𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, October 27, 2022
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⦿ Elon Musk is Buying a Dying Train Wreck Tomorrow (Twitter) | Techrights
⦿ Critics of Voting Machines (Proprietary With Back Doors) Aren’t Nazis | Techrights
⦿ DRM is ’Protected’ by Phoronix | Techrights
⦿ Let’s Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians) | Techrights
⦿ More Problems With Google’s “Insecure Apps” Alert and SeaMonkey Mail | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ E-mail is Simple, Secure and Robust If Decentralised and Treated as Text, Not as Web Pages (Also, Webmail is Regressive) | Techrights
⦿ Mozilla Keeps Changing Users’ Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs | Techrights
⦿ Red Hat is Bragging, Knowing That It’s Killing People for Profit With Raytheon and Lockheed Martin (That’s Not Freedom, It’s Death) | Techrights
⦿ There’s No Future for Investigative Journalism on the World Wide Web | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/buying-a-dying-train-wreck/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/calling-everyone-nazis/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/drm-is-protected-by-phoronix/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/eu-swpats-action-needed/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/google-fake-security/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/irc-log-261022/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/keep-email-simple/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/mozilla-adware/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-raytheon/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/world-wide-web-news-killer/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/bugfixes-in-linux-and-tor/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/gnunet-0-18-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/openssl-patch-coming/#comments
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✐ Elon_Musk_is_Buying_a_Dying_Train_Wreck_Tomorrow_(Twitter)⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 8:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 261359f77eb56782bd80069121b82f96
Twitter is in Trouble and Mass Layoffs Loom: Twitter_is_Concerned_That_Its_Most
Valuable_Users_Quit_in_Droves
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/twitter-lose-key-users.webm
Summary: The disingenuous takeover by Elon Musk and associates (including the
Saudi ‘royal’ family, in dire need of reputation laundering) is a disaster in
the making; Twitter is going to die even faster than before
THE thing every lawyer can understand is how contracts work. When Mr. Musk
decided to buy Twitter he actually committed to buying it. He would have to
find very exceptional and valid circumstances to bail out of the legal
committal (“buyer’s remorse” isn’t a legally valid reason). Twitter knows it.
That’s why Twitter sued. He is now compelled to buy something he knows to be
worthless (even a Twitter whistleblower has since then confirmed it) and he
plans to lay off about 75% of the staff after the transaction completes!
Tomorrow apparently (based on report). No wonder Twitter staff is in a state of
panic and this will certainly impact morale, hence operations.
Twitter is a dead man walking or a zombie site. After losing money year after
year for like a decade it still cannot find a way to sustain itself. Musk won’t
change this. Musk is a master of grifting, not business. He_knows_how_to_steal_
(or_pocket)_taxpayers'_money.
“Musk is a master of grifting, not business. He knows how to steal (or pocket)
taxpayers’ money.”If press reports are correct, Musk and the Saudis still want
a dying platform, or maybe they just have no choice (because of a legal
commitment made previously on_the_SEC_record, not verbally/orally).
Why would anyone want to buy such a company? It’s a liability, not an asset.
Crazy Kanye West (buying Parler) has no clue what to do with his money, Musk is
trying to become a cult leader, and logic is thrown out the window! Impulsive
behaviour.
Facebook’s shares fell to about 100 dollars this week (down from almost 400),
so the_bubble_of_social_control_media_is_clearly_imploding. Musk et al are
overpaying and they know it. Too late, they have no choice…
“Why would anyone want to buy such a company?”As for Facebook, it’s trying to
cling onto Microsoft for survival, just like Netflix. There seems to be not
much of a future there (“metaverse” is pure hype, not a business plan).
Shown and discussed in the video above are two articles [1, 2].
“Twitter was all along some temporary home. It’s certainly not a place for
journalism and the Library of Congress dumped it (no more archiving) quite a
few years ago.”“Heavy tweeters have been in “absolute decline” since the
pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled
“Where did the Tweeters Go?”,” says the more authoritative and “Exclusive”
report. After posting 951,000+ tweets I quit Twitter, so I must be one of those
“heavy tweeters” that they lost. In the golden days of Twitter I could get
about 25 million impressions in a month, but now (after leaving) all my old
tweets combined are just north of 10 thousand views per month. That’s the thing
about social control media; it only gives visibility to new stuff while old
stuff ages poorly.
Let’s hope Twitter will be gone in the next 5 or 10 years. Many of these so-
called “heavy tweeters” probably won’t miss it and won’t shed a tear when all
their past writings go offline. Twitter was all along some temporary home. It’s
certainly not a place for journalism and the Library of Congress dumped it (no
more archiving) quite a few years ago. █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/calling-everyone-nazis/#comments
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✐ Critics_of_Voting_Machines_(Proprietary_With_Back_Doors)_Aren’t_Nazis⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Windows at 6:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 8ce838182e81955c17494536dfb68aa1
Stop Equating Rejection of Electronic Voting With Nazism
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/deniers-of-paper-ballots.webm
Summary: The general security of the voting process (freedom from meddling,
tampering, outside intervention) has gotten worse due to digitisation/
digitalisation, which makes the process more easily accessible to foreign and
hostile countries; the accessibility, availability, and accuracy of the voting
process (and the integrity of counting) is of utmost importance to a
functioning democracy, but somehow it has become a partisan issue that involves
unnecessary name-calling with various new factors like fashionable distractions
in a growingly-divisive society (further divided due to a_lack_of_investigative
journalism and news vacuums filled by ‘disinformation farms’, notably social
control media)
THE VIDEO above will be harder to take out of context (than text), so I prefer
to let it speak for itself. It follows many rants about this misleading
narrative (as mentioned in IRC over the years) wherein people who reject bad
voting machines are like Holocaust deniers. It got a lot worse this past year.
“This is unfair. This is disingenuous.”Over the years we wrote numerous
articles about the_problem_with_proprietary,_usually_Windows-based,_voting
machines. But it seems risky to talk about this subject in 2022 because of the
stigma spread by the media. “Election Denial” [1] is what the Bill Gates-bribed
Pro Publica has just collectively called rejection of back-doored Windows-based
voting machines. On the same day (yesterday) we saw “Electoral Denialism” and
“Big Lie Conspiracy” in headlines [2,3]. Those are sites that are not “MSM”.
This is unfair. This is disingenuous. I explain some of the context in the
video above.
“Our associate notes that “unfortunately that topic is one which is banned from
Twitter and other social control media and only pits cover it — so far”
(because now the safety of voting machines is considered a partisan issue).”An
associate has suggested adding this_reference_to_“The_Cyber_War_on_America’s
Elections,“ noting that the “US is ignoring the ‘long’ game”. There are already
some old lessons_from_Estonia (facing Russian aggression, still) and some
recent_stories. “Man buys Michigan voting machine off EBay. The Secretary of
State has questions,” says this one headline. Our associate notes that
“unfortunately that topic is one which is banned from Twitter and other social
control media and only pits cover it — so far” (because now the safety of
voting machines is considered a partisan issue).
What’s very frustrating to me personally is seeing left-leaning sites (that I
generally do trust) trying to associate hand-counting votes (which is the right
thing to do) with “Big Lie Conspiracy”. What have we sunk to? █
References: (this week’s news alone)
Media_Would_Have_Us_Believe,_Both_Parties_Engage_in_the_‘Big_Lie,’_and
the_Rest_of_Lose_Because_of_It_–_Censored_Notebook,_Dispatches_from
Project_Censored:_On_Media_and_Politics⠀⇛
Arizona,_Nevada⠀⇛
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✐ DRM_is_‘Protected’_by_Phoronix⠀✐
Posted in DRM, Hardware at 7:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Protected From Scrutiny
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/drm-phoronix.webm
Summary: x86 stronghold (rather weak lately due to the inflation and Windows
failing_users) is pushing DRM into kernel space, typically_along_with_Microsoft
and_Google; Phoronix, which is funded_or_bossed_by_the_x86_giants, is being far
too weak or too “soft” (like_it_is_on_Microsoft), insisting that corporations
treating clients like they’re criminals is in fact “protected content” (that
isn’t independent, honest and courageous journalism, its’s docile cowardice)
THE comments (Forums) in Phoronix sadly remain a lot more_informative_than_the
'articles' because Phoronix self-censors (based on a sixth sense of who pays
the bills and/or will pay them in the future).
So the video above dives straight into the_comments on the article after a
quick introduction. The short story is that Intel is promoting DRM in Linux,
once again (not the first time), even though (to quote one comment) “4k
streaming works just fine on sites that don’t insist on using DRM. “piracy” is
always the technically and morally superior option over complying with
corporate copyright bullshit.”
There are many other comments to that effect. The readers aren’t tolerating
DRM.
Shown below is now Phoronix fancies describing DRM (the term “DRM” is not even
mentioned in the page, just the euphemisms). █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Intel's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Adds Support For
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⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣇⣀⣀⡻⣀⣐⣰⢏⣩⣁⣉⣉⣉⣉⢿⣉⣩⣉⣉⣁⣏⣁⣉⣉⣉⣏⣉⣉⣉⣩⣉⣏⣩⣁⣉⣉⣉⣍⣏⣉⣩⣈⣉⣉⣹⣉⣍⣸⣨⣇⣙⣉⣹⣙⣉⣈⣉⣉⣉⣏⣉⣁⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣇⣀⣀⣫⣤⣉⣈⣈⣹⣠⣅⣸⣉⣄⣹⣆⣵⣢⣁⣑⣀⣅⣾⣅⣉⣀⣕⣈⣼⣅⣉⣌⣇⣁⣿⣃⣀⣀⣉⣸⣯⣥⣠⣈⣹⣈⣄⣈⣀⣀⣨⣸⣨⣈⣁⣉⣥⣁⣿⣀⣀⣸⣙⣸⣼⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣼⣣⣄⣅⣧⣤⣾⣠⣆⣵⣤⣤⣨⣸⣿⣤⣽⣦⣅⣤⣨⣧⣤⣀⣶⣆⣧⣬⣤⣄⣅⣅⣤⣄⣴⣼⣤⣮⣺⣤⣤⣄⣵⣧⣬⣢⣤⣤⣡⣵⣦⣤⣠⣠⣼⣨⣂⣵⣤⣤⣨⣸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣤⡷⣬⣾⣤⢤⣝⡤⣤⣔⣃⣤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⡛⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣧⣤⢥⣧⢤⣥⣤⣷⢮⣤⣤⣌⣧⣤⣥⣴⣤⣨⣤⣼⣤⣹⣤⣤⣤⣦⣤⣼⣼⣄⣤⣧⣤⣥⣧⣴⣤⣼⣤⣤⣽⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣷⣤⣦⣴⣄⣧⣤⣤⣤⣿⣾⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣄⣾⣶⣤⣼⣧⣼⣤⣤⣽⣴⣤⣤⣤⣴⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡧⠤⡴⢧⢤⠼⣤⠧⢤⢤⢧⢤⢤⢵⠧⡼⢷⠤⢴⡤⠤⡼⠤⠤⢤⠴⢧⠶⠴⠦⢴⠼⡤⢤⣼⡤⡤⡤⡤⡤⠤⢼⡴⢤⠤⢤⠦⠧⠬⠤⣤⠴⡦⠧⡤⢿⢴⠤⣧⣶⣤⣿⣴⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣦⣤⣶⣴⣿⣤⣾⣶⣴⣼⣴⣼⣴⣴⣥⣦⣴⣤⣴⣧⣤⣶⣤⣴⣾⣤⣽⣴⣥⣦⣼⣤⣦⣼⣦⣴⣧⣶⣦⣧⣬⣬⣧⣤⣶⣴⣤⣴⣤⣮⣽⣦⣧⣴⣦⣤⣴⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⠓⡞⣿⠒⠒⠚⣶⣺⢲⠲⢗⡚⣷⢲⢆⣳⠖⠒⠓⡓⠚⣐⠒⠒⢲⣖⢖⠾⠒⠒⠳⣒⡶⠾⡶⣶⠶⡶⠶⠳⡶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠞⢶⠴⠶⢾⢿⠟⠿⡿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⢿⠿⢿⠻⠿⠻⡟⠻⠿⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠗⠶⠶⠭⡶⠶⠲⢭⠲⠷⠶⡞⠳⠭⠖⡚⡯⠼⢶⠶⠗⠶⢶⠶⠶⢪⠵⠶⠿⢶⢶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣷⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣷⣷⣾⣶⣾⣾⡶⠶⠷⠶⠾⠶⠶⠷⠶⠶⠶⠷⠶⠾⠶⠷⠾⠷⠶⠾⠾⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠻⠿⡿⡿⠛⡿⠿⠿⡿⡟⠻⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠻⡿⡟⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⢉⠈⠉⣿⠉⠉⡙⠉⠉⠉⠋⠉⠙⠉⠉⢸⠋⠉⠙⠉⠋⠍⢙⠉⠋⢽⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⠾⠶⠾⠿⠴⢷⣿⣾⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⢶⣷⡾⢷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣾⡾⣶⣷⣿⣶⣷⣦⠴⠤⠾⠾⠾⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣧⣥⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣠⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣅⣸⣤⣤⣼⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣤⣤⣤⣦⣧⣤⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣼⣿⣧⣦⣦⣦⣤⣼⣤⣤⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⡟⠻⢿⠛⠛⢻⠛⠶⠶⠶⠶⠲⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠀⠀⢹⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣹⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣏⠛⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⣀⣼⣉⣉⣉⣈⣋⣉⣈⣉⣁⣉⣉⣉⣍⣩⣉⣏⣏⣉⣩⣉⣉⣏⣉⣸⣄⣇⣉⣉⢉⣇⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣸⣸⣉⣍⣉⣏⣉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢸⢤⣤⣤⢤⣤⣄⢤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣬⣤⣤⣤⣅⣤⢤⠤⡤⣤⣤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢤⢇⣉⣡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⢿⡿⣿⠿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣤⣴⣧⣤⣤⣧⣦⣤⢤⣤⣤⢤⢼⣦⣼⢴⣤⢤⣧⠤⣤⣤⣬⢶⣤⣇⣤⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡴⣤⣤⣴⣤⣤⣤⠤⠦⢤⣤⣤⣤⣽⣴⣤⣶⣴⡤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣤⣤⢤⣤⡤⣧⣤⣤⡬⣼⢤⣄⣷⣤⣼⣦⣠⣦⣤⣿
⣿⣿⣷⠦⡴⡧⠤⢤⠶⡦⢤⢼⢼⠶⢼⢧⢤⠤⠤⠤⣤⠤⡼⣧⢦⡤⡦⣤⠤⡤⡤⠴⡦⡼⣦⢶⠴⡧⣦⠤⢤⠼⡮⠤⡾⢤⠤⡤⣤⠥⠤⠤⡿⠤⣤⣼⢴⢦⢤⠦⡤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣧⣦⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡷⠤⠶⠤⠤⢴⡶⠦⡶⢽⡤⠦⡼⣷⠼⠤⢶⠬⢽⠤⠤⡾⡤⠯⠦⠤⠦⣧⠦⠤⢧⡦⠷⠼⡤⠤⠷⡤⠼⠼⢵⠤⠾⠶⠤⡧⡮⢤⠴⠯⢷⢤⠼⢥⠼⢷⠼⡤⣤⠾⠿⢿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 7:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Derailing the Patent Maximalism Lobby
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/stopping-swpats-in-europe.webm
Summary: A call for participation by readers, seeing that the_EFF_quit_doing
activism_in_this_domain and the ‘Patent Maximalism Lobby’ makes some gains by
misleading ‘our’ politicians
LAST night we said we’d start releasing more information about patents,
especially European_software_patents and the EPO, which wants to grant far more
of them (we've_shown_leaked_documents_to_that_effect).
At the moment we need help from readers who are based in the EU and can contact
their representatives, many of whom don’t know much or don’t talk — let alone
comment — on these issues (or merely pretend to know and to care).
This post will be one of several as we prefer not to compromise still-ongoing
engagements with politicians.
One person has asked: “If the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is illegal because a)
it strictly requires the UK to be within the EU to sign and b) there are
various constitutional issues confirmed by courts, then which source for (a)
and (b)?”
As a first step, what is at stake?
We’ve attempted to put this clearly and concisely. This is what we came up
with:
§ What are the key points?⠀➾
1) Unified Patent Court (UPC) is illegal because:
1a) it strictly requires the UK signing (but it cannot because it
left the EU)
1b) it causes various constitutional issues, some of which confirmed
by courts already
1c) there was no legitimate economic analysis; it was fabricated a
long time ago and those who perpetrated this fraud even said they
refuse to allow any further analyses (as that would help their
opponents)
Which one or two constitutional issues are more problematic? The
European Parliament has a committee dedicated specifically to
constitutional matters so this might be relevant to bring to them.
Hungary took this to court. It was ruled unconstitutional. We covered
this many times, including_4_years_ago (both 1a and 1b). Don’t let
this be forgotten.
Other points to bring up
2) The European Patent Convention of 1973 protects software from
patents
3) Software is managed via copyright
4) Software patents kill innovation [citation needed, e.g. Prof.
Bessen, Boston University; Prof. Mark Lemley, Stanford University]
What else?
A lot more, but one must be very concise. At least try to get the
politicians interested in the matter without overwhelming them (or it
can become a perceived chore to them).
Who to explain these points to?
Here is the list of people, some of whom you may recognise as coming
from your country. Party affiliations are not listed below, but names
and contact details are included in the corresponding ‘pages’
(JavaScript):
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197475/CHRISTINE_ANDERSON/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197448/RASMUS_ANDRESEN/home
(sub
ITRE)
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/132191/GUNNAR_BECK/home (sub
AFCO)
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197437/NICOLA_BEER/home (sub
ECON)
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197408/HILDEGARD_BENTELE/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197410/STEFAN_BERGER/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197449/MICHAEL_BLOSS/home
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4267/UDO_BULLMANN/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197434/MARTIN_BUSCHMANN/home
AFET
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96739/REINHARD_BUTIKOFER/home
(sub INTA)
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28219/DANIEL_CASPARY/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/86793/ANNA_CAVAZZINI/home
sub AFCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197473/CHRISTIAN_DOLESCHAL/
home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28226/CHRISTIAN_EHLER/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96852/CORNELIA_ERNST/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197430/ENGIN_EROGLU/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96842/ISMAIL_ERTUG/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1917/MARKUS_FERBER/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197480/NICOLAUS_FEST/home
AFCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/106936/DANIEL_FREUND/home
sub IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/229352/MALTE_GALLEE/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/183916/ALEXANDRA_GEESE/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96833/JENS_GEIER/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124807/JENS_GIESEKE/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197443/ANDREAS_GLUCK/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197444/SVENJA_HAHN/home (sub
INTA)
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197457/HENRIKE_HAHN/home
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197481/MAXIMILIAN_KRAH/home
(sub
ECON)
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197481/MAXIMILIAN_KRAH/home
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1909/BERND_LANGE/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197483/SYLVIA_LIMMER/home
sub INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124806/DAVID_MCALLISTER/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4289/ANGELIKA_NIEBLER/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197465/NIKLAS_NIENAS/home (sub
AFCO)
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197466/JUTTA_PAULUS/home
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28224/MARKUS_PIEPER/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/188945/DENNIS_RADTKE/home
sub ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197488/GUIDO_REIL/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/229839/RENE_REPASI/home (sub
ECON)
ITRE
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/206158/MANUELA_RIPA/home (sub
INTA)
sub ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/190517/MARTIN_SCHIRDEWAN/home
INTA, AFCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96646/HELMUT_SCHOLZ/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124837/JOACHIM_SCHUSTER/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28223/ANDREAS_SCHWAB/home
ECON
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197425/RALF_SEEKATZ/home (sub
INTA)
INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197426/SVEN_SIMON/home (sub
AFET,
sub ECON)
sub AFCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124834/MARTIN_SONNEBORN/home
AFET
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197451/VIOLA_VON+CRAMON-
TAUBADEL/home
IMCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197429/MARION_WALSMANN/home
AFET
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197489/BERNHARD_ZIMNIOK/home
ITRE, IMCO, sub INTA
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/128483/MARKUS_BUCHHEIT/home
AFCO
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197439/DAMIAN_BOESELAGER/home
(sub ECON, sub ITRE)
If you contact them, please try to keep it short, amicable, exceedingly polite,
and straight to the point. They always claim they’re very busy, so they need to
be ‘spoon-fed’ information.
Many people, myself included, are cynical about how politicians ‘represent’ us,
but it’s better to try than not to try (I already started days ago). Yours
truly is thankful that here in Europe we still have multiple political parties
and people we can all contact to scrutinise power, unlike in China for
instance.
If you need further information on what to tell them (or respond with), come
and chat with us in IRC. We can give references aplenty. █
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✐ More_Problems_With_Google’s_“Insecure_Apps”_Alert_and_SeaMonkey_Mail⠀✐
Posted in Google, Protocol, Security at 3:44 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Iwent to get my email yesterday using SeaMonkey Mail over IMAP.
Google logged me out of OAuth and then SeaMonkey said it failed to fetch my
mail.
So I tried to log back in and it said I had an “insecure app” and to try again
with another “app”.
After playing around with the User Agent again, I noticed that Firefox 106’s
would work, but since Mozilla releases Firefox versions every 6 weeks, and
Google is obviously making it impossible to continue logging in using the older
version after another week or so, I decided to play around with User Agents
until I found something that worked.
It turns out Firefox 102’s user agent doesn’t work for OAuth even though it’s
an ESR.
So I decided to fake a Thunderbird “102.12” on “Windows 10” UA.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/
102.12.0
I don’t know if Google logs you out and pops up an “insecure app” alert over
minor revisions to Thunderbird, but it’s likely. The current release is
actually 102.4 according to the Web site. This 102.12 bogus UA would therefore
probably buy me about 8-9 months before I have to come back and bump it again.
You can use this value for these “new string”s in about:config
general.useragent.override.google.com
and
general.useragent.override.google.com
And that should be the last you hear about Google for a while.
You will obviously have to come back and bump it again sometime next year.
My guess is that when the next major version is out, use that followed by
“.12.0 at the end of the Thunderbird part at the end, but not on the Gecko
version.
OAuth is turning into a major usability disaster and there’s not any guarantee
that simple UA hacks will keep SeaMonkey working. Google could actually resort
to testing browser features that it knows are only in the latest “supported”
applications. █
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✐ E-mail_is_Simple,_Secure_and_Robust_If_Decentralised_and_Treated_as_Text,_Not
as_Web_Pages_(Also,_Webmail_is_Regressive)⠀✐
Posted in Google, Protocol, Security at 5:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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E-mail is Not Web Pages
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/email-is-not-html.webm
Summary: E-mail has become a sordid mess; even though E-mail by far predates
the Web (nowadays it’s almost exclusively the latter) what many folks refer to
as E-mail is basically some Web site and messages are in fact Web pages, not
text
LAST night we wrote about Google's_ongoing_attack_on_E-mail, both as a protocol
and as a service. Think of Gmail as an attack on E-mail, much in the same way
that GitHub is an attack on Git. Gmail is not E-mail. Protocols and obstacles
(for relays to please) are added all the time and when it comes to reading E-
mail, nowadays people are expected to use “apps” that can’t even cope with
plain-text E-mail (which is how Git is traditionally managed; Bugzilla can be
the same). There’s an effort to herd people into sites like Googlemail/Gmail
and Microsoft/GitHub, presenting them with JavaScript (typically proprietary)
disguised as pages instead of simple text. This is bad for usability, security,
and all sorts of other basic ‘fitness-for-purpose’ criteria. Ask a blind person
about accessibility of GitLab, which became very little but a big pile of
JavaScript.
The video above concerns this_article about webmail problems. It offers “many
reasons not to use “webmail” in place of e-mail — a case for commodity
services, open standards, and free choice of client software” as our associate
put it this morning.
E-mail is a simple protocol that predates the Web. Let’s not impose HTML and
the Web on E-mail users. We’re ruining things. █
References:
TechRepublic
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Dishonest_Ads)_at_Them_in_New_Tabs⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 9:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Just showed up in a new tab after a Firefox (ESR) update (linking to https://
www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/welcome/14/):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Mozilla spam⦈
Summary: The misinformation company Mozilla is promoting fake_privacy
(rebranded VPN operated by a surveillance company) to GNU/Linux users (Debian
in my case) by ‘hijacking’ new tabs for ads’ sake; six days ago Ryan published
"Mozilla_Changes_Firefox_Settings/Themes_Without_Asking" (it seems to be what
just happened to me)
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Raytheon_and_Lockheed_Martin_(That’s_Not_Freedom,_It’s_Death)⠀✐
Posted in IBM, Red_Hat at 6:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
The latest white-washing spin/slant is “Hey Hi” (like Maven)
Summary: Red Hat, which pretends_to_have_moral_high_ground_over_the_Free
software_community, has Red Blood on its hands; today was a reminder of that
THE “ETHICS” of wars — and of militarism in general — are relative; for
instance, if another nation invades yours, then you could argue to be defending
your home and family. But Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aren’t defending their
homeland; they occupy and colonise for the (still most dominant) global empire.
How does Red Hat fit into this? Well, 2 days ago the video_above_was_published
and merely 8 hours ago there_was_another_with_Red_Hat_and_Lockheed_Martin.
Those might seem like some friendly reconnaissance drones, but don’t be
mistaken. See this_keynote_from_3_years_ago. In Red Hat Summit 2019, Lockheed
Martin bragged about war planes. Audience excited by militarism? Of course!
Lots of ovations. Also see “Lockheed_Martin_taps_Red_Hat_for_F_22_Raptor”.
Bombers, fighters, you name it…
Red Hat!
And no less than 40% of today’s Weekly Roundup from Red Hat was about Lockheed
Martin [1, 2]. So Red Hat boasts about killing people with a big client, which
must be pocketing a lot of money right now because of the war in Ukraine. And
later on they lecture the FSF on ethics?
A few hours ago Red Hat linked to its own paid-for puff piece, which says: “The
Lockheed Martin use case was about providing direct control to drones that had
already been deployed but might need to have their mission altered in flight.”
Not just drones; also planes that drop very heavy bombs.
It’s not just Lockheed Martin, either.
As we noted a few years ago, Red_Hat_had_rewarded_Raytheon (special honours)
and it was headed_by_military_generals. It’s like Red Hat is an extension of
the Department of War (now euphemistically known as Department of Defence or
DoD). Biggest client by far?
Here’s a series of videos where Raytheon reciprocates with Red Hat endorsements
[1, 2, 3, 4]. This whole thing is no laughing matter. People are dying. Women
and children dismembered by bombs will certainly not be happy to know the
missiles were backed by Red Hat(TM) OpenShift(R) at the back end. They will not
die happily because of the openwashing.
Earlier today we posted a story about yet another large company that abandons
Red Hat. In fact, Red Hat must be running out of high-profile clients and cases
studies to boast/brag about. Quite a few dumped the company, seeing what IBM
does to the products (formerly “projects”; there used to be an actual
community), seeing how many managers leave the company, and spotting the rapid
exodus of engineers. █
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Posted in Deception at 5:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 4af087c0138d12aa814f31c6577076d6
What About Journalism Disappearing?
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/what-if-journalism-disappeared.webm
Summary: On the World_Wide_Web*, journalism is perishing; there are several
reasons for this, but it’s simply a reality we’ve come to accept
ON a couple of occasions so far this week we linked to an article, which was
reposted_later under a similar/identical headline: “What if Journalism
Disappeared?”
The framing as a question with “what if” suggests that it is only hypothetical
or a possibility even though it is already happening and has happened for
years.
These profound changes are measurable numerically, by the way, having even been
assessed in the recent past:
of_Journalism_in_Britain_and_America_from_the_Glorious_Revolution_to_the
Internet_|_Oxford_Academic
Here in Techrights we find ourselves having to dig a lot deep and look far
wider in order to post Daily Links. That’s because many news sites perish,
either becoming inactive or going offline completely (usually the first
happens, then the latter… but nobody notices by then because all the articles/
archives are “old” already). █
have replaced articles with “tweets” as if the latter is a substitute and
compatible with principles of journalism. As streaming and DRM are a bubble (no
viable business model) and it doesn’t seem like public broadcast on television
has much of a future (many so-called ‘cord cutters’) there’s a legitimate
reason for concern. Is journalism in general dying?
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Gaming_Is_Powered_By_Weeb_Developers_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Never stand between a weeb and his video games, I
was very excited to play Persona 5 Royal but the
game was completely borked on linux on launch day
but luckily the open source community came together
and fixed it in a matter of days
# ⚓ Full Circle Magazine ☛ Full_Circle_Magazine:_Full_Circle
Weekly_News_#285⠀⇛
Link to media
Release of Ardour 7.0:
https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html
Updating Void Linux installation builds:
https://voidlinux.org/news/2022/10/new-images.html
Rhino Linux, a rolling distribution based on
Ubuntu:
https://rhinolinux.org/more.html
Release of Tails 5.5:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.5/
index.en.html
Release of the Open 3D Engine 22.10:
https://www.o3de.org/blog/posts/o3de-22-10-release/
Release of ErgoFramework 2.2:
https://github.com/ergo-services/ergo
Release of Stratis 3.3:
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/
releases/tag/v3.3.0
Release of antiX 22:
https://antixlinux.com/antix-22-released/
Coreboot 4.18:
https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2022/10/18/
announcing-coreboot-4-18/
Release of Asterisk 20:
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/
Release of Ubuntu 22.10:
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Release of OpenBSD 7.2:
https://www.mail-archive.com/announce@openbsd.org/
msg00449.html
# ⚓ Video ☛ A_Microsoft_Office_365_ramble_(I’m_annoyed_by_it!)
–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_704:_Distributed_Data,_Decentralized_Trust_–
Hart_Montgomery,_Distributed_Data⠀⇛
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hart
Montgomery of the Hyperledger Foundation about
distributed data (not just the blockchain kind),
decentralized trust, how the Foundation is
fostering code useful to everyone in the world,
what open digital wallets are—or should be—all
about, the essential nature of cryptography, and
much more.
# ⚓ Video ☛ macOS_Ventura,_Ubuntu_22.10,_and…_Linux_dropping
486_support?_–_Invidious⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.0.4⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.0.4 kernel.
All users of the 6.0 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.0.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.0.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.75⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.150⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.220⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.262⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.296⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.9.331⠀⇛
# ⚓ AMD_Ryzen_7000_CPUs_are_Mostly_Faster_than_Intel’s_13th_Gen
Raptor_Lake_Chips_in_Linux_Gaming_|_Hardware_Times⠀⇛
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Closure⠀⇛
It was only a matter of time before he cornered me
at XDC for a quick “talk”. It was completely normal
the way he had no fewer than four laptops
physically harnessed to his person as he strutted
around in search of hapless driver maintainers upon
whom he could foist his latest and least sane
project. I wasn’t at all afraid for my life when he
told me that, by the time he let me leave the
conference hall that day, rusticl would be working
on zink.
I’m here blogging about it now, so obviously
everything is fine and I’m not still trapped in his
basement, but let’s take a look at some of the
challenges I faced over that grueling, interminable
period of CL bring-up besides lack of water and
food.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Paul Schaub ☛ Implementing_Packet_Sequence_Validation_using
Pushdown_Automata_–_vanitasvitae’s_blog⠀⇛
In the previous blog post I discussed how a formal
grammar can be transformed into a pushdown
automaton in order to check if a sequence of
packets or tokens is part of the language described
by the grammar. In this post I will discuss how I
implemented said automaton in Java in order to
validate OpenPGP messages in PGPainless.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Foodies:_Open-Source_Self-hosted_Sharing_App_for
Delicious_Food.⠀⇛
Foodies is a free open-source full stack JavaScript
web application for foodies who want to share and
view photos of delicious food.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Photon_Flutter_photo_sharing⠀⇛
Photon is a cross-platform file-transfer
application built using flutter. It uses http to
transfer files between devices.You can transfer
files between devices that run Photon.(No Wi-Fi
router is required, you can use hotspot)
[...]
The project is released under the GPL-v3 License.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_23:_the_lab()_color_function⠀⇛
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.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ An_email_phish_attempt_using_attachment_file
type_confusion⠀⇛
I don’t get much spam email in general and I get
even less that has malware payloads, so in one
sense it’s always interesting when one makes it
through our various anti-spam measures and I get to
actually look at a sample for myself. Today I
received what looked like a malware attack using a
PDF: [...]
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ After_Install_Guide_for_Ubuntu_22.10_with_Apps
and_Games_Recommendations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_ClassiCube_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an
Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not
those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Atom_text_editor_on_Linux_Mint_21_–
Invidious [Ed: Atom has been abandoned by Microsoft, it's
bloated junk, and there's no good reason to help GNU/Linux
install it at this stage (it's abandonware)]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Set_Up_Tomcat,_Nginx,_and_SSL_on_AlmaLinux/Rocky
Linux_9⠀⇛
Here’s how to install and configure Tomcat 10.1
with Nginx for reverse proxy and Let’s Encrypt SSL
certificate on AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 9.
Apache Tomcat is a long-lived open-source web
server and servlet container that implements
Jakarta Enterprise Edition specifications.
Its latest version, Tomcat 10.1, supports Servlet
6.0, JavaServer Pages 3.1, WebSocket 2.1, and
JASPIC 3.0 specifications, as well as many other
features that make it a handy platform for
developing and deploying Java-based web
applications and services.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cat9_And_LASH_Want_To_Change_Your_Linux_Command
Line_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
It is no secret that to be a true Linux power user
you have to deal with the command line. Many people
actually prefer to use the command line. However,
the shell — the program that provides that command
line — is mired in a back history which means it
has to work with existing things no matter how
modern it tries to be. However, a new set of
projects wants to replace most of your user
interface stack starting with the shell. At the top
of that stack is Cat9 which is technically a shell,
but not in the way you probably imagine a shell.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Add_Users_to_a_Group_in_Linux_–
Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
Groups are the bread and butter of a Linux system.
These are special lists that allow you to group
multiple users into different categories. Along
with securing your system’s application privileges,
it allows you to finely control how each account in
the system can access and share its files and
folders.
This article shows how you can use the groups
utility to add and modify existing groups in Linux.
Further, it will also highlight how the Linux
permissions system works in conjunction with the
groups system.
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Recover_Deleted_Data_on_a_Linux_System_–
kifarunix.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Problem_with_mount_utility_when_non-root⠀⇛
Posting about this, in case anyone else is puzzled
by the behaviour of the ‘mount’ utility.
I am working on running EasyOS as user “zeus”,
where zeus has administrator rights. That means you
don’t have to prepend “sudo” to do stuff, such as
mount a partition.
No problem with ‘mount’ in busybox, mounting and
unmounting work when running as user zeus. Busybox
in Easy is currently version 1.32.0.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Play_Windows_Games_on_Linux⠀⇛
With so many recent advancements in the Linux
gaming world, it’s now possible to play Windows
games on Linux with minimal tweaks.
Playing Windows games on Linux is becoming easier
thanks to the Linux community, Valve, and Proton
GE. Most games on your Steam library now need no,
or very little, tweaking to get running smoothly.
But what if you didn’t purchase the game through
the Steam ecosystem? What then? There are
alternative ways to take advantage of the
improvements that Linux gamers are experiencing
through applications that are getting easier to use
every day.
Let’s review the apps and tools you can use to take
advantage of playing Windows games on Linux.
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Dokuwiki_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–
RoseHosting⠀⇛
Dokuwiki is an open-source wiki software written in
PHP, and it doesn’t require a database. It was
developed by Andreas Gohr in 2004. Dokuwiki works
on plain text files, and its syntax is similar to
the one used by MediaWiki. With its simple yet
powerful syntax, users can create structured texts
easily, and it ensures the data files remain
readable outside the wiki. In this tutorial, we
will show you how to install Dokuwiki on Ubuntu
22.04.
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Finding_and_fixing_typos_on_Linux⠀⇛
The Linux aspell and enchant tools can both ID
typos in text files and suggest replacements.
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Counting_individual_characters_on_Linux_|
Network_World⠀⇛
If you need to count how many of each character is
included in a file or phrase, there are some handy
commands you can string together to accomplish this
along with scripts and aliases that can make the
job easy.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Create_and_Manage_Container_Volumes_with
Podman_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
For anyone who’s made the switch from a Ubuntu-
based to an RHEL-based Linux distribution for
container deployments, you’ve probably realized
that Docker isn’t the easiest or best option for
your new platform. Thankfully, Podman is installed
by default on most RHEL-based distributions, so you
can skip directly to working with your containers.
But why would you want to learn an entirely new
tool? Fortunately, Podman is almost a direct 1:
1 replacement for Docker, so if you know one you
can use the other. I’ve already helped you take
your first steps with Podman and this time around
we’re going to extend that a bit by creating and
managing volumes.
Why are volumes important? Simple — persistent
storage. Say, for example, you deploy a container
that uses data. Everything is going great until
disaster strikes. The container fails and takes
your data down with it. You don’t want that.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Firefox_Browser_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Firefox browser on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of
you who didn’t know, Firefox is a free and open-
source web browser developed by the Mozilla
Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla
Corporation. It is available on Windows, macOS,
Linux, Android, and iOS.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Firefox browser on Ubuntu 22.04
(Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same
instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-
based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS,
Pop!_OS, and more as well.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ CD_PROJEKT_RED_announce_The_Witcher_Remake
in_Unreal_Engine_5⠀⇛
If you’re a big fan of The Witcher series you will
probably love this: CD PROJEKT RED have announced
The Witcher Remake. Working together with developer
Fool’s Theory, it will be developed in Unreal
Engine 5.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Economic_Development_Ministry_drafts_bill
to_extend_existing_content_bans_to_video_games_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry has prepared
a new draft bill that, if passed, would prohibit
the release of video games containing “information
whose distribution is banned,” according to
Kommersant. The bill has been sent to the necessary
government agencies for review.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Volkswagen_begins_funding_Blender
development⠀⇛
Here’s one from earlier in the month that was
missed: Volkswagen Group has now formally pledged
funding towards Blender, helping this powerful FOSS
software continue improving.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ JSAUX_cancels_current_Steam_Deck_Dock_with
RGB,_after_competitor_pinched_it⠀⇛
JSAUX were getting close to release another (yes,
another) Steam Deck Docking Station, this time with
RGB lighting around the bottom but due to a “leak”
and a competitor “copying” it they have cancelled
it and will re-do it.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_7-38_is_out_now_fixing_up
Uncharted:_Legacy_of_Thieves⠀⇛
Want to play Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves on Linux
desktop? It works out of the box on Steam Deck, but
on Linux desktop it needed some launch options
which GE-Proton now works around. Reminder: GE-
Proton is a community made version of the Windows
compatibility layer Proton and not endorsed by
Valve.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_hits_over_6,000_games_marked
Verified_or_Playable⠀⇛
Just short of two months after hitting 5,000 —
Valve has now marked over 6,000 games as formally
Verified or Playable for the Steam Deck. A big
milestone for still pretty early days of the
system, that you can now grab without the
reservation queue (along with the official Docking
Station).
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Yuppie_Psycho:_Executive_Edition_upgraded
with_full_Linux_/_Steam_Deck_compatibility⠀⇛
Even though it was Steam Deck Verified by Valve
back in July, the developer of Yuppie Psycho:
Executive Edition have put out a big game engine
upgrade to make it even better.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ EA_begins_swapping_out_Origin_for_EA_app_on
Steam⠀⇛
It seems the time has come, EA has begun the
process of swapping from Origin to the EA app on
Steam, which could cause a few issues for Linux and
Steam Deck with Proton. Multiple titles on Steam
got updates within the last day, with no patch
notes or announcements from EA that I can see. The
only difference seems to be introducing the EA App.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Gear_snaps_round_3!_–_Scarlett_Gately_Moore⠀⇛
While trying to stay warm in our first snow
of the year, I got several apps tested and
released in round 3 of https://
www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-
round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re )
tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the
release is going slower than it will in the
future. Thank you for your patience.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ My_choice_of_operating_system⠀⇛
Since my article The flaws of distro hopping and asking
other people about their OS of choice I have had a number
of people writing to me asking for my specific advice
regarding their choice of operating system, both for
personal usage and for business usage. Last night I
received yet another email from someone in the US who
wrote to me about a difficult situation they where facing
in the choice of operating system for their business
usage. So I have decided to write a little bit about it.
However, this article is not my professional advice. I
don’t know you and I don’t know your situation and as
such, I cannot advice you. Rather, this article is about
what I do and why I do it.
o ⚓ Systemd Free ☛ Status_and_brief_review_|_systemd-free_linux
community⠀⇛
We are currently reviewing the distros on the strict
list, verifying they are still actively being developed,
whether they still meet our strict criteria and anything
that has changed since they were first admitted to the
list.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Traveling_22.10⠀⇛
I introduce you Voyager 22.10in final version. A 2
in 1 version with for the first time, the Gnome and
Xfce desktops unified in a single
distributionVoyager, à sélectionner à votre
session. Le tout dans a completely redesigned style
for this duo. The Gnome 43 desktop coupled with the
Xfce 4.16 desktop and a part in version 4.17, still
in preparation. With the promise finally realized,
to have 2 unified systems Gnome and Xfce, light,
fast, modern, fluid, secure and efficient in a
hybrid environment for PC and Tablet. The 2 offices
are quite distinct and their respective
applications are for the most part invisible, for
one or the other environment. This release is based
on Linux kernel 5.19 and Ubuntu
distribution“Kinetic Kudu” with its novelties.
22.10 is an intermediate release with a 9-month
update that prepares the future 5-year LTS – Long-
term support – release that will arrive shortly for
Gnome and Xfce. With integrated, options grouped in
the BoxVoyagerlike Conky Control , Effects , Repair
,Screencast, Switch Ubuntu , Wine development and
Steam Gaming and Gnome extensions selected
according to PC needs. A Special Gaming type GS
profile has been created in xfce. With numerous
Themes and Wallpapers and essential software . This
release contains Software – Gnome Software, which
was preferred over Ubuntu’s, to manage Deb, Snap
and Flatpack packages together . Firefox has been
installed in deb for better compatibility with
gnome extensions and many other new features to
discover.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Customer_success_stories:_How_Red_Hat’s
products_and_services_provide_solutions_for_financial,_non-
profit_and_professional_certification_organizations⠀⇛
In this month’s customer success highlights, learn
how FIWARE, Electrical Training Alliance and SVA
employed several Red Hat products to help build
eco-smart city solutions, develop reusable
microservices-based applications and construct a
robust modern platform that meets strict compliance
requirements.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Cryptographic_signatures_for_zip
distributions⠀⇛
Red Hat’s products are distributed through numerous
methods, including RPMs, ISOs and zip files. Over
the past several months, we have been working
across the organization to design and implement a
plan to provide signatures for all zip file types
so that our customers have greater assurance that
Red Hat actually creates the products they receive.
This work is essential to our customers’ trust in
Red Hat and our products.
Released on October 4th, 2022, Red Hat Single Sign-
On patch 7.5.3 is the first Red Hat zip
distribution to include cryptographic signatures.
More product releases will come with this vital
security metadata in the coming months.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Kubeflow_just_applied_to_join_CNCF_–_what_does_it
mean_for_you?_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Google just announced that they have submitted an
application for Kubeflow to become an incubating
project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
(CNCF). It is an initiative supported by the
Kubeflow Project Steering group. The request is
visible to everyone and it represents a game
changer for the rhythm which Kubeflow will develop.
It makes community growth a strategic objective and
puts Kubeflow on a development fast track.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Charmed_Kubernetes_and_Huawei_OceanStor_Dorado
All-Flash_storage_integration_verification_reports_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 all-flash storage
systems are designed for enterprises’ mission-
critical services.
The SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture ensures
hardware redundancy and fast service switchover
without interruption in the event of faults. The
fully symmetric active-active architecture balances
service loads on the entire storage system,
simplifying service planning and scaling.
FlashLink®designed for all-flash storage guarantees
consistent low latency. The gateway-free HyperMetro
feature provides an end-to-end active-active data
center solution, which can smoothly evolve to the
geo-redundant disaster recovery (DR) solution to
achieve 99.9999% solution-level reliability.
Variable-length deduplication and compression
maximize the available capacity and reduce the
operating expense (OPEX).
OceanStor Dorado V6 meets the requirements of
enterprise applications such as databases, virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI), virtual server
infrastructure (VSI), and file sharing, helping the
financial, manufacturing, and carrier industries
evolve smoothly to all-flash storage.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ Call_for_nomination_for_the_Ubuntu
Membership_board⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Call_for_nomination_for_the
Ubuntu_Membership_board⠀⇛
As you may know, Ubuntu Membership is a recognition
of a significant and sustained contribution to
Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. To this end, the
Community Council recruits from our current member
community for the valuable role of reviewing and
evaluating the contributions of potential members
to bring them on board or assist with having them
achieve this goal.
Our board members terms will soon end, and we are
looking to restaff our 12:00 and 20:00/22:00 UTC
Membership Boards with seven new members for each
board.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flashing_Booby-Trapped_Cisco_AP_With_OpenWRT,
The_Hard_Way⠀⇛
Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source
firmware for their devices, and this particular
hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist
measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice
access point hardware-wise, and running OpenWRT on
it is wonderful – if not for the Cisco’s malicious
decision to permanently brick the CPU as soon as
you enter Uboot through the serial port. This AP
seems to be part of a “hardware as a service”
offering, and the booby-trapped Uboot was rolled
out by an OTA update some time after the OpenWRT
port got published.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Control_six_separate_RGB_LED_strips_with_a_single
Arduino_Nano_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
If you’re used to working with individually
addressable RGB LEDs, then that title probably has
you scratching your head — controlling six NeoPixel
strips is easy with an Arduino, since each strip
only needs a single I/O pin for data. But we aren’t
talking about individually addressable LEDs; we’re
talking about conventional common-anode RGB LED
strips and Trevor Makes recently uploaded a video
demonstrating how to control six of them with one
Arduino Nano.
A common-anode RGB LED has four leads: one anode,
and one cathode for each color. The anode always
connects to the positive side of the circuit and
connecting each cathode to the negative side of the
circuit allows current to flow through that
specific LED. A common-anode RGB LED strip expands
on this concept, with all of the cathodes chained
together by color channel. The operation is the
same: connecting a color channel cathode to the
negative side of the circuit causes all of the LEDs
to light up in that color.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 10_best_apps_compatible_with_Android_Auto_(2022)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_smartphones_will_be_more_powerful_than
iPhone_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_use_Game_Dashboard_in_Android_13_|
Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_owners_can_now_leave_Android_13_QPR1
Beta_3_feedback⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers
2022-10-26_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Kimsuky_Hackers_Spotted_Using_3_New_Android
Malware_to_Target_South_Koreans⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ YouTube_for_Android_adds_a_navigation_drawer
for_Explore⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Samsung’s_Budget_Android_Tablet_Has_Never_Been
Cheaper,_Plus_More_Deals⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Duo_icon_is_gone_on_Android_as_web_app
gets_Meet⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_Netfilter_Workshop_2022_summary⠀⇛
Arturo Borrero González has posted a detailed
summary of the Netfilter workshop that was recently
held in Seville.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.5.6_(Android,
Windows,_macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛
This is an emergency release resolving an
issue with Tor Browser 11.5.5′s integration
of the Snowflake pluggable transport. Users
of 11.5.5 will be unable to connect to the
Tor Network via the built-in Snowflake bridge
until they update to 11.5.6.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Loris Cro ☛ Zig_Is_Self-Hosted_Now,_What’s_Next?⠀⇛
With the upcoming 0.10.0 release of Zig on November
1st, we are going to ship the new self-hosted
compiler. This is the result of a huge amount of
work that brings a lot of benefits, some obvious,
some others less so.
Even though the self-hosted compiler is now
shipped, there’s still more work to do on it but,
at the same time, now the door has opened to more
exciting features, like Zig’s official package
manager.
Let’s take a look at what’s next for the Zig
project.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Linux_Rust_–_Retro_–_Charles
Shirer_–_PSW_#761_|_SC_Media⠀⇛
In this segment, we are going to discuss
linux security and using the Rust programming
language with an Offensive MindSet, and our
guest Charles Shirer!
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Mr._Fish:_What’s_the_Alternative?⠀⇛
Cartoonist and author Mr. Fish considers how a
distracting burlesque of inarticulate clowns are juggling
our common fate like raw eggs.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Tim_Robbins_and_the_Lost_Art_of_Finding_Common
Ground⠀⇛
The star of films like The Producer and Bull Durham opens
up about two tough years of pandemic politics, and
worries society is purposefully phasing out the common
meeting space.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Schjeldahl’s_Art⠀⇛
We were stuck in traffic on the way to Alex Katz’s
opening at the Guggenheim when my wife started riffling
through her phone. “Does Peter Schjeldahl have a new book
out?” She asked. “His picture is all over Instagram.” My
heart sank. No, I knew there was no new book. I knew all
those pictures were saying goodbye.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Physical_Mail_Was_My_Lifeline_to_the_Outside_World_—
and_Now_It’s_Gone⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Skull_Lamp_Illuminates_The_Cyberpunk_Future⠀⇛
Cyberpunk is full of characters with cool body mods, and
[bsmachinist] has made a prosthetic eye flashlight
(TikTok) that is both useful and looks futuristic. [via
Reddit]
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Digital_Hourglass_Counts_Down_The_Seconds⠀⇛
If someone asked you to build a digital hourglass, what
would your design look like? [BitBlt_Korry] took on that
challenge, creating a functional art piece that hits it
right on the nose: an hourglass with a digital display.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Republicans_Have_Spent_Millions_on_Youth
Outreach._And_It’s_Working.⠀⇛
For conservatives, the most frightening place in
the country has always been a college campus. By
1964, Students for a Democratic Society had formed
chapters at hundreds of universities with tens of
thousands of supporters, protesting racism,
inequality, and the Vietnam War. After Barry
Goldwater’s loss in the presidential election that
same year, his young crusaders were worried—and
inspired. They began building out conservative
political infrastructure independent of the
Republican Party to compete for America’s youth.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Kinetic_Cyclic_Scissors⠀⇛
[Henry Segerman] and [Kyle VanDeventer] merge math
and mechanics to create a kinetic cyclic scissors
sculpture out of 3D printed bars adjoined together
with M3 bolts and nuts.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ HyperAllergic ☛ A_Better_Museum_Experience_for_Color-Blind
Visitors⠀⇛
The technology, which alleviates red-green CVD for
about four out of five users with the condition,
was developed by EnChroma, an independent company
based in Berkeley, California. Usually genetic,
red-green CVD is caused by an overlap in the red
and green color receptor cones within the eye,
causing the hues to become practically
indistinguishable. The lenses now provided by the
DMA increase the contrast between red and green
color signals for users with the cone overlap,
enabling them to view the world with a more
enriched color field.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Germany_to_legalize_cannabis_use_for_recreational
purposes⠀⇛
Germany on Wednesday set out plans to legalise
cannabis, in a move promised by Chancellor Olaf
Scholz’s government that would make it one of the
first countries in Europe to make weed legal.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented a
cornerstone paper on planned legislation to
regulate the controlled distribution and
consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes
among adults.
Acquiring and possessing up to 20 to 30 grams of
recreational cannabis for personal consumption
would also be made legal.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Green_Schools_Start_With_Greener
Lunches:_NYC_Public_Schools_Are_Plant-Based_Leaders⠀⇛
New York City public schools led the way on
Meatless Monday—now it’s time for other districts
to follow.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ InfoQ ☛ Docker_Introduces_Hardened_Desktop_for_Business
Users⠀⇛
Enhanced Container Isolation aims to harden
container isolation by applying a number of
techniques, including running all containers
unprivileged through the Linux user-namespace,
isolating critical system call to prevent
containers escapes, and preventing console access
to the Docker Desktop VM.
# ⚓ Lemonduck_Cryptojacking_Botnet_Reveals_Ongoing_API⠀⇛
It takes advantage of Docker, a mainstream platform
used for building, running and managing
containerized workloads. Since Docker runs
container workloads in the cloud, a misconfigured
cloud instance can expose a Docker API to the
internet. Attackers can then exploit this API to
run a hidden crypto miner inside an attacker-
controlled container.
# ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ How_to_Avoid_Software_Supply_Chain
Vulnerabilities [Ed: [‘FOSSlife Team’ is parroting Microsoft
talking_points_and_FUD_again]]⠀⇛
# ⚓ syslog-ng_Store_Box_federated_single_sign-on_support_via
OpenID_Connect_–_Blog_–_syslog-ng_Community_–_syslog-ng
Community⠀⇛
The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built
upon syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits
most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them
available with an easy-to-use graphical user
interface. There are multiple ways how users can
authenticate when using SSB. Recent versions also
introduced federated single sign-on (SSO) via
OpenID Connect (OIDC).
The SSB appliance can collect log messages from
many different log sources, in many formats. These
include UNIX / Linux / Windows system logs,
firewall and router logs, various application logs,
and now SQL sources as well. SSB can parse,
rewrite, filter, and store log messages. In
addition to the traditional syslog-ng features, the
SSB appliance provides an interface to search log
messages, and does complete log life cycle
management, including archiving and backup.
Finally, it can also forward events to various on-
premises and cloud destinations. It allows you to
optimize your SIEM installations both for resources
and licensing, as you can collect log messages in a
single step, store them on SSB, and only forward a
reduced subset of logs to various analytics tools.
# ⚓ CISA ☛ Apple_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Multiple
Products _|_CISA⠀⇛
Apple has released security updates to address
vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker
could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take
control of an affected device.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Phishing_has_been_around_long_enough_for
Westpac_to_know⠀⇛
In the midst of a spate of data breaches — there
have been eight reported in Australia since Optus
led the way — the last thing one would expect is
for any company to send out digital communications
asking people to verify their identity.
But Westpac, one of the big four banks in this
country, seems to think this is fine. Last week, I
received an SMS and an email, couched in roughly
the same language, asking me to “verify your
details to better protect your account and
identity”.
Receiving such communications at other times from
any source tends to make me suspicious. At this
time, the degree of suspicion is ten times worse.
I called up the Westpac support line and was told
that the SMS was not genuine but the email was.
Which left me scratching my head.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Signal_Says_It_Will_Exit_India_Rather_Than
Compromise_Its_Encryption⠀⇛
Signal ensures its users’ security and
privacy by encrypting their messages and
refusing to collect a bunch of data
governments or malicious hackers might find
useful or interesting. That hasn’t made it
many friends in governments (except with
government officials who utilize the service
to dodge public records requests).
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ 3_men_convicted_of_supporting_plot_to_kidnap_Gov.
Whitmer⠀⇛
The trial in state court was an offshoot of the
main case in federal court, which produced mixed
results: conspiracy convictions for Fox and three
others but also two acquittals.
# ⚓ Birmingham Live ☛ Extremist_found_in_Birmingham_mosque_and
jailed_for_plotting_to_fight_with_ISIS_‘could_be_freed’⠀⇛
Ismail received an 18-month prison term for failing
to disclose information about acts of terrorism.
Azeez was jailed for three years for preparing for
acts of terrorism.
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ WATCH:_Iranian_school_girls_rip_up_regime
textbooks,_join_protests⠀⇛
Iranian schoolchildren, girls in particular, have
brought the nation’s widespread protests into the
classrooms according to a late-October report from
Israeli non-profit IMPACT-se, the Institute for
Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School
Education.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Prophecy_Foretold⠀⇛
Created by an Iranian artist who requested to be
anonymous, but gave us this statement: In Iranian
culture there are many stories about heroes who
fought for the glory of their nation against all
kinds of demons and beasts.Today we are rewriting
history in Iran.We are showing the world that those
stories were never just legends and myths. We
Iranians have it in our blood, we can never stand
injustice, we will fight until we restore our
freedom.We want the world to hear us and be our
voice: “Woman, Life, Freedom!”
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ ISIS_terror_fantastic_lined_up_for_release_from
prison_and_could_be_walking_the_streets_again_in_WEEKS⠀⇛
He was a dangerous extremist when jailed for seven
years in 2017 for terrorism offences.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Who_Is_This_‘Haiti’_That’s_Appealing_for
Intervention?⠀⇛
The media calls for military intervention in Haiti,
Jane Regan breaks down the reality of the
situation.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dr._Oz’s_Appalling_Position_on_Abortion
Rights⠀⇛
Midway through a combative Pennsylvania US Senate
debate, as Democrat John Fetterman and Republican
Mehmet Oz expounded on policy matters ranging from
fracking to the minimum wage and Social Security,
former Obama White House speechwriter Pat Cunnane
weighed in with an observation about the issue that
everyone was focused on: the status of Fetterman’s
recovery from a serious stroke in May. “Put the
analysis to the side for a second: What John
Fetterman is doing right now in the midst of his
recovery—so publicly, on the same stage as a
smirking TV doctor—is remarkably brave.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Two_Years_After_Barrett’s_Confirmation,_Let’s_Be
Blunt:_The_Point_Was_to_End_Roe⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ministry_promises_corrections_in_Ukraine
chapter_of_school_textbooks_–_Ukrainian_NGO_in_Hungary_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Congressional_Progressive_Caucus_Withdraws
Letter_That_Tepidly_Called_for_Diplomacy_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
The move comes after the mild and carefully worded
letter sparked furious backlash from pundits and at
least one Democratic leader.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Every_Nuclear_Plant_Is_a_‘Dirty_Bomb’_in
Waiting,_Warns_Watchdog_Group⠀⇛
“Nuclear power plants—and their mounting inventory
of high-level nuclear waste—are inherently
dangerous.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_Is_No_Time_for_Nuclear_War
Games⠀⇛
This month, United States President Joe Biden
warned that the world could face armageddon if his
Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, were to use a
tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. You would
imagine that such a prognosis would lead to urgent
action to dial down the confrontation. Yet no
effort is being made to move us back from that
risk.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Seagate_accused_of_breaking_US_export_rules_by
shipping_drives_to_Huawei⠀⇛
Storage vendor Seagate Technologies says in a
filing with the US Securities and Exchange
Commission that the US Commerce Department’s Bureau
of Industry and Security has accused the company of
violating export regulations by shipping hard
drives to an unidentified vendor on the BIS Entity
List.
That vendor was identified as Chinese
telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei
Technologies in a report issued in October 2021 by
Republican members of the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Seagate said it had received the proposed charging
letter on 29 August. It said it had responded,
setting out its position that it had not committed
any such act, especially as its disk drives were
not subject to the export regulations.
“Seagate believes it has complied with all relevant
export control laws and regulations,” the company
filing said.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Chinese_influence_group_claims_by
Mandiant_played_down_by_TAG_head⠀⇛
The Google-owned security outfit Mandiant
Intelligence claims it has discovered a pro-China
actor, which it has named DRAGONBRIDGE, trying to
influence voting intentions in the forthcoming US
mid-term elections.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Briton_indicted_in_US_for_allegedly
running_dark_web_trading_site⠀⇛
A British citizen has been charged in the US with
allegedly operating a trading site on the dark web
which was used to sell attack tools and stolen
credentials.
A statement from the US Department of Justice said
Daniel Kaye was charged with device fraud and money
laundering. He allegedly operated a website known
as The Real Deal.
“While living overseas, this defendant allegedly
operated an illegal website that made hacking tools
and login credentials available for purchase,
including those for US Government agencies,” said
US Attorney Ryan Buchanan.
“This case is a timely reminder, during National
Cybersecurity Awareness Month, that federal law
enforcement will make those accused of breaking US
laws face their day in court, regardless of where
they reside in the world.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What’s_the_US_Military_Doing_in_Africa?⠀⇛
What’s the US military doing in Africa? It’s an
enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straitjacketed in
secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it
would be if it were up to the Pentagon.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Armageddon_a_Crime?⠀⇛
One nun I represented in another nuclear resistance
case, the heroic Jackie Hudson, asked me what she
should wear to court. Being an atheist myself, I
suggested it might help get sympathy if she would
wear her habit, as we would be going to the “temple
of justice.” So ignorant was I of her order, I did
not know they did not wear habits, rather they fed
the hungry, clothed the naked, housed the homeless,
while wearing “ordinary” clothing. Admittedly, my
ignorance was boundless, in those naïve days of my
innocence and faith in the law.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Political_System_in_the_US_is_a_Train
Wreck⠀⇛
I was surprised by the Analysis News segment
(“Rising Fascism and the Elections,” October 12,
2022) when icons, and justifiably so on the left,
Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, make their
argument for the importance of supporting Democrats
to prevent the ultimate evil from taking place this
November. The stakes are the possibility of moving
the US inextricably close to fascism, they argue.
They argue that while Republicans and Democrats are
on the same page in regard to foreign policy, they
have different positions on domestic policies.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ In_Nauseating_Netanyahu_Interview,_Bill_Maher
Whitewashes_a_War_Criminal⠀⇛
Miko Peled provides a distinctive critique on
Netanyahu’s appearance on Bill Maher’s show, having
personally known the former Israeli prime minister.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ President_of_Guinea-Bissau_tells_Zelensky_Putin_is
ready_for_talks._Zelensky_suggests_stopping_the_shelling_and
unblocking_the_ports._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Umaro Sissoca Embalo, the president of Guinea-
Bissau, announced that Russian president Vladimir
Putin is ready to negotiate with Ukrainian leader
Volodymyr Zelensky. Embalo spoke about it during a
joint briefing with Zelensky. The Office of the
President of Ukraine published a video recording of
the meeting.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ General_Alexander_Lapin_personally_threatened
retreating_conscripts_with_a_pistol_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Colonel General Alexander Lapin, commander of the
Russian army group Center in Ukraine, used a pistol
to personally threaten the commander of a mobilized
unit, which retreated from the front lines without
orders. One conscript from Moscow spoke about it as
part of an official complaint, reports outlet Sota.
The publication didn’t name the man but writes that
they know his name, and that they have copies of
his complaint and his call-up papers, which he sent
the outlet.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Head_of_annexed_Kherson_region:_70,000_cross_to
east_bank_of_Dnipro_—_Meduza⠀⇛
More than 70,000 people have crossed from the right
(western) bank of the Dnipro to the left, said
Vladimir Saldo, Russian-appointed head of the
annexed region, on air on the Crimea-24 channel.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_conducts_massive_nuclear_strike_drill_under
Putin’s_command_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian military, led by President Vladimir
Putin as Commander-in-Chief, conducted a training
exercise for a massive nuclear strike in response
to an enemy nuclear attack. This was reported on
the Kremlin’s official website and, separately, by
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Cuban_Missile_Crisis:_Déjà_Vu
All_Over_Again?⠀⇛
Sixty years ago, the world was on the doorstep of a
nuclear confrontation between the United States and
the Soviet Union. The resort to nuclear weapons in
the Cuban Missile Crisis would have led to a
nuclear holocaust from which humanity as a species
would not have recovered. Though there were over
three billion people on the planet, the peaceful
resolution of the conflict stemmed from the
decisions of just two individuals, the leaders of
the United States and the Soviet Union.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Written_off_in_advance_How_an_untrained_and
unarmed_‘platoon’_of_new_conscripts_from_Moscow_was_decimated
near_Svatove_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On October 8, a group of new conscripts from the
Moscow region recorded an understated but still
urgent video, in which they hoped to tell the
civilian audience about their circumstances. Their
platoon of 30 was about to be sent to Lyman, to
take part in a Russian offensive there. The
soldiers, dressed in rag-tag uniforms each of them
had to put together around retail shops, said that
they were going to the front without any training,
and with weapons that were “rusty, stuck, or
jammed.” With only a day’s worth of firing
practice, and no acquaintance at all with the
vehicles some of them would have to drive, they
felt completely unprepared to be sent to a war “hot
spot.” The day after recording the video, the
platoon of 30 was sent to the Luhansk region. By
October 17, when the video was first published on
YouTube, only 13 men were left in the unit. The
rest of them were either dead or missing. Here’s
what happened to the platoon, based on an extended
investigation published recently by Mediazona and
the videos recorded by the soldiers — one of them
still unpublished.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_notifies_US_of_its_annual_nuclear_exercise,
Grom_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia has notified the Pentagon of its intent to
conduct its annual strategic nuclear exercise, Grom
(“Thunder”). Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder
said this in his daily briefing on October 25.
“Yes,” he said, “the U.S. was notified.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mark_Meadows_Ordered_to_Comply_with_Georgia
Subpoena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_legalizes_conscripting_convicted_felons
into_Russian_military_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s State Duma has passed a series of
amendments to the law that governs mobilization,
lifting the prior ban on conscripting persons with
unexpunged felony records.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_’Internet_safety’_advocacy_group_denounces
rapper_Oxxxymiron_for_lyrics_allegedly_calling_for_St.
Petersburg’s_secession_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Russian Internet
Safety League, said Wednesday that the organization
will submit a request to the Russian Attorney
General’s Office for Russian rapper Oxxxymiron’s
song Oida (“Oh yeah”) to be declared extremist.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Like_bats_out_of_hell’_Many_of_the_draft_evaders
fleeing_Russia_for_Central_Asia_have_been_government_workers
—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the five weeks since Russia’s mobilization drive
began, hundreds of thousands of draft-eligible
people have fled the country. While the authorities
have vowed to grant draft deferments for certain
people such as select government officials and IT
workers, these promises have not always been enough
to keep people in those groups from getting
conscripted. According to the independent media
outlet Verstka, many government employees have
decided not to take their chances: numerous people
who work for both the Moscow city government and
Russia’s federal ministries have fled the country
in recent weeks. The majority of them have been
fired soon after leaving, but some have flown under
the radar and remain on the payroll. In English,
Meduza summaries Verstka’s findings.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ First_criminal_complaint_for_insulting_Ukrainians
on_basis_of_nationality_filed_in_Russia_since_start_of_full-
scale_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
For the first time since the start of the full-
scale war in Ukraine, a criminal complaint has been
filed against someone in Russia for insulting
Ukrainians on the basis of nationality.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Minister_Sergey_Shoigu_repeats
‘dirty_bomb’_allegations_to_India_and_China_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reached out
to his counterparts in India and China on Wednesday
to express his “concern regarding a possible false
flag attack involving the use of a ‘dirty bomb’” by
Ukraine.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Climate_Pledges_Are_Falling_Short,_and_a
Chaotic_Future_Looks_More_Like_Reality⠀⇛
Just 26 of 193 countries that agreed last year to
step up their climate actions have followed through
with more ambitious plans. The world’s top two
polluters, China and the United States, have taken
some action but have not pledged more this year,
and climate negotiations between the two have been
frozen for months.
Without drastic reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions, the report said, the planet is on track
to warm by an average of 2.1 to 2.9 degrees
Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels, by
2100.
That’s far higher than the goal of 1.5 degrees
Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by the
landmark Paris agreement in 2015, and it crosses
the threshold beyond which scientists say the
likelihood of catastrophic climate impacts
significantly increases.
# ⚓ [Old] uni Yale ☛ Redrawing_the_Map:_How_the_World’s_Climate
Zones_Are_Shifting⠀⇛
Here we summarize some of the littler-known
features that have shifted in the face of climate
change and pulled the map out from under the people
living on the edges. Everything about global
warming is changing how people grow their food,
access their drinking water, and live in places
that are increasingly being flooded, dried out, or
blasted with heat waves. Seeing these changes
literally drawn on a map helps to hammer these
impacts home.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_UN_Report_Predicts_Catastrophic_Rise_in
Global_Temperatures_by_2100⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Healthy_Human_Future_Still_Possible_If
World_Ditches_Fossil_Fuels:_Lancet_Study⠀⇛
“The climate crisis is killing us.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Sobering_Moment’:_UN_Warns_Planet_Could
See_Cataclysmic_2.9°C_of_Heating_by_2100⠀⇛
The analysis by the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) examines the climate
commitments of the 193 national parties to the
Paris climate accord, which sets out to limit
warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels—an
amount of heating that would still have devastating
impacts across the world, particularly in poor and
low-lying nations.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ In_Oz-Fetterman_Debate,_Candidates_Clash
on_Abortion_But_Agree_on_Fracking⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ We_Can_Still_Make_Solar_Panels_Even
Better_and_Cheaper⠀⇛
Renate Egan explains why with less than 5% of
the world’s electricity delivered by solar,
we are just at the start.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden’s_LNG_Export_Goal_‘Would_Spell
Climate_Disaster,’_Analysis_Warns⠀⇛
The proposal, which the Biden administration
claims “is consistent with our shared net-
zero goals,” would generate fossil fuel
emissions equivalent to 400 million metric
tons of carbon each year, according to the
analysis by Food & Water Watch, which warned
the plan “would spell climate disaster.”
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Horror_Writers_Reveal_Their
Environmental_Fears⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rebuilding_The_Homestead⠀⇛
Piney Woods, N.C., is one of those small, quiet,
rural communities you might pass on a drive up
North. Blocks of lush grass, farmland, and forests
are bisected by a single asphalt road; it’s not
uncommon to find a tortoise or two lazing on the
empty street, unafraid of potential traffic.1
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Survey_Suggests_Populist_Economic
Message_Can_Help_Dems_Prevail_in_Midterms⠀⇛
Conducted by longtime Democratic pollster Stan
Greenberg, the survey tests a number of sample
messages, including one that notes “working people
haven’t seen a real pay increase in years,”
spotlights Democrats’ efforts to combat corporate
price-gouging, and hammers the GOP for getting
“their money from Big Oil and big pharmaceutical
special interests”—two major culprits behind recent
price hikes.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Citing_‘Aggressive_Profiteering,’_Sanders
and_Warren_Urge_FTC_to_Stop_Kroger-Albertsons_Merger⠀⇛
“The new Kroger could increase its monopoly power
and further disenfranchise its own workers and
consumers.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AFL-CIO_Economist_Warns_Fed_Is_Using_‘Flat
Wrong’_Analysis_to_Inflict_Pain_on_Workers⠀⇛
“The Federal Reserve is doing the greatest harm I
could ever imagine,” William Spriggs, chief
economist of the AFL-CIO, told The Hill. “I
consider what they’re doing right now politics, and
they are making a political statement about the
economy, and they are wrong. Their analysis is flat
wrong.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_US_Oligarchy_Is_Getting
Exactly_the_Kind_of_Election_It_Paid_For⠀⇛
The polls are tightening up right now, and the
media is treating it like it’s some mystical force
of nature causing people to shift their concerns
from abortion, guns, climate, democracy, and the
survival of Social Security over to gas prices,
Black crime, banning books, and trans kids playing
sports.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Exclusive:_Twitter_is_losing_its_most_active
users,_internal_documents_show⠀⇛
These “heavy tweeters” account for less than 10% of
monthly overall users but generate 90% of all
tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters
have been in “absolute decline” since the pandemic
began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal
document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?”
A “heavy tweeter” is defined as someone who logs in
to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets
about three to four times a week, the document
said.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Elon_Musk_Twitter_bid_likely_to_go_through_by
weekend⠀⇛
Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk’s bid
for Twitter appears likely to go through by Friday
US time, a deadline set for the proposal to take
effect.
A court case was filed by the company against Musk
to force him to go through with his bid, made
initially in April.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘It’s_Extra_Problematic_When_the_Implications_Are
the_End_of_Democracy’⠀⇛
Janine Jackson: Independent, challenging, far-
ranging and fearless coverage of elections and the
electoral process is one of journalists’ core jobs
at the best of times, and these are not the best of
times.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Beto_O’Rourke_Pulls_Within_2_Points_Against
Abbott_Among_Texas’s_Likely_Voters⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_Slams_Republicans’_Plans_to_Cut_Social
Security_and_Medicare_in_Op-Ed⠀⇛
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Electoral_Denialism_Cuts_Across_Party
Lines:_Despite_What_the_Corporate_Media_Would_Have_Us
Believe,_Both_Parties_Engage_in_the_‘Big_Lie,’_and_the_Rest
of_Lose_Because_of_It_–_Censored_Notebook,_Dispatches_from
Project_Censored:_On_Media_and_Politics⠀⇛
U.S. news media have consistently made analogies to
this historical big lie strategy with former
President Donald Trump’s efforts to spread doubt
about the legitimacy of the 2020 election in hopes
of overturning its results. They contend that this
threatens the viability of American democracy. It
does at some level, but to focus on Trump is to
miss the forest for the trees. An even greater
threat to democracy has long been hyper-
partisanship– when people choose party loyalty and
wishful thinking over empirical data and election
results. Cognitive biases, like confirmation bias,
play a huge role in supporting such a fallacious
thought process to detrimental ends. As we pointed
out in our book, United States of Distraction,
Trump is a symptom of this much larger problem.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_the_Uline_Box_Empire_Has_Fueled_Election
Denial⠀⇛
Dick and Liz Uihlein of Illinois are the largest
contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial
candidate Doug Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6
rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and
have given to Jim Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of
State nominee who says he opposed the certification
of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020. They are
major funders to groups spreading election
falsehoods, including Restoration of America,
which, according to an internal document obtained
by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the
issues and stay there” and “punish leftists.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Republican_Policies_Are_Killing_Americans:
Study⠀⇛
Working-age mortality rates have been rising for
decades across the United States, but premature
deaths are more pronounced in states where
“conservative” policies predominate and less common
in states that have adopted more “liberal”
policies, according to peer-reviewed research
published in PLOS ONE.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Republican_Governors_Association_Accused_of
Illegal_Coordination_With_Super_PAC_in_Michigan⠀⇛
“Desperation to save a floundering campaign has led
to potential violations of campaign finance law and
potential illegal coordination.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Not_an_Air_War,_A_Ground_War:_Dems_Should
Redirect_Election_Funds_to_Organizing_if_Black_Votes_Matter⠀⇛
As Republican-led states clamp down on voting
rights, we look at how Black voters are helping to
organize unprecedented voter turnout ahead of
midterms. “We are literally fighting for
democracy,” says LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the
Black Voters Matter Fund, who says organizing
voters is “the winning strategy” despite the
resolve of the “consulting class” to invest
campaign funds primarily in TV ads.Georgia’s
special election Senate races in early 2021 were
“not a fluke, “says Brown. “We need to recognize
that it is going to be community-led efforts,
grassroots democracy groups that are literally our
best defense on the frontlines from protecting us
against facism.” This comes as President Biden
announces he has authorized the transfer of $10
million from the Democratic National Committee to
House and Senate Democratic campaign committees.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Will_Racist_Ads_on_Immigration_&_Crime_Help
GOP_Regain_Control_of_Congress?⠀⇛
As the midterms draw closer, we speak with
journalist Will Bunch about how extremist
Republican candidates increasingly look like they
could win. In Pennsylvania, the Republican
gubernatorial candidate is Doug Mastriano who
attended the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally and
helped arrange buses for pro-Trump protesters to
come as well. He later worked with former President
Trump’s legal team to overturn the 2020 election
results. This comes as racist campaign ads
sponsored by a new group called Citizens for Sanity
continue to fill the airwaves. “The Democrats are
running out of time but I hope they find a way to
counter this Republican message on crime because
I’m really worried that it’s proven to be very
effective so far,” says Bunch.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Fascism_Has_No_Place_Here”:_Penn_State
Students_Maced_While_Protesting_Violent_Proud_Boys_Event⠀⇛
Hundreds of Penn State students protesting a
speaking event with Proud Boys founder Gavin
McInnes on Monday night were showered with pepper
spray by men who appeared to be with the hate
group. Penn State, which abruptly called off the
talk on Monday, had resisted earlier calls from
students, faculty and community members to cancel
the event, citing free-speech rights. We speak with
one of those students, Sam Ajah, president of the
Penn State College Democrats club. “Fascism doesn’t
have a place on our campus,” says Ajah, who
describes being “disappointed and disgusted” by the
university, which attempted to pin the violence on
the peaceful protestors.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_dreamed_of_Mariupol_every_night’:_Why_Ukrainian
refugees_return_to_their_uninhabitable_city_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Lake Ivan is a scenic lake surrounded by pine
forests some 240 kilometers from the northern
Russian city of Pskov. Over the lake stands a small
village called Opukhliki. Yulia, whose parents have
an old house in Opukhliki (we’ve changed her name
at her request), calls the village a “dying
ghetto”: she says that there’s no life in it, apart
from Blue Lakes — a lakeside resort where visitors
come to stay in the summer. Last May, Yulia
realized that Blue Lakes had been designated a
“temporary housing facility” for Ukrainian
refugees, and that people from Mariupol were living
there, side-by-side with Russians taking an
ordinary vacation. Without any money of their own,
and subsisting on a daily allowance of about $15,
paid by the local Department of Social Services,
the refugees lacked even the basic necessities like
medications and detergent. Yulia and her friends
began to collect and deliver aid to these people —
but, to their astonishment, within a few months the
refugees suddenly left for Mariupol, on buses
provided by the local government. The volunteers
believe that Russian authorities manipulate the
refugees, enticing them back to Mariupol and other
uninhabitable places with free transportation and
promises of “compensation” for their demolished
homes. But the Ukrainians’ real motives in
returning to Mariupol might be more complicated.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 43_Percent_of_Americans_Are_Worried_About
Threats_of_Violence_at_the_Polls⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Inside_Viktor_Orbán’s_response_to_the_war
in_Ukraine⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Cardboard_Box_Tycoons_Are_Bankrolling_Election
Denial⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fueled_by_Big_Lie_Conspiracy,_GOP_Officials
Move_to_Hand_Counts_in_Arizona,_Nevada⠀⇛
The interim county clerk in Nye County, Nevada
directed six teams of five people each to begin a
hand count on Wednesday after the Nevada Supreme
Court gave approval for the plan last week.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_DOJ_Under_Trump_Resisted
Efforts_to_Join_the_‘Big_Lie’—We_Might_Not_Be_So_Lucky_Next
Time⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_In_Face_of_GOP_Threats,_Democrats
Should_Raise,_Suspend,_or_Abolish_Debt_Ceiling⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Ahval ☛ Turkish_top_doctor_arrested_for_proposing_chemical
weapons_investigation⠀⇛
The 63-year-old, a forensic expert, has spent much
of her career documenting torture and ill-
treatment, and is a leading human rights activist
in Turkey. She has served also as president of the
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
Turkish newspaper Birgun and other media reported
that she was detained in Istanbul following an
early-morning raid on her home and was being taken
to Ankara, where the chief public prosecutor’s
office has launched a probe against her last week.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Brazil’s_Governments_Amps_Up_Anti-Free_Speech
Tactics_Ahead_Of_National_Election⠀⇛
The Brazilian government — under the “leadership”
of Donald Trump Mutual Admiration Society member
Jair Bolsonaro — has been steadily cracking down on
free speech under the guise of saving the public
from “fake news” and other misinformation.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Wins_Against_FOSTA_Lawsuit:_9th_Circuit
Says_FOSTA_Requires_Knowledge_Of_Violation⠀⇛
There’s this weird thing that people who hate
Section 230 continue to ignore: that if you just
take away Section 230, it doesn’t magically make
companies liable for the actions of their users. If
you studied the history of Section 230 (i.e., read
Jeff Kosseff’s excellent book on the topic) or just
had a passing familiarity with the nature of
concepts such as scienter and mens rea, you might
understand these things. But most people, falsely,
assume that without Section 230, websites
automatically become liable for the things their
users do, even if the websites are totally unaware
of the details.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Chelsea_Manning:_US_Military_Pressured_Me
To_Plead_Guilty_To_‘Aiding_The_Enemy’⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Iran:_Another_female_student_killed_during
protests_against_hijab_law⠀⇛
The victim, Negin Abdulmaleki, who was a medical
engineering student at the Hamadan University of
Technology, hailed from Qorveh city in Sanandaj
province of Iran. She was killed two weeks ago, but
the incident was hidden from the media
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Iran_Forces_Fire_on_Protesters_Marking_40
Days_Since_Mahsa_Amini’s_Death⠀⇛
Wednesday’s demonstrations, which reportedly took
place in around 30 Iranian cities, were a
continuation of nationwide and international
protests sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa
Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested
by so-called morality police three days earlier and
reportedly beaten for violating the fundamentalist
theocracy’s strict Islamic dress code.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tens_of_Thousands_in_Iran_Mourn_Mahsa
Amini,_Whose_Death_Set_Off_Protests⠀⇛
By evening, demonstrations had spread across the
country to many cities and university campuses with
large crowds in the streets clapping and defiantly
chanting the mantras of the protests: “Women, Life,
Freedom” and “We will fight and take Iran back,”
according to videos on social media.
In the capital, Tehran, women tossed their head
scarves onto bonfires in the street, shouting
“Freedom, freedom,” videos showed. In many places,
the protesters targeted Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei and chanted for his death and removal.
Some crowds in the city fought back, chasing
security forces and setting fire to their
motorcycles.
Security forces attacked protesters with tear gas,
beat them with batons and in some places, like
Tehran, Qazvin and Saghez, even opened fire on
them, videos showed.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_Iran,_the_Revolution_is_Being
Feminized⠀⇛
As the young woman’s father explained to a reporter
soon after, “My son begged them not to take her,
but he was beaten too, his clothes were ripped
off.”
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Framing_Disability_as_Disqualification_in_Fetterman/
Oz_Debate⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Fetterman_&_Oz_Spar_on_Abortion,_Student
Debt_&_Economy_in_Closely_Watched_Senate_Debate_In_Penn.⠀⇛
The candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania met
Tuesday for their first and only debate in a race
being closely watched across the country as a
possible bellwether for the midterm elections.
Trump-backed Republican nominee and TV personality
Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, sparred with
Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman about crime,
inflation, abortion and more. The night was a major
test for Fetterman, who used a closed captioning
device as he recovers from a major stroke that has
resulted in auditory processing difficulties. “No
matter where you come down politically, it was a
very hard night for John Fetterman in terms of
where he was at with his stroke recovery and trying
to deal with a format like this,” says journalist
Will Bunch, who called the debate “one of the most
make-or-break nights I’ve seen in my lifetime of
covering politics.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Belongs_Nowhere_Near_the_US_Senate’:_Oz
Says_Local_Politicians_Should_Play_a_Role_in_Abortion
Decisions⠀⇛
“There should not be involvement from the federal
government in how states decide their abortion
decisions,” Oz said when asked about his position
on abortion, which has become a central midterm
issue following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June
decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Organization.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Building_“Feminist_Jails”_Ignores_a_Larger
Problem⠀⇛
A reformist approach to women’s incarceration
places the responsibility of reform on the
individual, not the institution.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_police_make_arrests_in_extortion_case
involving_associates_of_2018_presidential_candidate_Ksenia
Sobchak,_who_promptly_fled_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On Wednesday, a Moscow judge jailed Kirill
Sukhanov, the commercial director of journalist and
socialite Ksenia Sobchak, on charges of trying to
extort 11 million rubles ($178,650) from Rostec
head Sergey Chemezov and at least one other victim
in exchange for burying negative news coverage on
the Telegram channel Tushite Svet (Lights Out!).
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘Man_With_No_Name’
By_Fantastic_Negrito⠀⇛
In Virginia, back in 1759, a white Scottish servant
named Elizabeth Gallimore fell in love with a black
slave whose name had been lost over time. Their
great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson,
Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, who performs under the
pseudonym Fantastic Negrito, has released a
compelling concept album, “White Jesus Black
Problems,” based on his recently discovered
lineage. The ambitious multimedia project includes
a companion film, and Fantastic Negrito says the
project was produced to challenge a popular
narrative around polarization.“There’s a feeling
out there right now that we can’t get anything done
because we’re so polarized, soentrenched in our
ideologies and unmoved by facts or logic, but I
wanted to share this story because Ithink it
smashes that narrative to pieces,” Fantastic
Negrito declared. “I stand on the shoulders of my
ancestors, both Black and white, who showed me that
anything is possible. There was a lot of ugliness
in their story, but there was a lot of beauty, too,
because in the end, perseverance overcame.”“Man
with No Name,” which appears on the album, is a
painful reminder that often the identity and
experiences of the oppressed are erased. With the
song (and album), the stories of the courageous
forgotten are reclaimed and finally told. The
message, “I keep moving on,” encourages
perseverance even when it is difficult to be
hopeful.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Investigation:_Child_Protective_Services
Agencies_Nearly_Always_Blow_Off_Warrant_Requirements_To_Enter
Homes⠀⇛
Governments set up rules governing how they govern.
Then they ignore them. So, what’s the point? Is it
a nod to decorum before the proverbial government
party guest throws up in the bathtub and hits on
your mom?
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Comcast_Forces_Users_To_Buy_Comcast_Hardware_If
They_Want_Faster_Upload_Speeds⠀⇛
For decades, consumers have mostly wanted one thing
from their ISP: a semi-affordable dumb pipe
connection for the Internet. For just as long, US
ISPs have bucked this demand, routinely trying to
saddle users with higher costs and additional
services consumer never asked for, while finding
strange new ways to make an additional buck on the
back of what are usually captive customers.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Why_Embedding_Content_Matters⠀⇛
Imagine waking up in the morning, grabbing your hot
cup of coffee, and scrolling your favorite blog
post or website, only to find it looking like this…
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ AIM ☛ GitHub_Copilot:_The_Latest_in_the_List_of_AI
Generative_Models_Facing_Copyright_Allegations⠀⇛
GitHub is trained upon billions of lines of
public code. But, there is no surety over
whether the training data comes as fair use
under copyright law. In presenting the case,
Butterick writes that Microsoft characterises
Copilot’s output code as only a series of
“suggestions” and does not claim any rights
over it. Additionally, he also cites a
passage from GitHub’s website showing how
Microsoft plays safe by pushing the blame
onto the end user: [...]
# ⚓ MWL ☛ My_Inevitable(?)_Amazon_Tech_Ebook_Exit⠀⇛
If I price an ebook at $9.99, I make about $7
at any distributor.
If I price that same ebook at $14.99, I make
about $10 everywhere but Amazon, and $4.50 at
Amazon.
In short, ebook prices of $10-$19.99 are a
“dead zone” that benefits nobody but Amazon.
I must price my book over $20 to make more
per sale than I would by pricing at $9.99.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Unfortunately,_Paying_For_The_Public
Domain_Already_Exists_In_Many_Countries⠀⇛
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on a
terrible idea in France: requiring companies
to pay for the use of public domain material.
As the post explained, this is a subversion
of what it means for something to enter the
public domain, and a betrayal of the implicit
bargain of copyright. Fortunately, the plan
was dropped, partly as a result of the
outrage it generated.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘AI-Powered’_Music_Mixer_Responds_to
RIAA_Copyright_Infringement_Claims⠀⇛
The operator of several “AI” powered music
mixer and extractor sites has responded to
the RIAA’s copyright infringement
allegations. The rebuttal admits that using
popular artists to showcase its technology
wasn’t smart so the references have been
removed. However, the services themselves are
not infringing. In fact, one of the core
algorithms is created and publicly shared by
Deezer.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ France:_15%_of_Blocked_Live_Sports
Pirates_Go_Legal,_46%_Pirate_Elsewhere⠀⇛
Amid claims that live sports piracy in France
was recently cut in half, anti-piracy agency
Arcom says that 40% of illegal stream viewers
observed at least one website block in 2022.
In response, an impressive 15% decided to go
legal, but others weren’t so readily
converted. Close to half migrated to other
pirate sites, with around 12% of blocked
pirates deploying VPNs or modified DNS
settings.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ If_health_isn’t_there⠀⇛
… then nothing is there. Health is the most
important aspect of your life!
# ⚓ how_did_you_start_dev_(for_those_who_do)?⠀⇛
I am curious about the tech savvy patrons of The
Midnight (which is likely many of us, though no
trouble if one is not) about how they got into
(web) development, computers, in general?
# ⚓ Exteme_mazes,_Brevard_NC_edition⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dusting_out_the_box⠀⇛
I realized it’s been awhile since I posted. This is
mainly due to painting myself into a corner; I was
trying way too hard to make this particular online
identity the one I use for Deep or Controversial
thoughts.
But I find that coming up with something worth
writing about in this (imagined) context was
exceedingly difficult, and I didn’t want to just
have a blog where I complain about day-to-day life.
There’s also the fact that many of these issues or
questions haven’t changed or been resolved
especially. Change is typically incremental.
# ⚓ Star_Log_2022-10-24_(Fairbanks,_Alaska,_US)⠀⇛
Stargazing is still a struggle with overcast skies
every night. But the sky cleared up just enough
late this morning that I could do a few minutes of
stargazing right before clocking in for work. Once
again, I only had my 4×30 binoculars on hand, which
made it harder.
[...]
Something that stuck out to me this morning was
Vega, off to the North: It seemed to me like it’s
color was sparkling brightly and dramatically, like
some distant police car with the emergency lights
all turned on. I thought I saw the color red and
some other colors. Stellarium has it categorized as
a “pulsating variable star, double star”, so maybe
that explains it. But perhaps there was also some
effect from the atmosphere, being as it was fairly
low on the horizon at the time. This was about 6:
20am AKDT.
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Bringing_Back_my_Blog⠀⇛
There are 715 posts going back to January
2003 just sitting there, in an archived git
repository. Many are not very good, and I
don’t want to bring them back from the
graveyard, but there are some good ones too.
Especially I want to bring back the very
first blog post I made, for reasons of
vanity, mainly, so I can say I have been
having a blog since 2003, back when blogs
were just starting to take off, and you kind
of had to get your hands dirty with a bit of
code, or at least HTML, to start doing
anything on the web.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Reviews
o New_Release_of_Zorin
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Raku
# Kernel
# PHP
# Java
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ MANJARO_has_a_BIG_PROBLEM_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Lubuntu_22.10._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show how to install
Lubuntu 22.10.
# ⚓ Video ☛ TUXEDO_OS_1_Quick_overview_#linux_#tuxedoos_–
Invidious⠀⇛
A Quick Overview of TUXEDO OS 1
# ⚓ FSFE ☛ SFP#17:_Citizen_participation_through_Free_Software
with_Petter_Joelson_–_FSFE⠀⇛
In this 17th episode of the Software Freedom
Podcast Matthias Kirschner and Petter Joelson
uncover how Free Software can be a tool for
citizens to actively participate in their local
community. Petter invites you into the world of
Decidim and explains what citizen participation
should look like.
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_478:_Debunking_sudo_myths⠀⇛
Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your
Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and
Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis
Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new
debugbreak command, 7 sudo myths debunked
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_search_for_the_correct_amount_of_split-lock
misery_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Unlike many other architectures, x86 systems
support atomic operations that affect more than one
cache line. This support comes at a cost, though,
in terms of overall system performance and, even,
security. Over the last few years, kernel
developers have worked to discourage the use of
this sort of “split-lock” operation. Now, though,
one group of users is feeling a little too
discouraged, leading to a discussion of how much
misery can appropriately be inflicted upon users
who use problematic but architecturally legal
operations.
The problem with atomic operations that cross
cache-line boundaries is that the system bus must
take special measures to ensure that both cache
lines are simultaneously protected from concurrent
access. In practice, that means locking the bus for
the duration of the operation, which can stall
every other processor in the system. A malicious
program executing a tight loop with a split-lock
operation can destroy the performance of the system
as a whole. For this reason, split-lock operations
have long been frowned upon.
Unfortunately, software that is malicious (or just
poorly written) turns out to be remarkably
indifferent to even the most severe of frowns. So,
starting in 2019, kernel developers sought more
persuasive ways to get their point across. The
initial work was done by Fenghua Yu but, in the
end, this patch by Peter Zijlstra was merged in
January 2020 for the 5.7 kernel release.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_rest_of_the_6.1_merge_window⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds released 6.1-rc1 and closed the 6.1
merge window on October 16; at that point, 11,537
non-merge changesets had been pulled into the
mainline repository. That is considerably less than
the 13,543 changesets pulled during the 6.0 merge
window, but quantity is not everything: there were
quite a few significant changes brought in this
time around. Many of those were part of the nearly
5,800 changesets pulled since our first 6.1 merge
window summary; read on for a look at some of the
work done in the latter part of this merge window.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Identity_management_for_WireGuard⠀⇛
Since its inclusion in the Linux kernel, the
WireGuard VPN tunnel has become increasingly
popular. In general, WireGuard is simpler to
configure than other VPNs, but the approach that it
takes to authentication can present some
challenges. Each node in a WireGuard network has a
cryptographic key that serves as the node’s
identity; nodes that do not know each other’s keys
cannot directly communicate. Keeping track of these
keys and distributing them to the other nodes in a
mesh network quickly becomes a chore as the network
grows. Fortunately, there are now several open-
source tools that can automate the management of
these keys and make using WireGuard easier for both
administrators and end users.
Key management can be particularly challenging for
non-technical end users, who are used to logging
into services with a username and password. Thus,
the main feature that all of these tools have in
common is that they allow a user to log into a
WireGuard network using a username and password
(and possibly a second factor, such as a one-time
password). This is usually accomplished by
integrating with an identity provider that
implements the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard. OIDC
is built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and can
be used to implement the ubiquitous “Sign in with
Some Big Company” functionality seen on many web
sites.
Some of the software discussed in this article
requires an OIDC provider; there are several open-
source options for people who aren’t already
running their own and don’t want to farm the task
out to some big company. Keycloak is one of the
most mature and popular choices and Authelia is an
up-and-coming alternative.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_first_look_at_Rust_in_the_6.1_kernel_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
October 13, 2022 There have been a lot of
significant changes merged into the mainline for
the 6.1 release, but one of the changes that has
received the most attention will also have the
least short-term effect for users of the kernel:
the introduction of support for the Rust
programming language. No system with a production
6.1 kernel will be running any Rust code, but this
change does give kernel developers a chance to play
with the language in the kernel context and get a
sense for how Rust development feels. Perhaps the
most likely conclusion for most developers, though,
will be that there isn’t yet enough Rust in the
kernel to do much of anything interesting.
Work on Rust for the Linux kernel has been going on
for a few years, and it has resulted in the
creation of a lot of support code and some
interesting drivers to look at. There are other
initiatives underway, including the writing of an
Apple graphics driver in the Rust language. For the
initial merge into the mainline kernel, though,
Linus Torvalds made it clear that as little
functionality as possible should be included. So
those drivers and their support code were trimmed
out and must wait for a future kernel release. What
is there is the support needed to build a module
that can be loaded into the kernel, along with a
small sample module.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ SFTPGo:_Open_Source_SFTP_Server_with_WebDAV
Support⠀⇛
SFTPGo is a feature-rich open source SFTP server
that offers HTTP/S, FTP, FTPS, and WebDAV support.
It also supports several storage backends as local
filesystem, encrypted local filesystem, S3
(compatible) Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage,
Azure Blob Storage, SFTP.
The project is written in the Go programming
language. It is an ideal solution for enterprise
companies and creative team which require something
fast and efficient.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Open_Source_WebDAV_Servers⠀⇛
WebDAV is an extension protocol to HTTP that allows
users to create, move and edit remote documents on
the server.
WebDAV is widely used for file sharing, file
collaboration between teams and groups. It is
widely used in many enterprise apps as groupware,
and ERP solutions.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Problem_with_mount_utility_when_non-root⠀⇛
Posting about this, in case anyone else is puzzled
by the behaviour of the ‘mount’ utility.
I am working on running EasyOS as user “zeus”,
where zeus has administrator rights. That means you
don’t have to prepend “sudo” to do stuff, such as
mount a partition.
No problem with ‘mount’ in busybox, mounting and
unmounting work when running as user zeus. Busybox
in Easy is currently version 1.32.0.
The ‘util-linux’ package is version 2.35.1, and it
has the “full” ‘mount’ utility, currently named /
bin/mount-FULL
I do intend to get rid of that weird name, just
have the one /bin/mount. Busybox mount does almost
everything the “full” mount does, except “mount -
t ext4 -o offset=<number> imagefile mntpt” does not
work — that “offset” parameter isn’t recognized.
However, I looked at the source for version 1.35.0
and it looks like that parameter is now supported.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Busybox_1.34.1_compiled_in_OE⠀⇛
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Customize_GNOME_42_with_A_Polished_Look⠀⇛
A tutorial on how you can give your favourite GNOME
desktop a polished look, in 5 minutes.
There are many ways you can customize your
favourite GNOME desktop with icons, themes, cursors
and wallpapers. This article shows you how to give
the GNOME 42 desktop a more polished look. The
GNOME 42 desktop environment is available with the
recently released Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Fedora 36.
Before you read further, here’s how it looks with a
side by side comparison (before and after).
# ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_run_Kafdrop_the_Kafka_Web_UI_in_Docker_and
Docker_compose⠀⇛
Kafdrop is a web UI for viewing Kafka topics and
browsing consumer groups. The tool displays
information such as brokers, topics, partitions,
consumers, and lets you view messages. Apache Kafka
is an open-source platform. Kafka was originally
developed by Linkedin and was later incubated as
the Apache Project.
# ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_run_Apache_Kafka_in_Docker_and_Docker
Compose⠀⇛
Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and
stream-processing platform. It is an open-source
system developed by the Apache Software Foundation
written in Java and Scala.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Proton_GE_on_SteamOS
and_Linux⠀⇛
Proton GE is a bleeding-edge version of Steam’s
Proton. It adds many patches and fixes ahead of
main Proton releases. Proton GE even has a
counterpart for non-Steam games called Wine GE.
Many Linux gamers consider Proton GE and Wine GE to
be essential software for Linux gaming.
Proton GE and Wine GE are also easy to install. You
can either install them manually or through an app.
Linux gamers can use this guide to get Proton GE
and Wine GE in a breeze. This tutorial will work
for Steam Deck users, as well as any desktop
running a Linux distribution.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Download_YouTube_Videos_on_Linux_Using
yt-dlp⠀⇛
yt-dlp is a command-line tool that lets you
download YouTube videos and playlists to save them
offline for later. Here’s how to use it on Linux.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_new_GNOME_Console
terminal_emulator_on_Ubuntu-based_distributions_|
TechRepublic⠀⇛
If you’ve been following along with the latest
GNOME desktop news, you’re probably aware that
there’s a new terminal emulator around. Say goodbye
to GNOME Terminal and say hello to GNOME Console.
This new app is a part of the new GNOME direction
which aims to clean up and simplify the user
interfaces such that any would feel instantly
familiar with the UI. I’m here to tell you that the
developers have done a remarkable job with the new
console tool.
To be fair to GNOME Terminal, I will say that GNOME
Console does feel like a stripped-down version. It
doesn’t offer nearly the customizations of
Terminal, so for some it might seem a bit
barebones, but it is clean looking and makes using
the command line much simpler.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_Desktop_GUI_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS_Linux⠀⇛
Tutorial to install Docker Desktop GUI on Ubuntu
22.04 Linux LTS Jammy JellyFish and manage
containers using a Graphical user interface.
The general way to manage Docker containers is by
using the command line interface. However, those
who are beginners or just want a Graphical use
interface to manage their Docker images and
containers can go for “Docker Desktop” for Linux.
It is an easy-to-install free application provided
by the developers of Docker. We can install it on
Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems. However,
larger enterprises with more than 250 employees
need to purchase a paid subscription.
The benefit of using Docker Desktop is, it offers a
simple interface that let users manage containers,
applications, and images on their local PC without
touching the command line.
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Installing_Burp’s_CA_certificate_in_Chrome_–
Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_phpBB_on_AlmaLinux_9_–
LinuxTuto⠀⇛
phpBB is an acronym for PHP Bulletin Board. It is a
fully scalable and customizable open-source forum
written in PHP. It can be used to to create forums,
start topics and share ideas.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_run_Python_Scripts_with_Apache_and
mod_wsgi_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
The Apache module mod_wsgi provides an interface
for hosting Python-based web applications.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Implementing_SSL_Perfect_Forward_Secrecy_in
NGINX_Web-Server⠀⇛
This HOW-TO describes the process of implementing
Perfect Forward Secrecy with the NGINX web-server
on Debian and Ubuntu systems.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_To_Execute_a_Bash_Script_Without_./_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Since Bash looks in the default locations for
commands to execute at the CLI, we need to add the
“./” proceeding the command.
# ⚓ Windows Central ☛ How_to_run_any_Linux_distro_alongside
Windows_11_|_Windows_Central [Ed: Misleading. The
Microsofters suggest running fake 'Linux' which is in fact
Windows spyware crippled by design to make GNU/Linux looks
bad]⠀⇛
or 21H2, if you are a developer, network
administrator, or advanced user who needs to use
Linux tools, you don’t need a second computer since
the system offers different solutions to run Linux
alongside Windows, including the Windows Subsystem
for Linux and Hyper-V.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Setup_APT_Proxy_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
A proxy server is an intermediate server that sits
between the client computer and the internet. In
this tutorial, we will show you how to set up proxy
settings and apt-proxy in Ubuntu 22.04 Server and
Desktop system.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 7_Linux_commands_to_gather_information
about_your_system_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Get information about your CPU, storage, RAM, BIOS,
and more without leaving the terminal.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SMTP_Commands:_Essential_SMTP_Commands_and
Response_Codes⠀⇛
The ASCII Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
comes with an array of commands and response codes.
It functions on a client-server interface and uses
TCP port 25. Since SMTP sessions are conversations
between SMTP clients and SMTP servers, SMTP
commands are often sent from the client machine to
the server device.
Every command should consist of the keyword for the
command and zero or more arguments. So, while some
keywords contain one or more arguments, the
keywords for several commands will not have any
accompanying arguments.
The commands can either be supported by SMTP,
CSSMTP, or both. Notably, a client sends commands
in alphabetical characters while the server
responds using numerical codes.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Referential_Integrity⠀⇛
Referential Integrity is discussed in this tutorial
in the relational database context. Referential
integrity is a data property, stating that all its
references are valid. Two tables are concerned
here. One is called the referenced or parent table.
This referenced table has a primary key, which may
be made up of one or more columns. The other table
has a foreign key whose values are the same as
those of the primary key of the referenced table.
The other table is referred to as a child table to
the parent table.
The number of columns that make up the foreign key
in the child table is the same as those that make
up the primary key in the referenced (parent)
table. All the foreign key values are found in the
column of the primary key. However, the values in
the foreign key column may repeat in the child
table.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Boyce–Codd,_Fourth_and_Fifth_Normal_Forms⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Install_Mate_Desktop_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
As time passes, one can get bored with the same
interface, which can be frustrating because we all
need something new at some point in our lives, and
the same goes with Debian 11, in which the default
theme isn’t good enough for most of the users. So,
today we will help you change the appearance of
your Debian 11 desktop environment by installing
Mate Desktop, which has a new, exciting, and
beautiful look.
This article will cover all aspects of Installing
Mate Desktop on Debian 11.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Installing_Google_Chrome_in_openSUSE⠀⇛
“Developed and maintained by Google, Google Chrome
is one of the most popular web browsers. At the
time of writing, Chrome has around 70% of the
browser market share across all devices. It’s a
cross-platform web browser that’s free of charge.”
This guide will teach us how to install Google
Chrome in openSUSE.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Fix_–_Failed_to_Start_Light_Display
Manager_Error_[Solved]⠀⇛
This post guides you on fixing the error – Failed
to Start Light Display Manager Error in Linux
systems.
I know it’s not a good feeling when you expect
something to come up on the screen and suddenly
face this particular error. It is uncomfortable
because you are lost in a terminal and unsure of
what to do.
If you follow some steps, it’s easier to fix. So,
let’s try to fix it.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Fetch_Cluster_Information_in
Cassandra⠀⇛
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ [Tutorial]_How_to_Install_Oracle_VirtualBox_in
Ubuntu_and_Linux_Mint⠀⇛
Oracle’s VirtualBox is a virtualization application
which brings several advanced features. It can
dynamically allocate virtual machine storage, USB,
networking, NVMe support and so on. However, other
free and open-source virtual machine apps are
available such as virt-manager, GNOME Boxes, etc.
They have their own benefits and features. However,
VirtualBox is a little advanced, hence ideal for
experienced users.
Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu and Linux
Mint (latest versions). And these steps also should
work in Debian and other Debian & ubuntu-based
distros.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Canonical’s_Adding_a_Neat_Ability_to_the_Steam
Snap_App_for_Gamers⠀⇛
Gaming on Linux is getting popular and evolving
every year, with Valve and the Steam Deck playing a
significant part.
According to the Steam Hardware and Software
survey, Ubuntu remains one of the most popular
Linux distros for gaming.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 10_Lightweight_Linux_Distributions_for_your
Old_Hardware_in_2022⠀⇛
We highlight a list of 10 lightweight Linux
Distributions ideal for your older PC in 2022. We
give you their features and what makes them perfect
for reviving older hardware.
We believe that you should not throw away any
hardware, especially PC and its components.
Ideally, well-designed software should always run
on any hardware. There are many Linux Distributions
specifically designed for older hardware and PCs.
And you can quickly revive them with the help of
these Linux operating systems. In this post, we
highlight ten such Linux Distributions which are
lightweight and old hardware friendly in 2022.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_GNOME_Project_is_closing_all
its_mailing_lists_•_The_Register⠀⇛
The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down
its mailing lists due to problems maintaining
the project’s GNU Mailman instance – which
relies on Python 2 – and a lack of
moderators.
The community’s leaders maintain a
substantial selection of mailing lists,
hosted via the GNU Project’s Mailman tool. It
also hosts its own instance of the Discourse
web forum tool, notably also used by
Canonical to host the official Ubuntu forums.
That’s going to change, and very soon: at the
end of this month. Announcements on several
of the lists, such as here on the list for
the Evolution email client, state that the
lists are closing down, and discussions must
move to Discourse.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Reviews⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Mabox_Linux_–_Beautiful_Arch_Linux_with
Openbox_[Review]⠀⇛
Mabox Linux is a Manjaro Linux re-spin with a
lightweight Openbox window manager, ready to use
with pre-configured themes and utilities. We review
the distribution in this post.
If you love window manager, rolling-release-based
Arch Linux and are looking for a ready-made Linux
distribution with this combination, try Mabox
Linux. The Mabox Linux is built on top of the great
Manjaro Linux with Openbox Window manager and
several native utilities.
Thanks to the Openbox, this Linux distribution is
super-lightweight in resource consumption while
being a beautiful desktop for everyone to use. The
Mabox Linux tools adapted from BunsenLabs and
inspired by Crunchbang brings some of their
applications.
Let’s do a deep dive on this awesome Linux
Distribution.
o § New Release of Zorin⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Arrives_as_a_Friendly_and
Accessible_Alternative_to_Windows_11⠀⇛
Coming about seven and a half months after Zorin OS
16.1 and still based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal
Fossa), the Zorin OS 16.2 release is here to
introduce various refinements that promise to make
your Zorin OS desktop experience better and more
enjoyable.
Zorin OS 16.2 adds a new “Windows App Support” menu
item in the Applications menu’s System Tools
section to make it easier for users to install
Windows apps and games with just a few clicks. It
also supports detecting more Windows installer
files for popular apps and games and provides
alternatives to Windows apps.
# ⚓ Zorin_OS_16.2_Has_Landed_–_Zorin⠀⇛
Just over a year after we released Zorin OS 16 in
August 2021, we’re thrilled to say that it’s been
downloaded over 3.5 million times. We’ve been
overwhelmed by the terrific feedback we’ve heard
from users around the world. Thank you all for
helping to make this the biggest release of Zorin
OS ever!
Today, we’re excited to announce Zorin OS 16.2. It
introduces refinements that elevate the desktop
experience even further. Read on to learn about
what’s new since Zorin OS 16.1.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_is_Now_Available_to_Download_–
OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
This is the second point release of the Ubuntu-
based distribution since Zorin OS 16 made its debut
back in in August of last year, and is still based
on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Zorin OS 16.2 is said to “introduce refinements
that elevate the desktop experience even further”.
Let’s take a closer look.
# ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_is_available_now_–_Real
Linux_User⠀⇛
On this website, I actually write relatively few
news-related Linux and Open Source articles. My
goal for this website is mainly to write articles
that hold their value for a longer time, such as
individual tutorials and complete tutorial series.
But sometimes there is news that makes my heart
beat a little bit faster. If you are a regular
reader of this website, you probably know I have a
soft spot for Zorin OS. So if a new Zorin OS
release has landed, you understand that I like to
try it out and write a review for it. And today is
the day that the new Zorin OS 16.2 is available for
all of us. So let’s have a look.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_makes_it_even_easier_to_switch
from_Microsoft_Windows_11_to_Linux⠀⇛
Want to know a secret? If you don’t like Windows
11, then you don’t have to use it. Look, in 2022,
there are plenty of legitimate alternatives. For
instance, you can buy a Mac or a Chromebook. If you
want to use your existing comouter, however, you
can just install a traditional Linux distribution
such as Ubuntu.
One of the best Linux-based operating systems for
Windows-switchers these days is Zorin OS. This
distribution is based on Ubuntu, but improves upon
that distro by offering a more user-focused
experience — particularly for current Windows
users. Today, Zorin OS 16.2 becomes available, and
the newest version of the operating system makes it
even easier to ditch Windows 11. You see, with
Zorin OS 16.2, you can run Windows programs with
ease.
“For those who wish to use Windows apps and games
in Zorin OS, we’ve made it even easier to find and
install Windows App Support. You can now simply
open the Zorin Menu, navigate to the ‘System Tools’
section, and open ‘Windows App Support’ to activate
it in one click,” explains the developers.
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Ventoy_1.0.81_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable
USB drive for ISO files.With ventoy, you don’t need
to format the disk again and again, you just need
to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy
will give you a boot menu.
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Thunderbird_102.4.1_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and
newsgroup client. Thunderbird has been updated
102.4.1 and shipped to the PCLinuxOS software
repository.
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Firefox_106.0.2_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web
browser descended from the Mozilla Application
Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Call_for_Testing_Next_Generation_Installer_–
openSUSE_News⠀⇛
Members of the openSUSE Project’s release team are
asking community to help the YaST team with early
testing of the installer images.
The installer is progressing its way to openSUSE
Factory and will arrive in an Adaptable Linux
Platform prototype at a later date.
The installer, which is reffered to as the D-
Installer by the YaST team, has installer images
for testing and is seeking input/feedback through a
feedback guide.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Post-quantum_cryptography:_Hash-based
signatures⠀⇛
Last quarter, I introduced the issue where our
existing public key cryptography algorithms are
vulnerable to a potentially new form of computers
called quantum computers. In this article I
introduce one of the better understood potential
replacements: Hash-based signatures.
# ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ Meta_Income_Down_by_Half_|_Will_Apple
Make_it_Worse?_|_Linux_Secure_Boot_Fix_–_DevOps.com⠀⇛
⚓ 3. Linux Secure Boot Shenanigans⠀⇛
Big changes are proposed to systemd. Lennart
Poettering’s goals are to provide a signed and
measured execution path from firmware to userspace,
with rollback protection and remote attestation,
atop TPM 2.0.
Analysis: Good luck with that
There’s already enough loud grumbling about systemd
and Poettering—for example, code bloat and
uncomfortable ties to IBM and Microsoft. And now
he’s proposing using a proprietary Microsoft file
format (PE). This move will only amplify the
critics. Is it time for someone like Google to
offer an alternative init system?
# ⚓ Rakuten_dumps_Red_Hat,_turns_to_“true”_open-source_Linux
OS,_Digital_Platforms_–_Services_|_TelecomTV⠀⇛
Rakuten Mobile has dealt a major blow to Red Hat by
deciding to remove the vendor’s software from its
mobile network platform in Japan following some
product support and business relationship decisions
that, according to Rakuten Mobile CEO Tareq Amin
(pictured above), “killed my business model”.
Talking to reporters and analysts on the side of
the Fyuz event in Madrid, Amin provided updates on
a number of developments related to the Open RAN
sector, Rakuten Mobile and the operator’s network
software offshoot Rakuten Symphony, which is
selling applications, network functions and systems
integration and support services to other operators
around the world.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ You’re_invited_to_the_Fedora_Linux_37
Release_Party!⠀⇛
As we work our way through the Fedora Linux 37
Schedule, I am excited to announce that we will
celebrate the final release of Fedora Linux 37 with
a virtual Release Party. Please register on Hopin
and join us on November 4th & 5th for a short
program of informational sessions and social
activities. Make sure to save the dates, share the
registration, and show up to celebrate with Fedora
Friends, old and new!
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_4_questions
to_help_drive_momentum [Ed: ICBM selling extra complexity
(vendor lockin) under the auspices of "digital
transformation" or "modernisation"]⠀⇛
Nowadays, conversations around digital
transformation involve countless definitions,
strategies, and implementations. But when all is
said and done, success stories are not as common as
we might hope. In fact, according to our survey,
less than 27 percent of organizations succeed in
their digital transformation efforts.
Enterprises often find themselves stuck at some
stage of their digital transformation journey. Some
find it challenging to move beyond the pilot phase;
others struggle to scale beyond the “start small”
phase. Here are four questions to help your digital
transformation initiative move forward.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ EIN Presswire ☛ TNSR®_vRouter_Software_Release_22.10_is
Here_–_EIN_Presswire⠀⇛
As mentioned previously, Netgate has moved the
underlying OS base from CentOS to Ubuntu – driven
by Red Hat’s shift from CentOS Linux to CentOS
Stream
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Understanding_AWS_pricing [Ed: Canonical as clown
computing reseller for Pentagon firms (GAFAM)]⠀⇛
# ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Elektrobit_partners_with_Canonical_to_pave
the_way_to_a_new_era_of_software-defined_vehicles⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Elektrobit_partners_with_Canonical_to_pave_the_way
to_a_new_era_of_software-defined_vehicles_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Elektrobit and Canonical today announced a
partnership to bring the benefits of Canonical’s
Ubuntu operating system to automotive software.
As the industry transitions towards software-
defined vehicles, the new partnership will make it
easier than ever before for car makers, suppliers,
and developers to create the next generation of
vehicle applications, while meeting stringent
automotive standards.
Combining Canonical’s leading open-source Linux
operating system with Elektrobit’s expertise in
automotive-grade embedded software will enable
long-term maintenance, over-the-air updates and
functional vehicle safety innovation, all
underpinned by Ubuntu’s unparalleled developer
community.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ WiFi_HaLow_IoT_gateway_is_based_on_Morse
Micro_MM6108_802.11ah_chip⠀⇛
The gateway is based on the AsiaRF MM610X-001 WiFi
HaLow module based on the Morse Micro MM6108 and
mesuring just 22 x 17mm. WiFi HaLow supports access
point, station, and bridge modes. The company does
not list the operating system, but there should be
a Linux distribution, most probably OpenWrt,
running on the MIPS processor.
The data rate of WiFi HaLow will depend on the
range, and the further away you go the lower the
bandwidth and/or link rate. Four bandwidths are
available each with several link rates to choose
from…
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Five_common_Android_problems_and_how_you
can_fix_them_|_Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_9_Best_Ad-Free_Health_and_Fitness_Apps
for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_updates_are_boring,_and_that’s
okay_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ How_to_get_earthquake_alerts_on_your
Android_phone_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_allows_Android_partners_to_make_Amazon
Fire_TV_models⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ OnePlus_shows_off_Android_13_beta_schedule⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ OnePlus_offers_vague_timeline_for_its
Android_13_beta_rollout_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Onyx_BOOX_Tab_Ultra_is_a_10.3_inch_Android
tablet_with_an_E_Ink_display,_16MP_camera_and_pen_and
keyboard_support_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_Play_in_EU_antitrust_sights_as_Android
fine_appeal_pending_|_Reuters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Google_Pixel_7_Pro_review:_Pure_Android_joy
with_magical_camera_|_Deccan_Herald⠀⇛
# ⚓ New_Android_Games:_Best_New_Android_Games_This_Week⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Getting_Help_With_Unscrambling_A_Word
For_Your_Android_Games⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_house_and_home_apps_on_Android_in
2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Express ☛ Google_bans_16_popular_Android_apps!_Millions
need_to_delete_them_now_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Camera_8.6:_Android_13,_Pixel_6_speech,
.7x_[New_update]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Android_13_Starts_Rolling_Out_To_Vivo
X80_Pro_Flagship⠀⇛
# Gizmo China ☛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Android_12_finally_making_its_way_to_the
Nokia_G21_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Samsung_ends_Android_updates_for_first_Galaxy
Fold_model⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_edit_a_PDF_on_Android_(for_free)
–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_update_Google_Play_Services_on_your
Android_phone_or_tablet⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ We_asked,_you_told_us:_Your_Android
phone_definitely_isn’t_rooted⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ iPadOS’s_bloat_is_an_opportunity_for
Google_to_revitalize_Android_on_tablets⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Chris_H-C:_This_Week_in_Glean:_Page_Load_Data,_Three
Ways_(Or,_How_Expensive_Are_Events?)⠀⇛
At Mozilla we make, among other things, Web
Browsers which we tend to call Firefox. The
central activity in a Web Browser like
Firefox is loading a web page. It gets done a
lot by each and every one of our users, and
so you can imagine that data about pageloads
is of important business interest to us.
But exactly because this is done a lot and by
every one of our users, this inspires
concerns of scale and cost. How much does it
cost us to learn more about pageloads?[0]
As with all things in Data, the answer is the
same: “Well, it depends.”
In this case it depends on how you record the
data. How you record the data depends on what
questions you hope to answer with it. We’re
going to stick to the simplest of questions
to make this (highly-suspect) comparison even
remotely comparable.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNUnet ☛ GNUnet_0.18.0_released⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet
0.18.0.
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building
secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving
distributed applications. Our goal is to replace
the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting
from an application for secure publication of
files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic
protocol components and applications towards the
creation of a GNU internet.
This is a new major release. It breaks protocol
compatibility with the 0.17.x versions. Please be
aware that Git master is thus henceforth (and has
been for a while) INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.17.x
GNUnet network, and interactions between old and
new peers will result in issues. 0.17.x peers will
be able to communicate with Git master or 0.18.x
peers, but some services – in particular the DHT –
will not be compatible.
In terms of usability, users should be aware that
there are still a number of known open issues in
particular with respect to ease of use, but also
some critical privacy issues especially for mobile
users. Also, the nascent network is tiny and thus
unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive
amounts of interesting information. As a result,
the 0.18.0 release is still only suitable for early
adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ From_Lua_to_JSON:_refactoring_WirePlumber’s
configuration_system⠀⇛
Refactoring WirePlumber’s configuration system is
the first big feature I took up since I joined the
PipeWire/WirePlumber team a year back. It’s a year
well spent in my professional life, hanging around
with caring people and truly open source
technology. With what I have seen in the multimedia
stacks, I honestly believe PipeWire is the next
generation multimedia server and WirePlumber
playing the role of enhancing its utility and
appeal.
Let me cut back to the subject at hand.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Trick_Lua_into_becoming_an_object-oriented
language_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛
Lua isn’t an object-oriented programming language,
but a scripting language utilizing C functions and
a C-like syntax. However, there’s a cool hack you
can use within Lua code to make Lua act like an
object-oriented language when you need it to be.
The key is in the Lua table construct, and this
article demonstrates how to use a Lua table as a
stand-in for an object-oriented class.
[...]
The term “object-oriented” is a fancy way of
describing, essentially, a templating system.
Imagine you’re programming an application to help
users spot and log zombies during a zombie
apocalypse. You’re using an object-oriented
language like C++, Java, or Python. You need to
create code objects that represent different types
of zombies so the user can drag them around and
arrange them on a map of the city. Of course a
zombie can be any number of things: dormant, slow,
fast, hungry, ravenous, and so on. That’s just
textual data, which computers are good at tracking,
and based on that data you could even assign the
virtual “object” a graphic so your user can
identify which general type of zombie each widget
represents.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_Python:_the_6.4.0.1_release,_what?⠀⇛
We regret to inform you that during the 6.4.0
release, we were attacked by release goblins.
# § Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ DEV Community ☛ Don’t_fear_the_grepper!_(4)_–_DEV
Community⠀⇛
The grep method allows one to filter a list
of values: either a value gets through, or it
does not. In this way, the functionality of
grep is rather limited.
What if you would not only like to filter out
unwanted values, but also would like to adapt
an acceptable value on the fly? Or turn a
single value into multiple values? With the
map method, you can!
The map method provides a superset of the
functionality of grep. But you can also use
it as grep with a block to do the filtering
(instead of using something to smart-match
against).
In many ways, understanding map well, will
make understanding a lot of aspects of the
Raku Programming Language a lot easier! So
let’s focus on that a bit.
[...]
This concludes the fourth part of the series,
this time introducing the map method. And
also introducing the concept of Empty, and
Slip in general. And also showing that you
can have a statement modifier version of if
if you don’t need an else or an elsif.!
Questions and comments are always welcome.
You can also drop into the #raku-beginner
channel on Libera.chat, or on Discord if
you’d like to have more immediate feedback.
# § Kernel⠀➾
# ⚓ “Old/weird_laptops”_sought_to_help_test_Linux_kernel
backlight_drivers_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
Do you have a laptop that’s either “pretty
old” or “weird in some other way”? Did it
ship without Windows from the factory, or did
you flash its firmware with coreboot? You
could help the Linux kernel move its
backlight code forward without abandoning
quirky gear like yours.
Hans de Goede, a longtime Linux developer and
principal engineer at Red Hat, writes on his
Livejournal about the need to test “a special
group of laptops” to prevent their backlight
controls from disappearing in Linux kernel
6.1.
Old laptop tests are needed because de Goede
is initiating some major changes to user-
space backlight controls, something he has
been working on since 2014. As detailed at
Linux blog Phoronix, there are multiple
issues with how Linux tries to address the
wide variety of backlight schemes in
displays, which de Goede laid out at the
recent Linux Plumbers Conference. There can
be multiple backlight devices operating a
single display, leaving high-level controls
to “guess which one will work.” Brightness
control requires root permissions at the
moment. And “0″ passed along as a backlight
value remains a conundrum, as the engineer
pointed out in 2014: Is that entirely off, or
as low as the display can be lit?
# ⚓ Kernel_6.1-rc#_might_break_backlight_control_on_old/
weird_laptops,_please_test:_hansdegoede_—_LiveJournal⠀⇛
I have landed a large(ish) refactor of the
ACPI/x86 backlight detection code in the
kernel for 6.1. I have been very careful to
try and not break things but there is a
special group of laptops where the ability to
control the backlight brightness may
disappear because of this.
The most likely laptops to be hit by this are
laptops which are either pretty old and or
which are weird in some other way (e.g.
flashed with coreboot, did not ship with
Windows as factory os, …). Note Chromebooks
are affected by this too, but that special
category has already been fixed.
You can check if your laptop is affected by
this by running “ls /sys/class/backlight” if
this shows only 1 entry and that entry is
named “intel_backlight”, “nouveau_bl”,
“amdgpu_bl0″ or “radeon_bl0″ then your laptop
might be affected.
# ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Notes_from_kernel_hacking_in_Hare,
part_3:_serial_driver⠀⇛
Today I would like to show you the
implementation of the first userspace driver
for Helios: a simple serial driver. All of
the code we’re going to look at today runs in
userspace, not in the kernel, so strictly
speaking this should be “notes from OS
hacking in Hare”, but I won’t snitch if you
don’t.
Note: In the previous entry to this series, I
promised to cover the userspace threading API
in this post. I felt like covering this
instead. Sorry!
A serial port provides a simple protocol for
transferring data between two systems. It
generalizes a bit, but for our purposes we
can just think of this as a terminal which
you can use over a simple cable and a simple
protocol. It’s a standard x86_64 feature
(though one which has been out of style for a
couple of decades now), and its simple design
(and high utility) makes it a good choice for
the first driver to write for Helios.
# § PHP⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern_PHP_features_explained_–_PHP_8.0_and_8.1_|
Laravel_News⠀⇛
Since its release in late 2020, PHP 8 has
been a game changer. In this tutorial, I will
walk through all the latest features with
real-world examples of when I might choose to
use them.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Modern_PHP_features_explained_–_PHP_8.0_and_8.1
(Laravel_News)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Since its release, PHP 8 has been a game
changer. In this tutorial, let’s walk through
all the latest features with real-world
examples of when to use them.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Substring⠀⇛
“The java substring is a part of the java
main string. As the java strings are
immutable, the initial string is left
unchanged, and a new string is returned by
this function. The new string is the
substring from the string. To extract the
desired substring using the substring method,
we must provide the starting index and ending
index as input. The substring returned from
this method depends on the index value
assigned to it.”
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Bos:_Do_we_need_a_“Rust_Standard”?_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Mara Bos has written a lengthy blog post on
whether the Rust language needs to be
standardized. The answer is “no” — but she
draws a distinction between a “standard”
(maintained by some distant standards body)
and a “specification”.
# ⚓ Do_we_need_a_“Rust_Standard”?⠀⇛
Languages like C and C++ are standardized.
They are fully specified in an
internationally recognized standards
document. Languages like Python, Swift and
Rust do not have such a standards document.
Should Rust be standardized? Why, or why not?
In this blog post, I try to explain why I do
think we need an accurate specification, why
I do not think we need “standardization”
(depending on your definition), and give an
overview of the current state of Rust’s
stability and specification efforts.
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in
Rust_466⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This
Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language
empowering everyone to build reliable and
efficient software. This is a weekly summary
of its progress and community. Want something
mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or
send us a pull request. Want to get involved?
We love contributions.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Vulkanised_Webinar:_Exploring_the_Latest_Updates_to_the
Vulkan_API_and_Ecosystem⠀⇛
# ⚓ Updates_from_OpenCL_Tooling_Task_Sub_Group:_Recently
Upstreamed_SPIR-V_Backend_Ready_for_Discussion_at_2022_LLVM
Developers’_Meeting⠀⇛
OpenCL™ Tooling Task Sub Group (TSG) is actively
contributing to the LLVM compiler infrastructure
project and is determined to bring first-class
support for OpenCL and SPIR-V™ to LLVM.
While the latest release of Clang brought the long-
awaited support for the OpenCL 3.0 standard, C++
for OpenCL 2021 kernel language, and the SPIR-
V generation interface utilizing an external tool
llvm-spirv from the SPIRV-LLVM-Translator
repository, the work on the native GlobalISel-based
SPIR-V backend continues at full speed.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Lake_Naplás:_giving_time-lapse_photography
another_try_|_Random_thoughts_of_Peter_‘CzP’_Czanik⠀⇛
This time I was storing photos in JPEG format (instead of
RAW), and I did no post-processing. I turned the photos
into a movie using OpenShot on Linux.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ WBZ451_Curiosity_Board_features_Microchip
PIC32CX-BZ2_BLE_and_Zigbee_3.0_microcontroller_–_CNX
Software⠀⇛
Microchip WBZ451 Curiosity Board features the
company’s Microchip’s WBZ451PE Bluetooth Low Energy
5.2 and Zigbee 3.0 RF module based on the new
Microchip PIC32CX-BZ2 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4F
wireless microcontroller.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Easily_add_face_detection_to_your_project
with_the_Person_Sensor_module_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
It’s now much easier to AI features to your project
thanks to better tools, but as we’ve experienced
when trying out Edge Impulse machine learning
platform on the XIAO BLE Sense board, it still
requires some effort and the learning curve may be
higher than some expect.
But for common tasks like face detection, there’s
no reason for the solution to be hard-to-use or
expensive, and Pete Warden (Useful Sensors) has
designed the $10 Person Sensor fitted with a camera
module pre-programmed with algorithms that detect
nearby faces and reports the results over an I2C
interface.
[...]
The module will also return identity information,
or in other words, try to detect up to 8 different
users, but this is not shown in the example above,
and it’s not clear how well that works. You’ll find
documentation and code samples in different
languages including Arduino, CircuitPython, and
Python on GitHub.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_firms_hit_by_industrial_ransomware_in
3Q,_sec_firm_Dragos_claims⠀⇛
Australia experienced two industrial ransomware
attacks in the third quarter of the year, the
industrial security firm Dragos says in an analysis
of such attacks that occurred globally.
There was no indication of the organisations
involved; Dragos does not provide such information,
nor does it tie a particular malicious actor to any
country.
The company said on Wednesday there had been 128
ransomware attacks on industries, just three more
than in the second quarter, which matched an
assessment it had made. The African continent also
experienced two attacks.
But it added that it was unaware of any significant
industrial disruptions during 3Q.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Medibank_says_My_Home_Hospital_also_hit,
PII_and_health_data_accessed⠀⇛
The next instalment of the Medibank Group data
breach has arrived, with the company confessing on
Thursday that patient information from My Home
Hospital had also been accessed by an attacker.
My Home Hospital is a joint venture between Calvary
and Medibank implemented on behalf of Wellbeing SA
and the South Australian Government.
Medibank said in a statement that personal
information and some health data had been accessed.
No further details were provided, but given the
current trend there may be more to come on Friday.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Pathology_practice_Medlab_reveals_data
breach_after_nine_months⠀⇛
Almost nine months after it experienced what it
terms a “cyber incident”, private pathology
practice Medlab Pathology has issued a statement
about the incident in which Medicare details and
credit card numbers of staff and patients were
stolen.
The “cyber incident” appears to have been a Windows
ransomware attack. The statement was made in the
name of chief executive Melinda McGrath.
Medlab is owned by Australian Clinical Labs which
acquired the former in December 2021; it has
operations in NSW and Queensland. The breach
occurred in February 2022.
The statement said it had begun notifying those
affected on Thursday.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Australian_Health_Insurer_Medibank_Suffers
Breach_Exposing_3.9_Million_Customers’_Data⠀⇛
Australian health insurance firm Medibank on
Wednesday disclosed that the personal information
of all of its customers had been unauthorizedly
accessed following a recent ransomware attack.
In an update to its ongoing investigation into the
incident, the firm said the attackers had access to
“significant amounts of health claims data” as well
as personal data belonging to its ahm health
insurance subsidiary and international students.
Medibank, which is one of the largest Australian
private health insurance providers, serves about
3.9 million customers across the country.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Apple_iOS_and_macOS_Flaw_Could’ve_Let_Apps
Eavesdrop_on_Your_Conversations_with_Siri⠀⇛
A now-patched security flaw in Apple’s iOS and
macOS operating systems could have potentially
enabled apps with Bluetooth access to eavesdrop on
conversations with Siri.
Apple said “an app may be able to record audio
using a pair of connected AirPods,” adding it
addressed the Core Bluetooth issue in iOS 16.1 with
improved entitlements.
Credited with discovering and reporting the bug in
August 2022 is app developer Guilherme Rambo. The
bug, dubbed SiriSpy, has been assigned the
identifier CVE-2022-32946.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_Cryptojacking_Campaign_Targeting
Vulnerable_Docker_and_Kubernetes_Instances⠀⇛
A new cryptojacking campaign has been uncovered
targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes
infrastructures as part of opportunistic attacks
designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency.
# ⚓ Sudo ☛ Running_sudo_without_updating_cached_credentials_|
Sudo⠀⇛
One of the recurring questions at conferences was
whether there is a way to check cached sudo
credentials without updating them. Version 1.9.12
of sudo introduces the -N option which makes this
possible, and also allows running any commands
without updating the cached credentials.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (389-
ds-base, bind, expat, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-
openjdk, libksba, and squid), Debian (chromium,
libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, and wordpress),
Fedora (dbus, dhcp, dotnet3.1, jhead, samba, and
strongswan), Mageia (virtualbox), Oracle (device-
mapper-multipath), Scientific Linux (device-mapper-
multipath and thunderbird), Slackware (curl), SUSE
(container-suseconnect, curl, kernel, libmad,
libtasn1, libtirpc, qemu, rubygem-puppet, SUSE
Manager Client Tools, and telnet), and Ubuntu
(curl, linux-intel-iotg, and mysql-5.7).
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Ransomware:_Open_Source_to_the_Rescue [Ed:
Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
In the US, Colonial pipeline is seeking tax
reductions from the loss incurred by the 2021
ransomware campaign they were victims of. But wait…
to what extent is the government (and, by
extension, every taxpayer) is then indirectly
sponsoring cybercrime?
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Researchers_Expose_Over_80_ShadowPad_Malware
C2_Servers[Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ British_Hacker_Charged_for_Operating_“The
Real_Deal”_Dark_Web_Marketplace⠀⇛
Furthermore, the indictment accuses Kaye of
conniving with one or more persons going by the
name “thedarkoverlord” to sell Social Security
numbers, not to mention launder the cryptocurrency
proceeds of the sale through mixing services like
Bitmixer.io to obscure the money trails.
# ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial_Control_Systems
Advisories_|_CISA⠀⇛
CISA has released four (4) Industrial Control
Systems (ICS) advisories on October 27, 2022. These
advisories provide timely information about current
security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits
surrounding ICS.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ International_coalition_calls_for
withdrawal_of_Draft_Indian_Telco_Bill:_provisions
threaten_end-to-end_encryption_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Note: Access Now co-signed this letter along
with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software
Freedom Law Center, India, and other
organisations and expert individuals.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Karnataka_HC_dismisses_Aakar
Patel’s_application⠀⇛
Mr. Aakar Patel, a human rights activist and
author, approached the Karnataka High Court seeking
permission to intervene in an ongoing petition
filed by Twitter challenging blocking orders issued
by Union of India under S.69A of the Information
Technology Act, 2000 (‘IT Act, 2000). Mr. Patel,
whose Twitter Account was blocked in June 2020,
approached the Court to highlight how the
Government of India is censoring Twitter accounts
without even hearing affected users or providing
them copies of blocking orders. The Karnataka High
Court declined to permit Mr. Patel to intervene
because other users would also approach the Court
in a dispute which is between Twitter and the Union
of India. Senior Advocate V Srinivasa Raghavan
appeared on behalf of Mr. Patel and Keystone
Partners, and IFF provided legal support.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Ariadne Conill ☛ The_internet_is_broken_due_to_structural
injustice_|_Ariadne’s_Space⠀⇛
Over the past few years, I’ve come to realize that
the Internet as we know it is utterly broken.
Lately, I’ve also been pondering how participants
in the modern Internet have enabled and perpetuated
harm to society at large. Repeatedly, we have seen
the independence of the commons chipped away by
powerful men who wish for participants to serve
their own whims, while those who raise concerns
with these developments are either shunned, banned
or doxed.
On Friday, October 28th, we will see another
demonstration of these structural injustices where
the commons takes another loss to the whims of a
powerful man. Last time, it was freenode’s takeover
by Andrew Lee, and this time it will be Twitter’s
takeover by Elon Musk. No, really, the deal is
already concluded: TWTR will be delisted from
NASDAQ on Friday.
Will this be the end of Twitter? Probably not, but
it will be the end of the current relationship the
commons shares with Twitter. Instead of acting as a
self-described “public square,” it will further
evolve into a chaotic cacophony of trolling and
counter-trolling driven in the name of algorithmic
engagement. Some will move to other microblogging
services and networks, and will likely discover
that everything which made Twitter horrible likely
applies in some way to the replacement.
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Internet_shutdowns_shroud_and_facilitate
brutality_of_Myanmar_junta’s_airstrike_in_Hpakant_township_–
Access_Now⠀⇛
Access Now condemns the ongoing war crimes
committed by the military junta in Myanmar, and its
use of internet shutdowns to conceal the
atrocities. More than 80 people are dead and a
hundred more injured after the military dropped
four bombs at a gathering of the Kachin
Independence Organisation (KIO) at approximately
20:30 local time on 23 October. The deliberate
communication blackout meant local media were only
able to report on the disaster hours later on 24
October. People on the ground still struggle to get
updated information on the number of casualties and
their conditions because of ongoing shutdowns.
“Mobile internet in Hpakant has been shut down for
over 430 days. Since last week, curfew-style
blocking of wifi is cutting off the region for
approximately 17 hours every day, starting at 17:
00, and only reconnecting at 10:00 the next day,”
said Wai Phyo Myint, Asia Pacific Policy Analyst at
Access Now. “When the bombs dropped on Sunday
evening, the mostly-civilian crowd was left
isolated, unable to contact friends and family to
seek help and urgent medical attention. It was a
targeted and brutal massacre, and shutting down the
internet was a deliberate assurance that the extent
of the military’s atrocities would be buried.”
Access Now documents internet shutdowns globally —
recognizing that in recent years, shutdowns have
become more sophisticated, lasting longer, harming
more people, and targeting vulnerable groups. In
2021, Myanmar ranked 2nd in the world in terms of
the number of shutdowns that year.
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Return_to_Sender_:_IFF’s
submission_to_the_draft_Telecom_Bill,_2022⠀⇛
The draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 was
released for public consultation on September 21,
2022. It follows the consultation paper on the
“Need for a new legal framework governing
Telecommunication in India” which was published on
July 23, 2022. Read our brief, which forms a part
of our consultation response, where we identify and
analyse specific issues with the Telecom Bill,
2022. Our main recommendation is that the Telecom
Bill, 2022 should be recalled and a fresh
consultation process commensurate with the stated
goal of “restructur(ing) the legal and regulatory
framework for the telecommunications sector.”
[...]
It consolidates the laws governing provision,
development, expansion & operation of telecom
services, telecom networks & telecom infrastructure
and assignment of spectrum. In doing so, it repeals
the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Indian Wireless
Telegraphy Act, 1933, & the Telegraph Wire
(Unlawful Protection) Act,1950, while amending
certain provisions of the Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India Act (“TRAI”), 1997. However, any
rules made under these legislations will continue
to be in force. It purportedly takes into account
the comments received from stakeholders & industry
associations on the consultation paper on the “Need
for a new legal framework governing
Telecommunication in India” which was published on
July 23, 2022 (Read IFF’s comments on the paper
here). The deadline for submitting comments on the
paper was August 25, 2022 which was further
extended to September 1, 2022. The Telecom Bill was
released three weeks after the completion of this
deadline.
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ India’s_Draft_Telecommunication_Bill_empowers
gov’t_to_impose_internet_shutdowns_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Note: Access Now signed this letter and joins the
call of other organisations for the Indian
government to withdraw the Draft Telecommunication
Bill, 2022 because its authorizes government to
order internet shutdowns in violation of human
rights.
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ FCC_Votes_To_Strengthen_Network
Resiliency_in_Puerto_Rico,_U.S._Virgin_Islands_–_Public
Knowledge⠀⇛
Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted
to approve a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
to support mobile carriers and broadband providers
operating in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands to strengthen their networks’ resiliency in
the face of natural disasters. Public Knowledge
applauds the Commission for taking action to keep
consumers connected even during disasters and other
emergencies, but urges the agency to locate funds
for improving network resiliency across the nation.
The following can be attributed to Harold Feld,
Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge:
“As today’s FCC action makes clear, although
carriers have made progress toward hardening their
networks in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to
withstand increasingly violent hurricane seasons,
more work remains. We applaud Chairwoman
Rosenworcel and her fellow Commissioners for seeing
this through rather than walking away with the job
half finished.
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ FCC_Moves_To_Leverage_12_GHz_Band_To
Further_Close_Digital_Divide_–_Public_Knowledge⠀⇛
Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted
to approve a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on
the current use of the 12.7-13.25 GHz band as well
as ways to encourage more efficient use of the band
and whether it’s suitable for mobile broadband
services. Public Knowledge applauds the Commission
for moving to leverage the 12 GHz band to further
close the digital divide.
The following can be attributed to Kathleen Burke,
Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge:
“We applaud Chairwoman Rosenworcel for her
continued leadership in looking for new ways to
share access to spectrum for vital
telecommunications services like mobile broadband
and Wi-Fi. Limited spectrum access is a clear
barrier to closing the digital divide and ensuring
that all Americans have access to the crucial
telecommunications services we rely on to function
in our society. Finding creative ways to provide
more spectrum access is an important goal that we
applaud the FCC for continuing to pursue.
“Because of the urgency in promoting competition in
mobile broadband and increasing unlicensed spectrum
access generally, we urge the Commission to issue
an Order authorizing shared use in the ‘lower’ 12
GHz band. Opening the lower 12 GHz in addition to
the upper 12 GHz would potentially make over 1,000
MHz of spectrum available for advanced services.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_disabling_of_hardware_codecs_in_community
distributions_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Software patents affect our systems in many
ways, but perhaps most strongly in the area
of codecs — code that creates or plays back
audio or video that has been compressed using
covered algorithms. For this reason, certain
formats have simply been unplayable on many
Linux distributions — especially those backed
by companies that are big enough to be worth
suing — without installing add-on software
from third-party repositories. One might
think that this problem could be worked
around by purchasing hardware that implements
the patented algorithms, but recent activity
in the Fedora and openSUSE communities shows
that life is not so simple.
In September, the Fedora project changed how
it builds the Mesa graphics library,
disabling support for the H.264 and H.265
codecs. These formats are heavily encrusted
with software patents and have long been
difficult to support on Linux systems, though
the existence of OpenH264 has improved the
situation for many users. In this case,
though, the patented algorithms are not being
executed on the CPU running Linux; instead,
they are run (and accelerated) on a
peripheral processor like the GPU. With the
change, Fedora users (only of the upcoming
Fedora 37 release for now, though that will
likely change) have lost access to the
acceleration provided by their hardware.
The problem was promptly brought to the
Fedora development list, where a number of
users expressed their unhappiness at the
change. But there was also a certain amount
of surprise that Red Hat would not allow code
that enables hardware functionality to be
shipped; Chris Adams, for example, asked:
“But isn’t this just providing for hardware
decoding, where (presumably) the hardware
vendor arranged for whatever needed
licenses?”. The “presumably”, in this case,
turns out to be wrong.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Why_the_‘true_fans’_model_is_great
not_only_for_creators,_but_for_entrepreneurs_too_–
Walled_Culture⠀⇛
The “true fans” idea has appeared in many
posts on this blog, and also makes an
appearance in the last chapter of Walled
Culture the book, as a viable alternative to
copyright and its manifest ills. Kevin Kelly
first articulated the true fans idea in 2008,
and it was surprisingly soon after that
companies started popping up to provide some
of the infrastructure needed to facilitate
the idea. For example, Kickstarter was
launched in 2009, while Patreon began in
2013, and both have gone on to become hugely
successful examples of the true fans
approach.
Simon Owens has an interesting post on his
Substack newsletter entitled “Why Patreon is
struggling“. He identities a number of what
he calls “key weaknesses in the platform’s
core offerings”. One is that “a creator’s
ability to distribute free content via
Patreon is limited”. That’s a problem,
because many people (rightly) want to see an
example of a creator’s work before sending
off money. It also prevents creators from
distributing their work freely on Patreon as
a matter of course, in order to reach as wide
an audience as possible, and to locate the
true fans among them.
Another issue according to Owens is that
Patreon doesn’t have a recommendation tool
that helps creators find new audiences. The
lack of basic tools for distributing and
analysing content is another clear gap in
Patreon’s offerings according to Owens.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AGOLRPH_Wordo:_DUCHY⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Browsing_Gemini_Offline⠀⇛
I’m now browsing Gemini completely offline.
It works. I managed to make AV-98 a totally
offline gemini client which works well enough
for my own needs and it’s a very interesting
experience.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Carbon_Dating_HTML⠀⇛
One of the more common feature requests I’ve
gotten for Marginalia Search is the ability
to search by date. I’ve been a bit reluctant
because this has the smell of a a
surprisingly hard problem. Or rather, a
surprisingly large number of easy problems.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
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 New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Security
o Monopolies
# Patents
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ TiVo_Goes_Back_To_The_(Linux)_Well⠀⇛
The only item here that really piques my interest is the
technological approach. While the current TiVo Stream 4K
dongle runs Android TV, the new television platform is
described as Linux-based… like their original line of
DVRs.
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ TUXEDO_Computers_releases_InfinityBook_Pro
16_Gen7_Laptop⠀⇛
This week, TUXEDO launched two variations of their
latest InfinityBook Pro 16 laptop built around the
i7-12700H Intel core processor. TUXEDO’s high-end
laptop supports up to 64GB RAM, 2x M.2 2280 slots,
Wi-Fi 6, 80Wh battery and other optional features.
The Max Performance and the Workstation edition
feature the same 12th Gen processor from Intel…
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_K8s_deployments_need_`matchLabels`_keyword⠀⇛
To create a Kubernetes deployment, we must specify
the matchLabels field, even though its value must
match the one we specify in the template. But why?
Cannot Kubernetes be smart enough to figure it out
without us being explicit?
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Arch_Linux_Has_A_Problem_And_Git_Is_To_Blame_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Recently a new Git update was pushed and it
suddenly broke a bunch of AUR packages but it broke
them for good reason, they were unknowingly using a
feature with a big exploit
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Code_Comments_–_An_original_podcast_from
Red_Hat⠀⇛
There’s a lot involved in building technology. None
of us can do it alone. Join Burr Sutter and
seasoned technologists as they share their
experiences.
# ⚓ JupiterMedia ☛ Linux_Action_News_264⠀⇛
The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea’s
surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop
another architecture.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linus_Torvalds_bids_486_Linux_adieu_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
You can famously run Linux on anything. And, when I
say anything, I mean anything, e.g. a Nintendo Wii,
an iPod, DeLaval’s robotic system for milking cows,
and possibly even a dead badger. Only Doom may have
been ported to more devices. But, for practical
purposes, all good things must come to an end, so
Linus Torvalds is giving serious thought to
discontinuing support for the 486 architecture.
# ⚓ Slashdot ☛ ‘Old/Weird_Laptops’_Sought_To_Help_Test_Linux
Kernel_Backlight_Drivers⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 4_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_GUI_Spotify
Clients_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛
First launched in 2008, Spotify is a digital music
streaming service with a freemium business model.
You can listen to a huge library of music and
podcasts for no charge if you are prepared to have
shuffle play (with limited skips), interrupted
listening and lower audio bitrate. Alternatively,
there’s the option of Spotify Premium. In the UK, a
subscription costs £9.99 per month for an
individual account. This gives you streaming music
at 320 kbps, the ability to download music, and
full functionality.
Spotify provide a semi-official app for the service
which uses Chromium Embedded Framework (think
bloated memory footprint). But third-party clients
are available for Spotify Premium users. Spotify
blocks API access to their audio for non-premium
members.
This article recommends our favourite GUI Spotify
clients. Here’s our verdict summarized in a
legendary Linuxlinks-style chart.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Run_ChromeOS_Flex_From_a_USB_Drive⠀⇛
Google launched ChromeOS along with Chromebooks in
2011. The idea was to deliver an economical laptop
that could handle basic productivity tasks with
ease. It was a fairly lightweight operating system
that didn’t need many underlying hardware resources
to work.
After a few years, Google decided to not confine it
to Chromebooks and released a lightweight OS that
everyone could run on average systems.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ModSecurity_with_Nginx_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
ModSecurity with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For
those of you who didn’t know, ModSecurity is a free
and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) that
protects your website from several types of
attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL
injection, session hijacking, and many more. It
also allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging,
and real-time analysis. ModSecurity was created as
a module for the Apache HTTP Server. However, since
its early days, the WAF has grown and now covers an
array of HyperText Transfer Protocol request and
response filtering capabilities for various
platforms such as Microsoft IIS, Nginx, and Apache.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of ModSecurity 3 with Nginx on Ubuntu
22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same
instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-
based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS,
Pop!_OS, and more as well.
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_TheHive_on_Ubuntu_22.04/Ubuntu_20.04_–
kifarunix.com⠀⇛
Follow through this tutorial to learn how to
install TheHive on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04
server.
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ The_success_continues_–_6th_edition
of_‘Getting_started_with_Linux’_available⠀⇛
In the editorial, Hans-Georg Eßer, Editor in Chief,
highlights that “installing and using Linux has
become so easy that there’s no good reason to stick
with Windows”. We who live in a Linux world for
many years know for quite a while that Linux is
‘the better Windows’. But still – there are people
out there who somehow do not dare to touch Linux in
their private environment, on their laptops and
desktops. Fortunately, the Linux Magazine remains
defiant in fighting ignorance with education. The
2022 edition of “Getting Started with Linux”
features the latest version of openSUSE Leap, 15.4,
and it comes with a DVD containing the software so
you can simply check it out yourself.
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Get_fresh_SLE_Micro_5.3_docs_–_all
you_need_to_be_productive_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE Micro) is a
lightweight and secure OS platform purpose built
for containerized and virtualized workloads. It
leverages the enterprise-hardened technology
components of SUSE Linux Enterprise and merges that
with what developers want from a modern, immutable
OS platform. As a result, you get an ultra-reliable
infrastructure platform that is also simple to use
and comes out-of-the-box with best-in-class
compliance. SLE Micro is well suited for any
decentralized computing environment such as edge,
embedded or IoT deployment without vendor lock-in.
Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, you can build
and scale differentiating edge systems across a
wide range of industries including aerospace,
telecom, automotive, defense, healthcare,
hospitality, and manufacturing.
With the recent release of SLE Micro 5.3, we have
also published fresh and shiny new documentation –
once again, my colleagues Jana Halackova (for the
docs) and Lukáš Kucharczyk (for the release notes)
did a fantastic job here!
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Linux
Mint_21⠀⇛
Today we are going to look at how to install Wire
Desktop on Linux Mint 21.
Firstly, we download the application, and then open
and install it with the built-in installer.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_MultiMC_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install MultiMC on a
Chromebook.
If you have any questions, please contact us via a
YouTube comment and we would be happy to assist
you!
This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an
Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not
those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Dir_Command_in_Linux_[Examples]⠀⇛
How do you see the contents of a folder in the
Linux terminal? You use the ls command.
In fact, the ls command is so popular that many
Linux users don’t even know about dir.
Yes, there exists a dir command with the sole
purpose of showing you the directory contents. And
in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use it.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_fix_the_VirtualBox_USB_enumeration
error_and_extension_pack_installation_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
Jack Wallen experienced several errors upon
installing VirtualBox 7.0 and he has the fixes for
them.
Recently, I upgraded to VirtualBox 7.0, and it’s
been a stellar release for the virtual machine
management tool. While some VirtualBox upgrade
experiences were less than ideal, the march from
6.x to 7.x was, for the most part, pretty painless.
However, there are two issues you will probably
encounter, both of which require different fixes.
# ⚓ Build_a_Tailscale_exit_node_with_firewalld_–_Major_Hayden⠀⇛
Once upon a time, I spent hours and hours fumbling
through openvpn configurations, certificates, and
firewalls to get VPNs working between servers. One
small configuration error led to lots of debugging.
Adding new servers meant wallowing through this
process all over again.
A friend told me about Tailscale and it makes
private networking incredibly simple.
Tailscale makes it easy to add nodes to a private
network called a tailnet where they can
communicate. In short, it’s a dead simple mesh
network (with advanced capabilities if you’re
interested).
This post covers how to create an exit node for
your Tailscale network using firewalld Fedora,
CentOS Stream, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
# ⚓ Reload_Prometheus_ConfigMap_without_Restarting_the
Kubernetes_Pod_|_Lisenet.com_::_Linux_|_Security_|
Networking⠀⇛
We run Prometheus on Kubernetes. Every time we make
changes to Prometheus ConfigMap, we end up
restarting the pod so that the new configuration
would be picked up.
While Prometheus configuration does not change very
often, we would prefer to have a way to do this
without downtime.
# ⚓ Convert_a_root_filesystem_to_a_bootable_disk_image_–
formicapunk⠀⇛
The year is 2022, and it is still that complicated
to install GRUB2 externally onto a disk image.
But using the wonders of libguestfs, you can create
a bootable diskimage using a qemu VM abstraction
very easily. The steps here imply we want to create
a disk with a single partition containing the root
filesystem.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ fun_with_pygame_–_Michael_Ablassmeier_–_..⠀⇛
Next year my son will turn 4. I have quit playing
computer games for a pretty long time now, but
recently i questioned myself: what will be the
first computer game hes going to play? Why not
create a simple game by myself?
Living on the landside, his attention has been
drawn to farming machines for quite some time now
and that topic never grows old for him, which makes
for a perfect game setting.
The game logic should be pretty simple: A tiling 2d
jump game where you have to make an tractor jump
over appearing objects. Different vehicles and
backgrounds to choose and a set of “lives” with
randomly generated “coins” which you have to catch
to undo happened failures.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ KDE_5.26_gets_a_second_point
release_(yes,_already)_•_The_Register⠀⇛
KDE 5.26.2 is out with an emergency fix for a
memory leak – so if you already have the new
version, you should update. If you don’t have
5.26, we’re here to tell you how.
The version first appeared on October 11 with
a bunch of new features that we described
when we looked at the beta in September.
Version 5.26.1 followed a week later with
some relatively minor bug fixes. Another week
after that, version 5.26.2 is here, and
sadly, the developers had to disable one of
the fun new bits: animated wallpapers.
If you use Wayland, it’s fine, but on X11
this leaks memory, and 5.26.2 turns the
feature off. We suspect it will reappear in
version 5.26.3 if the team can trace the
leak.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Lands_With_Enhanced_Windows_App
Support⠀⇛
Zorin OS also comes with new fonts and a spruced-up
LibreOffice, but will it make people want to switch
from Windows?
The Zorin Group has announced the availability of
Zorin OS 16.2. The Ubuntu-based distribution offers
a greater ability to run Windows applications on
the system.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Is_Here_as_the_Best_Linux_Distro
for_Windows_Users⠀⇛
Zorin OS 16.2 includes an updated app base, an
improved office experience, and enhanced support
for Windows apps.
Zorin OS is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that
aims to make life easier for new users, especially
those from Windows.
The distribution has a beautiful user interface
with which Windows 11 users will feel comfortable.
Moreover, Zorin includes many well-known
productivity tools.
Today, seven months after the previous 16.1
release, Zorin OS 16.2 is available for download.
So, without further ado, let’s see what’s new.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Red_Hat_Shrinks_OpenShift_for_Device_Edge⠀⇛
The Lockheed Martin use case was about providing
direct control to drones that had already been
deployed but might need to have their mission
altered in flight.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Lockheed_Martin,_Red_Hat_Collaborate_to
Advance_Artificial_Intelligence_for_Military_Missions⠀⇛
Lockheed Martin and Red Hat today announced a
collaboration to advance artificial intelligence
(AI) innovation at the edge on Lockheed Martin
military platforms. Adopting the newly announced
Red Hat Device Edge will enable Lockheed Martin to
support U.S. national security missions by applying
and standardizing AI technologies in geographically
constrained environments.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Codename_Revealed_–_And_It’s_a
Lucently_Likeable_Label_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
The codename for next year’s Ubuntu 23.04 release
has been revealed.
According to Launchpad, home of Ubuntu development,
and a cryptic tweet from the official Ubuntu
Twitter account, it appears that Ubuntu 23.04 will
be labelled “Lunar Lobster”.
Rather a lively combination with which to liken the
next interim release of the much-loved desktop
Linux distribution, isn’t it — but what does it
mean?
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ All_Things_Open_post_event_blog_–_Voices_of_Open
Source [Ed: “Director of Sustainability” [sic] in a Microsoft
front_group_called_OSI. Greenwashing complements
openwashing.]⠀⇛
Contact Betsy Waliszewski, Director of
Sustainability, if you’d like to schedule a time to
get together or if you are interested in
volunteering to help in our booth. We look forward
to seeing everyone.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_Conference_2022_videos:
Localisation,_Writer,_Calc,_Sparklines,_Web_Assembly_and_more
–_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛
State of Korea in LibreOffice and promoting future
plans, with DaeHyun Sung
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Alberto_Mardegan:_Performance_reviews_|_Mardy⠀⇛
It happened a few times during my career, that I
found myself in a team with a colleague whose
productivity was close to zero. In most of these
cases it was simply a matter of people who hadn’t
the skills and happened to choose the wrong career
path, and in one case it was actually an excellent
developer, but just slacking off. Regardless of the
case, in many of these occasions it looked like the
team manager hadn’t noticed the poor performance of
the individual in question, whereas this was rather
obvious to the rest of the team. I’m not sure why
the managers didn’t notice the black sheep, but the
point is that none of the other developers did
raise the issue either: why would I report a fellow
colleague, who might risk losing his job because of
my evil tongue?
So, Scrum to the rescue? Not quite. As a matter of
fact, while it is true that an underperformer could
be easily spotted by seeing how often he fails to
complete his stories in the timeframe suggested by
the story points, this information is generally
accessible to the product owner, whereas the line
manager might not attend the Scrum meetings at all
(as was the case in a previous project of mine,
where the line manager was completely detached from
the project); and even if the line manager had this
information, it’s not a given that he’d make use of
it — as a matter of fact, I cannot say with
certainty that the line managers did not notice
those underperforming colleagues of mine; maybe
they noticed, but failed to intervene for some
reason?
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The_Latest_Trends_in
Work_from_Home_(WFH)⠀⇛
For years, companies and governments found all kinds of
reasons for not embracing work from home, virtual
meetings, telemedicine, online learning, and other online
applications. But, the pandemic forced us to accelerate
the digital transformation of the economy and society to
help us cope with the crisis. And, not only have these
digital applications worked remarkably well, but they
offer a number of important benefits, like not waiting
for a straightforward doctor diagnosis in a room full of
sick people, and not having to travel for hours to
participate in a 60 minute meeting.
For example, about a year ago I participated in an online
panel. To start with, the moderator asked each panelist
to introduce ourselves and to briefly say something
positive about our lives over the past year despite the
obvious challenges of coping with Covid. I truly
struggled to find something positive to say about the
highly frustrating pandemic-induced limitations of the
previous year.
But finally, I did find something positive to say. I’ve
been able to attend a number of meetings, including
weekly lunch seminars, that pre-pandemic required me to
drive for a few hours or catch a plane. In response to
the pandemic, these meeting first changed from physical
to online, and more recently to hybrid. In other words,
my ability to attend such meetings from home was my one
pandemic-induced benefit, a major one the more I thought
about it.
Work from home (WFH) has been around for decades,
modestly growing in the 1990s with the rise of the
internet. The share of WFH three or more days per week
was under 1% in 1980, 2.4% in 2010, and 4.0% in 2018.
Then came Covid-19, forcing tens of millions around the
world to work from home and triggering a mass workplace
experiment that broke through the technological and
cultural barriers that had prevented its adoption in the
past.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ I Cringely ☛ Paul_Graham’s_Legacy_|_I,_Cringely⠀⇛
Last week there was a press release you might
easily have missed. A Distributed Autonomous
Organization (DAO) called OrangeDAO is cooperating
with a small seed venture fund called Press Start
Capital to establish the OrangeDAO X Press Start
Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs.
Successful applicants get $25,000 each plus 10
weeks of structured mentorship plus continued
access to the more than 1200-member OrangeDAO
network. In exchange, OrangeDAO and Press Start get
to invest in the resulting companies, if any,
produced by the class.
Big deal, it’s Y Combinator Junior, right?
Wrong. It’s Y Combinator on steroids.
This second-generation YC has been released in the
wild where it will replicate and grow
unconstrained. Expect to see more deals like this
one.
A Distributed Autonomous Organization is a
financial partnership that leverages blockchain
technology to help multiple users make decisions as
a single entity. There are many DAOs around and
hardly anybody understands them or knows what they
are good for. Mainly they have seemed to be
involved in the NFT market. But OrangeDAO is
different. It has 1200+ members and every one of
those members is a graduate of the Y Combinator
startup accelerator. They are verified Y Combinator
company founders, so they’ve all had similar
entrepreneurial experiences and see business much
the same way as a result. OrangeDAO seems to have
big plans and to make those plans happen in August
the DAO, itself, raised $80 million in venture
capital, with their first use of that capital being
these Fellowships.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ China_3Q_smartphone_shipments_better_than_2Q,_but
down_on_2021⠀⇛
Smartphone shipments in China during the third
quarter of 2022 increased marginally over the
previous three months but, at 70.0 million units,
represented a 11% year-on-year fall.
The technology analyst company Canalys said in a
statement that local manufacturers vivo and Oppo –
both part of B.B.K Electronics – took the first and
second spots, shipping 14.1 million units and 12.1
million units respectively. OnePlus shipments are
now reported as part of Oppo’s figures.
Honor, the low-budget seller formerly owned by
Huawei, was third with 12.0 million units, while
Apple (11.3 million units) and Xiaomi (9.0 million
units) made up the top five.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Google ☛ RC4_Is_Still_Considered_Harmful⠀⇛
I’ve been spending a lot of time researching
Windows authentication implementations,
specifically Kerberos. In June 2022 I found an
interesting issue number 2310 with the handling of
RC4 encryption that allowed you to authenticate as
another user if you could either interpose on the
Kerberos network traffic to and from the KDC or
directly if the user was configured to disable
typical pre-authentication requirements.
This blog post goes into more detail on how this
vulnerability works and how I was able to exploit
it with only a bare minimum of brute forcing
required. Note, I’m not going to spend time fully
explaining how Kerberos authentication works,
there’s plenty of resources online. For example
this blog post by Steve Syfuhs who works at
Microsoft is a good first start.
# ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ 4_Reasons_Open_Source_Matters_for_Cloud
Security⠀⇛
When we depend on an open commons as our computing
foundation, we need it to be secure, and the most
effective way to do that is through open solutions.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ OpenSSL_warns_of_critical_security_vulnerability
with_upcoming_patch_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
We don’t have the details yet, but we can safely
say that come Nov. 1, everyone — and I mean
everyone — will need to patch OpenSSL 3.x.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ The_USPTO_Must_Restore_America_Invents_Act
Proceedings_–_Patent_Progress⠀⇛
Over the past decade, the Leahy-Smith America
Invents Act of 2011 has been discussed and
debated extensively in intellectual property
circles. Given the potential for new USPTO
rulemaking on the horizon, however, it is
worth revisiting why it has become necessary
for the Patent Office to restore key AIA
proceedings to function as Congress
originally intended.
I worked hard for the reforms contained in
the America Invents Act (AIA), and applauded
its passage as “the kind of reform that is
necessary to set America back on track toward
a prosperous future” and as a key step to
“promote progress and innovation.” The AIA
was a critical update to a patent system that
was stuck in the past, placing a renewed
focus on patent quality and reining in
litigation abuses.
Our Founding Fathers considered intellectual
property rights essential, going so far as to
include them in Congress’s enumerated powers.
By passing the AIA, Congress upheld our end
of the bargain to promote progress. Analysis
has shown that from 2014 to 2019, the AIA
resulted in an increase of $2.95 billion in
U.S. gross product and $1.41 billion in
personal income. Among the largest
beneficiaries was the manufacturing industry,
which accounted for almost half of the gross
product gains. These numbers do not lie. When
we make improvements to our patent system, we
are also supporting economic growth.
[...]
I will be watching closely in the coming
months for formal rulemaking regarding the
Fintiv factors and IPR more generally.
Reforms that restore AIA proceedings to their
original promise would encourage greater
innovation and “promote the Progress of
Science and useful Arts.”
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Extreme_lizards,_Brevard_NC_edition⠀⇛
“Ah yeah. Ooh ahh. That’s how it always starts.
Then later there’s the running and the screaming.”
# ⚓ Gotta_find_something_to_do_next⠀⇛
Now that I’ve been released from that garbagefire
of an organization, I need to find something to do.
It’s been about a week since I was let go, so I
think I’d like to have some travel plans set by
this time next week. I’d love to go by train
somewhere, perhaps Canada. I’ve heard that VIA Rail
is great.
# ⚓ Enoying_the_Big_Blue_Room⠀⇛
The sun is out, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and
the temperature is cool but not unbearibly so (for
a Floridian) and I’m sitting out in, I guess for
lack of a better term, the garden of The Bromfield
Inn [1].
[...]
A nearby church is giving an improptude concert
with the church bells. I wasn’t aware that American
churches even had bells anymore. How neat!
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