𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, August 15, 2022
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⦿ Plasma/Neon, Discover, Flatpak, and Geopard: Close, But No Cigar | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 14, 2022 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/geopard-flatpak/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/irc-log-140822/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/easyos-4-3-4/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/freebsd-13-0-eol/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/links-15082022-liveslak-1-6-0-and-android-13-is-in-aosp/#comments
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✐ Plasma/Neon,_Discover,_Flatpak,_and_Geopard:_Close,_But_No_Cigar⠀✐
Posted in GNU/Linux, KDE at 2:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 68fef03872496a85cdaf516f6247c9c2
Installing the Geopard Gemini Client
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/geopard-in-kde-neon.webm
Summary: There are more and more options these days for browsing/navigating
Geminispace and there’s even a new Gemini client called Geopard; a Flatpak
exists for it
THE number of clients for Gemini Protocol keeps increasing. So does the number
of such clients (some call them “browsers”) that are prepackaged for GNU/Linux
distros. Debian GNU/Linux has several already, so the same goes for Devuan.
The state of installers on GNU/Linux improved a lot. AppImage, Snap, Flatpak
are bloat, they’re a shortcut that bypasses complexity associated with “proper”
packaging, but do they generally work? Sometimes.
The above demonstrates that installing Gemini clients in GNU/Linux got simpler
(Lagrange for example), but packaging things the IBM/Red Hat way leaves much to
be desired, as the author of Geopard notes.
In my case, I’ve already installed about 10 different Gemini clients and used
more than these. But in the case of Geopard I could not get it to run, only to
install. Flatpaks are not just executable that run like ordinary binaries, so
debugging this isn’t so simple either. Maybe others will be more lucky, but for
now I’m unable to properly review this piece of software. █
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o Videos/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Videos/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Tutorial:_an_Illustration_from_A_to_Z_with
Krita⠀⇛
And here is the long 1h22min Krita video tutorial
fully commented as I promised on the last blog post
with the artwork.
It’s a real full lenght course suited to beginners,
but also advanced digital painters. It starts from
scratch with default set of brushes, preferences
and break-down all the process. The repetitive
parts while painting were all accelerated and can
be skipped easily (a timer in overlay appears on
display) Check the Timeline codes under to navigate
in the video.
Subtitle are unfortunately not available, sorry for
my (heavy) French accent and poor vocabulary. It
was too long to write them this time. I hope the
auto generation will work and you’ll have not a lot
of trouble to understand me mumbling sometime.
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_Linux_Phone_–_Invidious⠀⇛
It’s been a couple years since the first Linux
phone came out and I bought a Pinephone Pro in Jan
of this year to follow back up on it.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Haskell,_GTK_and_CSS_Theming_(Give_Your_Apps
Style!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In a two previous videos, I created a very simple
GTK app using Haskell. In the first video, I
created the app (which I named “byebye”) in 30
minutes and I wrote it in such a way as to be as
“gentle” an introduction to Haskell and GTK as I
could be. In a second video, I refactored the code
so it would be less lines and cleaner code. In this
third video, I adding some new functionality to
“byebye”, namely the ability to read a config file
and the ability to use CSS for theming.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Should_you_only_buy_Linux-native_hardware?_Ft._Jay
LaCroix_and_Ryan_DasGeek_–_Invidious⠀⇛
What do Ryan DasGeek from @TuxDigital Jay from
@Learn Linux TV have to say about buying hardware?
“Buy native Linux hardware from vendors that
actually ship Linux.”
# ⚓ Linux_User_Space:_Episode_3:04:_The_Endeavour_Endeavor⠀⇛
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 Is EndeavourOS Arch?
11:06 The Intro to the History of EndeavourOS
13:00 2019
27:36 2020
34:09 2021
42:21 2022
50:31 Our Thoughts on EndeavourOS
1:10:52 Community Focus: Linux Saloon
1:14:35 App Focus: trash-cli
1:20:54 Next Time
1:24:16 Stinger
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_6.0_arrives_with_performance_improvements_and
more_Rust_coming [Ed: The slant from Microsoft's booster Liam
Tung.]⠀⇛
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has announced the
first release candidate for the Linux kernel
version 6.0, but he says the major number change
doesn’t signify anything especially different about
this release.
While there is nothing fundamentally different
about this release compared with 5.19, Torvalds
noted that there were over 13,500 non-merge commits
and over 800 merged commits, meaning “6.0 looks to
be another fairly sizable release.” According to
Torvalds, most of the updates are improvements to
the GPU, networking and sound.
Torvalds stuck to his word after releasing Linux
kernel 5.19 last month, when he flagged he would
likely call the next release 6.0 because he’s
“starting to worry about getting confused by big
numbers again”.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Google_Finance⠀⇛
Google Finance is a website focusing on business
news and financial information. It provides real-
time market quotes, international exchanges,
financial news, and analytics.
We recommend the best free and open source
alternatives to Google Finance.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Check_Disk_Space_Usage_In_Linux_Using_Ncdu_–
OSTechNix⠀⇛
This guide explains what is Ncdu, how to install
Ncdu in various Linux distributions and how to use
Ncdu to check disk space usage in Linux and Unix
operating systems with examples.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_GNOME_Nightly_Apps⠀⇛
These GNOME apps are the development version of the
native GNOME applications. They are usually
unstable since its being developed and features are
added continuously.
That means these apps you get to test and report
any issues to the developers. Also, you get to
experience the new features before it arrives in
stable releases.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Darktable_on_Linux_Mint_21_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Darktable on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who
didn’t know, Darktable is an open source
photography workflow application and raw developer.
It manages your digital negatives in a database,
lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable,
and enables you to develop raw images and enhance
them. In addition to basic RAW conversion,
Darktable is equipped with various tools for basic
and advanced image editing.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of a Darktable on Linux Mint 21
(Vanessa).
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Setup_SaltStack_Master_and_Minion_on
Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
Salt or Saltstack is an open-source IT automation
framework that allows administrators to execute
commands remotely to multiple machines directly.
Salt is mainly written in Python and designed with
Master and Minion architecture. SaltStack master is
the central controller of Salt configuration
management, and Minions are servers managed by
SaltStack Master, or you named minions as target
servers.
SaltStack master is running on Linux OS by default,
but minions can be any operating system. Saltstack
is revolutionary configuration management for
automation deployment, remote task execution, and
infrastructure as code. SaltStack also can be used
to provision multiple infrastructure servers, this
includes physical and virtual servers, and also the
cloud.
By following this guide, you will install SaltStack
Master and Minion on Rocky Linux servers. Also, you
will learn how to use Salt for running Arbitrary
commands from SaltStack Master against Salt
Minions. And at the end, you will also learn how to
create a Salt state for installing the basic LEMP
Stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM).
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_Gunzip_Command_Explained_with
Examples⠀⇛
We have already discussed the gzip command in
Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress
or expand files. To uncompress, the command offers
a command line option -d. However, there’s an
entirely different tool that you can use for
uncompressing or expanding archives created by
gzip. The tool in question is gunzip. In this
article, we will discuss the gunzip command using
some easy to understand examples.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Dunfell-series_64-bit_version_4.3.4
released⠀⇛
Release notes and download courtesy of ibiblio.org:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/
dunfell/2022/4.3.4/
If you need help how to write an image file to a
USB-stick:
https://easyos.org/install/how-to-install-easyos-
on-a-new-ssd.html
For the first time, the Nim language is available
to play with. Click “sfs” icon on the desktop to
install the ‘devx-*.sfs’ file.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ The_cool_iQoo_9T_is_what_the_OnePlus_10T
should_have_been_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13′s_QR_code_scanner_is_on_this
phone_even_though_it_runs_Android_12L⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_4′s_Android_12L
taskbar_may_come_to_other_Fold_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Today ☛ How_to_add_date/time_stamps_to_photos_on
android_–_Information_News⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Status_update,_August_2022_·_emersion⠀⇛
This month I’ve been pondering offline-first apps.
The online aspect of modern apps is an important
feature for many use-cases: it enables
collaboration between multiple people and seamless
transition between devices (e.g. I often switch
between my personal workstation, my laptop, and my
phone). However many modern apps come with a cost:
often times they only work with a fixed proprietary
server, and only work online. I think that for many
use-cases, allowing users to pick their own open-
source server instance and designing offline-
friendly apps is a good compromise between freedom
and ease-of-use/simplicity. Not to say that peer-
to-peer or fully distributed apps are always a bad
choice, but they come at a significantly higher
complexity cost, which makes them more annoying to
both build and use.
The main hurdle when writing an offline-first app
is synchronization. All devices must have a local
copy of the database for offline use, and they need
to push changes to the server when the device comes
online. Of course, it’s perfectly possible that
changes were made on multiple devices while
offline, so some kind of conflict resolution is
necessary. Instead of presenting a “Oops, we’ve got
a conflict, which version would you like to keep?”
dialog to the user, it’d be much nicer to just Do
The Right Thing™. CRDTs are a solution to that
problem. They look a bit scary at first because of
all of the obscure naming (PN-Counter? LWW-Element-
Set? anyone?) and intimidating theory in papers.
However I like to think of CRDTs as “use this one
easy trick to make synchronization work well”, and
not some kind of complicated abstract machinery. In
other words, by following some simple rules, it’s
not too difficult to write well-behaved
synchronization logic.
So, long story short, I’ve been experimenting with
CRDTs this month. To get some hands-on experience,
I’ve started working on a small hacky group expense
tracking app, seda. I’ve got the idea for this
NPotM while realizing that there’s no existing good
open-source user-friendly collaborative offline-
capable (!) alternative yet. That said, it’s just a
toy for now, nothing serious yet. If you want to
play with it, you can have a look at the demo (feel
free to toggle offline mode in the dev tools, then
make some changes, then go online). There’s still a
lot to be done: in particular, things gets a bit
hairy when one device deletes a participant and
another creates a transaction with that user at the
same time. I plan to write some docs and maybe a
blog post about my findings.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Too_hard?_Take_more_steps⠀⇛
As my favourite software lecturer used to say, it’s
better to be clear than clever. He was talking
about code reviews, but it easily applies to tasks
you assign yourself. We all think we’re clever, but
“do X” in your task manager feels far less
intimidating if it has “do A, B, and C” subtasks
underneath.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of
Makefiles⠀⇛
Few tools walk the right line between declarative
and imperative like make.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.33_2nd_Conf_Succeeded_–_Rakudo_Weekly
News⠀⇛
The past weekend contained two full days of
the second Raku Conference.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ C++_vs_Python:_Get_The_Right_Tool_in
2022⠀⇛
While C++ is the pioneer of object-oriented
languages, Python is one of the newer
languages that has hit peak popularity due to
its easy-to-understand syntax, among a ton of
other benefits. That said, it is valid to
draw a comparison between C++ vs Python as
they are both high-level programming
languages with similar uses.
Although one can use both languages to
develop real-time dynamic applications, C++
and Python can be seen to go on different
paths as most prefer C++ for general
applications, and Python users often get a
kick out of developing web applications. If
this piques your interest or if you are
trying to choose which to learn, stick on
because that’s why we are here today!
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ 3_Factors_Why_WebRTC_Will_Succeed_in_2022⠀⇛
Your clients are global, and they expect to have
access to the skills of your staff globally as
well. Even when workers are collaborating remotely,
there must be no interruptions. Even though your
organization purchased licenses for everyone to use
a video conferencing program, nobody feels as if
they are cooperating properly. How can businesses
engage remote workers and consumers who want
experiences that are given “now here, right now”
and without any delays or interruptions?
[...]
If you’re not aware of WebRTC, it allows for native
real-time media connections between devices and
browsers, including audio, video, and data
transmission. As a result, users may
instantaneously interact inside a web browser or
app without the need for complicated plug-ins or
other applications.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Q&A_about_my_NW-A55_Walkman⠀⇛
My recent Walkman post generated a ton of email and
comments; thanks to most of you for sharing your
ideas and questions!
I say most, because it seemed to attract more
trolls than anything I’ve written in a long time.
It’s disheartening to have something you enjoyed
(and tried to share with people) immediately shat
on by those who don’t even bother to read it. At
times it makes me wonder why I even blog in the
first place; but then I remember all the rest of
you :).
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Thin_Mini-ITX_networking_board_features_six
2.5GbE_ports,_Celeron_J6412_Elkhart_Lake_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Jetway says the thin mini-ITX networking board
support Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux, and
recommends models with the 32GB eMMC flash to boot
Windows 10 for some reasons… Looking into the
datasheet, we find a longer list of operating
systems, even adding some BSD distributions with
Win10 64-bit, Win 10 IoT Enterprise 64-bit LTSC
2019, CentOS (Version 9), Debian (Version 11.3),
Fedora LXDE, Workstation, or Server (Version
36.1.5), OpenSUSE (Version 15.4), Ubuntu 22.04
Desktop/Server, pfSense (Version 2.6.0), TrueNAS
(FreeNAS) (Version 13.0), RedHat Enterprise
(Version 9.0), and OPNSense (Version 22.1.2).
# ⚓ John Goerzen ☛
John_Goerzen:_The_Joy_of_Easy_Personal_Radio:_FRS,_GMRS,_and
Motorola_DLR/DTR⠀⇛
From my own experience, as a person and a family
that enjoys visiting wilderness areas, having radio
communication is great. I have also heard from
others that they’re also very useful on cruise
ships (I’ve never been on one so I can’t attest to
that).
There is also a sheer satisfaction in not needing
anybody else’s infrastructure, not paying any sort
of monthly fee, and setting up the radios
ourselves.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ UW_study_strengthens_evidence_of_link_between_air_pollution
and_child_brain_development_|_UW_News⠀⇛
Air pollution is not just a problem for lungs.
Increasingly, research suggests air pollution can
influence childhood behavioral problems and even
IQ. A new study led by the University of Washington
has added evidence showing that both prenatal and
postnatal exposure to air pollution can harm kids.
The study, published in Environmental Health
Perspectives, found that children whose mothers
experienced higher nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure
during pregnancy, particularly in the first and
second trimester, were more likely to have
behavioral problems.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ MS-DOS_was_*not*_an_illegal_clone_of_CP/M⠀⇛
Later on, MS abused that power repeatedly, stole
code, copied ideas, unfairly pushed rivals out of
business, and generally became a bully and a
criminal. MS effectively killed Be, Netscape, and
Central Point Software; it crippled Aldus and STAC;
and many more.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Boosts_Bug_Bounty_Rewards_for_Linux
Kernel_Vulnerabilities [Ed: This is the very same Google that
put NSA-weakened encryption inside the Linux kernel before it
got yanked out months later]⠀⇛
Google is once again boosting the maximum bounty
payouts for Linux vulnerabilities reported as part
of its open-source Kubernetes-based capture-the-
flag (CTF) vulnerability rewards program (VRP).
Called kCTF, the program was launched in 2020 to
provide security researchers with the means to
report vulnerabilities in the Google Kubernetes
Engine (GKE), for which they receive a flag.
“All of GKE and its dependencies are in scope, but
every flag caught so far has been a container
breakout through a Linux kernel vulnerability.
We’ve learned that finding and exploiting heap
memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Linux
kernel could be made a lot harder,” Google notes.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_JDBC_versions_42.4.1/
42.2.26_Security_Update⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL JDBC team have released 42.2.26 and
42.4.1 to address a security issue: CVE-2022-31197.
This is only an issue if you are using
ResultSet.refreshRow()
Previously, the column names for both key and data
columns in the table were copied as-is into the
generated SQL. This allowed a malicious table with
column names that include statement terminator to
be parsed and executed as multiple separate
commands. More information about this security
advisory is available here
Thanks to Sho Kato https://github.com/kato-sho for
finding and reporting the issue
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(trafficserver), Fedora (freeciv, gnutls, kernel,
libldb, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, owncloud-client, rust-
ffsend, samba, thunderbird, and zlib), Gentoo
(apache, binutils, chromium, glibc, gstreamer,
libarchive, libebml, nokogiri, puma, qemu, xen, and
xterm), Mageia (golang, libtiff, poppler, python-
django, and ruby-sinatra), Red Hat (.NET 6.0 and
.NET Core 3.1), SUSE (chromium, cifs-utils, kernel,
open-iscsi, and trousers), and Ubuntu (webkit2gtk).
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ $23_Million_YouTube_Royalties_Scam⠀⇛
Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other
peoples’ music was their own. They successfully
stole $23 million before they were caught.
No one knows how common this scam is, and how much
money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably
this is not an uncommon fraud.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_FTC_takes_aim_at_commercial
surveillance⠀⇛
The biggest fallacy in the online privacy is
that there is a difference between “state
surveillance” and “commercial surveillance.”
Bizarrely, it’s a fallacy that is widely held
by both government snoops and Big Tech
snoops.
Many’s the time I’ve spoken to a DC audience
about privacy, only to have an audience
member say, “I’m OK with Uncle Sam spying on
me – after all, I’ve already given up every
sensitive scrap of information about my
personal life to the Office of Personnel
Management when I applied for security
clearance. But I don’t want my money going to
Google – those bastards would sell their
mothers out for a nickle.”
Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, I hear, “I
don’t care if Google has my data – they just
want to show me better ads. But the US
government? Hell no! Those govies and their
profiteering private contractor pals are all
too stupid to get jobs at real tech companies
and who knows what they’re going to do with
my data?”
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Hiding_OUT:_A_Case_for_Queer
Experiences_Informing_Data_Privacy_Laws_–_Public
Knowledge⠀⇛
Anti-queer hate crimes are at an all-time
high. Murders of transgender and gender-
nonconforming people have skyrocketed year
over year since 2016.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ The_real_value_of_NFTs?_Bringing_hikikomoris_to_the
metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛
Considering these facts, NFTs may be just the
last Ponzi scheme to part fools from their
money, which in too many cases they are just
that. Ditto for another buzzword of the
moment, the so-called “metaverse”.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ To_tackle_the_cost_of_living_we_need_to_align_banks_with
public_purpose_–_Positive_Money⠀⇛
With inflation high, public spending and central
bank ‘money printing’ has become the scapegoat,
leading to calls for spending cuts and/or higher
interest rates to combat it. This not only
overlooks how inflation is being driven primarily
by supply shocks beyond our immediate control, but
also the fact that most of the money in our economy
is not ‘printed’ by the state, but created by
private banks when they make loans – the vast
majority of which goes towards bidding up the price
of existing assets (including commodities we rely
on) rather than increasing the economy’s productive
capacity.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ James_Packer’s_email_spray_is_more
than_a_falling_out_among_casino_mates_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
Even when the rich and powerful fall out, the house
– their wealth – always wins. Michael Sainsbury
examines the latest goings on surrounding Sydney’s
Crown Casino.
The grubby nexus between Australian business,
politics and the mainstream media has been laid
bare in a leaked series of explosive emails from
James Packer to senior Nine Entertainment
executives, journalists and chairman Peter
Costello.
The emails alleged that Costello was paid as a
secret Crown lobbyist in 2011 for a year, a claim
he denies.
Packer said that Costello’s role was to bring
Packer “closer” to then Victorian gaming minister
Michael O’Brien, his friend and former staffer. The
job was undertaken while Costello was on the board
of Future Fund and not disclosed on the national
lobbyist register. He was elevated to Future Fund
chair in 2014 and remains in the position which
would also seem at odds with his role at Nine.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Scott_Morrison,_pimpernel_PM,_is_the
gift_that_keeps_giving_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
Why is Scott Morrison hanging around? The weekend
revelations that Morrison swore himself in to
multiple portfolios without notifying the nation
has sparked cries of outrage, in the political
class at least.
Morrison had himself sworn in as a spare health
minister during the first months of the Covid
pandemic and also held the finance and resources
portfolios during different periods in 2020 and
2021.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Ramblings_about_myself_cuz_thats_who_I_know_the_best_ig⠀⇛
I just got back from work after summer vacation. I
say work, but it’s really just a paid internship.
School starts again in 3 weeks, and I cannot wait.
This job is so boring, and I feel so unwelcome. At
the same time, I do get paid, so I feel like I
can’t be too ungrateful. It’s a big industry, and
it always comes down to “Who can take care of the
intern” and everyone looks down and avoids eye
contact. I feel like I just get in people’s way.
Anyhow, It’s good money for someone who hasn’t
really made any on their own.
I want to go back to school, finish my education
and start life for real. It feels like life is in
some kind of transition state, just waiting for
something real to begin. I have yet to figure out
what, but I just yearn for something new, something
to take me somewhere I’ve never been before,
somewhere interesting.
# ⚓ SpellBinding:_GILNUYW_Wordo:_SNOEK⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Counting_Computers⠀⇛
My newest laptop is a refurbished 2-in-1 I got from
a friend. A few of the keys are finicky, and he
needed to type reliably for his job. He gave it to
me, since I had worked on his other computers
before. The work? Installing Linux on every one of
his machines. He’s far from tech-savvy; he just got
fed up with the eternal update cycle and vows never
to return to Windows. Anytime he gets a new
computer he calls me up to ask me to install Linux
for him: even when I’m on the other side of the
world.
It’s currently my main laptop. It’s the fastest
computer I have, so it’s used for watching videos,
compiling software, and playing video games.
[...]
The desktop was given to me by a relative. I mostly
use it for writing when I want to avoid any
distractions. It’s disconnected from the Internet
most of the time.
# § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ In_“Immense_World,”_Science_Writer_Ed
Yong_Shows_“How_Animal_Senses_Reveal_Hidden_Realms
Around_Us”⠀⇛
So, this book is about the incredible ways in
which other animals sense the world around
us. At the core of it is a concept called
Umwelt, the idea that each creature has its
own sensory bubble…
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Borgmatic_and_snapper,_part_2⠀⇛
In this article, I go over some improvements
from our previous venture with borgmatic and
snapper. My previous (and rather janky)
approach was not only unnecessary but
inefficient. As borg caches based on absolute
filepaths, having a stable location is
superior to changing it everytime. Further,
if you are backing up multiple users (even if
it’s just root and your own user), it’s
probably best to run all the scripts as root.
Permissions will be preserved, so you
shouldn’t have to worry about that (though
you need root to extract the archives
obviously).
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers
# Mozilla
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_August_14th,_2022⠀⇛
Since it’s the holiday season and all that, this week has
been a bit slow in Linux news and releases. We only saw
the launch of a minor EndeavourOS release, the release of
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS as yet another minor update, and new
Kali Linux and KDE Frameworks releases.
On top of that, System76 revealed an updated Galago Pro
Linux laptop with 12th Gen Intel CPUs, Linus Torvalds
kicked off the development cycle of Linux kernel 6.0 and
announced the first Release Candidate for public testing,
and I show you how to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes:_Meet_Our_Contributors_–_APAC_
(China_region)⠀⇛
Welcome back to the third edition of the “Meet Our
Contributors” blog post series for APAC.
This post features four outstanding contributors
from China, who have played diverse leadership and
community roles in the upstream Kubernetes project.
So, without further ado, let’s get straight to the
article.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_6.0
Release_Candidate_–_9to5Linux⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds kicked off the development cycle of
the upcoming Linux 6.0 kernel series and announced
today the availability of the first Release
Candidate (RC) milestone for public testing.
Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux
kernel 5.19, which is also the last kernel release
in the Linux 5.x series, and the opening of the
merge window for Linux kernel 6.0.
Now, the merge window for Linux 6.0 is now
officially closed and the first Release Candidate
(RC) milestone is ready for testers and bleeding-
edge users who want an early taste of what’s about
to be included in the final release, which is
expected in early October 2022.
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Intel_Xeon_Platinum_8380_“Ice_Lake”_CPU_Shows
Great_Improvement_In_Linux_6.0⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 9_Best_Free_Linux_Screen_Capture_Tools_
(Updated_2022)_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛
The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words”
refers to the idea that a solitary still image can
provide as much information as a large amount of
descriptive text. Essentially, pictures convey
information more effectively and efficiently than
words can.
A screenshot is an image captured by a computer to
record the output of a visual device. Screen
capture software enable screenshots to be taken on
a computer. This type of software has a wide range
of uses. As an image can illustrate the operation
of computer software so well, screenshots play a
crucial role in software development and
documentation. Alternatively, if you have a
technical problem with your computer, a screenshot
allows a technical support department to understand
the problems you are facing. Writing computer-
related articles, documentation and tutorials is
nigh on impossible without a good tool for creating
screenshots.
Linux has a good selection of versatile open source
screenshot programs, both graphical and console
based.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_on_RHEL_9_Step-by-
Step⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ What’s_your_favorite_way_to_edit_remote
files?⠀⇛
As a systems administrator, you probably spend the
better part of your day on somebody else’s
computer, even when you’re at your own computer.
Editing files on a remote machine is one of a
sysadmin’s most common tasks, and there are a lot
of different ways to complete that task on Linux.
# ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_Golang_Compiler_on
Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛
Google developed Golang, an open-source programming
language. It is statically typed and generates
generated machine code binaries, thus go is a
compiled language. This is popular among developers
since it eliminates the requirement to compile the
source code in order to produce an executable file.
When it comes to grammar, developers who use
Google’s Go language believe it’s the C for the
twenty-first century.
The following article will show you how to install
and set up Golang on Fedora 36 Linux using the
command line terminal and the default repository
version from Fedora 36’s appstream.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MariaDB_Basic_Tutorial⠀⇛
Data is the most important part of any type of
application. The necessary data for the application
is required to store permanently. The database
server is used to store the application data
permanently. MariaDB is one of the popular database
servers that is called the branch of a MySQL
server. The different features of MariaDB, the way
of installing MariaDB in Ubuntu, creating databases
and tables, and performing various types of
database-related common tasks are all explained in
this tutorial in detail.
# ⚓ How_to_install_SaltStack_on_Fedora_36_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛
In this guide, we will walk you through the
installation of SaltStack on Fedora 36.
SaltStack is a Python-based, open-source for event-
driven It automation, remote task execution, and
configuration management. Salt was designed to be
highly modular and easily extensible, to make it
easy to mold to diverse IT enterprise use cases.
Salt is capable of maintaining remote nodes in
defined states that is it can ensure specific
packages are installed and that specific services
are running. Salt can query and execute commands
either on individual nodes or by using arbitrary
selection criteria.
# ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to Install_&_Configure_Redis_7_on
Rocky_Linux_9_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛
Redis is an in-memory data structure store that may
be used as a distributed, in-memory key-value
database, cache, and message broker, with the
option of configurable durability. Strings, lists,
maps, sets, sorted sets, HyperLogLogs, bitmaps,
streams, and spatial indices are among the abstract
data structures supported by Redis.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ My_uncertainty_over_whether_an_URL_format_is
actually_legal⠀⇛
I was recently dealing with a program that runs in
a configuration that sometimes misbehaves when you
ask it to create and display a link to a relative
URL like ‘/’. My vague memory suggested an
alternative version of the URL that might make the
program leave it alone, one with a schema but no
host, so I tried ‘https:/’ and it worked. Then I
tried to find out if this is actually a proper
legal URL format, as opposed to one that browsers
just make work, and now I’m confused and uncertain.
The first relatively definite thing that I learned
is that file URLs don’t need all of those slashes;
a URL of ‘file:/tmp’ is perfectly valid and is
interpreted the way you’d expect. This is
suggestive but not definite, since the “file” URL
scheme is a pretty peculiar thing.
An absolute URL can leave out the scheme; ‘//
mozilla.org/’ is a valid URL that means ‘the root
of mozilla.org in whichever of HTTP and HTTPS
you’re currently using’ (cf). Wikipedia’s section
on the syntax of URLs claims that the authority
section is optional. The Whatwg specification’s
section on URL writing requires anything starting
with ‘http:’ and ‘https:’ to be written with the
host (because scheme relative special URL strings
require a host). This also matches the MDN
description. I think this means that my ‘https:/
path’ trick is not technically legal, even if it
works in many browsers.
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ logcheck_–_egrep:_trailing_backslash_(\)⠀⇛
When updating to FreeBSD 13.1, I started getting
these messages from sysutils/logcheck:
egrep: trailing backslash (\)
This post will document how I tracked down the
problem. It is occurring on several hosts.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Flatpak_Apps_in_Ubuntu_and
Other_Linux⠀⇛
Flatpak is the new way of distributing apps across
the Linux universe, irrespective of the
distribution. This cross-distro application
distribution and deployment framework enable
developers to Flatpak setup for apps for all major
distributions.
The major hurdles in any Linux app distribution are
dependencies, and Flatpak covers that. Flatpak
builds bundles the dependencies for the respective
apps, and end-users need not worry about it.
With the growing trends, many app developers are
now providing the Flatpak builds along with
traditional packages, e.g. *.deb, etc. With a quick
setup for your distributions, you can be ready to
explore the world of Flatpak apps. All the major
Flatpak apps are available on flathub.org. You can
search and just click a button, you can install the
Flatpak apps. Here’s how to set it up for Ubuntu
and other Linux distributions.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MySQL_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
MySQL on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t
know, MySQL is an open-source, cross-platform, and
one of the most widely used Relational Database
Management Systems (RDMS) and distributed by the
Oracle Corporation. MySQL has been in production
use for over 20 years and is considered one of the
most secure and reliable database systems.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of MySQL 8 on Rocky Linux. 9.
# ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_set_up_Kubernetes_Cluster_on_Ubuntu_22.04
with_kubeadm_and_CRI-O⠀⇛
Kubernetes is an open-source container
orchestration system for automating software
deployment, scaling, and management. Google
originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud
Native Computing Foundation now maintains the
project. It groups containers that make up an
application into logical units for easy management
and discovery.
Kubeadm is a tool used to build Kubernetes (K8s)
clusters. Kubeadm performs the actions necessary to
get a minimum viable cluster up and running
quickly.
In this guide we will learn how to use kubeadm to
set up a kubernetes cluster in Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_cURL_on_Linux_Mint_21
LTS⠀⇛
cURL is a software tool that allows you to
transport data between two computers utilizing a
number of protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and even
email. cURL is frequently used for web development
activities such as website testing and obtaining
files from a remote server. However, it has
considerably more capabilities. With a little
imagination, cURL can be used to automate a wide
range of activities, making it a very handy tool
for both developers and system administrators.
cURL’s capacity to execute instructions on a remote
machine is one of its most powerful capabilities.
This may be used to execute scripts or programs on
another machine, which is incredibly handy for
automating jobs or executing complicated operations
that would be impossible to conduct manually. For
example, you might use cURL to automatically
download and install updates on a remote server,
saving you the time and effort of manually signing
in and completing the updates.
cURL may, of course, be used for more routine
activities, such as moving data between two
systems. This is useful if you need to rapidly
transmit a file from one system to another without
having to set up a full-fledged file transfer
protocol like FTP. Furthermore, cURL may be used to
download whole websites, which can aid in the
creation of offline backups or mirror sites.
Overall, cURL is an extremely flexible tool that
may save you a significant amount of time and
effort when working with data across many
platforms. CURL is worth understanding whether you
want to automate operations or transfer data.
In this guide, you will learn how to install the
newest version of the cURL package using the
command line interface and a well-known LaunchPAD
PPA that supplies the current version for the Linux
Mint 21 LTS release series.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_OpenShift_Serverless_Logic_evolved_to_improve
workflows_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
Serverless is an advanced cloud deployment model
that aims to run business services on demand,
enabling enterprises to save infrastructure costs
tremendously. The benefit of serverless is an
application designed and developed as abstract
functions regardless of programming languages. This
article describes how the serverless and function
models have evolved since they were unleashed upon
the world with AWS Lambda and what to look forward
to with Red Hat OpenShift serverless logic.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_GIT_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
In this post for newbies, you will learn how to
install GIT on Ubuntu 22.04 Simple? Yes, but for
those who just want to give Linux a try, it could
be quite useful.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Git_on_Linux_Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛
The most popular of all version control systems is
Git. Developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, it was
created for developers working on the Linux
operating system kernel but has since been adopted
as an extensively used tool amongst collaborative
efforts and often has hundreds of people
contributing to these projects with commits
happening at any given time making tracking
contributions difficult without using something
like Google Docs or Dropbox which while useful
still doesn’t provide quite what you need when
managing changes interactively throughout your
local environment.
The following tutorial will teach how to install
Git on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series with three
different methods using the command line terminal
and basic Git commands of everyday use.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Redis_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
Redis is an open-source database frequently used as
a cache or message broker. Unlike other databases,
Redis stores data in memory, making it
significantly faster. In addition, Redis supports a
wide range of data structures, including strings,
hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps, and
streams. This makes Redis an incredibly versatile
tool that can be used for various purposes. Redis
also provides high availability with its Sentinel
software logic, which automatically partitions data
across multiple servers, ensuring no single point
of failure exists. As a result, Redis is a robust
and reliable database that is well-suited for
various applications.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install Redis on Rocky Linux 9 workstation or
server using the terminal command line with two
methods: appstream or Remi Redis pm, along with
basic setup instructions to get you started using
the command line terminal.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ 7_Big_Changes_Coming_to_Nautilus_in
GNOME_43_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
GNOME 43 is creeping up on us and amongst the
bevy of brilliant benefits it brings is a
brand new version of (arguably) the most
famous open source file manager of them all:
Nautilus.
Now, I’ve had a bit too much coffee (which is
to blame for the barrage of words beginning
with ‘B’ in this blog post), and, having gone
on hands-on with what’s in store, I’m feeling
pumped. So here I am, bashing out a few
Gutenberg blocks’ worth of brazen brio in
honour of the Nautilus 43 beta.
So read on for a quick run through of seven
(why? 4 + 3 = 7) user-facing changes coming
in Nautilus as part of September’s GNOME 43
release (and likely included as part of
Ubuntu 22.10 this October).
[...]
Nautilus 43 now ‘hides’ the sidebar when the
window is resized beyond a set point. The
sidebar remains accessible as a pop-over
sheet bound to a button that only shows in
this mode. Then, resize window wide enough
for the sidebar to fit, and et voila: it’s
back!
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ In_Other_BSDs_for_2022/08/13⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hack ☛ The_MGR_Window_System⠀⇛
Note well that this is mostly of historic interest.
I haven’t done any work on MGR for many years. MGR
itself has gone into oblivion for most uses,
largely being replaced by the much more feature
filled X Window System. I have kept this around
because people seem to link to it.
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ sftp-server(8)_gains_support_for_home-directory
request⠀⇛
Add support to the sftp-server for the home-
directory extension defined in draft-ietf-secsh-
filexfer-extensions-00.
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.0_end-of-life⠀⇛
Dear FreeBSD community,
On August 31, 2022, FreeBSD 13.0 will reach end-of-
life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD
Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 13.0 are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as
possible.
# ⚓ Ada_development_on_FreeBSD_13.1⠀⇛
The Ada support has been removed from FreeBSD 13.1
ports because it was deprecated. Indeed, the gcc6-
aux port was deprecated and expired on 2022-02-28.
There is no indication about a replacement solution
and using Ada for FreeBSD is a challenge but this
is still possible. This article records a number of
steps and commands that helped me setup a new Ada
compiler based on GCC 12 on a fresh FreeBSD 13.1
installation.
Warning: this is full of hacks and I don’t pretend
to provide any complete detailed and completely
reproducible steps for getting a new Ada compiler.
Before proceeding, make sure you have gmake
installed because the BSD make uses an old Makefile
syntax and is not able to handle GNU specific
Makefiles.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Edge_computing:_4_pillars_for_CIOs
and_IT_leaders_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛
If it seems like the IT industry has been talking
about edge computing for years now, well, that’s
because it has – and the same goes for IoT. But in
practice, most organizations are just now
translating that talk into action.
More and more CIOs and other IT leaders are now
taking the reins on developing an edge strategy. In
Red Hat’s Global Tech Outlook 2022, 61% of IT
leaders reported that they are planning to run IoT,
edge, or both technologies in the next 12 months.
When combined as a single category, the two outpace
AI/ML (53 percent) as the top area for emerging IT
workloads this year.
For many organizations, edge computing is a natural
expansion of their maturing cloud strategy and
architecture – especially (but certainly not
limited to) hybrid cloud environments.
“Edge computing complements what cloud computing
does for a company’s compute plans – the two work
together,” says Rob Howell, managing enterprise
network architect, Capgemini Americas.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Move-X_Cicerone_LoRa/GNSS_board_is
compatible_with_Arduino_MKR_form_factor⠀⇛
The Move-X Cicerone is a new low-power board that
puts together the Move-X MAMWLE LoRa module and the
u-blox MAX-M10S GNSS module. The Move-X Cicerone
also integrates a Li-Po charging circuit for
portability.
The Move-X MAMWLE is a low power radio module based
on the STM32WL which is an ARM M4 32-bit RISC core
with an operating frequency of 48MHz, 128K of Flash
memory and 64K RAM. This module can operate in the
band of 868 MHz and 915MHz. There is also a LoRaWAN
radio (Semtech SX1261/2) integrated in the same
chip.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ LattePanda_3_Delta_SBC_combines_11th_Gen
Celeron_and_ATmega32U4_MCU⠀⇛
DFRobot launched the LattePanda 3 Delta SBC a
couple days ago. This latest version comes with a
11th Gen N5105 quad-core processor and Microchip’s
ATMEGA32U4 as a coprocessor. The device offers 8GB
of RAM, triple displays, one GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi/
BLE support and access to many other peripherals.
The LattePanda 3 Delta features Intel’s 11th
generation N5105 processor (4C/4T) which has a base
frequency of 2.0GHz and a maximum frequency of
2.9GHz. The SBC also accommodates an Arduino
compatible ATmega32U4-MU with access to GPIOs via
pin headers.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2022:_Solar-Harvesting_ESP32
Camera_Is_Waterproof,_Repeatable⠀⇛
[alberto nunez] shows off his sleek build of a
solar-harvesting ESP32 camera – waterproof,
somewhat energy-efficient, and able to be built by
more-or-less anyone. For that, he’s chosen fairly
jellybean components – an ESP32-CAM module with a
matching protoboard, a small solar cell, a LiFePO4
battery, and a waterproofed GoPro shell that all of
these parts neatly fit into.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Starlink_Ground_Stations_Successfully_Hacked⠀⇛
Belgian security researcher [Lennert Wouters] has
gotten his own code running on the Starlink “Dishy
McFlatface” satellite terminals, and you can too!
The hack in question is a “modchip” with an RP2040
and a MOSFET that crowbars the power rails,
browning out the main CPU exactly when it’s
verifying the firmware’s validity and bypassing
that protection entirely. [Lennert] had previously
figured out how to dump the Starlink firmware
straight from the eMMC, and with the ability to
upload it back, the circle of pwnership is closed.
This was a talk at DEFCON, and you can check out
the slides here. (PDF)
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ GNSS_Functionality_for_MicroMod⠀⇛
Hello and welcome, everyone! We are back, yet
again, with new products that expand our exciting
MicroMod, Qwiic, and Artemis ecosystems. We start
the week off with two new GNSS/GPS Function Boards
for MicroMod! These boards feature a ZED-F9P and
NEO-M9N, respectively, offering two levels of
accuracy at respectable price expectations.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ How_does_Android_Auto_Work?_All_the_new_features_you_will
get_in_Android_Auto_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Samsung_One_UI_5.0_(Android_13)_update_and_bugs_tracker_
(cont._updated)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_12_now_on_one_of_every_eight
devices,_report_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ OPS-compliant_digital_signage_player
features_Amlogic_S905X3_CPU_(Sponsored)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Best_Android_Wii_Emulator:_Play_Wii_Games_on_Android_–
Droid_Gamers⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9_Android_Features_You_Should_Be_Using_Every_Day⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_You_Need_To_Stop_Using_Ad_Personalization
On_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ AI_from_Above_—_The_Internet_Health_Report_2022⠀⇛
An aerial picture can tell a thousand
stories. But who gets to tell them? From
above the clouds, our world is surveilled and
datafied. Those who control the data, control
the narratives. We explore the spatial legacy
of apartheid in South Africa’s townships, and
hear from people around the world who are
reclaiming power over their own maps.
[...]
IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the
non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 6, host
Bridget Todd shares stories of people who
make AI more trustworthy in real life. This
season doubles as Mozilla’s 2022 Internet
Health Report. Go to the report for show
notes, transcripts, and more.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_ODT_files_are_structured⠀⇛
Word processing files used to be closed,
proprietary formats. In some older word processors,
the document file was essentially a memory dump
from the word processor. While this made for faster
loading of the document into the word processor, it
also made the document file format an opaque mess.
Around 2005, the Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) group
defined an open format for office documents of all
types, the Open Document Format for Office
Applications (ODF). You may also see ODF referred
to as simply “OpenDocument Format” because it is an
open standard based on the OpenOffice.org’s XML
file specification. ODF includes several file
types, including ODT for OpenDocument Text
documents. There’s a lot to explore in an ODT file,
and it starts with a zip file.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Try_Asciidoc_instead_of_Markdown⠀⇛
I’m a happy user of the XML-based Docbook markup
language. To me, it’s a precise, explicit, and
detailed system that allows me to have contextual
and domain-specific metadata in what I write. Best
of all, though, it can be transformed (that’s what
XML users call it when XML is converted into
another format) into nearly any format, including
HTML, EPUB, FO for PDF, plain text, and more. With
great power comes a lot of typing, though, and
sometimes Docbook feels like it’s surplus to
requirements. Luckily, there’s Asciidoc, a system
of writing plain text with the same markup-less
feel of Markdown, but that transforms to Docbook to
take advantage of its precision and flexibility.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ QUIC_and_HTTP/3_with_wolfSSL_|
daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛
Back in the summer of 2020 I blogged about QUIC
support coming in wolfSSL. That work never actually
took off, primarily I believe because the team kept
busy with other projects and tasks that had more
customer focus and interest and yeah, there was not
really any noticeable customer demand for QUIC with
wolfSSL.
Time passed.
On July 21 2022, Stefan Eissing submitted his work
on introducing a QUIC API and after reviews and
updates, it was merged into the wolfSSL master
branch on August 9th.
The QUIC API is planned to appear “for real” in a
coming wolfSSL release version. Until then, we can
play with what is available in git.
Let me be clear here: the good people at wolfSSL
has not decided to write a full QUIC
implementation, because that would be insane when
there already exist so many good existing
alternatives being made. This is just a set of new
functions to allow wolfSSL to be used as TLS
component when a QUIC stack is created.
Having QUIC support in wolfSSL is just one (but
important) step along the way as it makes it
possible to use wolfSSL to build a QUIC
implementation but there are some more steps needed
to turn this baby into full HTTP/3.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dismantling_the_Lucky_Sperm_Club,_One_Baby_Bond
Program_at_a_Time⠀⇛
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schools_Are_Facing_Shortage_of_300,000_Teachers
and_Staff,_Major_Union_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ I_Studied_With_a_Palestinian_“Terrorist”
Organization._This_Is_What_I_Learned.⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Snake_Has_Legs⠀⇛
[Allen Pan] loves snakes. He loves them so much
that he’s decided to play god, throwing away
millions of years of evolution — just to give
snakes back the legs they’ve “lost”.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mac_Mini_Mini⠀⇛
The Mac Mini has been roughly the same size and
shape for 12 years, as the current design was
released in June 2010. However, despite being the
same general form factor, the internals has shrunk
over the years. [Snazzy Labs] took advantage of
this to make a miniaturized Mac Mini.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Simple_Streaming_Radio_Receiver⠀⇛
For those interested in a career in broadcast radio
there aren’t many routes into the business. Student
radio, pirate radio, and hospital radio usually
feature somewhere near the start of any DJ’s
resumé. Hospital radio stations often don’t have a
transmission license and have historically relied
on wired systems, but since those can’t reach
everywhere they are now more likely to look to the
Internet. [AllanGallop] has created the Mini Web
Radio for the hospital station in the British city
of Milton Keynes, a compact battery-powered single
station streaming radio receiver that can pick up
those tunes anywhere with a wireless network
connection.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Privilege_of_Free_Health_Care:_a_View
From_Nicaragua⠀⇛
We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth
night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and
only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward
are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights
ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room
– are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their carers –
mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in
chairs or curled around their patients on the beds.
A few of us stretch out on unoccupied beds to get
some rest before the nurse turns on the lights for
the next regular blood pressure and temp check.
Our 14 year-old was admitted to the pediatric ward
with dengue fever on July 19th, Revolution Day in
Nicaragua. Poor Orla sobbed in disappointment that
she wouldn’t be able to celebrate the holiday.
After two days of fever, I had taken her to the
emergency room in our local Ciudad Sandino Primary
Hospital where the blood work they ordered
indicated dengue and showed that her platelet count
was low enough to be of concern. “She’ll be staying
here with us,” the doctor announced. Since then,
either my husband Paul or I have been with her in
the hospital, tasked with making sure she’s kept
hydrated and informed of her progress via blood
test results each day.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ EPA_Proposal_to_Limit_PFAS_in_Drinking_Water_May
Boost_Grassroots_Efforts⠀⇛
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_is_showing_ads_for_Microsoft
365_in_Office_2021⠀⇛
Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 Family
subscriptions to its Office 2021 customers,
offering them discounts of over $28 to get a 3-
month Family plan subscription.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ The_road_to_the_apprenticeship_|_Trail_of
Bits_Blog⠀⇛
Finding talent is hard, especially in the
blockchain security industry. The space is new, so
you won’t find engineers with decades of experience
with smart contracts. Training is difficult, as the
technology evolves constantly, and online content
quickly becomes outdated. There are also a lot of
misconceptions about blockchain technology that
make security engineers hesitant to enter the
space. As a result, the pool of people who are able
to both master blockchain technology and grasp the
mindset of a security engineer is fairly small.
We have now been working on blockchain projects for
more than half a decade, and we have always
struggled to find qualified applicants. Last year,
to alleviate this problem, we created an intensive
apprenticeship program to give apprentices the
equivalent of two years’ experience in only three
months. The program has been a huge success, and we
have offered full-time positions to all of our
apprentices!
Read on for more information about the program and
the apprentices we’ve hired so far, as well as
pointers for future applicants.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What’s_That_Scope_Trace_Saying?_UPD_And
Wireshark⠀⇛
[Matt Keeter], like many of us, has a lot of
network-connected devices and an oscilloscope. He
decided he wanted to look into what was on the
network. While most of us might reach for
Wireshark, he started at the PCB level. In
particular, he had — or, rather, had someone —
solder an active differential probe soldered into
an Ethernet switch. The scope attached is a
Textronix, but it didn’t have the analyzer to read
network data. However, he was able to capture 190+
MB of data and wrote a simple parser to analyze the
network data pulled from the switch.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Millions_of_US_accounts_affected:_Telecom_group
conceals_information_about_hacked_personal_data⠀⇛
Almost half of all T-Mobile customers in the USA
were victims of a huge data breach. Deutsche
Telekom, as the parent company, has been violating
its self-imposed obligations to data protection
ever since.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Concerned_About_Abortion_Surveillance_and
Law_Enforcement?_Time_To_Treat_Encryption_Seriously⠀⇛
If you’re concerned about police and
prosecutors in your state tracking abortions
in a post-Dobbs world, developments in a case
getting national attention should encourage
you to learn whether end-to-end encryption is
available in the communication tools you use.
A Nebraska mom, Jessica Burgess, and her
then-teenage daughter, Celeste Burgess, have
been charged with several crimes for
coordinating and executing a plan in April to
purchase medication to induce an abortion at
home and illegally dispose of the stillborn
fetus.
Media coverage suggested that this case is an
example of how abortion law enforcement might
look after the Supreme Court struck down Roe
v. Wade in the June Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s
Health decision. But to be very clear here,
this abortion both preceded the decision and
also took place when the daughter was 28
weeks pregnant, running counter to Nebraska’s
existing abortion laws, which bans them after
22 weeks unless medically necessary to
protect the mother’s life. The Dobbs decision
had no bearing on what happened here.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Military_Rich_in_Dollars,_Poor_in
People⠀⇛
Mind you, it’s not that the military doesn’t have
the resources for recruitment drives. Nearly every
political figure in Washington, including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, invariably agrees on endlessly
adding to the Pentagon’s already staggering budget.
In fact, it’s nearly the only thing they seem
capable of agreeing on. After all, Congress has
already taken nearly a year to pass a social-
spending package roughly half the size of this
year’s defense budget, even though that bill would
mitigate the costs of health care for so many
Americans and invest in clean energy for years to
come. (Forget about more money for early childhood
education.)
Nor is the Pentagon shy about spending from its
bloated wallet to woo new recruits. It’s even cold-
calling possible candidates and offering enlistment
bonuses of up to $50,000.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Police_Lied_to_Get_the_Warrant_to_Search_Breonna
Taylor’s_Home⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_No_Excuse_for_NPR’s_Distorted
History_of_US_Invasion_of_Afghanistan⠀⇛
In the first part of a series of reports on
Afghanistan, NPR host Steve Inskeep (Morning
Edition, 8/5/22) interviewed current Afghan Defense
Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid. In introducing
Yaqoob on air, Inskeep referenced Yaqoob’s father,
the former head of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad
Omar: “He was the leader who refused to turn over
Osama bin Laden in 2001, a refusal that led to the
U.S. attack.”
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Sea_rescue_off_Libya:_Flight_bans_by_Tripolis
violate_international_law⠀⇛
The Scientific Services of the German Bundestag
consider it against two international conventions
that Libya prohibits a private rescue organisation
from flying over high seas. The Berlin government
agrees, but does not change the problem. Therefore,
the International Civil Aviation Organisation
cannot intervene either.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Greenpeace ☛ From_climate_denial_to_greenwashing⠀⇛
One of the jobs of the government is to sort out
the real climate actions from the greenwashing, to
hold industry to account. And of course, one of the
jobs of the government is to not engage in
greenwashing themselves. The problem with some of
the actions of the current government is that
rather than holding business to account for its
greenwashing, on some vital climate issues the
government is actually a proponent of greenwashing.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Climate_activists_fill_golf_holes_with_cement_after
water_ban_exemption⠀⇛
The exemption of golf greens has sparked
controversy as 100 French villages are short of
drinking water.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ French_climate_activists_fill_golf_course_holes_with
cement,_protesting_against_water_ban_exemption_amid_drought⠀⇛
Despite nationwide water restrictions, and more
than 100 French villages suffering drinking water
shortages, golf courses can stay green due to a
national framework agreement signed between the
French Golf Federation and the Ministry of
Ecological Transition in 2019.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Arctic_is_Warming_Nearly_Four_Times
Faster_Than_the_Rest_of_the_World⠀⇛
A new study shows that the Arctic has warmed nearly
four times faster than the rest of the world over
the past 43 years. This means the Arctic is on
average around 3℃ warmer than it was in 1980.
This is alarming, because the Arctic contains
sensitive and delicately balanced climate
components that, if pushed too hard, will respond
with global consequences.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ on_nft_and_metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛
The NFT boom is not about art or ownership.
It is about escape.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Watch_Out_for_Big_Corporations_and
Dangerous_Politicians_Breaking_Our_Established_Norms⠀⇛
In our country, voluntarily recognized fundamental
norms have been breaking down. The chief impetus
for this collapse is the ascending supremacy of
commercial power over civic values. The surrender
of the latter to the former in sector after sector
has spelled the decline of our country as measured
by its own promise and pretensions. Compared to
seventy years ago, there are almost no commercial-
free zones anymore. Almost everything is for sale –
or should be in the minds of dogmatic free market
fundamentalists and its apologists like Milton
Friedman and his disciples.
Let’s be specific. When I was a schoolboy in the
nineteen forties, the top CEOs of the Fortune 300
largest companies kept their pay at about 12 times
the salary of the average worker in their business.
If any CEO had sought to increase that ratio to 50
or 300 times, he would be roundly condemned from
the pulpits to the boards of directors, to civic
and charitable groups. In those days, CEOs also did
not want to arouse the anger of their industrial
labor unions or encourage workers to demand more
pay in response.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Democrats_Request_‘Damage_Assessment’
Following_Recovery_of_Classified_Docs⠀⇛
Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff on
Saturday asked federal intelligence officials to
immediately review the top secret documents that
FBI agents retrieved during last week’s search of
former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida
and to provide a classified briefing on their
findings as soon as possible.
“Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially
put our national security at grave risk,” Maloney
(N.Y.), chair of the House Committee on Oversight
and Reform, and Schiff (Calif.), chair of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote
in a letter to Director of National Intelligence
Avril Haines.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Violent_Threats_Against_FBI_Soar_as_Trump
Lies_About_Mar-a-Lago_Search⠀⇛
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into
an “unprecedented” number of threats against its
staff and facilities in the wake of last week’s
search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-
Lago palace, including some against the pair of
agents identified in an unredacted version of the
warrant that was leaked before the court officially
unsealed redacted records, CNN reported Saturday,
citing an unnamed law enforcement source.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security on
Friday issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning
that violent threats against federal law
enforcement, judicial, and government personnel and
property “are occurring primarily online and across
multiple platforms, including social media sites,
web forums, video sharing platforms, and image
boards.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Law_and_Disorder⠀⇛
“Law and Disorder,” a new original cartoon by the
inimitable Mr. Fish, anticipates the survival of
Donald Trump as a political power player.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Restores_Coal_Lease_Moratorium_on_Public
Lands_That_Was_Undone_Under_Trump⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Remembering_Fidel⠀⇛
True, we would reply, revolutions do need masses of
people who, amid hardship and oppression, have
visions of decent lives and can come together. But
revolutions are not spontaneous. There is a place
for leaders, someone like Fidel Castro. Just as
with Jose Martí, Cuba’s great leader in an earlier
era, Fidel Castro communicated goals and hope and
offered strategic insight and plans. So it’s OK.
Some reflections on this anniversary date make the
point. In her article appearing August 13 on
cubadebate.org, Daily Sánchez Lemus claims that,
“Fidel is a country, is this people, who see in him
the architect of their highest dreams.” She asks,
“How can we explain what it meant [for him] to be
close to the humblest people, to feel them,
interpret them and share the same fate?”.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Crime,_Race_and_Ilhan_Omar⠀⇛
I would contend that there already was a division
on police. The main reason Omar didn’t do as well
as her past two victories was voter turnout. The
heinous murder of George Floyd/at-home voting
propelled her in 2020 and the anti-Trump
progressive wave galvanized her supporters in 2018.
The corporate media has practically been shouting
Let’s Go Brandon! in an attempt to make Biden as
interesting as Trump to no avail. But for once they
did not blame Brandon for something and this was
for Omar’s decline. But if we take their forecast
that Biden is tanking the Democrats seriously at
all we must conclude that he did indeed hurt the
turnout in the primary, which in turn hurt Omar.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Sometimes_You_Have_to_Go_Above_the_Law.”
Really?⠀⇛
In a panel discussion, I questioned the co-producer
Claudia Bluemhuber, about the ending. To me, the
concept of a benevolent “rogue” cop was misguided.
When I think of rogue policemen, I think of Derek
Chauvin, guilty of the death of George Floyd as a
typical rogue cop. The job of a policeman is to
have people respect the law, not to go above it.
When I hear “rogue” cop, I think the worst, not
someone being benevolent in the mold of Morgan
Freeman.
Ms. Bluemhuber’s response to my question was about
individual conscience. She insisted that individual
conscience should be the final determinant of one’s
actions, adding that Freeman did say that he was
willing to accept whatever consequences arose from
letting the two drive away. Bluemhuber implied that
she preferred individual conscience to the rule of
law.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_In_Ukraine,_Nuclear_Catastrophe
Looms⠀⇛
The United Nations’ top nuclear official this week
warned about the “very alarming” military activity
surrounding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility just
across the Dnipro River from the southern city of
Nikopol. Russian forces seized control of the
site—the largest nuclear plant in Europe—in March
and are accused of using it as a shield and a base
to launch rocket attacks.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_is_a_Wake-Up_Call_for_Europe⠀⇛
Losers: We do not yet know who will win this war
(or if anyone will win it, apart from the arms
industry). But we do know who will lose the most:
the Ukrainian and European people. Parts of Ukraine
are in ruins, millions of people have been
displaced, and the euro has fallen; these are signs
of defeat. In the seven decades since the
destruction caused by World War II, Europe had
risen again. Led by high-profile politicians and
supported by the United States in its anti-
communist crusade, Western Europe managed to
establish itself as a region of peace and
development (even if, alas, at the expense of
colonial and neocolonial violence and
appropriation). All it took to put the peace and
development at risk was one ghost war: fought in
Europe, but not led by Europe, and not even in the
interest of Europeans.
Energy transition: Carbon dioxide (CO2), which is
responsible for global warming, remains in the
atmosphere for many thousands of years. It is
estimated that 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by
humans since 1850 remains in the atmosphere,
according to a Deutsche Welle report that cited the
2020 international Global Carbon Budget study. So,
although China is the largest emitter of CO2 today,
the fact is that, if we look at the CO2 emissions
data for 1750 to 2019 (from Deutsche Welle’s
analysis of Our World in Data figures), Europe was
responsible for 32.6 percent of emissions, the U.S.
for 25.5 percent, China for 13.7 percent, Africa
for 2.8 percent, and South America for 2.6 percent
of the total emissions during that period. Given
the cumulative emissions debt that Europe has rung
up over the course of 269 years, the story of its
recent credit toward balancing the global carbon
budget by leading the fight for renewable energy in
recent decades is a qualified success—it is the
least they can do. We may be critical of an energy
transition that is underpinned by the ecology of
the (mostly European) rich, but at least it was
heading in the right direction. The war in Ukraine
and the fossil fuel energy crisis it triggered were
enough to make all projects related to this energy
transition evaporate. Coal has returned from exile,
and oil and nuclear energy are being rehabilitated.
Why is perpetuating the war more important than
advancing the energy transition? What democratic
majority has decided to follow in that direction?
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_All_Disquiet_on_the_Eastern
Front⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Unworthy_Victims?⠀⇛
The reasons for this were quite plain in early
coverage of the pain and loss being inflicted on
the Ukrainian people: they are Europeans and, as
such, are seen as ‘worthy’ victims whose stories
are worth telling. Others are not so lucky, even
when in the crosshairs of allied nations Western
governments should have more influence over than a
rival like Russia.
One recent example, is an ongoing story in the
Middle East that both demonstrates a bias in terms
of coverage between the global north and south and
shows how the war in Ukraine is having geopolitical
ripple effects, creating further tragedies far from
its shores.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Contest_to_Replace_Boris_Johnson_Is_a_Choice
Between_Austerity_and_Bigotry⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Failure_of_IRA_to_Extend_Child
Tax_Credit_a_Tremendous_Missed_Opportunity⠀⇛
Congress’ passage of a reconciliation bill this
week marks a tremendous missed opportunity to
support families with children and continue one of
the most effective programs of the pandemic: the
expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC).
# § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ On_TikTok,_Election_Misinformation
Thrives_Ahead_of_Midterms⠀⇛
Ahead of the midterm elections this fall,
TikTok is shaping up to be a primary
incubator of baseless and misleading
information, in many ways as problematic as
Facebook and Twitter, say researchers who
track online falsehoods. The same qualities
that allow TikTok to fuel viral dance fads —
the platform’s enormous reach, the short
length of its videos, its powerful but poorly
understood recommendation algorithm — can
also make inaccurate claims difficult to
contain.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Old-fashioned_government_media_is
being_gobbled_up_by_Facebook_propaganda⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Fall_Of_A_Great_American
Newspaper_…_and_Democracy⠀⇛
It’s a local story that mirrors the decline
of daily newspapers nationwide and, along
with it, American democracy. As I’ve long
lectured to journalism students and anyone
who would listen, it’s no coincidence that
our democracy and journalism paralleled each
other’s descent into the void, into these
desperate times.
You simply can’t have the former without the
latter.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Will_US_Democracy_Survive
the_Right-Wing’s_Fake_News_Industry?⠀⇛
Can a nation survive as a democratic republic
without an honest and trusted news ecosystem?
Is it an actual fact that truthful and
reliable news—combined with the kind of
cultural trust people have in both government
and each other as the result of a shared
reality—are both historic and necessary
preconditions for a democracy to work at all?
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Novelist_Rushdie_Gravely_Injured_by_Likely
Non-Reading_Zealot_Seeking_Salvation_and_Bounty⠀⇛
The attacker, Hadi Matar, 24, arrested at the
scene, is a California-born child of Lebanese
immigrant parents whose address is Fairlawn, NJ. He
has been charged with attempted murder and assault
and, after pleading not guilty, is being held
without bail in Chautauqua County, NY according to
the local district attorney.
The Khomeini fatwah, which offered a reward for the
killing, for blasphemy, of Rushdie on account of
his book The Satanic Verses. was later disavowed by
the Iranian government as it sought more acceptance
in the international arena, but many experts on
Islamic law noted that a fatwah can normally only
be lifted by the one who issues it, and Khomeini,
for better or worse, at that point was dead and
gone. (A $3.8-million reward is still being offered
for his death by a private Iranian organization.)
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛
All_Because_Salman_Rushdie_Wrote_a_Book⠀⇛
Salman Rushdie has had a price on his head for 33
years. He is a writer who has lived with the fear
of being killed for his words. Whatever other
opinion one might have about Rushdie and his skills
as a novelist or his public persona, this much is
true: He has understood what it means to be
targeted and hated—burned in effigy—forced to hide
and, even in recent years, to continue to look over
his shoulder. All because he wrote a book.
And so it came as a shock, but maybe not as a
surprise, that Rushdie was attacked this morning
onstage, in Chautauqua, New York, of all places. He
was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua
Institution, a cottage community that was founded
in the late 19th century as a place for religious
learning, and that has since become an oasis of
education and discussion every summer. That it was
here that Rushdie was struck repeatedly with a
knife is a terrible irony.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ FEC_says_Google_can_let_political_campaigns
dodge_Gmail’s_spam_filters⠀⇛
The Federal Elections Commission has rubber stamped
a proposal from Google that could make it easier
for political campaigns to skirt email spam
filters. Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a Gmail
pilot, agreeing with Google that the program
wouldn’t run afoul of election rules, as The
Washington Post reports.
In June, Google asked the FEC to review a plan that
would enable emails from “authorized candidate
committees, political party committees and
leadership political action committees registered
with the FEC” to bypass spam filters — as long as
they don’t break Gmail rules on illegal content,
malware and phishing. The FEC opened the proposal
for comment and, as The Verge notes, almost all of
the feedback from the public was negative. The
Democratic National Committee, for one, claimed the
program would benefit Republicans and subject Gmail
users to “abusive fundraising tactics.”
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_film_dropped_from_festival
after_censors_object_to_Umbrella_Movement_scene_lasting_under
a_second_–_Hong_Kong_Free_Press_HKFP⠀⇛
The organisers of a film festival have cancelled
the upcoming screening of an award-winning short
movie after censors demanded the removal of a scene
depicting a protest site during the 2014 Umbrella
Movement.
# ⚓ Wales UK ☛ JK_Rowling_receives_death_threat_on_Twitter
after_voicing_support_for_Salman_Rushdie⠀⇛
She took to the social media platform once again on
Saturday afternoon, this time tagging Twitter’s
support account. She had taken a screenshot of a
reply to her initial post about Rushdie from a
user, which read: “Don’t worry you are next.”
The screenshot also shared a previous post from the
same person who hailed Matar for the attack on
Rushdie. Incensed by the threat, Rowling wrote to
Twitter: “Any chance of some support?”
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ Author_JK_Rowling_Receives_Death_Threat_Over_Tweet
On_Salman_Rushdie⠀⇛
Warner Bros. Discovery, the media conglomerate
which owns Warner Bros, the studio behind the
“Harry Potter” film franchise, in a statement to
Deadline condemned the threats against Rowling.
“Warner Bros. Discovery strongly condemns the
threats made against JK Rowling. We stand with her
and all the authors, storytellers and creators who
bravely express their creativity and opinions. WBD
believes in freedom of expression, peaceful
discourse and supporting those who offer their
views in the public arena.
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Harry_Potter_author_JK_Rowling_told_‘you
are_next’_over_her_tweet_on_Rushdie_attack⠀⇛
Rowling later shared a screenshot of Twitter’s
feedback after she reported the user, which stated
that there were “no violations of the Twitter
rules” in the comment.
# ⚓ JK_Rowling_says_‘police_are_involved’_after_receiving_death
threat_for_Salman_Rushdie_tweet⠀⇛
But her outrage did not stop there. She returned to
the social media platform after getting a reply
from Twitter which said the death threat had “no
violations of the Twitter rules in the content you
reported”.
Tagging the Twitter support account again, Rowling
said: “These are your guidelines, right? Violence:
You may not threaten violence against an individual
or a group of people. We also prohibit the
glorification of violence… Terrorism/violent
extremism: You may not threaten or promote
terrorism…”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ India_@_75_|_Digital_Rights
Ka_Amrit_Mahotsav?⠀⇛
This year we celebrate 75 years of independence and
with these celebrations come numerous assessments
of the status of civil, political, and economic
rights in the country. These assessments allow us
to gauge how much we have been able to accomplish
and how far we still have to go to fully achieve
the ideals enshrined in our Constitution. As an
organisation launched on August 15, we seek to
ensure that technology respects the fundamental
rights of Indian citizens and thus, on the 75th
anniversary of Indian independence, we want to
provide you with a brief assessment of the status
of your digital rights and freedoms.
As we move towards the increasing use of technology
for governance, we are becoming aware of the harms,
such as bias and exclusion, that accompany these
measures. For example, linking welfare schemes to
Aadhaar and its biometric verification system has
caused mass exclusions, and has even led to
starvation deaths. Thus, it becomes imperative to
ensure that social justice is the cornerstone on
which we build our digital governance initiatives.
The use of surveillance technology like CCTVs and
facial recognition by law enforcement authorities
coupled with the introduction of the Criminal
Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 also raises
concerns related to 360° profiling and state
sponsored mass surveillance. At this juncture, we
believe that it is our responsibility to highlight
these trends and raise awareness around these
issues which may not affect you today but will
surely affect all of us eventually.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Video_Game_and_Tech_Workers_Are_Putting_Unions
at_Play_in_Their_Industries⠀⇛
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘Pirate’_Spider-Man_Remastered_Steam
Keys_Sell_Out_in_Sanctioned_Russia⠀⇛
Spider-Man Remastered launched last Friday to
decent reviews but gamers in Russia face
problems buying from Steam. A local online
store managed to get some Steam activation
keys but sold out, despite selling them for
close to the most expensive price in the
world. Right now, Russians can either wait
for new stock or take advantage of the game
being cracked on day one.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Anti-Piracy_Group_Continued_to_Send
DMCA_Notices_on_Behalf_of_Indicted_Copyright
Swindlers⠀⇛
In addition to offering piracy insights, MUSO
also helps copyright holders to take down
infringing content from search engines and
other online platforms. In most cases, the
company represents legitimate rightsholders,
but it also sends notices that appear to come
from copyright swindlers, who were recently
indicted by the US government.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Videos/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Slackware_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Racism
o Web_Browsers
# Mozilla
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o FSF
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Security
o Environment
# Energy
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Videos/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ RapidDisk_Tutorial_–_Episode_4:_Advanced
Topics:_The_Ioctls_and_User_Space_Access⠀⇛
RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which
consists of a collection of modules and an
administration tool. Features include: Dynamically
allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand
alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes
to slower local disk drives. Access those drives
locally or export those volumes across an NVMe
Target network.
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 209:_Ubuntu_LTS,_Kali_Linux,_Rescuezilla,
GitLab_and_more_Linux_news!_–_This_Week_in_Linux_–
TuxDigital⠀⇛
On this episode of This Week in Linux: Ubuntu
22.04.1 LTS, Kali Linux 2022.3, Rescuezilla 2.4,
GitLab To Delete Dormant Projects?, JingOS &
JingPad Discontinued?, CuteFishOS Disappears &
Returns, AlmaLinux Community Election, System76
Galago Pro & Pine64 Pinebook Pro, yuzu: Nintendo
Switch Emulator for Linux, Humble Resident Evil
Bundle, all that and much more on Your Weekly
Source for Linux GNews!
# ⚓ Video ☛ Nitrux_2.2.1_Quick_overview_#linux_#Nitrux⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Ice_Lake_Based_Xeon_Platinum_8380_Offers_Massive
Performance_Increments_In_Linux_6.0⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Linux_6.0_Release_Candidate_Lands,_but_Linus
Insists_Version_Is_Just_a_Number⠀⇛
A release candidate for the Linux kernel 6.0 has
arrived, but Linus Torvalds is downplaying the
significance of the version change. Despite this,
there are some substantial improvements to the
kernel.
[...]
This version is still only a release candidate.
Still, expert users can download and compile the
kernel themselves. Most users will wait until their
distribution packages the final release. Despite
Linux kernel development happening at a breakneck
pace, Distributions have their own preference for
how new their software is. Because Linux kernel
improvements often concern security, there is an
interest in keeping it up to date.
The development team does maintain a number of
older “long-term” kernels for applications
requiring stability, such as servers.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Raider_–_Stupid_Simple_App_to_Shred_Files
in_Linux_Desktop_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Looking for a file shredder app for Linux? Raider
is the one with a stupid simple user interface.
There are already a few good ways to securely
delete files in Ubuntu Linux, such as BleachBit and
Nautilus wipe extension. But for a large list of
files or those do shred files frequently, this app
could be more efficient.
It’s Raider, also known as File Shredder, a free
open-source GTK4 application. With it, you can just
drag and drop files into app window, then shred as
many files as you want via single mouse click.
[...]
It by default overwrites file with random data,
which however is a clue that the file has been
shredded. User can choose to overwrite with zeros
instead to hide shredding.
And there are options to specify how many times to
shred file over, number of bytes to shred, and
whether to override the file permissions.
# ⚓ scikit-survival_0.18.0_released_|_Sebastian_Pölsterl⠀⇛
I’m pleased to announce the release of scikit-
survival 0.18.0, which adds support for scikit-
learn 1.1.
In addition, this release adds the return_array
argument to all models providing
predict_survival_function and
predict_cumulative_hazard_function. That means you
can now choose, whether you want to have the
survival (cumulative hazard function) automatically
evaluated at the unique event times.
[...]
For a full list of changes in scikit-survival
0.18.0, please see the release notes.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ 10_Useful_SSH_Commands_in_Linux_|
LinuxCloudVPS_Blog⠀⇛
In this blog post, we will show you the ten most
used SSH commands in any Linux distribution.
SSH stands for Secure Socket Shell and is one of
the main key services in Linux. The default port
that SSH is running on is the TCP/IP port 22, but
it can be easily changed due to security reasons.
System Administrators are using this system to log
in to the server and execute commands via the
command line. The SSH as the secure shell is a
replacement for insecure login programs such as
Telnet, rlogin, rsh and etc.
In this blog post, we will use the Ubuntu 22.04 OS.
You can use any Linux distribution. Let’s get
started!
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Bagisto_eCommerce_on_Ubuntu
22.04_–_RoseHosting⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step-
by-step detail how to install the Bagisto eCommerce
platform on Ubuntu 22.04
Bagisto is an eCommerce platform written in PHP
with a Laravel framework and uses Vue.js as a
frontend Javascript framework. This web application
is used as an online store on which you can create
and manage thousands of products for your business.
In this tutorial, we will install the LAMP stack
and configure Bagisto eCommerce to be accessible on
the domain.
Installing Bagisto eCommerce on Ubuntu 22.04 is a
straightforward process that can take up to 30
minutes. Let’s get started!
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Firefox,_language_packs_&_how_to_remove⠀⇛
Computer problems are, on both the micro and macro
scale, quantum mechanism problems. In other words,
unless you take a look, you won’t know whether you
have one or not. This happened to me when I, for a
reason that currently eludes my conscious memory,
decided to check the addons page in Firefox on one
of my Linux machines. Casually, I went through the
different categories in the sidebar, and then
clicked on Languages, and here, lo and behold, I
discovered that my Firefox has two extra language
packs installed in addition to my default one,
English (US).
These were English (CA) and English (GB) packs. I
wasn’t sure why there were there, but I also knew I
wanted them removed, because a) there’s no reason
to use more than one dialect of English really,
even if you might end up trying to spell things in
various different ways b) the only acceptable
version of English for computer interfaces is
American English. Only, I discovered next, they
couldn’t be removed. Hence, this tutorial.
# ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_to_install_iRedMail_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to install iRedMail
on AlmaLinux and explain the installation process
in step-by-step detail.
iRedMail is an open-source email server software
that is capable of supporting the latest IMAP,
POP3, and SMTP protocols. In this blog post, we are
going to install the iRedMail email server with the
installation script. In the installation script are
included Nginx as a web server, Postfix as a mail
transfer agent, Dovecot as IMAP and POP3 server,
SpamAssassin as a spam scanner, ClamAV as a virus
scanner, OpenLDAP, iRedAPD and etc.
Installing iRedMail on AlmaLinux is a
straightforward process and may take up to 10
minutes. Let’s get started!
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ Bind_Process_to_a_Network_Interface_With
Namespaces_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛
Network namespaces are a feature baked into the
Linux kernel that allows users to virtualize
aspects of a system’s networking. This feature
comes in handy in many scenarios, one of which is
to bind a process to a particular network
interface.
Normally, the IP routing table is used to determine
which interface outbound traffic is sent to.
However, in cases where two network adapters are
connected to the same network, we would need to
create a network namespace in order to manually
choose which interface certain processes should
utilize.
In this tutorial, we will show you the steps to
create a new network namespace in Linux, create a
new adapter in that namespace, how to assign IP
information to the adapter, and finally how to bind
processes to this interface.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_are_Flatpak_and_Snap_and_why_are_they_so
important_to_Linux?_|_ZDNet⠀⇛
For the longest time, Linux received a bad rap for
not just being difficult to use, but for not having
the software necessary to be productive. I
remember, back in the early days of using Linux (I
started in ’97), those issues were very much true.
Not only was Linux complicated to get up and
running, but installing software generally required
a nightmare of dependency installations and
manually compiling software.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Back_Up_and_Restore_Your_GPG_Keys_on
Linux⠀⇛
Privacy is an increasingly hot topic. On Linux, the
gpg command lets users encrypt files using public-
key cryptography, in which case losing your
encryption keys would be catastrophic. Here’s how
to back them up.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_resolve_the_Docker_“Timeout_exceeded
while_awaiting_headers”_error_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
Jack Wallen found Docker commands failing to pull
down images on various machines. The issue
perplexed him, but the solution turned out to be
very simple.
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ [Fixed]_“apt-key_is_deprecated._Manage_keyring
files_in_trusted.gpg.d”⠀⇛
But lately, you would notice a message about ‘apt-
key being deprecated’ when you try installing
packages from third-party repositories.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Simple_Redirects_with_.htaccess_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
Google Chrome is one of the most widely used web
browsers in the world. Unfortunately, that also
means that a lot of users will see broken links on
your website if you don’t take precautions to
prevent it. Re directing or ‘Redirecting’ an old
URL to a new one is one such precaution you can
take.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Fish_Shell_on_Ubuntu_and_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
The Fish shell also known as the Friendly
Interactive Shell is one of the richest Linux
shells in terms of user experience. It comes with a
whole bundle of useful features with the help of
which users can use the command line interface very
easily and conveniently. In this article, we will
show you how to install Fish Shell on Ubuntu and
Linux Mint.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME_43.beta_released⠀⇛
GNOME 43.beta is now available. It also marks
the start of the UI, feature and API freezes
(collectively known as The Freeze). String
announcement is also in effect now, in
advance of the String freeze which starts 27
August. If you’d like to target the GNOME 43
platform, this is the best time to start
testing your apps or extensions.
You can use the 43beta branch of the flatpak
runtimes, which is now available on Flathub
beta.
This release moves WebKitGTK to build against
libsoup3, which is now the recommended
version to use.
[...]
This is beta quality software. This release
is intended for GNOME developers and beta
testers.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_Celebrates_25th_Anniversary_with
Beta_Release_of_Upcoming_GNOME_43_Desktop⠀⇛
As expected, GNOME 43 Beta is packed with
lots of goodies, including more improvements
to WebExtensions support and a new “Take
Screenshot” context menu entry for the
Epiphany web browser, the ability for the
GNOME Boxes virtual machine manager to fetch
recommended operating systems from remote
address, WWAN 5G connection support to
Control Center’s Cellular page and support
for privacy screens in the Display page.
# ⚓ New_Alert_Sounds_–_Even_a_Stopped_Clock⠀⇛
Sounds created for GNOME 43 were generated on
a mini-computer called Teensy (currently
unavailable due to the global chip shortage),
running software called Dirtywave Headless
written by Timothy Lamb. The software
includes other synthesizer engines, but
majority of the sounds were made using the 4
operator FM engine. To further complicate
things, my favorite algorithm is No.16 where
all of the 4 oscillators are carriers,
effectively being equivalent to a 4
oscillator analog synth.
[...]
To form a complete circle, and to my genuine
surprise, my old friend Noggin from the
Jeskola Buzz days has composed a great track
using only samples from the gitlab issue (my
involvement with music trackers predates
GNOME or Free software in general. An old
friend indeed).
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_170_is
available_for_testing⠀⇛
The next Core Update is available for testing. It
features new IP blocklists for the firewall engine,
significant improvements to Pakfire, modernizes the
default cryptographic algorithm selection for IPsec
connections, as well as a new kernel, and a
plethora of bug fixes and security improvements
under the hood.
o § Slackware Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ liveslak_1.6.0_feature_release,_plus_a_new
set_of_ISOs_for_Slackware_Live_Edition_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛
Liveslak is my favorite project, it’s fully under
my control, I built it from scratch, I get good
improvement ideas from its users and Patrick helps
when liveslak needs something new from Slackware.
There are times that it gets less attention though,
and in the first half of 2022 there was not much
activity – some minor updates whenever I needed to
release a fresh batch of Live ISO images. Most of
that inactivity was caused by burnout.
But then someone mentioned Ventoy to me, because
liveslak ISOs would not boot from a Ventoy disk and
they hoped I would be able to fix that. At first I
was like “I don’t care for it, why should I put
effort in supporting it” but on second thought and
reading through its web pages, my opinion changed
in favor of Ventoy. In fact, it is a quite the
unique piece of software and I am using it myself
now.
So what does it do? Ventoy takes a USB stick,
formats it and puts a Linux kernel, a Grub
bootloader and some smart tools on it. Then you can
put as many bootable images (ISOs, IMGs and so on)
on its first exfat-formatted partition as there is
room. Ventoy will automatically populate the Grub
boot selection screen with all bootable images it
could find on that partition. You can then boot any
ISO straight from that menu.
[...]
Ventoy is now fully supported. Liveslak 1.6.0
implements the “Ventoy-compatible” guideline. This
means, Ventoy won’t apply any “hooks” to liveslak
when it boots its ISO image, and liveslak figures
out for itself how to boot. You’ll see the message
“SLACKWARELIVE: (UEFI) Ventoy ISO boot detected…”
(or ‘BIOS’ instead of ‘UEFI’ if you have an older
computer).
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Learn,_collaborate_and_innovate_at_Red
Hat_Summit:_Connect_2022⠀⇛
If you’re interested in joining us, your first step
is to register for the event in the city that’s
most convenient. (Each location features nearly the
same agenda, so you won’t miss out by picking one
over the other.) Once you’re saved your seat, check
out all the offerings and activities to make the
most of your in-person experience.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Parrot_Security_OS:_How_to_Install_It_and_What
to_Expect⠀⇛
The Parrot OS is a security-focused Linux
distribution comparable to Kali OS. It is based on
Debian Linux and, like many Linux distributions, is
open-source and free to use.
Parrot is designed to offer privacy, development,
and security and is equipped with various digital
security and forensics tools and libraries. It also
features development tools and privacy protection
tools.
While it comes with the MATE Desktop Environment by
default, users can install other DEs if they
prefer.
In this post, we briefly discuss Parrot OS’s
features and walk you through how to install it on
your computer.
[...]
The Home Edition comes with the full office suite,
VLC, GIMP, anonymity tools, full disk encryption,
and a range of development tools to supplement the
supported programming languages and frameworks.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_first_point-release_for_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS_is_now_available_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1
LTS which brings together an updated download with
all the bug fixes, updated apps, driver upgrades
and more. Users will now also be prompted to update
from earlier versions of Ubuntu, or automatically
as part of update scheduling.
Since this is an LTS release (long term support),
it will see updates until April 2027.
While not a major new distro release, it’s worth
noting since this is the first proper big update
since the release of Ubuntu 22.04. A long list of
the changes can be seen on their official Discourse
forum like NVIDIA driver updates, Mesa driver
updates for AMD / Intel, various crash-bug fixes
for desktop users, Snap upgrades, kernel and
firmware updates and much more.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ What’s_new_with_Ubuntu_22.04.1?_|
TechRepublic⠀⇛
After a slight delay due to an installer issue, the
first point release for Ubuntu 22.04 has been
officially released. Although point releases are
often overlooked by users, because they aren’t
major upgrades, this time around you should
certainly run the upgrade immediately.
The biggest reason is that this point release
combines all of the security fixes and improvements
that have been added since the initial release of
Jammy Jellyfish. So, if you haven’t bothered to
upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 since you first installed it,
which you should have been doing all along, this
point upgrade will add everything you’ve missed in
one fell swoop.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Real_Robot_One_is_a_high-performance_robotic_arm
that_you_can_build_yourself_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
Robotic arms are versatile machines and are great
for learning about principles of robotics or even
doing useful work for hobbyists. That work might be
picking and placing components on PCBs, packing
boxes, or anything else you can imagine. But to
perform that work well, the robotic arm needs more
hardware than we tend to see in DIY projects. Pavel
Surynek wanted a high-performance robotic arm and
the result is RR1: Real Robot One, which features
closed-loop feedback for accuracy and
repeatability.
In an open-loop robotic system, the controller only
outputs positioning commands and doesn’t receive
any feedback. Because it has no feedback, the
controller doesn’t know if the position is accurate
and can’t actively compensate for issues like
backlash in the motors. Closed-loop feedback
provides real-time, real-world position data to the
controller, so it can ensure that results match
commands. RR1 receives closed-loop feedback data
from encoders on each of the six joints, which are
driven by stepper motors through 3D-printed
planetary gearboxes.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Android_Developers_Blog:_Android_13_is_in_AOSP!⠀⇛
Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to the Android
Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the
newest version of Android. For developers, Android 13 is
focused on our core themes of privacy and security as
well as developer productivity, making it easier for you
to build great experiences for users. We’ve also
continued to make Android an even better OS for tablets
and large screens, giving you better tools to take
advantage of the 270+ million of these devices in use
across the world. You can read more about Android 13 for
consumers in our Keyword blog post
[...]
Now with today’s public release of Android 13 to AOSP,
we’re asking all Android developers to finish your
compatibility testing and publish your updates as soon as
possible, to give your users a smooth transition to
Android 13.
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Android_13_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Version 13 of the Android system has landed in the
Android Open Source Project; the list of changes is long.
o § Racism⠀➾
# ⚓ Castes_are_still_castes_in_Silicon_Valley_|_Stop_at_Zona-
M⠀⇛
Two years ago I wrote here that “as far as today
goes, it is interesting (but sadly unsurprising) to
read that as progressive and egalitarian as it is,
Silicon Valley seems to ruin Dalit lives just like
Trantor, or ancient India“.
[...]
“[force] Big Tech to confront a millennia-old
hierarchy where Indians’ social position has been
based on family lineage, from the top Brahmin
“priestly” class to the Dalits, shunned as
“untouchables” and consigned to menial labor.”
We’ll see. For the moment, I can’t help to repeat
one of the comments I made in 2020: never, ever
confuse “digitally competent” with “rational”.
Anywhere. Humans will be humans”
o § Web Browsers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Announcing_Steve_Teixeira,_Mozilla’s_new
Chief_Product_Officer [Ed: Mozilla hiring_managers_from
Facebook_again]⠀⇛
I am pleased to share that Steve Teixeira has
joined Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer.
During our search for a Chief Product
Officer, Steve stood out to us because of his
extensive experience at tech and internet
companies where he played instrumental roles
in shaping products from research, design,
security, development, and getting them out
to market.
[...]
Steve comes to us most recently from Twitter,
where he spent eight months as a Vice
President of Product for their Machine
Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that,
Steve led Product Management, Design and
Research in Facebook’s Infrastructure
organization. He also spent almost 14 years
at Microsoft where he was responsible for the
Windows third-party software ecosystems and
held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual
Studio and the Technical Computing Group.
Steve also held a variety of engineering
roles at small and medium-sized companies in
the Valley in spaces like developer tools,
endpoint security, mobile computing, and
professional services.
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ A_New_WordPress.org_Homepage_and_Download_Page⠀⇛
The WordPress experience has significantly evolved
in the past few years. In order to highlight the
power of WordPress on WordPress.org, the last few
weeks have seen a homepage and download page
redesign kickoff and shared mockups. Today, these
new designs are going live! Like the News pages
before them, these refreshed pages are inspired by
the jazzy look & feel WordPress is known for.
[...]
The new download page greets visitors with a new
layout that makes getting started with WordPress
even easier by presenting both the download and
hosting options right at the top.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSD_meeting_recap_2022-08-12⠀⇛
Check out the great work our volunteers
accomplished at today’s Free Software Directory
(FSD) IRC meeting.
Every week, free software activists from around the
world come together in #fsf on Libera.Chat to help
improve the (FSD). This recaps the work we
accomplished at the Friday, August 12, 2022
meeting, where we saw a couple of new programs
added and several entries updated.
# ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday,
August_26,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD) by
adding new entries and updating existing ones.
Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on
Libera.Chat.
# ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday,
August_19,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD) by
adding new entries and updating existing ones.
Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on
Libera.Chat.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Open_Source_OSINT_Tools_and
Techniques⠀⇛
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the
practice of collecting information from
published or publicly available sources for
intelligence purposes. The term ‘Open Source’
within OSINT refers to the public nature of
the analyzed data; publicly available
information includes blogs, forums, social
media sites, traditional media (TV, radio,
and publications), research papers,
government records, and academic journals.
The scope of this information is almost
infinite, concerning various people,
companies, and organizations. Individuals who
leverage OSINT can span from IT security
professionals and state-sanctioned
intelligence operatives with ethical
intentions to malicious hackers with
unethical intentions.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_draw_scatter_plot_using_Plotly_library_in
Python.⠀⇛
Plotly is the library using which we can
generate the interactive graphs which are
good visualisation. Using this visualisation
we can draw some conclusion or it will make
us easy to conclude something by looking at
the chart or graphs. In the normal scenario
it becomes really difficult to arrive at the
decision simply looking at data values.
In this post we are going to learn how to use
scatter plot using Plotly library in Python.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_to_Start
Writing_Bash_Programs⠀⇛
You can use Bash scripts to automate all
sorts of tasks. Get to grips with the
fundamentals and begin your Bash scripting
journey.
Bash scripts come in handy for automating
tasks, and you’ll find they’re great for
building simple command line applications.
The Bash shell interprets Bash scripts, so
you won’t need to install any dependencies to
write and run them. Bash scripts are also
portable since most Unix-based operating
systems use the same shell interpreter.
Knowledge of Bash scripting is a must for
every developer, especially if you work with
Unix-based systems.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan_Dowland:_Temperature_monitoring⠀⇛
I’ve been having some temperature problems in my
house, so I wanted to set up some thermometers
which I could read from a computer, and look at
trends.
I bought a pack of three cheap Xiaomi IoT
thermometers. There’s some official Xiaomi tooling
to access them from smartphones and suchlike, but I
wanted something more open. The thermometers have
some rudimentary security on them to try and ensure
you use the official tooling. This is pretty weak,
and the open-source Home Assistant (HA) has support
for querying them. I wasn’t already running HA and
it looked to do more than I needed right now.
[...]
It’s been long enough since I last looked at
something like this that the best in class software
was things like multi router traffic grapher, and
rrdtool, or things that build on top of them like
Munin. The world seems to have moved on (rightly or
wrongly) with a cornucopia of options like
Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite/Carbon, InfluxDB,
statsd, etc.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ HPE_Slingshot_Makes_The_GPUs_Do_Control
Plane_Compute⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Google_Ups_Its_Linux_Security_Awards [Ed:
Company that put NSA back-doored ciphers in Linux kernel
tries to reinvent itself (and its reputation) as Linux
security champ]⠀⇛
How did they get from Kubernetes to Linux? It was
the next logical move. Via kCTF, researchers could
use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) instances. If
they could hack it successfully, they got a flag,
and potentially some cash. But, while all way back
in 1995, the Mozilla Foundation was the first
organization to offer bug bounties. Now, everyone’s
who anyone offers them. Google, which uses Linux in
pretty much everything, is expanding its
Kubernetes-based Capture-the-Flag (kCTF) project
and kCTF Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to pay
more attention to hunting down Linux kernel bugs.
# ⚓ InfoSecurity Magazine ☛ Luckymouse_Uses_Compromised_MiMi
Chat_App_to_Target_Windows_and_Linux_Systems [Ed: This is not
an OS issue, it's about people installing and running
malware]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Developer Tech ☛ PyPI_package_installs_cryptominer_on_Linux
systems [Ed: This isn’t a “Linux” issue; it’s a “malware got
installed on the OS” (in this case Linux) issue; if you
install malware on your system, mal (bad) things will happen.
Of course Brittany Day LinuxSecurity ☛ helped_promote_this
FUD, unscrutinised and unchallenged.]⠀⇛
A malicious PyPI package was used to install a
Monero cryptominer on Linux systems.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Daily Maverick ☛ Small-scale_Western_Cape_fishers_call_for
halt_to_gas_and_oil_exploration⠀⇛
# ⚓ Small_scale_fishers_call_for_halt_to_gas_and_oil
exploration_|_GroundUp⠀⇛
About 100 small-scale fishers demonstrated along
Marine Drive at the Paarden Eiland entrance to Cape
Town harbour on Monday. They want government to
stop approving permits for oceanic oil and gas
exploration.
They held placards that read: “Fisher’s rights are
human rights” and “Oil and water do not mix”. Many
passing motorists hooted in support of the
demonstration.
Liziwe McDaid, Green Connection Strategic Leader,
said frustrated fishers had asked for help with the
demonstration. She said the message to government
was to “stop drilling the oceans”.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ The_REAL_purpose_of_NFTs:_beam_hikikomoris_up_in_the
metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are files in
distributed online databases, that “prove”
that someone “owns” some digital file stored
somewhere, usually on the Internet. This does
not makes the target file any less copiable,
of course, but for whatever reason people are
going crazy after attaching NFTs to anything
digital, and “investing” huge sums to “own”
them.
[...]
NFTs are a metaverse drill. NFTs are training
for living in the fully virtual “metaverse”,
in which digital selves would become more
important for their owners than their actual
bodies, and markets for digital assets owned
via NFTs would be as large, or larger, than
those for physical ones.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_How_Many_Computers_Do_You_Have?⠀⇛
I am limiting my list to Laptops, Desktops,
Raspberry Pis and VMs.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Mirror_of_Drew_Devault’s_capsule_available⠀⇛
Luckily, I was able to reconstruct most of
Drew’s capsule using saved content from older
crawls from Kennedy, my Gemini search engine.
I rewrote the internal hyperlinks to be
relative links, so you can read the capsule
online or off.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Petri_Nets_Log_#005⠀⇛
If I understood correctly they still don’t
have an actual programming language for
people to use. But several people can work on
the same document simultaneously like in
Overleaf, CoCalc, Google Colab, Google Docs,
&c.
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#195⠀⇛
We had another full week in the world of Linux Release
with Ubuntu 220.04.1, SparkyLinux 6.4, ExTiX 22.8,
Voyager Live 22.04.1.1, EndeavourOS 22.7, and Garuda
Linux 220808.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Cottonwood_Disaster_|_LINUX_Unplugged_471⠀⇛
Our garage Linux server has died, and this time
we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive
our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong.
# ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_473⠀⇛
**sbotools** shasum
# ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_336_–_We_don’t
have_data_data,_we_have_security_biases⠀⇛
Josh and Kurt talk about our lack of security and
some of the data bias problems that can emerge. A
lot of what we think is security data is really
just biased data. This is OK as long as we
understand the data is broken and know this is the
first step in a longer journey.
# ⚓ Video ☛ OBS_28.0_Will_Change_OBS_On_Linux_Forever_–
Invidious⠀⇛
I rely on OBS for all of my videos and OBS 28.0 is
going to be a massive update to the project
swapping over to a new QT 6 UI and finally shipping
the websocket plugin as a first party plugin
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LKML:_Linus_Torvalds:_Linux_6.0-rc1⠀⇛
So here we are, two weeks later, and the merge
window has closed.
People are chasing down one active bug, and I'm
sure there are others
hiding that just need more people to do testing,
but that's kind of
the point of rc1: all the big changes have been
merged, and now we
need to calm it down and chase down any problems.
Despite the major number change, there's nothing
fundamentally
different about this release - I've long eschewed
the notion that
major numbers are meaningful, and the only reason
for a "hierarchical"
numbering system is to make the numbers easier to
remember and
distinguish. Which is why when the minor number
gets to around 20 I
prefer to just increment the major number instead
and reset to
something smaller.
"Nothing fundamentally different about this
release" obviously doesn't
mean there aren't lots of changes, though. There's
about 13.5k
non-merge commits in here (and 800+ merges), so 6.0
looks to be
another fairly sizable release.
I actually was hoping that we'd get some of the
first rust
infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but
neither of them happened
this time around. There's always more releases. But
there's a lot of
continued development pretty much all over the
place, with the
"shortlog" being much too long to post and thus -
as always for rc1
notices - below only contains my "merge log". You
can definitely get a
kind of high-level overview by just scanning that,
but obviously it's
worth once again pointing out that the people
mentioned in the merge
log are just the maintainers I pull from, and
there's more than 1700
developers involved when you start looking at the
full details in the
git tree.
And, once again, this is one of those releases
where you should not
look at the diffstat too closely, because more than
half of it is yet
another AMD GPU register dump. And the Habanalabs
Gaudi2 people want
to play in that space too, but they don't reach
quite the same lofty
results that the AMD GPU people have become so
famous for. I'm sure
it's just a matter of time.
The CPU people also show up in the JSON files that
describe the perf
events, but they look absolutely tiny compared to
the 'asic_reg'
auto-generated GPU and AI hardware definitions.
So just avert your eyes from those parts if you
decide that you
actually want to look at the diffs themselves. Once
you do that, the
stats look pretty normal, with roughly 60% driver
updates (all over,
but gpu, networking and sound are the big updates -
again, that's
pretty much par for the course). The rest is a mix
of arch updates,
filesystems, tooling, and just random changes all
over.
In all its glory (so all those AMD GPU hardware
definitions etc included), it's
13099 files changed, 1280295 insertions(+), 341210
deletions(-)
just because I was curious and looked.
Oh, and after I had already decided to call this
kernel 6.0, a few
Chinese developers piped up and pointed out that
"5.20" is a more
wholesome version of the Western "4.20" internet-
famous number. So if
you want to call this "Linux 5.20", go right ahead.
Because the kernel
version numbers really are entirely made up and
have no intrinsic
meaning.
But whatever you call it, please help test this, so
that we can get it
all in shape for the final release (hopefully early
October).
Linus
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.0-rc1⠀⇛
Linus has released 6.0-rc1 and closed the merge
window for this release.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_6.0_debuts,_missing_some_Rusty_bits
•_The_Register⠀⇛
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the
first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn’t
mind what you call it.
“After I had already decided to call this kernel
6.0, a few Chinese developers piped up and pointed
out that ’5.20′ is a more wholesome version of the
Western ’4.20′ internet-famous number,” he wrote in
his announcement that Linux 6.0 rc1 has been
released.
“4.20″ is a reference to a day on which some
celebrate marijuana, while “5.20″ does likewise for
magic mushrooms.
“So if you want to call this ‘Linux 5.20′, go right
ahead,” Torvalds wrote.
“Because the kernel version numbers really are
entirely made up and have no intrinsic meaning.”
That this week’s release has the 6.0 label is still
nice to know, as discussion on the Linux kernel
mailing list in recent weeks used 5.20 and 6.0
interchangeably.
As The Register has already reported, the release
does not make major changes to the kernel but does
include many useful updates – such as more RISC-
V support, code to drive Intel’s Gaudi
accelerators, and improved ACPI handling.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Docker_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Docker on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, Docker CE is a free and open-source
containerization platform. Docker uses the Linux
Kernel to create the containers on top of an
operating system. Which is used to create, deploy
and run the applications.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of Docker containers on Rocky Linux.
9.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Pop!_OS_22.04_–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at how to install
Wire Desktop on Pop!_OS 22.04.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Tecknix_Client_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install Tecknix
Client 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.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_list_services_in_Ubuntu_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛
In Windows, services, tasks, and processes can be
viewed using the task manager application.
Similarly, in Ubuntu, you can view all the services
using the command line. If you are a beginner or
using ubuntu for general or personal use, you may
not have felt the need to check the services.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazaine ☛ Hibernation_in_Fedora_Workstation [Ed:
Article recycled from last Fedora release]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jamie McClelland ☛ Web_caching_is_hard⠀⇛
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Opera_Browser_on_Linux_Mint_21_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Opera Browser on Linux Mint 21. For those of you
who didn’t know, Opera is a freeware, cross-
platform web browser developed by Opera Software
and used web browser based on the Chromium browser
project. Some users love Opera for its security
features such as an ad blocker, battery saver, and
free VPN offering for secure internet access.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of an Opera Browser on Linux Mint 21
(Vanessa).
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Screen Rant ☛ How_Nvidia’s_Open-Source_Drivers_Will_Impact
Linux_Gamers⠀⇛
Nvidia’s new R515 driver will provide an open-
source driver for the community for the first time,
hopefully giving the Linux community a way to more
easily use Nvidia graphics cards in their systems,
and Nvidia providing more open-source technology
standards has many benefits. Unfortunately, open-
sourcing software has not been a staple with Nvidia
and, as such, has caused a bit of an uproar in
their community. But with the new R515 driver, this
may be changing for the better.
People have been begging Nvidia to be more open
with their driver software, similar to companies
like Intel and AMD, which provide open-source
drivers for their products. But Nvidia has, until
now, been closed-source with their drivers, which
doesn’t cause too many issues for Windows users,
but for the Linux community, it has made using
Nvidia GPUs more challenging to optimize. Since
Nvidia drivers are not open-sourced, developers are
unable to look at the source code of a driver and
develop their software with the full knowledge of
how the drivers were coded, unlike with an AMD
driver, for example, which is open-source, allowing
for developers to see how the drivers were coded
completely.
[...]
Overall, the announcement of officially providing
open-source Nvidia drivers is a huge boon. This
will give developers much more information about
the drivers they are developing software and games
for, as well as provide the community to help
develop new drivers since they are now open-source.
The Linux community will also benefit over time as
Linux has a good chance of becoming more compatible
and reliable with Nvidia GPUs as they are with AMD
and Intel, which will help with performance and
efficiency, as well as with gaming. With Nvidia
going open-source, it may continue to put more
pressure on other tech companies to be more open
about their technologies which will also help
support a more free and open technological future.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Limine_3.16_compiled_in_OE⠀⇛
o § Reviews⠀➾
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Linux_Lite_6.0⠀⇛
It has been two years since a DistroWatch review of
Linux Lite. There are at least 93 distros on
DistroWatch that support the Xfce desktop
environment, but the out-of-the-box configuration
of Linux Lite is pleasing, simple to use, and
straightforward to most computer users. Linux Lite
describes itself as, “… a ‘gateway operating
system’. Your first simple, fast and free stop in
the world of Linux.” Does it meet the muster? Can
it truly be a strong first stop in the world of
Linux?
Installation
Linux Lite 6.0, code name Fluorite, was released on
31 May 2022 at 16:23 (it’s unclear if that was
local time for me or for the server). The
installation process is very simple, and it uses
one of the most straightforward installation
wizards. Even a completely new Linux user could
likely click their way through a Linux Lite
install. The live environment boots to a Lite
Welcome splash screen with such options as Install
Updates, Install Drivers, Set a Restore Point, etc.
While some of these features may be useful, the
most obvious choice is Install Now, thus beginning
the installation process. WiFi worked out of the
box, which is always good news. The installer then
gives the user the option to download updates while
installing and we can opt to install third-party
software for WiFi and graphics drivers.
[...]
Out of the box, Linux Lite is an easy step into the
world of Linux computing. It has useful features,
it is not overly bloated with unnecessary software,
it has great defaults that a user coming from
another operating system could learn to love. With
the help of Internet searching, any specific issues
with Linux Lite can be easily solved. Would I
recommend Linux Lite to a user coming from a
different operating system? Yes, I might. If the
user was coming from Windows and was very
apprehensive about using unfamiliar interfaces,
Linux Lite has a great theme and a very solid base.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_A_year_of_using_a_FreeBSD_laptop
without_a_GUI⠀⇛
I explained that once I’d assembled the VPNs and
basic tooling I needed, I realised none of it
required a graphical environment at all. I
uninstalled Xorg, and since then have been using
tmux as my “window manager”.
I’ll admit, I left out that I’d eschewed
(gesundheit) a desktop environment for my old
friend fluxbox first, but even that seemed
redundant given I was only using it to spawn a
single terminal window with tabs. Removing xorg
entirely was the logical next step.
[...]
It sounds so obvious in retrospect, but not having
a wall of distractions in front of your face is
fantastic for writing. I’ve made so much more
progress in my various silly sci-fi novels,
technical writing, and many of the posts I’ve since
published here.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Spiral_Linux:_Making_Debian_Easy_to_Use_for
Everyone⠀⇛
Spiral Linux makes it easier for Linux newcomers to
adapt to the operating system by providing a
stable, Debian-based environment.
Debian is one of the most widely used, trusted
Linux distros. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it
is a base distribution for many other OSes, making
it one of the most in-demand Linux versions.
Spiral Linux is one such distribution that owes its
roots to Debian. Its focus lies in fostering
simplicity and providing out-of-the-box features
and functionality to the end users.
If you are new to open-source operating systems and
want to make an acquaintance with an easy-to-use
Linux distro, it’s time to turn to Spiral Linux.
[...]
Many users are questioning the need for yet another
new Debian-based Linux distro, considering plenty
are already available in the market. You might find
Spiral Linux an easy OS to install and use if you
are a new user.
In short, Spiral Linux works, and it works well. It
gives you everything you might need to ease
yourself into the world of Linux. You can easily
migrate to another OS to try your newly acquired
skills when you are a little more familiar with its
various nuances.
To make the most out of your Linux usage
experiences, you should always keep your
requirements in mind and then pick and choose an
operating system that suits you best.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ SparkyLinux_6.4_Is_Here_as_the_Fourth_Update_in
the_6.x_Series⠀⇛
The SparkyLinux team has announced the release of
SparkyLinux 6.4, the latest stable update in the
project’s 6.x series.
Sparky is a fast, lightweight, and fully
customizable OS built on Debian that offers a few
versions for different users and tasks. One of the
distribution’s distinguishing features is that it
provides versions based on both the stable
(SparkyLinux Stable) and test (SparkyLinux Semi-
Rolling) branches of Debian.
The SparkyLinux 6.4 ‘Stable’ version features ISOs
with three different desktop environments – LXQt,
Xfce, and KDE. At the same time, the distro ‘Semi-
Rolling’ version, which is based on Debian’s
testing branch, features more up-to-date packages
and comes with the same desktop environments as
their ‘Stable’ version plus MATE desktop
environment added.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Yet_Another_Me_–_Debuginfod_is_coming_to_Ubuntu⠀⇛
These past couple of months I have been working to
bring debuginfod to Ubuntu. I thought it would be a
good idea to make this post and explain a little
bit about what the service is and how I’m planning
to deploy it.
[...]
With more and more GNU/Linux distributions offering
a debuginfod service to their users, I strongly
believe that Ubuntu cannot afford to stay out of
this “party” anymore. Fortunately, I have a manager
who not only agrees with me but also turned the
right knobs in order to make this project one of my
priorities for this development cycle.
The deployment of this service will be made in
stages. The first one, whose results are due to be
announced in the upcoming weeks, encompasses
indexing and serving all of the available debug
symbols from the official Ubuntu repository. In
other words, the service will serve everything from
main, universe and multiverse, from every supported
Ubuntu release out there.
This initial (a.k.a. “alpha”) stage will also allow
us to have an estimate of how much the service is
used, so that we can better determine the resources
allocated to it.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Sending_Sensor_Data_Over_WiFi_–_learn.sparkfun.com⠀⇛
We’ve shown you before how to send sensor data over
WiFi, but this time we’re taking it a step further.
Our newest tutorial shows you how to use this WiFi
data connection to then visualize your data in real
time on an IoT Dashboard.
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Spend_All_Day_With_RTK⠀⇛
If you’re in need of high precision positioning,
look no further than utilizing the power of real
time kinematics (RTK). We now have a full page of
resources for all your RTK questions!
Ever wondered what all the hype is with RTK and why
your positioning project could use it? Ever wanted
to know the specs of our different RTK receiver
boards at a glance to see which one is right for
your project, or been curious about the
applications of our RTK products?
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Developers_Should_Deploy_Their_Own_Code⠀⇛
This is the platonic ideal. We’re not there yet,
but the all signs point to this rather than
specialization.
Applications and their infrastructure (functions,
queues, permissions, runtime) have always been
closely intertwined. Fewer handoffs mean quicker
deployments and less context loss.
# ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Markdown_Sans_Front_Matter⠀⇛
I changed how I format my blog posts. I’ve been
testing this new format for a while and I like it
so much I retroactively went through previous posts
and re-formatted them too.
In this way, the purist in me has beat out the
practical guy. But hey, it’s an eternal struggle.
The practical guy will be back when the purist gets
knocked over the head by the complexity of the real
world and suddenly realizes the value of the
practical guy’s argument.
[...]
Now when I start a blog post, I have a blank editor
staring at me and I just start writing, not
worrying about the technical details I’ll have to
add later.
# ⚓ Chris ☛ Reading_Notes:_Accelerated_Expertise⠀⇛
Specifically, there are some things which we are
good at teaching people to do, like calculus or
playing the piano. We have well-tested syllabi for
these types of things. Then there are some things
we just don’t know how to teach people, like
software engineering, solving crossword puzzles,
flying helicopters, and noticing improvised
explosive devices in urban environments. Some
people get really good at them, and others don’t.
If you ask an expert what they are doing so well,
they will shrug and go, “I don’t know, but it felt
right at the time.” These are the types of skills
Accelerated Expertise deals with.
Anyway. These are a few of my notes from the book.
These points are, to the best of my recollection,
paraphrasing what the authors wrote. Most of it was
backed by at least somewhat solid research. My
personal experiences don’t always agree with this,
but it’s still worth keeping in mind.
[...]
It is important that training also covers
conceptual models and abstractions. Giving the
learner the right language, so to speak, helps them
communicate with the instructor and gives them
tools to reflect on their own.
# ⚓ Chris ☛ Default_To_Large_Modules⠀⇛
When you design a system of decent size, whether
it’s software or something else, you are going to
have to decompose it into subsystems, or modules.
# § SQL⠀➾
# ⚓ Guru:_Regular_Expressions,_Part_2_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛
In the first part of this series, I showed
how to replace characters in a string using
SQL and regular expressions. This time, I’ll
show other regular expressions that are
available for us to use. The regular
expression functions I’ll show are
REGEXP_COUNT and REGEXP_LIKE and the examples
come from production programs that I’ve
recently implemented.
In the first example (Figure 1), I want to
get a count of the number of occurrences of a
pattern within a string. To make this more
interesting, I’m searching for two different
patterns within a sting. To accomplish this
objective, I used REGEXP_COUNT to get a count
of how many times the pattern appears in a
string.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Why_Developers_Are_Building_So_Many_Side_Projects_|_Future⠀⇛
From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes
of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why
developers are building so many side projects.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Moving_forward,_with_@kiriappeee,_@geofftech⠀⇛
I’ve been in a melancholic funk for a couple of years
now, as I’m sure we all have been. I’ve felt rudderless,
tired, distant, and depressed to tears. Travel has been
out of the question, and it’s been difficult to find joy
in the things I usually love. Some days are easier than
others, but frankly I haven’t felt it this bad since my
mum died, bundled with all the regret that I couldn’t
save her.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Westacott_joins_academic_gravy_train
as_VC_salaries_go_up_and_profits_soar_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
The appointment of a lobbyist to lead a Sydney
university only emphasises the tightening grip of
business on higher education. And as humanities
courses are jettisoned and academics laid off work,
the salaries of university chiefs have leapt into
the stratosphere, writes Michael Sainsbury.
If there was any doubt about the undue influence
that the corporate sector has played in the
country’s universities it has been put to bed with
the appointment of Business Council of Australia
chief Jennifer Westacott as Chancellor of Western
Sydney University.
Westacott will retain her role at the BCA as well
as continuing her nine-year-old board tenure at
former coal miner and retailer Wesfarmers. At the
BCA she has pushed for lower wages and lower
company taxes, and in 2014 celebrated the Abbott
government’s repeal of the carbon tax which set
Australia back almost a decade on climate change
action and helped set up the current energy crisis.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Power10_Midrange_Machine:_The_Power_E1050_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛
This is fifth part of our in-depth coverage of the
entry and midrange Power10 machines that were
announced on July 12. This week, we end the
hardware deep dives with a look at the Power E1050
midrange machine. This is one of the best and most
capable servers that Big Blue has ever designed,
and it is a damned shame that it does not run the
IBM i operating system.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AAEON_EPIC-TGH7_SBC_supports_up_to_Intel
Xeon_W-11865MRE_(Tiger_Lake_H)_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
It’s not often we come across an Intel Xeon SBC,
but that’s just what AAEON EPIC-TGH7 single board
computer offers thanks to a choice of Intel Tiger
Lake H processors up to the Xeon W-11865MRE octa-
core/16-thread processor.
# ⚓ IBM_i_PTF_Guide,_Volume_24,_Number_33_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛
# ⚓ IBM_Puts_The_Finishing_Touches_On_PowerHA_For_IBM_i_7.5_–
IT_Jungle⠀⇛
If you have been waiting to use the new release of
PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i 7.5, then we have
good news for you: IBM has finally completed the
paperwork necessary to enable customers to actually
get it.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ A_dark_money_group_is_lying_about_Medicare
cuts⠀⇛
The “American Prosperity Alliance” does not exist,
except as an anonymously controlled bank account
that has paid for the production and dissemination
of a slick ad that spreads the falsehood that the
Democrats have cut $300b from Medicare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCep6NvbhE
Let me repeat: this is a lie. What “American
Prosperity Alliance” is talking about here is a
provision in the bill that allows Medicare to
negotiate drug prices, rather than simply paying
whatever Big Pharma wants to charge. This practice
is why Americans pay more for their drugs than,
say, Canadians:
https://personalimportation.org/dramatic-drug-
price-differences-canada-vs-us/
To be clear: the new bill will curb the eye-
watering public price-gouging that Big Pharma
enjoys, and halt the transfer of $300b in public
money to pharma companies’ shareholders, by
allowing Medicare to bargain to get prices similar
to those paid by other governments in countries
like Australia, Canada, and the UK.
There is no universe in which this a $300b cut to
Medicare. It’s like the Dems have pledged to halt
$300b in fraud and the American Prosperity Alliance
went to the country’s elderly and sick and
screamed: “They’re cutting your benefits!” In fact,
it’s not like that – it is that.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Mark Curtis ☛ Nato_knew_terrorists_would_gain_from_toppling
Gadaffi⠀⇛
Britain’s military knew that fighters from an Al
Qaeda-linked terrorist organisation were benefiting
from the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, but
continued to support Nato airstrikes in Libya for
another two months.
The revelation raises serious questions about
British foreign policy and whether the UK’s then
prime minister David Cameron misled parliament.
In early September 2011, Cameron updated the House
of Commons about the situation in Libya, telling
MPs: “This revolution was not about extreme
Islamism; al-Qaeda played no part in it.”
However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) had assessed
the month before that: “The 17 February Brigade is
likely to be an enduring player in [the]
transition” away from Gaddafi’s regime and had
“political linkages” to Libya’s rebel leadership,
the National Transitional Council.
# ⚓ The Wire ☛ Santhal_Hul_Wasn’t_Just_the_First_Anti-British
Revolt,_It_Was_Against_All_Exploitation⠀⇛
The 19th century rebellion actually began as a
movement against exploitation by Indian ‘upper’
caste zamindars, moneylenders, merchants and police
officials who had come to dominate the economic
sphere of Santhal life.
[...]
One such popular act of ritualised remembering is
that of the great Santhal rebellion that took place
in mid-19th century in British India.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Calling_git_a_blockchain_to
rebrand_bad_tech⠀⇛
To shore up their crumbling legitimacy in the
face of growing and justified scrutiny,
blockchain advocates are on a rebranding
exercise that’s as cynical as it is
transparent!
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Counterpunch_to_Economic_History⠀⇛
Well, most textbooks talk about industrial
capitalism as if the function of banks is to make
loans to factories to build plants and equipment
and hire more labor to produce goods and keep the
economy going, and that’s what everybody expected
banks to do in the late 19th century
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Growing_the_Pie⠀⇛
Not every negotiation is open to integrative
bargaining. For example, in car buying
negotiations, the buyer wants to pay as little as
possible, the seller wants to charge as much as
possible, and it’s often not a repeated
transaction. But some are.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ All_caretaker,_no_responsibility:_how
a_dying_government_slipped_freebies_to_its_mates_–_Michael
West⠀⇛
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison
government kept the dollars flowing to select
beneficiaries, in defiance of the 70-year-old
parliamentary “caretaker” convention, writes #Mate.
On May 16, five days before the election, the then
Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions
Reduction, Angus Taylor, announced a $30 million
grant to Boral to “explore the feasibility of
developing a carbon capture plant in the Southern
Highlands.” Given the energy policies of the Labor
and the Coalition were very much at odds, this
grant appears to have been a breach of the
caretaker conventions. (Curiously, Taylor’s
facebook video about it has since been deleted, but
the announcement features proudly on the Boral
website.)
Call them the $600,000 (an hour) men (and women).
That’s how much taxpayer money the Morrison
government lavished on grants every hour during the
six long weeks of the election campaign.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ KPMG,_EY_revenues_surge._What’s_the
Scam?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
There’s money in influence peddling and paper
shuffling. KPMG just announced a 16% jump in
revenue to $2bn in the wake of EY’s recent 18%
jump. Top brass at both Big 4 advisory houses are
swimming in bonuses. What’s the scam?
The scam is the Big 4 are secretive partnerships,
not companies, and they don’t have to disclose
where their money is coming from, even though they
are the most powerful private institutions in the
world. Most of the income growth comes from
governments. It’s our money, public money, and the
Big 4 have shown a lot of flair in recent years
getting their hands on it.
# ⚓ Interest_Rate_Hikes_Will_Not_Save_Us_from_Inflation_|_WEB
OF_DEBT_BLOG⠀⇛
In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely
on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman:
inflation is always and everywhere a monetary
phenomenon—too much money chasing too few goods.
But that equation has three variables: too much
money (“demand”) chasing (the “velocity” of
spending) too few goods (“supply”). And “orthodox”
economists, from Lawrence Summers to the Federal
Reserve, seem to be focusing only on the “demand”
variable.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Childhood:_the_new_frontier_of
economic_rationalism_(with_some_help_from_Twiggy)⠀⇛
Governments are backing more preschool places even
as the sector grapples with staff shortages and
industrial unrest. The plan has been linked to the
ambition for massive productivity gains. Are the
under-fives of Australia the latest conscripts in
our seemingly endless neoliberal push for higher
productivity? Mark Sawyer examines the evidence.
It’s been touted as a radical revamp of the
education systems of Australia’s two biggest
states. From 2030, all children in NSW and Victoria
will be able to access play-based learning for free
in the year before they start kindergarten.
“It’s a game changer and it’s exciting and there is
big money behind it because we have to do well for
our kids,” NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell
said when the program was announced in June.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Chris ☛ Group_Decision-Making_and_Debate⠀⇛
I couldn’t write an article on parliamentary
procedure without talking about alternatives to
majority voting. One of the flaws of majority
voting is that in effect, it’s the majority
deciding what’s best for the minority, with very
little consideration for what the minority thinks.
There are two possible reasons majority voting can
work. One of them is less sinister: if each
participant chooses to selflessly accept the
majority opinion regardless of what it is for the
greater good of the group, the majority vote will
work.
The other reason is that the majority outnumbers
the minority and can, hypothetically, threaten them
with violence if they don’t comply with the
majority decision. I suspect this is the historical
background behind the idea of the majority vote. 50
% is simply the smallest number you can have while
not risking having the vote overturned by force.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Myths_spread_about_news_media_bargaining
code_before_review_lands⠀⇛
Former Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission chairman, Rod Sims is continuing to try
and spin the myth that the News Media Bargaining
Code, which was put in place last year, can be used
to dictate things to either Google or Facebook.
In Sims’ world, the code, which allowed news
organisations to negotiate payments with Google and
Facebook for content use, was put in place “despite
threats, widely publicised around the world, to
remove Google Search from Australia and to take all
news and more off Facebook”.
The quote comes from a piece Sims wrote for The
Conversation, coincidentally one of the two
eligible sites with which Facebook has refused to
negotiate a deal. The other site spurned by
Facebook is SBS.
But Sims has forgotten to provide the context that
the code was only passed after the two technology
firms listed a number of conditions, which the
government had no choice but to accept.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Ooredoo’s_plans_to_leave_Myanmar_hands_military
full_control_of_nation’s_telco_sector_—_it_must_mitigate_the
human_rights_risks_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Telecommunications company Ooredoo must put the
safety of millions of people in Myanmar first, and
not abandon control of the country’s last
internationally-owned telco to the junta. The
Qatari-owned provider has reportedly informed
Myanmar regulators of its plans to exit the
country. There are indications that it will likely
sell its operations to companies with links to the
military and potential ties to sanctioned actors
and entities, likely leaving Myanmar with a telco
sector entirely dominated by occupying forces.
Access Now and four other organizations reached out
to the Ooredoo Group’s CEO on August 11, 2022, to
push for constructive engagement and dialogue with
stakeholders to address and protect against
imminent human rights risks of this sale. This was
a follow-up to a first letter sent by Access Now to
Ooredoo Myanmar’s CEO on July 21, 2022. The company
has not responded to, or acknowledged, either
communication.
“The Myanmar junta’s brazen brutality is evident
from its recent and planned executions of pro-
democracy activists. The military will ruthlessly
track using any technological means it is allowed
to access and target people to crush any
resistance,” said Raman Jit Singh Chima, Senior
International Counsel and Asia Pacific Policy
Director at Access Now. “In this environment, all
stakeholders, especially businesses, must conduct
heightened due diligence to ensure that their
actions will not facilitate the junta’s plan to
eradicate dissent and destroy every platform for
protest.”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Use_of_App_to_Record_MGNREGA_Attendance_‘Violation’_of
Worker_Rights,_Act_|_NewsClick⠀⇛
The Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG)
has opposed the rural development ministry’s May 13
order discontinuing manual attendance at Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) scheme worksites with more than 20
workers and replacing it with the National Mobile
Monitoring System (NMMS) app.
Terming the decision as a violation of law that
will be regressive to the gains made in efforts to
strengthen worksite transparency and exclude women,
the PAEG—a group of academicians and activists
attempting to ensure better implementation of NREGA
via research, advocacy and public intervention—said
that the move is fraught with technical challenges.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Misuse_of_Terms⠀⇛
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