessible detection and remediation.
Defense is often harder than offense,
as there are likely more proofs of
concept to exploit than there are
secure networks.
The NCSC is open to contributions and
is providing detailed guidelines for
the approval of a script.
Here we’ll discuss how to get started
with Nmap, how attackers use it, and
how you can use the UK efforts to
improve your cybersecurity.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ American_Spy_Agencies_Are_Struggling_in
the_Age_of_Data⠀⇛
In short, data volume and
accessibility are revolutionizing
sensemaking. The intelligence
playing field is leveling — and
not in a good way. Intelligence
collectors are everywhere, and
government spy agencies are
drowning in data. This is a
radical new world and
intelligence agencies are
struggling to adapt to it. While
secrets once conferred a huge
advantage, today open source
information increasingly does.
Intelligence used to be a race
for insight where great powers
were the only ones with the
capabilities to access secrets.
Now everyone is racing for
insight and the internet gives
them tools to do it. Secrets
still matter, but whoever can
harness all this data better and
faster will win.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ Stop_the_misinformation_experience:_Spotify_must_intervene
–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Spotify’s decision to host and produce The Joe
Rogan Experience podcast, replete with harmful and
misleading COVID-19-related content, is a risk to
human rights and public health. The company has a
responsibility to exercise editorial discretion and
intervene.
“COVID-19 is dangerous enough without the most
popular podcast in the world fanning false
rhetoric, undermining people’s ability to make
safe, informed decisions about their health,” said
Willmary Escoto, U.S. Policy Analyst at Access Now.
“Since Spotify produces the content, they are
operating like journalists. This means Spotify is
responsible for publishing truthful information.”
Through an open letter to Daniel Ek, Co-Founder and
CEO at Spotify, Access Now is once again shining a
spotlight on the human rights implications of the
company’s decisions, asking: “Is Spotify willing to
allow harmful content on its platform to spread,
prioritizing the companyʼs bottom line over public
health?” As The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is
produced exclusively by Spotify, the company has
control over the distribution of the content, and
the ability to exercise editorial discretion over
what host Joe Rogan and guests say.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ The_whole_world’s_watching:_resist_Myanmar’s_digital_coup_–
Access_Now⠀⇛
Last week marked one year since the military
besieged Myanmar and pilfered control of the nation
through a violent coup — one full year of brutal
crackdowns, serious human rights violations, and
escalating digital control over the nation. The
international community and technology companies
must stand with the people of Myanmar and resist
the coup — both physical and digital.
“The military junta is systematically ambushing
civic space in Myanmar,” said Wai Phyo Mint, Asia
Pacific Policy Analyst at Access Now. “Increment by
increment, the despotic military is making online
spaces inaccessible for the people of Myanmar, and
eliminating all means of safe communication and
information-sharing when they need them most.
Silence and inaction from the international
community bury their struggle, shielding grave
human rights violations.”
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Judith_Sargent_Murray’s_*On_the_Equality_of_the
Sexes*_(1790)_–_The_Public_Domain_Review⠀⇛
For as long as women have been wearing
decorative jewelry, donning designer
clothing, and delighting in female
companionship, we have been accused of a
proclivity for the fanciful. Stereotypes
abound about the feminine urge to tell
stories: the secretly slanderous best friend;
the garrulous old woman tirelessly engaged
with spreading gossip. In her essay, “On the
Equality of the Sexes”, Judith Sargent Murray
(1751–1820) sardonically examines these
misogynistic stereotypes, turning them upside
down. She argues that the vicissitudes of
female fashion are evidence of artistry, and
the story-telling a natural symptom of
untapped creativity. Those characteristics,
which are so often cast in a negative light,
could actually be the result of incredible
imagination. In Sargent’s understanding, the
only difference between gossip and ground-
breaking scientific invention is a lack of
access to education.
In the year 1779, Sargent wrote an essay
entitled “The Sexes” and proceeded to
circulate it amongst friends for over a
decade. That piece’s revised counterpart, “On
the Equality of the Sexes”, was published in
1790, in the March and April issues of
Massachusetts Magazine (a “Monthly Museum of
Knowledge and Rational Entertainment”).
Although Sargent published under the
pseudonym “Constantia” — occasionally going
by “The Reaper”, “Honora Martesia”, “Mr.
Vigilius”, or “The Gleaner” — her identity as
the author of “Equality” was fairly well-
known.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ 264:_Interview_with_Aleix_Pol_i_Gonzàlez_of_KDE_&_Jill’s
Robot_Wars_Story_–_Destination_Linux⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re
going to talk with Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez from KDE.
Then we’re going to chat about some cool robotics
you can get your hands on from Red Hat. Plus we’ve
also got our famous tips, tricks and software
picks. 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.
# ⚓ elementary_OS_6.1_Jólnir_Quick_overview_#Shorts_–
Invidious⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Use_’TextSnatcher’_to_Copy_Text_from_Images_to_Your
Clipboard_on_Linux⠀⇛
Being able to extract text from photos, pdfs and
the like isn’t something new. Indeed, many ace
tools exist for the job, including several well-
regarded command line ones available on Linux. But
being able to do it very easily? That is new.
With modern operating systems like macOS and
Android making image OCR an integrated feature of
their native image viewer tools or photo managers,
it’s understandable that some folks new to Ubuntu,
Linux Mint, and other distros expect similar
functionality.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_To_Set_Up_SSH_Keys⠀⇛
At Teleport, we advocate SSH certificates over SSH
keys and passwords as the best authentication
method for SSH. Nothing beats the security and
operational flexibility of using certificate-based
authentication for a large fleet of SSH servers
running on dynamic infrastructure. But in practice,
certificate-based authentication is far from the de
facto authentication method, and sometimes we may
need to use SSH keys. For example, in my daily
workflow I use SSH keys when accessing DigitalOcean
servers or to check repositories in my GitHub
personal account because SSH keys are the default
available methods (alongside passwords). So it
helps to learn the best way to generate and use SSH
keys.
# ⚓ Change_git_repo_to_use_SSH_not_HTTPS⠀⇛
So I changed:
$ git remote set-url origin git@gitlab.com:
rubenerd/repo_name.git
# ⚓ How_to_FileRun_on_Debian_11_–_A_free_and_private_cloud_for
us!⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install FileRun on Debian 11. The procedure is
simple, so let’s get started.
# ⚓ How_to_Quickly_Reset_a_Forgotten_Password_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
If you’ve somehow forgotten your Ubuntu password,
don’t worry, it’s easy to log back in to your
system by resetting the password.
Forgetting passwords can be an absolute nightmare,
and if you’ve had the misfortune of forgetting the
password to your PC, then you might be pretty
worried. Typically, it’s much easier to reset the
password of an online web account (Google,
Facebook, etc.) than resetting your computer’s
password.
If you’ve locked yourself out of your Ubuntu
system, you don’t need to worry about losing
important data that you may not have backed up.
Luckily, there is a quick fix that helps you reset
your password on Ubuntu.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Pantheon_Desktop_on_Fedora_35_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Pantheon Desktop on Fedora 35. For those of you who
didn’t know, Pantheon is the default desktop
environment that is bundled with elementary OS.
Pantheon is designed to be fast and user-friendly
with a highly polished appearance. Pantheon desktop
environment inspiration from macOS and combining it
with one of the most visually appealing desktops
around and a bonus for any macOS users wanting to
take the plunge into Linux.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Pantheon Desktop Environment on
a Fedora 35.
# ⚓ whmapi_to_create_and_delete_cPanel_account_using_SSH⠀⇛
If you want to create the cPanel account using SSH
then follow below instructions.
# ⚓ 2_ways_to_Install_latest_version_of_LibreOffice_in_Ubuntu
22.04_|_20.04_LTS⠀⇛
The “LibreOffice” is a popular open-source office
suite, a fork of OpenOffice that is functionally
equivalent to Microsoft Office. Word processing,
spreadsheets, presentation programs, graphics
software, databases, and formula editors offer
roughly the same range of functions as Excel, Word,
or PowerPoint. You can also create PDF files and
read, edit and save Microsoft Office documents.
# ⚓ When_Not_to_Use_Docker:_Cases_Where_Containers_Don’t_Help_–
CloudSavvy_IT⠀⇛
Docker’s undoubtedly one of the most impactful
developer technologies of the last decade.
Containers have provided a solution for isolating
applications, scaling them across physical
machines, and abstracting the differences between
environments.
Many organizations that adopt Docker or an adjacent
containerization technology find it increases
efficiency and accelerates the development process.
Docker’s not something that magically improves
every system though. In this article, we’ll look at
some scenarios where moving to containers might be
more of a hindrance than a help.
# ⚓ Git_and_GitHub_SSH_KeyGen_Example⠀⇛
In order to push, pull and clone securely between
your local Git installation and a remote GitHub or
GitLab repository, you must first create an SSH key
pair which can be used to both identify you and
authenticate your local Git installation with the
remote GitHub or GitLab server you are attempting
to connect to.
# ⚓ What_is_Zsh?_Should_You_Use_it?⠀⇛
You probably already know that there are various
shells available in Linux/Unix. Bash is the most
popular and the default shell on most Linux
distributions.
Another popular shell is Zsh. It is powerful and it
is also the default Shell in macOS.
Now, the questions comes, what features make Zsh a
popular choice and should you even bother to use
it?
Let me answer that.
# ⚓ Open_Source_Software_Development_Professional_Certificate
on_edXLinux [Ed: Shamelessly posting spam for Linux
Foundation; see this and this]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Install_PHP_8.1_on_Fedora,_RHEL,_CentOS,_Alma,_Rocky_or
other_clone_–_Remi’s_RPM_repository_–_Blog⠀⇛
Here is a quick howto upgrade default PHP version
provided on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky
Linux or other clones with latest version 8.1.
# ⚓ NMState:_A_Declarative_Networking_Configuration_Tool⠀⇛
The Linux ecosystem provides numerous ways of
configuring networking including the popular
Network Manager daemon and command-line tools such
as nmcli and nmtui GUI utility. This guide
introduces yet another network configuration tool
known as NMState
NMState is a declarative network manager for
configuring networking on Linux hosts. It’s a
library that provides a command-line tool that
manages host network settings. It manages host
networking through a northbound declarative API. At
the time of writing this guide, the NetworkManager
daemon is the only provider supported by NMState.
In this guide, we look at some of the example
usages of the NMState tool. For this guide, we will
demonstrate this using Fedora Linux.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Maui_2.1.1_Release_–_MauiKit_—_#UIFramework⠀⇛
This version of Maui brings new features and
bug fixes to Maui’s applications and the
frameworks they rely on. The changes
introduced in this release will make your
experience with Maui Apps much more enjoyable
and feature rich across different devices and
form factors.
# ⚓ KDE:_A_Nice_Tiling_Environment_and_a_Surprisingly
Awesome_DE_|_The_Changelog⠀⇛
I recently wrote that managing an external
display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I
went down a path of trying out some different
options before finally landing at an
unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected”
because I find tiling window managers are
just about a necessity.
Until a few months ago, I’d been using xmonad
for well over a decade. Configurable,
minimal, and very nice; it suited me well.
However, xmonad is getting somewhat long in
the tooth. xmobar, which is commonly used
with it, barely supports many modern desktop
environments. I prefer DEs for the useful
integrations they bring: everything from
handling mount of USB sticks to display auto-
switching and sound switching. xmonad itself
can’t run with modern Gnome (whether or not
it runs well under KDE 5 seems to be a
complicated question, according to wikis, but
in any case, there is no log applet for KDE
5). So I was left with XFCE and such, but the
isues I identified in the “shouldn’t be this
hard” article were bad enough that I just
could not keep going that way.
# ⚓ Plasma_5.24⠀⇛
Today the KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24,
a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will
receive updates and bugfixes until the final
Plasma 5 version, before we transition to
Plasma 6.
This new Plasma release focuses on smoothing
out wrinkles, evolving the design, and
improving the overall feel and usability of
the environment.
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_Desktop_Environment_Officially
Released_as_the_Next_LTS_Series⠀⇛

The biggest new features in KDE Plasma 5.24
include support for fingerprint readers,
which you’ll use to unlock the screen,
authenticate in apps that require
administration password, or authenticate with
sudo on the command-line, as well as a brand-
new Overview effect that lets you control
your virtual workspaces and also find search
results from KRunner.
Talking about effects, the “Cover Switch” and
“Flip Switch” effects are back, QtQuick-based
effects saw a major performance boost for
NVIDIA GPU users, and the “Scale” effect
replaces the “Fade” effect as default when
opening and closing windows.
# ⚓ Jonathan_Riddell:_KUserFeedback_1.2.0⠀⇛
KUserFeedback is a library for collecting
user feedback for apps via telemetry and
surveys.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# ⚓ I_took_Manjaro_Linux_for_a_spin_and_it_was_absolutely
delightful…⠀⇛
This past weekend and with the help of a very
patient user, I was working through a set of bugs
and enhancements for my RapidDisk project. This
included adding support for the 5.15, 5.16 and
release candidates of the 5.17 Linux kernels. This
very helpful user was attempting to use my kernel
drivers on Manjaro Linux and while Manjaro was not
a requirement to reproduce his reported problems
with my code, it did make it easier for me to
troubleshoot and fix my code. That means, I
downloaded the latest distribution release ISO for
Manjaro with XFCE (manjaro-xfce-21.2.2-220123-
linux515.iso), installed it and got to work.
From the very beginning, I felt comfortable loading
the ISO image and running the installer. The
installation ran smoothly and before you know it,
the virtual machine was rebooted into the installed
operating system.
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Tiny_Core_Linux_13_Released⠀⇛
Tiny Core Linux 13 is an ultralight operating
system that has a good reputation for giving
new life to old hardware, says Mark Tyson.
The system needs just 46MB of RAM and a
minimum of 50MB of storage to install.
# § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenMandriva_Lx_4.3_Released_as_a_Classic_KDE-Based
Linux_Distro⠀⇛
Version 4.3 of the operating system comes
with Linux kernel 5.16 and uses KDE Plasma
5.23.5 for its desktop environment.
OpenMandriva Lx is a KDE-focused community-
driven Linux distribution that is also
inspired and forked from Mandriva Linux, and
offers a host of open-source software to
complement the whole package. Developed by
the OpenMandriva Association, OpenMandriva Lx
caters to experienced KDE users, as well as
first-time Linux converts.
The OpenMandriva project was created back in
May 2012, when Mandriva S.A. avoided
bankruptcy by abandoning the development of
its consumer product to the Mandriva
community.
The OpenMandriva project announced today the
general availability of the latest stable
release – OpenMandriva Lx 4.3. This release
includes updated bundled applications and
various improvements. With that said, let’s
quickly take a look at what’s new.
# ⚓ Linux_Release_Roundup_#22.6:_OpenMandriva_Lx_4.3,
Absolute_Linux_15,_Escuelas_Linux_7.3,_and_More
Releases⠀⇛
OpenMandriva is an independent Linux
distribution that includes several essential
KDE applications and features one of the
latest Linux Kernel versions.
This release includes updated KDE
applications including Krita 5.0.2, Falkon
browser 3.2, and others. PipeWire also
replaces PulseAudio as the default sound
server.
The desktop environment has also been updated
to Plasma 5.23. In addition to these, there
are various other changes that you can find
in the official announcement.
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘The_Register’_Lays_an_Egg:_SUSE_Liberty_Linux_is_NOT
a_Distro⠀⇛
No matter what you may have read elsewhere,
SUSE is not coming out with a new distro to
vie for space in the crowded CentOS
replacement business. With Alma, Rocky,
Oracle, and others already vying for a piece
of the CentOS market pie, SUSE thinks that’s
a market that’s already crowded enough, thank
you.
What it is going to do is make life easier
for Enterprises (or anybody else) running a
mixed environment of numerous Linux
distributions to support them under a single
plan called SUSE Liberty Linux.
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Nobara_Project_aims_to_make_Fedora_35_viable_for
gaming_•_The_Register⠀⇛
The Nobara Project is a fresh flavour of
Fedora 35 aimed at Linux gamers and
streamers. It’s very new and the website is
mostly just a placeholder, but it’s already
causing controversy.
Windows is the default OS for PCs so PC games
mostly tend to aim at Windows. If you want to
run your games on Linux, that involves a bit
of extra legwork. Valve Software’s Steam runs
on Linux (if not without some glitches early
on), Proton can help with running current
Windows games, and Lutris with older ones. If
Proton isn’t quite current enough, a
developer nicknamed “Glorious Eggroll” offers
Proton-GE, a cutting-edge build with the
latest patches and support.
Nobara is a new project from Glorious
Eggroll, or Thomas Crider as we suspect his
friends call him. He works for Red Hat, and
also contributes to WINE, Lutris, and other
projects. Nobara is basically Fedora 35 plus
a whole bunch of extensions: the latest
Proton-GE and Lutris, as you might guess,
plus installers for AMD and Nvidia drivers,
and the RPM Fusion repo of third-party add-
ons and extensions enabled.
# ⚓ Customer_success_stories:_Enterprise_open_source
platforms_help_address_challenges_in_public_health_and
safety⠀⇛
Data accessibility, management and sharing
may be a priority for many organizations
right now but were especially critical agenda
items for the two customers we’re
highlighting in this month’s customer success
stories post.
For Toronto’s University Health Network,
securing patient information and other
sensitive data prompted its search for a
highly available, scalable integration
solution. And the Slovenian National Police
Force had goals of improving staff
communication and system integration as it
set out to modernize its IT environment.
See how Red Hat technologies have not only
helped address these challenges for our
public health and safety customers but also
helped them explore more benefits of open
source innovation and equipped them with
tools to quickly respond to COVID-19 needs.
# ⚓ Investigating_the_cost_of_Open_vSwitch_upcalls_in
Linux⠀⇛
Open vSwitch (OVS), which many data centers
run on Linux systems for advanced networking
functions, adds a certain amount of overhead
for new datapath flows. This article
introduces the upcall_cost.py script, written
in Python, which tracks packets through the
kernel’s invocation of OVS and displays
statistics that can help with troubleshooting
performance in applications and data centers,
as well as the kernel and OVS itself.
My interest in this question was triggered
when some people argued that it takes too
long for the kernel module to bring a packet
to the ovs-vswitchd in userspace to do the
lookup. However, I have not seen anyone
backing up this complaint with data. This
article offers tools that can help research
this question and many others. I’ll describe
the script and its output, then show data
from two interesting scenarios: A 16-node Red
Hat OpenShift cluster and a lab benchmark.
# ⚓ Try_Kakoune_for_a_modern_Vi_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
The Vi text editor has been around for a long
time, it has lots of fans and users, and it
ships with nearly every POSIX system
available. To its credit, Vi hasn’t changed
all that much, although it has managed to
undergo some major improvements (in fact,
most Vi users actually use Vi-improved, or
Vim).
One of the greatest things about open source
is how it can be adapted and iterated upon,
however, and so you might wonder what Vi
might look like if it had been invented
today. You can get a glimpse of such an
alternate timeline with Kakoune, a modern Vi-
like editor incorporating ideas from current
editors as well as Vi and Vim.
# ⚓ IBM_previews_Developer_Technology_Sandbox_to_help
developers_explore_new_technologies⠀⇛
As a developer, you need to be able to try
and test new software and tools, but the
process can be tedious. You often need to
download the source code and reconfigure your
entire local environment to deploy it. The
process is a bit like being asked to assemble
a car before giving it a test drive.
The IBM Developer Technology Sandbox is a
turnkey solution for you to test drive
software. The browser-based, no-code/low-code
sandbox enables developers to try new
technologies, whether you are trying to
extend your application stack or build new
skills.
Explore the pre-built applications and use
the step-by-step instructions to run them
with the click of a button. These
applications are built on a combination of
various IBM and IBM partner technologies,
including APIs, cloud services, and more.
# ⚓ IT_leadership:_4_ways_to_lead_digital_maturity⠀⇛
For the past decade, CIOs have been on a slow
and steady drive toward digital
transformation, incrementally moving their
organizations to implement technology in
business strategy. Yet getting organizations
to establish true digital capability remains
a challenge.
Rapid adoption of new processes and
technology often lacks continuity. However,
recent history has proven that organizations
can and will embrace continuous change at an
extraordinarily fast pace to remain relevant.
This gives CIOs a prime opportunity and
obligation to advance digital capability at
every level of the organization.
Opportunities to increase digital maturity
center on creating better customer
experiences. Every member of the team needs
to embody a customer-focused mindset and
behaviors to achieve the highest level of
innovation.
Too often, the executors on the ground don’t
think beyond the automation of existing
process. They lack the knowledge,
imagination, and/or desire to leverage the
human-centered technology available, leaving
transformational capabilities untapped.
Further, they are missing opportunities to
leverage data to create customer journeys and
optimized processes that deliver more value
sooner.
# ⚓ 4_metaverse_tools_that_tackle_workplace
collaboration⠀⇛
By now, most of us have come to realize that
the next normal won’t look much like it used
to. The pandemic has taught us that turbulent
and unpredictable times require flexibility
and an open mind.
Meanwhile, technology companies have been
delivering highly competitive technologies to
win both mind and market share. Think back on
the quality (or lack thereof) of video calls
pre-pandemic. COVID forced competition and
accelerated innovation where new features
seem to be released monthly instead of
annually.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s_official:_Raspberry_Pi_OS_goes_64-bit⠀⇛
64-bits. More is always better, right?
Well, not exactly. And that’s why it’s taken
years for Raspberry Pi OS to add an
officially-supported 64-bit version, in
addition to the 32-bit version they’ve had
since the original Pi came out.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_721⠀⇛
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter,
Issue 721 for the week of January 30 –
February 5, 2022. The full version of this
issue is available here.
# ⚓ Finserv_hybrid_cloud_strategy_–_it_starts_with
Linux⠀⇛
Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides
financial institutions flexibility,
portability, interoperability, and the
control needed to consistently deploy and
manage enterprise applications and workloads.
By adopting hybrid cloud, finservs realise
the benefits of effective cloud cost
management, security, compliance, efficiency
and agility. The hybrid cloud strategy starts
with choosing the right enterprise Linux.
The right operating system (OS) gives
financial institutions the ability to deploy
and run applications anywhere — physical,
virtual, private, and public clouds — and
delivers a consistent foundation to support a
financial institution’s current and future
requirements for enterprise hybrid cloud
deployments.
Ubuntu is one of the leading enterprise Linux
distributions both in the public clouds and
in the private clouds. It is also one of the
most secure end user operating systems
according to UK Government Communications
Headquarters (GCHQ).
Ubuntu Pro is a premium OS image designed by
Canonical to provide the most comprehensive
feature set for production environments
running in the public clouds including AWS,
Azure and Google cloud. Using Ubuntu Pro in
the cloud provides the same performance,
scalability, management, and reliability that
you expect on any other deployment footprint.
Ubuntu Pro includes optimised kernel,
hardening, and security coverage for the
entire collection of software packages
shipped with Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Free_Software_Fellowship:_Did_FOSDEM_remove_Elio
Qoshi,_Ubuntu_employee_with_underage_girlfriend?⠀⇛
In 2021, the Fellowship revealed that Elio
Qoshi is the Ubuntu employee and Mozilla Tech
Speaker who recruited an underage girlfriend
while he was Fedora Ambassador.
Search results show his profile was included
in the FOSDEM 2022 program but if we click
the link, it doesn’t go anywhere, he has been
removed.
In many countries there are laws obliging
people to inform the police about known cases
of child abuse. If the people who removed
Qoshi from the program know something about
the abuse or if details have been shared on
private mailing lists then anybody who has
received that information may be under an
obligation to report it.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CLEAR_is_an_open-source_FPGA_ASIC_provided_by_efabless’
chipIgnite⠀⇛

Open-source SoC designs are available to run on
FPGA hardware, but few make it to silicon due to
the costs involved. That’s why a couple of years
ago the Google SkyWater PDK (process design kit)
was released together with an offer to manufacture
up to 100 pieces for free to selected designs in
collaboration with efabless.
efabless chipIgnite is an evolution of that offer
with $9,750 being enough funds to manufacture 100
QFN or 300 WCSP parts, or alternatively 1,000 parts
for $20 each ($20,000). Based on the company’s
Caravel template SoC and the openFPGA generator
framework, efabless CLEAR open-source FPGA ASIC
design is meant to promote and demonstrate the
chipIgnite “paid IC creation” solution. You can
participate by joining a group buying campaign on
GroupGets to get a development board based on CLEAR
for $74.99 plus shipping.

# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Cannonball_Mold_Makes_A_Dandy_Integrating_Sphere_For
Laser_Measurements_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[Les]’ need for an integrating sphere comes
from the desire to measure the output of some
of his lasers with his Raspberry Pi-based
PySpectrometer. Rather than shell out for an
expensive commercial integrating sphere, or
turn one on a lathe, [Les] turned to an
unlikely source: cannonball molds. The inside
of the mold was painted with an equally
unlikely ultra-white paint concocted from
barium sulfate and PVA glue. With a few ports
machined into the mold, it works perfectly to
diffuse the light from his dye lasers for
proper measurements.
# ⚓ Intel_joins_RISC-V_International,_pledges_$1bn_to
chip_biz⠀⇛
# ⚓ Intel’s_$1_billion_investment_in_IFS_focuses_on_RISC-
V_and_open_chiplets⠀⇛
Intel announced a $1 billion fund to boost
RISC-V, x86, and Arm IP development at Intel
Foundry Services and revealed IFS
collaborations with Andes, Esperanto, SiFive,
and Ventana Micro using RISC-V and “open
chiplet” technology. The chipmaker also
joined RISC-V International.
# ⚓ Calling_all_Computing_and_ICT_teachers_in_the_UK_and
Ireland:_Have_your_say⠀⇛
# ⚓ Yamaha_DX7_chip_reverse-engineering,_part_V:_the
output_circuitry⠀⇛
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was
the classic synthesizer in 1980s pop music.
It uses a technique called FM synthesis to
produce complex, harmonically-rich sounds. In
this blog post, I look inside its custom
sound chip and explain how the chip’s output
circuitry works. You might expect it’s just a
digital output fed into a digital-to-analog
converter, but there’s much more to it than
just that.
# ⚓ Removing_my_last_server?⠀⇛
In the past I used to run a number of virtual
machines, or dedicated hosts. Currently I’m
cut things down to only a single machine
which I’m planning to remove.
# ⚓ Enable_the_external_antenna_connector_on_the
Raspberry_Pi_Compute_Module_4⠀⇛
The internal WiFi module on the Compute
Module 4 (that’s the bit under the metal
shield in the picture above) routes its
antenna signal via software. You can route
the signal to either:
The built-in PCB triangle antenna (this is
the default).
The external U.FL connector (which has an
external antenna plugged into it in the
picture above)
# ⚓ PlottyBot:_A_DrawBot_That_Plots_A_Lot_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Fire up those 3D printers because if you’re
like us, you’ll want your own PlottyBot.
Still, have a pile of “thank you notes” to
write from recent winter holiday gift
exchanges? Hoping to hand letter invitations
to a wedding or other significant event? Need
some new art to adorn your lock-down shelter
or shop? It sounds like [Ben] could help you
with that.
# ⚓ Arduino_Nano_Adds_USB_Interface_To_The_Psion
Organiser_II_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Introduced in 1984, the Psion Organiser
series defined the first generation of
electronic organizers or PDAs (personal
digital assistants). Even though these
devices are now over 30 years old, the Psion
Organiser scene is alive and well: with new
hardware and software is still being
developed by enthusiasts the world over.
# ⚓ Mapping_the_Earth_with_a_homemade_magnetometer_|
Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
Magnetometers are devices that use various
techniques to measure certain aspects of
magnetism, including direction, strength, or
relative changes. By combining these and
applying some math, underground and other
hidden structures can be discovered without
the risk of damaging anything sitting below
the sensor. This is why Markus Opitz decided
to build a large-scale magnetometer using
simple components in order to map things
around his property.
The basic structure of the device consists of
a basic frame made from several wooden planks
with a pair of wheels at its base and a wide
piece of aluminum tubing to hold the sensor
array. To gather raw data, Opitz started by
integrating seven Hall effect sensors with a
digital compass and an Arduino Mega.
# ⚓ Fluke_DMM_Hack_Adds_One_Digit_To_Model_Number_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
The Fluke 77 was introduced in 1983, and is
an average responding meter in the AC modes.
This model has become a de-facto standard for
use in maintenance depots and labs for
equipment which has very long lifespans —
think military and industrial gear, for
example. Many test procedures and training
materials have been designed around the use
of the the Fluke 77. The cost to change them
when a new and better meter comes along is
usually so prohibitive they might as well be
cast in stone — or at least hammered into 20
pound fanfold paper by a WordStar-driven
daisy-wheel printer. But for those unburdened
by such legacy requirements, Fluke has the
17x series of True RMS reading meters from
since the beginning of this century. These
meters bear a strong visual resemblance to
their siblings in the 7x family and are
substantially interchangeable but for their
AC measurement methods.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Samsung’s_latest_phones_could_get_four_years_of
Android_OS_upgrades!_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tips_to_enhance_your_privacy_on_Android_–
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Report:_Wifi_Password-Sharing_Coming_to_Android_and
Chromebooks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_13:_5_things_we_want_to_see_from_the_2022
Android_update_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ OnePlus’s_unified_OS_will_reportedly_run_atop_Android
13⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mi_Pad_5_series_set_for_MIUI_13_and_Android_12
updates_as_Xiaomi_suspends_internal_beta_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Maps_on_Android_Auto_Still_Unavailable_For
Some_Users_|_Android_12_Glitch?_|_Tech_Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Exclusive]_OnePlus_Pad_tablet_will_ship_with_Android
12L_OS_|_91mobiles.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Redmi_10_(2022)_Alleged_Geekbench_Listing_Suggests
MediaTek_Helio_G88_SoC,_Android_11_|_Technology_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ 5_settings_that_can_make_Android_phones_user_friendly
for_senior_citizens_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_To_Remove_A_Hacker_From_My_Android_Phone?⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube_Music_for_Android_gains_new_‘Downloads’
shortcut _–_9to5Google⠀⇛
# ⚓ android:_Android_phones_may_soon_come_preloaded_with
Truecaller_app_in_these_countries_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Twitch_for_Android_could_soon_get_an_option_to_edit
stream_schedules⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Tools_for_Novelists⠀⇛

Writing is one of the essential skills in modern
society. Being able to communicate effectively is
paramount both at work and at home. It makes your
thinking visible to others, and is the main way in
which work, learning, and intellect is judged by
others.
At first glance, the trusty word processor might
seem a good tool for a novelist. After all, in days
gone by, budding authors would tap away using a
typewriter, and a word processor is the modern day
equivalent. Linux has some excellent word
processing software such as LibreOffice. However,
word processors are actually not the ideal tool for
some forms of writing, particularly novel-writing.
In fact, it could be said that using a word
processor for novel-writing is a recipe for
disaster, and actually a retrograde step from a
typewriter. Word processors are a general
application software that are perfect for
constructing business documents, letters, batch
mailings using templates, etc. However, many word
processors are too obtrusive and distracting for
writers. What is needed is software that helps
concentrate on the content of the novel, sketch out
the chapters and scenes, work out the best
structure, import research, add locations,
characters and objects, and so on.
# § Web Browsers⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.0.5_(Android)⠀⇛
Tor Browser 11.0.5 is now available from the
Tor Browser download page and also from our
distribution directory.
This version includes important security
updates to Firefox.
# ⚓ What_could_a_browser_be?⠀⇛
The latest CSS Tricks newsletter has me
energised about what browsers could be. The
newsletter makes this point:
My point here is this: what we think browsers
are today are not what they’ll be in the
future. And because of that, I’m excited
about browsers for the first time in a real
long time.
# ⚓ UK_CMA’s_mobile_ecosystems_report_is_a_step_toward
improving_choice_for_consumers;_swift_independent
enforcement_is_still_necessary_–_Open_Policy_&
Advocacy⠀⇛
Consumers today face many barriers that
prevent them from accessing and using a
variety of software options on their devices.
We welcome efforts by the UK Competition and
Market Authority (CMA) to better understand
the situations faced by mobile device users
and to address them.
Earlier today, we submitted our comments to
the CMA’s interim report on mobile
ecosystems. Their assessment adds to a
growing body of work by regulators on the
systemic barriers that prevent meaningful
consumer choice and stifle innovation online.
As these reports show, all devices run on
operating systems, and concentration of
operating systems and affiliated software
harms developers and consumers alike. In
addition, the CMA’s report is the first to
chronicle the importance of web compatibility
and the harmful network effects that result
when popular software apps are incompatible
with all browsers. It also dives into the
importance of browser engines to a healthy
internet ecosystem that is decentralized and
open.
# ⚓ Stuart_Langridge:_Contact_the_CMA_about_the_browser
ecosystem⠀⇛
The CMA, the UK’s regulator of business
competition and markets, what the USA calls
“antitrust”, is conducting a study into
mobile platforms and the mobile ecosystem.
You may recall that I and others presented to
the CMA in September 2021 about Apple’s
browser ban. They have invited public
comments, and they honestly are eager to hear
from people: not solely big players with big
legal submissions, but real web developers.
But the time is nigh: they need to hear from
you by 5pm UK time today, Monday 7th February
2022.
Bruce Lawson, who I presented with, has
summarised the CMA’s interim report. What’s
important for our perspectives today is how
they feel about mobile browsers. In
particular, they call out how on Apple’s iOS
devices, there is only one browser: Safari.
While other browser names do exist — Chrome,
Firefox, and the like — they are all Safari
dressed up in different clothes. It’s been
surprising how many developers didn’t realise
this: check out the Twitter hashtag
#AppleBrowserBan for more on that. So the CMA
are looking for feedback and comments from
anyone in the UK or who does any business in
the UK, on how you feel about the mobile
ecosystem of apps and browsers in general,
and how you feel about the browser landscape
specifically. Did you decide to use the web,
or not use the web, on mobile devices in a
way that felt like you had no choice? Do you
feel like web apps are a match for native
apps or not?
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla_Firefox_97_Is_Now_Available_for
Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛

Firefox 97 comes as an incremental
update to previous releases and adds a
new set of Colorway themes to further
customize the look and feel of the web
browser. There are six Colorway themes
available (for a limited time) for you
to try under the Themes section in the
about:addons page or via Customize
Toolbar right-click context menu option
> Manage Themes.
For Linux users, this release removes
the PostScript printing support.
# § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Golang_SQLite_database/sql⠀⇛
If you’re curious about the basics of storing
persistent data into a SQL database using
Golang, this tutorial will be helpful for
you. I’m going to be using sqlite3, but I’ll
add lots of headings, so you can skip ahead
if sqlite is not your thing.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Improved_PDF_export_options_in_the_command-line_and
in_Online⠀⇛

The LibreOffice Technology now has much
better support for creating custom PDF
exports of documents: options available in
the interactive PDF export options dialog are
now also possible to set from the command-
line, and also when using the document
conversion feature of Collabora Online.
I was working on a regression that only
happens if you export the second and third
pages of a document to PDF. While
investigating, I needed a quick way to
trigger the problematic code-path, and
clicking through a dialog is not convenient.
# § FSF⠀➾
# § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ poke_–_News:_GNU_poke_2.1_released_[Savannah]⠀⇛
I am happy to announce a new release of
GNU poke, version 2.1.
This is the first bugfix release in the
2.x series.
See the file NEWS in the distribution
tarball for a list of issues fixed in
this release.
The tarball poke-2.1.tar.gz is now
available at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-
2.1.tar.gz.
> GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/
poke) is an interactive, extensible
editor for binary data. Not limited to
editing basic entities such as bits and
bytes, it provides a full-fledged
procedural, interactive programming
language designed to describe data
structures and to operate on them.
Thanks to the people who contributed
with code and/or documentation to this
release. In certain but no significant
order they are:
Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
Luca Saiu
Alfred M. Szmidt
Bruno Haible
Sergio Durigan Junior
Special thanks to Bruno Haible for his
help in testing this release.
And this is all for now.
Happy poking!
# ⚓ LibrePlanet’s_almost_here,_come_and_be_a
volunteer!_—_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛
We want to see a world where users are
liberated — not restricted — by the
software they use. Our annual
LibrePlanet conference is a reflection
of the community that formed itself
over the years around this idea. It is
coming up soon, March 19 & 20, and we
need your help!
# ⚓ January_GNU_Spotlight_with_Mike_Gerwitz:
Twenty-two_new_releases⠀⇛
alive-2.0.5
bash-5.1.16
cflow-1.7
ddrescue-1.26
direvent-5.3
freeipmi-1.6.9
gama-2.17
gdb-11.2
hello-2.11
libsigsegv-2.14
libunistring-1.0
linux-libre-5.16
mailutils-3.14
moe-1.12
mtools-4.0.37
ocrad-0.28
parallel-20220122
pies-1.7
readline-8.1.2
rush-2.2
serveez-0.3.1
tramp-2.5.2
# § Licensing/Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Free_software_licenses_explained:_MIT⠀⇛
The first paragraph of the license
enumerates the rights which you, as a
recipient of the software, are entitled
to. It’s this section which qualifies
the license as free and open source
software (assuming the later sections
don’t disqualify it). The key grants
are the right to “use” the software
(freedom 0), to “modify” and “merge” it
(freedom 1), and to “distribute” and
“sell” copies (freedoms 2 and 3),
“without restriction”. We also get some
bonus grants, like the right to
sublicense the software, so you could,
for instance, incorporate it into a
work which uses a less permissive
license like the GPL.
All of this is subject to the
conditions of paragraph two, of which
there is only one: you must include the
copyright notice and license text in
any substantial copies or derivatives
of the software. Thus, the MIT license
requires attribution. This can be
achieved by simply including the full
license text (copyright notice
included) somewhere in your project.
For a proprietary product, this is
commonly hidden away in a menu
somewhere. For a free software project,
where the source code is distributed
alongside the product, I often include
it as a comment in the relevant files.
You can also add your name or the name
of your organization to the list of
copyright holders when contributing to
MIT-licensed projects, at least in the
absence of a CLA.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ The_right_thing_for_the_wrong_reasons:_FLOSS_doesn’t
imply_security⠀⇛
Reading the source code, compiling, and
passing tests isn’t sufficient to show us a
program’s final behavior. The only way to
know what a program does when you run it is
to…run it.
# ⚓ Development_notes⠀⇛
So in the course of working on Placemark, I’m
solving a lot of small problems that are each
too small and niche to merit their own blog
post. But I hate letting things go unwritten,
so here they are, smorgasbord style.
# ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_x13binary_1.1.57-3_on_CRAN:
Packaging_Updates⠀⇛
Release 1.1.57-3 of the x13binary package
providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the
US Census Bureau arrived late yesterday on
CRAN.
This release relaxes the download requirement
on macOS and Linux: if a user supplies a path
in an environment variable X13_PATH we check
for a suitable binary there and omit the
download. This helps with air-gapped
installation (and alike).
# ⚓ Simplest_alternative_IDs_with_Rails⠀⇛
Rails actions default on using record IDs.
But what if we want to change the URL to
something prettier, something that doesn’t
leak the record ID in the database?
Luckily, there is a simple answer that
doesn’t require you to change much. Let’s say
we want to use a slug in the URL for a Team
model.
# § Perl/Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ 2022.06_BASICly_–_Rakudo_Weekly_News⠀⇛
Matthew “Stephen” Stuckwisch has
started playing around with the RakuAST
branch of Rakudo, and has written a
proof of concept module of a BASIC
slang and reported about that on /r/
rakulang. Cool stuff. And a great
introduction on things to come in the
Raku Programming Language!
# ⚓ raku_for_yachting_–_Physics::Journey⠀⇛
On Saturday, I was honoured to be among
the leaders of the raku community in
the FOSDEM 2022 raku devroom. Thanks to
Andrew Shitov for organising and to all
those who were able to join.
# ⚓ p6steve:_raku_on_the_M1_–_up_to_2.4x_faster⠀⇛
In November (2021) I wrote a couple of
posts bemoaning the headaches of the
Apple Intel to ARM architecture shift
(part I and part II) before coming to a
solution that works for me. (raku on
docker on ubuntu on vftools as set out
at the end of part II).
One of the drivers to choose this
option was to get the whole of my
(raku) stack running native on ARM
(–platform linux/arm64) to get the
performance boost of the new M1 CPU
architecture.
Going back to something I posted in
January 2021 – where I ran through the
progressive speed ups that refactoring
my code had achieved – there were a
couple of test timings that I can now
rerun.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Customize_your_shell_prompt_with_Starship_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
Nothing irritates me more than when I
forget to git add files in my Git
repository. I test locally, commit, and
push, only to find out it failed in the
continuous integration phase. Even
worse is when I’m on the main branch
instead of a feature branch and
accidentally push to it. The best-case
scenario is that it fails because of
branch protection, and I need to do
some surgery to get the changes to a
branch. Even more worse, I did not
configure branch protection properly,
and I accidentally pushed it directly
to main.
[...]
There is even more information that is
useful in the prompt. While the name of
Python virtual environments is in the
prompt, the Python version the virtual
environment has is not.
# ⚓ “Lazier”_Web_Scraping_Is_Better_Web_Scraping_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
Ever needed to get data from a web
page? Parsing the content for data is
called web scraping, and [Doug Guthrie]
has a few tips for making the process
of digging data out of a web page
simpler and more efficient, complete
with code examples in Python. He uses
getting data from Yahoo Finance as an
example, because it’s apparently a
pretty common use case judging by how
often questions about it pop up on
Stack Overflow. The general concepts
are pretty widely applicable, however.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Accumulating_into_lists_in_Java_and_Groovy_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
In my last article, I reviewed some
differences between creating and
initializing lists in Groovy and doing
the same thing in Java. I showed that
Groovy has a straightforward and
compact syntax for setting up lists
compared to the steps necessary in
Java.
This article explores some more
differences between list handling in
Groovy and Java. I’ll explore how to
run-length encode a list in both
languages for that purpose. Briefly,
run-length encoding is a way of
compactly representing repeated
sequences of the same value in a list.
You’ll need to make sure you have both
Groovy and Java installed on your
computer to follow along.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Judy_Gumbo’s_Cultural_Revolution⠀⇛
I have known three of her four husbands, including her
present partner, Art Eckstein, a retired professor and
the author of a book about the Weather Underground and
the FBI which says in a scholarly way, “a plague on both
your houses.” I also knew, very well, Gumbo’s second
husband, Stew Albert, my consigliore, with whom I
traveled to Algiers on a mission from Bernardine Dohrn
who was then on the “FBI Ten Most Wanted List.” I was to
tell Eldridge Cleaver not to trust Timothy Leary, a
slippery fellow if ever there was one. It was Eldridge
who gave Judy Clavir her moniker, Gumbo. She was the
female version of Stew. Get it?
Eldridge over-reacted to my message and placed Leary
under house arrest. Later, he sent Leary and his
entourage to the Middle East to befriend the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), an expedition that turned
into a fiasco. Years later, Leary and Cleaver both
surrendered to the authorities and both named names they
should not have named. Yes, they informed on former
comrades and betrayed confidences. Leary snitched on his
own lawyer, Michael Kennedy.
o ⚓ A_Sinking_Boat_Caught_Her_Eye_During_a_Zoom_Call⠀⇛
At that point, Ms. Harght said she excused herself from
the meeting and called 911, figuring that surely others
must have seen the overturned vessel and had already
contacted emergency responders.
But there was no one else, according to John P. Murphy,
Scituate’s fire chief, who said on Friday that Ms. Harght
had played a pivotal role in facilitating the rescue of
all three of the boat’s crew members from the 42-degree
waters of Massachusetts Bay.
o ⚓ Crimping_Tools_And_The_Cost_Of_Being_Cheap_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Crimp connectors provide an easy and convenient way to
connect electronics while still allowing for them to be
removed and swapped without having to reach for a
soldering iron and desoldering wick. While browsing one’s
favorite cheap shopping site, you may get the impression
that all one has to do to join the world of crimp-awesome
is order a $20 crimp tool and some assorted ‘JST’ and
‘DuPont’ (a Mini-PV clone) connectors to go with it.
After all, it’s just a bit of metal that’s squeezed
around some stripped wire. How complicated could this be?
The harsh truth is that, as ridiculous as the price tag
on official JST and Mini-PV crimping tools may seem at
hundreds of dollars each, they offer precise, repeatable
crimps and reliable long-term stability. The same is true
for genuine JST, Mini-PV and Molex connectors. The price
tag for ‘saving a buck’ may end up being a lot higher
than the money originally saved.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Factoring_composite_numbers_into_nearly_equal_factors⠀⇛
Pennsylvania license plate numbers have four digits
and when I’m driving I habitually try to factor
these. (This hasn’t yet led to any serious injury
or property damage…) In general factoring is a
hardish problem but when !!n<10000!! the worst case
is !!9991 = 97·103!! which is not out of reach. The
toughest part is when you find a factor like
!!661!! or !!667!! and have to decide if it is
prime. For !!667!! you might notice right off that
it is !!676-9 = (26+3)(26-3)!! but for !!661!! you
have to wonder if maybe there is something like
that and you just haven’t thought of it yet. (There
isn’t.)
# ⚓ As_Light_as_Plastic;_As_Strong_as_Steel⠀⇛
Chemical engineers at MIT have pulled off something
that was once thought impossible. By polymerizing
material in two different directions at once, they
have created a polymer that is very strong. You can
read a pre-print version of the paper over on
Arxiv.
Polymers owe many of their useful properties to the
fact that they make long chains. Atoms known as
monomers join together in strings held together by
covalent bonds. Polymer chains may be cross-linked
which changes its properties, but it has long been
thought that material that had chains going through
the X and Y axis would have desirable properties,
but making these reliably is a challenge.
Part of the problem is that it is hard to line up
molecules, even large monomers. If one monomer in
the chain rotates a bit, it will create a defect in
the 2D structure and that defect will grow rapidly
as you add more monomers. The new technique is
relatively easy to do and is irreversible which is
good because reversible chains tend to have
undesirable characteristics like low chemical
stability. Synthesis does require a few chemicals
like melamine, calcium chloride, pyridine, and
trimesic acid. Along with N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone,
the mixture eventually forms a gel. The team took
pieces of gel and soaked it in ethanol. With some
filtering, ultrasonics, centrifuging, and washing
with water and acetone, the material was ready for
vacuum drying and was made into a powder.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Can_School_Board_Meetings_Bring_Us_Together_Rather_Than
Pull_us_Apart?⠀⇛
She is not alone. Many communities are being torn
apart as parents fight for their children’s future
– but with different views of what that future
should be.
In many ways, this energy around school boards is
wonderful. Parental involvement has increased.
People have decided to run for office who never
expected to do so. While so much involvement is
great for our democracy, often missing are the
basic elements of engagement, openness and
learning, transparency and trust, collaboration and
shared purpose. Many times, people are not
listening to each other and solving conflicts
together.
# ⚓ Despite_2020_Promise,_Jill_Biden_Confirms_Free_Community
College_Plan_Is_Dead⠀⇛
Confirming that the Biden administration has
abandoned its efforts to pass tuition-free
community college—a signature campaign
promise—First Lady JIll Biden on Monday offered a
stark reminder, according to one critic, of “how
low we, the people, are on the U.S. list of
priorities.”
The first lady spoke at the Community College
National Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C.,
telling attendees that President Joe Biden has not
found a way to keep the community college provision
in the Build Back Better Act, his social spending
and climate package, as Democrats continue to
negotiate the bill.
# ⚓ A_Push_to_Remove_LGBTQ_Books_in_One_County_Could_Signal
Rising_Partisanship_on_School_Boards⠀⇛
Nearly seven years ago, Melanie Graft’s 4-year-old
daughter was in the children’s section of her local
North Texas library when she picked up a book about
an LGBTQ pride parade. Within the colorful pages of
the book, “This Day in June,” children and adults
celebrate with rainbow flags and signs promoting
equality and love over hate. Adults embrace and
kiss one another.
Alarmed, Graft launched a campaign against the book
and another about a boy who likes to wear dresses,
suggesting that their presence in the library
foisted inappropriate themes on unsuspecting
children. By June 2015, the Hood County Library
Advisory Board had received more than 50 complaints
asking that the two books be removed from the
shelves of the children’s section. The board
refused, saying the books did not promote
homosexuality, as some complaints had suggested,
and arguing that the library already required
parents of young children to accompany them and
check out materials. Librarian Courtney Kincaid
called “This Day in June” a tool to teach respect
and acceptance of the LGBTQ community, but she
agreed to move it to the adult section. She kept
“My Princess Boy” in the children’s section.
# ⚓ The_University_Crisis⠀⇛
In January 2020, just days before the first case of
Covid-19 was identified in the United States, Bryan
Alexander, a scholar at Georgetown University known
as a “futurist,” published a new book, Academia
Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Alexander
made no claim to clairvoyance, only to “trend
analysis and scenario creation.” But one of his
scenarios showed startling foresight:1Imagine a
future academy after a major pandemic has struck
the world…. Would distance learning grow rapidly as
people fear face-to-face learning because of
perceived contagion risk?… How would we take
conferences and other forms of professional
development online?… Would athletes refrain from
practice and play for fear of contagion, or would
both institutions and the general public demand
more college sports as an inspirational sign of
bodily vigor in the context of sickness and death?
# ⚓ I_took_the_CompTIA_Project+_PK1-005_beta_exam_for_fun⠀⇛
This afternoon, I took the CompTIA Project+ PK1-005
beta exam for fun. I am not a project manager, nor
are there any expectations on me to act as a
project manager for $DAYJOB. However, there are
faculty in my department that hold active PMP
certification. And some of the core courses (that I
don’t teach) do cover management and related
topics. This occasionally translates to students
talking to me about management issues. The beta
exam seemed like an easy excuse to finally learn a
little bit about project management.
To be clear: there is no professional benefit for
me getting certified. I did it out of pure
curiosity plus the fact that CompTIA is offering a
public beta for $50. That’s low enough that I don’t
mind taking the exam and not passing.
# ⚓ Replacing_The_Prestige_Signal⠀⇛
tl;dr: Evidence suggests that the prestige signal
in our current journals is noisy, expensive and
flags unreliable science. There is a lack of
evidence that the supposed filter function of
prestigious journals is not just a biased random
selection of already self-selected input material.
As such, massive improvement along several
variables can be expected from a more modern
implementation of the prestige signal.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Across-the-Board_Rate_Hike_by_the_Fed_Is_a_Cure
Worse_Than_the_Disease⠀⇛
Although some supply shortages were anticipated as
the global economy reopened after the COVID-19
lockdowns, they have proved more pervasive, and
less transitory, than had been hoped. In a market
economy that is governed at least in part by the
laws of supply and demand, one expects shortages to
be reflected in prices. And when individual price
increases are lumped together, we call that
inflation, which is now at levels not seen for many
years.
# ⚓ Far-Right,_Anti-Vax_Factions_in_US_and_Beyond_Rally_Around
Ottawa_‘Siege’⠀⇛
Now in its second week, an anti-government
demonstration in the Canadian capital of Ottawa has
garnered support from right-wing lawmakers and
media personalities in the U.S. and abroad, with
millions of dollars raised internationally to back
the so-called “Freedom Convoy” and similar protests
reportedly being planned in the U.S. and Europe for
the coming weeks.
The demonstration began last month over a federal
Covid-19 vaccine mandate for truck drivers who
operate between the U.S. and Canada. Only 10% of
the country’s cross-border truckers are
unvaccinated, according to the Canadian Trucking
Alliance, but the far-right group Canada Unity and
other organizers assembled what Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau called a “small fringe minority” to
protest the mandate.
# ⚓ School_District_Where_Toxic_Chemicals_Lingered_for_Years
Offers_$34_Million_Settlement_to_Families⠀⇛
A school district in Washington state has offered
an extraordinary $34 million settlement to students
and parents exposed to toxic chemicals that
lingered for at least eight years on a public
school campus.
The Monroe School District, northeast of Seattle,
proposed the striking settlement in November under
court seal, preventing the public from seeing the
offer. However, the $34 million figure appears in a
separate court document obtained last week by The
Seattle Times.
# ⚓ Omicron_Led_to_Cuts_in_Hours_Not_Jobs⠀⇛
Revisions Change Our View of the Economy
# ⚓ Medicare_for_All_Bill_Introduced_by_Pramila_Jayapal_Gets
Record_120_Cosponsors⠀⇛
# ⚓ Drug_Decriminalization_Is_Working_in_Oregon._Other_States
Should_Follow.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Why_Can’t_We_Pay_Attention_Anymore?⠀⇛
Ward describes three nested metaphorical loops. The
first loop is inside us. He gives a fascinating
survey of the known spectrum of human biases that
get in our way of thinking through things, even
when we convince ourselves we have. The second loop
is composed of technology automatically poking at
our bruises, triggering actions by playing on the
frailties described in the first loop, such as a
tendency toward risky behavior like gambling.
Finally, the outermost layer describes how we are
prodded not only into short-term behavior by such
technology, but into something approaching global
sheeplike behavior, utterly determined by
conditioning.
# ⚓ Ottawa_Declares_State_of_Emergency_Amid_Truckers’_Protest⠀⇛
On Saturday, about 5,000 people and 1,000 tractor-
trailers and personal vehicles squeezed into
downtown Ottawa to join in on the second week of a
protest, which was initially intended to voice
opposition to the Canadian government’s vaccine
requirement for truckers crossing the Canada-United
States border.
# ⚓ Pakistan:_Cousin_marriages_create_high_risk_of_genetic
disorders⠀⇛
Scientists say inbreeding is causing an unusually
high number of genetic mutations to spread in
Pakistan, leading to disabilities in children of
consanguineous marriages. Still, this social custom
persists.
# ⚓ USA_Number_1!⠀⇛
The Economist now estimates around 350 per 100K, so
in 5 months another roughly 334K have died, or
about 2.2K/day. Using the Dept. of Transportation
value of a life, these deaths have cost the economy
$32B.
# ⚓ Remembering_The_MIT_Radiation_Laboratory_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Back in the late 80s, our company managed to
procure the complete 28 volume MIT Radiation
Laboratory (Rad Lab) series, published in 1947, for
the company library. To me, these books were
interesting because I like history and old
technology, but I didn’t understand why everyone
was so excited about the acquisition. Only a
cursory glimpse at the volumes would reveal that
the “circuits” these books described used vacuum
tubes and their “computers” were made from
mechanical linkages. This was the 1980s, and we
worked with modern radar and communications systems
using semiconductors, integrated circuits, and
digital computers. How could these old musty books
possibly be of any practical use? To my surprise,
it turned out that indeed they could, and
eventually I came to appreciate the excitement. I
even used several of them myself over the years.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Unpatched_Security_Bugs_in_Medical_Wearables_Allow
Patient_Tracking,_Data_Theft⠀⇛
Analysts with Kaspersky Labs reported finding
33 vulnerabilities last year in the most
widely used data transfer protocol for
internet of things (IoT) medical devices,
known as MQTT — that’s 10 more than the
previous year. All of them put patient data
at risk, the team warned.
To put those numbers in perspective, the
analysts at Kaspersky said only 90
vulnerabilities in MQTT have been reported
since 2014. Worse yet, many of those bugs are
still unpatched, they added.
# ⚓ PowerPoint_Files_Abused_to_Take_Over_Computers⠀⇛
New research from Avanan, a Check Point
company, has uncovered how a “little-known
add-on” in PowerPoint – the .ppam file – is
being used to hide malware. Jeremy Fuchs,
cybersecurity researcher and analyst at
Avanan, wrote in a report published Thursday
that the file has bonus commands and custom
macros, among other functions.
# ⚓ Charming_Kitten_Sharpens_Its_Claws_with_PowerShell
Backdoor⠀⇛
The Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT)
Charming Kitten is sharpening its claws with
a new set of tools, including a novel
PowerShell backdoor and related stealth
tactics, that show the group evolving yet
again. The new tools may signal that it’s
getting ready to pounce on new victims,
researchers believe.
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Cybereason
discovered the tools, which include a
backdoor they dubbed “PowerLess Backdoor,” as
well as an evasive maneuver to run the
backdoor in a .NET context rather than as one
that triggers a PowerShell process, the
Cybereason Nocturnus Team wrote in a report
published Tuesday.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ FBI_Releases_Indicators_of_Compromise
Associated_with_LockBit_2.0_Ransomware_|_CISA
[Ed: Microsoft_Windows_TCO]⠀⇛
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) has released a Flash report
detailing indicators of compromise
(IOCs) associated with attacks, using
LockBit 2.0, a Ransomware-as-a-Service
that employs a wide variety of tactics,
techniques, and procedures, creating
significant challenges for defense and
mitigation.
# ⚓ FBI:_Watch_out_for_LockBit_2.0_ransomware,
here’s_how_to_reduce_the_risk_to_your_network
[Ed: Liam Tung is trying to present Microsoft as
security experts when Microsoft is in fact a_back
doors_company, making its stuff full of holes by
intention]⠀⇛
The Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI) has published a fresh warning
about LockBit 2.0. recommending that
companies enable multi-factor
authentication (MFA) and use strong,
unique passwords for all admin and
high-value accounts to thwart the
strain of ransomware that is used by
one of the busiest attack groups on the
internet today.
# ⚓ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by
Debian (ldns and libphp-adodb), Fedora
(kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools,
mingw-binutils, mingw-openexr, mingw-
python3, mingw-qt5-qtsvg, scap-
security-guide, stratisd, util-linux,
and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (lrzsz,
qtwebengine5, and xterm), openSUSE
(chromium), and Ubuntu (python-django).
# ⚓ PwnKit_(polkit’s_pkexec_exploit)_–_CVE-2021-
4034⠀⇛
The update fixing the issue for Mageia
8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31
UTC (05:31 EST).
# ⚓ DPD_package_sniffing_|_Pen_Test_Partners⠀⇛
An unauthenticated API call was
identified in DPD Group’s public API
that could allow a user with a valid
package ID to, with some basic OSINT,
discover the package’s destination
postcode and thus obtain all details
about the package.
DPD Group were prompt in the triage and
resolution of the vulnerability, which
was fixed in October 2021.
# ⚓ Why_Security_in_Kubernetes_Isn’t_the_Same_as_in
Linux:_Part_2_|_MarketScreener⠀⇛
Security for Kubernetes might not be
quite the same as what you’re used to.
In our previous article, we covered why
security is so important in both Linux
on-premises servers and cloud
Kubernetes clusters. We also talked
about 3 major aspects of Linux server
security – processes, network, and file
system – and how they correspond to
Kubernetes. So today, we’ll talk more
about the security concerns unique to
Kubernetes.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ German_Court_Fines_Site_Owner_For_Sharing
User_Data_With_Google_To_Access_Web_Fonts⠀⇛
The European Union’s data privacy
law, the GDPR (General Data
Protection Regulation), has
caused all sorts of problems
since its debut. Its debut was
itself a mess, something that
immediately resulted in a whole
lot of websites simply refusing
to allow European users to
connect with them.
# ⚓ IRS_Says_It_Will_Move_Away_From_Requiring
ID.me_Facial_Recognition⠀⇛
Last month, we wrote about how
the IRS and other federal
agencies were starting to require
the use of private facial
recognition from a somewhat
sketchy private company, for
people to access their own
government’s services. The main
company in question, ID.me, had
made some… questionable decisions
that raised serious questions
about why the government was
forcing people to make use of
such a private service.
# ⚓ IRS_To_Ditch_Biometric_Requirement_for
Online_Access⠀⇛
The Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) said today it will be
transitioning away from requiring
biometric data from taxpayers who
wish to access their records at
the agency’s website. The
reversal comes as privacy experts
and lawmakers have been pushing
the IRS and other federal
agencies to find less intrusive
methods for validating one’s
identity with the U.S. government
online.
# ⚓ Access_through_Europol_and_databases:_EU
decides_against_control_of_Interpol⠀⇛
Authoritarian states use the
international police organisation
for the political persecution of
opposition members. The EU
Council or the Commission could
coordinate the review of these
misused alerts. However, the
Parliament has agreed to a horse-
trading deal.
# ⚓ Shutting_down_Facebook_and_Instagram_in
Europe?_MEP_Patrick_Breyer_fears_the_EU
Commission_could_buckle⠀⇛
The US tech company Meta has
threatened to take its digital
services Facebook and Instagram
offline in the EU if the EU does
not allow the company to transfer
personal user data and profiles
to the US. Meta uses these
personality profiles it collects
on all users to target them with
surveillance-based advertising
and paid messages.
# ⚓ Everyone_Hates_Facebook_(but_this_is_more
than_just_about_Facebook)⠀⇛
So we have a bigger – systemic –
problem on our hands. (Ooh, fun!)
And it seems everyone has some
idea or other about how we should
do things differently moving
forward.
# ⚓ FBI:_Use_a_Burner_Phone_at_the_Olympics⠀⇛
Use a burner phone if you’re
traveling to the Olympics, the
FBI warned on Tuesday, lest you
come home with a nasty case of
malware and/or snatched personal
data.
The FBI didn’t mention specific
threats, per se, but its alert
warned those traveling to the
February 2022 Beijing Winter
Olympics and March 2022
Paralympics that we’ve seen this
all before with the Olympics,
where “malicious cyber actors
could use a broad range of cyber
activities to disrupt these
events.”
# ⚓ About_Face:_IRS_Backtracks_on_Biometrics
After_Backlash_–_Purism⠀⇛
Recently the IRS announced a new
facial recognition system that
would require customers upload
videos of themselves to access
certain IRS services. Over the
past couple weeks the system has
faced backlash online, bi-
partisan backlash in Congress,
and a lot of media attention, and
this week the IRS announced they
were transitioning away from the
facial recognition service. What
lessons does the IRS’s about face
teach us about the current state
of privacy awareness among the
general population and people’s
power to change privacy policy,
and what does it mean for the
future?
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Genocide_Denier?_Not_Me,_Pal._Try_the_White_House_Instead⠀⇛
Since then, I have written thousands of articles
and thirty books, largely concerned with the open
wounds of our planetary grief. This year, Noam
Chomsky and I will release The Withdrawal:
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and the Fragilities of US
Power (New Press), which will bring together his
considerable thinking on the ugliness of our times
and my reporting from some of these places. In the
book, Chomsky and I talk about the Godfather
attitude of the United States government: either
you are with us or against us, and if you are
against us, then we will use every ounce of our
force to demolish you. One of the ways in which
this Godfather attitude appears is in the
information war that the United States (and its
corporate allies) conducts against anyone who
objects to its self-anointed right to power and to
its myopic vision of the world. Noam’s book with
Edward Herman Counter-Revolutionary Violence:
Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda (1975) was pulped
by Warner when its chief executive felt that it was
“a scurrilous attack on respected Americans.” You
tell the truth about the violence of the United
States government, and you will get it in the neck
from its loyal defenders.
***
# ⚓ Opinion_|_What_the_Cuban_Missile_Crisis_Can_Teach_Us_About
Ending_Hostility_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have
sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis.
This is a good comparison―and not only because they
both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation
capable of leading to a nuclear war.
# ⚓ House_Dems_Vow_to_Introduce_War_Powers_Resolution_for
Yemen⠀⇛
A pair of progressive U.S. lawmakers on Monday said
that if President Joe Biden does not stop
supporting the Saudi-led war against Yemen, they
will work to pass a new war powers resolution to
“end unconstitutional U.S. participation” in the
conflict.
“We will not sit by as the Constitution is ignored
and the Yemeni people suffer seven years into this
unauthorized war.”
# ⚓ Is_This_Israel’s_South_Africa_Moment?⠀⇛
Last week, Amnesty International released a
meticulously researched report detailing the
objective reality of Israel’s decades-old system of
apartheid, which treats Palestinians as an
“inferior racial group.” Even before the official
release, the Israeli government was vilifying and
slandering Amnesty in a desperate attempt to
torpedo the damning report. Israeli Foreign
Minister Yair Lapid summarized the strategic
concern that is haunting his government: “Calling
Israel an apartheid state was a slowly creeping
trend for a very long time, and in 2022, it will be
a real threat.”
# ⚓ Is_Russia-NATO_Brinksmanship_Over_Ukraine_Thwarting
Diplomatic_Resolution?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Is_a_Peaceful_Resolution_Still_Possible?_Masha_Gessen_&
Anatol_Lieven_on_Ukraine,_Putin_&_NATO⠀⇛
The U.S. warns Russia could soon invade Ukraine, as
diplomatic talks continue in Moscow and Washington
and the U.S. sends more military equipment to
Ukraine. We look at the potential of war from the
seldom-discussed perspective of citizens of
Ukraine. “This Russian brinkmanship is having a
devastating effect on the Ukrainian economy, even
without an invasion,” says Russian American
journalist Masha Gessen, who just returned from
reporting in Ukraine. Foreign policy expert Anatol
Lieven says that while a Russian invasion of
Ukraine remains a possibility, “there clearly is a
desire in Moscow to pursue a diplomatic path” to
resolve the crisis without war.
# ⚓ Putin_is_Playing_a_Strong_Hand_on_Ukraine…as_Long_as_He
Doesn’t_Invade⠀⇛
“What we currently have,” writes Andriy
Zagorodnyuk, the former Ukrainian defence minister,
and military specialists, in a report by the Centre
for Defence Studies in Kyiv, “is the military
threat posed by about 127,000 Russian servicemen
along Ukraine’s borders, in the occupied
territories of eastern Ukraine, and in Crimea. This
number has not increased since April [2021], and is
not enough for a full-scale offensive.”
The report states categorically that Russian forces
are not in a position to invade in the next two or
three weeks and are unlikely to be able to do so in
2022. It points to the absence of ammunition and
fuel along with field hospitals and trained up-to-
strength military units essential to a modern army
going to war. This negative judgement about the
prospect of a Russian offensive is confirmed by
Ukrainian ministers and defence officials who
politely downplay the war hysteria in Washington
and London.
# ⚓ Biden’s_Brinksmanship⠀⇛
In that spirit, I write as a 54-year-old person who
has been diligently consuming a wide variety of
news sources on a daily basis since I was 12:
we’ve been here before. The details have changed,
but the pattern is firmly established.
It would be completely MAD to go to war with Russia
— that is, it would be an invitation for the world
to finally learn the true meaning of the acronym
that used to be as commonly used as acronyms like
SALT, START, or ICBM — Mutually Assured
Destruction. But in our corporate and so-called
public media landscape today, in the media consumed
daily by so many millions of Americans (not to
mention people in the UK, Australia, and many other
countries in similar straits), there will be no
reminders of this critical concept, which was once
known as a doctrine, one that was dominant in the
halls of power in both Washington, DC and Moscow
for much of the twentieth century.
# ⚓ Why_We_Intend_to_Pass_a_New_Yemen_War_Powers_Resolution⠀⇛
The recent round of devastating airstrikes launched
in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition marks the
latest escalation of a conflict that has dragged on
for nearly seven years, pushed millions to the
brink of famine, and killed hundreds of thousands
of civilians. A recent bombardment killed at least
90 people and cut off Internet access for the
entire country for days. The disturbing truth is
that the United States, through its military
involvement in the Saudi-led coalition’s war
against the Houthis in Yemen, has been directly
participating in this horrific war for too long.
It’s time for this complicity to end.
# ⚓ Even_with_its_head_severed,_Islamic_State_may_continue_to
bite⠀⇛
Al-Qurayshi came to power in 2019, following the
death of his predecessor in almost identical
circumstances. Three years ago, as US special
forces approached his hideout in Idlib province,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest,
killing himself and his two children. Both IS
leaders were denounced as cowards by the US
presidents who authorised the raids.
The al-Qurayshi raid continues the decapitation
strikes—colloquially described as cutting off the
head of the snake—that were a key element of US
counterterrorism strategy in the global war on
terror. Such strikes have long been part of the
military arsenal, especially in counterinsurgency,
but how successful they are as a counterterrorism
tool is not straightforward.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Study_Exposes_How_World’s_Biggest_Corporations_Embellish
Climate_Progress⠀⇛
A new study out Monday evaluates the public climate
pledges made by 25 of the world’s biggest
corporations and concludes they “cannot be taken at
face value” because the vast majority
of firms analyzed are exaggerating the nature of
and progress toward their goals—a
greenwashing trend that critics say will continue
in the absence of stronger regulation.
“Setting vague targets will get us nowhere without
real action, and can be worse than doing nothing if
it misleads the public.”
# ⚓ Montana_Plaintiffs_Announce_First_Children’s_Climate_Trial
in_US_History⠀⇛
Young Montanans and their lawyers announced Monday
that the first children’s climate trial in U.S.
history is set to begin a year from now in Helena,
Montana.
“Knowing that we have the dates for the first youth
constitutional climate case ever, I feel hopeful
that finally our government may begin to serve our
best interest.”
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Is_California_Backsliding_on_Its_Plan_to_Reach
Zero_Carbon_Emissions_by_Mid-Century?⠀⇛
California is one of the world’s largest economies.
It is also a liberal state that acts as a leader in
efforts to combat the climate crisis. Indeed,
California is said to have revolutionized climate
policy, advancing many key pieces of climate
legislation that seek to combat global warming and
its catastrophic effects. Among them is a plan to
ban the sale of new gasoline-powered
vehicles statewide by 2035. California leaders also
pride themselves in seeking to meet climate goals
while maximizing jobs and economic growth.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ An_FTI_Consulting_Presentation_Pulls_Back_the_Veil_on
Fossil_Fuel_PR⠀⇛
“We understand how the oil and gas sector
works — we’ve worked in it, studied it,
defended it and impacted the policy that
regulates it,” a 2015 presentation delivered
to the Tennessee Oil and Gas Association
begins. “We have been instrumental players in
the industry’s highest profile business
issues, regulatory hearings, legal disputes
and arbitration.”
Those bona fides came not from an oil and gas
company or investor, but from FTI Consulting,
a sprawling consulting firm that markets its
strategic communications services to a wide
range of industries — including coal, oil,
and gas producers.
# ⚓ Total’s_East_African_Crude_Oil_Pipeline_‘Struggling’
To_Find_Financiers,_Say_Campaigners⠀⇛
Total’s “incredibly risky” crude oil pipeline
may still lack the financial backing it
requires, campaigners have claimed, as the
controversial project moved one step closer
to completion.
Once finished, the 1,443km east African crude
oil pipeline (EACOP) could transport up to
216,000 barrels a day from the Lake Albert
region in landlocked Uganda to Tanga in
Tanzania, with the first oil expected in
2025.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ What’s_Needed_to_Save_Wolverines?_A_New_Study_Has
Answers⠀⇛
# ⚓ A_Big_Disappointment_on_the_Custer-Gallatin⠀⇛
The CGNF proposes 140,000 acres of new
wilderness across the entire forest (keep in
mind that only Congress can designate
wilderness). But recent mapping by the
Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance has
determined there are more than 1.1 million
roadless acres on the forest that could, in
theory, qualify for designation as wilderness
under the 1964 Wilderness Act.
Yet, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC)
breathlessly reported they had “exciting
news” to share. They celebrated the CGNF
recommendation for 140,000 acres of new
wilderness spread across the three million-
acre forest due to their “hard work” as the
Gallatin Forest Partnership (GFP) members.
The GFP successfully fought to keep a portion
of the Gallatin Range in the Buffalo Horn and
Porcupine drainages and the West Pine Creek
areas from being recommended for wilderness.
Way to go, GYC.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Keep_Pushing’:_Momentum_Grows_Behind_Effort_to_Ban_Stock
Trading⠀⇛
The momentum behind a widely popular effort to ban
stock trading by members of Congress is growing,
with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
reportedly instructing fellow Democrats to unite
behind a specific legislative proposal.
“After weeks of silence, Senate Democratic leaders
have asked lawmakers to propose improvements on
rules governing congressional stock trading,”
Insider reports. “In a call Friday, Democratic
leadership staff told legislative directors for
Democratic senators about their aspirations for
bringing a congressional stock-trading ban bill to
the floor of the U.S. Senate.”
# ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Dynastic_Wealth_of_US_Oligarchs_Is_a_Threat
to_Democracy⠀⇛
There is an understandable focus on new wealth
technology billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff
Bezos, especially as their wealth surges during the
pandemic.
# ⚓ ‘Fighting_Back_Works!’_IRS_Ditches_Pilloried_Facial
Recognition_Plan⠀⇛
After Democrats in both chambers of Congress added
their voices to the growing chorus of opposition to
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s plan to require
the use of a private company’s facial recognition
software to access various information online, Sen.
Ron Wyden revealed Monday that the IRS intends to
change course.
“Facial recognition technology and the collection
of peoples’ biometric data puts everyone in
danger.”
# ⚓ Economists_Warn_Against_the_Fed_Raising_Rates_at_Worst
Possible_Time⠀⇛
As the U.S. Federal Reserve mulls hiking interest
rates in the coming weeks in an effort to curb
inflation, progressive economists are warning
against such a move—arguing that it will hurt
workers and fail to address the real source of
rising prices: unmitigated corporate power.
“The last thing average working people need is for
the Fed to raise interest rates and slow the
economy further.”
# ⚓ Senators_Ask_JPMorgan_Chase_to_Explain_Its_Lawsuit_Blitz
Against_Credit_Card_Customers⠀⇛
Saying they were “deeply troubled by recent
reports” that JPMorgan Chase has “renewed its
predatory practice of robo-signing,” six Senate
Democrats on Monday asked Jamie Dimon, the
company’s CEO, to provide “detailed information
regarding the bank’s credit card debt collection
practices.”
# ⚓ As_Child_Tax_Payments_Expire,_Struggling_Families_Are
Desperate⠀⇛
There are great parallels between the birthing
pains of Social Security and President Joe Biden’s
domestic agenda in the Build Back Better package.
Both proposed to fundamentally transform the social
compact between working Americans and their
government. Both met fierce cries of “socialism”
from conservatives who felt that government should
do as little as possible for ordinary folks. Both
were fully paid for. Both met irresistible pressure
to scale back benefits and help fewer people. And
like Social Security, we hope, Build Back Better
will be subsequently strengthened and expanded once
the American people have fallen in love with it.
All the authors are on Twitter @21stCenNewDeal.
# ⚓ When_Private_Equity_Becomes_Your_Landlord⠀⇛
Daniel Cooper could barely afford a tiny apartment
at the 13-story Olume building in downtown San
Francisco. But the expansive view from the roof
deck captivated him.
Raised in a small city in Kentucky, Cooper was
struck by the grandeur of the skyline before him,
from the soaring heights of Salesforce tower, San
Francisco’s largest skyscraper, to the gleaming
gold cupolas atop St. Joseph’s Church, one of the
city’s historic landmarks.
# ⚓ Momentum_Is_Growing_to_Ban_Congress_Members_From_Trading
Stocks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Is_the_NFL_Run_Like_a_Plantation?_Ex-Player_Donté
Stallworth_Responds_to_Bombshell_Racism_Lawsuit⠀⇛
Ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend, we speak to
former National Football League player Donté
Stallworth about racism and anti-Blackness in the
league. Last week, former Miami Dolphins head coach
Brian Flores sued the NFL, as well as three teams —
the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants — for
discriminating against him as a Black candidate
during his interview process. In his complaint,
Flores says the NFL is “racially segregated and is
managed much like a plantation,” with wealthy white
owners and head coaches at the top while the
majority of players who risk bodily injury are
Black. “Hopefully at the end of this, Brian Flores
can continue his coaching, but also that we can see
some changes in the NFL,” says Stallworth.
# ⚓ The_NFL’s_Shift_on_the_Flores_Lawsuit_Betrays_Its
Vulnerability⠀⇛
Just three days after issuing a statement that
Brian Flores’s racial discrimination suit was
“without merit,” the NFL and Commissioner Roger
Goodell are oafishly changing tactics. Following a
backlash both inside and outside the league against
their initial hardline stance, Goodell has now
lurched toward a more conciliatory position. Don’t
trust it. Goodell’s new letter is a display of
gaslighting and corporate doublespeak that takes
great care to not expose “the Shield” to more
lawsuits. This missive from the desk of Roger
Goodell begins by saying, “I want to address a
subject that many of us have discussed together,
not only this week but for many years.”
# ⚓ Baseball_Players_Can’t_Live_on_“a_Cup_of_Coffee”⠀⇛
You’ve probably never heard of DeRond Stovall, Doug
Simons, Bill Bathe, or Dave Stegman. Stovall
currently is a Starbucks trainer in Creve Coeur,
Missouri. Simons coaches baseball at a small
college in Georgia. Bathe is a retired firefighter
and paramedic in Tucson, Arizona. Stegman just
retired as an actuary with an insurance company in
Ohio. All four are former Major League Baseball
(MLB) players. Yet, with the 2022 major league
baseball season currently in limbo because of the
club owners’ locking out the players, it is players
like Stovall, Simons, Bathe, and Stegman that fans
should be thinking about rather than the
multimillion-dollar stars.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Time_for_Him_to_Go’:_Ron_Johnson_Says_He_Won’t_Fight_for
Wisconsin_Jobs⠀⇛
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson faced a torrent of
backlash over the weekend for publicly admitting
that he won’t pressure a Wisconsin manufacturer to
locate around 1,000 new jobs in his home state
rather than in South Carolina, which has some of
the most anti-union labor laws in the nation.
“Johnson just said he wouldn’t lift a finger to
make sure the new USPS truck is built here in
Wisconsin.”
# ⚓ Hypocrisy_Rules_As_Companies_Try_To_Smear_New_FTC
Nomination_Alvaro_Bedoya⠀⇛
Throughout the Trump administration, a lot of folks
had absolutely no problem with the mindless rubber-
stamps appointed to key regulatory positions. Ajit
Pai, for example, couldn’t have demonstrated
regulatory capture any more clearly, rubber-
stamping every idiotic whim of telecom monopolies
at every conceivable opportunity (often with the
help of fabricated data and fraud). Revolving door
regulation and unqualified industry lackey
appointments hit a fevered pitch not seen at any
point in U.S. history, and at every step a long
list of organizations and individuals made it
abundantly clear they were fine with all of it.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Now_Every_Day_Is_January_6:_Trump_Targets_the
‘Vote_Counters’⠀⇛
Next time, former President Donald Trump may not
even have to ask.
# ⚓ Big_Enough⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democrats_Are_Facing_an_Uphill_Battle⠀⇛
Democrats are in retreat as they head into this
election year. In a stark display of the party’s
lack of confidence in its prospects in November’s
midterms, 29 House Democrats have announced that
they won’t be running for reelection. Given the
party’s razor-thin majorities, Joe Biden’s sinking
popularity, and the fact that the party of the
sitting president almost always suffers losses in
midterm elections, it looks as though the Democrats
are going to get eviscerated if they don’t quickly
change course.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Antiwar_Movement_That_Could_Not_End_a_War⠀⇛
When I urge my writing students to juice up their
stories, I tell them about “disruptive
technologies,” inventions and concepts that end up
irrevocably changing industries. Think: iPhones,
personal computers, or to reach deep into history,
steamships. It’s the tech version of what we used
to call a paradigm shift. (President Biden likes to
refer to it as an inflection point.)
# ⚓ The_Blockade_Against_Cuba_Turns_60⠀⇛
On February 2, 1962, U.S. President John F.
Kennedy called his press secretary, Pierre
Salinger, and gave him an urgent task: “I need a
lot of [Cuban] cigars.” “How many, Mr. President?”
“About a thousand,” Kennedy replied. Salinger
visited the best-stocked stores in Washington and
got 1,200 H. Upmann Petit Corona cigars rolled by
hand in the fertile plains of Pinar del Río, at the
western end of the island.
“The next morning, I walked into my White House
office at about 8 a.m., and the direct line from
the President’s office was already ringing,”
Salinger told Cigar Aficionado magazine years
later. “‘How did you do, Pierre?’ he asked, as I
walked through the door. ‘Very well,’ I answered. …
Kennedy smiled, and opened up his desk. He took out
a long paper which he immediately signed. It was
the decree banning all Cuban products from the
United States. Cuban cigars were now illegal in our
country.”
# ⚓ US_Sanctions_on_Afghanistan_May_Kill_More_Than_20_Years_of
War⠀⇛
But if more Americans knew how many innocent
civilians actually die as a result of these
sanctions, would the worst of them be permitted?
We may be about to find out in Afghanistan.
Sanctions currently imposed on the country are on
track to take the lives of more civilians in the
coming year than have been killed by 20 years of
warfare. There’s no hiding it any more.
# ⚓ Biden_White_House_Unveils_Plan_to_Bolster_Unions_as
Membership_Falls⠀⇛
The Biden White House on Monday unveiled a report
detailing steps that federal agencies can take to
strengthen the collective bargaining rights of
public- and private-sector U.S. workers as
corporate America continues its decades-long,
highly effective assault on labor unions.
Compiled by a task force headed by Vice President
Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, the
45-page report lays out nearly 70 policy
recommendations aimed at boosting U.S. union
membership, which fell by 241,000 workers in 2021
despite historically high public support for
organized labor.
# ⚓ White_House_Plans_to_Implement_New_Guidelines_Making_It
Easier_to_Unionize⠀⇛
# ⚓ Angela_Davis,_Gina_Dent,_Erica_Meiners_and_Beth_Richie_Talk
Abolition_Feminism⠀⇛
# ⚓ Trump_Took_Letters_From_Kim_Jong_Un,_Other_Official
Correspondence_to_Mar-a-Lago⠀⇛
# ⚓ Is_Mike_Pence_Really_the_Future_of_the_Republican_Party?⠀⇛
It was the speech the nation desperately needed.
# ⚓ Calling_a_Spad_a_Spad⠀⇛
Last week the mainstream media was full of stories
of “top aides” quitting Downing Street. But
typically the real scandal was entirely missed –
the fact that ever-increasing numbers of
unqualified and unelected political hacks are given
positions of real power, and large salaries, at
public expense.
# ⚓ It’s_Time_for_Black_Experts_to_Be_Heard⠀⇛
From 1975 to 2016, the increase in Black doctoral
recipients among US citizens and permanent
residents, across every major field of study,
outpaced white doctoral recipients. Additionally,
Black doctoral recipients are more likely to be
first-generation students. Nonetheless, public
discourse has long ignored Black experts, who often
understand how compounding crises are confounded by
demographic and socioeconomic differences. For
example, William Spriggs, an economics professor at
Howard University, noted how the Federal Reserve
missed early signs of the Great Recession because
it did not listen to warnings from Black
economists. More than a decade later, very little
has changed.
# ⚓ At_Least_80_Pro-Trump_“Big_Lie”_Believers_Are_Running_for
State_Offices⠀⇛
# ⚓ French_politician_indicted_after_criticising_Islamism⠀⇛
The RN MEP pointed out that his indictment came at
a time when “we learn that journalists (from M6)
and a Roubaix resident (the lawyer Amine Elbahi,
who testified on M6) have been placed under police
protection”. This was because they had “described
the reality and highlighted the advance of Islamism
in the city of Roubaix” via a report on the Zone
Interdite programme on Islamism, broadcast on M6 on
Sunday January 23.
# ⚓ Big_4_firms_share_record_loot_from_government_after_another
round_of_bribes_(donations)⠀⇛
The scam is the Big 4, which are the biggest
winners from the outsourcing of the public service,
collected $1.74bn for giving advice to government
over 18 months. Last year they “donated” $670,570
to the major political parties of $670,570. Job
done.
This is the same crew which claims to act as the
gatekeepers of commerce – auditing most of the
financial statements of the world largest
corporations while also advising them how to dodge
tax, and while dodging tax themselves but not
producing any financial statements. They are
partnerships, not companies, you see.
# ⚓ Zim_partners_foreign_firm_to_collect_taxes_from_companies
like_Facebook._Who_is_this_partner?⠀⇛
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is
responsible for collecting taxes and other revenues
for the govt. But believe it or not, even with over
a thousand employees, they are still understaffed.
In a mostly informal economy, Zimra would have to
employ half the population to keep track of every
business venture in the country. Hence why we ended
up getting the 2% tax.
Now, the 2% tax was not the last of our finance
minister’s revenue generating innovations. He also
introduced taxes on companies that provide digital
advertising, content, cloud computing, e-commerce,
gambling, betting, gaming and cryptocurrency
services to Zimbabweans. Seeing as the global
economy is ever going digital, this move made all
the sense in the world.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Town_That_QAnon_Nearly_Swallowed⠀⇛
Dr. Allison Berry sits at a table at the Rainshadow
Café in downtown Sequim (pronounced “Squim”), a
110-mile drive northwest of Seattle, describing the
tsunami of hatred that has come her way during the
pandemic. She’s young, smiles a lot, wears woolen
sweaters and scarves, and has been the health
officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties since
2018; before that, she was a doctor at a local
clinic run by the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe.
# ⚓ “Debate_me”_bros_in_the_age_of_COVID-19_disinformation⠀⇛
On this blog, I like to think that I go beyond just
refuting misinformation with facts and science. In
addition to that, I try to inoculate our readers
with critical thinking skills by discussing the
tactics of disinformation and misinformation. One
of the most common tactics is to challenge a
scientist or science advocate to a “live public
debate” about the topic in question, whether it be
the claim that vaccines cause autism (they
don’t), whether HIV causes AIDS (it
does), regarding “integrative medicine” or
“complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), or
antivaxxers trying to trap me. Regular readers no
doubt can recount why quacks, cranks,
pseudoscience-promoters, and conspiracy theorists
have the advantage in these debates—”Gish gallop”
anyone? —but there are other reasons why science
deniers gravitate towards this particular tactic.
Sometimes the motivations are dishonest, but more
often they are not, being based instead on the
false idea that such “debates” are a fair and
democratic method to settle a question, whether
there is a real scientific debate or not. (Almost
always, there is not.) Given that I’ve been seeing
a rash of challenges to a “debate” coming from
COVID-19 contrarian and antivaccine social media
personalities and doctors, I decided that now would
be a good time to address this common tactic again.
# ⚓ Information_wars:_are_we_getting_a_fair_view_of_China’s
treatment_of_Uyghurs?⠀⇛
Genocide or puffery and clickbait? Independent
journalism is the touchstone of MWM. So when a
widespread narrative about China is challenged, who
better than former China correspondent for The
Australian, Michael Sainsbury, to sort the wheat
from the propaganda chaff?
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ At_Beijing_Olympics,_China_&_IOC_Accused_of_“Sportswashing”
Amid_Uyghur_Abuses,_Peng_Shuai_Censorship⠀⇛
Human rights advocates say renewed international
attention for China during the Winter Olympics
should focus on rampant human rights violations
occurring across the country. It is incumbent upon
the International Olympic Committee to deny
countries the bid to host if they violate their
citizens’ human rights, says Jules Boykoff, author
and former member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team.
While many have commended China’s “zero-COVID
policy,” the emphasis on keeping infection rates
low is distracting from other kinds of suffering,
adds Yaqiu Wang, senior China researcher at Human
Rights Watch.
# ⚓ Russian_Teacher_‘Forced_To_Quit_Job’_For_Reading_Poems_By
Authors_Persecuted_Under_Stalin⠀⇛
A Russian teacher says she was forced to quit her
job at a school in the city of St. Petersburg after
she read poems to her class by two authors who had
been persecuted during Soviet dictator Josef
Stalin’s purge in the 1930s and 1940s.
Serafima Saprykina wrote on Facebook on February 6
that the school’s principal forced her to leave her
job after she read poems by Daniil Kharms and
Aleksandr Vvedensky during one of her lessons with
10th graders, even though the school’s deputy
principal had approved the lesson.
o § Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Forms_of_Advertising_Raise_Questions_About_Journalistic
Integrity⠀⇛
These specific advertisements are called “native
advertising,” but are also tagged as “sponsored
content,” “partner post” or other labels consumers
don’t understand. They look like news articles,
with headlines, photos with captions and polished
text. But really they are ads created by, or on
behalf of, a paying advertiser.
With declining revenue from traditional display
advertising and classified ads, news outlets are
increasingly relying on native advertising – a
sector in which U.S. spending was expected to reach
$57 billion by the end of 2021.
# ⚓ AssangeDAO_raises_$38M_in_donations_to_help_free_WikiLeaks
founder⠀⇛
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) set
up to support the liberation of WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange from prison has raised 12,569 Ether
(ETH) or around $38.8 million at current prices.
Assange is currently fighting extradition to the
United States following a court ruling in December
that overruled a British court ruling barring
extradition. He is currently locked up in a London
prison where he has been since 2019.
# ⚓ Editors_to_protesters:_Let_reporters_do_their_job⠀⇛
In a statement issued on Monday, Finland’s
Association of Editors (PTY) points out that the
media is not a party to protests, and that both
demonstrations and a freely functioning media are
elements of a democratic society.
Reporters covering the Convoy Finland 2022 protests
in central Helsinki this past weekend said they
faced verbal and physical harassment as they went
about their jobs. According to the Association of
Editors the harassment was particularly experienced
by camera crews and journalists providing live
coverage. On Friday, protestors stole microphones
twice from an Iltalehti reporter, and tried to do
the same to Yle reporters.
# ⚓ Assange-Pak_NFT_raises_US_$39_million_ahead_of_auction
today⠀⇛
The much-anticipated auction of NFT collection
‘Censored’, a collaboration between political
prisoner Julian Assange and renowned artist Pak
will launch today, the same day set by the UK
Supreme Court for Julian Assange to file his appeal
against US extradition.
# ⚓ Assange-Pak_NFT_raises_over_$40_million_ahead_of_auction
today⠀⇛
The collection consists of two parts: an auction of
a single artwork ‘Clock’ (1 of 1) and a separate
pay-what-you-like Open Edition.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ America_COMPETES_Act_Ignores_Social_Needs,_Feeds_Tensions
With_China:_Analysis⠀⇛
A researcher at a progressive think tank warned
Monday that a bill passed last week by the House of
Representatives “stokes future U.S.-China conflict”
while prioritizing spending on militarized
technology at the expense of “urgent human needs.”
“The bill is framed heavily in terms of national
security and competition with China and could
easily pave the way for boosting the already
massive military budget in years to come.”
# ⚓ You_Can’t_Have_the_State_Highway_Your_Way⠀⇛
It’s true that “in a properly functioning market,
consumers express their preferences through the
prices they pay.” Yet Hanley tacitly implies that
renewable options are a luxury. This has been
asserted outright by John Stossel: “The market
didn’t arbitrarily pick oil as the dominant source
of energy.”
R. Buckminster Fuller observed that the ability of
fossil fuels to burn quickly after being formed
over far vaster stretches of time makes them an
“energy savings account.” The short-term benefit
doesn’t reflect their limited supply, with the
“fabulous energy-income wealth” of renewable
alternatives untapped.
# ⚓ Court_Grants_Qualified_Immunity_To_Officer_Who_Told_Couple
To_Take_Down_Facebook_Post_About_Off-Duty_Cop_Who_Shot_Their
Dog⠀⇛
This case — sent to us by Eric Goldman — touches on
a lot of subject matter covered frequently at
Techdirt: dead dogs, police officers, the First
Amendment, and qualified immunity. Yet the
narrative isn’t quite what’s expected given the
elements. And the court’s conclusions, while
disappointing, are likely the correct application
of the law.
# ⚓ With_Alabama_Ruling,_SCOTUS_Delivers_‘Another_Major_Blow’
to_Voting_Rights_Act⠀⇛
Voting rights advocates in Congress and across the
United States reiterated the need for stronger
federal voting rights laws after the U.S. Supreme
Court on Monday allowed Alabama’s GOP-drawn,
racially gerrymandered congressional map to stay in
place.
“Congress cannot sit by and watch as Americans’
most fundamental democratic freedoms are
eviscerated by right-wing partisan justices.”
# ⚓ Ways_to_End_a_Race⠀⇛
The first one, the cruelest, is under torture and
hateful beatings. A public lynching, with
assistance under the sun, beer and passivity. If a
black man is being beaten to death, he has done
something. In fact, black people are always doing
something wrong.
So it was with Moïse Kabagambe, who was working in
Rio de Janeiro at a beach kiosk. His mistake, his
petulance… his folly was not to recognize his
place, when he charged two days’ pay for his work.
For what? He was brutalized by five barbarians who
destroyed him with pieces of wood and a baseball
bat. One of the killers said that he “decided to
vent his anger” and that he hit the Congolese man
with a baseball bat.
# ⚓ Preparing_for_a_Season_in_the_Political_Wilderness⠀⇛
Times to try our souls. And to prepare for darker
times ahead.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. I’ve
worked for progressive change most of my life.
Today it feels as if dark forces are overwhelming
efforts to leave our children a world that is not a
dystopian nightmare. What can we do facing such a
bleak situation?
# ⚓ Toxic_“Leadership”:_The_Other_Pandemic_That_Afflicts_Us⠀⇛
In the abstract, toxicity and leadership are
antithetical, oxymoronic. True leadership is about
motivating others, inspiring them, to follow
willingly. To follow unwillingly is to bow to the
fear of coercion. To follow conditionally – I
scratch your back, you scratch mine – is to give in
to the self-serving bribery we euphemize as
persuasion. But truly leading is qualitatively
different, a supremely more elevated form of human
interaction than we commonly experience. It’s about
being out in front rather than on top; about
eliciting willing deference from others because
they want to, not because they feel they have to;
about synching the hearts and minds – even the
souls – of followers by the exemplary example a
leader sets.
Where the poison of toxicity is at play, true
leadership is absent. That, regrettably, is much
more the norm than the exception today – not only
in this country, its institutions, organizations,
and communities, but abroad as well; at all levels
of human interaction. Its paragon, of course, was
and is Donald Trump, foremost practitioner,
proponent, propagator, and embodiment. But it
didn’t – and doesn’t – begin or end there. We have
all experienced it in varying degrees, in various
forms, at various times in our careers and our
lives. It’s everywhere: in the organizations and
institutions of politics and government, business,
sports and entertainment, the media, education,
medicine, even religion. It has been celebritized,
commercialized, commoditized as a practice. If you
want to understand the underlying causes of the
manifold divisions afflicting this country today,
for example, look no farther. It is,
unquestionably, the defining sign of our times – a
crisis of pandemic proportions; and January 6,
2021, was its political apotheosis.
# ⚓ First_Nations_Land_Defenders_File_Submission_to_UN_Human
Rights_Council⠀⇛
First Nations land defenders on Monday filed a
submission to the United Nations detailing how
their territory and human rights are being violated
by Canadian and British Columbian authorities in
service of a fossil fuel corporation’s gas
pipeline.
“We are intimidated and surveilled by armed RCMP,
smeared as terrorists, and dragged through colonial
courts. This is the reality of Canada.”
# ⚓ The_Chicano_Guernica⠀⇛
In a similar fashion to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a
painted protest against a fascist Inter-state
(Germany and Spain) brutal violence towards a
Basque town (Guernica) resisting the Spanish Franco
regime dictatorship in 1937[1], Fernando Barragan
took the brush and squared off on canvas with
energetic strokes the multiple challenges faced by
Latin@/ Chican@ communities: police brutality,
state and gang violence, discrimination,
immigration issues, exploitation and racisms. A
victim to gang and state violence himself, Barragan
carries over the impact/trauma on inter family
relations and children growing up under such
conditions into this artwork. Unlike Picasso’s
cubist style of painting, Barragan is closer to
Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco’s dramatic
figurative work on canvas and walls. He shares the
striking style of Orozco and Picasso’s tragedy
interpretation of war, despair and inhumane
ideologies based on biological classifications and
a civilizing norm of violence inherited in modern
societies/cultures. Barragan’s canvas mural is a
plea to all those involved in the creation of
communities, in the deconstruction of alternative
humane ways of living and being to stop, reflect
and catch up with our deepest desire to build
healthy environments and find respectful means of
understanding ourselves as a community.
No Somos Animales depicts a community that can well
be interpreted as a scene in Palestine, in India,
in Chiapas, In U.S African American spaces, In
Guatemala, in Chile with the Mapuche indigenous
people or any other place or space in the world
facing violence. Although its interpretation is
about a particular Chican@ space, nevertheless it
contains a universal conversation. The Chicano
Guernica in No Somos Animales contains the same
concerns of those by African artist Dumile Feni’s
painting titled, African Guernica (1967): war and
its effects.[2] For Feni it was the trauma and
devastation of colonial wars on African people and
the African continent. For Barragan it is the war
waged on Chican@/ Latin@ and immigrant communities
by the modern state. When Chicana artists Margaret
Garcia reached out to Barragan for an art piece
that enacted a protest for a play, Barragan shared
in his own words that he “wasn’t going to provide a
protest. I was going to give them a riot.” It is a
strong timeless political statement made by
Barragan towards the powers be and in particular to
individuals. He invites us to examine what is
community? How are we building community and who
leads communities? Latin American philosopher Juan
Jose Bautista S. reminds us that for the most part
modern societies are made of individuals vs.
communities. This contradiction between community
and individuals is a deep divide towards the
collective potential in many communities that can
aid against the egoistic tendencies embedded in
modern neoliberal cultures by rescuing the
collective virtue known as solidarity. This brings
up the following question as to how a community
interprets itself. Is it as subject to subject or
is it a subject /object relation?
# ⚓ A_Manifesto_for_Dignity_in_a_Digital_Age⠀⇛
Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress.
Over the years, he has come to greatly admire the
creativity of its entrepreneurs, their ability to
get things done quickly (so unlike the sluggish
pace of Congress), and their tremendous capacity
for wealth generation. These, he believes, are
qualities our democracy needs. And since ours is a
digital age, our democracy particularly needs the
work those qualities achieve in Silicon Valley.
# ⚓ Migrants_Have_Right_to_Truth_Commission_and_Reparations_for
Abuses_at_US_Border⠀⇛
# ⚓ Not_talked_about_on_TV_Five_years_after_Russia
decriminalized_domestic_violence,_women’s_aid_groups_are
busier_than_ever._Officials_continue_to_sweep_the_problem
under_the_rug.⠀⇛
Exactly five years ago, Russian President Vladimir
Putin signed a law that decriminalized some forms
of domestic violence. Since then, victims have been
unable to press criminal charges for domestic
battery unless it’s at least the abuser’s second
offense — first time offenders only face
administrative fines, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000
rubles ($66 to $400). To find out what impact this
legislation has had on Russia’s domestic violence
problem, Meduza spoke to Diana Barsegyan — the
deputy director of the aid group Nasiliu.net (No to
Violence).
# ⚓ Slut_shaming:_Model_Sabeeka_Imam_threatened_with_acid
attack,_death⠀⇛
Famous model Sabeeka Imam is the latest celebrity
to receive death and rape threats online. The
award-winning model took to social media and shared
screenshots where someone had tagged her in a post
where an Instagram user had tried intimidating
Sabeeka with horrifying threats.
The model shared the screenshot on her profile and
went on to add that she has contacted relevant
authorities about the threats. Sabeeka, while
posting the screenshot, tagged the Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA), Cybercrime and British
Council Pakistan.
# ⚓ ‘Girls_know_their_rights_now’:_Fighting_female_genital
mutilation_in_Kenya⠀⇛
In the run-up to the International Day of Zero
Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on Sunday,
countries around the world are calling for an end
to the globally condemned practice. In Kenya,
around 4 million women and girls have been
subjected to FGM, according to the United Nations.
# ⚓ Rate_of_female_genital_mutilation_is_11_percent_in_Hewler
and_4.9_percent_in_Raperîn⠀⇛
The report was released on World Day Against Female
Genital Mutilation. Articles 19 and 24 of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by
the United Nations (UN) in 1989, do not allow
female genital mutilation.
The German Wadi organization conducted a survey on
female genital mutilation in girls and women from 0
to 20 in Hewler and Raperîn, in the province of
Sulaymaniyah in 2021.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Kia,_Subaru_Disable_Useful_Car_Features,_Blames_Mass._Right
To_Repair_Law⠀⇛
In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with
overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of
the state’s “right to repair” law. The original law
was the first in the nation to be passed in 2013.
The update dramatically improved it, requiring
that, as of this year, all new telematics-equipped
vehicles be accessible via a standardized,
transparent platform that allows owners and third-
party repair shops to access vehicle data via a
mobile device. The goal: reduce repair monopolies,
and make it cheaper and easier to get your vehicle
repaired.
# ⚓ Spotify’s_Business_Model_Is_Screwing_Over_Musicians_and
Ruining_Music⠀⇛
This ought not to surprise anyone. In 2020, the
company entered into an exclusive and lucrative
$100 million contract with Rogan and his library of
more than a decade of podcast episodes. Rogan
recently interviewed anti-vaccine activist Robert
Malone—a man who was banned from Twitter for
violating its guidelines on COVID-19
misinformation. The interview was so controversial
that even YouTube banned it.
Still, Spotify chose Rogan over Young. And over
Joni Mitchell, India Arie, and even Crosby, Stills,
and Nash, who followed suit in pulling their music.
It did so because the bottom line for the company
is preserving its profits, and it appears to see
Rogan’s show as more financially valuable than the
entire catalogs of legendary musicians.
# ⚓ Middle_Eastern_Streaming_Giant_Anghami_Makes_NASDAQ_Debut
Following_SPAC_Merger⠀⇛
Abu Dhabi-headquartered Anghami revealed the
closure of its merger with Vistas Media Acquisition
Company via a formal release, and the post-deal
company’s shares arrived on NASDAQ (as “ANGH,” with
warrants listed as “ANGHW”) this morning. At the
time of publishing – with about three hours until
market close – ANGH was hovering just above $14,
for a gain of more than 16 percent. Shares briefly
surged to $17 apiece when the market opened.
Execs at 10-year-old Anghami acknowledged their
company’s stock-market debut in an additional
release today, touting the platform’s regional
reach (“around 58% of the market share in the
Middle East”), 72 million-track library, and 75
million registered users.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Episode_3:_Open_Culture_VOICES_–_Temitope_Odumosu⠀⇛
New week, new episode of Open Culture VOICES!
VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews
with open GLAM (galleries, libraries,
archives, and museums) experts from around
the world. The Open Culture Program at
Creative Commons aims to promote better
sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs
collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re
thrilled to bring you various perspectives
from dozens of experts speaking in many
different languages on what it’s like to open
up heritage content online. On episode
three, we’re joined by Dr. Temitope Odumosu,
art historian, curator and senior lecturer in
cultural studies at Malmö University in
Sweden. Her international research and
cultural practice is concerned with the
representation of African peoples, visual and
affective politics of slavery and
colonialism, colonial archives and archiving,
Afro-Diaspora aesthetics, and more broadly
exploring how art mediates social
transformation and healing.
# ⚓ Search_Engines_Will_Deindex_All_Domains_That_Have
100+_Links_to_Pirated_Content⠀⇛
Major rightsholders and internet companies in
Russia have signed a new memorandum of
cooperation designed to make pirated movies,
TV shows and other content harder to find. In
addition to automatically removing reported
infringing links within hours, search engines
have agreed to completely deindex all domains
that carry 100 or more links to infringing
content.
# ⚓ Member_of_Scene_Piracy_Group_SPARKS_Gets_22-Month
Prison_Sentence⠀⇛
A key member of Scene piracy group SPARKS has
been sentenced to 22 months in prison. The
52-year-old Brit George Bridi, who pleaded
guilty, apologized and showed remorse for his
wrongdoing at a New York federal court. The
sentence is lower than the 27 to 33-month
term the U.S. Attorney had asked for.
# ⚓ Danish_Torrent_Tracker_Admin_Gets_Conditional_Prison
Sentence⠀⇛
A 43-year-old man has been handed a three
months conditional prison sentence for his
involvement with the Danish torrent tracker
Asgaard. The man, who is seen as one of the
driving forces behind the now-defunct site,
helped to set up and manage servers and also
helped with coding. Several other defendants
connected to the site will have their day in
court later this year.
# ⚓ Consolidation_Strategies_Emerge_For_The_Big_3_In
Gaming:_Nintendo_Looks_Like_It_Doesn’t_Want_To_Play⠀⇛
We’ve been talking a bit about industry
consolidation through mergers and
acquisitions (M&As) in the video game
industry as of late. The impetus for that
discussion has been a series of high-profile
acquisitions for several notable companies,
namely Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft acquired
Zenimax for $7 billion and Activision
Blizzard King for a bonkers $69 billion
recently, while Sony jumped into the game by
acquiring Bungie for $3.6 billion. Of
interest for these pages is the different
approaches these companies have taken with
these acquisitions. Microsoft hemmed and
hawed about whether it would start building
Microsoft exclusivity for products from its
acquisitions, eventually landing on very much
embracing exclusivity, while Sony took a much
more hands-off approach and stated plainly
that Bungie games would still be cross-
platform. For those of us interested in
digital and technology economies and business
models, this is interesting stuff.
# ⚓ Australia_Pays_$20_Million_To_Buy_The_Copyright_Of
Aboriginal_Flag,_But_It’s_Still_Not_Public_Domain⠀⇛
Over a decade ago, we wrote about how Google
had to edit out the Australian Aboriginal
flag from a logo because of copyright
concerns. An 11-year-old girl had won a
contest to design a Google logo for Australia
Day, and her logo included a simple drawing
of the popular Aboriginal flag. Harold Thomas
created a (fairly simple) flag design “as a
symbol of unity and national identity” for
the Aboriginal people in Australia. The flag
became quite popular… and then Thomas
basically became a copyright landlord,
demanding payment for pretty much any usage.
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