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⦿ Political Bias is a Distraction From Google’s Abuse of Power Over E-mail | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Pushing Back Against Software Patents and More | Techrights
⦿ The R Foundation and R Consortium Aren’t the Same; One is a Front Group for Corporations Like Microsoft | Techrights
⦿ It’s Naive to Believe Foreign For-Profit Corporations Will Guard Democracy Online | Techrights
⦿ How Digital Systems Fail Our Institutions | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/google-email-domination/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/irc-log-251022/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/papers-swpats-apple-and-upc/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/r-foundation-and-linux-foundation/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/social-media-vs-democracy/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/when-digital-systems-fail/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
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✐ Political_Bias_is_a_Distraction_From_Google’s_Abuse_of_Power_Over_E-mail⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Google at 7:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 649075c605903b8625d94f16c8093b26
Google as E-mail Cop
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/google-as-email-police.webm
Summary: It’s easy to get distracted by the media and think that Google’s
manipulation of E-mail traffic is a political rather than a corporate issue
THE E-mail system as a decentralised system is under_attack. Life is getting a
lot more difficult for those wishing to use E-mail without outsourcing to
companies like Microsoft and Google.
To put things in perspective, Microsoft isn’t even commanding the market
anymore (Hotmail is a fossil and Outlook/Exchange are systems for losing mail
and getting cracked). Here’s one_recent_graph (biased by demography):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Email Client Market Share⦈
When we last checked (about a year ago), Microsoft only had about 2% market
share in E-mail, so let’s focus on Google instead.
The video above explains how the media frames it, but the real issue is not
that “Google’s spam filter is blocking spam,” to quote an associate. “That is a
red herring. The more serious problem is that Google’s spam filter is blocking
nearly all independently operated mail servers.”
“Here is one_case_study” (and another).
With further_complications_being_added older E-mail clients cannot keep up and
sometimes they’re shunned completely. The centralisation of E-mail is bad for a
whole bunch of reasons. “Oversight, surveillance, and (in the case of
employers) micromanagement,” an associate noted, adding that: “With the advent
of Microsoft Outlook, it’s not only insecure but also highly unreliable and 10%
– 20% of messages for Outlook/Exchange go missing.”
“When we last checked (about a year ago), Microsoft only had about 2% market
share in E-mail, so let’s focus on Google instead.”The thing not to get
distracted by is stuff like this or that, framing it in the context of
political parties and orientations.
More needs to be said about — and against — the E-mail consolidation or
monopolies/oligopolies because several institutions outsource their E-mail,
even some governments. Our associate speaks of “the Appeal To Novelty
(argumentum ad novitatem) that the drones in purchasing and the suits in the C-
suite evaluate software based on very few other criteria other than version
number. Recall in the NT vs Netware days they jump the versions up to have a
higher number than the competition. Then renamed it to “2000″.”
This is a separate but related issues that’ll be addressed in today’s fifth
video (the above is the first of five). █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Tuesday,_October_25,_2022⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 4:07 am by Needs Sunlight
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-251022.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-251022.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-251022.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-251022.gmi
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✐ Pushing_Back_Against_Software_Patents_and_More⠀✐
Posted in Patents at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Patent-Related Advocacy by Techrights
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/patent-status-and-upc.webm
Summary: Techrights has been working behind the scenes to curtail software
patenting; more information will come out soon
THE Techrights Web site (and Gemini capsule) has been less busy than usual
lately. But there was a lot going on behind the scenes.
Aside from Daily Links containing more links like this_one, we’ve collected a
number of relevant papers as “a review of two or three of the key papers
reminding us that software patents harm innovation would be of use in several
ways,” to quote an associate.
“…there was a lot going on behind the scenes.”We’re sitting on a lot of
material at the moment — material that will sooner or later get published, a
lot of it next year. Copyrights and patents will be of particular focus because
there are articles such as this_one trending; “that is the RIAA making similar
arguments as the FOSS community has made against Microsoft GitHub’s Co-pilot
which steals code,” our associate notes.
TechDirt has just said “that Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces
googling for stack overflow answers.”
This is false because “stack overflow” is NOT copyleft.
“We sadly lack the time to cover as many topics as we’d like.”Either way, we
have a ton of material about Copilot on the way and we’re also in touch with
politicians regarding software patents. Some time around Christmas we plan to
publish all the letters we received from a copyright troll (assuming we’ve been
left alone permanently).
So, in summary, expect a lot more about copyrights, GitHub scandals, software
patents, and the EPO. There’s no complete timeline just yet. It’s very much
priority-based.
Another topic we wish to cover soon is Microsoft’s collapse in Windows revenue,
set aside the layoffs. There are serious implications. We sadly lack the time
to cover as many topics as we’d like.
The next (and final) video will be about today's_main_article. █
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✐ The_R_Foundation_and_R_Consortium_Aren’t_the_Same;_One_is_a_Front_Group_for
Corporations_Like_Microsoft⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 8:14 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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Who R They?
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/r-language.webm
Summary: The so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation (run_partly_by_Microsoft) helps
Microsoft attack R, e.g. by taking on the R Foundation
IF one was to say that corporations don’t belong in public interest groups, it
would be deemed “offensive” by some. After all, “corporations are people,”
right?
There are two organisations that claim to front for R, the_R_Foundationand_R
Consortium._“Microsoft_and_Linux_Foundation_are_in_one_to_compete_with_the
other;_i.e._one_is_legitimate,”_an_associate_told_us.
Remember that the Linux Foundation is fronting for companies like Microsoft and
is working against the Linux community. That’s the de facto (or unofficial)
purpose of the Linux Foundation.
Our associate asked: “What’s up with Microsoft and Linux Foundation trying to
compete against, and thus hinder, the R Foundation?”
“Remember that the Linux Foundation is fronting for companies like Microsoft
and is working against the Linux community.”Well, Microsoft’s attack on R is
not new. The acquisitions and the infiltration attempts aren’t new. In fact, it
goes back to around half a decade ago when they bought some R-centric company,
seeing R as a gateway to students/academia.
“It’s not new but it is ongoing,” our associate added. “The Linux Foundation is
helping Microsoft carry out those attacks and is sponsoring events. I think
most of the R community is aware of Microsoft though there is a push to
undermine development there as well by pushing a Windows agenda sometimes.” █
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Online⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 8:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Controlling People en Masse
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/social-control-media-paper.webm
Summary: Any nation’s democracy is at risk from social control media giants
that are for-profit corporations and not communication tools (meddling and
interference is their main business model, if any viable business model exists
at all)
THIS week we’ve seen the following headline that says “U-M_experts_tackle
interaction_of_social_media,_democracy”. I personally quit all social [sic]
media [sic] for a plethora of reasons, including — as I demonstrated at the
time — grotesque political intervention (also pro-war bias). Here’s the page
from related press:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇U-M experts tackle interaction of social media, democracy⦈
The video above speaks about the topic in brief and urges people to leave all
social control media giants. Well, social control media in general, be it big
or small, is unproductive and poor use of time. █
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Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Google, Microsoft at 8:16 am by Guest Editorial
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By Dr. Andy Farnell
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A
verage Joe “just wants stuff to work”. He goes along with whatever technology
is placed in front of him. For Joe, geeks fighting religious battles over
technology are a curious spectacle. As a dispassionate pragmatist, he mistakes
fervour for pedantry. He cannot see the serious ideological fault-lines within
technology which will determine how we live, work and build societies together.
Joe is happy to be dubbed “a user”, a term otherwise applied to drug addicts
and insincere friends, despite actually being the person who is getting used.
For him, “algorithms in the cloud” and other nonsensical tropes stand in for
meaningful explanations of how his life is run by invisible others.
Joe once thought that things are run by the government he voted for, based on
reliable facts he read in the press, carefully weighed in his clear mind,
itself the product of an unbiased education. He believes in these institutions,
whose function underwrite his existence.
But Joe’s life is now determined by “digital infrastructure” increasingly
concentrated in giant data-centres, under the control of unelected, profit-
seeking organisations. Joe is a victim of what we will simply refer to as
“systems”.
A “system” can be defined as cybernetic, ecological, biological, social,
political or operational. But, to use words as ordinary people mean them, a
system is “increased work and stress I won’t have any choice about, and won’t
get paid for”. Systems are ever-expanding, hostile impositions. Systems are a
failure of engaged, humanistic, liberal democratic life
§ Systems turn bad⠀➾
The words “New System” strike dread into the heart of any employee. Big
organisations make ideal testing grounds for inhumane systems. For example, the
scandal associated with Cambridge Analytica was really no more than a failed
research project in data science, whose implications and ethics scared the crap
out of the public. It was possible only because of a system, the “walled
garden” called Facebook, fleecing 50 million people of their data. Since then
nothing has changed and the commodification of surveillance data for influence
has been normalised.
“Each September in universities, untested systems go live as administrators and
students return to do battle over workflows and control of resources.”At a more
mundane, everyday level, institutions hold a captive audience of guinea-pigs.
In academia it is students and staff, on whom we can run algorithms and
experiments by decree of “policy”, thus avoiding messy ethics and scrutiny real
researchers would endure.
Each September in universities, untested systems go live as administrators and
students return to do battle over workflows and control of resources. As
timetables shift and slip into place, students scour campus corridors for
elusive lecture rooms. Many hours of teaching will be lost as access systems,
attendance registers, login portals, classroom AV, and assessment tools grumble
and grind, then fail. Everyone will be beaten into compliance, under veiled
threats alluding to “necessary regulation”, “best security practices” and
“higher powers” and so on. It is the will, not of any identifiable tyrant, but
of “the system”.
No door remains unprotected by card access, no classroom or corridor free of
motion detection, face-recognition, CCTV, and no computer accessible except
through a tedium of slow, draconian, security processes. Arbitrarily, at any
time and without warning, centralised IT are free to alter systems and
“policies” that underwrite them. They can move web pages, change login
processes, block emails, remove services, target groups or individuals within a
panopticon and labyrinth that would be the envy of B. F. Skinner, famed
tormentor of rats.
We live with this because we have been conditioned to it, as rats who have
forgotten life before the maze. Fifty years of believing computers are
“necessary” has etched its mark. Of course systems are there “to help us”. They
offer “convenience”. And foremost, they provide “security”, that elusive
quality we are constantly told we need, but somehow never feel we have. During
thirty years of teaching, I’ve seen many systems introduced. The chilling
effect on the engagement, openness and curious spirit of students has been
palpable. Systems inhibit. Systems disable.
However, this is all fascinating for me, as a computer scientist and systems
theorist, because I’ve had a perfect environment to study the damaging effects
of encroaching systems on real people trying to do simple, timeless activities
like teach and learn.
The unsurprising CHAOS report of 2018 1 tells us “most information systems
fail”. They deliver less certainty, less reliably and less accessibly. Five
minutes using any major search engine should convince you, the game is no
longer to deliver information on request, but to extract it from you. Search is
just one example of how many technologies today are distorted and broken,
operating with perverse incentives and hidden agendas counter to the wellbeing
of their “users”.
But even the systems we pay for work against us. The unintended consequence of
the machinery to deliver cheap, fast, efficient, uniform, accountable, secure
education leads in totality, to catastrophic cost for university students and
professors.
It doesn’t have to be this way of course. The promise of the “information age”
envisioned by optimistic pioneers of the 60s and 70s, still lurks beneath the
surface of society, frustrated and itching to emerge. Techrights has been
holding a torch to abusive technology for decades. Today it is joined by new
projects like The Center for Humane Technology 2 and hundreds of prominent
thinkers trying to reform technology against the big-money interests of
Microsoft, Google and the like.
How did we get so lost in counterproductive technology? It is perplexing
because we have cheaper and more powerful computers than ever. Software is for
the most-part, less buggy. Yet each year our every-day experience of technology
worsens. We wait longer, feel more frustrated, more scrutinised and bullied by
tech, and are less productive. A new paper by Pablo Azar of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York 3 notes how “computer saturation” lies at the heart of
productivity slowdown. We have too many computers for our own good now. We’re
at “peak tech”.
“To my surprise, my experiment with teaching computer science using nothing but
the benign technologies of a whiteboard pen and £25 Raspberry Pi is an
astounding success, loved by all the students.”As a computer scientist I’m
horrified by what I see in educational tech. Our helpless dependency perfectly
tracks de-skilling and outsourcing to unaccountable cloud providers and
“algorithms”. As a teacher of technology, technology is now the reason I want
to leave teaching. A karmic reckoning perhaps. Each semester I watch it harm
our students’ learning experience and feel less able to be the humane,
generous, engaging mentor I’d like to be. To my surprise, my experiment with
teaching computer science using nothing but the benign technologies of a
whiteboard pen and £25 Raspberry Pi is an astounding success, loved by all the
students. It seems ever clearer that the university, other than as a physical
meeting space, has nothing to offer.
Browbeaten by systematic, institutional technology I’ve witnessed students in
tears because opaque “systems” have miscalculated grades, wrongly accused them
of plagiarism, overcharged them, cut-off their internet, evicted them from
accommodation, confused them with other students, lost assignments…
Most corrosive is the sense of helplessness. Regardless of how willing,
attuned, tactful, or experienced a professor may be, having to say “there’s
nothing I can do, the system won’t let me”, is galling.
Obstructive as broken systems may be, it is the fervour of their apologists
that saddens me more. Edu-tech zealots simply cannot hear that students “just
want engaging in-person teaching”. For them, ever more centralised learning
systems, omniscient portals, blended fusion centres, and AI augmented VR
technologies are the only way forward. They are enchanted.
It’s said that people don’t leave bad jobs they leave bad bosses. I think
people leave bad systems. You can argue with a bad boss, but not a bad system.
A perfect system retains the calm tone and unblinking red eye of Arthur C.
Clarke’s HAL computer, even as it destroys itself and those around it. It is
the Microsoft system that defiantly against your will, updates itself to a
“better” Windows version, and then crashes to a halt complaining your computer
is not powerful enough. Nobody deserves any person or thing so chaotic and
insolent in their life, and are wise to separate.
I firmly believe the precarious mental health of students is directly
attributable to the brutality of systems they face daily. We’ve driven out
humiliation and the cane from schools only to create new forms of technological
violence under the pompous auspice of “preparing them for reality” – a
technological reality that for Jon Askonas writing in the New Atlantic is “just
a game now”. 4
§ Why we persist with bad systems⠀➾
“Over-systemisation” is not news. John Gall’s “Systemantics” 5 describes man’s
struggle against himself through the folly of systems. They are, “solidified
resistance to change” and, in Nietzsche’s words, the “will to a lack of
integrity”. And so we must ask – since universities are about changing minds
and seeking a better world through truth and integrity – what place do rigid,
opaque and self-interestedly dishonest systems have in our institutions? How
did they get here, and why do we keep building them?
“As technologists we retain a naive view of systems as tools to help us.”One of
the reasons is ideology. In no small way we believe in systems. For a warning
about the future we might look to history. Despite many political and economic
theories, the sudden fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 remains mysterious.
Misery came as much from technocratic worship of centralised bureaucracy as
communist ideology. Yet it is seldom noted how collapse was hastened by the
introduction of computers in 1990. Could it be that the demise of any ideology
is accelerated once augmented with AI, algorithms and automation?
We know that bureaucracies of Max Weber’s kind exhibit compound growth of about
five percent, but forget that under Moore’s Law digital systems have grown in
complexity a million times. 6 What was banal but beneficent has been catapulted
way beyond Neil Postman’s Technocracy or even Kafka’s ludicrous nightmares – by
which I mean the imposition of other people’s values by oblique means. Bad
systems create work, push-down responsibility and suck-up power.
As technologists we retain a naive view of systems as tools to help us. In the
words of Steve Jobs they are “bicycles for our minds”. But few minds, even
riding Jobs’ bicycle, can contemplate the distance between Apple’s 1984
Superbowl advert and Edward Snowden’s 2013 message. It is the same distance
between Kraftwerk’s “It’s more fun to compute” and “If you’ve nothing to hide
you’ve nothing to fear”. It is no less than the transition from computers as
tools we use, into tools used to control us.
We’ve come to think of software as Heideggerian technology; bare utilities to
amplify the whims of our mind-body. In a competitive culture like ours, they
soon become weapons ranged against each other, primed for ideological battle
and information warfare rather than cooperation.
This bleak ‘totalising’ technology of Heidegger is all around us today, as
instrumental systems that act upon us, and lenses through which we are forced
to see the whole world. In that digital world they are the implementation of
policy set out by power as a means of determining the behaviour of others.
Ceding control of our tools to others lets them limit our capabilities.
“I think that what we teach by way of computer science, software engineering,
project management, data and AI technologies, adds up to a fantasy still rooted
in the 1980s, that sees the developer and “user” as agents creating an
“experience”, not as the subjects of systems that now control them.”So are we
misunderstanding “systems”? Are we teaching the wrong things about
organisation, structure and planning? My duty as a sceptical professor is to
deeply question the ethics and purpose of what I teach, lest my graduates only
contribute to world problems.
I think that what we teach by way of computer science, software engineering,
project management, data and AI technologies, adds up to a fantasy still rooted
in the 1980s, that sees the developer and “user” as agents creating an
“experience”, not as the subjects of systems that now control them.
That’s why I’ll be assigning the lesser-known writings of systems theorists
Norbert Weiner 7 and Donella Meadows 8 in a class on computing systems this
semester. We’ll ask things like:
* What technologies could we get rid of?
* Which systems have, on balance, been a mistake?
* If digital mass communication is leading to less truth and happiness, how
do we gracefully switch it off?
* What will count as “information” once AI begins to generate ceaseless
tides of plausible but fake sound, images and prose?
* As research students how can we be brutally sceptical not only of
sources, but the systems we are asked to use?
* How do we deal with the proliferation of untrustworthy systems designed
to confuse and betray us for profit?
Questioning our worship of systems permits entrenched ideologies to be rooted-
out. Why do we even have such an obsession with systems?
One fault is that we confuse systems with solutions. Systems are substitutes
for solutions. Solutions may be ways out of systems, but systems always beget
more systems, create more problems, needing maintenance and more resources.
Building new systems is profitable. We talk about a “digital tech industry”
worth trillions of dollars. In addition, the gadgets and services that flood
our planet, while fun, are addictive, ephemeral and ultimately unsatisfying.
Despite a million-fold increase in speed, no technology is ever fast enough.
Despite dizzying advances in materials science, no modern gadget is durable
beyond several months.
A finite gamut of human activities like checking bus times or weather, writing
a letter, or drawing a picture, hasn’t changed since the 1970s. The low-hanging
“killer apps” of electronic mail, spreadsheets and databases are long behind
us. What is touted as “new” is rehashed technology with a new spin on
extracting profit. As markets get more crowded the means of extraction get ever
more brutal and invasive.
“Systems impose another insidious effect, being totalitarian.”One branch of now
problematic thinking grew out of the 1970s project of automation and systems
analysis. Coupled with the logic of efficiency, no human action or decision may
exist where a machine could conceivably replace it.
In some sense, systems represent our unrequited desire for finality, and a note
of Fascism lies therein, as Heidegger noted (and some claim celebrated). One
does not proclaim a Thousand Year Reich or Grand New Order as a “work in
progress” or stop-gap project subject to review. Systems promise certainty and
reliability in an uncertain world. As well as appealing to the authoritarian
mind they temporarily assuage the anxious and insecure that their needs will be
met.
But static structures are a poor response to a dynamic world. Cybernetic
governance and algorithmic societies are a pale substitute for leadership and
statesmanship reflecting a loss of faith in the human mind. Systems are
fleeting models of a world as we wish it to be, and so all systems are
permanently under attack from outside reality and internally from their own
ceaseless transformation.
Add to this mix the need for economic growth and these factors add up to
systems that are ephemeral yet expansive. Constantly in a state of turmoil,
they reach out to every corner of life, into our shops, children’s toys, cars
and kitchen appliances, as an always shifting ambivalent force whose presence
and absence we fear equally.
Systems impose another insidious effect, being totalitarian. The desire to
create uniform, accessible services seems laudable. But that is the function of
standards. Systems enforce the lowest common denominator of the parochial
implementation, flattening intellectual life, oppressing difference, diversity
and innovation. They represent problems which once systemised are universalised
and preserved. Systems slow down actual progress.
A judge was once asked, “So, what is the best justice system?”, and replied
“There is no best. Only the least worst. Ideally we would not have any system”.
That does not mean we would have no justice. Only a fool confuses the tool with
its purpose. In political science it is noted that the “The English have a
system, which is no system. It’s also a system, only better”.
§ Systems of the future (The English Way)⠀➾
It is time we re-imagine digital technology as utility separate from the
conceit of “systems”. So, how can we do that?
It turns out we already looked at this. It happened in the field of operating
systems. These are the programs that make computers themselves do useful work.
Operating systems underwent a series of radical evolutions in a twenty year
period between 1960 and 1980.
Learning from the failure of many large monolithic systems we arrived at the
“Unix Philosophy”, which connects principles of clean software engineering,
devolved responsibility, peer relations, and natural distribution.
This returns us to an earlier, more general and benign definition of a system,
as “interacting but interdependent assemblage of elements organised toward
common purposes”. Note the plurality invoked.
“Their response was to wind back the clock, to shut it down by replacing user-
owned systems by old fashioned monolithic systems of command and control.”Such
a philosophy tends toward small, reconfigurable, standardised, freely
exchangeable and transparent micro-systems. Emerging in the 1980s, principles
of Free Software – that the system is owned, and is directly changeable by its
users – completed a broader philosophy which sparked the “dot-com” boom, and
the entirety of the Internet, Web and Silicon Valley as we see it today.
A confluence of military budgets, brilliant academic minds and opportunity for
growth in West coast America circa 1980, parallels the unlikely conditions
precipitating the industrial revolution in 1750s England. Mirroring the
latter’s descent into Dark Satanic Mills, our own revolution has fallen from
grace.
Like capitalism itself, a system able to create so much wealth became dangerous
to those first to amass wealth and power as its fruits. Their response was to
wind back the clock, to shut it down by replacing user-owned systems by old
fashioned monolithic systems of command and control. Through “cloud”
technologies we have regressed to the Mainframes of the 1960s. These exist
today in the guise of “Big Tech” companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and
Facebook. Ironically, these have colonised the academic institutions that gave
birth to the very conditions of their growth, stifling the source of fresh
innovation.
§ Desystemetisation⠀➾
“De-clouding”, “on prem repatriation”, “de-googling”, “own clouds”, “low tech”,
“digital veganism” … there are many emerging takes on the countervailing
trends, back toward more humane and people-controlled technology.
I have written extensively, in the Times Higher and elsewhere, on what I see as
the dangers of Big Tech encroaching into education.
The function of Higher Education is not to pander to industry as delegated,
state-subsidised training schools, but to challenge and redefine industry,
sacrificing its sacred cows for progress.
“No good university should impose inflexible one-size-fits-all products from
companies like Microsoft with it’s Office365, or Google’s Orwellian
spyware.”One project I would love to see is the “zero centralised IT” school or
university. It would take extraordinary courage to create, but is a place I
would send my children in a heartbeat. My time as a computer expert has taught
me there’s much less to be learned through technology than we are led to think,
although it is important to learn about technology. Can we create learning
academies where the rules are:
* Technology is for teachers and researchers to manage.
* They can build any internal systems they like, hardware or software, to
meet teaching and research needs, but it will be ephemeral. No grand
schemes, empires or impositions on others.
* We will employ well paid, skilled support staff. However, the role of
“IT” is strictly subservient to the core activities of teaching and
research. It’s there to support and serve.
* Interoperability and choice are paramount, particularly the choice not to
partake in any technology or system.
Any such college will excel and set a lasting trend. It will attract staff that
are confident in their digital literacy and able to work with others on a peer
footing, through standards and mutuality.
For those that value the principles of education and research, freedom of
enquiry, intellectual self-determination, disputation, and the dialectic
between alternative views, the mission now is to push back at Big Tech and get
it out of education. No good university should impose inflexible one-size-fits-
all products from companies like Microsoft with it’s Office365, or Google’s
Orwellian spyware.
The systems we use, and allow to be used on us, set the limits of our world.
Allowing Big-Tech systems into our universities creates a deflationary spiral.
They are not just the water in which we swim but the glass of the invisible
fish-tank that contains us. Where technology is concerned let the English rules
apply – the best system is no system … which is not the same as “no
technology”, but better.
✐ Acknowledgements⠀✐
Thanks to Edward Nevard, Daniel James and Techrights readers for helpful
comments, corrections and suggestions.
✐ Bibliography⠀✐
✐ Footnotes:⠀✐
1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standish_Group
2
https://www.humanetech.com/
3
Pablo Azar, “Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown,” Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics, October 6, 2022
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bb2b20316b6405766b4d8a2/t/
6335bd37f804834edaa13ae3/1664466233286/MooresLawAndEconomicGrowth.pdf
4
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
6
Conservatively 1,048,576 times, being twenty powers of two in forty years.
7
https://math.tufts.edu/people/featured-profiles/norbert-wiener
8
https://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-book-sale/
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Screenshots/Screencasts
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Education
o FSF
o FSFE
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
# JS
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_Linux_Users_Can_Protect_Their_Business⠀⇛
If your business uses Linux as an operating system, it is
important that you know the best ways to protect your
operations. Cybercrime is a major and growing threat that
all business owners face no matter what system they use –
but how you protect your digital assets can vary slightly
depending on the system.
This is why it is helpful to be aware of a few
cybersecurity tips for Linux users so that you can
improve your protection and have peace of mind knowing
that you are better protected against the latest threats.
With that in mind, here are a few of the best ways for
Linux users to protect their companies.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 36:_LUREing_the_AUR_–_Linux_Out_Loud_–
TuxDigital⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about luring the
AUR to other distros.
Welcome to episode 36 of Linux Out Loud. We fired
up our mics, connected those headphones as we
searched the community for themes to expound upon.
We kept the banter friendly, the conversation
somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
# ⚓ Video ☛ GNOME_versus_KDE_Which_Is_Better_–_Invidious⠀⇛
One of the most frequently asked questions from new
Linux users is: “GNOME or KDE…which should I
choose?” Well, there’s quite a number of things to
consider when making this choice, so let’s discuss!
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 299:_Gurus_of_Sudo_and_Kinetic_Kudus_–
Destination_Linux_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we
discuss advertising or promoting products in your
distro, is it okay or the start of something
terrible? Then we will be taking a look at the
latest version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 22.10. Plus, we
have our tips/tricks and software picks. All this
and more coming up right now on Destination Linux
to keep those penguins marching!
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Linux_Kernel_May_Drop_i486_Support_as
Torvalds_Backs_Pentium_Plan⠀⇛
The 486 CPU is somewhat of a relic these days, but
its legacy in the Linux kernel has lived on. The
i486 has been the de facto minimum for decades.
Even Linux, that long-term supporter of outdated
architectures, is considering giving up on the chip
and removing support for the 486 processors, just
like it did for the 386 back in 2012.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Says_it_is_Time_to_Get_Rid_of
i486_CPU_Support⠀⇛
After dropping support for the ancient i386 line of
CPUs, over a decade back, the Linux Kernel is
gearing up to possibly drop the i486 line of CPUs.
The i486 series of CPUs was launched back in 1989,
and very few Linux distros, such as Gentoo,
Slackware, and KNOPPIX support it nowadays.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Considers_Dropping_i486
Support_–_Linux_Magazine⠀⇛
In a message to the Linux kernel mailing list,
creator Linus Torvalds indicates that it’s time to
jettison support for i486 machines in with Linux
kernel.
For anyone who still depends on aging hardware for
Linux use, you might be in for an unpleasant
surprise. Linus Torvalds has announced that he is
considering dropping support for aging i486
hardware in the kernel.
On this issue, Torvalds says, “We got rid of i386
support back in 2012. Maybe it’s time to get rid of
i486 support in 2022?”
The good news is, i486 hardware is pretty
irrelevant at this point and anyone still depending
on such hardware is on borrowed time anyway. In
fact, i486 hardware is pretty much considered a
relic of days gone by. However, that doesn’t mean
it’s completely vanished from sight.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Systemd_supremo_proposes_tightening_up
Linux_boot_process_•_The_Register [Ed: An attack_on_Linux
freedom]⠀⇛
Lennart Poettering’s latest blog post proposes
moving the Linux boot process into a “Brave New
Trusted Boot World” of cryptographically signed
Unified Kernel Images.
Agent Poettering offers a mechanism for tightening
up the security of the system startup process on
Linux machines, using TPM 2.0 hardware. In brief,
what he sees as the problem is that on hardware
with Secure Boot enabled, while the boot process up
to and including the kernel is signed, the next
step, loading the initrd, is not. That’s what he
wants to fix.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Essential_System_Tools:_kmon_–_manage_Linux
kernel_modules_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛
This series highlights essential system tools.
These are small utilities, useful for system
administrators as well as regular users of Linux
based systems. The series examines both graphical
and text based open source utilities. For details
of all tools in this series, please check the table
in the summary section.
kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the
Linux kernel modules and monitor the kernel
activities. With this tool, you can load, unload,
and blacklist modules, as well as show a module’s
information.
kmon is written in Rust and uses the tui-rs and
termion libraries for its text-based user
interface.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ 7.86.0_with_WebSocket⠀⇛
Welcome to another curl release. You know the
drill…
[...]
Starting at 08:00 UTC (10:00 CEST) on October 26,
2022 on twitch, there will be a live video
presentation of all the news in this release. After
that, this paragraph will be replaced with a link
to the video recording.
# ⚓ cURL_7.86_Released⠀⇛
The most recent stable version is 7.86.0, released
on 26th of October 2022. Currently, 7 of the listed
downloads are of the latest version.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Doodledrop:_Open-source_Social_Media_for_Doodle
Painting⠀⇛
Doodledrop is a free open-source self-hosted doodle
creation and sharing platform for artists.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ VMware_alternatives:_discover_open_source⠀⇛
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Doing_64-bit_math_on_a_16-bit_system⠀⇛
A few years ago, I wrote a command-line math
program for FreeDOS called VMATH. It was capable of
performing only extremely simple mathematical
operations on very small unsigned integers. With
some recent interest in basic math in the FreeDOS
community, I improved VMATH to provide basic math
support on signed 64-bit integers.
The process of manipulating big numbers using only
16-bit 8086 compatible assembly instructions is not
straightforward. I would like to share some samples
of the techniques used by VMATH. Some of the
methods used are fairly easy to grasp. Meanwhile,
others can seem a little strange. You may even
learn an entirely new way of performing some basic
math.
The techniques explained here to add, subtract,
multiply, and divide 64-bit integers are not
limited to just 64-bits. With a little basic
understanding of assembly, these functions could be
scaled to do math on integers of any bit size.
Before digging into those math functions, I want to
cover some basics of numbers from the computer’s
perspective.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_FireFox_browser_in_Alpine_Linux
–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Learn the commands to install the Mozilla FireFox
browser in Alpine Linux to start browsing websites
or web apps accessible via the Local networks or
the Internet.
Alpine Linux is popular for its lightweight,
security, and performance. That’s the reason it has
been used widely to run virtual machines or
containers such as Docker. However, if you are
using a Graphical user interface on Alpine Linux
and want to access an Internet website then there
would not be a browser application by default.
Well, to make Alpine Linux lightweight it comes out
of the box with a command-line interface. However,
if you want then we can install a graphical user
interface on Alpine to use it as a normal Dekstop
operating system. Here is the tutorial on how to
install the XFCE Linux desktop environment on
Alpine.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Your_Android_Phone_as_a_Speaker
for_Your_Windows,_Mac,_or_Linux_Computer⠀⇛
Most computer monitors feature a built-in speaker.
If you use a laptop, it is likely to have a built-
in speaker as well. While the audio output quality
is debatable, these built-in audio devices help in
the absence of an external audio setup.
However, what if your computer speaker or the
external audio setup stops working, and you don’t
have time to troubleshoot? If you have a working
Android phone, you can use it as an external
speaker for your computer. Here we show you the two
ways to turn your Android phone into a PC speaker
with the help of an app.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Yet_another_Yogurt_‘yay’_on
Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
Tutorial on how to install the Bitcoin Core in
Ubuntu 22.04, what Bitcoins are, and how you can
use the Bitcoin Core to create and manage your
Bitcoin wallet.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Bitcoin_Core_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Cryptocurrencies are becoming the norm, and Bitcoin
has its place as the most popular and the first
cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has massive volatility, and
the best part is that you can manage your Bitcoins
from your Bitcoin wallet where you can easily buy
and sell to anyone anonymously. Bitcoin works on
nodes connected to the blockchain to verify each
transaction to the digital ledger.
You can validate your blockchain and wallet using
Bitcoin Core which offers “full-node” software to
aid with that. This guide covers what Bitcoin Core
is and how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Monitor_File_Changes_Using_fswatch_In
Linux_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛
Fswatch is a free, open source multi-platform file
change monitor utility that notifies us when the
contents of the specified files or directories are
modified or changed. Using fswatch, we can easily
monitor the changes being made in files and/or
directories. It supports all operating systems,
including GNU/Linux, *BSDs, Mac OS X, Solaris, and
Microsoft Windows etc. In this brief guide, let me
show you how to monitor file changes using fswatch
in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Drop_the_Linux_cat_command_for_bat_|
Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Bat, known as “a cat clone with wings,” functions
similarly to cat, more, sed, and awk, but it does
it with a lot more style.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Arch_Linux_Docker_Tutorial⠀⇛
Docker is a containerization platform that supports
the building, running, and easy managing of
applications. The Docker container bundles its
configuration files, software, and libraries, such
that each container is isolated from other
containers. The good thing about containers is that
they can share resources despite being isolated,
making them a better alternative than
virtualization. Moreover, one host system can run
multiple Docker containers.
This guide focuses on understanding how to get
started with Docker on Arch Linux. We will discuss
how to install Docker and configure it for Arch-
based Linux Distributions.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Debian_Package_Managers:_dpkg,_apt_and
Aptitude_Explained⠀⇛
This tutorial explains how to install, remove,
search and list packages using dpkg, apt and
aptitude Debian Linux package managers.
After reading this tutorial, the reader will be
able to make a variety of package related
operations. This article is valid for all Debian
based Linux distributions including Ubuntu.
All given examples contain screenshots, making it
easy for every Linux user to understand how package
managers commands are applied.
The content is optimized both for users looking for
fast implementation and users looking for
understanding on how package managers work.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Check_the_Maximum_RAM_Capacity_of_a
Computer⠀⇛
Use the dmidecode command line utility to get
information about your RAM on a Linux machine. The
utility is available on all major Linux distros.
If you do not have dmidecode, you can install it
using snapd or any other package manager. The
advantage of snap is that it is distro agnostic.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_GRV_(Git_Repository_Viewer)_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install GRV (Git Repository Viewer) on Ubuntu 22.04
This terminal tool can be an ideal complement to
the use of GIT If you are a developer, you will
like this application.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Tips_for_using_the_Linux_test_command⠀⇛
The [ command, often called a “test,” is a command
from the GNU Core Utils package, and initiates a
conditional statement in Bash. Its function is
exactly the same as the test command. When you want
to execute a command only when something is either
true or false, use the [ or the test command.
However, there’s a significant difference between
[ or test and [[, and there’s a technical
difference between those commands and your shell’s
versions of them.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Filesystems_and_progressive_deletion_of
things⠀⇛
There are two conjoined problems for filesystems
when deleting things. First, in order to really
delete things from a filesystem, you need to know
what they are. So to delete a file, the filesystem
needs to know specifically what disk blocks the
file uses so the filesystem can go mark them as
free in the data structures it uses to do this.
This information about what disk blocks are used is
not necessarily in memory; in fact, very little
about the file may be in memory. This means that in
order to delete the file, the filesystem may need
to read a bunch of data about it off of the disks
and then process it. For large files, there are
several levels of this data in a tree structure of
indirect blocks. This isn’t necessarily a fast
process, especially if the system uses HDDs and is
under IO pressure already.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Progressives_Have_But_One_Option
on_Election_Day:_Vote_to_Defeat_the_Neofascist_GOP⠀⇛
Six months ago, people on the left in France faced
a crucial choice. None of their candidates had
gotten enough votes to make it into the
presidential runoff election. On the upcoming
ballot were the neoliberal president Emmanuel
Macron and the neofascist challenger Marine Le Pen,
who had trailed the incumbent in the first round by
less than five percentage points. What to do?
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democratic_Party_Leaders_Are_Shunning_Some
Progressives_in_Tight_Midterm_Races⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Batch_transcode_a_folder_of_videos_with
Handbrake’s_CLI⠀⇛
But Handbrake’s achilles heel, as a GUI-first
application, is in a lack of easy batch operation.
You can queue videos up one at a time, which is
nice, but more recently, as I’ve ripped more TV
seasons onto my NAS, I’ve wanted to transcode 5,
10, or 20 files at a time.
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_22:_the_::backdrop_pseudo-element⠀⇛
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.
# ⚓ Robert Heaton ☛ How_to_date_a_recording_using_background
electrical_noise⠀⇛
When the mains hum produced by AC oscillations is
picked up on a recording, its frequency
fluctuations are picked up too. If we isolate and
analyse the hum in a clip, we can measure these
tiny variations in ENF. Because the variations are
random, patterns don’t (or at least rarely) repeat.
This means that the way in which the ENF varies
during a recording can be used as a fingerprint
that uniquely (ish) identifies the time at which
the recording was made. We can timestamp a clip by
comparing its ENF series to a database of past ENF
values, and find the time at which the recording’s
ENF most closely matches history. Second-by-second
databases of past ENFs are widely available for
many grids, sometimes published by grid operators
themselves (for example, Britain’s National Grid),
and sometimes by other organisations or individuals
(for example, power-grid-frequency.org).
# ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ Understanding_Unix_filesystem_timestamps⠀⇛
A lot of information on the Internet about
filesystem timestamps are either outdated or simply
misunderstood. Some people also tend to generalize
a specific option’s pros and cons across all
setups, not knowing when the option is actually
appropriate. For example, I might think that
setting atime to on is unconditionally bad because
it will have a detrimental effect on the
performance of the filesystem without knowing that
atime is required by some applications in order to
function properly.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Python_3.11_is_out_now._Here’s_how_to_install
in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Python 3.11 was released on Oct 25, 2022, and
claims to be 10-60% faster than the prior Python
3.10 version.
As always, the feature and improvement list are
significantly high in 3.11. Here’s a brief.
1. Error tracebacks are not more definite, which
gives you an exact statement that causes the
error.
2. Introduction of exception groups and new
except* syntax
3. You can add custom text in the base
expression for better error handling in your
code.
4. Introduction of Variadic generic to allow
array-like structure in numerical Python
libraries )such as NumPy)
5. Dictionary type TypedDict gets improvement
where you can now specify whether individual
dictionary items are mandatory or optional.
6. Introduction of Self annotation, which allows
classes to return their own type instance.
And finally, here’s how you can install this latest
version in Ubuntu.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Long_Dark:_Tales_from_the_Far_Territory
announced_with_a_teaser⠀⇛
The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory is the
first paid expansion to the chilly survival game
from Hinterland. It was announced just recently and
a teaser trailer is up.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Return_to_Monkey_Island_gets_an_official
Native_Linux_version⠀⇛
After a short Beta period, Return to Monkey Island
from Terrible Toybox and Devolver Digital now has a
Native Linux port available. Sounds like the game
is doing well, as said in the announcement: “Thanks
to you, loyal customers, Return to Monkey Island is
now the fastest-selling Monkey Island game EVER! At
least, I think so. My sales data is a little
“fuzzy.” But let’s go with it!”.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Scream_Fest_2022_is_live_now_with
lots_of_discounts⠀⇛
Here’s the next big sale! Steam Scream Fest 2022 is
live now, lots of games discounted and there’s
demos and more. Live now until November 1st at 5PM
UTC. I don’t think this type of event needs a lot
of explaining does it? The focus is naturally on
all sorts of scary and slightly spooky games and
everything possible in between that developers
could sneak into the sale.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Another_Person_Is_Archiving_Every_English_PS2
Game_Manual⠀⇛
A couple of years ago, we discussed the work being
done, essentially by one enterprising individual
going by the handle “Peebs,” to archive a bunch of
retro video game manuals for the sake of
preservation. Earlier this year, we updated you all
with the fairly impressive news that every SNES
game manual had been digitized by Peebs. As we said
in those posts, there were two major takeaways I
had when learning about these efforts. First, it’s
a good thing that fair use allows for this sort of
non-commercial archiving to even take place. That’s
important because of the second takeaway I had,
which is that it sucks that these preservation
efforts have been left for hobbyists or other
individuals, rather than being an effort led by any
of the content creators themselves.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_–
2022-10-26_Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
Between 2022-10-19 and 2022-10-26 there were 33 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For
reference, during the same time, there were 306
games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux
versions represent about 10.8 % of total released
titles.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.26.2_Disables_Animated
Wallpaper_Feature_on_X11_Due_to_Severe_Memory_Leak⠀⇛
KDE Plasma 5.26.2 is here a week after KDE
Plasma 5.26’s first point release to address
more bugs and critical security issues,
including a severe memory leak when using the
xcb_glx integration for the new animated
wallpaper feature on X11. As such, the
animated wallpaper feature has been disabled
on X11, for now.
Moreover, KDE Plasma 5.26.2 implements a
fallback mechanism so that Plasma can switch
to the default wallpaper when the image URL
is empty, fixes an issue that could cause
input to not be detected when using the new
mouse button rebinding feature, and fixes a
crash in Plasma Vault’s listing callback.
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.26.2,_Bugfix_Release_for_October⠀⇛
Tuesday, 25 October 2022. Today KDE releases
a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned
5.26.2.
Plasma 5.26 was released in October 2022 with
many feature refinements and new modules to
complete the desktop experience.
# ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Discuss_with_the_Dragon⠀⇛
SO, after the previous “Confront the Dragon”,
I continue my research.
This time, I wanted to study a more
cinematographic shot, with depth of field and
again, multiple light sources (obviously a
contrast of a cold and warm one).
I think I improve a bit in the way I’m
letting more and more expressive brush stroke
visible but in place where they are not an
issue for reading the picture. Firm edges and
sharpening are ok, but I need to find a
better solution because I used here the
“clipping mask” workaround in Krita, and it
was really unbearable how many layers where
necessary and buttons to press to just shade
a shape and then merge back. I start to
really wish if Krita had real clipping mask.
[...]
my desk and setup: Intuos Pro Large, Fedora
KDE Linux 36, Philipps 245E monitor
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Rolling_Rhino_reboots_into_Rhino_Linux_•_The
Register⠀⇛
Rolling Rhino, a project that turned Ubuntu into a
rolling-release distribution, is restarting development
under a new name: Rhino Linux.
We wrote about Rolling Rhino last spring. Yes, it’s
another Ubuntu remix, but with a different goal. Most
Ubuntu remixes just replace the desktop, bundle a
different set of apps, or make other relatively cosmetic
surface changes. But Rolling Rhino changes the entire
release model, switching the package sources to Ubuntu’s
in-progress development branches and turning the distro
into a continuously-changing rolling release.
o ⚓ rolling_forward⠀⇛
o § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Lubuntu_22.10_overview_|_Welcome_to_the_Next
Universe._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Lubuntu 22.10 and some of the applications pre-
installed.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ MWL ☛ Sponsorships,_Releases,_New_Books,_and_Kickstarters⠀⇛
OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems is at the copyeditor,
and due back 15 December. I should have print in
stores immediately before Christmas. Barely.
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ In_Other_BSDs_for_2022/10/22⠀⇛
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ AlmaLinux Official ☛ AlmaLinux_8.7_Beta_–_Now_Available_–
AlmaLinux_OS_Blog⠀⇛
Hello Community! AlmaLinux OS is excited to present
AlmaLinux 8.7 Beta “Stone Smilodon” for x86_64,
aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures.
Installation ISOs are available on mirrors now.
As usual, a simple reminder, this is a BETA
release. It should not be used for production
installations. The provided upgrade instructions
should not be used on production machines unless
you don’t mind if something breaks. Now if you
wanna test this to see how things will work in 8.7
stable, you’re on the right track.
Also stay tuned to for some AlmaLinux 8.7 Beta
Cloud and Containers options to test.
# ⚓ Rakuten_Symphony_and_CIQ_bring_back_open_source_and_open
community_to_Open_RAN_deployments_with_CentOS_Successor,
Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
Rakuten Symphony, Inc. and CIQ, Inc. today
announced the availability and support of the Rocky
Linux operating system for handling demanding radio
signal processing software workloads.
“Open source communities encourage innovation
through collaboration. Without them, many of the
technologies we take for granted today would never
have developed, or would be locked away behind
patent law. Deployment of Rocky Linux represents a
return to true open-source principles, powered by
open communities,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten
Mobile and Rakuten Symphony.
# ⚓ CentOS ☛ CPE_Quarterly_Update_Q3_2022⠀⇛
This is a summary of the work done on initiatives
by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together
with CentOS and Fedora community representatives
chooses initiatives that will be worked on in this
quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple
smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen
initiatives + day to day work that needs to be
done.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Maximizing_the_value_of_the_technology
you_have⠀⇛
It’s easy for businesses to go into survival mode
right now. Supply chains are reeling from
inflationary and workforce pressures; consumer
demand is bracing itself for the full impacts of
the cost of living crisis; and climate change is no
longer something happening elsewhere, all while the
machinations of geopolitics are spooking markets on
an almost daily basis. We live in uncertain and
unpredictable times.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Edge_and_cloud:_4_reasons_to_adopt
both⠀⇛
# ⚓ F40_proposal:_Porting_Fedora_to_Modern_C_(System-Wide
Change_proposal)⠀⇛
Back in 1999, a new revision of the C standard
removed several backwards compatibility features.
However, GCC still accepts these obsolete
constructs by default. Support for these constructs
is confusing to programmers and potentially affect
GCC’s ability to implement features from future C
standards.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Debian-Based_SparkyLinux_2022.10_Rolling_ISOs
Updated_with_Linux_Kernel_6.0_by_Default⠀⇛
SparkyLinux 2022.10 was released earlier this month
on October 6th and shipped with Linux kernel
5.19.11 by default. Due to the end of life of the
Linux 5.19 kernel series, the developers decided to
respun the ISO images and upgrade the kernel to the
latest and greatest Linux 6.0 series.
Linux kernel 6.0.3 is included by default in the
new SparkyLinux 2022.10 rolling images, which are
offered with the KDE Plasma, Xfce, MATE, LXQt, and
Openbox graphical environments. On top of that, the
new ISOs ship with various other updates from the
upstream Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm”
repositories.
# ⚓ Sparky_2022.10-1_–_SparkyLinux⠀⇛
This is an additional, extra update of Sparky’s
October’s rolling iso images which features Linux
kernel 6.0.3 of the latest 6.0 line, and other
updated packages from Debian and Sparky testing
repos.
Make sure, applications which uses pkexec
(Synaptic, Sparky Installer (Calamares), Gufw,
etc.) to be launched in live session, with
superuser privileges need password to type in now.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] People_and_processes_behind_“Ubuntu_certified”
devices⠀⇛
While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled
computer, you may have found that some vendors such
as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops
and laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. In fact,
Ubuntu is certified on an ever-growing list of
hardware. But what does it mean exactly for such a
device to be “Ubuntu certified”, and how does this
happen? Let’s find out.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Vanilla_OS_is_a_brilliant_take_on_the_Linux
desktop_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
I’ve tried just about every concept behind every
Linux desktop on the market. Some of those concepts
are nothing more than a change in the UI, whereas
others become so complex as to make the
distribution nearly impossible to use, especially
for those who aren’t familiar with Linux.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Vanilla_OS:_More_Than_Just_Vanilla_GNOME_With
Ubuntu⠀⇛
That was precisely my thought when I first came
across Vanilla OS.
When Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles,
announced it on Twitter, that had me interested in
it 😎
I joined their Discord channel and hopped in to
become a tester. While I did not point out anything
new that other testers already did, keeping an eye
on the project development is fun.
Back to the vital question: What is Vanilla OS?
Vanilla OS aims to offer a clean vanilla GNOME
experience with on-demand immutability.
Sounds interesting? Let me tell you a few details
about it while I give its first open beta build a
try.
💡
Vanilla OS plans to have a stable release in
November.
It will follow Ubuntu point releases. So, you can
expect two releases per year. For example, you can
upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 22.10 and
further.
# ⚓ TuxPhones ☛ Vanilla_OS_offers_an_innovative,_modernized
“post-Debian”_experience⠀⇛
Ubuntu has been traditionally considered the most
popular and user-friendly distro, and its core
principles inspired a stream of derivate
distributions in the past years. Although many
users are happy with the general architecture,
Ubuntu owner Canonical has sometimes been
criticized for some technical choices, such as
pushing most parts of the runtime into snap
runtimes, moving even essential apps to the
container format, or shipping “patched” version of
software and desktops, or more including (harmless)
ads in their desktop or even inside the terminal.
With some known flaws, but excellent community and
adoption, some projects are trying to provide a
compromise to make Ubuntu suitable also for the
most die-hard Linux fans, while falling back in the
pure Debian paradigm. And, truth be told, most of
these projects work, but tend to be quite boring
from a technical perspective – for instance,
shipping different repositories of “purified”
software, or removing every proprietary bit as in
Purism’s (Debian based) PureOS.
The reason why Vanilla OS in particular deserves a
mentioned is that it looks like a considerably
better developed idea than most, and represents in
some ways a modernized experience compared to
Debian and Ubuntu.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_22.10_Gets_First_Kernel_Security_Update
to_Address_Recent_Wi-Fi_Stack_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.10 arrived last week on October 20th and
it ships with Linux kernel 5.19 by default. The
first kernel security patch arrived today to
address a total of six security vulnerabilities
discovered by various security researchers in the
upstream kernel packages.
This first kernel security update for Ubuntu 22.10
patches the recently discovered Wi-Fi Stack
security vulnerabilities that Canonical already
patched in its other supported Ubuntu releases last
week, namely Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Ubuntu_Unity_22.10_Review:_A_Promising
“Official”_Start⠀⇛
For the fans of Unity desktop, it’s a piece of good
news. Ubuntu Unity 22.10 Kinetic Kudu became the
official Ubuntu flavour featuring Unity desktop
after Canonical officially abandoned it on April
2018. You can now enjoy the officially supported
Unity desktop with an Ubuntu base.
That means you get the usual security and package
updates following the Ubuntu release schedule.
I did a hands-on on the official Ubuntu Unity
desktop, and here’s what I found.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Parking_at_Munich_Airport:_An_Awful_Experience⠀⇛
The parking experience at Munich Airport is awful.
It is too easy to do something wrong, which can
only be remedied by calling support. The bad user
experience is caused by a bad system architecture.
The pieces for a better architecture are already in
place. Improving the interaction between these
pieces improves the architecture and a fortiori the
user experience. I can at least dream of a better
parking experience in the future, although I can’t
change the current one.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Brume_2_–_OpenWrt_“security_gateway”_with
MediaTek_MT7981B_SoC_supports_WireGuard_VPN⠀⇛
GL.inet Brume 2 is an OpenWrt router, or rather a
“security gateway” as the company calls it, powered
by a MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) dual-core
Cortex-A53 processor, and equipped with a 2.5GbE
WAN port and a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port.
The device also comes with a USB 3.0 port for
storage and a USB Type-C port for power. It is
offered with either a plastic enclosure (GL-MT2500
model) or an aluminum allow case (GL-MT2500A
model), and with WireGuard and OpenVPN, is suitable
to host a VPN server and “monitor, manage, and
configure SD-WAN settings”.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ uConsole_is_a_modular_Arm_or_RISC-V_handheld
computer_with_optional_4G_connectivity_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Clockwork’s uConsole is a modular handheld computer
with a 5-inch display, a built-in keyboard, and
based on a carrier board supporting various Arm or
RISC-V modules compatible with the Raspberry Pi CM3
or CM4 form factors.
The device is offered with a system-on-module with
up to 4GB RAM, a WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless
module, features micro HDMI video output, USB
ports, and an audio jack, plus expansion connectors
for more advanced users, and takes two 18650
batteries for power. The company also offers a 4G
LTE module for cellular connectivity.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ OKdo_launches_Radxa_Rock_CM3_at_~$68⠀⇛
OKdo launched yesterday the Radxa ROCK 3 Compute
Module (CM3) which is based on the Rockchip RK3566
System-on-Chip. The CM3 is currently offered with
2GB RAM/32GB eMMC, one GbE Ethernet PHY, dual
displays, dual SATA ports and many other
peripherals.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Voodoo2:_3dfx’s_final_dedicated_3d_gaming
card_|_Custom_PC_#231⠀⇛
While it’s difficult to think of this as high
resolution in an age where people are sincerely
discussing gaming at 7,680 x 4,320, back in 1998
most people were using 14-15in CRT screens, some of
which couldn’t even go above 800 x 600 in non-
interlaced mode. The idea that you could actually
run 3D-accelerated games at 1,024 x 768 (786,432
pixels), when the first Voodoo cards could only run
at 640 x 480 (307,200 pixels), seemed astonishing.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Recreate_the_Victorian_Fairy_Lantern_stage
trick_with_Pico_LiPo⠀⇛
The Pepper’s ghost illusion is actually much older
than you might expect, and was first described in
the 1500s. Although it’s not a true hologram, the
eerie effect that it creates often gets called as
such, and is occasionally seen as an advertising
gimmick at trade shows and conferences. The
illusion uses an artfully positioned pane of glass
or plastic to reflect a concealed object or screen
in such a way that the image appears to be
floating, semi-transparent, in mid-air. The
technique is also the basis of how an autocue
works: since the illusion is only visible from a
certain position, it’s possible for a public
speaker to look directly at the text of an
announcement without the text being visible to
those people behind the transparent screen.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Building_a_maths_curriculum_for_a_world
shaped_by_computing [Ed: They prebundled malware for him in
the OS]⠀⇛
In the penultimate seminar in our series on cross-
disciplinary computing, we were delighted to host
Conrad Wolfram (European co-founder/CEO of Wolfram
Research).
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Rockchip_RK3588S_industrial_mini_PC_features
CAN_Bus,_RS485_–_RS232_interfaces,_relay,_and_more_–_CNX
Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_use_the_Android_Game_Dashboard_–
Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perfect_Fallout_1_and_2_Android_ports_released_in_time_for
25th_anniversary⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Samsung_Explains_When_Android_13_Will_Rollout_to
Galaxy_Devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Shazam_Songs_with_Blazing_Fast_Speed_Straight_from
Android’s_Quick_Settings_Panel_�_Android_::_Gadget_Hacks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_is_adding_Health_Connect_support_to
Fitbit’s_Android_app⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.5.5_(Android,
Windows,_macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛
Tor Browser 11.5.5 backports the following
security updates from Firefox ESR 102.4 to to
Firefox ESR 91.13 on Windows, macOS and
Linux:
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ A_Mozilla_product_manager_on_his_career
path_and_what_creating_safe_spaces_online_means_to
him⠀⇛
As a staff product manager for Mozilla’s
security and privacy team, Tony Amaral-
Cinotto thinks a lot about how you can
protect your personal information, including,
most recently, your phone number.
Firefox Relay has been protecting email
addresses from spammers since 2020. Tony’s
team just released a new feature applying the
same idea to your phone number: You get a
uniquely generated number mask so you don’t
have to enter your true number on website
forms, or in other places like restaurants
when making reservations and online
marketplaces when putting up items for sale.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Hosting_Malaysia’s_Largest_Annual_R_Conference⠀⇛
Poo Kuan Hoong of the Malaysia R User Group (Also
on Facebook) recently talked to the R-Consortium.
He discussed the group’s rather smooth transition
to regular online events. The group has also
shifted its annual R Conference online, with
speakers from around the globe.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ Libre_Arts_–_Weekly-ish_recap_—_26_October_2022⠀⇛
GIMP is getting text strokes
This has been a very long time in the making. The
patch adding text stroke support was originally
created by Massimo Valentini in 2011 to handle a
feature request filed in 2003 (retribution is
inevitable).
[...]
I recently retired from GIMP. The sole reason I
became active in the project years ago was because
it wasn’t great at communication with users. The
GIMP team are now active in the social media, they
show what they do, and they write good release
notes without my intervention. And while there are
other things I could do, my job is pretty much
done. I am confident that they will carry on doing
great work on all fronts.
# ⚓ GCC ☛ GCC_13.0.0_Status_Report_(2022-10-20),_Stage_1_ends
Nov_13th⠀⇛
The GCC development branch which will become GCC 13
is open for
general development (Stage 1). Stage 1 will end at
the end of
November 13th after which we will accept no new
features that
have not yet been submitted. Starting with Novemer
14th we
are in a two month general bugfixing period (Stage
3).
I have gone over the set of unpriorized regression
bugs that are in
confirmed state, please help updating regressions
that are still
UNCONFIRMED and consider fixing bugs that are in
your area of
interest. Please make sure to finish and submit
features you
want to see included into GCC 13 timely and
actively look for
reviewers.
o § FSFE⠀➾
# ⚓ FSFE ☛ If_enforced,_EU_chat_control_will_limit_Free
Software_–_FSFE⠀⇛
Surely you have already heard about the
controversial EU draft law on mandatory chat
control with the supposed aim to effectively tackle
child sexual abuse. This law implies the monitoring
and scanning of the communications of citizens –
even the securely encrypted end-to-end one.
# ⚓ FSFE ☛ FSFE_wins_the_transparency_challenge_of_the_EU
Datathon_2022⠀⇛
The sixth edition of EU Datathon, the EU’s open
data competition, came to a close last week with
the awards ceremony. The Free Software Foundation
Europe (FSFE) won the first prize in the challenge
‘transparency in public procurement’ with a program
that helps analyse how public administrations in
the European Union spend their money.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Society ☛ The_EU’s_Proposed_Cyber_Resilience_Act
Will_Damage_the_Open_Source_Ecosystem⠀⇛
I believe the European Commission’s Cyber
Resilience Act proposal needs an important
amendment to avoid damage to the open source
software ecosystem. The regulation should be
modified to make it clear that software produced
under an open source license and distributed on
not-for-profit basis is out of scope for the
regulation, in line with previously stated
objectives of the European Commission.
The Cyber Resilience Act
On 15 September 2022 the European Commission
released a proposal for a regulation on horizontal
cybersecurity requirements for products with
digital elements, in short, the Cyber Resilience
Act.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ R,_its_license_and_my_take_on_it⠀⇛
Yes, you can write proprietary code using R.
Microsoft has done so, for example their
{RevoUtilsMath} package is, as far as I know,
proprietary, and I’m sure that it includes some R
code. I’m pretty sure it would also be possible to
even build a proprietary program that would require
the R interpreter to be bundled to run. As long as
the developers of this tool would: [...]
# ⚓ Joinup ☛ Studies_on_country-of-origin_for_free_software_/
open_source⠀⇛
As governments put more effort into working with
free software / open source development
communities, some might be interested to know how
much involvement each country has. Two interesting
studies have recently been published on this. The
larger of the two treats Europe as a single
geographic location and shows a global context. The
second study focusses on Europe and breaks
everything down to the level of member states and
even regions within member states.
Both studies use a “best guess” approach for
assigning a geographic location based on email
addresses, names, timezone data, etc. The
researches acknowledge the limitations of these
pieces of information, noting that Europe and
Africa share timezones and that today the name
“Eric, derived from Old Norse, is more popular in
Ghana than it is in France or in the UK”. Previous
studies have used questionnaires, which give
greater accuracy but greatly limit the number of
responses and also introduces its own set of
response biases.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Bjoern Brembs ☛ Open_Access_And_The_Incentives_For
Embezzlement⠀⇛
So let’s look at the current publication
practice of researchers. Due to the
traditional reward structure, researchers aim
to publish in the most prestigious journals,
in order to benefit from that prestige in
tenure, hiring and promotion decisions. In
subscription times, in which we still
partially live, this practice does not come
with immediate changes in the cost/pricing
structure. However, this picture changes
dramatically when Open Access publications
are considered, where the journals demand
payment of an article processing charge
(APC). It has been documented exhaustively
over several studies that these APCs scale
with journal prestige. This situations
provides incentives for authors to choose the
most expensive publication option and there
are two studies that have found such effects
already: [...]
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Pulseaudio_startup_script_moved_to_/etc/
init.d⠀⇛
The saga of getting pulseaudio working in EasyOS
was summarized in November 2021:
https://bkhome.org/news/202111/how-pulseaudio-is-
implemented-in-easyos.html
The startup script was placed in /root/Startup,
script ‘pulseaudio’, as wanted it to run after X
has started. I did it this way, as that is how
Slackware does it — or at least how they did it
back then.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ The_Road_to_Qt_Location⠀⇛
The Qt Location module in Qt 5 provides
functionality for geocoding and routing, for
rendering maps and routes in a Qt Quick UI, and for
accessing information about points of interests.
Applications can use Qt Location to render maps,
can add items on top of the map to highlight
certain geographical areas, and the Qt Quick UI
allows applications and users to pan, zoom, and
tilt the map. Such applications will typically use
the Qt Positioning module to be aware of the user’s
location. Qt Positioning has been available in Qt 6
since the Qt 6.2 release, and over the last months
we have been working with customers, partners, and
Open Source contributors to make the most important
Qt Location functionality available in Qt 6 as
well.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_9_Beta2_released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator
9 Beta2!
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_0.77_released⠀⇛
Version 0.77 of Game of Trees has been released
(and the port updated): [...]
# ⚓ Game_of_Trees_-portable_0.77_released_October_24,_2022⠀⇛
This file details portable-specific changes to make
things work on systems other than OpenBSD.
# ⚓ Can_We_Use_Trunk-Based_Development_for_Legacy_Software?⠀⇛
Not right away! Trunk-Based Development requires
that the software builds and passes enough tests,
before we integrate our changes into the main
branch (a.k.a., trunk). We have enough tests, if
breaking the software is highly unlikely. By
definition, legacy code has no or not enough tests.
Hence, we cannot apply trunk-based development
right way, but should evolve our development
process towards it.
# ⚓ Jan Schaumann ☛ Time_is_an_illusion,_Unix_time_doubly_so…⠀⇛
That’s right, the original Unix epoch was 1971-01-
01T00:00:00. What timezone, you ask? Well, it sure
wasn’t “UTC”, because that didn’t replace GMT as
the standard time until 1972. Secondly, note that
time was measured in 1/60ths of a second, not in
seconds. Why would that be?
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Editing_metadata_in_trail_camera_images_using_R,
magick_and_exiftool⠀⇛
I have a new hobby: camera traps, also known as
trail cameras. Strapped to trees in my local
bushland they sit in wait, firing automatically
when triggered by a passing animal. Once in a
while, something quite magical happens.
The camera model I chose is the Campark T85 which
for me, had the right combination of features and
price point. One useful feature is the ability to
transfer images and video to a phone wirelessly
(albeit through a rather clunky phone app).
Unfortunately, images retrieved in this way have
one major flaw: an almost-complete absence of
metadata. There is no GPS in the camera of course,
but the EXIF data does not include the date/time of
the image, nor the camera make.
With a little research, I found a way to add this
information to the images later using R and some
additional software named exiftool. Here’s how I
did it.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ cobalt_Is_An_Open-source_Free_Social_Media
Downloader_App⠀⇛
The cobalt project is released under the AGPL-3.0
License.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Socialify_Is_A_Great_Tool_for_Open_Source
Developers⠀⇛
Socialify is a free open source tool that aids open
source project developer showcase their projects by
generating catchy beautiful images.
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RQuantLib_0.4.17_on
CRAN:_Maintenance⠀⇛
A new release 0.4.17 of RQuantLib arrived at CRAN
earlier today, and has been uploaded to Debian as
well.
QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-source
library for quantitative finance; RQuantLib
connects it to the R environment and language.
The release of RQuantLib comes five months after
the previous maintenance, and brings a somewhat
humurous upgrade from a default C++ standard of
C++11 to C++14. We waited so long for C++11 to
become available for R (which happened “eventually”
when g++ 4.9 was no longer the default on Windows)
and now it has become a constraint!! QuantLib 1.28,
released today actually switched to C++14 as a
minimum required. R also supports this as the
default, but we still had C++11 hardwired so this
quick maintenance release does away with that.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ DEV Community ☛ Elizabeth_Mattijsen:_Don’t_fear_the
grepper!_(3)⠀⇛
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Python Speed ☛ When_should_you_upgrade_to_Python
3.11?⠀⇛
Python 3.11 is out now–but should you switch
to it immediately? And if you shouldn’t
upgrade just yet, when should you?
The short answer is that, no, you probably
don’t want to switch immediately; quite
possibly you can’t switch immediately. To
understand why, we need to consider Python
packaging, the software development process,
and take a look at the history of past
releases.
We can then make a guess about when Python
3.11 will actually be usable.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Python_team_wraps_version_3.11.0_•
The_Register⠀⇛
Python 3.11.0, the latest iteration of the
exceedingly popular programming language,
debuted on Monday, to the delight of software
developers who care about such things.
“In the CPython release team, we have put a
lot of effort into making 3.11 the best
version of Python possible,” said Pablo
Galindo Salgado, a Python steering council
member, via Twitter. “Better tracebacks,
faster Python, exception groups and except*,
typing improvements and much more.”
The marquee feature of v3.11.0 is pure speed,
something Python has historically (sometimes
unjustly) accused of lacking.
“Python 3.11 is up to 10-60 percent faster
than Python 3.10,” said Salgado, and fellow
release team members Ned Deily and Steve
Dower, in the release announcement. “On
average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the
standard benchmark suite.”
# ⚓ Built In ☛ Python_Optical_Character_Recognition_
(OCR):_A_Tutorial_|_Built_In⠀⇛
Optical character recognition (OCR) is a
technology that recognizes text in images,
such as scanned documents and photos. Perhaps
you’ve taken a photo of a text just because
you didn’t want to take notes or because
taking a photo is faster than typing it.
Fortunately, thanks to smartphones today, we
can apply OCR so that we can copy the picture
of text we took before without having to
retype it.
# § JS⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ NextJS_Starter_Boilerplate_to_Speed_up_your
work⠀⇛
Next.js is an amazing React framework for
building web apps, desktop apps (with
Electron and Tauri) and mobile apps with
Ionic.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ GCC ☛ Rust_frontend_patches_v3⠀⇛
This is the fixed version of our previous
patch set for gccrs - We've adressed
the comments raised in our previous emails.
This patch set does not contain any work that
was not previously included, such
as closure support, the constant evaluator
port, or the better implementation
of target hooks by Iain Buclaw. They will
follow up in subsequent patch sets.
Thanks again to Open Source Security, inc and
Embecosm who have accompanied us
for this work.
Many thanks to all of the contributors and
our community, who made this
possible.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ EU_mandates_USB-C_as_standard_for_charging
ports._Good.⠀⇛
In other words, I think charging isn’t exactly a
fast-moving aspect of technology that warrants
being immune from standardisation attempts. If it
were for the Silicon Valley types, people would
have to change their power plugs and outlets every
5 years or so because ‘innovation’.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Fed’s_Trading_Scandal_Broadens_into_a_Scandal
with_the_Mega_Banks_It_“Regulates”⠀⇛
Bullard would appear to have been living under a rock for
the past year. The rest of the world that has had access
to news outlets is aware that the Fed remains under the
largest trading and ethics scandal in its 109-year
history. The Presidents of the Dallas Fed, Robert Kaplan,
and the Boston Fed, Eric Rosengren, both resigned from
their posts on September 27, 2021 after their aggressive
trading during the pandemic in 2020 came to light. The
Vice Chair of the Fed, Richard Clarida, also stepped down
in January after details of his stock trading made
headlines.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Bob_Dylan_and_the_Art_of_Imitatio⠀⇛
I am a professor of early modern literature, with a
special interest in the Renaissance. But I am also a
longtime Dylan enthusiast and the co-editor of the open-
access Dylan Review, the only scholarly journal on Bob
Dylan.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ When_It_Rains,_It_Pours_Misery⠀⇛
Champat’s thatched canopy – built as a shelter from the
harsh sun and rain as he spent days and nights keeping
vigil on his farm against marauding wild boars – still
stands on this landscape strewn with boulders. He would
always be there, tending to his farm, his neighbours
remember.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_more_languages_we_have,_the_better_we_can
understand_the_world’:_The_vanishing_Aleut_language_and_the_future
of_Russia’s_linguistic_diversity_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Theremin_Baguette_Brings_New_Meaning_To
Breadboarding⠀⇛
Theremins are a bit of an odd instrument to begin with,
but [AphexHenry] decided to put one where no theremin has
gone before: into a baguette.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Best_universities_for_computer
science_degrees_2023⠀⇛
Some 974 schools feature in the ranking for
computer science by Times Higher Education this
year.
# ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ World_University_Rankings_2023_by
subject:_computer_science_methodology⠀⇛
The subject tables employ the same range of 13
performance indicators used in the overall World
University Rankings 2023, brought together with
scores provided under five categories.
However, the overall methodology is carefully
recalibrated for each subject, with the weightings
changed to suit the individual fields.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Best_3D_Printers_2022:_FDM,_Resin_and_Sub-
$250_Models⠀⇛
There’s never been a better time to join the world
of 3D printing or, for experienced makers, to
upgrade. With the right printer, you can make
models, toys, hooks, stands, replacement parts for
electronics or a new case for your Raspberry Pi.
You can get one of the best 3D printers and plenty
of material for well under $300 in 2022, so
consider what you’ll be making with it and read on
to learn more.
The two most common types of home 3D printers are
resin MSLA (Masked Stereolithography) and filament
FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling). The best 3D
printers for beginners or those with children, FDM
printers use reels full of plastic filament that is
fed into a hot nozzle and extruded out layer-by-
layer to form a solid model. MSLA printers use a
UV-cured resin material to form a model layer-by-
layer as it rises from a vat of liquid that
requires very careful handling.
There are several factors to consider before buying
the best 3D printer for you, so be sure to consider
the questions before making a choice.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_$300,000_3D_Printed_Car⠀⇛
We’ve noticed an uptick in cars–especially pricey
ones–using 3D-printed parts. However, these are
usually small and nonstructural parts with a few
exceptions. This isn’t the case with the 2024
Cadillac Celestiq. The $300,000 luxury electric
vehicle boasts 115 3D-printed parts, according to a
post on [TheDrive].
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Less_Is_More_When_It_Comes_To_Sensor_Power⠀⇛
It used to be the cost of a microcontroller was a
big inhibitor to putting brains in everything, but
those days are long gone. Even 32-bit CPUs are now
cheap enough that you can throw them into anything.
The biggest factor now is probably power. Do you
really want to charge your electric toilet seat or
change batteries every few weeks? A company called
Everactive wants you to ditch your battery using
their sensor platform they claim harvests energy
from a variety of sources and they are about to
deliver their first developer’s kit.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Box_PC_based_on_Tiger_Lake-U_processors
features_docking_connector⠀⇛
Distec recently launched a fanless BOX PC
compatible with Tiger Lake-U processors from Intel.
The Box PC Pro NPA-2009 is equipped with a docking
connector via V-by-one or DP to control external
TFT displays. Other key features include dual GbE
ports, one M.2 2280 slot, one M.2 2230 slot, one
M.2 2242 and up to 64GB DDR4.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Build_Your_Own_Concrete_3D_Printer⠀⇛
We didn’t notice [Nikita]’s post about building a
concrete 3D printer, a few months ago, but the idea
seems sound: build a basic CNC XY axis and then add
a mortar pump and hose to deposit concrete. The
video, below, shows the machine in operation.
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ PC_Expansion_Slot_History:_When_the_Clone-Makers
Fought_Back⠀⇛
In the his
tory of the IBM-compatible personal computer, we
know who the winners and losers all are. The
biggest winner was most assuredly Microsoft,
followed by the many clone makers that crept up on
Iowa farms, in dorm rooms, and inside the pages of
Computer Shopper. The biggest loser was possibly
IBM, whose architecture became the de facto
standard, but whose exclusivity fell through its
fingers as the off-the-shelf hardware easily
emerged with other companies. In the late 1980s,
IBM wanted to reassert control. Its strategy for
doing so involved a lot less off-the-shelf—and a
lot more proprietary. But all those clone-makers
weren’t ready to fall over quite so quickly.
Today’s Tedium talks internal slots.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Europe’s_Bees_Stung_by_Climate,_Pesticides_and
Parasites⠀⇛
Neonicotinoids, chemically similar to nicotine, are
systemic pesticides.
Unlike contact pesticides, which remain on the
surface of the treated leaves, systemic pesticides
are taken up by the plant and transported to its
leaves, flowers, roots and stems, as well as to its
pollen and nectar.
These toxic substances can remain in the soil for
between five and 30 years, Bonmatin said.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ America’s_cars_and_trucks_are_getting_bigger,_and_so
are_their_front_blind_zones._Children_are_paying_the_price.⠀⇛
Briley was one of an estimated 64 children who died
that year after being hit by a forward-moving
vehicle off of public roads, according to an NBC
News analysis of federal crash data. More than
twice as many children have died from such crashes
when vehicles were moving forward than backward in
recent years. An estimated 744 children were killed
that way from 2016 to 2020, mostly in driveways and
parking lots. In the majority of deaths, the child
was hit by an SUV or a pickup truck.
Those numbers rose sharply in 2020, and advocates
worry they will continue to rise, as Americans
increasingly buy large vehicles with big front
blind zones, instead of smaller cars with greater
visibility.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Hidden_Politics_of_Smell⠀⇛
When I was diagnosed with Covid-19 in December of
2020, scent was the first thing to go. I was
quarantined in my bedroom, and the world without
smells was sterile and lifeless. Their absence made
me keenly aware of the ways in which scent enables
us to understand our surroundings. Without smell,
food—sweet, savory, rotten—lost meaning. The smell
of water drying on skin after a
shower—cleanliness—was completely gone. The smell
of pine needles on the breeze from an open
window—the outdoors—did not signify a season, only
the cold. We lack many words to describe scent,
resorting instead to concepts and comparisons, but
perhaps that’s a result of the visceral connection
scent offers to how we feel, our sense of place,
the nuances that round out the objects we see,
touch, or perceive.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_These_Farmers_Decolonize_the_Wine
Industry?⠀⇛
And yet, as land in the state becomes dryer and
fires burn hotter, activists across the country are
challenging California’s glittering self-
conception. Despite its status as a luxury good,
they argue, wine is an agricultural product. It is
not exempt from the conversations about food
justice, soil health, and climate change that have
permeated other agricultural sectors. “All of the
impact that we have lies in the step before putting
it into the bottle,” says community organizer and
wine educator Jahdé Marley. (Kate Buenconsejo for
The Nation)
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Lawsuits_Say_OxyChem_Exposed_Neighborhood_to
Asbestos⠀⇛
The diagnosis puzzled them. Asbestos exposure is
the only known cause of the vicious cancer, which
kills most people who get it within a few years.
Because cases often involve occupational exposure
in industries like shipbuilding and construction —
and because it can take decades for the cancer to
develop — mesothelioma is sometimes thought of as
an old man’s disease. Theresa was just 53 and held
a master’s in public administration. She had been a
congressional aide, she’d managed a nonprofit,
she’d worked in marketing. Never with asbestos.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Cancer_Alley_Activists_Hold_DC_Funeral
March_Asking_Biden_to_Declare_Climate_Emergency⠀⇛
“President Biden, you are drinking clean water, and
we are not. You can plant a garden over here; we
cannot, the soil is destroyed.”
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ YouTube_Sees_Ad_Revenue_Drop_Slightly
to_$7.07B_During_Third_Quarter⠀⇛
YouTube’s ad revenue dropped down to $7.07 billion
during the third quarter, marking a 1.9 percent
decrease compared to the previous year, parent
company Alphabet reported on Tuesday.
# ⚓ PC World ☛ Malware-ridden_Chrome_extension_infects_over_a
million_PCs⠀⇛
So reports security researcher Guardio Labs (via
BleepingComputer), which spotted the latest batch
of extensions that hijack search results to inject
advertising into otherwise benign pages. The so-
called “Dormant Colors” adware is spread across an
impressive thirty different individual extensions
in both the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft’s Edge
Add-ons repository. (The latest version of Edge is
based on Chromium case, and can run Chrome-based
extensions without modification.) The extensions
have also been spotted on spammy video download
sites.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ The_dangers_of_trust_policies_in_AWS⠀⇛
Trust policies are very useful to temporarily grant
specific access to a user or a resource. They add a
layer of protection on the roles to avoid misuse by
an adversary. Trust policies are most commonly used
in either of following four cases: [...]
# ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ My_next_Mac_might_be_the_last⠀⇛
I’m aware that the title of this article could be
viewed as clickbait. Sorry about that. It is,
however, a very sincere snapshot of how I’m
currently feeling about the Mac and Mac OS
platform.
Ever since the misguided visual redesign of Mac OS
when it transitioned from 10.15 Catalina to 11 Big
Sur, and the questionable UI choices embedded in
such redesign, I’ve been disheartened to see my
favourite environment for work and leisure enter a
downward spiral. And while engineering-minded folks
like Howard Oakley have been praising certain
security-related underpinnings of the latest three
versions of Mac OS, I simply feel they’re over-
engineered solutions that make things needlessly
more intricate for the end user. I’m not going into
details here not because I don’t know what I’m
talking about, but because, more pragmatically, the
list of examples would constitute an article on its
own, and would definitely exceed the scope and
focus of this piece.
Before you think I’m going to say things like Apple
can’t innovate any more, again, no. It’s not that.
I actually quite like most of what Apple is doing
with the Mac, hardware-wise. The problem is I just
can’t stand the software anymore. The problem is
that I feel there is a troubling ungluing going on
between Mac hardware and Mac OS, a substantial
difference in quality between the two components,
that doesn’t make me feel what I used to feel in
previous versions of Mac OS X: seamless
integration.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_rolls_out_macOS_Ventura:_Key_new
features_for_Mac_users⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ LinkedIn_Cracking_Down_on_Its_Many_Fake
Accounts⠀⇛
LinkedIn said in its Community Report that it’s
been working on the problem, noting that for a six-
month period last year, that it stopped 96 percent
of faked accounts.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_profits_fall_14%_in_1Q_2023,_Windows
OEM_sales_most_affected⠀⇛
Microsoft has seen its profits drop 14% year-on-
year in the first quarter of financial year 2023 as
PC sales were affected by the slowing economy.
Another factor that affected the company’s revenue
was sluggish growth of its cloud services.
The company recorded US$50.1 billion (A$77.85
billion) in revenue during the quarter, an increase
of 11%, but its profits fell to US$17.6 billion.
# ⚓ Heimdal Security ☛ More_and_More_Companies_Are_Getting_Hit
with_Ransomware_[2021-2022] [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
According to a study conducted by Cloudwards, in
2021, 37% of all businesses and organizations were
hit by ransomware and out of all, 32% paid the
ransom but recovered only 65% of their data.
A few months ago, we also published an article
about a study showing that in the first five months
of 2021 more than 290 companies have become victims
of six ransomware groups, but let’s see what the
current situation is.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Alert:_This_ransomware_preys_on
healthcare_orgs_via_weak-ass_VPN_servers⠀⇛
The Daixin Team acquired the VPN credentials
through a phishing email that included a malicious
attachment. Once in the VPN server, the
cybercriminals move laterally through the network
via Secure Shell (SSH) and Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP) and have tried to get privileged account
access through credential dumping and pass-the-hash
tactics.
The privileged accounts allowed the attackers to
get into VMware vCenter Servers to reset account
passwords for ESXi servers and then deploy
ransomware on them, according to the agencies.
They noted that third-party reports link Daixin
Team’s ransomware with source code of the Babuk
Locker malware that was leaked last year.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Hive_ransomware_gang_leaks_data_stolen_during
Tata_Power_cyberattack [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The listing of stolen data suggests any
negotiations to pay a ransom failed. This data,
reviewed by TechCrunch, includes sensitive employee
information, such as Aadhaar national identity card
numbers, tax account numbers, salary information,
home addresses and phone numbers. The leaked data,
which was posted to Hive’s dark web leak site on
October 24, also includes engineering drawings,
financial and banking records, client records and
some private keys.
# ⚓ Hive_Ransomware_Continues_to_Attack_Healthcare_Providers
[iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Recent data breaches continue to show the growing
prevalence of Hive ransomware and other [cracking]
groups as they continue to infiltrate the networks
of US healthcare providers.
High-profile cyberattacks continue to put health
systems and patient data in jeopardy, but smaller
breaches can be equally detrimental. Without the
resources to combat and recover from a ransomware
attack, smaller clinics have become easy targets
for malicious [attackers]. Meanwhile, unauthorized
access to patient information continues to be a
problem for other organizations.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ Stranger_Strings:_An_exploitable_flaw_in
SQLite⠀⇛
Trail of Bits is publicly disclosing CVE-2022-
35737, which affects applications that use the
SQLite library API. CVE-2022-35737 was introduced
in SQLite version 1.0.12 (released on October 17,
2000) and fixed in release 3.39.2 (released on July
21, 2022). CVE-2022-35737 is exploitable on 64-bit
systems, and exploitability depends on how the
program is compiled; arbitrary code execution is
confirmed when the library is compiled without
stack canaries, but unconfirmed when stack canaries
are present, and denial-of-service is confirmed in
all cases.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ VMware_Releases_Patch_for_Critical_RCE_Flaw
in_Cloud_Foundation_Platform⠀⇛
In light of the severity of the flaw and its
relatively low bar for exploitation, the Palo Alto-
based virtualization services provider has also
made available a patch for end-of-life products.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Hackers_Actively_Exploiting_Cisco_AnyConnect
and_GIGABYTE_Drivers_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛
Tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-
2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities
could enable local authenticated attackers to
perform DLL hijacking and copy arbitrary files to
system directories with elevated privileges.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Vice_Society_Hackers_Are_Behind_Several
Ransomware_Attacks_Against_Education_Sector [Ed: Windows TCO;
"The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence" is a joke;
Microsoft back-doors things for the NSA, it doesn't care
about real security; posturing at best]⠀⇛
Vice Society actors have also been spotted
leveraging Cobalt Strike for lateral movement, in
addition to creating scheduled tasks for
persistence and abusing vulnerabilities in Windows
Print Spooler (aka PrintNightmare) and Common Log
File System (CVE-2022-24521) to escalate
privileges.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Optus_and_Medibank_hacks_prompt_government_to
increase_fines_for_massive_data_breaches_to_a_minimum_of_$50
million_–_ABC_News⠀⇛
The current penalty is $2.2 million and the federal
government believes that is insufficient given
massive cyber-attacks on Optus and Medibank Private
in recent weeks.
[...]
The federal opposition has already called for
tougher penalties in response to major cyber
incidents.
Last month, shadow home affairs minister Karen
Andrews also proposed new offences for cyber
extortion that would carry a maximum 10 years
imprisonment.
Earlier this week, Medibank admitted the personal
data of some of its customers – including names,
addresses, Medicare numbers and phone numbers – had
been stolen in a cyber-attack.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Australia_Increases_Fines_for_Massive_Data
Breaches_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛
After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data
breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government
increased the fine for serious data breaches from
$2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s
$50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.)
# ⚓ ABC ☛ All_Medibank_customers’_personal_data_was_compromised
in_the_cyber_attack._Who_is_at_risk_and_what_should_customers
do?_–_ABC_News⠀⇛
Millions of Medibank customers may have had their
information stolen, with the company revealing
hackers accessed the personal data of all customers
across its Medibank, ahm and OSHC brands.
Here is what we know and what Medibank has said to
do if you are a customer.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ U.S._Charges_Ukrainian_Hacker_Over_Role_in
Raccoon_Stealer_Malware_Service [Ed: Instead of banning
Windows they try to arrest those who take advantage of the
holes (and are not the US government)]⠀⇛
A 26-year-old Ukrainian national has been charged
in the U.S. for his alleged role in the Raccoon
Stealer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation.
# ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Incoming_OpenSSL_critical_fix:
Organizations,_users,_get_ready! [Ed: The language of FUD/
fear-mongering from Editor-in-Chief]⠀⇛
The OpenSSL Project team has announced that, on
November 1, 2022, they will release OpenSSL version
3.0.7, which will fix a critical vulnerability in
the popular open-source cryptographic library (but
does not affect OpenSSL versions before 3.0).
# ⚓ USCERT ☛ Samba_Releases_Security_Updates⠀⇛
The Samba Team has released security updates to
address vulnerabilities in multiple versions of
Samba. A remote attacker could exploit one of these
vulnerabilities to take control of an affected
system.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(tomcat9), Oracle (389-ds-base, device-mapper-
multipath, firefox, git-lfs, gnutls, kernel,
kernel-container, libksba, pki-core, samba, sqlite,
and zlib), Red Hat (device-mapper-multipath,
kernel, kpatch-patch, libksba, and thunderbird),
Slackware (expat and samba), SUSE (bind, buildah,
curl, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-
node_exporter, grafana, icinga2, python-paramiko,
python-waitress, SUSE Manager Client Tools, telnet,
and xen), and Ubuntu (glibc, jinja2, libksba,
linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-
ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oracle,
linux-raspi, and openvswitch).
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Unknown_Actors_are_Deploying_RomCom_RAT_to
Target_Ukrainian_Military⠀⇛
The development marks a shift in the attacker’s
modus operandi, which has been previously
attributed to spoofing legitimate apps like
Advanced IP Scanner and pdfFiller to drop backdoors
on compromised systems.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Kimsuky_Hackers_Spotted_Using_3_New_Android
Malware_to_Target_South_Koreans⠀⇛
This past August, Kaspersky unearthed a previously
undocumented infection chain dubbed GoldDragon to
deploy a Windows backdoor capable of stealing
information from the victim such as file lists,
user keystrokes, and stored web browser login
credentials.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ It’s_not_your_phone_or_your_network
provider,_WhatsApp_is_down_worldwide⠀⇛
In two consecutive Octobers, WhatsApp has
seen outages and for a service that has
become more than just a ‘stay in touch with
3rd cousins’ service, this has many worried.
What kind of maintenance work do they do in
October? Last time around it was because of
some configuration changes to Meta routers.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Used_to_“Monitor_Physical
Location_of_Specific_Americans,”_Forbes_Reports_–
TikTok_Responds⠀⇛
The report says the monitoring project is led
by ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk
Control department. It’s a team that was
formed to investigate misconduct by current
and former ByteDance employees. But Forbes
says the team also planned to collect TikTok
data about the location of specific
Americans–even those who had no employment
relationship with the company.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ByteDance_Spying_Scandal_Isn’t_So_Much
About_TikTok,_But_About_The_US’s_Failure_To_Pass_A
Comprehensive_Privacy_Law⠀⇛
Emily Baker-White has quite the story over at
Forbes, revealing how ByteDance, the Chinese
company that owns TikTok, apparently planned
to have its “Internal Audit and Risk Control”
department spy on the location of some
American citizens:
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Using_Google_Calendar_For_Machines_To_Keep
Track_Of_Human_Days⠀⇛
Daily triggers for automation are simple in
theory, unless it needs to keep track of the
calendar that humans actually live by.
Seasonal changes, shifting public holidays,
or just being on vacation are all exceptions
you may need to account for. [Jeremy Rode]
likes using Google Calendar to stay on top of
events, so he created CalendarScraper, a
simple script to make his machines use it
too.
# ⚓ PIA ☛ How_We_Made_the_Best_Split_Tunneling_for_Our
VPN_|_PIA_Blog⠀⇛
Imagine being able to stream your local
Netflix library while rerouting the rest of
your traffic through a server halfway across
the world. Most VPNs force you to route
everything through the network, making it
impossible to access anything using your
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# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Right_Wingers_‘Fight’_AT&T_By_Embracing
‘Anti-Woke’_Cell_Carrier…That’s_Just_Rebranded_AT&T⠀⇛
You’d be pretty hard pressed to find a
company that leans more right wing than AT&T.
The company was a big ally to President Trump
and drove most of his telecom policy (which
was basically to give AT&T everything it
wants). AT&T has a long, long record of
supporting politicians who oppose civil
rights and supported the January 6
insurrection. They even funded and helped
create OAN.
# ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_block_ads_in_Chrome_without_an
extension⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Jihadist_raids_spark_new_exodus_in_Mozambique⠀⇛
The family’s terrifying experience underscores how
Mozambique’s jihadist nightmare remains very far
from over, despite military gains last year.
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ France:_In_the_crowded_Rue_Sainte-Catherine_in
Bordeaux,_he_shouts_out_his_support_for_the_Islamic_State
Daech_and_calls_to_kill_infidels⠀⇛
His clamour frightened passers-by. At around 6.30pm
on Saturday October 22, a young man began shouting
threatening phrases in the main shopping street in
the centre of Bordeaux, Rue Sainte-Catherine, which
was still crowded a few minutes before closing
time. He shouted: “Join the Islamic State!” and
“The infidels must have their throats cut!”.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Norway_arrests_man_accused_of_being_Russian_spy⠀⇛
Officials believe the suspect was working in Norway
as part of Russia’s so-called “illegals” programme.
First operated by the KGB during the Cold War, and
revived in recent years by President Vladimir
Putin, Russia’s intelligence agencies craft fake
identities, or “legends”, for spies before
deploying them to foreign countries.
“Typically illegal agents are talent scouts
recruiting agents for later, and preparing the
ground for other spies to do traditional
intelligence work,” Ms Moe said. “It is a long-term
project to have an illegal agent. It costs a lot of
money. Major state actors only use them and it is
known Russia has used them in the past.”
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Who_Is_This_“Haiti”_That’s_Appealing_for
Intervention?⠀⇛
And the East Coast establishment media—which have
on occasion remembered that Haiti is a near
neighbor and has been ravaged by anti-government
demonstrations, a failing economy and gang
violence—seem to be breathing a sigh of relief.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Old_Soldiers_Never_Die,_They_Just_Go_to
Work_for_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛
Retired US military can work for foreign
governments if they receive permission from the
State Department and their branch of the armed
forces. While these relationships are not illegal,
they ought to be. Middle East Eyecommented that
“The revelations add to concerns about the extent
to which foreign countries, including many with
authoritarian governments, have expanded their
influence over US institutions.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_U.S._Africa_Command_Doesn’t_Want_You
to_Know⠀⇛
I knew I had a story when U.S. Africa Command
(AFRICOM) failed to answer basic questions
honestly. And the command’s reaction to the article
told me that I also had a new beat.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_What_US_Africa_Command_Doesn’t
Want_You_to_Know⠀⇛
What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an
enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in
secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it
would be if it were up to the Pentagon.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Writing_on_War⠀⇛
It was a solitary life, broken by periodic visits
to a small antique bookstore in the neighborhood
that had a copy of the 1910-1911 Encyclopedia
Britannica, the last edition published for
scholars. I couldn’t afford it, but the owner
generously let me read entries from those 29
volumes written by the likes of Algernon Charles
Swinburne, John Muir, T.H. Huxley, and Bertrand
Russell. The entry for Catullus, several of whose
poems I could recite from memory in Latin, read:
“The greatest lyric poet of Rome.” I loved the
certainty of that judgment — one that scholars
today would not, I suspect, make, much less print.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden’s_Obsession_With_China⠀⇛
Military spending accounts for more than half of
discretionary federal spending, and the NSS doesn’t
suggest that the Biden administration will change
the U.S. approach to the global environment in
order to reduce spending. Ever since the 9/11
attacks, the United States has relied on increased
military power to advance its international
interests, spending more than $6 trillion in
fighting counterterrorism wars. We have more
people working in military grocery stores or
marching in military bands than we have diplomats.
Biden’s NSS presents no alternatives for curbing
our military deployment in more than 100 countries
or for returning arms control and disarmament to
the national security dialogue.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_pretext_for_escalation’:_What_you_need_to_know
about_Moscow’s_claims_that_Ukraine_is_building_a_‘dirty_bomb’
—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia continues to insist that Ukraine is
preparing to use a “dirty bomb.” On the morning of
October 23, the Russian state news agency RIA
Novosti published an article claiming that
“credible sources in various countries” had said
Ukraine was planning to detonate a “dirty bomb,” or
radiological dispersal device, on its own territory
and blame the explosion on Russia. That same day,
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu called his
counterparts from France, Great Britain, Turkey,
and the U.S. to warn them about the allegedly
upcoming “false flag” operation.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Transport_Ministry_to_allow_non-original
spare_parts_for_plane_repairs_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Transport Ministry will begin
recommending that foreign-made planes be repaired
with non-original spare parts, according to a new
draft resolution on the ministry’s website,
Interfax reported on Tuesday. The parts must be
manufactured “in accordance with procedures” of
certain countries that are “leaders in the global
aviation community,” the document says.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Interior_Ministry_reports_more_passports
issued_this_year_than_in_any_nine-month_period_since_2018_—
Meduza⠀⇛
According to the Russian Interior Ministry, almost
3.9 million foreign passports were issued between
January and September 2022, TASS reported on
Monday. That’s the largest number of foreign
passports issued in three subsequent quarters since
2018.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Former_U.S._Attorney:_DOJ_Should_Charge_Trump
With_Manslaughter_Over_Jan._6⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Advocacy_Groups_File_Lawsuit_Against_Vigilantes
Intimidating_Arizona_Voters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_I_Pray_This_Is_My_Last_Book
on_the_Subject_of_War⠀⇛
As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force
That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two
decades as a war correspondent, 15 of them with the
New York Times, in Central America, the Middle
East, Africa, Bosnia, and Kosovo. I worked in a
small, sparsely furnished studio apartment on First
Avenue in New York City. The room had a desk,
chair, futon, and a couple of bookshelves — not
enough to accommodate my extensive library, leaving
piles of books stacked against the wall. The single
window overlooked a back alley.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Don’t_Have_to_Live_This_Way’:_St._Louis
School_Gunman_Armed_With_AR-15,_600+_Rounds⠀⇛
“Republicans will tell you the solution is some
more guns. On November 8, you need to tell them
they’re full of shit.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Infrastructure_Wars⠀⇛
The damaged table and the story of the V-2 strike
also left me with a strong fellow feeling for
people bit by rocket fire, most recently in Kyiv,
Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa and other Ukrainian cities. A
difference from my parents’ experience is, of
course, that many of those whose houses have been
hit were at home at the time.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ More_than_40_Chechen_fighters_killed_in_Ukrainian
offensive_near_Kherson_—_Meduza⠀⇛
More than 40 Chechen fighters were killed, and
about 200 wounded, as a result of the October 24
Ukrainian attack on the Chechen “oil regiment” base
in the Kherson region. This was reported by Sergey
Khlan, the head of Ukraine’s military
administration in Kherson.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_urges_its_refugees_not_to_come_home_until
spring_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk
advised Ukrainians who left the country because of
the war not to come home this winter:
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kherson_occupation_official_vows_to_punish
residents_who_refuse_to_accept_rubles_as_payment_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Kherson occupation administration deputy head
Kirill Stremousov said Tuesday that there have been
reports of shop workers in Kherson to refuse to
accept Russian rubles as payment for groceries.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kadyrov_calls_military’s_response_to_shelling_on
Russian_territory_‘weak’_and_says_‘special_military
operation’_has_become_‘war’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In a Telegram audio message Tuesday, Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov expressed frustration at Russia’s
“weak response” to the shelling of Russian
territory:
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Fired_RT_employee_who_called_for_Ukrainian
children_to_be_‘drowned’_posts_apology_video_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Anton Krasovsky, the now-former broadcasting
director for the Russian-language branch of the
Russian state propaganda network RT who was fired
Monday after calling for Ukrainian children to be
“drowned” and “burned,” posted a new apology video
on his Telegram channel.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Democrats:_Don’t_Give_Peace_a_Chance⠀⇛
Katherine Gypson reports progressive Democratic
lawmakers urged U.S. President Joe Biden to shift
the U.S. approach to the war in Ukraine.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_143:
Canada’s_Information_Commissioner_Caroline_Maynard_on_Why
Government_Needs_a_Culture_of_Providing_Information_Instead
of_Hiding_It⠀⇛
Canadians using the Access to Information Act
system frequently find that it is simply does not
work as the legislation prescribes, with most
facing long delays and widespread redactions.
Canada’s Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard
is trying to do something to fix that. She has been
calling for legislative reforms, more resources,
and leadership within government departments to
prioritize providing information instead of hiding
it. Commissioner Maynard joins the Law Bytes
podcast to discuss the current system, how
exceptions are often used too aggressively to limit
public access, and what can be done to fix these
problems.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Missouri_Attorney_General_Appears_To_Be_Using
Open_Records_Requests_To_Intimidate_His_Critics⠀⇛
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is involved
in some questionable use of the state’s public
records laws. Following the AG’s dubious decision
to sue schools over what he called “illegal” mask
mandates, he raised his controversy level
considerably earlier this year. He continued this
assault on his own credibility by suing schools and
educational non-profits that had denied his public
records requests seeking documents about mask
mandates and one parent-teachers’ organization that
had requested the federal government open criminal
investigations into parents who threatened violence
against teachers and schools over the same mask
mandates that AG Schmitt claims are illegal.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Recycling_plastic_is_practically_impossible_—_and_the
problem_is_getting_worse⠀⇛
The report cites separate data published this May
which revealed that the amount of plastic actually
turned into new things has fallen to new lows of
around 5%. That number is expected to drop further
as more plastic is produced.
Greenpeace found that no plastic — not even soda
bottles, one of the most prolific items thrown into
recycling bins — meets the threshold to be called
“recyclable” according to standards set by the
Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastic Economy
Initiative. Plastic must have a recycling rate of
30% to reach that standard; no plastic has ever
been recycled and reused close to that rate.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ ‘Our_horses_are_ready’:_Native_Americans_and_white
farmers_form_an_unlikely_alliance_to_oppose_a_pipeline_in_the
Dakotas⠀⇛
“There isn’t really enough experience with these
pipelines to be able to say they’ll be safe going
forward for five years, or 10 years or 15 years,”
said Dennis Wamsted, an energy analyst at the
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial
Analysis. Given the potential for an accident along
the route, “you have to train the first responders
in all the little towns,” he added.
Wamsted also questions the need for the massive
project, citing the rising popularity of electric
vehicles that could eventually eliminate the demand
for biofuel. “We are moving to a situation where
we’re not going to have internal combustion engines
in the long-term future, and we’re better off
preparing for that now, instead of building a $4.5
billion pipeline,” he said.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ President_Biden:_Climate_is_the_Enemy⠀⇛
So, President Biden, the choice was easy for me.
Trump was dangerous and you said things I wanted to
hear, that you trusted science, that climate change
was real, and that we had to change our ways to
fight it.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Journalism_Turns_a_Corner_on_Climate_Change⠀⇛
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a
global journalism collaboration cofounded by
Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation
strengthening coverage of the climate story.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ World’s_Premier_Marine_Ecosystem_at_Risk⠀⇛
Indeed, the Southern Ocean is key to sustaining
life on the planet. It deserves special focus and
must be protected to stop irreparable damage to a
powerful yet fragile ecosystem.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Threatens_to_Hold_Economy_Hostage_to
Slash_Climate_Investments⠀⇛
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that “while
some Republicans do favor brinkmanship over
Medicare and Social Security… some aides and
analysts think the GOP may be more likely to demand
changes to other Democratic priorities.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Not_a_Single_Global_Indicator_Is_on_Track’
to_Reverse_Deforestation_by_2030:_Analysis⠀⇛
“Funding for forests will need to increase by up to
200 times to meet 2030 goals.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ COP26_Pledge_to_Reverse_Deforestration_Is_Not_on
Track_to_Be_Met,_Analysis_Finds⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 2_Billion_Kids_to_Face_Extreme_Heatwave
Threat_by_2050,_Warns_UNICEF⠀⇛
“The climate shocks of 2022 provided a strong wake-
up call about the increasing danger hurtling
towards us.”
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_An_Open_Letter_to_Biden:
People_Are_Dying_From_Petrochemical_Plants⠀⇛
# ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Non-Fungible_Token_Bubble_Lasted_10
Months⠀⇛
Although the first Non-Fungible Token was
minted in 2014, it wasn’t until Cryptokitties
bought the Ethereum blockchain to its knees
in December 2017 that NFTs attracted
attention. But then they were swiftly hailed
as the revolutionary technology that would
usher in Web 3, the Holy Grail of VCs,
speculators and the major content industries
because it would be a completely
financialized Web. Approaching 5 years later,
it is time to ask “how’s it going?”
Below the fold I look at the details, but the
TL;DR is “not so great”; NFTs as the basis
for a financialized Web have six main
problems: [...]
# ⚓ Sydney Morning Herald ☛ NSW_professor_wins_world’s
best_technology_prize⠀⇛
Professor Martin Green, a softly spoken
professor from the University of New South
Wales, has been awarded the world’s most
prestigious technology prize for his lifetime
of work refining and improving the solar
cell.
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Six_hours_of_daily_commute_in_such_a_small
country_is_a_disgrace⠀⇛
Autofestival.lu says it all: “We see a public
transit that is not serving the people.” No-
one is expecting a door to door service. I
would already be stoked about a fast bus
connecting Ettelbruck or Diekirch directly
with Kirchberg. One direct bus line would
solve a big chunk of my problem. Not sure why
no one has thought of it when coming up with
the new planning, since Ettelbruck and
Diekirch are considered such an important
part in making the North more attractive.
But the main joke in my opinion is that the
‘Nordstrooss’, the ‘Northern Street’ highway
doesn’t even make it all the way up to the
North. The highway stops very much in central
Luxembourg. But a tram was needed in the
City. Which in hindsight, I am a big fan of,
but not in the cost of ignoring the needs of
half your country.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ New_Study_Warns_That_Argentina_Is_Stuck_in
an_‘Oil_and_Gas_Trap’⠀⇛
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation,
stretching across a huge expanse in the
northern Patagonian desert, is thought to
hold 308 trillion cubic feet of fossil gas
and 16 billion barrels of oil, according to
the U.S. Energy Information Administration
(EIA). Geologically speaking, the Vaca Muerta
is roughly comparable to the Eagle Ford
shale, a prolific oil and gas-producing
region in South Texas.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Oregon_Regulator_Rejects_Some_of_Utility’s
Attempts_to_Bill_Customers_for_Lobbying_and_Advertising
Costs⠀⇛
Late last year, NW Natural, a gas utility
that serves roughly 2.5 million customers in
Oregon and southwest Washington, filed a
request with state regulators that sought to
hike rates for residential customers by 12
percent to cover the cost of infrastructure
upgrades, as well as the costs for
advertising, executive bonuses, anti-climate
lobbying, and even for gas-friendly activity
books for elementary school children. DeSmog
covered this rate request in May when a
coalition of community and environmental
groups formally opposed many of NW Natural’s
justifications for passing on higher costs to
customers.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Protections_for_Emperor_Penguin
Reflect_‘Growing_Extinction_Crisis’⠀⇛
“It finally happened,” tweeted the Center for
Biological Diversity (CBD), which filed a
petition in 2011 calling for the emperor
penguin to be listed under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA).
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Fight_Against_Inflation_Doesn’t_Have_to
be_Rich-People_Friendly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sherrod_Brown_Warns_Fed_Chair_That_Rate
Hikes_Put_Working-Class_‘Livelihoods_at_Risk’⠀⇛
“It is your job to combat inflation, but at the
same time, you must not lose sight of your
responsibility to ensure that we have full
employment.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Problems_of_One-Party_Rule⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Greg_Abbott_Has_Built_Power_Like_No_Other
Texas_Governor⠀⇛
“Our number-one priority as public servants is to
follow the law,” Abbott, who served as Texas
attorney general before he was elected, told
staffers, according to his autobiography. Adhering
to the law was “a way to ignore the pressure of
politics, polls, money and lobbying.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Tory_Party’s_Endless_Gyrations⠀⇛
When Liz Truss was chosen as party leader, this
committee chose an appallingly long procedure in
which a contender needed to receive 18 nominations
from their fellow MPs in order to qualify for the
vote.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Secretaries_of_State_Can_Undermine
Elections⠀⇛
Studies have shown both state Democratic and
Republican chief election officials oversee
elections with similar partisan outcomes, turnout
rates and administrative policies. And despite the
fact that most of these officers are selected
through explicitly partisan processes, the majority
of them behaved in a nonpartisan manner to ensure
fair and secure elections.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Budget_bits_and_pieces:_did_we_really
need_this_stage-managed_exercise?⠀⇛
The Labor Party promised, prior to the election in
May, that it would bring down power bills by $275
yearly by 2025. That last bit is important: by
2025.
There are plenty of journalists — or perhaps one
should call them stenographers — repeating that
line ad infinitum, only conveniently leaving out
the time factor: by 2025.
There are two classes who write for the mainstream
and even smaller media: Labor supporters and
Coalition supporters. It’s easy to guess which
class leaves out that time element.
Any wonder then that journalists in Australia are
trusted as much as second-hand car salesmen or
real-estate salesmen are?
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_AUKUS_deal_guided_by_Americans_with
conflict_of_interest:_WaPO⠀⇛
Australia’s decision to buy nuclear submarines, the
so-called AUKUS initiative, has been guided mostly
by ex-US Navy admirals who have potential conflicts
of interest, the Washington Post has revealed in a
detailed investigaton.
Former senior Defence executive Mike Scrafton
asked, in a piece for Pearls and Irritations, a
blog run by ex-Australian public service veteran
John Menadue: “What confidence can Australians have
in the soundness of this opaque, over-priced,
strategically unjustifiable, and massively under-
specified project?”
Unsurprisingly, Menadue’s blog was the lone
Australian outlet to report the Post’s
investigation, as the mainstream media tend to
generally sing from the government’s songsheet.
Headlined “Former US Navy leaders profited from
overlapping interests on sub deal”, the Post’s
detailed story said two retired US admirals and
three ex-Navy civilian leaders were filling
critical but secretive roles as paid Australian
Government advisers during the AUKUS negotiations.
# ⚓ New Zealand Herald ☛ Topher_Richwhite_and_Bridget
Thackwray,_NZ_social_media_influencers,_missing_in_Iran_for
four_months,_now_safe_and_well⠀⇛
Asked why MFAT requested media not publish details
of the couple’s situation, Ardern said there were
several examples of when foreign nationals had come
under difficult circumstances in Iran and that the
Government and MFAT had worked hard to take on the
“best possible advice” to prioritise the safety of
the pair.
# ⚓ Suff NZ ☛ Kiwi_influencers_who_disappeared_in_protest-
stricken_Iran_for_four_months_‘safe_and_well’_after_being
detained⠀⇛
The couple, who have documented a round-the-world
roadtrip for more than 300,000 followers on their
Expedition Earth Instagram page, entered Iran
during the first week of July. They had not been
heard from publicly since, but are now understood
to have left the country and are “safe and well”.
The Government had been negotiating for their
release, and media organisations including Stuff
previously agreed not to publish details of the
couple’s plight as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade (MFAT) insisted it would jeopardise their
safety.
# ⚓ DagHammarskjöld ☛ Leadership_is_a_service,_not_command_and
control⠀⇛
In my 30 years of field experience [and] of those
10 years with the Indian police, I have gradually
come to understand leadership as a service. I
believe that if we take that approach, we are much
better in our own humble way to lead wherever we
are supposed or asked to lead. I become a much
better leader and advisor to the UN, if I
understand the requirements. What are the needs of
UN funds and programmes? How can development and
humanitarian actors work together? ‘How can I
strengthen the collaborative nature of the
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
(DPPA) and the Department of Peace Operations
(DPO)?’
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ We’re_getting_a_consumer_IoT_security_label
next_year!⠀⇛
Attendees at the Wednesday event heard from four
organizations, each with their own plans for IoT
security: CyLab, the security and privacy research
institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU); the
ioXt Alliance; the Connectivity Standards Alliance
(home of the Matter standard); and the Consumer
Technology Association, or CTA, which puts on the
annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The goal
was to create a cybersecurity label for consumer
devices as called for by an executive order issued
in May 2021 by President Biden.
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ How_did_a_radical_Islamist_fool_the_West?
–_analysis⠀⇛
According to a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence
and Terrorism Information Center, Qaradawi’s story
is a cautionary tale about how a radical Islamist
can easily fool much of the West for an extended
period of time by mixing in some reformist and
modern-sounding views with his otherwise hateful
rhetoric to obscure his darker side.
The report stated that by the 1960s, Qaradawi had
moved the center of his activities to Qatar. There
he established “a network of global Islamic
organizations, including the Coalition of Good
(I’tilaf al-Khayr), an economic wing of charity
organizations that funneled funds from the entire
world, including Europe, to the terrorist Hamas
movement. “
Simultaneously, from 2004-2018, he ran the radical
Islamic organization World Association of Muslim
Scholars.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán_wishes_to_strengthen_Hungarian-
British_relations_after_Sunak’s_appointment⠀⇛
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_Primrose_Path⠀⇛
Rishi Sunak’s career reminds me of another spoiled
child of fortune who became UK Prime Minister
without having to fight an election, Archibald
Primrose, the only previous PM almost as rich as
Rishi.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Many_Things_Rishi_Sunak
Doesn’t_Want_You_to_Know⠀⇛
Prime minister Rishi Sunak—reportedly the richest
MP in Parliament—will be a boon for the financial
lobby, tax justice campaigners have warned.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_the_Failure_of_Liz_Truss’s_Economic
Agenda_in_the_UK_Can_Teach_the_U.S.⠀⇛
A central idea favored by Thatcherites—one that may
sound familiar to Americans—is that when ordinary
people are struggling, leaders must ensure the rich
get richer so that the crumbs of their excesses
will trickle down to the poor. Going hand in hand
with this is the aggressive deregulation of
industries to free them from the fetters of any
protective measures that could impact profit
margins.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ State_of_danger_can_now_be_extended_by_up
to_180_days,_as_many_times_as_deemed_necessary⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán:_Hungarian_society_is_much_more
pluralistic,_free_and_peaceful_than_German_society⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Democrats_Have_Helped_Working-Class_Americans.
They_Need_to_Say_So_Loudly.⠀⇛
As of last week, Americans can now walk into a
pharmacy and purchase hearing aids over the
counter. This amazing development is just one of
many benefits that Democrats have handed working-
class Americans over the past two years—and that
they should spend the final weeks before the
midterm elections loudly reminding voters about.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Is_Gen_X_a_Bunch_of_Trumpers?_Maybe_That’s_the
Wrong_Question.⠀⇛
Last week, The New York Times surfaced a poorly
done poll that purported to show “independent”
(white) women breaking for Republicans in the
midterms. This, predictably, led to a left-of-
center freakout, because if there is one thing that
binds mainstream Democrats together, it is their
collective ability to be perpetually surprised by
the fact that about half of white women voters will
support the patriarchy.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Donald_Trump_Cursed_the_GOP_With_a_Clown_Car
of_Senate_Candidates⠀⇛
In the Republican wave year of 2010, when the GOP
grabbed control of Congress and statehouses across
the country, Democrats kept control of the Senate.
It wasn’t easy or pretty. Senate majority leader
Harry Reid, who personally faced the prospect of
defeat in his home state of Nevada, had to contend
with a number of races where Democratic candidates
were struggling to keep in the running. Many of
them lost. But a sufficient number hung on that the
party maintained a 51-49 majority, which was
critical to giving President Barack Obama the
ability to advance key elements of his agenda
during the latter half of his first term.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Letter_From_London⠀⇛
While fresh news the next day from the States spoke
of Trump’s hotels having charged the Secret Service
‘exorbitant’ high rates, here in Blighty yet more
public dismantling of Trussonomics was taking
place. I spent the evening in the fine company of a
Brit in commodities and Canadian in aviation. Both
spent time in the States and Caribbean and I was
fascinated to hear their take on things. The Brit
spoke instantly of Johnson’s rumoured return as
potentially relegating Britain to what he called
‘Upper Volta tier’. The Canadian explained the
importance of leverage in all things political,
citing his time as a businessman in Moscow. We were
at the restaurant Rules on Maiden Lane in Covent
Garden and all agreed over fresh Caesar salads
there was too much of an appetite out there for
political hot potatoes. Was no one, we wondered,
capable of meritable discussion? Why did so many
insist on two opposing sides to everything?
Examining a plaque on the wall, the Canadian noted
how old Rules was — it was opened in 1798 — and how
stability counted for nothing these days. I didn’t
have the heart to say the original owner Thomas
Rule killed his wife and daughter. I also forgot to
mention that both Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
included Rules in their novels, or that it featured
in the 2015 Bond movie ‘Spectre’. Maybe I was too
busy thinking that someone might very well throw a
brick through the windows of an establishment like
this if someone else doesn’t sort out the economy.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Secret_Service_Waited_an_Hour_to_Send_Info_on
Threat_Against_Schumer_on_Jan._6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ The_One_Thing_to_Know_Before_You_Vote⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Warns_GOP_Midterm_Win_Would_Pull_US
‘Far,_Far,_Far_to_the_Right’⠀⇛
“This is the most important midterm election of the
modern history of our country because we are taking
on a political party, the Republicans, who
literally are trying to undermine American
democracy,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a video posted
to social media late Monday as voters across the
country took part in early voting amid mounting
fears of right-wing intimidation ploys.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Your_Brain_on_Elections⠀⇛
Now, as we are deluged with election-season news,
our political identities not only are triggered but
also affect our behaviors even beyond politics. As
Stanford political scientist Shanto Iyengar found,
we’re less likely to hire someone from the other
party, definitely don’t want our children marrying
across the political divide, and all of this is
worsening because we don’t have norms to control
negative political speech. In democratic terms,
we’re losing opportunities for conversations to
understand others’ ideas about the problems we
share.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_King_is_Dead…Long_live_The_King⠀⇛
Medicare and Medicaid were as close as we ever got
to universal healthcare in this backward, barbaric
land and then only because of social movements in
those “turbulent” 1960s which all-too-briefly
struck fear into the wizened heart of the
Washington establishment.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What’s_at_Stake_in_Brazil’s_Elections⠀⇛
The right’s victories go to show that Bolsonaro was
not an outlier or his election in 2018 was not an
isolated event. He proved in this 2022 election.
His broad political and social support demonstrates
strategy, calculation, and an insightful reading of
recent changes in the Brazilian society.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_Lula_Leads_Bolsonaro,_Activists_Warn_of
‘Blatant_Disinformation’_Online_Before_Brazil’s_Runoff⠀⇛
“Disinformation and hate speech online have taken
over Brazilian politics, jeopardizing the integrity
of the elections.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Want_to_Save_the_Republic?_Voting_for_a
Veteran_May_Not_Be_Best_Way_to_Do_It⠀⇛
As the 2022 election cycle reaches its final stage,
it’s time for a reality check on this fanciful
account of how former soldiers, with first-hand
experience of war, tend to function in national
politics. Wearing a uniform and swearing allegiance
to the Constitution in the past is no guarantee of
a politician’s current commitment to democracy. In
fact, some of the best-known “Trump sycophants”
running for office this fall are former military
officers now marching under the MAGA flag, with
heavy Republican spending on their behalf.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Could_Donald_Trump_Be_Thinking_About
the_Democratic_Party?⠀⇛
“Tell us more,” urged the two advisers.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ An_Open_Letter_to_the_Progressive_Caucus_in
Congress⠀⇛
By pulling back from the thoughts in your letter,
you have exhibited that your party, with it’s
leadership in the pockets of the war industry, the
generals and the warmongers, is more important than
any principles your letter may have expressed. I
would say shame on you, but I’m not so naive as to
believe those elected to Washington have a concept
of shame.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Congressional_Progressive_Caucus_Withdraws
Letter_That_Tepidly_Called_for_Diplomacy_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
“The shrill response to this utterly moderate
letter exposes that war proponents are scared of an
open debate.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Kevin_McCarthy_Will_Last_Longer
Than_A_Lettuce_(But_May_Not_Smell_As_Nice)⠀⇛
It’s doubtful that Liz Truss was responsible for
the demise of Britain’s longest-serving monarch,
who died just two days after the new prime minister
kissed her hand, but just about everything else
that could go wrong during Truss’s lightning-round
premiership in fact did.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_These_Supreme_Court_Cases_Could
Spell_Final_Doom_for_US_Democracy⠀⇛
In recent years, the United States Supreme Court
has dutifully laboured to erode the protections
guaranteed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a
civil rights era milestone that aimed to
safeguard minority voters from racial
discrimination. Now, six decades after the law’s
passage, the country’s highest judicial body will
decide whether to drop some of the few pretences to
justice and equality in US electoral democracy that
remain.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ THE_PROJECT_CENSORED_NEWSLETTER_October
2022_–_Censored_Notebook,_Newsletters⠀⇛
On September 26, Project Censored director Mickey
Huff hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris
Hedges at an event in Berkeley. Sponsored by KPFA,
the conversation between Hedges and Huff focused on
the topic of Hedges’ most recent book, The Greatest
Evil is War (Seven Stories, 2022). Huff noted, “It
was wonderful to be back in-person with the buzz of
a huge hall with nearly 200 people, all there for
the evening’s talk and esteemed guest. It was
Berkeley as I remember it.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_Writing_on_War_and_Living_in_a
World_from_Hell⠀⇛
Chris Hedges reflects in a deeply personal way on
two decades as a war correspondent. Read his book,
“The Greatest Evil is War”, today.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Blocks_Georgia_Subpoena_Order
for_Lindsey_Graham⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Xi_Jingping_Wins_Third_Term_Amid_Deteriorating
US-China_Relations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ China_Under_Xi_Jinping:_From_Human_Rights
Concerns_to_“Inter-Capitalist_Competition”_with_U.S.⠀⇛
Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun a historic
third term, cementing his place as the country’s
most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. The Chinese
Communist Party confirmed Xi’s third five-year term
at a party congress in Beijing this week, elevating
more Xi allies to top roles and demoting some who
were seen as potential rivals. Under Xi, China has
taken a much stronger role in economic management,
as well as a “zero COVID” policy that has imposed
severe restrictions in an effort to control
outbreaks during the pandemic. He has also overseen
a growing surveillance state to silence dissent and
target ethnic minorities including Uyghurs. “In the
past 10 years since Xi came to power, the
horrendous human rights violations Xi Jinping
committed was just striking. And now he’s going to
have another five years at least,” says Yaqiu Wang,
senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. We
also speak with Johns Hopkins University professor
Ho-fung Hung, who says characterizing the U.S.-
China rivalry as a “new Cold War” is misleading,
saying the countries are instead engaged in an
“inter-capitalist competition” over economic
dominance within China and elsewhere in the world.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Young_Socialists_Are_Sick_of_the_2-Party
System⠀⇛
During the 2020 election, young voters were an
integral part of President Biden’s winning
coalition, initially supporting him more than any
other age group. But in April, a Gallup poll showed
President Biden’s approval rating at its lowest
level among Generation Z, down to only 39 percent.
After almost two years, many feel they have not
seen the changes they were promised. In response
and mindful of the midterm elections, Biden has
recently proposed reforms favored by young
activists, including targeted student loan
forgiveness, clemency for marijuana convictions,
and the inclusion of climate provisions into the
Inflation Reduction Act.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ (Q)ari_Lake⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_‘undercover_Russian_secret_service_agents’
arrested_and_charged_with_treason_in_Mykolaiv_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Security Service of Ukraine reports having
arrested two “undercover Russian secret service
agents.” The two men were paid to report on the
results of air strikes on Mykolaiv to the Russian
side. They also gathered information about
Ukrainian military units in areas adjacent to the
front. In addition, they presented themselves as
bloggers, creating “on-spec content for the Kremlin
media” and calling for the Russian capture of
Mykolaiv and the murder of the city’s leadership.
The Ukrainian side is now investigating the two men
for treason.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ralph_Nader_Throws_Support_to_Democrats
Ahead_of_Midterms_But_Warns_the_Party’s_Message_Is_Failing⠀⇛
With U.S. midterm elections less than two weeks
away, Democrats hoping to keep control of Congress
and make gains in state governments are facing
significant political headwinds — even in
supposedly safe blue states like New York, where
the race for governor has tightened ahead of the
November 8 vote. For more, we speak with political
organizer Mark Green and four-time presidential
candidate Ralph Nader, co-authors of a new report
titled “Crushing the GOP, 2022.” They argue
Democrats have the better policies but are not
conveying them to a public that is eager to vote
for a party that will protect democracy and their
pocket books. ”This party doesn’t know how to
win,” Nader says of Democrats.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_West_is_in_decay,_but_our_future_is
shining.’_Russian_universities_will_soon_have_a_new
required_subject_—_perhaps_best_described_as_‘Studies
in_Russian_Greatness.’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Back in USSR, graduating with a university
degree required taking a course in
“Scientific Communism.” Mandatory ideological
education was reviled by undergraduates
across the Soviet Union, and made many a
student turn away from philosophy and
history, mangled as those subjects were by
the state’s ideological agenda. Now,
ideological instruction is making a comeback
to Russia’s higher education system. Meduza’s
special correspondent Andrey Pertsev spoke
with two Kremlin insiders about the current
plans to introduce “Russian Ideology” as a
required subject across universities in
Russia. The new curricular model, they
explain, may lead to the purging of Russian
schools of all nonconformist, liberal-
thinking faculty.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Salon ☛ Ralph_Fiennes_slams_criticism_of_J.K._Rowling_as
“verbal_abuse”_and_cancel_culture_lacking_“nuance”⠀⇛
“I can’t understand the vitriol directed at her,”
he said at the time. “I can understand the heat of
an argument, but I find this age of accusation and
the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of
hatred that people express about views that differ
from theirs, and the violence of language towards
others, disturbing.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ralph_Fiennes,_Master_of_Monsters⠀⇛
Mr. Fiennes bristles at the kerfuffle over J.K.
Rowling.
“J.K. Rowling has written these great books about
empowerment, about young children finding
themselves as human beings. It’s about how you
become a better, stronger, more morally centered
human being,” he said. “The verbal abuse directed
at her is disgusting, it’s appalling. I mean, I can
understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what
she says about women. But it’s not some obscene,
über-right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying,
‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to
be able to say that I’m a woman.’ And I understand
where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a
woman.”
# ⚓ BBC ☛ China_accused_of_illegal_police_stations_in
Netherlands⠀⇛
According to the organisation, the public security
bureaus from two Chinese provinces had established
54 “overseas police service centres” across five
continents and 21 countries. Most of them are in
Europe, including nine in Spain and four in Italy.
In the UK, it found two in London and one in
Glasgow.
The units were ostensibly created to tackle
transnational crime and conduct administrative
duties, such as the renewal of Chinese drivers’
licences. But, according to Safeguard Defenders, in
reality they carry out “persuasion operations”,
aimed at coercing those suspected of speaking out
against the Chinese regime to return home.
# ⚓ Netblocks ☛ Internet_disrupted_in_Sudan_on_anniversary_of
military_coup⠀⇛
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant
disruption to internet service in Sudan from the
morning of Tuesday 25 October 2022 affecting
cellular and some fixed-line connectivity on
multiple providers. The incident comes ahead of
planned pro-democracy protests to mark the first
anniversary of the 2021 Sudanese military coup,
when [Internet] shutdowns were imposed to silence
public dissent.
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ I_broke_the_rules.⠀⇛
I can assure you I tweeted nothing related to any
of these things. Also, I didn’t spam, I didn’t try
to manipulate elections, I didn’t impersonate
anyone, I didn’t share synthetic or manipulated
media, and I did not violate others’ intellectual
[sic] property [sic] rights [sic].
So, what happened? I have absolutely no idea!
Here’s a rough outline of the events: [...]
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_345:_Can_An_Oversight
Board_Solve_Infrastructure_Moderation_Questions?⠀⇛
We’ve often talked about the importance of
distinguishing content moderation at the
infrastructure layer of the internet stack from
that which happens on platforms at the edge, and
this issue was brought to the forefront recently
when Cloudflare took down Kiwi Farms. This week,
we’re joined by internet policy expert Konstantinos
Komaitis to discuss an interesting, if admittedly
imperfect, idea for approaching these tough
questions: would infrastructure providers benefit
from a third-party oversight board that handles
content moderation decisions?
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Stop_writing_Twitter_threads!⠀⇛
There is the aberration of the amount of data
transferred, too. Just unfolding the thread about
the cold-proof housing downloads 7.20 MB of data
according to Firefox devtools (including 5.30 MB of
Javascript alone)… and it’s not even the whole
thread, since there is a part 2 and a part 3! All
in all, I had to download 22.26 MB of data. I
actually heard about this thread thanks to Tristan
Nitot’s article about it, where he stitched all the
tweets together into an actual article. By
comparison, his blog page downloads 28.94 KB of
data (the full text is actually 16,093 bytes). I
downloaded almost 800 times more data from Twitter
to get the exact same information. Height hundred
times more data, people!
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Mexico’s_Female_Journalists_Winning_Small
Victories_Against_Threats⠀⇛
Zeta, her celebrated investigative news magazine,
had just published an article on alleged illicit
business dealings by high-level officials in
Mexico’s Baja California state.
A journalist asked Amador Rodriguez Lozano, the
state’s then secretary-general of government, about
the allegations surrounding members of his
administration at a town hall meeting. But instead
of addressing them, he sought to discredit Navarro
and her publication.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Saudi_Arabia_Imprisons_An_American_Citizen_For
16_Years_Over_Critical_Tweets⠀⇛
The Saudi government, led by crown prince Mohammed
Bin Salman, doesn’t care to be criticized. It
routinely punishes its own citizens for insulting
the nation’s ruler. It occasionally murders and
dismembers critics for refusing to be silenced. And
now it’s prosecuting and imprisoning US citizens
for exercising their First Amendment rights.
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ The_Parts_Of_Chelsea_Manning’s_Book_Censored
By_The_US_Government⠀⇛
However, the US government used the publication
review system to block her from highlighting any of
the documents from the Afghanistan War Logs, Iraq
War Logs, or US Embassy cables that garnered
widespread news headlines.
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Chelsea_Manning’s_Book_Further_Complicates_US
Government’s_Case_Against_Julian_Assange⠀⇛
Prosecutors highlight several alleged exchanges
between Manning and a username, or handle,
associated with Assange. Yet they have never been
able to definitively prove that Manning was
chatting with Assange, and Manning’s new
book, README.txt, further complicates their case.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Political_Solution_for_Assange⠀⇛
Robinson’s address noted those blackening
statements from media organisations and governments
that Assange was paranoid and could leave the
Ecuadorian embassy, his abode for seven years, at
his own leisure. Many were subsequently “surprised
when Julian was served with a US extradition
request.” But this was exactly what WikiLeaks had
been warning about for some ten years.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ What_if_Journalism_Disappeared?⠀⇛
By examining how journalism is missing from many
Americans’ lives, we can identify false paths and
promising routes to its reinvention
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ NBC ☛ ‘He’s_just_mutilated’:_Parents_of_San_Antonio_teen
shot_in_McDonald’s_parking_lot_say_every_day_is_a_struggle⠀⇛
Brennand opened fire five times as the car
reversed, the video showed. He fired five more
shots as Cantu drove away. Cantu was found about a
block away suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
He remains in the hospital on life support.
“Erik is not our Erik,” his father said, adding
that Cantu underwent a tracheotomy and is on heavy
medication. “As the doctors try to wean him off
these things in the last few days, it doesn’t seem
to counteract as the way we anticipated. Therefore,
those little steps we see daily, we just keep going
back.”
Cantu’s parents said they believe he was shot four
times. His mother said all of the bullets have been
removed except one that remains lodged near his
heart.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iranian_Anti-Government_Demonstrators_Indicted⠀⇛
Ali Salehi, the public prosecutor of Tehran, issued
indictments for 315 people on charges of gathering
and colluding with the intention of acting against
the security of the country, propaganda against the
system and disturbance of public order.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called
some of the arrested protesters agents of the enemy
and said that in their cases, judicial and security
officials must do their duty.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Regime’s_Trail_of_Blood⠀⇛
Human rights organizations and activists are
striving to document the victims of the protests –
to put a face to their names. It is difficult to
verify the information independently. IranWire, for
example, a news site run by exiled journalists with
good contacts in Iran, has collected the names of
about 100 victims and verified the cause and date
of death, as well as the age of many of them. The
victims include: [...]
# ⚓ Sahara Reporters ☛ Islamic_Police,_Hisbah_Impounds_5800
Bottles_Of_Beer_In_Kano_State⠀⇛
“Kano State Hisbah Board is working assiduously to
ensure full compliance and strict adherence to laws
and regulations, Islamic teachings, good morals,
and peaceful coexistence between different ethnic
and religious groups.
# ⚓ The Times Of Israel ☛ Exiled_Afghan_women’s_cycling_champ
to_ride_for_Israeli_team⠀⇛
An Israeli cycling team announced Monday it has
recruited exiled Afghan athlete Fariba Hashimi, a
day after she won her national championship — held
in Switzerland since the women’s sports event has
been banned by the ruling Taliban.
# ⚓ TheNewArab ☛ Andrew_Tate:_‘Misogynist’_influencer_‘converts
to_Islam’,_seen_‘praying_in_UAE_mosque’⠀⇛
He has since been widely called a misogynist for
his comments about women which has seen him banned
from most major social media platforms, including
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch.
Before his ban, Tate’s videos had racked up
millions of views online.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ 21,000_Supporters_Urge_Alvin_Bragg_to_Free
Tracy_McCarter⠀⇛
On a drizzly Monday morning, approximately 60
people rallied in New York City’s Foley Square.
Amid chants of “Drop her charges,” “Free them all,”
and “Black Lives Matter,” they were demanding that
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg drop all
charges against Tracy McCarter, who has been facing
murder charges in the death of her estranged
husband, Jim Murray.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Do_We_Really_Have_to_Care_About_Miserable
White_People?⠀⇛
It’s like the proverbial car crash you can’t look
away from (although, for the record, I never look
at car crashes). Endless stories about the white
voters who elected Donald Trump dying “deaths of
despair,” lately dying disproportionately from
Covid, and, on Monday in The New York Times, being
the sad sacks who drove the House Republicans’
election denial caucus.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dobbs_as_White_Supremacy:_The_Troubling
Parallels_Between_U.S.,_French,_and_Romanian_Rightwing
Extremism⠀⇛
Women are, evidently, second-class citizens in the
United States of America. Women’s second-class
citizenship should be understood, however, not as a
singular issue, or simply as a Republican-led
effort to trample women’s rights. Against the
backdrop of white supremacist masculinity, revoking
female bodily autonomy is only part of a web of
interconnected, racist, xenophobic, and ableist
views, where women’s bodies are the sites of
political control intended to foster the white
ethnic project of the “Alt-Right.” As I sketch out
in this essay, histories from Romania and France
can help us understand how control over women’s
bodies is the key to controlling populations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ HRW_Condemns_Qatar_Over_Arrests,_Abuse_of
LGBTQ+_People_Ahead_of_World_Cup⠀⇛
“The Qatari government should call an immediate
halt to this abuse and FIFA should push the Qatari
government to ensure long-term reform that protects
LGBT people from discrimination and violence.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amnesty_Says_ICC_Israel_Probe_Should
Include_‘Crime_Against_Humanity_of_Apartheid’⠀⇛
“As well as investigating war crimes committed in
Gaza, the ICC should consider the crime against
humanity of apartheid within its current
investigation in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Amnesty_Says_Israel_War_Crimes_Investigation
Should_Include_Apartheid_Policies⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Progressive_Voter_Guides_Score_Midterm
Candidates_on_Climate,_Abortion_Rights⠀⇛
“Just like climate change, the inevitable
compulsory pregnancy that results from losing
access to abortion poses an existential threat to
Americans.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Walks_Out_of_Union_Contract
Negotiations_After_Months_of_Delays⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AOC,_Pressley_Slam_Biden_for_Using_Title_42_to
Expel_Venezuelan_Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Women’s_basketball_star_Brittney_Griner_soon_to_be
transferred_to_Russian_penal_colony_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow regional court has upheld an earlier
district court decision that sentenced the American
basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in
prison on drug charges. On the prosecution’s
request, the court has recalculated Griner’s prison
term, counting each day of her pre-trial detention
as 1.5 days in a penal colony.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Private_Prison_Industry:_Profiting_From
Exploitation_and_Suffering⠀⇛
Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News talks about the
high rates of incarceration in the US and the role
of the private prison sector in intensifying the
crisis.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Being_Pregnant_in_Prison_Is_a_Nightmare_That
Won’t_Be_Ended_by_One_Bill_Alone⠀⇛
Even for future people who are pregnant behind
bars, legislation doesn’t necessarily ensure that
prison or jail officials will follow the new
measures.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Doxa_ex-editor_Alla_Gutnikova_speaks_of_sexual
coercion_at_age_19_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alla Gutnikova, one of the four former editors of
Doxa, an independent Russian online student
magazine, has posted two Instagram videos detailing
her experience of sexual coercion at age 19.
Gutnikova, prosecuted in Russia on charges of
involving teenagers in political protests, accuses
Andrey Grechko, the founder of “Lyudi” (“People”),
a test-prep company, of “sexual coercion without
penetration.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ross_Gay_on_the_Labor_of_“Inciting_Joy”⠀⇛
Ross Gay is a poet, essayist, professor, and avid
gardener and orchardist based in Bloomington, Ind.
His 2015 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the
National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley
Tufts Poetry Award. The Book of Delights (2019)
became a New York Times Best Seller. His latest
book, Inciting Joy (Algonquin), is an exploration
of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love,
as a practice for survival.” Gay and I spoke in
September about learning to negotiate caring for
one another in space, the “utility of school,” the
uses of gardening for the “acutely bereaved,” and
why so many are resistant to seeing grief and
sorrow as the inherent twins of joy. This interview
has been edited and condensed for clarity.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Mike_Davis:_1946–2022⠀⇛
Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and
family man, died October 25 after a long struggle
with esophageal cancer; he was 76. He’s best known
for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City of
Quartz. Marshall Berman, reviewing it for The
Nation, said it combined “the radical citizen who
wants to grasp the totality of his city’s life, and
the urban guerrilla aching to see the whole damned
thing blow.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ CSOs_urge_the_UN_to_demand_serious_improvements
to_Vietnam’s_human_rights_record_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Access Now signed this public letter and joins
Article 19, Human Rights Watch, and other
organizations calling on the UN Resident
Coordinator and UN Agencies to pro-actively demand
serious improvements to the government of Vietnam’s
atrocious human rights record and to start holding
it to account.
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Urges_Sen._Schumer_To
Confirm_Consumer_Champion_Gigi_Sohn_to_FCC_–_Public
Knowledge⠀⇛
Today marks the one-year anniversary since
President Biden nominated consumer champion Gigi
Sohn to serve as a Commissioner at the Federal
Communications Commission. The agency has not had a
full five-member commission for the entire Biden
administration, which has effectively stalled key
consumer protection priorities as well as our
nation’s work to provide high-speed broadband to
those on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Public Knowledge urges Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to
call the vote confirming Gigi Sohn to the FCC to
get the nation’s broadband agenda back on track.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Spotify_Takes_Aim_At_Apple_Over
Audiobooks_Launch_on_App_Store⠀⇛
Spotify is ramping up its fight with Apple over app
store regulations it says have impacted the launch
of its new audiobooks business.
The streaming giant says that Apple will not allow
Spotify to explain to users where and how to buy an
audiobook or list the cost of the book and will not
let the company send emails directing users to
purchase the book. Spotify launched its audiobooks
business in late September.
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Spotify_Hits_195_Million_Paid
Subscribers,_Exceeds_Monthly_Active_Users_Expectations⠀⇛
The company now says it has 4.7 million podcasts.
At the end of June, Spotify had 4.4 million
podcasts on the platform, up from 4.0 million at
the end of March. New additions this quarter
included the launch of Meghan Markle’s podcast,
Archetypes.
Total revenue came in at €3.04 billion compared to
a forecast of €3.0 billion.
# ⚓ Securepairs ☛ Governor_Hochul:_Tear_Down_That_Wall_To
Repair!⠀⇛
It has been more than four months since the New
York legislature passed the Digital Fair Repair Act
with a veto proof majority in the Senate and a near
unanimous vote (145-2) in the New York Assembly.
It’s time the governor signed it into law.
Because manufacturers routinely refuse to sell
spare parts or provide access to repair manuals,
it’s difficult or impossible to fix everything
personal electronics like cell phones. When a
manufacturer refuses to share the tools and
information you need to fix a cracked smartphone
screen or malfunctioning home printer, they get to
charge whatever they want to repair it, or refuse
to repair it altogether, pushing you to replace it,
instead.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] uni Michigan ☛ The_Myth_of_the_Sole_Inventor⠀⇛
The theory of patent law is based on the idea
that a lone genius can solve problems that
stump the experts, and that the lone genius
will do so only if properly incented. But the
canonical story of the lone genius inventor
is largely a myth. Surveys of hundreds of
significant new technologies show that almost
all of them are invented simultaneously or
nearly simultaneously by two or more teams
working independently of each other.
Invention appears in significant part to be a
social, not an individual, phenomenon. The
result is a real problem for classic theories
of patent law. Our dominant theory of patent
law doesn’t seem to explain the way we
actually implement that law. Maybe the
problem is not with our current patent law,
but with our current patent theory. But the
dominant alternative theories of patent law
don’t do much better. Prospect theory-under
which we give a patent early to one company
so it can control research and development-
makes little sense in a world in which ideas
are in the air and are likely to be happened
upon by numerous inventors at about the same
time. And commercialization theory, which
hypothesizes that we grant patents in order
to encourage not invention but product
development, seems to founder on a related
historical fact: most first inventors turn
out to be lousy commercializers who end up
delaying implementation of the invention by
exercising their rights. If patent law in its
current form can be saved, we need an
alternative justification for granting
patents in circumstances of near-simultaneous
invention. I offer another possibility:
patent rights encourage patent races, and
that might actually be a good thing. Patent
racing cannot alone justify a patent system,
but it may do more than any existing theory
to explain how patents work in practice.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] A_Generation_of_Software_Patents⠀⇛
This report examines changes in the patenting
behavior of the software industry since the
1990s. It finds that most software firms
still do not patent, most software patents
are obtained by a few large firms in the
software industry or in other industries, and
the risk of litigation from software patents
continues to increase dramatically. Given
these findings, it is hard to conclude that
software patents have provided a net social
benefit in the software industry.
# ⚓ [Old] SSRN ☛ Patents_and_the_Regress_of_Useful_Arts⠀⇛
Patent systems are often justified by an
assumption that innovation will be spurred by
the prospect of patent protection, leading to
the accrual of greater societal benefits than
would be possible under non-patent systems.
However, little empirical evidence exists to
support this assumption. One way to test the
hypothesis that a patent system promotes
innovation is experimentally to simulate the
behavior of inventors and competitors under
conditions approximating patent and non-
patent systems. Employing a multi-user
interactive simulation of patent and non-
patent (commons and open source) systems
(“The Patent Game”), this study compares
rates of innovation, productivity, and
societal utility. The Patent Game uses an
abstracted and cumulative model of potential
innovations, a database of potential
innovations, an interactive interface that
allows users to invent, make, and sell these
innovations, and a network over which users
may interact with one another to license,
assign, infringe, and enforce patents.
Initial data generated using The Patent Game
suggest that a system combining patent and
open source protection for inventions (that
is, similar to modern patent systems)
generates significantly lower rates of
innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001),
and societal utility (p<0.002) than does a
commons system. These data also indicate that
there is no statistical difference in
innovation, productivity, or societal utility
between a pure patent system and a system
combining patent and open source protection.
# ⚓ A_Solution_to_the_OpenSky_Problem_–_Patent_Progress⠀⇛
I have written several times about the $2.2
billion verdict in the VLSI v. Intel case.
The case is extraordinary not just because of
the size of the verdict, but because Intel
was blocked from challenging the patents by
the Fintiv policy—and the patents are clearly
invalid.
The specification for the main patent
discloses the insight that in an integrated
circuit “the processor may be able to operate
at a lower voltage than is possible for the
memory.” That is, “in many embodiments, the
memory has a higher minimum operating voltage
than the processor.”
Armed with this insight, the patent claims
the invention of giving the processor a lower
“regulated voltage” if it can operate at a
lower voltage than the memory. In other
words, give each component only the power
that it needs.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Record_Labels_Terrified_by_Rise_of_AI
Music_Generators⠀⇛
In response to the Office of the US Trade
Representative’s request for comment, the
RIAA issued a statement, condoning the use of
AI music generators.
Online services that use AI to “extract, or
rather, copy, the vocals, instrumentals, or
some portion of the instrumentals (a music
stem) from a sound recording” to “generate,
master or remix a recording to be very
similar to or almost as good as reference
tracks by select, well known sound recording
artists” are infringing on its members’
“rights by making unauthorized copies of our
members works,” the RIAA wrote in a new
statement to the Office of the US Trade
Representative.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ If_GitHub_Copilot_Is_A_Copyright_Problem,
Perhaps_The_Problem_Is_Copyright⠀⇛
The GitHub Copilot investigation site’s
arguments build on previous work by
Butterick, as well as thoughtful analysis by
Bradley M. Kuhn at the Software Freedom
Conservancy. I find the arguments contained
in these pieces convincing in some places and
not as convincing in others, so I’m writing
this post in the hopes that it helps me begin
to sort it all out.
At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool
that replaces googling for stack overflow
answers. That seems like something that could
be useful. It also seems plausible that
training such a tool on open public software
repositories (including open source
repositories) could be allowed under US
copyright law. That may change if or when
Copilot evolves, which makes this discussion
a fruitful one to be having right now.
Both Butterick and Kuhn combine legal and
social/cultural arguments in their pieces.
This blog post starts with the social/
cultural arguments because they are more
interesting right now, and may impact the
legal analysis as facts evolve in the future.
Butterick and Kuhn make related arguments, so
I’ll do my best to be clear which specific
version of a point I’m engaging with at any
given time. As will probably become clear, I
generally find Kuhn’s approach and framing
more insightful (which isn’t to say that
Butterick’s lacks insight!).
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Record_Labels_Object_to
‘Inflammatory’_Evidence_from_‘Pro-Piracy’_Site_Boing
Boing⠀⇛
A post from the popular weblog Boing Boing is
at the center of a new dispute in the piracy
trial between several major record labels and
ISP Grande. The dated article contains
allegations of extortion-like business
practices by piracy-tracking outfit
Rightscorp. The music companies label the
blog as an unreliable “pro-piracy” source.
Grande, meanwhile, notes that the article was
valuable enough to be documented by Warner’s
anti-piracy expert.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Police_Piracy_Blacklist:_UK_Govt.
Wants_to_Know_Who’s_Still_Funding_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛
The Infringing Website List (IWL) has carried
the domain names of thousands of pirate sites
since its launch in 2014. Operated by the
police, the tool informs advertisers which
sites to avoid, thereby starving site
operators of cash and forcing them to shut
down. The UK government is seeking a partner
to explain how more than 1,500 listed sites
are still in business.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ A_Better_Internet_for_Better
Sharing:_Join_the_Movement_for_a_Better_Internet⠀⇛
As part of Creative Commons’ key strategic
goal of Better Sharing, today we have joined
six other organizations spanning the globe to
launch the Movement for a Better Internet, a
diverse community of advocates, activists,
academics, and civil society groups working
together to promote policies that create a
better internet for people everywhere. The
movement is a collaborative effort seeking to
drive policy change based on a public
interest vision for an internet that benefits
us all.
# ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ “Spontaneous_Revolutions”:
Darwin’s_Diagrams_of_Plant_Movement_–_The_Public_Domain
Review⠀⇛
One day in 1863, during a long, hot summer,
Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his close
friend, the botanist Joseph Hooker. He
related: “I am getting very much amused by my
tendrils— it is just the sort of niggling
work that suits me”.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CEILMOP_Wordo:_MAKES⠀⇛
# ⚓ Instead_Seething_Pits_of_Chaos⠀⇛
Since November is, as they say in the old lands,
*just around the leering hulk of the mutant termite
mound*, I’ve begin to prepare initial ideas of
tracks for the so-called *Noisevember*. Noise!
Everyone likes noise. Noise is the ever present
fluid that allows us to swim through life. Those
who take time to sculpt it to be their own are
exquisite or damned. One of the two or something
lurking within the infinite in-between. Actually,
one idea, currently titled *Mollusk Pantheon* is
mostly done. It blossomed on its own from a *noisy*
beat into a jazz infused masterpiece or dull,
plodding funérarium anthem. One of the two or
something lurking within the infinite in-between.
# ⚓ Improving_Sleep_Feng_Shui_Style⠀⇛
For the past few months I’ve had a lot of trouble
sleeping. Even in the height of the summer (which
admittedly was quite cold this year) I’ve woken up
cold, especially my feet have been quite chilled.
I’m a pretty tall dude and it’s not uncommon that
my feet stick out a bit from under the duvet,
especially if it’s chilly enough that I pull the
duvet up a bit during the night. The problem has
been a bit of a catch 22 however, because if I’ve
dressed warmer or put on an extra blanket for the
night I’ve been sweating instead.
# ⚓ alpha_pv_frame⠀⇛
# ⚓ Extreme_shopping_carts,_Brevard,_NC_edition⠀⇛
It was a quite day today. We got up late, stopped
by WallyWorld [1] for some incidentals, had some
food [2] then back to The Bromfield Inn [3] to
rest.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Renewable_doesn’t_mean_infinite⠀⇛
Renewables are great but you still can’t use more
than what you’ve got in a given moment.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ A_new_handheld_–_ClockworkPi_uConsole⠀⇛
Just as i’m writing a little german article about
permacomputing and my 50c about it, ClockworkPi
announced their newest handheld “console”. This is/
looks like the ideal handheld computer for me. And
so i need to rethink some parts of this writing ;D
# ⚓ October_update_2022_–_2600.madrid_Alicante⠀⇛
Hola! Happy Hacking to all hackers, DIY, Creators
and tinkers out there.
Well well well, so I almost skipped October update,
I had finally time to sit back 10m to write this,
and I am glad there are some new updates to talk
about.
The 2600 meeting in Madrid was a success!, we were
6 people, Krispis, TTT, Alberto Quian, Orestes,
Bl0ckW0rm and myself, we had fun, folks got to meet
eachother in person, and talk about hacking,
politics and everything in general that bothers us,
then after that we went out to celebrate!
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