𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, October 03, 2022

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⦿ Trolled by Microsoft’s Lennart Poettering and Bought by Wintel | Techrights

⦿ Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO Are Asked to Summon a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States Due to Violations of the Law | Techrights

⦿ European School The Hague (ESH) Faces a Crisis and Families of EPO Workers Are Harmed Profoundly | Techrights

⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 02, 2022 | Techrights

⦿ IRC Widgets Working Again | Techrights

⦿ Microsoft Windows Sinks to Just 16% of the African Market | Techrights

⦿ [Meme] Lowering the Bar With Nations That Barely Have Any European Patents (Close to Zero) | Techrights

⦿ Update on SeaMonkey 2.53.14 and NoScript Crashes/Palefills Not Working | Techrights

䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/bought-by-wintel/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/epo-not-accountable-2022/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/european-school-the-hague/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/irc-proceedings-sunday-october-02-2022/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/irc-widgets/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/microsoft-windows-african-market/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/montenegro-marriage-of-corruption/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/update-on-seamonkey/#comments

䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/git-2-38-0/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/gnu-linux-libre-6-0/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/icewm-3-0-0/#comments

	http://techrights.org/2022/10/03/linux-6-0-is-out/#comments

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✐ Trolled_by_Microsoft’s_Lennart_Poettering_and_Bought_by_Wintel⠀✐

Posted in Kernel, Microsoft at 7:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Torvalds_pointing⦈_

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Torvals_award⦈_

Summary: Last week’s public appearance by Torvalds seemed reluctant and a tad

embarrassing (the media pointed out the awkwardness, too); whose idea was that,

the Linux_Foundation‘s?

Used_for_marketing_by_Intel_last_week:

http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/intel-linux.mp4

Direct_link

Trolling_by_Microsoft's_Lennart_Poettering_a_decade_ago:

http://techrights.org/videos/Lennart-Poettering-2011.webm

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡎⠀⢀⠈⠳⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠠⠀⠀⣈⣛⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠸⡿⠿⠿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣷⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠁⠀⠉⠁⠀⠘⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣴⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠾⠿⠿⠛⢿⡿⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠅⢸⣿⣶⣶⣶⣼⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⡾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡙⢿⣏⠀⠐⢤⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣁⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⠹⣿⣏⠛⣢⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣦⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⠀⣲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⠝⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣷⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠝⠛⡻⠛⣁⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢧⣉⠛⠛⠋⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⠘⠛⠛⠉⠙⠛⠛⠉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡥⣤⣤⣌⠥⠀⣤⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣈⣉⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣍⣿⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡤⠶⠀⠈⠀⠀⣀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡟⢱⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣦⠲⣟⣯⠦⢠⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⡋⣽⡷⣛⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⣛⣻⢿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⡆⠖⠛⠉⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣕⠊⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠒⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⢠⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⢛⣛⠃⠆⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⡉⠁⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣶⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣯⠹⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠂⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠐⣒⣀⡃⠀⣿⣿⣇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣨⣿⣿⣿⡀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⡿⢏⣁⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣥⠖⠋⠉⠛⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⠉⠈⠉⣻⣶⣴⣶⣏⣉⣉⣙⣷⡄⠀⢻⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⡏⠁⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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EPO Standards Abolished

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http://techrights.org/videos/epo-wedding-of-autocracy.webm

Summary: The EPO has turned into a farcical operation that laughs at the law,

abuses its own staff, and lies to both staff and “customers” in the official

Web site

THE EPO takes pride in adding_Montenegro (warning: epo.org link) despite it

being irrelevant to the EPO. Anything for some cheap PR (see image/screenshot)?

The video above goes through the latest nonsense in the EPO’s site (hogwash

about patent quality and software tools that only work in Microsoft Windows).

It’s frustrating to see a complete lack of accountability, but that’s what has

been happening in the EPO for over a decade already. Immunity gets exploited

for corruption. The impunity is damning.

The noteworthy thing that’s not in the above video is a new letter circulating

among staff, calling their attention to recent developments and the need to get

politicians involved as soon as possible for the first time in decades. We’ll

just reproduce the full message below.

 § Last Call for Supporting the Petition to the Administrative Council

 to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under

 Article 4a EPC⠀➾

 Dear Colleagues,

 We initiated a *petition to the Members of the Administrative Council

 of the EPO to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting

 States under Article 4a EPC some time ago. The petition shall be sent

 to the Administrative Council soon for its meeting on 13 October

 2022.

 Already more than 500 colleagues support the petition, for which we

 would like to express our sincere thanks.

 If you have not yet signed the petition, please do so here[1] to help

 us to send a strong signal to the Administrative Council.

 When the petition was launched, compelling reasons had already been

 published as to why such a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting

 States is necessary and, in fact, overdue. Since then, more events

 have occurred that speak for such an external review of the

 organisation and thus for the support of the petition, which are:

 - The production demands for examiners are to be increased –

 increases of up to 10% are in the air – and this despite the fact

 that quality has fallen further;

 - The office’s practice concerning patentability of business methods

 under Article 52(2)(c) EPC has become unclear again; and

 - More embarrassing ILOAT Judgments showing the EPO’s violation of

 fundamental rights were issued three months ago and while

 implementation could be smooth and easy, it has yet to occur.

 In more detail:

 In the meantime it has been announced by senior managers and line

 managers that examiners will be required to produce more and that

 production pressure will be significantly increased for the coming

 year. This is even though staffing levels in core tasks are

 alarmingly low, examiner productivity is at its limits and at the

 same time the quality of issued patents has further deteriorated to

 below 75% compliance rate. In team meetings the figure of an increase

 of up to 10% of production has been mentioned (see also the

 corresponding CSC publication[2]). It seems that management no longer

 has any meaningful answers to manage the office’s workload.

 Concerning the assessment of patentability of business methods in

 substantive examination (Article 52(2)(c) EPC), a recently started

 debate illustrates that this issue still seems to be very unclear. A

 clear guidance at the level of the Contracting States of the EPC

 seems to be necessary.

 In early July the ILOAT issued inter-alia the Judgments no. 4550 and

 4551, the latter clarifying that again the EPO has violated

 fundamental rights of staff freedom of association for roughly a

 decade. With the Judgment, the ILOAT lifted the presidential ban on

 Staff Committee sending mass emails to staff.

 However, even after repeated requests by the Staff Committee and

 SUEPO, the President has not yet removed his technical restrictions

 on Staff Representation in the office’s email system that were put in

 place to enforce the ban. Currently, it looks like the Office

 continues to refuse to comply with the court’s ruling and allows the

 illegal email ban to remain in place. It seems that the ILOAT will

 have to be called again in this matter, this time simply to obtain

 the enforcement of its judgment.

 Thus, not only has the fear that further embarrassing ILOAT Judgments

 will be issued against the organisation been confirmed, but it is

 compounded by the lack of willingness in the office leadership to

 recognise the highest court having jurisdiction over the organisation

 and to comply with the EPC. This procedure could put the existence of

 the organisation, and thus our own, in jeopardy. It is unclear

 whether the Administrative Council can or wants to put a stop to

 this.

 In view of the above, an external review of the situation of the EPO

 by the Contracting States has become even more urgent.

 This external review is claimed by the petitioners to the Members of

 the Administrative Council of the EPO to call for a Conference of

 Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC.

 Information about the petition is also available on our website, see

 **here.

 Your SUEPO Committee The Hague

 [1] [redacted]

 [2] sc22124cl

There’s a meeting coming up in less than a fortnight. We’ll try to cover EPO

affairs more frequently around that time, at the very least to raise awareness

of the issues. █

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Pushing EPO Staff to the Limits

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Summary: The European School The Hague (ESH) is not functioning like it’s

supposed to; people who migrated (seeking a job) along with family members for

an EPO position aren’t pleased (to say the least) and they request if not

demand to speak with EPO management

THE EPO‘s staff is not happy. Nothing concrete has changed and nothing is

improving. António_Campinos continues to break the law and he even refuses to

obey court rulings when he loses cases. He’s no better than Benoît_Battistelli

and he shamelessly_promotes illegal software_patents while forcing examiners to

grant them.

The video above looks at a new letter from the staff union at The Hague. We’re

reproducing it below in full:

 27 September 2022

 su22021hl

 Local section The Hague

 Steve Rowan

 VP1 Office of EPO

 TH Site manager

 SUEPO TH Committee

 Open Letter

 Request for a meeting between VP1 and EPO parents with children at

 the European School The Hague?

 Dear Mr Rowan,

 The SUEPO TH committee has been contacted by European School The

 Hague (ESH) parents who reported serious problems with the school

 functioning. In its role of defending the rights of EPO employees,

 SUEPO is committed to ensuring the quality of the school for

 employees’ children, which is part of the employment agreement.

 SUEPO has been informed that the ESH schooling and education are

 facing severe and repeated neglect. The following lists some of the

 difficulties encountered at the ESH:

 1. Shortage of teachers. Teachers are overbooked, absent or were

 simply not recruited. The situation is such that the school has to

 resort to using teachers from other language sections teaching the

 class in a language not known to the children. Examples of this are

 Science lessons taught in English where the language section is

 German and Mathematic tests given in Dutch to students who do not

 speak Dutch.

 2. Inadequate timetables. Some students have blocks of up to 4

 consecutive classes in subjects such as French, Italian, Economics.

 Other students have breaks of several hours between classes. Yet

 other students don’t have certain classes at all, simply because

 there is no teacher.

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 3. B-exam: No/ not sufficient preparation for specific mandatory

 exams as e.g. the B-exam; Rescheduling of the B-exam date.

 4. ESH is uncapable to manage children with special needs.

 5. Inadequate understanding of COVID Curfew learning impact and lack

 of learning catch-up programs.

 6. A high rate of turnover of staff is reported.

 7. Lack of administrative and support staff (reception, security,

 etc.).

 8. Billing problems, such as the definition of miscellaneous costs.

 The continued existence of these problems is leaving the children who

 have to pass official school exams already at a severe disadvantage

 when compared to children at other European Schools. Parents are

 concerned and have filed complaints with the Dutch Ministry of

 Education. The situation is so serious that an audit from the

 overseeing body of the European Schools is expected to take place.

 After several failed attempts before the ESH administration to

 remediate the situation, the EPO parents approached SUEPO for help.

 Parents suggested that SUEPO facilitates a meeting with VP1, and are

 requesting that you listen to their concerns and provide

 institutional support to solve the various serious problems at ESH.

 Therefore, SUEPO TH acting as a facilitator, hereby requests with a

 character of urgency, ameeting between the EPO parents with children

 at the ESH and with you, in your role as site

 manager for The Hague.

 Yours sincerely,

 Chair SUEPO TH

“The EPO is in a state of crisis, so it’s masquerading as a for-profit

corporation and boasts about nothing but money (raised by flagrantly violating

the EPC, which was supposed to guard Europe from a mischievous, misbehaving

patent-granting authority).”This is another problem among many. The staff of

the EPO is also leaving rapidly (a “high rate of turnover of staff is reported”

inside the EPO, not just ESH) and if this issue persists the EPO won’t be able

to attract job candidates in compliance with the EPC. It’s already a

longstanding problem and it’ll worsen over time.

The EPO is in a state of crisis, so it’s masquerading as a for-profit

corporation and boasts about nothing but money (raised by flagrantly violating

the EPC, which was supposed to guard Europe from a mischievous, misbehaving

patent-granting authority). █

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⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀

⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀

⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀

⠀⠹⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀

⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡆⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀

⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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Posted in Site_News at 8:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: After turbulence and technical issues at KiwiIRC we’ve managed to get

a semi-working solution or some workaround

FOR about a year already we have had easy-to-access IRC widgets, first below

posts and then to he right hand side of them. We recognise that many people

don’t know what IRC is and how to use it. Widgets help abstract that away. Last

Sunday or rather the Sunday before this past Sunday KiwiIRC folks managed to

break their systems. At first, no Web interfaces worked. 2 days later they

fixed this, but the interface for customising widgets has remained broken since

then. We’ve tried every 1-2 days since then, to no avail…

“IRC is very important. It’s a communication tool hosted in our own network and

server.”A lot of time was spent on this in vain. Today, about 9 days later,

we’ve implemented a workaround. The widget does not look like it looked before,

but it should generally work. Over the past decade we’ve repeatedly researched

the possibility of self-hosting such Web interfaces/widgets, but it seemed

impractical for different reasons. As always, we recommend using a proper IRC

client with the details specified in our_IRC_portal.

IRC is very important. It’s a communication tool hosted in our own network and

server. We receive a lot of tips through that. We can protect our sources this

way. █

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⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠿⠿⣻⢸⡇⣏⠤⠄⠇⣿⢸⠀⣿⢸⡠⠤⣼⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀

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Posted in Africa, Microsoft, Windows at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: As we_noted_yesterday, Windows is down sharply this month (27.1%

market_share_worldwide) and the decreases are very significant in Africa, where

Android (Linux-based) is spreading fast. Here’s a chart_for_Africa, showing

Microsoft’s decrease to about 16%.

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇16%market_share⦈

Orange is Android, blue is Windows.

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⢋⣙⣉⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠟⠣⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣋⣤⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣌⣉⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⣛⣉⣹⣉⣉⣉⣙⣛⣛⡛⢏⣉⣡⡄⠀⠀⣾⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢱⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣤⣤⣉⣏⣡⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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⣿⣷⣤⣤⣼⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠰⣶⡶⠀⠀⢀⢰⣶⡀⣰⣐⣂⣀⣂⢐⣀⢒⣀⢂⣄⣀⣀⣰⣀⡀⣂⡀⣂⣰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⣶⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⢋⣉⣡⣄⡙⠻⢿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢡⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣯⠉⠉⢹⢘⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣓⣂⣈⠙⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⠛⠃⠀⠀⠛⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⢀⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⣼⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠝⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠛⠛⠿⠄⢼⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⡄⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣴⣤⣼⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢊⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⡉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣠⣤⣤⣥⣤⣄⣈⣉⣉⣉⠉⠉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣤⣀⣀⣈⣉⣉⣉⣑⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⡁⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠙⠛⠛⠛⠉⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢈⣉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛⠫⠛⠛⠉⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⡏⠉⢁⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⢀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠠⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠠⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢧⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠧⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠧⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠧⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣃⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

                ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1770

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✐ [Meme]Lowering_the_Bar_With_Nations_That_Barely_Have_Any_European_Patents

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Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Related: Banana_EPO:_Montenegro,_With_Population_134_Times_Smaller_Than

Germany’s,_Will_Get_a_Vote_as_Powerful_as_Germany’s

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Montenegro_becomes_39th_Contracting_State⦈_

Summary: The EPO has totally lost the plot; it completely neglected its mission

in pursuit of money and optics

⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⡇⡹⢣⢸⢹⡝⣯⡏⡇⡟⣽⣽⢩⡏⡏⣿⣹⢹⡍⣯⡟⣽⢹⣿⣯⣏⡏⣿⣹⢹⣽⢹⡏⡏⣯⣽⢹⢹⣝⣏⡯⣿⣷⣟⢼⣸⡇⡇⡇⣽⢹⣿⢱⣿⣾⢫⡏⡏⣽⢹⢸⢩⡯⣯⢻⣽⣽⢸⢹⢩⡏⡏⣯⢹⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣷⣷⣿⣾⣺⣲⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣷⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣾⣾⣷⣿⣷⣿⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣷⣷⣿⣾⣿⣷⣿⣾⣾⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣷⣷⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣗⣗⣼⣿⣿

⣿⣿⡟⣛⣻⠿⣿⢿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⡷⠮⢝⡿⡗⡅⢿⢿⢨⢥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⡟⣿⢿⡛⡛⢟⠟⠛⣻⣻⢟⢻⡯⡯⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣻⣶⣕⠲⣤⣀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⢿⣷⡌⠻⣷⣆⠄⠈⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⡿⡿⠐⡹⡙⠀⠀⠐⢦⠀⠉⠉⠩⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠇⠀⠀⡀⣀⠑⣤⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 1:58 am by Guest Editorial Team

Reprinted with permission from Ryan

In my last post, I said I thought updating to SeaMonkey 2.53.14 corrupted my

profile.

I later edited it. I was wrong. There were some changes to SeaMonkey’s version

of Gecko that did not get along well with Palefills or NoScript. NoScript now

crashes the browser unless you uninstall it, and Palefills (to get stubborn Web

sites to work with shims) stopped working.

I’ve been talking to some of the SeaMonkey developers in IRC and they’re aware

of the NoScript crash and are investigating a possible solution for that.

As for Palefills, it needs a one line patch to adapt to an API change that

landed in Gecko 58, which SeaMonkey brought in just recently.

(Their Gecko is a weird hacked up version that has Gecko 56 APIs but with

backports from much later Gecko releases for security and Web compatibility.).

This should be sorted out soon-ish. There’s already_a_test_build_for_Fedora_as

an_RPM_in_Koji_(the_build_system)_that_I’ve_installed (seamonkey-2.53.14-3.fc37

in my case), that seems to fix NoScript crashing the browser.

Palefills will_need_a_one_line_patch_which_should_be_trivial.

Despite the troubles, I like to use SeaMonkey because the application itself

has a better GUI and more functionality than other “Web” browsers.

Much of what SeaMonkey does isn’t “the Web”, which is why Google and Microsoft

are going to war on it. They don’t want you to “deal” with GMail and Outlook

breakage and getting around their ads masquerading as email by just using IMAP.

The hack of useragent overrides for Google.com and GMail.com to send them

Firefox’s current useragent string gives you the same guarantee that Google or

GMail will continue working in Thunderbird itself. None.

Google can still modify “your” account in the future and force you to access

GMail using the Web.

The OAuth2 hack of setting general.useragent.override.google.com and

general.useragent.override.gmail.com to the current string of Firefox or

Thunderbird should not be necessary.

There’s nothing “less secure” about getting your GMail through SeaMonkey as

opposed to any other mail client. Google allows Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Mail

and News is, under the hood, mostly Thunderbird.

Alleged security expert Matthew Garrett asked me on IRC why I still use

SeaMonkey a few weeks ago. I said I mostly like it for ChatZilla and Mail and

News.

The Mail and News client mostly follows the Netscape Mail and News HIG that

worked well for me in the 1990s and 2000s, and I really don’t like other email

programs. There’s no reason I should have to change what I’m doing because

Google sucks.

All of the code for OAuth2, which Google is moving to require, exists. They’re

just blocking SeaMonkey at a useragent level, which is really petty of them.

How many of us could there be at this point?

GMail’s Web interface is sort of like all of those “600 MB browser tab”

“modern” coding horrors. If you can manage to make it work with IMAP, your

local software will always deal with the mail faster than some crappy Web

interface that’s completely bloated and full of spam.

Relying on “WebMail” is bad in other ways too. Microsoft makes getting at IMAP

settings really frustrating because they don’t want you to use it, but three

times in the past month, their WebMail interface for Outlook has collapsed for

hours on end and started returning bizarre server errors instead of my mailbox.

Throughout the ordeal I was able to use IMAP while everyone around me using a

Web browser was just like “What the hell is wrong with this thing? Is it

working for anybody? Nope.”.

Like Michael Catanzaro, one developer of GNOME Web and WebkitGTK put it, sites

that detect useragents and break for no reason have lost their rights to expect

a legitimate useragent.

I have like six email accounts. Browsing individually all of those accounts on

the Web is not an efficient use of my time or resources. Not to mention dealing

with GUIs that change and interrupt workflows.

Email as a generic and relatively pleasant experience seems to be going away.

Most popular GNU/Linux distributions don’t even have an email client included

anymore.

What pisses me off even worse are people who want to have Zoom meetings when

shooting a few emails back and forth would have accomplished the same thing in

less time.

I have no idea if Zoom works in SeaMonkey or not. Frankly, I don’t care if it

does. If I run into a situation where I absolutely must use it, I have other

browsers.

If it seems like Google is paying an exorbitant amount to keep Firefox on life

support, that’s because it is.

No search engine would pay $450 million per year just to be the default

engine in a browser that’s going away as fast as Firefox is.

It benefits Google to keep Mozilla around, but as a non-threat for the same

reason Microsoft bailed out Apple, which was a failing company on the razor’s

edge of bankruptcy in 1997.

Google already gets antitrust regulators after it. Imagine what would happen

without Mozilla around.

It’s “competition” even if it’s something nobody uses anymore.

Instead of cherishing their GNU/Linux users, where Firefox is often the default

Web browser, Mitchell Baker caters to Windows and Mac users, most of whom are

all on Edge, Safari, and Chrome by now.

There’s already been serious talk for years in major and influential GNU/Linux

distributions (albeit not any that give a damn about your freedom or privacy)

about making Chrome the default Web browser.

According to statcounter’s global statistics, Firefox fell from over 4% of

users last year, to just 3.18% today. It’s going sideways fast. Instead of

spending money efficiently, Mitchell Baker keeps raising her salary, and

spending only 60 cents on the dollar on Firefox development. Even sacking

hundreds of actual Firefox developers (which, face it, were working on

Mozilla’s only product that matters).

If you go to Mozilla dot org today, it’s not even a tech company anymore. It’s

all blog spam about canceling and de-platforming the leftists’ political

opponents.

The last thing I want when I open my browser is a face full of ads and a

keylogger, and Firefox has a lot of those now, but other than that, it’s

political crap.

Mozilla “quit” Facebook a few years ago. They said it was to “take a stand”.

Today, they’re on something nastier than Facebook called TikTok.

Mozilla keeps sabotaging building Firefox with GCC. (The GNU Compiler)

The only reason Fedora still uses GCC is…..fesco actually rushed to rubber

stamp an exception just for Firefox, and then had to reverse itself when it

became obvious that Clang doesn’t support certain GCC security hardening

features and no-ops them just to make the build not fail, and there was also

talk about the rather useless debuginfos that Clang-built packages get.

Free Software is in a rather sad state where “open source” people come in and

commit libel and slander against you and say that your political opinions are

reasons to just close your bug reports. Unfortunately, Mozilla has been taken

over by people who are fundamentally like Matthew Garrett. He calls for his

political rivals to be ousted from the Internet. (Petitioning CloudFlare and

others to drop Web forums so that they won’t be protected from crime, such as

DDoS attacks, etc.)

Speaking of which, I ran into these.

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It’s my observation that people who have fully formed political opinions when

they were in their 20s and had managed to graduate college with a PhD don’t

actually change them. If anything, they just get smart and don’t advertise it

so they can remain employable.

Now, I don’t know what’s going on in Matthew Garrett’s head, but I think the

structure of his posts sort of disturbs the sensibilities of the casual

observer.

Free Software doesn’t benefit anyone when you have people like Garrett

degrading it and trying to make it under the complete control of Microsoft as

to whether the computer can even run any of it.

All under the guise of “security”, you know.

“Security” in the “modern” sense means that the user isn’t permitted to operate

the computer in his or her desired way. And with everything from malicious UEFI

firmwares attacking us, to what was the last Free Software Web browser

standing, I don’t know that we’re going to win.

I mean, open source is doing well, in the sense that pushover license people

are fine with Microsoft and others running off, making it proprietary, using it

against people, and saying “This is ours now! Nyaaah!”, but open source is a

watered-down Free Software, which is strictly about a method of creating

software.

And “open source” people have enabled some hideous things.

For example, Andrew Tanenbaum’s MINIX system is probably inside your computer

running, right now, if you have a modern Intel system. It’s what powers the

“Management Engine”. The Management Engine is a secret computer that you’re not

supposed to know about, that can do things behind your operating system’s back,

including opening up security holes and backdoors, and even reporting on you to

government spy agencies.

Matthew Garrett is one of the people who isn’t exactly adding value to the

world. At one point, he did do legitimate Linux kernel work on power

management, which benefited real people.

But then he went off and decided it was easier to work for the Evil Empire, and

implement boot restrictions, and “shim” bootloaders that you’re not allowed to

modify, so that your computer only starts if it’s been signed by Microsoft

and their Third Party CA is enabled. Which, it’s not (by default) on these

new “Secure Core” Windows “11” PCs.

Windows 11 is just more useless bloatware from a has-been software company,

trying to prop up its ailing marketshare.

Part of the TPM 2.0 requirement was to mask the fact that Windows’ memory and

disk footprint quadrupled again. And it managed this incredible feat while

accomplishing nothing important that its predecessor couldn’t do already. I’m

sure their thinking went that if you have a system new enough for TPM 2.0,

you’re less likely to notice the added bloat.

They also figured they could take advantage of COVID and “work from home” to

foist new PCs on people, but…Now we’re in the midst of a horrible recession

(they’re even saying Credit Suisse is about to fail, which would be the biggest

bank failure since Bear Stearns), the housing market’s collapsing, people are

losing their jobs, and hyperinflation shows no signs of abatement.

People are not buying new PCs if they can avoid it, which explains why Windows

“11” uptake barely registers, and I’m sure they had to sneak it in using Dark

Patterns or middle-of-the-nigh “What the hell happened to my computer while I

was sleeping!?!?!?” like they did to get Windows 10 out.

If you look in the release notes of each Windows “major update” you start to

see things like the removal of stuff that hasn’t even done anything in 20

years, or you weren’t supposed to use it and the only user was malware.

Only in 2019 did Microsoft purge the last remnants of Outlook Express, which

hadn’t even done anything as a functional program since Windows XP. Only in

2021 did they remove syskey.exe, which is from Windows NT 4, iirc, because tech

support scammers were using it to lock you computer and demand money.

But they’re sort of poking around the corners, leaving the worst of it behind,

and adding pointless new iterations instead.

They have 5 terminals, 3 Web browsers, and two GUI shells, and part of a third

shell.

One_of_the_three_browsers_is_a_relic_from_the_1990s that got foisted on people

for a long time even though they hated it, and is still there, they just lied

about “removing” it, but it’s not really removed.

The EdgeHTML engine is still there, you’re just not allowed to use it now. But

it’s there.

Then they brought in a completely new disaster packed with spyware also called

Edge. They based this one on Chrome. Edge is a password steal, adware, and the

least private Web browser.

The Classic Control Panel is still there. The one from Windows 7. Using it, you

can actually get Internet Explorer to launch as a Web browser, on Windows “11”.

So none of that has actually been removed either.

So this Windows 11 crap is piling up sky high and it leaves a lot of attack

surface.

Windows 10 was already incredibly bloated, but Windows 11 keeps piling it on.

Including an entirely new GUI shell, except…..the old one is there too so

things that expect it don’t break. You just can’t see it. Well, except that

time there was a bug and you could, and the start menu didn’t work. But

Microsoft hid it again in a different update.

In Free Software, we don’t tend to get messes like this, because nobody would

put up with it.

When I upgraded to GNOME 43, it runs the GNOME 43 Shell and GNOME 43

applications.

GNOME didn’t just leave GNOME 3’s shell running and hidden, alongside GNOME

Panel from GNOME 2.x, and a control center that Novell wrote and last touched

in 2011, and the previous version of the Epiphany browser, only it doesn’t

start, and it has GTKMozEmbed sitting there based on Firefox 2.

I mean, this is the kind of crap you get in a sad proprietary OS from a failed

company like Microsoft. You get this and Telemetry, and then they want to tell

you they’re working with some fool called Matthew Garrett to “secure your

boots”. Uh huh.

Microsoft still thinks it’s competing with Apple. Apple isn’t selling $249

laptops at Walmart that can barely run the Mac OS. █

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§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Audiocasts/Shows

      o Kernel_Space

      o Applications

      o Instructionals/Technical

      o Games

      o Desktop_Environments/WMs

            # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o SUSE/OpenSUSE

      o Debian_Family

      o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family

      o Open_Hardware/Modding

      o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o GNU_Projects

      o Programming/Development

            # Git

* Leftovers

      o Linux_Foundation

      o Security

* Gemini*_and_Gopher

      o Personal

      o Technical

            # Science

            # Internet/Gemini

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Weirdest_Arch_User_Repository_Package_Ever_Created!

              –_Invidious⠀⇛

                   The Arch User Repository or the AUR is an

                   absolutely incredible resource and will usually

                   have everything that you could possibly want this

                   even includes weird packages that don’t seem to

                   make any sense in how they’re packaged

            # ⚓ Video ☛ The_Best_Method_for_Building_a_Custom_Firefox

              Install_on_Linux_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   Firefox is the default browser on most desktop

                   distributions of Linux, but sometimes we may not

                   get updates from our maintainer as fast as we’d

                   like. In other cases, we may not like how our

                   distro packages Firefox. In this video, Jay will

                   show you a method of implementing a custom Firefox

                   installation that will be 100% under your control,

                   and you’ll get updates directly from Mozilla!

            # ⚓ Video ☛ OPEN_SOURCE_your_Android_Phone:_open_source_Android

              ROMS_and_apps_–_Invidious⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_197_–_Late_Night_Linux⠀⇛

                   Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing

                   command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB

                   booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro.

                   Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham

                   makes a dreadful racket, and more.

      o § Kernel Space⠀➾

            # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Does_Rust_belong_in_the_Linux_kernel?⠀⇛

                   I am known to be a bit of a polemic when it comes

                   to Rust. I will be forthright with the fact that I

                   don’t particularly care for Rust, and that my

                   public criticisms of it might set up many readers

                   with a reluctance to endure yet another Rust Hot

                   Take from my blog. My answer to the question posed

                   in the title is, of course, “no”. However, let me

                   assuage some of your fears by answering a different

                   question first: does Hare belong in the Linux

                   kernel?

                   If I should owe my allegiance to any programming

                   language, it would be Hare. Not only is it a

                   systems programming language that I designed

                   myself, but I am using it to write a kernel. Like

                   Rust, Hare is demonstrably useful for writing

                   kernels with. One might even go so far as to

                   suggest that I consider it superior to C for this

                   purpose, given that I chose to to write Helios in

                   Hare it rather than C, despite my extensive

                   background in C. But the question remains: does

                   Hare belong in the Linux kernel?

                   In my opinion, Hare does not belong in the Linux

                   kernel, and neither does Rust. Some of the

                   reasoning behind this answer is common to both, and

                   some is unique to each, but I will be focusing on

                   Rust today because Rust is the language which is

                   actually making its way towards mainline Linux. I

                   have no illusions about this blog post changing

                   that, either: I simply find it an interesting case-

                   study in software engineering decision-making in a

                   major project, and that’s worth talking about.

                   Each change in software requires sufficient

                   supporting rationale. What are the reasons to bring

                   Rust into Linux? A kernel hacker thinks about these

                   questions differently than a typical developer in

                   userspace. One could espouse about Cargo, generics,

                   whatever, but these concerns matter relatively

                   little to kernel hackers. Kernels operate in a

                   heavily constrained design space and a language has

                   to fit into that design space. This is the first

                   and foremost concern, and if it’s awkward to mold a

                   language to fit into these constraints then it will

                   be a poor fit.

            # ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Linux_6.0_kernel_enhances_security_with

              Runtime_Verification,_improves_CPU_energy_efficiency_|

              VentureBeat⠀⇛

                   The open-source Linux operating system is an

                   essential component of the cloud and enterprise

                   application delivery. In fact, every cloud service,

                   even Microsoft, offers Linux-based compute

                   resources and Linux is often the default choice for

                   embedded and internet of things (IoT) devices.

                   Among the major Linux distribution vendors today

                   are IBM’s Red Hat business unit, German vendor SUSE

                   and Canonical, which develops the Ubuntu Linux

                   distribution.

                   The market for Linux is forecast to grow to $22.15

                   billion by 2029, according to Fortune Business

                   Insights, up from $6.27 billion in 2022.

                   At the foundation of Linux is the kernel, which

                   provides the core set of hardware drivers and

                   functional services that enable an operating

                   system. The Linux kernel was first released by

                   developer Linus Torvalds in 1992 and to this day,

                   Torvalds still helps to shepherd the release

                   process, alongside the contributions of hundreds of

                   developers around the world.

            # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_More_Pixel_7_leaks,_DIY_magnetic

              charger_for_the_Framework_Laptop,_and_Linux_6.0_–

              Liliputing⠀⇛

                   In other recent tech news from around the web,

                   short promotional videos for the upcoming Pixel 7

                   and Pixel 7 Pro have leaked a few days ahead of

                   their official launch, if you have an older iPad

                   with Apple SIM support… now you can’t use that

                   technology to activate service on cellular networks

                   anymore, and Linux 6.0 was released over the

                   weekend.

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Linux_6.0_Lands_While_Linus_Teases_Major

              Change_in_Next_Version⠀⇛

                   The latest version of the Linux kernel has arrived

                   with the usual batch of hardware updates. The

                   latest version doesn’t include any major changes,

                   but Linus Torvalds signaled an upcoming addition of

                   code written in Rust in the next version.

                   No Major Changes, But “Core New Things” on the

                   Horizon

                   While the version number would imply a major change

                   in other software projects, Linus Torvalds said

                   that it’s mostly about just keeping version numbers

                   manageable in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing

                   List, the main hub of kernel development.

            # ⚓ Linux_6.0_arrives_with_support_for_newer_chips,_core_fixes,

              and_oddities_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛

                   A stable version of Linux 6.0 is out, with 15,000

                   non-merge commits and a notable version number for

                   the kernel. And while major Linux releases only

                   happen when the prior number’s dot numbers start

                   looking too big—”there is literally no other

                   reason”—there are a lot of notable things rolled

                   into this release besides a marking in time.

                   Most notable among them could be a patch that

                   prevents a nearly two-decade slowdown for AMD

                   chips, based on workaround code for power

                   management in the early 2000s that hung around for

                   far too long. Intel’s Dave Hansen wrote the patch

                   that made it into 6.0, noting in a comment on an

                   Ars post that the issue had become an expensive

                   drain as AMD systems gained higher CPU core counts.

                   The average desktop user won’t see huge gains, but

                   larger systems working on intensive input/output

                   applications should benefit.

                   Intel’s new Arc GPUs are supported in their

                   discrete laptop form in 6.0 (though still

                   experimental). Linux blog Phoronix notes that

                   Intel’s ARC GPUs all seem to run on open source

                   upstream drivers, so support should show up for

                   future Intel cards and chipsets as they arrive on

                   the market.

                   Linux 6.0 includes several hardware drivers of

                   note: fourth-generation Intel Xeon server chips,

                   the not-quite-out 13th-generation Raptor Lake and

                   Meteor Lake chips, AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs, Threadripper

                   CPUs, EPYC systems, and audio drivers for a number

                   of newer AMD systems.

            # ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Linux_6.0_Arrives_With_Support_For_Newer_Chips,

              Core_Fixes,_and_Oddities_–_Slashdot⠀⇛

                   Ars’ Kevin Purdy notes that in 2022, “there are

                   patches in Linux 6.0 to help Atari’s Falcon

                   computers from the early 1990s (or their emulated

                   descendants) better handle VGA modes, color, and

                   other issues.”

            # ⚓ Linux_hit_6.0_as_new_Kernel_is_released_–_Game_News_24⠀⇛

                   A few owners of Raptor Lake (opens in new tab) and

                   Arc Alchemist (opens in new tab) who wish to escape

                   the Microsoft hegemony and see the world of open-

                   source software are now awake today. On the other

                   hand, the news went up with the announcement that

                   Linux kernel 6.0 would help their cutting-edge

                   platforms direct.

                   Both the Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 and the Arm-based SoCs

                   and Chromebooks, such as the Allwinner H616, found

                   in TV streaming boxes and the NXP i.M.X93 embedded

                   processor board. Raspberry Pi 4 has been upgraded

                   to’stable’ status, with new updates for AMDs RDNA

                   3. Rockchip RK3588 devices, such as the Pine64

                   QuartzPro64 (pictured above) receive an MMC driver

                   for their onboard storage.

      o § Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ The_6_Most_Effective_Linux_Parental_Control_Software_in

              2022_–_DekiSoft⠀⇛

                   Being parents one can easily have control over the

                   internet usage of their kids using these 6 free

                   Parental control software for Linux that works with

                   Ubuntu. These come in different shapes and sizes

                   but have features like site content filtering,

                   screen time management and website blocking.

                   There are some applications that come with built-in

                   controls but still, it is very important that you

                   learn everything they can do to see if you need a

                   more robust solution. The first thing is that you

                   think about the age of your child along with your

                   level of maturity so that you can come to a

                   decision on what they should and should have access

to.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Reduce_Video_Size_(Compress)_With_FFmpeg_–

              ByteXD⠀⇛

                   FFmpeg is an open-source collection of libraries

                   and tools used to process audio, video, and other

                   multimedia-related files. It can be used to

                   compress video size on almost all platforms.

                   It works great for compression but isn’t limited to

                   it. Some of its applications are format

                   transcoding, video editing, video scaling, etc.

                   The tool is very useful if you need to send large

                   media files via the internet. Sometimes, large file

                   sizes aren’t feasible for people who are low on

                   storage or who have to frequently send media files

                   over the internet. Compression helps reduce the

                   size of a file takes while preserving the file

                   content.

                   Using FFmpeg might be challenging to some users,

                   but it is not that complicated. Since it is a

                   command line utility, you can just follow the steps

                   mentioned in this article and reduce your video

                   size.

            # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Chia_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–

              idroot⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to install

                   Chia on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who

                   didn’t know, Chia is a new kind of cryptocurrency

                   that instead of using Proof of Space. Chia depends

                   on the hard disk’s memory instead of the processing

                   power (like other cryptocurrencies, i.e., Bitcoin).

                   The user investing in the Chia blockchain is known

                   as the farmer. The hard disk storage dedicated by a

                   farmer for “Chia” is known as “Proof of space”, and

                   the time invested by the farmer is referred to as

                   “Proof of time”.

                   This article assumes you have at least basic

                   knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and

                   most importantly, you host your site on your own

                   VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes

                   you are running in the root account, if not you may

                   need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root

                   privileges. I will show you the step-by-step

                   installation of the Chia blockchain 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.

            # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MongoDB_on_Linux_Mint_21_–

              idroot⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to install

                   MongoDB on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who

                   didn’t know, MongoDB is a very popular NoSQL

                   database that can be used with both Linux and

                   Windows operating systems. It stores data in JSON-

                   like documents which offers high flexibility and

                   dynamism and is therefore used in creating powerful

                   applications and websites and makes it differs

                   fundamentally from conventional relational

                   databases.

                   This article assumes you have at least basic

                   knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and

                   most importantly, you host your site on your own

                   VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes

                   you are running in the root account, if not you may

                   need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root

                   privileges. I will show you the step-by-step

                   installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on Linux

                   Mint 21 (Vanessa).

            # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_WonderCMS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–

              RoseHosting⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we are going to install WonderCMS

                   on Ubuntu 22.04, and we will use Nginx as a web

                   server.

                   WonderCMS is a content management system written in

                   PHP that uses javascript, jQuery, and CSS. This

                   software does not require a traditional database

                   system like MySQL or SQLite, and the data is saved

                   in a small text file called a flat file.

                   Installing WonderCMS on Ubuntu 22.04 with Nginx as

                   a web server is a very easy process that can take

                   up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Check_Shutdown_and_Restart_History_on

              Linux⠀⇛

                   As a system administrator, it’s your responsibility

                   to keep the system up and running to avoid any

                   service disruptions. However, sometimes, there are

                   situations when your system shuts down or reboots.

                   This can be due to the system unexpectedly losing

                   power or some user intentionally rebooting it.

                   Whatever the reason is, you can check your Linux

                   system’s shutdown and restart history to see when

                   this activity exactly happened. This information

                   will provide you with a starting point to begin the

                   troubleshooting.

            # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_get_Started_Deploying_Containers_with

              Podman_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛

                   For many, Docker has been the container runtime for

                   years. It’s simple to use and has plenty of third-

                   party tools available to make it more efficient and

                   accessible. Of course, Docker isn’t the only

                   option. And if your host operating system of choice

                   is of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux variety, such as

                   RHEL, Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux, Docker has been

                   replaced by Podman.

            # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_OpenToonz_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Linux_–

              Linux_Shout⠀⇛

                   Learn the steps to install OpenToonz 2D animation

                   software on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Linux

                   using the command terminal.

                   “OpenToonz” is a 2D animation software that allows

                   you to bring static drawings such as animals,

                   people, and entire environments to life. In this

                   way, short films, cartoons, or entire animated

                   series can be produced. Among other things, the

                   program offers the possibility to import hand-made

                   sketches and convert them into editable lines and

                   shapes.

                   In addition, you can use the Paint tool to add

                   color to scenes and objects and blend them together

                   on multiple layers. Effects such as image style,

                   the incidence of light, or distortion can be

                   inserted or removed with just a few clicks. In the

                   timeline and the node tree, you keep track of all

                   settings and parameters of the animation.

                   Even well-known TV series such as Futurama rely on

                   the animation software Toonz. Now the program is

                   also available for free as an open-source tool.

                   After a bit of learning, you can create moving

                   figures from static drawings or even your own

                   animated series.

                   The open-source version of Toonz is based on the

                   normal Toonz software which is also used by the

                   Japanese Studio Ghibli. Thus, all features

                   developed by the studio itself are also included in

                   OpenToonz.

      o § Games⠀➾

            # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ The_Gallery:_Can_FMV_Games_Make_a_Come-

              back?⠀⇛

                   The Gallery is a new FMV (Full Motion Video) game –

                   a genre that we can also describe as interactive

                   movies. It’s been a very long time since I played a

                   FMV game. There were a lot of those back in the

                   early 90s, as the CD-ROM was introduced on the

                   market as a massive storage medium. For the kids

                   out there who just came out of their mothers after

                   2000, in the early 90s most of the storage was

                   limited to floppy disks (1.4 Megabyte per disk) and

                   small hard drives (in the hundreds of Megabytes).

                   Most games were designed to fit in those

                   constraints, and with the sudden advent of the CD-

                   ROM, having full motion video as part of a game

                   become a reality. This was often used as an excuse

                   to make “remasters” of games by slapping a couple

                   of sloppy FMVs sequences on top of them. At that

                   time everyone was easily impressed by full motion

                   video in games: it was new, it was a technical feat

                   (the hardware at the time was barely capable of

                   decoding FMV decently), and it was relatively cheap

                   to make and produce. There were quite a few games

                   mostly centered around FMV themselves, interactive

                   movies if you’d like. And then you had those that

                   mixed actual games with a lot of FMV, such as Wing

                   Commander 3 (featuring Mark Hamill from Star Wars

                   fame) that had the biggest budget of any game ever

                   made at that time, or Under the Killing Moon (a

                   great adventure game with cutscenes and

                   conversations mixing CGI and video) – to cite the

                   best examples. Seeing Wing Commander 3 in 1994/1995

                   was like seeing the future. No game managed to make

                   you feel like you were in actual movie until then.

                   [...]

                   Oh yeah, you probably want to know if the game

                   works as is on Steam? Actually, no. It won’t work

                   if you use the regular Proton or even Experimental,

                   at least at the time of writing: the videos won’t

                   display, which makes the game unplayable. But GE-

                   Proton (any recent version) will do the trick to

                   make it work the way it’s supposed to.

      o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾

            # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Maui_Report_19_–_MauiKit_—_#UIFramework⠀⇛

                         Today, we bring you a new report on the Maui

                         Project’s progress.

                         Maui 2.2.1 was released almost two months

                         ago, and since then new features, bug fixes,

                         and improvements have been made to the Maui

                         set of apps and frameworks; the following

                         blog post will cover some of the changes and

                         highlights coming to the upcoming stable

                         release.

                         What’s new?

                         Among many bug fixes that will be listed

                         below, some of the highlights include paper-

                         cut fixes to the MauiKit controls look and

                         feel, such as translucent overflowing

                         content, a new TabView, and more coherent and

                         cohesive controls; more powerful features to

                         the Maui apps, and updates to the latest

                         libraries used by Maui apps.

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾

            # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ It’s_here!_SUSE_Rancher,_SLE_Micro

              and_K3s_now_available_with_HPE_Pointnext_support_|_SUSE

              Communities⠀⇛

                   For twenty-five years, SUSE has collaborated and

                   innovated with Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE),

                   to create a seamless hardware and software

                   experience. As part of this extended partnership we

                   are proud to announce the availability of SUSE

                   Rancher, K3s and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE

                   Micro) with HPE Pointnext support bundled-in,

                   starting October 3rd.

      o § Debian Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Some_of_Debian_12_won’t_be_FOSS_•_The

              Register⠀⇛

                   The next major release of Debian will ship

                   installation images that are not 100 percent free

                   open source software.

                   If you decide to try Debian GNU/Linux, even if you

                   ignore the multitude of Debian derivatives and

                   remixes, there remains an important and non-obvious

                   choice to make: which image do you download?

                   Aside from the many platforms and architectures

                   that Debian supports in what it calls ports, and

                   despite the downloads page pointing you at at a

                   sensible default, the problem is that the default

                   download image is built entirely from FOSS

                   components, meaning that it doesn’t include any

                   vendor BLOBs (Binary Large Objects).

                   If your internet connection is via Wi-Fi, for

                   instance, there is a strong probability that the

                   default Debian ISO will not be able to bring up Wi-

                   Fi – because many Wi-Fi adapters require some

                   vendor firmware to be uploaded to the device before

                   you can connect. This firmware is proprietary, and

                   therefore Debian doesn’t include it.

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Debian_Makes_Major_Change,_Will_Include_Non-

              Free_Firmware_in_Future_Installers⠀⇛

                   The Debian project is making a major change to how

                   it handles proprietary software in the next

                   version. Debian 12′s installer will feature

                   proprietary firmware in order to make installation

                   easier with Wi-Fi adapters.

                   [...]

                   Debian is one of the oldest Linux distributions

                   that is still actively maintained. Debian is well-

                   known for hewing closer to the free software

                   movement, to the point where it was endorsed for a

                   time by the Free Software Foundation and refers to

                   itself as a “GNU/Linux” system, in accordance with

                   Richard Stallman’s preferred terminology.

                   Debian is also known for making design decisions in

                   a democratic manner and putting decisions to a vote

                   among members of the community.

            # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Debian_Votes_for_One_Installer_ISO_with_Non-

              Free_Firmware⠀⇛

                   The results are out. Debian’s team voted for one

                   single ISO installer with non-free firmware

                   included.

                   Today, Debian provides two basic installer types –

                   “free” and “non-free”. The “free” installer

                   contains actual “free and open-source” packages,

                   whereas the “non-free” contains the proprietary

                   firmware package.

                   Since the majority of the average user needs an

                   “out of the box” Debian experience, it’s easier to

                   use the non-free firmware Debian ISO image.

                   But, finding the non-free firmware image is a

                   little difficult for the average Linux user (I

                   explained it in a prior installation guide).

                   Because it’s kind of “hidden” under several

                   directories. Here’s an example of the paths you

                   need to browse to locate the non-free ISO.

      o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_755⠀⇛

            # ⚓ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_755⠀⇛

                   Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 755

                   for the week of September 25 – October 1, 2022. The

                   full version of this issue is available here.

            # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Kinetic_Kudu_is_now_available_as_an_Ubuntu_beta

              release⠀⇛

                   Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system has, for

                   a very long time, been considered one of the best

                   options for users of all sorts. One of the best

                   features of Ubuntu is that it all works

                   effortlessly out of the box, which has been a plus

                   of the operating system for some time. And with

                   22.10, that still holds.

                   On top of that continued ease of use, the latest

                   version, Kinetic Kudu, adds several new features

                   into the mix to make this release an outstanding

                   option for any type of user.

                   What exactly can be found in the latest release of

                   Ubuntu? Let’s dive in and take a look.

            # ⚓ Ubuntu_22,_10,_comes_for_Beta_testing_–_Game_News_24 [Ed:

              This site might not be legitimate]⠀⇛

                   Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution from

                   Canonical, sees the latest release, 22, 10.10, come

                   out in beta as of October. Ubuntu 22.10 sees the

                   integration of the Gnome 43 desktop in the free

                   operating system and has a very nice default

                   wallpaper image. Thanks to the new tab, OMG!Ubuntu,

                   who has brought one of the details here to our

                   attention.

            # ⚓ Pop!_OS_to_skip_Ubuntu_22.10_for_more_time_to_develop_a

              project-based_environment_–_Game_News_24⠀⇛

                   Every day news stories on this august site cover

                   things that’re going to happen or products that

                   exist, so there’s no such thing as a’sheer’ to

                   provide you a report that something is not going to

                   happen or happen. That’s the case for the 22,10

                   version of popular Linux distro Pop!_OS, which has

                   not only exist, but is still still developing

                   according to a report on the OMG!Ubuntu (opens in a

                   new tab).

                   Now the latest Pop!_OS release has 22.04, Gnome 42.

                   The system 76 uses a COSMIC computer environment to

                   create this product which has hacked the most

                   expensive Ubuntu generation. The new COSMIC desktop

                   environment is being built in Rust rather than

                   using Gnome extensions. In a reddit post, Michael

                   Murphy explained why: There is little need to

                   replace Pop to 22.10. 22.10 isn’t a LTS release, so

                   if we release it, we’ll be forced to repatch and

                   rebase Pop in six months after the next LTS in

                   24.04. It takes a lot of time to support Ubuntu,

                   and the six month release cycle really suffocates

                   the production time and stability.

      o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾

            # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Get_Started_With

              Arduino_Projects_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛

                   If you’re new to electronics and want to learn to

                   make your own devices, an Arduino project is a good

                   place to start. Build it on an Arduino board – an

                   open source microcontroller that allows you to

                   explore the wonderful world of DIY electronics –

                   with the benefit of a large helpful community. If

                   you’re wondering what should you buy first, what

                   follows is a descriptive list of everything you

                   need in a starter kit to get you into the swing of

                   things.

      o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux

              Update_(39/2022):_Plasma_Mobile_Gear_22.09,_Akademy_and_an

              Update_on_Nemo_Mobile⠀⇛

                   This iteration of the Weekly Update contains less

                   headlines than usually.

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o § GNU Projects⠀➾

            # ⚓ FSF ☛ September_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:_Seventeen

              new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛

                   Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of

                   October 03, 2022)…

      o § Programming/Development⠀➾

            # ⚓ Improved_version_of_our_popular_“Embedded_Linux_system

              development”_course_–_Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛

                   Our Embedded Linux system development course has

                   been for many years one of our most popular

                   training courses. It is our course targeted at

                   engineers who are getting started with Linux on

                   embedded systems, and need to understand the big

                   picture, but with a sufficiently deep level of

                   details. It describes the overall structure of an

                   embedded Linux system, and teaches step by step how

                   it is build: cross-compilation toolchain,

                   bootloader, Linux kernel, minimal root filesystem,

                   storage, integration of user-space components,

                   build systems, etc.

                   [...]

                   The course is currently delivered with practical

                   labs done on the STM32MP1 platform from ST, but we

                   intend to port it on the BeagleBone Black and Qemu

                   as well. In any case, the course is very generic

                   and relevant for all embedded Linux projects,

                   regardless of the specific hardware platform being

                   used.

            # ⚓ LWN ☛ Netdev_0×16_accepted_sessions_announced_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                   The accepted sessions for the upcoming Netdev 0×16

                   have been posted. The conference will be held

                   virtually and in-person in Lisbon, Portugal October

                   24-28. In addition, early-bird registration rates

                   have been extended to October 4.

            # ⚓ vrurg:_Did_you_know_that_…⠀⇛

            # ⚓ gfldex:_Recursive_Cinderella⠀⇛

            # § Git⠀➾

                  # ⚓ LWN ☛ Git_v2.38.0⠀⇛

                         The latest feature release Git v2.38.0 is now

                         available at the

                         usual places.  It is comprised of 699 non-

                         merge commits since

                         v2.37.0, contributed by 92 people, 24 of

                         which are new faces [*].

                         The tarballs are found at:

                         https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

                         The following public repositories all have a

                         copy of the 'v2.38.0'

                         tag and the 'master' branch that the tag

                         points at:

                           url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/

git

                           url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/

                         scm/git/git

                           url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git

                           url = https://github.com/gitster/git

                         New contributors whose contributions weren't

                         in v2.37.0 are as follows.

                         Welcome to the Git development community!

                           Andrew Olsen, Anthony Delannoy, Carlos

                         López, Celeste Liu,

                           Cleber Rosa, David Plumpton, Elijah

                         Conners, Eric DeCosta,

                           Goss Geppert, Hubert Bossot, Ilya K, Ingy

                         dot Net, Jacob Stopak,

                           Julien Rouhaud, Kilian Kilger, Lana Deere,

                         Manuel Boni, Matthew

                           Klein, Miaoqian Lin, Moritz Baumann, Pavel

                         Rappo, Pierre Garnier,

                           Richard Oliver, and Xavier Morel.

                         Returning contributors who helped this

                         release are as follows.

                         Thanks for your continued support.

                           Abhradeep Chakraborty, Adam Dinwoodie, Ævar

                         Arnfjörð

                           Bjarmason, Alexander Shopov, Alex Henrie,

                         Arthur Milchior,

                           Bagas Sanjaya, brian m. carlson, Calvin

                         Wan, Carlo Marcelo

                           Arenas Belón, Christian Couder, Christoph

                         Reiter, Derrick

                           Stolee, Dimitriy Ryazantcev, Đoàn Trần Công

                         Danh, Elijah

                           Newren, Emily Shaffer, Emir SARI, Eric

                         Sunshine, Fangyi

                           Zhou, Felipe Contreras, Fernando Ramos,

                         Glen Choo, Han Xin,

                           Hariom Verma, Jacob Keller, Jaydeep Das,

                         Jean-Noël Avila,

                           Jeff King, Jiang Xin, Joey Hess, Johannes

                         Schindelin, John

                           Cai, Jonathan Tan, Jordi Mas, Josh

                         Steadmon, Junio C Hamano,

                           Justin Donnelly, Kyle Zhao, Lessley

                         Dennington, Li Linchao,

                           Linus Torvalds, Martin Ågren, Matheus

                         Tavares, Matthew John

                           Cheetham, Michael J Gruber, Øystein Walle,

                         Peter Krefting,

                           Philip Oakley, Philippe Blain, Phillip

                         Szelat, Phillip Wood,

                           Ralf Thielow, Randall S. Becker, Renato

                         Botelho, René Scharfe,

                           Shaoxuan Yuan, Siddharth Asthana, SZEDER

                         Gábor, Tao Klerks,

                           Taylor Blau, Teng Long, Todd Zullinger,

                         Torsten Bögershausen,

                           Victoria Dye, Yi-Jyun Pan, ZheNing Hu, and

                         依云.

                         [*] We are counting not just the authorship

                         contribution but issue

                             reporting, mentoring, helping and

                         reviewing that are recorded in

                             the commit trailers.

                  # ⚓ LWN ☛ Git_2.38_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                         Version 2.38.0 of the Git distributed

                         version-control system has been released.

                  # ⚓ glandium.org_–_Blog_Archive_»_Announcing_git-cinnabar

                    0.6.0rc1⠀⇛

                         Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to

                         interact with mercurial repositories. It

                         allows to clone, pull and push from/to

                         mercurial remote repositories, using git.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o ⚓ Death_Certificate,_Legal_Heir,_Succession_Certificate,_and_Indian

        Beaureacracy._–_Experiences_in_the_community⠀⇛

             After waiting for almost two, two, and a half months, I

             finally got mum’s death certificate last week. A part of

             me was saddened as it felt like I was nailing her or

             putting nails to the coffin or whatever it is, (even

             though I’m an Agarwal) I just felt sad and awful. I was

             told just get a death certificate and your problems will

             be over. Some people wanted me to give some amount under

             the table or something which I didn’t want to party of

             and because of that perhaps it took a month, month and a

             half more as I came to know later that it had been issued

             almost a month and a half back. The inflation over the

             last 8 years of the present Govt. has made the corrupt

             even more corrupt, all the while projecting and telling

             others that the others are corrupt. There had been also a

             few politicians who were caught red-handed but then

             pieces of evidence & witnesses vanish overnight. I don’t

             really wanna go in that direction as it would make for an

             unpleasant reading with no solutions at all unless the

             present Central Govt. goes out.

      o § Linux Foundation⠀➾

            # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ At_Open_Source_Summit:_Introducing_Linux

              Foundation_Europe [Ed: Paid-for puff piece about foreign

              lobby_group_of_monopolies]⠀⇛

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_After_11_days,_Optus_finally_says_2.1m

              customers_had_ID_data_stolen⠀⇛

                   Telecommunincations company Singtel Optus has

                   finally provided details of how many customers were

                   affected by the data breach, saying that 2.1

                   million users had personal ID data stolen.

                   This includes 150,000 who had their passport

                   details filched and 50,000 whose Medicare details

                   were purloined.

                   In a statement, sent on Monday to users who had

                   been affected, the company said of the 2.1 million,

                   approximately 1.2 million customers had at least

                   one number from a current and valid form of

                   identification, and personal information,

                   compromised.

            # ⚓ The_impact_of_open_source_on_cybersecurity_|_Infosec

              Resources⠀⇛

                   Open-source software is one of the most innovative

                   developments of the past few decades. Open-source

                   is code that is publicly available and editable.

                   While this sounds dangerous for security, it can

                   actually significantly improve it by allowing

                   anyone to fix errors. Applying the open-source

                   methodology of collaboration to cybersecurity can

                   greatly affect everyone’s security.

            # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Researchers_Link_Cheerscrypt_Linux-Based

              Ransomware_to_Chinese_Hackers [Ed: This article hardly

              explains how this gets on systems in the first place and

              instead rambles about Microsoft, not Linux, issues]⠀⇛

* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾

      o § Personal⠀➾

            # ⚓ Short_Night_Ahead⠀⇛

      o § Technical⠀➾

            # § Science⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Dressed_Up_and_No_Place_to_Go⠀⇛

                         I was able to find a little spare time to

                         work on cleaning up the PowerSeeker 127EQ (5-

                         inch) which my friend loaned me. This mainly

                         involved removing the primary mirror and

                         cleaning it off. I just used water and very

                         gentle wipes with a spare clean t-shirt. Not

                         sure if that is the best approach, but it

                         looked decent afterward, and I don’t think I

                         scratched it any.

                         Unfortunately, we are still having what I

                         call the “cloud apocalypse” here in

                         Fairbanks, Alaska. This last week was a

                         seemingly unbroken chain of overcast days and

                         nights — very thick clouds with some light

                         rain here and there. And the forecast was

                         showing all the same for the next week. In a

                         moment of desperation last night, I noticed

                         there was one clear patch of sky visible, so

                         I decide I would go ahead and give the

                         PowerSeeker a try.

                  # ⚓ State_vs_Climate⠀⇛

                         Anything we can do to fight climate change

                         without a state, I’m all for. Keep up the

                         good work. I’m not saying to throw anything

                         out of our existing toolbox.

                         What are some meaningful interventions that a

                         state or international organization like the

                         UN can do more easily than we can do on our

                         own?

            # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Clickbait_on_Gemini⠀⇛

                         Clickbait is encouraged in order to generate

                         more revenue for websites, that are usually

                         filled with ads or spyware. In other words,

                         profit.

                         We’ve all seen how dire is the state of

                         clickbait on the WWW. Articles are beginning

                         to get written by neural networks just to

                         automate clickbait, most of the titles are

                         very exaggerated and you cannot find anything

                         without stumbling upon some clickbait.

                         On Gemini however, clickbait isn’t present,

                         at least as of writing this, because there’s

                         no incentive to make profit. The restricted

                         nature of the protocol makes it hard to

                         monetize, in this case it’s a good thing. We

                         write here for fun, not to earn money.

=> =============================================================================

Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the

World Wide Web but a lot lighter.

                ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3404

Gemini_version_available_♊︎

✐ Links_03/10/2022:_GNU_Linux-Libre_6.0⠀✐

Posted in News_Roundup at 6:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Desktop/Laptop

      o Kernel_Space

      o Graphics_Stack

      o Instructionals/Technical

      o Games

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o Red_Hat_/_IBM

      o Devices/Embedded

      o Open_Hardware/Modding

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o SaaS/Back_End/Databases

      o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

* Leftovers

      o Science

      o Education

      o Hardware

      o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      o Security

            # Privacy/Surveillance

      o Defence/Aggression

      o Environment

            # Energy

            # Wildlife/Nature

      o Finance

      o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

      o Censorship/Free_Speech

      o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press

      o Civil_Rights/Policing

      o Monopolies

            # Software_Patents

            # Copyrights

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_October_2nd,_2022⠀⇛

             This has been a great week for Linux news and releases as

             Linux 6.0 is finally here and it’s coming soon to our

             distros, new 4K Linux laptops are on their way, KDE’s

             Plasma Mobile Gear advances tablet support, and Raspberry

             Pi fans got a new Raspberry Pi OS update.

             On top of that, early adopters got their hands on the

             development versions of Ubuntu 22.10 and Linux Lite 6.2,

             and I share details about the latest Xfce app updates and

             upcoming Xfce 4.18 desktop environment, and the upcoming

             Linux Mint 21.1 release, both due out this Christmas.

             Below, you can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s

             Linux weekly roundup for October 2nd, 2022.

      o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾

            # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Is_your_old_computer_‘obsolete’,_or_is_it

              a_Linux_opportunity?⠀⇛

                   You may often hear someone claim a computer,

                   tablet, or smartphone is “obsolete.” When you hear

                   such a statement, take a minute to ask yourself,

                   “Is this person speaking an opinion or a fact?”

                   Many times, their statement is an opinion. Let me

                   explain why.

                   When someone declares a computer “obsolete,” they

                   often speak from their own point of view. So, if

                   you’re a technology professional, a five-year-old

                   computer might indeed be obsolete. But is that same

                   five-year-old computer obsolete to a refugee family

                   fleeing war or famine? Probably not. A computer

                   that is obsolete for you might be a dream computer

                   for someone else.

      o § Kernel Space⠀➾

            # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Linux_6.0_release_–_Main_changes,_Arm,_RISC-

              V,_and_MIPS_architectures_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛

                   The previous Linux 5.19 release brought us support

                   for BIG TCP for high-speed networks (100Gbps+),

                   AMD’s Secure Nested Paging and Intel’s Trusted

                   Domain Extensions mechanisms, the Loongson

                   “LoongArch” CPU architecture, and completely

                   removed the a.out executable format on x86, among

                   many other changes.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_kernel_6.0_is_out_now⠀⇛

                   The latest and great version of the Linux kernel

                   has been released with Linux 6.0 out now. From the

                   release announcement:

            # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNU_Linux-Libre_6.0_Kernel_Released_for_Those

              Who_Seek_100%_Freedom_for_Their_PCs⠀⇛

                   Based on the recently released Linux 6.0 kernel

                   series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.0 kernel (codename

                   ETOOSIXY) kernel is here to clean up proprietary

                   code in the UCSI interface driver for STM32G0 and

                   the CS35L41 HD-audio side codec driver, as well as

                   to adjust the cleaning up scripts for the updated

                   MediaTek MT76 drivers.

                   In addition, the GNU Linux-libre 6.0 kernel cleans

                   up the blob names of multiple DTS files for

                   Qualcomm and MediaTek AArch64 systems, as well as

                   in updated versions of the AMDGPU, Adreno, Tegra

                   VIC, Netronome NFP, and Habanalabs Gaudi2 drivers.

      o § Graphics Stack⠀➾

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_driver_515.49.19_is_out

              now,_driver_515.76_causing_problems⠀⇛

                   NVIDIA have done another new release to their

                   developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver with 515.49.19

                   out now. This is completely separate to their main

                   driver series.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_NVIDIA_Drivers_on_Ubuntu

              22.10_Kinetic_Kudu⠀⇛

                   The Nouveau driver is an open-source graphics

                   device driver for Nvidia video cards. The driver is

                   pre-installed in most Linux Desktop systems. The

                   only reason you may need to install the official

                   proprietary Nvidia Linux driver is if you wish to

                   squeeze as much power as possible from the Nvidia

                   VGA card. The installation procedure is simple and

                   only takes a few minutes. Once the driver is

                   installed, you will need to restart your computer.

                   After your computer has restarted, you can use all

                   of the features of your Nvidia VGA card.

                   In the following tutorial, you will learn how to

                   install NVIDIA Graphic Drivers on Ubuntu 22.10

                   Kinetic Kudu short-term release using three methods

                   that should suit most user requirements.

            # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Use_Conditional_Statements_(if-else)_in

              Bash_Script⠀⇛

                   In this guide, we will cover how to use conditional

                   statements in the bash script.

                   Linux users often write scripts to automate

                   repetitive tasks. We can use the conditional

                   statements within the scripts to make them more

                   robust. The conditional statement executes the

                   block of code when certain condition evaluates to

                   true.

                   There are different forms of conditional statements

                   such as – if, if-else, if-elif-else, and, nested

                   if-else. In this beginner friendly guide, we will

                   understand their usage with practical examples.

            # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ hosts.deny_format_and_example_on_Linux⠀⇛

                   The hosts.deny file can be used on a Linux system

                   to deny connection attempts from one or more IP

                   addresses, hostnames, or domains. It can work with

                   any TCP wrapped service on your system. The

                   hosts.deny file is used in conjunction with

                   hosts.allow to determine whether a connection

                   attempt gets accepted or denied.

                   The hosts.deny file is just a plain text

                   configuration file with a rather simple syntax. In

                   this tutorial, you will see an example of the

                   hosts.deny file, as we show you how to format the

                   file for different possible scenarios.

            # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ hosts.allow_format_and_example_on_Linux⠀⇛

                   A Linux system can utilize the hosts.allow file to

                   specify which IP addresses, hostnames, or domains

                   are permitted to connect to it. This works

                   specifically for TCP wrapped services. The

                   hosts.allow file is used in conjunction with

                   hosts.deny to determine whether a connection

                   attempt gets accepted or denied.

                   The hosts.allow file is just a plain text

                   configuration file with a rather simple syntax. In

                   this tutorial, you will see an example of the

                   hosts.allow file, as we show you how to format the

                   file for different possible scenarios.

            # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Alias_example_accepting_arguments_and

              parameters_on_Linux⠀⇛

                   Creating an alias is a good way to make commands

                   easier to remember and quicker to type. In case you

                   want to extend the functionality of your aliases

                   even further, it is possible to have them accept

                   arguments and parameters. This gives users the

                   ability to execute complex and lengthy commands in

                   only a few keystrokes on the command line.

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an

                   alias that can accept arguments or parameters on

                   the command line. We will give you a simple

                   example, which you can copy and paste onto your own

                   system, and adapt it to your own scenarios as

                   needed.

            # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_write_Nautilus_extensions_with

              nautilus-python⠀⇛

                   Nautilus, also known as “Files”, is the default

                   file manager of the GNOME desktop environment. In a

                   previous tutorial we saw how to create and call

                   custom scripts from the Nautilus context-menu: this

                   feature can be really useful but is somehow

                   limited. By installing the nautilus-python package

                   in our favorite Linux distribution, and writing

                   just few lines of Python code, we can overcome such

                   limitations and create proper Nautilus extensions.

                   In this tutorial we learn how to write Nautilus

                   extensions using Python and the bindings provided

                   by the nautilus-python package.

      o § Games⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Making_A_Handheld_NES_By_Turning_DIP_Chips

              Into…QFN?⠀⇛

                   You can achieve a lot with a Dremel. For instance,

                   apparently you can slim the original NES down into

                   the hand-held form-factor. Both the CPU and the PPU

                   (Picture Processing Unit) are 40-pin DIP chips,

                   which makes NES minification a bit tricky.

                   [Redherring32] wasn’t one to be stopped by this,

                   however, and turned these DIP chips into QFN-style-

                   mounted dies (Nitter) using little more than a

                   Dremel cutting wheel. Why? To bring his TinyTendo

                   handheld game console project to fruition, of

                   course.

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o § Red Hat / IBM⠀➾

            # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ The_future_of_payments:_6

              predictions_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛

                   These days, cash on hand is no longer a

                   requirement, and I’d argue that traffic isn’t

                   either – just post online, and people worldwide can

                   buy “virtual” lemonade. In today’s world, cash is

                   rarely required, and credit cards are becoming less

                   so as more people pay with their phone, watch, or

                   Venmo. I ponder how far off we are from biometric

                   payments: Place items in your cart, a quick face

                   scan, and you’re on your way.

            # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Kubernetes_by_the_numbers,_in_2022:

              11_stats_to_see⠀⇛

                   It’s been a while – two years, to be precise –

                   since we last took stock of Kubernetes by poring

                   over the wide variety of publicly available numbers

                   that illustrate the container orchestration

                   platform’s rise in IT.

                   News flash: Kubernetes is an even bigger deal now.

                   That’s not so much news as a straightforward

                   confirmation of what many IT leaders already know:

                   The forces that have helped propel Kubernetes (K8s)

                   growth – such as containerization, application

                   modernization, cloud-native development, and hybrid

                   cloud infrastructure – are here to stay.

                   Two-thirds (68 percent) of IT leaders are already

                   running containers in their organizations,

                   according to Red Hat’s State of Enterprise Open

                   Source 2022 report. Nearly one-third said they plan

                   to significantly increase their container usage in

                   the next 12 months.

            # ⚓ IBM_i_7.3_Loses_Standard_Support_On_April_28,_2023_–_IT

              Jungle⠀⇛

                   Big Blue just got the IBM i 7.5 operating system

                   and system software stack out the door for Power8,

                   Power9, and Power10 machines back in May, and from

                   that moment the clock was ticking on regular

                   support for the IBM i release that came out in

                   April 2016 and that represents the second most

                   popular release on primary machines based on data

                   from the most recent IBM i Marketplace Survey.

            # ⚓ IBM_i_PTF_Guide,_Volume_24,_Number_40⠀⇛

      o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Pro_Dev_Kit_features_DA1470x_BLE_SoCs_for

              portable_IoT_devices⠀⇛

                   The DA1470x is a BLE 5.2 SoC combining an Arm

                   Cortex M33 processor along with a 2D GPU, PMU,

                   Crypto Engine, voice detector and a 240 dMIPS FPU.

                   Renesas also offers a Pro Development Kit giving

                   access to all the GPIOs from the DA1470x and

                   daughterboards with additional peripherals.

      o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾

            # ⚓ [Old] Radxa Community ☛ Introduce_the_Radxa_Zero⠀⇛

                   We are happy to announce the Radxa Zero, a new

                   member of our SBC family. We’ve been wanted to make

                   the Zero form factor since long time ago but there

                   is no good SoC choice. RK3326 was the close one but

                   it doesn’t support HDMI. Until we read the news of

                   Xiaomi TV Dongle announcement, it’s powered by the

                   Amlogic S905Y series. It turned us on. After we

                   checked the spec of Amlogic Y series chips, we

                   decide to make it immediately. Amlogic Y series

                   chips is stripped for small dongle applications

                   both on footprint and power. We can pack as large

                   as 4GB LPDDR4 ram, 256G eMMC and WiFi5 into a

                   66*30mm small board, it’s really amazing.

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾

            # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pg_ivm_1.3_released⠀⇛

                   IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the

                   release of pg_ivm 1.3.

      o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾

            # ⚓ [LibreOffice]_What_is_Miklos_hacking_–_Content_controls_in

              Writer:_PDF_export_and_combo_box_type⠀⇛

                   Writer now supports exporting content controls to

                   PDF and a 7th content control type: it is possible

                   to differentiate between drop-downs and combo

                   boxes.

                   This work is primarily for Collabora Online, see

                   the previous post for background.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Compressor_Of_Compressors_Breaks_The_Noise_Barrier⠀⇛

             Having compressed air available in a workshop can be

             extremely useful. Having a compressor isn’t such a

             pleasure though, because unless it’s a very expensive

             model, it will be one of the noisier devices you own.

             Other than putting your compressor outside, is there a

             solution to the noisy side of having an air line?

             [Dominik Meffert] may have found one for his CNC plasma

             cutter in the shape of a rack of much quieter fridge

             compressors arranged in parallel with an air tank.

      o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Reading_William_Rivers_Pitt_Was_Like_Traveling._I’ll

        Miss_the_Journey.⠀⇛

      o § Science⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Links:_October_2,_2022⠀⇛

                   “Necessity is the mother of invention,” or so the

                   saying goes. We’ve never held to that, finding that

                   laziness is a much more powerful creative

                   lubricant. And this story about someone who

                   automated their job with a script is one of the

                   best examples of sloth-driven invention since the

                   TV remote was introduced. If we take the story at

                   face value — and it’s the Internet, so why wouldn’t

                   we? — this is a little scary, as the anonymous

                   employee was in charge of curating digital evidence

                   submissions for a law firm. The job was to watch

                   for new files in a local folder, manually copy them

                   to a cloud server, and verify the file with a hash

                   to prove it hasn’t been tampered with and support

                   the chain of custody. The OP says this was

                   literally the only task to perform, so we can’t

                   really blame them for automating it with a script

                   once COVID shutdowns and working from home provided

                   the necessary cover. But still — when your entire

                   job can be done by a Windows batch file and some

                   PowerShell commands while you play video games,

                   we’re going to go out on a limb and say you’re

                   probably underemployed.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ In_A_Way,_3D_Scanning_Is_Over_A_Century_Old⠀⇛

                   In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could

                   go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo

                   session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a

                   circle around the subject, and in a matter of days

                   obtain a photosculpture. A photosculpture was

                   essentially a sculpture representing, with a high

                   degree of exactitude, the photographed subject. The

                   kicker was that it was both much faster and far

                   cheaper than traditional sculpting, and the process

                   was remarkably similar in principle to 3D scanning.

                   Not bad for well over a century ago.

      o § Education⠀➾

            # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ More_non-IT_workers_say_they’re_having_to_do_IT

              tasks_at_work_now⠀⇛

                   The research suggests that 74% of the IT decision

                   makers surveyed have already decentralized their IT

                   structures, which is 10% above the global average.

                   As a result, almost all (99%) of the companies have

                   at least one department running their own

                   applications using low or no code platforms, such

                   as help desk software and remote access tools.

            # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Protesters_demand_reinstatement_of_fired

              teachers_in_Budapest⠀⇛

      o § Hardware⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Winged_Drone_Gets_Forward_Flight_Capability⠀⇛

                   Drones are pretty common in the electoronics

                   landscape today, and are more than just a fun

                   hobby. They’ve enabled a wide array of realtors,

                   YouTubers, surveyors, emergency responders, and

                   other professionals to have an extremely powerful

                   tool at their disposal. One downside to these tools

                   is that the power consumption tends to be quite

                   high. You can either stick larger batteries on

                   them, or, as [Nicholas] demonstrates, just spin

                   them really fast during flight.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Camera-Mounted_Stereo_Mic_Is_Fluffy_And

              Capable⠀⇛

                   Typically, the audio coming out of your camera is

                   not of the greatest quality. An external mic is

                   generally a great upgrade, and this build from

                   [DJJules] aims to be just that.

      o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾

            # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ UK_‘blind’_to_new_immune-evasive_Covid

              variants_creating_‘perfect_storm’_for_devastating_wave⠀⇛

                   The UK is heading into a “devastating” Covid wave

                   this autumn exacerbated by a drop in testing and

                   inadequate surveillance of new immune-evasive

                   subvariants, experts have warned.

                   Covid-19 infections in the UK have risen 14 per

                   cent, according to the latest figures.

            # ⚓ New York Times ☛ British_Ruling_Pins_Blame_on_Social_Media

              for_Teenager’s_Suicide⠀⇛

                   The dispassionate and declarative judgment

                   concluded a legal battle that pitted the Russell

                   family against some of Silicon Valley’s largest

                   companies. Delving into many parents’ worst fears

                   about the influence of the internet and social

                   media on their children, the case reverberated in

                   Britain and beyond. A crowd of television cameras

                   and photographers gathered outside the courtroom

                   when the decision was announced.

            # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Can’t_We_Pay_Attention_Anymore?⠀⇛

                   Johann Hari’s book “Stolen Focus” and Jacob Ward’s

                   book “The Loop” discuss how technology and

                   modernity are negatively and chronically affecting

                   our brains and behavior. They focus on the

                   individual experience of living in this moment, and

                   how modern technology is limiting our choices and

                   personal notions of freedom and consciousness.

                   These well-researched surveys draw attention to

                   important concerns while avoiding simplistic self-

                   improvement recommendations.

                   In “The Loop,” Ward, an NBC technology

                   correspondent, argues that artificial intelligence

                   in particular is not only predicting our actions

                   but increasingly causing our actions, narrowing our

                   scope of options and imprisoning us in an automated

                   existence.

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ Airbus_AoA_–_Angle_of_Attack_sensor_issue_|_Pen_Test

              Partners⠀⇛

                   I read a lot of air incident investigation reports.

                   The aviation industry is a shining example of

                   sharing and learning, resulting in increased

                   safety. I wish that the cyber industry on the

                   ground could find a way to effectively share

                   similar experiences and learnings.

                   Anyway, one report caught my attention as it had

                   echoes of the Boeing 737 Max 8 MCAS issues. Except

                   this incident report related to an Airbus A321

                   several years earlier. Fortunately, the incident

                   happened at cruising altitude and was resolved

                   after a loss of ~4,000 feet. The plane landed

                   safely at its intended destination as planned.

                   An emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) was

                   issued with instructions for pilots to identify and

                   handle the scenario in future. How different it

                   could have been though, had the incident occurred

                   at a lower altitude with less height for the pilots

                   to handle the uncommanded descent.

                   It appears to have started with an Angle of Attack

                   (AoA) sensor issue. Airbus aircraft have a feature

                   called AlphaProt which prevents high angles of

                   attack being reached in phases of flight where this

                   could cause a stall. If the AoA exceeds a value

                   appropriate to that phase of flight, the systems

                   will cause a nose down input.

            # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Homebrew_LED_Strips_That_Are_HomeKit-

                    Compatible⠀⇛

                         Google, Amazon and Apple are all duking it

                         out for supremacy in the smart home space. As

                         you’ve probably noticed, cheaper smart lights

                         and the like typically don’t offer

                         connectivity with Apple’s HomeKit system.

                         However, if you want some smart lighting that

                         works in that ecosystem without breaking the

                         bank, you can always build your own!

      o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾

            # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkey’s_Erdogan_Renews_Threat_To_Block_NATO_Bids

              By_Sweden,_Finland⠀⇛

                   Following negotiations, Erdogan said he would drop

                   his objections but indicated he could still block

                   their membership bids if they failed to follow

                   through on promises, some of which were

                   undisclosed.

            # ⚓ Middle East Monitor ☛ France_closes_another_mosque⠀⇛

                   The government in France has announced that it is

                   closing another mosque. Media reports yesterday

                   said that the closure of the Obernai Mosque in the

                   Bas-Rhin region is because the Imam has been

                   accused of extremism, taking an anti-French

                   position and making provocative comments against

                   the values of the republic.

                   The Interior Ministry has apparently started the

                   process to have the mosque closed. A tweet from

                   Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that 23

                   mosques have been closed by the government over the

                   past two years on suspicion of being linked to

                   “separatist activities”. He added that President

                   Emmanuel Macron has asked the authorities to fight

                   such activities.

            # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Striding_Towards_Armageddon_–_Why_Putin’s

              Annexations_Are_Wrong⠀⇛

                   Anyone who knows the former Soviet space well

                   understands the crucial difference between

                   “grazdanstvo” – citizenship – and “narodnosc” –

                   nationality. It featured on all identity documents,

                   including passports, in the Soviet Union and on

                   post Soviet national passports, at least until

                   countries joined the EU.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_hockey_player_fined_for_draft_evasion

              bribe_attempt_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   A court in Ufa has fined hockey player Vladislav

                   Lukin 2.2 million rubles (about $37,900) for

                   attempting to evade military service by paying a

                   bribe back in 2019, TASS reported. According to

                   investigators, Lukin transferred 230,000 rubles to

                   an intermediary, who Lukin expected to transfer the

                   money to military commissariat workers but did not.

                   Lukin pleaded guilty.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kalmyk_Buddhist_leader_speaks_out_against_war_in

              Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Telo Tulku Rinpoche, the Supreme Lama of the Kalmyk

                   People, said in a newly posted interview that

                   Russia’s war against Ukraine is wrong and that the

                   Ukrainians are in the right for defending their

                   country.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_reports_liberation_of_two_villages_in

              Kherson_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported

                   that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated two

                   villages in the country’s Kherson region:

                   Arkhanhelske and Myrolyubivka. In his daily address

                   to the nation, Zelensky said the following:

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_Putin-style_history_lecture_The_Constitutional

              Court_of_Russia_rules_on_the_annexation_of_Ukrainian

              territory_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   The Constitutional Court of Russia issued four

                   rulings on Russia’s annexation of the self-

                   proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk “people’s republics”

                   as well as the Ukrainian territories of Zaporizhia

                   and Kherson. The rulings approved the annexation,

                   one of several necessary procedural steps in making

                   the annexations “official.” The text of the rulings

                   – all nearly identical – features lengthy musings

                   on regional history, similar in style to Putin’s

                   speech about the annexations on September 30. An

                   abridged version of the Court’s words is below.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_committee_gives_details_on_annexation_—

              Meduza⠀⇛

                   Pavel Krashennikov, head of the State Duma

                   Committee on State Building and Legislation

                   announced that “the hryvnia will be allowed to

                   circulate” until the end of 2022 in Ukrainian

                   territories annexed by Russia, Interfax reports.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_Constitutional_Court_of_Russia_approves

              documents_on_occupied_territories’_‘admission_into_Russia’_—

              Meduza⠀⇛

                   The Constitutional Court of Russia approved the

                   treaties on “admission into the Russian Federation”

                   of occupied Ukrainian regions, which were signed on

                   September 30 in the Kremlin. An announcement was

                   published on the court’s website:

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_on_Russian_retreat_from_Lyman_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   In his evening address on October 1, Ukrainian

                   president Volodymyr Zelensky commented on Russian

                   troops’ departure from Lyman in the Donetsk region

                   – a region which Moscow tried to annex a day

                   earlier as the result of its “referendums on

                   joining Russia.”

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_and_UK_Sabotaged_Ukrainian_Peace_Deal⠀⇛

                   The West’s aim “is not the victory of Ukraine, It’s

                   the defeat of Russia,” Baud says. “The problem is

                   that nobody cares about Ukraine. We have just

                   instrumentalized Ukraine for the purpose of US

                   strategic interests — not even European interests.”

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Putin_in_a_Corner?⠀⇛

                   Russians of all nationalities have pushed back.

                   Demonstrations broke out in 43 cities immediately

                   after the announcement of the mobilization, and the

                   authorities have detained nearly 2,400 people.

                   Seventeen recruitment centers have been attacked in

                   the latest upsurge of anger (and 54 in all since

                   the launch of the invasion). All too aware of how

                   this particular game will end, a lot of Russians

                   have simply headed to the exits: more than a

                   quarter of a million men have joined the exodus

                   since the announcement, on top of the nearly 4

                   million people who left in the first quarter of the

                   year.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Opportunistic_Interests:_The_US-Pacific

              Island_Declaration⠀⇛

                   Harris also acknowledged the Pacific Islands had

                   not been in Washington’s diplomatic radar in recent

                   years.  They had not received deserving “attention

                   and support”.  This, she promised, would change.

                   As a start, embassies would be established in Tonga

                   and Kiribati.  A United States Envoy to the Pacific

                   Islands Forum would be appointed.  USAID would also

                   expand its operations and re-establish a regional

                   mission in Suva, Fiji.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Imperial_Delusion_is_the_Enemy_of_Peace_and

              Prosperity⠀⇛

                   Washington, Lavrov declared, is trying to “stop the

                   march of history” against “sovereign states ready

                   to defend their national interests … resulting in

                   the creation of an equal, socially-oriented,

                   multipolar architecture.”

      o § Environment⠀➾

            # ⚓ NPR ☛ Brazil’s_election_could_determine_the_fate_of_the

              Amazon_after_record_deforestation⠀⇛

                   García claims that he bought the land to plant

                   cassava and other crops. But there’s a for-sale

                   sign out front. What’s more, Fearnside and other

                   experts say that it’s a common practice for land

                   speculators to pay squatters to occupy their

                   properties and clear away the jungle for ranching

                   and large-scale farming.

                   In fact, deforesting can double property prices,

                   says Rose Marcondes, 45, as she keeps an eye on the

                   fire burning on her plot of land just off the

                   highway. Still, when it comes to destroying the

                   Amazon, she claims that small farmers like herself

                   are not the main culprits.

                   “The real problem is the big landowners,” she says.

                   “They burn more jungle in one year than we burn in

                   a lifetime.”

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Will_Lula_Mount_a_Sufficient_Challenge_to

              Bolsonaro_and_the_Far_Right_in_Brazil?⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Brazil’s_Amazon_Losses_Will_Fall_89%_If_Lula

              Beats_Bolsonaro:_Study⠀⇛

                   Mitchell Beer summarizes a new analysis that shows

                   a change in presidency in Brazil could have a huge

                   impact on the Amazon.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Brazil_Votes_Live:_Lula_Wins_the_First

              Round_Over_Far-Right_Bolsonaro;_Run-Off_Oct._30⠀⇛

                   Brazil’s presidential race will need to go to an

                   October 30th second round after former

                   president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fell short of

                   the 50%+1 he needed to avoid a run-off with

                   extremist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Canadian_Youth_Launch_a_Rising

              Tide_of_Constitutional_Climate_Suits._Expect_more.⠀⇛

                   Last month, seven Ontario youths made history when

                   they held Premier Doug Ford’s government to account

                   for its reckless climate policy in a court of law.

            # § Energy⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Nature ☛ Economic_estimation_of_Bitcoin_mining’s

                    climate_damages_demonstrates_closer_resemblance_to

                    digital_crude_than_digital_gold⠀⇛

                         This paper provides economic estimates of the

                         energy-related climate damages of mining

                         Bitcoin (BTC), the dominant proof-of-work

                         cryptocurrency. We provide three

                         sustainability criteria for signaling when

                         the climate damages may be unsustainable. BTC

                         mining fails all three. We find that for

                         2016–2021: (i) per coin climate damages from

                         BTC were increasing, rather than decreasing

                         with industry maturation; (ii) during certain

                         time periods, BTC climate damages exceed the

                         price of each coin created; (iii) on average,

                         each $1 in BTC market value created was

                         responsible for $0.35 in global climate

                         damages, which as a share of market value is

                         in the range between beef production and

                         crude oil burned as gasoline, and an order-

                         of-magnitude higher than wind and solar

                         power. Taken together, these results

                         represent a set of sustainability red flags.

                         While proponents have offered BTC as

                         representing “digital gold,” from a climate

                         damages perspective it operates more like

                         “digital crude”.

                  # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ad_Parodying_Chevron_for_Contributing_to

                    Climate_Crisis_Goes_Viral⠀⇛

            # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dolphins_of_Heavens_and_Earth⠀⇛

                         The largest of the islands, Crete, displayed

                         originality and vigor in the second

                         millennium BCE, which carries the name Minoan

                         Age from its greatest king, Minos, son of

                         Zeus. Other regions in the mainland and

                         Aegean islands that advanced the foundations

                         of Greek civilization included Thessaly in

                         north Greece, Mycenae, and Sparta in

                         Peloponnesos and Thebes and Delphi in Central

                         Greece, Athens, and the Aegean islands of

                         Lemnos, Thera, and the tiny islands Daskalio

                         and Keros. The god of metallurgy, Hephaistos,

                         had his workshop in Lemnos.

      o § Finance⠀➾

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Free_Stores_Offer_an_Alternative_to_the

              Exploitative_Capitalist_Economy⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Britannia_Unhinged:_UK’s_Return

              to_Trickle_Down_Economy_is_Suicide⠀⇛

                   “The Queen’s final act of service to the nation was

                   to selflessly buy the economy one last fortnight,”

                   said one tweet when all four wheels finally came

                   off the British economy.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ We_Will_See_More_Shocking_Cruelty_to_Mental

              Health_Patients_Under_Liz_Truss’_Cuts⠀⇛

                   I ceased to speak in a gradual withdrawal from a

                   world that I found too frightening to cope with

                   and, seeing my decline, my parents feared that I

                   was dying. Against the advice of the doctors, who

                   thought that polio must have affected my throat

                   muscles, they took me home where I rapidly

                   recovered. I spoke many years later to another

                   former child from the ward who told me that she had

                   likewise lived in terror of the nursing staff, so

                   much so that, even after she had left the hospital,

                   she would hide under the table if there was a knock

                   on the door as she feared that it was the nurses

                   come to take her back.

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Spain_Passes_“Solidarity”_Wealth_Tax_on_Top_0.1

              Percent⠀⇛

      o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾

            # ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran:_Fifa_called_on_to_ban_country_from_World_Cup

              over_women’s_rights⠀⇛

                   It also argues that even those who travel to Qatar

                   to watch matches risk falling foul of Iranian

                   authorities, with fears state spies may keep tabs

                   on those who attend.

                   Prohibiting women from games goes against

                   international football rules, the letter points

                   out, arguing Fifa should “immediately expel Iran

                   from the World Cup 2022 in Qatar” as a result.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Corporate-Tied_Republican_Party’s

              Cruelty_to_Children⠀⇛

                   Republican Party leaders didn’t have a Platform in

                   2020.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Debunking_the_Latest_2020_Conspiracy_Theory

              from_a_Leading_Trump_Election_Denier⠀⇛

                   Pulitzer, who rented a theater in Tempe where he

                   will speak and host other election deniers, is

                   alleging that a handful of accessible voting

                   stationsthat assist voters with disabilities were

                   used to hijack votes for Joe Biden. These computers

                   have a touchscreen to register votes and a printer

                   that produces a filled-out ballot card. A separate

                   scanner then counts the votes.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Government_Policy,_Not_the_Market,_Spurred

              the_Rise_in_Inequality⠀⇛

                   In this way, the belief in the market causes of

                   inequality can be similar to the belief among

                   Trumpers that the 2020 election was stolen from

                   Trump. They simply do not even want to see the

                   issue debated.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Liberals_and_Magical_Thinking⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Glenn_Greenwald_Reflects_on_Values_and

              Character_v._Political_Identity⠀⇛

                   Glenn Greenwald writes that there are many lessons

                   to learn from the Brazilian firefighter, union

                   leader, evangelical and ex-Congressman Cabo Daciolo

                   was once embraced by the left, but is now vilified

                   by them as a “hater” of LGBTs.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_West—Technocrats,

              Incompetents,_Ideologues⠀⇛

                   When the Italian Senate names party leader Giogia

                   Meloni premier at the end of October, as is widely

                   expected, Italy will be the first founding member

                   of the European Union to be governed by a vigo…

            # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾

                  # ⚓ DNA India ☛ DNA_Special:_How_American_outfit_IAMC_is

                    spreading_fake_news_about_‘Muslim_and_Dalit_genocide’

                    in_India⠀⇛

                         Anti-India body IAMC is not just spreading

                         fake news via their website, but also through

                         their official Twitter account. The IAMC

                         Twitter has been news spewing venom against

                         India through news articles that have been

                         proven fake during fact check.

                  # ⚓ NPR ☛ Facts_come_to_the_rescue_in_the_age_of

                    gaslighting⠀⇛

                         There is a kind of audacity in Major Garrett

                         and David Becker titling their book The Big

                         Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the

                         Big Lie. Just published this past week, The

                         Big Truth is a powerful argument against

                         Trump’s false claims regarding the outcome of

                         the 2020 election.

      o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ National_security_police_arrest_2

              Hong_Kong_men_for_allegedly_publishing_seditious_social_media

              posts⠀⇛

                   Local media reported that the men published content

                   related to Hong Kong independence, while HK01 cited

                   sources saying those posts included “Liberate Hong

                   Kong, revolution of our times” and “one nation, one

                   Hong Kong” – slogans that were commonly used during

                   demonstrations in 2019.

                   Protests erupted that June over a proposed

                   amendment to the city’s extradition bill that would

                   have allowed fugitives to be transferred to

                   mainland China, where the legal system is

                   notoriously opaque. They escalated into sometimes

                   violent displays of dissent against police

                   behaviour, amid calls for democracy and anger over

                   Beijing’s encroachment.

            # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2_Hong_Kong_speech_therapists_apply

              to_challenge_conviction_over_‘seditious’_children’s_books⠀⇛

                   Two Hong Kong speech therapists are set to

                   challenge their convictions after they were jailed

                   for 19 months each under the colonial-era sedition

                   law earlier this month. A local court ruled that

                   they had conspired with three other people to

                   publish a series of illustrated books about sheep

                   and wolves that effectively “brainwashed” young

                   readers with anti-China sentiment.

                   The Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday

                   that speech therapists Lorie Lai and Samuel Chan

                   submitted applications to apply for leave to appeal

                   against their convictions. A hearing date has not

                   yet been fixed.

            # ⚓ RFA ☛ How_China_and_its_allies_pool_resources_to_target

              overseas_dissidents⠀⇛

                   In an Orion Policy Institute online seminar held

                   days after Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi

                   Jinping returned from a leadership summit of the

                   regional Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),

                   experts said authoritarian regimes are increasingly

                   bolstering each other’s domestic security in the

                   name of pursuing “terrorists”, “separatists” and

                   “extremists.”

            # ⚓ duvaR ☛ Turkish_singer_İrem_Derici_has_concert_cancelled

              after_targeted_by_Islamist_parties⠀⇛

                   Turkish singer İrem Derici had her concert

                   cancelled in the eastern province of Elazığ after

                   she was targeted by Islamist parties HÜDA-PAR, New

                   Welfare Party and Felicity Party.

                   Derici was invited to a gastronomy festival in the

                   province and scheduled to take the stage on Sept.

                   30. However, HÜDA-PAR provincial head Yasin Kavaklı

                   claimed that Derici was “not appropriate for the

                   moral values of Elazığ people” and that the singer

                   “is a person who adopts and supports perversion.”

      o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_media_tycoon_Jimmy_Lai

              appeals_against_failed_bid_to_block_police_from_searching_his

              phones⠀⇛

                   Lai has identified thousands of items on the two

                   phones as journalistic materials. However, the

                   commissioner of police has disputed claims that

                   more than 8,000 of those items were legally

                   privileged.

                   The High Court is expected to hand down a ruling on

                   those disputes on Friday, Senior Counsel Jenkin

                   Suen, who represented the police, said on

                   Wednesday.

            # ⚓ Axios ☛ Scoop:_Trump_threatened_to_go_after_Maggie

              Haberman’s_phone_records⠀⇛

                   Why it matters: News organizations go to great

                   lengths to prevent the government from seeing their

                   communications, in part to protect the identity of

                   sources who help expose what’s really going on.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_police_seek_criminal_charges_against

              Ksenia_Sobchak_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Russian police have filed to initiate criminal

                   proceedings against journalist and socialite Ksenia

                   Sobchak, TASS reported on Monday, citing an unnamed

                   “law enforcement representative.” According to the

                   outlet’s source, authorities are seeking to charge

                   Sobchak with spreading “disinformation” about the

                   Russian authorities, namely regarding “state

                   funding of festivals.”

      o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾

            # ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Iran:_Woman_arrested_for_having_breakfast

              without_wearing_hijab⠀⇛

                   Even as anti-hijab protests continued in Iran and

                   spread to Afghanistan, an Iranian woman named Donya

                   Rad was arrested for having breakfast without

                   wearing a hijab on Friday.

                   The information was shared on Twitter by Iranian

                   journalist and activist Masih Alinejad whose post

                   read, “The woman who posted this photo got arrested

                   for the crime of having breakfast without hijab!

                   This is the horrific story of being a woman in Iran

                   in 21st century.”

            # ⚓ Christian Post ☛ Ugandan_woman_killed_after_attending

              church,_accepting_Christ⠀⇛

                   “In the morning as I went back home, I found my

                   husband very furious on the compound, and he asked

                   about where I slept,” Nazziwa told Morning Star

                   News. “I told him the truth that I had gone for an

                   overnight prayer in the church. After hearing the

                   words ‘overnight prayer,’ he just jumped on my neck

                   shouting, ‘Prayers, not in my house,’ and started

                   beating and strangling me while shouting, ‘Allah

                   akbar [God is greater]! Kafir, kafir [infidel]!’”

                   Two men heard Nazziwa’s cries and rushed over to

                   rescue her, but Mudogo chased her and her two

                   younger children away, and they took refuge at an

                   undisclosed location, she said. The couple has

                   three other older children who were away at the

                   time.

            # ⚓ ANF News ☛ “The_Mullah_regime_cannot_contain_the_women’s

              revolution”⠀⇛

                   Given the various forms of daily repression and

                   oppression in Iran, one would always expect to see

                   popular protests. Indeed, there have always been

                   protests in Iran, most recently in 2019 when 1500

                   unarmed protesters were killed.

                   However, the scale, spread and duration of the

                   current protests were unexpected by most people,

                   including me. More importantly, the central and

                   leading role of women in the current protests in

                   post-revolution Iran is unprecedented.

            # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Alleged_Cambodian_Pig_Butchering_Scam

              Operations_Raided⠀⇛

                   The moves are likely to disrupt — perhaps only

                   temporarily — the lucrative global scam known as

                   “pig butchering.” Named for its analogy to a farmer

                   fattening up a hog before slaughtering it, the

                   fraud relies on convincing people to deposit more

                   and more money into fake online platforms

                   controlled by swindlers. Once the targets become

                   unable or unwilling to deposit more funds, they’re

                   informed that they’ve lost access to their cash and

                   can retrieve it only by depositing more money or

                   paying a hefty fee, a process that compounds their

                   losses.

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schools_Should_Ban_Corporal_Punishment_—_and

              Teach_Restorative_Justice_Instead⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Going_to_Prison_as_an_Act_of_Resistance_to

              Empire⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ More_Important_Than_Roe_v._Wade⠀⇛

                   Yet each one of these unborn, unfertilized little

                   humans contains all future requirements (the

                   elitists speak of genes, or is it DNA?) for tiny

                   hands and fingers, for feet with adorable little

                   toes, for hearts and minds and at least for half-

                   souls.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Stephen_King_Reviews_New_Dystopian_Novel_That

              Mirrors_Present_Day⠀⇛

                   In what could become one of the next great

                   dystopian novels, Stephen King finds myriad events

                   that mirror the reality of the world today in his

                   New York Times review examining “Our Missing

                   Hearts.”

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_Italy,_a_Setback_for_a_More_Equal

              Future⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ An_Organizer_for_Our_Time:_Frank_Watkins

              and_the_Rainbow_Coalition⠀⇛

                   I could list hundreds of famous and not so famous

                   people and those just trying to get to another day

                   that he gave support, advice and intellectual

                   grounding to. But I’d still leave scores out.

      o § Monopolies⠀➾

            # § Software Patents⠀➾

                  # ⚓ ALM ☛ Recently_Introduced_Bill_Would_Revise_Patent

                    Subject_Matter_Eligibility_Framework⠀⇛

                         In August of this year, Senator Thom Tillis

                         introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration

                         Act of 2022 which would provide guidance for

                         how to analyze patent claims to determine

                         eligibility. This article discusses the

                         potential impact the bill would have on

                         software and biotechnology inventions and

                         also patent litigation.

            # § Copyrights⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Court_Blocks_13,445_‘Pirate’_Sites

                    Proactively_to_Protect_One_Movie⠀⇛

                         A court in India has granted what appears to

                         be the most aggressive site-blocking

                         injunction in the history of copyright law.

                         In advance of the movie ‘Vikram Vedha’

                         premiering in cinemas last Friday, a judge

                         handed down an injunction that ordered 40

                         internet service providers to proactively and

                         immediately block an unprecedented 13,445

                         sites.

                  # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA_Thwarts_Yout’s_Attempt_to

                    Declare_YouTube-Ripping_Legal⠀⇛

                         The RIAA has booked a landmark victory

                         against YouTube-ripper Yout.com. The

                         Connecticut District Court dismissed Yout’s

                         request to declare the service as non-

                         infringing. In a detailed ruling, Judge

                         Stefan Underhill concludes that the service

                         failed to show that it doesn’t circumvent

                         YouTube’s technological protection measures.

                         Yout is disappointed and will appeal the

                         verdict.

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§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Audiocasts/Shows

      o Kernel_Space

      o Applications

      o Instructionals/Technical

      o Desktop_Environments/WMs

            # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o Screenshots/Screencasts

      o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family

      o SUSE/OpenSUSE

      o CentOS,_Red_Hat,_and_Fedora_Family

      o Debian_Family

      o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family

      o Devices/Embedded

      o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o Programming/Development

            # Perl_/_Raku

* Leftovers

      o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      o Security

            # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

      o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality

* Gemini*_and_Gopher

      o Personal

      o Politics

      o Technical

            # Science

            # Programming

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Crystal_Linux_|_Impressive_New_Arch_Based_Distro_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

                   What’s up, guys!!! In this video, we check out

                   Crystal Linux. Crystal Linux is a brand new Arch

                   Linux-based distribution. Friendly, powerful, and

                   easy to use.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ MX_Linux_21.2_Quick_overview_#linux_#mxlinux_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Video ☛ MacOS_on_Linux_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   This shows you all the steps to install a MacOS VM

                   in Linux QEMU using Virtual Machine Manager or

                   virt-manager.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ The_ULTIMATE_Steam_Deck_emulation_setup_is_easier

              than_ever!_–_Invidious⠀⇛

            # ⚓ WP_Briefing:_Episode_40:_All_Things_Testing_with_Special

              Guests_Anne_McCarthy_and_Brian_Alexander⠀⇛

                   In the fortieth episode of the WordPress Briefing,

                   Josepha Haden Chomphosy sits down with special

                   guests Anne McCarthy and Brian Alexander to discuss

                   the Testing Team and how to get started with

                   testing in the WordPress project.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ My_last_Overwatch_1_highlight_ever._LET_EM_RIP_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

      o § Kernel Space⠀➾

            # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Linux-libre_6.0-gnu_(-ETOOSIXY)⠀⇛

                   GNU Linux-libre 6.0-gnu (-ETOOSIXY) cleaning-up

                   scripts, cleaned-up

                   sources, and cleaning-up logs (including tarball

                   signatures) are now

                   available from our git-based release archive

                   git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git/ tags

                   {scripts,sources,logs}/v6.0-gnu.

                   Compressed tarballs and incremental patches are

                   also available at

                   <https://www.fsfla.org/selibre/linux-libre/

                   download/releases/6.0-gnu/>.

                   The cleanup scripts required a change after rc7,

                   because of blob names

                   changed for the final release upstream.

                   Jason Self and I have settled on -ETOOSIXY as the

                   codename for this

                   release, and wrote a parody titled "I'm Too Sixy".

                   Jason made the image.

                   https://www.fsfla.org/selibre/linux-libre/

                   ETOOSIXY.en.html

                   Freesh and RPMFreedom, the distributions of .deb

                   and .rpm packages of

                   GNU Linux-libre maintained by Jason Self, are

                   expected to have binaries

                   of 6.0-gnu available shortly.

                   == Cleaning-up changes in this release

                   Blob requests have been neutered in the UCSI

                   interface driver for

                   STM32G0, and in the CS35L41 HD-audio side codec

                   driver.

                   MediaTek MT76 drivers have had their mcu blob

                   requests refactored into a

                   connac mcu library, and cleaning up scripts have

                   been adjusted to match.

                   Multiple dts files for Qualcomm and MediaTek

                   AArch64 systems have been

                   added, requiring blob names in them to be cleaned

up.

                   Cleaning up of blob names and requests in AMDGPU,

                   Adreno, Tegra VIC,

                   Netronome NFP, and Habanalabs Gaudi2 drivers have

                   been updated.

                   The VXGE driver was removed upstream, so we could

                   drop the corresponding

                   cleaning up logic.

                   For up-to-the-minute news, join us on IRC (#gnu-

                   linux-libre on

                   libera.chat).  I often mention our releases on P2P

                   or federated social

                   media as well.  The link in my email signature has

                   directions.

                   Be Free! with GNU Linux-libre.

                   What is GNU Linux-libre?

                   ------------------------

                     GNU Linux-libre is a Free version of the kernel

                   Linux (see below),

                     suitable for use with the GNU Operating System in

                   100% Free

                     GNU/Linux-libre System Distributions.

                   http://www.gnu.org/distros/

                     It removes non-Free components from Linux, that

                   are disguised as

                     source code or distributed in separate files.  It

                   also disables

                     run-time requests for non-Free components,

                   shipped separately or as

                     part of Linux, and documentation pointing to

                   them, so as to avoid

                     (Free-)baiting users into the trap of non-Free

                   Software.

                   http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2010-11-Linux-2.6.36-

                   libre-debait

                     Linux-libre started within the gNewSense GNU/

                   Linux distribution.

                     It was later adopted by Jeff Moe, who coined its

                   name, and in 2008

                     it became a project maintained by FSF Latin

                   America.  In 2012, it

                     became part of the GNU Project.

                     The GNU Linux-libre project takes a minimal-

                   changes approach to

                     cleaning up Linux, making no effort to substitute

                   components that

                     need to be removed with functionally equivalent

                   Free ones.

                     Nevertheless, we encourage and support efforts

                   towards doing so.

                   http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:

                   Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware

                     Our mascot is Freedo, a light-blue penguin that

                   has just come out

                     of the shower.  Although we like penguins, GNU is

                   a much greater

                     contribution to the entire system, so its mascot

                   deserves more

                     promotion.  See our web page for their images.

                   http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/

                     If you are the author of an awesome program and

                   want to join us in

                     writing Free (libre) Software, please consider

                   making it an official

                     GNU program and become a GNU Maintainer.  You can

                   find instructions

                     on how to do so at https://www.gnu.org/help/

                   evaluation.  We look

                     forward to hacking with you! :)

                   What is Linux?

                   --------------

                     Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel [...]

                   (snipped from Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst)

            # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_6.0_arrives_as_Linus_Torvalds_promises_‘core

              new_things’_ahead_|_ZDNET⠀⇛

                   Linux 6.0 is a major new kernel number, but doesn’t

                   represent big fundamental changes. That’s coming in

                   Linux 6.1.

            # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds_debuts_Linux_kernel_6.0,_but_is_more_excited

              about_kernel_6.1⠀⇛

                   The new version of Linux — Linux 6.0 — has been

                   launched. However, based on its founder Linux

                   Torvalds’ reactions, the best of this new OS is yet

                   to come. Torvalds is more excited about the

                   upcoming 6.1 version of the Linus kernel. He

                   mentioned that Linux 6.0 does not contain the ‘core

                   new things’ coming in Linux 6.1.

                   Nonetheless, Torvalds hailed Linux 6.0 as “one of

                   the bigger releases at least in numbers of commits

                   in a while”, thanks largely to the inclusion of

                   “15,000 non-merge commits in there in total”. In

                   open source, the ‘number of commits’ means that the

                   user is permitted to contribute source code

                   changes.

            # ⚓ Tech Times ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.0_Officially_Drops:_Support_for

              AArch64_Hardware_Finally_Introduced_|_Tech_Times⠀⇛

                   The Linux Kernel 6.0 officially drops, and now, it

                   introduces an interesting new feature which is its

                   support for AArch64 hardware architecture. This

                   allows it to swap huge transparent pages without

                   even needing to split them.

            # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.0_Officially_Released_–

              Linux_Magazine⠀⇛

                   Although it will be some time before most Linux

                   distributions ship with the latest kernel, the next

                   major release is now available.

                   Over on the Linux Kernel Mail List, Linus Torvalds

                   announced the availability of the latest kernel by

                   saying, “So, as is hopefully clear to everybody,

                   the major version number change is more about me

                   running out of fingers and toes than it is about

                   any big fundamental changes.”

                   That doesn’t mean, however, there aren’t any

                   changes and new editions to be found in the 6.0

                   release. In fact, with regards to the number of

                   commits, the 6.0 kernel is one of the biggest

                   releases in a while.

                   The new additions to the Linux kernel include a new

                   graphics driver for the AMD RDNA 3 GPU, a new audio

                   driver for AMD’s “Jadeite” systems, support for PCI

                   buses on OpenRISC and LoongArch systems, improved

                   cache block management for RISC-V, new support for

                   the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 laptop, fixes for TUXEDO

                   and Clevo laptop touchpads, initial support for XP-

                   PEN Deco L Drawing Tablets, support for AMD Sensor

                   Fusion Hub for Ryzen laptops, and functioning

                   Thunderbolt support for Intel Raptor Lake.

      o § Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Podman_vs_Docker:_What’s_the_Difference?⠀⇛

                   Containerization is all the rage right now. Docker,

                   introduced back in 2014, has become the most

                   popular tool for managing containers. Later, in

                   2018, Red Hat unveiled Podman as an alternative to

                   Docker.

                   Since both Docker and Podman are intended to do the

                   same thing, let us see what advantages one holds

                   over the other.

            # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Streaming_with_Linux:_TIDAL_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛

                   This is a series that surveys popular streaming

                   services from a Linux perspective. We are not

                   reviewing any of the streaming services themselves

                   although we may make subjective comments along the

                   way.

                   TIDAL is a global music streaming platform. It was

                   the first streaming service to offer hi-res audio

                   thanks to its adoption of MQA technology. Its

                   competition has caught up in the hi-res player

                   stakes with Amazon Music HD, Apple Music and Qobuz

                   also offering better-than-CD streams – and at a

                   cheaper price point. We tested “Tidal HiFi” which

                   offers audio at up to 1411kbps (i.e. CD quality)

                   from a Linux perspective.

                   There are Windows and Mac desktop apps, web player

                   and Android and iOS mobile apps. But we’re running

                   Linux. There’s no official or even semi-official

                   client for Linux from TIDAL. Instead, the only

                   choices are to use the web player or install TIDAL

                   Hi-Fi, a third-party client. Let’s examine the web

                   player.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Test_your_Linux_system_with_LTP_|_Enable

              Sysadmin⠀⇛

                   The Linux Test Project (LTP) offers a comprehensive

                   suite of tests to cover the reliability,

                   robustness, and stability of Linux subsystems.

            # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Ubuntu_22.10_Kinetic_Kudu

              with_GNOME_43⠀⇛

                   The much-anticipated Ubuntu 22.10 release is just

                   around the corner, and with it comes significant

                   improvements and the highly anticipated GNOME 43

                   and Linux Kernel 5.19. For users that would like to

                   get a head jump now, you can begin to upgrade your

                   Ubuntu system now as the full release is not far

                   away.

                   Do note with any pre-release, even the final

                   version before release, bugs can occur for users

                   with data or documents that they cannot afford to

                   lose. Remember to back your important files up as

                   you should be doing already.

            # ⚓ How_to_Install_Django_with_Apache_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–

              LinuxTuto⠀⇛

                   Django is a python based full stack framework. This

                   framework works based on the model-template-view

                   architectural patterns. Django is considered to be

                   one of the popular web based development frameworks

                   for developing Python’s server applications.

                   The high profile websites that use Django are

                   Disqus, Instagram, MacArthur Foundation, National

                   Geographic channel, Knight Foundation, Pinterest,

                   Open knowledge foundation, and open stack software.

                   We will be installing Django application in a

                   Python virtual environment. It is very useful

                   because it allows developers to run and develop an

                   application with different python versions.

            # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Here’s_How_Steam_Works_on_Chromebooks⠀⇛

                   In early 2022, Google and Valve announced that

                   Steam would be coming to Chrome OS. This instantly

                   made Chromebooks much more capable gaming devices.

                   It took a long time for this to happen, so how does

                   it work?

                   Technically, there are two ways to play Steam on a

                   Chromebook. You can download the Steam Link Android

                   app, which streams games from your PC to the app,

                   or the newer method that lets the games actually be

                   played on your Chromebook. That’s the method we’ll

                   be focusing on.

            # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_OpenToonz_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Linux_–

              Linux_Shout⠀⇛

                   Learn the steps to install OpenToonz 2D animation

                   software on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Linux

                   using the command terminal.

                   “OpenToonz” is a 2D animation software that allows

                   you to bring static drawings such as animals,

                   people, and entire environments to life. In this

                   way, short films, cartoons, or entire animated

                   series can be produced. Among other things, the

                   program offers the possibility to import hand-made

                   sketches and convert them into editable lines and

                   shapes.

                   In addition, you can use the Paint tool to add

                   color to scenes and objects and blend them together

                   on multiple layers. Effects such as image style,

                   the incidence of light, or distortion can be

                   inserted or removed with just a few clicks. In the

                   timeline and the node tree, you keep track of all

                   settings and parameters of the animation.

                   Even well-known TV series such as Futurama rely on

                   the animation software Toonz. Now the program is

                   also available for free as an open-source tool.

                   After a bit of learning, you can create moving

                   figures from static drawings or even your own

                   animated series.

                   The open-source version of Toonz is based on the

                   normal Toonz software which is also used by the

                   Japanese Studio Ghibli. Thus, all features

                   developed by the studio itself are also included in

                   OpenToonz.

            # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_6.0_on_Ubuntu

              22.10⠀⇛

                   Linux 6.0 will soon make its way into the stable

                   software repositories of some of the most popular

                   rolling-release distributions like Arch Linux and

                   openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it’s coming to major

                   distro releases this fall, such as the upcoming

                   Fedora Linux 37.

                   But what about Ubuntu? Well, Ubuntu 22.10 will be

                   released on October 20th and it will ship with

                   Linux kernel 5.19, which will probably reach end of

                   life before Kinetic Kudu hits the streets. This

                   means that you’ll probably want to install a newer

                   kernel, such as Linux 6.0.

      o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾

            # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Jonathan Riddell ☛ Akademy_Talks_Day_2_–_Jonathan

                    Esk-Riddell’s_Diary⠀⇛

                         The sun is shining, the beach is busy, the

                         cava is flowing, the record shops are full of

                         hipsters. Akademy is in full swing here in

                         Barcelona, Here’s some scribbled notes I took

                         from some of the talks I went to incase they

                         are any interest to anyone.

                         The keynote was from Ashai dev Hector Martin.

                         Ashai Linux runs on M1 ARM macs. EFI is a

                         security nightmare, it’s an operating system

                         in itself. Linus said Apple Macs won’t be

                         available for Linux unless Apple opens up its

                         GPU. Macs have a permissive mode to boot

                         custom kernels including XNU (Apple’s open

                         source OS kernel). He got himself a patreon

                         and github sponsorship and enough people fund

                         him to do it as a job. He did lots of

                         impressive things to get Linux working on ARM

                         M1 Macs and voila his video shows a Plasma

                         desktop on a Mac.

                  # ⚓ IceWM_3.0.0⠀⇛

                         The latest released version is 3.0.0 (2022-

                         10-03).

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾

            # ⚓ Video ☛ TUXEDO_OS_1_overview_|_Surf,_mail,_work_or_play?_Go

              for_it!_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   In this video, I am going to show an overview of

                   TUXEDO OS 1 and some of the applications pre-

                   installed.

      o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ OpenMandriva News ☛ OpenMandriva_ROME_Gold_Candidate_–

              OpenMandriva⠀⇛

                   ROME is the rolling release designed for individual

                   users, it will receive the most up to date packages

                   including recent security and bug fix upgrades.

                   Some of the major changes since ROME Silver

                   Candidate:

                   Kernel 5.19.12 (clang compiled kernel as default,

                   with the option to install GCC compiled kernel

                   easily from the om-welcome module)

                   The very latest KDE products: KDE Frameworks

                   5.98.0, Plasma Desktop 5.25.90, KDE Gear 22.08.1

                   LibreOffice suite 7.4.1, VLC 3.0.17, Krita 5.1

                   LLVM/Clang 15.0.1, systemd 251,Calamares 3.2.61

                   More software upgraded to the latest version

                   If you want to contribute to making ROME even

                   better please have a look at the Backgrounds

                   contest.

                   The ROME final release, suitable for a wide

                   audience of users will be out very soon.

                   Stay in touch with us and continue to enjoy the new

                   ROME Project.

      o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾

            # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Learn._Engage._Solve._Join_SUSE_at

              Google_Cloud_Next_’22⠀⇛

      o § CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ CentOS ☛ CentOS_Hyperscale_SIG_Quarterly_Report_for

              2022Q3⠀⇛

                   Since the last update, the SIG gained two new

                   members (Quentin Deslandes and Richard Phibel).

                   We welcome anybody that’s interested and willing to

                   do work within the scope of the SIG to join and

                   contribute. See the membership section on the wiki

                   for the current members list and how to join.

                   [...]

                   The latest version in the Hyperscale SIG is systemd

                   251.4 for both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9.

                   While the “hs+fb” version has been tagged and

                   rolled out within Meta, we are still working on

                   resolving issues with SELinux policies in the “hs”

                   version before tagging and releasing it. In the

                   meantime, the “hs” version is available on CBS for

                   testing.

                   If you’re interested in learning more about how we

                   roll out systemd in the Hyperscale SIG, we did a

                   talk about it at the CentOS Dojo this past August.

                   You can find out more about this and our other

                   systemd-related conference activities this quarter

                   in the conference recap linked below.

            # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Embracing_multicloud_container

              development_platforms_to_drive_cloud-native_innovation⠀⇛

                   With the world increasingly becoming digital-first,

                   organizations are aggressively moving towards the

                   cloud—or clouds, to be precise. Modern IT teams

                   often find themselves utilizing more than one cloud

                   to solve a problem. In fact, leveraging a hybrid or

                   multicloud strategy is becoming the new norm.

                   Given this, how can an organization stand out from

                   the competition? Through cloud-native innovation.

            # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Here_come_the_new_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_distros

              |_ZDNET⠀⇛

                   Red Hat is the Linux distro security leader. And

                   with its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

                   beta releases, RHEL 8.7 and 9.1, the Linux

                   powerhouse company is continuing to stake out its

                   security claims.

            # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Contribute_to

              Fedora_37_Upgrade_Test_Day⠀⇛

                   Fedora test days are events where anyone can help

                   make sure changes in Fedora Linux work well in an

                   upcoming release. Fedora community members often

                   participate, and the public is welcome at these

                   events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora

                   before, this is a perfect way to get started. The

                   F37 Upgrade Test Day is Wednesday, October 5.

                   [...]

                   A test day is an event where anyone can help make

                   sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming

                   release. Fedora community members often

                   participate, and the public is welcome at these

                   events. Test days are the perfect way to start

                   contributing if you not in the past.

      o § Debian Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Molly_Russell_suicide_&_Debian_Frans_Pop,

              Lucy_Wayland,_social_media_deaths⠀⇛

                   One of the key features of the news reporting are

                   the words of an expert witness who reviewed the

                   online content and reported that he was unable to

                   sleep.

                   Over the summer, I was one of the Debian volunteers

                   reviewing evidence of the Frans Pop suicide. I

                   wrote some of the blogs about it and I created the

                   Debian.Day web site with some of Frans’ last

                   emails.

                   There are thousands of emails in the threads

                   leading up to Frans’ first and second resignation.

                   I emphasized that in one of the blogs. We can

                   imagine the participants in those discussions

                   suffering from the same sleepless nights that

                   haunted the expert witness, a psychiatrist, in the

                   Molly Russell inquest.

                   Despite Frans sending that last email the night

                   before Debian.Day, some people insist on deflecting

                   responsibility with comments asserting that “Frans

                   had his own reasons” for the suicide. Nobody gave

                   any examples of those reasons. In fact, everybody

                   has reasons to contemplate suicide. Google and

                   Ubuntu have both applied unreasonable pressure on

                   volunteers. Their business practices keep people up

                   at night and they keep people at work seven days

                   per week. If somebody is suffering from depression

                   or thinking about suicide, they need that energy to

                   protect themselves. Sadly, Debian harassment

                   culture has stolen the energy from some people.

            # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Debian_Decided_to_Include_Non-Free_Firmware_in

              the_Installer⠀⇛

                   In a vote held over the past two weeks, Debian’s

                   developers decided to include non-free firmware by

                   default in the Debian installer.

                   Debian has always aimed to adhere to the spirit of

                   FOSS as closely as possible. As a result, its

                   developers are known for their careful approach to

                   the software included in the distribution.

                   However, times are changing. This necessitates

                   either evolving and adapting to new realities or

                   stubbornly refusing to accept them, putting your

                   future at risk. Fortunately, the Debian developers

                   went with the first option.

            # ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_September_2022⠀⇛

                   This month I didn’t have any particular focus. I

                   just worked on issues in my info bubble.

            # ⚓ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities_in_September_2022⠀⇛

                   This month I accepted 226 and rejected 33 packages.

                   The overall number of packages that got accepted

                   was 232.

                   All in all I addressed about 60 RM-bugs and either

                   simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag.

                   In total I spent 5 hours for this task.

                   Anyway, I have to repeat my comment from last

                   month: please have a look at the removal page and

                   check whether the created dak command is really

                   what you wanted. It would also help if you check

                   the reverse dependencies and write a comment

                   whether they are important or can be ignored or

                   also file a new bug for them. Each removal must

                   have one bug!

      o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Get_Ready_for_Ubuntu_MATE_Experience_on_Debian

              Linux!⠀⇛

                   Martin Wimpress, one of the founders and

                   maintainers of Ubuntu MATE, has mentioned something

                   rather interesting in the beta release notes for

                   Ubuntu MATE 22.10.

                   He aims to bring the Ubuntu MATE experience to

                   Debian

                   Wait, can’t you already install MATE on Debian?

                   Yes, but what about an akin user experience to

                   Ubuntu MATE with all the modern tools on Debian?

            # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux:_AWS_now_offers_Ubuntu_virtual_desktops_for

              developers_and_engineers_|_ZDNET⠀⇛

                   Amazon Web Services has added an Ubuntu option for

                   customers that use Amazon Workspaces to distribute

                   virtual desktops.

      o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾

            # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ANAVI_Macro_Pad_10_–_Knobs_input_devices_run

              KMK_firmware_on_Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX

              Software⠀⇛

                   ANAVI Macro Pad 10, Knobs 3, and Knob 1 are open-

                   source hardware input devices based on the

                   Raspberry Pi RP2040-powered Xiao RP2040 mini

                   module, and equipped with mechanical keys and/or

                   rotary encoders

                   Leon Anavi has some experience under his belt with

                   the earlier Macro Pad 2 and Macro Pad 8 open-source

                   keypads with mechanical keys running QMK open-

                   source firmware on a Microchip 8-bit

                   microcontroller. The new models switch the MCU to

                   the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and to KMK open-source

                   firmware written in CircuitPython.

            # ⚓ What’s_Going_on_in_Embedded_Linux?_Watch_the_EEI_Livestream

              on_October_5⠀⇛

                   If you’re looking for a reliable operating system

                   with support for file systems and connectivity, an

                   embedded version of Linux is probably one of the

                   possible candidates. With a huge installed base,

                   plenty of experienced developers, and active

                   development, it’s available for all the major SoCs.

                   So, who is behind its development, and can it get

                   any better?

      o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Lyra_V2_open-source_audio_codec_gets_faster,

              higher_quality_and_compatible_with_more_platforms_–_CNX

              Software⠀⇛

            # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_You_Need_To_Use_The_Right_Charger_For_Your

              Android_Phone⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 7_Best_solitaire_apps_for_Android⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 7_simple_methods_to_find_the_IMEI_number_of_your_Android

              phone_or_tablet⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_Watch5_Pro_review:_The_best_Android_has_to

              offer?⠀⇛

            # ⚓ How_to_Turn_Off_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o § Programming/Development⠀➾

            # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Limine_Installer_fixes⠀⇛

                   Just a quick report. I have posted the latest

                   Limine Installer scripts here

            # ⚓ The_series_on_the_WPE_port_by_the_WebKit_team_at_Igalia

              grows,_with_several_new_articles_that_go_deep_into_different

              areas_of_the_engine⠀⇛

                   These articles are an interesting read not only if

                   you’re working on WebKit, but also if you are

                   curious on how a modern browser engine works and

                   some of the moving parts beneath the surface. So go

                   check them out!

            # ⚓ on_“correct_and_efficient_work-stealing_for_weak_memory

              models”⠀⇛

                   Hello all, a quick post today. Inspired by Rust as

                   a Language for High Performance GC Implementation

                   by Yi Lin et al, a few months ago I had a look to

                   see how the basic Rust concurrency facilities that

                   they used were implemented.

                   One of the key components that Lin et al used was a

                   Chase-Lev work-stealing double-ended queue (deque).

                   The 2005 article Dynamic Circular Work-Stealing

                   Deque by David Chase and Yossi Lev is a nice read

                   defining this data structure. It’s used when you

                   have a single producer of values, but multiple

                   threads competing to claim those values. This is

                   useful when implementing per-CPU schedulers or work

                   queues; each CPU pushes on any items that it has to

                   its own deque, and pops them also, but when it runs

                   out of work, it goes to see if it can steal work

                   from other CPUs.

                   [...]

                   The funny thing is that I looked at the proof and I

                   looked at the industrial applications of the deque

                   and I thought well, I just have to transcribe the

                   algorithm exactly and I’ll be golden. But it just

                   goes to show that proving one property of an

                   algorithm doesn’t necessarily imply that the

                   algorithm is correct.

            # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 10_Best_IntelliJ_Themes_and_Color_Schemes_To

              Use_in_2022⠀⇛

                   If you have been programming for a while, you know

                   the grind. You see a problem; you brainstorm the

                   solution – the casual trial and error. However, we

                   know that it can get frustrating to keep looking up

                   at the same dull screen every time. So, if you are

                   using IntelliJ IDEA, we can help you spice things

                   up by introducing you to some awesome IntelliJ

                   Themes.

                   We can also help you if you use other Jetbrains

                   IDEs because you can find compatible versions of

                   the ones we will talk about as Pycharm themes or as

                   themes for PhpStorm – as well as any other

                   IntelliJ-based IDE created by Jetbrains. You also

                   do not need to worry about the costs as the themes

                   we’ll discuss are all free.

            # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Working_from_Home?_These_4_Tips_Will_Help_You_to

              Stay_Productive⠀⇛

                   That takes away precious hours, so it’s no wonder

                   that 58% of US workers believe they can work

                   remotely and finish job tasks on time.

            # § Perl / Raku⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Rakudo_Weekly_News:_2022.40_Learning_to

                    Core⠀⇛

                         Vadim Belman has started preparing for a set

                         of teaching classes about developing the

                         Rakudo core, and would like to know if you’re

                         interested! It’s a great chance to get a

                         flying start into contributing to the Raku

                         Programming Language.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾

            # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Coroner_Blames_Instagram,_Pinterest_for

              London_Teen’s_Suicide⠀⇛

                   For years we have heard about the influence of

                   social media on teens who take their own lives, but

                   just how culpable are they? A London coroner has

                   answered this question. He officially decided

                   against officially declaring a 14-year-old girl’s

                   death a suicide. The coroner listed Instagram and

                   Pinterest as contributing factors in the teen’s

                   death, declaring her suicide was “an act of self-

                   harm while suffering from depression and the

                   negative effects of online content.”

                   [...]

                   Molly Russell died in 2017 by taking her own life.

                   Her family’s attorneys have said that in the six

                   months before she died, the 14-year-old showed an

                   interest in 16,300 posts on Instagram by liking,

                   sharing, or saving, with 2,100 of the posts self-

                   harm related. She had 5,793 impressions and 2,692

                   close-ups on Pinterest in that same time frame.

                   [...]

                   But was her excessive use of social media the fault

                   of the algorithms? Did it lure her into that

                   behavior? It’s a hard call.

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                   Security updates have been issued by Debian

                   (chromium, gdal, kernel, libdatetime-timezone-perl,

                   libhttp-daemon-perl, lighttpd, mariadb-10.3, node-

                   thenify, snakeyaml, tinyxml, and tzdata), Fedora

                   (enlightenment, kitty, and thunderbird), Mageia

                   (expat, firejail, libjpeg, nodejs, perl-HTTP-

                   Daemon, python-mako, squid, and thunderbird),

                   Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE

                   (buildah, connman, cosign, expat, ImageMagick,

                   python36, python39, slurm, and webkit2gtk3), and

                   Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-

                   xenial and linux-gke-5.15).

            # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ IoT_project_lifecycle_–_long-term_support_for_IoT

              devices⠀⇛

                   How long will you support your device? Long-term

                   support for IoT is a simple but difficult question

                   for many device manufacturers.

                   If you are developing a smart home device, a mobile

                   robot for hospitality, or the next iron man

                   jetpack, you need to consider how long you will

                   support the device on the market. This will have

                   implications on your operational expenses, team

                   resources and customer satisfaction. Simply put,

                   the longer you support your device, the happier

                   your user will be. But the more expensive it will

                   be for you.

                   What does this mean for your company in practice?

                   And what are the costs associated with it? Let’s

                   have a look!

            # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Issues_Binding_Operational_Directive_23-01:

              Improving_Asset_Visibility_and_Vulnerability_Detection_on

              Federal_Networks_|_CISA⠀⇛

                   CISA has issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD)

                   23-01: Improving Asset Visibility and Vulnerability

                   Detection on Federal Networks, which seeks improve

                   asset visibility and vulnerability enumeration

                   across the federal enterprise.

            # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Detecting_Deepfake_Audio_by_Modeling

                    the_Human_Acoustic_Tract_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛

                         This is, of course, not the last word.

                         Deepfake generators will figure out how to

                         use these techniques to create harder-to-

                         detect fake voices. And the deepfake

                         detectors will figure out another, better,

                         detection technique. And the arms race will

                         continue.

                  # ⚓ USENIX ☛ Who_Are_You_(I_Really_Wanna_Know)?_Detecting

                    Audio_DeepFakes_Through_Vocal_Tract_Reconstruction_|

                    USENIX⠀⇛

                         Generative machine learning models have made

                         convincing voice synthesis a reality. While

                         such tools can be extremely useful in

                         applications where people consent to their

                         voices being cloned (e.g., patients losing

                         the ability to speak, actors not wanting to

                         have to redo dialog, etc), they also allow

                         for the creation of nonconsensual content

                         known as deepfakes. This malicious audio is

                         problematic not only because it can

                         convincingly be used to impersonate arbitrary

                         users, but because detecting deepfakes is

                         challenging and generally requires knowledge

                         of the specific deepfake generator. In this

                         paper, we develop a new mechanism for

                         detecting audio deepfakes using techniques

                         from the field of articulatory phonetics.

                         Specifically, we apply fluid dynamics to

                         estimate the arrangement of the human vocal

                         tract during speech generation and show that

                         deepfakes often model impossible or highly-

                         unlikely anatomical arrangements. When

                         parameterized to achieve 99.9% precision, our

                         detection mechanism achieves a recall of

                         99.5%, correctly identifying all but one

                         deepfake sample in our dataset. We then

                         discuss the limitations of this approach, and

                         how deepfake models fail to reproduce all

                         aspects of speech equally. In so doing, we

                         demonstrate that subtle, but biologically

                         constrained aspects of how humans generate

                         speech are not captured by current models,

                         and can therefore act as a powerful tool to

                         detect audio deepfakes.

                  # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Deepfake_audio_has_a_tell_–

                    researchers_use_fluid_dynamics_to_spot_artificial

                    imposter_voices⠀⇛

                         Imagine the following scenario. A phone

                         rings. An office worker answers it and hears

                         his boss, in a panic, tell him that she

                         forgot to transfer money to the new

                         contractor before she left for the day and

                         needs him to do it. She gives him the wire

                         transfer information, and with the money

                         transferred, the crisis has been averted.

                         The worker sits back in his chair, takes a

                         deep breath, and watches as his boss walks in

                         the door. The voice on the other end of the

                         call was not his boss. In fact, it wasn’t

                         even a human. The voice he heard was that of

                         an audio deepfake, a machine-generated audio

                         sample designed to sound exactly like his

                         boss.

      o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾

            # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ In_proceedings_before_CIC,

              IFF_obtains_website_censorship_orders_from_DoT_and_MTNL⠀⇛

                   In February 2021, we filed Right to Information

                   (‘RTI’) applications with the Department of

                   Telecommunications (‘DoT’) and Mahanagar Telephone

                   Nigam Limited (‘MTNL’). We asked for the number of

                   websites they blocked because of orders of

                   competent courts in 2020 and 2021, and copies of

                   such orders. While DoT did not provide us with

                   complete information, MTNL claimed exemption under

                   S.8(1)(a) and 8(a)(d) of the RTI Act, 2005. We

                   appealed to the Central Information Commission

                   (‘CIC’), which held hearings on both the RTIs on

                   20.09.2022. Before the hearing, MTNL reconsidered

                   its stance and informed us that it had blocked 4700

                   websites in 2020 and 2021. On the other hand, CIC

                   directed DoT to provide copies of the banning

                   orders from 2020 and 2021.

                   [...]

                   DoT had directed the banning of 3725 websites till

                   February 2021, and MTNL blocked 4700 websites in

                   2020 and 2021. This is a considerable number.

                   Censorship of these websites directly impacts the

                   right to speech on the internet. Thus, examining

                   the underlying orders based on which such websites

                   have been banned is essential. As a result of our

                   efforts before CIC, we now have copies of those

                   orders. We believe an analysis of these orders

                   could provide important insight into the nature of

                   information being censored by courts. We will study

                   these orders and inform you of our findings.

                   [...]

                   We welcome both the decisions of the CIC. Online

                   censorship is a serious threat to free speech, and

                   the free exchange of ideas that has been enabled by

                   the internet. The information we have received and

                   will receive because of these orders will improve

                   our understanding of the nature of information

                   censored regularly by courts. We are thankful to

                   advocates Krishnesh Bapat, Tanmay Singh, and

                   Anandita Mishra, who appeared before the CIC in

                   these proceedings and provided legal assistance by

                   drafting written submissions.

* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾

      o § Personal⠀➾

            # ⚓ Most_Dreaded_Question_of_the_Day⠀⇛

                   “How are you?” is the default answer, as my brain

                   either goes completely blank before receding into a

                   state of existential crisis, or I just blurt out a

                   “fine” and keep it moving.

                   I learned early on that most people don’t care how

                   you’re actually feeling; they use it as a greeting

                   instead, and engage in a baffling exchange of

                   useless filler phrases (“I’m fine, how are you?”)

                   before transitioning into actual conversation.

                   [...]

                   This was after I sort of snubbed him the previous

                   week, when I only said “Yeah” and didn’t elaborate

                   further. Cause ya know…my writing isn’t an

                   interesting topic to him. Tried again last week,

                   and he just walked away.

                   I get that he asks to be polite or whatever, but

                   what’s the point if you aren’t going to even fake

                   enthusiasm? Don’t bother me with pointless

                   pleasantries, it just makes us both feel awkward.

            # ⚓ ADILNUV_Wordo:_TOUGH⠀⇛

      o § Politics⠀➾

            # ⚓ Language_supporting_gender_diversity⠀⇛

                   If you’re not someone who’s trans/gender-divergent

                   (TGD), trying to navigate the various language

                   issues related to sex and gender can be

                   bewildering. This piece is an attempt to note some

                   language that’s currently considered problematic,

                   and to provide some more appropriate language and

                   alternatives.

      o § Technical⠀➾

            # § Science⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Materials⠀⇛

                         The fewer materials I posses the more

                         cognizant I become of their hollow nature.

                         When this line of thinking is taken to its

                         logical conclusion it becomes obvious that

                         the mad rush to accumulate money and

                         materials is essentially a form of collective

                         insanity. Expressed somewhat more bluntly,

                         there is no salvation for a culture that

                         converts the bounty of nature into plastic

                         garbage because there is only so much that

                         can be plundered and pillaged from the

                         biosphere before it can no longer sustain

                         human existence.

                  # ⚓ The_State_vs_the_climate⠀⇛

                         This post is about “politics qua politics,” a

                         topic I hoped to avoid writing about. I read

                         something from a thinker I hold in high

                         regard, and I feel like it deserves a

                         rebuttal. But if you’re burnt out on talk

                         about political parties and the like, feel

                         free to skip this.

                         [...]

                         I think she’s mistaken. There are several

                         reasons why I don’t believe that electoral

                         paths to climate protection are worth

                         pursuing, but I want to talk about how long

                         and difficult this path actually is. I’ll

                         focus on the US because I’m most familiar

                         with its politics, but also because it is the

                         world’s biggest barrier to mitigating climate

                         change. The US military alone is probably

                         responsible for more CO2 emissions than any

                         other entity on Earth.

            # § Programming⠀➾

                  # ⚓ The_Ever_Present_Rumble⠀⇛

                         At one point in my life, I knew Python well.

                         That point has receded to the point that much

                         of the syntax escapes me. Though more so than

                         the syntax itself, the practise of using list

                         comprehensions and generators escapes me.

                         Well, it *escaped* me. It no longer escapes

                         me, as I am using these constructs in my

                         current Python programming, though I’m

                         certainly not adept at it yet. I have no

                         recollection of using list comprehensions or

                         generators when I initially obsessed myself

                         with the language. I believe I was more

                         concerned with object design. Those

                         constructs may not have existed yet in

                         Python, in fact. Possibly, my Haskell

                         explorations were the first to enlighten me

                         with higher programming paths, which brings

                         me to the point of the current blog entry: My

                         memory erodes more quickly than I’d like.

                         This is especially true concerning anything

                         academically oriented. Programming is very

                         much at home in this bucket.

                  # ⚓ AWK_the_ultimate_swiss_army_knife_for_data⠀⇛

                         I want AWK to be more well known. It was

                         treated as soem weird-ass tool that somehow

                         works but no one knows why. It’s all over the

                         place on StackOverflow whenever we need to

                         select a reagon of a file or something. I

                         didn’t apprishate this in the beginning. I

                         was forced to learn `sed` and `awk` back in

                         collage. Now I absolutely love awk. It’s a

                         standard tool shipped on every UNIX system

                         (so, anywhere besides Windows). Being readily

                         available and easy to use. It’s a great tool

                         to have in your toolbox if you work with any

                         kind of data.

                  # ⚓ Doom_&_Game_Preservation⠀⇛

                         Last year I decided to read Doom’s source

                         code to learn how to organize big C projects.

                         Even though my exploration of doom’s source

                         code was short I learned a lot from that

                         experience and also made me realize some

                         things that I never thought about Video Game

                         preservation.

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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.

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Posted in News_Roundup at 1:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Server

      o Audiocasts/Shows

      o Kernel_Space

      o Applications

      o Instructionals/Technical

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o Reviews

      o Fedora_Family_/_IBM

      o Debian_Family

      o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o Programming/Development

* Leftovers

      o Security

            # Privacy/Surveillance

* Gemini*_and_Gopher

      o Personal

      o Technical

            # Internet/Gemini

            # Programming

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#202⠀⇛

             Welcome to this week’s Linux Weekly Roundup. We had a

             full week in the world of Linux releases, many reviews

             will be ready next week.

             Ubuntu 22.10 Beta, Linux Lite 6.2 RC1, Linuxfx

             11.2.22.04.3, and Bluestar Linux 5.19.11 have been

             released this week.

      o § Server⠀➾

            # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Spectro_Cloud_Aims_To_Simplify_Managing_Cloud

              Native_Edge_Infrastructure⠀⇛

                   Spectro Cloud, the Bay Area-based modern

                   infrastructure startup, announced a new platform

                   that promises simplified onboarding and management

                   of edge computing devices running Kubernetes.

            # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_1.25:_alpha_support_for

              running_Pods_with_user_namespaces⠀⇛

                   Kubernetes v1.25 introduces the support for user

                   namespaces.

                   This is a major improvement for running secure

                   workloads in Kubernetes. Each pod will have access

                   only to a limited subset of the available UIDs and

                   GIDs on the system, thus adding a new security

                   layer to protect from other pods running on the

                   same system. How does it work? A process running on

                   Linux can use up to 4294967296 different UIDs and

                   GIDs.

      o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾

            # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_343_–_Stop

              trying_to_fix_the_open_source_software_supply_chain_–_Open

              Source_Security⠀⇛

                   Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post that explains

                   there isn’t really an open source software supply

                   chain. The whole idea of open source being one

                   thing is incorrect, open source is really a lot of

                   little things put together. A lot of companies and

                   organizations get this wrong.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Next_Phase_For_Rust_In_The_Linux_Kernel_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

                   Rust is going to make it’s way into the linux

                   kernel at this stage for 6.1 release but what is

                   going to happen from here on, what challenges still

                   need to be addressed to ensure that this is a

                   useful addition going into the future

            # ⚓ The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_|_LINUX_Unplugged_478⠀⇛

                   We go hands-on at NASA’s JPL and learn why Linux is

                   the best OS for Earth and Mars.

      o § Kernel Space⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux_6.0⠀⇛

                   So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major

                   version number

                   change is more about me running out of fingers and

                   toes than it is

                   about any big fundamental changes.

                   But of course there's a lot of various changes in

                   6.0 - we've got over

                   15k non-merge commits in there in total, after all,

                   and as such 6.0 is

                   one of the bigger releases at least in numbers of

                   commits in a while.

                   The shortlog of changes below is only the last week

                   since 6.0-rc7. A

                   little bit of everything, although the diffstat is

                   dominated by drm

                   (mostly amd new chip support) and networking

                   drivers.

                   And this obviously means that tomorrow I'll open

                   the merge window for

                   6.1. Which - unlike 6.0 - has a number of fairly

                   core new things lined

                   up. But for now, please do give this most recent

                   kernel version a

                   whirl,

                                 Linus

            # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.0_Officially_Released,_This_Is

              What’s_New⠀⇛

                   After being in development for two months, Linux

                   kernel 6.0 is finally here and introduces support

                   for the AArch64 (ARM64) hardware architecture to

                   swap transparent huge pages without splitting them,

                   support for NVMe in-band authentication, support

                   for PCI buses in the OpenRISC and LoongArch

                   architectures, async buffered writes when using

                   both XFS and io_uring, as well as io_uring zero-

                   copy network transmission support.

            # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_6.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                   Headline features in 6.0 include a number of

                   io_uring improvements including support for

                   buffered writes to XFS filesystems and zero-copy

                   network transmission, an io_uring-based block

                   driver mechanism, the runtime verification

                   subsystem, and much more; see the LWN merge-window

                   summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.

            # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Wow!_Linux_Kernel_6.0_Lands_With_Intel_13th_Gen

              Raptor_Lake_CPU_Support⠀⇛

                   Linux Kernel 6.0 is here, and it is a very exciting

                   release. Although Linux 5.19 had primarily new

                   hardware support, this release improves upon it

                   with performance improvements and more.

                   Here, we will be looking at some of the major

                   refinements, as well as highlighting some of the

                   smaller ones too.

            # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.0_Released,_This_is_What’s_New

              –_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛

                   A new month, and a brand new version of the Linux

                   kernel is now available for use.

                   Linux 6.0 kickstarts the 6.x series in fine form,

                   bringing an assortment of performance improvements,

                   new hardware support, security fixes, and the usual

                   grab-bag of file-system tweaks to the fore.

                   Announcing the release over on the Linux Kernel

                   Mailing List, Linus Torvalds said: “As is hopefully

                   clear to everybody, the major version number change

                   is more about me running out of fingers and toes

                   than it is about any big fundamental changes.”

                   “But of course there’s a lot of various changes in

                   6.0 – we’ve got over 15k non-merge commits in there

                   in total, after all, and as such 6.0 is one of the

                   bigger releases at least in numbers of commits in a

                   while.

                   For a pinch more detail on what’s new in Linux

                   kernel 6.0, read on.

            # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_6.0_lands,_Linus_Torvalds_hints_at

              core_changes_in_6.1_•_The_Register⠀⇛

                   Linus Torvalds has released a stable cut of version

                   6.0 of the Linux kernel.

                   “As is hopefully clear to everybody, the major

                   version number change is more about me running out

                   of fingers and toes than it is about any big

                   fundamental changes,” Torvalds wrote in his release

                   announcement.

                   Torvalds rated version 6.0 “one of the bigger

                   releases at least in numbers of commits in a

                   while”, thanks largely to the inclusion of “15k

                   non-merge commits in there in total”.

                   But he expressed more enthusiasm for version 6.1

                   when reminding kernel contributors that the release

                   of a stable kernel update means it’s time to get

                   cracking on new additions.

                   “Tomorrow I’ll open the merge window for 6.1. Which

                   – unlike 6.0 – has a number of fairly core new

                   things lined up,” he wrote.

                   Those “things” include support for the Rust

                   programming language, the addition of which was

                   all-but-assured with a Saturday pull request.

                   Optional disabling of Spectre mitigations for some

                   Arm silicon will be added, in recognition of the

                   pain that fixing the speculative execution mess can

                   inflict on Arm-powered servers. Other changes make

                   the performance hit from Retbleed fixes less

                   painful.

            # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.0_is_Officially_Out_with_Run-

              Time_Kernel_Verification⠀⇛

                   A new Kernel is here (Linux Kernel 6.0) with the

                   best hardware support for your devices. Here’s a

                   quick recap on the new features.

                   After seven release candidates and a lot of

                   testing, Linus Torvalds released the latest

                   mainline Linux Kernel 6.0 with significant hardware

                   improvements and updates. This release is the

                   successor of the Linux Kernel 5.19 and brings a

                   bump to the major version number, i.e. Linux Kernel

                   6.0.

                   Although, as per Linus, the numbering doesn’t mean

                   anything other than a new version.

            # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_6.0_Released,_Multiple_Ways_To_Upgrade_Linux

              Kernel_In_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS [Ed: Notorious plagiarist]⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Notes_from_kernel_hacking_in_Hare,_part_2:

              multi-threading⠀⇛

                   I have long promised that Hare would not have

                   multi-threading, and it seems that I have broken

                   that promise. However, I have remained true to the

                   not-invented-here approach which is typical of my

                   style by introducing it only after designing an

                   entire kernel to implement it on top of.1

                   For some background, Helios is a micro-kernel

                   written in Hare. In addition to the project, the

                   Vulcan system is a small userspace designed to test

                   the kernel.

      o § Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ CPU-X_an_Alternative_to_CPU-Z_for_Linux_–_It’s

              FOSS⠀⇛

                   The tech-savvy Windows users might have used CPU-Z.

                   It is an excellent utility for gathering

                   comprehensive system information that is not

                   available through stock applications in Windows.

                   [...]

                   In fact, if you want something similar to CPU-Z on

                   Linux, you are in luck. A developer called X0rg on

                   GitHub has created a CPU-Z clone called CPU-X for

                   Linux.

                   The interface might not be an exact replica bit you

                   will find it familiar.

            # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ Vim_vs_Neovim:_Functionalities,_and

              Strengths⠀⇛

                   Vim is a universal and extensible terminal-based

                   text editor that ships with the majority of Unix-

                   like systems. To improve extensibility, community

                   contributions, look and feel, and to facilitate an

                   easy maintenance process, the Neovim editor has

                   been built based on a fork of the Vim project. Both

                   include their unique architectures, strengths,

                   behaviors, and features that will compare

                   throughout this piece of writing.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Miniconda_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–

              idroot⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to install

                   Miniconda on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who

                   didn’t know, Miniconda is a free minimal installer

                   for conda. It is a small, bootstrap version of

                   Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the

                   packages they depend on, and a small number of

                   other useful packages, including pip, zlib, and a

                   few others. The simplest way to get conda on your

                   system is to install Miniconda.

                   This article assumes you have at least basic

                   knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and

                   most importantly, you host your site on your own

                   VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes

                   you are running in the root account, if not you may

                   need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root

                   privileges. I will show you the step-by-step

                   installation of the Miniconda 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.

            # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_WP-CLI_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛

                   In this post, you will learn how to install WP-CLI

                   on Ubuntu 22.04. We will also take a look at some

                   of its most basic functions.

            # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Mania_Cat_on_a

              Chromebook⠀⇛

                   Today we are looking at how to install Mania Cat 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.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Obsidian_on_Linux_Mint_21_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

                   In this video, we are looking at how to install

                   Obsidian on Linux Mint 21.

            # ⚓ Marco d’Itri ☛ Debian_bookworm_on_a_Lenovo_T14s_Gen3_AMD⠀⇛

                   I recently upgraded my laptop to a Lenovo T14s Gen3

                   AMD and I am happy to report that it works just

                   fine with Debian/unstable using a 5.19 kernel.

                   The only issue is that some firmware files are

                   still missing and I had to install them manually.

                   Updates are needed for the firmware-amd-graphics

                   package (#1019847) for the Radeon 680M GPU (AMD

                   Rembrandt) and for the firmware-atheros package

                   (#1021157) for the Qualcomm NFA725A Wi-Fi card

                   (which is actually reported as a NFA765).

            # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Copy_Files_to_USB_Using_Terminal⠀⇛

                   Linux users feel empowered while performing tasks

                   using the terminal application. So why leave the

                   terminal when you can copy files to USB from the

                   terminal app instead of a file explorer. This guide

                   shows how to copy files and directories from a

                   Linux system to a USB stick.

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Regolith_Is_the_Perfect_Introduction_to_Tiling

        Window_Managers_on_Linux⠀⇛

             If you want to switch to a tiling window manager without

             having to go through a steep learning curve, Regolith is

             the Linux distro for you.

             All the cool kids use tiling window managers these days,

             but the learning curve can be too steep for some.

             Regolith Desktop uses the GNOME session manager, and i3

             to make the climb more manageable.

             Here’s everything you need to know about Regolith.

      o § Reviews⠀➾

            # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_SpiralLinux_11.220628⠀⇛

                   SpiralLinux is a young distribution which appeared

                   on the DistroWatch waiting list in the middle of

                   2022. The project is described on its website as

                   follows:

                   SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built

                   from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity

                   and out-of-the-box usability across all the major

                   desktop environments.

                   SpiralLinux serves as an alternative live

                   installation method for a highly reliable

                   customized Debian system using only official Debian

                   package repositories.

                   If the description sounds familiar it may be

                   because SpiralLinux is developed by the same person

                   who created GeckoLinux, a desktop-oriented spin of

                   openSUSE which strives to be easy to set up and use

                   out-of-the-box. The two projects, SpiralLinux and

                   GeckoLinux, share a common developer, common goals,

                   and the same philosophy. They just use different

                   parent distributions to provide their packages.

                   SpiralLinux is available in seven desktop flavours

                   (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Budgie, GNOME, LXQt, and KDE

                   Plasma) along with a more minimal Builder edition.

                   The Builder edition offers a minimal graphical

                   interface based on IceWM and is intended to help

                   people start with a small operating system

                   foundation and work up with just a few desktop

                   tools. I decided to try the KDE Plasma edition

                   which is 2.0GB in size.

                   SpiralLinux (which I’ll usually refer to as Spiral)

                   booted from its live media to the Plasma desktop.

                   The wallpaper is green and there are icons on the

                   desktop for handling language support and launching

                   the system installer. A panel sits at the bottom of

                   the screen where it is home to the application

                   menu, task switcher, and system tray.

      o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾

            # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Good_News!_Mesa_Package_with_Hardware

              Acceleration_is_Arriving_in_RPM_Fusion⠀⇛

                   The popular RPM Fusion repo brings the recently

                   disabled Mesa package.

                   A few days back, Fedora Linux disabled the decoding

                   of h264dec, h264enc, h265dec, h265enc, and vc1dec

                   via GPU from its upcoming Fedora 37 onwards. The

                   Mesa package which was providing this feature

                   introduced a switch to disable the patented codecs.

                   Until now, due to an oversight, it was enabled in

                   Fedora.

                   Since then, numerous users over forums debated this

                   decision and its consequences for the users.

                   As always, the open-source community finds a way to

                   resolve the situation.

      o § Debian Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Debian_to_change_social_contract,

              include_non-free_packages_on_install_media⠀⇛

                   The Debian GNU/Linux project has voted to change

                   its social contract in order to solve the issue of

                   providing proprietary firmware on its install

                   media. Additionally, the project voted to have just

                   a single install image.

                   The new social contract will have one additional

                   sentence: “The Debian official media may include

                   firmware that is otherwise not part of the Debian

                   system to enable use of Debian with hardware that

                   requires such firmware.”

                   A statement will be issued as follows: “We will

                   include non-free firmware packages from the ‘non-

                   free-firmware’ section of the Debian archive on our

                   official media (installer images and live images).

                   The included firmware binaries will normally be

                   enabled by default where the system determines that

                   they are required, but where possible we will

                   include ways for users to disable this at boot

                   (boot menu option, kernel command line etc.).

                   “When the installer/live system is running we will

                   provide information to the user about what firmware

                   has been loaded (both free and non-free), and we

                   will also store that information on the target

                   system such that users will be able to find it

                   later.

      o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Ways_the_iPhone_Is_Still_Years_Behind

              Android⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Wired ☛ 19_Android_Settings_You_May_Not_Know_About_|

              WIRED⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 8_of_the_best_social_apps_on_Android_in

              2022⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ OPPO_Watch_3_Pro_Review:_The_best_Android

              Full-functioned_Smartwatch?⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Blackview_Tab_13_review:_A_budget_Android

              tablet_worth_considering_|_Android_Central⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_see_blocked_numbers_on_Android⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_make_a_video_call_on_Android⠀⇛

            # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ This_Hidden_Android_Phone_Feature_Lets_You

              Share_WiFi_Without_A_Password⠀⇛

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o § Programming/Development⠀➾

            # ⚓ Guru:_Aliases_—_Underused_and_Unappreciated_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛

                   One of the first things I learned about programming

                   in the RPG II language was that field and variable

                   names had to be six characters or less and they did

                   not have to be pronounceable. I accepted this

                   without question, as I was new to computers and

                   figured that everything that had to do with

                   computers was arcane and other-worldly. It wasn’t

                   until I began work toward my computer science

                   degree and was privileged to learn Pascal that I

                   came to appreciate the value of longer identifier

                   names, and of clarity of source code in general.

                   You don’t have to have a computer science degree to

                   use long field names in modern RPG. Even if your

                   database files — physical and logical — have field

                   names of six characters or less, you don’t have to

                   use those short names ever again in RPG programs.

                   It is my purpose in this article to show you how to

                   use longer, more legible field names instead.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Even_Barnaby_Joyce_knows_Optus_attack

              was_anything_but_sophisticated!⠀⇛

                   When even National Party MP Barnaby Joyce, not a

                   politician known for his technological nous, seems

                   to know the Optus attack was not in any way

                   sophisticated, then the telco really does have a

                   big problem.

                   Surprisingly, Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer

                   Rosmarin does not seem to be aware of this basic

                   fact and needs a so-called independent review to

                   find out what world+dog now knows.

                   The Australian quoted Joyce as saying (when and

                   where the man made this pronouncement wasn’t

                   specified, but then it rarely is): “It wasn’t a

                   very sophisticated way to get into the Optus

                   information and therefore, they have absolutely

                   compromised their capacity to do their job, their

                   duty of stewardship to their customers in

                   protecting their privacy.

            # ⚓ Software_Supply_Chain_Attacks_Are_A_Growing_Threat [Ed:

              IBM-sponsored propaganda/marketing site propels the false

              narrative of "supply chain" to demonise stuff while totally

              overlooking CISA/NSA back doors -- the real issue along with

              outsourced manufacturing of hardware]⠀⇛

                   There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so

                   you probably don’t need something more to worry

                   about. But the cat-and-mouse world of cybersecurity

                   never sleeps, and one of the threats keeping the

                   good guys up at night right now is the growing risk

                   of software supply chain attacks. Unfortunately,

                   security through obscurity won’t provide as much

                   protection for the IBM i server this time around.

            # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ New_Pegasus_Spyware_Abuses_Identified

                    in_Mexico_–_The_Citizen_Lab⠀⇛

                         In 2017, the Citizen Lab, along with partners

                         R3D, SocialTic and Article19, released a

                         series of eight reports on widespread Pegasus

                         targeting in Mexico. Many sectors of Mexican

                         civil society were targeted, including

                         investigative journalists and lawyers for

                         cartel victims’ families, anti-corruption

                         groups, prominent lawmakers, international

                         investigators examining enforced

                         disappearances, and even the spouse of a

                         journalist killed in a cartel slaying.

                         A public scandal ensued when the Pegasus

                         targeting was first revealed, resulting in

                         extensive scrutiny into the surveillance

                         practices of Mexican authorities, and

                         especially prosecutors. A still-ongoing

                         criminal investigation was also opened in

                         Mexico.

                         In 2021, as part of the Pegasus Project

                         revelations (a collaboration between

                         Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International’s

                         Security Lab, and a coalition of media

                         organizations), it was reported that at least

                         50 people in the circle of Andrés Manuel

                         López Obrador, Mexico’s current president,

                         were among individuals potentially selected

                         for surveillance with Pegasus between 2016-

                         2017. The targets included the now-

                         President’s children and spouse. The same

                         report indicated that at least 45 Mexican

                         governors and former governors may have been

                         similarly selected for surveillance.

* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾

      o § Personal⠀➾

            # ⚓ I_should_learn_Russian⠀⇛

                   I’ve always been a bit of a Russophile. Partly from

                   being the annoying communist kid in high school,

                   but even since then I’ve had an appreciation for

                   Russian culture and language.

                   I’ve been hanging out more on Gemini since I caught

                   myself slipping back into going on reddit, mostly

                   just scrolling the front page, but I don’t want to

                   get into that bad habit again. I see a lot of

                   Russian language posts on Gemini and would love to

                   be able to read them.

                   I’ve half-heartedly tried to learn it in the past

                   but never put in much effort. I’m pretty good with

                   languages, I took Latin for a year in high school

                   and since Latin is based so much on case and

                   declination, not word order, you have to change how

                   you think about language to really begin learning

it.

            # ⚓ Craving_a_game⠀⇛

                   I have done a lot of creative and productive work

                   lately: started a new manuscript, prepared a

                   revised manuscript to send to an editor, cleaned up

                   some web stuff, started cleaning up the house.

                   Things are at a point where I feel I must find

                   something fun and useless to do before I

                   accidentally burn out.

                   It has happened before. I justify a habit of

                   working and working because I actually like my work

                   nowadays (except for some parts of it). I gave up a

                   lot to steer my career this way because it felt

                   worth it, and it doesn’t stress me out in the same

                   ways my old career used to.

            # ⚓ Slippery_Singapore⠀⇛

                   Rain usually makes motor racing more unpredictable.

                   People make mistakes, and gambling on tyre choice

                   can turn a race around. In Singapore there were

                   lots of mistakes. Verstappen and Hamilton both had

                   a stupid moment and went off, but Perez did a fine

                   job to get ahead, not have any dodgy moments, and

                   stay ahead.

      o § Technical⠀➾

            # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Kale_goes_to_gemspace⠀⇛

                         I’ve been waffling on starting a microblog

                         for an unreasonable amount of time now, but

                         I’m giving in because I’ve accidentally

                         turned my website into a space for Polished

                         Writing That I Put Effort Into (I hesitate to

                         call it Good because good would be doing a

                         lot of work in that sentence). This place has

                         no such expectations, so I’m hoping I can be

                         a bit messier here. We’ll see how that works

                         out for me.

                  # ⚓ First_post⠀⇛

                         I’ll keep this post short because this post

                         is more of a test of the cli tool of smol.pub

                         than anything else.

                         As I have probably stated in the home page

                         I’m going to talk about computer stuff more

                         than anything else. Mainly about low level

                         programming because browsing gemini I found

                         little to no content dedicated about it, and

                         after some years dabbling into C and assembly

                         I feel that there are still things to be said

                         about them.

                         I’ll also probably be talking about

                         everything Linux/FOSS, gaming, the small web

                         and what not.

            # § Programming⠀➾

                  # ⚓ OctoForth_progress⠀⇛

                         Having implemented a quick toy i386 Forth,

                         with the hope of having a tool for an i386 OS

                         written in assembly, I had so much fun

                         reacquainting myself with the 32-bit i386

                         (and its limitations, viewed as advantages

                         this time), I just continued plowing ahead.

                         Over the last week or so I revived my old

                         sliding-window interpreter which allows me to

                         use 8-bit bytecodes, but does not limit me to

                         a fixed assigment, but instead, automatically

                         adjusts the indirection table at compile-

                         time. It is a truly awesome idea, and

                         amazingly, no one else has used it. It is a

                         unique privilege to be (apparently) the only

                         one in the world doing something.

=> =============================================================================

Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the

World Wide Web but a lot lighter.

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