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โฆฟ IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 19, 2022 | Techrights
โฆฟ NewsWaffle as a Multi-Lingual GemText News Service With Thousands of Different Sources | Techrights
โฆฟ The Web is Not Open, Itโs a Farce | Techrights
ไทผ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/irc-log-190822/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/news-services-in-gemini/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/www-farce/#comments
ไท Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/good-documentation-in-openbsd/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/peazip-8-8-0/#comments
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ NewsWaffle_as_a_Multi-Lingual_GemText_News_Service_With_Thousands_of
Different_Sourcesโ โ
Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 4:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 61b304748aee0400203c0694bbf96607
MSM Aggregators in Gemini
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/newswaffle-syndication.webm
Summary: NewsWaffle is taken to the next level; people can stay abreast of news
from all around the world (in any language) without leaving their Gemini client
THE EMINENT developer who made a_GitHub_proxy and a_YouTube_proxy for Gemini
users is probably best known for NewsWaffle. Itโs widely used by many people
already. We link to it dozens of times every day in IRC. In a nutshell,
NewsWaffle converts just about any major news site into a Gemini โcapsuleโ with
images, headlines etc. No more cookies, JavaScript, CSS, pop-ups, and clickbait
in sidebars. Tracking too is curtailed by the proxy.
โNewsWaffle can be chained/combined with all sorts of other software to
accomplish mass adoption for Gemini Protocol.โIn light of the success and
popularity of NewsWaffle, the developer is now adding_aggregators for
NewsWaffle and has this example_using_Yahoo!, which is demonstrated in the
video above.
NewsWaffle has been very revolutionary for Geminispace and the Gemini
community. It basically makes millions of new pages available in Gemini
Protocol every day, albeit generated dynamically, โon the flyโโฆ
The fidelity of the translation from HTML to GemText is very impressive and
since even images are included it makes one wonder if the original HTML
versions are favourable in any way whatsoever. NewsWaffle can be chained/
combined with all sorts of other software to accomplish mass adoption for
Gemini Protocol. โ
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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/20/www-farce/
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Gemini_version_available_โ๏ธ
โ The_Web_is_Not_Open,_Itโs_a_Farceโ โ
Posted in Google, Microsoft, Protocol, Standard at 5:14 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 7ddc3d2344f849554532e2a4cd67418d
Back to Microsoft-Only Web Sites?
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/bad-web.webm
Summary: The Web is not improving; itโs only getting worse over time and people
are rightly bitter about it, so we can recommend going back to basics or even
defecting to Gemini
The other night it was noted_in_IRC that some courts in the US still insist
that you use Microsoft browsers. Yes, in 2022! Ryan shares this_link which
says: โAdditionally, the forms work best if you access them using Microsoft
Edge (recommended) or Internet Explorer as your web browser. If you use Chrome,
Firefox, or Safari, do NOT fill out these forms directly within your browser.โ
Since when have Web browsers become PDF editors and why are such instructions
being shared when we have a supposedly โopenโ Web? When we recently redesigned
news.tuxmachines.org we were careful to ensure it worked with almost any
browser, even very old ones and niche ones like Netsurf.
The video above explains the sad situation and the severity of the matter.
Todayโs Web browsers have reached the point where theyโre not even a canvas for
a rendering engine. Theyโre more like virtual machines for executing binaries
remotely sent from questionable sources. It is that among other factors that
led to our adoption of Gemini. news.tuxmachines.org is already available in
Geminispace over at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/ and we intend to use that
same CMS here in Techrights (weโre still actively developing it and fixing
bugs). โ
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โ Links_20/08/2022:_KDEโs_Latest_Features_and_Good_Documentation_in_OpenBSDโ โ
Posted in News_Roundup at 7:37 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o ยง Desktop/Laptopโ โพ
# โ 5_Reasons_Why_You_Should_Use_Linux_โ_TFOTโ โ
For a long time, Linux was only thought to be
suitable for servers and was not widely used on
desktop computers. Over the past few years, its
usability and user interface have progressively
improved. Today, Linux is user-friendly to take the
role of Windows or Mac on desktops. Thousands of
people use it every day all across the world. In
this article, letโs look into five reasons why you
should use Linux.
[...]
Tens of thousands of eyes are checking the source
code for mistakes that could expose any
vulnerability in the system, even if you arenโt.
Linux is therefore the OS of choice for those who
value their privacy.
o ยง Audiocasts/Showsโ โพ
# โ Hackaday โ Hackaday_Podcast_182:_Sparkpunk_Photography,
Anti-Xiomi_Air_Filters,_And_Keyfob_Foiblesโ โ
Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor
Tom Nardi are here to bring you the best stories
and hacks from the previous week (and maybe a
little older). Things kick off with news that the
Early Bird tickets for the 2022 Hackaday Supercon
tickets sold out in only two hours โ a good sign
that the community is just as excited as we are
about the November event. But donโt worry, regular
admission tickets are now available for those who
couldnโt grab one out of the first batch.
o ยง Applicationsโ โพ
# โ OpenSource.com โ Whatโs_your_favorite_screenshot_tool_on
Linux?โ โ
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand
words, and while thatโs not always the case with
terminal commands and code, it still holds true for
the graphical desktop. Screenshots capture
precisely whatโs on your screen. I love taking them
to have a record of who attends meetings, so I
donโt have to write it down at the moment. Or to
capture a bug when doing UI testing. We all take
them for different reasons, though, and there are
more ways to take a screenshot than you might at
first think.
I started thinking about screenshots after Jim Hall
wrote an article listing GNOME screenshots, GIMP,
and Firefox as the ways he often takes screenshots.
And yet thatโs just the beginning, as I quickly
found out when I asked Opensource.com authors how
they each take screenshots.
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ Dan Langille โ Creating_a_wireguard_connection_between_my
home_and_coloโ โ
I will use a server in a colo. The hostnames will
point at that server. Letโs call it my portal. I
will configure Nginx on the portal to relay to my
home servers. The connection between the portal and
my basement will be maintained by the server at
home and Wireguard will be involved.
# โ A_sane_ssh(1)_key_management_exampleโ โ
Now, contrary to real lifeTM, ssh(1) can
automatically find a key without much fiddling with
a keyring. See man 5 ssh_config, and the ssh
TOKENS.
# โ ID Root โ How_To_Install_Git_on_Linux_Mint_21_โ_idrootโ โ
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Git on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didnโt
know, Git is a free and open-source distributed
version control system created to manage everything
from small to massive projects with speed and
efficiency. Using Git, you can collaborate with the
other developers, upload the new changes, keep
track of the changes, and many more.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add โsudoโ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of Git on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
# โ OSTechNix โ Move_Proxmox_Containers_And_VMs_To_Different
Disk_โ_OSTechNixโ โ
I have been using Proxmox for a couple months now.
Currently, I am hosting multiple Proxmox containers
and virtual machines in my Proxmox server. As the
number of containers and VMs is growing gradually,
I needed an additional storage. So I bought a new 1
TB SSD and migrated a few containers and VMs to the
new storage disk. If you ever been in a situation
like this, just follow the steps given below to
move Proxmox Containers and VMs to a different
disk.
# โ H2S Media โ 4_ways_to_install_Telegram_app_on_Linux_Mint_21
Vanessa_or_LMDEย _5โ โ
Telegram is not some unknown app, already millions
of users using it to chat and share their thoughts
with others. Just like Whatsapp, smartphone users
can easily install it on their smartphones as well
as on desktops. You can share or download images,
videos, documents and files very easily via it.
Further, it is also possible to make video and
voice calls and create polls, groups, and channels
to connect. Telegram is particularly popular
because of the latter function.
One of the popular features that make Telegram
popular is its subscription system for channels,
which works similarly to YouTube: according to your
interests, you can subscribe to channels on
Telegram. If the channel operator posts new
content, you can see it in the chat overview. Users
can easily select posted content and forward it to
family and friends. This makes it clear from which
user or channel the content originally comes.
# โ MakeTech Easier โ How_to_Use_Vim_Shortcuts_to_Navigate_Your
Web_Browser_โ_Make_Tech_Easierโ โ
While Vim is a text editor designed to be used just
by using keyboard shortcuts, browser extensions
like Vimium let you navigate the web using similar
keybindings without ever touching the mouse. Using
Vim shortcuts on your browser can help you get
things done faster and more efficiently. In this
article, I will show you how to use and configure
Vimium on your favorite browser.
# โ Make Use Of โ How_to_Set_Permissions_for_New_Files_on_Linux
With_umaskโ โ
If youโve used Linux for any length of time, youโd
know how important Linux file permissions are. But
what about permissions for when you create new
files? A utility called umask lets you set default
file permissions for new files on Linux.
# โ Local_HTTP_Proxy_Server_โ_No_Proxy_Host_Regex_โ_Split
Destination_Client_Connection_โ_Jonโs_FOSS_Blogโ โ
No usage documentation, however, posting this for
historical purposesโฆ
# โ ID Root โ How_To_Install_Nano_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTSโ โ
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of
you who didnโt know, GNU nano is a text editor for
Unix-like computing systems or operating
environments using a command line interface. It is
a very beginner-friendly text editor, which is why
it is most preferred by newbies. However, despite
being a simple text editor, it can still work well
for text and source code 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 โsudoโ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of GNU nano on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy
Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions
for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based
distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS,
Pop!_OS, and more as well.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Roller_skates,_guns_and_slick_tricks_โ
Rollerdrome_is_awesomeโ โ
Rollerdrome is a thoroughly odd blending of
mechanics and style found in the likes of Tony Hawk
Pro Skater, a little Jet Set Radio and Max Payne.
This is easily one of my biggest surprises so far
this year. Runs great on Linux with Proton and
Steam Deck Playable.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Tactical_battler_Tyrantโs_Blessing_is_out
now_with_Linux_support_and_Steam_Deck_Verifiedโ โ
Did you enjoy Into the Breach and other similar
small-scale strategy games? Tactical battler
Tyrantโs Blessing has released along with Native
Linux support and itโs Steam Deck Verified.
Swapping out mechs for fantasy, Tyrantโs Blessing
has a really sweet style to it that instantly draws
your attention.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Roadwarden_is_going_to_be_a_unique_text
adventure_worth_your_timeโ โ
Roadwarden is an illustrated text adventure that
Iโve played the demo of a few times through its
development, and itโs finally getting a release.
The developer has announced it release with Native
Linux support on September 8.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ YouTube_thought_my_Steam_Deck_video_was
โharmful_and_dangerousโโ โ
Here is your daily dose of what the heck? YouTube
and the mighty algorithm decided for no apparent
reason, that my Steam Deck video was โharmful and
dangerousโ.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Witchtastic_gets_Steam_Deck_Verified_after
the_dev_made_improvementsโ โ
As time goes on, more developers are tweaking their
games to improve the Steam Deck experience and
Witchtastic looks like a fun co-op game to try out.
What is it? Witchtastic is a 2-4 player co-op game
about brewing and delivering magic potions as fast
as possible. In a number of ways, the franticness
and design is a lot like the Overcooked series.
o ยง Desktop Environments/WMsโ โพ
# ยง K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qtโ โพ
# โ Nate Graham โ This_week_in_KDE:_Dolphin_Selection
Modeโ โ
Dolphin now has a dedicated โSelection Modeโ
you can optionally use to make the process of
selecting items easier with a touchscreen or
when using the default single-click setting!
It even shows a toolbar of contextually-
relevant actions you can perform on the
selected items! When using a mouse and
keyboard, you can quickly enter and exit it
by pressing the spacebar, presssing-and-
holding on an item in the view, or using an
item in the menu. Itโs completely optional,
so if you like selecting files the old
fashioned way, you donโt have to use it at
all.
* ยง Distributions and Operating Systemsโ โพ
o ยง Reviewsโ โพ
# โ Its FOSS โ Linux_Mint_21_Review:_Best_Distro_Just_Got_a
Little_Betterโ โ
Linux Mint 21 โVanessaโ is a fantastic upgrade.
If you havenโt upgraded yet, you can follow our
step-by-step tutorial to get help.
But should you proceed to upgrade? Is Linux Mint 21
good enough for users? Does it have any quirks that
you should know of?
Here, let me highlight some important information
to help you decide whether you should give it a try
or not.
[...]
Linux Mint 21 includes some big under-the-hood
refinements, especially, for the Cinnamon edition.
o ยง New Releasesโ โพ
# โ Neptune_7.5_โAdaโ_released_โ_Neptune_ENโ โ
We are proud to announce the release of Neptune 7.5
(โAdaโ) the first service release of the Neptune 7
series.
This version comes with the updates provided by
Debian 11.4 (โBullseyeโ) that offer the latest and
greatest in terms of security.
We updated the Linux Kernel to version 5.18 to
provide better support for modern hardware aswell
as fixing some bugs with existing hardware support.
We put effort in optimizing the performance of
Neptune by providing tweaks to kernel that speed up
the write speed on USB thumb drives for example.
o ยง BSDโ โพ
# โ Data Swamp โ Why_is_the_OpenBSD_documentation_so_good?โ โ
The OpenBSD operating system is known to be secure,
but also for having an accurate and excellent
documentation. In this text, Iโll try to figure out
what makes the OpenBSD documentation so great.
o ยง Slackware Familyโ โพ
# โ Eric Hameleers โ Slackware:_LibreOffice_7.4.0_and_security
updates_for_Chromium_104_|_Alien_Pasturesโ โ
I added fresh packages for LibreOffice Community
Edition 7.4.0 which was released a few days ago.
According to the Document Foundation blog post, the
focus is on improving MS Office document format
interoperability and helping people migrate from MS
Office to LibreOffice.
Note that I compiled these new packages on
Slackware 15.0. If you install them on Slackware -
current you will also need to download โicu4c-
compatโ and boost-compat from my repository and
install them. They are two compatibility packages
containing older versions of the icu4c and boost
libraries, in particular the versions that are part
of Slackware 15.0 but no longer part of -current.
Get libreoffice packages from my own Europe-based
server: https://slackware.nl/people/alien/
slackbuilds/libreoffice/ or my US-based server:
https://us.slackware.nl/people/alien/slackbuilds/
libreoffice/ ;or any mirror if you wait a day, for
instance https://slackware.uk/people/alien/
slackbuilds/libreoffice/ .
These servers all offer rsync access if you prefer
that to http.
o ยง Fedora Family / IBMโ โพ
# โ TechCrunch โ How_W4_plans_to_monetize_the_Godot_game_engine
using_Red_Hatโs_open_source_playbook_โ_TechCrunchโ โ
A new company from the creators of the Godot game
engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200
billion global video game market โ and to do so,
itโs taking a cue from commercial open source
software giant Red Hat.
Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform
game engine first released under an open source
license back in 2014, though its initial
development pre-dates that by several years. Today,
Godot claims some 1,500 contributors, and is
considered one of the worldโs top open source
projects by various metrics. Godot has been used in
high-profile games such as the Sonic Colors:
Ultimate remaster, published by Sega last year as
the first major mainstream game powered by Godot.
But Tesla, too, has apparently used Godot to power
some of the more graphically intensive animations
in its mobile app.
Among Godotโs founding creators is Juan Linietsky,
who has served as head of development for the Godot
project for the past 13 years, and who will now
serve as CEO of W4 Games, a new venture thatโs
setting out to take Godot to the next level.
[...]
In simple terms, a game engine serves up the basic
building blocks required for developers to create
games, and may include anything from renderers for
2D or 3D graphics to scripting and memory
management. Itโs basically a software framework
that developers can use and reuse without having to
redesign the wheel with each new game they create.
# โ How_W4_Plans_To_Monetize_the_Godot_Game_Engine_Using_Red
Hatโs_Open_Source_Playbookโ โ
o ยง Debian Familyโ โพ
# โ Daniel Pocock โ Frans_Pop_&_Debian_harassment:_death_by_a
thousand_emailsโ โ
The revelation that Frans Pop resigned the night
before Debian Day has shaken the way people view
his decision to end his life. It is hard to
eliminate the role of Debian in the death.
[...]
Looking at the chart, we can see Ubuntu development
commenced secretly in early 2004. Frans Pop joined
the debian-private mailing list in June 2005.
I think anybody who gets 1,000 emails in a month
will remember that. It may well have come to mind
for Frans and other volunteers in August 2010. That
is when Ubuntu developers simultaneously began the
pushing for DEP-5 and the pushing for Constantly
Usable Testing (CUT). That is when Frans decided
enough was enough.
o ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ Liliputing โ Now_you_can_run_Ubuntu_on_a_VisionFive_single-
board_PC_with_a_RISC-V_processorโ โ
Aimed at developers that want to get their feet wet
working with RISC-V architecture, when the board
first launched late last year it supported Fedora
Linux, Yocto, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, and Zephyr. Now
you can also run Ubuntu on VisionFive boards.
# โ Its FOSS โ There_is_Life_After_the_Death_of_x86โ โ
Box86 and Box64 are two pieces of software that
allow apps made for X86 to run on ARM devices like
the Raspberry Pi. It also aims to be both simple to
use and able to run on low-end devices. Above all
else, it is a completely open-source project,
meaning that it has the full support of the
community behind it. However, one man is at the
forefront of this effort, and I had the pleasure to
have a chat with him about what Box86 and Box64
are, their origins, and what the future holds for
the project.
# โ peppe8o โ Raspberry_PI_Pico_W_Web_Server:_a_Cheap
MicroPython_Solutionโ โ
With the built-in WiFi chip, we can create a very
cheap Raspberry PI Pico W web server running
MicroPython, to host very simple HTML pages and
create small and inexpensive websites
# โ Linux Gizmos โ Sparkfunโs_IoT_Redboard_features_R3_form
factor_and_supports_FreeRTOSโ โ
The IoT Redboard by SparkFun features a ES32 WROOM
module enabled with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2. This
development kit also provides an SD Card for data
logging, a USB type-C, a Qwiic connector, a battery
gauge and several other peripherals.ย
The ESP32 module found in the IoT Redboard is the
ESP32-D0WD-V3 which features a dual-core Xtensa LX6
MCU. The base frequency starts at 80MHz and it can
be adjusted up to 240MHz. The LX6 MCU has also been
seen in other boards already (i.e. BomberCat,
FireBeetle 2). According to the product page, the
device includes 448KB ROM, 520 SRAM and 16KB SRAM
in RTC.
# โ CNX Software โ Raspberry_Pi_Zero_2_W_board_gets_Raspberry
Pi_CM3_adapterโ โ
A couple of months ago, we wrote about the
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E (CM3E) equipped with
the Raspberry Pi RP3A0 SiP found in the Raspberry
Pi Zero 2 W board. It looks like an OEM product
from Raspberry Pi trading, and as such is close to
impossible to purchase.
But if somehow, youโd like to have the guts of the
Pi Zero 2 W into CM3 module form factor, Waveshare
has designed the Zero-to-CM3 adapter for the
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that should be compatible
with most carrier boards designed for Raspberry Pi
CM3 or CM3+.
# โ Raspberry Pi โ Motor_SHIM_driver_board_for_Pico_reviewโ โ
The Motor SHIM features a DRV8833 dual H-bridge
motor driver. This means it can drive a maximum of
two motors โ the rival Kitronik Robotics Board can
handle four, but then it is considerably larger.
Rather than screw terminals, the Motor SHIM
features two small two-pin JST-ZH connectors. For
each, just plug in one end of a cable (not
supplied), and the other end into a Motor Connector
SHIM on a micro metal-gear motor. You can also buy
motors with the JSTโZH connector pre-soldered โ to
the top or side, depending on your mounting
preference. Note that the Motor SHIM wonโt work
with motors equipped with six-pin Micro Metal Motor
Encoders, however.
o ยง Mobile Systems/Mobile Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Android Police โ Best_arcade_games_on_Android_in_2022โ โ
# โ The Verge โ Vergecast:_Android_13_arrives,_Galaxy_Watch_5
review,_and_Instagram_gets_competitiveย _โ_The_Vergeโ โ
# โ 9to5Google โ Android_themed_icons:_These_apps_support
Material_You_makeoversโ โ
# โ Gizmodo โ Android_13_Is_a_Subtle_Improvement_Over_Android
12โ โ
# โ GSM Arena โ Realme_8_5G_and_Narzo_30_5G_get_Android_12-
based_Realme_UI_3.0_โ_GSMArena.com_newsโ โ
# โ Make Use Of โ How_to_Use_Focus_Mode_on_Android_to_Bring
Distracting_Apps_Under_Controlโ โ
# โ Make Use Of โ How_to_Remotely_Install_Apps_on_Android
Through_the_Play_Store_Websiteโ โ
# โ 9to5Google โ Sleep_as_Android_adding_support_for_Health
Connect_โ_9to5Googleโ โ
# โ Android Central โ T-Mobile_Revvl_6_Pro_review:_Is_this
Magentaโs_secret_weapon?_|_Android_Centralโ โ
# โ HowTo Geek โ Google_Pixel_Buds_Pro_Review:_A_Fantastic_Pair
of_Android-Focused_Earbudsโ โ
# โ 9to5Google โ FedEx_app_displaying_strange_โCash_on_Delivery
Dueโ_messageโ โ
# โ FOSSBytes โ Google_Reportedly_Working_On_New_Backup_Method
For_Android_Smartwatchesโ โ
* ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
o โ Unicorn Media โ FOSS_Force_Open_Source_News_Quiz_(8/19/22)โ โ
o ยง Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligraโ โพ
# โ The Register UK โ LibreOffice_improves_Microsoft
compatibility_with_version_7.4โ โ
Just over six months on from version 7.3,
LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting
improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.
File compatibility has long been a significant
roadblock for users and organizations seeking an
alternative to Microsoftโs ubiquitous productivity
suite.
โMicrosoft files are still based on the proprietary
format deprecated by ISO in 2008, and not on the
ISO approved standard, so they hide a large amount
of artificial complexity,โ sniffed the LibreOffice
crew. โThis causes handling issues with
LibreOffice, which defaults to a true open standard
format (the OpenDocument Format).โ
# โ Linux Made Simple โ How_to_install_LibreOffice_7.4_on_a
Chromebookโ โ
Today we are looking at how to install LibreOffice
7.4 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.
o ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ Remy Van Elst โ Fade_in_/_fade_out_in_Qt/QMLโ โ
This guide shows you how to add a fade in / fade
out effect to a control in QML. There are a lot of
built in animations in Qt/QML, but no fade in/fade
out. Using a state machine and a
SequentialAnimation, we can first animate the
opacity, then set the visibility, achieving a fade
in / fade out effect. Other ways like a
PropertyAnimation are also available but are less
expressive or configurable.
# โ James G โ A_few_things_I_just_learned_about_Lispโ โ
I was trying to implement the Fisher-Yates
algorithm earlier this evening. This algorithm lets
you randomly shuffle the contents of a list. I
wanted to provide a list of songs and return a
shuffled list. I decided to use Lisp for this since
I donโt know much Lisp and I want to build my
skills.
# โ Variety โ How_Microsoftโs_Looming_Ownership_of_โCall_of
Dutyโ_Can_Hurt_Sonyโ โ
The deal is still pending approval and is expected
to close next year, but public documents courtesy
of Brazilโs regulatory body CADE revealed last week
just how strongly Microsoft and PlayStation owner
Sony feel about the otherโs competitive strategies
for their respective console brands.
# โ Barry Kauler โ BaCon_introduction_pages_rejuvenatedโ โ
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o โ The Nation โ George_Gascรณn_Survives_Another_Recallโ โ
o โ Counter Punch โ Learning_How_to_Die:_Finding_Meaning_in_the_Midst
of_Collapseโ โ
Despite the extremely disheartening developments across
the spectrum of worldly life, despair and defeat are
โwhile understandableโnot inevitable. That is the good
news. We are never obliged to surrender the best of our
humanity, even as things around us devolve. But in order
to find our footing, it is important to begin by seeing
the current reality without fear or illusion. We can be
fairly certain that the tipping points have now tipped,
that we are in for an epic unraveling. The planet is on
fire and under water, plagues are on the loose, croplands
are becoming barren, rivers going dry. Further, the
shreds of sane governance that might have kept us afloat
a little longer are going down in flames. The omnicidal
fascists, waiting impatiently in the wings for their
moment on center stage, are almost certain to speed us
ever more swiftly toward the end of life as we have known
it.
Personally, I believe in miracles because I have seen a
couple in my day. I never rule them out entirely, and my
fingers are crossed that we will get lucky. However, only
a fool would count on divine intervention. Particularly
after we repeatedly and decisively failed to heed all the
wisdom so generously handed to us, such that we might
save ourselves. It is a good time, then, to start
learning how to die. Maybe you wonโt need to leave life
โas an individualโright now, maybe you can find a way to
secure the futures of your loved ones, your kids and
grandkids. But we all live together on a dying planet and
we are assuredly going to witness continued decline and
demise on many fronts.
o โ Counter Punch โ Absolutely_Fabulousโ โ
That purveyor of excess, Baz Luhrmann strung an
unforgettable series of tableaux dansants together in
Strictly Ballroom, then showed how unwatchtably precious
he could be when he turned from the send-up to the
serious in his Romeo and Juliet. Thereโs no shortage of
dancing in Shakespeare, but directors undertake to stage
it at their own peril: the theatrical possibilities are
limitless, but proportional to the risk of failure. That
is probably a fair description of dancing itself: the
threat of falling flat on your face is both figurative
and literal.
Among the best of all dance scenes is in Harold Lloydโs
The Freshman of 1925. The impecunious college boyโs
tuxedo is not yet ready when the big ball begins so he
has to drag his aged tailor along to the party in order
to finish the outfit as surreptitiously as possible
during the dancing itself, the spectacle ending in the
pantless public humiliation of our hapless hero.
o โ Counter Punch โ Damnation_and_Redemption:_Religious_Themes_of
Suffering_and_Humanity_in_Graham_Greeneโs_The_Power_and_the_Gloryโ โ
The protagonist is a decidedly modern character in terms
of his dissolution.ย ย There is contained within him a
particle of the anomie and listlessness of a modern
world; in a Nietzschean-like fashion, it is all too easy
for this often vacillating and timid priest to imagine
that God is dead.ย ย The moment of nihilism is encouraged
by the darkness which falls over the desert at night, the
elemental shadows of the forest, and the sense of this
small rotund figure making his way through the murky
blackness, a blind creature groping its way toward an
uncanny fate: โIt was evening and forest; monkeys crashed
invisibly among the trees with an effect of clumsiness
and recklessness, and what were probably snakes hissed
away like match-flames through the grass. He wasnโt
afraid of them. They were a form of life, and he could
feel life retreating from him all the time.โ[2]ย ย There
are times in the novel when the world itself is regarded
from the same lonely, lofty purview: โit would roll
heavily in space under its fog like a burning and
abandoned ship.โ[3]
The stark poetry, the sense of a vast cosmological
loneliness acts to throw into relief the priestโs own
struggle.ย ย Here he is, pressing through the dismal
darkness, encountering the fleeting, haunting faces of
the impoverished peasants, trying to survive and yet it
is in this condition โ reduced to an elemental sense of
being, stripped of all artifice and privilege โ where he
most explicitly and violently encounters the most
fundamental questions of his existence. In the shadowy
hinterlands between life and death it is there where the
cardinal elements of his personality โ his strengths and
frailties โ are revealed, laid bare, in all their
truth.ย ย As a priest with a comfortable life, both content
and privileged, his was an existence taken for granted, a
complacent existence โ and despite the eloquence of his
proselytising โ in many ways a thoughtless one.ย ย Now such
privilege is removed from him by the brutal mechanics of
fate โ moving through the isolation and harshness of the
plains and mountains, he is compelled to fall through a
different type of darkness.ย ย An inner darkness, where he
must confront nakedly every unsavoury and pious act of
his past, where he is forced to question his faith and to
discover those moments in his personal history that might
provide the clue to some kind of redemption in the meagre
amount of time he has left.
o โ Tedium โ Odd_Power_Outlet_Types:_Not_Everything_Can_Be_Three-
Prong_or_Schukoโ โ
I have a problem with electrical outlets, at least of the
American three-pronged varietyโevery time I look at them,
I see a face looking back at me, in shock at what Iโm
about to do next. The outlet looks like itโs seen some
things. Itโs fascinating to me that when they designed
this power outlet style they looked at their options and
the best they could come up with was constant shock. So,
I know that power outlets differ in different countries,
and more importantly, I know why. But what about power
outlets that donโt follow any modern standards, or are so
obscure that you might do a double-take when trying to
figure out what theyโre for? (If you live in an old
house, you know what I mean.) Todayโs Tedium, in an
effort to give the poor shocked guy a break, dives into
power outlet variants that run current outside of the
norm. We do ten a lot, but just to change things up,
letโs make it seven.
o ยง Scienceโ โพ
# โ Tomโs Hardware โ China_Breaks_Record_for_Quantum_Memory
Entanglement_Distanceโ โ
Working with the University of Science and
Technology of China and the Jinan Institute of
Quantum Technology (opens in new tab), the
researchers showed that the entangled quantum
memories could maintain coherence even when they
have an urban environment between them. It is
because it was already a known element of
entanglement โ the process where two quantum units
(such as qubits or quantum memories) correlate so
that their states โ and thus, content โ canโt be
described separately.
o ยง Educationโ โพ
# โ Neil Selwyn โ Techno-scepticism_in_the_classroom_(an
interview_with_Marie_Heath)โ โ
In the September 2022 episode of the โMeet The
Education Researcherโ podcast, Neil Selwyn spoke
with Dr. Marie Heath (Loyola University) about her
work encouraging an informed โtechno-scepticismโ
around the social, political, cultural and economic
dimensions of technology in schools. Originally a
high school Social Studies teacher, Marie is part
of the โCivics Of Technologyโ initiative, and is
involved in various research and writing projects
concerned with supporting teacher activism and
community scrutiny of EdTech (nb. this text has
been lightly edited for clarity)
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Recommitting_to_the_Joyful_and
Humanity-Centered_Classroomโ โ
The world is broken. But instead of giving up,
instead of resigning, teachers need to pivot to
make teaching an act of defiance, a declaration
that the only way forward is through lessons that
teach students to remember joy, to activate their
muscles of imagination, kindness, laughter,
playfulness, and solidarity.
# โ The Nation โ Why_Iโm_Joining_the_Exodus_of_Teachers_Leaving
the_Classroomโ โ
This summer, I made the difficult decision to take
a leave of absence from teaching. For the first
time in 11 years, I wonโt be meeting new students
this September. This isnโt the choice I wanted to
make, but one I felt forced into as an
immunocompromised transplant recipient and new
parent facing a year of Covid-19 waves without
mitigations or accommodations.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Ensuring_Safe_In-Person_Education
Remains_an_Afterthought_in_US_Covid_Planโ โ
As the fourth pandemic school year approaches, the
US has converged on a single goal: schools must
return to normal. Secretary of Education Miguel
Cardona hailed the arrival of new CDC guidance for
โminimizing the impact of COVID-19โณ which, he
wrote, โshould give students, parents and educators
the confidence they need to head back to school
with a sense of joy & optimism.โ
o ยง Hardwareโ โพ
# โ Physical_buttons_outperform_touchscreens_in_new_cars,_test
findsโ โ
Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern
cars. Most manufacturers are switching to
touchscreens โ which perform far worse in a test
carried out by Vi Bilรคgare. The driver in the
worst-performing car needs four times longer to
perform simple tasks than in the best-performing
car.
# โ Hackaday โ Livestreaming_Backpack_Takes_Streaming_On-The-
Goโ โ
Anyone whoโs anyone on the internet these days
occasionally streams content online. Whether thatโs
the occasional livestream on YouTube or an every
day video game session on Twitch, itโs definitely a
trend thatโs here to stay. If you want to take your
streaming session on the go, though, youโll need
some specialized hardware like [Melissa] built into
this livestreaming backpack.
# โ Hackaday โ Keycap_Shine?_No,_Shiny_Keycapsโ โ
No matter how often you wash your hands, ABS
keycaps will eventually exhibit shine wherever you
strike them the most. And thatโs the problem right
there: the shine might be okay if it were somehow
uniform across the surface of the keycaps, but
instead it just tends to make one feel seen. And
since thereโs really nothing you can do except to
replace your keycaps (or start with PBT), you might
as well embrace the shine, right?
# โ Hackaday โ Tracing_In_2D_And_3D_With_Hall_Effect_Sensorsโ โ
Pantographs were once used as simple mechanical
devices for a range of tasks, including duplicating
simple line drawings. [Tim] decided to make a
modern electronic version that spits out G-Code
instead.
# โ Hackaday โ Reverse-Engineering_A_Smokerโ โ
In certain parts of the world, cooking meat in a
regionally-specific way is a critical part of the
local culture. From barbeque in the American south
to boerewors and braaivleis in South Africa to
Montrรฉal smoked meat in French Canada, almost every
location has its cookout specialty. So much so that
various manufacturers of the tools used for these
foods include all kinds of gadgets to monitor the
sometimes days-long process of cooking various cuts
of meat. [megamarco833]โs smoker, though, includes
some tools of his own design.
# โ Hackaday โ Roฬฬฝta:_Counting,_With_Styleโ โ
Roฬta counts things. Thatโs it, really โ what a
cheap little mechanical counter does with a thumb
press, or what you can do by counting on your
fingers and toes, thatโs pretty much all that Roฬta
does. But it does it with style.
o ยง Health/Nutrition/Agricultureโ โพ
# โ The Gray Zone โ โNo_Farms,_No_Food:โ_Dutch_farmers_confront
billionaire_โgreenโ_eliteโs_food_system_reset_planโ โ
# โ The Nation โ Trying_to_Keep_the_Roof_on_in_Louisianaโs
Cancer_Alleyโ โ
Itโs hurricane season. Here in Louisiana, weโre
bracing ourselves for another devastating storm.
Predictions are that this year will be as brutal as
2005, when Katrina walloped our coast. Down here,
tensions rise in late summer: Warm ocean waters
driven by a changing climate can turn a Category 2
storm into a 3 or 4 remarkably fast and with little
warning. Last August, Hurricane Ida showed no
mercy, tearing off roofs and displacing thousands.
Six months later, I was still gutting homes.
# โ Common Dreams โ โTerrible_Ideaโ:_Biden_Preparing_to_Shift
Costs_of_Covid_Treatments,_Vaccines_to_Patientsโ โ
Advocates for a more just healthcare system
responded with alarm to Thursday reporting that the
Biden administration is taking steps to stop paying
for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments in the coming
months, a move critics fear will lead to higher
prices and more expensive coverage, enriching
pharmaceutical and insurance giants at the expense
of patients.
โRecipe for disaster, unless you are a
pharmaceutical company or other profit center in
the healthcare market.โ
# โ The Nation โ Puerto_Rico_Has_a_Big-Pharma_Problemโ โ
In Puerto Rico, our elected officials have told us
for decades that a job in the pharmaceutical
industry can be a source of stability and decent
wages. But for many Puerto Ricans working for Big
Pharma, thatโs a fantasy.
o ยง Proprietaryโ โพ
# โ Eesti Rahvusringhรครคling โ Cyberattacks_against_Estonia
continue_โ_RIAโ โ
He said the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA),
the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA), postal service
Omniva and the Smart-ID website were among those
targeted over the past 48 hours.
# โ India Times โ UK_spy_chief_says_Putin_is_losing_information
war_in_Ukraine [iophk: Windows TCO]โ โ
Fleming said Russia had deployed WhisperGate
malware to destroy and deface Ukrainian government
systems.
# โ India Times โ Over_50%_India_firms_raise_ICT_budget,
cybersecurity_key_concernโ โ
More than 50 per cent of enterprises in India have
significantly increased their information and
communications technology (ICT) budget this year
compared to 2021, a report showed on Thursday, as
cybersecurity becomes the key concern for firms in
the country.
The uptick is due to the ongoing digital
initiatives by the Indian government and a surge in
the use of digital technologies due to Covid-19,
reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics
company.
o ยง Securityโ โพ
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ The Verge โ This_site_exposes_the_creepy_things_in-
app_browsers_from_TikTok_and_Instagram_might_trackโ โ
Apps can inject their JavaScript code into
websites, allowing them to monitor how the
user is interacting with the app. This can
include information on every button or link
you tap, keyboard inputs and if screenshots
were taken, though each app will vary in what
information it collects.
# โ EFF โ Nonprofit_Websites_Are_Full_of_Trackers._That
Should_Change.โ โ
Today, the vast majority of websites and
emails that you encounter contain some form
of tracking. Third-party cookies let
advertisers follow you around the web;
tracking pixels in emails confirm whether
youโve opened them; tracking links ensure
websites know what you click; some websites
even collect data on forms youโve never
actually submitted; still others share
detailed interactions, such as appointments
youโve booked, with companies like Facebook.
Each of these types of technology works by
turning your actions into data: websites with
tracking collect and store data about the
site you are on, when, and what you are doing
there; emails with tracking collect and store
data about which email you opened and how you
interacted with it.ย
All of this amounts to an incredible amount
of data about you being collected without
your permission. That data doesnโt all end up
in one placeโsometimes itโs collected by
individual websites, sometimes by ad tech
companies, and sometimes by third-parties
youโve never heard of. But regardless of who
has the data, it amounts to a massive
violation of user privacy that can have far-
reaching consequences. Choosing to collect
the data of supporters, clients and visitors
isnโt just a marketing, monetary or
ideological decision: itโs a decision that
putsย people in danger. In a post-Roe world,
for example, law enforcement might use
internet search histories, online purchases,
tracked locations, and other parts of a
personโs digital trailย as evidence of
criminal intent โ indeed, they already have.ย
If you are a nonprofit organization, you may
be part of the problem. Unfortunately, a 2021
report from The Markup showed that many
nonprofits donโt take threats to privacy
seriously. That may be changing: Planned
Parenthood, for example, has suspended the
use of marketing trackers on some portions of
their website in response to the dangers they
could create for people seeking information
on abortions. Hey Jane, an online provider of
abortion pills, has also removed the Meta
(Facebook) tracking pixel.ย
# โ Techdirt โ NSO_Wins_Phone_Exploit_Of_The_Year_Award,
No-Shows_Award_Ceremonyโ โ
Thereโs no better way to admit youโre a
pariah than skipping out on a celebration of
your specific talents. Roman Polanski has
passed on attending awards ceremonies out of
fear of being extradited to face criminal
charges related to the drugging and raping of
a 13-year-old girl. Polanski remains a
(cautiously) celebrated film director and
continues to find work, but will not show up
to collect awards because he (correctly)
fears direct criticism, if not an actual
arrest.
# โ Techdirt โ When_Tech_Companies_Do_It,_The_NY_Times
Calls_It_โDark_Patterns,โ;_When_The_NY_Times_Does_It,
Itโs_Called_โBeing_Smartโโ โ
This post was inspired by a Benedict Evansโ
tweet.
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ The Hill โ Democrats_press_social_media_platforms_over_FBI
threatsโ โ
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn
Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)
demanded Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Truth Social,
Rumble, Gettr, Telegram and Gab respond with
details about their policies and data on the
threats.
The request comes after researchers have identified
an uptick in violent posts targeting FBI agents
since the search at former President Trumpโs Mar-a-
Lago residence.
# โ Reuters โ Ukraine,_UN_agreed_parameters_for_IAEA_mission_to
nuclear_plant_โ_Zelenskiyโ โ
โWe agreed with the secretary general the
conditions of a possible mission by the IAEA to the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, in a legal way, via
territory free from occupiers,โ Zelenskiy told
reporters.
โRussia should immediately and unconditionally
withdraw its forces from territory of Zaporizhzhia
nuclear power plant, as well as stopping any
provocations and shelling,โ he said.
# โ CNN โ Russian_vehicles_seen_inside_turbine_hall_at_Ukraine
nuclear_plantโ โ
The footage shows one of the six turbine rooms
located on the western side of the nuclear plant,
located in the southeastern city of Enerhodar. Each
turbine hall is connected and built into a large
building that houses a nuclear reactor.
# โ NPR โ Why_a_Chinese_shipโs_arrival_in_Sri_Lanka_has_caused
alarm_in_India_and_the_Westโ โ
Beijingโs critics have long offered up Hambantota
as the classic example of what they call a Chinese
debt trap. Now, with Sri Lanka bankrupt and
politically unstable, theyโre flagging it as a
worrying example of how China might use that
infrastructure for military purposes.
# โ Algemeiner โ Every_American_Investor_Can_Help_Stop_Iranian
Terrorismโ โ
So what can individual Americans do to curb Iranโs
support for terrorism, and prevent a dangerous
region from becoming even more dangerous? Track
your investments.
# โ 7NEWS โ Home_Affairs_Minister_warns_children_are_being
radicalised_in_school_playgroundsโ โ
National security agency the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) claims extremists
are targeting the vulnerable.
โTheyโll do this through the use of videos that
might start out being a bit humorous โฆ and grow
more and more racist and more and more violent
until young people are quite desensitised to the
violence they are seeing,โ Home Affairs Minister
Clare OโNeil told 7NEWS.
# โ BBC โ Sweden:_Man_dies_in_shooting_at_Malmo_shopping
centreโ โ
People at the Emporia shopping mall in the southern
city of Malmo fled in panic after hearing around 20
shots being fired, Swedish outlet TV4 said.
Police have arrested a teenage boy and believe the
shooting is related to gang [sic] tensions.
# โ Meduza โ Air_defenses_activated_in_Yevpatoria_and
Sevastopol_โ_Meduzaโ โ
On the evening of August 19, air defenses were
triggered in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria,
according to Oleg Kriuchkov, an advisor to the
Moscow-backed head of Crimea. โCrimea is well
protected,โ he said on Telegram.
# โ Meduza โ โThe_commanders_donโt_give_a_shit_about_usโ:_In
one_Russian_brigade,_around_700_soldiers_have_refused_to
fight._But_their_superiors_wonโt_let_them_leave._โ_Meduzaโ โ
On August 15, the Russian investigative news outlet
iStories released anย investigationย that included
interviews with multiple soldiers involved in
crimes against civilians in the Ukrainian village
of Andriivka. After the article was published,
other soldiers from the same brigade contacted the
journalists to confirm the accounts, as well as to
report that hundreds of their fellow servicemen are
being denied their right to resign from the army.
With permission, Meduza is publishing a translated
summary of the new report.
# โ Meduza โ โThey_werenโt_fighting_soldiers_โ_they_were
fighting_regular_peopleโ_The_17_civilians_killed_during_the
Russian_occupation_of_Andriivka_โ_Meduzaโ โ
In February and March, when the Ukrainian village
of Andriivka was under Russian occupation, Russian
troops reportedly killed at least 14 civilians;
three more died as a result of shelling. After
investigating the circumstances of each death,
Schemes, a project from Radio Free Europe/Radio
Libertyโs Ukrainian Service, has released an online
map charting the killings and an investigative film
called โAndriivka: The Tragedy of One Village.โ
With permission, Meduza is publishing translated
summaries of the victimsโ stories.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_The_Saudi-Funded_LIV_Golf_Tourโ โ
Hereโs the big question in Jock Culture these days:
Is the Kingdom of Golf being used to sportswash the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Or is it the other way
around? After all, what other major sport could use
a sandstorm of Middle Eastern murder and human-
rights abuses to obscure its own history of bigotry
and greed? In fact, not since the 1936 Berlin
Olympics was used to cosmeticize Nazi Germanyโs
atrocities and promote Aryan superiority have
sports and an otherwise despised government
collaborated so blatantly to enhance their joint
international standings.
# โ Common Dreams โ Corporate_Media_Mostly_Mum_as_US_Strikes
Kill_at_Least_20_in_Somaliaโ โ
Conflict monitors on Friday drew attention to a
series of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia in recent
months, attacks that have received relatively
little attention in the American corporate media
despite having reportedly killed more than 20
people.
โBottom line, itโs been a long time since the
United States was not bombing Somalia.โ
o ยง Transparency/Investigative Reportingโ โพ
# โ TruthOut โ 18_Former_Trump_Officials_Say_โStanding_Orderโ
to_Declassify_Docs_Never_Happenedโ โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Appeals_Court_Orders_Release_of_Secret_Memo
Barr_โUsed_to_Undercut_the_Mueller_Reportโโ โ
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the
release of a 2019 memorandum about whether then-
President Donald Trump obstructed Special Counsel
Robert Muellerโs investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW)โthe watchdog fighting to reveal
the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) memo prepared
for then-Attorney General Bill Barrโcelebrated the
ruling as a win.
o ยง Environmentโ โพ
# โ NBC โ โForever_chemicalsโ_stay_in_the_air_and_water
permanently._But_scientists_have_found_a_new_way_to_destroy
them.โ โ
The new method appears to be safer and more energy-
efficient. The Northwestern scientists added PFAS
molecules to a solution of lye and dimethyl
sulfoxide and exposed them to temperatures of up to
248 degrees Fahrenheit. The chemicals degraded into
fluoride ions and other harmless byproducts.
# โ TruthOut โ โThe_Earth_Is_Telling_Us_Itโs_Exhaustedโ:_An
Interview_With_Poet_Natalie_Diazโ โ
# โ The Nation โ The_Environmental_Cost_of_Greedโ โ
# ยง Energyโ โพ
# โ David Rosenthal โ Forking_Ethereumโ โ
The problem for Ethereum that will motivate a
hard fork is that, even more than it was in
2017, Proof-of-Work mining is a capital-
intensive industry. After what Ethereum calls
โthe mergeโ there will be a large investment
in GPUs and ASICs that can no longer earn a
return mining Ethereum. Olga Kharif reports
in Crypto Miner Pushback Suggests Ethereum
Offshoots Are Coming that: [...]
# โ Meduza โ Russiaโs_Gazprom_to_halt_gas_deliveries_via
Nord_Stream_1_for_three_days_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on
Friday that gas deliveries to Europe via the
Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be halted for
three days at the end of August.ย
# ยง Wildlife/Natureโ โพ
# โ RTL โ US_judge_sentences_wildlife_trafficker_to_more
than_5_years_in_jailโ โ
Moazu Kromah, a Uganda resident, was
extradited from the west African country to
the United States in June 2019, pleading
guilty in March of this year to one count of
conspiracy to commit wildlife trafficking and
two counts of wildlife trafficking, the
office of the US Attorney for the Southern
District of New York, Damian Williams, said
in a statement.
# โ NBC โ You_can_now_tweet_as_you_climb_Mount
Kilimanjaro_thanks_to_new_Wi-Fi_networkโ โ
Tanzania hopes to offer full [Internet]
connectivity up to the summit of the mountain
by the end of this year.
# โ Cannibal_squid_โspeechโ_strangely_resembles_human
language_โ_Big_Thinkโ โ
In 2000, The Onion published a provocative
thought experiment: How quickly would humans
fall from the top of the animal kingdom if
dolphins, who have a greater cranial capacity
than us and are arguably more sadistic, had
the ability to grab things? At the time, it
seemed funny.
However, 20 years later, two marine
biologists made a creepy discovery regarding
cannibalistic squid that are exceptionally
well-equipped at grasping things with their
teeth-covered tentacles: The squid use human-
like syntax to communicate with changing
pigmentation patterns. Now, whoโs laughing?
# โ The Revelator โ 15_Things_to_Do_Before_the_End_of
Summerโ โ
o ยง Financeโ โพ
# โ Scheerpost โ Kathryn_Judge:_The_Menace_That_Is_Amazon_and
Walmartโ โ
On this weekโs โScheer Intelligence,โ Columbia Law
School professor Kathryn Judge talks to Robert
Scheer about the exploitation of monster behemoth
retail companies revealed in her new book โDirect.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ โDeeply_Dangerous_Nonsenseโ:_Treasury_Dept.
Debunks_GOP_Lies_About_87,000_Armed_IRS_Agentsโ โ
An official from the U.S. Treasury Department
confirmed Friday that, contrary to the unrelenting
barrage of lies repeated by GOP operatives for over
a week, the Internal Revenue Service is not going
to hire 87,000 new agents to harass working people
at their homes.
Not a single Republican in the House or Senate
voted for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that
was passed through the filibuster-proof budget
reconciliation process last week and signed into
law by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, choosing
instead to condemn the packageโs relatively modest
but popular tax reforms.
o ยง AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politicsโ โพ
# โ The Nation โ The_Mar-a-Lago_Raid_Highlights_the_DOJโs
Hypocrisy_on_the_Espionage_Actโ โ
The DOJ has long used powerful laws like the
Espionage Act to target our most vulnerable
whistleblowers and truth-tellers, and the ongoing
records dispute with a former president is an
almost unheard-of course correction. However, given
the departmentโs history, we should be deeply
concerned about any failure to hold Trump
accountable for violations of the law precisely
because he is the former president.
By every measure, if the allegations being
investigated by the DOJ are true, Trump would be an
ideal candidate for prosecution for violating the
Espionage Act.
# โ Frontpage Magazine โ Biden_Exploits_Muslim_Murders_to_Play
Identity_Politicsโ โ
First, on average, about 42 people are reportedly
killed every day in America, by just guns alone
(meaning significantly more people are killed every
day by all methods). The overwhelming majority of
these โ victims of black-on-black violence โ
receive zero mention in the media.
# โ The Nation โ Democrats_Should_Make_a_Much_Bigger_Deal_of
the_Threat_Posed_by_Trumpโ โ
Republicans recognize that the fundamental issue of
the 2022 midterm elections is whether the United
States will continue as a constitutional republic
or warp into an authoritarian state where the rule
of law and the will of the people are casually
disregarded. The question is whether Democrats
understand that this is what the election is about,
and whether they will fight as hard to defend
democratic norms as Republicans are fighting to
dismantle them.
# โ TruthOut โ Despite_Trumpโs_Legal_Woes,_GOP_Political
Candidates_Are_Leaping_to_His_Defenseโ โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Liz_Cheney_and_Donald_TrumpโThe
Two_Faces_of_American_Totalitarianismโ โ
Liz Cheneyโs electoral defeat is not the fall of an
American hero. Sheโs not going anywhere, and sheโs
no hero. The good she is doing on the January 6
Committee is almost certainly being done for less
than admirable purposes. To ignore that fact is to
overlook another front in the war on democracy.
# โ The Hill โ US_deployed_cyber_โhunt_forwardโ_team_to
Croatiaโ โ
The team, which is made up of U.S. military and
civilian personnel, worked alongside Croatian
intelligence and cybersecurity officials to look
for malicious cyber activity and vulnerabilities.
# โ Scheerpost โ Patrick_Lawrence:_A_Hall_of_Mirrorsโ โ
# โ Democracy Now โ What_Will_the_Future_of_Kenya_Look_Like?
Nanjala_Nyabola_on_2022_Disputed_Election,_Drought_&_Moreโ โ
Kenya is facing a political crisis following last
weekโs presidential election, with the apparent
runner-up rejecting the results of the vote and the
apparent president-elect announcing plans to form a
new government. We speak with Nairobi-based writer
and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, who says the
Kenyan elections yield โterrible candidates,โ with
the most recent election results following a
decades-long tradition of election interference and
miscommunication. โThereโs always been a reason to
doubt the results,โ says Nyabola. She also
discusses how the digital age has uplifted election
systems like Kenyaโs as examples of how to thwart
democracy for the West, and the impact of the
drought in the Horn of Africa, where the United
States says more than 18 million people are facing
severe hunger.
# โ TruthOut โ Sanders:_โIt_Is_Absolutely_Imperativeโ_for
Progressives_to_Not_Back_Downโ โ
# โ Techdirt โ Wannabe_Censor_Ron_DeSantis_Is_Now_0_For_2_With
His_Censorship_Bills:_Court_Throws_Out_His_โStop_WOKE_Actโ_As
Unconstitutionalโ โ
Ron DeSantis likes to pretend that heโs in favor of
free speech. He talks about free speech quite
frequently. But the fact is that heโs a garden
variety authoritarian censor in a cheap suit. He
keeps passing culture war pro-censorship bills that
try to stifle the free speech rights of his critics
โ quintessential anti-1st Amendment censorship. And
each time people, rightly, sue to protect their
rights. And each time, DeSantis has to waste
taxpayer money to defend his indefensible bills.
And each time he loses as courts point out that,
dude, the 1st Amendment doesnโt allow you to do
that shit.
# โ FAIR โ Media_Trust,_Polling_and_the_Big_Lieโ โ
These results were enough to inspire columnist Marc
Thiessen of the Washington Post (7/26/22) to
produce another one of his disingenuous rants
against the โmainstream mediaโ (Washington Post, 1/
6/22). โWhy do people believe the โBig Lieโ?โ he
asks. Answer: โBecause Americans donโt trust the
media.โ He argues that because the media have lost
public confidence, they are the reason that roughly
one-third of Americans overall, including two-
thirds of Republicans, believe the Big Lieโthat the
2020 presidential election was stolen (Atlantic, 4/
18/22).
# โ FAIR โ Action_Alert:_Tell_USA_Today_to_Tell_Whole_Story_on
Afghan_Withdrawalโ โ
As signaled by the headline, the article framed the
loss of US occupation as an unfortunate setback for
the countryโalthough in reality the US has been and
remains the primary force of โchaosโ and
โuncertaintyโ in Afghanistan.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Trump_Has_No_Allegiance_to_the
Truth_or_Rule_of_Law:_Mar-a-Lago_Editionโ โ
Truth is an alien concept to former President
Donald Trump. As the old saying goes, โHe lies when
the truth will serve.โ
# โ The Nation โ A_Disunited_Left_Clears_the_Field_for_a
Moderate_in_NY_10โ โ
The open Democratic primary for New Yorkโs new 10th
Congressional District has been as wild and bitter
as anticipated, a pile-up of at least six prominent
contenders who are desperately vying to represent
some of the most prestigious turf in America. The
outcome could be a gut punch for progressives, who
are currently on the outside looking in as a
multimillionaire ex-prosecutor leads the field with
only days to go until the August 23 primary.
# ยง Misinformation/Disinformationโ โพ
# โ RTL โ Facebook_bans_major_US_anti-vaccine_groupโ โ
Meta spokesperson Aaron Simpson told AFP that
the groupโs accounts at Facebook and
Instagram were shuttered on Wednesday. The
ban came after repeated violations of Metaโs
misinformation rules.
# โ FAIR โ Azadeh_Shahshahani_on_Central_America_Plan,
Jon_Lloyd_on_Facebook_Disinformationโ โ
# โ Project Censored โ The_Alex_Jones_Playbook_โ_Censored
Notebook,_Dispatches_from_Project_Censored:_On_Media
and_Politicsโ โ
In August 2022, a Texas jury ruled that
internet personality Alex Jones pay $49
million for defaming the parents of the
victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary
school massacre. Starting a decade earlier,
Jones had claimed that the shooting was a
hoax. He argued that crisis actors played the
victims and the children never existed. The
decision was met with relief from the loved
ones of the victims and ideological opponents
of Jones. ย
o ยง Censorship/Free Speechโ โพ
# โ RTL โ Literature_world_holds_New_York_rally_for_Rushdieโ โ
More than a dozen acclaimed writers, including
friends and colleagues of Rushdie, spoke at the
steps of the New York Public Library for the event,
which organizers said the novelist had been invited
to watch from the hospital.
# โ The Economist โ Salman_Rushdie_and_the_struggle_for_free
speechโ โ
Meanwhile, the struggle for free speech, of which
Sir Salman became an accidental championโdeciding
it was a cause worth dying for, if he had toโis as
fierce and pressing as ever, if also more complex,
waged on new fronts and against suave foes as well
as the murderous sort. Now, as in the aftermath of
the fatwa, the battle lines are wavier than they
ought to be. Then, some politicians and thinkers
were forced to choose between principles: a non-
judgmental multiculturalism and what ought to have
been an inviolable commitment to free expression,
even or especially when it causes offence. Some got
the hierarchy wrong, tolerating intolerance and
criticising an author they should have shielded.
โGood men would give in to fear and call it
respect,โ Sir Salman wrote. Some still do.
# โ NPR โ Since_1989,_threats_to_Salman_Rushdie_have_sparked
support_and_debate_on_free_speechโ โ
Commenting on Twitter in the days after last weekโs
attack on Rushdie, Iranian American writer Roya
Hakakian criticized a response by a U.S. official.
Later, while posting a link to Carterโs 1989 op-ed,
she attributed what she called the abandonment of
Rushdie and free speech to โthe elites in 1989โณ and
tweeted, โitโs the elites today, too, all laying
the building blocks of the unsightly cancel culture
of today.โ
# โ Not_the_Best_Time_For_Writersโ โ
On Friday night, when I heard that Rushdie had been
stabbed, my sorrow was twofold: I felt saddened by
the horrific injury of an exceptionally talented
man whose mind and imagination I knew intimately
through his writing; and saddened by the world we
live inโa world in which the diplomatic immunity
granted to every creative-ambassador of the kingdom
of imagination, which I had always viewed as a
solid fact, was crumbling. When literature
departments refuse to teach Lolita, conferences on
Dostoevsky are cancelled over the Russian invasion
of Ukraine, Oscar winners feel comfortable slapping
standup comedians on live television, journalists
and cartoonists can be killed because they publish
a thought or joke that offends their readers, it is
a dangerous world for both artists and art itself.
Itโs a two-way street: a writer is stabbed because
of ideas and fantasies he shares in a work of
fiction, while a creative artistโs problematic
conduct in religious, moral or political realms is
punished by boycotting art that harms no one. And,
unlike in the past, when artistic freedom was
curtailed by totalitarian regimes and religious
movements, today it is under attack from all
fronts, including the liberal community, which is
willing to police art by means of shaming and
boycotting. In this reality, no artistic creator or
creation is safe. Art has ceased to be a city of
refuge unrestricted by pragmatism and agendas, and
has become instead a battlefield in which artists
who express ideas that infuriate someone might find
themselves or their works bloodied.
# โ Techdirt โ Pro_Tip:_If_Youโre_Suing_YouTube_And_Asking_For
More_Time_Because_The_CEO_Is_Sick,_Donโt_Post_A_Highly
Produced_YouTube_Video_Attacking_The_Ruling_&_Lawyersโ โ
There are a bunch of moving parts involved in this
case that I really wasnโt planning on covering โ
but something quite amusing happened and I canโt
resist. The basics are fairly straightforward:
thereโs an outfit named โBusiness Casualโ that
makes videos, apparently sometimes discussing
historical events and whatnot. One part of the
videos is that they create โparallaxโ images, in
which they take apart old public domain photos and
give them a sort of 3D feel (sometimes creating new
images entirely). RT Arabic (the Arabic language
wing of RT โ i.e., Russia Today โ owned by the
state funded TV-Novosti) apparently used some
snippets of these parallax images from a couple of
Business Casual videos. Business Casual filed DMCA
takedowns, causing the RT Arabic channel to get
some copyright strikes, and even had the account
briefly taken down, though it was then reinstated.
# โ The Dissenter โ The_Spies_Curating_What_You_See_On_Social
Mediaโ โ
# โ Meduza โ Roskomnadzor_penalizes_TikTok,_Telegram,_and
others_for_failing_to_remove_banned_content_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Russiaโs federal censor, Roskomnadzor, announced it
was taking โcoercive measuresโ against TikTok,
Telegram, Zoom, Discord, and Pinterest on Friday.
Search engines will now be required to inform users
that the companies stand in violation of Russian
law.
o ยง Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Pressโ โพ
# โ Scheerpost โ The_Deadly_Business_of_Reporting_Truthโ โ
Two grim anniversaries demonstrate how journalists
around the world increasingly face violence, but
leadersโincluding President Bidenโhave been slow to
act.
o ยง Civil Rights/Policingโ โพ
# โ TruthOut โ Maine_Nurses_Vote_to_Keep_Their_Union_Despite
Right-Wing_Push_to_Decertify_Itโ โ
# โ Common Dreams โ In_Landslide_1,108-to-387_Vote,_Maine
Nurses_Reject_Effort_to_Decertify_Their_Unionโ โ
Nurses at Maine Medical Center have voted by an
overwhelming margin to keep the union that they
opted to join last year, fending off a
decertification effort backed by a right-wing legal
group dedicated to rolling back workersโ ability to
organize and bargain collectively.
The vote, held in person on August 17 and 18,
favored the union even more heavily than the
initial 1,001 to 750 vote in 2021.
# โ New York Times โ The_West_Is_Kidding_Itself_About_Womenโs
Freedom_in_Saudi_Arabiaโ โ
On closer inspection, however, the emancipation of
women is not all it seems.
First, itโs hard to discuss womenโs freedom while
Saudi Arabia prosecutes women (and men) as
terrorists for so much as dabbling in politics.
Just last week, Salma al-Shehab, a Ph.D. student
and mother of two, was sentenced to 34 years in
prison for using her Twitter account in support of
dissidents.
# โ Mexico News Daily โ Changes_brought_by_influx_of_foreigners
in_Oaxaca_a_cause_for_concern:_studyโ โ
According to the CESOP study, the economic benefits
brought about by the presence of foreign tourists
and residents have taken precedence over the
preservation of social values and customs and
traditions in certain parts of Oaxaca city.
However, there has been scant consideration of the
negative impacts the outsiders generate, the
researchers said, among which are higher rents and
food prices, noise pollution due to the influx of
new businesses (which have taken the place of
older, more traditional ones), insecurity, changes
to the urban landscape and โsymbolic
dispossession,โ as some locals have been priced out
of neighborhoods where they formerly lived.
# โ Scheerpost โ How_Latin_America_Could_Inspire_and_Inform_the
US_Fight_for_Reproductive_Justiceโ โ
Withย Roeย now overturned, lessons learned from
theย Green Wave, the feminist movement working on
reproductive rights that began in Argentina &
spread through & beyond Latin America, could
inspire the fight against anti-abortion laws in the
US and worldwide.
# โ TruthOut โ Immigrant_Rights_Groups_Are_Suing_LexisNexis_for
Helping_ICE_Target_Communitiesโ โ
# โ Democracy Now โ โNo_Tech_for_ICEโ:_Data_Broker_LexisNexis
Sued_for_Helping_ICE_Target_Immigrant_Communitiesโ โ
A coalition of immigrant rights organizations have
sued the data broker LexisNexis for collecting
detailed personal information on millions of people
and then selling it to governmental entities,
including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The
lawsuit alleges LexisNexis has helped create โa
massive surveillance state with files on almost
every adult U.S. consumer,โ and accuses ICE of
using information collected by LexisNexis to
circumvent local policies in sanctuary cities. We
speak with Cinthya Rodriguez, organizer with the
immigrant justice group Mijente, who explains how
โone of the biggest data brokers in the worldโ is
โgetting rich off of the backs of community
members,โ particularly among immigrant communities
of color and activists.
# โ TruthOut โ Judge_Orders_Starbucks_to_Reinstate_7_Fired_Pro-
Union_Workers_in_Memphisโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Trump-Appointed_Judge_Blocks_Biden_Moratorium_on
Oil_and_Gas_Leasingโ โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Trump-Appointed_Judge_Permanently_Blocks
Bidenโs_Oil_and_Gas_Leasing_Moratoriumโ โ
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Louisiana issued
a permanent injunction Thursday against President
Joe Bidenโs moratorium on oil and gas lease sales
on public lands and waters, a decision that came
just 24 hours after a different court ruled that
the administrationโs long-blocked drilling freeze
could take effect.
Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for
the Western District of Louisiana, the same judge
who temporarily halted Bidenโs lease sale
moratorium last year, sided Thursday with the 13
fossil fuel industry-friendly Republican attorneys
general who sued to block the pause.
# โ Common Dreams โ Tlaib_Says_Biden_Must_โHold_Israel
Accountableโ_for_Raid_on_Palestinian_Rights_Groupsโ โ
U.S. Rep Rashida Tlaib on Friday urged the Biden
administration to โhold Israel accountableโ after
the countryโs forces raided and shuttered the
offices of seven Palestinian human rights groups in
the occupied West Bank, a move that drew
international outrage.
โExactly 100 days since American journalist Shireen
Abu Akleh was assassinated by an Israeli sniper,
the apartheid government moved to shut down seven
human rights organizations at the core in fighting
for the lives, liberties, and freedoms of millions
of Palestinians,โ Tlaib (D-Mich.), the first
Palestinian-American woman ever elected to the U.S.
Congress, said in a statement.
# โ Democracy Now โ Palestinian_NGOs_Speak_Out_After_Israeli
Forces_Raid_Offices_&_Declare_Them_to_Be_โTerroristโ_Groupsโ โ
Israeli forces raided and closed the offices of
seven Palestinian civil society rights groups in
the occupied West Bank on Thursday, six of which
Israeli authorities had designated as terrorist
groups last year. The raid came as the United
Nations condemned Israel for killing 19 Palestinian
children in recent weeks, and 100 days after
Israeli forces shot dead Al Jazeera journalist
Shireen Abu Akleh while covering an Israeli
military raid in the Jenin refugee camp. We speak
to Sahar Francis and Brad Parker, with two of the
human rights groups Israel raided. Parker, senior
adviser for policy and advocacy at Defense for
Children International โ Palestine, describes how
100 Israeli soldiers gathered outside his
organizationโs building before dozens broke into
the offices to confiscate items and files, sealed
the building and left behind notices declaring the
organization unlawful. He calls the raid โpart of a
years-long campaign to delegitimize and essentially
criminalize the work that we do to expose grave
violations against Palestinians at the hands of
Israeli authorities.โ In Ramallah, Sahar Francis of
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights
Association says the attack โaims to silence us.โ
# โ TruthOut โ Mississippi_Town_Hired_Racist_Cop_to_Terrorize
Black_Residents,_Advocates_Sayโ โ
# โ Techdirt โ FBI_Lied_To_Court_En_Route_To_Seizing_Property
Owned_By_Private_Vault_Company_Customersโ โ
There is no doubt civil asset forfeiture perverts
law enforcementโs incentives. When a government
agency can directly profit from seizing peopleโs
property, it will do this as often as it can. And
when the justice system is skewed against people
seeking to have their property returned, it greases
the wheels for abuse.
# โ Common Dreams โ Michigan_Judge_Blocks_Enforcement_of
โDangerous_and_Chillingโ_1931_Abortion_Banโ โ
Michiganders who support reproductive freedom
breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Oakland
County Circuit Judge Jacob Cunningham issued a
preliminary injunction targeting the stateโs 1931
abortion banโwhich some prosecutors sought to
enforce after the recent reversal of Roe v. Wade.
โLetโs take that collective breath together and
fight like hell.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Learning_How_to_Die:_Finding
Meaning_in_the_Midst_of_Collapseโ โ
Despite the extremely disheartening developments
across the spectrum of worldly life, despair and
defeat areโwhile understandableโnot inevitable.
That is the good news. We are never obliged to
surrender the best of our humanity, even as things
around us devolve. But in order to find our
footing, it is important to begin by seeing the
current reality without fear or illusion. We can be
fairly certain that the tipping points have now
tipped, that we are in for an epic unraveling. The
planet is on fire and under water, plagues are on
the loose, croplands are becoming barren, rivers
going dry. Further, the shreds of sane governance
that might have kept us afloat a little longer are
going down in flames. The omnicidal fascists,
waiting impatiently in the wings for their moment
on center stage, are almost certain to speed us
ever more swiftly toward the end of life as we have
known it.
o ยง Internet Policy/Net Neutralityโ โพ
# โ Broadband Breakfast โ Public_Knowledge_Urges_VoIP_to_Be
Regulated_Under_Title_II_to_Stop_Robocallsโ โ
Title II specifies authority given to the FCC to
regulate โcommon carriersโ โ utilities such as
landline phones, telecommunication services, and
electricity. Currently, VoIP services are not
included in any specific classification. Instead,
the FCC relies on rules based on its ancillary
authority given under Title I of the Communications
Act, which provides less regulatory authority to
the commission.
o ยง Digital Restrictions (DRM)โ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ FTC_Right_To_Repair_Push_Continues_With_Weber
Grill_Settlementโ โ
Following through on a request by the Biden
administration to defend right to repair, the FTC
recently demanded that Harley Davidson and
Westinghouse stop voiding customer warranties over
repairs. An FTC announcement noted how both
companies told consumers that using cheaper, third-
party parts or repair shops to repair equipment
violated warranty in a bid to monopolize repair.
o ยง Monopoliesโ โพ
# โ Computer World โ UK_Competition_and_Markets_Authority_ramps
up_big_tech_antitrust_investigationsโ โ
The UKโs Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is
launching dual investigations into Microsoftโs
proposed acquisition of videogame maker Activision
Blizzard, and Amazonโs competitive practices
related to its Marketplace platform.
In January 2022, Microsoft announced it was
planning to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7
billion, making it potentially Microsoftโs biggest-
ever acquisition at $26 billion more than the
company paid for LinkedIn in 2016.
# ยง Copyrightsโ โพ
# โ The Verge โ HBO_Max_drops_200_Sesame_Street_episodes
from_its_catalogโ โ
HBO and Sesame Street have been connected for
years; WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros.
Discovery) locked in a big five-year deal in
2019 to exclusively stream new episodes of
the show, and Sesame Street first began
airing on HBO in 2016.
# โ Torrent Freak โ Bungieโs_Copyright_Infringement
Claims_Against_AimJunkies_โInsidersโ_Can_Continueโ โ
Game developer Bungie has successfully
defeated a motion to dismiss several
AimJunkies defendants from the ongoing
copyright and cheating battle. After the
original complaint failed to show that the
โDestiny 2 Hacksโ infringed any copyrights,
the court found the amended complaint
sufficient to move the case forward.
# โ Techdirt โ MUSO_Just_Canโt_Stop_Sending_DMCA_Notices
On_Behalf_Of_Indicted_Fraudstersโ โ
Letโs be clear about this upfront: MUSO is a
European copyright enforcement group with all
the negative trappings that come along with
that industry. That being said, MUSO has also
distinguished itself from other piracy
tracking groups by making some forward-
thinking statements that donโt track with the
copyright industries, such as coming out
against the use of DRM or when it essentially
told copyright holders to fix their business
models to start bringing pirates in as
customers.
* ยง Gemini* and Gopherโ โพ
o ยง Personalโ โพ
# โ Only_Going_Forward_โCause_We_Canโt_Find_Reverseโ โ
Thatโs it! Iโve finally ordered a smartphone
because Generation 2
and 3 someday soon will not be supported anymore. I
have no choice.
# โ Sigma_Malesโ โ
They do not conform to society standards and rather
think for themselves.
# โ I_feel_so_tiredโ โ
Iโm feeling so tired that Iโm almost in autopilot
mode. Not so bad as a few weeks ago (much better
actually) but still tired. I donโt have a decent
vacation in years. I think that helps me with the
recent dislike for new technologies and stuff. Head
feels full.
At least Iโm finally learning something new for a
job interview and Iโm liking it a lot (Java Spring
Boot). V
# โ Reading_Dune_Is_A_Transcendent_Experienceโ โ
Recently I bought a copy of Frank Herbertโs โDuneโ
from my local bookstore. It was around $20 and a
good investment. Two years ago, I read both Stephen
Kingโs magnum opus โItโ as well as Tolkienโs
masterpiece, โThe Lord Of The Ringsโ. Through these
I learned of the excitement that arises when
reading an extremely long and detailed novel, of
the potential of humanity. They are impressive
tomes and I display them with pride. Dune, I felt,
would be yet another book worth buying and adding
to my ever-growing collection of literature. There
are few other books I treat with reverence,
although I may buy William Gibsonโs โNeuromancerโ
soon. It strikes my fancy as yet another incredibly
formative piece.
o ยง Politicsโ โพ
# โ Week_5:_Books,_Movies,_Friendsโ โ
I learned about an anti-capitalist, anti-big tech,
environmentalist, hacking-oriented bookstore called
Iffy Books, and I got super excited so I got a
bunch of books from them. Iโm hoping to go to their
permacomputing workshop in a couple days as well.
o ยง Technicalโ โพ
# โ Low_data_modeโ โ
My work gave me a wifi hotspot that has recently
been throttled by the ISP, so naturally Iโm doing
my best to conserve data as much as I can. Iโve
kinda run out of stuff to do because Iโm limited by
the tools and supplies I have rn, so whatever.
# โ RE:_How_many_computers_do_you_have?โ โ
A Lenovo laptop with Arch. Itโs my daily driver. If
my memory serves we well, itโs 13 years old. Its
battery is dead, its keyboard is dead, but
otherwise it works flawlessly and I almost never
feel restrained by its computing power. I attach a
second screen to it via a VGA cable.
# โ Using_chrootsโ โ
Alright, because I do not want to see anyoneโs
server getting exploited or anything in that
category, please run your scripts in chroot! I will
use Josiaโs SSH notes as an example here, as my own
version is not yet quite done, lots of improvements
to make. This will be a step-by-step guide on how
to fully securely deploy it in a chroot.
If a command is prefixed by โ[root@altesq]โ it
means you must run it as root, if it prefixed by โ
[evenfire@altesq]โ you must run it as a normal
user. The root user is only used for representation
purposes, you should run the root commands with
sudo, doas or any alternative.
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o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
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o BSD
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o Open_Hardware/Modding
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o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
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# Rust
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* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o โ DebugPoint โ DebugPoint_Weekly_Roundup_#22.01:_GNOME_43_Beta,
Deepin_23_and_Moreโ โ
Welcome to the DebugPoint Weekly roundup #22.01 which
gives you a brief about what happened this week across
various segments, mostly in GNU/Linux space. We scan
through thousands of updates every day, filter out the
relevant updates for you and present them in this page.
o โ Its FOSS โ What_if_a_Lifelong_Linux_User_Tried_Windows_or_macOS
for_the_First_Time?โ โ
How to enable TPM 2.0? How to find it in the BIOS menu?
Is it safe to enable TPM 2.0? Should I flash a newer
BIOS? Will I brick my motherboard in the process of
updating the BIOS?
These are some of the questions, every Linux user (and
even Windows/macOS users) will have when they want to
upgrade their system to Windows 11.
With Linux distributions, we never have to do such a
peculiar thing to make it work. Even in 2022. But,
Windows 11 wants you to know about the BIOS settings or
the TPM chip before you can upgrade to it.
While Scott mentions about an older laptop, it is worth
noting that even with the latest motherboards (for
instance Z590), you may have to tweak the BIOS or flash a
newer BIOS version to support Windows 11.
This is incredibly inconvenient, even for technical users
because updating BIOS comes with its own risks.
[...]
With so many options and tools to clean registries and
optimize systems for better performance, a new Linux user
may end up with an unresponsive Windows.
o ยง Desktop/Laptopโ โพ
# โ Daniel Aleksandersen โ Finally_fixed_my_PCโs_persistent
graphics_and_audio_stutters_|_Ctrl_blogโ โ
Microsoft made a TPM version 2.0 module a
requirement to run Windows 11. I had to audit my
Linux installation to verify this, but it isnโt set
up to use the TPM at all. I donโt understand how
the fTPM should affect Linux, but its presence
might cause some stability issues somewhere in the
system. It could also have been introduced by the
very mainboard firmware update that was supposed to
address the issue.
I removed the hardware TPM, and the stuttering
immediately got worse in both Linux and Windows.
o ยง Audiocasts/Showsโ โพ
# โ Video โ Sparky_Linux_Is_Debian_With_Non-GNOME_Desktops_โ
Invidiousโ โ
Sparky Linux is a Debian-based Linux distro that
offers 4 different desktop editions (LXQt, MATE,
Xfce, KDE) in 2 different branches (stable and
semi-rolling). Sparky includes some custom apps
that are quite interesting as well.
# โ E47:_Open_Source_Device_Management_with_Fleetโ โ
Mike McNeil is Cofounder & CEO of Fleet, a device
management platform based on the open source
endpoint visibility project osquery.
o ยง Applicationsโ โพ
# โ LinuxOpSys โ 6_Best_Command_Line_Music_Players_for_Linux_in
2022โ โ
Linux terminal is used for performing
administrative tasks without having any issues.
However, many people donโt know that we can play
music through the command line. Linux provides
different CLI music players by which users can play
the audio files from the terminal.
CLI music players are simple to use and consume
lesser memory. This article briefs about the 6 best
command line Music players for Linux in 2022.
# โ Neowin โ PeaZip_8.8.0โ โ
PeaZip provides fast, high compression ratio multi-
format archiving โ view file compression and
decompression benchmarks for more information.
PeaZip is localized in 29 languages and is capable
of handling all most popular archive formats (180+
file types), supporting a wide array of advanced
file and archive management features (search,
bookmarks, thumbnail viewer, find duplicate files
and compute hash/checksum value, convert archive
filesโฆ), especially focused on security (strong
encryption, two factor authentication, encrypted
password manager, secure file deletionโฆ).
# โ Ghacks โ File_Archiver_PeaZip_8.8.0_released_with_archive
testing_support_and_moreโ โ
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ Real Linux User โ How_to_optimize_your_memory_settings_in
Linuxโ โ
Many Linux distributions are not optimally
configured out of the box. It is done in such a way
that if your memory usage reaches a certain
threshold or percentage of the total internal
memory that is available for your Operating System,
it is switching over to use what is called the swap
space. The swap is a technique to use a special
swap partition or swap file as additional virtual
working memory, when the Operating System thinks
that is required. But using swap, which is based on
your hard drive or SSD, as virtual memory, is of
course much slower than your physical internal
memory, so it should be used only when this
additional memory is really required. But in
practice some Linux systems switch over much too
soon. So letโs find out how we can optimize our
memory settings in Linux, or in other words, how to
configure our system swap settings optimally.
# โ H2S Media โ How_to_install_Snapd_and_Snap_Store_on_Linux
Mint_21_Vanessaโ โ
Linux programs only run smoothly under the exact
distribution for which they were created. Hence,
this strictly restricts the developers to create
their apps only for popular Linux such as Ubuntu.
Making compatible a single app for multiple distros
significantly increases the development effort.
However, the software can also be packed into an
independent container together with all the
necessary components. This makes applications work
in containers regardless of the operating system in
which they are and also cannot interfere with other
applications.
Apart from the actual program, software containers
also contain all the necessary components of the
operating system and libraries. In this way, you
can use newer versions, even in parallel with a
program traditionally installed as a โdebโ package.
Such an arrangement offers by Snap Apps.
# โ Ruben Schade โ How_do_you_create_zpools?_Via
@michaeldexterโ โ
For personal and family stuff, I use the
(definitely not nasty) script below. I run ZFS on
full drives which Iโve first configured with gpart
(8) with a freebsd-zfs partition and a label
(though I donโt think thatโs strictly necessary
anymore?). Normalisation is a big deal for us.
# โ Dan Langille โ
How_I_configure_dma_for_mail_delivery_in_jails_on_my_internet
hostsโ โ
This is based on a series of tweets which I now
want to place into blog post. When I go searching
for something Iโve done before, I usually check my
blog first.
dma is โis a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA),
designed for home and office use. It accepts mails
from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and
delivers the mails either locally or to a remote
destination. Remote delivery includes several
features like TLS/SSL support and SMTP
authentication.โ
See the man page for more information.
# โ ID Root โ How_To_Install_Ansible_on_Rocky_Linux_9_โ
idrootโ โ
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Ansible on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didnโt know, Ansible is a free and open-source
automation tool sponsored by Red Hat. The tool is
designed to automate cloud provisioning, OS
deployments, etc. It runs on many Unix-like systems
and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as
Microsoft Windows. It includes its own declarative
language to describe system configuration.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add โsudoโ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Ansible automation tool on
Rocky Linux. 9.
# โ Make Use Of โ How_to_Set_Up_a_Private_Git_Server_on_Linuxโ โ
A Git server hosts the repository of a project,
which contains the source code and other core
files. While, for the most part, you can rely on
globally known Git hosting services like GitHub, in
some cases, it is better to host your personal Git
server for added privacy, customizability, and
security.
# โ AddictiveTips โ How_to_play_Timberborn_on_Linuxโ โ
Timberborn is a city-building game based around
beavers and other animals. The game was developed
and published by Mechanistry. Hereโs how you can
play Timberborn on Linux.
[...]
Timberborn is not a native Linux video game.
However, it has an excellent ProtonDB rating, and
people are having an easy time getting it working.
Hereโs how to play Timberborn on your Linux PC.
To get Timberborn working, you must install the
Linux release of Steam. Then, youโll need to open
up a terminal window to install the app. Unsure
about how to open up a terminal window? Press Ctrl
+ Alt + T on the keyboard, or search for โTerminalโ
in the app menu and launch it that way.
# โ TechTarget โ 8_secure_file_transfer_services_for_the
enterprise [Ed: Further down the list it names companies that
don't provide secure file transfer; they can see everything
you send and report to other companies, governments etc.
"Clown" computing is a mirage.]โ โ
The most basic secure file transfer services, such
as those based on Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), have
command-line interfaces only, making them best
suited for IT rather than end users. They offer few
features but are relatively inexpensive to set up
and use, compared to other classes of file transfer
systems. Some consider this type of transfer
advantageous because the organization maintains
full control, with no third-party โ e.g., cloud
provider โ involvement.
Secure file transfer services based on SFTP are
typically more feature-rich than those based on
SCP. SFTP-based file transfers often have GUIs
available, which make them easier to use. In
general, however, both SCP- and SFTP-based systems
lack many of the features of more sophisticated
file transfer systems.
# โ LinuxOpSys โ How_to_Install_Ruby_on_Rails_on_Ubuntu_22.04โ โ
Ruby and Rails commonly known as โRailsโ is an
open-source web application framework. This
framework is written in Ruby programming language
which helps you to create highly powerful websites
and applications. Rails is a server-side web
application framework that follows the MVC concept.
In this guide, we learn how to install the Ruby and
Rails framework on Ubuntu 22.04.
# โ LinuxOpSys โ How_to_Check_Disk_Queue_Length_in_Linuxโ โ
The average disk queue length is the average number
of read and write operations that were queued
during a selected interval for the chosen device.
Itโs important to watch them as these values
provide one of the representations of the storage
performance. Higher values indicate that the
quantity cannot continue with the requests from the
appliance, leading to higher response times.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to check disk
queue length using Linux commands.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ Boiling Steam โ A_Steering_Wheel_for_the_Steam_Deck_โ
Boiling_Steamโ โ
While Valve is apparently too busy shipping the
Steam Deck to provide accessories around it (still
waiting for the official Dockโฆ) users of the device
are getting really creative. The latest example to
date is Reddit user Ethansol9 who has 3D-printed an
attachment to transform the Steam Deck itself into
a steering wheel, using the gyros included in the
device (he apparently had to tweak their
sensitivity for it to work well).
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Proton_Experimental_fixes_up_Disgaea_5,
OUTRIDERS,_Warhammer:_Vermintide_2_|_GamingOnLinuxโ โ
Valve has released the latest version of Proton
Experimental, which has multiple newly supported
games and a few useful bug fixes included. This is
the extra special version of Proton you can try, it
pulls in new features and fixes earlier to get more
Windows games working on Linux desktop and Steam
Deck.
* ยง Distributions and Operating Systemsโ โพ
o โ The Register UK โ Oracle_adds_significant_feature_to_Solaris_โข
The_Registerโ โ
Oracleโs Solaris operating system remains widely used,
even though Big Red more or less froze development of the
product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository
Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.
But on Wednesday the company announced a reasonably
significant addition to the OS, called the ACT Service.
As explained by Big Red staffers Chris Beal, Hisao
Tsujimura and Lijo George, Solaris boxes can wield up to
eight terabytes of memory when powered by SPARC
processors โ or touch three terabytes when running on x86
silicon.
If a Solaris box experiences a system panic, the OS takes
a snapshot of memory, compresses it, and sends it to
Oracle. โThen our receiving server makes sure that
nothing malicious is included in the snapshot of your
memory, aka crash dump, by scanning it. All of this
happens behind the scenes before our diagnosis starts,โ
Big Redโs trio explained.
[...]
Enter the ACT Service. Instead of waiting for that
upload, it will store the dump file locally โ if thereโs
enough space to do so โ and generate an initial analysis
report.
o ยง New Releasesโ โพ
# โ Linuxiac โ Deepin_23_Preview_Released,_Introducing_New
Package_Formatโ โ
Deepin 23 Preview was released, introducing its new
format for distributing software packages in Linux,
Linglong.
Deepin is a Chinese-made Linux distribution based
on the Debian stable branch aimed at the average
desktop computer user. It is one of the Linux
distros to which the definition of โgorgeousโ most
fully applies.
The distro comes with the internally developed DDE
(Deepin Desktop Environment), one of the best-
looking Linux desktop environments. Everything
about it is designed to provide the user with the
most aesthetic satisfaction possible.
In other words, the distro has a tradition of
beauty. And this tradition appears to be continued
in the upcoming Deepin 23, which โPreviewโ was just
released recently. So letโs see what it has in
store for us.
o ยง BSDโ โพ
# โ Ruben Schade โ NetBSD_9.3_and_whimsyโ โ
NetBSD is a professional operating system, but I
also love a bit of whimsy. Same goes for OpenBSDโs
songs and art for each release.
NetBSD have also long had an RSS feed available for
their release announcements. I tend to read mailing
lists for this sort of information, but I welcome
anything to make these more accessible.
# โ DragonFly BSD Digest โ In_Other_BSDs_for_2022/08/20โ โ
# โ DragonFly BSD Digest โ BSD_Now_468:_Apples_and_CHERIโ โ
Iโm a bit late because of travel, but you still
should see the latest BSD Now; the CHERI system is
interesting and underappreciated.
o ยง Canonical/Ubuntu Familyโ โพ
# โ Dev Class โ .NET_6_comes_to_Ubuntu_โ_but_where_is_MAUI_for
Linux?_โข_DEVCLASS [Ed: Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson, a
Microsoft operative inside media) is still propping up
Microsoft interventions from within, inside Linux; he's no
friend of Linux. Never was. The coy writing style conceals
his true motivations, which are the same as Microsoft's]โ โ
The first is that several .NET packages are now
built by Canonical, supported by Canonical, and
installable via a simple apt install command.
Options include the full .NET SDK, or just the
ASP.NET Core runtime, or just the .NET runtime.
This is now Microsoftโs recommendation for .NET on
Ubuntu, though developers waning the very latest
builds should stick with the Microsoft packages.
# โ Slashdot โ Ubuntu_Upgrades_Now_Arrive_with_a_Simple_Prompt_
(and_Security_Fixes)_โ_Slashdotโ โ
โAfter a slight delay due to an installer issue,
the first point release for Ubuntu 22.04 has been
officially released,โ swrites Jack Wallen for
TechRepublic.
โAlthough point releases are often overlooked by
users, because they arenโt major upgrades, this
time around you should certainly run the upgrade
immediately.โ
o ยง Devices/Embeddedโ โพ
# โ Tomโs Hardware โ Raspberry_Pi_Manufacturer_RS_Group_Ends
License_After_a_Decade_|_Tomโs_Hardwareโ โ
In 2012 there were two main manufacturers and
suppliers of Raspberry Pi boards. Element14 (part
of the Premier Farnell network) and RS Group (RS
Components). It was these two websites which took
the full brunt of the eager masses, clamouring to
get hold of the $35 single board computer upon its
release. But a story on XTech Nikkei states that in
an email sent to users on August 10, RS Groupโs
license to manufacture and retail Raspberry Pi
ended effective from June 2022. This marks the end
of a 10-year license agreement between RS Group and
Raspberry Pi.
# โ Tomโs Hardware โ Raspberry_Pi_Backup_System_Saves_Data_to
USB_Drive_|_Tomโs_Hardwareโ โ
Premium backup subscription services from big names
like Apple and Google can cost upwards to $100
annually. Instead of relying on third-party systems
to manage data, ThinkLearnDo decided to create an
encrypted backup system from scratch using our
favorite board, the Raspberry Pi.
# โ SparkFun Electronics โ Announcing_Dumpster_Dive_2022!โ โ
Dumpster Dive is back! A few months ago, we asked
how you wanted to hear about Dumpster Dive
announcements and we listened. Itโs been a while
since we had a dive, so mark your calendars for
Wednesday, September 14th โ and maybe set an alarm
or two, just to be safe.
Weโve gone through our inventory, raided our
engineerโs offices, and taken unused samples. In
doing so, weโve found hundreds of pounds of
Dumpster Dive material to send you! This year the
one-pound boxes will be returning for $30; youโll
find boards, LEDs, kits and more inside!
o ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ Built In โ Crypto_Mining_With_Raspberry_Pi:_A_Guide_|_Built
Inโ โ
The Raspberry Pi is a great hobby mini-computer,
but what if we can also use it to make money?
The rise of Bitcoin has created an interest in
cryptocurrency mining. If you have a spare
Raspberry Pi lying around, you can put it to work
mining for digital currency.
o ยง Mobile Systems/Mobile Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Android Police โ How_to_change_your_Android_Deviceโs_nameโ โ
# โ Why_Texting_on_Android_Is_so_Bad_โ_Review_Geekโ โ
# โ Android Authority โ Why_Samsung_deserves_to_be_the_face_of
Androidโ โ
# โ Android Police โ The_Android_13_OTA_youโve_been_waiting_for
is_finally_headed_for_your_Pixelโ โ
# โ Android Authority โ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldnโt_miss_this
week_โ_Android_Apps_Weeklyโ โ
# โ Make Use Of โ How_to_Replace_Your_Carrier_on_Android_Using
These_Fully_Open-Source_Toolsโ โ
* ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
o ยง Content Management Systems (CMS)โ โพ
# โ Linux Links โ 4_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Crystal_Static
Site_Generators_โ_LinuxLinksโ โ
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic
in that content is stored in a database and
converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers
access the site.
While we employ built-in server caching which
creates static versions of the site, we donโt
generate a full, static HTML website based on raw
data and a set of templates. However, sometimes a
full, static HTML website is desirable. Because
HTML pages are all prebuilt, they load extremely
quickly in web browsers.
There are lots of other advantages of running a
full, static HTML website.
o ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ Rlang โ Installation_of_R_4.2_on_Ubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_and
tips_for_spatial_packagesโ โ
You can read the original post in its original
format on Rtask website by ThinkR here:
Installation of R 4.2 on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and
tips for spatial packages
It is again this time in your Ubuntu userโs life
where you plan to upgrade your server installation
from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Indeed, the
first point release 22.04.1 is now there, and youโd
like somebody else to try it for you before loosing
all your work. Let me do it for you ! We will also
use R 4.2 by default. Also, like every two years in
this blog post, Iโll give the tips for geographical
packages installation on Ubuntu. Just follow the
guideโฆ
Last time you read this kind of tutorial on our
blog was two years ago to migrate to R 4.0 and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Note that I am writing this guide
to be able to upgrade my own in-prod laptop. This
has to work properly !
Also, everything is proposed through command lines,
which means that you can use this tutorial to
upgrade a server with no graphical interface, to
build your Docker containers or set up the
continuous integration of your package builds. Note
that we can help through this process of R-server
installations, Docker or CI set-up.
This year, I will first realize the upgrade from
Ubuntu Focal to Ubuntu Jammy inside a Docker
container, so that I can write my blog post along
with it. Iโll upgrade my own laptop just after
that.
# โ Rlang โ Tinier_0.5.0_|_R-bloggersโ โ
Iโd long wanted to find a way to export plots
directly from R into pre-tinified image files, and
although Iโd found a way to do it for ggplot2
plots, doing it with base R plots and devices
eluded me.
Finally I found a (slightly hacky) way of doing it
by simply recording the last plot created with
recordPlot, and then replaying it inside the chosen
device! One of those things that seems obvious in
hindsight, but it works. So, Iโve put together two
new functions, petit_plot() and petit_ggplot() to
save and auto-tinify plots!
You can use most of the same tinify() options as
usual, including keeping the un-tiny image file
too, and pass through all regular plotting options
to the underlying device too. You can even use
petit_plot with ragg if you have it!
# โ Earthly โ Cryptography_&_Encryption_in_Goโ โ
One of the biggest concerns for modern web
developers is security. Whether your goal is
protecting a userโs personal data, effectively
authenticating a userโs identity, or securing
company databases, cryptography, and encryption can
help.
Cryptography is the study of techniques for secure
communication between a sender and an intended
recipient. Cryptographic techniques employ
mathematical functions to secure data using various
algorithms and systems.
The Go programming language provides a crypto
package for cryptography-related operations in the
standard library. You can use the Crypto package
for many functionalities like encryption, hashing,
cryptographically generated random numbers, and
much more.
This tutorial will help you understand cryptography
concepts and how to implement them in the Go
programming language.
# โ Matt Rickard โ Towards_Granular_Computeโ โ
Runtimes, infrastructure, and APIs tend to get more
granular. Maybe weโre just in the unbundling phase
(implying a future bundling phase), or maybe itโs a
byproduct of moving functionality to the edge (the
network is the bottleneck), or perhaps this is just
a general form of progress (breaking things down
into abstractions).
At a basic level, granularity lets us bin-pack
workloads. Different workloads have varying levels
of safety when it comes to resource sharing and
allocation. Isolation happens at the operating
system level (virtual machines), process level
(containers), and thread level (v8 isolates).
Hardware security module (HSM) workloads and edge
functions need different security guarantees.
[...]
Smaller APIs are often easier to integrate into
existing infrastructure. For example, carved-out
authentication or authorization APIs are much
easier to add to your application than Active
Directory (in theory).
# โ James G โ TIL:_Donโt_actually_display_the_man_pagesโ โ
I have installed Plan 9 on my Raspberry Pi. I am
excited to start using it. I canโt use Plan 9 yet
because I need a new keyboard and mouse to use with
my Pi. So, this evening I decided to peruse the
online Plan 9 manual pages. I am excited and have
been eagerly trying a few commands on my Mac to see
what commands are also on my Mac.
I learned about bc for arithmetic and bc -l that
imports the math library for bc. This let me do
logarithms in bc (a strange way to test a command I
admit).
# โ Xeโs Blog โ Xeact_Version_0.69.71:_JSX_supportโ โ
Xeact is the most popular femtoframework for
discerning development teams. It has been used in
at least 3 production facing web applications and
has become well-loved by users.
[...]
Xeactโs JSX support has only been tested with
Denoโs JSX (and TSX) compilation support. Write
your code in what you wish you could write and then
use Deno to turn that into what you actually have
to write. To get started, first you need to install
Deno somehow. If you are using Nix flakes, add
pkgs.deno to your devShell or run nix shell
nixpkgs#deno. If you are using a lesser operating
system, follow Denoโs instructions and press enter
until the messages go away.
# ยง Rustโ โพ
# โ Xeโs Blog โ Iโm_speaking_at_Conf42_Rust_2022_and
GambiConf_EUโs_Online_Day_about_how_this_site_works!_โ
Xeโ โ
Over the last two weeks Iโve been working on
a conference talk that just so happened to be
accepted to two conferences at once. Itโs
about how this website (the one you are
reading right now) works and I am so excited
to release this out into the wild.
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o โ Jim Nielsen โ Playing_With_My_Blogโs_Home_Page_โ_Jim_Nielsenโs
Blogโ โ
Reading comments on HackerNews isnโt usually my thing,
but if itโs yours, now have a potential signal for where
to start reading on my blog.
o โ Ruben Schade โ Jorge_Fรกbregas_and_I_discuss_blog_cadenceโ โ
My American friends might say this is a bit Inside
Baseball, but it gives me an opportunity to discuss how I
write stuff. Maybe thereโs something useful for other
people here too.
I used to blog upwards of four times a day in the late-
2000s, but the feedback I got was that I was spamming
peopleโs RSS aggregators. I took this seriously; I donโt
want my writing to detract from other things you all
read. I subscribe to a specific aviation blog that post
dozens of times a day with giant photographs and walls of
text. While I personally find it all interesting and fun,
I can absolutely see why it would be annoying having it
dominate your other feeds.
[...]
Having said all that, is a phrase with four words. How
you write is up to you. My experience is that people are
more lenient with the spamming if your posts are short,
because they donโt take too much vertical screen real-
estate as they scroll by. Social media may have also
trained (or is the correct word desensitised?) people to
accept endless scrolling in 2022, but Iโm wary of
contributing to that.
o ยง Hardwareโ โพ
# โ Computer Weekly โ Lightbits_offers_NVMe-over-TCP_at_5x_less
than_NVMe-over-FC_et_alโ โ
Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for
Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate
network processing to give millions of IOPS with
storage for public and private clouds
o ยง Securityโ โพ
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ Stacey on IoT โ Podcast:_Google_Cloud_kills_IoT_Core
and_hearing_aids_get_smartโ โ
This weekโs show kicks off with a whispered
bang that Kevin will soon hear, thanks to the
FDA approving over-the-counter hearing aids.
We talk about what happened and what it means
for innovation in wearables before then
tackling Google killing off its Google Cloud
IoT Core service that manages device data and
connects that data to Googleโs Cloud
Platform. Then we turn to security news
including a John Deere hack shared at Defcon
last week and an โEvil PLCโ attack that
affects industrial controllers from all major
vendors. The smart home also gets a cool
project called Fluid One that will create a
network of ultra wideband sensors in a home
which then lets you control devices by
pointing a phone in their direction. With
Omdia stating that this year there will be 2
billion smart home devices globally, we
should figure out easier ways to control
them. Finally, we talk about research that
lets you power wearable sensors with sweat.
Itโs gross, but also really useful. We end
the show by answering a listener question
about continuous video recording on Appleโs
HomeKit Secure Video.
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ Stan_Cox,_Angry_White_Guys_in_Big-Ass_Pickupsโ โ
In the United States during 16 months in 2020 and
2021, vehicles rammed into groups of protesters at
least 139 times, according to a Boston Globe
analysis. Three victims died and at least 100 were
injured. Consider that a new level of all-American
barbarity, thanks to the growing toxicity of right-
wing politics, empowered by its embrace of ever-
larger, more menacing vehicles being cranked out by
the auto industry.
o ยง Environmentโ โพ
# ยง Energyโ โพ
# โ Michael West Media โ Better_than_Buckleys:_a_real
plan_to_tackle_energy_prices,_climate_and_the_Budget_to
bootโ โ
Axe fossil fuel subsidies, bring in a Carbon
Export Levy, fix tax and royalty loopholes.
Michael West reports on a compelling plan to
dramatically reduce Australiaโs debt and
soaring energy bills.
If only there were a way to smash soaring
energy bills, tackle Australiaโs mountainous
debt โ and the monstrous foreign tax dodgers
of the multinational fossil fuel sector โ and
do the climate a big favour to boot. All at
once.
There is a way. The question is, is there a
will?
One of the nationโs top energy finance
experts, Tim Buckley, has released this
morning a $322bn solution: wind back fossil
fuel subsidies, fix the failed royalties
scheme, tap foreign coal and gas profiteers
for tax, and introduce an Export Gas Levy.
o ยง Civil Rights/Policingโ โพ
# โ Michael West Media โ Joyce_is_spoiling_for_a_fight_with
unions_(pity_about_Qantas_customers)_โ_Michael_Westโ โ
Itโs a familiar story at pandemic mendicant Qantas.
An arrogant chief executive, a gravy train for his
sidekicks, a kick in the teeth for airline workers
and a right royal runaround for passengers, writes
Michael Sainsbury.
It seems hard to fathom but Qantas is gearing up to
inflict even more chaos on its long-suffering
customers. Its union-loathing chief executive Alan
Joyce is preparing to battle engineers critical to
the companyโs operations, as well as the companyโs
outsourced baggage handlers.
Their crime? Seeking wage rises that do not even
keep up with cost-of-living increases on multiple
fronts while Qantas executives took home $1.5
million in bonuses last year despite a $1.7 billion
loss. The companyโs board also saw its six-figure
payments rise 5.2% to a collective $2.4 million.
* ยง Gemini* and Gopherโ โพ
o ยง Personalโ โพ
# โ SpellBinding_Newsโ โ
I made a couple of minor updates. To improve
usability on my phone, I eliminated the first-level
header. In Lagrange, the site name (SpellBinding,
surprisingly) appears at the top anyway, and now,
the game is immediately at the top, so the keyboard
does not obscure it. Works well on my android phone
anyway.
I got tired of typing /msg blah.. on the phone
keybord to report missing words to myself while
testing and having a drink at the Regal Beagle. So
I addes a simpler way to do that โ just precede the
entry with a period, and it will log/send me a
message.
# โ AEHNYPO_Wordo:_DUSKYโ โ
# โ Hungary_and_the_summer_breakโ โ
Having won everything for years, Mercedes are
having a poor year (where โpoorโ means โthird team
of tenโ โ itโs all relative). But in qualifying
Russell was fastest. So, game on? Of course not.
Which should have left Leclerc to win, but Ferrari
messed it up for him, as they keep doing.
Verstappen started tenth, got everything right and
won. Even when he spun and lost the lead, you knew
he would come back. No one thinks that Verstappen
wonโt be champion this year.
Now weโre in the summer break. Everyone has to stop
work and go home because the season lasts nearly
all year now. Time for some driver changes. Vettel
retires. Iโm surprised he didnโt do this earlier.
Alonso gives up on Alpine and moves to Aston
Martin, presumably hoping theyโll make the huge
leap forward that Alpine didnโt, but heโs joined
teams plenty of times before with the same hope,
and it hasnโt happened.
o ยง Technicalโ โพ
# โ Re:_How_Many_Computers_Do_You_Have?โ โ
Purism Librem 5 โ to replace other smartphones in
the futureโฆ
# โ Borgmatic_and_snapper,_part_3โ โ
This is not related to borgmatic or snapper per se,
but is something that tripped me up and may be good
to be aware of. If you for example include a
subdirectory but forget to include the parent
directory in your patterns file, borg will create
the parent directory for you.
# โ Raspberry_Pi:_Before_you_buโ โ
While it could be easy to buy a Raspberry Pi and
run it. You should know some tips before buy
anything.
Raspberry Pi as a server is very good. In my
opinion, you should buy with it a good SD Card and
an active cooling solution.
# ยง Internet/Geminiโ โพ
# โ SSH_appsโ โ
Geminispace has had a few discussions of
using the ubiquitous SSH utility to deploy
simple โappsโโฆ.
# โ News_Aggregators_and_๐ง_NewsWaffleโ โ
I added a news aggregator to ๐ง NewsWaffle,
powered by Yahoo News.
[...]
The term โnews aggregatorโ is a little
overloaded. People use it mean anything from
a RSS reader, to Google News, to something
like Pocket or Instapaper. What I mean by
โnews aggregatorโ is a service that takes
news articles from multiple sources, combines
them together, and automatically sorts them
into sections by category or topic. This
sorting is usually done algorithmically,
meaning that stories from the BBC may appear
under โWorldโ or โTechnologyโ, depending on
the contents of the story.
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