𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, October 14, 2022
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⦿ Browse the Web With Falkon (Cross-Platform) | Techrights
⦿ People Who Relocated (With Family) to Work at the European Patent Office (EPO) Complain About European School The Hague (ESH) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 13, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Well, It’s Dead | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/falkon-latest-kde-neon/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/families-at-epo/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/irc-log-131022/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/killing-the-european-patent-convention/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/26th-birthday-of-kde/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/godot-4-0-beta-3/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/14/falkon-latest-kde-neon/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/14/falkon-latest-kde-neon/
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✐ Browse_the_Web_With_Falkon_(Cross-Platform)⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, KDE at 9:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 96ab92dce699e9dd0e60e96f326d3115
Falkon Browser Has Gotten Better
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/latest-falkon.webm
Summary: Latest Falkon in latest KDE_Neon (the latest Plasma with latest
Falkon, a Web browser which is part of KDE) demonstrated in video, which
focuses on configuration in order to highlight newer functionality
TWO days ago I updated KDE Neon to the latest version, knowing that KDE Plasma
had made a release. KDE Neon usually contains the very latest of everything, so
it’s useful for demonstrating upcoming features in GNU/Linux.
“Falkon is not a company and it won’t collect data about the user.”Today we
take a look at the latest Falkon. This browser was covered here almost_2_years
ago_(in_Debian_10), but it has matured a lot since. The above shows how Falkon
can be configured to fool stubborn sites into thinking you’re in fact using
some other Web browser (so that they let the visitor through). To quote IRC
from_two_days_ago, Ryan “learned that you have to be very careful with the User
Agent. Get one thing wrong and Cloudflare sites stop working because they don’t
know what your browser is. This is horrible. You shouldn’t even have to lie
about your User Agent, but if you do, it has to at least be some take on
Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.”
In practice, just about every Web site works OK with Falkon. Some need to be
given a false User Agent, but in Falkon that’s easy to configure and the
functionality is built in. Ad blocking is also built in and highly effective.
Falkon is not a company and it won’t collect data about the user. █
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✐ People_Who_Relocated_(With_Family)to_Work_at_the_European_Patent_Office
(EPO)Complain_About_European_School_The_Hague(ESH)⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇European_School_The_Hague_(ESH)_petition⦈_
Summary: Unhappy members of staff at the EPO (the vast_majority_of_staff) claim
that their children too are affected by their EPO career because the schools
aren’t functioning properly
THE Administrative Council of the EPO is meeting this week and we’ll soon know
if it bothered listening to the urgent call for a_Conference_of_Ministers_of
the_Contracting_States. Lots of crime and corruption have basically become the
“new normal” since the last such conference. Benoît_Battistelli and António
Campinos have been laughing at the face of the law and even bribed those who
are meant to regulate/oversee them.
But meanwhile (also this week) there was ongoing_concern_about_the_European
School_The_Hague_(ESH), where EPO staff sends a lot of children.
The text below is being circulated this week, summarising the key points staff
wished to discuss with management:
§ PETITION European School The Hague (ESH)⠀➾
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Provide quality education to EPO children
Dear colleagues,
We are writing to you today to ask you to support our colleagues with
children attending the European School of The Hague (ESH), by signing
the petition below. We are worried to have learned that ESH is unable
to provide adequate teaching to their students, many of them being
EPO children.
We, the staff of the EPO, parents of children at the European School
of The Hague (ESH), note that the ESH is not providing quality
education at the level required for an European School, due to –
inter alia:
– Shortage of teachers. Teachers are overbooked, absent or were
simply not recruited.
– Inadequate timetables. Some students have blocks of up to 4 same
subject consecutive classes
– B-exam: No/ not sufficient preparation for specific mandatory
exams.
– ESH is incapable to manage children with special needs.
– Inadequate understanding of COVID Curfew learning impact and lack
of learning catch-up programs.
– A high rate of staff turnover is reported.
– Lack of administrative and support staff (reception, security,
etc.).
– Billing problems, such as the definition of miscellaneous costs.
As the EPO management, supported by the education and childcare
reform, promotes the ESH as the educational institution for the
children of EPO staff,
we hereby ask immediate action from the EPO management to:
i) Request the EPO to invest into the educational infrastructure of
the ESH, and
ii) Extend the transitional measures to all EPO children, to attend a
school of their choice, until the ESH is at the standard of a
category I European School.
We believe that everyone deserves a quality education. We strongly
believe that education is a right, not a privilege.
Why is nobody in relevant communities covering this? As I pointed out a_couple
of_days_ago, some organisations such as the EFF intentionally overlook the
situation at the EPO. They just can’t be bothered unless some billionaire and
lobbyists pay them for ‘activism’ (as Mark Cuban did). The corporate media is
even more culpable because it has an actual responsibility to inform the
public, especially national broadcasters. █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢙⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡿⣿⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⢹⡿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣤⣾⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣴⣧⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠛⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠻⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠐⠀⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⡥⣉⡈⢀⣉⢉⣁⠉⠁⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⡋⠀⠀⠀⠐⠃⠀⠀⠉⠈⠀⠀⠉⢈⢉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢙⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠃⠀⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣤⣾⣤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣴⣧⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⡀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡠⠀⠀⠀⠀⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⢿⠁⠀⣶⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⠋⢸⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠇⠀⣤⡄⠀⠀⣀⣴⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣾⡇⠀⢠⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠏⢴⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⢈⣾⠀⢠⣁⢙⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠈⣶⡌⠀⣸⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡆⢀⣀⠀⢀⠀⣿⡿⠀⢠⡏⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡹⣿⡆⠀⠀
⣯⠤⣯⣜⠃⢠⡀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣆⡀⠀⢸⣿⡏⣿⢠⣤⡀⠘⠀⢻⠿⣢⣤⡀⠀⠀⣴⣆⣾⣿⣴⡿⢓⠈⠙⣟⡇⠀⡈⣶⡆⢻⣅⠸⣷⢿⣄⣴⣴⣿⣶⠀⢘⡗⢿⣿⣷⣿⣴⡟⠀⣀⣘⠃⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⣿⣷⡄⢀
⠿⠀⠙⣿⣿⣾⠃⠀⢘⣿⠏⢻⣽⣇⣾⣿⣇⣿⠸⣿⣧⣄⠀⣊⢱⡿⣿⣿⣸⣷⢻⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠊⡗⢀⣁⡁⣴⣿⣿⠃⣾⣿⣇⣸⡾⢿⣶⡿⢿⣧⢤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⢀⡐⣿⣿⠦⢿⡧⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣭⡳⣴
⠒⢲⣦⣽⣿⡏⠀⣤⣾⣿⣬⠈⠛⢻⡿⣿⣅⢋⣤⣿⢿⢳⣀⣻⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⡧⠀⢰⣿⣧⣾⣷⣿⣷⢺⣿⠀⠈⣿⣿⡛⣿⣟⠹⡿⢿⣻⣿⡷⣬⣽⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⡿⢛⢽⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣶⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿
⠀⠘⠟⠛⠛⠧⠘⢿⣿⣹⣷⡤⣶⣿⠃⢻⡟⠸⣿⣟⠸⡜⢉⠁⠀⠹⣻⣿⣿⢥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⣿⢷⡅⠀⣤⢸⣿⡃⣿⣿⠇⠙⢸⢃⣈⠑⣿⡟⣸⣿⣿⣻⣟⣯⣿⣷⠈⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣯⣾⠘⣿
⠂⠀⠀⢔⣴⣶⣿⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣤⢸⡟⣠⡜⢧⣠⣦⣻⣥⡆⣼⣿⣷⣿⡾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢁⣀⣀⠐⣿⡟⢿⣶⣿⣰⢄⠀⠘⠇⢭⠇⢸⣶⣿⡿⠉⠀⠈⠙⣿⣟⣖⠿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣹
⠀⠀⢀⣼⡿⠋⠀⢀⣀⡈⢻⣿⢛⣴⡿⣿⣿⠟⠿⢍⡞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢋⣁⠀⠑⣇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣕⣼⣿⣿⣧⣄⡀⣰⢻⣿⠁⢀⣤⡄⠀⣉⠸⡿⣿⣿⣧⢠⣤⣤⣄⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⢇⣾⣿⣷⠹⡿⡿⠛⠋⣸⡿
⠏⣴⡿⣯⡄⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⠀⢻⣿⣿⡿⠈⡙⠟⢺⠌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣜⣿⣿⣾⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣏⢸⣿⡟⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠸⠇⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⣿⣿⡏⢸⣿⣿⡟⠠⡇⣨⡾⣵⣿⠣
⣯⣿⣷⣿⣧⣤⠀⠻⣿⡟⠀⢸⣿⣷⡀⠃⣿⣤⢐⣀⣠⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⡄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣶⣦⣶⣿⠃⠈⢿⣯⠀⠀⠀⡜⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠻⡏⠀⠀⠸⣡⣶⣿⠏⠀
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⣿⣿⣿⡏⢀⣼⣟⣬⣤⡄⣠⣤⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⢹⡻⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⠃⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡇⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⣿⡇⠈⠛⠷⠦⢟⠿⠛⢂⣿⡇⢠⣿⣿⣿
⠿⢋⡛⢡⣿⣿⣟⣻⠿⣿⣻⣭⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣭⡉⢋⣭⣿⣋⠃⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡏⠀⢀⣠⣤⡶⠟⣋⡀⢿⡇⠘⠿⡿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢰⣿⠇⠀⢴⣶⣶⣮⣤⣄⣾⣿⡅⠸⢿⣿⣿
⠿⠟⢠⣿⣷⣦⡎⢺⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠱⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡤⠀⠀⠨⣿⣿⣿⣮⣹⣿⠛⢣⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⢨⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⢊⡁⢰⣶⡶⠄⠀⠀⣀⠻⠏⠀⢄⠘⢿⣿⣿⣏⢿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠸⢿⣿
⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⠛⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠀⠀⠀⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢵⣀⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠃⢈⠃⠿⡟⠁⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠁⠂⠉⠿⣿⣍⠩⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠛
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Summary: The EPO, helped by patent maximalists and their fake ‘media’ (like
IAM), killed the European Patent Convention
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⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠩⠓⢢⡒⡰⠀⡀⠓⢂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⣛⣟⡿⣻⣿⡿⣛⠻⣻⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣩⣭⣭⣍⣩
⣟⢲⡦⣤⣈⠀⠉⠁⠓⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡱⠼⢻⣥⣽⣿⣏⣿⣾⣿⣞⢁⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Education
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o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
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# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Can_Kubernetes_help_solve_automation
challenges?_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛
I started my automation journey when I adopted
Gentoo Linux as my primary operating system in
2002. Twenty years later, automation is not yet a
done deal. When I meet with customers and partners,
they share automation wins within teams, but they
also describe the challenges to achieving similar
success at an organizational level.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ BSD_Now_476:_Warren_Toomey
interview⠀⇛
This special episode of BSD Now has an interview
with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for
the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s
some history being reported there by the people
that lived it.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Rust_Is_Going_To_Destroy_The_Linux_Kernel!!!_–
Invidious⠀⇛
This is this fear that rust is going to destroy the
future of the Linux kernel but many are heavily in
favour of it’s introduction, I’m not a kernel
developer so let’s hear 2 polar opposite opinions
and make a decision for ourselves
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_discussion_on_printk()⠀⇛
The kernel’s print function, printk(), has been the
target of numerous improvement efforts over the
years for a variety of reasons. One persistent
problem with printk() has been that its latency is
unacceptably high for the realtime Linux kernel; at
this point, printk() represents the last piece
needing changes before the RT_PREEMPT patches can
be fully merged. So there have been efforts to
rework printk() for latency and lots of other
reasons, but those have not made it into the
mainline; a recent discussion at the 2022 Linux
Plumbers Conference (LPC) seems to have paved the
way for new solution to land in the mainline before
too long.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Hybrid_scheduling_gets_more_complicated⠀⇛
Just over ten years ago, the Arm big.LITTLE
architecture posed a challenge for the kernel’s CPU
scheduler: how should processes be assigned to CPUs
when not all CPUs have the same capacity? The
situation has not gotten simpler since then; new
systems bring new quirks that must be kept in mind
for optimal scheduling. At the 2022 Linux Plumbers
Conference, Len Brown and Ricardo Neri talked about
Intel’s hybrid systems and the work that is being
done to schedule properly on those systems.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_call_to_reconsider_address-space_isolation⠀⇛
When the kernel is running, it has access to its
entire address space — usually including all of
physical memory — even if only a small portion of
that address space is actually needed. That
increases the kernel’s vulnerability to speculative
attacks. An address-space isolation patch set
aiming to change this situation has been
circulating for a few years, but has never been
seriously considered for merging into the mainline.
At the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference, Ofir Weisse
sought to convince the development community to
reconsider address-space isolation.
Weisse began by pointing out that there seems to be
a steady supply of new speculative-execution
attacks that need to be mitigated; “Retbleed” is
just one of the latest examples. The performance
costs of mitigations for these vulnerabilities can
be high, to the point that a lot of companies are
simply not using them. The cost is also high in
terms of development time, with each new variant
requiring months of work to address.
Address-space isolation (ASI) is the technique of
unmapping memory that is not immediately needed,
making it inaccessible to the current running
context. Speculative-execution attacks cannot
target memory that is not mapped, so the contents
of unmapped memory can no longer be exfiltrated via
such an attack. One example of ASI is kernel page-
table isolation, which was adopted in response to
the Meltdown vulnerability. There have been
numerous proposals for using ASI in other contexts
in recent years, but none have been merged. The
specific proposal under discussion in this session
is meant to protect hosts against hostile virtual
machines.
[Ofir Weisse]
# ⚓ LWN ☛ NVIDIA_and_nouveau⠀⇛
The release of source code for NVIDIA graphics
hardware was perhaps something of a surprise; at
least at a quick glance, it seems like that could
lead to an in-tree, officially supported driver.
For many years, though, the nouveau project has
been working on an upstream driver for NVIDIA
hardware, so an obvious question is what happens
with nouveau in light of the NVIDIA announcement.
Kernel graphics maintainer Dave Airlie gave a talk
at the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) to help
shed some light on that subject.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Some_6.0_development_statistics⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds released the 6.0 kernel on October
2. There were 15,402 non-merge changesets pulled
into the mainline for this release, growing the
kernel by just over 1.1 million lines of code. As
usual, a lot went into the creation of this kernel
release; read on for a look at where some of that
work came from.
A total of 2,034 developers contributed to the 6.0
release; of those, 236 made their first
contribution during this cycle. The total number of
developers is just short of the record (2,086) set
for 5.19, but the number of first-time contributors
is the lowest seen since the 5.6 release (216) in
2020.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_14:_the_difference_between_:is()_and
:where()⠀⇛
It’s time to get me up to 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.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Create_Your_Own_Plugin_for_ONLYOFFICE
Docs⠀⇛
Brief: In this article, you will learn how to
create your own plugin for ONLYOFFICE Docs and how
to publish it in the official plugin marketplace
that is available starting from version 7.2.
ONLYOFFICE Docs is not an ordinary office suite in
the traditional sense. Of course, it allows you to
do what you can do using other office packages –
create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations, share and co-edit them online, makes
fillable forms, browses and converts PDF files, and
so on.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Switch_Between_LightDM_and_GDM_on
Ubuntu⠀⇛
The display manager is the graphical interface you
use to enter your credentials when logging in to
your system. Knowing how to change the display
manager is helpful when you want to customize your
desktop, as the login screen is a prime aspect of a
Linux desktop.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ WordPress_with_pod_and_containers⠀⇛
They associate running pods with Kubernetes. And
when they run containers in their development
runtimes, they do not even think about the role
pods could play even in a localized runtime. Most
people coming from the Docker world of running
single containers do not envision the concept of
running pods. There are several good reasons to
consider using pods locally, other than using pods
to group your containers naturally.
Most attributes that make up the Pod are assigned
to the “infra” container. For example, port
bindings, cgroup-parent values, and kernel
namespaces are all set to the “infra” container.
This is critical to understand because once the Pod
is created, these attributes are given to the
“infra” container and cannot be changed. For
example, if you make a pod and then later decide
you want to add a container that binds new ports,
Podman will not be able to do this. WordPress with
pod and containers adding the new container, you
must recreate the Pod with the additional port
bindings.
For example, suppose you have multiple containers
that require a MariaDB container. But you prefer
not to bind that database to a routable network in
your bridge or further. Instead, using a pod, you
could attach to the Pod’s localhost address, and
all containers in that Pod will be able to connect
to it because of the shared network namespace.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Install_and_configure_OpenStack_compute_node_for
Ubuntu⠀⇛
This section describes how to install and configure
openstack Compute service on a compute node. The
service supports several hypervisors to deploy
instances or virtual machines (VMs). For
simplicity, this configuration uses the Quick
EMUlator (QEMU) hypervisor with the kernel-based VM
(KVM) extension on compute nodes that support
hardware acceleration for virtual machines. On
legacy hardware, this configuration uses the
generic QEMU hypervisor. You can follow these
instructions with minor modifications to
horizontally scale your environment with additional
compute nodes.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Nagios_Core_installation_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
This post is about Nagios Core installation on
Ubuntu 22.04
Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-
critical infrastructure components including
applications, services, operating systems, network
protocols, systems metrics, and network
infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons
provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house
and external applications, services, and systems.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Chia_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
In this guide, we will illustrate how to install
Chia Blockchain in Ubuntu Systems
Chia is a new blockchain technology where your
computer creates plot files that you can farm to
potentially earn chia (XCH) coins.
Chia is a new type of cryptocurrency that is based
on the capacity of pre-stored random-looking data
that the user creates and stores in files called
plots. With Chia a very low resource-intensive
process checks plot files for proof of space and
time. This makes Chia very fast and green. It is an
improvement over proof of work blockchains, which
rely on fast graphic cards and custom machines
doing millions of calculations per second and
wasting a lot of electricity. Chia also has many
improvements to scripting, scripting environment,
cryptography, usability, and scalability, and aims
to be a simple, secure, and powerful blockchain.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Emacs_Editor_on_Linux_Mint_21⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Emacs on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t
know, GNU Emacs is a programmable text editor
suitable for development. Emacs is known for
extensibility and customizability which means you
can customize and extend the text editor to use it
as Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
different programming languages such as C, Java,
Python, etc.
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 GNU Emacs on Linux Mint 21
(Vanessa).
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Vim_Text_Editor_on
Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
There are many text editors like nano, vim, mu but
the most used and recommended text editor for the
Raspberry Pi and other Debian-based distributions
is the VIM text editor. In this write-up, we will
explore how we can install and use Vim editor on
Raspberry Pi…
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_TimeShift_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Having your data backed up can really save you a
lot of trouble in case of any unexpected error that
causes your system to not function properly. Though
reinstalling the Linux operating system is not much
of a big deal, you must install all the
applications again and most importantly you might
lose some of your important data.
TimeShift is one of the free tools that can create
a backup for your Linux operating system and in
case of something goes wrong, you can restore your
system. So read this guide to go through the
procedure of installing TimeShift on Raspberry Pi.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Understanding_Linux_Directory_Structure_and
Important_Files⠀⇛
This article gives a breakdown of the Linux File
System/directory structure, some of the critical
files, their usability, and their location.
You must have probably heard that everything is
considered a file in UNIX and UNIX derivatives such
as Linux. If not a file, then it must be a running
process.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_Beta_update_tweaks
notifications,_boot_video_length_upped_to_30_seconds⠀⇛
Fresh out the oven, Valve has put up a new Steam
Deck Client Beta that tweaks how some notifications
are accessed. This update is available in the Beta
and Preview channels: you can opt into this in
Settings >System >Steam Update Channel.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_debuts_Chromebooks_optimized_for
cloud-based_game_streaming_services⠀⇛
Google LLC today debuted three new Chromebooks
optimized to be used with cloud-based video game
streaming services. Chromebooks are laptops that
run on Google’s ChromeOS operating system.
Initially released in 2011, the operating system is
based on Linux and shares many interface elements
with the search giant’s Chrome browser.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Celebrating_KDE’s_26th_Birthday_With_Some
Inspiring_Facts_From_Its_Glorious_Past!_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛
When Matthias was a student at the Eberhard
Karls University of Tübingen, he was not
satisfied as a Common Desktop Environment
(CDE) user.
CDE is a desktop environment for Unix.
However, he wanted an interface that was more
comfortable, simpler, and easy to use, with a
better look and feel.
So, in 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced the
Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a GUI
(graphical user interface) for Unix systems,
built with Qt and C ++.
Note that the full form of KDE was an
innocent pun intended to CDE at the time. You
do not usually say it as “Kool Desktop
Environment”, just KDE as of now. You can
read the original announcement post to get a
dose of nostalgia.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ 13_Independent_Linux_Distros_That_are_Built_From
Scratch_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛
There are hundreds of Linux distributions available.
But most of them fall into these three categories:
Debian, Red Hat (Fedora) and Arch Linux.
Using a distribution based on Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/SUSE
or Arch Linux has its advantages. They are popular and
hence their package manager offers a huge range of
software.
However, some users prefer to use Linux distributions
built from scratch and be independent of DEB/RPM
packaging system.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Continued_rapid_adoption_of_Kubernetes
hints_at_a_historic_KubeCon_event [Ed: A disclosure is
missing here. Paid-for puff piece for a client.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Emotional_intelligence:_How_to
create_psychological_safety_for_your_IT_team⠀⇛
A feeling of psychological safety is essential for
a healthy, productive team. When teams lack
psychological safety, you may notice several
adverse effects, including a lack of innovation, an
inability to collaborate, and more.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 6_soft_skills_IT_leaders_should
prioritize⠀⇛
These days, the demand for top talent has never
been higher. As a leader, you need to retain your
best employees and ensure that they remain engaged
and productive. That means focusing on soft skills
in potentially new ways. Doing so will not only
help advance your career but also position you as a
strong role model to your team and your colleagues.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Vecow_introduces_embedded_devices_based_on
Jetson_AGX_Orin_modules⠀⇛
Last month, Vecow released the EAC-5000 Series Edge
AI computing system built around the latest Jetson
AGX Orin platform. These rugged embedded devices
provide up 275 TOPs of AI performance in addition
to 2x GbE LAN ports, 5x USBs, 2x CAN buses, 2x SIM
card sockets and several other peripherals.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ A_robotic_exoskeleton_adapts_to
wearers_to_help_them_walk_faster_|_MIT_Technology_Review⠀⇛
Developed by researchers from Stanford University,
it consists of cheap wearable sensors, a motor, and
a small Raspberry Pi computer, powered by a
rechargeable battery pack worn around the waist.
The sensors are embedded into the boot to measure
force and motion unobtrusively.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ A_taxonomy_of_Computing_content_for
education⠀⇛
Supporting educators to provide high-quality
computing education has always been integral to our
mission. In 2018, we began creating more learning
resources for formal education settings. The UK
government had recently announced future investment
in supporting computing educators. Schools in
England were offering the national Computing
curriculum established in 2014. (In the USA, a more
common term for prescribed education content is
‘standards’.)
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Spooky,_Scary_Skeleton_Is_Pi_Pico_Powered⠀⇛
It’s the spookiest time of year once again, and
hackers across the globe are cobbling together some
spine-chilling projects. [Kevin] is amongst them,
and has created a spooky, scary skeleton just in
time for Halloween.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Thriller-inspired,_LED-lit_jacket_comes_just_in
time_for_Halloween_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
Michael Jackon’s Thriller music video was arguably
the best known of his entire career. It contains
many horror themes, a delightful and memorable
choreographed dance, and an iconic red jacket
designed by Deborah Nadoolman. The video’s horror
references make it a Halloween favorite, which is
why Louise Katzovitz’s LED-lit reimagining of the
Thriller jacket is appropriate for the season.
Katzovitz created this jacket for a Michael Jackson
impersonator to use during his performances. It
isn’t a replica of Nadoolman’s original design, but
rather a homage to a special light-up version that
Jackson wore on tour. Even if they aren’t familiar
with that special version, it is similar enough to
the one in the video that audiences instantly
recognize it for what it is.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Signal_updates_Android_version,_users_can_now
export_SMS_messages⠀⇛
End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal has
updated the version of the application available to
Android users so they can transfer SMS messages to
another messaging client, a spokesperson for the
company says.
In response to a query pointing out that version
5.51.7 of the app, which was available to Android
11 users until Thursday did not offer a means of
exporting SMS messages, the spokesperson said
Signal had now been updated to make it possible to
move these messages to a client of the user’s
choice.
As iTWire reported, Signal said in a blog post on
Wednesday that it would be removing support for
plaintext messages over the next few months.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Diab_is_A_Libre_Diabetes_Manager_App_for
Android⠀⇛
Diab is a free Libre open-source journaling and
logging application for Diabetes patients.
It allows users to log their blood sugar, insulin
usage, their insulin injections, and then offers an
overall insights on the records.
Diab records can be exported easily to a
spreadsheet file that can be used with Google
Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and LibreOffice Calc.
Furthermore, this portable format can be shared
with doctors.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ 14_Best_Open_Source_WYSIWYG_HTML_Editors_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors are self-
explanatory. Whatever you see when editing is what you, a
reader/user see.
Whether you want to build your content management system,
or aim to provide an editor to the end-user of your
application, an open-source WYSIWYG editor will help
provide a secure, modern, and scalable experience. Of
course, you also get the technical freedom to customize
open-source WYSIWYG editors to meet your requirements.
Here, we look at some of the best open-source WYSIWYG
editors.
o ⚓ Klara ☛ 5_Key_Reasons_to_Consider_Open_Source_Storage_Over
Commercial_Offerings⠀⇛
Storage is the most critical and sensitive component of
your infrastructure. Applications that crash can be
restarted, network packets that are lost can be
retransmitted, but storage needs to be always on, and
absolutely reliable. This is where it might seem to make
sense to go with a popular commercial offering, even
falling into the mantra of “Nobody ever got fired for
buying $vendor”. However, being locked into a single
vendor means you are utterly at their mercy when it comes
to upgrades, price increases, and the quality of support
they offer. If your storage vendor releases a new version
of their software that causes issues for you, they may
help you right away, or your issue might be exotic enough
that it goes to the back of their support queue. The
vendor might also release a newer product focused on a
different use case and decide to end-of-life the product
you are using. In any of these cases, you are left with
just two choices: stay locked-in with the vendor, or take
on the pain of a migration.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ BuildStream_at_ApacheCon_2022_New_Orleans_–_Tristan’s
World⠀⇛
This was my first real conference since worldwide
panic spread a few years ago, and it is hard to
overstate how exciting it was to be in New Orleans
and meet real people again, especially since this
was an opportunity to meet the Apache contributor
base for the first time.
The conference took place at the Sheraton hotel on
Canal street, where we had access to a discounted
rate for rooms, a large room where everyone could
attend the keynotes with a coffee/snack area
outside where booths were also located, and on the
8th floor we had 6 small conference rooms for the
various tracks.
The talks I attended were refreshingly outside of
my comfort zone, such as big data workflow
scheduling with DolphinScheduler, a talk about
Apache Toree which is a Jupyter Kernel for Scala /
Apache Spark (a framework for data analysis and
visualization) and my personal favorite was a talk
about the SDAP (Science Data Analytics Platform)
which is a platform built to support Earth Science
use cases, this talk explored some of the
implementation details and use cases of an engine
which can be used to search efficiently through
Earth related data (collected from satellites and
various sensors) which can be freely obtained from
NASA. In case you’re wondering, unfortunately
actually leveraging this data requires that you
download and house the (immense) data which you
intend to analyze, either in the elastic cloud or
on-premise clusters.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Nerve_cells_in_a_dish_can_learn_to_play
Pong⠀⇛
Growing the network on the chip was only part of
the story, though. Getting it to perceive and
interact with the world was, as he describes in a
paper in Neuron, quite another. The chip had
predefined “sensory” (input) and “motor” (output)
regions. In the sensory region, eight electrodes
gave the cells tiny zaps that communicated the
positions of the paddle (there was only one; the
network was playing against a “wall”) and the ball
with respect to one another. The neurons’ firings
in the motor region determined the movement of the
paddle.
By randomly zapping the sensory neurons for four
seconds every time the network missed the ball, the
software running the chip wiped out the pattern
that led to the loss. Conversely, winning plays,
which did not lead to random zapping, were
retained.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ How_to_fix_an_ancient_GDB_problem⠀⇛
The GDB debugger has a long history; it was first
created in 1986. It may thus be unsurprising that
some GDB development happens over relatively long
time frames but, even when taking that into
account, the existence of an open bug first
reported in 2007 may be a little surprising. At the
2022 GNU Tools Cauldron, GDB maintainer Pedro Alves
talked about why this problem has been difficult to
solve, and what the eventual solution looks like.
The problem in question, Alves said, has to do with
the handling of keyboard interrupts, which normally
result from the user hitting control-C. The user’s
normal expectation is that an interrupt within GDB
while the target program is running will stop the
program and return the GDB prompt. If, however,
that program has blocked the SIGINT signal, the
interrupt will never be delivered. At best, GDB
will not stop; at worst, the entire debugging
session can become stuck and need to be killed from
another terminal. GDB users, it seems, tend not to
like that behavior.
This problem results from how GDB handles both
terminals and interrupt signals. A “session”, in
the Unix sense, is a set of process groups, all of
which share a single controlling terminal.
Normally, the debugged process runs in the same
session as — and shares the terminal with — GDB,
but GDB puts that process into a different process
group. Multiple process groups can share a
terminal, but only one of those — the foreground
group — will receive signals generated by the user
at that terminal. GDB normally runs as the
foreground group but, when it runs the target
program, it designates that program’s group as the
foreground group instead.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_WebAssembly_Q-A,_Part_1⠀⇛
WebAssembly is a bytecode representation that is
meant to be targeted by high-level programming
languages such as C++ and to be executed inside a
virtual machine in a browser. It will change the
way you design your embedded devices, applications,
and other software. Qt for WebAssembly allows you
to run your C++ applications on popular web
browsers, such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
– and our efforts to support more browsers are
continuous.
Want to find out more about WebAssembly but don’t
know what to ask? We quizzed our Senior Product
Manager, Veli-Pekka Heinonen, with 11 burning
questions sent to us by our dev community. This
will be an ongoing series, so do not hesitate to
send us your questions for our next edition!
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Convert_Any_PDF_eBook_to_an_Audiobook_with
Python⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Middle_Squeeze⠀⇛
Either be best-in-class or the most efficient. Anything
in between gets squeezed out.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_To_Grow_Your_Own_Pyramid_Salt_Crystals⠀⇛
The regular granular table salt you’re used to isn’t the
most attractive-looking seasoning out there, even given
its fundamentally compelling flavor. You don’t have to
settle for boring old salt anymore though, because
[Chase] has shown us you can grow your own pyramid salt
crystals at home!
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Imagining_A_Dune-accurate_Fremen_Thumper⠀⇛
Never underestimate the power of fandom to obsess over
the smallest details of its chosen canon. We say that
with all due respect, of course, as some of the builds
that result are really cool, like this working Fremen
thumper from the Dune universe.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Publish_Or_Perish:_Data_Storage_And_Civilization⠀⇛
Who do you think of when you think of ancient
civilizations? Romans? Greeks? Chinese? India?
Egyptians? What about the Scythians, the Muisca, Gana,
or the Kerma? You might not recognize that second group
as readily because they all didn’t have writing systems.
The same goes, to a lesser extent, for the Etruscans, the
Minoans, or the inhabitants of Easter Island where they
wrote, but no one remembers how to read their writing.
Even the Egyptians were mysterious until the discovery of
the Rosetta stone. We imagine that an author writing in
Etruscan didn’t think that no one would be able to read
the writing in the future–they probably thought they were
recording their thoughts for all eternity. Hubris? Maybe,
but what about our documents that are increasingly stored
as bits somewhere?
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Flipping,_Perpetually-Rotating_Clock⠀⇛
Clocks are a mainstay of hackers and makers, as they
provide a way to explore creative designs while still
maintaining a functional aspect to the project. [Brett
Oliver] follows this tradition in making a cyclotron
clock that uses a perpetual rotating digit concept from a
1900s desk flip calendar.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Goodbye,_Mr._West⠀⇛
He is responsible for two of the most daring Hip Hop
albums of all time—Yeezus and My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy (MBDTF). Sadly, since 2017, Mr. West has fallen
off musically. What’s worse, he seems to have embraced a
political ideology that is both harmful and evil.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Hermann_Burger’s_Frenzied_Harmonies⠀⇛
Early in Hermann Burger’s 1989 novel, Brenner, the
eponymous narrator recalls that “the young Mozart could
drive his father to the verge of madness with an
unresolved seventh.” Brenner knows this feeling well—the
slow torture of an unresolved note, a loose end. It’s one
of his first memories from childhood. Lying sleepless in
bed on a bright afternoon, bound with rubber cords by his
mother so he won’t get up from his nap, he hears the idle
tinkling of a servant girl at the piano. She plays a
string of chords, descending sixths, then stops abruptly
just before the series is finished, leaving little
Brenner in a fit of agitation from which he never fully
recovers.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Teachers_Nationwide_Want_to_Reduce_Class_Sizes
for_More_Reasons_Than_COVID⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Gulyás_promises_unprecedented_increase_in
teachers’_pay_at_government_press_briefing⠀⇛
At this week’s government press briefing, several
important subjects were mentioned, among them the
teachers’ protests and civil disobedience,
Ukraine’s sovereignty and the soaring inflation.
Telex had the opportunity to ask some questions as
well. Here is a summary of the most important
topics covered.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ After_hundreds_of_reviling_calls_made_to
school_district_offices,_phone_numbers_removed_from
websites⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Volkswagen_to_take_60%_stake_in_tech_joint
venture_with_China’s_Horizon_Robotics⠀⇛
According to its website, Horizon Robotics, founded
in 2015, supplies customers including Volkswagen’s
Audi, Continental, Li Auto and SAIC. Investors
include carmakers like BYD and Great Wall as well
as Intel.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Russian_Baikal_48-Core_CPU_Die_Shots,
Benchmarks_Emerge⠀⇛
In general, while the Baikal BE-S1000 looks like a
brave attempt to develop a server-grade SoC that
could replace processors from AMD and Intel for
some machines, the chip would have arrived too late
and been slower than then-contemporary CPUs from
the x86 camp. Potentially, this could have been
mitigated with the right price (at least for some
cases). But because of Russia’s bloody war in
Ukraine, the BE-S1000 will remain an interesting
artifact in the labs and will never become an
actual product.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Microsoft’s_AR_glasses_aren’t_cutting_it_with
US_soldiers,_says_leaked_report⠀⇛
Soldiers testing the headsets have complained about
their “mission-affecting physical impairments,” and
say that wearing the goggles can cause headaches,
nausea, and eyestrain. Acceptance of the tech
“remains low,” says a summary prepared for Army and
Defense Department officials and seen by Bloomberg,
with soldiers complaining that the headsets don’t
“contribute to their ability to complete their
mission.”
One testimony reported by Insider was even blunter.
“The devices would have gotten us killed,” said the
tester — referring to the light emitted by the
goggles’ head-up display, which could alert enemy
troops to the wearer’s presence.
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Microsoft’s_Army_Goggles_Left_US_Soldiers_With
Nausea,_Headaches_in_Test⠀⇛
More than 80% of those who experienced discomfort
had symptoms after less than three hours using the
customized version of Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles,
Nickolas Guertin, director of Operation Test and
Evaluation, said in a summary for Army and Defense
Department officials. He said the system also is
still experiencing too many failures of essential
functions.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ U.S._Soldiers_Worry_Microsoft’s_HoloLens_Headset
Will_Make_Them_Puke_and_Get_Them_Killed⠀⇛
Over 80% of the soldiers who experienced symptoms
after strapping on the headsets did after less than
three hours of use. HoloLens reportedly failed four
out of six of the Army’s evaluation tests, with at
least one tester expressing concern the device
could put soldiers’ lives in danger. Glowing lights
emanating from the headset are reportedly visible
from hundreds of meters away, a crucial flaw that
could potentially give off a soldier’s position
during battle.
“The devices would have gotten us killed,” one of
the testers said, according to Insider. In addition
to the lights, testers claimed the device limited
their field of view and restricted their movement
due to its bulky, heavy design.
# ⚓ Tech Times ☛ Microsoft’s_Army_Goggles_Fails_4_Out_of_6
Field_Evaluations,_Caused_Nausea_to_US_Army_Testers⠀⇛
More than 80% of people who complained of
discomfort reportedly started to feel their
symptoms less than three hours after donning the
specially adapted HoloLens glasses from Microsoft.
The system itself continues to fail far too
frequently at performing crucial tasks, according
to officials.
# ⚓ [Old] Janes ☛ US_Army_soldiers_experienced_physical_side-
effects_using_IVAS,_Pentagon_report_finds⠀⇛
US Army soldiers experienced a range of physical
ailments from headaches and nausea to neck strain
while donning Microsoft’s militarised HoloLens 2
augmented reality (AR) system during testing last
year and they were unable to complete essential
combat tasks, according to the Pentagon’s chief
weapons tester.
Service leaders postponed the initial operational
test and evaluation benchmark for the new
Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) last
year after deciding they first needed to fix
several hardware and software shortcomings. Pending
changes include reducing the heads-up display’s
field-of-view from 80° to 70°, addressing a
humidity issue with one component, and fixing
software ‘reliability and stability’ issues that
sometimes ‘crash’ the system, Janes has previously
reported.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Report_finds_Microsoft’s_HoloLens_gives
soldiers_headaches⠀⇛
Bloomberg reported today that a study by the
Pentagon’s testing office found most soldiers using
HoloLens suffered “mission-affecting physical
impairments,” including headaches, eyestrain and
nausea. The numbers are significant, with more than
80% of Army users experiencing discomfort after
less than three hours of using a customized version
of HoloLens (pictured).
Headaches are one thing, but it gets worse. It was
also found that the HoloLens was not reliable. In a
report for Defense Department officials, Nickolas
Guertin, director of operation test and evaluation,
said the system fails at many essential functions.
The findings were outlined in a report that was not
meant to be made public.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Batteries_in_older_Samsung_phones
swelling_up,_YouTube_reviewer_finds⠀⇛
Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest seller of
smartphones, appears to be facing issues with the
batteries in its smartphones again, with reports
that batteries in older models are swelling up
making the devices unusable.
A popular British YouTube host, who goes by the
name Mrwhosetheboss and whose real name is Arun
Maini, posted a video on 28 September about various
models which were experiencing this issue.
The video appears to have hit a nerve, judging by
the fact that it has attracted 39,374 comments and
been viewed nearly five million times.
Maini keeps a library of smartphones that he has
acquired and during the video he pointed out to the
viewer numerous models that are facing the battery
swelling issue.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Clean_Energy_Production_Must_Double_by_2030_to
Stave_Off_Catastrophe⠀⇛
Kenny Stancil reports on the World Meteorological
Organization’s latest statement on the need to
green grids around the world.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ No_more_masks_or_COVID_tests_for
nursing_home_workers_soon_thanks_to_Bailout_Biden._Bonus:
Lots_of_Democratic_Party_nonsense_lately._|_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛
Mom informed me that very soon, they won’t have to
test or wear masks at the nursing home she works at
because “Bailout Biden”‘s Administration won’t be
buying masks and COVID tests for people who have to
work where the 90 and 100 year olds live.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 7_in_10_Voters_Support_White_House_Move_to
Consider_Decriminalizing_Marijuana⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden’s_(Mild)_Marijuana_“October
Surprise”:_Good_Start._More,_Please.⠀⇛
Why now? Well, it’s October of an election year,
and Biden’s the kind of politician who keeps
simple, easy, popular deliverables in his pocket
until he believes they’ll produce positive impacts
at the polls for him or his party.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ John_Nichols_on_Democrats_and_Marijuana,_Plus
Greil_Marcus_on_Bob_Dylan⠀⇛
Joe Biden just made marijuana reform a major 2022
Issue. Democrats should run with it, says John
Nichols—and they are already, in Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania. Powered by RedCircle
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Blackfoot_Clearwater_and_Lincoln_Prosperity
Proposals_Worse_Than_Holland_Lake_Lodge_Scam⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Groups_Call_On_EPA_to_Close_Loopholes_and
Revoke_Approval_of_600_‘Forever_Chemicals’⠀⇛
“PFAS cause cancers and birth defects, yet EPA
approved hundreds of them through loopholes.”
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Interview_with_Hardbit_Ransomware,_a_new
group_with_great_ambitions⠀⇛
Marco A. DeFelice (@amvinfe) interviewed a
relatively new ransomware group called “Hardbit.”
At one point in the interview, the exchange went:
[...]
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ Being_back_in_the_office_is_not_making_UK
workers_more_productive:_report⠀⇛
New research from Slack has found that two and a
half years after the UK government enforced its
work from home order in response to the Coronavirus
pandemic, 88% of desk-based employees in the UK are
working from the office at least one day a week,
with the average worker visiting the office three
days a week.
While 60% of survey respondents coordinate their
office attendance with their teams, the survey,
based on responses from 1,000 knowledge workers of
all ages, job levels and locations across the UK,
found that being in the office actually makes
employees feel less productive due to the wrong
tasks being prioritised, a disorganised approach to
communications and meetings, and time spent
catching up with colleagues.
# ⚓ Git Guardian ☛ Toyota_Suffered_a_Data_Breach_by
Accidentally_Exposing_A_Secret_Key_Publicly_On_GitHub⠀⇛
This incident adds Toyota to the list of companies
that have had similar exposures; a list that
includes Samsung, Nvidia, and Twitch, just to name
a few. While this breach at Toyota is currently
understood as fairly limited, compared to the
6,695 secrets exposed in the Samsung case, the
growing number of companies experiencing such
issues is still a very disturbing trend.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_LinkedIn_kicks_out_Infosec_expert,_then
restores_his_profile [Ed: Microsoft hates security, loves
back doors]⠀⇛
Professional networking site LinkedIn has
reinstated British security guru Kevin Beaumont’s
account, after kicking him off the platform for
unspecified reasons.
Beaumont told iTWire that LinkedIn had apologised
for its action, adding that he may have been wrong
about the reason he advanced as being behind the
expulsion.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_Chinese_Malware_Attack_Framework_Targets
Windows,_macOS,_and_Linux_Systems [Ed: So don't install it.
The FUD wave badmouths the programming language because
malware was written using it.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Medibank_Group_latest_to_feel_icy_hand
of_network_attackers⠀⇛
Medical insurer Medibank Group says it has isolated
some customer-facing systems following the
discovery of a breach of its systems.
The company provides private health insurance and
health services to more than 3.9 million people in
Australia.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the company said
it had called in specialised security firms after
detecting what it characterised as “unusual
activity” on its network.
It said that at this stage there was no indication
of any sensitive data having leaked.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Remote_employee_fired_for_shutting
off_webcam⠀⇛
A Dutch employee working remotely for US
software company Chetu was fired for “refusal
to work” in August 2022. Two months later in
October, a Dutch court ruled that the company
owes the former employee over 70,000 euros in
compensation.
Dutch newspaper The NL Times reported that
the employee began working for the Rijswijk
branch of the Florida-based company in 2019.
On August 23, 2022 the employee was informed
of a mandatory training period called a
“Corrective Action Program.” It was during
this program that he was told he would have
to remain logged in for the entire workday
with screen-sharing turned on as well as his
webcam.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ More_Mexican_Journalists_And_Activists
Found_To_Be_Targeted_By_NSO_Group_Malware⠀⇛
Last summer, a blockbuster leak of data
allegedly related to NSO Group’s customers
made it crystal clear that earlier rumors
about routine abusive use of powerful phone-
targeting malware were likely true. Israel’s
NSO Group swiftly issued a denial that was
more angry than coherent and did nothing to
persuade its many critics that NSO just
simply didn’t care what paying customers did
with its products.
# ⚓ Tor ☛ Resistance,_change,_&_freedom:_powered_by
privacy⠀⇛
This year, we’re highlighting three positive
forces in the world that are powered by
privacy: resistance, change, and freedom.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] PJ Media ☛ Sweden_Is_Struggling._How_Far_Behind_Are
We?⠀⇛
There are some places to which ice cream trucks and
newspaper and postal delivery people cannot safely
venture. But far beyond that, firefighters and
ambulance crews will not go to those areas without
a police escort. Those places are beyond unsafe.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Judge_concerned_that_juror_is_flirting_with
defendant_in_Whitmer_kidnap_trial⠀⇛
A juror in the third Gretchen Whitmer kidnap trial
is under scrutiny over concerns she is flirting
with one of the defendants, smiling at him from the
jury box and looking at him frequently — so
frequently that the judge said he’s going to keep
an eye on her.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Secret_Service_knew_of_Capitol_threat
more_than_a_week_before_Jan._6⠀⇛
The Secret Service had warnings earlier than
previously known that supporters of President
Donald Trump were plotting an armed attack on the
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to records
revealed in a congressional hearing Thursday.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Democrats_Need_to_Make_the_January_6_Attack_an
Election_Issue⠀⇛
The House Select Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has
established that Donald Trump was the central
figure in a coup attempt that sought to install
Trump as an illegitimate pretender president for a
term he did not win. Set to hold what could be its
final hearing on Thursday, the committee has done
the meticulous work of placing the former president
at the center of a conspiracy to upend democracy
that involved not just Trump and his closest aides
but also key figures in Congress and the states—a
number of whom are seeking election on November 8.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Jihadist_Group_Takes_Over_Strategic_Town_in
Northwest_Syria⠀⇛
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly known as al-
Nusra Front, entered the town of Afrin on Thursday
after its former rulers withdrew their forces,
according to residents and a monitor group.
Afrin, a Kurdish-majority city, had been under the
control of Turkish-backed armed groups since 2018
after a Turkish military offensive that ousted
Syrian Kurdish forces that Ankara considers
terrorists.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ India’s_Top_Court_Fails_to_Settle_Issue_of
Wearing_Hijabs_in_Classrooms⠀⇛
The southern Karnataka state imposed a ban on
students wearing the hijab in classrooms in
February. It was challenged in the top court after
another court upheld the government order on the
ground that wearing the hijab is not an essential
practice of Islam.
In the closely watched judgments delivered on
Thursday, one judge said that authorities can
enforce a uniform in schools, while the other held
that the right to wear the hijab cannot be
restricted by the state.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lukashenko_reportedly_conducting_‘covert
mobilization’_in_Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has
decided to conduct a “covert mobilization,”
according to the Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva.
Citing anonymous sources, the outlet reported that
the president plans to disguise the draft campaign
as a “combat capability check,” and that the first
stage of the operation will only affect the rural
population.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lukashenko_has_mentioned_a_new_military
‘grouping,’_joint_for_Russia_and_Belarus._But_what_exactly_is
he_saying?_The_four_scenarios_of_Belarusian_involvement_in
the_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
After Alexander Lukashenko announced the creation
of a joint Russian-Belarusian military grouping on
Belarusian territory, rumors spread that the
Russian command was once again planning to attack
Ukraine from the north. At least publicly, the
Ukrainian leadership shares these concerns:
President Volodymyr Zelensky has requested that the
G7 countries send observers to the Ukrainian border
with Belarus. Zelensky explained that he wanted to
prevent any “provocations” — that is, any pretense
of Ukrainian aggression on the part of Belarus —
that could serve as a pretext for its entry into
the war. But how probable is a Belarusian attack on
Ukraine? And what is Lukashenko really talking
about?
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Apartment_building_damaged_in_Belgorod_after_air
defenses_activated_—_Meduza⠀⇛
An apartment building in Belgorod, a Russian city
just miles from the Ukrainian border, was damaged
on Thursday, according to city mayor Anton Ivanov.
Immediately before the incident, he said, the
city’s anti-aircraft defense system was triggered.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Take_him._You_raised_a_freak_and_a_killer.’_A
Petersburg_woman_is_under_house_arrest_after_leaving_a_note
on_Putin’s_parents’_grave_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Petersburg woman has been placed under house
arrest for leaving a note on the grave of Maria and
Vladimir Putin, parents of Russian president
Vladimir Putin. The note addresses the “parents of
a serial killer,” and asks them to “take him, we
have so much pain and misery from him.” The
prosecutor’s office called Tsybaneva’s actions “a
brazen crime.” Her son says her punishment is
harsh, but “not that bad” in the context of the
current political situation in Russia.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Two_Voices_from_Russia_&_Ukraine_on_Putin,
Resistance_Inside_Russia_&_Their_Views_on_Anti-Imperialism⠀⇛
Russia launched a fourth day of missile strikes
against multiple Ukrainian cities and towns
Thursday, targeting Ukraine’s electricity systems
and leaving many areas without power. The escalated
attacks come after President Vladimir Putin had
accused Ukraine of blowing up a key bridge
connecting Russia to Crimea last week. Meanwhile,
the United Nations General Assembly has voted
overwhelmingly to condemn Russia’s annexation of
four territories seized from Ukraine. “The invasion
of Ukraine is not some type of historical inertia.
The ideology of Putin is a product of the past two
centuries,” says Hanna Perekhoda, a Ukrainian
graduate history student at the University of
Lausanne, whose family in Donetsk was thrown into
war eight years ago. Berlin-based Russian climate
activist Arshak Makichyan, who fled his country in
March, says that while he doesn’t believe
negotiations with Putin are possible, the
international community should engage Russian civil
society as part of any solution toward ending the
war.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Council_of_Europe_calls_on_European_countries_to
declare_Russia_a_‘terrorist_regime’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) passed a resolution on Russian aggression in
Ukraine, calling on members of the Council to
declare Russia “terrorist regime.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Could_the_Fight_Over_Taiwan_Trigger_Nuclear
War?⠀⇛
Thanks to Vladimir Putin’s recent implicit threat
to employ nuclear weapons if the United States and
its NATO allies continue to arm Ukraine—“This is
not a bluff,” he insisted on September 21—the
perils in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict once again
hit the headlines. And it’s entirely possible, as
ever more powerful US weapons pour into Ukraine and
Russian forces suffer yet more defeats, that the
Russian president might indeed believe that the
season for threats is ending and only the
detonation of a nuclear weapon will convince the
Western powers to back off. If so, the war in
Ukraine could prove historic in the worst sense
imaginable—the first conflict since World War II to
lead to nuclear devastation.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Taiwan,_the_World’s_Other_Nuclear
Flashpoint⠀⇛
While neither American nor Chinese officials have
explicitly threatened to use such weaponry, both
sides have highlighted possible extreme outcomes
there. When Joe Biden last spoke with Xi Jinping by
telephone on July 29th, the Chinese president
warned him against allowing House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi to visit the island (which she nonetheless
did, four days later) or offering any further
encouragement to “Taiwan independence forces”
there. “Those who play with fire will perish by
it,” he assured the American president, an
ambiguous warning to be sure, but one that
nevertheless left open the possible use of nuclear
weapons.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Facing_the_Warmongers:_An_Assange_Update⠀⇛
Then there was the Boadicea-like performance that
his wife is becoming famous for. On the
ideologically dry-cured medium of Piers Morgan’s
Uncensored Program, a taster of that vengeance US
justice is famous for could be gathered from an
encounter between Stella, and the trumpeting
warmonger and failed Trump advisor, John Bolton.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Global_Inflationary_Tsunami_Is_Made_in
the_U.S.,_Not_Ukraine⠀⇛
Politically, this situation creates crises for
several right-wing regimes in the Global South, but
also adds negative pressure on the policies of
progressive left governments and leads to the
threat of “color revolutions.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Armenia_and_Turkey_Can_Bring_Hope_to_the
World⠀⇛
I spoke with Professor Mira Antonyan, director of
the Fund for Armenian Relief, about the effects of
those events on Armenians today. “The main thing
that unites us is our resentment against the Turks
for the events of the past” she told me. That
feeling was shared by her husband and a friend, who
works in trade with Turkish businessmen. “Being
Armenian means having sad memories,” she added.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Armenian_National_Security_Service_opens_criminal
case_over_Crimean_Bridge_blast_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Armenia’s National Security Service has launched
criminal proceedings regarding the October 8
explosion on the bridge between Russia and Crimea,
according to TASS. The Russian FSB has alleged that
the blast was caused by a bomb brought from Odesa
through Bulgaria, Georgia, and Armenia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ New_Russian_legislation_would_allow_convicts_to_go
to_war_in_exchange_for_pardons_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian Federation Council members Andrey Klichas
and Olga Kovitidi have drafted a bill that would
allow people convicted of crimes to take part in
combat operations, according to Russian state news
agency TASS.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Don’t_Just_Worry_About_Nuclear_War:_Do
Something_to_Help_Prevent_It⠀⇛
Yet few members of Congress are advocating for any
steps that the U.S. government could take to
decrease the dangers of a nuclear conflagration.
The silences and muted statements on Capitol Hill
are evading the reality of what’s hanging in the
balance — the destruction of almost all human life
on Earth. “The end of civilization.”
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán_could_tell_there_was_trouble_when
he_met_with_Putin,_but_did_not_tell_the_Hungarian_public⠀⇛
“I could tell he was determined”, “I saw that there
was trouble”, Viktor Orbán said of Putin after
meeting with him in early February as one of the
last European leaders to do so before the war. He
claims that he had told NATO about his concerns,
but the Hungarian public was not informed of this
either by official releases or by Viktor Orbán’s
subsequent statements. We reviewed the events from
February of this year, and all they show is that
the Prime Minister had successful negotiations on
gas and had gone to Moscow on a ‘mission of peace’
to try to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Viktor_Orbán_is_looking_for_Donald_Trump
on_Twitter⠀⇛
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman replied
to Orban’s tweet saying: “While you look around for
your friend, perhaps another friend to follow: the
President of the United States, @POTUS… but as the
Hungarian media might say: no pressure.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Israel_Authorizes_Military_to_Kill_Palestinians
With_Drones_in_the_West_Bank⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_real_goal_is_to_hide_the_traces_of_war’
Moscow’s_plan_for_rebuilding_Mariupol,_a_city_‘wiped_off_the
face_of_the_earth’_by_Russian_troops_—_Meduza⠀⇛
From day one of the Kremlin’s full-scale war
against Ukraine, Russian forces sought to take
control of Mariupol, then the largest Ukrainian-
controlled city in the Donetsk region. What Moscow
surely hoped would be a quick maneuver, however,
ultimately dragged into a months-long struggle as
Ukrainian troops showed a level of resolve Russia
hadn’t anticipated. Throughout the spring, Russian
troops killed thousands of civilians and destroyed
billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure, “
[wiping] the city off the face of the earth,” as
one local police officer put it. Now, the Kremlin
has declared Mariupol part of Russia, and Russian
news outlet The Village has acquired a copy of the
document outlining Moscow’s vision for its
reconstruction. Just like Russia’s approach to
warfare in the city, its plan for rebuilding it
evinces little regard for the civilians who once
lived there.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Russian_Prime_Minister_calls_for_Putin_to
remain_in_power_past_2024,_calling_it_his_‘cross_to_bear’_—
Meduza⠀⇛
In an interview with Russian state news outlet RIA
Novosti published Tuesday, former Russian Prime
Minister Sergey Stepashin called for Putin to
remain in office past 2024 “whether he wants to or
not.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kharkiv_is_shelled,_several_areas_without_power_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Several areas within Kharkiv are without power
after missile strikes on the evening of October 13,
the local power company reported. The company noted
that it’s working to restore service.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ All_five_recently_killed_Chelyabinsk_men_were_sent
to_the_front_without_combat_training_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The five Chelyabinsk-region conscripts killed
almost immediately after mobilization, were sent to
the front without combat training of any kind. BBC
News Russian reported this, citing the friends and
relatives of the men recently acknowledged dead.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_report_on_draftees’_deaths_in
Ukraine_for_the_first_time_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Five men from Russia’s Chelyabinsk region have died
“in the zone of the special military operation in
the Donbas,” the news outlet 74.ru reported on
Thursday, citing the Chelyabinsk regional
governor’s press service.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ As_Russia_continues_drone_strikes_on_Kyiv_region,
Volodin_boasts_of_attacks’_scale_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Kyiv region was once again attacked by
“kamikaze” drones, a weapon procured by Russia from
Iran, early Thursday morning, local officials
reported. According to Deputy Head of the Ukrainian
President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the attacks
targeted critical infrastructure.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_man_jailed_for_listening_to_Ukrainian_music
—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow resident was sentenced to 15 days in
prison and fined 50,000 rubles ($789) for listening
to Ukrainian music in his car, according to the
human rights organization OVD-Info. The man, a
single father raising four children, was reportedly
charged with “discrediting” the Russian army and
disobeying the police.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_hospital_workers_prohibited_from
traveling_to_non-CIS_countries_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Employees at St. Petersburg hospitals were sent a
letter from the city’s healthcare committee telling
them not to leave the country for work-related
trips, according to multiple Russian media outlets.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_to_create_facial_recognition_system_for
security_footage_streamed_from_all_Russian_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow city government’s IT department plans to
build a unified system for processing footage from
security cameras throughout Russia by mid-December,
according to the newspaper Kommersant, which cited
a state contract published online. The project will
reportedly allow authorities to use Moscow’s facial
recognition technology to identify people caught on
tape in every region of the country.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ WATCH_LIVE:_Jan._6_Hearings_Resume_Amid_New
Evidence_of_Trump’s_Central_Role⠀⇛
The committee is expected to present Secret Service
documents showing how agents stopped Trump from
joining the mob of thousands of his supporters as
they breached the Capitol, with some carrying
weapons.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘About_Damn_Time’:_Jan._6_Panel_Unanimously
Votes_to_Subpoena_Ex-President_Donald_Trump⠀⇛
The panel’s hearing—expected to be the last before
next month’s midterm elections—largely focused on
Trump’s role in the attack. In what critics now
call his “Big Lie,” the former president repeatedly
claimed, including in a speech the day of the
insurrection, that Democrats stole the 2020
election.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rejecting_Death_Penalty,_Jury_Recommends
Life_Without_Parole_for_Parkland_Mass_Shooter⠀⇛
“My sister is dead, and killing someone else will
not bring her back.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Let’s_Defuse_Nuclear_War,
Together⠀⇛
Sixty years ago this month, during the Cuban
Missile Crisis, I was in my mother’s womb. My
young, sweet mom was terrified she’d never get to
see me be born, as the world teetered on the brink
of unimaginable calamity. It’s bewildering to me
that nuclear crises bookend my life at this point,
especially with my having worked for nuclear
disarmament since 1983. But here we are, perhaps
closer to nuclear catastrophe, with Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s thinly veiled nuclear
threats in his disastrous war against Ukraine, than
at any time since John Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev
found a path back from the brink six decades ago.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_head_of_a_Moscow_government_department_died_at
the_front._He_had_no_combat_experience_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Aleksey Martynov, the head of a department within
the Moscow city government, was killed on October
10 in Ukraine, reports Natalya Loseva, deputy
editorial director at the RT television channel.
According to Loseva, he was 28.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_AFP_anti-drug_operations_hit_by
Colombian_document_leak⠀⇛
The Australian Federal Police was unaware of a huge
leak of Colombian government documents, which
contained information about their operations to
prevent international drug cartels from operating
Down Under, until they informed about it by
newspapers owned by Nine Entertainment.
A report in the Sydney Morning Herald on Friday
said the AFP had been contacted on 4 October and
was now busy trying to contain the damage from the
leaks. It said publication was delayed until the
AFP gave the go-ahead.
The report said details about 35 Australian Federal
Police operations — both current and completed —
had been leaked, as also undercover surveillance
reports, information from phone taps and Colombian
officers’ payroll records.
It said the group which claimed responsibility for
the breach was known as Guacamaya, the Mayan
moniker for the macaw, and claimed it was driven by
both anti-imperialist and environmental motives.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_Pipelines_v._USA⠀⇛
Intent, motive and means: People serving life
sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on
weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence
against Washington for the attack on the Nord
Stream pipelines.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Nuclear_Power_Is_a_Dead_End._We_Must
Abandon_It_Completely.⠀⇛
Berlin—Amid a confluence of crises—the
Ukraine war, an energy crisis, and climate
breakdown—nuclear energy is experiencing a
renaissance, at least in the rhetoric of
politicians and pundits across Europe, North
America, and beyond. After all, it’s tempting
to propose these generators of low-carbon
energy as a panacea to this daunting phalanx
of calamities.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Mark_Fiore:_Diplomacy_Dismembered⠀⇛
Mark Fiore’s latest animation highlights why
Joe Biden should’ve seen the Saudi Crown
Prince’s latest betrayal coming.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_5_Things_Biden_Should_Do_to
‘Re-evaluate’_Saudi_Relations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Real_Climate_Action_Isn’t_at_COP-27,
but_It_is_in_a_Thousand_Rebellious_Communities⠀⇛
Taking Down the Fossil Gas Lines
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Szijjártó_from_Moscow:_I_am_happy
to_report_that_Gazprom_has_long-term_plans_with
Hungary!⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Saudi-Led_OPEC_Production_Cut_Could
Be_‘Tipping_Point’_for_Global_Recession,_IEA_Warns⠀⇛
“With unrelenting inflationary pressures and
interest rate hikes taking their toll, higher
oil prices may prove the tipping point for a
global economy already on the brink of
recession,” the IEA said in its monthly
report on the state of the global oil market.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Windbreak⠀⇛
In hurricane season the old trees suffer.
Especially the ones standing alone. Their
roots no match for a summer wind churning at
sea, inhaling slights and salt air, then
rushing
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Lights_Are_Flashing_Red’:_Study
Finds_69%_Average_Drop_in_Animal_Populations_Since
1970⠀⇛
The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Living Planet
Report 2022, which the group calls its most
comprehensive study to date, estimates that
tens of thousands of monitored mammal, bird,
amphibian, reptile, and fish populations have
seen an average 69% decline in relative
abundance over just a 50-year period, a
blaring signal that the planet is in the
midst of a devastating biodiversity crisis.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Real_Questions_We
Should_be_Asking_After_the_Smithfield_Piglet_Case⠀⇛
The animal agriculture industry has done a
darn good job hiding the conditions of their
farms from the public. Why? Because they know
if the people saw what was going on inside
their farms, they’d be less inclined to eat
animal products. From “happy” cows on milk
cartons to self-defined labels like “humanely
raised,” farms give the average consumer the
impression they’re making the compassionate
choice, while they’re really in the dark.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ How_AI_and_Low-code_can_transform_the_banking
sector⠀⇛
The introduction of AI and Low-code in banking has
improved adaptability and resilience by bringing
process improvement, saving crucial resources and
time. The technologies are scalable and allow the
institutions to make critical changes to meet
future market demands.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Warner_Bros_Discovery_Merger_Idiocy_Continues
With_Another_Big_Round_Of_Layoffs⠀⇛
Everyone thinks America’s favorite pastime is
baseball. In reality, it’s mindless mergers and
acquisitions that promise boundless new
“synergies,” then deliver a parade of harmful
consolidation, job cuts, closures, chaos, and
competitive harms, all buried under a giant
mountain of bullshit.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Chicago_Housing_Authority_Is_Giving_Up
Valuable_Land_With_HUD’s_Approval⠀⇛
Bombarded with questions during a City Council
committee meeting last month, a local housing
official stressed that the deal would be
scrutinized by the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development before it could proceed.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Retailers_Slashing_Prices…More_Bad_News_for
Biden!⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lowe’s_Workers_in_New_Orleans_Petition_to_Form
Company’s_First-Ever_Union⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Cori_Bush_Condemns_GOP’s_Ongoing_Attacks_on
Student_Debt_Relief⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ New_Data_Tool_Details_Thousands_of
Corporations_Profiting_From_US_Prison_Industry⠀⇛
“Despite earning tens of billions of dollars each
year, the public knows little about the prison
industry and those that profit from it.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Joe_Manchin_Is_a_Jobs-Killer⠀⇛
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), claims on his website
that creating jobs is his ”top priority,” and has
used this status as a ”job creator” to justify his
outsized role in blocking climate action, even as
the human-made environmental crisis brings
devastating storms and heat waves. According to
Manchin, the coal industry must be protected,
pipelines built, and regulations eased to secure
the jobs of hard-working Americans.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fed_Critics_Say_New_CPI_Data_Shows_Rate
Hikes_Can’t_Stop_‘Rampant_Corporate_Profiteering’⠀⇛
“It’s time for Chair Powell and the Fed to step
aside and for Congress to step in.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cancel_the_Debt’:_Climate_Protests_Disrupt
World_Bank_Summit⠀⇛
Members of Glasgow Actions Team and other groups
drowned out a Thursday afternoon press conference
by leaders from Group of 20 nations by shouting,
banging makeshift drums, blowing airhorns and
vuvuzelas, and generally rousing a racket.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Inspired_by_Starbucks_and_Amazon_Worker
Wins,_300_T-Mobile_Customer_Service_Staff_Unionize⠀⇛
“It’s been more and more layoffs, more and more pay
cuts, more and more work pressure.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High’:_Biden_Pressured_to
Act_as_Housing_Costs_Fuel_Inflation⠀⇛
“Without a real strategy to regulate rents,
President Biden lacks a real strategy to fight
inflation,” Tara Raghuveer, director of the Homes
Guarantee campaign at People’s Action, said in a
statement Thursday. “That problem will play out in
the midterms. But Biden can fix it by doing
everything in his power to regulate rents and stop
landlords from profiteering off this inflation
crisis.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Fed’s_Rate_Hikes_Are_Not
Working._End_Corporate_Price-Gouging_Instead⠀⇛
The New York Times recently pointed to car
dealerships as an example of a trend that has
defined the pandemic era. With high demand and new
cars in short supply, dealerships have gotten used
to charging higher prices and making record profits
at the expense of consumers — and they are unlikely
to bring prices down on their own.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘What_shall_we_do_with_Kabaeva?’_Putin’s_proxy
scheme_for_lavishing_wealth_on_the_former_Olympic_gymnast_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva never made
public claims of being in a relationship with
Vladimir Putin. And yet, in 2008, their forthcoming
“wedding of the century” was announced by the
Moscow Correspondent — a tabloid that was instantly
rebuked by Putin personally, and completely
shuttered all of 10 days after the offending
publication. All the same, for the next 15 years,
Kabaeva has been receiving ample gifts and all
kinds of costly support from the president’s inner
circle. The relationship is, of course, widely
believed to be real. Earlier, the Wall Street
Journal cited sources claiming that Kabaeva has “at
least three” children by Putin. Following the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kabaeva came under
Western sanctions, for the same reason of being
generally believed to be Putin’s, well, consort.
Now, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s investigative project
Dossier has a lot more to say about Kabaeva’s
curious biography, her astonishing rise, and the
generosity lavished on Kabaeva by Putin’s closest
associates — or rather, by proxy, Putin himself.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_White_Flag_Hearing⠀⇛
The legal right of secession of states, outside of
a situation of “classic” colonial occupation, has
developed enormously in the last thirty odd years.
South Sudan, Montenegro, East Timor, Eritrea, North
Macedonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Georgia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia,
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan,
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine are all
amongst the new states recognised by the United
Nations since 1991.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Democrats_are_getting_a_boost_from_an_unlikely
source:_Laid-off_tech_workers_with_more_free_time⠀⇛
Tech for Campaigns, an organization founded in 2017
to connect tech workers who live in Democratic
strongholds with resource-strapped swing-state
candidates, said it has seen a surge in new
volunteers driven by a combination of factors,
including tech sector job cuts and the Supreme
Court decision overturning the constitutional
protection for abortion.
The group, which works exclusively on state
legislative races in red and purple states, said it
saw 10 times as many signups in June as in April
after a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s
eventual abortion ruling set off a scramble in
state capitals to write and enforce abortion-
related laws.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senator_Manchin_Tries_To_Sneak_His_Dangerous
‘See_Something,_Say_Something’_Attack_On_The_Internet_Into
The_Must_Pass_NDAA⠀⇛
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… in
that politicians who couldn’t pass their terrible
and destructive bills through normal means are
trying to light up various must pass funding and
omnibus end-of-year bills with those failed bills
as amendments. It happens every year like
clockwork, and I’m sure we’ll be noting some other
attempts to sneak through bad bills, but last week,
Senator Joe Manchin pushed to have his absolutely
terrible “See Something, Say Something” bill
attached to the National Defense Authorization Act,
better known as the NDAA, and long considered a
“must pass” so that we have, you know, a military
doing stuff.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fetterman_Raises_Over_$1_Million_in_One_Day
Following_Attacks_on_Health⠀⇛
On Wednesday evening, Fetterman released a brief
statement saying it had “raised over $1 million”
since Tuesday, when the discussion—the Pennsylvania
lieutenant governor’s first on-camera interview
since his stroke in May—aired.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Is_a_Quisling_Who_Stands
Apart⠀⇛
There’s base, amoral self-advancement—and then
there’s whatever House GOP minority leader Kevin
McCarthy does. McCarthy, who has represented
California’s 22nd Congressional District since
2013, is angling for the speakership of the House,
and less than a month away, the midterm elections
still narrowly favor a GOP majority. In late
September, he tried to cement his case for
congressional power with a knock-off version of the
Republican Party’s famed 1994 Contract With America
called the Commitment to America. The document
boils down to hand-waving over inflation and
government spending alongside breathless callouts
to the bogus GOP crusade for ballot reform (read
election denialism) and the paranoid moral panic
over “critical race theory”–inflected public-school
curricula.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Following_DOJ_Subpoena,_Trump_Told_Mar-a-Lago
Worker_to_Hide_Docs_Elsewhere⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Supreme_Court_Declines_to_Get_Involved_in
Trump_Fight_Over_Classified_Docs⠀⇛
The ex-president’s lawyers wanted the court to
ensure that more than 100 classified documents
seized from Mar-a-Lago are included in a special
master review approved by Trump-appointed U.S.
District Judge Aileen Cannon.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Brazil’s_Runoff_Election_Will_Have_Enormous
Effects_on_the_Global_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Evidence⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Iran’s_Women-_and_Youth-Led_Protests_Continue_to
Grow_Amid_Brutal_Crackdown⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Social_Security_Cost-of-Living_Boost
Spotlights_‘Need_to_Expand,_Not_Cut,_Benefits’⠀⇛
“Retirees must be vigilant and make sure they are
voting for candidates who will protect the benefits
they earn, not put them on the chopping block.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Death_by_Nationalism?⠀⇛
The game may be almost over.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Cortez_Masto’s_October_Surprise?_Support
From_GOP_Challenger_Adam_Laxalt’s_Family⠀⇛
“Her entire career demonstrates years of bold
actions that she has taken as an authentic advocate
of Nevada.”
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Social_Media_Amplifies
Misinformation_More_Than_Information⠀⇛
It is well known that social media amplifies
misinformation and other harmful content. The
Integrity Institute, an advocacy group, is
now trying to measure exactly how much — and
on Thursday it began publishing results that
it plans to update each week through the
midterm elections on Nov. 8.
The institute’s initial report, posted
online, found that a “well-crafted lie” will
get more engagements than typical, truthful
content and that some features of social
media sites and their algorithms contribute
to the spread of misinformation.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ The_battle_of_narratives_on_Iran_is_being
fought_on_social_media⠀⇛
A fierce battle to control the narrative is
now being fought online, where supporters and
opponents of the government alike are taking
to social media to tell their version of the
truth and, in some cases, go beyond the
truth.
# ⚓ Newsweek ☛ Fake_Joe_Rogan_and_Steve_Jobs_AI-Powered
Interview_Freaks_Out_the_Internet⠀⇛
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died more than a
decade ago, but a new artificial
intelligence-powered podcast has brought him
back to life in a fake interview—prompting
the internet to respond with both horror and
awe.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Dumb_GOP_Propaganda_Long_Ago_Conflated
Essential_Infrastructure_With_‘Socialism’⠀⇛
There’s a routine assumption that U.S.
partisan division is something that’s just
inherent in the American DNA. In reality, the
nation’s divisions are routinely and
intentionally cultivated and encouraged by
powerful and wealthy individuals and
corporations to stall consensus and reform.
Both parties are culpable, though it’s the
GOP that has perfected the tactic as an art
form.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_New_Evidence_Released_by
Congress_Further_Confirms_Big_Oil’s_Climate
Disinformation⠀⇛
As part of its ongoing investigation of
fossil fuel industry climate disinformation,
the US House of Representatives Committee on
Oversight and Reform released more than 200
pages of internal corporate documents last
month that provide new evidence of industry
deception. Among the more startling
revelations, the documents show that oil and
gas corporation executives acknowledged in
private emails that their companies’ climate
pledges and professed solutions cannot
deliver swift and deep cuts in global warming
emissions and will further delay the
necessary transition from fossil fuels.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Book_bans_spreading_across_Michigan:_What’s
driving_them⠀⇛
“It’s so tied to the political climate,” Friedman
said, noting that the book-banning movement
skyrocketed alongside other educational reform
debates in response to the 1619 Project, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning piece from the New York Times that
examines slavery’s role in the country’s founding,
and critical race theory, a framework that
considers racism’s role in all areas of society.
“The most shocking thing right now is how quickly
we seem to be moving to a situation where standards
of due process and deliberation are becoming more
and more difficult to uphold.”
These debates aren’t new — but experts say they
haven’t seen this level of opposition since the
1980s.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Nick_Clegg,_Other_Meta_Executives_‘Inadvertently’
Identified_in_OnlyFans_Bribery_Suit⠀⇛
In a court filing Tuesday, Nick Clegg, Meta’s vice
president of global policy, and Nicola Mendelsohn,
vice president of the global business team, were
identified as the former “John Does” in a suit
accusing them of accepting bribes on behalf of
OnlyFans as part of a scheme to help the adult
platform dominate its industry rivals.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Banning_Books_Is_a_Threat_to_Public
Education⠀⇛
Now that the defenders of free speech and
literature have had their annual say, can we talk
about the actual condition of school libraries? In
too many districts, it is abysmal. For example, as
of 2021, only 8 percent of Michigan public schools
had a full-time librarian. Nationally, the
situation is only a bit better. According to the
American Library Association, 9 percent of public
and private schools for grades K-12 in the United
States have no library at all. Only 61 percent have
a full-time librarian, which means many are closed
much of the time, and a part-time librarian often
isn’t around enough to get to know the students.
Sheila May-Stein is the librarian at Perry High
School in Pittsburgh, the only high school in a
neighborhood with a large Black and low-income
population. “One of the problems is that when kids
get to high school, they don’t like to read,” she
told me on the phone. “That’s because they haven’t
had functioning libraries at their previous
schools. And that’s because they cut librarians.
When you have a well-trained librarian with a well-
stocked library, he or she can make a difference
with children and reading.” Until this year, May-
Stein’s budget for new books was zero. This year,
she got a big fat $499.
# ⚓ RTL ☛ ‘Great_sadness’_for_artists_after_French_venue
ransacked_in_Burkina_coup⠀⇛
The day after Burkina Faso’s latest coup,
protesters attacked the French Institute, wrecking
not just a symbol of the country’s former colonial
power but also a valued showcase for artists and
free expression.
Demonstrators left charred walls, smashed windows
and books strewn across the floor of the cultural
centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina’s capital.
Standing in front of a pile of paintings, artist
Ali Ouedraogo said it was “a great sadness” to see
the Institute in such a state.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Greene_Pens_Bogus_“Free_Speech”_Defense_of_Alex
Jones’s_Sandy_Hook_Lies⠀⇛
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Spyware_Poses_Dire_Threat_to_Journalists,_Media
Watchdog_Says⠀⇛
More worryingly for the CPJ, “old methods of
defense don’t work” against the latest surveillance
tools, which don’t require a target to click on a
link or download an attachment but simply receive
“an unanswered call” or even “an invisible text
message.”
“There’s nothing new about governments or criminal
gangs spying on journalists or activists,” the
report says.
“But the development of high-tech ‘zero-click’
spyware — the kind that takes over a phone without
a user’s knowledge or interaction — poses an
existential crisis for journalism and the future of
press freedom around the world.”
# ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Julian_Assange_One_of_Three
Finalists_for_the_Sakharov_Prize_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ ‘Free_Assange_Human_Chain’_To_Rock_London_on
Saturday_|_News_|_teleSUR_English⠀⇛
This symbolic act will show the people’s support
for the founder of WikiLeaks, who represents a
contemporary icon of free speech and press. The
“human chain” event is expected to bring together
at least 4,000 people in London.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ COVID_Positive_Assange_Is_Put_In_24-Hour_Lockdown
in_Belmarsh⠀⇛
According to Morris, Assange tested positive on
Saturday after showing symptoms on Friday. Prison
authorities have only given him paracetamol.
“I am obviously worried about him, and the next few
days will be crucial for his overall health. He is
now locked in his cell for 24 hours a day,”
Assange’s wife told reporters Monday.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Assange_Supporters_Form_Human
Chain_at_UK_Parliament⠀⇛
- Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
formed a human chain outside Britain’s parliament
on Saturday to demand an end to an attempt by the
United States to have him extradited to face
criminal charges.
Hundreds of protesters, including Jeremy Corbyn,
the former leader of Britain’s opposition Labour
Party, gathered in a line which stretched from
parliament’s perimeter railings and snaked across
nearby Westminster Bridge to the other side of the
River Thames.
Stella Assange, who is married to the Australian-
born activist, said the British government should
speak to authorities in the United States to end
the extradition bid which was launched in 2019.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran:_A_really_simple_guide_to_the_protests⠀⇛
The demonstrations are seen as the most serious
challenge to the Iranian authorities in decades.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran_protests:_‘The_people_will_fight_until_they
succeed’⠀⇛
Women are right at the heart of Iran’s fresh wave
of protests. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
in police custody in Tehran has energised a fresh
generation to demand new rights and freedoms. But
many Iranians say speaking out against the regime
brings real risks.
# ⚓ CBS ☛ “They_can’t_arrest_all_of_us”:_Why_Iran’s_defiant
young_protesters_“want_the_change_today”⠀⇛
“My generation and the generation after me, we gave
the government the chance to reform itself,” said
Bahari, who was jailed in Iran in 2009 while living
and working there as a journalist for Newsweek.
“But this generation can see that… the Islamic
Republic cannot be reformed, so this government has
to be ended.”
Modern Iran emerged with the overthrow of a secular
government in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Now, 43
years later, many young Iranians in the Islamic
Republic are fed up with what they see as
repressive rules, global isolation and severe
Western sanctions imposed on their country.
“Young people are becoming poorer,” Bahari said.
“They are being humiliated at school. They’re being
humiliated on the streets by the morality police…
their country is being humiliated by the world
because of their kind of government. So, imagine
living in that country. You want change. You want
the change today.”
# ⚓ [Old] The Times Of Israel ☛ Tortured_Iranian_expat_makes
documentaries_to_educate_Muslims_about_Holocaust⠀⇛
Two years later, in 2009, Bahari returned once
again to Iran to cover the Green Revolution for
Newsweek, where he was arrested and imprisoned.
Bahari spent 118 days in prison — 107 of them in
solitary confinement. Fortunately his immediate
family no longer lived in Iran at the time, he
said.
Throughout his imprisonment he was tortured and
interrogated about his statements against Holocaust
denial, his film on the St. Louis and his Jewish
connections. The authorities exhibited him on Iran
TV and accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, and
Mossad.
Following his release, Bahari reconnected with
Stewart, who adapted Bahari’s memoir, “Then They
Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity
and Survival” into the 2014 film “Rosewater.” The
name of the film comes from the odor of the
nauseatingly sweet perfume Bahari’s most vicious
interrogator favored.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “This_Time_Feels_Different”:_Iran’s_Women_&
Youth-Led_Protests_Continue_to_Grow_Amid_Brutal_Crackdown⠀⇛
Anti-government protests in Iran, first sparked
last month by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini,
have moved into their fourth week. The youth and
women-led protests cross class and ethnic divides,
and the demands have grown in scale and scope, with
many, even in the clerical community, now calling
for the complete abolition of the Islamic Republic.
Many sectors of society, including businesses and
unions, have also joined in protest, with oil
workers from one of the country’s major refineries
going on strike Monday. Iranian authorities have
launched a violent assault on protesters in
response, explains Amnesty International’s Raha
Bahreini, with security forces shooting live
ammunition into crowds to disperse the protests,
leaving thousands injured and at least 144 victims
dead, 24 of them children. The government violence
is “indicative of just what a threat the regime
believes these protests are,” argues Iranian
American scholar Reza Aslan, who says that despite
numerous revolutions in Iran’s history, “this time
feels different.”
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Police_Need_Warrants_to_Search_Homes._Child
Welfare_Agents_Almost_Never_Get_One.⠀⇛
Ferguson, a nurse working 16-hour double shifts,
knew instantly who she’d find in her hallway that
day in February 2019.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Racism_and_Sexism_in_the_Housing_Industry⠀⇛
“It’s one of them credit card loans,” she said.
“Like interest of 30% and all that, you know. I was
kind of backed up against the wall, so I just went
on and made the loan, a high-interest loan.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Sixties’_Radical_Recalls_a_Different_Era
in_U.S._Labor⠀⇛
Today, that kind of internal struggle is more
likely to occur in education, healthcare, or
service sector labor organizations, rather than
older industrial unions. Socialists who become
workplace organizers often choose companies—like
Starbucks or Amazon–without established unions so
they can play a catalytic role in new organizing or
first contract struggles. Yet, the United Auto
Workers (UAW) is currently in the midst of a first-
ever direct election of its top officers, which has
created a new political opening for UAW dissidents,
young and old. And, with a recent national
leadership change for the better in the Teamsters,
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU)—formed 46
years ago with much socialist help–is now well
positioned to shape contract campaigning in the
nation’s largest private sector bargaining unit,
which covers 230,000 workers at United Parcel
Service.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ An_(Im)perfect_Way_Forward_On_Infrastructure
Moderation?⠀⇛
Within every conversation about technology lies the
moral question: is a technology good or bad? Or, is
it neutral? In other words, are our values part of
the technologies we create or is technology
valueless until someone decides what to do?
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Council_of_Europe_to_begin_monitoring
Hungary_over_rule_of_law_issues⠀⇛
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ ANF_|_DBP_Co-Chair_calls_on_the_CPT_to_release
its_report_on_Öcalan_immediately⠀⇛
DBP Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz called on the European
Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to
immediately release its report on the situation of
Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in the Imrali
prison.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Internet_Is_Not_Facebook:_Why_Infrastructure
Providers_Should_Stay_Out_of_Content_Policing⠀⇛
These takedowns and demands raise thorny questions,
particularly when providing services to one entity
risks enabling harms to others. If it is not
possible to intervene in a necessary and
proportionate way, as required by international
human rights standards, much less in a way that
will be fully transparent to—or appealable by—users
who rely on the internet to access information and
organize, should providers voluntarily intervene at
all? Should there be exceptions for emergency
circumstances? How can we best identify and
mitigate collateral damage, especially to less
powerful communities? What happens when state
actors demand similar interventions?
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Texas’_Ridiculous_Content_Moderation_Bill_Put_On
Hold_Until_The_Supreme_Court_Can_Consider_It⠀⇛
Normally, this wouldn’t be surprising, and
normally, this wouldn’t even require a blog post,
but because nothing in the 5th Circuit makes sense
these days, it is a little surprising and it is
worth a post to note that despite the insanity of
Judge Andy Oldham’s ruling putting Texas’ content
moderation law back on the books, he has now agreed
to put that ruling on hold while the parties ask
the Supreme Court to hear the case.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Apple_Is_Withholding_New_Benefits_From_Its_Only
Unionized_Store⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_Kroger_Eyes_Albertsons,_Biden_Admin
Urged_to_Reject_‘Greed-Driven’_Grocery_Buyout⠀⇛
“This merger is a cut and dry case of monopoly
power, and enforcers should block it.”
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Andy_Warhol,_Prince_at_center_stage_in_Supreme
Court_case⠀⇛
Despite the light nature of the arguments at
times involving two deceased celebrities, the
issue before the court is a serious one for
the art world: When should artists be paid
for original work that is then transformed by
others, such as a movie adaptation of a book?
The case affects artists, authors,
filmmakers, museums and movie studios. Some
amount of copying is acceptable under the law
as “fair use,” while larger scale
appropriation of a work constitutes copyright
infringement.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Maris_Kirme:_Estonian
musical_legacy_buried_in_neglected_library’s_archive⠀⇛
It appears that just a small number of people
are aware of the existence of this rare
collection. Nonetheless, I am convinced that
this collection contains many rare musical
scores and (music) books that cannot be
obtained anywhere in Estonia.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ BREIN_is_Not_Allowed_to_Warn
BitTorrent_Pirates,_But_it_Can_Sue_Them⠀⇛
Dutch Internet provider Ziggo is not required
to forward piracy warnings to its
subscribers, an appeal court has ruled. This
is a setback for anti-piracy group BREIN,
which had hoped to warn frequent uploaders
without undermining their privacy.
Ironically, BREIN is required to take legal
action against individual pirates if it wants
to get its message across.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Success_will_automatically_follow⠀⇛
Do what you love and love what you do and success
will automatically follow. Don’t work for success
but for love!
# ⚓ Tips_&_Tricks_To_Weight_Loss⠀⇛
I am a bit of an experienced dieter. Struggling
with weight my entire life has put my body through
cycles of gaining and loosing A LOT of weight. the
last time I did a long term diet like this I lost
100 pounds, sadly I hope to acomplish this same
feat again (AND KEEP IT THE FUCK OFF!)
I also put up this public weight log that I will do
my best to keep updated. Its as honest as it is
personally embaressing (im ashamed of my current
weight) but also I hope it inspires some of you out
there who are in a similar boat who feel its
impossible to make a real change. Im sure theres a
few overweight people on gemini besides myself.
Maybe we can start a #weightloss movement on gemini
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:P⦈
# ⚓ Art_as_Distillation⠀⇛
I’ve read and watched a lot of discussion about
good story-writing in the last few months. Now that
I’ve joined Cosmic Voyage, I’ve thought a lot about
what kind of story or stories I might want to tell
there. I love to write, but I tend to be very
indecisive about the direction and style of my
tales, which is why I don’t write very often these
days.
One pillar of good storytelling, though not a
sufficient condition, is that the world of the
story has established rules that are not broken.
Whatever suppositions the story lays out, those
suppositions are honored, and future chapters or
sequels follow the same suppositions. Many modern
movies and TV shows tend to fail on this front,
which warrants plenty of criticism, but that’s
outside the scope of this log.
# ⚓ I_Appreciate_You⠀⇛
Yes, you. Not “you” abstractly. I’m referring to
you, the human being reading these words displayed
on your screen, read to you with a screenreader,
transcribed to you in braille, or transmitted via a
brain-computer interface. You.
If you are one of my friends reading, I appreciate
your fellowship and kindness over the years. Even
when you don’t think I care, I’d like to.
If you are one of my family members,
congratulations for finding my Gemini capsule!
Please let me know next time we see each other. I’m
passionate about the smolnet and would love to hear
what you think.
=> =============================================================================
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Benchmarks
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Qt
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Oh_yes,_the_year_of_the_Linux_desktop
will_come_•_The_Register⠀⇛
It has become a running joke. “20xx will be the
year of the Linux desktop.” The punchline is, of
course, it will never happen. But the real jape is
that there will soon be a year of the Linux
desktop. It’s just not going to happen the way
Linux fanboi have believed it will.
The Linux desktop dream has been that companies and
people will realize that the Linux desktop is
simply better than Windows. Part of the hope is
true. The Linux desktop is better than Windows.
Really. For starters, the Linux desktop is far more
secure than Windows. I mean, sure, Linux has
security problems. What doesn’t? But Microsoft has
a monthly security mea culpa day: Patch Tuesday.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ CircleCI_Embraces_Containers_to_Simplify_CI/CD_Deployments
–_Container_Journal⠀⇛
CircleCI this week relased a container edition of
its self-hosted runner software that will make it
simpler for DevOps teams to deploy the on-premises
edition of its namesake continuous integration/
continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.
Aakar Shroff, vice president of product management
for CircleCI, says the self-hosted container runner
is designed to eliminate a lot of the toil and
friction a DevOps team would otherwise encounter
when deploying a CI/CD platform in an on-premises
IT environment.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Venom_Linux_4.0_Quick_overview_#linux_#Venomlinux_–
Invidious⠀⇛
A Quick Overview of Venom Linux 4.0
# ⚓ Video ☛ VIM_The_Ultimate_Editor_–_Invidious⠀⇛
VIM editor is one of the most beloved, but often
misunderstood editor in existence. Let’s configure
it from a noobs perspective and show you it’s
power.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Valve’s_HEAVILY_investing_in_Free_Software_to_make
Linux_better_than_Windows._(Plus_other_Deck_news)_–
Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Debian_Downer_|_Office_Hours_14⠀⇛
It was one technical disaster after another, we
recap the series of technical challenges that
killed all future shows from the road.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Android_Leaks_Data_Through_VPNs⠀⇛
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, Android leaks
data through a VPN, Windows 11 becomes a nanny, and
it will install on most computers today. We also
visit SillyVille.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Essential_System_Tools:_GreenWithEnvy_–
NVIDIA_graphics_card_utility⠀⇛

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a graphical system tool for
NVIDIA graphics cards. This utility provides
information about the card present in a system
together with the ability to control its fans and
overclock the GPU and memory.
GWE is free and open source software.
o § Benchmarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu_and_Linux_Keep_Outperforming_Windows_11_on_AMD_Ryzen
9_7950X_–_WinBuzzer⠀⇛
Back in September, I reported on a Phoronix test
showing Linux Ubuntu 22.04 is outperforming Windows
11 when running the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Well, it
doesn’t seem things are any better for the new
Windows 11 2022 Update compared to Ubuntu and Linux
when running AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X.
This test was once again conducted by Phoronix and
shows Windows 11 2022 Update lag behind open source
distros across several metrics.
“All of these tests were done on the same system
featuring the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X running at its
stock speeds (the clock difference on the system
table just comes down to reporting differences
between OS interfaces), the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR
X670E HERO motherboard with the latest 0703 BIOS, 2
x 16GB DDR5-6000 EXPO memory, Radeon RX 6800 XT
graphics, and a 1TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus NVMe
SSD.”
It seems on next-gen hardware from AMD, Windows 11
is losing its performance edge compared to Linux
6.0 kernel and Ubuntu 21.10. It is worth noting the
test was done without 3D V-cache enabled.
Admittedly, the results are closer to last month’s
test but still cause for concern for Microsoft.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 3_top_note-taking_applications_for_Linux
sysadmins_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Say goodbye to randomly scattered notes. A good
notebook application lets you write, sort,
organize, and access notes when and where you need
them.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Liferea_Feed_Reader_got_first_RC_release
for_next_1.14_Stable_series_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Liferea finally announced the first release
candidate for the next stable release line 1.14.
Here’s the new features and Ubuntu PPA packages.
Linux Feed Reader, Liferea in short, is a GTK3 new
reader for Linux. It’s in the 1.13 pre-release
series for more than 2 years, until released 1.14
RC1 few days ago.
The new release fixed an annoying bug that certain
desktop environments or themes may make the pane
invisible and hard to restore.
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Notion-like_Markdown_Note-Taking_App_‘Obsidian’
is_Out_of_Beta [Ed: Site called "It's FOSS" promoting stuff
which it admits is not FOSS]⠀⇛
Obsidian is not an open-source app, but it is
available for Linux users.
# ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#22.38:_KDE_Plasma_5.26,_Indie_Linux
Distros,_Bash_Learning,_Free_Games⠀⇛
Do you like the new FOSS Weekly newsletter? If yes,
would you like to provide a 100-200 characters
testimonial along with your name, country and job
title (student, home user, self-hoster, retired
teacher, sysadmin with x years of experience etc)?
You can concisely share what you like about the
newsletter by replying to this email.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Graylog_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Graylog on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Graylog is a free and open-source log
monitoring application that can capture, store, and
analyze gigabytes of machine data in real time. It
is designed for modern log analytics that allows
users to quickly and easily find meaning in data
and take action faster.
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 Graylog log management software 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.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Restrict_Access_To_Linux_Servers_With_TCP
Wrappers_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛
In this guide, we are going to learn what is TCP
Wrappers, what is it used for, how to install TCP
Wrappers in Linux, and how to restrict access to
Linux servers using TCP Wrappers.
# ⚓ How_Wine_works_101⠀⇛
Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running
Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant
operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD
(https://www.winehq.org).
If you have been using Linux for some time now,
chances are you’ve used Wine at some point. Maybe
to run that one very important Windows program that
doesn’t have a Linux version or maybe to play World
of Warcraft or some other game. Fun fact, Valve’s
Steam Deck uses a Wine-based solution to run games
(called Proton).
In the last year I’ve spent quite some time working
on a debugger capable of debugging both the Wine
layer and the Windows application running with it.
It was very interesting to learn about the Wine
internals – I’ve used Wine many times before, but
never knew how it worked. If you ever wondered how
it’s possible to take a Windows executable and just
run it on Linux without any modifications – welcome
to this article!
# ⚓ Seven_Sins_of_Numerical_Linear_Algebra_–_Nick_Higham⠀⇛
In numerical linear algebra we are concerned with
solving linear algebra problems accurately and
efficiently and understanding the sensitivity of
the problems to perturbations. We describe seven
sins, whereby accuracy or efficiency is lost or
misleading information about sensitivity is
obtained.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Log2Ram_on_Linux_to_Save_Wear_and
Tear_on_Your_Disks⠀⇛
Continuous logging and read/write operations can
harm your storage disks. Install Log2Ram on your
Linux desktop to improve the lifespan of your
disks.
Almost everything your Linux machine does is
written to disk as part of a log file. Even when
you’re away from the keyboard or sleeping, dozens
of logs are constantly updated, ready for you to
search through and diagnose problems or optimize
processes.
This constant writing can have an impact on the
lifespan of your storage medium, and cause it to
wear out sooner than it otherwise would. Save your
disks and your wallet by using the Log2Ram app to
minimize disk writing!
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 3_Quick_and_Easy_Ways_to_Open_Any_File
as_Root_in_Ubuntu_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
The root user is one of the most important aspects
of a Linux distro. It allows you to access and
modify any part of your system with ease. For
example, it is simple to open and edit any file in
Ubuntu if you are using root, but using root
commands needs a bit of prep work. This tutorial
shows some of the ways to easily open any file as
root from inside your Ubuntu desktop.
# ⚓ Essential_DNF_Commands_For_Linux_With_Examples_|
Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛
Linux operating systems like RedHat Linux use DNF
or Dandified Yum as a package manager. It is used
in RPM-based Linux systems and it is a successor of
the Yum package manager.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Make_a_User’s_Password_Expire_–
Linux_Nightly⠀⇛
An expired password in Linux will force the user to
change their password the next time they log in. In
this tutorial, you will learn how to force a user’s
password to expire, set an expiration date on for a
user’s password, and check the expiration date.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions
on_Ubuntu_22.04_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛
VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the
most out of your Ubuntu virtual machine. It gives
you automatic resolution scaling, a shared
clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and
drop ability. The step by step instructions below
will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest
Additions on Ubuntu Linux.
Step 1. First, we’ll enable the multiverse
repository (in case it isn’t already), then use the
system’s package manager to refresh package
repositories and install the VirtualBox Guest
Additions packages. Execute the following commands
in terminal.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Guacamole_as_Docker
Container_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Apache Guacamole is free, open source clientless
remote desktop application that allows you to
access remote Desktop and Server machines…
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Kitty_Terminal_on_Ubuntu_22.04
or_20.04_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Learn the steps to install the Kitty Terminal
emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy JellyFish or 20.04
Focal fossa to have a lightweight app to run
commands.
Ubuntu is a popular Linux distro that comes with a
default Terminal application from GNOME. However,
we don’t have to limit ourselves to it only. There
are many other feature-rich Terminals such as Tabby
and Terminators whereas for those who are looking
for lightweight Terminals that can utilize the GPU
power then Kitty and Alacritty-like emulator apps
can be used.
In this tutorial, we will talk about Kitty Terminal
developed in Python and C programming languages. It
is a highly configurable Terminal app in the open-
source category, the source code is available on
GitHub.
Well, Kitty Terminal is not some fancy app with
lots of inbuilt features instead it has been
developed to keep one thing in mind i.e performance
and low consumption of system resources. However, a
user can customize it with the help of its
configuration such as Fonts, window size,
background, and foreground color, and more…
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_List_Installed_Packages_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–
VITUX⠀⇛
It is often important to know how many packages are
installed on your computer. You may not know it,
but there are many packages installed on your
computer.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_RPM_Fusion_Repository_in
RHEL-Based_Systems⠀⇛
This article guide walks RHEL-based users through
the installation and configuration of RPM Fusion on
their Linux distributions. It also discusses the
need for RPM Fusion and why its installation and
usage are sometimes necessary.
RPM Fusion is a software repository database that
offers users in the RHEL-based community never-
ending access to free and non-free software for
download and use. Software and packages availed in
repositories like RPM Fusion are not available in
the official repositories of these Linux
distributions.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Discourse_with_Docker_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Discourse is a free and open-source discussion
platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
# ⚓ How_to_install_PostgreSQL_on_RedHat_Linux_8|Fedora_36_–
NextGenTips⠀⇛
In this article, we are going to learn how to
install and get PostgreSQL 15 up and running on a
RedHat Linux 8 and Fedora 36 server. PostgreSQL is
a powerful, open-source object-relational database
system that uses and extends the SQL language
combined with many features that safely store and
scale the most complicated data workloads.
# ⚓ How_to_install_and_Configure_PostgreSQL_15_on_Debian_11._–
NextGenTips⠀⇛
In this article, we are going to learn how to
install and get PostgreSQL 15 up and running on a
Debian 11 server. PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-
source object-relational database system that uses
and extends the SQL language combined with many
features that safely store and scale the most
complicated data workloads.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.0_beta
3⠀⇛
We released Godot 4.0 beta 1 one month ago! That
was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our
next major release – be sure to check out that blog
post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of
the main highlight of Godot 4.0.
But the “1″ in beta 1 means that it’s only the
first step of the journey, and like for the alpha
phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots
roughly every other week.
We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing
the issues that testers are reporting. In the past
two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged,
many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Trifox:_A_Colorful_Class-Based_Looter-
Shooter_3D_platformer:_Review_on_Linux_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
Now here is a style that has been traditionally
underrepresented in the PC gaming world, but
prolific in consoles: 3D platformers. I don’t doubt
that with the Steam Deck and its clones, some
console trends make way into Steam, and more and
more titles like this one appear.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24.7,_Bugfix_Release_for_October⠀⇛
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.7.
Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022
with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three months’ worth of new
translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically
small but important and include…
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.24.7_LTS_Improves_Support
for_Flatpak_Apps,_Plasma_Wayland,_and_More⠀⇛
KDE Plasma 5.24.7 LTS is here a little over
three months after the KDE Plasma 5.24.6 LTS
point release to improve support for Flatpak
apps by showing the “Uninstall or Manage Add-
ons” menu item in their context menus in the
Kickoff applications menu, making Global Edit
Mode toolbar’s enter/exit animation nicer and
smoother, and improving the Plasma Wayland
session to no longer crash when dragging
items from Kickoff that aren’t on the
Favorites page.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ First_Look_at_LURE!_Bringing_AUR_to_All_Linux
Distros⠀⇛
AUR (Arch User Repository) is a community-driven
repository for Arch-based Linux distributions.
Long story short: it helps install packages not available
in the official repositories and lets you get the latest
releases.
I found it helpful with my experience on Manjaro Linux.
Technically, AUR builds a package from the source and
then utilizes the package manager (pacman) to install it.
o ⚓ Sculpt_OS_release_22.10⠀⇛
The just released version 22.10 of the Sculpt operating
system bears the fruit of our year-long effort to apply
the rigidity of Genode’s architecture to the management
of PCI configuration and device interrupts. This sweeping
change left no single device driver unturned. If we did
our job right, you should not notice any visible
difference from the previous Sculpt version.
However, you should definitely feel a difference when
using the new version. We put several performance
optimizations in place – from accelerated system startup,
over increased network thoughput, to improved user-
interface responsiveness. Moreover, we put much emphasis
on stressing Sculpt’s USB hotplug support, which includes
the dynamic assignment and revocation of USB devices to
and from virtual machines.
With respect to available software, Sculpt users can
enjoy an updated Chromium engine – via the Falkon or
Morph web browsers – and an updated audio driver based on
OpenBSD 7.1.
Sculpt OS 22.10 is available as ready-to-use system image
at the Sculpt download page along with updated
documentation.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Plasma,_Frameworks,_Kernel,_LLVM_update_in_Tumbleweed_–
openSUSE_News⠀⇛
This week had one large and a few smaller openSUSE
Tumbleweed snapshots.
The rolling release was coasting along with some
smaller snapshots earlier in the week and the
latest snapshot updated an enormous amount of
packages.
Among the packages to update in snapshot 20221012
were Frameworks 5.99.0 and Plasma 5.26. With
Plasma, there were a lot of new changes. You can
resize the widgets like clock and calendar in your
panel, the notifier and the KDE Connect monitor and
volume control. An All Applications section easily
allows navigation using an alphabetized index. For
smart TV enthusiasts, two new applications landed
in Plasma Big Screen; Aura is a browser specially
designed for big screen TVs and Plank Player is a
simple and easy-to-use media player allowing videos
to be played from a storage device. Frameworks
fixed the size and positioning restoration on
multi-monitor setups with KConfig. Frameworks fixed
a bug that clears the PasswordField with
Ctrl+Shift+U and updated the desktop theme. User
Interface Framework Kirigami improved
DefaultListItemBackground code. An update of
ImageMagick 7.1.0.49 fixed a confusing color space
with linear-RGB. The ModemManager 1.18.12 release
fixed a few very critical issue that happens when
using a glib2 newer or equal to version 2.73.2. The
package also added new pkgconfig modules build
requirements. Poor contrast on various menu items
with certain themes on Linux systems were fixed
with the Mozilla Firefox 105.0.3 update. The
browser fixed several additional Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures in the newer release.
One of those was CVE-2022-40961, which caused a
stack-buffer overflow when initializing graphics.
An update of pipewire 0.3.59 fixed a case where a
node could pause while still adding to the graph,
which could cause potential crashes. The audio and
video package has more options to control the
buffer size thanks to an Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture plugin. Added support for tabbed
windows was made with the windows manager icewm
3.0.1 update. Many other packages were updated in
the snapshot including ffmpeg-4 4.4.3, git 2.38.0,
harfbuzz 5.3.0 and iproute2 6.0, which introduced
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet support.
# ⚓ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_weeks_2022/40_&_41⠀⇛
Already two weeks passed again since the last
‘weekly’ review. Of course, you are eagerly
awaiting to be informed furthermore what happened
during this time finally. A total of 8 snapshots
have been released (0930, 1001, 1003, 1004, 1006,
1008, 1012, and 1013).
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ OpenShift_virtualization:_Not_as_scary
as_it_seems⠀⇛
As you may already know, Red Hat has announced that
it will be ending support of Red Hat Virtualization
(RHV) in 2026. This move gives customers about four
years to migrate their RHV workloads to another
solution in a market that’s experiencing some major
changes. In this article, we discuss one
alternative to legacy virtualization: OpenShift
Virtualization, a feature offered within Red Hat
OpenShift.
One of the primary purposes of RHV, as with any
traditional hypervisor like Xen, VMware or a KVM-
based solution, has been to increase utilization of
physical hardware by running multiple virtual
machines (VMs) per physical compute node. This is a
task that all of these products do very well, and
with add-ins like Software-Defined Networking
(SDN), traditional hypervisors seem almost as
robust as the services provided by modern cloud
platforms.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Ubuntu_users_angered_by_‘advert’_in_command
line_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
Canonical, the maker of popular Linux distribution
Ubuntu, has come under fire over an attempt to
spread the word about a new promotion.
As TechRadar Pro reported last week, Canonical is
now offering free access to the enterprise-focused
version of Ubuntu for up to five workstations. In
an effort to advertise the scheme, the company is
distributing a message via the command line to any
user that updates the OS.
However, a section of the Ubuntu user base has not
taken kindly to the move, which has been
interpreted as an inappropriate intrusion by some.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ The_long_ARM_of_KDE_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
With over 100 applications available in the Snap
Store, KDE is by far the biggest publisher of snaps
around. What unifies this impressive portfolio is
the fact that all of these snaps are made for the
x86 platform. Not anymore. Now, don’t panic! The
x86 snaps are not going anywhere. But ARM-supported
KDE snaps are on the way, and this article will
tell you a bit more about this endeavor.
[...]
Here, the KDE team has adopted a rather interesting
hybrid approach to making their snaps work on ARM.
One option to build snaps for a target architecture
is to do that locally. Not an issue with Intel-
based hardware. With ARM devices, this is trickier,
because quite often, it is not easy to source (for
both logistical and practical reasons) ARM devices
that are powerful enough to support a fast build
pipeline. An alternative solution is to use the
snap remote build capability, which allows any snap
developer to send remote build jobs to Launchpad
via the snapcraft command line, and build
applications for six target platforms.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Hyperparameter_tuning_for_ML_models_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
To create a machine learning model, you need to
design and optimise the model’s architecture. This
involves performing hyperparameter tuning, to
enable developers to maximise the performance of
their work. How do hyperparameters differ from
model parameters?
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Introducing_a_VSCode_extension_for_Vanilla_CSS
Framework [Ed: Instead of promoting Free software Canonical
is shilling Microsoft's proprietary software that lets
Microsoft spy on users]⠀⇛
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Juno_Tablet_a_$429_Linux_tablet_–_Geeky
Gadgets⠀⇛
If you are in the market for a Linux tablet you
might be interested in the new piece of hardware
created by Juno Computers. In the form of the aptly
name Juno Tablet, now available to purchase priced
at $429.
Equipped with a 10.1 inch display and offering
users a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, the
tablet features an IPS touchscreen LCD display and
is available with three different storage options,
providing either 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of on-board
storage.
The Linux tablet is also equipped with an array of
useful connections in the form of a single USB 3.1
Type-C (with charging and video out support), 1 x
USB 3.0 Type-A, mini HDMI, a microSD card reader
and a handy 3.5mm headphone jack.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Use_your_phone_as_an_IoT_device_in_the_Arduino
Cloud⠀⇛
Getting started with a new device management
platform is a drag. You have to get familiar with
the terminology and the environment. You have to
create new devices, dashboards, widgets, and read a
lot of documentation and that’s usually very time
consuming, even if the platform is very easy to
use.
Furthermore, it is even more tedious if the
platform is targeted to manage physical devices.
You need to have some devices close at hand, you
need to learn how to code your hello world or
getting started examples and subsequent
programming. Even if the platform is very
intuitive, this is something that usually pulls
users back.
At the end of the day, what users want to have is a
straightforward way to evaluate what they can
achieve with the platform, the performance, the
look and feel and the global interaction
experience.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Pixel_7_Android_WebView_–_Google_Play_system_not_updating⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Urgent_warning_for_billions_of_Android_users_–
ignoring_mysterious_message_could_cost_you_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_the_Language_for_Individual
Apps_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Add_and_Access_Emergency_Info_on_Android_–_Guiding
Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_activates_passkey_on_Android_and_Chrome—Here’s_how
to_use_it_|_NextPit⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Signal_to_remove_SMS_support_from_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Samsung_shows_One_UI_5_with_lockscreen,
Android_13_features⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ What’s_the_Android_Equivalent_of_iOS’s_‘Drop
a_Pin’?_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Best_Music_Apps_for_Android,_Based_on
Your_Needs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ 5_best_Android_smartphones_to_buy_during
Black_Friday_and_Cyber_Monday_Sale_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_sandbox_games_on_Android_in
2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Pixel_7_and_Pixel_7_Pro_get_a_head_start
on_banishing_32-bit_Android_apps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Business Today ☛ Is_Google_Pixel_7_Pro_the_best_flagship
Android_smartphone?_–_BusinessToday⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Fix_an_Android_Phone_Not_Receiving_Calls⠀⇛
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Zimperium_uncovers_new_Iranian_Android
spyware_on_enterprise_device:_RatMilad⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Android_Google_search_widget_can_now_be_customized_/
Digital_Information_World⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Meet_Christopher_–_Collabora_Software_Engineering_Intern⠀⇛
Collabora recruits interns to work over the summer
alongside our team, and to build experience to help them
assess whether they want to pursue a career in Software
Engineering, but how does that work out? Let’s hear from
Christopher…
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Rewriting_curl_in_three_days_|
daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛
To celebrate the hubris-infested comment from a few
years ago, I created this book cover mock up.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ There_is_a_tab_in_my_cookie_|
daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛
An HTTP cookie, is just a name + value pair sent
from the server to the client. That pair is stored
and is sent back to the server in subsequent
requests when conditions match.
Cookies were first invented and used in the 1990s.
Sources seem to agree that the first browser to
support them, was Netscape 0.9beta released in
September 1994. Internet Explorer added support in
October 1995.
After many years and several failed specification
attempts, they were eventually documented in RFC
6265 in 2011. They have been debated, criticized
and misunderstood since virtually forever. Mostly
because of the abuse/tracking they (used to?) allow
in browsers. Less so because of how they actually
work over the wire.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ PostgreSQL_15_advances_open_source_relational
database⠀⇛
The open source PostgreSQL 15 relational database
became generally available on Thursday, with a
series of enhancements designed to accelerate
performance and data management.
PostgreSQL is an open source database development
effort with multiple vendors providing support and
services, including EDB, Percona, Aiven,
Instaclustr, and cloud providers AWS, Google and
Microsoft. The new release is the first major
update this year and follows the PostgreSQL 14
release that debuted in September 2021.
Users of the PostgreSQL 15 update get a number of
improvements, including new compression
capabilities that help with data storage and
backup, data sorting enhancement for faster
lookups, and new logging and SQL capabilities.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Six_videos_from_the_LibreOffice
Conference_2022⠀⇛
We’ve uploaded some more talks from the recent
LibreOffice Conference 2022! Check out the
individual videos below, or click here to view the
playlist.
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Using_LibreOffice_Base_to_Teach
Relational_Database_Management⠀⇛
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Month_in_WordPress_–_September_2022_–_WordPress_News⠀⇛
September was an exciting month with the return of
many in-person WordCamps, WordPress Translation
Day, and preparations for WordPress 6.1.
Contributors across teams continue to work hard to
ensure that the last major release of the year is
the best it can be for everyone. Let’s catch up on
all things WordPress.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ On_language_bindings_&_Relaunching_Guile-
GnuTLS⠀⇛
The Guile bindings for GnuTLS has been part of
GnuTLS since spring 2007 when Ludovic Courtès
contributed it after some initial discussion. I
have been looking into getting back to do GnuTLS
coding, and during a recent GnuTLS meeting one
topic was Guile bindings. It seemed like a fairly
self-contained project to pick up on. It is
interesting to re-read the old thread when this
work was included: some of the concerns brought up
there now have track record to be evaluated on. My
opinion that the cost of introducing a new project
per language binding today is smaller than the cost
of maintaining language bindings as part of the
core project. I believe the cost/benefit ratio has
changed during the past 15 years: introducing a new
project used to come with a significant cost but
this is no longer the case, as tooling and
processes for packaging have improved. I have had
similar experience with Java, C# and Emacs Lisp
bindings for GNU Libidn as well, where maintaining
them centralized slow down the pace of updates.
Andreas Metzler pointed to a similar conclusion
reached by Russ Allbery.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacob Kaplan Moss ☛ Role_Title_Terminology⠀⇛
In my writing about hiring and management, I often
talk about role titles – terms like “manager”,
“director”, “executive”, and so forth. I’ve found
that many readers find the precise definitions of
these terms confusing. Often companies give lofty-
sounding titles as a sort of non-financial
compensation, so you’ll often see things like a
“VP” title meaning wildly different things and
different companies. I’m generally all for
descriptivism in language, but there are some very
real differences between different types of roles,
and having clear terms helps us communicate about
them.
So here’s a glossary of the terms I use when I’m
talking about job titles. I think this mostly
matches a rough consensus among people who think
about organization structure, but if something
here’s controversial drop me a line and let me
know.
# ⚓ Take_a_Break_You_Idiot⠀⇛
After long bouts of work—months and months
uninterrupted—I become a slug person; small hurdles
spike my anxiety, my anger flares at the slightest
confrontation, I notice fewer jokes, fewer attempts
on my part to make people laugh. My memory goes to
all hell too and I can’t seem to concentrate on
prolonged amounts of anything. Books fall off my
radar, I stop listening to music. My phone is in my
hand at all times, scrolly-anxiety-inducing apps
become impossible to avoid.
I know the cure: work less! Take a break! Stop
doing things and do even fewer things than you
think you ought to! Take a week! Take two! Stop all
forms of work, go exercise and write, go learn how
to do something entirely else. But each time I
forget my own advice until I’m at this point, where
I am now: basically useless.
# ⚓ Know_your_carrying_capacity⠀⇛
I like to think of the collection of things that
someone can reasonably maintain as their “carrying
capacity”, to borrow the ecology term. If you take
on more than your carrying capacity, something has
to die (aka fall into disrepair). With modern
software being so garbage, I think one big reason
is that there are too many software professionals
out there who don’t know their carrying capacity.
# ⚓ TDD_and_‘Discipline’⠀⇛
There is, of course. a relatively benign notion of
“discipline”, connoting something like a rich and
deep subject which does require practice to become
expert. And surely, TDD in all its implications is
something that will benefit from as much practice
as we can give it. I have practiced it for years,
and when working on something where I know how to
apply it, I practice it daily. I wouldn’t do that
because someone told me to do it. I pretty much
won’t do anything because someone tells me to do
it. I do things because I want to, and because I
enjoy them. I try never to tell others what to do,
and I try never to be in situations where someone
else can tell me what to do.
# ⚓ Using_a_Framework_will_harm_the_maintenance_of_your
software⠀⇛
In this article I’m putting together my quotes,
thoughts and notes on the idea that Frameworks harm
the maintainability of the software you build in
that framework.
# ⚓ Self_Hosting_Git_Repositories_with_Stagit_|_Jon_Eskin’s
Website⠀⇛
An alternative to using forges like Github to host
your source repositories is to host them yourself.
This commonly involves running git as a daemon on a
server and deploying a web interface such as gitea,
gitlab, cgit, or sourcehut. These projects
essentially serve web applications that interface
with git repositories on your server.
However, if you’re not hosting large, established
projects with frequent contributors, these options
are probably overkill. Another option I came across
recently is stagit. Unlike the aforementioned
projects, stagit does not serve dynamic web
content; it’s a static site generator that
traverses git repositories using libgit2.
Stagit is easier to setup and maintain and
comparitively light on resource usage. Since it’s
only creating static pages, it also approach limits
your server’s attack surface.
On the other hand, it doesn’t provide features such
as a web-based PR interface or an issue tracker.
You can always ask patches over email or through
git send-email, and there are plenty of tools for
issue trackers or mailing lists if some of your
projects warrant them.
I set up Stagit on the VPS that I host this blog
from; you can see it’s output by navigating to the
Git link in the nav header on this page. It was a
very smooth process and I’m happy with the result,
so I thought I’d write up a quick post about the
project.
# ⚓ What_is_TDD_(Test_Driven_Development)?⠀⇛
Test-driven development (TDD) is an iterative
methodology that entails the conversion of each
component of the application into a test case
before it is built and then testing and tracking
the component repeatedly. This article explains the
test-driven development process and discusses its
benefits and limitations.
# ⚓ PHP_version_8.0.25RC1_and_8.1.12RC1_–_Remi’s_RPM_repository
–_Blog⠀⇛
Release Candidate versions are available in testing
repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL /
CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow
more people to test them. They are available as
Software Collections, for a parallel installation,
perfect solution for such tests, and also as base
packages.
# § Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ KDE_Frameworks_6_Windows_CI_and
Branching_Plan [Ed: Utter, total waste of time; over
the past 15 years, several times, KDE wasted time on
Windows in vain]⠀⇛
During Akademy last week important next steps
for proceeding with the migration to KDE
Frameworks 6 have been discussed. Meanwhile
we also got closer to full platform parity
with the rollout of the Qt 6 Windows CI.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ Kernel_6.0:_Start_of_a_new_series_and
dawn_of_Rust⠀⇛
Rust for Linux support did not land in 6.0,
but it has already been merged for the 6.1
kernel version. This adds the initial
infrastructure to support Rust as a language
in the kernel and has been in development
since 2020 headed by Miguel Ojeda with
funding from Google and ISRG (Internet
Security Research Group). Western digital,
for instance, is already working on an NVMe
driver written in Rust.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_kernel_6.1_will_contain
fixes,_features._Useful_Rust_modules?_Not_yet⠀⇛
The merge window for contributions to Linux
6.1 is still open and incoming features
include Wi-Fi security fixes and hardware
tests.
Five new vulnerabilities in Linux’s Wi-Fi
handling have been identified and will be
fixed in the forthcoming kernel 6.1. For
completists, they are CVE-2022-41674 (kernels
up to 5.19), CVE-2022-42719 (5.2 to 5.19),
CVE-2022-42720 and CVE-2022-42721 (both 5.1
to 5.19), and CVE-2022-42722 (5.8 to 5.19).
Now that these are public, the fixes will
doubtless be backported to the older kernels
in use in the various enterprise distros.
Another useful new patch will display the
processor and core number, and which socket
it’s in, when there is a segfault error in a
program. As the patch’s notes say, this isn’t
a perfect diagnostic, as it’s possible that
the fault program might have been rescheduled
onto another core between the fault occurring
and the message appearing, but it could help
troubleshooting flakey CPU cores.
# ⚓ Gunnar Wolf ☛ Gunnar_Wolf:_Learning_some_Rust_with
Lars!⠀⇛
A couple of weeks ago, I read a blog post by
former Debian Developer Lars Wirzenius
offering a free basic (6hr) course on the
Rust language to interested free software and
open source software programmers.
I know Lars offers training courses in
programming, and besides knowing him for ~20
years and being proud to consider us to be
friends, have worked with him in a couple of
projects (i.e. he is upstream for vmdb2,
which I maintain in Debian and use for
generating the Raspberry Pi Debian images) —
He is a talented programmer, and a fun guy to
be around.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Graham Cluley ☛ How_a_deepfake_Mark_Ruffalo_scammed_half_a
million_dollars_from_a_lonely_heart⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Jasper_Lake_Mini-ITX_motherboard_comes_with
6_SATA_3.0_connectors,_2_M.2_NVMe_sockets⠀⇛
Topcon “N5105/N6005 NAS board” is a mini-ITX
motherboard powered by an Intel Celeron N5105 or
N6005 Jasper Lake processor, equipped with six SATA
3.0 ports, two M.2 NVMe sockets, and four Intel
i226-V 2.5GbE controllers.
The board also comes with two SO-DIMM DDR4 slots
for up to 64GB RAM, HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort video
outputs, and several USB 3.0/2.0 interfaces. As its
name implies, it is designed for network access
storage (NAS), but I could also see it used as a
networked video recorder (NVR), a network
appliance, or a multi-purpose machine.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ KubeCon:_Cloud_Foundry_Intros_New_K8s_API_Abstraction,
Buildpacks⠀⇛
The Cloud Foundry (CF) community is hard at work on
its goal of fully integrating open source Cloud
Foundry with Kubernetes. We are very excited to be
returning to KubeCon after several years to
showcase two new projects for the CNCF community:
Korifi, a new Cloud Foundry abstraction layer for
the Kubernetes API and Paketo Buildpacks, a
collection of cloud-native buildpacks.
# ⚓ Phoronix ☛ GNU_Toolchain_Leaders_Support_Moving_Their
Infrastructure_Under_The_Linux_Foundation [Ed: IBM_and
Microsoft_are_attacking_GNU’s_stewardship_via_‘Linux’
Foundation. Linux_Foundation is not about Linux but about
proprietary software companies swallowing everything, with
the brand “Linux” used as a decoy.]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Optus_says_govt_agrees_affected_users_do
not_need_new_passports⠀⇛
Optus customers, whose passport numbers were
exposed in the catastrophic breach suffered by the
telco, do not need to get the documents replaced,
Optus says in a statement to the Singapore Stock
Exchange.
The telco, the second biggest in Australia, said on
Friday it was issuing this advice after discussions
with the Federal Government.
“As a result of discussions with the Australian
Government, Optus is now communicating to customers
whose passport number was exposed in the
cyberattack that they will not need to replace
their passports,” the statement said.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(chromium), Fedora (dbus, dhcp, expat, kernel,
thunderbird, vim, and weechat), Mageia (libofx,
lighttpd, mediawiki, and python), Oracle (.NET 6.0
and .NET Core 3.1), Slackware (python3), SUSE
(chromium, kernel, libosip2, python-Babel, and
python-waitress), and Ubuntu (gThumb, heimdal,
linux-aws, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-aws-hwe, linux-
gcp, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-
5.4, postgresql-9.5, and xmlsec1).
# ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Releases_RedEye:_Red_Team_Campaign
Visualization_and_Reporting_Tool_|_CISA⠀⇛
CISA has released RedEye, an interactive open-
source analytic tool to visualize and report Red
Team command and control activities. RedEye allows
an operator to quickly assess complex data,
evaluate mitigation strategies, and enable
effective decision making.
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ ‘We_don’t_teach_developers_how_to_write
secure_software’_–_Linux_Foundation’s_David_A_Wheeler_on
reversing_the_CVE_surge_|_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛
Addressing a decades-old deficiency in coding
curriculums could have a profound effect on the
security of the software supply chain, a leading
expert on the subject tells The Daily Swig.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Regulating_DAOs_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛
In August, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign
Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency
platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer”
designed to make it harder to trace cryptocurrency
transactions—and a worldwide favorite money-
laundering platform. Americans are now forbidden
from using it. According to the US government,
Tornado Cash was sanctioned because it allegedly
laundered over $7 billion in cryptocurrency, $455
million of which was stolen by a North Korean
state-sponsored hacking group.
Tornado Cash is not a traditional company run by
human beings, but instead a series of “smart
contracts”: self-executing code that exists only as
software. Critics argue that prohibiting Americans
from using Tornado Cash is a restraint of free
speech, pointing to court rulings in the 1990s that
established that computer language is a form of
language, and that software programs are a form of
speech. They also suggest that the Treasury
Department has the authority to sanction only
humans and not software.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Digital_Transparency:_A_Right
to_Information_Report_for_September_2022⠀⇛
For the month of September 2022, IFF has filed 09
Right to Information (“RTI”) applications, 02 first
appeals and appeared in 02 second appeals hearings
before the Central Information Commission. In
significant responses, Chief Electoral Officers of
several states and union territories have stated
that linking Aadhaar with Voter ID is purely
optional and no names can be deleted from the
electoral roll due to failure of non-furnishing of
Aadhaar numbers.
[...]
The RTI Act was enacted to promote transparency and
accountability in the working of every public
authority by ensuring that citizens have access to
information under the control of public
authorities. Facilitating such access is necessary
to ensure that democratic processes are not
subverted by public authorities acting under
private interests. Where transparency is not upheld
as a value of public decision-making, citizens are
at a disadvantage when it comes to keeping a check
on abuse of power by the public authorities.
As we have discovered previously through responses
received on our Right to Information applications,
several times various government processes and
programs continue with little or no transparency.
This happens despite the mandate in the RTI Act,
2005 to publish and disclose information to
citizens proactively.
The RTI Act is thus one of the most important tools
at the disposal of the public to engage with, and
demand transparency and accountability from, the
Government. We use the Act to extract information
about various ongoing policies and projects that
the Government launches.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ My_Illinois_mid-term_election
ballot_was_“challenged”_and_I_refused_to_“vote”_using_one_of
those_fake_provisional_ballots_that_they_throw_in_the_trash
later.⠀⇛
My Illinois mid-term election ballot was
“challenged” and I refused to “vote” using one of
those fake provisional ballots that they throw in
the trash later.
The County Clerk’s office of Lake County, Illinois
tried to “challenge” my ballot.
I was pretty furious last night when I read this on
their Web site and may have let loose with some
expletives. We Americans already have almost no
control over the government, and now they’re trying
to steal my right to vote too!
I spent half an hour trying to fix it this morning,
before I spoke to the Clerk herself, Robin M.
O’Connor, and cleared the challenge with a sworn
statement that I really am who I say I am.
[...]
I’ve had it happen twice, in two different states,
and I’m only 38. It’s troubling that this happens
so frequently.
But, before this turns into much more of a
meandering mess wondering who these folks target
and why, let me just say with 100% sincerity….
Don’t ever let them give you a Provisional Ballot
and then walk out thinking you’ve voted, because
you probably haven’t!
I promised them that I would be keeping an eye on
the status of my ballot and “I’ll be back if it
doesn’t update correctly.”.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Stop_the_persecution:_Iranian_authorities_must
immediately_release_technologists_and_digital_rights
defenders_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
We, the undersigned human rights organizations,
strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ ruthless
persecution, harassment, and arrest of
technologists and digital rights defenders amid the
deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, 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 alarming
numbers of tech engineers and network
administrators who have been vocal on digital
rights in Iran. Those detained have criticized
internet restrictions, shown support to protests,
or have been advocating for digital rights. 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, digital rights defenders,
and internet access experts have been 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.
[...]
The government of Iran must immediately release
detained technologists and all those arbitrarily
arrested for exercising their human rights and put
an end to this violent protest repression — both
online and offline. The Iranian authorities must be
independently and criminally investigated for
committing —with full impunity—serious crimes under
international law and other grave violations of
human rights.
# ⚓ Dowry,_Racism,_Railways_–_Experiences_in_the_community⠀⇛
The above is a statement shared in a book
recommended for CTET (Central Teacher’s Eligibility
Test that became mandatory to be taken as the RTE
(Right To Education) Act came in.). The statement
says “People from cold places are white, beautiful,
well-built, healthy and wise. And people from hot
places are black, irritable and of violent nature.”
Now while I can agree with one part of the
statement that people residing in colder regions
are more fair than others but there are loads of
other factors that determine fairness or skin
color/skin pigmentation. After a bit of search came
to know that this and similar articulation have
been made in an idea/work called ‘Environmental
Determinism‘. Now if you look at that page, you
would realize this was what colonialism is and was
all about. The idea that the white man had god-
given right to rule over others. Similarly, if you
are fair, you can lord over others. Seems
simplistic, but yet it has a powerful hold on many
people in India. Forget the common man, this
thinking is and was applicable to some of our
better-known Freedom fighters. Pune’s own Bal
Gangadhar Tilak – The Artic Home to the Vedas. It
sort of talks about Aryans and how they invaded
India and became settled here. I haven’t read or
have access to the book so have to rely on third-
party sources. The reason I’m sharing all this is
that the right-wing has been doing this myth-making
for sometime now and unless and until you put a
light on it, it will continue to perpetuate 😦 . For
those who have read this blog, do know that India
is and has been in casteism from ever. They even
took the fair comment and applied it to all
Brahmins. According to them, all Brahmins are fair
and hence have god-given right to lord over others.
What is called the Eton boy’s network serves the
same in this casteism. The only solution is those
idea under limelight and investigate. To take the
above, how does one prove that all fair people are
wise and peaceful while all people black and brown
are violent. If that is so, how does one count for
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson
Mandela, Michael Jackson the list is probably
endless. And not to forget that when Mahatma
Gandhiji did his nonviolent movements either in
India or in South Africa, both black and brown
people in millions took part. Similar examples of
Martin Luther King Jr. I know and read of so many
non-violent civl movements that took place in the
U.S. For e.g. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus
Boycott. So just based on these examples, one can
conclude that at least the part about the fair
having exclusive rights to being fair and noble is
not correct.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ ICYMI:_Experts_Discuss_Latin_American_Perspectives_on
Competition_and_Regulatory_Policy_at_CCIA_Conference_in
Colombia_–_Disruptive_Competition_Project⠀⇛
Antitrust luminaries from throughout the Americas
gathered to discuss current challenges for
competition and regulatory policy in Latin America
and whether digitization of the economy calls for
new antitrust rules. Following the recent
Presidential elections, Colombia’s new
administration is yet to name the head of the
country’s Superintendence of Industry and Commerce
(SIC), which provided an opportunity to review
recent developments and challenges ahead in
competition and regulatory policy for Colombia and
Latin America. The Computer and Communications
Industry Association (CCIA), together with the
Colombian Association of Competition Law (ACDC),
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and its Center for
Competition Law Studies (CEDEC), & the Colombian
Research Initiative on Digital Competition and E-
commerce (INCODI), co-hosted a conference in
Bogota, Colombia addressing issues related to
Competition and Regulatory Policy in a Changing
Economy. Focusing on regional competition and
regulatory issues, the conference brought together
global experts to also discuss international
convergence and divergence in the digital context.
Perspectives on Competition and Regulatory Policy
in Latin America
Discussing the experience of Latin American
authorities, SIC’s Chief Advisor John Marcos Torres
outlined the agency’s recent enforcement actions
and noted the importance of a multidisciplinary
approach among policy areas for the future.
Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, President of Brazil’s
Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE),
noted that competition agencies are facing public
pressure to deal with issues that are outside their
remit. “Labor rights, sustainability, and fiscal
issues should not be mixed with competition.”
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Reflections_on_Burnout⠀⇛
I have not been able to work on projects recently.
It’s not just that I haven’t found something that
excited me, but I have been struggling to stay on
one idea for more than a day, learning new things
is exhausting and frustrating, working on old
things feels redundant and annoying, and my
imposter syndrome is constantly telling me I’ll
never be able to make something that I’m proud of.
I’ve been pushing myself too hard for too long, and
a series of academic and professional failures have
left me less sure of what I want to do in the
future. It’s hard to admit that I have burnout at
only 20, but looking back, I’ve been pushing myself
to make things on the internet for 7 years
straight. I’ve worked 10-hour days on top of
schoolwork, put my heart and soul into projects
that generated 0 return, and over time continued to
overpromise both towards myself and to others.
# ⚓ Love_Switch⠀⇛
I hate everyone, but I love people.
[...]
On Sunday, a friend casually asked me “Spoony, is
there anyone you don’t love?”
My brain stuttered. I took a noticeably long pause
before I answered. I had to process the question,
internally answer it, fight the urge to obfuscate
the truth, translate my answer into words, and
filter the words so they’d fit the mask I was
wearing.
“Yes. Only a couple, because they hurt me. But I
love everyone else on the whole planet.”
This was the first time I’ve been able to admit
publicly that I’ve been hurt and that I feel
something other than “perfect” because of it.
Better yet, it was the first time I said publicly
that I didn’t love someone. And guess what? It was
nothing. Nothing happened. I didn’t die, the world
didn’t end, and my friend didn’t suddenly tell me
to get out of his car and to never speak to him
again. I logically know these things are not likely
outcomes, but I can’t tell the right side of my
brain that. She will not have it. It was a big deal
to me. Well, everything is a big deal to me. But
this was a *big* big deal. So big, in fact, that
when I went to sleep that night my brain was
finally able to process something I’ve been stuck
with for 10+ years.
# ⚓ SpellBinding:_XDEHITB_Wordo:_NEWTS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Morning_Moon_Photo_(Fairbanks,_AK,_US)⠀⇛
It often possible to see the moon during the
daytime, but usually we don’t notice it because (1)
we aren’t watching for it, (2) we don’t know what
direction to look, and (3) the moon doesn’t stand
out as much in the sky during the day as it does at
night (lower contrast).
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ A_year_on_Gemini⠀⇛
It has been about a year that I’m been on
Gemini. I feel this is a good time to share
my experience with the community. A, or two
post about my search engine is coming soon.
So I won’t be talking about that here. But
general Gemini and Internet stuff.
[...]
I learned about Gemini from MentalOutlaw’s
Gemini video[1]. Saying it’s a minimalist
protocol with strong privacy and no tracking
what so ever. I though the idea is cool. But
why would someone use something that
practically no one is using? I put the idea
into the attic of my mind. Until a week or
two later. I was too boarded and decided to
look into Gemini.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Substitute_Expressions⠀⇛
Regexes are much better at matching than they
are at replacing, and I needed a similar DSL
that could expand on regex to enable more
powerful substitutions in a larger DSL I’m
writing that will make use of it.
# ⚓ Lispy_Chess_Piece_NotationLispy_Chess_Piece
Notation⠀⇛
The Lispy Chess Piece Notation is a language
that describes how chess pieces move.
# ⚓ Re:_What_is_a_“unit_test?”⠀⇛
I believe that tests are the wrong term. The
best way of using tests is
not to test that the software does what it
should do, but to make sure that
it continues to do what it’s supposed to do
while being changed. When
adding new features we need to make sure that
old features does not break.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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