𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, October 06, 2022
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 05, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ The ’Great Replacement’ of Microsoft Windows Will Happen First in Developing Nations (PC Sales Plunged There, Machines Recycled With GNU/Linux) | Techrights
⦿ Ubuntu Pro-Microsoft and It Moreover Promotes Proprietary Garbage That’s Bad for Security and Performance | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] From ’Humanity for Others’ to... | Techrights
⦿ Free Software is the Best Thing You Can Buy (or Maybe the Only Thing You Can Truly Buy) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/irc-log-051022-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/replacement-of-windows/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/ubuntu-pro-proprietary-garbage/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/ubuntu-working-for-bill/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/when-buying-is-not-owning/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/postgresql-15-rc-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/06/sparky-2022-10/#comments
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-051022.gmi
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✐ The_‘Great_Replacement’_of_Microsoft_Windows_Will_Happen_First_in_Developing
Nations_(PC_Sales_Plunged_There,_Machines_Recycled_With_GNU/Linux)⠀✐
Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 2:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 488dfec9e6befeb756cbb1a09247071a
Windows Suffers From Hardware Shortages
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/market-share-shifting-to-gnu-linux.webm
Summary: The market share of Windows has fallen to about 27% overall while GNU/
Linux reaches all-time highs [1, 2]; we explain why that may be
The video above was recorded to explain the figures shown below (screenshots
taken this morning).
India (1,376 million citizens):
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Nigeria (219 million citizens):
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Malaysia (34 million citizens):
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The yellow/beige line is for “unknown”, GNU/Linux is in red (not including
Chrome OS or Android).
The gist of the video is, as hardware becomes more scarce and thus expensive
fewer people buy a new PC with Windows on it, especially in poorer country.
This means that even some of the world’s largest population convert existing
PCs to GNU/Linux. No wonder Windows_is_at_an_all-time_low and Microsoft_tries
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⠋⡉⠙⡟⠀⠈⢹⠟⢉⠉⡻⠋⢉⠙⢻⠉⢹⡏⠙⡏⠙⠉⠙⡏⠀⠉⡹⠋⠉⠙⡟⠉⠋⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⠉⠠⠀⢿⠀⠸⢯⠀⠻⠿⡇⠀⠿⠇⢀⠀⠸⠇⠀⡇⢰⡇⠀⣿⠀⠸⠇⠀⠤⠤⡆⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣦⣴⣦⣼⣦⣤⣾⣶⣤⣤⣾⣦⣤⣴⣿⣦⣤⣦⣤⣧⣼⣷⣤⣿⣦⣤⣾⣦⣤⣴⣶⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠶⠀⠀⠶⠶⠶⠆⠀⠀⠰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠸⠿⢿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢠⠀⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⠏⠉⢿⣹⣻⡉⠏⣉⡉⣹⣛⡯⡩⡭⡏⡫⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⣀⡄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣤⣤⠈⣿⣿⠏⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⢉⠉⣉⣉⠉⣉⣉⡉⠉⠉⢉⡉⠉⣉⠉⠉⠉⢉⣉⠉⢉⣉⣼
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣼⣿⣇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⠈⢿⣿⠿⢿⠀⣼⣿⣿⠀⠻⠏⢠⡇⠸⠟⠛⠛⠛⠋⣀⣀⡉⠛⠛⠃⢸⠀⣿⠃⣰⣿⣿⡇⠀⢠⣿⣿⠀⠋⢀⣷⣶⠛⢁⡀⢸⣿⣿
⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠋⠉⠁⠉⠁⠰⠾⠿⠿⠿⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣄⣠⣤⡄⠰⣄⠈⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠈⠀⠁⠀⠉⠁⠉⠛⠀⠉⠉⠙⠁⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠛⠓⢸⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠒⠐⠀⠐⠛⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠓⠒⢸⣿⣿
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⠀⢐⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢢⢲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠆⠐⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠆⡐⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠆⠄⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠆⣐⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠆⠔⣲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡁⢁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠈⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠈⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢱⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢱⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢕⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢙⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢉⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣦⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⡿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⣌⣵⣇⣃⣠⣌⣠⣸⣿⣿⣟⣵⣧⣄⣤⣠⣄⣀⣀⣿⣿⣷⣍⣴⣇⣈⣐⣼⣿⣷⣶⣶⣧⣣⣀⣦⣀⣾⣀⣠⣢⣀⣀⣀⣣⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⣤⣀⠉⠛⠏⢠⣤⣀⠙⢿⣿⡿⠋⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣭⣭⠍⢩⣭⠀⣬⣭⣭⣭⣤⣤⣭⣭⣭⣥⡄⠉⠁⣤⣥⣄⠉⠉⠩⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠙⢁⣄⠘⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⡀⢹⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⣄⠈⢉⡀⠻⠏⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣶⣾⣿⠀⢻⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠘⣿⣿⣿⠀⣶⡄⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣦⣤⣿⡀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢻⣿⡏⢀⣿⣷⡀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢻⡇⢸⣿⣿⣷⡀⠋⢀⣈⣁⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣶⡄⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠄⠹⠿⠿⠇⠠⠀⠿⠿⠇⠸⠿⠿⠄⠙⠛⠿⠿⠁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠹⣿⠇⢸⡇⠘⠿⠁⣸⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠘⠇⢰⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡿⠿⣿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠁⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⡀⠀⣿⣿⣶⡄⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⣾⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠘⡇⠀⣿⠀⢸⡇⠀⣤⠀⢸⡆⠀⢰⣾⠁⠀⠂⠀⡟⠀⢠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣰⡇⠀⠋⠀⠸⡇⠀⣿⠀⢸⣧⠀⠘⠹⡀⠐⠚⠋⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣶⣾⣷⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠙⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢀⣤⠀⢻⡟⠀⣀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⢹⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣼⣿⡆⢸⠃⢸⣿⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠿⠏⢀⡇⠈⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢀⣼⣿⣿⡇⠈⢀⣿⣿⡇⠸⣿⡟⠁⣠⣤⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢠⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠛⠁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢠⣿⡇⠸⣿⣿⠇⢠⣷⣤⣤⣀⠉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⠉⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠉⠩⡭⠀⣬⠀⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡍⠀⣭⣭⡅⠀⣭⡍⠀⣬⣭⣭⣭⣭⡄⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡅⢠⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣶⣄⠁⢰⣿⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢰⣿⣿⣿⠀⠻⠁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⠁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠘⢿⣿⡟⠁⠙⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠘⣿⣿⣿⠏⢀⣄⠈⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⠉⠉⣀⣴⣆⠈⠛⠋⢀⣴⣿⣆⠈⠋⣠⣶⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⢾⣿⢠⢭⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠭⠭⡭⣭⣭⣭⢭⣭⣭⡭⡭⡭⡭⣭⣭⣭⣬⣭⠉⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠶⠶⠾⠟⠛⠛⠛⠃⠈⠉⠉⢁⡈⠉⠛⠛⠉⣀⣀⣀⡈⠙⠛⠉⠉⢀⣀⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣦⣤⣀⢸⣘⣀⣠⣑⣼⣯⣧⣌⣀⣧⣆⣨⣯⣧⣣⣐⣸⣃⣟⣏⣏⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿
⢁⣀⣀⡈⠙⠁⣀⣠⣤⣤⣄⣠⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿
⠛⠉⠙⠓⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠠⠤⠠⠤⠠⠤⠤⠤⠤⠄⠤⠀⠖⠒⠒⠛⠛⠛⠖⠒⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣤⣤⡤⠠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠠⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡟⠩⣑⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠡⣢⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⣢⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⢂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⢲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠌⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡄⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡄⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡄⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡄⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠁⢢⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣤⣄⣈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠙⢿⠟⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⠋⣠⣤⣶⣦⣤⣈⣉⠉⣉⣉⣉⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠻⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⢹⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣿⣶⣦⠈⡙⠃⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣴⣶⣦⠈⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠻⢿⠿⢿⠇⢠⣀⣀⠙⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⡿⠀⠙⠛⢿⠟⢿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠰⠒⠂⢠⣶⣄⠐⠂⢠⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣴⠀⠀⣶⣶⣶⣆⠐⠶⠀⣠⣦⣤⣴⣶⣶⣄⣠⣄⠀⣠⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⣸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣁⠀⢹⡁⠀⣀⠟⢁⣀⣹⠋⢀⡀⠙⡇⢸⡏⠀⡏⠈⣁⠈⣏⠀⢀⡹⠁⠀⠈⡏⠀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⠀⠂⠘⡇⠀⠛⡄⠘⠛⢻⡀⠙⠃⢀⡇⠘⠃⠀⡇⠀⣿⠀⣿⠀⠘⢃⠀⠒⠒⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣶⣿⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣷⣾⣿⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠛⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠋⠉⠙⠛⠉⠀⠛⠛⢀⣤⣤⣄⣈⣉⣠⣦⣴⣦⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢉⠉⠿⠿⠿⠛⠿⠋⠙⠋⠉⠛⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠻⠟⠛⠛⠉⠋⠙⠛⠉⣉⣉⣁⣠⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣤⣦⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⠘⠃⢸⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣤⠤⢤⠤⡤⡄⣤⢠⡄⠤⡤⣄⠤⠤⡄⢄⡀⡠⣤⣤⣤⡄⢹⢸⣿
⢉⠉⠉⠁⠀⢀⣤⡄⠀⣀⣀⣴⣶⣦⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣸⣿⣧⠀⡿⠃⣠⣆⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡀⠓⠚⠒⠒⠓⠓⠓⠒⠚⠒⠓⠓⠒⠒⠓⠓⠒⠒⠛⠛⠛⠃⢸⢸⣿
⠉⠠⠤⠴⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠦⠄⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠉⠁⠤⠀⠉⠉⠉⠁⠠⠿⠿⠿⠄⠤⠶⠿⠛⠒⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠐⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠉⠀⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢄⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠄⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠠⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠈⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠈⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠠⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠓⢁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠲⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠢⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠂⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗⢆⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗⢆⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠓⢤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠓⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿
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Schestowitz
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Ubuntu Pro Microsoft
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http://techrights.org/videos/security-lies-and-ubuntu-pro.webm
Summary: Unsafe, bloated, proprietary Windows programs of Microsoft are used to
advertise Ubuntu Pro, so Canonical has clearly lost the plot
THIS site has been critical of Canonical lately, but for purely factual
reasons, it’s not some mindless trash-talking. We’ve openly encouraged people
not to adopt Ubuntu and not recommend it to other people. We explained why
promoting other distros would be far better. Ubuntu’s popularity is waning
regardless. Canonical is just trying to ‘upsell’ Debian for profit. In the
process it promotes not only proprietary software but software that spies on
users; that even includes Microsoft’s proprietary software despite the fact
that Microsoft tries to prevent Ubuntu users from booting Ubuntu on their PCs
(Canonical_should_have_filed_an_antitrust_complaint_against_Microsoft).
But this post (and video) isn’t about the many reasons to avoid/skip Ubuntu.
It’s about the dangers associated with Microsoft and the new Ubuntu_Pro
“scheme” (scheme seems like a suitable term to describe it).
Judging by recent posts in the official Ubuntu blog (regarding Ubuntu Pro
before the latest scheme was more officially announced yesterday), it’s a
bridge to technical, practical, and legal disaster.
As one associate of ours noted this morning, “having caused a world full of
security problems through bad design and implementation, Microsoft is
wrongfully posing as a leader in data protection; problems cannot generally be
solved by the same people and methods as caused them to begin with.”
The video above shows how even_Microsoft_boosters_bemoan_insecurity_of
Microsoft_SQL_Server, only days after Canonical_promoted_it_under_the_Ubuntu
Pro_“scheme”.
“The benefits of running Microsoft SQL Server” says the headline, basically
boasting a Windows piece of junk (speaking from personal experience). Canonical
promotes it as running “on Ubuntu Pro” even “though technically that is running
within “drawbridge” and not within Ubuntu itself,” the associate noted, citing
some relevant_blurb_from_last_year (we too had mentioned that Drawbridge aspect
many times in the past).
So Canonical is promoting a proprietary security hazard of an enemy of GNU/
Linux despite the fact that technically superior options exist that run
natively on GNU/Linux, are generally secure, are Free software, and are not
controlled by enemies of ours. “Best [for Caninical] to focus on the real tools
which Microsoft tries to draw people away from: postgresql, mariadb, sqlite3,
etc,” the associate concluded. I’ve used all three heavily and they’re vastly
more reliable than SQL Server, which is an overpriced toy with_back_doors (it’s
a Windows program; Canonical advertises Ubuntu Pro using Windows programs). █
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Summary: Canonical works_for_Bill to pay the bills
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Freedom Means Control
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/freesw-means-ownership.webm
Summary: People who value their own control over their own computers don’t
“buy” proprietary stuff; instead they adopt Free software
THE SHORT video above is one of three concerning GNU/Linux.
This first video deals with this_article and commentary (it is still being
discussed, it was published earlier this week).
“It’s quite common and very pleasant to hear that people who suffered the wrath
of proprietary software (or proprietary front groups like BSA) eventually move
to GNU/Linux and choose Free software.”What’s noteworthy here, a reader has
said, is that “The Register mentions FOSS by name, specifically” (despite that
publication being FOSS-hostile_in_recent_years). Liam_Proven explains that “You
thought you bought [proprietary] software – all you bought was a lie”. This
point ought to be very widely understood; proprietary software is never bought,
it is merely licensed or you just temporarily rent a copy that you’re allowed
to run/execute (but not share, modify etc.), so it’s a rather poor deal.
It’s quite common and very pleasant to hear that people who suffered the wrath
of proprietary software (or proprietary giants’ front groups like BSA)
eventually move to GNU/Linux and choose Free software. David Revoy (graphical
talent and visual artist) did this with Krita and Kubuntu. Prior to that there
was the very famous case of a musician, Sterling_Ball. One day we hope that
everyone will see the same light. Free software does not do advertisements, but
its advantages advertise themselves. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Graphics_Stack
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_/_Red_Hat_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o Programming/Development
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Security
o Civil_Rights/Policing
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Debian_Voted_Yes_On_Non_Free_Firmware!!_–
Invidious⠀⇛
About a month ago Debian opened up a vote on the
inclusion of non free firmware in their installer
and recently that vote closed and the developers
voted yes on the inclusion, but not on the result
that I expected.
# ⚓ Video ☛ THE_STEAM_DECK_RESERVATION_QUEUE_IS_HISTORY!_–
Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ STOP!_Don’t_Name_That_File_Without_First_Watching
This_Video._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I talk about a very important topic
that doesn’t get discussed as much as it should,
especially regarding individual desktop computer
users. And that topic is File Naming Conventions,
which are frameworks to help guide you in giving
your files more descriptive names that make them
easier to identify, search, sort, etc.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Parrot_5.1_Security_Edition_overview_|_designed_for
Penetration_Testing_and_Red_Team_operations._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Parrot 5.1 Security Edition and some of the
applications pre-installed.
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ Linux_Hangout_and_Future_Directions⠀⇛
Today we will return to our Thursday live show and
talk about random topics and some future channel
directions.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Safer_flexible_arrays_for_the_kernel_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
At the 2022 Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS EU),
Gustavo A. R. Silva reported in on work he has been
doing on “flexible” arrays in the kernel. While
these arrays provide some … flexibility … they are
also a source of bugs, which can often result in
security vulnerabilities. He has been working on
ways to make the use of flexible arrays safer in
the kernel.
Silva has a background in embedded systems, working
with both realtime operating systems (RTOS) and
embedded Linux. For the last six years, he has has
been working as an upstream kernel engineer. He
collaborates with the Kernel Self Protection
Project (KSPP) and the Linux kernel division of the
Google open-source security team.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ BPF_as_a_safer_kernel_programming_environment_
[LWN.net]⠀⇛
For better or worse, C is the lingua franca in the
world of kernel engineering. The core logic of the
Linux kernel is written entirely in C (with a bit
of assembly), as are its drivers and modules. While
C is rightfully celebrated for its powerful yet
simple semantics, it is an older language that
lacks many of the features present in modern
languages such as Rust. The BPF subsystem, on the
other hand, provides a programming environment that
allows engineers to write programs that can run
safely in kernel space. At the 2022 Linux Plumbers
Conference in Dublin, Ireland, Alexei Starovoitov
presented an overview of how BPF has evolved over
the years to provide a new model for kernel
programming.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ BPF_for_HID_drivers_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The Human Interface Device (HID) standard dates
back to the Windows 95 era. It describes how
devices like mice and keyboards present themselves
to the host computer, and has created a world where
a single driver can handle a wide variety of
devices from multiple manufacturers. Or it would
have, if there weren’t actual device manufacturers
involved. In the real world, devices stretch and
break the standard, each in its own special way. At
the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference, Benjamin
Tissoires described how BPF can be used to simplify
the task of supporting HID devices.
Most devices, he began, will work just fine with
the kernel’s generic HID drivers. That still leaves
quite a few that present problems — behavioral
quirks that require a special driver to address.
Most of the time, that driver need only make a few
tweaks to the “report descriptor” provided by the
device. This descriptor, the format of which was
defined in 2001, describes the exact protocol a
device speaks and which capabilities it offers. The
kernel contains a long list of tiny drivers that do
little beyond tweaking a device’s report descriptor
to make it adhere to the standard; see drivers/hid/
hid-sigmamicro.c for an example. Others, only
slightly more complex, will modify input events
upon receipt from the device; drivers/hid/hid-
ezkey.c shows that type of manipulation.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_kernel_5.19.12_may_‘harm’_Intel
laptop_screens_•_The_Register [Ed: Phoronix has fed
Microsoft-connected sites with that FUD about "LINUX WILL
DESTROY YOUR LAPTOP" (the original mailing list message says
it is rare). Kernel 5.19.12 is barely even used by anybody
except the cutting-edge adventurists.]⠀⇛
A bug in version 5.19.12 of the Linux kernel “may
harm” screens on laptops powered by Intel’s 12th-
generation Core processors.
The Alder Lake family of chips are significantly
different from earlier Intel generations, and this
has caused previous problems in the open source
kernel, though those were relatively modest
performance degradation. This latest glitch is a
bit more serious, causing displays to flash and
fail to work.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Linux_Kernel_5.19.12_bug_could_damage
Intel_laptop_displays⠀⇛
Linux users have reported seeing weird white
flashes and rapid blinking on their Intel laptop
displays after upgrading to Linux kernel version
5.19.12, leading to warnings that the bug may
damage displays.
# ⚓ Linux_kernel_5.19.12_code_could_cause_permanent_damage_to
some_laptop_displays_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
For desktop Linux users, updating to a new Linux
kernel typically carries relatively small,
contained risks: wonky drivers, GRUB pain, maybe a
full wipe and reinstall. For one subset of laptop
owners on rolling release distributions, however,
kernel version 5.19.12 could cause actual LCD
screen damage.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ A_New_Open_Source_Vulkan_Driver_for_NVIDIA
Graphics_is_Ready_to_Test!⠀⇛
NVK is a new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA
Graphics hardware and aims to be the new go-to
graphics driver.
This was made possible in part due to Nvidia
releasing open-source GPU kernel modules for its
data center GPUs and consumer cards (GTX/RTX).
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Check_Certificate_with_OpenSSL⠀⇛
Keeping a tab on your SSL certificates is a crucial
part of a sysadmin’s job.
There are various ways to do it. You can use a
monitoring service like Checkmk to monitor the
certificates or you can use the good old openssl
command for this purpose.
In this guide, I’ll explain to you how to use the
openssl command to check various certificates on
Linux systems.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Redmine_Project_Management
Tool_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Redmine is free and open-source project management
and issue-tracking tool. Its web-based application
software, mainly written in Ruby on Rails.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Java_JDK_on_Debian_11_–_OSNote⠀⇛
Java is a programming language. Java is portable,
which means you can make your code run on different
types of computers without having to rewrite it.
It’s also object-oriented, which means that it
enables programmers to write reusable software
components.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Cockpit_on_CentOS,_Rocky_Linux_and
AlmaLinux_–_OSNote⠀⇛
Cockpit is a free, open-source web-based admin GUI.
It’s modular and extensible to meet your specific
needs, with many customization options.
Cockpit is released under the MIT license and is
completely free to use on any project. There are no
limitations to how many projects you can host, but
note that your ISP may limit the number of open
ports you can run in order to handle high volumes
of traffic, which could cause performance issues.
If you’re unsure about hosting Cockpit on your
website, chat with your host provider or support
for more information about this. If you want to
host Cockpit yourself, we recommend using Haproxy
or a similar in-memory load balancer, which can
handle a large number of simultaneous client
requests without affecting your server’s
performance.
Cockpit was born out of the necessity for an admin
interface for Redis that could be used as a central
point for the configuration, support, and migration
of Redis clusters. It is meant to allow
administrators to make changes from a familiar GUI
environment.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Control_RGB_Lighting_On_Linux_–
Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
With the rise of online gaming and streaming, the
use of RGB lighting on desktop peripherals is
trending on the Internet. Most of the RGB lighting
comes with a configurable interface that allows you
to change the brightness, lighting pattern and more
with a desktop application. Typically, these
applications only work on Windows, with little to
no support for Linux. Thankfully, due to the hard
work of some independent developers, there are now
Linux apps to control RGB lighting.
# ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_a_Proxy_on_Ubuntu_–_Linux_Stans⠀⇛
In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a
Proxy on Ubuntu, from the Settings app, and the
CLI.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_the_Portainer_container
manager_with_Podman_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
Portainer has been my favorite container management
platform for some time. It offers every feature I
need to make working with containers a breeze.
Portainer was originally built for Docker, and with
the rootless nature of Podman, Portainer had some
serious issues and wouldn’t deploy. However, Podman
can be run as either root or non-root, so it is
actually possible to deploy the Portainer GUI for
the Podman runtime.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Deepin_Terminal_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Let’s learn the commands to install the simple
Deepin terminal app on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jelly
Fish to replace the default Gnome terminal.
Deepin Terminal is an open source and created by
Deepin Technology, the developers behind the Linux
OS. The key thing which attracts the user to the
Deepin terminal emulator is its simple interface
with useful functions. It offers a tabby interface
where you can create more workspaces just like we
do in browsers. Further, we can create customized
keyboard shortcuts for running different commands.
For example, you don’t want to write a system
update command to run it manually, every time, then
set a keyboard shortcut for it. After that, every
time you just need to press that shortcut and the
terminal will automatically execute the update
command.
For those who don’t know Deepin is a Linux
distribution based on Debian. It uses its desktop
environment and focuses on an elegant design. The
reference to macOS is not to be overlooked – which
combines the best of both worlds for Linux users.
However many of us are intrigued with the
applications of Deepin but do not want to install
the OS completely on our system. If such is the
case and you like the Deepin Terminal then in this
article we discuss how to install it on Ubuntu
Linux systems.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Hyper_Terminal_app_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
Replace your default Gnome terminal by installing
the Hyper Terminal app on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy
JellyFish for more features and customization
options.
Hyper is an Electron-based Terminal emulator with a
number of customization options, and that is your
first priority, Hyper Terminal should be the best
choice for you. Built with HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript this terminal app is more suitable for
developers, and also has support for plugins to
increase the productivity of the program.
You can find a number of plugins in the Hyper
Repository, and I am sure you will definitely find
some of them useful for you. With support for ZSH,
you can actually change the complete look and feel
of the emulator and the support for various themes
in some way or another can increase your
productivity and workflow. Just give Hyper Terminal
a try to unleash the full potential of a Terminal
emulator.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_migrate_data_to_a_distributed
database_with_ShardingSphere_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Apache ShardingSphere’s new elastic migration
feature lets you move data from a single database
to a distributed database in an SQL-like manner.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Install_sysPass_Password_Manager_with_Free
Let’s_Encrypt_SSL_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
sysPass is a free, open-source, and PHP-based
password management tool used to save your
passwords in a safe location.
# ⚓ Create_Custom_ELK_Ingest_Pipeline_for_Custom_Log_Processing
–_kifarunix.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Connect_Pi_devices_and_a_smartphone_with
Bluetooth⠀⇛
We use a Raspberry Pi, a Pi Pico, and a smartphone
to communicate over Bluetooth.
Because the Raspberry Pi comes with both WiFi and
Bluetooth, most programs choose to rely on WiFi,
with Bluetooth being more of a wallflower. However,
the Pi Pico mixes things up and makes Bluetooth a
desirable option.
Bluetooth should be a familiar technology by way of
your smartphone, and this topic has been
investigated for the Raspberry Pi in a previous
article [1], so I will be sticking to the bare
minimum in terms of the basic technology in this
article. The focus here is on various scenarios in
which the Raspberry Pi, Pi Pico, and smartphones
use Bluetooth to communicate. The Pico stands in
for almost any microcontroller, as long as it
supports serial communication.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ DSOG ☛ Obliteration_is_a_brand_new_PS4_Emulator_for_PC_
(Windows/Linux)⠀⇛
And here comes a new challenger. Developer
“ultimaweapon” has released a brand new Playstation
4 emulator for the PC (for both Windows and Linux),
called Obliteration. Obliteration is currently in a
very early state, and cannot run any commercial
games. However, you can find a video demonstration
(as well as a download link) for it below.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Announcing_the_Godot_2022
showreels!⠀⇛
We bring you three brand-new videos showcasing what
the Godot Engine can do. As always we have separate
videos for games targeting desktop/console and
games targeting mobile devices. This year we are
proud to introduce a new category called “Apps &
Tools” to highlight non-game creations made with
Godot. This is a field that has been growing a lot,
so we wanted to shine a light on the great projects
released or under development.
Many of our core contributors and maintainers voted
to make the final list in each category, and this
year was particularly hard. There were way too many
good projects, and we couldn’t include them all to
keep the videos at a reasonable length and pace –
but don’t be discouraged if your entry didn’t make
it, we’ll have more opportunities to showcase great
projects, including next year’s showreels.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ SuperTuxKart_version_1.3_SFS_created⠀⇛
Forum member don570 introduced me to SuperTuxKart.
I never played it before. STK is a 3D arcade racing
game, runs very well on my Lenovo Ideacentre PC
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Beacon_Pines_–_Cute_visual_novel_with
inventive_storytelling_devices._–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
Beacon Pines is a cute, suspenseful, visual novel
with interesting storytelling devices, developed by
Hiding Spot and published by Fellow Traveler. It
runs great on Linux with Proton.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Fun_Free_and_Open_Source_Turn-Based
Strategy_Games_–_Part_2_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛
If you adore hectic racing games, death-defying
first person shooters, entertaining arcade
classics, or nervy tower defense games, this
article might not up your street. Here we’re
covering turn-based strategy games that require
intelligence, and the ability to come up with an
innovative plan that will leave the competition
mesmerized. As the title indicates, we are covering
a genre where players take turns when playing,
strategically seeking to outsmart the enemy.
Many of the biggest computer games concentrate on
explosion-filled genres. But there is a place for
high quality turn-based strategy games. It’s a
neglected genre in the mainstream, yet contains
many marvelous titles. The genre might conjure
thoughts of board games with dice and
individualized pieces. But, now, they can use the
latest technology to make more realistic and
immersive experiences.
There are a vast range of open source games in this
field. Turn-based strategy games lend themselves
remarkably to open source development. This genre
doesn’t need armies of artwork or computer
modelling. Games of this type also have fairly
modest system requirements, and gives gamers time
to get to grips with the controls even if it can
take many hours to learn all of the intricacies.
You can sit back, strategize, and take a breath,
considering all options before making a move. So if
you’re looking for a change of pace, check out the
following games.
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ ODROID-Go_Ultra_handheld_game_console_is_now
available_for_$111_(Amlogic_S922X_chip_and_Ubuntu_Linux_OS)_–
Liliputing⠀⇛
Hardkernel’s ODROID-Go Ultra is a handheld game
console with a 5 inch display, an Amlogic S922X
processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC storage plus
a microSD card reader for additional storage.
First announced in August, the handheld game
console ships with an Ubuntu-based operating system
and software designed for emulation. It’s now
available for purchase for $111 and comes in a
choice of “dim gray” or transparent “clear white”
color options.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan Riddell ☛ Akademy_2022_the_BoFs_–_Jonathan
Esk-Riddell’s_Diary⠀⇛
After two days of talks we have moved to a
week of BoF sessions. (I’m not a fan of the
term BoF but I’ve never managed to think of
anything better.) Here’s some notes I made
incase anyone is interested.
The big news is the Frameworks 6 session had
some Plasma people there too and voila we
have a plan for 6. Most Frameworks and even
most Plasma is already working with Qt 6. So
the last Frameworks 5 release is due in
December and then work will happen to
finalise the porting to Frameworks 6 and once
that’s solid releases will start again using
Qt 6. And for Plasma we’ll make a final
Plasma 5 release at the start of next year
versioned 5.27. That will be LTS so we’ll
stop the 5.24 LTS releases and make further
5.27 releases as long as they are useful. The
finalising of the porting to Qt 6 will start
in January and we’ll schedule a release
whenever that becomes practicle which should
be not too far into 2023.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Extension_Manager_0.4_Intros
Compatibility_Checker,_Adaptive_UI_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
A sizeable update to the (really rather
indispensable, imho) Extension Manager app is
rolling out on Flathub.
Not heard of this nifty desktop tool before?
It lets you install, configure, and manage
GNOME extensions without needing to involve a
web browser or any “connector” packages. Just
install the Extension Manager and that’s it,
you’re good to go.
The new Extension Manager 0.4 update intros a
“full adaptive mobile-friendly user
interface”, which is ideal if you regularly
resize the app during use, as well as
overhauled error and crash reporting; and
support for the new gnome-extensions:// URL
scheme.
You’ll notice that the toggle switch to
disable all extensions has been moved out of
the header bar. It now sits at the top of the
“installed” view.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ EndeavourOS_Is_an_Awesome_Distro_But_Not_for_Everyone⠀⇛
Days ago, I installed EndeavourOS on my Linux machine,
and I was impressed by the speed, the smooth installation
process, and the overall performance. But it comes with a
cost, and that’s because it is not for everyone.
But foremost, let’s see how amazing it is before we dive
into its problems.
EndeavourOS is an Arch Linux-based distro, that offers a
great user experience, as its successor (Antergos Linux),
as it provide an easy to install system, pre-configured
environments, and several official and community-based
variations with different desktop environments.
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ risiOS:_A_Fedora-Based_Linux_Distro_That_Holds_Your
Hand⠀⇛
risiOS aims at making Fedora easy to use for everyone.
Here’s everything you need to know about it.
Fedora Workstation has become an easy-to-use, well-
supported version of Linux. If you just want an operating
system for your computer that shows you some of the best
of what free and open-source software has to offer,
Fedora Linux is an easy recommendation.
But there are some areas where new users may encounter
some friction. Why do some video files fail to load?
Where are all the apps? risiOS is a Fedora-based
alternative distribution that takes care of most of these
issues for you. For some, that makes risiOS an even
easier recommendation.
o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Hatch_Cork_2022_–_Fedora_Community
Blog⠀⇛
Fedora Hatch Cork was a small, local one day mini-
conference. Fedora Project contributors were
welcome to attend, learn about the project and
connect with other contributors. There were several
Fedora-related sessions, followed by a social
activity in the evening. The event was held in the
Red Hat office in Cork which was recently
renovated.
The day opened with an icebreaker event called
“Faces”. Attendees paired up with somebody nearby
and swapped sheets of paper to draw a feature of
the person they swapped with, starting with the
eyes. It was a great exercise to meet new people at
the event. It also allowed me to absolutely butcher
some peoples’ great drawings!
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ A_developer’s_guide_to_Kubernetes_storage
concepts_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
This second article continues a series discussing
Kubernetes storage concepts. I will define the
concepts of volumes, persistent volume claims, and
storage classes, and why they should matter to a
developer. I will also explain how persistent
volumes and storage provisioners enable system
administrators to manage storage for a Kubernetes
cluster while offering developers self-service to
storage. You will also discover the special
abilities of stateful sets.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Why_CSI_drivers_are_essential_in_Kubernetes
storage_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
This article is the third and final part of the
series about Kubernetes storage concepts. I will
explain how Container Storage Interface (CSI)
drivers enable advanced storage features necessary
for production environments and CI/CD pipelines.
This article also underscores the need for storage
products designed for Kubernetes versus storage
designed for traditional physical and virtual data
centers or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
clouds.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 8_ways_to_get_out_of_a_career_rut⠀⇛
The pandemic was difficult to navigate for most of
us, but if we can try to identify something
positive that transpired as a result, it allowed
(or forced) time for reflection and re-evaluation.
Consider the millennial who felt stuck at a small
company with no room for growth. Or the older
generation of workers who thought they should
retire early because the future was so uncertain
and accepting a complete shift to digital felt
daunting. For Gen Z, the prospect of never meeting
managers or colleagues – because of virtual
interviews and remote jobs – was foreign and left
some without a sense of belonging.
Not only were we physically absent from workspaces,
but many of us also struggled mentally with the
sudden, enormous changes to our daily routines and
goals. It became a time of contemplation, where
many professionals began reassessing their careers
(and lives). And the realization for many? They
felt stuck.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_Kubernetes_improves_developer_agility_|_Red
Hat_Developer⠀⇛
This article is the first in a series that explains
Kubernetes storage on a high level. In the series,
I provide information for a programmer or software
architect to decide which types of storage meet the
requirements for their applications running on
Kubernetes. This series provides links to help you
go deeper into your chosen technologies but does
not dig into YAML syntax or Kubernetes APIs.
Whether a novice or experienced with Kubernetes,
this overview can guide you toward a storage
architecture that is right for your application.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_make_your_APIs_more_discoverable_|_Red_Hat
Developer⠀⇛
API discoverability is a key aspect of any API
management initiative. The discoverability of an
API directly impacts its adoption and usage. A
typical big enterprise with multiple development
teams might build hundreds of APIs that they would
want to reuse internally or share with partners
that build complementary applications. If the teams
cannot discover existing APIs, they might build a
new API with the same functionality, which leads to
duplication of efforts and underutilization of the
existing API. It is also an unscalable practice to
contact the API developer each time someone wants
to use the API.
There needs to be a better and more hands-off way
for internal teams and partners to discover and
understand the usage of these APIs without directly
contacting the developers who built them. API
discoverability does not just mean making it easy
to find an API by providing an inventory (though
this is the first and most important step you
should take). It should also address some key
aspects that are important for an API consumer,
such as understanding the API through
documentation, request and response format, sign-up
options, and the business terms and conditions (in
case of a partner) of using the API.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Distro_Walk_–_Rocky_Linux_–_Linux
Magazine⠀⇛
Rocky Linux steps into the breach left by CentOS
with a community-based alternative to RHEL.
Red Hat Linux bought CentOS in 2014, but largely
ignored it for years. Essentially, CentOS was the
community version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL), both deriving from Fedora. Then, in
December 2020, Red Hat announced that CentOS would
be discontinued, and it would be replaced by CentOS
Stream. Within days, Rocky Linux (Figure 1), named
for CentOS cofounder Rocky McGaugh, was announced
[1]. Four months later, Rocky Linux released its
first version. Like CentOS, it offers a community-
based alternative to Red Hat.
# ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ IBM_emeritus_Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_Human
Capital:_The_Value_of_Work_Experience_and_Continuous
Learning⠀⇛
Overall, lifetime earnings are significantly higher
in advanced economies and in occupations with high
education requirements. On average, individuals in
both these cases start their working life with
relatively high entry-level skills compared to
individuals in less developed economies and in
occupations with lower education requirements. As a
result, work experience plays a bigger role in the
lifetime earnings of individuals in less developed
economies and in occupations with lower education
requirements.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Succeeding_with_new_technology:_four
barriers_to_overcome⠀⇛
Building a technology adoption strategy is key to
achieving business goals and maximizing value from
technology. While building such a strategy, some
barriers need to be addressed to drive more
effective technology adoption. In this post, we
discuss these barriers and how we might overcome
them.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Managing_SAP_workloads_with_automation
on_Microsoft_Azure [Ed: IBM Red Hat is shilling Microsoft and
SAP at the same time. The company lacks principles and
promotes enemies of GNU/Linux.]⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Ubuntu_Pro_Now_Gives_You_10_Years_of_Security
Updates_for_Free⠀⇛
Canonical has introduced a free tier to Ubuntu Pro
which is aimed at personal use and small-scale
deployments.
Ubuntu Pro subscription (formerly known as Ubuntu
Advantage) was originally offered to enterprises
for providing them with extended security
maintenance updates to Ubuntu LTS releases for an
extra 5 years of updates.
The free tier has been made available in public
beta.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Ubuntu_Pro_becomes_free_for_individuals_and
small_companies_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Canonical has launched free Ubuntu Pro
subscriptions for individuals and small companies
for up to five machines, enabling anybody to get
longer-term support and features that were only
reserved to paying enterprise customers so far.
Canonical provides Ubuntu for free with LTS
versions released every two years and supported for
5 years. The latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was released
in April 2022, meaning it will be supported until
April 2027. But if you’d like to get 10-year
support and extra security features you can now do
it for free through an Ubuntu Pro subscription for
up to 5 machines.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Canonical_makes_Ubuntu_Pro_free_for_up_to
five_machines⠀⇛
Canonical has opened up its previously paid-for
Ubuntu Pro update service. Now it’s free of charge
for up to five physical boxes.
The announcement only applies to Long Term Support
releases. All you need is a free Ubuntu One account
to sign in and obtain a token.
If you connect your machines to Ubuntu Pro, they
get Extended Security Maintenance coverage, meaning
that the normal five years of software updates is
extended to 10 years. The free offer also includes
the company’s Livepatch service, which can install
critical kernel updates without rebooting the
machine. This is potentially very useful for busy
servers, for which scheduling a maintenance window
and downtime can be tricky, but it’s less important
for desktop machines.
For servers, as long as the physical host system is
running Ubuntu, all Ubuntu virtual machines on that
server are also covered. Machines can be attached
to Ubuntu Pro from the command line with pro attach
or in the GUI via Ubuntu’s Software & Updates app,
under the Livepatch tab.
# ⚓ Canonical_launches_free_personal_Ubuntu_Pro_subscriptions
for_up_to_five_machines⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_Android_games_on_PC_in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ 8_great_Android_games_you_can_play_on_PC
in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_12_has_arrived_for_the_unlocked_Galaxy
A21_in_the_USA_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# Notebook Check ☛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_Tablet_preview:_Tensor_G2,_Smart_Display
dock,_and_more⠀⇛
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Watch_5_review:_Value
champion_in_the_Android_smartwatch_space_|_Business_Insider
India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Find_a_Lost_Android_Phone⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Chrome_running_in_container_as_user
spot⠀⇛
I have now rebuilt the Chrome SFS, to also
run as spot in a container. This is file
‘chrome_105.0.5195.102-1_amd64.sfs’, where
the “-1″ is the revision number. You can
download via the “sfs” icon.
Upgrading of SFS files is not really properly
implemented. If you already have Chrome SFS
installed, and running in a container, go to
the menu “Filesystem -> Easy Containers” and
there is a choice to delete the Chrome
container. Then, click on “sfs” to install
the new one.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_15_RC_2_Released!⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces
that the second release candidate of PostgreSQL 15
is now available for download. As a release
candidate, PostgreSQL 15 RC 2 will be mostly
identical to the initial release of PostgreSQL 15,
though some more fixes may be applied prior to the
general availability of PostgreSQL 15.
The planned date for the general availability of
PostgreSQL 15 is still October 13, 2022, but may be
pushed to October 20, 2022 based on what issues are
reported. Please see the “Release Schedule” section
for more details.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_project_and_community
recap:_September_2022⠀⇛
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Build_a_personal_link_portfolio_using_this_Open-
source_app:_LittleLink⠀⇛
Linktree is a free hosted service that offers a
rich landing page with member social personal,
business, and portfolio links. Yet, it is not open-
source, so here we present to you its open-source
counterpart that you can self-host and use on your
server.
LittleLink is a lightweight open-source landing
page that you can deploy in moments using Docker on
any of your servers.
LittleLink is a highly customizable app written
primarily in JavaScript/ Node.js, React, and
Express. It does not require any any database
setup, and it can also be installed also using
Kubernetes.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Supporting_CHERI_capabilities_in_GCC_and_glibc_
[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The CHERI architecture is the product of a research
program to extend common CPU architectures in a way
that prevents many types of memory-related bugs
(and vulnerabilities). At the 2022 GNU Tools
Cauldron, Alex Coplan and Szabolcs Nagy described
the work that has been done to bring GCC and the
GNU C Library (glibc) to this architecture. CHERI
is a fundamentally different approach to how memory
is accessed, and supporting it properly is anything
but a trivial task.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_MCUs_2.2.2_Released⠀⇛
Qt for MCUs 2.2.2 has been released and is
available for download. As a patch release, Qt for
MCUs 2.2.2 provides bug fixes and other
improvements, and maintains source compatibility
with Qt for MCUs 2.2.x. It does not add any new
functionality.
# ⚓ Random_words_at_the_end_of_GSoC⠀⇛
This week is the last week of my GSoC period. Other
participants may have ended earlier, but I got an
extension of the deadline to one month later.
Here’s some random words for my summer.
My whole GSoC period was very hurried and busy.
Most of my contributions were not done during the
summer, because I got a one-month training for ICPC
during my summer holiday. Before the training
started, I was thinking that I might be able to do
both training and GSoC at the same time, but I was
completely wrong. The eight-hour training left me
with almost no spare time. Trying to do some
contribution in the tiny gaps in my schedule, I was
very stressed that month, and in the end, I did not
make too much progress also. If there’s not an
extension of the deadline, I would be facing a huge
pile of unfinished work at the end of August, when
training ends. So this is a lesson for me, and also
a piece of advice for any GSoC contributors who
come after me, that a GSoC project needs some time
to finish, and having a well-planned schedule in
advance is important.
# ⚓ Jonathan_Dowland:_git_worktrees⠀⇛
I work on OpenJDK backports: taking a patch that
was committed to a current version of JDK, and
adapting it to an older one. There are four main
OpenJDK versions that I am concerned with: the
current version (“jdk”), 8, 11 and 17. These are
all maintained in separate Git(Hub) repositories.
It’s very useful to have access to the other JDKs
when working on any particular version. For
example, to backport a patch from the latest
version to 17, where the delta is not too big, a
lot of the time you can cherry-pick the patch
unmodified. To do git cherry-pick <some-commit> in
a git repository tracking JDK17, where <some-
commit> is in “jdk”, I need the “jdk” repository
configured as a remote for my local jdk17
repository.
Maintaining completely separate local git
repositories for all four JDK versions, with each
of them having a subset of the others added as
remotes, adds up to a lot of duplicated data on
local storage.
For a little while I was exploring using shared
clones: a local clone of another local git
repository which share some local metadata. This
saves on some disc space, but it does not share the
configuration for remotes: so I still have to add
any other JDK versions I want as remotes in each
shared clone (even if the underlying objects
already exist in the shared metadata)
Then I discovered git worktree. The git
repositories that I’ve used up until now have had
exactly zero (for a bare clone) or one worktree: in
other words, the check-out, the actual source code
files.
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Nibble_Stew:_Using_cppfront_with_Meson⠀⇛
Recently Herb Sutter published cppfront, which is
an attempt to create C++ a new syntax to fix many
issues that can’t be changed in existing C++
because of backwards compatibility. Like with the
original cfront compiler, cppfront works by parsing
the “new syntax” C++ and transpiling it to
“classic” C++, which is then compiled in the usual
way. These kinds of source generators are fairly
common (it is basically how Protobuf et al work) so
let’s look at how to add support for this in Meson.
We are also going to download and build the
cppfront compiler transparently.
[...]
The compiler itself is in a single source file so
building it is simple. The only thing to note is
that we override settings so it is always built
with optimizations enabled. This is acceptable for
this particular case because the end result is not
used for development, only consumption. The more
important bits for integration purposes are the
last two lines where we define that from now on
whenever someone does a find_program(‘cppfront’)
Meson does not do a system lookup for the binary
but instead returns the just-built executable
object instead. Code generated by cppfront requires
a small amount of helper functionality, which is
provided as a header-only library. The last line
defines a dependency object that carries this
information (basically just the include directory).
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ Governance_Update⠀⇛
As part of ongoing work on governance, Rust
leadership jointly established a group,
“leadership chat”, consisting of the Core
team, leads of all teams on the governance
page, the Moderation team, and the project
directors on the Rust Foundation board. This
group has been serving as an interim
governing body while efforts to establish the
next evolution of Rust project-wide
governance are underway.
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ One_of_the_world’s_most_popular
programming_languages_is_coming_to_Linux_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
The next version of the Linux kernel will
include support for popular programming
language Rust, it has been confirmed.
As reported by The Register (opens in new
tab), Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux,
has now accepted a pull request that will
bring Rust support to the kernel with version
6.1.
The idea is not to rebuild the entire kernel
in Rust, but rather to complement the
existing C codebase with new components
written in the secondary language, helping to
reduce the likelihood of memory bugs that
lead to security vulnerabilities.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Matter_1.0_Is_Official:_Smart_Home
Devices_Will_Be_Unifed_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
After months of waiting, Matter 1.0 is official and
ready to make your connected life much easier. It’s
a new industry standard designed to leave you with
better connectivity with your smart home and other
IoT devices. With Apple, Google, Amazon, and more
bringing their smart home technologies together,
smaller companies are also signing on to Matter. It
promises to be very exciting for everyone using
connected devices.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Wireshark_4.0_Released_as_World’s_Most_Popular
Network_Protocol_Analyzer_–_9to5Linux⠀⇛
Wireshark, the world’s most popular and widely-used
open-source and cross-platform network protocol
analyzer, has been updated to version 4.0, a major
release that adds support for new protocols and
other changes.
Major highlights of the Wireshark 4.0 release
include a more powerful display filter syntax with
support for many new extensions, redesigned
Conversation and Endpoint dialogs, updated main
window layout with side by side Packet Detail and
Packet Bytes sections underneath the Packet List
pane, improved Hex dump imports, as well as faster
and greatly improved MaxMind geolocation.
This release also introduces a new address type
AT_NUMERIC that allows simple numeric addresses for
protocols that don’t have a more common-style
address approach, support for fake headers in the
HTTP2 dissector to parse the DATAs of streams that
are captured without first HEADERS frames of a
long-lived stream, and support for Mesh Connex
(MCX) in the IEEE 802.11 dissector.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9
and nodejs), Red Hat (prometheus-jmx-exporter and
squid), Slackware (dhcp), SUSE (pngcheck and
sendmail), and Ubuntu (isc-dhcp, kitty, and linux-
gcp-5.4).
# ⚓ Security_Issues_With_Open_Source_In_Today’s_World [Ed:
Seemingly a spammy site promoting FUD and stigma]⠀⇛
Open source may be the most viable option for most
companies today but it comes with its own set of
problems too.
# ⚓ 3_critical_malicious_code_execution_vulnerabilities_in
Linux_kernel⠀⇛
The roccat_report_event function in drivers/hid/
hid-roccat.c has a use-after-free vulnerability
identified as CVE-2022-41850 (CVSS score: 8.4). A
local attacker might exploit this flaw to run
malicious script on the system by submitting a
report while copying a report->value . Patch has be
released to addresses the Linux Kernel 5.19.12
vulnerability CVE-2022-41850.
# ⚓ Cybersecurity_Best_Practices_for_Your_Enterprise_in_2022⠀⇛
Day by day, cybercriminals devise new ways to gain
unauthorized access to and manipulate data
belonging to others. To maintain their shady
practices, they’ve perfected methods to operate
unseen, taking advantage of weaknesses in web
infrastructure. Everybody with an online presence
can be a target, either for monetary or other
similar gains.
Cybercrime can take many forms, targeting
individuals and businesses across industry and
geographical lines. And according to Statista, the
cost of data breaches in the global healthcare
sector alone between March 2021 and March 2022
amounted to over $10 million. There are similar
figures in other industries, including technology,
energy, research, finances, education, etc.
While many businesses have always maintained a
significant online presence, many others have only
recently transitioned to the web space in the wake
of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this helps
industries to move the business forward in a
changing world, it also increases the number of
potential targets for cybercriminals.
# ⚓ CISA ☛ Cisco_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Multiple
Products_|_CISA⠀⇛
A remote attacker could exploit some of these
vulnerabilities to take control of an affected
system.
# ⚓ Veracode_Adds_Container_Support_to_Security_Tool_for
Developers [Ed: Very shallow marketing spam]⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Releases_Two_Industrial_Control_Systems
Advisories_|_CISA⠀⇛
CISA released two (2) Industrial Control Systems
(ICS) advisories on October 06, 2022. These
advisories provide timely information about current
security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits
surrounding ICS.
# ⚓ Container_Images:_The_Next_Software_Supply_Chain_Concern?
[Ed: "Supply chain" has become a modern FUD term; they
intentionally ignore the risk that is back doors (e.g. NSA)
and China manufacturing a lot of boards at a whim]⠀⇛
# ⚓ A_Practical_Guide_to_the_SLSA_Framework [Ed: FOSSA
perpetuating anti-FOSS talking points]⠀⇛
SLSA — which stands for Supply Chain Levels for
Software Artifacts — is a framework designed to
help organizations improve the integrity of their
software supply chains. Along with automated
testing tools, secure coding practices, and strong
third-party software vetting, SLSA can be an
important part of a comprehensive software supply
chain security strategy.
# ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Understanding_the_SLSA_Framework⠀⇛
This FOSSA article breaks down the various levels
of the SLSA framework and provides examples to help
organizations meet related requirements.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Finding_bugs_with_sanitizers_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Andrey Konovalov began his 2022 Linux Security
Summit Europe (LSS EU) talk with a bold statement:
“fuzzing is useless”. As might be guessed, he
qualified that assertion quickly by adding “without
dynamic bug detectors”. These bug detectors include
“sanitizers” of various sorts, such as the Kernel
Address Sanitizer (KASAN), but there are others.
Konovalov looked in detail at KASAN and gave an
overview of the sanitizer landscape along with some
ideas of ways to push these bug detectors
further—to find even more kernel bugs.
Fuzzers are great for exercising new paths in the
code, but without having some kind of bug detector,
they typically end up causing some kind of hard-to-
debug kernel crash, he said. The sanitizers and
other bug detectors turn those bugs into something
that can be tracked down—and fixed. These
sanitizers make up a family of bug-detection tools.
They were originally created for user-space
applications, but were ported to the kernel and had
a “K” prepended to their acronym. The
AddressSanitizer (ASan) was not the first, but it
became somewhat famous early on; others include the
MemorySanitizer (MSan) and
UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan).
There are a number of advantages that the
sanitizers have, which have led to their
popularity. They are easy to use; for user space it
is just an extra compiler flag and for the kernel a
build configuration option needs to be enabled.
Compared to other tools that provide the same
features, the sanitizers are fast as well. They are
also precise since all of the bugs they report are
true bugs and not false positives; occasionally a
false positive does arise, but it is caused by a
sanitizer bug that promptly gets fixed, he said. In
addition, the sanitizers provide detailed reports
on what caused a bug, which makes it much easier to
track them down and fix them.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Progress_for_unprivileged_containers_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Over the past few years, there has been quite a bit
of progress in various kernel features that can be
used to create containers without requiring
privileges. Most of the containers these days run
as root, which means that a vulnerability leading
to an escape from the container can result in
system compromise. Stéphane Graber gave a talk at
the 2022 Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS EU) to
fill in some of the details of work that he and
others have been doing to run containers as
unprivileged code.
The talk was slated to have two speakers, as
Christian Brauner had planned to co-present;
unfortunately, Brauner got caught up in the travel
woes that plagued Dublin around the time of the
conference and was at the airport waiting for his
plane home at the time of the talk. The
presentation was something of a follow-up to their
talk on system-call interception for unprivileged
containers at LSS North America back in June.
Graber is the project lead for the LXC and LXD
container projects, which we recently looked at;
Brauner is a kernel developer and one of the LXC/
LXD maintainers.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Access_Now_applauds_U.S._Blueprint_for_AI_Bill
of_Rights,_but_more_safeguards_needed_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Access Now welcomes the U.S. White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) Blueprint
for an AI Bill of Rights and accompanying Fact
Sheet announcing agency actions to help guide the
design, development, and deployment of artificial
intelligence (AI) and other automated systems so
they protect the rights of the public.
“The AI Bill of Rights could have a monumental
impact on fundamental civil liberties for Black and
Latinx people across the nation, but conspicuously
omits safeguards against other discriminatory
impacts of AI systems that can exclude and vilify
particular groups of people across the country,”
said Willmary Escoto, U.S. Data Protection Lead at
Access Now, who was present at the Blueprint
launch. “The framework highlights the importance of
data minimization, which Access Now steadily
advocates for, while naming and addressing the
diverse harms people experience from other AI-
enabled technologies, like so-called emotion
recognition.”
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Stop_the_persecution:_Iranian_authorities_must
immediately_release_technologists_and_digital_rights
defenders⠀⇛
We, the undersigned human rights organizations,
strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ ruthless
persecution, harassment, and arrest of
technologists and digital rights advocates, and
demand their immediate and unconditional release.
In an attempt to crush the popular uprising and
further restrict internet activity and information
flows, Iranian authorities are escalating their
violent crackdown on people across Iran, and are
now targeting internet experts and technologists.
To date, Iranian authorities have arrested at least
six tech engineers who have been vocal on digital
rights in Iran. Those detained have criticized
internet restrictions, shown support to protests,
or have been explaining the authorities’ technical
repression. We are concerned over the growing
pressure on this community, including technology
journalists and bloggers, and the suppression of
their criticisms against authorities. Any attempts
to investigate or bring transparency to issues of
digital repression or protests are being brutally
stamped out. The world cannot allow the Islamic
Republic of Iran to normalize this kind of
persecution. The government must release these
detainees at once.
Well-known technologists and internet access
experts Hossein Darvari, Aryan Eqbal, Milad Nouri,
Adel Talebi, Maysam Rajabi and Mohsen Tahmasebi
have been amongst those targeted for arrest by the
authorities since the beginning of the protests
following the death in police custody of 22 year-
old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa (Jhina) Amini.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Diagram_Dungeons⠀⇛
A “diagram dungeon” is a 2d grid of square cells,
with gaps between them. You can write and draw in
them and between them, and you can also easily
refer to them by their coordinates.
The rooms do not have to be to scale, and the
corridors that connect them (that you can draw in
between the squares) certainly don’t have to.
# ⚓ Your_seven_sources_of_dungeon_maps⠀⇛
It’s pretty easy to draw real, proper, to-scale
maps that are good-enough-for-behind-the-screen.
You don’t really need any other source. Sometimes
when I’ve been wanting ideas, I’ve tossed out items
randomly (keys, blocks, dice, bottle caps), either
physically or digitally (with the “pull shapes”
mode of the old “Alchemy” java drawing app), and
based the layout on that.
# ⚓ How_to_stock_dungeons⠀⇛
That is a restriction. But it’s also a tool.
Following that principle, you can put anything in a
dungeon and it’s fine as long as you committed to
it before play started, and you’re sticking to it.
You have “the prepper mindset” while making the
location (challening but winnable) but “the runner
mindset” when running it (brutal and unflinching).
Since this is “paper before rock”, no further
balance is necessary, the rest of this article is
optional. It’s not law, it’s just good practice.
After all, you’re in the “prepper mindset” now and
you might want some guidelines. Again: all of this
is when making the dungeon. Do not change it in
play: if they are steamrolling, let them steamroll.
If they are dying, let them.
# ⚓ Return_(Not_the_one_from_Alan_Wake)⠀⇛
Things have been crazy lately, I’ve been stressed
out a lot, but I think I’m in a much better place
now, way better than I’ve been in a long time.
# ⚓ SpellBinding:_ABCFKTO_Wordo:_PRIME⠀⇛
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ What_a_mess⠀⇛
I recall reading someone's musing back in 2020,
probably on Hacker
News, in one of the COVID-19 pandemic discussion
threads, something
along the lines of "imagine that 2020 is actually
the best year of the
following decade". Sounded like an odd thought, and
I probably
wouldn't recall it later if it didn't seem to play
out that way a
couple of years later.
I think they had in mind a worsening pandemic, then
economic issues
following it, the stock market bubble bursting, and
so on. Those did
happen, but additionally, and in Russia in
particular, there's just a
continuous stream of worsening news. Well, perhaps
it started in 2012,
or in 2000, or some find its causes in the early
1990s (the failure or
unwillingness to set proper democratic
institutions), or the Soviet
times (leading to the early 1990s). I guess one can
also blame the
monarchy before that, for leading to that. Or just
stupidity in
general, and not any point(s) in history. But it
did intensify this
year.
[...]
I suppose living through--and observing--this helps
to better
understand some historical periods, dystopian
novels, and places which
fell into similar regimes earlier. Actually some of
the parallels (in
speeches, actions, explanations) are surprisingly
close, as if
borrowed directly. That makes it easier to see how
the same situations
can be perceived quite differently (though it was
fairly clear before
too): life around here before the war looks fine
from this point of
time. Hopefully in the future 2022 won't look like
a comparatively
good year.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ A_NixOS_kiosk⠀⇛
A kiosk, in the sysadmin jargon, is a computer that
is restricted to a single program so anyone can use
it for the sole provided purpose. You may have seen
kiosk computers here and there, often wrapped in
some kind of box with just a touch screen
available. ATM are kiosks, most screens showing
some information are also kiosks.
# ⚓ Konsole_Kommands⠀⇛
I elected to go with Ubuntu, as it was the most
“mainstream” Linux distro, and the easiest for a
newbie like me to learn. But I didn’t go with
regular Ubuntu, I went with Kubuntu, as I don’t
like GNOME much, and KDE is much better for a post-
Windows user to get accustomed to, it feels a lot
nicer.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Kids_and_the_Internet⠀⇛
While being on a train a few days ago, I saw
a mother and her daughter, around 5-6 years
old. Obviously, the daughter was holding a
phone. Only a few minutes later to hear from
it very loudly “clicks”, and I kid you not
she was playing a “kids game” with slots to
win whatever you’d win in a kids game. Worse,
her mother did not do anything about it. This
isn’t an isolated case, at least where I
live.
It’s horrible to think that even before
reaching the age where you can freely choose
and have a conscience we’re subject to such
addictions from birth. With the rise of
smartphones and kids entertainment products,
we’ve unleashed a whole another beast. For
example, a popular kids entertainment
producer was accused of making their musical
videos very high-paced, it even had more
changing angles than action movies! This is
mesmerizing for kids, moms reported that
their kids behaved like addicts or just
became erratic and had ADHD-like symptoms.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o BSD
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Java
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
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# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ TUXEDO_Computers_Releases_Live_ISO_of_Its
Ubuntu-Based_TUXEDO_OS_Linux_Distro⠀⇛
Previously only available pre-installed on the
company’s Linux-powered notebooks, TUXEDO OS is now
also available for download as an ISO image, just
like 99.9% percent of the GNU/Linux distributions
on the market.
It took TUXEDO Computers about half a year of work
to develop, test, design, and create documentation
for the release of the first ISO image of TUXEDO
OS, which is a derivative of the Ubuntu operating
system featuring the modern and fancy KDE Plasma
desktop environment.
# ⚓ [Old] Make Use Of ☛ The_Best_USB-C_Chargers_That_Are_Safe
to_Use⠀⇛
When looking for the best USB-C chargers, there’s
one important question: Will the charger work
without wrecking your gear?
No one should play Russian roulette with their
expensive electronics. And with the amount of
fragmentation in the USB-C market, even the best
chargers may not work properly with all your
devices.
# ⚓ [Old] Extreme Tech ☛ How_USB_Charging_Works,_or_How_to
Avoid_Blowing_Up_Your_Phone⠀⇛
USB-C is a special case. While you won’t blow up
your device from plugging in the wrong charger, you
can blow up your phone, Nintendo Switch, or other
device by using the wrong USB-C cable. How do you
know what the right USB-C cable is? Sometimes — and
this is the ugly truth — you can’t. In the past,
there’ve been spreadsheets dedicated to recording
good versus bad cables, but the projects seem to
have fallen by the wayside and are now outdated. If
you are buying a replacement USB-C cable for your
manufacturer-provided cable, we recommend buying
from the OEM or an authorized, third-party
manufacturer. We covered the initial issues with
USB-C in more detail in this article.
# ⚓ [Old] USB-C_stands_for_Chaos⠀⇛
But it’s more complicated than that. USB 3.1 Gen 1
has a slightly different transfer protocol than USB
3.0, so it can be slightly faster if both devices
support that. But USB 3.1 Gen 2 and USB 3.2 Gen 2
are exactly the same. So these are the different
levels: [...]
# ⚓ Video ☛ EU_Votes_For_USB-C_Chargers,_Apple_Must_Comply_–
Invidious⠀⇛
The EU is now requiring chargers for consumer
electronics to be USB C, this means Apple will have
to drop their proprietary lightning connector, at
least in the EU market.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ The_EU_will_require_all_cellphones_to_have_the_same
type_of_charging_port⠀⇛
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly
Tuesday to require cellphones and handheld
electronic devices sold in the EU to have a USB-
C charging port — a move likely to affect Apple,
which uses Lightning chargers for its iPhones.
# ⚓ PC World ☛ Europe_sets_deadline_for_USB-C_charging_for_
(almost)_all_laptops⠀⇛
On the other hand, power-hungry laptops that need
more than 100 watts still use proprietary
connections for their massive adapters. The USB
Implementers Forum is working on expanding that
limit and some of these laptops can still charge
slowly over USB-C. These are the only laptops that
Europe will allow to be sold with proprietary
chargers after the spring of 2026. While nothing
forces manufacturers to follow this new law
worldwide, streamlined manufacturing and economy of
scale will effectively force the rest of the world
to follow in practice if not in legislation.
# ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ Matthew_Garrett:_Cloud_desktops_aren’t_as
good_as_you’d_think [Ed: Clown = someone else's computer.
Clown desktop = someone else's desktop.]⠀⇛
Fast laptops are expensive, cheap laptops are slow.
But even a fast laptop is slower than a decent
workstation, and if your developers want a local
build environment they’re probably going to want a
decent workstation. They’ll want a fast (and
expensive) laptop as well, though, because they’re
not going to carry their workstation home with them
and obviously you expect them to be able to work
from home. And in two or three years they’ll
probably want a new laptop and a new workstation,
and that’s even more money. Not to mention the
risks associated with them doing development work
on their laptop and then drunkenly leaving it in a
bar or having it stolen or the contents being
copied off it while they’re passing through
immigration at an airport. Surely there’s a better
way?
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ BigLinux_2022.08.29_Quick_overview_#linux_#biglinux
–_Invidious⠀⇛
A Quick Overview of BigLinux 2022.08.29
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 54:_Enterprise_Linux_Desktop_–_Podcasts_–
TuxDigital⠀⇛
Bill, Neal and Brandon get together to talk about
“can you just drop linux in place of windows” on
the business/enterprise desktop
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_475:_Prompt_Injection
Attacks⠀⇛
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History
of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at
FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite
Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback on FreeBSD,
and more.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Web Pro News ☛ Linux_5.19.12_Kernel_May_Cause_Damage_to
Some_Displays⠀⇛
Linux users are being advised to skip kernel
5.19.12 due to a major bug impacting Intel
machines.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Basic_SSH_Command_Usage_and_Configuration_in
Linux⠀⇛
Brief: In this guide, we will discuss the common
use cases of SSH. We will also discuss commonly
used SSH configurations that can be used in day-to-
day life to boost your productivity.
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely adopted network
protocol, which allows us to interact with remote
hosts in a secure way. It provides security by
encrypting all communication between them.
# ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_install_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_7.2_on
Fedora_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛
The GNU AGPL v3.0 license governs ONLYOFFICE Docs,
an open-source office suite. It includes a form
builder, PDF viewer, collaborative text,
spreadsheet, and presentation editors. A
fundamental format is OOXML.
ONLYOFFICE Docs can be integrated with many cloud
services, such as content management systems (CMS)
(WordPress, Strapi, Drupal), collaboration tools
(ONLYOFFICE Workspace, Nextcloud, Seafile,
Confluence, Alfresco), issue trackers (Jira,
Redmine), and e-learning programs (Moodle, Chamilo,
HumHub), among others.
This guide will teach you how to use Podman to
install the most recent version of ONLYOFFICE Docs
on Fedora Linux.
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Composer_on_Ubuntu
20.04⠀⇛
Composer is a dependency management tool in PHP;
unlike ‘apt’ and ‘yum’, it’s not a package manager.
Because it handles the dependencies for PHP
projects, per project basis, you can declare,
manage and install dependencies with Composer on
any PHP project running PHP version 7.2.5 or above.
It’s used in Magento to manage its components and
dependencies. The composer uses a composer.json
file which specifies version and dependency
information. In this tutorial, you are going to
install PHP 7.4 and Composer on Ubuntu 20.04 and
try out Composer commands. Let’s get started.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_GNOME_Desktop_Environment_on
Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Installing another desktop environment on a
Raspberry Pi device is fun, especially for those
previously using the Raspberry Pi OS on their
systems. In that case, switching to another desktop
environment like GNOME is beneficial because of its
elegant and simple look that enables you to launch
any application easily. Besides its friendly
environment, it also includes several useful
applications and games that push you further
towards replacing it with your previous desktop
environment without losing your data.
This article will show you how to install the GNOME
desktop environment on your Raspberry Pi system and
easily switch to the installed OS within seconds.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_View_and_Clear_Terminal_History_in
Linux⠀⇛
The commands you type into your Linux terminal are
always logged somewhere. You may have noticed that
you can press the up arrow on your keyboard to
retrieve commands you’ve executed in the past. This
is a convenient feature when you need to recall a
past command, but can also be a potential privacy
concern.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to view the
terminal history in Linux, and how to clear the
terminal history and past commands.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_change_the_keyboard_layout_using_the
terminal⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to change the
keyboard layout using the terminal. Although
simple, it is quite useful for configuration and
scripting.
Using a graphical interface, it is easy to change
the keyboard layout on Linux. Simply access the
desktop environment options and look for a hardware
or input method section related to the keyboard.
From there you can not only change the
configuration but also other things related to the
keyboard, but what if it is a server, or we are
only accessing via SSH? Well, you have to use the
terminal.
Let’s start.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Enable_Snap_on_Linux_Mint_21⠀⇛
In the Linux system, snap is the cross-distribution
application manager containing a bundle of
applications with their respective dependencies.
This easy-to-install application deployment system
for Linux users is explored by Canonical.
Installing packages from the snap store is quite
easy as they are installed with the source code,
libraries, and dependencies and update the package
automatically.
The service used to handle and manage snaps at the
backend is called snap daemon or is represented as
snapd. It’s a snap package manager that is used to
install applications from the snap store and manage
them.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_WonderCMS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
WonderCMS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, WonderCMS is a fast and
straightforward content management system requiring
no database to create websites. It offers features
that may not be available to other PHP-based CMS,
like WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal.
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 WonderCMS with LEMP Stack 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.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_ExifTool_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
ExifTool is a command-line utility that allows
Raspberry Pi users to get the metadata information
of different media files such as videos, images,
audio, and PDFs. The metadata, on the other hand,
is the information about a specific file, such as
the filename, creation time, file type and so on.
This tool is helpful for Raspberry Pi users
interested in finding complete information about a
specific media file. You can install this
application by following this article’s guidelines.
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Upgrade_Various_Kinds_of_Packages_in_Linux_at
Once_With_Topgrade_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛
Updating a Linux system is not that complicated, is
it? After all, to update Ubuntu like distros, you
just have to use apt update && apt upgrade.
That would have been the case if all the packages
had been installed through a single package
manager.
But that’s not the case anymore. You have the
classic apt/dnf/pacman and then come snap, flatpak,
appimages. It doesn’t end here. You may also
install applications using PIP (for Python) and
Cargo (for Rust).
Use node? The npm packages need to be updated
separately. Oh My Zsh? Needs to be updated
separately. Plugins in Vim, Atom etc may also not
be covered by apt/dnf/pacman.
Do you see the problem now? And this is the kind of
problem a new tool called topgrade aims to solve.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Extend_Vim’s_Functionality_by
Adding_Plugins⠀⇛
Being one of the most popular text editors, Vim
also influences other modern text editors. In fact,
the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace has a Vim
extension for VS Code; it has over 4 Million
installs.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Our_unusual_traditional_/var/mail_setup_for
people’s_inboxes⠀⇛
If you go back 30 years ago, IMAP was not really
very much of a thing. Most people read their email
by logging in to our Unix servers and running
various Unix programs, and these programs read
people’s mailboxes in traditional Unix format from
/var/mail (or perhaps it was /var/spool/mail at the
time). Because we had a multi-server environment
even back then, this /var/mail lived on one server
and was NFS-exported to all of the others. When a
POP and IMAP server was added at some point, it had
to play along with this environment and so it was
configured so that the IMAP INBOX was your /var/
mail inbox (although your other IMAP folders went
in your home directory). And because people’s
inboxes were directly exposed as files, people
could and did write procmail rules files that
directly appended incoming email to them (with
appropriate locking).
Today, almost everyone reads their email through
IMAP and few people have procmail rules any more.
If we were starting a new environment from scratch,
we might well allow only IMAP (or POP3) access to
your email and not store your INBOX in /var/mail
(although we’d need to expose some sort of flexible
per-user mail filtering). But we aren’t starting
from scratch (and ‘few’ isn’t the same as ‘zero’),
so we still have our traditional /var/mail,
complete with it being NFS mounted on all of our
general use Ubuntu servers.
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_7:_subgrids⠀⇛
It’s time to get me up on speed with modern CSS.
There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little
about. To change that I’ve started
#100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less
modern CSS? Because some topics will be about
cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been
around for quite a while already, but I just have
little to no experience with it.
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_8:_nesting_:has()⠀⇛
It’s time to get me up on speed with modern CSS.
There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little
about. To change that I’ve started
#100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less
modern CSS? Because some topics will be about
cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been
around for quite a while already, but I just have
little to no experience with it.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Testing_TCP_Connectivity_with_curl_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_Tag_a_Docker_Image_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_To：_Edit_System_Files_in_Linux_with_vim_–
Invidious⠀⇛
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_Beta_updates_fix_Red_Dead
Redemption_2_and_external_screen_changes⠀⇛
Two Beta updates have landed for the Steam Deck
with a Client and an OS update available, with some
pretty big changes to how external screens are
handled.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Oxygen_Not_Included_has_a_new_animated
short,_plus_a_‘Story_Trait_System’_update⠀⇛
Klei are back with a brand new big update to Oxygen
Not Included, after they decided not to do any more
paid DLC so this is the first of many free updates
to come. Plus a fancy new animated short.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_how_to_play_Overwatch_2_on_Steam
Deck_/_Linux⠀⇛
While you might struggle to get in due to ongoing
server issues, Overwatch 2 is out now free to play
and it can run quite nicely on Steam Deck and Linux
desktop. Here’s how to get Overwatch 2 installed
and running. Since it’s not available officially
for Linux, we’re going to be using the Wine
compatibility layer for this, along with help from
the Bottles app.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Go_tell_Bungie_you_want_Destiny_2_on_Steam
Deck_/_Linux⠀⇛
Destiny 2 is one of the biggest and most popular
shooters around and sadly it doesn’t work on Steam
Deck / Linux. Now is your chance to give your say
and maybe Bungie will listen.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_have_a_nice_list_of_classics_in_the
RPG_Legends_bundle⠀⇛
Need some classic RPGs in your life? Check out the
RPG Legends: Baldur’s Gate & Beyond bundle with
some great picks. It’s quite a small bundle but
still a good one if you don’t already own the
games. As usual, I’ll be listing how they run on
Steam Deck and Linux desktop either via a Native
Linux port or via Proton with the ProtonDB rating.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Updates_for_September,_2022_⋅_elementary_Blog⠀⇛
Sorry 6.1 fans, this month was all about OS 7 with the
exception of a new Icon Browser app being released in
AppCenter.
If you’re familiar with my LookBook app which was
previously offered for $10, you may be excited to know
that the new elementary Icon Browser is available for
free. This developer tool shows you all of the system
icons available to use in your apps and you can even
search them by description. The new app has been updated
to use Gtk 4 and has much better system dark style
support as well as doing a better job showing relevant
icon sizes and more. If you’re writing apps for
elementary OS, be sure to check it out!
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Redcore_Linux_Hardened_2201_Rastaban_stable⠀⇛
October seems to be our month, as the previous
stable release was launched just shy of 1 year ago.
Today, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Redcore Linux Hardened 2201
(codename Rastaban) stable. This cycle had ups and
downs, but at the end of it, we have the best
release to date, and a very up to date one. Redcore
Linux has been a rolling release distribution from
the very beginning, but it used to lag behing
Gentoo Linux by a few, usually 5 to 7, days. At
times the lag was considerably longer, due to time
constraints on my part (my bad, I have a
dissertation to write). But, the old, fluctuating
pattern is gone. Starting mid-July, I implemented
some changes, and now Redcore Linux resyncs itself
with Gentoo Linux every 6 hours. Let’s see what’s
new!
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenBSD:_Manage_DNS,_DNSSEC_(to_automate_TLSA_records)⠀⇛
Since 2018, I asked me about how to manage TLSA
records, according to the DANE and DNSSEC
protocols, for my DNS. (I wroted one article in
french, on March 2018, about creating TLSA records
in shell or PHP languages; if you read french, see:
DNS: Générer un enregistrement TLSA…)
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE_documentation_survey—share
YOUR_feedback!_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛
Every year in late summer—or early autumn—the SUSE
documentation team conducts a global survey to
gather concrete feedback from our technical users
at customers, partners and SUSE about what the
current documentation might lack, and how we can
improve our documentation services.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sparky_2022.10_–_SparkyLinux⠀⇛
New iso images of Sparky 2022.10 of the (semi-
)rolling line are out.
Changes between Sparky 2022.07 and 2022.10:
– all packages updated from Debian and Sparky
testing repos as of October 5, 2022
– Linux kernel 5.19.11 (6.0.0 & 5.15.72-LTS &
4.9.330-LTS49 in sparky unstable repos)
– GCC compiler v12 installed , GCC v11 removed from
iso images
– added new ‘sparky7-theme’ with support of GTK2/3/
4; it’s a package with a light and a dark theme to
choose
– added a dark theme to ‘sparky5-lxqt-theme’
package so you can choose between Sparky light and
dark themes now in LXQt desktop
– replaced Lightdm with SDDM session/login manager
to all GTK based desktop iso images; the KDE and
LXQt features SDDM as before; added a new SDDM
theme ‘sddm-theme2-sparky’ to all live media; an
older theme ‘sddm-theme-sparky’ is also installed;
so all live media of the rolling line use SDDM now
– ‘sparky-upgrade’ can be launched as a short
command now: ‘spu’ (SParkyUpgrade)
– LXQt 1.1.0
– Openbox 3.6.1
– KDE Plasma 5.25.5
– Xfce 4.16
– MATE 1.26.0
– Calamares 3.2.61
– Firefox 105.0.2
– Thunderbird 102.3.0
– VLC 3.0.17
– LibreOffice 7.4.1
– GRUB 2.06
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Canonical_announces_free_Ubuntu_Pro
subscriptions_for_up_to_five_workstations_or_servers_–
SiliconANGLE⠀⇛
Canonical Ltd., the company behind the popular
Ubuntu Linux operating system, today announced that
Ubuntu Pro for data centers and workstations, an
expanded security maintenance and compliance
offering that protects against a wider range of
vulnerabilities and threats, is now available in
public beta.
Ubuntu Pro is launching with a free tier for
personal and small-scale users covering up to five
machines, and paid subscriptions for those with
larger deployments.
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Free_personal_Ubuntu_Pro_subscriptions_–
Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
Canonical has just launched its new free personal
Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines,
making it available as a public beta for data
centres and workstations and providing a free tier
for personal and small-scale commercial use. Ubuntu
Pro includes tools for compliance management in
regulated and audited environments and Ubuntu Pro
users can access FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic
packages necessary for all Federal Government
agencies.
Ubuntu Pro is available for every Ubuntu LTS from
16.04 LTS and you can sign up for a free personal
Ubuntu Pro subscription for up to five machines by
following the link below. Ubuntu Pro paid plans
start from $25 per year for workstation or $500 per
year for server and Canonical has made available a
30-day free trial of Ubuntu Pro for new enterprise
customers.
“Ubuntu Pro expands security coverage for critical,
high and medium Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures (CVEs) to thousands of applications and
toolchains, including Ansible, Apache Tomcat,
Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js,
phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python 2, Redis,
Rust, WordPress, ROS, and more. “
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Allwinner_V851S/V851SE_low-cost_camera_SoC
embeds_64MB_DDR2,_a_0.5_TOPS_NPU⠀⇛
You’d usually select the V851S if you need a
display, and the V851SE for cameras without a
display. There’s no product page on the Allwinner
website, just a short announcement in Chinese, but
the datasheet is available on the company’s forum
and that’s where I got most of the information
above. The processor runs Tina Linux, a fork of
OpenWrt for Allwinner processors.
I found out about the new processor through the
YuzukiHD board made by the same developer (GLGH_)
that did the Yuzuki Chameleon board with an
Allwinner H616 processor.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Networking_board_equipped_with_NXP
Layerscape_series_processors⠀⇛

As seen in the image below, there are four Gigabit
LAN ports and two additional 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports.
For debugging, the board uses a Conclusive
Developer cable connector which provides access to
the system UART, a JTAG port and a system I2C bus.
For software development, the company seems to
provide support for Linux and FreeBSD on request.
Conclusive Engineering has listed a Wiki but it
seems it’s still a work in progress. Additionally,
the company’s GitHub can be found here.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Unexpected_Maker_TinyS3,_FeatherS3_and_ProS3
boards_feature_ESP32-S3_dual-core_wireless_MCU_–_CNX
Software⠀⇛
Seon Rozenblum, better known as Unexpected Maker,
has launched upgrades to its ESP32-S2 boards such
as the TinyS2 with ESP32-S3 variants, namely
TinyS3, FeatherS3, and ProS3 boards.
# ⚓ Balthazar Rouberol ☛ Balthazar_–_Blog_–_My_DIY_Dungeons_and
Dragons_ambiance_mixer⠀⇛
I find that an immersive sound ambiance is key to
helping tabletop RPG players engage. It can
increase their stress and sense of urgency during a
fight, galvanize them during a harrowing speech, or
break their heart when they realize they’ve just
lost something and there’s no getting it back.
I have been thinking about using a Launchpad to
control and mix the ambiance while we play, but the
more I read about its design, the less it seemed to
fit. The cheapest Launchpad starts at 110€, and it
is a full fledged MIDI controller. What I wanted
was something simpler: a way to play different long
sound ambiance tracks at the same time, and adjust
their respective volume to create an immersive
atmosphere.
The project started to take shape when I stumbled
upon the Pimoroni RGB Keypad, a 4×4 rainbow-
illuminated keypad that I could program using a
Raspberry Pi Pico, for a budget of about 30€.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Health_now_supports_themed_icon_on
Android_13_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR1_Beta_2:_What’s_new⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Android_13_Update_Disrupts_Android_Auto
In_Some_Pixel_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Google_to_pay_$85_million_fine_for
tracking_Android_phones_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ What_Do_the_Android_Status_Bar_Symbols_Mean?_A_full_guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_health_and_fitness_apps_for
Android_in_2022⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Polarhive ☛ Contributing_to_OpenStreetMap⠀⇛
This week, I’ve been contributing to OpenStreetMap — a
collaborative free software project that aims to create a
free, editable map of the world.
o ⚓ Austin Gil ☛ Under-Engineered_Productivity_>_Over-Engineered
Distractions⠀⇛
It’s hilarious because it perfectly captures how
developers love to over-engineer their website. I know
people that have rebuilt their website more times than
they’ve actually written content for it.
And to be fair, I think that’s perfectly fine. Rebuilding
your website is a great way to learn new technologies and
keep our skills sharp.
But if you actually want to focus on writing, I recommend
steering away from those technical distractions on your
website. Dedicate side-projects for learning.
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ VideoLAN_to_India:_If_you_love_FOSS_so_much,
why_have_you_blocked_our_downloads?⠀⇛
Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have
challenged India’s government to explain why the
project’s website has been blocked.
As The Register reported in August 2022, the videolan.org
site has been unavailable in India since March 2022,
meaning the official source of downloads not available.
No official explanation for the block has been offered.
As VLC is open source the occasional clone infected with
malware has appeared – with Chinese actors suspected as
the source.
India has banned many Chinese apps on national security
grounds. But VideoLAN’s home base is France, not the
Middle Kingdom. And VLC is not known or rated to pose a
sterner risk of carrying either malware or the kind of
nasty content India’s government likes to ban. The
argument has also been made that driving would-be users
to third party download sites increases the chances of
poisoned clones being passed off as legitimate, making a
ban on security grounds ineffective.
Activists protested the blocking of the project’s site
and now one such group – India’s Internet Freedom
Foundation – has stated that it helped VideoLAN to write
a letter to India’s Ministry of Communications and
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology that
demands an explanation for the blocking of videolan.org.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ SQLite:_QEMU_all_over_again?⠀⇛
When I look around today, I see a very similar
situation developing around SQLite. SQLite is the
brainchild of D. Richard Hipp, who was also
involved with the Tcl programming language, and his
own version control system, among others. Same as
Fabrice, an undoubtedly smart and achieved
individual.
The code for SQLite is also available, but
contributing is even harder than it was at the QEMU
days: SQLite is explicitly and unequivocally “Open
Source, not Open Contribution”. The few core
developers they have do not work with modern tools
like git and collaboration tools like Github, and
don’t accept contributions, although they may or
may not accept your suggestion for a new feature
request.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ KDAB ☛ Handling_a_Lot_of_Text_in_QML_–_KDAB⠀⇛
I will be talking about text in this post,
specifically about cases where you have to handle a
lot of it. We are not talking about a general
solution, but a specific case that we encountered
during a customer project.
[...]
The project involved showing a chat room for
internal communication. We developed a functioning
chat room and, eventually, as it grew, we also
added support for limited chat history. This was
all fine until we heard from the customer that
users might need to browse through the whole
history, which, in some cases, can span hundreds of
thousands of lines of rich text. “How hard can it
be?,” we thought. This was a QML application and we
soon realized that it’s not as easy as we thought.
To see why, consider this demo app…
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Design_Studio_3.7_Released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Design
Studio 3.7.
# ⚓ Obnam ☛ Iteration_planning:_October⠀⇛
The goal of the previous iteration was:
The goal of this iteration is to prepare for future
changes: document threats against the chunk server
API (so that authentication can be added in the
future), and making an client-internal abstraction
for using the chunk store (so that it can later be
local as well as remote).
The following issues were chosen for this
iteration: [...]
# ⚓ Just_commit_more!⠀⇛
Over new years this past year I made dura. It’s
like auto-backup for Git. It tries to stay out of
the way until you’re in a panic, trying to figure
out how to rescue your repository from a
thoughtless git reset –hard. It makes background
commits, real Git commits that you don’t normally
have to see in the log, by committing to a
different branch than the one you have checked out.
Overall, it’s been a blast. I’ve learned a lot from
the contributors, like how to write well-formed
Rust as well as a bit about Nix.
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ My_open-source_machine_learning_toolbox⠀⇛
This program analyzes audio content of an audio or
video file, and make a transcript of it. It
supports many languages, I tried it with English,
French and Japanese, and it worked very reliably.
Not only it creates a transcript text file, but it
also generates a subtitles (.srt) file, you can
create video subtitles automatically. It has a
translation function which pass all the transcript
text to Google translate and give you the result in
English.
It’s quite slow using a CPU, but it definitely
works, using a GPU gives an 80 times speed boost.
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ RVowpalWabbit_0.0.17:_Maintenance⠀⇛
Almost to the week one year since the last
maintenance release, we can announce another
maintenance release, now at version 0.0.17, of the
RVowpalWabbit package. The CRAN maintainers kindly
and politly pointed out that I was (cough, cough)
apparently the last maintainer who had packages
that set StagedInstall: no. Guilty as charged.
[...]
As noted before, there is a newer package rvw based
on the excellent GSoC 2018 and beyond work by Ivan
Pavlov (mentored by James and myself) so if you are
into VowpalWabbit from R go check it out.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Lee Yingtong Li ☛ Beta_ratio_distribution_for_SciPy⠀⇛
The quotient of 2 independent beta-
distributed random variables has a known
distribution, but its closed-form expression
is a little hairy [1, 2]. One Python
implementation of this distribution is
available from Julian Saffer [3], but it
suffers from some numerical issues in some
circumstances. For example, below is the PDF
generated by Saffer’s implementation for
$\frac{\mathrm{Beta}(13, 239)}{\mathrm{Beta}
(8, 744)}$: [...]
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in
Rust_463⠀⇛
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Level_The_Playing_Field_–_Open_Standards_NZ
Presentation⠀⇛
Open standards offer us something called
“permissionless innovation”. If you want to, you
can manufacture a micro-USB powered device and sell
it, without asking anyone’s permission, as long as
you comply with the standard. That’s easy for
independent organisations to measure. You can build
your innovative new gadget around a micro-USB
charging system without worrying that someone will
sue you for patent infringement for doing so, or
charge you royalties for using their standard, deny
you the right to use the micro-USB standard if it
suits their strategic interests to do so, or that
the standard will change out from under you without
a well controlled process that brings you along for
the ride.
For technology, open standards commoditise the
interface between technological layers. That means,
for instance, that to create an innovative
electronic product, you don’t need to know how to
design and build DC power systems, because well
understood, tested, and supported specs are only an
open standard away. In software, similar
“coomoditised interfaces” exist at every level.
They mean that not only can innovations be achieved
with less specialised knowledge, lower investment
and far less risk, but the results are more
modular, tested, and, well, standardised!
# ⚓ James G ☛ Joining_my_first_W3C_Sustainability_CG_meeting⠀⇛
Organisers at the W3C are working on various
initiatives related to sustainability. Over the
last few months, two new community groups (CGs)
were started to focus on sustainability and how it
pertains to the web and the W3C as an organisation.
[^1] After doing some reading about the revived
Sustainable Web (sustyweb) group, I decided to join
and see how I could help.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ [Old] “Blown_Away_Guy”:_The_Most_Iconic_Music_Image_of_All_Time⠀⇛
In the 1980s, Maxell became an icon of pop culture when
it produced advertisements popularly known as “Blown Away
Guy” for its line of audio cassettes. The campaign began
as a two-page advertising spread in Rolling Stone
magazine in 1980. The photo shows a man sitting low in a
(Le Corbusier Grand Confort LC2) high armed chair in
front of, and facing, a JBL L100 speaker. His hair and
necktie, along with the lampshade to the man’s right and
the martini glass on the low table to the man’s left, are
being blown back by the tremendous sound from speakers in
front of him — supposedly due to the audio accuracy of
Maxell’s product. The man is shown desperately clinging
to the armrests but defiantly looking ahead at the source
of the music through sunglasses, though calmly catching
his drink before it slides off the end table.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Aaron_Judge_Is_Great—but_Don’t_Erase_Barry_Bonds⠀⇛
Aaron Judge is an outfielder in a power forward’s body.
At a hulking six-foot-seven inches, he looks at first
like an optical illusion. Even though a pitcher stands on
a 10-inch mound, Judge seems to tower over it at a
distance of 60-feet-six-inches, like a big brother
playing whiffle ball at a picnic with his younger
siblings. And now, with all the hype that comes with
being a New York Yankee, Judge is on top of the baseball
world. In the season’s penultimate game, he hit his
American League record 62nd home run, breaking Yankee
Roger Maris’s record of 61 set 61 years ago.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Budapest_Festival_Orchestra_wins_Orchestra_of
the_Year_Award_in_London⠀⇛
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Transparency_International_willing_to_join
Anti-Corruption_Task_Force_under_certain_conditions⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ugliest_Airplane_Ever_Built_Predicted_The_Future⠀⇛
The airplane that many called “the flying barrel” is also
widely considered the ugliest plane ever built. However,
[Dark Skies] in the video you can see below argues that
the Stipa-Caproni was the direct predecessor of the
turbofan engine. Either way, it is an interesting and
unique part of aviation history.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Power_Tool_Hack_Takes_A_New_Angle_On_RC_Power_Plants⠀⇛
For eons, hacker minded people have looked at various
items their pile of stuff, came up with an outlandish
idea and thought “I wonder if it would work?” Some of us
stop there, convincing ourselves that it’s a bad idea
that could never work. Others of us such as [Peter
Sripol] are well known for not just having those
thoughts, but for having the grit to explore them to
their impractical limit, such as is shown in the video
below the break.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Quantum_scientists_win_Nobel_Prize
in_Physics⠀⇛
Three scientists have shared this year’s Nobel
Prize in Physics for their research on quantum
technology.
Alain Aspect, from France, John Clauser from the
US, and Austria’s Anton Zeilinger were rewarded for
what the Nobel committee described as “ground-
breaking experiments using entangled quantum
states, where two particles behave like a single
unit even when they are separated”.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ $60_Laser_Makes_The_Cut_With_New_Controller⠀⇛
If you are reading the Lightburn forums, you
probably already have a laser cutter of some kind.
But, if you are like most of us, you can always be
tempted into another “deal.” [Dkj4linux] has a post
where he bought a $79 laser engraver (now selling
for between $59 and $65, we noticed). Like most of
these cheap engravers, the machine takes a
proprietary controller with Windows-only software.
No surprise that [Dkj4linux] would want to use…um…
Linux. The answer? Rip the board out and replace it
with an old spare.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Fixing_A_30-year_Old_Roland_Bug⠀⇛
The Roland CM-500 is a digital synthesizer sound
module released in 1991 that combines two
incredibly powerful engines into one unit. However,
in 2005 enthusiasts of the Roland MT-25 (one of the
engines that went into the CM-500) noticed a
difference between the vibrato rate on the MT-25
and the CM-500, rendering it less useful as now
midi files would need to be adjusted before they
sounded correct. Now thirty-something years later,
there is a fix through the efforts of [Sergey
Mikayev] and a fantastic writeup by [Cloudschatze].
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retro_Speaker_Becomes_The_Perfect_Micro_PC⠀⇛
We’ve seen many cyberdecks and home built computers
in our time here at Hackaday, but we’ve not seen
many so tiny and so neatly built as this one from
[Carter Hurd]. It takes the form of a tiny retro PC
with a working display and keyboard, and we like it
a lot.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Charges_dismissed_against_7_people_in_Flint
water_crisis⠀⇛
Judge Elizabeth Kelly in the Genesee County Circuit
Court ruled the charges were invalid against the
officials, including two former state employees
accused of involuntary manslaughter after some
Flint residents died from Legionnaires’ Disease
following the water crisis.
The ruling comes about three months after the
Michigan Supreme Court said a one-judge grand jury
that indicted the former government officials did
not have the authority to do so.
# ⚓ PLOS ☛ Differential_personality_change_earlier_and_later_in
the_coronavirus_pandemic_in_a_longitudinal_sample_of_adults
in_the_United_States⠀⇛
Five-factor model personality traits (neuroticism,
extraversion, openness, agreeableness,
conscientiousness) are thought to be relatively
impervious to environmental demands in adulthood.
The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented
opportunity to examine whether personality changed
during a stressful global event. Surprisingly, two
previous studies found that neuroticism decreased
early in the pandemic, whereas there was less
evidence for change in the other four traits during
this period. The present research used longitudinal
assessments of personality from the Understanding
America Study (N = 7,109; 18,623 assessments) to
examine personality changes relatively earlier
(2020) and later (2021–2022) in the pandemic
compared to pre-pandemic levels. Replicating the
two previous studies, neuroticism declined very
slightly in 2020 compared to pre-pandemic levels;
there were no changes in the other four traits.
When personality was measured in 2021–2022,
however, there was no significant change in
neuroticism compared to pre-pandemic levels, but
there were significant small declines in
extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and
conscientiousness. The changes were about one-tenth
of a standard deviation, which is equivalent to
about one decade of normative personality change.
These changes were moderated by age and Hispanic/
Latino ethnicity, but not race or education.
Strikingly, younger adults showed disrupted
maturity in that they increased in neuroticism and
declined in agreeableness and conscientiousness.
Current evidence suggests the slight decrease in
neuroticism early in the pandemic was short-lived
and detrimental changes in the other traits emerged
over time. If these changes are enduring, this
evidence suggests population-wide stressful events
can slightly bend the trajectory of personality,
especially in younger adults.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_to_ban_tobacco_product_use_on_all
campuses⠀⇛
The University of Michigan will prohibit the use of
all tobacco products on all of its campuses
effective Nov. 17, in conjunction with the Great
American Smokeout.
The existing Smoking on University Premises policy,
SPG 601.04, will be revised and renamed the
Tobacco-Free University Premises policy. The update
bans the following products not addressed in the
current policy: [...]
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Vaping,_smokeless_tobacco_products_to
be_banned_at_UM⠀⇛
Vaping will be banned on the University of
Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses
when its new tobacco policy is updated next month.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ For_veteran_suicides,_the_numbers_may_be_far
worse_than_the_government_says⠀⇛
A new assessment from the U.S. Veterans
Administration trumpets a decline in the national
suicide rate among veterans, but the drop
highlights a simmering issue pressed by suicide
prevention advocates — the likely undercounting of
the data that the government collects.
It’s long been a contention of advocates that the
VA data, while helpful, are incomplete. For
example, the deaths of many veterans may not be
tallied as suicides in certain instances in which
self-harm plays a critical role. These include
deaths due to addiction, drug overdoses or alcohol-
induced incidents. While not strictly defined as
suicide, they represent a statistical grey area. In
addition, much variation permeates how each state
accounts for deaths. An officially declared suicide
in one state might not be in another, given the
same circumstances.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Safe_Tap_Water_Is_a_Human_Right⠀⇛
The water drips lethargically from the tap, if at
all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown
sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench
is revolting.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Permian_Basin_Leaking_14_Times_More_Methane
Than_EPA_Estimates:_Study⠀⇛
Scientists at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF),
Stanford University, and the University of Arizona
analyzed more than 10,000 miles of gathering
pipelines—which transport unprocessed gas from
wells to processing facilities—using aircraft with
sensors equipped to detect plumes of methane.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Absolutely_Shameful’:_Michigan_Judge_Drops
Flint_Water_Crisis_Charges_Against_7_Officials⠀⇛
Genesee County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Kelly’s
decision stems from a Michigan Supreme Court ruling
in June that deemed state prosecutors’ use of a
one-man grand jury to issue indictments legally
improper, throwing into doubt efforts to hold ex-
officials accountable for a water disaster that has
had lasting impacts on Flint residents.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ This_CDC_Scientist_Couldn’t_Access_Monkeypox
Treatment._Why?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_CDC_Scientist_Who_Couldn’t_Get_Monkeypox
Treatment⠀⇛
This call, however, was a personal one. He was
sitting on his bed in pain, and he was angry.
# ⚓ COVID-19:_Now_the_Third_Leading_Cause_of_Death_in_the
United_States⠀⇛
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in
the United States in 2020 and 2021, according to an
analysis of national death certificate data by
researchers at the National Cancer Institute.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ NPR ☛ A_software_CEO_was_arrested_on_suspicion_of_storing
poll_worker_data_in_China⠀⇛
The Los Angeles County District Attorney announced
on Tuesday the arrest of Eugene Yu, the CEO of a
small company that makes software for scheduling
poll workers and had a contract with L.A. County.
District Attorney George Gascón said at a news
conference that the contract with the county
required the company, Konnech, to securely maintain
election worker information on servers in the
United States.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Canadian_sentenced_in_NetWalker_ransomware
attacks⠀⇛
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday
sentenced a Canadian national to 20 years in prison
and ordered him to forfeit more than $21 million
for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks.
The DOJ said the defendant, Sebastian Vachon-
Desjardins, participated in a sophisticated form of
ransomware known as NetWalker, which has targeted
dozens of victims across the world, including
companies, hospitals, law enforcement, emergency
services and schools.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Stadia_Developers_Blindsided_By_Shutdown⠀⇛
Last week we noted how Google’s streaming game
service, Stadia, is finally being shut down. Google
had initially tried deny the obvious last July when
rumors began circulating that the company was
preparing its exit strategy. This denial apparently
resulted in many of the service’s own developers
being left in the dark, given they were extremely
surprised when the shutdown was actually announced.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ At_Google,_product_launches_the_only_way_to_get
promoted:_claim⠀⇛
The reason why Google launches so many products and
then abandons them is because only those who launch
new products are in a position to chase promotions,
an unnamed ex-employee and a current employee
claim.
Peter Yang, the product lead at Reddit, posted two
accounts from people on Twitter; one was said to be
a current employee of Google and the other an ex-
employee. He added a rider that the comments were
old and things could have changed at the company by
now.
The abandonment of products by Google was thrown
into focus last week with the announcement that the
company would be shutting down its consumer gaming
service Stadia which was launched in March 2019.
[...]
There are so many abandoned services, apps and
hardware that one developer, Cody Ogden, has set up
a site called Google Graveyard where he lists 274
orphaned entities.
# ⚓ Redmond Magazine ☛ Linux_Client_Device_Management_Coming_to
Microsoft_Intune [Ed: Microsoft propagandists like Kurt
Mackie keep pushing this narrative about Linux while
Microsoft is working to prevent Linux from even booting and
it works with the NSA towards universal back doors]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Dynamically_update_TLS_certificates_in_a
Golang_server_without_downtime⠀⇛
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic
protocol based on SSLv3 designed to encrypt and
decrypt traffic between two sites. In other words,
TLS ensures that you’re visiting the site you meant
to visit and prevents anyone between you and the
website from seeing the data being passed back and
forth. This is achieved through the mutual exchange
of digital certificates: a private one that exists
on the web server, and a public one typically
distributed with web browsers.
In production environments, all servers run
securely, but server certificates may expire after
some period. It is then the server’s responsibility
to validate, regenerate, and reuse newly generated
certificates without any downtime. In this article,
I demonstrate how TLS certificates are updated
dynamically using an HTTPS server in Go.
These are the prerequisites for following this
tutorial…
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Glut_of_Fake_LinkedIn_Profiles_Pits_HR
Against_the_Bots⠀⇛
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles
on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity
crisis for the business networking site, and for
companies that rely on it to hire and screen
prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn
identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos
with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are
creating major headaches for corporate HR
departments and for those managing invite-only
LinkedIn groups.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Optus_breach:_govt_to_allow_data-sharing
to_prevent_ID_fraud⠀⇛
The Federal Government says it will amend the
Telecommunications Regulations 2021 to allow telcos
to temporarily share data that will help prevent ID
fraud.
In a statement, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the
changes would allow better co-ordination between
Optus and other telecommunications providers and
government agencies to prevent frauds, scams and
other malicious cyber activities.
Telcos will be able to share drivers’ licence
details, Medicare and passport numbers of affected
customers with regulated financial services
entities for better monitoring and safeguards for
customers affected by the data breach.
Optus announced the breach on 22 September, and
there were fears that the data of as many as 9.8
million Australians could have been exposed.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Teen_held_for_using_Optus_breach_data_in_alleged
SMS_scam⠀⇛
A 19-year-old Sydney man who used data from the
breach of telco Singtel Optus to allegedly try and
and extort people has been arrested by the
Australian Federal Police.
In a statement, the AFP said the teenager from
Rockdale had used the data from 10,200 Optus
customers, left on the clear web by the actual
attacker, and sought to extract $2000 at a time
through text messages.
Optus announced the breach on 22 September, and
there were fears that the data of as many as 9.8
million Australians could have been exposed.
Eleven days after this announcement, Optus finally
made it clear that 2.1 million of its customers had
some form of ID exposed.
{loadposition sam08}The attacker initially exposed
the data of some 200 customers, presumably as some
kind of lure.
Later, he/she said that the data of 10,000 people
would be made public for five days, and released
the first lot.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Buttondown ☛ I_am_a_SQL_Injection_Attack⠀⇛
Are there meatspace models for things besides
concurrency? Turns out I’ve already used a
meatspace model to explain SQL injection
attacks to layfriends (say if it’s on the
news). At a very high level, an injection
attack is the conflation of syntax and data,
which isn’t a difference most people have
encountered before. So here’s how I explain
it.1
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ The_Online_Safety_Bill:
Reboot_it,_or_Shoot_it?⠀⇛
Some of the bill’s many proposals command
wide support – for example, that online
services should enable users to contact them
effectively to report illegal material, which
should be removed quickly. At present, only
copyright owners and the police seem to be
able to get the attention of the major
platforms; ordinary people, including young
people, should also be able to report
unlawful things and have them taken down
quickly. Here, the UK government intends to
bind only large platforms like Facebook and
Twitter. We propose extending the duty to
gaming platforms too. Kids just aren’t on
Facebook any more.
The Bill also tries to reignite the crypto
wars by empowering Ofcom to require services
to use “accredited technology” (read:
software written by GCHQ contractors) to scan
your WhatsApp messages. The idea that you can
catch violent criminals such as child abusers
and terrorists by bulk text scanning is
entirely implausible; the error rates are so
high that the police would swamped with false
positives. Quite apart from that, bulk
intercept has always been illegal in Britain,
and would also contravene the European
Convention on Human Rights, to which we are
still a signatory despite Brexit. This power
to mandate client-side scanning has to be
scrapped, a move that quite a few MPs already
support.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Do_You_Want_to_Tether_Your_Life_to_Google?
How_to_Resist⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Far_Right’s_Violent_Rhetoric_Is_Escalating,
and_Includes_Talk_of_“Civil_War”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Salon ☛ Oath_Keepers_trial_highlights_the_right’s_obsession
with_finding_cheat_codes_for_real_life⠀⇛
Rhodes graduated from Yale Law, though he was
disbarred in 2015 for repeated ethics violations.
He and his legal team have hyped his Ivy law
credential to the media, implanting the idea that
their defense theory, which otherwise might be
regarded as grasping, must have real juice. But
close observers have detected signs that lawyers
for the Oath Keepers aren’t all that confident. As
Vice reported last week, the Rhodes team is
embroiled in in-fighting. They even tried for a
delay, claiming they weren’t ready for trial even
though their client had been indicted in January.
During jury selection, a lawyer for co-defendant
Thomas Caldwell “jokingly” complained about the
number of lawyers in the jury pool, indicating a
possible drop in confidence at the thought of
selling this defense to jurors who actually know
the law.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “There’s_Going_to_Be_a_Fight”:_Oath_Keepers
Trial_Reveals_Plan_to_Use_Violence_to_Keep_Trump_in_Office⠀⇛
The Oath Keepers trial, in which senior leaders of
the right-wing extremist group are accused of
plotting violence at the January 6 insurrection,
began Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Prosecutors played a secret audio recording Tuesday
of a meeting held by the Oath Keepers after the
2020 election in which founder Stewart Rhodes
discussed plans to bring weapons to the capital to
help then-President Trump stay in office. We speak
to Arie Perliger, author of “American Zealots,” who
says the Trump administration lended extremist
groups legitimacy and access to a more mainstream
audience. “For them, that was a disastrous
situation, losing this kind of access,” says
Perliger.
# ⚓ Salon ☛ “Security_risk”:_Election_officials_sound_the_alarm
over_“sabotage”_from_pro-Trump_poll_workers⠀⇛
In Michigan alone, multiple recent incidents have
put officials on edge. Last month, Michigan GOP
staffers were caught urging poll workers to break
election rules, including prohibitions on carrying
cell phones or outside writing equipment into
polling places. And last week in Kent County, a
Republican poll worker was arrested and charged
with tampering after he was caught inserting a USB
drive into an electronic poll book containing
confidential voter registration data.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Trump_administration_has_not_returned_all_records,
National_Archives_tells_Congress⠀⇛
On September 13 the House of Representatives
Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote to the NARA
and expressed concerns that unreturned confidential
documents could pose a security threat to the US
and that the Trump administration violated the
Presidential Records Act by keeping documents. The
Committee asked the NARA to conduct a review of
records received from the Trump Administration and
seek a signed declaration from former-President
Trump that that he has returned all records and did
not copy or share records while they were in his
possession.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Criticism_over_research:_EU_Commission_funds
platform_to_predict_„migration_flows“⠀⇛
In an Open Letter, eleven organisations criticise
the creation of an infrastructure for predictive
migration technologies. The tool, which is also
supposed to anticipate „tensions“, is based on
„artificial intelligence“. It could therefore
contradict a forthcoming EU regulation.
# ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ Charity_Commission_probes_Brighton
Mosque_after_trustee’s_terrorism_conviction⠀⇛
In May 2022, the mosque in East Sussex was issued
with an official warning after a former trustee,
Abubaker Deghayes, was convicted of encouraging
terrorism.
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Islamic_State_cell_plan_to_attack_Nazareth
Muslim_school_thwarted_by_Israeli_forces⠀⇛
The ISIS cell had planned to attack a variety of
targets. One of the main targets was a local Muslim
high school, which according to the suspects,
“operates in the way of ‘the infidels.’”
# ⚓ [Old] France24 ☛ Crime_[sic]_unites_voters_in_Swedish_far-
right_stronghold⠀⇛
“Burning cars, shootings… It happens in Stockholm,
Gothenburg and the other places I read about in the
papers. But it’s in (the southern county of) Skane
where it happens most,” Abdulla says.
“People get sick of it. I have many friends who are
immigrants and still voted SD,” he adds.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ A_cop_in_a_MAGA_hat_and_an_Oath_Keeper:_Inside_one_of
Jan._6′s_strangest_moments⠀⇛
But an NBC News review of the incident doesn’t
align with those narratives. NBC News, with help
from a group of open-source researchers that have
focused on the Oath Keepers, reviewed multiple
videos of the moment and spoke with Johnson’s
lawyer and with Michael Nichols, the Oath Keeper
and retired police officer who assisted the Capitol
Police that day.
Johnson put on the MAGA cap as a ruse to get people
in the crowd to help him, his lawyer confirmed. He
was trying to rescue over a dozen officers who were
pinned down inside the Capitol, caught between
rioters who had already broken into the building
and a flood of other Trump supporters who had
breached a door and were trying to push their way
in.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Strips_Immunity_From_Cop_Who_Shot_A_Dog
Within_Seconds_Of_Arriving_On_The_Scene_Of_A_Non-Crime⠀⇛
Cops kill dogs literally all the time. It happens
so often even the DOJ has taken notice.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Loitering_munition:_Rheinmetall_sells_first
kamikaze_drones_to_NATO_state⠀⇛
In the present wars, the military is increasingly
using remote-controlled warheads. The German
defence ministry calls such weapons „worrying“. But
after similar plans a decade ago, the Bundeswehr is
again considering to procure them.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dispatch_from_Ukraine:_The_Postmaster_of
Mykolaiv⠀⇛
Mykolaiv, Ukraine—Egor Kosorukov prefers to hear
the artillery, so that he can tell if it’s incoming
or outgoing. It’s why he hasn’t joined most of his
employees in the main branch of the Ukrposhta (post
office) here, who have gone down to the building’s
shelter. Instead, he remains in his fourth-floor
office, about 15 kilometers from the front line—and
the airfield that was the staging ground for
Russia’s initial assault on the southern city last
March.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Maggie_Haberman’s_Trump_Biography_Buys_Into
the_Myth⠀⇛
Early on in Confidence Man, her doorstop chronology
of Donald Trump’s life and presidency, New York
Times political scribe Maggie Haberman sketches out
the guiding ambition fueling the real estate
scion’s ascension to the ultimate summit of power
and political prestige. Not satisfied with merely
succeeding to his father’s outer-borough real
estate empire, Trump “really always wanted to be a
star.” All of Trump’s other character traits—his
raging narcissism, his bullying demeanor, his
eagerness for approval, his notional-at-best
acquaintance with truth-telling—all stem, in
Haberman’s telling, from a “thirst for fame” that
“seemed to grow stronger each time he tasted more
of it.”
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_joins_other_EU_Member_States_in
approving_eighth_sanctions_package⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Military_Industrial_Complex_Wants_You_To
Be_More_Media_(Il)literate⠀⇛
A new report suggests media companies and the
military are trying to indoctrinate students by way
of “media literacy education.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_Iraq_War_Vote_Anniversary_Nears,_Don’t_Forget
Who_Was_Responsible⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Locked_Up:_Crime_and_Punishment_in
America⠀⇛
In a way crime is arguably the toughest domestic
issue in politics. Any new low in crime instantly
transforms from social achievement into public
expectation. It is true, as many liberals have
pointed out, that the recent spike has come on the
heels of a long drop in crime that started in the
early 1990s after a long period of mostly rising
crime that began in the late-1960s. It is also that
thus far the current crime spike still pales in
comparison to the peak rates of that period. Yet
it is equally true is that public fear of rising
crime is perfectly legitimate and attempts to
minimize public fear in a road to nowhere.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ High-Value_US_Asset_“Fat_Leonard”_Arrested
in_Venezuela_–_Possible_Prisoner_Swap⠀⇛
ABC News reports that Navy commanders “passed him
classified information and steered their ships,
mostly from the Navy’s 7th Fleet to ports he
controlled” in exchange for “Kobe beef, expensive
cigars, concert tickets and wild sex parties at
luxury hotels.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_Pays_the_Price_for_Great_Power
Tantrums⠀⇛
To explain coverage of the war in Ukraine requires
an awareness and understanding of the totalizing
ideology of American imperialism. There is an
interesting conceit in which Western corporate
media indulge, whereby the only strategic interests
we’re willing to acknowledge are those of the
United States. Under this conceit, it is simply
assumed, with no reasons or arguments offered, that
the United States government is specially endowed
with the right to set the rules for the entire
planet; even the semi-literate might have noticed
that this belief, held in common amongst the
Washington elite of both parties, is not without
its historical antecedents. The United States must
rule the world. As Yale University scholar David
Bromwich recently wrote in The Nation, the “rules”
of the current international order seem to “come
from what the US desires at a given moment, and
what we can press our allies and our half-willing
collaborators to go along with.” Whether the United
States, Russia, or any other great power is wrong
or right in any particular instance, this system, a
“rules-based” order in which the U.S. makes the
rules, is not a realistic or sustainable path to
the kind of peace we will need, if we are to avoid
a potentially civilization-ending nuclear
catastrophe.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nukes,_War_and_Moral_Sanity⠀⇛
Oops, darn that mushroom cloud!
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ VIDEO:_The_Late_Stephen_F._Cohen_Provides
Clarity_on_NATO_Expansion_and_Russia,_More_Than_10_Years
Ago⠀⇛
NATO’s broken promise to Russia provides context to
the current state of affairs.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Zelensky_Signs_Decree_Ruling_Out_Peace_Talks
With_Putin⠀⇛
Zelensky says talks could only be held with Russia
when there’s a new president.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Ignores_Growing_Calls_for_Diplomacy_and
Sends_More_Weapons_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
“Are there still negotiation possibilities?” asked
Noam Chomsky. “There’s only one way to find out.
That’s to try. If you refuse to try, of course,
there’s no option, no possibilities.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Peace_Groups_Push_US_to_Use_‘All_Points_of
Leverage’_to_End_Saudi_Blockade_of_Yemen⠀⇛
“Saudi Arabia’s tactic of collective punishment has
created untold suffering for tens of millions of
people and contributed to hundreds of thousands of
deaths.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Draconian_Silencing_of_Those
Who_Call_Out_‘Israeli_Apartheid’⠀⇛
Several seemingly disparate events in the past week
come together to once again demonstrate the use of
raw power by Israel and its supporters to force
silence about their oppression of Palestinians from
the river to the sea.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_spokesman_declines_to_comment_on_Wagner
Group_and_calls_founder_Prigozhin_‘just_a_Russian_citizen’_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Despite St. Petersburg tycoon Evgeny Prigozhin’s
admission last month that he played a role in
creating the Wagner private military company (PMC),
the Kremlin is maintaining its policy of not
acknowledging the mercenary group. In a briefing on
Wednesday, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov
called Prigozhin “simply a Russian citizen” who
continues to “contribute a great deal” to his
country.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_felt_like_an_inmate’:_In_their_own_words,
Ukrainians_describe_waiting_for_days_at_the_Russia-EU_border
—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the last two weeks, long lines have built up at
the checkpoints on Russia’s borders with Estonia
and Latvia. But most of the people waiting in them
aren’t Russians fleeing mobilization; they’re
Ukrainians from Russian-occupied territories
fleeing to the EU in the wake of Russia’s
annexation of their homes. Russian border guards,
however, seem to be doing everything they can to
slow down the process, forcing the refugees to
spend days waiting in freezing temperatures and
sleeping in border checkpoint waiting rooms. Meduza
asked two Ukrainians who made it into Estonia to
recount their experiences.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Make_Kink_Not_War⠀⇛
Thus, I’ve taken this little jingle as my light in
the dark, my mantra against the madness and a bit
of a gag (all puns intended) in the gloom…
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Nobody_needs_us’:_Video_from_Russia_shows
hundreds_of_armed_people_complaining_about_mobilization
chaos._Who_recorded_the_footage_is_unclear._—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_deputy_asks_defense_ministry_to_‘stop
lying’_about_the_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Andrey Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee
on Defense, criticized the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation for not reporting the whole
truth about military action in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Another_breakthrough_by_the_Ukrainian_army_The
northern_part_of_Ukraine’s_Kherson_region_has_been_cleared_of
the_Russian_forces_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In its second major breakthrough this week, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated the village
of Davydiv Brid, which stands over the Ingulets
River in the Kherson Region. For months, this has
been the Russian forces’ main stronghold in that
area, and it took two months of determined fighting
to make them finally retreat. On October 4, the
Russian military blogger Igor Strelkov (a.k.a.
Girkin) reported that Russian formations were
leaving their positions “to avoid incipient
encirclement.” They also cleared out of the larger
villages nearby. According to Semyon Pegov, the
founder of WarGonzo (a pro-Russian media project),
the Ukrainian army “made a major breakthrough” and
“established full control” over the road on the
left bank of Ingulets River.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Photos_of_the_Russians_who_managed_to_flee
conscription_Chaos_on_the_Russia-Georgia_border_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russians fleeing “partial mobilization” in the last
week of September formed a huge line at the Russia-
Georgia border. Russian authorities have taken
military equipment to the border crossing at
Verkhny Lars and set up a mobilization point there,
but it hasn’t stopped people from crossing. At
Meduza’s request, photographer Alexandra
Makharashvili spent all night at the border on
September 27, snapping portraits of Russians who
managed to cross to the Georgian side. She also
recorded their remarks about events at the border.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ First_criminal_case_for_draft_evasion_launched_in
Russia_since_start_of_mobilization_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A 32-year old man refused to sign his draft notice
in Russia’s Penza region, and is now prosecuted on
charges of draft evasion. This is the first such
criminal case since the start of Russia’s so-called
“partial mobilization” on Sept. 21. The “suspect”
is now in his second day of detention.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_allows_draft_deferral_for_graduate_and_night
school_students_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin announced that he has signed an
order correcting the conditions for the deferral of
“partial mobilization” for additional groups.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kadyrov_announces_that_he_has_become_a_colonel
general_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ramzan Kadyrov says that Vladimir Putin has awarded
him the rank of colonel general. The head of
Chechnya posted on his Telegram channel…
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_new_report_shows_discrepancies_in_Russian_draft
statistics_213,000_have_been_mobilized_in_Russia_—_but_this
only_accounts_for_two-thirds_of_its_regions,_not_the_whole
nation,_as_claimed_by_Shoigu_—_Meduza⠀⇛
At least 213,000 have been conscripted in Russia
since the start of mobilization on Sept. 21. This
figure was published by Vazhnye Istorii (“Stories
that Matter”), in collaboration with Conflict
Intelligence Team (CIT) volunteer analysts. While
this number matches, roughly, Sergey Shoigu’s Oct.
4 assertion that “more than 200,000” had been
drafted nationwide, it does not include data from
32 Russian regions left out from the statistics.
The Defense Ministry, though, had made clear that
all Russian regions would undergo a mobilization.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ If_worst_comes_to_worst_Experts_say_Putin_going
nuclear_can’t_be_ruled_out_—_and_that_the_U.S._shouldn’t
respond_in_kind_if_he_does_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s military doctrine relies heavily on
nuclear weapons — but less on their use itself than
on the ability they give Moscow to put pressure on
opponents. It’s difficult to judge whether that’s
what Putin is doing when he hints at his
willingness to launch a nuclear strike in Ukraine,
and it’s even harder to guess exactly what he would
target if he did. But there are a few things most
experts agree on: first, that the risk of Russia
using nuclear weapons is currently low but not
zero, and second, that Moscow hasn’t begun
preparations to launch a nuclear strike yet,
because if it had, Western intelligence agencies
would almost certainly know. Meduza takes a look at
what nuclear weapons experts have said about the
odds of Russia pushing the red button — and what
the West should do if it does.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_amends_Russian_Constitution,_orders_the
appropriation_of_the_Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a
new decree ordering the publication of an amended
text of the Federal Constitution, with changes
related to the recent annexation of several
Ukrainian territories — the self-proclaimed “DNR”
and “LNR,” as well as the Russian-occupied Kherson
and Zaporizhzhia regions.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ ‘Now,_All_of_You_Are_Azov’:_‘openly_neo-
Nazi’_Ukrainian_delegation_meets_Congress,_tours_US⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Haiti_Update:_Gangs_Rule_Much_of_Port-au-
Prince_Amid_Protests_over_Fuel_Costs,_Calls_for_PM_to
Resign⠀⇛
Mass protests in Haiti are condemning rising fuel
prices and demanding the resignation of the U.S.-
backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry. For nearly two
months, street protests likened to a civil war have
rocked the island nation’s capital Port-au-Prince
after the government announced it would raise
heavily subsidized fuel prices. We speak to Haitian
activist Vélina Élysée Charlier about rising gang
violence and how criminal groups are supported by
the government. “There is a mafia that is ruling
this country, and that mafia doesn’t want to face
justice,” says Charlier.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Extremely_concerning’:_Stanford_legal
experts_say_West_Virginia_v._EPA_outcome_will_diminish
environmental_regulations⠀⇛
The landmark decision invoked the “major questions”
doctrine, which holds that courts cannot defer
authority to executive branch agencies on issues of
“vast economic or political significance” unless
explicitly stated by Congress. West Virginia v. EPA
is one of the first times the doctrine was
successfully implemented in a Supreme Court case.
The ruling raised concerns for other federal
agencies and their authority over issues beyond
climate and environmental policies, law school
faculty agreed in interviews with The Daily.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ The_Air_Force_has_released_its_first_plan_to_reduce
its_carbon_footprint_and_adapt_to_climate_change⠀⇛
U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials released a
climate action plan Wednesday that includes a goal
of operating bases at net-zero emissions by 2046,
an ambitious effort to rein in the sizable carbon
footprint of the U.S. military’s air wing.
The plan, the first from the branches, also takes
into account how the Air Force will need to adapt
its operations to changing climate conditions, most
notably within the infrastructure of its bases and
where its energy comes from.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Big_Agriculture_Casts_Itself_as_Climate_Champion
Ahead_of_COP27⠀⇛
Launched at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow
last year by the U.S. and United Arab Emirates
governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition
pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and
food systems to support climate action.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ COP27_Farming_Coalition_Under_Fire_for_Links_to
Climate_Science_Denial⠀⇛
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) is a
“knowledge partner” of the Agriculture Innovation
Mission for Climate (Aim4C), an initiative launched
by the United States and United Arab Emirates at
the Glasgow climate summit last year to fund
research into technologies to tackle the climate
crisis.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Florida_Struggles_in_the_Wake_of_Deadly
Hurricane_as_DeSantis_Wages_Culture_Wars⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Biden_Promises_Puerto_Rico_$60M_for
Hurricane_Fiona._Will_U.S._Repeat_Mistakes_After_Hurricane
Maria?⠀⇛
We go to Puerto Rico to look at how the island is
recovering from Hurricane Fiona, a Category 1 storm
that left much of the island without electricity
and clean water. President Biden has promised a $60
million relief package, but some doubt the aid will
be distributed swiftly and in a manner that will
truly protect the island from future storms, given
the failed U.S. response after Hurricane Maria in
2017. Less than 3% of infrastructure money
allocated for storm recovery after Maria has
actually been used, says Carla Minet, executive
director of the Center for Investigative Journalism
in Puerto Rico. She also discusses how problems
have arisen from the transition to a privatized
electrical grid.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Florida’s_Deadliest_Hurricane_in_Years_May
Worsen_Inequality,_Homelessness_Amid_DeSantis’s_Culture_War⠀⇛
As President Biden meets with Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis and survivors of Hurricane Ian, the
deadliest storm to hit the state in decades, we get
an update from Florida state Representative Michele
Rayner on relief efforts underway and the housing
crisis exacerbated by the storm. Republicans like
Governor DeSantis are “more concerned about
sticking it to Joe Biden than actually making sure
that they can take care of their people,” says
Rayner. She also discusses the treatment of asylum
seekers in Florida and the anti-LGBT “Don’t Say
Gay” bill.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Leading_Edge_Erosion:_When_Precipitation
Destroys_Wind_Turbine_Blades⠀⇛
Erosion is all around us, from the meandering
course of rivers and other waterways, to the
gradual carving out of channels in even the
toughest mountains, and the softening of features
in statues. Yet generally we expect erosion from
precipitation to be gradual and gentle, taking
decades to make a noticeable difference. This of
course takes into account gentle flows and the soft
pitter-patter of rain on stone, not turbine blades
passing through the air at many times the terminal
velocity of rain drops of up to 9 m/s.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_For_Ron_DeSantis,_‘We’re_All_in
This_Together’—When_It’s_Convenient_for_Him⠀⇛
We’re all in this thing together.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Coalition_Says_Biden_Should_Offer_This_Many
Offshore_Drilling_Leases:_Zero⠀⇛
“Offshore drilling is harming our communities,
wreaking havoc on the environment, and contributing
to the ‘code red’ crisis of global climate change.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Should_Respond_to_OPEC_by_Reinstating
Oil_Export_Ban,_Says_Green_Group⠀⇛
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and
National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said
in a statement that President Joe Biden is
“disappointed” by OPEC’s decision and will consider
“tools and authorities to reduce OPEC’s control
over energy prices.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Climate_Emergency_Is_Very
Much_Here._Now_We_Must_Act.⠀⇛
In Florida, Hurricane Ian ripped homes from their
foundations, mangled boat docks and left at least
2.6 million people without power. Floridians shared
pictures of flamingos sheltering from the storm in
public bathrooms and sharks swimming up the flooded
streets.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Barbados_Will_Be_Among_the_First_to_Receive
Climate_Money_From_New_International_Monetary_Fund_Resilience
Trust⠀⇛
Barbados, the Caribbean nation whose prime
minister, Mia Mottley, has championed the argument
that small and developing countries desperately
need debt relief and funding if they are to survive
climate change, has reached an agreement with the
International Monetary Fund that will make it among
the first recipients of money from a new $45
billion resilience trust.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Pakistan_Flooding_‘Calamity’_Prompts_Call_for
Reparations⠀⇛
“I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the
world, but I have never seen climate carnage on
this scale,” says UN Secretary General António
Guterres of the recent floods in Pakistan.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Deep-Rooted_Gender_Inequities
Make_Women_More_Vulnerable_During_Climate_Disasters⠀⇛
In recent years, the awful repercussions of climate
change have become irrefutable and very alarming.
Due to which Pakistan is facing a dire humanitarian
crisis stemming from unprecedented rainfall and
catastrophic floods that have impacted every part
of the country. The statistics are staggering: over
1,100 dead, more than 33 million displaced and
caused over $10 billion in damages. Officials
estimate that this monsoon season has left one-
third of the country underwater, one in seven
Pakistani people have been affected by the
momentous flooding.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Hurricanes_and_Other_Climate_Disasters
Exacerbate_Inequality,_Even_in_the_Middle_Class⠀⇛
But in a new book based on interviews after Harvey
devastatedthe area, we found that households in
Friendswood ended up on starkly divergent financial
trajectories.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Scientist_Says_Some_Coral_Reefs_Can_Be
Saved_‘If_We_Take_Immediate_Action’⠀⇛
“The fact that we’re going to see these changes by
2050 is a strong wake-up call.”
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Greenpeace_Campaigners_Disrupt_Liz_Truss
Speech_to_Denounce_U-Turn_on_Fracking⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_the_Long_Fight_for_Climate
Justice,_Activists_Win_Key_Victory_Against_Manchin_and
Fossil_Fuel_Industry⠀⇛
What’s in Manchin’s bill?
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Reform_Our_Elections_to_Secure_a
Sustainable_Future⠀⇛
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Striking_photos_show_scale_of
development_in_sub-Saharan_Africa⠀⇛
These arresting images illustrate the scale
of this change, and are taken from the
upcoming photography book African Studies, by
artist and photographer Edward Burtynsky, who
spent four years capturing the landscapes of
sub-Saharan Africa, mainly using drones and
taking photographs from aircraft. “Africa…
now stands as a final destination for the
complex arc of globalism,” he says.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Not_a_Blacklist’_But_a_‘Whitewash’:_EU
Slammed_for_Letting_Tax_Havens_Off_the_Hook⠀⇛
“The current list makes the E.U. a hypocrite as
major tax havens in Europe like Malta and
Luxembourg escape.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Strong,_and_the_Merely
Powerful⠀⇛
In the world order now emerging, it is genuinely
strong nations that will prevail over those reliant
on power alone, and force will have little to do
with it.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Texts_Suggest_Way_More_People_In_The
Silicon_Valley_Elite_Should_Have_Imposter_Syndrome⠀⇛
I know that Elon claims he’s decided he might
actually live up to what he promised to do in the
binding contract he signed to buy Twitter, but I
still wanted to discuss some of the text messages
that became public last week as part of the case,
showing text messages between Musk and various
famous people about his plans for Twitter.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Coroner_Lists_‘Negative_Effects_Of_Online
Content’_As_One_Of_The_Causes_Of_A_UK_Teen’s_Death⠀⇛
So… this is a thing that happened. Adam Satariano
reports for the New York Times…
# ⚓ Salon ☛ “To_the_right,_to_the_right”:_Peter_Thiel_invested
$1.5m_in_right-wing_dating_app_“The_Right_Stuff”⠀⇛
Developed by Ryann McEnany, the sister of former
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, The
Right Stuff is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter
Thiel, who invested $1.5m into the project,
according to The Guardian. Although Thiel himself
identifies as a gay man, The Right Stuff is
marketed towards ultra-conservative heterosexuals
only.
# ⚓ [Old] NPR ☛ A_hacker_bought_a_voting_machine_on_eBay.
Michigan_officials_are_now_investigating⠀⇛
And, in an additional tweet, Benson noted that the
voting machine was originally from Wexford County
and clarified that it was not used to tabulate
ballots. (The Dominion-made apparatuses are built
to function as voting machines or ballot printing
devices. In Michigan, they were used to print voter
ballots.)
# ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ RNC’s_Ronna_McDaniel_wants_to_sue_Google
because_people_mark_GOP_junk_mail_as_“spam”⠀⇛
When the RNC sends out millions of fundraising
emails on a daily basis asking potential suckers
for money, of course most people toss the junk mail
into their spam folder (or have already marked it
as spam for direct delivery to said folder). And
this infuriates the RNC’s Ronna McDaniel, who
thinks she can force the unwanted solicitations
onto the public by suing Google.
# ⚓ PJ Media ☛ As_Women_in_Iran_Are_Shot_Down_While_Fighting
for_Their_Rights,_the_Squad_Has_Little_to_Say⠀⇛
What’s happening in Iran is the biggest women’s
rights protest ever in the Islamic world. Yet the
response from some of the leading feminists in the
United States, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan
Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, has been strikingly muted.
Each one has made what can be characterized at best
as a tepid, pro forma response, one that contrasts
sharply with their statements and actions during
the Trump administration. It looks as if each one
of these women regards Donald Trump as a far
greater threat to women than the Islamic Republic
of Iran is.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Softer_approaches_to_jihadi_threats⠀⇛
Two trends in Africa have prompted a challenge to
the military model of countering terrorist threats.
Each trend bears watching for the global struggle
against terrorism.
The first is negative. During the past decade, the
United States, France, and others have spent
billions of dollars helping African governments and
militaries fight Islamist extremism in countries
upward from the Sahara. Yet violence by these
groups has continued to grow. In addition, six
countries in the region have seen attempted or
successful military coups since 2020. Last Friday,
Burkina Faso had its second putsch this year. That
instability has prompted France to step back and
reassess its military strategy in the region.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Supreme_Court’s_Majority_Reconvenes_Its
Assault_on_Democracy⠀⇛
This week, a zealous band of Republican partisans
gathers in Washington intent on advancing their
campaign to undermine free and fair elections in
this country. It isn’t the Proud Boys responding to
President Donald Trump’s call to “stand back and
stand by.” Nor is it the majority of House
Republicans who sustain the “big lie” that the 2020
election was stolen. It is the six-person, right-
wing majority of the Supreme Court using a self-
selected docket of cases to advance minority rule.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Calls_Grow_for_Clarence_Thomas_to_Recuse_Himself
From_Trump_Mar-a-Lago_Docs_Case⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Supreme_Court_Case_Threatens_the_Future
of_Tribal_Lands⠀⇛
This November, the Supreme Court will hear Haaland
v. Brackeen—a case that could have catastrophic
consequences for Indian country. The plaintiffs are
challenging the constitutionality of the Indian
Child Welfare Act of 1978, arguing that the law
discriminates against non-Indian adoptive parents
on the basis of race. More specifically, they claim
that the law institutionalizes discrimination
against white families in the adoption of American
Indian children.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Is_Ready_to_Take_Down_More
of_the_Voting_Rights_Act⠀⇛
The Constitution has been amended three times to
achieve the universal suffrage its wealthy white
male authors denied everyone other than themselves.
The 15th Amendment prohibited denying the vote on
the basis of race. The 19th Amendment prohibited
denying the vote on the basis of sex. The 24th
Amendment eliminated the poll tax “or any other
tax” that may be used to erect a financial barrier
to voting. But these amendments meant functionally
nothing until the passage of the Voting Rights Act
of 1965. It’s the Voting Rights Act that makes
these constitutional amendments “real” by providing
a way to sue white male governments who seek to
suppress or deny the vote in violation of these
amendments. Without the Voting Rights Act, voting
rights are just suggestions, easily ignored by
committed white supremacists operating at the state
level. It doesn’t help minority voters to have
constitutional amendments if the white people
running the place won’t allow voters to prove that
they’ve been violated.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ What_to_Expect_From_the_SCOTUS_2022-23_Term⠀⇛
So far, the justices have agreed to hear about half
the number of cases they ordinarily decide in a
term, with more to be added in the coming weeks.
But already the court’s docket includes major cases
concerning voting rights, election law,
environmental protections and the constitutionality
of affirmative action. As conservatives look for
cases that can continue to shift the law in their
direction, liberals look with trepidation to what
the court’s right wing may do next.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_the_Left_Needs_to_Change_How_It_Fights⠀⇛
The left, says Bree Carlson, needs to rethink its
strategy. Tired of fighting isolated battles on
racial justice and economic justice, and always
playing defense, she wants to look toward broader
battles—and then win them.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Takes_Mar-a-Lago_Documents_Case_to_Supreme
Court⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ro_Khanna_Lays_Out_New_Vision_for_American
Manufacturing_and_Economic_Progress⠀⇛
In what some observers view as a messaging test run
ahead of a potential presidential bid in 2024 or
beyond, Khanna (D-Calif.) published a Boston Globe
opinion piece laying out details of his New
Economic Patriotism Plan.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Coalition_Representing_24_Million_Workers
Demands_Senate_Vote_on_PRO_Act_Before_Midterms⠀⇛
“Workers across the country can’t afford to keep
waiting for the Senate to take action.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Who_Voted_for_This?’:_Campaigners_Disrupt
Truss_Speech_Over_Fracking_Ban_‘U-Turn’⠀⇛
“Who voted for this?” read the sign displayed by
Rebecca Newsom, Greenpeace U.K.’s head of public
affairs, and Ami McCarthy, the group’s policy
officer.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_China_Coup_Dupes⠀⇛
The media rush to tie the string around these
events was aggressive. It involved Gordon Chang,
infamous proponent of the “collapse of China”
theory, being consulted for expert advice by such
outlets as Newsweek. Chang’s tweets were
generously quoted as sagacious observations: “
[W]hatever happened inside this #Chinese military
during the last three days – evidently something
unusual occurred – tells us there is turbulence
inside the senior #CCP leadership.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Ron_Johnson_Stinks⠀⇛
Another election campaign, and once again the
political marketers are portraying Ron Johnson as
your favorite uncle, a simple Wisconsin man looking
out for the best interests of the state’s people.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Reviving_the_Child_Tax_Credit_Is
a_Winning_Campaign_Message_for_Democrats_This_Coming
Midterms⠀⇛
With the November midterm elections fast
approaching, the path the United States government
will take over the next two years is looking very
uncertain. Recent polling shows that control of
both the Senate and the House of Representatives is
up for grabs between Democrats and Republicans. To
maintain control of both chambers – and possibly
expand their majority in the Senate – Democrats
will need to take advantage of any edge they can
find to bring in more support.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Khanna_Tells_Biden_to_Cut_Off_Weapons_to
Saudis_as_OPEC_Agrees_to_Slash_Oil_Supply⠀⇛
“President Biden should make it clear that we will
stop supplying the Saudis with weapons and air
parts if they fleece the American people and
strengthen [Russian President Vladimir] Putin by
making drastic production cuts,” Khanna (D-Calif.)
told The Washington Post in an interview as OPEC
members met in Vienna.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Media_Spin_Lula_Victory_as_Defeat⠀⇛
From the way that the Anglo media are treating the
October 2 Brazilian first-round presidential
elections, a casual news consumer may get the
impression that the Brazilian Workers Party
suffered a crushing defeat. It takes an incredible
amount of spin to create this impression. In order
to pull this off, several important facts have to
be downplayed or ignored.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Crimean_beauty_queen_fined_by_Russian_authorities_for
singing_patriotic_Ukrainian_song⠀⇛
Olga Valeeva, who was named Mrs Queen Beauty –
Crimea 2022, was spared a jail sentence because she
has children who are underage, Russian state news
agency TASS reported on Monday.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs
in Crimea said in a video that it identified a
video online in which “two girls sang a song that
is the battle anthem of an extremist organization.”
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Miss_Crimea_fined_by_Russian_officials_for_singing
patriotic_Ukrainian_song⠀⇛
Valeyeva was fined 40,000 rubles ($677) and her
friend was sentenced to 10 days behind bars for the
performance, according to the news outlet.
# ⚓ Morning Star News ☛ Christian_Woman_on_Trial_for_Blasphemy
in_Northeast_Nigeria⠀⇛
A Christian woman in northeast Nigeria is on trial
after being held incommunicado for more than four
months on blasphemy charges for forwarding a
WhatsApp message, sources said.
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Iran_pop_singer_silenced,_but_his_song_remains_a
protest_anthem⠀⇛
Even though he has been silenced, Iranian pop
singer Shervin Hajipour’s impassioned song in
support of protests over Mahsa Amini’s death in
custody remains an unofficial anthem of the
movement.
The song “Baraye” notched up 40 million views on
Instagram before it was deleted when Hajipour was
arrested, but he has since been freed on bail and
has distanced himself from politics, likely as a
condition for his release.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Mahsa_Amini_and_the_Women_of_Iran⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Freelance_Photographer_Says_He_Was_Fired_by
NYT_Over_Support_for_Palestinian_Resistance⠀⇛
“After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a
freelance photojournalist for The New York Times, I
was informed via an abrupt phone call from the U.S.
outlet that they will no longer work with me in the
future,” Salem wrote on Twitter. “I began working
with the newspaper in 2018, covering critical
events in Gaza such as the weekly protests at the
border fence with Israel, the investigation into
the Israeli killing of field nurse Razan al-Najjar,
and more recently, the May 2021 Israeli offensive
on the Gaza Strip.”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Kurdish_feminist_journalist_Nagihan_Akarsel
killed_in_armed_attack_in_Iraqi_Kurdistan⠀⇛
Akarsel was shot in front of her home at around 10
a.m. local time, and was immediately killed, the
Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reported. Her body was
taken to the Sulaymaniyah Forensic Medicine
Institution.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_the_Police_Became_an_Occupying_Army⠀⇛
Loosely constructed as model towns, Riotsvilles
served as training grounds for the police and
military, stages for mock riots, with officers and
service members role-playing as protester and
police to rehearse scenarios for quashing
uprisings. The reenactments, filled with ridiculous
wigs and bad acting, were filmed by the military,
and they remain in the public domain. The intended
targets of their training were labeled as riots to
avoid recognizing them as exercises in political
dissent—precisely because they called into question
the authority of the state. Sierra Pettengill’s
documentary, an essay film composed entirely of
archival footage, dramatizes the reality of this
power struggle.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran_protests:_Schoolgirls_heckle_paramilitary
speaker⠀⇛
A new video posted online appears to show
schoolgirls heckling a member of Iran’s feared
paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government
protests sweeping the country spread to the
classroom.
The teenagers wave their headscarves in the air and
shout “get lost, Basiji” at the man, who was asked
to address them.
# ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Anti-hijab_Iranian_teen_killed,_body_snatched,
buried_secretly_to_avoid_outrage⠀⇛
Not just that, Nika’s aunt Atash, who posted about
Nika on her social media accounts, was arrested on
Sunday when security forces raided her house. They
even threatened to kill Atash if anyone in the
family took part in protests, according to sources.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cruel_Disregard_for_Life’:_Rights_Groups
Condemn_Iran’s_Deadly_Attacks_on_Protesters⠀⇛
In some cases, they shot at people who were running
away.”
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran:_Teen_protester_Nika_Shakarami’s_body_stolen,
sources_say⠀⇛
In her last message to a friend she said she was
being chased by security forces, her aunt told BBC
Persian.
Nika’s family finally found her body in a morgue at
a detention centre in the capital.
“When we went to identify her, they didn’t allow us
to see her body, only her face for a few seconds,”
said Atash Shakarami, Nika’s aunt.
# ⚓ [Old] Firstpost ☛ Iran:_Nose_smashed,_skull_pounded;
security_forces_return_body_of_another_young_woman_with
suspicious_injuries⠀⇛
According to the Iran Human Rights Organization, at
least 83 people have been killed in the crackdown.
Amnesty International confirms 52 deaths, while
Iran’s Fars news agency puts the death toll at
“around 60.”
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Jamal_Khashoggi_vs._Marc_Bennett:
Whose_Life_Matters?⠀⇛
“Jamal Khashoggi’s murder 4 years ago was also an
attack on freedom of expression everywhere,”
Secretary of State Blinken tweeted. There’s no such
thing as “freedom of expression” among Khashoggi’s
Qatari employees. Khashoggi was not fighting for
any kind of freedom, but for an Islamist tyranny of
the kind practiced by Qatar’s fellow Islamists in
Iran. Had he gotten his way, liberals in Saudi
Arabia would be the ones being brutally murdered.
# ⚓ Christian Post ☛ Christian_converts_in_Uganda_beaten,
flogged_by_Muslims_in_separate_attacks;_woman_left_unable_to
walk⠀⇛
In Bulumba Sub-County, Kaliro District, 38-year-old
Musa Wabwire was praying in his home on Sept. 9
when relatives and other Muslims arrived, he said.
Noting his absence at Friday prayers, the mosque
leader had sent an assistant who had secretly
recorded video of Wabwire listening to a Christian
radio program, Wabwire said.
“After hearing it, they all got annoyed and flooded
into my home and asked me many questions, which I
failed to answer,” said Wabwire, who had secretly
put his faith in Christ while serving as treasurer
for the mosque. “I only told them to take their
money box, and that I be left with Christ, who was
enough for me. They became so angry and started
beating me up while shouting, ‘Kafir, Kafir
[infidel]!’”
When he declined to renounce Christ, they flogged
him 40 lashes with sticks, he said. Wabwire’s older
brother, an imam in a nearby village, ordered the
destruction of his crops and his living quarters on
the homestead, he said.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Manufacturing_Espionage:_FBI_Targeted
Former_NSA_Employee_Who_Had_Substantial_Debt⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ For_twelve_years_we_thought_that_sinking
deeper_is_not_possible,_but_as_it_turns_out,_it_is⠀⇛
We spoke with two of the Hungarian public teachers
who were recently fired for taking part in the
civil disobedience movement – for having demanded
changes in the education system and a pay raise.
They told us about the importance of standing up,
the changes that need to be made and what’s next
for them. Make sure to turn on the English
subtitles!
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Optimism_of_the_Will⠀⇛
Noam Chomsky: I can add a fourth: the impending
destruction of what remains of American democracy
and the shift of the United States toward a deeply
authoritarian, also proto-fascist, state, when the
Republicans come back into office, which looks
likely. So, that’s four horses.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unreal’:_Amazon_Suspends_50_Employees_Who
Refused_to_Work_After_Fire_Broke_Out⠀⇛
“We will not tolerate any unsafe workplace and we
will not tolerate intimidation.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Finally_Starts_Playing_Hardball_With
Robocall_Enablers⠀⇛
The FCC is finally starting to toughen up when it
comes to tackling our nationwide robocall scourge.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Note_to_SCOTUS:_Section_230_is_an
Acknowledgement_of_Reality,_Not_a_“Liability_Shield”⠀⇛
Here are the “26 words” in question…
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Bypass_Paywalls_of_Leading_News
Websites⠀⇛
Many leading news websites nowadays come with
paywalls. To read more than two or three articles
on such websites, you have to pay for a
subscription. If you need occasional access to a
publication’s website, it doesn’t make sense to
subscribe to all of them. Also, the limited free
content available might not be enough to evaluate
whether a subscription is worth paying for. In such
cases, it helps to know how to bypass the news
sites’ restrictive paywalls.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Amazon_Suspends_at_Least_50_Workers_in_Response
to_Protest_Over_Warehouse_Fire⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Union_Organizer_Says_He_Was_Fired_for
Wearing_Suicide_Awareness_Pin⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders,_Warren_Slam_Starbucks_for_“Unethical
and_Unlawful”_Union_Busting⠀⇛
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Ex-CSO_of_Uber_found_guilty_of_blocking_FTC
investigation⠀⇛
Former Uber Technologies chief security office
Joseph Sullivan, who was sacked by the company in
November 2017 along with one of his deputies over a
October 2016 data breach, has been found guilty of
criminal obstruction charges for not reporting the
breach to government authorities.
The verdict was announced on Wednesday in US
federal court after a trial that lasted three
weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, adding
that Sullivan faced five years in jail and a
possible additional three for not reporting a
felony.
The October 2016 breach included names, email
addresses and phone numbers, according to a
Bloomberg report in November 2017 which cited a
company spokesperson.
Apart from this, personal information about seven
million Uber drivers was accessed as well. The
stolen data included 600,000 US drivers’ licence
numbers, but no social security numbers, trip
locations or other data.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ AppleInsider ☛ SCOTUS_rejects_Apple’s_bid_to_cancel
Qualcomm’s_5G_patents⠀⇛
The Circuit dismissed Apple’s appeal, saying
its settlement with Qualcomm precluded it
from attempting to invalidate the chipmaker’s
patents.
In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear
Apple’s bid to invalidate two Qualcomm
patents, upholding the decision from the
Federal Circuit. On Monday, the Supreme Court
upheld that ruling and declined to hear Apple
again.
# ⚓ [Old] Reuters ☛ U.S._urges_Supreme_Court_to_reject
Apple_appeal_in_Qualcomm_patent_fight⠀⇛
The Justice Department on Tuesday urged the
U.S. Supreme Court to deny a bid by Apple Inc
to revive a patent fight with Qualcomm Inc
over mobile technology.
The brief by U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth
Prelogar said a federal appeals court was
correct to rule that Apple lacked standing to
continue efforts to cancel two Qualcomm
patents after reaching a global settlement
with the chip maker.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Apple_loses_second_bid_to_challenge
Qualcomm_patents_at_U.S._Supreme_Court⠀⇛
Apple challenged the validity of the patents
at issue in this case at the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal
Board.
The companies settled their underlying fight
in 2019, signing an agreement worth billions
of dollars that let Apple continue using
Qualcomm chips in iPhones. The settlement
included an Apple license to thousands of
Qualcomm patents, but allowed the patent-
board proceedings to continue.
The board upheld the patents in 2020, and
Apple appealed to the patent-specialist U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Cupertino, California-based Apple argued it
had proper legal standing to appeal because
San Diego-based Qualcomm could sue again
after the license expires, potentially as
soon as 2025.
# ⚓ IT World CA ☛ Apple_loses_another_attempt_to_nullify
Qualcomm_patents⠀⇛
In 2020, the patents were upheld, and Apple
appealed to the US Patent and Trademark
Office, invoking legal validity because
Qualcomm could sue again after its license
expires in 2025. Last year, the case was
dismissed for lack of reputation, owing to
Apple’s speculative risk of being sued again
and the fact that the challenge would not
affect its payment obligations under the
settlement.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_Engagement_on_EU’s_Artificial
Intelligence_Act⠀⇛
Creative Commons has proactively worked with
policymakers and other key stakeholders,
creating a constructive dialogue to inform
both the content of the text and the context
of the debate. We agree with the objectives
of the Act: ensuring AI systems placed on the
Union market are used in a way that respects
fundamental rights and Union values;
providing legal certainty to facilitate
investment and innovation in AI; and
facilitating the development of a single
market for lawful, transparent, and
trustworthy AI applications to prevent market
fragmentation.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Join_Us_to_Celebrate_20_Years_of
Creative_Commons⠀⇛
During 2021–2022, CC has been celebrating the
20th anniversary of our founding in 2001 and
the first release of the CC licenses in 2002,
successfully concluding an ambitious
fundraising campaign to support programs like
Open Culture, Open Climate, and Open
Education, and to help ensure CC’s ongoing
sustainability.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Book_Publishing_Giant_Pulls_Nearly_1400
Ebook_Titles_From_GW_Library;_Forcing_Students_To_Buy
Them_Instead⠀⇛
It is difficult to understate how downright
evil the big book publishers are. If you
think the RIAA and MPA are bad (and, they
are), the book publishers take it to new
super villain, mustache-twirling levels.
George Washington University libraries have
put out an alert to students and faculty that
Wiley, one of the largest textbook
publishers, has now removed 1,379 textbook
titles that the library can lend out. They
won’t even let the library purchase a license
to lend out the ebooks. They will only let
students buy the books.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ End_Live_Piracy_Now:_Massive
Coalition_Demands_Immediate_EU_Action⠀⇛
In a coordinated call to action, more than
100 rightsholders and organizations spanning
sports and other live entertainment are
demanding action from the European Union to
end live piracy – now. They want new
legislation that will guarantee the swift
removal and blocking of illegal streams. The
signs suggest that intermediaries – not
actual pirates – will be the targets.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ DISH_Wins_$26.5m_Pirate_IPTV_Judgment
But_Might_Not_Get_a_Penny⠀⇛
DISH Network has won yet another significant
damages award following a lawsuit filed
against a pirate IPTV supplier. The U.S.
broadcaster filed a complaint against My
Indian TV in August 2021, but the service
stayed online until this April. DISH will now
take control of the service’s domains but
whether it will see any of the $26.5m awarded
by a New York court remains to be seen.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Earthlink_Will_Ask_Wholesale
Providers_to_Block_Pirate_Site_YTS⠀⇛
Earthlink has settled a piracy liability
lawsuit filed by several movie companies this
summer. While there is no mention of damages,
the ISP has agreed to ask its wholesale
providers to block access to the notorious
pirate site YTS. The providers are not named
but Earthlink sells or resold AT&T and Time
Warner Cable infrastructure.
# ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ “Mother_Will_Be_Pleased”:_*How
It_Feels_to_Be_Run_Over*_(1900)_–_The_Public_Domain
Review⠀⇛
One of the earliest uses of intertitles,
Hepworth’s film belongs to a genre of fin-de-
siècle accident pictures, where we can
observe cinema discovering new forms of
communication.
From their beginning, movies have been
fascinated with motion and its termination —
the play between stasis and animation that is
inherent to how we perceive the rapid transit
of still images across a screen. Nearly a
century before David Cronenberg’s adaptation
of J. G. Ballard’s Crash (1973), a novel in
which characters yearn for “the ecstasies of
head-on collisions”, Cecil Hepworth’s How It
Feels to Be Run Over found pleasure in blunt
force trauma. In this minute-long film, a
stationary camera, placed on the edge of a
dirt road, records the approach of a horse-
drawn cart, which passes safely out of the
frame. Through the dust kicked up by hooves
and wheels comes a motor car, driven by
Hepworth, veering wildly toward us. As this
automobile collides with the camera, the
screen cuts to black and hand-written text
flashes almost imperceptibly before our eyes:
“?!!!? ! Oh! Mother will be pleased”.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Stumble_Through_Life_Itself⠀⇛
The current draft of Union squirts from the speaker
(s) of this tablet. The initial section will be
attended to soon by the mixing module of my
cerebrum, as the impressions it usually leaves on
me is that of tenebrous, oily liquid. In one way,
however, I do like how *dark* it sounds. Perhaps
*murky* is a better word. The flow from the end of
*Olšanské Hřbitovy* into Christian’s transition
directly to the *murk* may be just what the
universe needs during this trying epoch. The
remainder of the piece is more bright, much unlike
the perfect dampening of distributed matter at the
Heat Death of the Universe, which, they say, is
right around the corner, as it always has been and
should certainly be.
# ⚓ Natural_Alienation⠀⇛
I am sitting at a table in a dining room, writing
this gemlog. My toes touching the hardwood floor. A
window sits right next to me, but the light inside
causes it to reflect my own face instead of letting
me see the dark sky beyond. It is not quite time to
sleep, but it would be dark if my environment was
not illuminated by the incandescent bulbs hanging
from the ceiling.
I went outside thrice today. I fed the cats, pulled
some books out of storage, and fed the cats again.
I also walked in circles for some exercise. What am
I doing?
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_NILFS_file_system:_automatic_continuous_snapshots⠀⇛
Today, I’ll share about a special Linux file system
that I really enjoy. It’s called NILFS and has been
imported into Linux in 2009, so it’s not really a
new player, despite being stable and used in
production it never got popular.
In this file system, there is a unique system of
continuous checkpoint creation. A checkpoint is a
snapshot of your system at a given point in time,
but it can be deleted automatically if some disk
space must be reclaimed. A checkpoint can be
transformed into a snapshot that will never be
removed.
# ⚓ Small_Music:_Module_Files⠀⇛
Many years ago, I was active on a fan site based on
the MS DOS video game “Jazz Jackrabbit”. The site
featured user-created content packs, ranging from
custom levels to tilesets to helper programs, and
of course fan remixes of game music. Some remixes
were uploaded as MP3 files, but most were created
and submitted in the same format as the music from
the game itself: module files.
Module files are a group of audio file formats that
are derived from the MOD file format on Amiga
systems. They store samples of instruments and
patterns of notes to play with those samples, along
with a series of effects to apply to the notes and
metadata about the music. Module files are created
using programs called “trackers”, of which dozens
exist today for almost every platform imaginable.
It was in this format that I would create and
upload music.
# ⚓ EasyOS:_revisiting_my_past⠀⇛
In the process of hacking on HitchHiker, I wanted
to get my little system installed onto a second
system. My backup laptop was set up years ago with
a single partition unfortunately, so this required
some futzing around with moving partitions.
Years ago, back when I was new to Linux, I used to
be quite active with Puppy Linux. The first version
I used was 1.0.2, which was only marginally smaller
than Damn Small Linux at the time, somewhere around
50mb, and yet had all of the bases covered for most
people’s day to day needs using a computer. I began
using it as my daily driver somewhere around 1.0.3-
1.0.4, can’t remember which, and got involved a bit
with development for a few years. It’s still my go-
to distro when I need a live system to do some
repair or whatnot.
[...]
Nor is my disillusionment completely confined to
gtk4. When I started Zterm, it was basically
undertaken to fulfill my own wants and needs in a
terminal emulator. I wanted both tabs and split
panes, while keeping the amount of user interface
to a minimum. That is to say as few buttons and
menus as possible. I’ve been mostly happy with how
it worked out, but the light bindings I created to
gtk3 for Zig are deficient in a few key areas,
which limits the project in a few key areas. Most
notably, due to some design choices made early on
Zterm is limited to a single window open at a time.
That was one strike against it, but with Zig
pushing closer to it’s self hosted compiler I’ve
had to fix a lot of issues as they arise due to
changes in the compiler. It’s currently compiling
on Arch again, but there’s a bug which hasn’t been
addressed yet and is likely to remain in Zig for a
while. When linking to system libraries, if any of
your libraries are placed anywhere other than /usr/
lib the compiler gets confused and generates an
incorrect linker command, attempting to link to the
static versions of certain libraries without
including any of their dependencies. So that means
that Zterm requires manual linking on FreeBSD and
HitchHiker, and likely also on OpenBSD and NetBSD
too. Ouch.
# ⚓ Generate_Veins_Faster⠀⇛
The best part of Veins of the Earth is the cave
maps. I have “large scale maps” covering south
western Zakhara (mostly underwater♥) and plenty of
small scale maps, and those more zoomed in are
mostly deterministic to generate. (Perfect for
#blorb.)
The downside is that they’re also a huge time sink,
especially for someone like me who can’t keep all
the rules in my head at once.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ slondrlog:_Gemini_e-commerce⠀⇛
I saw a post recently that implied that the
Gemini protocol was so restrictive, it would
make e-commerce nonviable. I don’t think this
is true at all.
The easiest way to do ecommerce over Gemini
is exactly how the first round of WWW
ecommerce worked: put up a list of products
you sell or services you provide, with a link
at the bottom to submit credit card info. It
took the web a decade to figure out how to do
that securely, but Gemini already uses TLS
for secure data submission so that is no
issue here.
# ⚓ Gemini:_The_New_Frontier⠀⇛
I’ve only been on gemini for a month or two
now. Very similar to gopher, the internet I
grew up with. In those days it was just
interesting that people could post
information and you could easily access it.
There were no ads, no monetization. There was
also no high production costs you have now
with the large and extremely complex websites
you have today. Everything was enthusiast
created and enthusiast consumed. Most
services were hosted on university servers,
some on corporate systems that allowed
employees to host services. And of course an
handful of people running their own machines,
switching over from the old dial up BBS to
the new internet. That environment never
became monetized so it never seemed to get
too get flooded with clickbate.
I somewhat doubt that gemini will become
monetized either. Basic text output, nearly
no input. The assumed UX for gemini is
reading flat files with separate media files
and ASCII Art. I don’t see this as an issue
as it will keep a lot of the garbage out. But
what I do wonder is what types of services
will show up in the future. Right now the
majority of pages are personal logs, with a
few pages dedicated to our hobbies and
interests. There already exists a few search
engines which helps discovery. A few news
feeds exist that are transposing HTTP sites,
a few weather services that call government
or public service APIs. I think the next big
step to keep gemini going is the creation of
more services. As for what they may be, I
don’t have a clue. Aside from searching
through programming documentation online,
I’ve mostly given up on the internet.
# ⚓ RE:_Archiving_the_smallnet_&_fantasizing_about_a_free
mesh_based_internet⠀⇛
Smokey is trying to figure out how big Gemini
is and if it made sense to share it through a
mesh network.
It turns out that I’ve some very interesting
data to share. I’ve been using Offpunk to
browse both the web and Gemini for a bit less
than one year. During those months, every
single resource I’ve read has been saved in
my Offpunk cache. I didn’t clean the cache
except for one very big video file on Gopher
(on the web, Offpunk is smart enough not to
download files that are too big if not
explicitly requested).
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Thus_spake_the_master_programmer:_“time_for_you_to
leave.”⠀⇛
Read enough of my posts over the past year or
so, and it’s clear that I am not happy
working at The Enterprise. The process über
alles, the overly managed and useless
laptops, the bad communication (which I don’t
think I’ve mentioned, but man, I didn’t
expect the telephone game [1] to be an actual
strategy of a company), the so called “agile
development” that is anything but agile [2],
the twice daily scrum meetings (because my
manager wanted his own scrum meeting with
*just the team* with no other departments
involved—that’s the *other* daily scrum
meeting), and the testing.
[...]
So on August 26^th during my one-on-one with
my manager, where the topic of conversation
drifted towards testing (yet again), I had
had enough and decided to leave The
Enterprise as I felt like I wasn’t a cultural
fit. I made my intentions clear on Monday,
August 29^th, and immediately took all my
remaining time off (three weeks worth),
followed by the standard “two weeks notice
period,” where I was in multiple “transfer-
of-knowledge” meetings. It’s indicative of
the thought process of The Enterprise that
most of the “transfer-of-knowledge” meetings
were about … testing. Or rather, the testing
tools I had written and how they work.
It was time for me to leave. There were a few
red flags indicating that perhaps I should
have left earlier (such as the rest of my
team leaving the company at the same time
[3]) but after twelve years, it was probably
time.
Yesterday was my last day at The Enterprise.
Today is the first day of a long needed rest.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with
the error code from the trap frame [4] …
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