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⦿ Gemini Community is Growing, Geminispace is Expanding, and We Try to Make it Simpler to Keep Abreast of New/Active Capsules and Gemlogs | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 05, 2022 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/05/06/gemini-planet-improved/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/05/06/irc-log-050522/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/05/06/nextcloud-hub-24/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/05/06/rip-alain-baudrez/#comments
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Posted in Debian, Free/Libre_Software at 2:09 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Tracking Geminispace Throughout the Day
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-growing-planet-enhanced.webm
Summary: Gemlogs, or the Gemini equivalent of Web logs (“blogs” for short),
sometimes have RSS/XML/atom feeds, which thankfully enable a sort of ‘alta
vista’ (view from above) across the growing space
THE gemlogs in Geminispace are already hundreds in number, but not all of them
have daily updates. Moreover, traditional RSS readers do not (yet) support
Gemini Protocol — perhaps a potential Free software project for someone to
start (or an area where existing RSS readers can be extended/improved).
This morning we decided to make a combined page for all known capsules (which
we can syndicate), with new posts shown for today and yesterday. As expected,
it took a longer than initially expected, mostly because I added more things
that I had intended at first. The new pages (or improved pages), as shown in
the video above, are:
* Latest_pages
* Archive_of_newly-added_pages
* Gemini_Planet_(improved)
We’ve meanwhile learned some good things (likely news) about Gemini and GNU/
Linux. An associate said that “amfora and elpa-elpher are both in Debian now!!”
“That’s based on Devuan_5_(daedalus) [...] it’s based on Bookworm (Debian 12).”
Devuan and Debian impact_many_other_distros, operating systems other than
themselves. “elpa-elpher is in Raspberry Pi OS so far,” the associate noted.
Yes, Debian 11 has it now. Debian 10 does not have Gemini clients in the
official repositories, but then again it was released when Gemini was very
young, barely even a baby. █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_May_05,_2022⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:04 am by Needs Sunlight
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ The_temptation_of_smartctl’s_JSON_output
format_given_NVMe_SSDs⠀⇛
We believe in putting data from SMART into our
metrics system so that we have it captured and can
do various things with it, now and in the future.
Today, this is done by processing the normal output
of ‘smartctl -i’ and ‘smartctl -A’ for our SATA and
SAS drives using a mix of awk and other Unix
programs in a shell script. The fly in the ointment
on a few machines today (and more machines in the
future) is NVMe SSDs, because NVMe SSDs have health
information but not SMART attributes, so while
‘smartctl -A’ works on them it produces output in a
completely different format that my script has no
idea how to deal with.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ NVMe_disk_drives_and_SMART_attributes_(and
data)⠀⇛
SMART is a standard, originally for ATA hard
drives, for reporting various information about the
drive. When we talk about ‘SMART’ or ‘SMART data’,
we often specifically mean SMART ‘attributes’,
which tell you various things about the drive’s
state, health, wear over time, and so on; sometimes
this information is even useful. SMART attributes
have an ID number and some values associated with
them, but what the attributes mean (and thus how
you should interpret their values) is mostly vendor
specific.
# ⚓ Popular Science ☛ 4_smart_reasons_to_keep_an_old_USB_drive
around⠀⇛
We’ve mentioned portable apps, but you can also
carry an entire computer with you on a USB
drive—operating system, applications, files, and
all. The open-source Linux OS is perfect for this,
and several distributions of Linux can be run in a
portable mode, including Linux Lite, Puppy Linux,
and MX Linux. Have a look around to see which
distro might suit you best.
Instructions for installing your chosen version of
Linux on a USB stick should be available on the
distro’s official site (if not, you can pick a
different one). For example, here are the
instructions for running Ubuntu from a USB drive.
In brief, you’ll need to download and run a small
tool called Etcher, which will take the Ubuntu OS
and convert it into a suitable format that can run
entirely from a USB drive.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Ms._Pac-Man_clears_path_to_World_Video_Game_Hall_of
Fame⠀⇛
More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female
video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted
Thursday into the World Video Game Hall of Fame,
along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of
Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meier’s
Civilization.
The Hall of Fame considers electronic games of all
types each year — arcade, console, computer,
handheld and mobile. Inductees are recognized for
their popularity and influence on the video game
industry or pop culture over time.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] GNU ☛ 10_years_of_stories_behind_Guix⠀⇛
It’s been ten years today since the very first
commit to what was already called Guix—the
unimaginative name is a homage to Guile and Nix,
which Guix started by blending together. On April
18th, 2012, there was very little to see and no
actual “project”. The project formed in the
following months and became a collective adventure
around a shared vision.
Ten years later, it’s amazing to see what more than
600 people achieved, with 94K commits, countless
hours of translation, system administration, web
design work, and no less than 175 blog posts to
share our enthusiasm at each major milestone. It’s
been quite a ride!
What follows is a series of personal accounts by
some of the contributors who offered their time and
energy and made it all possible. Read their stories
and perhaps you too will be inspired to join all
the nice folks on this journey?
# § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Using_a_game_engine_to_write_a_graphical_interface_to
the_OpenBSD_package_manager⠀⇛
One thing I often mumbled about on OpenBSD
was the lack of a user interface to browse
packages and install them, there was a
console program named pkg_mgr, but I never
got it to work. Of course, I’m totally able
to install packages using the command line,
but I like to stroll looking for packages I
wouldn’t know about, a GUI is perfect for
doing so, and is also useful for people less
comfortable with the command line.
# ⚓ Ted Unangst ☛ where’s_all_the_code?⠀⇛
I already had a pretty good idea where all
the code in the OpenBSD kernel was hiding but
for the sake of comparison I wanted precise
numbers. This would be easy enough to get
using some scripts and builtin tools like wc
and du, but I wanted a tool that would give
me something like this.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sylvain Kerkour ☛ How_to_enable_automatic_updates_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Live is too short to manually upgrade the
packages of your twice a week, so here is how
to automate the software updates of an Ubuntu
server (20.04 or 22.04).
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Next Cloud ☛ Nextcloud_Hub_24_is_here⠀⇛
Since the Swedish Government marked Nextcloud as
the key solution for digital collaboration, the
Nextcloud user and customer base continues to grow
quickly. We recently shared customer success
stories with the City of Geneva, the local bank in
Munich, 15K teachers in Luxembourg, over 35K middle
school students and teachers in France and 750K
students and researchers in Sweden.
# § Web Browsers⠀➾
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Please,_stop_disabling_zoom⠀⇛
I know that you’re not supposed to tell
people what to do, but in this particular
case I’m really tempted because recently I’ve
noticed that a lot of websites are preventing
users on mobile to zoom.
# ⚓ Global Code ☛ User-Agent_URI⠀⇛
The Web should be based on open standards.
The sites should be written according to a
specification – not for a particular browser.
The server do not have to know, what client
software is used, in order to send you
properly formatted page. You can configure
your web browser to not send User-Agent HTTP
header at all – it is not mandatory.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Fortran Lang ☛ Fortran_newsletter:_May_2022⠀⇛
Welcome to the May edition of the monthly
Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out
at the beginning of every month and details
Fortran news from the previous month.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_A_Promise_to_Our_Kids:_We_Won’t_Kill
You⠀⇛
At a certain point, as I was reading the book I’d
recently been sent, a strange transformation began
occurring: Gradually, as I moved ever deeper into it, I
wasn’t so much reading as quietly singing a hymn . . .
participating in a chant.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Ground_Beneath_Us:_On_the_Photographs_of_An-My
Lê⠀⇛
Just off the main road, a blue pickup truck kicks up dust
from behind a cluster of shrubs, momentarily perfectly
camouflaged. The car is in Ojinaga, Mexico, and on its
way to the banks of the Rio Grande, where people are
standing around their parked cars and either looking
across to the United States, waiting, or simply passing
the time. Consider a different view. Twenty-three years
earlier in But Thap, Vietnam, several men in straw hats
carry bricks across a landscape of tripod tomato stands,
dried-out berms, and crumbled edifices. Sunlight dapples
piles of bricks and earth, and the moment is lucid and
still.1
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Automate_The_Freight:_Autonomous_Buses_To_Start
Operation_In_UK⠀⇛
The UK will get its first full-size autonomous bus
service this summer, if final road testing that begins in
the next two weeks goes according to plan.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Maze_Bolt_Toy_By_Lost_PLA_Casting⠀⇛
Maze bolts, a bolt which has a maze along its shaft
traversed by a pin on its nut, are great fun. Here’s a
really beautiful metal version by [Robinson Foundry],
made by a process more makers should know about – lost
PLA casting.
o ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ ‘It’s_a_Hot_Mess’:_Why_Influencers_Are_Ditching
Bella_Thorne’s_OnlyFans_Company⠀⇛
But while joining the firm might seem to influencers like
a lucrative opportunity to replicate Thorne’s success,
several former models who were managed by or worked
directly with Content X are now offering a warning to
potential clients. As one model who worked with the
company succinctly put it: “It was just a hot mess.”
Some of Content X’s former clients allege that the studio
overpromised and underdelivered, and there’s been a
steady exit of nearly a dozen celebs and influencers like
Francesca Farago with millions of followers each. Former
Content X clients listed a barrage of concerns to Rolling
Stone, including chaotic photoshoots, sloppy managing of
their OnlyFans pages and a significant dip in their
earnings, while Content X still took a hefty chunk of
their profits.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ About_As_Cold_As_It_Gets:_The_Webb_Telescope’s
Cryocooler⠀⇛
If you were asked to name the coldest spot in the
solar system, chances are pretty good you’d think
it would be somewhere as far as possible from the
ultimate source of all the system’s energy — the
Sun. It stands to reason that the further away you
get from something hot, the more the heat spreads
out. And so Pluto, planet or not, might be a good
guess for the record low temperature.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Texas_GOP_Governor_Considers_Challenging
1982_Ruling_Requiring_Free_Public_Education⠀⇛
Days after rights advocates warned that the U.S.
Supreme Court’s expected overruling of Roe v. Wade
portends rollbacks of numerous rights for people in
the U.S., Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said
he wants to challenge a 40-year-old ruling that
affirmed states must offer free public education to
all children.
“I can’t believe this has to be said, but ALL
children deserve access to a quality public
education.”
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Tom’s Guide ☛ The_ThinkPad_X13s_could_be_the_first
ARM_laptop_worth_buying_—_here’s_why⠀⇛
The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s will launch in May of this
year. Expect a full review from us where we’ll put
the laptop through its paces. If it’s all Lenovo
touts it to be, the ThinkPad X13s may earn a spot
on our best laptops list.
# ⚓ [Old] Slant ☛ What_are_the_best_Notebooks_based_on_ARM
processors?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Toast_Keyboard_Raises_A_Glass_To_Short_Index
Fingers⠀⇛
Custom keyboards? They’re totally great. And we can
keep telling you this, but you really won’t feel it
until you try a few and find one or two that are
right for you. If you’re already on board, we
wonder: is there any limit to what custom keyboards
can provide in terms of a good, comfortable time
for your fingers, wrists, arms, shoulders, and
neck? We think not, and as time goes on, there is
more and more evidence to support this.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Minimal_Motoring_Manifesto⠀⇛
A couple of years ago, Hackaday published an
article, “Electric Vehicles Continue the Same
Wasteful Mistakes That Limit Longevity“, in which
we took a look at the way the car industry, instead
of taking the move to electric traction as an
opportunity to simplify their products, was instead
making their electric offerings far more complex.
It touched a nerve and received a very large
comment volume, such that now it is our 19th most
commented story of all time.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Price_of_salmon_up_80_percent_on
year⠀⇛
He said that the price has been driven up by modest
supply as several fish farms dialed back production
in the coronavirus pandemic.
“Why is demand so high for Norwegian fish – farms
in Scotland and Chile are producing less fish than
is needed. Norwegian companies are exporting to the
Americas and Asia, which is why the price has
spiked,” Vetevool said.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_Over_a_Million_Have_Died_to_COVID,_US
Billionaires_Have_Gained_$1.7_Trillion⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Surpasses_1_Million_COVID_Deaths_Since
Pandemic’s_Start⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ WHO_Says_Pandemic_Has_Killed_15_Million
People—Nearly_3_Times_More_Than_Reported⠀⇛
The World Health Organization on Thursday announced
that nearly 15 million people died as a direct or
indirect result of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
and 2021—almost three times as many as officially
reported.
Data submitted by governments to the WHO indicated
that Covid-19 had killed roughly 5.4 million people
around the globe by the end of last year. But
according to the WHO’s new 2020 and
2021 estimate of “excess mortality”—how many more
people died worldwide than would be expected in the
absence of the pandemic—the first two years of the
ongoing public health emergency led to
approximately 14.9 million excess deaths.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_While_1_Million_Americans_Died
From_Covid-19,_US_Billionaire_Wealth_Shot_Up_by_$1.7
Trillion⠀⇛
As the U.S. crosses the grim milestone of 1 million
deaths from COVID-19, U.S. billionaires have seen
their combined wealth rise over $1.7 trillion, a
gain of over 58 percent.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_the_War_in_Ukraine_is_a_Disaster_for
the_Poor_of_This_Planet⠀⇛
Not surprisingly, following Russia’s February 24th
invasion, coverage has focused mainly on the day-
to-day fighting; the destruction of Ukrainian
economic assets, ranging from buildings and bridges
to factories and whole cities; the plight of both
Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced people,
or IDPs; and the mounting evidence of atrocities.
The war’s potential long-term economic effects in
and beyond Ukraine haven’t attracted nearly as much
attention, for understandable reasons. They’re less
visceral and, by definition, less immediate. Yet
the war will take a huge economic toll, not just on
Ukraine but on desperately poor people living
thousands of miles away. Wealthier countries will
experience the ill effects of the war, too, but be
better able to cope with them.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Hunger_Crisis_Looms_in_Africa_as_Ukraine
War_Cuts_Off_Wheat_Imports_Amid_Climate_Crisis_&_Pandemic⠀⇛
This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres
is in Nigeria, where he warned Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine is leading to a growing hunger crisis in
Africa. A new report by Human Rights Watch finds
the Russian invasion of Ukraine has worsened food
insecurity, particularly for African countries that
were already experiencing a hunger crisis. Russia
and Ukraine are leading exporters of wheat and
other grains, while countries such as Cameroon,
Nigeria and Uganda are among the largest importers.
With climate change and trade stalled by the
coronavirus pandemic, “all these changes within the
availability of food has sent the food prices to
new levels,” says Lena Simet, senior researcher at
Human Rights Watch. Advocates are calling on
exporting countries such as the United States and
Canada to “open their markets, to not introduce
export restrictions, and provide essential grains
at an affordable price to humanitarian
organizations,” she adds.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cost_of_the_Ukraine_War_Felt_in_Africa,
Global_South⠀⇛
The horrific scenario, however, awaits countries in
the Global South which, unlike Germany, will not be
able to eventually substitute Russian raw material
from elsewhere. Countries like Tunisia, Sri Lanka
and Ghana and numerous others, are facing serious
food shortages in the short, medium and long term.
The World Bank is warning of a “human catastrophe”
as a result of a burgeoning food crisis, itself
resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war. The World
Bank President, David Malpass, told the BBC that
his institution estimates a “huge” jump in food
prices, reaching as high as 37%, which would mean
that the poorest of people would be forced to “eat
less and have less money for anything else such as
schooling.”
# ⚓ Hungary ☛ Plasma_therapy:_the_Covid_success_story_that
wasn’t⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Did_Blinken_Get_COVID_at_the_“Nation’s_Most
Distinguished_Superspreader_Event”?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Did_Blinken_Get_COVID_at_What_Trevor_Noah
Called_“Nation’s_Most_Distinguished_Superspreader_Event”?⠀⇛
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has tested
positive for the coronavirus. State Department
spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday Blinken would
isolate at home according to CDC guidelines.
Blinken met Wednesday with Swedish Foreign Minister
Ann Linde shortly before his positive test result.
A day earlier, he met with Mexican Foreign
Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. On Saturday, he joined a
crowd of 2,600 celebrities, journalists and
Washington elites who packed the White House
Correspondents’ Association Dinner, where few in
attendance wore masks. “You guys spent the last two
years telling everyone the importance of wearing
masks and avoiding large indoor gatherings. Then,
the second someone offers you a free dinner, you
all turn into Joe Rogan,” said comedian Trevor Noah
in his address at the event, which has since been
linked to a growing number of COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization estimates
the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the deaths of
nearly 15 million people around the world.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Hillicon_Valley_—_Cyber_officials_warn
about_Russian_threat [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Nakasone said his agency has observed a
series of destructive attacks in Ukraine, on
top of those that targeted the country’s
satellite communications system in March.
“This idea that nothing has happened is not
right,” Nakasone said on Wednesday during a
summit hosted by Vanderbilt University on
modern conflict and emerging threats.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Top_US_cyber_officials_warn_against
underestimating_Russia’s_cyber_capability [iophk:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
challenged the prevailing narrative that
Russia hasn’t launched destructive
cyberattacks against Ukraine amid its
military invasion.
Nakasone said his agency has observed a
series of destructive attacks in Ukraine, on
top of those that targeted the country’s
satellite communications system in March.
# § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ How_to_secure_your_phone
before_attending_a_protest⠀⇛
Back in June of 2020, when this
article was first written, people
were taking to the streets to
organize for justice and protest
against systemic racism and
police brutality. Now, nearly two
years later, people are again
taking to the streets, this time
to protest the possibility that
the Supreme Court may overturn
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision
that guaranteed people the right
to terminate their pregnancies.
There were protests across the
country on Tuesday, May 3rd,
2022, when the news hit; there
are bound to be more in the
coming weeks.
As a result, we thought it would
be a good idea to revisit this
examination of how you can
protect your phone data when
attending a protest. Here goes:
[...]
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ YouTube_Go_is_going_away⠀⇛
After six years and 500 million
downloads, the YouTube team has
announced that it will be
discontinuing its YouTube Go app
this August.
The reason for this
discontinuation is that YouTube
doesn’t see the app as necessary
anymore. YouTube Go was
originally created as a stripped
version of the base YouTube app
designed specifically for places
with poor data infrastructure or
expensive connectivity.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Apple,_Google,_and_Microsoft
will_soon_implement_passwordless_sign-in_on
all_major_platforms⠀⇛
In a joint effort, tech giants
Apple, Google, and Microsoft
announced Thursday morning that
they have committed to building
support for passwordless sign-in
across all of the mobile,
desktop, and browser platforms
that they control in the coming
year. Effectively, this means
that passwordless authentication
will come to all major device
platforms in the not too distant
future: Android and iOS mobile
operating systems; Chrome, Edge,
and Safari browsers; and the
Windows and macOS desktop
environments.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Apple,_Google_and_Microsoft
back_new_passwordless_sign-in_standard⠀⇛
A statement issued by the
Alliance claimed such a standard
would make the Internet more
secure and usable.
The platforms sold by these three
companies support the FIDO
standards, though not the latest
implementations.
The new capabilities envisioned
are to allow users to
automatically access their FIDO
sign-in credentials (referred to
by some as a “passkey”) on many
of their devices, even new ones,
without having to re-enrol every
account;
# ⚓ FIDO Alliance ☛ Apple,_Google_and
Microsoft_Commit_to_Expanded_Support_for
FIDO_Standard_to_Accelerate_Availability_of
Passwordless_Sign-Ins⠀⇛
The expanded standards-based
capabilities will give websites
and apps the ability to offer an
end-to-end passwordless option.
Users will sign in through the
same action that they take
multiple times each day to unlock
their devices, such as a simple
verification of their fingerprint
or face, or a device PIN. This
new approach protects against
phishing and sign-in will be
radically more secure when
compared to passwords and legacy
multi-factor technologies such as
one-time passcodes sent over SMS.
# ⚓ Apple Inc ☛ Apple,_Google,_and_Microsoft
commit_to_expanded_support_for_FIDO
standard_to_accelerate_availability_of
passwordless_sign‑ins⠀⇛
These companies’ platforms
already support FIDO Alliance
standards to enable passwordless
sign-in on billions of industry-
leading devices, but previous
implementations require users to
sign in to each website or app
with each device before they can
use passwordless functionality.
Today’s announcement extends
these platform implementations to
give users two new capabilities
for more seamless and secure
passwordless sign-ins: [...]
# ⚓ 9to5Mac ☛ Apple,_Google,_and_Microsoft_to
extend_support_for_FIDO_‘passwordless’
sign-in⠀⇛
In early 2020, Apple joined the
FIDO Alliance, an open industry
association created to increase
the interoperability of
authentication methods and reduce
reliance on traditional
passwords. Now Apple, Google, and
Microsoft have committed to
expanding support for the FIDO
Standard, moving toward a
universal “passwordless” sign-in
method.
The new standard, which was
created by FIDO and the World
Wide Web Consortium, aims to
allow apps and websites to offer
a unified and secure login option
across different devices and
platforms. As the alliance
pointed out, authentication that
relies solely on passwords is
more susceptible to security
breaches, as many people have
easy passwords or reuse them
across services.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Google,_Apple_and_Microsoft
to_expand_support_for_passwordless_sign-in
standard⠀⇛
Google will implement
passwordless support in Android
and Chrome while Apple will do
the same for iOS, MacOS and
Safari. Microsoft announced plans
to join them in providing the
same support in Windows and Edge.
The platforms will now use
verification fingerprints or
faces, or a device PIN as a way
to sign in. The companies said
the approach will be more secure
than passwords and “legacy multi-
factor technologies such as one-
time passcodes sent over SMS.”
# ⚓ PC World ☛ Apple,_Google,_Microsoft
commit_to_killing_passwords_entirely⠀⇛
The way they’re going to do it
should already be familiar: The
three tech giants will lean more
heavily on using smartphones as
two-factor authentication via a
PIN or fingerprint, and using
that authentication to verify
yourself on an operating system
or website. Essentially, they
say, you’ll have the option for
an “end-to-end” passwordless
solution.
In theory, according to
passwordless standards advocate
the FIDO Alliance, the platforms
used by the three companies
already support passwordless
authentication, but not in its
entirety. One problem today’s
agreement solves is the current
necessity to sign up for
passwordless authentication on
one device, but then re-enroll
yourself on a second device, such
as an additional PC or new phone.
FIDO says today’s agreement goes
further, allowing users to
automatically access their FIDO
credentials on their devices
without having to re-enroll. The
agreement also allows you to sign
in on a mobile device, and then
access the site on a nearby PC or
Mac, regardless of the OS or
browser.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Movement_to_Ban_Government_Use
of_Face_Recognition⠀⇛
Fortunately, communities across
the country are fighting back. In
the three years since San
Francisco passed its first-of-a-
kind ban on government use of
facial recognition, at least 16
more municipalities, from Oakland
to Boston, have followed their
lead. These local bans are
necessary to protect residents
from harms that are inseparable
from municipal use of this
dangerous technology.
The most effective of the
existing bans on government face
surveillance have crucial
elements in common. They broadly
define the technology, provide
effective mechanisms for any
community member to take legal
enforcement action should the
ordinance be violated, and limit
the use of any information
acquired in an inadvertent breach
of the prohibition.
There are, however, important
nuances in how each ordinance
accomplishes these goals. Here we
will identify the best features
of 17 local bans on government
use of face recognition. We hope
this will help show authors of
the next round how best to
protect their communities.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ SafeGraph_Stops_Selling
Location_Data_Of_Abortion_Clinic_Visitors,
But…⠀⇛
A few days ago, Motherboard
revealed they were able to
purchase the location data of
visitors to Planned Parenthood
clinics for just $160 from a
company named SafeGraph. While
SafeGraph refused to comment at
the time, they’ve since written a
blot post announcing they’ll be
ending the practice. But not
without spending much of the blog
downplaying obvious potential
harm:
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ January_6_Insurrection:_One_Year_Later,
Families_Are_Still_Divided⠀⇛
As the insurrection unfolded on television, Jackson
says he got a phone call from the FBI asking him to
confirm that his father was at the Capitol, which
Jackson did. As he struggled with the idea that his
father was part of an attempted coup of the United
States government, Jackson says his father texted
news reports to the family group chat with photos
of himself at the Capitol. Friends texted, too,
asking Jackson if the images they were seeing on
television were really of his father.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_the_French_fiber_optic_cable_attacks
accentuate_critical_infrastructure_vulnerabilities⠀⇛
“The cables were cut on both sides to complicate
the repairs,” an ‘operator’ told newspaper Le
Parisien. “The urgency is to re-solder everything,
this represents tens of thousands of small, fibre-
optic cables.”
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Controversy_in_Canada_over_resident’s
alleged_Palestinian_terrorism_ties⠀⇛
“Khalid Barakat has been barred from the United
States, he has been barred from Germany, yet the
Trudeau government still allows this individual to
remain in Canada, despite a Canadian law that
forbids any individual with connections to
terrorist organizations from entering our country
or receiving Canadian Citizenship,” said Senator
Leo Housakos in a debate with Senator Marc Gold,
the representative of the Government in the Senate.
“Why does your government allow him to remain in
the country?”
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Moderate_Muslim_Criticizes_Jihadis⠀⇛
Raheel Raza might dismiss all these as jihadis who
are twisting and hijacking her peaceful Islam, and
that’s fine by me. The more Muslims she manages to
convince of that, if she convinces any at all, the
better. But the reason why she likely has trouble
convincing Muslims that “conflict” is forbidden
during Ramadan is because these four sources are
not ignorant of Islam and what it teaches. Habbash
is a Sharia judge. Khaki is a maulana, a scholar of
Islam. They didn’t draw their views about Ramadan
out of thin air. They drew them from Islamic
sources such as the hadith I quoted. And other
Muslims do as well, which is one reason why there
has been not just the abhorrent Al-Quds Day rally
this Ramadan, but also 138 jihad attacks with 782
people killed.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Deadly_Illusion_of_“Victory”⠀⇛
“America stands with Ukraine until victory is won,”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on May 1, after
traveling to Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky. Victory? What exactly
does Pelosi mean by “victory”? Does that entail the
total defeat of Russian forces and their expulsion
from all of Ukraine? That can only be accomplished
through the participation of US and NATO forces—a
scenario that would almost certainly result in a
Europe-wide war, with an attendant risk of nuclear
escalation. Or does she mean a meat-grinder war
aimed at weakening Russia to the point where it is
no longer able to fight NATO, as suggested by
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin after visiting
Kyiv a few days earlier? That might, conceivably,
avert a nuclear war, but would surely result in
hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian and Russian
soldiers and civilians, and leave Ukraine itself in
ruins. Nowhere, in her comments or those by other
high-ranking US officials, is there any talk of a
negotiated settlement in Ukraine, only of scenarios
leading to Russia’s defeat, at whatever cost in
human lives.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Everything_here_smells_like_the_dead_now’:_In
Russia’s_Buryatia,_soldiers_killed_in_Ukraine_are_buried
daily._Has_this_changed_how_locals_feel_about_the_war?⠀⇛
As Russia’s military casualties in Ukraine continue
to mount, Buryatia has emerged as the country’s
second-hardest hit region in terms of losses. The
only place losing more men is Dagestan.
Nevertheless, the speeches at the near daily
funerals in Ulan-Ude and other Buryatian cities
still resound with support for Russia’s war against
“Nazis” and gratitude for the fallen soldiers not
being “left behind,” but shipped home for burial.
At the end of April, the local magazine People of
the Baikal published a report about how Buryatia is
burying their dead soldiers, and what their loved
ones and the regional authorities think about these
losses. With their permission, Meduza has
translated their article in full.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘She’s_still_lying_in_her_bed’:_Snapshots_of_how
Russia’s_war_turned_the_lives_of_elderly_Ukrainians_upside
down⠀⇛
According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s
Office, at least 221 children have been killed and
408 have been injured during Russia’s all-out war
against Ukraine. These statistics are updated
regularly. But data on how Russia’s war has
affected elderly people in Ukraine doesn’t feature
in the authorities’ daily reports. Meduza has
compiled photographs that tell the stories of
Ukraine’s elderly — including those who are still
awaiting evacuation, and those who are unable or
unwilling to leave their homes, despite the threat
of bombing and shelling. This photo report also
includes the text of a letter from Viktoria — a
reader from the Luhansk region who wrote to Meduza
about her grandparents.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Historian_Timothy_Snyder:_Russia’s_Invasion
of_Ukraine_Is_a_Colonial_War⠀⇛
We speak to Yale University historian Timothy
Snyder about his latest article for The New Yorker,
“The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War.” Snyder
writes about the colonial history that laid the
foundations for the Russian war in Ukraine, such as
Russia’s imperial vision and how leaders including
Hitler and Stalin have aimed to conquer Ukrainian
soil on different premises. “The whole history of
colonialism … involves denying that another people
is real. It involves denying that another state is
real,” says Snyder. “That is, of course, the
premise of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘It’s_a_reference_to_the_USSR_—_to_its_return’:
Why_is_the_Kremlin_incorporating_Soviet_symbols_into_its_war
propaganda?⠀⇛
Russia’s war propaganda has begun co-opting Soviet
symbols with increasing frequency. Monuments to the
“grandmother with the Soviet flag,” for example,
have popped up across the country. And both Kremlin
officials and propaganda narratives continue to
frame Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as an
extension of the “Great Patriotic War.” Meduza
special correspondent Andrey Pertsev looked into
the Kremlin’s “Soviet” agitprop and learned how
it’s connected to Moscow’s drive to annex new
territories.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Antiwar_Groups_Protest_Defense_Industry
Profiteering_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Lula_Criticizes_World_Leaders_for_Not_Doing
Enough_to_‘Help_Create_Peace’_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva argued in an interview published Wednesday
that world leaders, including U.S. President Joe
Biden, are not doing nearly enough to help secure a
peaceful resolution to Russia’s deadly war on
Ukraine, which has dragged on for more than two
months with no end in sight.
“I don’t think anyone is trying to help create
peace,” Lula, a globally popular leftist running to
unseat far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and
return to the post he held from 2003 to 2010, told
TIME magazine in an interview conducted in late
March.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Can_US_Progressives_Work_With_the_European
Left_on_Ukraine?⠀⇛
American imperialism always deserves condemnation.
I write this also as a Pole because my country took
an active part in the Anglo-Saxon-Slavonic
aggression against Iraq. And the day the Western
bombs started falling on Baghdad, I felt shame for
my country, just as I felt anger at seeing a
smiling George W. Bush declaring military victory.
But Russian imperialism, even if it’s anti-
American, is still imperialism, and an ominous one
at that, bringing death and destruction across the
Dnieper River.
Putin’s Russia embodies everything that
progressives and social democrats are against. An
authoritarian and oligarchic system that kills its
political opponents at home is characterized by
homophobia, nationalism, and a close relationship
between state and church. In the international
sphere, Russia refers to the former Soviet states
as “near abroad” and considers everyone who speaks
Russian to belong to the “Russian world.” In
Putin’s view, this gives it the right to invade
militarily: first in Georgia in 2008, then by
illegally annexing Crimea and starting a war in
eastern Ukraine in 2014, and finally by attacking
all of Ukraine this year.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Hensoldt:_New_German_platform_to_be_able_to_jam
Russian_air_defense_radars⠀⇛
The Bundeswehr is modernizing its electronic
warfare capabilities. A new system is to be fitted
to Eurofighters once it has been developed
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ngorongoro_Nazi⠀⇛
Bernhard Grzimek had another face. His life between
the ages of 24 and 36 was carefully rewritten by
him, and it’s largely his version which is known
and reproduced by the FZS and more widely. In his
revised version, he joined the German army – but
never the Nazi Party – in the 1930s. In 1945, after
the Germans had lost the war, he claimed to have
been questioned by the Gestapo because he’d given
Jews some food.
The real history is different; understanding by
just how much needs some context. Grzimek didn’t in
fact join the army in 1933, but the armed wing of
the Nazi Party, the Sturmabteilung (SA). He did so
when he was 24, a mere five months after Hitler
came to power. At the time the SA comprised about a
million members, mostly Bavarians from southern
Germany where the Nazis had their genesis and most
support. When Grzimek joined, the SA was comprised
of only a small minority (some 1.5%) of the
population. Grzimek wasn’t from Bavaria like most
of his SA comrades, but from German-speaking
Silesia in the north (now in Poland).
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Iran_Nuclear_Deal_Advocates_Say_GOP_Senate
Measure_Should_Be_‘Wake-Up_Call’_for_Biden⠀⇛
Advocates of resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal
responded with alarm after the U.S. Senate late
Wednesday approved a nonbinding measure to block
President Joe Biden from lifting his predecessor’s
designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps as a terrorist organization.
“Unless and until he steps up, he is on the same
disastrous course that Trump set.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Russia’s_‘Victory_Day’_and_the
Trump-Putin_Alliance_Against_Ukraine⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin planned to conquer Ukraine by May
9—Russia’s annual “Victory Day” celebrating the
defeat of Nazi Germany. Instead, he failed
miserably and is a global pariah. NATO and U.S.
support for Ukraine made all the difference.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ This_is_Happening_Here_and_Now:_Fight
Back⠀⇛
One school says that the leaker was a liberal who
wants to give the citizenry time to mobilize
against a horrific decision backed by just a
quarter of the populace. The idea here would be to
spark backlash before the final decision so as to
make one of the right-wing justices (most likely
Kavanaugh or Gorsuch) waver before his vote is
locked in.
A different take holds that the right leaked the
draft decision to “test the waters” of popular
response and/or to prematurely lock justices
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh into a final anti-abortion
ruling and/or to spark protests sooner rather than
later so as to increase the time between popular
resistance and the mid-term U.S, elections next
fall.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_DOJ_Applauded_for_‘Long_Overdue’
Environmental_Justice_Plan⠀⇛
Environmental justice advocates on Thursday
cautiously welcomed the federal government’s new
plan to deliver on some of U.S. President Joe
Biden’s campaign promises to hold polluters
accountable and better serve disproportionately
impacted communities.
“This addition is a vital step toward eliminating
environmental racism.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Manchin,_Kelly_Join_GOP_to_Pass_Motion_Against
Biden_Declaring_Climate_Emergency⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin,_Kelly_Join_GOP_in_Passing_Motion
to_Bar_Biden_From_Declaring_Climate_Emergency⠀⇛
Two right-wing Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West
Virginia and Mark Kelly of Arizona, crossed the
aisle Wednesday to help Republicans approve a
motion aimed at barring President Joe Biden from
declaring a climate emergency, a step that green
groups have been pressuring him to take since his
first day in office.
The nonbinding motion, sponsored by Sen. Shelley
Capito (R-W.Va.) and approved by a vote of 49-47,
states that Biden “cannot use climate change as the
basis to declare a national emergency.” House and
Senate lawmakers will consider the motion as part
of their efforts to finalize legislation packed
with subsidies to profitable microchip
corporations.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Inflating_Hopes_and_Dreams_in_Manchin
Country?⠀⇛
In 2011 Gayle Manchin invited Randi Weingarten, the
president of the AFT, to convene a big alliance of
residents, non-profits, businesses, and government
to address McDowell’s pressing problems of which
there were many, the most fundamental being loss of
population. From a population of over 122,000 in
the 1960s, McDowell was down to around 20,000 in
the 2020 Census. Welch, the county seat, had just
3,590 survivors, and they were aging. Remaining
residents were disproportionately elders,
grandparents raising kids, thanks to Medicare and
Medicaid.
Without people, there can be no development.
Employers, big box stores – they may come, but they
won’t stay, Mayor Harold McBride told us. McDowell
had a Walmart. It closed after just 10 years. Welch
attracted a new prison, but its 600 workers live
elsewhere. Schools face a chronic lack of teachers
for lack of housing.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_I’m_a_West_Virginian_Farmer._My
Brothers_Work_in_Oil_and_Coal._And_We_Need_Manchin_to_Act_on
Climate⠀⇛
I’m a West Virginia farmer, and I know something
about timing and deadlines. If my spring broccoli
isn’t planted in the greenhouse by February—and
growing uncovered by May—forget it. It’ll be a long
summer, fall and cold winter before I can try
again.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ $50.5_Billion_and_Counting:_Climate_Groups
Launch_‘Cost_of_Inaction’_Ticker⠀⇛
A coalition of advocacy organizations demanding
bold steps by the U.S. government to combat the
climate emergency launched an online ticker
Thursday that shows “the cost of inaction.”
“CAC’s Cost of Inaction Ticker is an effective way
to show people and quickly make the case about the
need to urgently act on climate.”
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ European_Union_Proposes_a_Total_Ban
on_Russian_Oil_as_Sanctions_Grow_over_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
The European Union has announced a plan for a
total ban on Russian oil by 2023. The move is
backed by Germany, one of the countries most
dependent on Russian fuel. World leaders hope
that stricter sanctions on Russia will cut
off financing for the war in Ukraine. We go
to Ukraine to speak with economist Tymofiy
Mylovanov about what the European oil ban
would mean for the conflict; possible
alternative buyers for Russia’s oil surplus,
such as China and India; military escalations
Russia might be planning for its Victory Day
on May 9; and more.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Survey_Finds_‘Terrifying’_60%
Plunge_in_Flying_Insect_Population⠀⇛
A survey published this week analyzing bug
splat on U.K. motorists’ license plates found
that the nation’s flying insect population
has declined by nearly 60% over the past 17
years, indicating a “terrifying” loss of
biodiversity among the planet’s most numerous
class of species.
“Declines are happening at an alarming rate
and without concerted action to address them
we face a stark future.”
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Nonalignment_Is_an_Urgent
Imperative_for_the_Global_South⠀⇛
There is seldom any acknowledgment that
nonalignment, in this case refusing to be
aligned with the United States and its allies
or with Russia, can be a principled position,
as well as an astute tactical engagement with
geopolitical realities. As two founding
figures in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM),
Yugoslavia’s then-President Josip Broz Tito
and India’s then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru, said in a joint statementsigned on
December 22, 1954, “the policy of non-
alignment with blocs… does not represent
‘neutrality’ or ‘neutralism’; neither does it
represent passivity as is sometimes alleged.
It represents the positive, active and
constructive policy that, as its goal, has
collective peace as the foundation of
collective security.”
The Global South houses more than 80 percent
of the world’s people, yet its countries are
systematically excluded from any decision-
making in the international organizations
that make decisions in the name of the
“international community.” For decades,
countries of the Global South have been
advocating for the United Nations to be
reformed so that it moves away from the zero-
sum game of the cold war mentality that
continues to drive it. Gabriel Valdés,
Chile’s then-foreign minister, said that in
June 1969, Henry Kissinger told him, “Nothing
important can come from the South. History
has never been produced in the South. The
axis of history starts in Moscow, goes to
Bonn, crosses over to Washington, and then
goes to Tokyo. What happens in the South is
of no importance.”
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ New_IMF_Trust_Shows_the_Path_Toward_SDR
Rechanneling_Through_Development_Banks⠀⇛
The IMF has published the details of the Resilience
and Sustainability Trust (RST) that the IMF
Executive Board approved during its 2022 Spring
Meetings.
The idea for the RST was endorsed by the G20 last
fall, with the IMF managing director and staff
taking quick action to set up and obtain Executive
Board approval for this new instrument.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_System_Is_Broken,’_Amazon_Union_Leader
Tells_Congress._‘That’s_a_Fact’⠀⇛
Wearing a jacket that read “Eat the Rich” across
the back, Amazon Labor Union President Christian
Smalls on Thursday told a Senate committee that the
systems meant to protect workers’ rights,
particularly at large corporations, are “broken”
and called on lawmakers to take action to protect
people who want to join unions and who demand fair
treatment at work.
“No government—not the federal government, not the
state government and not the city government—should
be handing out corporate welfare to union busters
and labor law violators.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “That’s_a_Fact”:_Amazon_Union’s_Smalls_Lambasts
Anti-Union_Senators_in_Hearing⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ National LawReview US ☛ North_Carolina_Becomes_First_State
to_Prohibit_Public_Entities_from_Paying_Ransoms [iophk:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
North Carolina’s new law, which was passed as part
of the state’s 2021-2022 budget appropriations,
prohibits government entities from paying a ransom
to an attacker who has encrypted their IT systems
and subsequently offers to decrypt that data in
exchange for payment. The law prohibits government
entities from even communicating with the attacker,
instead directing them to report the ransomware
attack to the North Carolina Department of
Information Technology in accordance with G.S.
143B‑1379.
The law applies to any “agency, department,
institution, board, commission, committee,
division, bureau, officer, official, or other
entity of the executive, judicial, or legislative
branches of State government” as well as to the
University of North Carolina and “any other entity
for which the State has oversight responsibility.”
Private sector entities are encouraged, but not
required, to report cybersecurity incidents to the
Department of Information Technology.
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ France:_Left-wing_politicians_refuse_to
participate_in_Christian_events_for_reasons_of_secularism,
but_do_not_shy_away_from_participating_in_the_Muslim_feast_of
breaking_the_fast⠀⇛
The month of Ramadan ended on Sunday, May 1st. On
Monday, Muslims will celebrate the festival of Eid-
el-Fitr. There were a number of disputes during
this period. These were about the presence of MPs
at fast-breaking ceremonies, as reported in detail
by La Croix. One question in particular arose: Does
an MP violate secularism by attending such an
event? The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, attended
such a dinner on April 27 at the Institut français
de civilisation musulmane. The Green city
councillor was accompanied on this occasion by the
prefect and the corps constitués (“constitutional
bodies”).
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ Eurabia:_In_its_”Inspirational_Guide_to
Celebrate_the_European_Diversity_Month”,_the_European
Commission_depicts_a_woman_with_a_prominent_religious_sign,
an_Islamic_veil⠀⇛
European Diversity Month is taking place across the
EU in May. We are calling on businesses and
organisations across Europe to join us, the
European Commission, in highlighting the importance
of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and
society through events and activities throughout
the month of May.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Blasts_Senate’s_‘Strange
Priorities’_as_It_Advances_Corporate_Welfare⠀⇛
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped
priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the
Democratic-controlled chamber moved to advance
legislation that he warned would provide a $53
billion “blank check” to the profitable microchip
industry under the guise of promoting innovation,
domestic manufacturing, and job creation.
“We have strange priorities here in the Senate,”
Sanders, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee,
said in floor remarks. “We can’t extend the child
tax credit to combat child poverty. We can’t deal
with the crisis in child care. We can’t provide
dental care to seniors on Medicare. We can’t deal
with climate change.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Century-Old_Racist_US_Supreme_Court_Cases
Still_Rule_Over_Millions_of_Americans⠀⇛
A call from Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to
overturn more than a century of precedent has been
joined by advocates for equal citizenship for
everyone born in those U.S. territories. If the
court decides to take up the question, it would
review a long-standing status quo.
Now, no U.S. citizen living in any of those places
can vote for president. They don’t have a voting
representative in Congress, either.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Panic_in_Kooyong:_The_Threat_to_the
Australian_Liberal_Party⠀⇛
But Josh Frydenberg is nervous. There is also
reason to suggest that he might even be panicking.
The electorate he represents – that of Kooyong – is
not quite so warm towards the sitting member as it
has been in the past. The sitting MP has resorted
to his home party base for comfort. “Incredible
sea of Liberal blue at our Kooyong Campaign Launch,
with more than 1,000 people present,” he tweeted on
May 1. “So much energy in the room.”
The sitting member was certainly correct about the
energy, in so far as it went to the head of one of
his supporters in attendance. After voicing public
approval for Frydenberg (“Liberals will win because
of Josh”), volunteer Phil Elwood proceeded to
become an impromptu “birdman”, imitating the sound
of a Kookaburra and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo with
gusto. Many political candidates have feared the
distractions of the eccentric, dedicated supporter.
# ⚓ Hungary ☛ Hungary_to_host_start_of_Giro_d’Italia_’22_this
weekend⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Once_‘Unthinkable,’_French_Left_Forms
Coalition_to_Challenge_Macron_in_Parliament⠀⇛
Less than two weeks after France’s neoliberal
president, Emmanuel Macron, defeated the far-
right’s Marine Le Pen to win a second five-year
term, the country’s four major left parties have
agreed in principle to form an electoral coalition
that aims to deny Macron a parliamentary majority.
“No one on the left can win on their own.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Taking_Aim_at_Ukraine:_How_John_Mearsheimer
and_Stephen_Cohen_Challenged_the_Dominant_Narrative⠀⇛
Interfering in another state is tricky business –
so says the gutsy University of Chicago
international relations scholar John Mearsheimer
(The great delusion: liberal dreams and
international realities [2018]. It is tricky – and
dangerous – and the exceptional nation, the US, may
think pushing NATO (with its missile sites and
troop placement) to Russia’s borders is benign. But
another state – Russia – thinks it is threatening.
Mearsheimer admits that great powers may follow
“balance of power” logic, but they can also embrace
“liberal hegemony.” When they do, “they may cause a
lot of trouble for themselves and other states. The
ongoing crisis over Ukraine is a case in point” (p.
171).
It sure is—and very few citizens in Canada and the
US have a clue about what this crisis is about:
they just assume, saturated in decades of various
forms of anti-Russian propaganda, that the military
operation launched by Russia on February 24th was,
pure and simple, the logical extension of an evil
leader, Vladimer Putin. In other words, Ukraine is
mere “worthy victim” – and the propaganda machine
in the West don’t miss a chance to display images
(often false) of the destruction of buildings and
people by evil Putin and his military. Evidence is
not necessary to substantiate any claims fed to us
by the mass media. Images will do because they
arouse emotions. Putin is to blame; Zelensky is
the noble defender of Ukrainian nationality.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Backlash_to_DHS_Disinformation
Governance_Board_grows,_fueled_in_part_by_misinformation⠀⇛
It’s a view several disinformation experts agreed
with, saying that the vagueness around what the
board will do combined with its tone-deaf name
raises important questions about whether it is an
appropriate tool for DHS to use to fight
disinformation.
“If the government intends to expose
disinformation, one of the most important counters
to that is providing legitimate information,” said
David Maxwell, a senior fellow at the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies and a retired Army
colonel who oversaw psychological operations as a
special operations commander. “The announcement,
without complete transparency about the
organization and its activities and authorities and
intent … really undermines their [DHS’s] own
credibility and legitimacy.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ ANI News ☛ China_intensifies_censorship_of_Hollywood
movies⠀⇛
As per the report, industry observers say censors
are also asking that versions of movies for
audiences outside China follow Beijing’s script.
# ⚓ The Print ☛ China_intensifies_censorship_of_Hollywood
movies⠀⇛
Amid a rising trend of curbs on rights in China,
the country is intensifying its censorship of
Hollywood movies to make them ‘conform’ to the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideals, a media
report said.
The practice, which is almost 25-years old, has
expanded in recent times even as producers make
movies with an eye toward pleasing Beijing yet
without isolating the global audience, Voice of
America reported citing industry insiders.
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Kerala:_Malappuram_man_who_renounced_Islam
attacked,_police_file_case⠀⇛
According to Ali’s complaint, a group of people
from Malappuram tried to abduct him to ensure that
he did not address the event. “They took me to
Kollam beach, where I was manhandled. They
destroyed my mobile phone and tore my clothes. They
forcibly took me to a vehicle and tried to lock me
inside. When locals raised an alarm, the police
saved me,” he said.
According to Essense Global, Ali then delivered his
address in the presence of police. In a video, Ali
spoke about his experience as a student of Islamic
studies, alleged sexual harassment during his
studies and his journey towards “the path of
humanism”.
# ⚓ New Zealand ☛ ‘I_don’t_feel_it’s_done_me_lasting_damage’:
David_Shanks_on_five_years_as_chief_censor⠀⇛
A surfeit of headlines in recent months have laid
bare the depth and breadth of online harassment,
threat and incitement, disinformation and
conspiracy theory in Aotearoa – a constellation of
toxicity, presenting dots that can be joined from
the Christchurch atrocity to the most extreme
fringes of the parliamentary occupation. It has
prompted some to suggest that the regulatory and
enforcement apparatus for responding to such
material – which spans a range of organisations
including police, Netsafe, Internal Affairs and the
Classifications Office that Shanks leads – is not
“fit for purpose”.
What does Shanks say to that, after five years at
the sharp end? He takes a long breath. “Our
regulatory framework is outdated. And in practical
terms, I think I’d struggle to say it is fit for
purpose in the current environment.”
o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Ninth_Journalist_Killed_in_Mexico_This_Year_as
Foreign_Criticism_Mounts⠀⇛
United States Senators Tim Kaine and Marco Rubio
called on the U.S. to urge Mexico to do more to
protect journalists in February, criticizing Lopez
Obrador for lashing out against his critics in the
media.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ ‘We_Are_Not_Going_to_Censor_Ourselves,’_Say_El
Salvador_Journalists⠀⇛
In conversations with VOA, journalists who cover
gangs and public security spoke about how the new
law could affect their reporting and how they plan
to continue.
“We are not going to censor ourselves,” said
Jessica Ávalos, an editor and corruption
investigator at Revista Factum.
“We have published an editorial in which we say
that silence is not an option, that we are not
going to stop investigating. But we are going to be
careful that they do not use each publication as a
pretext or excuse to attempt a visceral persecution
against our journalists and against the media.”
Ávalos said that the Law for the Prohibition of
Gangs seeks only to “criminalize the journalistic
profession.”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Bookstore_Workers_Are_Forming_Unions_Over_Low
Pay_and_Lack_of_Benefits⠀⇛
“The biggest issues facing bookstore workers are
the same issues facing most retail/warehouse/
customer service/service industry workers: low
wages, lack of benefits, and bosses constantly
pushing for more work from fewer people,” Tove
Holmberg, an 18-year veteran of Powell’s Books and
an active union member, tells me via email. “We’re
seen as expendable and replaceable; our work isn’t
considered ‘a career,’ and so it’s a constant
struggle to get our employers to offer us anything
more than the bare minimum.”
# ⚓ European Parliament ☛ Parliament_backs_giving_more_powers
to_Europol,_but_with_supervision⠀⇛
Under the new rules, Europol will be able to pursue
research and innovation projects, process large
datasets, and help national authorities screen
foreign direct investment in security-related
cases. When dealing with terrorist content or child
sexual abuse material, Europol will be able to
receive data from private companies, for example
communication services.
# ⚓ Fair Trials International ☛ Europol’s_ever-increasing
mandate:_European_Parliament_fails_to_stand_up_for
fundamental_rights⠀⇛
Today, 4 May, Members of the European Parliament
(MEPs) approved the revision of Europol’s mandate
and the Schengen Information System. This will
support a massive, unchecked expansion of Europol’s
powers, posing a threat to people’s rights through
over-policing, mass surveillance and
discrimination. In full contradiction of the
previous European Parliament position on AI and
criminal law, and of the EDPS recommendations, the
just-approved reform legitimises a data-driven
policing model that fails to protect our most basic
rights. Instead of addressing the root causes of
security issues, the European Parliament has
approved to give even more power to an institution
that already has the upper hand over people.
That’s why Fair Trials, EDRi and 16 other civil
society organisations contentiously urged the MEPs
to vote down the text. However, the MEPs failed to
fulfil their responsibility and commitment to
society by accepting the proposals to extend
Europol’s mandate.
# ⚓ Saudi Arabia ☛ Swedish-Iranian_to_be_executed_on_spying
charges_by_May_21:_Report⠀⇛
Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine doctor and
researcher, was arrested in 2016 on an academic
visit to Iran and is to be executed by May 21, the
semi-official ISNA said, citing sources.
Iran’s judiciary has yet to comment on the report.
The Swedish foreign ministry did not immediately
comment, but Sweden has in the past condemned
Djalali’s death sentence.
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Egypt:_Muslim_Pharmacist_Berates,
Slaps_Christian_Woman⠀⇛
A Muslim man berated and beat a Coptic Christian
woman because she entered his establishment with
her head uncovered during Ramadan in Egypt.
According to the Apr. 27, 2022 Arabic language
report, Nevin Sobhi, a 30-year-old married mother,
went to her local drugstore to pick up some
medication for her young son, who accompanied her.
On entering, she noticed that the head pharmacist,
Dr. Ali Abu Sa‘da, was giving her “the evil eye.”
Before long, what was in his eyes reached his
tongue: he launched into a loud and “hate-filled
tirade” against her for daring to enter his store
during Ramadan without any head covering and while
wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
# ⚓ Nexstar ☛ Tinley_Park_17-year-old_killed_days_after_father
says_he_‘did_not_trust_her’_to_go_to_school_prom,_court_docs
show⠀⇛
Grisly details released surrounding the murder of a
17-year-old Tinley Park girl reveal the teen’s
father revoked permission for her to attend prom
because he didn’t trust her. Documents also show
she feared he may “kill her” just days before she
was found dead in her home.
Mohammed Almaru, 42, is accused of killing his
daughter, Mia Maro, 17, before police responded to
their home Sunday evening in the 7800 block of West
167th Place. He faces first-degree murder charges.
# ⚓ CBS ☛ Mohammed_Almaru,_of_Tinley_Park,_charged_with_murder
of_17-year-old_daughter,_Mia_Maro⠀⇛
On the day of the homicide, Almaru texted his son –
Mia’s brother – saying that “Mia was hiding things
from him and he had to beat the information out of
her,” charging documents said.
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ On_Camera,_Hindu_Man_In_Hyderabad_Killed_After
Marrying_Muslim⠀⇛
Around 8.45 pm on Wednesday, the couple had just
left home on their bike when two men stopped them,
dragged Nagaraju off and attacked him with iron
rods and knives. Security footage showed a crowd
rapidly collecting at the spot but no one trying to
stop the attack. Many had their mobile phones out,
recording the crime.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Strippers_Seize_the_Moment,_Turning_a_Lockout
Into_a_Picket_Line⠀⇛
On a rainy night in March, a picket line of cat
ears, purple wigs, and neon-yellow ski masks
paraded in front of Star Garden, a dinky topless
dive bar in North Hollywood. A masked protester
broke into a chicken dance under the cheap red club
lights. Another held a bright sign reading “We Feel
Unsafe” in loopy letters. Drivers honked as they
rolled by, sending cheers through the crowd. As
magical as the night seemed, there’s nothing
whimsical about what the Star Garden Strippers were
protesting: sexual harassment and unsafe working
conditions.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Wrongly_Convicted_Man_Receives_$7.5_Million
Settlement_in_Indiana⠀⇛
A man who spent more than eight years in prison
after being wrongfully convicted of an armed
robbery in Elkhart, Indiana, will receive $7.5
million in a settlement with the city and with
former police officers involved in the
investigation, his attorney has announced.
The city’s settlement with Keith Cooper is the
largest amount paid to a plaintiff in a wrongful
conviction lawsuit in Indiana, according to the
University of Michigan’s Exoneration Registry, and
marks the end of his legal saga, which was
chronicled by the South Bend Tribune and
ProPublica.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Border-Industrial_Complex_in
the_Biden_Era⠀⇛
First, it was the Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front
of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s
all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly on a ridge
above us. I was about 10 miles north of the border
with Mexico, near Peña Blanca Lake in southern
Arizona, camping with my six-year-old son and some
other families. Like fire trucks racing to a blaze,
the Border Patrol mobilization around me was
growing so large I could only imagine an emergency
situation developing.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ After_“Roe,”_Abbott_May_“Resurrect”_Fight
Against_K-12_Education_for_Immigrants⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Louisiana_Republican’s_Bill_Opens_Door_to
Homicide_Charges_for_Abortion_Patients⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Companies_Like_Amazon_and_CVS_Have_Donated
Millions_to_Anti-Abortion_Politicians⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Can’t_Let_the_Filibuster_Stand_in_Our
Way,’_Says_Warren_as_Schumer_Sets_Up_Vote_to_Codify_Roe⠀⇛
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that Democrats
can’t allow the archaic legislative filibuster to
obstruct urgently needed action on abortion rights
as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced
that the upper chamber will vote next week on a
modified version of the Women’s Health Protection
Act.
“It’s long past time,” Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted.
“And we can’t let the filibuster stand in our way.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Will_Demise_of_“Roe”_Be_a_Death_Knell_for
Contraception,_Marriage_Rights?⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Whatever_It_Takes,_Democrats_Must_Defend
Abortion_Rights⠀⇛
With the unprecedented leak of the US Supreme
Court’s draft opinion affirmatively revoking
abortion rights, the theoretical discussion of what
the end of Roe v. Wade could look like became real
for more people Monday. Though it’s only a draft,
it is clear that after decades of legislative and
court battles, marches, rallies, and vigils, the
legal right to have an abortion in the United
States is likely to end this summer.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ 3_Test_Cases_Progressives_Should_Bring_in_a
Post-Roe_World⠀⇛
In an ideal world, the Supreme Court’s upcoming
ruling nullifying Roe v. Wade and freeing the
states to force people to give birth against their
will would simply be ignored by a just executive.
In an ideal world, President Joe Biden would make
federal facilities available for abortion and
family planning services. He would then provide
physical protection for both the health care
providers and the pregnant people seeking health
care. For its part, an ideal-world Congress would
immediately pass federal legislation protecting
reproductive rights, while in the upcoming midterm
elections the people would vote in leaders who
stand opposed to the Christo-fascist takeover of
American government.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Supreme_Nightmare⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Women_Set_to_Experience_a_Degree_of_Dred
Scott⠀⇛
Last night, for the first time in history that
anyone can recall, a leaked preliminary Supreme
Court decision with respect to completely
overturning the 50-year-old precedent of choice for
women in Roe v. Wade, if not changed before being
issued, will take affect in about two months.
Similar to Dred Scott it will say, in essence,
women have no rights that a man or the law must
respect. It will make no difference if you are the
victim of rape or incest you will be forced to give
birth. There is even a question among some in the
so-called pro-life movement as to even whether the
life of the mother should be spared if death is a
possibility to save the life of the child.
Americans expect to add human rights, not have
them taken away. This is really an attack on the
human rights of women period! It says we don’t
trust women to make a decision about their bodies
and their health. It’s as simple as Republicans
don’t believe in equal rights for women.
Republicans oppose equal justice under law for
women – it’s why a 1976 Hyde Amendment could exist
alongside Roe v. Wade. If abortion is legal for
everyone and it is then no woman should have been
denied equal protection under the law simply
because she is poor and must use tax dollars or she
is in the military.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_‘Raw_Judicial_Power’_of
Samuel_Alito_Is_an_Attack_on_Dignity,_Autonomy,_and
Progress⠀⇛
The leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion
in the Mississippi abortion ban case has put into
authenticated form an announcement that abortion
advocates on both sides of the aisle have been
predicting for years: stack the Court with
Republican-appointed justices and Roe v. Wade will
be overturned. The Court’s leaked opinion does just
that, holding that both Roe and Casey are now bad
law because there is no longer any constitutional
right to abortion.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Louisiana_GOP_Advances_Bill_to_Make
Abortion_a_Homicide_by_Patient_and_Provider⠀⇛
Louisiana Republicans on Wednesday advanced
legislation that criminalizes abortion as homicide,
allowing for the prosecution of both the pregnant
person and those who assist them.
Introduced in March by Rep. Danny McCormick (R-Oil
City), House Bill 813 advanced out of committee in
a 7-2 vote Wednesday, just days after a leaked U.S.
Supreme Court draft opinion revealed the court’s
right-wing majority is on the cusp of striking down
Roe v. Wade.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Those_Who_Love_and_Respect_Women
in_This_Country_Will_Rise_Up⠀⇛
The impending doom of overturning Roe v Wade has
sent shock waves through our society. For those of
us old enough to remember when abortion was illegal
(I am barely in that age group) a heavy sense of
dread immediately settled across our backs.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Gillibrand_Goes_Off:_‘I_Don’t_Think_a_Man
in_America_Could_Actually_Imagine_Not_Having_Control_of_His
Body’⠀⇛
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Thursday delivered
an impassioned appeal to men who might oppose
reproductive rights and a barbed blow to the five
right-wing Supreme Court justices who she said lied
about their jurisprudential stance on Roe v. Wade.
“It is an outrage that we have five justices on the
Supreme Court who lied.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ With_Roe_on_the_Ropes,_Students_Stage
Nationwide_Walkouts⠀⇛
College and high school students from coast to
coast walked out of classrooms and off campuses on
Thursday to defend reproductive freedom in the wake
of this week’s revelation that the U.S. Supreme
Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade in what would
arguably be the biggest rights rollback in American
history.
“We call on all working-class, oppressed, and
progressive people to take to the streets and fight
for our lives.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Trade_Groups_Drop_Net_Neutrality
Suit,_Ericsson_Builds_Wireless_Testbed_for_Utilities,_Think
Tank’s_Antitrust_Approach⠀⇛
Internet trade groups that held on to a legal
challenge of California’s net neutrality law have
dropped their case Wednesday after a federal
appeals court upheld the law earlier this year.
The industry trade groups, including US Telecom,
the cable industry groups NCTA and ACA Connects,
and the wireless association CTIA were the hold out
against the law, after the Department of Justice
dropped their own challenge to the law.
# ⚓ Benton Institute ☛ ISPs_Drop_Challenge_to_California_Net
Neutrality_Law⠀⇛
Lobbying groups representing broadband internet
access service providers—including ACA Connects,
NCTA, CTIA and USTelecom—dropped their challenge of
a federal district court’s ruling upholding
California’s net neutrality law. The ISPs had
already lost a federal district court challenge to
the law and two appeals court efforts to block
enforcement. The suit was dismissed without
prejudice, which means ISPs could refile it if they
chose. California adopted the prohibitions on
blocking, throttling and paid prioritization after
the Federal Communications Commission eliminated
its similar net neutrality rules and reclassified
internet access as a Title I information service
under Chairman Ajit Pai.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Open_Internet_Victory_as_Telecom_Giants
Give_Up_Net_Neutrality_Fight_in_California⠀⇛
Associations representing the telecommunications
industry on Wednesday dropped their legal fight to
block California’s “gold standard” net neutrality
law following a string of losses in federal courts.
“With this victory, we’ve secured a free and open
internet for California’s 40 million residents once
and for all.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Dish’s_5G_Network,_The_Trump_DOJ_‘Fix’_For
Harmful_Wireless_Consolidation,_May_Miss_A_Major_Deadline⠀⇛
Two years ago the Trump DOJ and FCC rubber stamped
the Sprint T-Mobile merger without heeding experts
warnings that the reduced competition would likely
degrade service, kill jobs, and slowly raise rates.
Working closely with T-Mobile and Dish, the FCC and
DOJ “antitrust enforcers” unveiled what they
claimed was a “fix” for the problematic nature of
the deal: they’d cobble together a fourth major
replacement wireless carrier in Dish Network.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] TechTarget ☛ Lenovo_unveils_an_Arm_laptop_with
Microsoft_Pluton_security⠀⇛
The X13s is the first laptop to use Qualcomm’s Arm-
based Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chipset, which includes
Pluton. The Microsoft processor, available on x86
PCs, prevents attackers from obtaining credentials
and other critical data, even if they have
possession of the system.
# ⚓ [Old] Windows Central ☛ Why_Dell_and_Lenovo_aren’t_using
Microsoft_Pluton_for_security⠀⇛
Using something other than Pluton doesn’t mean
laptops from Dell are insecure. It just means that
Dell has chosen to go a different route when it
comes to securing devices. “As with all new
technologies, we will continue to evaluate Pluton
to see how it compares against existing TPM
implementations in the future,” said a Dell
spokesperson to The Register. “Dell also provides
its own additional security, implemented at the
hardware and software level, to defend customers
against attacks.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ No,_Software-Bricked_Tractors_Thwarting_Russian
Looters_Is_Not_A_Sign_That_Either_John_Deere_Or_Copyright_Is
Good⠀⇛
There are not enough words to describe the horrors
of what Russian troops have been doing to their
Ukrainian neighbors. But it should go without
saying that stealing their stuff is, on its own,
not ok.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Medical_Device_Makers_Sue_Library_Of_Congress
For_Allowing_People_To_Fix_Their_Own_Medical_Devices⠀⇛
For many years we’ve discussed the sheer
ridiculousness of the “triennial review” process of
Section 1201 of the DMCA. If you’re lucky, and
don’t spend that much time deep in the weeds of
semi-obscure copyright law, Section 1201 of the
DMCA is the “anti-circumvention” part of the law,
that was initially designed to outlaw breaking
digital rights management (DRM) tools. Of course,
1201 was written broadly, saying that basically any
attempt to “circumvent a technological measure”
(even just talking about ways to circumvent a
technological measure) would itself be considered
copyright infringement even if the underlying
purpose for which you were circumventing the
technological measure had nothing whatsoever to do
with copyright.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Top_EU_Court_Hands_Down_Judgment_On_Upload
Filters_That_Is_As_Clear_As_Mud⠀⇛
We had just written about the great
difficulty national governments are having in
transposing the EU Copyright Directive into
local law. That’s largely because of the
badly drafted and contradictory Article 17.
It effectively calls for upload filters,
which have obvious problems for freedom of
expression because of the impossibility of
crafting algorithms that encapsulate the
subtleties of copyright law. For this reason,
the Polish government brought a legal
challenge to Article 17 before the EU’s top
court, on the grounds that it infringes on
the freedom of expression and information
guaranteed in Article 11 of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the EU. The Court of
Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has
handed down its judgement, dismissing
Poland’s action:
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Josh_Hawley_Threatens_Disney’s_‘Special
Copyright_Protections’_For_Being_‘Woke’⠀⇛
You will recall that Lauren Boebert was
unsuprisingly confused about what lawmaking
power she has as a lawmaker, having
threatened to not “extend Micky (sic) Mouse’s
trademark”, which is not a power Congress
has. Josh Hawley, who has never been shy
about threatening private companies over
protected speech, at least has straight which
law to threaten Disney with.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Filmmakers_Target_Thousands_of
Alleged_BitTorrent_‘Pirates’_in_Canada⠀⇛
The companies behind the movies “Ava” and
“Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” are targeting
thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates in
Canada. The defendants, who are targeted
through the Toronto federal court, can look
forward to hefty settlement demands. While
these types of cases are not new, they often
remain under the radar.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Does_YouTube’s_Autoplay_Feature_Hurt
Its_DMCA_Safe_Harbor_Protection?⠀⇛
A long-running class action lawsuit against
YouTube alleging mass copyright infringement
and failures in YouTube’s enforcement system
has raised an interesting question. Does
YouTube’s ‘Autoplay’ feature, which
effectively sees the platform take control of
what content is shown, undermine YouTube’s
safe harbor protections under the DMCA?
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ I_uninstalled_Windows_on_my_gaming_PC,_and_I
don’t_want_to_go_back_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
In the vast catalog of articles and videos that attempt
to install a Linux distro on a gaming PC, there’s a
central question missing: Why? Why would you go with
Linux instead of Windows when Microsoft’s OS has clearly
better driver and game support, as well as more prompt
responses to issues and access to better utilities?
There are a few reasons, even if the scales generally
fall in favor of Windows. For one, Linux is free from any
central authority. You don’t have to worry about
advertising IDs, features you don’t want or disagree
with, or updates that may change the way you interact
with your PC.
o § Linux Magazine⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Enterprise_Resource_Planning_with
BlueSeer⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Zack’s_Kernel_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Setting_up_a_data_analytics_environment_in
Linux_with_Python⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Monitoring_application_data_traffic⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Office_in_the_Sky⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Zorin_OS_16.1_Core_and_Super_GRUB2_Disk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Exploring_the_XMonad_tiling_window
manager⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ The_return_of_the_tiling_window_manager⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Assembler_programming_on_the_Raspberry
Pi⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Planning_for_the_unexpected⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ In_the_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Integrate_hardware_components_with
pluggable_systems⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ This_month_in_Linux_Voice.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Current_desktop_innovation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ RAW_development_with_Vulkan_darktable⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Solve_Wordle_puzzles_with_regular
expressions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ A_command-line_network_intrusion_detection
system⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ An_updated_Xfce_desktop_with_Twister_UI⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Implementing_Zero_Trust_Security⠀⇛
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes_1.24_Released,_Isolated_Container_Cluster
Management_System⠀⇛
Kubernetes container orchestration platform is
Kubernetes 1.24 Released, which allows you to
manage a cluster of isolated containers as a single
entity and provides mechanisms for deploying,
maintaining and scaling applications running in
containers. The project was originally created by
Google, but then transferred to an independent site
curated by the Linux Foundation. The platform is
positioned as a universal solution developed by the
community, not tied to individual systems and able
to work with any application in any cloud
environment. The Kubernetes code is written in Go
and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Features are provided for infrastructure deployment
and management, such as DNS database maintenance,
load balancing, distribution of containers across
cluster nodes (migration of containers depending on
changes in load and service needs), health checks
at the application level, account management,
updating and dynamic scaling of a running cluster,
without stopping it. It is possible to deploy
container groups with update and undo operations
for the entire group at once, as well as logical
splitting of the cluster into parts with resource
sharing. There is support for live migration of
applications that can be stored on both local
storage and network storage systems.
# ⚓ Kubernetes_1.24_Is_The_First_Release_To_Officially_Use
sigstore⠀⇛
The Kubernetes and sigstore communities have
announced that Kubernetes is adopting sigstore in
production for signing artifacts and verifying
signatures, enabling Kubernetes users for the first
time to verify that the distribution they are using
is exactly what it claims to be. Kubernetes 1.24
and all future releases will include
cryptographically signed sigstore certificates,
giving users the ability to verify signatures and
have greater confidence in the origin of each and
every deployed Kubernetes binary, source code
bundle and container image.
# ⚓ Capacity_Tracking_reaches_GA_in_Kubernetes_1.24⠀⇛
The v1.24 release of Kubernetes brings storage
capacity tracking as a generally available feature.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Hardware_Addicts_60:_Diamonds_Are_A_Computers
Best_Friend!⠀⇛
Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the
TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast
that focuses on the physical components that powers
our technology world.
In this episode, we’re going to be discussing a new
storage technology that could change everything for
quantum computing.
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Linux_Out_Loud_11:_Surprise_Purchase⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about a community
opinion piece by Profetik.
Welcome to episode 11 of Linux Out Loud. We fired
up our mics, connected those headphones as we
searched the community for themes to expound upon.
We kept the banter friendly, the conversation
somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Linux_Out_Loud_12:_SteamDeck_in_Hand⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about the Steam
Deck and Valve’s Linux gaming foray.
Welcome to episode 12 of Linux Out Loud. We fired
up our mics, connected those headphones as we
searched the community for themes to expound upon.
We kept the banter friendly, the conversation
somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_239⠀⇛
New firmware superpowers are coming to a future
Linux kernel, why Google is working on encrypted
hibernation support, and a sneak peek at SteamOS 3.
# ⚓ Going_Linux_May_05_#423_·_Welcome_to_Linux!_Starting_your
adventure!_Pt_1⠀⇛
We go back to our roots and begin with part one of
how to get started with Linux. We discuss some
basic terms and definitions, talk about installing
software applications and even suggest a few
distributions geared to new users.
# ⚓ Video ☛ What’s_new_in_Nextcloud_24:_more_freedom,_speed,
collaboration,_and_better_search!_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Plausible_Deniability_|_Self-Hosted
70⠀⇛
Alex replaces another Google service; we point the
community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your
feedback!
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ An_introduction_to_Linux_audio_plugin_APIs⠀⇛
The world of music and audio production is largely
dominated by proprietary software vendors. Among
them, Steinberg stands out as a company that
created some of the most-used software, including
the Cubase and Nuendo digital audio workstations.
Steinberg is also known as the creator of the VST
plugin API that, largely due to its licensing
policy, has irritated developers enough to inspire
multiple attempts at creating an open-source
alternative. Even now, when the VST3 SDK is
available under the GPLv3 license, the way the
company exercises its control over the SDK keeps
pushing developers away toward other open-source
solutions.
This is an introduction to open-source plugin APIs
for musicians and sound engineers alike. It focuses
on the options in the larger ecosystem and how
their shortcomings led to the creation of new
alternatives with liberal licensing.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Extending_in-kernel_TLS_support⠀⇛
The kernel gained support for the TLS protocol in
the 4.13 release, which came out in September 2017.
That support is incomplete, though, in that it does
not provide the kernel with a way to initiate a TLS
connection on its own. Instead, user space creates
a socket and performs the TLS handshake before
handing the socket to the kernel, which can then
transfer data using TLS. The situation may be about
to change as a result of this patch series from
Chuck Lever — though user space will still need to
remain in the picture.
TLS, of course, allows for the transfer of
encrypted data over the network; it is the protocol
that lurks behind HTTPS links, among other things.
At this point, a significant fraction of the data
transferred over the net is encrypted in this
fashion. Once a connection has been established,
encrypting data to send to the other end is
relatively straightforward, as is decrypting
received data. Establishing the connection, though,
is a more complex affair, involving, among other
things, algorithm negotiation and the provision and
verification of public keys for one or both ends.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Handling_messy_pull-request_diffstats⠀⇛
Subsystem maintainers routinely use git request-
pull as part of the process of sending work
upstream. Normally, the result includes a list of
commits included in the request and a nice diffstat
that shows which files will be touched and how much
of each will be changed; examples abound on the
kernel mailing lists. Occasionally, though, a
repository with a relatively complicated
development history will yield a massive diffstat
containing a great deal of unrelated work. The
result looks ugly and obscures what the pull
request is actually doing. This document describes
what is happening and how to fix things up; it is
derived from The Wisdom of Linus Torvalds, which
has been posted numerous times over the years
(example 1, example 2).
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ My_favorite_open_source_tool_for_using
crontab⠀⇛

Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job
as a site reliability engineer (SRE), part of my
remit is to automate as many repeating tasks as
possible. But how many of do that in our daily,
not-work, lives? This year, I am focused on
automating away the toil so that we can focus on
the things that are important.
One of the earliest things I learned about as a
fledgling systems administrator was cron. Cron is
used far and wide to do things like rotate logs,
start and stop services, run utility jobs, and
more. It is available on almost all Unix and Linux
systems, and is something every sysadmin I know
uses to help manage services and servers. Cron can
run any console application or script
automatically, which makes it very, very flexible.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Amberol_–_small_and_simple_music_player⠀⇛

You might be wondering whether Linux really needs
another music player. If it’s just a fork of an
existing project, we’d agree that this wouldn’t be
an enticing prospect. After all, in this field
audiophiles are granted a huge array of fine music
players. We covered our favorites in this roundup.
Amberol offers a different tack to some music
players. It’s definitely not innovative in any
shape or form. It doesn’t offer any functionality
that a whole raft of open source players already
offer. Instead it seeks to be a small and simple
music player built using modern technologies.
When we read of modern technologies we instantly
think of Electron. Heavily bloated apps often
follow. But Amberol is not Electron-based. Instead,
Amberol relies on the GTK4 widget toolkit and the
Rust programming language. It seeks inspiration
from Muine, a GNOME-based music player that saw its
last release back in 2009.
# ⚓ The Anarcat ☛ Wallabako_1.4.0_released_–_anarcat⠀⇛
I don’t particularly like it when people announce
their personal projects on their blog, but I’m
making an exception for this one, because it’s a
little special for me.
You see, I have just released Wallabako 1.4.0 (and
a quick, mostly irrelevant 1.4.1 hotfix) today.
It’s the first release of that project in almost 3
years (the previous was 1.3.1, before the
pandemic).
The other reason I figured I would mention it is
that I have almost never talked about Wallabako on
this blog at all, so many of my readers probably
don’t even know I sometimes meddle with in Golang
which surprises even me sometimes.
# ⚓ Istio_/_Announcing_Istio_1.12.7⠀⇛
This release contains bug fixes to improve
robustness. This release note describes what’s
different between Istio 1.12.6 and Istio 1.12.7
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Drupal_Introductory_Guide_with_Installation⠀⇛
On this site, we’ve gone over WordPress in great
detail. Despite the fact that WordPress is the most
popular and actively developed CMS, it is not the
only good one on the market. In this article, we
will go through Drupal in depth, determining who it
may be used for and how to install Drupal on
litespeed web server.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ (Resolved)_Please_install_all_available_updates
for_your_release_before_upgrading⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ [Older]_15_Linux_Terms,_Jargons,_and_Lingo
You_Should_Know_About⠀⇛
GNU, a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix,” is a
collection of open-source tools that anyone can use
for free to develop their own apps and operating
systems. The GNU Project, founded by Richard
Stallman, aims at developing and distributing
software for free and provides every developer with
open-source tools to do the same.
The Linux kernel is licensed under GNU’s GPL
(General Public License) and is thus known as GNU/
Linux. Any operating system developed using the
open-source GNU tools and the Linux kernel falls
under the category of Linux distributions. But what
are distributions, you might ask?
# ⚓ Keystone_LDAP_with_Bifrost_|_Adam_Young’s_Web_Log⠀⇛
I got keystone in my Bifrost install to talk via
LDAP to our Freeipa server. Here’s what I had to
do.
I started with a new install of bifrost, using
Keystone and TLS.
# ⚓ Basic_authentication_with_Traefik_on_kubernetes⠀⇛
Basic access authentication dates back to 1993 and
it’s still heavily used today. The server provides
a WWW-Authenticate header to the client and the
client responds with an Authorization header and a
base64-encoded (not encrypted) string to
authenticate. When done over a secure TLS
connection, this method of authentication works
well.
# ⚓ Build_a_custom_CentOS_Stream_9_cloud_image⠀⇛
This is my third post about Image Builder, so I
guess you could say that I enjoy using it1. It’s a
great way to define a custom cloud image, build it,
and (optionally) ship it to a supported cloud
provider.
This post covers how to build a customized CentOS
Stream 9 image along with a custom repository for
additional packages. In this case, that’s Extra
Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).
# ⚓ ByteXD ☛ Bash_Append_to_File_–_ByteXD⠀⇛
There are various ways to append text to a file in
bash. In computing, append means to add something
to the end of the file.
In this tutorial, you will learn to append text or
content to a file using the redirection operator >>
and the tee command.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Writing_Ansible_inventory_files,
troubleshooting_Linux,_and_more_sysadmin_tips⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ GIMP_Tutorial:_Create_A_Bokeh_Effect⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ MP3_Files:_Creating_Order_From_A_Jumbled_Mess⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Esperanto_Characters_On_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Adjusting_Firefox_Settings_To_Enhance_Your
Online_Privacy⠀⇛
Firefox provides you with several mechanisms to
protect your privacy. However, some of them are not
enabled by default. In this guide you’ll learn how
to configure your Firefox browser settings to
strengthen your online privacy.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Lubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show how to install
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Friday_Night_Funkin’_–
OS_Engine_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install Friday Night
Funkin’ – OS Engine 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.
# ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_fix_“bash:_add-apt-repository:_command
not_found”_error_on_Ubuntu/Debian_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_install_Docker_Compose_V2_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–
NextGenTips⠀⇛
Docker is a set of platform-as-a-service product
that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver
software in packages called containers. Containers
are usually isolated from one another and bundled
with their own software libraries and configuration
files, they can communicate with each other through
well-defined channels.
Docker makes it possible to get more apps running
on the same old servers and also makes it easy to
package and ship programs.
Docker-compose is a tool for defining and running
multi-container Docker application. It uses YAML
files to configure its application services.
# ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_create_temporary_random_file_name_in_bash
scripting⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Install_gLabels_Publisher_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS⠀⇛
Publications and presentations are important in the
reputation of many companies and individuals.
That’s why it pays to have tools that help with the
design and management of labels and business cards
that serve as an introduction to the service
offered. So, today, you will learn how to install
gLabels Publisher on Ubuntu 20.04.
# ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Set_Up_Passwordless_SSH_Login_With_SSH
Keys⠀⇛
Many novice users to Linux are surprised to learn
that the most secure method to connect to another
server with SSH is using keys.
We computer users have been conditioned to use
passwords for everything.
It’s surprising to learn that there are methods
other than passwords, but there is something
better: cryptographic keys.
In this tutorial we will learn what SSH keys are
and why they are better than passwords. You will
learn how to set them up on your computer and how
to use them to login with SSH without a password.
# ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ How_to_identify_vulnerabilities_with
NMAP_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛
In this video for Help Net Security, Shani Dodge
Reiner, Development Team Leader at Vicarius,
explains how to identify vulnerabilities using the
NMAP tool.
NMAP is a very powerful and popular tool for
network mapping. It can be used to learn about the
architecture of an organization’s network by both
defenders and attackers.
Using the NMAP scan output, we can get visibility
of the devices that are connected to the network.
For each device, NMAP can extract a variety of
information, including the device’s DNS name, MAC
address, and operating system, as well as a list of
ports that are open to the network, which services
are accessible, etc.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_DEB_Packages_in_Arch_Linux⠀⇛
Many popular programs are available on Linux
exclusively as a DEB package. This could concern
you if you have recently migrated to Arch Linux and
are unsure how to install your favorite programs.
DEB files are intrinsic to Debian or Ubuntu-based
derivatives. However, you can still install them on
your Arch-based system in a few ways. Let’s step
through the ways to install DEB files in Arch
Linux.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Java_on_CentOS_9_Stream⠀⇛
We all know that Java is a very popular programming
language and a mainstay of today’s technology. This
language is used for many things, from desktop
applications to applications like Jenkins that are
used to deploy other applications. In other words,
Java is very important and for many it is the
gateway to programming.
# ⚓ How_to_Add_Swap_Space_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–_Cloudbooklet⠀⇛
How to Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 22.04. Swap Space
is a space in Linux is used when the amount of
physical memory (RAM) is full. If the system needs
more memory resources and the RAM is full, swap
space let you store additional information.
Swap space can help machines with a small amount of
RAM. In case you have a server with 1GB RAM, then
your memory will get exhausted and you will get an
error because your server cannot allocate
sufficient memory.
In this guide you are going to learn how to add
swap space and also remove the swap space that is
created already.
# ⚓ linuxium.com.au:_Adding_a_32-bit_GRUB_bootloader_to_boot
and_install_ISOs⠀⇛
Many distros no longer include both 32-bit and 64-
bit bootloader support. Unfortunately some hardware
including most based on the relatively recent Intel
Atom processor architecture won’t boot ‘OOTB’.
Whilst I wrote ‘isorespin.sh’ and ‘isorespinner.sh’
in part to address this issue I restricted their
functionality to the Ubuntu ‘family’ of ISOs for
support purposes. One of the most frequest
questions I have been asked is ‘can you add support
for <insert distro> ISOs?’. Unfortunately distros,
even those based on or derived from Ubuntu, are
often built with different directory structures and
packages. As a result writing a script that caters
for multiple distros becomes complex and
cumbersome. However with Ubuntu looking to move to
a new snap-based installer I’ve revisited the 32-
bit boot issue.
Initially I created a simple script
‘treetoobitiso.sh’ to just add the 32-bit GRUB
bootloader to the Ubuntu ‘family’ of ISOs. But if a
different distro uses a similar file system layout
then essentialy there is no reason why it also
wouldn’t work so I’ve extended this script to
include an ‘–unsupported’ option to allow running,
or at least attempt running, with any ISO.
# ⚓ PHP_MySQL_Logical_Operators_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛
packages. As a result writing a script that caters
for multiple distros becomes complex and
cumbersome. However with Ubuntu looking to move to
a new snap-based installer I’ve revisited the 32-
bit boot issue.
# ⚓ nixCraft ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Set_Up_OpenVPN_Server_In_5
Minutes⠀⇛
I am a new Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS server user. How
do I set up an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu Linux
version 22.04 server to shield my browsing activity
from bad guys on public Wi-Fi, set protective
parameter vpn for developers and more?
o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Wine-Wayland_7.7_Released_–_LinuxStoney⠀⇛
Wine-wayland 7.7 Released, which develops a set of
patches and the winewayland.drv driver, allowing
you to use Wine in environments based on the
Wayland protocol, without using XWayland and X11
components. Provides the ability to run games and
applications that use the Vulkan graphics API and
Direct3D 9/11/12. Direct3D support is implemented
using the DXVK , which translates calls to the
Vulkan API. The kit also includes patches and ”
fsync ” to increase the performance of multi-
threaded games, and code to support AMD’s FSR
(FidelityFX Super Resolution) technology to reduce
image quality loss when upscaling on high
resolution screens. The new release is notable for
syncing with the Wine 7.7 codebase and updating
DXVK and VKD3D-Proton versions.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Take_a_deep_breath_and_submerge_yourself_in_Wetlands⠀⇛
Wetlands, the newest supported game of the Hypno
engine, is ready for public testing!
This sci-fi rail shooter was created by Hypnotix
and published by New World Computing in 1995. The
game includes 20 action-packed levels, cinematic
cutscenes, attractive hand-drawn characters, and
stunning 3D backgrounds.
# ⚓ Windows_games_crashing_on_Linux?_Try_these_tricks_&_tips_–
LinuxStoney⠀⇛
Although they are not as common on Linux-based
computers as they are on Windows, little by little
games are coming to these open source systems . In
fact, the titles available here are becoming more
and more common, but at the same time they are not
exempt from certain problems that can arise. For
example, we can experience the always unpleasant
crashes when we are playing with one.
Whether natively using certain applications such as
Wine or PlayOnLinux , the truth is that the number
of players who use a Linux computer for their
favorite video games is increasing. This is
something that we have been doing on a regular
basis and over the last few years on a Windows-
based PC. However, thanks to the fact that Linux is
gradually spreading to a greater number of users,
they also want to play here.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Tactical_roguelike_with_deck-management
‘Oaken’_added_a_Linux_build⠀⇛
Oaken, a brand new Early Access turn-based tactical
roguelike from Laki Studios and Goblinz Publishing,
just added an experimental Linux build ready for
testing. The Linux build is not yet advertised on
the Steam page but it’s there and mentioned in
their latest news post.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Humble_Kalypso_Hits_Bundle_looks_like_a
good_deal⠀⇛
Want to continue building up that collection of
games? Another good chance has arrived with the
Humble Kalypso Hits Bundle.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Cannibal_Crossing_seeing_plenty_of_tweaks
for_the_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Cannibal Crossing, an action-survival game for 1-
4 players from development teams at Rocketcat Games
(Death Road to Canada) / Everplay Interactive /
Blow and Try Again, continues evolving and gets
some nice Steam Deck improvements.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Comedy_adventure_Catie_in_MeowmeowLand_now
on_Linux⠀⇛
In need of a fresh point and click comedy
adventure? Catie in MeowmeowLand from developer
ARTillery is now supported on Linux with a new
Native build. Must admit I hadn’t heard of this one
before but the screenshots instantly make it look
worth playing.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Controller_support_for_Path_of_Exile
leaving_Beta,_should_work_great_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Path of Exile, the free to play ARPG from Grinding
Gear Games, is getting close to releasing the
Sentinel update and along with masses of gameplay
additions — controller support will leave Beta.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Short_Topix:_Okular_First_Ever_Eco-
Certified_Computer_Program⠀⇛
Okular, KDE’s popular multi-platform PDF
reader and universal document viewer, has
officially been recognized for sustainable
software design as reflected in the recent
award criteria for software eco-
certification. In February 2022 Okular was
awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official
environmental label awarded by the German
government. Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is
the world’s earliest established
environmental label, and Okular is the first
software product to be certified with its
seal. What is more, Okular is the first
ï¸ever eco-certified computer program within
the 30 organizations of the Global
Ecolabelling Network! This network, of which
Blue Angel is a member, represents over 50
countries.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ OpenMediaVault_6_NAS_Solution_Released
Based_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
After a long development phase,
OpenMediaVault 6 has been released with a
completely new user interface written from
scratch.
OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a Network Attached
Storage (NAS) system based on Debian. It
includes SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, RSync,
BitTorrent client, etc. In addition, the
framework’s modular design allows it to be
expanded via plugins.
# § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.1-RC6_Now_Available⠀⇛
The sixth RC build of the 13.1-RELEASE
release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 13.1-RC6 amd64 GENERIC
o 13.1-RC6 i386 GENERIC
o 13.1-RC6 powerpc GENERIC
o 13.1-RC6 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 13.1-RC6 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 13.1-RC6 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 13.1-RC6 armv6 RPI-B
o 13.1-RC6 armv7 GENERICSD
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 GENERIC
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 RPI
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 PINE64
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 ROCK64
o 13.1-RC6 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 13.1-RC6 riscv64 GENERIC
o 13.1-RC6 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For
convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user
with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1)
access. Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is
strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after
gaining access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are
available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/
ISO-IMAGES/13.1/
The image checksums follow at the end of this
e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them
through the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source
based update of an existing
system, use the "releng/13.1" branch.
A summary of changes since 13.1-RC5 includes:
o OpenSSL 1.1.1o has been merged.
o An issue with the xhci(4) driver not
attaching devices has been
addressed.
A list of changes since 13.0-RELEASE is
available in the releng/13.1
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/
relnotes/
Please note, the release notes page is not
yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.1-
RELEASE cycle progresses.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64,
i386, and aarch64
architectures. Disk images may be downloaded
from the following URL
(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-
IMAGES/13.1-RC6/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/CI-
IMAGES/13.1-RC6/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type
(bootfs GPT label)
~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type
(swapfs GPT label)
~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type
(rootfs GPT label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD,
VMDK, and raw disk image
formats. The image download size is
approximately 135 MB and 165 MB
respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a
21 GB sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine
images: a modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64
to be able to boot the
virtual machine images. See this page for
more information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu
cortex-a57 -M virt \
-bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::
4444,server -nographic \
-drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to
the virtual machine image.
# § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Alain_Baudrez/Wamukota:_In_Remembrance⠀⇛
On April 20, 2022, we lost one of our
longtime PCLinuxOS forum users. Alain
Baudrez, who often went by the nickname
Wamukota, chose euthanasia to end his
suffering from ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Linux_IS_Ready_For_The_Desktop⠀⇛
I’ve read many postings and rants about Linux
not being ready for the desktop, while my
experience tends to state the opposite. Linux
is — and has been for the last couple of
years — ready for the desktop.
It all boils down to the type of audience you
speak to.
Windows has been developed with the industry
in mind. That implies that you have a group
of well-trained IT guys who do the Windows
laundry while you, at your desk, can work
without bothering whether the latest patches
are applied, the AV is up to date, Anti-
malware filters are in place, …
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ WWW_Collapse⠀⇛
On April 17, 2010, Alain Baudrez (a.k.a.
Wamukota) sent me a short story he had
written, and asked me if I would be
interested in running it in The PCLinuxOS
Magazine. Set in the not too distant future,
it’s a story depicting the collapse of the
World Wide Web.
Liked it? I loved it! I read it through three
times upon receiving the story, and each and
every time, my mind envisioned this story
being told via a comic strip. I definitely
wanted to do this story justice, so I started
“shopping around” for someone with some
graphic skills who might be able to tackle
such a project. This was no small task.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ PCLinuxOS_Dutch_Community::_PCLinuxOS.nl⠀⇛
Most of you will know the Netherlands as the
country where Dutch is the native tongue, but
Dutch is also spoken in the northern part of
Belgium (Flanders). A total of 20 million
people speak Dutch, so our community is an
international community of 550 members with
Dutch and Belgian admins, mods and users.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Behind_The_Scenes:_Wamukota_&
PCLinuxOS.nl⠀⇛
In 2001 I was diagnosed with ESRD (End Stage
Renal Disease) which resulted in both my
kidneys shutting down in March 2002. I had to
go to the hospital three times a week to have
my blood filtered using dialysis. Luckily I
got a donor kidney on April 23, 2003. I can
not express how grateful I am towards the
unknown donor who saved my life.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ [PCLinuxOS]_Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ [PCLinuxOS]_From_The_Chief_Editor’s
Desk…⠀⇛
# § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME,_curl,_Fetchmail_update_in_Tumbleweed,_WSL
Image_Published_–_openSUSE_News [Ed: So disappointing
that they dance to Microsoft's tune, helping Microsoft
to attack GNU/Linux]⠀⇛
The latest snapshot, 20220504, included the
second LLVM update this week. The updated
14.0.3 version includes Application
Programming Interface and Application Binary
Interface changes for the new major LLVM 14
version. An update of libpipeline 1.5.6 fixed
the handling of leading whitespaces for the C
library used for manipulating pipelines of
subprocesses in a flexible and convenient
way. An update of sqlite3 3.38.3 pushed a fix
that had effected missing rows in the output
due to overly aggressive optimizing the
automatic-index and Bloom-filter construction
that used an inappropriate ON clause term. An
update of yast2-trans had multiple Japanese,
Polish, Slovak, Catalan and Brazilian
Portuguese translations. The GPS daemon and
library that supports USB and serial GPS
devices, gpsd, updated to version 3.24. The
new version now works with the open-source
implementation of Networked Transport of RTCM
via Internet Protocol 2.0. Other packages to
update in the snapshot were swtpm 0.7.3 and
unixODBC 2.3.10.
The 20220502 snapshot featured changes to the
English dictionary package words; it updated
from version 2015.02.15 to 2020.12.07 and had
various new words added from previous version
updates included in the five year jump.
Several RubyGems packages were updated in the
snapshot. One of those was the update of
rubygem-gyoku 1.4.0, which translates Ruby
Hashes to XML; the update removed Rubinius
support and added options to allow for
prettified XML outputs. The dpdk update in
the snapshot had a Peripheral Component
Interconnect change that assigns a driver
pointer before mapping. Other packages to
update in the snapshot were fribidi 1.0.12,
power-profiles-daemon 0.11 and libX11 1.8,
which is supposed to resolve a number of
long-standing bugs with the libxcb
integration.
# ⚓ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_week_2022/18⠀⇛
This week we ‘only’ managed to get out 5
snapshots. Over the weekend, we had a dracut
submission in the mix that happened to break
in a few scenarios, resulting in an
incomplete initrd. Of course, we caught this
in openQA and did not release those
snapshots. In the end, we release snapshots
0428, 0501, 0502, 0503, and 0504.
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ FMW_is_finished_–_egasta_Blog⠀⇛
As all good things have to come to an end, my
bachelor thesis has to end someday also. But
I’m still looking forward to contributing to
FMW, when are any updates or fixes needed.
Official FMW 5.0.0 will be released soon.
This was my first experience with an open
source project and I liked it very much. I’m
looking forward to start working on new open
source projects in the future.
This project gave me a lot of experience such
as learning how to deploy Qt applications on
various operating systems, and how the
structure of applications looks. I have
learned the new programming language QML and
how to use CMake in open source project.
Another big experience for me is
understanding how GitHub CI works. This was
used to automatically create builds for
various systems. I have practiced many
options and advantages of Git (from the
beginning I have been using only “git pull”
with “git push”).
# ⚓ AlmaLinux_8.6_“Sky_Tiger”_Beta_–_Now_Available⠀⇛
Hello World! We proudly present to you
AlmaLinux 8.6 Beta “Sky Tiger” for x86_64,
ARM and ppc64le architectures.
Installation ISOs are available on mirrors
now. Cloud and container images are in
progress, so stay tuned for these in the next
few days.
As usual, a simple reminder, this is a BETA
release. It should not be used for production
installations. The provided upgrade
instructions should not be used on production
machines unless you don’t mind if something
breaks. Now if you wanna test this somehow,
somewhere to see how things will work in 8.6
stable, you’re on the right track.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_Podman_support_in
Cockpit_on_AlmaLinux_8_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
AlmaLinux is an outstanding option for
companies looking for a server-based
operating system that can host a never-ending
stream of services and applications. But for
those who want to use AlmaLinux as a
container deployment platform, you’ll have to
migrate from Docker to Podman, as the
container runtime supported by RHEL-based
operating systems has switched, and getting
Docker up and running on the OS is a serious
challenge.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2022-18_–
Fedora_Community_Blog⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what
happened this week and what’s coming up. Your
contributions are welcome (see the end of the
post)!
Fedora Linux 36 will be released on Tuesday
10 May.
I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in
the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time)
in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any
questions or comments about the schedule,
Changes, elections, or anything else. See the
upcoming meetings for more information.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fedora_U-turns_on_removing_BIOS
support,_for_now_•_The_Register⠀⇛
The Fedora Project has changed its collective
mind, and Fedora 37 won’t require UEFI – it
will still install and run on BIOS-only
systems.
Last month we reported on some
simplifications planned for Fedora 36 and 37.
Aside from the changes to console graphics
support, there was a proposal to require UEFI
firmware, as a step towards removing support
for booting using the old-style legacy BIOS
boot process.
Apparently, this generated more discussion
than several previous wildly contentious
changes, including, in the words of project
lead Matthew Miller, “systemd-resolved,
btrfs-by-default, and even switching the
default editor to nano.”
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly
Update_–_Week_18_2022⠀⇛
F36 RC-1.4 is out
1 proposed blocker, GO/NOGO is tomorrow
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ RHEL_at_20:_How_enterprise_Linux
has_evolved_from_server_closet_to_cloud⠀⇛
Today there’s no question that Linux, and
open source, belongs at the heart of
enterprise IT. 20 years ago, though, Linux
was the underdog and it took a lot of faith
to bet big workloads on Linux. Red Hat had
the confidence that it could bring Linux into
the enterprise, and delivered on it with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_tips_to_nail_a_remote
interview⠀⇛
The way we work keeps changing, but one thing
is for certain: Remote work is here to stay.
Many large companies are implementing a
hybrid model in which employees go to a
physical office three days a week. HR and
recruiting teams are revamping their hiring
processes accordingly, with interviewing and
onboarding remotely via Zoom and other
virtual collaboration tools becoming the
norm.
Interviews – whether remote or in-person –
can be nerve-wracking. If you are someone who
relies on reading body language and more
nuanced expressions and cues for optimal
communication, an interview on a screen might
be your worst nightmare.
Relax – you can do this. Here are four tips
to nail your next remote interview.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Ruthless_Ransomers [Ed: This is
primarily_a_Microsoft_Windows_issue]⠀⇛
It’s a strange situation when someone can
hold something hostage from halfway around
the world. It’s tragic when your own pictures
and files are remotely encrypted. But when
it’s a hospital’s system? Ransomware becomes
a problem about life or death.
# ⚓ The Fast Mode ☛ Red_Hat_Integrates_its_OpenShift_with
Kaloom’s_Unified_Edge_Fabric⠀⇛
Kaloom and Red Hat Deliver on Unified Edge
Vision
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Tails_5_Review:_A_Perfect_Privacy-Focused_Linux
Distribution⠀⇛
A quick review of Debian-based Tails 5 which
is released a while back, refreshed its core
modules with Debian 11 Bullseye version.
# ⚓ retro_computing:_GNU_Linux_(Debian)_on_very_very_old
hardware_(~20_Years)_old_hp_compaq_NX_7010_notebook
laptop⠀⇛
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Ubuntu_MATE’s_Lead_Creates_a_Nifty_Tool_to
Help_Install_3rd_Party_Deb_Packages⠀⇛

Ubuntu MATE’s lead, Martin Wimpress, has
another fun project for Linux users.
In case you did not know, Martin regularly
develops something interesting. Last year, we
covered Quickemu, which helps create virtual
machines in Linux through a QEMU-based GUI
tool making the process easy.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Qualcomm_joins_the_Wi-Fi_7_competition_with
Networking_Pro_Series⠀⇛
A few days ago Qualcomm showcased their latest Wi-
Fi 7 Networking Pro Series platforms that feature
PHY data rates of 10.7, 16.5, 21.5 and 33 Gbps.
According to Qualcomm, the Networking Pro 1620 SoC
(System on Chip) can provide reliable and stable
support for up to 2000 users.
Qualcomm indicated that their Networking Pro
devices allow support for the Openwrt (Linux Kernel
5.4) operating system. Additionally, all their
networking SoCs include Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi Security
Suite which offer WPA3 implementation along with
crypto accelerators to provide secure transactions
across a full range of Wi-Fi access points.
# ⚓ Note_Consolidation_and_PDA_Upgrades⠀⇛
I use a local Zim wiki to store many of my personal
documents. Before then, I used flat text files with
a homegrown directory structure, and prior to that
I used Joplin. While I’ve tried to consolidate
everything into Zim in recent months, I’ve still
had a few notes lingering in other places. I
finally got all of them moved to Zim yesterday,
allowing me to remove two Syncthing directories in
the process.
My motivation for using Zim is its portability.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that universal access is
very important to me: I want my notes to be easily
manageable using nothing but a generic text editor,
while being standardized enough to allow dedicated
programs to parse them and implement robust
features inside them. Zim is the most feature-rich
system I’ve found that gives me this flexibility.
# ⚓ The_Smallest_Raspberry_Pi_for_Your_Needs_in_2022⠀⇛
The smallest Raspberry Pi-compatible SBC might not
be a Raspberry Pi at all! Check out the smallest
Raspberry Pis and alternatives.
# ⚓ Purism ☛ Purism_and_Linux_5.18⠀⇛
Following up on our report for Linux 5.17 this
summarizes the progress on mainline support for the
Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the
5.18 development cycle. This summary is only about
code flowing upstream.
This time it’s been all about various media drivers
that are needed when using the cameras on the
Librem 5 phone. As the mipi, csi and sensor drivers
for the selfie cam are supported in the mainline
kernel, we keep maintaining them as part of the
community now. We sent these mostly minor but
important fixes:
Our recent work on suspend to RAM resulted in some
patches to various drivers that failed in that
situation. Actually, suspend to RAM is not yet
being tested very well by the community and we want
to change that. Here, incidentally, we also fix
camera-related drivers. Everything is
interconnected.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ What_is_a_Cloud-Based_Smartphone⠀⇛
Check out page 70 of the Mobile magazine, where our
Telco CTO – Arno shares his comment on the Cloud-
Based Smartphone.
This entire concept was build by on of the global
telco operators using open source technology called
Anbox Cloud. This technology presents many
opportunities for mobile service providers.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Estimating_indoor_CO2_levels_using_tinyML
and_computer_vision_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drawn
attention to how clean our indoor
environments are, and by measuring the CO2
levels within a room, infection risks can be
approximated since more CO2 is correlated
with poor ventilation. Software engineer
Swapnil Verma had the idea to use computer
vision to count the number of occupants
within a space and attempt to gauge the
concentration of the gas accordingly.
The hardware powering this project is an
Arduino Portenta H7 combined with a Vision
Shield add-on that allows the board to
capture images. From here, Verma used a
subset of the PIROPO dataset, which contains
recordings of indoor rooms and ran the
YOLOv5-based auto labeling utility within
Edge Impulse to draw bounding boxes around
people. Once labeled, a FOMO model was
trained with a respectable F1 score of 91.6%.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Allwinner_V853_Arm_Cortex-A7_+_RISC-
V_SoC_comes_with_1_TOPS_NPU_for_AI_Vision
applications⠀⇛
Allwinner V853 SoC combines an Arm Cortex-A7
core with a Xuantie E907 RISC-V core, and a 1
TOPS NPU for cost-sensitive AI Vision
applications such as smart door locks, smart
access control, AI webcams, tachographs, and
smart desk lamps.
[...]
MangoPi team is also working on a compact
(27.5×42.5 mm) MQ-V Ai Core module based on
Allwinner V853 with 512 MB DDR3, 8GB eMMC
flash, and an AXP2101 PMU, so we’ll certainly
find out more in a couple of months.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_sideloaded_apps_can’t_use
accessibility_settings_–_9to5Google⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A32_is_receiving_Android
12_with_One_UI_4.1_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Vivo_Pad_is_an_11_inch_Android_tablet
with_a_120_Hz_display_and_Snapdragon_870_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Do_you_need_Antivirus_for_Android?_|_Trusted
Reviews⠀⇛
# ⚓ 5_Ways_to_Stop_Unwanted_Apps_From_Downloading
Automatically_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_F41_Android_12_update
released_in_India_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_find_your_lost_Android_smartphone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_the_Android.Spy.4498_Trojan_Steals
Your_WhatsApp_Data_(and_How_to_Beat_It)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Xiaomi_12_Pro_is_a_sophisticatedly
restrained_take_on_Android_flagship_phones_–_Hindustan
Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Here’s_our_video_walkthrough_of_Samsung’s
One_UI_4.1_based_on_Android_12_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Batch_Rename_and_Organize_Files
on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Amazon_stops_selling_digital_goods
in_its_Android_app_to_escape_Google’s_Play_Store_tax⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_13_is_getting_new
sideloading_restrictions,_but_they_are_good.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Loop_is_a_native_habit_tracker_app_for
Android⠀⇛
Loop is a mobile app that helps you create
and maintain good habits, allowing you to
achieve your long-term goals. Detailed graphs
and statistics show you how your habits
improved over time. It is completely ad-free
and open source.
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Paperwork_is_an_open-source_OCR_and_Scanner⠀⇛
Paperwork is a personal document manager. It
manages scanned documents and PDFs.
It’s designed to be easy and fast to use. The idea
behind Paperwork is “scan & forget”: You can just
scan a new document and forget about it until the
day you need it again.
In other words, let the machine do most of the work
for you.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ eSpeak_is_an_awesome_text-to-speech_TTS_open-
source_software⠀⇛
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech
synthesizer for English and other languages, for
Linux and Windows.
It is a reliable Text to Speech engine for English
and many other languages. Compact size with clear
but artificial pronunciation. Available as a
command-line program with many options, a shared
library for Linux, and a Windows SAPI5 version.
eSpeak uses a “formant synthesis” method. This
allows many languages to be provided in a small
size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high
speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger
synthesizers which are based on human speech
recordings.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyShare_now_supports_Android_screen
sharing⠀⇛
EasyShare, invoked via the “share” icon on the
desktop, is now a GUI frontend to ‘scrcpy’…
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Meld_diff_software_–_So_good_I’m_melting⠀⇛
Comparing files, not a difficult task, easy peasy.
Comparing files visually, not so much. Now and
then, almost everyone will have a need to look at
two versions of the same document and try to find
the subtle differences between them. Sometimes, the
application you’re working with will have a built-
in comparison feature, which makes things simpler.
Sometimes, you will have to figure it out on your
own, or use a dedicated program.
In Linux, there is a wealth of file comparison
tools and utilities available, most of them built
on top of the command-line diff program. They all
follow the same basic principle of showing you two
versions of the same file, side by side, and
highlighting the changes and differences (hence the
name). But one program stands out in this domain,
and it’s meld. To wit, we shall review.
# ⚓ Daniel Aleksandersen ☛ Syncthing:_The_data_deduplication
master⠀⇛
Syncthing is an open-source encrypted peer-to-peer
folder synchronization program. It uses
deduplication techniques to reduce the amount of
data it needs to transfer over the network; saving
you bandwidth costs, energy, and time. You can now
optionally also let it deduplicate data storage to
reduce your storage costs.
[...]
Syncthing chunks large files into blocks, similar
to how a file system works. It compares which
blocks have changed and will only send changed
blocks over the network. The blocks can be reused
between files and even between different synced
folders. This saves transfer time, network
bandwidth, and energy.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ TaskJuggler_an_open-source_Project_Management
solution⠀⇛
TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open
Source Software project management tool. Its new
approach to project planning and tracking is more
flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt
chart editing tools.
TaskJuggler is project management software for
serious project managers. It covers the complete
spectrum of project management tasks from the first
idea to the completion of the project. It assists
you during project scoping, resource assignment,
cost and revenue planning, risk and communication
management.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Kavita_is_an_open-source_reading_server⠀⇛
Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross-platform
reading server. Built with a focus on manga and the
goal of being a full solution for all your reading
needs. Setup your own server and share your reading
collection with your friends and family.
# § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Linux_Application_Summit_2022_–_And_there_we
were_all_in_one_place_…⠀⇛
In the last two days of April, the small,
picturesque town of Rovereto in northern
Italy was the location of this year’s Linux
Application Summit (LAS). After a virtual-
only experience during the pandemic, the LAS
returned with a physical presence, and so did
we.
Canonical has long recognized the value and
importance of LAS as a cornerstone of open-
source cooperation and collaboration. And
never before was this more evident than in
the 2022’s event, organized by both KDE and
GNOME in unison. We’d like to tell you a bit
more about LAS, and give our spin to the
story.
# § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Announcing_general
availability_of_pg_stat_monitor⠀⇛
Percona is happy to announce the general
availability of pg_stat_monitor.
Pg_stat_monitor provides a deeper and richer
set of query analytics than has been
available before. In addition to several
additional metrics on previously run queries
pg_stat_monitor introduces the ability to
store query metrics in time series buckets as
well as store metadata like explain plans
from previous iterations of the queries.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.3.5
Released⠀⇛
The PGJDBC team is proud to announce release
42.3.5 of the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL
A number of issues have been addressed. A
performance regression was found in the
42.3.x branch and was fixed
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Slackware:_LibreOffice_7.3.3_and_an
update_for_Chromium_101⠀⇛
LibreOffice Community Edition is now at
version 7.3.3. Read yesterday’s announcement
on the Document Foundation blog to get the
details of this incremental (bug-fix) update.
The 7.3.x releases are the bleeding edge of
this popular office suite but nevertheless
really stable software.
# § Funding⠀➾
# ⚓ Creating_an_OpenPGP_Web-of-Trust_Implementation_–_A
Series_–_vanitasvitae’s_blog⠀⇛
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an example
of a decentralized authentication mechanism
for OpenPGP. While there are some existing
implementations of the WoT in applications
such as GnuPG, their algorithms are often
poorly documented. As a result, WoT support
in client applications is often missing or
inadequate.
This is where the aforementioned
specification comes into play. This document
strives to provide a well-documented
description of how to implement the WoT in an
interoperable and comprehensible way. There
is already an existing implementation by the
Sequoia-PGP project (Neal, the author of the
specification is also heavily involved with
Sequoia) which can serve as a reference
implementation.
Since I imagine implementing the Web-of-Trust
isn’t a straight-forward task (even though
there is now a specification document), I
decided to dedicate a series of blog posts to
go along with my efforts. Maybe this helps
others implementing it in the future.
# § FSF⠀➾
# § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GCC ☛ GCC_12.1_Released⠀⇛
The GCC developers are proud to
announce another major GCC release,
12.1.
This year we celebrated the 35th
anniversary of the first GCC beta
release
and this month we will celebrate 35
years since the GCC 1.0 release!
This release deprecates support for the
STABS debugging format and
introduces support for the CTF
debugging format [1]. The C and C++
frontends continue to advance with
extending support for features
in the upcoming C2X and C++23 standards
and the C++ standard library
improves support for the experimental
C++20 and C++23 parts.
The Fortran frontend now fully supports
TS 29113 for interoperability with C.
GCC now understands clangs
__builtin_shufflevector extension
making
it easier to share generic vector code.
Starting with GCC 12
vectorization is enabled at the -O2
optimization level using the
very-cheap cost model which puts extra
constraints on code size expansion.
On the security side GCC can now
initialize stack variables implicitly
using -ftrivial-auto-var-init to help
tracking down and mitigating
uninitialized stack variable flaws.
The C and C++ frontends now support
__builtin_dynamic_object_size
compatible with the clang extension.
The x86 backend gained mitigations
against straight line speculation
with -mharden-sls. The experimental
Static Analyzer gained uninitialized
variable use detection and many other
improvements.
The x86 backend gained support for
AVX512-FP16 via _Float16.
The BPF backend now supports CO-RE, the
RISC-V backend gained support
for many new ISA extensions.
Some code that compiled successfully
with older GCC versions might require
source changes, see http://gcc.gnu.org/
gcc-12/porting_to.html for
details.
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ Will_JavaScript_containers_overtake_Linux
containers?⠀⇛
JavaScript’s universality is prompting the
emergence of a new container-like
abstraction, he said. Linux containers are
not going way, but thinking in terms of
JavaScript containers could simplify many web
services. Dahl also noted that Docker
popularized the use of Linux containers, with
operating system-level virtualization for
distributing server software. Each container
image is a dependency-free, ready-to-run
software package. But browser JavaScript
offers a similar hermetic environment at a
higher level of abstraction, he sai
# ⚓ I_don’t_know_how_to_build_software⠀⇛
There are a lot of ways of building software,
there are many languages you could choose to
build it with, many libraries to rely on,
many frameworks to leverage, many
architectural approaches, many platforms to
choose, many paradigms of daily operations to
follow.
# ⚓ LibreOffice_QA/Dev_Report:_April_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RQuantLib
0.4.16_on_CRAN:_Small_Updates⠀⇛
A new release 0.4.16 of RQuantLib arrived at
CRAN earlier today, and has been uploaded to
Debian as well.
QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-
source library for quantitative finance;
RQuantLib connects it to the R environment
and language.
The release of RQuantLib comes agaain about
four months after the previous release, and
brings a a few small updates for daycounters,
all thanks to Kai Lin, plus a small parameter
change to avoid an error in an example, and
small updates to the Docker files.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Super_Python_(part_2)⠀⇛
Python’s super() built-in function can
be somewhat confusing, as highlighted
by a huge python-ideas thread that we
started looking at last week. It is
used by methods in class hierarchies to
access methods and attributes in a
parent class, but exactly which class
that super() resolves to is perhaps a
bit unclear in multiple-inheritance
hierarchies. The discussion in the
second “half” of the thread further
highlighted some lesser-known parts of
the language.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Masquerades_and_re-attribution_of_man’s_accomplishments⠀⇛
This convention is not without consequences, however. One
of those consequences is that the mean “goodness” of
humanity is less, because its accomplishments have been
appropriated away while its crimes stayed.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Blockchain_is_Dangerous_Nonsense⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nature ☛ Squid_adjust_their_body_color_according_to
substrate_|_Scientific_Reports⠀⇛
Coleoid cephalopods camouflage on timescales of
seconds to match their visual surroundings. To
date, studies of cephalopod camouflage-to-substrate
have been focused primarily on benthic cuttlefish
and octopus, because they are readily found sitting
on the substrate. In contrast to benthic
cephalopods, oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana
species complex) are semi-pelagic animals that
spend most of their time in the water column. In
this study, we demonstrate that in captivity, S.
lessoniana Sp.2 (Shiro-ika, white-squid) from the
Okinawa archipelago, Japan, adapts the coloration
of their skin using their chromatophores according
to the background substrate. We show that if the
animal moves between substrates of different
reflectivity, the body patterning is changed to
match. Chromatophore matching to substrate has not
been reported in any loliginid cephalopod under
laboratory conditions. Adaptation of the
chromatophore system to the bottom substrate in the
laboratory is a novel experimental finding that
establishes oval squid as laboratory model animals
for further research on camouflage.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ AMD’s_upcoming_Navi_31_high-end_GPUs_could
be_the_first_gaming_models_to_feature_PCIe_5.0_support⠀⇛
Twitter user Kepler_L2 reports that AMD’s upcoming
RDNA3-based Navi 31 high-end GPUs appear to offer
PCIe 5.0 X16 support according to the latest AMD’s
GFX11 architecture patches for Linux. Nvidia’s Ada
Lovelace next gen GPUs could get the same
treatment, but rumor has it that these might launch
at a later date.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ I_had_an_abortion…⠀⇛
It’s not possible to ban abortions. It’s only
possible to ban safe abortions.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Microsoft_warns_people_to_uninstall
Windows_11_update_that’s_killing_apps⠀⇛
Microsoft has been forced to warn users to
uninstall the Windows 11 update KB5012643, as
it appears to be causing some apps to crash,
especially if they rely on the .NET 3.5
framework.
As WindowsLatest explains, KB5012643 – which
is an optional update for Windows 11 – brings
several fixes to the operating system, but
some people are reporting that apps that rely
on the .NET 3.5 framework – which is quite a
few – have been crashing since installing the
update.
While not every user has been affected, and
not all apps using .NET have been crashing,
the issue is widespread enough for Microsoft
to issue a rather humiliating message to
users, telling them to uninstall the update.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Corporate_Involvement_in
International_Cybersecurity_Treaties [Ed:
Microsoft, which routinely puts back doors inside
things, has managed to sneak its way into
"security" panels]⠀⇛
The Paris Call for Trust and Stability
in Cyberspace is an initiative launched
by French President Emmanuel Macron
during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet
Governance Forum. It’s an attempt by
the world’s governments to come
together and create a set of
international norms and standards for a
reliable, trustworthy, safe, and secure
Internet. It’s not an international
treaty, but it does impose obligations
on the signatories. It’s a major
milestone for global Internet security
and safety.
# ⚓ Reproducible_Builds:_Reproducible_Builds_in
April_2022⠀⇛
Cory Doctorow published an interesting
article this month about the
possibility of Undetectable backdoors
for machine learning models. Given that
machine learning models can provide
unpredictably incorrect results,
Doctorow recounts that there exists
another category of “adversarial
examples” that comprise “a gimmicked
machine-learning input that, to the
human eye, seems totally normal — but
which causes the ML system to misfire
dramatically” that permit the
possibility of planting “undetectable
back doors into any machine learning
system at training time”.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by
Debian (dpdk, mruby, openjdk-11, and
smarty3), Oracle (thunderbird), Red Hat
(thunderbird), SUSE (chromium, libvirt,
python-Twisted, and tar), and Ubuntu
(cron and jbig2dec).
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Google_fixes_actively
exploited_Android_kernel_vulnerability⠀⇛
Google’s researchers disclosed the
Linux vulnerability in January and also
introduced a fix that was responsibly
disclosed to Linux vendors. However, it
has taken a few months to fix this
vulnerability in Google’s own Android
operating system.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_risks_of_embedded_bare_repositories
in_Git⠀⇛
Running code from inside a cloned Git
repository is potentially risky, but
normally just inspecting such a
repository is considered to be safe. As
a recent posting to the Git mailing
list shows, however, there are still
risks lurking inside these
repositories; code that lives in them
can be triggered in unexpected ways. In
particular, malicious “bare”
repositories can be added as a
subdirectory of a repository; they can
be configured to run code whenever Git
commands are executed there, which is
something that can happen in surprising
ways. There is now an effort underway
to try to address the problem in Git,
without breaking the legitimate need
for including bare repositories into a
Git tree.
In early April, Glen Choo posted to the
list about the security risk of bare
repositories in Git working tree. He
linked to an admirably detailed
advisory from Justin Steven that
documents the problem and how it can be
triggered by a wide variety of tools,
including shells, integrated
development environments (IDEs),
editors, and more. The advisory has
proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a whole
slew of different scenarios, including
ones that can be used to reproduce the
problem locally, if desired.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Wired ☛ VPN_Providers_Threaten_to_Quit
India_Over_New_Data_Law_|_WIRED_UK⠀⇛
The country has ordered companies
operating VPNs to collect user
data and hand it over to
officials—but they’re refusing to
do so.
VPN companies are squaring up for
a fight with the Indian
government over new rules
designed to change how they
operate in the country. On April
28, officials announced that
virtual private network companies
will be required to collect
swathes of customer data—and
maintain it for five years or
more—under a new national
directive. VPN providers have two
months to accede to the rules and
start collecting data.
The justification from the
country’s Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In) is that
it needs to be able to
investigate potential cybercrime.
But that doesn’t wash with VPN
providers, some of whom have said
they may ignore the demands.
“This latest move by the Indian
government to require VPN
companies to hand over user
personal data represents a
worrying attempt to infringe on
the digital rights of its
citizens,” says Harold Li, vice
president of ExpressVPN. He adds
that the company would never log
user information or activity and
that it will adjust its
“operations and infrastructure to
preserve this principle if and
when necessary.”
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Daily Maverick ☛ In_a_global_village,_SA’s_spineless_stance
on_Ukraine_lacks_courage,_morality_and_ubuntu⠀⇛
Instead of regarding the people of Russia and
Ukraine as equally precious members of the human
family, we have bent over backwards not to condemn
the killing of citizens of one country by those of
the other.
# ⚓ Florida_Governor_Ron_DeSantis_banned_from_New_York_Museum
of_Jewish_Heritage.⠀⇛
Said a press release from the DeSantis regime, “We
hope that this is a misunderstanding…The Holocaust
should never be politicized.”
The Nazi Party killed over 60,000 LGBT Germans in
the concentration camps with the same Zyklon B gas
and bullets that they used on the Jews (among
others), they tossed the bodies into the same
furnaces, they took the gold fillings out of their
teeth and smelted them.
Their first step was to marginalize them, as
Governor DeSantis has done in Florida.
With regards to the Holocaust being politicized, it
was the Nazi Party, a far-right populist party,
that brought about the Holocaust and selected its
victims.
So it is entirely appropriate that they don’t want
far-right populist politicians to use them as a
background for their lip service about the rights
of humanity.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_Beyond_GDP:_A
Framework_for_Measuring_Economic_Progress⠀⇛
“What is meant by economic progress, and how should
it be measured?,” asked economists Diane Coyle and
Leonard Nakamura in a recent paper, Time Use and
Household-Centric Measurement of Welfare in the
Digital Economy. “The conventional answer is growth
in real GDP over time or compared across countries,
a monetary measure adjusted for the general rate of
increase in prices. However, there is increasing
interest in developing an alternative understanding
of economic progress, particularly in the context
of digitalization of the economy and the consequent
significant changes Internet use is bringing about
in production and household activity.”
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) became the accepted
international measure of economic progress in the
1940s. It was a good measure for an industrial
economy dominated by the production of physical
goods, but GDP doesn’t reflect important economic
activity beyond production, such as income,
consumption and quality of life, nor does it
capture measures of economic welfare or utility,
that is, the extent to which a service or good
satisfies an individual’s wants and needs. In
addition, GDP doesn’t include the value of the
increasing amounts of free information goods now
available in the Internet-based digital economy,
including email, texts, social media, maps, apps
and videos.
In their paper, Coyle and Nakamura propose an
alternative approach for measuring economic
progress based on how much time people spend on
different daily activities – e.g., paid work,
household tasks, leisure, and consumption –
combined with measures of well-being while engaged
in these different activities. “In an economy that
is four-fifths services rather than goods, with
time to consume therefore inherent in the majority
of economic activity, the utility of the different
uses of time seems key to understanding economic
welfare as well as productivity.”
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Asda_owners_set_to_buy_McColl’s,_saving_16,000
jobs⠀⇛
The deal will keep on all McColl’s stores and staff
with higher pay for many, but will not include its
pension scheme, they said.
EG Group declined to comment. The Issa brothers and
TDR also own Asda. EG and Asda are run as separate
businesses.
McColl’s runs 1,100 stores, including convenience
outlets under its own name and Morrisons Daily, as
well as Martin’s newsagents. Around 6,000 of its
staff are full-time.
The company earlier announced it was going into
administration, a form of protection from
creditors, appointing PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
as administrators.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital_Transparency:_A_Right_to_Information_Report_for
April_2022⠀⇛
For the month of April 2022, IFF has filed 40 RTI
applications. In response to our application
seeking information on compliance with the
directions of Anuradha Bhasin vs Union of India
with the state of Arunachal Pradesh, we found that
7 orders regarding the suspension of telecom
services have been issued by the state home
department, while Sikkim responded that no internet
shutdown orders were issued since 10.01.2020 by the
state.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Do_You_Trust_Technology?⠀⇛
Mike Wacker, a former Google engineer, has
repeatedly claimed that Google engages in manual
manipulation of search results. Not only that, Mike
Wacker called out CEO Sundar Pichai for lying to
Congress about the matter.
This was in addition to then-anonymous claims that
he himself had been advised to reorder search
results. Google has been repeatedly criticized for
manipulating search results, especially by burying
and censoring conservative content while raising
positive results for left-wing content.
In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
in December 2018, CEO Sundar Pichai was asked
directly by Representative Zoe Lofgren (Democrats-
CA) if “there wasn’t a little man sitting behind
the curtain figuring out what we [Google] are going
to show the user.”
Sundar Pichai said, “We don’t manually intervene in
any particular search result.”
Mike Wacker explained in a post on Medium that he
was able to find where Google had actually altered
search results regarding abortion. Google had a
special file regarding blacklisted topics, and if
searches were performed regarding these topics, an
alternative algorithm would trigger alternative
search results.
Another former Google engineer, Zack Voorhies in a
recent interview with The Epoch Times, said that
Google tweaked its algorithm to ensure that the
negative stories in the mainstream media about
former President Trump were what people saw when
they used its search engine, the world’s most
popular search engine. Zach Vorhies said that the
tech giant specifically changed its news algorithm
to harm the former president.
“As a Google whistleblower, Vorhies turned over 950
pages of internal Google documents to the Justice
Department’s antitrust division detailing Google’s
extensive censorship project. This project is
called “Machine Learning Fairness,” which has
already corrupted Google Search, YouTube, and News
products. This, along with various blacklists and
secret page rankings, is being used by Google to
manipulate public opinion according to a hidden
agenda.”
[...]
Developer Jamie Kyle wrote (in a removed post, but
still on the wayback machine), “I think it’s time
to publicly share how Microsoft stole my code and
then spit on it.”
Kyle – whose formidable open source pedigree
includes contributing to Babel, Flow, Yarn, and
serving on the TC39 steering committee – created
Lernajs, a lightweight tool for organizing and
managing JavaScript packages across projects. The
result is that a team at Microsoft apparently
mirrored the Lernajs codebase and renamed it
Rushjs. They didn’t fork it, which would be a
totally legal open source thing to do. Instead, it
appears – according to Kyle’s very convincing and
publicly documented timeline of events on GitHub –
that Microsoft employees essentially copy/pasted
Lernajs.
As an adult, Kyle tried to find out what happened,
approach the other party, and collaborate on a
resolution to the problem. Basically, Kyle just
wanted public recognition of Rushjs’ origins. “So I
reached out to the people I knew at Microsoft. This
was probably a year ago. They were shocked and
apologized. But since then, nothing has happened,”
Kyle wrote. “Oh wait, yes, something did happen.
Rushjs history was messed with and a lot of the
code was moved, functions renamed, rewritten….
Instead of just updating a license or even adding a
footnote, they went through all this work, to not
give credit to the real author of the program.”
This is just one of the cases where Microsoft has
appropriated other people’s code without giving
anything in return, not even credit to the original
author. Let’s not forget Keivan Beigi, who created
AppGet, a software that copies the features of the
Linux model of apt-get software installation and
maintenance. At that time, the product manager of
Microsoft’s Applications Division expressed
interest in the AppGet project with Keivan, and on
the premise of inviting him to join the Microsoft
team, they had many in-depth exchanges about the
design ideas of the AppGet project, with a 5-moon
time frame. But in the end, Microsoft suddenly lost
touch with Keivan and launched the WinGet project
whose design ideas and code structure were highly
similar to AppGet after half a year.
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