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Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/
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โฆฟ Amin Bandaliโs New Talk About the Net Beyond the Web (Including Gemini) | Techrights
โฆฟ LibrePlanet 2022 Talk on Free Software in the French Public Administration | Techrights
โฆฟ IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 28, 2022 | Techrights
โฆฟ Gemini Makes Things Easier, Not Harder, by Adhering to a โLeast Complexityโ Principle | Techrights
โฆฟ Nicholas Johnson and Woichiech Kosior: Taking back the Web | Techrights
โฆฟ Panos Alevropoulos on Software Patents in 2022 | Techrights
โฆฟ Techrights Has Some Solid Plans, But Preparations Are Underway | Techrights
โฆฟ Zoรซ Kooymanโs First Keynote as Free Software Foundation (FSF) Executive Director | Techrights
ไทผ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/amin-bandali-small-web/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/free-software-france/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/irc-log-280322/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/net-least-complexity-principles/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/nicholas-johnson-and-woichiech-kosior/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/panos-alevropoulos-swpats/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/techrights-preparations-underway/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/zoe-kooyman-keynote/#comments
ไท Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/fedora-linux-36-beta/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/microsoft-suspends-puppylinux/#comments
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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/amin-bandali-small-web/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ Amin_Bandaliโs_New_Talk_About_the_Net_Beyond_the_Web_(Including_Gemini)โ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 1:10 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2711/saturn-sunday-
1620.webm
Summary: This talk was reuploaded* 2 minutes ago; we mentioned it weeks_ago_in
relation_to_Gemini_and_other_alternatives_to_the_Web_(even_Gopher)
Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0
Web" mentions this talk at around 18:50.
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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/free-software-france/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ LibrePlanet_2022_Talk_on_Free_Software_in_the_French_Public_Administrationโ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF at 12:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2596/saturn-saturday-
1120.webm
Summary: Bastien Guerryโs talk was uploaded 10 hours ago; the description says:
โThis talk is titled โFrom GNU Emacs to code.gouv.fr,โ and was presented at
LibrePlanet 2022 by Bastien Guerry. Bastien is the free software officer for
the French public administration. With a background in philosophy and cognitive
sciences, he became interested in the free software movement in the late 90โฒs
and taught himself how to program by contributing to GNU Emacs. He has been
involved with, among other things, One Laptop Per Child and Wikimedia France.
This talk is about Bastienโs own history and motivations as a free software
hacktivist, and what progressively led him to dedicate more time and energy to
support free software in the public sector, as well as provide a few practical
tips on how everyone may do so in everyday life.โ
Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0
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(โน) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/irc-log-280322/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/irc-log-280322/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_March_28,_2022โ โ
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:40 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-280322.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-280322.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-280322.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-280322.gmi
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(โน) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/net-least-complexity-principles/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/net-least-complexity-principles/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ Gemini_Makes_Things_Easier,_Not_Harder,by_Adhering_to_aโLeast_Complexityโ
Principleโ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 4:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 0fed7e84f0d826392d2a625bf6a343f7
Using Gemini to Browse
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/how-to-use-gemini.webm
Summary: Simplicity of Gemini and insistence on a lack of features does not
make it for โricersโ or patronising geeks; au contraire โ it makes it a lot
more approachable to many more people
THE GEMINISPACE continues_to_expand and to keep track of new posts weโve set up
this_โplanetโ, as demonstrated in the video above. It alludes to a
misconception perpetuated in one of the 2 talks published earlier today by the
FSF [1, 2].
The short story is, using Gemini is very easy. Itโs a lot simpler than the Web
and even writing for Gemini is a lot simpler. Itโs hardly astonishing that
mobile platforms are being targeted now [1, 2].
Itโs reassuring to see all this discussed_in_the_context_of_Software_Freedom. โ
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(โน) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/nicholas-johnson-and-woichiech-kosior/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/nicholas-johnson-and-woichiech-kosior/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ Nicholas_Johnson_and_Woichiech_Kosior:_Taking_back_the_Webโ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF at 12:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2710/neptune-
saturday-1430.webm
Summary: This talk was uploaded 7 minutes ago
Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0
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(โน) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/29/panos-alevropoulos-swpats/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/29/panos-alevropoulos-swpats/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ Panos_Alevropoulos_on_Software_Patents_in_2022โ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, Patents at 3:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2605/saturn-sunday-
1430.webm
Summary: This talk was uploaded 13 hours ago; the outline says: โThis talk is
titled โThe state of software patents in 2022,โ and was presented at
LibrePlanet 2022 by Panos Alevropoulos. Panos is, among other things, volunteer
member of the FSF Licensing & Compliance Lab, End Software Patents Wiki admin,
Certified by Creative Commons. This talk is about software patents, and how
they are legal instruments designed to curtail the freedom of developers for
the sake of multinational companiesโ interests.โ
Licence: CC_BY_4.0
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Posted in Site_News at 9:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 1c379c5d8e0cd49c4673ec6d3f18737d
Coming Up
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/status-report-moving.webm
Summary: Weโre going to recognise the demise of the Web (along with social
control media and bursting of the โclownโ bubble) as we focus more on exposing
corruption, resisting censorship, and moving videos away from the grip of
pseudo-โfreeโ video hosting (no such thing)
THE past few days have been calm but very productive. After the EPO strike we
took the liberty to regroup and organise better for the future. Iโve moved
everything to a new โofficeโ (actually a dining room) and I set up a new
machine, which will likely to be part of the future recording pipeline.
โEU authorities and EPO administrators became a hub of corruption when it comes
to patent law.โMeanwhile, the EPO is bracing for another survey that will
almost certainly expose the degree/extent of the EPO crisis. โOn Wednesday
morning,โ the union wrote this week, โinvitations (as well as reminders) for
the Technologia survey will be automatically emailed to ALL active SUEPO
members as well as non-SUEPO members who have signed up to participate in the
survey.โ
We expect that almost 0% of staff will express a positive opinion. Maybe
literally zero, not just โalmostโ zero. It did happen before. EPO management is
just about as corrupt as Team UPC, which is closely connected to it. Read all
the comments here. EU authorities and EPO administrators became a hub of
corruption when it comes to patent law. Same_in_trademarks. I simply cannot
believe this is happening in Europe!
โAfter Wednesday weโll be publishing more articles again.โAnyway, weโre going
to focus a lot more on Gemini and weโll explore better ways to get the message
out there; social control media is approaching โend of lifeโ (even Facebook
itself has reported loss of active users) and the Web is increasingly broken. I
give some examples of that in the video above.
As weโve just noted in Daily Links, some GNU/Linux distros belatedly realise
that thereโs no such thing as โfreeโ hosting and Microsoft GitHub is a force of
occupation. Thereโs nothing free about it and it certainly doesnโt respect
freedom, either.
After Wednesday weโll be publishing more articles again. Until then we might
focus on giving greater exposure to newly-released (since last night)
LibrePlanet 2022 videos. โ
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Directorโ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF at 1:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2694/jupiter-sunday-
1715.webm
Summary: This talk was uploaded 7 hours ago; the description states: โZoรซ said
that she has โan endless amount of examples and reasons to believe that free
software is the way forward, worth protecting, and something we need to make
sure people understand how to fight for,โ and went on to list numerous other
reasons for people to fight for free software. These included license adoption
and copyleft, the environment, right to repair, software-embedded medical
devices, bulk surveillance and encryption, among others.โโ
Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0
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Betaโ โ
Posted in News_Roundup at 3:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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ยง Contentsโ โพ
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o ยง Serverโ โพ
# โ OpenSource.com โ Virtual_Kubernetes_clusters:_A_new_model
for_multitenancy_|_Opensource.comโ โ
The first common multitenancy model is based on
namespace isolation, where individual tenants (a
team developing a microservice, for example) are
limited to using one or more namespaces in the
cluster. While this model can work for some teams,
it has flaws. First, restricting team members to
accessing resources only in namespaces means they
canโt administer global objects in the cluster,
such as custom resource definitions (CRDs). This is
a big problem for teams working with CRDs as part
of their applications or in a dependency (for
example, building on top of Kubeflow or Argo
Pipelines).
# โ March_2022_Web_Server_Survey_|_Netcraft_Newsโ โ
In the March 2022 survey we received responses from
1,169,621,187 sites across 272,177,331 unique
domains and 11,877,217 web-facing computers. This
reflects a loss of 4.00 million sites, but a gain
of 977,000 domains and 103,000 web facing
computers.
[...]
Microsoft saw declines in all metrics this month,
losing 3.22 million sites (-7.13%), 156,000 domains
(-1.75%), 118,000 active sites (-1.88%), and 7,620
computers (-0.57%). Microsoft also lost 1,000 sites
from its share of the top million.
o ยง Kernel Spaceโ โพ
# ยง Graphics Stackโ โพ
# โ GamingOnLinux โ NVIDIA_GeForce_RTX_3090_Ti_โBFGPUโ
has_rolled_out_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
Have a lot of spare cash? NVIDIA want you to
part with it. Today theyโve released the
ridiculous monster that is the NVIDIA GeForce
RTX 3090 Ti. With a price starting at $1,999
itโs not going to be a card for regular
consumers at all, more for those who want
power without compromises.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Vulkan_API_1.3.210_out_with_new
extensions,_new_NVIDIA_Beta_Driver_ready_|
GamingOnLinuxโ โ
Today a new version of Vulkan was tagged and
in addition to the usual documentation
additions, thereโs two new extensions that
are quite interesting. NVIDIA as usual have a
new Beta driver for Linux ready.
o ยง Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Best_Whiteboard_Applications_for_Your_Linux_Systemsโ โ
A whiteboard is a kind of console that you can
attach to your desktop computer and use to write
down ideas very quickly. Writing directly on the
screen makes it seem more like modern technology
and thankfully, there are several different
applications that you can use for this purpose.
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ Trend Oceans โ How_to_create_&_manage_loop_devices(virtual
block)_on_Linuxโ โ
When you run the lsblk -l or df -h command to list
out the available block/storage devices, you may
find the /dev/loop filesystem, especially if you
are using the Snap package manager, and itโs quite
common to find in Ubuntu distributions.
If you are keen on knowing what loop devices are
and how to mount and unmount them from the system,
then this article will be enough for you.
because it will cover all the necessary aspects of
loop devices, like how to create a loop device,
loop filesystem, mounting, and unmounting steps.
# โ Trend Oceans โ How_to_Install_Angular_Js_on_Linuxโ โ
Angular is a popular open-source web application
framework developed by Google and maintained by the
community. The language required to create an
application using Angular Js is javascript/
typescript, and other few mandatory languages
require in web development.
Both Mobile and Web applications can easily be
created using the angular framework. Angular Js
command-line utility helps us quickly create,
manage, build, and test Angular applications in
your system.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Beyond_The_Edge_Of_Owlsgard_is_a_retro
point_and_click_adventure_worth_trying_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard is a very promising
upcoming point and click adventure game, with a
Linux demo available.
Developed by German-based WatchDaToast, it started
off as a passion project that theyโve ended
spending four years crafting into an adventure
inspired by LucasArts and Sierra point & click
classics. They said part of their plan for it is to
return the genre to the โadventureโ aspect, so it
places some emphasis on exploring as well as
inventory-based puzzles. Check out the trailer:
# โ GamingOnLinux โ More_teasers_for_a_big_Valheim_update_have
arrived_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
Iโm honestly quite hyped for the Mistlands update
to Valheim, although itโs some time away still yet
the teasers are great.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Steam_Simfest:_Hobby_Edition_is_live_until
April_4_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
If you love games that emulate a job or a hobby,
this is the event for you. Steam Simfest: Hobby
Edition is live until April 4.
Another event for you to jump in, find some demos
and thereโs plenty of discounts on games that are
already available too. During the last few days of
the event (April 1 โ 4), there will also be a whole
bunch of official talks and discussions taking
place which will be live on the event page and
likely directly on game pages on Steam.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ The_Planet_Crafter_is_a_great_start_to_a
open-world_terraforming_game_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
The Planet Crafter is a lonely and chilled-out
open-world survival game about terraforming a
hostile planet. It works great on Linux with Steam
Play Proton, although due to a bug with Unity
games, I had to set it to Proton 6.8.
Some have already started calling it Subnautica on
Mars, and itโs not a bad description of it. Itโs
not been out long but itโs already jumped up to an
Overwhelmingly Positive user rating. Not surprising
though really, since it performs really well and
the idea is great. A little basic in a number of
ways mechanically but itโs so sleek it doesnโt
really matter, it does it all quite well.
o ยง Desktop Environments/WMsโ โพ
# ยง K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qtโ โพ
# โ KDE_Plasma_5.24.4,_Bugfix_Release_for_Marchโ โ
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.4.
Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022
with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeksโ worth of new
translations and fixes from KDEโs
contributors. The bugfixes are typically
small but important and includeโฆ
# โ 9to5Linux โ KDE_Plasma_5.24.4_LTS_Released_with_More
Plasma_Wayland_Improvements,_Other_Fixesโ โ
KDE Plasma 5.24.4 is here three weeks after
KDE Plasma 5.24.3 with more improvements for
the Plasma Wayland session, such as better
support for running the Plasma Wayland
session in a virtual machine when clicking
with the mouse cursor on things, a fix for
the โRGB Rangeโ feature to no longer gets
disabled, as well as the ability to exit the
Desktop Grid effect with a four-finger swipe
down gesture.
KDE Plasma 5.24.4 also improves support for
applying splash screens in System Settings
and improves KRunner-powered searches to be
case-insensitive when matching the text for
System Settings pages to help you find things
more easily.
# ยง GNOME Desktop/GTKโ โพ
# โ OMG Ubuntu โ โExtension_Managerโ_GNOME_App_Adds_New
Features,_New_Icon_โ_OMG!_Ubuntu!โ โ
An update to the incredibly useful Extension
Manager app is rolling out on Flathub.
Version 0.3 of this one-stop-shop for
finding, installing, configuring, updating,
and removing GNOME extensions on GNOME Shell
intros a set of changes that, together,
bolster the appโs capabilities.
o ยง Distributionsโ โพ
# โ Its FOSS โ 5_Reasons_Why_Zorin_OS_is_an_Ideal_Choice_for
Beginnersโ โ
Zorin OS is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful
Linux distributions available.
However, it is not just limited to how it looks.
Compared to some other options available, it offers
a nice user experience overall.
And, which is why, we also recommend it as one of
the top choices for new users. Here, I shall
highlight some of the reasons that make it an ideal
pick for beginners.
# ยง New Releasesโ โพ
# โ 9to5Linux โ Finnix_Linux_Distro_for_Sysadmins
Celebrates_22th_Anniversary_with_New_Releaseโ โ
Coming almost seven months after Finnix 123,
the Finnix 124 โSturgeon Bayโ release is here
to celebrate 22 years from the first public
release of Finnix on March 22nd, 2000, by
adding new features and several improvements
to existing tools, as well as updated and new
components and improved hardware support.
Powered by the Linux 5.16 kernel series,
Finnix 124 is the first release of the
Debian-based distribution to add support for
the RISC-V (riscv64) architecture. However,
this is an unofficial port alongside i386,
ARM64, ARMhf, ppc64el, and s390, as 64-bit
(amd64) is the only officially supported
architecture for Finnix.
# โ IPFire Official Blog โ IPFire_2.27_โ_Core_Update_165
releasedโ โ
Shortly after the last one, the next release
of IPFire is ready: IPFire 2.27 โ Core Update
165. It comes with various updates for the
firewall engine that improve its performance
and increase its flexibility, as well as with
an updated toolchain, Python 3.10 and various
more bug and security fixes.
Before we talk in detail 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, weโve 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.
# ยง IBM/Red Hat/Fedoraโ โพ
# โ 9to5Linux โ Fedora_Linux_36_Beta_Is_Out_with_the
GNOME_42_Desktop_Environment_and_Linux_Kernel_5.17โ โ
Fedora Linux 36 is the next major version of
the popular GNU/Linux distribution sponsored
by Red Hat in active development and it
should see the light of day later this Spring
on April 26th, 2022, if everything goes
according to plan.
Fedora Linux 36 ships with the recently
released GNOME 42 desktop environment series
for its flagship Workstation edition, if you
wanted to get it for a test drive on your
personal computer. It also includes the most
recent versions of the KDE Plasma, Xfce,
LXQt, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, SoaS, and i3
graphical environments of the supported
Fedora Spins.
# โ Fedora_36_Workstation_Installation_Guide_/_Gnome_42
Quick_Tour_and_New_Featuresโ โ
This is guide howto install Fedora 36. I use
here Beta image, but final version is
released soon. I show quickly also just
released GNOME 42 new features, like
screenshot tool and new appearance settings.
# โ Fedora_Linux_36_Beta_Releasedโ โ
Fedora Linux 36 Beta Is Now Available For
Download
Fedora Linux 36 Beta edition is now available
for download. Fedora Linux 36 is supposed to
be made available on April 26th, 2022.
# โ Fedora โ Help_Us_Test_Fedora_Linux_36_Beta
wallpaperโ โ
The final F36 day and night beta wallpapers
are here! Take a look below and let us know
what your thoughts are!
We last left off with the beta versions of
the wallpaper that were created in Krita,
which can be found on my blog with their
design process explained.
We received a lot of great feedback including
suggestions for a strictly night version with
the moon glowing instead of a sunset, adding
butterflies to the day version, as well as
shifting some of the clouds around so they
didnโt stack and make the right side of the
wallpaper too heavy. The previous version is
below in Day, Sunset, and Night mode.
# โ Fedora Magazaine โ Announcing_the_release_of_Fedora
Linux_36_Betaโ โ
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the
immediate availability of Fedora Linux 36
Beta, the next step towards our planned
Fedora Linux 36 release at the end of April.
Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora
siteโฆ
# โ Red Hat Official โ Fedora_36_Beta_is_now_availableโ โ
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce
Fedora Linux 36 Beta. This release continues
the Fedora Projectโs emphasis on delivering
leading-edge open source technologies and
includes updates to GNOME, Wayland
improvements for NVIDIA users, and more.
# โ OpenSource.com โ 5_key_insights_for_open_source
project_sustainability_in_2022_|_Opensource.comโ โ
Many technology firms are turning to open
source tools to accelerate innovation and
growth. As these firms work to influence open
source projects, governance practices
sometimes shift from coordination among a
small group of developers and firms to
management by large communities of
contributors and organizations, often with
competing priorities.
Sustainable projects require sustainable
communities. Adapting to a larger, more
competitive open source landscape requires
organizations to invest in community
building. This demands a view of source-code
availability thatโs inextricably connected to
the social engagements of contributors and
organizations in open source projects. Many
organizations now consider open source
community engagement as both a social and a
technicalโor โsociotechnicalโโinvestment.
# โ Michel Alexandre Salim โ Navigating_repositories_with
myrepos-utils_::_Pensรฉes_de_Michel_โ_Personal_thoughts
and_musingsโ โ
Iโve been using myrepos for a while โ as
someone who juggles a lot of repositories,
both for personal projects and as a Fedora
and CentOS packager, a ~/.mrconfig synced via
Nextcloud really makes checking out
repositories consistently, on different
computers, straightforward.
As the number of tracked repos grow, however,
trying to remember where each repo is checked
out gets a bit time consuming โ and also,
keeping the configuration file organized as
well; mr register on an existing repo would
add the entry for that repo at the end of the
file, and I was previously resorting to
editing the file by hand to get it sorted โ
with a varying degree of success.
# โ Red Hat โ Develop_a_basic_rate_limiter_with_Quarkus
and_Redis_|_Red_Hat_Developerโ โ
Rate limiting is a popular technique to
protect services from excessive demand. For
example, you can use this strategy to limit
how often a user can enter or reset their
password. The example in this article builds
rate limiting on a per-client basis into a
Java-based service for a given time period.
The application tracks requests from clients
using a Redis in-memory data structure store
and limits usage when a clientโs demand
exceeds the quota.
# โ Red Hat โ C++_standardization_(core_language)
progress_in_2021_|_Red_Hat_Developerโ โ
This article covers the highlights of the C++
standardization proposals before the
International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) committeeโs Core and
Evolution Working Groups last year. Read on
to find out whatโs coming in C++23.
# โ Enterprisers Project โ IT_leadership:_4_ways_to
tackle_your_flawsโ โ
You probably already know some of the top
challenges that IT leaders will face in 2022
โ finding (and retaining) top talent, keeping
up with security challenges, and managing
remote teams.
But what if I told you that your biggest
challenge this year might be yourself?
Leadership can be challenging, and leadership
in IT has become especially so over the past
two years. As an IT and finance leader
navigating a global pandemic myself, I can
say without a doubt that the past two years
have been transformative โ both in business
and in my leadership style.
# โ Enterprisers Project โ Kubernetes:_3_reasons
containers_are_becoming_essential_for_midsize
organizationsโ โ
Containers and Kubernetes have matured in
recent years, enabling smaller and midsize
organizations to tap the benefits of this
powerful technology
# ยง Debian Familyโ โพ
# โ TechRepublic โ Debian_11.3_is_so_good,_thereโs_simply
no_reason_to_not_use_itโ โ
Debian is the โmother of all Ubuntu-based
distributionsโ and has recently received its
third point release in the Bullseye series.
This release comes a brief three months out
from the last point release, which might
surprise users who have grown accustomed to
lengthier periods between releases.
This latest release includes plenty of bug
fixes and security patches โฆ and not much
else. You wonโt find new features but the .3
release does resolve several security issues
that should have any Debian users upgrading
immediately.
The security patches include fixes for the
likes ofโฆ
o ยง Devices/Embeddedโ โพ
# โ Linux_Tablet:_Best_Options,_Comparison,_and_Guide_โ_Linux
Stansโ โ
If youโre looking to buy a Linux tablet, you have
some options out there today. In this article,
weโll compare the best options and guide you
through the Linux tablet world.
After our Linux phone comparison, itโs only natural
that we do a Linux tablet comparison. In terms of
advancements and options in the market, Linux
tablets are far behind Linux phones. Linux phones
in general are far behind iPhones and Androids. So
right from the start, manage your expectations.
# โ Linux Gizmos โ Raspberry_Pi_CM4_powered_system_available_as
SBC_or_mini-PCโ โ
Kontron announced a โPi-Tron CM4โ industrial mini-
PC (or SBC) based on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module
4 with GbE and 10/100 LAN, 3x USB, 2x COM, CAN-FD,
DIO, HDMI 2.0, MIPI-DSI/CSI, 40-pin GPIO, and M.2
B-key.
Kontron unveiled an update to its Pi-Tron CM3+
industrial mini-PC. The Pi-Tron CM4 advances from a
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ to a Raspberry Pi
Compute Module 4 (CM4). Like the Pi-Tron CM3+,
which launched as an SBC but now offers an
enclosure option, the Pi-Tron CM4 will be available
as either an SBC or an embedded computer.
# โ Making_Laser_Cut_Raspberry_Pi_Cases_Using_The_Atomstack_X7
40W_โ_The_DIY_Lifeโ โ
Today weโre going to design and laser cut some new
Raspberry Pi cases from 3mm plywood using the
Atomstack X7 40W. This is a new laser engraving and
cutting machine from Atomstack which is largely the
same as their flagship X7 Pro, but with a slightly
lower power 40W laser module.
# ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ Librem_5_Flexibilityโ โ
Some time ago, I mentioned my plans to write
a review for the Librem 5. I still have that
planned, but I did want to talk about one
specific aspect of it now: usage flexibility.
# โ Arduino โ RFID_music_player_delivers_vintage_charm_|
Arduino_Blogโ โ
By every objective measure, with the possible
exception of durability, todayโs technology
is superior to that of the past. That is
certainly true of music players, with modern
devices having the ability to stream almost
every song ever recorded and the capability
to do so with high fidelity. But old stuff
looks cooler, which is why Redditor
flatulentdisaster crafted this modern RFID
music player that still delivers vintage
charm.
One could be forgiven for assuming that this
device is legitimately vintage, because the
wood enclosure looks like something straight
out of the mid-century. If you saw this
sitting on your grandmaโs shelf, you would
think it had been there since the โ50s. But
the electronics and functionality are all
modern. Users select from one of several RFID
cards, each with a cassette tape label
associated with a specific playlist. When the
user taps the RFID card on top of the wood
music player, it starts the associated
playlist.
# ยง Mobile Systems/Mobile Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Sailfish_OS_Vanha_Rauma_brings_in_several_new
features_and_improvementsโ โ
As we continue our Sailfish tour of World
Heritage Sites, today we reached Vanha Rauma,
the old heart of Rauma, a city that sits
along the coastal road between Pori and Turku
in the southwest of Finland and on the banks
of the Rauma river. Vanha Rauma is a living
monument to the enchanting style of old
Nordic wooden construction. Home to 800
inhabitants, youโll find beautiful examples
of 19th Century Neo Renaissance-style
exteriors alongside the immaculately
preserved 15th Century Church of the Holy
Cross. As the Visit Rauma site puts it,
walking around the town is like โstepping
into a fairy taleโ.
We aim for the beautiful Sailfish user
experience to bring a similar elegance and
simplicity to an otherwise busy and
distracting world. But the beauty on the
surface has to be backed up with cutting-edge
technology underneath which keeps up with
modern standards and developments.
o ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
# โ Linux Links โ 4_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_GUI_Prototyping
Toolsโ โ
Whether it is by pure experimentation or
transforming a vision into something tangible,
prototypes help assist in testing and building
while preserving overall design consistency.
Clients are notorious for not accurately defining
their requirements, in part because they donโt
necessarily know what they need, or what would work
best. Even when a client accurately describe their
requirements, this doesnโt necessarily percolate to
the developers. Besides the usual process of
meetings, emails and phone conversations, a visual
design can make a real difference. Step forward
prototyping tools.
# ยง Eventsโ โพ
# โ PostgreSQL โ PostgreSQL:_PGConf.be_:_Call_for_Papers
&_Registration_openโ โ
PGConf.be 2022 will be held in Haasrode,
Leuven, about 25km from Brussels.
The conference will take place on May 19th,
2022. Registration is open.
# ยง Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligraโ โพ
# โ Document Foundation โ The_Document_Foundation
supports_the_โDeutschlandstipendiumโ_โ_The_Document
Foundation_Blogโ โ
In 2019, the German LibreOffice community
sadly lost one of its most active members,
Klaus-Jรยผrgen Weghorn. In his memory, The
Document Foundation (the non-profit
foundation behind LibreOffice) has decided to
support a student through the
Deutschlandstipendium initiativeโฆ
# ยง FSFโ โพ
# ยง Licensing/Legalโ โพ
# โ Open Source Initiative โ Simplify_Open_Source
License_Compliance_|_Open_Source_Initiative_|
Guaranteeing_the_โourโ_in_sourceโฆโ โ
After your project is named and youโve
chosen a repository in which to publish
the code, itโs time to look at
licensing options and important steps
in setting it up. Marc shares nine
popular OSI-approved licenses that
lawyers and engineers are most familiar
with. He also suggests considering
whether you want a Copyleft license,
which is designed to encourage users to
produce and give back to the comments,
or a Permissive license, which
maximizes the number of people using
the code with less restrictions on how
they do it.
# ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ
โ RSS_by_hand?_Gemlog_index_by_hand?_A_gemlog_index_for_a_tinylog?โ โ
I am considering making an RSS feed by hand, and even a Gemlog index
by hand, on my flounder.online page, replacing the link to the
problematic flounderโs Atom feed.
โ The Register UK โ The_weird_world_of_non-C_operating_systems_โข_The_Registerโ โ
Believe it or not, not everything is based on C. There are current,
shipping, commercial OSes written before C was invented, and now
others in both newer and older languages that donโt involve C at any
level or layer.
Computer hardware is technology yet very few people can design their
own processor, or build a graphics card. But software is a form of
culture. Open source is created by volunteers, even if they end up
getting paid jobs doing it. Even rejecting open source is a choice:
paying for Windows or macOS instead reflects a preference.
This is especially visible when it comes to text editors, and even
more so about programming languages. People get passionate about this
stuff. So statements such as โC isnโt a programming language any
moreโ can be upsetting. Most people live and work in the cultures
that are Unix and Windows and if they are all youโve ever known, or
know best, then itโs easy to think they are the whole world.
โ Introducing_Very_Bad_Web_Applicationโ โ
I am planning to add a few chapters on securing services in my Linux
Command Line book. But, to make it practical & hands on, I needed one
real application which the readers can deploy and secure. I needed
something simple, say one single binary so that it becomes easier to
convert it into a proper systemd service.
I decided to write one in Rust ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ณ๐ด๐
๐ฒ๐
๐ธ๐ฟ๐
๐ธ๐พ๐ฝ โฆ:)โฆ This also
helps to showcase that one can write totally insecure code even in
Rust (or any other language). Let me introduce Very Bad Web
application. The README contains the build instructions. The index
page shows the available API.
โ The Register UK โ Debugging_source_is_even_harder_when_you_canโt_stop
laughing_at_itโ โ
As was so often the case, the cards occasionally failed and had to be
replaced. A manual card index was used to keep track of things as
broken hardware arrived and working kit was sent out. It worked about
as well as youโd imagine. โWe were quite proud if we only lost a few
items a month,โ said Philip, โbut management werenโt quite so
impressed by our finely honed skill.โ
However, the operations manager had contacts in the US and managed to
secure the services of a student for six months. โBradโ (also not his
name) would come to the UK on what Philip now reckons looked a bit
like a modern zero-hours contract and do various work experience at
the facility.
โHe was an enthusiastic employee and took it on himself to learn
enough Visual Basic to make a rudimentary replacement to our card
index.โ
Like all too many quick and dirty Visual Basic/Access mash-ups of the
time, it seemed to work pretty much perfectly after a few iterations.
So much so that the business came to depend on Bradโs work and the
old manual filing system was filed in the bin. Brad eventually
returned to the US, but the fruits of his labor lived on after his
departure.
โAfter some time โ I forget what caused it โ an update was required
to Bradโs hard work,โ recalled Philip, โand we, the lads who were
reasonably proficient at working at code level, were asked to break
open his source and make the change.โ
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o ยง Hardwareโ โพ
# โ Microsoft_Pro_Intellimouseโ โ
I was using the cheapest, nastiest Microsoft Mouse
Iโve seen โ in true Microsoft Fashion itโs called
Microsoft Wired Basic USB Optical Mouse for
Business. Itโs flimsy and just like a real mouse,
squeaks if you squeeze it too hard.
o ยง Integrity/Availabilityโ โพ
# ยง Proprietaryโ โพ
# ยง Securityโ โพ
# โ Redis_servers_under_attack [Ed: The issue here
is Redis, which is BSD licensed, but this article
tries to blame "Debian", "Ubuntu", and "Linux"]โ โ
# โ Raphaรซl_Hertzog:_Join_Freexian_to_help_improve
Debianโ โ
Freexian has set itself new ambitious
goals in support of Debian and we would
like to expand our team to help us
reach those goals. We have drafted a
mission statement to clarify our
purpose and our values, and we hope to
be able to attract talented software
developers, entrepreneurs and Debian
experts from our community.
# โ CISA โ Mitigating_Attacks_Against
Uninterruptable_Power_Supply_Devices_|_CISAโ โ
CISA and the Department of Energy (DOE)
are aware of threat actors gaining
access to a variety of internet-
connected uninterruptable power supply
(UPS) devices, often through unchanged
default usernames and passwords.
# โ Bruce Schneier โ A_Detailed_Look_at_the_Conti
Ransomware_Gang [Ed: Schneier neglects to point
out this is a Microsoft Windows issue]โ โ
# โ Wired โ The_Workaday_Life_of_the_Worldโs_Most
Dangerous_Ransomware_Gang [Ed: How on Earth could
this article be published without even mentioning
Windows? With Microsoft and Bill Gates bribing
everything that moves -- even publishers -- the
crimes get covered up and noise obfuscates]โ โ
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ AccessNow โ Victory!_FinFisher_shuts_down
[Ed: Or it just renamed and moved under
another shell]โ โ
Yesterday, Monday March 28, 2022,
notorious German spyware purveyor
FinFisher shut down operations
and filed for insolvency. The
surveillance technology company
has a long history of selling its
products to authoritarian regimes
that surveil human rights
defenders and journalists.
Years of civil society advocacy
led to FinFisherโs collapse.
โThe people victimized by
FinFisherโs illegal exports will
find a measure of justice in this
corporate downfall, which comes
as a direct result of concerted
action by civil society,โ said
Peter Micek, General Counsel at
Access Now. โWe encourage German
authorities to seize and destroy
FinFisher assets and data,
compensate its victims, and
trumpet the power of export
controls and criminal prosecution
to hook spyware peddlers where it
hurts.โ
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ How_to_quickly_end_the_war_in_Ukraine_with_$10_laser
pointers_|_I,_Cringelyโ โ
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine is begging NATO for
a no-fly zone they canโt risk providing. So I came
up with another solution โ $10 laser pointers.
Buy 100,000 laser pointers and give them to
Ukrainian mothers (not kids โ too dangerous). Even
the puniest lockable laser pointer (notice the
keys?) can temporarily blind a pilot at a distance
of more than a mile, so what will 100 non-puny
laser pointers do to the same aircraft? It would
not only create an effective no-fly zone, it might
kill hundreds of Russian pilots before they figure
it out.
Though outdoor laser pointer pictures are usually
shot at night so the beam is easier to see, they
can do just as much damage during the day. In the
United States, the actions I am proposing are
against the law and can result in jail time plus an
$11,000 fine per incident. But in the case of
Ukraine, this is war and saving the nation is worth
the risk and the effort.
This plan is just not that hard to do. Training
takes less than a minute (push button, aim, and
donโt shine the thing in your eye) โ especially if
there are 100 other people trying to do the same
thing to the same aircraft at the same time. Only
one of those needs to hit the bullseye to destroy a
$10 million weapon by sending it out of control.
o ยง Internet Policy/Net Neutralityโ โพ
# โ HC_asks_MEITY_to_consider_hearing_creator_of_blocked_siteโ โ
In 2011, journalist Tanul Thakur created the Dowry
Calculator, a satirical website on the dowry
system. In 2018, the website was blocked by the
Government of India, which was challenged by Mr.
Thakur in November 2019 before the Delhi High
Court, as illegal and unconstitutional. The case
came up for hearing on 21st March 2022, and the
Court recorded Mr. Thakurโs submissions that he was
not given an opportunity to be heard before the
website was blocked. It has directed the Union of
India to provide the entire case record, and asked
the Union of India to consider giving Mr. Thakur a
post-decisional hearing, including an opportunity
to take corrective measures, if necessary.
o ยง Monopoliesโ โพ
# ยง Patentsโ โพ
# ยง Software Patentsโ โพ
# โ Globe Newswire โ Maersk_Joins_the_Open
Invention_Network_Community [Ed: Open Invention
Network (OIN) is not a community, it is a
corporate patent pool trying to pull the actual
community into the cartel that 'normalises'
software patents, distracting from actual
solutions]โ โ
Open Invention Network (OIN), the
organization formed to safeguard open
source software (OSS) and the largest
patent non-aggression community in
history, announced today that A. P.
Mรธller โ Mรฆrsk A/S (Maersk) has joined
as a community member. Maersk is a
leading integrated container logistics
company and the global leader in
shipping services, operating in more
than 130 countries. As a user of open
source, Maersk considers OSS an enabler
of advanced supply chain management
platforms.
# ยง Copyrightsโ โพ
# โ Public Domain Review โ Earthen_Messages:_Nikola_Tesla
in_his_Laboratory_(ca._1899)_โ_The_Public_Domain
Reviewโ โ
This photograph of Tesla, produced for The
Century Magazine, shows the inventor seated
beneath his giant โmagnifying transmitterโ,
arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity.
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โ โง โโโโ โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 03.29.22โ โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ โโโ โง
Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ Links_28/03/2022:_Microsoft_Suspends_Site_of_GNU/Linux_Distro_PuppyLinuxโ โ
Posted in News_Roundup at 6:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
๐ธ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ณ๐ด๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ธ๐ฟ๐ ๐ธ๐พ๐ฝ โฆGNOME bluefishโฆ
ยง Contentsโ โพ
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o ยง Serverโ โพ
# โ The Anarcat โ What_is_going_on_with_web_servers_โ_anarcatโ โ
Cloudflare โserverโ is third ahead of the
traditional third (Microsoft IIS) โ I somewhat knew
that Cloudflare was hosting a lot of stuff, but I
somehow didnโt expect to see it there at all for
some reason
[...]
Oh and of course, the two first most popular web
servers, regardless of the source, are package in
Debian. So while weโre working on statistics and
just making stuff up, Iโm going to go ahead and
claim all of this stuff runs on Linux and that BSD
is dead. Or something like that.
o ยง Audiocasts/Showsโ โพ
# โ 271:_GNOME_42_&_Our_Open_Source_Android_App_Picks_โ
Destination_Linuxโ โ
This weekโs episode of Destination Linux, weโre
going to be talking about running open source on
your mobile device. Our love for open-source
doesnโt just stop with the desktop. Weโre going to
hook you up with our favorite apps. Then weโre
going to check out GNOME 42. Plus weโve also got
our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of
this and so much more this week on Destination
Linux. So whether youโre brand new to Linux and
open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast
for you.
# โ Late_Night_Linux_โ_Episode_170_โ_Late_Night_Linuxโ โ
The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux
arrives on M1 Macs, Canonicalโs hiring methods
cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE
korner, and more.
# โ Video โ Another_Weird_File_Viewer_Youโve_Never_Heard_Of_โ
Invidiousโ โ
There is some weird software for Linux out there
and some of the weirdest are in the file manager
and file viewer space especially when you start
looking at the older software which hasnโt been
updated in years and fsv is one of those
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ Citizix โ How_to_install_and_set_up_M/Monit_in_Linuxโ โ
Monit is a small popular Open Source utility for
managing and monitoring Unix systems. M/Monit
builds on Monitโs capabilities and provides
monitoring and management of all your Monit enabled
hosts via a modern, clean and well designed user
interface which also works on mobile devices.
M/Monit can monitor and manage distributed computer
systems, conduct automatic maintenance and repair
and execute meaningful causal actions in error
situations.
# โ Linux Shell Tips โ How_to_Install_MariaDB_in_Ubuntu_20.04/
22.04โ โ
MariaDB has earned its stripes as a reputable
database management system due to its feature-rich
and performant nature. It being a MySQL fork
implies that MariaDB offers similar features and
performance metrics with the advantage of being
free and completely open-source.
Therefore, for users that are invested in web-based
or desktop-based application development projects,
the input that mariaDB brings to the table cannot
be ignored.
# โ H2S Media โ How_to_install_Lighttpd_web_server_on_Rocky
Linux_8_โ_Linux_Shoutโ โ
Letโs learn the simple and quick steps to install
the Lighttpd web server on Rocky Linux 8 using the
command terminal.
The long-established Apache is one of the most
popular web servers in the world. But there are now
several web servers that can hold a candle to
Apache. Lighttpd is one of those.
lighttpd (pronounced โlightyโ) is a web server that
requires far fewer resources than Apache, for
example, and is therefore particularly well suited
for very large loads or very weak systems. It was
developed by Jan Kneschke and can be expanded with
modules. For example, FastCGI allows you to run PHP
code. SCGI adds Ruby or Python to lighty.
# โ Print_interface_that_is_up_and_running_Using_awk,_sedโ โ
# โ Network World โ Using_the_btrfsck_file-checing_command_on
Linux_|_Network_Worldโ โ
The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command
like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system.
First a little bit about btrfs. As the name
implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is
self-balancing and maintains sorted data,
facilitating searches, sequential access,
insertions, and deletions. It is also often
referred to as the โbetter file systemโ. Oracle
developed it and first used it about 15 years ago.
By November 2013, it was declared adequately stable
and began to be used by other distributions as
well, and now its use is quite common.
# โ Install_Roundcube_webmail_on_Ubuntu_22.04_โ_kifarunix.comโ โ
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to
install Roundcube webmail on Ubuntu 22.04.
Roundcube webmail is a free and open source web-
based IMAP email client. It is written in PHP and
works just like any other email client. It provides
a handful of features;
# โ Barry Kauler โ Another_fix_for_gpptpโ โ
# โ Show_Bash_script_usageโ โ
Is it best practice to include usage in every Bash
script that you create. This gives the user an idea
of what options the script is expecting, so they
can use it as intended. It also gives the script
some error checking ability to make sure that the
user has supplied arguments in the expected way.
In this tutorial, you will learn a couple of
different methods to show Bash script usage, check
which user is executing the script, and check the
current number of arguments on Linux.
# โ UNIX Cop โ Stacer_Linux_System_Optimizer_&_Monitoring_-โ โ
Stacer is one such app created to optimize your
Linux PC in a sense better that it packs a list of
features generally expect from an optimizer and
more to give the system a refresh whenever you feel
the need. An open-source system optimizer and
application monitor that helps to manage the system
with different aspects, itโs an all-in-one system
utility.
# โ Linux Made Simple โ How_to_install_MetaTrader_5_with_the
MetaQuotes_Broker_on_a_Chromebookโ โ
Today we are looking at how to install MetaTrader 5
with the MetaQuotes Broker 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.
# โ How_to_set_kernel_boot_parameters_on_Linuxโ โ
The purpose of this tutorial is to show how to set
kernel boot parameters in Linux. When a user boots
their Linux system, the GRUB boot loader can set
various parameters as it loads the Linux kernel.
You can think of these parameters as arguments, the
same type you are probably accustomed to using with
commands in your terminal.
Kernel parameters can be set either temporarily or
permanently, and will modify the behavior of your
system as it boots up. Modifying kernel boot
parameters can have a big impact, such as allowing
you to reset the root password, or they can do
minor things like show the logo of your Linux
distro when your computer boots up.
Follow along with our step by step instructions
below to see how to set kernel boot parameters
either temporarily or permanently on Linux.
Temporary parameters will only survive one boot,
and then be erased for subsequent reboots.
Permanently setting a parameter will ensure that it
persists across all future reboots of the system.
# โ Install_Couchbase_Server_on_CentOS/Rocky_Linux_โ
kifarunix.comโ โ
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install
Couchbase Server on CentOS/Rocky Linux. According
to the documentation, Couchbase Server is an open
source, distributed, JSON document database. It
exposes a scale-out, key-value store with managed
cache for sub-millisecond data operations, purpose-
built indexers for efficient queries, and a
powerful query engine for executing SQL-like
queries.
# โ How_to_Install_Apache_Tomcat_on_Debian_11_(Step_by_Step)โ โ
Apache Tomcat is a free and opensource web server
which is widely used for hosting web applications
written in Java programing language. It is an
implementation of Jakarta Servlet and Jakarta
Expression Language (formerly Java Servlet and Java
Expression Language) and other Java websocket
technologies.
Apache Tomcat is not exactly a web server in the
sense of Apache or Nginx. Itโs an application
server that provides a pure Java HTTP ecosystem and
Java-based logic to serve Java code.
# โ UNIX Cop โ How_to_Install_Trimage_image_compressor_on
Ubuntu_20.04โ โ
In this guide, We will show you how to install
Trimage tool for image compressor on Ubuntu 20.04
Trimage is a cross-platform tool for losslessly
optimizing PNG and JPG files for web.
Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line
interface to optimize image files for websites,
using optipng, pngcrush, advpng and jpegoptim,
depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and JPG
files are supported). It was inspired by
imageoptim. All image files are losslessy
compressed on the highest available compression
levels, and EXIF and other metadata is removed.
# โ H2S Media โ How_to_install_Lighttpd_on_AlmaLinux_8_โ_Linux
Shoutโ โ
Letโs learn the simple and quick steps to install
the Lighttpd web server on AlmaLinux 8 using the
command terminal.
The long-established Apache is one of the most
popular web servers in the world. But there are now
several web servers that can hold a candle to
Apache. Lighttpd is one of those.
lighttpd (pronounced โlightyโ) is a web server that
requires far fewer resources than Apache, for
example, and is therefore particularly well suited
for very large loads or very weak systems. It was
developed by Jan Kneschke and can be expanded with
modules. For example, FastCGI allows you to run PHP
code. SCGI adds Ruby or Python to lighty.
# โ UNIX Cop โ How_To_Visualize_Disk_Space_Usage_With_Vizex_โ
Unix_/_Linux_the_admins_Tutorialsโ โ
In this article we will learn How To Visualize Disk
Space Usage With Vizex. We can visualize graphical
output of disk usage using Vizex. Its Output
contains total size, total used space, free space
and percentage of used space of each partition in
graphical form.
We can customize the output as per our need using
different flags. we can visualize the disk usage of
a specific partition and can exclude some
partitions as well. You can save the output of
Vizex command information in a csv or json file. We
can also display the battery usage information of
the machine using Vizex. Using Vizex also we can
also print the directory contents like its size,
file types, and last modified date.
# โ UNIX Cop โ How_To_Install_Tasksel_on_Ubuntu_20.04_โ_Unix_/
Linux_the_admins_Tutorialsโ โ
In this guide, we will install Tasksel in Ubuntu
20.04
Tasksel package provides a simple interface for
users who want to configure their system to perform
a specific task. This program is used during the
installation process, but users can also use
tasksel at any time.
Tasksel is a Debian/Ubuntu tool that installs
multiple related packages as a co-ordinated โtaskโ
onto your system.
This function is similar to that of meta-packages,
and, in fact, most of the tasks available from
tasksel are also available as meta-packages from
the Ubuntu package managers (such as Synaptic
Package Manager or KPackageKit).
# โ ID Root โ How_To_Install_Chatwoot_on_Debian_11_โ_idrootโ โ
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Chatwoot on Debian 11. For those of you who didnโt
know, Chatwoot is a free, open-source, and real-
time messaging platform. It provides a simple and
live chat for your website and integrates it with
other apps. Chatwoot is an open-source alternative
to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud,
etc.
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 โsudoโ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you through the step-by-
step installation of the Chatwoot on a Debian 11
(Bullseye).
# โ UNIX Cop โ Top_20_sed_commands_to_usesโ โ
The sed command is an overused command by sysadmins
around the world. It is basically used to replace
text by text in a text file with a single command.
Thatโs why, today, we are going to present you the
Top 20 sed commands. For this, we will look at the
most useful and common ones.
# โ Copy_and_Paste_Text_into_the_Terminal_on_Ubuntu_22.04โ โ
Copying and pasting text into the Linux terminal on
Ubuntu 22.04 can help any Linux user when following
any kind of Linux tutorial which requires the user
to copy specific commands from the tutorial into
the terminal.
In this tutorial, you will learn various methods
that can be used to copy and paste text to and from
the terminal on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ Boiling Steam โ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_โ
2022-03-29_Edition_โ_Boiling_Steamโ โ
Between 2022-03-22 and 2022-03-29 there were 20 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For
reference, during the same time, there were 217
games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux
versions represent about 9.2 % of total released
titles.
o ยง Desktop Environments/WMsโ โพ
# ยง GNOME Desktop/GTKโ โพ
# โ The Register UK โ People_donโt_like_GNOME_42โฒs
inconsistent_themes_โข_The_Registerโ โ
GNOME 42 is here, but its new look and feel
doesnโt yet include all of the environment.
This is already causing rumblings of
discontent.
This release is significant because soon it
will be the default desktop of the next Long
Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu. That
means a lot of people will be looking at
GNOME 42 every day until 2024.
GNOME 42 will also be the default in Fedora
36, though Fedora doesnโt have LTS versions.
A new version comes along twice a year so
Fedora 37 will almost certainly have GNOME
43. If the GNOME-using members of the Red Hat
community donโt like the look of 42, they
wonโt have to put up with it for long, but
Ubuntu users must, or switch to the short-
term support channel, which may not be viable
for everyone.
As we mentioned in the GNOME 42 preview, the
new look isnโt just an easily changed theme.
Like many modern desktops, GNOME uses a lot
of web technology.
GNOME themes were described using CSS. Since
GNOME 3, the default GNOME theme was Adwaita,
and it was easy to install new ones, and
there were lots to choose from.
o ยง Distributionsโ โพ
# โ Barry Kauler โ puppylinux.com_is_down [Ed: PuppyLinux
outsourced to Microsoft, Microsoft suspends site of GNU/Linux
distro]โ โ
In case you have come here, hoping that I might
know something; I donโt really, except that it is
being worked on.
The account is hosted, I think, by github.com, and
they suspended puppylinux.com without any
notification or explanation. If that seems a bit
rude, yes, it is. A decent host provider should
give an explanation.
# ยง New Releasesโ โพ
# โ Alpine_3.12.11,_3.13.9,_3.14.5_and_3.15.3_released_|
Alpine_Linuxโ โ
The Alpine Linux project is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of the
releases:
3.12.11
3.13.9
3.14.5
3.15.3
These releases include a security fix for
zlibโs CVE-2018-25032.
# ยง BSDโ โพ
# โ Dan Langille โ Making_my_pkg.conf_configuration
version_independentโ โ
In this post, I will talk about how I
modified my pkg configuration so I donโt have
to modify it after upgrading a host/jail from
one version of FreeBSD to another. You might
say that you donโt have to do that. Perhaps
you have a different configuration and arenโt
doing what Iโm doing.
# ยง SUSE/OpenSUSEโ โพ
# โ CubicleNate โ Fujitsu_Lifebook_T725_with_openSUSE_โ
CubicleNateโs_Techpadโ โ
Overall I give this computer 4 out of 5
Geekos on running openSUSE Tumbleweed. There
is not so much of an issue with openSUSE
itself but the capabilities baked into Plasma
in handling the touch screen interface. The
handling of rotating the screen causes the
input digitizer to not be synchronized with
the screen and the lack of onscreen keyboard
as a part of Plasma that works with the login
screen but isnโt available within the Desktop
environment itself. If it could be exposed
while using the desktop as you would expect
on a smartphone, this would change the
experience of Plasma on the Tablet mode from
okay to absolutely fantastic.
# ยง Canonical/Ubuntu Familyโ โพ
# โ Ubuntu_22.04_System_Monitoring_with_Conky_widgetsโ โ
Conky is a system monitoring program for
Linux and BSD that runs on the GUI. It
monitors various system resources to report
the current usage of CPU, memory, disk
storage, temperatures, users logged in,
currently playing song, etc. in a sleek
little widget on your screen. This way,
youโre able to see at a quick glance how your
computerโs components are being utilized.
Conky is lightweight and highly configurable,
so youโre able to run it without having a
negative impact on your system or seeing it
stick out like it doesnโt belong. Weโll show
you how to get it installed on Ubuntu 22.04
Jammy Jellyfish and some configuration
options to get it looking nice.
# โ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_728โ โ
# โ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_728โ โ
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter,
Issue 728 for the week of March 20 โ 26,
2022. The full version of this issue is
available here.
# โ Ubuntu โ Firmus_Supercloud_sets_a_new_standard_for
sustainable_cloud_computing_with_Canonicalโs_open
infrastructure_|_Ubuntuโ โ
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces
that Firmus, the Australian cloud
infrastructure provider that is
revolutionising data centre technology, has
built its ultra-efficient and sustainable
public cloud on Canonicalโs Charmed OpenStack
and Charmed Kubernetes.
Data centres are responsible for a staggering
2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and
that number is rising. This is largely due to
the inefficiency of traditional data centre
designs. The worldwide average for data
centre energy efficiency is 1.59 power usage
effectiveness (PUE), which means that for
every megawatt that is spent powering
computers, an additional 590 kilowatts are
required to run cooling systems. This value
has been stagnant for some time, resulting in
inefficient data centres that are costly to
operate, costly to access, and costly to the
planet.
Firmus is solving the data centre efficiency
and sustainability issue with an innovative
new immersion cooling solution: submerging
servers in a bath of non-conductive,
biodegradable fluid that is approximately
1000 times more effective at wicking away
heat than air.
The immersion cooling technology has led to
what is arguably the most efficient data
centre design in the world, coming in at just
1.03 PUE. This is enabling Firmus to offer a
public cloud service, Supercloud, at a price
point significantly lower than the rest of
the market. Whatโs more, Firmusโ data centre
is located in Tasmania where it is powered by
genuine grid connected renewable energy.
o ยง Devices/Embeddedโ โพ
# โ CNX Software โ RM500U-CN_Raspberry_Pi_5G_HAT_kit_sells_for
under_$200โฆ_for_the_Chinese_market_โ_CNX_Softwareโ โ
Waveshare has introduced a new Raspberry Pi 5G HAT
kit with a Quectel RM500U-CN 5G module, four
antennas, and other accessories that sells for
under $200, Raspberry Pi SBC not included.
On the face of it, it looks like an incredible
deal, considering weโve previously covered two
other 5G development kits for the Raspberry Pi,
namely Waveshare SIM8200EA-M2 HAT with a Snapdragon
X55 5G modem and Sixfab โRaspberry Pi 5G
Development Kitโ that sold for about $400 to $600.
Whatโs the trick? Itโs designed for the Chinese
market.
# ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ Hackaday โ Raspberry_Pi_Creates_Melodyโ โ
For those who are not into prog rock in the
70s or old radio shows from the 40s, the
Theremin may be an unfamiliar musical
instrument. As a purely electronic device,
itโs well outside the realm of conventional
musical instruments. Two radio antennas
detect the position of the musicianโs hands
to make a unique sound traditionally
associated with eeriness or science fiction.
# โ Tomโs Hardware โ Cyntech_Raspberry_Pi_4_Case_and
Heatsink_Reviewโ โ
Cyntech has been on the Raspberry Pi scene
since the early days. It co-created Pibrella,
an early 26 pin GPIO based add on board and
has released numerous products over the first
decade of Raspberry Pi. Cyntechโs latest
product is a combo of case and heatsink for
the Raspberry Pi 4. The case retails for $6
and the heatsink for an additional $7, so for
$13 how much protection and cooling do we
get? Can it compete with the products on our
list of best Raspberry Pi cases? The only way
to find out is to put them on the bench and
see how they perform.
# โ Arduino โ These_special_windshield_wipers_move_to_the
beat_of_a_carโs_stereo_|_Arduino_Blogโ โ
Having your windshield wipers move to the
beat of your favorite song can be a fun
moment while driving, which is why YouTuber
Cranktown City wanted to ensure this would
always be the case by adding some
intelligence to his truckโs wiper blades. The
idea is simple: have a microcontroller
โlistenโ to the music currently being played,
analyze the beat, and then move the wipers
accordingly.
To begin, the truckโs wiper blade control
unit was ripped out and replaced with an
Arduino Uno along with a new DC motor driver
and motor encoder for determining its
absolute position. The Uno is able to listen
to the music thanks to a tiny MSGEQ7 spectrum
analyzer module, which takes the incoming
analog music signal and splits it up into
seven different bands of frequencies. When
the average amplitude of the frequency that
is correlated with drums goes above a
specified threshold, the position variable
for the motor flips from 0 to 180 and vice
versa.
# ยง Mobile Systems/Mobile Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Computers Are Bad โ VoWiFiโ โ
I havenโt written for a bit, in part because
I am currently on vacation in Mexico. Well,
hereโs a short piece about some interesting
behavior Iโve noticed here.
I use a cellular carrier with very good
international roaming support, so for the
most part I just drive into Mexico and my
phone continues to work as if nothing has
changed. I do get a notification shortly
after crossing the border warning that data
might not work for a few minutes; I believe
(but am not certain) that this is because
Google Fi uses eUICC.
# โ GSM Arena โ Nokia_XR20_starts_receiving_Android_12
update_โ_GSMArena.com_newsโ โ
# โ SamMobile โ Samsung_Galaxy_A_Quantum_gets_the_Android
12_update_โ_SamMobileโ โ
# โ Android Headlines โ Top_10_Best_Open_Source_Android
Apps_โ_2022โ โ
# โ Indian Express โ Oppo_Enco_Air2_review:_The_perfect
accessory_for_budget_Android_|_Technology_News,The
Indian_Expressโ โ
# โ Phone Arena โ YouTube_Music_update_now_brings_a
useful_Play_Music_feature_on_Android_โ_PhoneArenaโ โ
o ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
# ยง FSFโ โพ
# ยง Licensing/Legalโ โพ
# โ Joinup โ The_e-CODEX_solution_provides_access
to_cross-border_justice_for_citizens,_businesses,
and_legal_professionals_in_the_EUโ โ
The technical components of e-CODEX are
open source building blocks, mainly
consisting of a connector and a
gateway. The Domibus Gateway as well as
the Domibus Connector are freely
available under a European Union Public
Licence (EUPL v1.2). The installation
of the gateway ensures a secured
connection with a gateway in another
Member State while the connector
carries out the adaptations required
for receiving encrypted data by the
corresponding service provider in
another Member State.
# ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ Linux Hint โ Best_Programming_Languages_to_Learn_in
2022โ โ
In the modern world, the demand for computer
scientists continues to grow. Everything
around us is transforming, undergoing a
digital makeover. With so many people
becoming a part of this field, it comes as no
surprise how much technology has expanded and
the rate at which it is developing. Computer
science itself is divided into various sub-
fields, each of which has its own set of
specialized workers. However, one thing
common to almost all these fields is the
process of writing instructions in the form
of code, commonly referred to as programming.
This sits at the heart of computer science
and gives it the power to create and remove
things. With the number of existing
programming languages reaching the three-
digit mark, and as each programming job has
its own specific set of requirements, it can
be extremely daunting to figure out which
language to learn.
To make your job easier, this article
provides a list of the best programming
languages to learn in 2022.
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o โ Counter Punch โ Sonnet:_Iโm_Maddy_As_Hellโ โ
and, five years on, no Shock and Awe ineluction;
Clintonโs doctrine
o โ Counter Punch โ 1052_and_All_Thatโ โ
There had been conflicts both theological and political
before between the Pope in Rome and the Archbishop of
Constantinople but the rift had always been smoothed
over. The Great Schism was caused by a number of basic
disagreements: there was the Western practice of using
unleavened bread for the Eucharist for example, but the
main theological disagreement was over the relative
positions of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in the
Trinity โ known as the filioque controversy that resulted
from the Latin Churchโs tinkering with the Nicene Creed.
The actual events on the ground that immediately
triggered this dramatic split are the stuff of silent
comedy with the Papal Legate and the Archbishop of
Constantinople hurling excommunications around like
Jovian thunderbolts. But, this time there would be no
turning back. The result has been a painful fissure in
the structure of European society that continues to this
day and that even underlies the current crisis in
Ukraine.
o โ The Nation โ The_Tactical_Silence_Has_Failed:_Say_Brittney
Grinerโs_Nameโ โ
If only Brittney Griner had slapped Chris Rock, then
maybe people would be saying her name. The near-silence
surrounding Grinerโs unjust detention in Russia has long
seemed both sadly predictable and somewhat curious. It is
sadly predictable that a sports world awash in NFL takes
and that ignores womenโs sports would erase regular
updates on Grinerโs existence as a political prisoner.
Griner is a Black, queer woman in a league that receives
reservoirs of disrespect. The sports world, as has been
said often, would be in an uproar if this were Tom Brady.
They arenโt, and itโs damning.
o โ Techdirt โ Policy_Building_Blocks,_And_How_We_Talk_About_The
Lawโ โ
One of the fundamental difficulties in doing policy
advocacy, including, and perhaps especially tech policy
advocacy, is that we are not only speaking of technology,
which can often seem inscrutable and scary to non-
experts, but law, which itself is an intricate and often
opaque system. This complicated nature of our legal
system can present challenges, because policy involves an
application of law to technology, and we canโt apply it
well when we donโt understand how the law works. (Itโs
also hard to do well when we donโt understand how the
technology works, either, but this post is about the law
part so weโll leave the issues with understanding
technology aside for now.)
o โ The Nation โ Ghostsโ โ
o โ The Nation โ From_the_Labor_Question_to_the_Housing_Questionโ โ
A peculiar mix of political extremism and ideological
malaise characterizes post-2016 American politics. While
factions abound, few of them have anything new to say.
Instead, the most outrรฉ cliques on both the left and the
right have resorted to nostrums that reached the height
of their appeal in the middle of the last century. It is
as if everyone showed up to a party wearing their
parentsโ ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
o โ Russell Coker โ Russell_Coker:_Feedburner_Seems_to_be_Dyingโ โ
Many years ago Feedburner was a useful service. It
proxied the RSS feed of your blog and gave you analytics
of what happened with it. Now feeds using Feedburner
randomly give HTTP error 404s. The Feedburner Twitter
account is inactive and recommends that people Tweet at
Google instead. It seems that Google wants to get rid of
the service and random 404s probably arenโt a high
priority for them.
o ยง Scienceโ โพ
# โ Matt Rickard โ Elliptic_Curve_Cryptography_for_Beginnersโ โ
What is elliptic curve cryptography and how does it
work? The technology keeps your iMessages encrypted
but also powers Bitcoin and Ethereum and just about
every major website you visit.
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is a type of
public-key cryptographic systems. This class of
systems relies on really difficult โone-wayโ math
problems โ problems that easy to compute one way
and intractable to solve the โotherโ way. Sometimes
these are called โtrap-doorโ functions โ easy to
fall into, extremely difficult to get out of.
o ยง Educationโ โพ
# โ Sedaa โ Indiaโs_hijab_row_has_been_hijacked_by_the_Hindu
and_Muslim_right_wing_to_score_political_pointsโ โ
Therefore, arguing that allowing Muslim girls to
wear hijab would grantee their education is a farce
and doesnโt represent ground realities.
Sadly, many Muslim girls are taken out of school
and must give up their education to be married off
at the age of puberty. This regressive practice is
in clear violation of the Prohibition of Child
Marriage Act, which states the minimum age of
marriage for a woman is 18.
o ยง Hardwareโ โพ
# โ Hackaday โ PDP-11/34_Restoration_And_The_Virtue_Of
Persistenceโ โ
The wildly successful PDP-11 minicomputer was a
major influence on the evolution of computing
throughout the 1970s. While fondly remembered in
modern day emulation, thereโs nothing like booting
up the real thing, as [Jerry Walker] explores in
his series on restoring a PDP-11/34. Examples of
PDP-11 hardware are becoming increasingly rare,
which makes restoration and preservation of
remaining equipment even more critical. [Jerry] has
gone to exhaustive lengths to restore his PDP-11/34
to working condition, painstakingly troubleshooting
wire-wrapped backplane and replacing suspect ICs
across the entire system. With scant documentation
on some of the cards, it was often a matter of
sheer will and technical know-how that saw the
system eventually come back to life.
# โ Hackaday โ Old_Boat_Becomes_Toasty_Floating_Saunaโ โ
A sauna is a great place to feel warm and toasty
and refreshed, but few of us have one at home.
[Linus Strothmann] decided to build his own, using
an old boat as the perfect base for his steamy
build.
# โ Hackaday โ Retro_Portable_Computer_Packs_Printer_For_The
Tripโ โ
Looking like it dropped out of an alternate reality
version of the 1980s, the Joopyter Personal
Terminal is a 3D printed portable computer that
includes everything you need for life in the retro-
futuristic fastlane: a mechanical keyboard, a
thermal printer, and the obligatory tiny offset
screen. Itโs a true mobile machine too, thanks to
itโs onboard battery and a clever hinge design that
lets you fold the whole thing up into something
akin to a PLA handbag. You wonโt want to leave home
without it.
# โ Hackaday โ Gravity-Water-Air_Powered_Engineโ โ
Air engines are a common occurrence here on
Hackaday. Theyโre relatively novel and reasonably
easy to 3D print without requiring any fluids or
supporting machinery. For example, [Tom Stanton]
took a previous air engine design, did away with
the air compressor, and instead used gravity and
water to create just a few PSI to run the engine.
# โ Hackaday โ Is_The_IPhone_Camera_Too_Smart?_Or_Not_Smart
Enough?โ โ
What is a photograph? Technically and literally
speaking, itโs a drawing (graph) of light (photo).
Sentimentally speaking, itโs a moment in time,
captured for all eternity, or until the medium
itself rots away. Originally, these light-drawings
were recorded on film that had to be developed with
a chemical process, but are nowadays often captured
by a digital image sensor and available for instant
admiration. Anyone can take a photograph, but
producing a good one requires some skill โ knowing
how to use the light and the camera in concert to
capture an image.
# โ Hackaday โ PCB_Thermal_Design_Hack_Chatโ โ
Join us on Wednesday, March 30 at noon Pacific for
the PCB Thermal Design Hack Chat with Mike Jouppi!
o ยง Health/Nutrition/Agricultureโ โพ
# โ The Dissenter โ Gift_To_Industry:_Budget_Leaves_EPA
Chemical_Reviews_Further_Paralyzedโ โ
# โ Orac โ These_days,_ivermectin_reminds_me_of_acupunctureโ โ
Iโm getting tired of writing aboutย ivermectinย as a
โmiracle cureโ for COVID-19, just as in 2020 I got
tired of writing about hydroxychloroquine as a
miracle cure for COVID-19. Oddly enough, as high-
quality evidence accumulated that
hydroxychloroquine doesnโt work, it faded in
importance such that by early 2021 it was no longer
the preferred wonder drug among COVID-19 conspiracy
theorists. Ivermectin rose to replace it, or, as I
like to say, ivermectinย became the new
hydroxychloroquine. These days, though, it reminds
me more of acupuncture.
# โ Pro Publica โ Cuomo_Set_Out_to_โTransformโ_Mental_Health
Care_for_Kids._Now_They_Canโt_Get_Treatment.โ โ
Moshe was in the hospital for the fourth time, and
his mother, Rae, was desperate.
It was the spring of 2021. Moshe was 12 years old,
and heโd been admitted to a psychiatric unit for
children at South Oaks Hospital, not far from his
home on the North Shore of Long Island.
# โ BBC โ Teenage_social_media_use_linked_to_less_life-
satisfaction_for_someโ โ
The more time girls aged between 11 and 13 spend on
social media, the less likely they are to be
satisfied with life a year later, a study suggests.
The UK study, in Nature Communications, shows the
same pattern for boys aged 14 to 15, and 19-year-
old boys and girls.
Scientists speculate the vulnerability to social
media at particular ages may be linked to brain,
hormonal and social changes during adolescent
development.
o ยง Integrity/Availabilityโ โพ
# ยง Proprietaryโ โพ
# ยง Pseudo-Open Sourceโ โพ
# ยง Privatisation/Privateeringโ โพ
# ยง Linux Foundationโ โพ
# โ Linux Foundationโs Site/Blog โ MLH
Fellowship_Opens_Applications_for
this_Summerโs_Production_Engineering
Track [Ed: Zemlin PAC as front group
of Mark Zuckerberg; he pays them for
reputation laundering.]โ โ
# ยง Securityโ โพ
# โ Red Hat Official โ 5_security_considerations
for_edge_implementationsโ โ
Many organizations are apprehensive
about the security of edge deployments.
As data becomes more and more valuable,
security threats create increasingly
serious concerns. No organization wants
to be in the news explaining why they
were exposed to the latest security
threat, nor do they want to account for
sensitive information being stolen.
These security threats can damage an
organizationโs credibility and
ultimately impact their bottom line.
# โ Update_Google_Chrome_Now:_How_To_Download
Chrome_Security_Update_on_Mac,_Linux,_Windows,
Android [Ed: Better delete it and use a better
browser, which isn't proprietary and maintained
by NSA partner]โ โ
Google has recently released an updated
Google Chrome due to the recent high-
severity exploit experienced. The tech
giant encourages its billions of users
around the world to download the Google
Chrome security update as soon as
possible.
# โ Video โ Enterprise_Linux_Security_Episode_23_โ
Busting_5_IT_Security_Myths_โ_Invidiousโ โ
Cyber security is a huge topic, and
through the years the industry changes
rapidly to keep up with current threats
and related challenges. As a result,
some of the beliefs and mindsets weโve
adopted in the industry have changed as
well.
# โ Market Screener โ Gartner_:_Itโs_Time_to
Implement_MFA_for_Remote_Privileged_Access_to
Linux_Servers [Ed: Corrupt Gartner, bribed_by
serial_briber_Microsoft]โ โ
# โ LinuxInsider โ New_Platform_Pushes_Data,_Dirty
Pipe_and_DNS_Tunnel_Pollute_Linux_Plumbing [Ed:
Jack M. Germain helps the FUD campaign looking to
stigmatise Free software as the real security
problem]โ โ
# โ Daniel Stenberg โ This_busy-loop_is_not_a
security_issue_|_daniel.haxx.seโ โ
One of the toughest jobs I have, is to
assess if a reported security problem
is indeed an actual security
vulnerability or โjustโ a bug. Let me
take you through a recent case to give
you an insightโฆ
# โ LWN โ Some_nftables_security_vulnerabilities_
[LWN.net]โ โ
A new set of vulnerabilities has been
disclosed in the nftables subsystem;
these lead fairly easily to a local
system compromise, on some
configurations at least. Fixes for
these vulnerabilities were present in
the March 28 stable updates; upgrading
seems like a good idea.
# โ Update_Google_Chrome_Now:_How_To_Download
Chrome_Security_Update_on_Mac,_Linux,_Windows,
Android
โ โ
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ EFF โ An_EFF_Investigation:_Mystery_GPS
Tracker_On_A_Supporterโs_Carโ โ
Several weeks ago, an EFF
supporter brought her car to a
mechanic, and found a mysterious
device wired into her car under
her driverโs seat. This
supporter, who weโll call Sarah
(not her real name), sent us an
email asking if we could
determine whether this device was
a GPS tracker, and if so, who
might have installed it.
Confronted with a mystery that
could also help us learn more
about tracking, our team got to
work.
Sarah sent us detailed pictures
of the device. It was a black and
gray box, about four inches long,
with a bundle of 6 wires coming
out of one end. On one side, the
words โTHIS SIDE DOWNโ were
printed in block letters, next to
three serial numbers.ย
# โ EFF โ EFF_Files_FOIA_Lawsuit_Against_DHS
to_Shed_Light_on_Vetting_Program_to_Collect
and_Data_Mine_Immigrantsโ_Social_Mediaโ โ
# โ EFF โ The_Public_Has_a_Right_to_Know_How
DHS_is_Spending_Millionsย to_Spy_on
Immigrants_on_Social_Mediaโ โ
We want to change that, so we
sued DHS today under the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) for
records about the Visa Lifecycle
Vetting Initiative (VLVI). We
want to know what VLVI does, how
it works, and what information
DHS is gathering.ย
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.
District Court in San Francisco,
seeks records on the current
status of the program, including
whether the government is
monitoring peopleโs social media
profiles and for what purpose,
how this impacts visa approvals
and denials, and details about a
$4.8 million transaction last
spring.ย
EFF opposes the U.S. governmentโs
monitoring of anyoneโs social
media accounts and internet
activity, and in this case, the
government is targeting potential
immigrants who risk being
unfairly labeled a threat and
denied access into the U.S. EFF
previously urged DHS to abandon
any such vetting program because
social media surveillance invades
privacy and violates the First
Amendment by chilling speech and
allowing the government to target
and punish people for expressing
views it doesnโt like. Any
vetting based on speech on social
media would be ineffective and
discriminatory.
# โ IT Wire โ Rehashed_NYT_yarn_on_Russian
surveillance_shot_down_by_Nokiaโ โ
The NYT story is a rehashing of a
story published by the American
tech website TechCrunch back in
2019, where the reporter, Zach
Whittaker, said it offered โnew
insight into the scope and scale
of the Russian surveillance
systemโฆ and how Russian
authorities gain access to the
calls, messages and data of
customers of the countryโs
largest phone provider, Mobile
TeleSystemsโ.
A Nokia spokesperson said, in a
detailed rebuttal, that the NYT
had confirmed that the documents
used as source material for the
story were the same as those used
by TechCrunch.
# โ YLE โ NYT:_Nokia_played_โkey_roleโ_in
enabling_Russian_cyberspyingโ โ
In an extensive article (siirryt
toiseen palveluun), NYT described
how the Finnish firm played a
โkey roleโ in helping to connect
the System for Operative
Investigative Activities (SORM)
to Russiaโs largest telecom
service provider MTS, which is in
turn monitored by Russiaโs
principal security agency Federal
Security Service (FSB).
# โ NewYorkTimes โ When_Nokia_Pulled_Out_of
Russia,_a_Vast_Surveillance_System
Remainedโ โ
For more than five years, Nokia
provided equipment and services
to link SORM to Russiaโs largest
telecom service provider, MTS,
according to company documents
obtained by The New York Times.
While Nokia does not make the
tech that intercepts
communications, the documents lay
out how it worked with state-
linked Russian companies to plan,
streamline and troubleshoot the
SORM systemโs connection to the
MTS network. Russiaโs main
intelligence service, the F.S.B.,
uses SORM to listen in on phone
conversations, intercept emails
and text messages, and track
other internet communications.
# โ [Old] Nokia Mob โ 1.7TB_Nokia_data_leak
reveals_details_about_surveillance_in
Russiaโ โ
Security firm UpGuard released a
report detailing how it found
1.7TB of data owned by Nokia and
related to Russian operator MTS
that reveal details about the
network infrastructure in Russia
and the SORM (System for
Operative Investigative
Activities) installations used by
law and intelligence agencies.
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ Biden_Asks_Congress_to_Approve_Record_$813
Billion_in_Military_Spendingโ โ
Rebuffing progressive lawmakersโ calls for Pentagon
spending cuts, President Joe Biden on Monday is set
to unveil a budget blueprint for the next fiscal
year that includes a record $813.3 billion in funds
for the U.S. military apparatus, a $31 billion
increase from the current level.
โWeโre being robbed of resources to feed the
endless hunger of the military-industrial complex.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ โWe_Are_Readyโ_to_Discuss_Neutrality,
Zelenskyy_Says_Ahead_of_Russia-Ukraine_Talksโ โ
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead
of the latest round of in-person talks between Kyiv
and Moscow on Monday that his country is prepared
to declare neutrality from NATO, a move that would
fulfill one of Russiaโs long-standing demands.
โSecurity guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear
status of our state. We are ready to go for it,โ
Zelenskyy said in a video call with several Russian
reporters ahead of a fresh round of negotiations
between Russian and Ukrainian diplomats in Turkey.
The four Russian journalists involved in the call
were reportedly ordered not to publish the
Ukrainian presidentโs remarks.
# โ Common Dreams โ UN_Chief_Urges_โImmediate_Humanitarian
Cease-Fireโ_in_Ukraineโ โ
As the death toll from Russiaโs war on Ukraine
continued to grow, particularly in key cities like
Mariupol, United Nations Secretary-General Antรณnio
Guterres on Monday called for โan immediate
humanitarian cease-fire to allow for progress in
serious political negotiationsโ on a peace
agreement.
โA cessation of hostilitiesโฆ will save lives,
prevent suffering, and protect civilians.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_The_Madness_of_the_Resurgent_US
Cold_War_With_Russiaโ โ
The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy
toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how
the United States and its allies have expanded NATO
right up to Russiaโs borders, backed a coup and now
a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic
sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-
dollar arms race. The explicit goal is to pressure,
weaken and ultimately eliminate Russia, or a
Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor
to U.S. imperial power.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Ukraine_Negotiations:_No_Fly
Zone,_Nukes,_Neutrality,_and_Disarmamentโ โ
Regardless of whether we agree with him or not,
President Bidenโs statements that Vladimir Putin
cannot remain in power and that Putin is a war
criminal have compounded already complex
negotiations to end Moscowโs devastating and
nationally self-defeating war of aggression.ย
# โ Common Dreams โ Majority_of_Americans_Fear_Nuclear_Weapons
Use_After_Russiaโs_Ukraine_Invasionโ โ
Russian President Vladimir Putinโs invasion of
Ukraine has left Americans on edge, according to a
recent poll which found a majority of people in the
U.S. are worried that the war has made the
impending use of nuclear weapons more likely.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents told the
Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs
Research that the invasion has increased the
likelihood that nuclear weapons will be used
anywhere in the world.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Bidenโs_Dangerous_Call_for_Regime
Change_in_Russiaโ โ
Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on
Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous
statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the
nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have
been profuse. Administration officials scurried to
assert that Biden didnโt mean what he said. Yet no
amount of trying to โwalk backโ his unhinged
comment at the end of his speech in front of
Warsawโs Royal Castle can change the fact that
Biden had called for regime change in Russia.ย They
were nine words about Russian President Vladimir
Putin that shook the world: โFor Godโs sake, this
man cannot remain in power.โย With a reckless genie
out of the bottle, no amount of damage control from
the presidentโs top underlings could stuff it back
in. โWe do not have a strategy of regime change in
Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter,โ
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on
Sunday. Such words might plausibly have less than
full weight; Blinken was chief of staff at the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee when, in mid-
2002, then-Senator Biden wielded the gavel at
crucial hearings that completely stacked the
witness deck in support of the subsequent U.S.
invasion of Iraq, with the explicit goal of regime
change.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_A_Blueprint_for_a_Reasonable_Path
to_Peace_for_Ukraineโ โ
On March 7, Russia stated three aims for its
invasion of Ukraine: official Ukrainian neutrality,
recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, and
recognition of the independence of pro-Russian
separatist regions in Luhansk and Donetsk. The
United States and NATO have not spoken publicly
about a final diplomatic settlement, and, with
President Volodymyr Zelenskyโs government focused
on maintaining national unity and armed resistance
to Russia, Ukraine has publicly stated its
positions only in somewhat contradictory bits and
pieces. But Zelensky, in consultation with the US
and Europe, which are backing Ukraineโs war-
fighting capacity, should formulate and state what
a reasonable peace settlement would look like.
# โ Counter Punch โ The_Rising_Threat_of_Nuclear_Warโ โ
The Kurds had been assured by President George W
Bush and Tony Blair, along with the rest of the
world, that the Iraqi dictator was hiding his
weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Fifteen years
earlier in 1988, Iraqi forces had used mustard gas
and nerve agents to kill 5,000 Kurdish civilians in
the town of Halabja โ the largest direct use of
poison gas as a weapon against a civilian target in
history. No wonder people in Erbil and other
Kurdish cities, none of them that far from Halabja,
were frightened that the calamity would happen
again.
Much of the population fled from urban areas to
camp out in the plains and mountains or crammed
into tiny villages. Those staying behind bought
plastic sheeting, often in inappropriately festive
red, blue and yellow colours, which they pinned
over the doors and windows of their houses and
shops in a pathetic hope that this would keep out
the deadly gas.
# โ Counter Punch โ Hunger_Stalks_Central_Asia_as_the_Ukraine
War_Unfoldsโ โ
The address by Tokayev was made four days before
the holiday of Nauryz, which fell on March 20 and
is a new year festival celebrated by people in the
belt that runs from the Kurdish lands to the Kyrgyz
lands. Households across Kazakhstan were preparing
for this celebration, although inflation of food
pricesโwhich predated the Russian intervention in
Ukraine and the resulting Western sanctions imposed
on the Kremlinโhad already dampened the mood of the
festivities in the country; by mid-March, the
National Bank of Kazakhstan had reportedthat prices
of food products such as baked goods, cereals,
vegetables and dairyโthe important components of a
Nauryz mealโhad increased by 10 percent.
โKazakhstan is facing unprecedented financial and
economic difficulties in our modern history due to
the escalation of the geopolitical situation,โ
President Tokayev said. The โharsh sanctionsโ
imposed on Russia by the West are already impacting
the global economy, he said, adding, โUncertainty
and turbulence in the world markets are growing,
and production and trade chains are collapsing.โ
Rising food prices and financial turbulenceโa
result of both the Western sanctions on Russia and
of the integration of national economiesโhave set
the alarm bells ringing and seem to have heightened
the urgency to resolve these issues in Central
Asian countries like Kazakhstan.
# โ Democracy Now โ Nonwhite_Refugees_Fleeing_Ukraine_War_Held
in_Detention_Centers_in_Poland,_Estonia,_Austriaโ โ
Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine prompted an exodus of
nearly 4 million people and an outpouring of
support for many of the refugees. But a new report
finds dozens of nonwhite people who fled Ukraine
are being held in long-term detention centers in
Poland and Estonia. We speak with Maud Jullien,
investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, which
just published a series of reports in collaboration
with The Independent, Der Spiegel, Radio France and
others on the detention of African students fleeing
Ukraine. She describes how the European Unionโs
temporary protection directive sets a double
standard by permitting the safe entry of Ukrainian
citizens into neighboring countries while
withholding protection to third-party nationals
escaping the same conflict.
# โ Democracy Now โ โReckless_&_Damagingโ:_Could_Bidenโs
Suggestion_of_Regime_Change_in_Moscow_Endanger_Peace_Talks?โ โ
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is
open to Ukraine becoming a neutral country but said
such a decision could only be made by a nationwide
referendum after Russian troops withdraw. This
comes as the White House quickly tried to walk back
President Bidenโs remarks made during a speech on
Saturday in Poland during which he appeared to
endorse regime change in Moscow. We get responses
from Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna and Quincy
Institute President Andrew Bacevich. โThe
responsibility to negotiate with the Russians, to
come to a settlement that is agreeable to
Ukrainians, that belongs to President Zelensky,โ
says Bacevich, who called Bidenโs comments
โreckless and damaging.โ Khanna adds that while
โthe American president does have a leadership
roleโ in resolving the crisis, Bidenโs remarks were
not representative of U.S. policy, saying the
president โwas speaking from the heart.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Russiaโs_War_on_Ukraine_Poses
Threat_to_Global_Food_Securityโ โ
The situation in Ukraine is first and foremost a
humanitarian crisis, and the food security and
wellbeing of the people of Ukraine should be our
immediate concern. However, because of the dominant
roles of Russia and Ukraine in global food, fuel
and fertiliser markets, there are also massive
knock-on effects for people around the world. This
is particularly true for the supply and cost of
food. Here are three ways that the invasion of
Ukraine leads to potential risks to food security
in other countries.
# โ The Nation โ The_Ongoing_Russian_Resistance_to_Putinโs
Warโ โ
For the past 28 days of the war Russian President
Vladimir Putin has waged on Ukraine, there has been
a wave of resistance. In an earlier installment,
The Nation summarized the earliest days of
Februaryโs opposition. Hereโs a new report about
the past month of protests and the governmentโs
retaliation.
# โ The Nation โ Tucker_Carlsonโs_Flip-Flops_on_Russia_Mask_a
Deep_Militarismโ โ
As Putinโs invasion of Ukraine rages on, long-
deepening foreign policy divisions in the GOP have
been brought into sharp relief. As expected, the
conservative establishment has been pushing
President Joe Biden toward more aggressive,
escalatory, and interventionist responses. They are
joined in this by hawkish voices in the liberal
establishment.
# โ The Nation โ Starve_the_Putin_War_Machineโand_Save_the
Climateโ โ
Perhaps, finally, the breakthrough moment of
rethinking energy consumption is upon us. At least
itโs dawning in Europe, where using less energy, in
particular Russian hydrocarbons, now obviously
serves geopolitical, energy security, and climate
aims. To be sure, energy efficiency and the
reduction of energy consumption have long been
cornerstones of Europeโs climate-change mitigation
strategy. After all, using less checks all sorts of
boxes: Emissions decrease; prices drop as demand
lessens, energy poverty sinks, overburdened power
grids are eased, and fewer renewables are required
to decarbonize a smaller energy system.
# โ TruthOut โ Putin_Is_Attempting_to_Center_Russia_as_a_Hub_of
the_Global_Right_Wingโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Refugees_of_Color_Fleeing_Ukraine_Held_in
Migrant_Jails_in_Poland_and_Estoniaโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Zelenskyy_Says_He_Is_Prepared_to_Discuss
Neutrality_From_NATO_for_Ukraineโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Biden_Asks_Congress_for_a_Record-Breaking_$813
Billion_in_Military_Spendingโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Prison_Pen_Pals_Chip_Away_at_the_Prison-
Industrial_Complex_One_Letter_at_a_Timeโ โ
# โ Meduza โ After_the_fall_The_old_pillars_of_Russiaโs_free
press_have_crumbled,_but_the_journalists_who_ran_those
publications_carry_on._Here_are_their_new_projects.โ โ
# โ Meduza โ โItโs_not_just_a_war._Itโs_much_worse.โ_Volodymyr
Zelenskyโs_first_interview_with_Russian_journalists_since_the
war_beganโ โ
On Sunday, March 27, Volodymyr Zelensky gave his
first extensive interview with Russian journalists
since the beginning of Russiaโs war against
Ukraine. Zelensky spoke over Zoom with Meduza
editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov, Dozhd editor-in-
chief Tikhon Dzyadko, writer and journalist Mikhail
Zygar, and Kommersant special correspondent
Vladimir Solovyov (not to be confused with the
Russian propagandist who shares his name). Read
Meduzaโs translation below.
# โ Counter Punch โ Biden_on_Putinโ โ
# โ Counter Punch โ American_Bunker_Fantasiesโ โ
Having exhausted their efforts at action, they eat
the food theyโve prepared and purchased, give
thanks and pray before โdying neighborlyโ โ to
borrow a phrase coined by poet and writer Langston
Hughes in 1965.
โDying neighborlyโ was something of a common
refrain in the small number of stories told by
those writers and artists in the 1960s and 1980s
who recognized the dangers of nuclear war but were
unwilling or unable to accept the only measure
recommended by the government: to buy or build your
own shelter and pretend that youโd survive.
# โ India Today โ IS_releases_video_of_new_recruits_from_India
as_they_pledge_to_carry_out_Jihadโ โ
The Islamic State (IS) in a recent video claimed
that they have prepared at least three modules in
India. In the video, the Islamic State fighters are
seen taking membership in 3 different groups. The
4-minute long video has been released by ISHP
(Islamic State Hind Province).
The video was released on encrypted messaging
platform Telegram at 1 pm on March 25, claiming
that 3 different groups of IS fighters pledged
jihad in India in the name of the IS caliph.
# โ The Daily Beast โ Three_ISIS_Fanboys_Plotted_Spring_Break
Attack_on_Shia_Mosque,_Feds_Sayโ โ
A teenage ISIS supporter allegedly plotted to
travel to Chicago with two others during spring
break and kill worshipers at a Shia Muslim mosque,
according to federal court records unsealed Friday.
โIf they had not encountered law enforcement at
that point, they would continue on to another Shia
mosque or Jewish synagogue and execute the same
plan,โ one filing states. โThey did not have a plan
to escape but rather their plan ended with them
being shot by law enforcement.โ
# โ NPR โ The_Islamic_State_claims_responsibility_for_the
deaths_of_2_people_in_central_Israelโ โ
The militant Islamic State group claimed
responsibility on Monday after a pair of Arab
gunmen killed two people and wounded four in
central Israel before they were killed by police.
The two killed in the Sunday night attack were
Israeli police officers, authorities said.
o ยง Environmentโ โพ
# โ NewYorkTimes โ Methane_Leaks_in_New_Mexico_Far_Exceed
Current_Estimates,_Study_Suggestsโ โ
Startlingly large amounts of methane are leaking
from wells and pipelines in New Mexico, according
to a new analysis of aerial data, suggesting that
the oil and gas industry may be contributing more
to climate change than was previously known.
The study, by researchers at Stanford University,
estimates that oil and gas operations in New
Mexicoโs Permian Basin are releasing 194 metric
tons per hour of methane, a planet-warming gas many
times more potent than carbon dioxide. That is more
than six times as much as the latest estimate from
the Environmental Protection Agency.
# โ Reason โ NYCโs_Private_Anti-Idling_Law_Enforcersโ โ
An increasing number of state and local
jurisdictions place limits on how long trucks may
sit idle with the engine running. Unnecessary truck
idling is a significant contributor to local air
pollution and results in additional greenhouse gas
emissions to boot.
# โ Counter Punch โ Antarctica_on_Edgeโ โ
A few weeks ago East Antarcticaโs temperatures
soared by 50F to 90F above normal. (Ref: Antarctica
Crushes Records, March 23, 2022)
A couple of weeks later East Antarcticaโs Conger
Ice Shelf (1,200 sq km) completely collapsed and
two additional calving events occurred at other
glaciers, all in the same week.
# โ Counter Punch โ Cuba_Prepares_for_Disasterโ โ
Writers are well aware that Cuban approaches are
adapted to the unique geography and history of the
island.ย What readers should take away is not so
much the specific actions of Cuba as its method of
studying a wide array of approaches and actually
putting the best into effect (as opposed to merely
talking about their strengths and weaknesses).ย The
book traces Cubaโs preparedness from the threat of
a US invasion following its revolution through its
resistance to hurricanes and diseases, which all
laid the foundation for current adaptions to
climate change.
Only four years after the revolution, in 1963,
Hurricane Flora hit the Caribbean, killing 7000-
8000.ย Cubans who are old enough remember homes
being washed away by waters carrying rotten food,
animal carcasses and human bodies.ย It sparked a
complete redesign of health systems, intensifying
their integration from the highest decision-making
bodies to local health centers.ย Construction
standards were strengthened, requiring houses to
have reinforced concrete and metal roofs to resist
strong winds.
# โ Common Dreams โ 340+_Groups_Tell_Governments_Worldwide_to
Prioritize_Fossil_Fuel_Phaseoutโ โ
As governments meet this week to approve a summary
of part three of the United Nationsโ landmark
climate assessment, which focuses on mitigation,
hundreds of environmental justice groups from
around the globe shared an open letter Monday
imploring reviewers to emphasize the need for a
rapid phaseout of fossil fuels to avert the climate
emergencyโs most disastrous outcomes.
โThe stakes could not be any higher, the science
any clearer, or the imperative for immediate action
any greater.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_The_Five_Plagues_Testing
Humanityโ โ
Once upon a time, the tutelary gods of nationalism
and internationalism met for a chat. They had a
superb perch above the clouds. From there, they
could see everything happening on the Earth below
and they set to arguing, as they so often did.
# โ Common Dreams โ Thousands_of_Canadians_Call_on_Government
to_Scrap_Carbon_Capture_Tax_Creditโ โ
โMagical thinking isnโt going to solve the climate
crisis.โ
โThere is no fixing fossil fuels, we need to ditch
them to protect our climate.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ โGreen_New_Deal_Champions_Pledgeโ_Pushes
Candidates_to_Embrace_Bold_Climate_Agendaโ โ
Dozens of progressive advocacy organizations
launched a new campaign on Monday with the goal of
pushing congressional candidates and incumbent
lawmakers to embrace the Green New Deal and eschew
funding from the powerful fossil fuel industry.
Known as the Green New Deal Champions Pledge, the
new initiative aims to set โa new bar of what it
means to fight for climate justice in Congressโ by
pressuring candidates and current representatives
to back a specific slate of legislation that
includes:
# ยง Energyโ โพ
# โ NewYorkTimes โ How_Joe_Manchin_Aided_Coal,_and_Earned
Millionsโ โ
While the fact that Mr. Manchin owns a coal
business is well-known, an examination by The
New York Times offers a more detailed
portrait of the degree to which Mr. Manchinโs
business has been interwoven with his
official actions. He created his business
while a state lawmaker in anticipation of the
Grant Town plant, which has been the sole
customer for his gob for the past 20 years,
according to federal data. At key moments
over the years, Mr. Manchin used his
political influence to benefit the plant. He
urged a state official to approve its air
pollution permit, pushed fellow lawmakers to
support a tax credit that helped the plant,
and worked behind the scenes to facilitate a
rate increase that drove up revenue for the
plant โ and electricity costs for West
Virginians.
Records show that several energy companies
have held ownership stakes in the power
plant, major corporations with interests far
beyond West Virginia. At various points,
those corporations have sought to influence
the Senate, including legislation before
committees on which Mr. Manchin sat, creating
what ethics experts describe as a conflict of
interest.
# โ Michael West โ Fossil_fuel_subsidies_soar_past
disaster_relief,_even_public_schools_funding._Whatโs
the_scam?โ โ
Cruelling somewhat the Budget pitch euphoria
in corporate media today, The Australia
Institute has sallied forth with its annual
analysis of hand-outs to coal and gas
multinationals, state and federal, finding
they cost the public $11.6b in 2021-22, or
$22k per minute.
Itโs a $1.3b (12%) increase on last year
thanks to the feds. Across all budgets there
is $55b committed, which is 11 times the
balance of Australiaโs Emergency Response
Fund ($4.8b in Dec 2021), while $11.6b in
2021-22 is 56 times the budget of the
National Recovery and Resilience Agency.
The subsidies cost the Federal government
more than it spent on public schools in the
same year ($9.7b). Now *thatโs* a scam โฆ and
we are yet to see the Budget.
# ยง Wildlife/Natureโ โพ
# โ The Revelator โ How_to_Stop_Wildlife_Trafficking_in
Its_Tracksโ โ
# ยง Overpopulationโ โพ
# โ Counter Punch โ Population_and_the_Disease_of
Growthโ โ
It has now been 11 years since I wrote
โWilderness and Overpopulationโ (Wilderness
Watch Blog, March 2, 2011). A few readers
took vitriolic issue with that essay, but I
stand by it. Since then, the global human
population has grown from about 6.9 to 7.9
billion, now increasing at roughly 75 million
additional hominids each year. In the U.S.
during the last 11 years, the population grew
by about 20 million to 333 million today.
Twenty million additional humans is roughly
equal to the total populations of New York
State or Florida. And although population
growth in the U.S. has recently stagnated in
the wake of Covid, it is likely that without
a concerted effort and policy to stabilize
and reduce our population, weโll be back on
track toward 400 million before long.
I am no demographer. My passion is wilderness
and wildlife. Yet Iโve been alarmed about the
growing human hoards since I first read โThe
Population Bombโ by Paul Ehrlich back in the
late 1960โs. I am still alarmed, now more
than ever, both because of our still-
increasing numbers and the direct link
between population growth and the destruction
of wildlife and wilderness.
# โ The Hill โ Newsom_issues_order_tightening_water
conservation_amid_worsening_droughtโ โ
Following the three driest months in
Californiaโs history, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)
issued an executive order on Monday calling
for stricter local conservation measures
while proposing a ban on decorative turf
irrigation.
The executive order calls on local water
suppliers to shift to โLevel 2โ of their
individual Water Shortage Contingency Plans,
which involve taking preparatory actions for
water shortage levels of up to 20 percent,
the governorโs office said.
# โ [Old] The Conversation โ IPCC_report:_Half_the_world
is_facing_water_scarcity,_floods_and_dirty_water_โ
large_investments_are_needed_for_effective_solutionsโ โ
More than half the worldโs population faces
water scarcity for at least one month every
year. Meanwhile, some people have to deal
with too much water, while others have access
to only poor water quality. Thatโs billions
of people living with drought in Africa and
India, facing flood risks in Bangladesh or
lacking clean water due to excessive
fertilizer use in the United States, Brazil,
China and India.
Climate change exacerbates global water
insecurity because it contributes to more
frequent and severe droughts, floods and
extreme rainfall, accelerated glacier melt,
rapid declines in groundwater and the
deterioration of water quality. These water-
related risks of climate change have negative
repercussions for agriculture, energy
production, water infrastructure and economic
productivity, as well as human health,
development and well-being around the world.
o ยง Financeโ โพ
# โ Democracy Now โ Rep._Ro_Khanna_Says_Bidenโs_Proposed
Billionaire_Tax_Is_a_โFirst_Stepโ_in_Addressing_U.S.
Inequalityโ โ
The White House is unveiling a new tax plan that
would establish a minimum 20% tax rate on all U.S.
households worth more than $100 million. โItโs high
time that people who have made billions of dollars
pay the same taxes โฆ as people who are in service
jobs, and this is the first step towards that,โ
says California Congressmember Ro Khanna. The
Democratic lawmaker also talks about the Big Oil
Windfall Profits Tax, his bill aimed at curbing
profiteering by oil companies.
# โ Common Dreams โ โWe_Do_Not_Need_a_Massive_Increaseโ:
Sanders_Criticizes_Bidenโs_$813_Billion_Military_Budgetโ โ
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday criticized President
Joe Bidenโs request for an $813.3 billion military
budget in the next fiscal year as excessive, noting
that the United States already spends more on
national security than โthe next 11 countries
combined.โ
โWe do not need a massive increase in the defense
budget,โ Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate
Budget Committee, said in a statement. โNow that
the president has done his job, it is up to
Congress to review it, pass the proposals that make
sense, and improve upon it.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Inflation_Wonโt_Be_Remedied_by
the_Federal_Reserve_Imposing_Higher_Interest_Ratesโ โ
As Putinโs war shakes up the world economy, the Fed
last week raised interest rates by a quarter point
and penciled in six more increases by the end of
the year. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says heโs ready
to do whatever it takes to bring inflation down,
including following the example of his predecessor
Paul Volcker, who increased interest rates to 20
percent in 1981.
# โ Pro Publica โ Taking_Aim_at_Billionaire_Tax_Avoiders,_Biden
Proposes_Minimum_Tax_for_Ultrarichโ โ
Last year ProPublica, drawing on a trove of IRS
data, gave the public its most extensive view ever
of the taxes of the wealthiest Americans. The first
article in the Secret IRS Files series put real
numbers to a core truth about the U.S. tax system:
Billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren
Buffett can easily shield their fortunes from
taxation by avoiding the sorts of income captured
on a tax return.
A proposal released today by the Biden
administration takes direct aim at this issue. The
policy, if enacted, would, for a sliver of the very
wealthiest, close that escape hatch. Vast increases
in wealth would result in owing taxes.
# โ Counter Punch โ Corporations_Are_Suppressing_WagesโฆThereโs
an_Easy_Fix_for_Thatโ โ
Two weeks later, the international aid organization
Oxfam America released a report consistent with
this finding, that millions of American workers
continue to earn less than $15 an hour. People of
color and particularly women of color are
disproportionately impactedโas is always the case.
But, pro-corporate coverage paints a rosy picture
about the U.S. economyโone that requires no
intervention because things are apparently humming
along just fine on their own.
# โ TruthOut โ Bidenโs_2023_Budget_Includes_a_20_Percent
Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Taxโ โ
o ยง AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politicsโ โพ
# โ Hungary โ Following_Anonymousโ_attack_against_pro-
government_media_platforms,_Judit_Varga_fears_for_press
freedom_in_Hungaryโ โ
Following the attack carried out by the hacker
group โAnonymousโ against Hungarian pro-government
news sources on Monday, the Justice Minister is
worried. But the freedom of the press has been an
issue in the country for a while. Translation by
Andrea Horvรกth Kรกvai
# โ Hungary โ Orbรกn:_What_the_Ukrainians_are_asking_us_is_to
bring_Hungaryโs_economy_to_a_complete_haltโ โ
On Sunday morning, Viktor Orbรกn started the day at
state-owned Kossuth radio, where โ among others โ
he spoke about the Russian-Ukrainian war, the
sanctions against Russia, as well as the criticism
he had received from the Ukrainians. Translation by
Andrea Horvรกth Kรกvai
# โ Hungary โ Viktor_Orbรกn_and_Pรฉter_Mรกrki-Zay_found_themselves
in_unwelcoming_territories_โ_the_seventh_week_of_the_campaign
in_five_pointsโ โ
While there are only a few days to go until the
elections, the final campaign sprint is barely even
perceptible: news of the war and economic fallout
continues to drown out everything else. Meanwhile,
Viktor Orbรกn concentrated on affairs related to the
EU and NATO and traveled to Brussels, whereas Pรฉter
Mรกrki-Zay took his campaign to Transylvania. Tibor
Szanyiโs party cursed out a Democratic Coalition
MP. Hereโs the penultimate campaign week in five
points. Translated by Dominic Spadacene
# โ Counter Punch โ The_Anonymous_Communists_of_Recifeโ โ
What is certain is that, on that Saturday in 1922,
leaders representing 73 militant political
associations of workers founded the party:
Astrojildo Pereira (journalist), Cristiano Cordeiro
(lawyer), Joaquim Barbosa (tailor), Manuel Cendรณn
(tailor), Joรฃo da Costa Pimenta (printer), Luรญs
Pรฉrez (sweeper), Hemogรชneo Fernandes da Silva
(electrician), Abรญlio Nequete (barber) and Josรฉ
Elias da Silva (bricklayer). The research says that
the meeting ended with everyone singing softly, for
safety reasons, The International.
About Cristiano Cordeiro, it is great to remember
an act at the Santa Isabel Theater, documented
indirectly in popular music. In 1933, Cristiano
Cordeiro launched on the stage of the theater the
slogan โTrabalhador, ocupa teu postoโ (Worker,
occupy your post), which later served as
inspiration for the composer Nelson Ferreira to
compose the frevo โCoraรงรฃo, ocupa teu postoโ
(Heart, occupy your post). A success sung until
today in the carnivals of Pernambuco:
# โ Counter Punch โ Time_to_Move_the_Money:_Independent
Research_on_Donor-Advised_Fundsโ โ
# โ Democracy Now โ Jamaica_Moves_to_Become_a_Republic_as_Calls
Grow_for_Slavery_Reparations_Following_U.K._Royal_Visitโ โ
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have just
finished a weeklong visit to former British
colonies in the Caribbean. Their trip comes after
Barbados cut ties to the monarchy and became a
republic last year. During the so-called charm
offensive to the British Commonwealth countries,
the royals were met with protests calling for
reparations for slavery. We speak with senior
Jamaican Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna, who met
with the royals during their visit and has
critiqued the couple for not putting forward an
action plan to redress the crimes of slavery
committed by the British monarchy against the
Jamaican people, adding that any British
โcondemnation [of slavery] without action is
hollow.โ Hanna outlines how Jamaica could swiftly
break ties with the monarchy through referendum or
a change in the Constitution.
# โ Common Dreams โ Judge_Finds_Trumpโs_Attempt_to_Overturn
2020_Election_Was_Likely_a_Felonyโ โ
A U.S. federal judge on Monday found that former
President Donald Trump and legal adviser John
Eastman probably committed felony obstruction in
their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential
election.
The government watchdog group American Oversight
said the ruling is a โclear call for accountability
and further investigation of the attempt to subvert
the election.โ
# โ Techdirt โ Trumpists_Admit_That_Their_Own_Social_Media
Platforms_Arenโt_Much_Fun_When_They_Canโt_Use_Them_To_Own_The
Libsโ โ
Weโve covered some of the difficulties Trumpโs
Truth Social is having getting users to actually
use the platform, and the same appears to be true
for the various other Trumpist Twitter wannabes
like Parler and GETTR. NBC News has a somewhat
hilarious story in which its reporters went to talk
to โconservative influencersโ to get their
thoughts, and they all seem unenthusiastic about
those other platforms, whining that theyโre all
just โecho chambers.โ
# โ The Nation โ Impeach_Clarence_Thomasโ โ
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomasโs actions
have invited an impeachment inquiry into what he
knew about efforts to overturn the results of the
2020 presidential election and how he acted upon
that knowledge. Thomas has always been a
controversial justice. During his more than 30
years on the high court, he has regularly faced
criticism for abusing his position. Up to this
point, the courtโs longest-serving justice has
avoided accountability. But Thomasโs scandalous
approach to his responsibilities has caught up with
him. E-mails reveal that his wife, Ginni Thomas,
participated in efforts to overturn the 2020
president election in the weeks leading up to the
January 6, 2021, insurrection. That insurrection is
the subject of a congressional inquiry that former
president Donald Trump has tried at thwart at every
turn. In January, the Supreme Court rejected
Trumpโs attempt to block the release of
presidential records to the House committee leading
that investigation.1
# โ TruthOut โ Ginni_Thomas_Debacle_Is_a_Warning_That_Trumpism
Lives_On_in_the_Halls_of_Powerโ โ
# โ FAIR โ Gerrymandering:_Making_Elections_Safe_From
Democracyโ โ
The arc of coverage of 2020 congressional
redistricting went from speculation that
Republicans would end up with a massive
advantageโbecause they controlled significantly
more state legislaturesโto surprise that Democrats
managed to gerrymander their way to roughly the
same number of seats as Republicans. This result
was deemed good news, as announced for instance in
this news โanalysisโ from the New York Times (3/10/
22): โA Potential Rarity in American Politics: A
Fair Congressional Map.โ
# โ The Verge โ Ex-Google_CEO_funneled_money_into_the_White
House_science_officeโ โ
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidtโs foundation poured
money into the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy over the past year, according to
a report from Politico. The foundationโs close ties
with the office raised ethics concerns with
internal watchdogs.
Schmidt held a number of roles at Google and parent
company Alphabet, including CEO, executive
chairman, and technical advisor. He stepped down
from that last role in 2020. Now, he sits on the
boards and invests in tech companies, including a
number focused on artificial intelligence. The
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
directs science funding and helps steer AI policy โ
one of the reasons Rachel Wallace, then the
officeโs general counsel, raised concerns about his
financial involvement, according to emails obtained
by Politico.
o ยง Misinformation/Disinformationโ โพ
# โ The Atlantic โ Sorry,_I_Lied_About_Fake_Newsโ โ
My tweet began to spread around the world. โMehr
Ironie geht nicht,โ one user wrote above it. โLa
smentita si sta diffondendo molto piรน lentamente
dello studio fallace,โ another posted. I donโt
speak German or Italian, but I could tell Iโd
struck a nerve. Retweets and likes gathered by the
hundreds.
But then, wait a secondโI was wrong. Within a few
hours of my post, Kupferschmidt tweeted that heโd
made a mistake. Later in the afternoon, he wrote a
careful mea culpa and Science issued a correction.
It seemed that Kupferschmidt had misinterpreted the
work from Juul and Ugander: As a matter of fact,
the MIT study hadnโt been debunked at all.
# โ The Atlantic โ Kids_Are_Learning_History_From_Video_Games
Nowโ โ
Devereaux plays Europa Universalis and likes it.
But the fact that video-game developers, rather
than professional historians, were responsible for
shaping so many young peopleโs understanding of
history deserved greater examination, he thought.
The games made by Paradox Interactive, the Swedish
studio that produces Europa Universalis, are among
the most popular strategy titles in the world.
Millions of people own the games, which allow
players to take control of a historical nation or
individual and guide the course of history. The
average Europa Universalis player spends hundreds
of hours on it. Some spend thousands.
# โ NPR โ Misinformation_is_derailing_renewable_energy_projects
across_the_United_Statesโ โ
Yet every single rural utility-scale wind and solar
project needs local or state approval to get built,
says Sarah Mills, who researches rural renewable
energy at the University of Michigan. And she says
itโs in those often-fractious discussions about
approval that misinformation is sometimes halting
and stalling the installation of the renewables the
climate needs. โAt the end of the day, if local
governments are not setting rules that allow for
the infrastructure to be sited, those policies
cannot be achieved,โ Mills says.
Misinformation gets mixed up in decisions over
renewable projects
Last year, a Department of Energy study found that
setback regulations now represent the single-
greatest barrier to securing locations for wind
projects in the U.S. Setbacks limit how close wind
projects can be to buildings, and Mills says they
often make sense to reduce things such as noise and
โshadow flicker,โ the moving shadows and strobing
sunlight that turbines can cast onto buildings. But
she says misinformation can fuel setbacks that are
more stringent than needed and sometimes act as
outright bans on renewable energy.
[...]
But Fergen says that these same types of misleading
and false posts about wind and solar energy pop up
in a network of Facebook groups around the country,
feeding a conflict between rural communities and
energy developers.
Leah Stokes, an associate professor of political
science at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, says as resistance to wind and solar
projects spreads on social media, the dangers of
misinformation from these anti-renewable Facebook
groups is growing.
o ยง Censorship/Free Speechโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ Free_Press_Advocates_Demand_End_to_Russian
Censorship_as_Last_Independent_Paper_Closesโ โ
Press freedom advocates on Monday called on the
government of Russian President Vladimir Putin to
end media censorship after whatโs being described
as the countryโs last independent newspaper said it
was shutting down for the duration of the invasion
of Ukraine.
โRussiaโs draconian censorship tactics must stop.โ
# โ Mint Press News โ Michael_Malarkey,_Styles_P,_Wretch32_&
FredWreck_among_stars_condemning_Israel_Lobbyโs_Attempt_to
Cancel_Lowkeyโ โ
Dozens of prominent figures from the world of
entertainment have come together to support hip hop
artist and political campaigner Lowkey, after he
was subject to a smear campaign and an attempt to
remove his work from music streaming platform
Spotify.
# โ Project Censored โ Special_Guests_Tracy_Rosenberg,_Sue
Buske,_and_Simki_Kuznick_โ_The_Project_Censored_Showโ โ
In the second half of the show, we learn about the
iconic, pathbreaking civil-rights activist, lawyer,
clergy, and feminist, Pauli Murray (1910-1985),
from Simki Kuznick, author of a newly-published
Murray biography. That which Murray fought for
foreshadowed and impacted many of the civil rights
campaigns that continue to this day.
# โ NewYorkTimes โ Zelensky_Gives_Interview_to_Russian
Journalists._Moscow_Orders_It_Quashed.โ โ
It was a remarkable moment in the war in Europe:
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine gave a 90-
minute-long Zoom interview on Sunday to four
prominent journalists from Russia, the country
invading his.
Hours later, the Kremlin responded. A government
statement notified the Russian news media โof the
necessity to refrain from publishing this
interview.โ
Journalists based outside Russia published it
anyway. Those still inside Russia did not. The
episode laid bare the extraordinary, and partly
successful, efforts at censorship being undertaken
in Russia by President Vladimir V. Putinโs
government as his bloody invasion of Ukraine enters
its second month, along with Mr. Zelenskyโs
attempts to circumvent that censorship and reach
the public directly.
# โ NewYorkTimes โ Religion-Fueled_Mobs_on_the_Rise_Again_in
Pakistanโ โ
But lynchings over offenses to Islam, real or
imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where
blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists
say lynch mobs exploit anti-blasphemy laws to take
matters into their own hands.
In recent years these episodes have risen to an
alarming level, with increasing cases of fatal
violence.
o ยง Civil Rights/Policingโ โพ
# โ EFF โ The_Pro_Codes_Act_Is_a_Wolf_in_Sheepโs_Clothingโ โ
The proposal looks simple enough. A huge portion of
the regulations we all live by (such as fire safety
codes, or the national electrical code) are
initially written โ by industry experts, government
officials, and other volunteers โ under the
auspices of standards development organizations
(SDOs). Federal, state, or municipal policymakers
then review the codes and decide whether the
standard is good broad rule. If so, it is adopted
into law โby reference.โ In other words, the law
cites the code by name but doesnโt copy and paste
the entire thing into law (useful when the code is
long and detailed). For example, if a regulation
requires compliance with a provision in the
National Fire Safety Code, it might simply refer to
that provision, rather than copying it in directly.
But that doesnโt make compliance any less
mandatory.
Currently, SDOs have to make such incorporated
codes available to the public somehow, in keeping
with the basic principle that everyone has a right
to know the law that binds them. But the
requirements are far out of date. For example, a
hard copy of a standard that is incorporated into
federal law by reference must be deposited with the
National Archives in Washington, DC โ not exactly
an easily accessible location.
The main provision of the Pro Codes Act pretends to
address this problem by requiring that
# โ Techdirt โ Apparently_Unwilling_To_Learn_From_Florida_&
Texasโs_Failures,_Georgia_Moves_Forward_With_Unconstitutional
Content_Moderation_Billโ โ
It seems that each week another ridiculously
unconstitutional โcontent moderationโ bill pops up
in another state. Beyond the fact that nearly all
of these bills are preempted by federal law (and
are unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment) it
seems that state legislatures feel the need to
score political points. And itโs not just one
party. As weโve detailed, Republican legislatures
are pushing bills trying to limit the ability of
websites to moderate, while Democratic legislatures
are pushing bills to force companies to moderate
more. Both are unconstitutional.
# โ Techdirt โ House_Judiciary_Committee_Wants_The_FBI_To
Explain_Why_It_Keeps_Targeting_Journalists,_Religious_Groups,
And_Politiciansโ โ
The FBI owes its oversight โ and the public the
oversight serves โ plenty of answers. But letโs set
our expectations any higher than reality dictates.
The FBI is not exactly a paradigm of complicity.
# โ The Nation โ Interracial_Marriage_Under_Attack:_Thinking
the_Unthinkableโ โ
During an interview with reporters last week,
Indiana Senator Mike Braun went beyond the usual
Republican line that decisions about abortion
rights should be left up to the states. The
question of interracial marriage, too, he said,
should be left to the states to decide.
o ยง Monopoliesโ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ DC_AG_Sues_Grubhub_For_Sneaky_Fees,_Screwing
Over_Local_Restaurantsโ โ
U.S. regulatory enforcement and punishment for
companies that rip consumers off with sneaky fees
is not what youโd callโฆ consistent. For example,
the telecom and cable industries have long
exploited a wide array of bullshit fees to jack up
advertised prices with only fleeting penalties. The
same can be said for the banking, airline, hotel,
and numerous other industries that happily nickel-
and-dime users.
# โ Pro Publica โ Congressional_Chair_Asks_Google_and_Apple_to
Help_Stop_Fraud_Against_U.S._Taxpayers_on_Telegramโ โ
The chairman of a congressional subcommittee has
asked Apple and Google to help stop fraud against
U.S. taxpayers on Telegram, a fast-growing
messaging service distributed via their smartphone
app stores. The request from the head of the House
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis came
after ProPublica reports last July and in January
revealed how cybercriminals were using Telegram to
sell and trade stolen identities and methods for
filing fake unemployment insurance claims.
Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., who chairs the
subcommittee (which is part of the House Committee
on Oversight and Reform), cited ProPublicaโs
reporting in March 23 letters to the CEOs of Apple
and Alphabet, Googleโs parent company. The letters
pointed out that enabling fraud against American
taxpayers is inconsistent with Appleโs and Googleโs
policies for their respective app stores, which
forbid apps that facilitate or promote illegal
activities.
# ยง Patentsโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ Covid-19_Vaccine_Apartheid_Is
Exacerbating_Global_Inequalities:_UNโ โ
The highly uneven global distribution of
Covid-19 vaccines is exacerbating deadly
inequalities betweenโand withinโcountries,
threatening to undermine socio-economic gains
throughout the developing world, the United
Nations warned Monday.
โThe speed with which the world gets
vaccinated in 2022 is critical to avoid more
lost ground in contexts where progress is
needed the most.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Global_Leaders_Urge_Nations_to_Eschew
โWeakenedโ_TRIPS_Waiver_Proposalโ โ
A group of current and former government
officials from five nations on Monday
implored world leaders to reject a reported
U.S.- and European Union-led โcompromiseโ
proposal on lifting Covid-19 vaccines patent
protections.
โVaccine apartheid continues and it kills. It
prolongs the pandemic, threatening
livesโvaccinated as well as unvaccinatedโall
over the world.โ
# ยง Copyrightsโ โพ
# โ MakeTech Easier โ 10_Websites_to_Find_Creative
Commons_Videos_โ_Make_Tech_Easierโ โ
While finding Creative Commons images is
difficult enough, itโs even harder to find
videos you can legally use as your own. In
fact, many videos can not be shared with just
a simple copy and paste due to copyright
protections and other rules. Even so, here
are some of the best websites where you can
find Creative Commons videos to be sure
youโre sharing legally.
# โ Torrent Freak โ Court_Denies_Coxโs_Challenge_of_$1
Billion_Music_Piracy_Verdictโ โ
Cox Communications believes that key
information was held back during the 2019
piracy lawsuit filed by several record
labels, which led to a $1 billion verdict in
their favor. While the court recognizes that
some evidence was created after the fact, it
sees no reason for a do-over, concluding that
the ISP already received a full and fair
trial.
# โ Torrent Freak โ Bungie_Files_Lawsuit_to_Punish
Senders_of_Fake_Destiny_DMCA_Noticesโ โ
A little over a week ago a number of Destiny
content creators had DMCA notices filed
against their videos on YouTube, claiming
that they infringed copyright. Bungie denied
having anything to do with the claims and
promised to investigate. A copyright lawsuit
filed in Washington now reveals that Bungie
is serious about making an example of the
culprits.
# โ The Nation โ Kanye_the_Careeristโ โ
Coodie Simmons has said that his four-and-a-
half-hour, three-part documentary about the
life and times of Kanye West was supposed to
be a kind of hip-hop version of Hoop Dreams,
the acclaimed 1994 documentary that
chronicled the various social and economic
obstacles facing two Black Chicago high
schoolers as they strove to make it to the
NBA. The first hour and a half of jeen-yuhs:
A Kanye Trilogy, titled โAct I: Vision,โ
primes us for such a journey. At its opening,
we meet a baby-faced West at the 1998
birthday party of Atlanta record producer
Jermaine Dupri, seemingly happy just to be a
plus-one. Simmons had heard about Kanye while
covering Chicago hip-hop for his public-
access cable show Channel Zero. The young
producerโs name had become ubiquitous on the
scene, and in Westโs bid to surpass local
renown and infiltrate the still relatively
coastal mainstream rap world, Simmons saw a
canny parallel to a high school hopeful
trying to make it to the league.
# โ Techdirt โ Nintendo_Hates_You:_Scans_Of_โSuper_Mario
64โ_Manual_Taken_Down_Via_Copyright_Claimโ โ
Iโll give Nintendo this much: the company
certainly is an absolute master at enforcing
copyright in the most extreme, pettiest
manner possible. Iโve already had some fun
comparing Nintendo to Disney, in that the way
the company is handling shutting down older
game stores and making those games no longer
available in most places is akin to Disneyโs
long history of โvaultingโ movies to control
their availability. Combine that with
Nintendoโs practice of attempting to take
down absolutely every instance of fans
sharing bits of its content, taking down game
music that isnโt available anywhere else, and
its killing off emulation sites so it can
sell trash versions of old games, and youโre
left with the impression that business
success is entirely secondary to its desire
for control.
# โ Creative Commons โ 2021_Annual_Reportโ โ
# โ Creative Commons โ CC_welcomes_agreement_in_EU_on
landmark_legislation_on_digital_gatekeepersโ โ
Reflecting on the trilogue deal, CC CEO
Catherine Stihler stated,
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