𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, November 08, 2022
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⦿ Microsoft’s Accounting Fraud and the Clown Computing Bubble Will Make It the Next Facebook (Share Price Collapsed by 80%) | Techrights
⦿ Twitter’s Elon Musk Imitates Freenode’s Andrew Lee | Techrights
⦿ EPO Isn’t Green and Isn’t Women-Friendly, That’s Just Another Distraction From Corruption | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] The EPO is GREEN! | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 07, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Trusting the UPC (Unified Patent Court) in the Hands of Tyrants Who Ridicule Courts? | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/accounting-fraud-short-term-vision/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/elon-lee/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/epo-as-staff-in-munich-responds-to-greenwashing/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/epo-is-green/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/irc-log-071122/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/upc-epc-epo-and-iloat/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/kde-plasma-5-26-3/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/krita-5-1-3/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/accounting-fraud-short-term-vision/#comments
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✐ Microsoft’s_Accounting_Fraud_and_the_Clown_Computing_Bubble_Will_Make_It_the
Next_Facebook_(Share_Price_Collapsed_by_80%)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 4:47 pm
by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 42e122f10d74bcf803bd7a2490cf6885
Living on Borrowed Time
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/the-clown-and-microsoft.webm
Summary: Accounting fraud (misreporting or misclassifying earnings) will make
Microsoft the next Enron; for the time being, however, Microsoft is trying to
seem very potent and important (in practice it is just viciously attacking in
an effort to sabotage the winners, namely GNU/GPL/Linux/Free software, as
that’s the only method Microsoft understands)
THE VIDEO above speaks of Microsoft’s precarious situation. Bailouts won’t last
forever.
Bogdan Popa joins the chorus of many Microsoft boosters who googlebomb the term
“Linux” because, to quote this_recent_video, “The World Runs On Linux (NOT
Windows!)“.
Microsoft-connected sites are basically posting a lot of “Teams” spam, riding
of piggybacking the word “Linux”. Other such sites say that Microsoft plans to
start charging for ‘premiums’ while throwing ads at Windows users (see [1-3] at
the bottom of this post). How is that going to help Windows adoption? It would
achieve the exact opposite!
Now, back to GNU/Linux, Windows Central says “The best Microsoft Teams
experience on Linux is now a PWA” and another Microsoft booster says “Microsoft
Teams PWA is Now Available for Linux Machines” (but PWA does not count, it is
proprietary, and it is spyware). There’s that old trio (mumble/irc/jabber) that
works better and more reliably than Teams or Slack or all these supposedly
“modern” (bloated) things. We shall do some video about it another day.
Finally, it seems clear that Microsoft is still losing the cash cow, Windows,
which was the gateway to many other “products” and disservices (through
bundling). To keep shareholders around (and artificially floating/inflating the
stock) Microsoft kept talking about Clown Computing and “Azure”. But that
bubble too is starting to burst. The promises have many cracks in them so we
expect the demise to rapidly accelerate soon (like Facebook this past year;
Microsoft and Facebook even started a liaison). █
Related/contextual items from the news:
subscriptions⠀⇛
subscriptions⠀⇛
you_can_disable_them_–_Neowin⠀⇛
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/elon-lee/#comments
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✐ Twitter’s_Elon_Musk_Imitates_Freenode’s_Andrew_Lee⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 5:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 475b31494493c6a6489bd63d82fc9ef5
Freenoding Twitter
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/twitter-node.webm
Summary: The collapse of Twitter is starting to closely resemble the collapse
of Freenode last year (Andrew Lee did all the wrong things, worsening an
already grim scenario)
THE ‘talk of the town’ is Elon Musk, who lost_a_ton_of_money_in_estimated
personal_wealth (more than he had spent on Twitter).
This is starting to seem like a familiar story. He is losing his mind, openly
aligning himself with the right almost on election day. Well, Andrew_Lee_said
Biden_"stole"_the_election_on_l0de's_show…
Expect “liberals” to be blamed for all these catastrophes.
Musk now wants to change what the “verification” signs mean and who gets those
signs. It’s only for people who pay Musk. As an associate of ours put it today:
“Lost in all the noise about charging a monthly subscription fee for the “blue
check” on Twitter is the observation that the “blue checks” have been as much
about endorsement as they have been about “verification”…”
Is Musk ‘pulling_a_SASL’_now? Is he just as insane as Lee?
It’s getting worse and worse by the hour (we’ll post more links about this in
the News Roundups). To quote the above: “If Friday brought massive layoffs to
Twitter, Monday brought fresh evidence that the company will never be the same.
Musk has discussed putting the entire site behind a paywall, Platformer has
learned. Meanwhile, the company is scrambling to lure back employees who it
laid off mere hours ago, and some workers say the economics behind its soon-to-
relaunch Twitter Blue subscription could actually lose the company money.”
Not even a month has passed and it seems safe to estimate that most users are
already pissed off and examining alternatives (if any*).
Alexei jokes about Musk mimicking Lee some more: “What next? Channel take-
over?” █
abandon social control media altogether. All of it. You can live a satisfying
life without “likes”. They’re meaningless.
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/08/epo-as-staff-in-munich-responds-to-greenwashing/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/08/epo-as-staff-in-munich-responds-to-greenwashing/
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✐ EPO_Isn’t_Green_and_Isn’t_Women-Friendly,_That’s_Just_Another_Distraction
From_Corruption⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:16 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum c021d584ff66f1d463dd0a74771688ee
Latest EPO Greenwash
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-ev-greenwash.webm
Summary: EPO management keeps posting shallow, superficial, fact-free (or
disinformation) messages; the staff of the EPO isn’t gullible enough to fall
for the lies
THE text below comes from a new letter, which deals with yet another case of
EPO greenwashing; this has been happening so much before that it’s easy to lose
count. In the video above I also show epo.org for its latest greenwashing,
alongsode UPC propaganda (encouraging illegal agenda out in the open) and
femmewashing. Remember that not_many_women_work_at_the_EPO_and_get_promoted,
the EPO basically grants monopolies that curtail climate change mitigation, but
don’t let those realities get in the way of Benoît_Battistelli and António
Campinos, two chronic liars who have long been in cahoots, shaming not just the
EPO but also the EU.
Here’s the text of the letter discussed above (from the Local Staff Committee
Munich or just LSCMN for short):
Europäisches Patentamt | ÖPV München | GERMANY
To: President president@epo.org
Cc: VP4 vp4office@epo.org
Per E-Mail
OPEN LETTER
Consistency in sustainability
Europäisches Patentamt
80298 München
Deutschland
Local Staff Committee Munich
Comité local du personnel de Munich
Lokaler Personalausschuss München
Email: mnstcomm@epo.org
Date: 02.11.2022
sc22026ml
Dear Mr President,
The EPO has adopted an Environmental Policy (page 3/11) in which:
“Every employee has an important role to play in bringing the EPO one
step closer to carbon neutrality.” In this respect, the EPO aims at
reducing its annual consumption of electricity, water and heat,
producing less residual waste and lowering its CO2 emissions.
The latest Environmental Report (page 40/59) features the CO2
emissions relating to employee commuting and stresses the high
emissions of car transport (0.120 kg CO2e/km), the lesser emissions
of public transport and the neutrality of bike and walking.
In its Communiqué of 6 October 2022, the Office has announced its aim
to drastically increase the number of e-charging stations where
colleagues can charge electric cars for free. The number will more
than double to 738 within one year. On this topic we were approached
by many colleagues who wonder if this measure fits with the EPO
support to Sustainable Mobility Options. Free e-charge stations might
create an unjustified incentive to come to the Office premises by
car. The free e-charging is also introduced at a time the Office has
entered Phase 1 of the Emergency Contingency Plan which aims at
saving on energy consumption in the EPO premises by keeping the
minimum temperature at 19°C.
We also note that the EPO Code Fest is about to start. Some
colleagues informed us that the developed software applications use
APIs strongly relying on GPUs (private or collaborative) which are
high consumers of electric power. In their view the scheduling of the
event appears unfortunate at a time of the year during which energy
will be a well-demanded resource. The official communications by the
EPO on the Code Fest do not mention its potential environmental
impact.
We believe that a consistent approach to sustainability is very
important. That is why we would like to ask you to comment on the
topics above.
With best regards,
Michael Alex Kemény
Chair of the Local Staff Committee Munich City, Haar and Brussels
We’ll hopefully find more time to cover the EPO more frequently some time soon
(in spite of recent hardware problems which we try to overcome). █
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✐ [Meme]_The_EPO_is_GREEN!⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 4:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Patently untrue propaganda
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Battistelli and Campinos⦈
Summary: The EPO‘s toadies, or the friends of the dictatorship, cannot obey the
law, so instead they keep boasting about helping the environment (even when
that_is_untrue)
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Courts?⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Trusting a Court Controlled by Those Who Do Not Obey Courts
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/europe-patent-law-ignored.webm
Summary: The European Patent Office (EPO) is revealed as an unrepentant,
unapologetic ‘disser’ of the court system; people rightly ask, how can anyone
expect fair trials at the supposedly ‘Unified Patent Court’, which the EPO
pushes for in spite of severe legal and constitutional issues?
THE staff union of the EPO, or SUEPO for short, has just mentioned an article
on a topic covered_yesterday_afternoon. “Translations are available in German,
French and Dutch,” it said, but those are automated. The letters are from the
Central Staff Committee (CSC), not SUEPO.
The video above speaks about the issue again and notes that comments so far
illuminate the impact on the UPC, which incidentally the EPO is promoting again
this week.
A reader has meanwhile warned us about this pro-UPC conference “with all the
usual boosters, no critics invited” (not even critics of the legality of UPC).
“Worst speakers list you cannot expect,” the reader said.
Remember the complaint that was filed in Germany back in 2017. It apparently
(despite being hidden, then sold as a book) made the point that if judges’
tenure is contingent upon appeasing some patent maximalists (like senior BOA
judges at the EPO) periodically, e.g. every 5 years, then judges are
incentivised to rule “for career safety” instead of “for justice”. There_are
lots_of_constitutional_issues_associated_with_the_UPC, aside for blatant
conflicts of interest [1, 2]. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
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 SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_and_Red_Hat
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Funding
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# R
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_laptop_crew_Tuxedo_releases_Stellaris_AMD
Gen_4_•_The_Register⠀⇛
Tuxedo Computers offers an unusual machine: a Linux-based
laptop with, of all things, a mechanical keyboard.
The Bavaria-based company offers a range of guaranteed
Linux-compatible laptops (and a few desktops, which tend
to be a bit easier in compatibility terms: it’s easier to
swap bits in and out ’til it all works). We mentioned the
release of Tuxedo Computers’ new AMD-powered laptop and
the company’s external liquid-cooling system in the
summer.
The company asked us if we would be interested in getting
a review model of one of the machines, and with a handful
of models with mechanical keyboards, our interest was
piqued.
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ What_stickers_are_on_your_laptop?⠀⇛
Having just switched work laptops last December, I
realized how much I love applying stickers to my work
machines. Sometimes the stickers are souvenirs from past
events, others are from projects that I am passionate
about, and some are just for fun!
Curious to know what others had on their laptops, I
asked!
o ⚓ Beta News ☛ ChromeOS_Redesigned_shows_us_a_possible_future_of
Google’s_Linux-based_operating_system⠀⇛
Google’s ChromeOS is incredibly popular, particularly
among students. It’s easy to see why as it’s lightweight,
fast, and secure.
There is a slight learning curve to it though, especially
if you’ve been using a different operating system for
years, like Windows or macOS.
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke’s_Normal_Computing_News_–_Nov_2,_2022⠀⇛
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke’s_Weird_Computing_News_–_Nov_6,_2022⠀⇛
Ladybird web browser now can run Linux in a PC emulator
in Javascript
In “That’s Awesome!” news: The Ladybird web browser — the
completely from-scratch web browser that originated as
part of the Serenity OS project — is now advanced enough
that it can run JSLinux.org… a Javscript PC emulator that
runs Linux.
Think about how awesome that is for a web browser that
was developed… from scratch.
So… you can run Linux… in a from-scratch web browser…
running on a from-scratch operating system. The future is
now.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Ubuntu_Server_is_Perfect_for_a_Minimal_“Window
Manager”_Installation_–_Invidious⠀⇛
I often get asked about installing standalone
window managers on Ubuntu. What’s the best way to
go about this? Well, the method that I have used in
the past is installing Ubuntu Server, and then
installing a window manager and needed utilities on
top of that.
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_Entropy_Centre_*First_Impressions*_–
Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_202⠀⇛
Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining
Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be
legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE
Korner, and more.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Apt++?_Nala_is_Like_Apt_in_Ubuntu_but_Better_–
It’s_FOSS⠀⇛
For decades Debian and Ubuntu users used apt-get
commands. When its simpler form apt was released,
people liked how it showed a progress bar while
installing packages.
Irrespective of the progress bar, the packages get
installed the same with apt-get and apt commands.
But the progress bar enhances the user experience
(UX) and today if I don’t see the green progress
bar at the bottom, I feel something is amiss.
Why am I telling you all this? Because I got an
apt-get vs apt feeling when I used Nala, a Python-
based front end for APT.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ VLC_3.0.18_is_Out!_How_to_Install_in
Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
The classic VLC media player got a new release
after more than half a year of development. Here’s
the changes and how to install guide.
VLC 3.0.18 is probably the last release of the
3.0.x series, as VLC 4.0 is under developing now.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Moving_past_TCP_in_the_data_center,_part_1⠀⇛
TCP is an amazing protocol that was designed 40
years ago when the [Internet] looked rather
different than it does today; it is surprising that
it has lasted as long as it has with the changes in
the network over that span. Even today, it works
well for wide-area networks, but there were no data
centers when TCP was designed, “so unsurprisingly
it was not designed for data centers”. Ousterhout
said that he would argue that every major aspect of
the TCP design is wrong for data centers. “I am not
able to identify anything about TCP that is right
for the data center.”
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_analyze_time-series_data_with
Python_and_InfluxDB_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Relational databases don’t work well with time-
series data. This tutorial shows you how to use
InfluxDB to analyze data that is gathered over
time.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_TeamViewer_on_Manjaro_–
Linux_Nightly⠀⇛
TeamViewer is a remote access and control program,
mostly used to share your desktop or use a computer
remotely. In this tutorial, we will learn how to
install TeamViewer in Manjaro.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Flatpak_Apps_in_Ubuntu_and
Other_Linux⠀⇛
A beginner’s guide on how to install Flatpak in
Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
# ⚓ How_SQL_Shapes_the_Customer_Journey⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Device_Tree_phandle:_the_C_code_point_of_view_–
Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the phandle
properties used in Device Tree. These properties
are used to describe a relationship between
components described in the Device Tree. Many blog
posts describe this property from the Device Tree
source point of view (you can for example have a
look at https://elinux.org/
Device_Tree_Mysteries#Phandle for details related
to Device Tree source). In this blog post, we want
to take a different approach, and discuss how to
handle this type of property from the Linux kernel
C code point of view.
# ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Bootlin_at_Capitole_du_Libre_2022:_sponsor,_booth
and_talks_–_Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛
Capitole du Libre is a free-software/open-source
conference with a local/regional scope organized in
Toulouse, France, since ~2012. As one of the
Bootlin offices is also located in Toulouse,
Bootlin has often participated to this event by
giving talks or simply by attending.
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ GNU_Linux_–_how_to_–_Extract_AAC_Audio_from
MP4⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Disable_or_Enable_IPv6_in_RHEL,_Rocky_–
AlmaLinux⠀⇛
This guide explores how to disable IPv6 on RHEL,
Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux distributions.
In computing, there are two types of IP addressing;
IPv4 and IPv6.
IPv4 is a 32-bit address that contains 4 octets
segmented by three periods. It is the most widely
used IP addressing scheme and supports up to 232 IP
addresses. There is a good chance that your device
is using IPv4 addressing to connect to any network
– wired or wireless.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Telegram_on_Kali_Linux_–_Linux
Shout⠀⇛
Telegram messenger, a popular cloud-based
alternative to WhatsApp is a cross-platform
application that we can install on Kali Linux as
well as other operating systems to Chat and access
groups & Channels.
Kali Linux which is mainly used by security experts
and other users who are learning hacking and
penetration testing can also benefit from the
Telegram Linux Desktop app; which also claims to be
one of the safest ways to chat because of strong
message encryption.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_Signal_on_Manjaro_–_Linux
Nightly⠀⇛
This tutorial will show you how to install Signal
on Manjaro Linux via pacman (command line), and GUI
methods.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Set_Up_an_NFS_Mount_on_Rocky
Linux⠀⇛
This article guide walks users through the
installation and configuration of NFS (Network File
System) on Rocky Linux 9/8 distributions. Users
will also understand the footprints behind NFS like
setting up an NFS server (on Rocky Linux) and
sharing/accessing files via an NFS client.
NFS (Network File System) is attributed as both a
client and server application, which allows
browsing and sharing of files between remote Linux
hosts over a network and accesses these files as
though they are mounted locally.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Surprising_probably_no_one,_most_people_use
the_Steam_Deck_as_a_handheld⠀⇛
Recently, I ran two different polls to find out how
people with a Steam Deck used their device (or if
they didn’t much) and the results are out now.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ American_Truck_Simulator_–_Texas_releases
on_November_15th⠀⇛
SCS Soft have announced the big American Truck
Simulator – Texas DLC will be releasing on November
15th.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Comedy_point_and_click_adventure_Plot_of
the_Druid_is_now_in_Early_Access⠀⇛
The point and click adventures just keep coming!
Plot of the Druid has released featuring some more
sarcastic British humour and classic, hand-drawn
art. It’s currently in Early Access, with Native
Linux support. Another that was funded via
Kickstarter, with the developer receiving $32,303
to help make it real.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Cemu_emulator_for_Wii_U_now_provides_an
AppImage⠀⇛
Want to get the Wii U emulator Cemu working on
Linux? It’s now a little easier, as they’ve
providing an AppImage with the latest release.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_7-39_released_improving_Overwatch
2_for_Steam_Deck_&_Linux⠀⇛
GE-Proton is the community-maintained version of
the Windows compatibility layer Proton, not
endorsed by Valve but it can get more games running
on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. A new release
version GE-Proton7-39 is out now.
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ The_Good_and_Bad_of_Random⠀⇛
A little prep goes a long way Before I learned of
random generation, I thought that blorby play was
impossible. “Sure, you can prep a dungeon, but what
if the characters go the the other way?” The second
tier of truth fixes that problem. You can prep vast
realms in a few pages.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ LXQt_1.2.0:_Top_New_Features_&_Wayland
Updates⠀⇛
Within ~6 months of the prior LXQt 1.1.0 release,
the LXQt 1.2.0 arrives with new features and
performance improvements. This release sees some
critical updates, such as Wayland and others.
LXQt is perhaps the most lightweight and fast
desktop environment today in Linux. Hence it’s
critical for many use cases where you need a low-
resource footprint desktop environment.
Let’s take a look at what the new additions in this
point release are.
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.26.3_Continues_to_Improve
the_Plasma_Wayland_Session,_Fixes_Various_Issues⠀⇛
Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 5.26.2, the
KDE Plasma 5.26.3 update is here to further
improve the Plasma Wayland session by
addressing issues that users encountered with
the Steam app, as well as other XWayland-
using apps when using the default setting of
“Legacy apps scale themselves.” With this
update, these apps are now correctly scaled
at the expected size.
Also for the Plasma Wayland session, the KDE
Plasma 5.26.3 update addresses an issue
encountered by Firefox users when clicking
and dragging something in the web browser,
which caused the cursor to get stuck in its
“grabby hand” state until you dragged a tab.
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.26.3,_Bugfix_Release_for
November⠀⇛
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.26.3.
Plasma 5.26 was released in October 2022 with
many feature refinements and new modules to
complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks’ worth of new
translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically
small but important and include…
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ CachyOS:_The_Brand-New_Friendly,_Performance-Tuned
Arch_Linux_Derivative⠀⇛
Arch Linux has become popular among Linux experts because
of its customizability and use of the latest software,
but it also has a reputation for being difficult to
install.
CachyOS is an Arch-based distribution that aims for both
performance and user-friendliness. Is CachyOS for you?
Let’s find out.
Based on Arch, CachyOS comes with a couple of key
modifications. The most noticeable is that it actually
installs a desktop environment by default. The default
choice is KDE Plasma, but others are available.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Stable_Clonezilla_live_3.0.2-21_Released⠀⇛
The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was
upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid
repository (as of 2022/Nov/3).
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE_site_Aligns_with_Upstream
Documentation⠀⇛
The history of documentation as it relates to
operating systems and software development has a
rich history that expands decades.
The founding of manual pages, or manpages for
short, were a way to onboard new technology users
at a time when household computers were
nonexistent.
To gain knowledge of programs, standards, abstract
concepts and conventions, a person needed computer
access and to enter the man command to display
documentation in a green text encoding standard
about the computer program on the system.
o § Fedora and Red Hat⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Community_Blog_monthly_summary:_October
2022_–_Fedora_Community_Blog⠀⇛
This is the latest in our monthly series
summarizing the past month on the Community Blog.
Please leave a comment below to let me know what
you think.
[...]
In October, we published 17 posts. The site had
10,946 visits from 6,735 unique viewers. 4,559
visits came from search engines, while 484 came
from Twitter and 69 came from the WordPress Android
App.
# ⚓ Cockpit_279_–_Cockpit_Project⠀⇛
Cockpit now switches to a dark theme when system
dark mode is enabled.
While many people just think it looks cool, dark
mode is also an accessibility setting which helps
people with various eyesight conditions and
migraines. Dark mode can be easier to use in a dark
environment as well.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_5_questions
to_reinspire_your_efforts⠀⇛
As the world moves out of the pandemic and settles
into a new way of working, executives are tasked
with leading their organizations into a
transformed, digitally native future. From cloud
migration to SaaS optimization, digital
transformation has been the topic of discussion for
every board meeting globally for the last several
years.
But after several cycles of innovation and as
employees transition to new roles, new solutions
enter the market, and business goals change, the
driving force behind the digital transformation can
become muddy and often needs redirection to get
back on track.
# ⚓ AlmaLinux Official ☛ More_chances_to_catch_AlmaLinux:
SuperCompute_‘22,_and_OLF_‘22_–_AlmaLinux_OS_Blog⠀⇛
We had a chance to attend All Things Open last
week, and it was an absolute blast for us! In case
you haven’t heard, All Things Open is a conference
specifically designed around education and aimed at
coming together to learn some of the hardest and
deepest lessons in tech. It’s just full of everyone
from college students to CIOs and CTOs trying to
make the best decisions for their futures. Meeting
so many new people is always a blast, but the
highlight for us is the people who are using
AlmaLinux to solve their problems every day.
One of the best conversations I got to have was a
group of folks from a university who are using
AlmaLinux in a INCREDIBLE experiment that will
absolutely drive future waves of innovation around
how we interact with the universe. They said they
were going to share details about it soon, and I
can’t wait to share those with all of you, as well.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ An_introduction_to_debug_events:_Learn_how_to_use
breakpoints⠀⇛
In previous articles on Red Hat Developer, I
introduced you to the GNU Debugger (GDB) and
explained what every developer should know about
debuginfo. This article begins a series that will
cover the expansive topic of debug events—that is,
all the events to which GDB can respond. These
include signals, breakpoints, watchpoints,
syscalls, exceptions, and more. I’ll be covering
the commands and convenience variables and
functions that will aid you in your endeavors to
stop GDB at the right place at the right time.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ A_visual_guide_to_deploying_JBoss_EAP_on_AWS_|
Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
Red Hat recently launched a new offering for Red
Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss
EAP), an efficient and comprehensive Java platform
on the Amazon Web Services marketplace. This
offering allows you to deploy certified Amazon
Machine Images (AMIs) equipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (fully supported by Red Hat) and
JBoss EAP.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Titan_Linux_Review:_A_Blend_of_Debian_Stable
and_KDE_Plasma_Desktop⠀⇛
We review Titan Linux – a rising star in the Linux
distro space and bring Debian stable with KDE
Plasma flavour with its unique tools.
⚓ Titan Linux – What does it offer?⠀⇛
Titan Linux is a Debian-stable based Linux
distribution which features the KDE Plasma desktop.
It is a fairly new distribution that aspires to be
user-friendly and minimal. Developed by a two-
member team, Titan Linux brings a unique experience
to Debian’s experience by eliminating several
packages and giving out-of-the-box hardware
support.
Moreover, it uses a different installer than Debian
uses and brings some nifty in-house utilities.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Charmed_Kubeflow_now_integrates_with_MindSpore⠀⇛
On 8 November 2022, at Open Source Experience
Paris, Canonical announced that Charmed Kubeflow,
Canonical’s enterprise-ready Kubeflow distribution,
now integrates with MindSpore, a deep learning
framework open-sourced by Huawei.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ A_hands-on_guide_to_work_with_MindSpore_on
Kubeflow⠀⇛
Looking at the report that Gartner did in 2022
regarding top technology trends, AI engineering
represents an important pillar in the near future.
It is composed of three core technologies: DataOps,
MLOps and DevOps.The discipline’s main purpose is
to develop AI models that can quickly and
continuously provide business value. For instance,
models that enable cross-functional collaboration,
automation, data analysis, and machine learning. AI
engineering shortens the development and deployment
processes.
# ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ An_odd_error_I_encountered_with_ZFS_snapshots
on_Ubuntu_18.04⠀⇛
You won’t see this error message from a more recent
Linux kernel. These days you’ll get the usual ‘no
such file or directory’ error (at least with more
recent versions of OpenZFS; I haven’t tried it with
older ones).
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_RP2040_Powered_Pick_And_Place⠀⇛
Pick and place machines are a wonder to behold, as
they delicately and accurately place part after
part. Unfortunately, they have to have a similarly
wondrous price tag. Luckily, they aren’t too
difficult to make yourself as they share many
properties of a 3D printer with some extra
constraints. [Stargirl Flowers] released Starfish,
an open-source pick-and-place control board based
around an RP2040 to help people make their own.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Welcome_Opta,_our_first-ever_micro_PLC_with
Industrial_IoT_capabilities_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛
We can finally tell you all about the new product
we had announced for SPS! Today, we are excited to
expand the Arduino Pro range with Opta, our first
micro PLC with Industrial IoT capabilities.
We designed it specifically with PLC engineers in
mind: supporting standard languages including LD
(Ladder Logic Diagram) and FBD (Function Block
Diagram), it allows professional users to scale up
industrial and building automation projects
leveraging our signature open-source, easy-to-use,
anti-vendor-lock-in approach.
We partnered with none other than Finder — a leader
in the field of mission-critical electromechanical
and electronic components with 65+ years of
excellence and expertise to its name — to create
the most durable, reliable, secure and high-
performance component possible, while still
maintaining our signature flexibility and ease of
deployment in production.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Arduino_Uno_Pinout_Guide⠀⇛
Arduino platform provides a variety of the
microcontroller boards also known as Arduino boards
that come with different specifications. Before
using any Arduino board, one must know the
specification of the boards and most importantly
the pinout of the boards. So, we have explained the
pinouts of the Arduino Uno board and the use of
each pin in detail.
# ⚓ Burkhard Stubert ☛ Creating_A_Custom_Yocto_Layer⠀⇛
After having built the reference Linux image from a
SoM, SoC or terminal maker and having run it on the
board, we must inevitably custom-tailor this image
to our needs. We must create our own Yocto layer.
We must remove all the unnecessary packages and
make our core application start automatically on
power-up. Here is a step-by-step guide how to turn
the application layer for a Toradex Verdin iMX8M
Plus board into our own custom layer. The guide
should also work for other boards.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ODROID-N2L_is_a_smaller,_low-cost_variant_of
ODROID-N2+_Arm_SBC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold3,_Fold4,_Flip3,_and_Flip4
receive_November_2022_Android_security_patch_–_GSMArena.com
news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Best_sports_apps_available_for_sports
enthusiasts_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ The_Best_Survival_Games_for_Android_–
Android_Headlines⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Xiaomi_12_Pro_Finally_Gets_Android_13_Stable
Update⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia_G60_5G_receiving_new_Android_12_build_+_October
Security_update_2022_now_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Every_Android_phone_owner_told_to_check_five
settings_–_don’t_risk_ignoring_them_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_quickly_crop_a_video_on_your
Android_phone_or_tablet⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Now_finally_comes_to_Android_TVs_and_devices,
plus_Google_TV⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Mastodon:_What_is_it,_how_to_use_it_and_more_details_about
Twitter’s_alternative⠀⇛
The app has user managed servers. They are themed on
country, city or interest – gaming, social and more. Each
server on Mastodon has a description about the particular
community. Mastodon will also show you the number of
people who have joined a particular server. Users can
migrate to other servers by making changes in the setting
section.
o ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ What_is_Mastodon,_the_social_network_users_are
leaving_Twitter_for?_Everything_you_need_to_know⠀⇛
You can even start your own server if you want to set the
rules yourself. Otherwise, there’s a list of servers
which focus on specific locations or topics of interest.
The servers on that list have all signed up to the
“Mastodon covenant” which promises “active moderation
against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia”.
Whichever Mastodon server(s) you sign up for, however,
you can follow users on a different one with no problem.
Oh, and as this is a volunteer-run system, there are no
paid-for ads in your feed.
o ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Mastodon_struggles_to_keep_up_with_flood_of
Twitter_defectors⠀⇛
“I don’t think Mastodon or the fediverse has ever
received this much attention before,” Rochko wrote on his
account two days ago. “It’s a great opportunity for
people to finally see that social media can be done
differently, that it can be a protocol not under control
of any single company.”
Searches for Mastodon spiked on Google following the
Twitter acquisition, especially in Europe where the
social network is based. All of the new interest has
caused strain on the platform, with Rochko saying he was
overstretched. “While it’s nice to see your work finally
taken seriously in the mainstream, the 12-14 hour
workdays I’ve had to pull to handle everything is
anything but,” Rochko posted on October 31.
o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_get_started_with_Mastodon,_the_open
source_social_networking_site⠀⇛
Mastodon gives you more control over what you want to
see. It doesn’t leave the decisions to a company,
algorithm, or billionaire.
o ⚓ CBC ☛ What_is_Mastodon,_and_why_is_it_surging_amid_all_the_chaos
at_Twitter?⠀⇛
But while Twitter and Facebook are controlled by one
authority — a company — Mastodon is installed on
thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer
administrators who join their systems together in a
federation.
People swap posts and links with others on their own
server — or Mastodon “instance” — and also, almost as
easily, with users on other servers across the growing
network.
o ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Cleaning_Up_After_LSP-Mode⠀⇛
One thing I do extensively is that I use LaTeX to make my
slides for college class slides and class assignments.
That means I have hundreds of directories with
presentations, assignments and other documents. Each time
I enter a directory for a class it will spawn an LSP
session for that set of LaTeX files.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Kiwi_TCMS_–_Call_for_participation:_Testing_and_Automation
devroom,_FOSDEM’23⠀⇛
Attention testers! On behalf of Testing and
Automation devroom we’d like to announce that call
for participation is now open.
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_Technology_DevRoom_at
FOSDEM_2023:_Call_for_Papers⠀⇛
After two virtual events, FOSDEM 2023 will be in
person, taking place on Saturday, February 4, and
Sunday, February 5. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom
is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday,
February 4, from 3PM to 7PM.
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Month_of_LibreOffice,_November_2022_–
First_week_results!⠀⇛
o § Funding⠀➾
# ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Cloud_Hypervisor_Project_welcomes_AMD_as_a
Member_of_the_Advisory_Board⠀⇛
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_becomes_a_‘Diamond’_sponsor_of_OBS
Studio⠀⇛
The team behind OBS Studio announced that AMD have
become a Diamond Sponsor of the OBS Project,
helping fund future development. Great to see, as
OBS Studio is easily one of the most popular free
and open source applications around and something I
use near-daily.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Arjen Wiersma ☛ Emacs_Advent_of_Code_helper⠀⇛
Grab your input like a pro
One step in solving the Advent of Code challenges
is to grab the puzzle input. This step is easily
automated within Emacs.
The following function reads the year and day from
the input and then inserts the contents of the url
into the current buffer. This works quite nicely.
# ⚓ [Old] How_to_Call_C++_from_Python⠀⇛
Combining the interactive nature of Python with the
power of C++, for both legacy or new projects, is a
great idea. Fortunately, it’s not as hard as it
might seem.
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ AI_Should_Compliment_and_Not_Replace
Humans,_Says_Stanford_Expert⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence should be developed
primarily to augment the performance of, not
replace, humans, said Erik Brynjolfsson, director
of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, at a Wednesday
web event hosted by the Brookings Institution.
AI that complements human efforts can increase
wages by driving up worker productivity,
Brynjolfsson argued. AI that strictly imitates
human behavior, he said, can make workers
superfluous – thereby lowering the demand for
workers and concentrating economic and political
power in the hands of employers – in this case the
owners of the AI.
# ⚓ 5_Reasons_Why_Fortran_is_Still_Used⠀⇛
Fortran is a language that is specialized for high-
performance computing. Believe it or not, it’s
still alive and evolving.
# ⚓ How_We_Make_It_Easy_to_Deploy_Mayhem_for_Code_on_Your
Premises⠀⇛
Mayhem for Code can help you find and fix
vulnerabilities in your code.
# ⚓ Khronos_Unveils_Kamaros_as_the_name_for_the_Embedded_Camera
System_API_and_Working_Group⠀⇛
Khronos has officially adopted ‘Kamaros’
(pronounced Kam-ă-ross) as the name for the
Embedded Camera System API and the associated
working group. Jointly promoted by Khronos and the
European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the
Kamaros™ API Working Group is developing an open,
royalty-free standard for controlling camera system
runtimes in embedded, mobile, industrial, XR,
automotive, and scientific markets.
Work on the Kamaros API specification started in
March 2022. This effort builds on an extensive
exploratory process that involved over seventy
companies working together from March to December
2021 to forge a strong industry consensus on the
need, terminology, scope, requirements, and design
methodology for a new open standard camera system
API. The resulting Camera System API Scope of Work
document is now being used to guide the direction
of the Kamaros Working Group and API specification.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Perl_is_out_of_the_list_of_dependencies⠀⇛
Starting with Qt version 6.5, you no longer
need Perl to build Qt from sources. The
utilities that used Perl have been replaced
with a small application written in C++ that
speeds up the pre-scanning process of header
files.
# § R⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Use_data_from_data.gouv.fr⠀⇛
Using GIS data directly from data.gouv.fr :
railways network of France.
# ⚓ Use_data_from_Openstreetmap⠀⇛
# ⚓ Opening_a_spatial_subset_with_{sf}⠀⇛
# ⚓ Map_any_region_in_the_world_with_R_–_Part_II:
Obtaining_the_coordinates_|_R_with_White_Dwarf⠀⇛
This is the second part of the series to
create a map of any region of the world with
R.
We are creating maps of data showing changes
over a span of time for different countries
and pointing at all kinds of cities. That
basically means that we need to map any
region of the world with R. Today there are
all kinds of packages and techniques to do
that. I will share the strategy I used with
ggplot2 and maps packages, using support of
Open Street Map to obtain the coordinates of
cities and finally making it interactive with
shiny. The project is quite long for a single
post, so my idea is to split it into a few
smaller blog posts.
# ⚓ Form_and_File:_estimating_running_form_in_R_–
quantixed⠀⇛
There are lots of ways for runners and
cyclists to analyse training data. A key
question most fitness enthusiasts want to
know is “how am I doing?”.
“How you are doing” is referred to as form.
Unsurprisingly, form can be estimated in many
ways. One method is using training stress
scores (acute training load and chronic
training load) to assess form as training
stress balance. The acronyms for these terms
are apparently copyrighted(!) by
TrainingPeaks. So I will refer to acute
training load as fatigue, chronic training
load as fitness and the training stress
balance as form. Some notes on how these are
calculated can be found lower down.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Aurélien Gâteau ☛ Inktober_2022,_birds!⠀⇛
This year I once again participated to Inktober, the
yearly challenge where you draw one drawing a day each
day of October. The Inktober web site provides a “prompt
list”: a list of words for each day, which you can (but
are not forced to) follow.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Michael_Fox⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Martine_Syms’s_Portrait_of_Art_School_Alienation⠀⇛
The African Desperate begins at the end: We meet Palace
Bryant at the final in-studio critique of her MFA
program. The crit is exactly what you might expect in a
film about a tall, tattooed Black woman marooned at a
liberal arts college in upstate New York: as equally
unctuous as it is pathologizing. “You’re afraid of your
own appetite. I see it. It’s all a bit polite, isn’t it?”
an instructor named “M,” played by the artist A.L.
Steiner, remarks at one point. What’s not quite as
expected is that the camera doesn’t just cut away after
Palace ushers the last of the tribunal out of her studio
space. Instead, it lingers with her. It watches her toss
back the wine she’d set out for them and captures the
tear racing down her cheek as she nervously rolls a
joint. “I like to show the stuff that we don’t see a
lot,” the film’s director, Martine Syms, told me on a
recent afternoon.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Researchers_Show_How_Network_Pruning_Can_Skew_Deep_Learning
Models_|_NC_State_News⠀⇛
Computer science researchers have demonstrated that
a widely used technique called neural network
pruning can adversely affect the performance of
deep learning models, detailed what causes these
performance problems, and demonstrated a technique
for addressing the challenge.
Deep learning is a type of artificial intelligence
that can be used to classify things, such as
images, text or sound. For example, it can be used
to identify individuals based on facial images.
However, deep learning models often require a lot
of computing resources to operate. This poses
challenges when a deep learning model is put into
practice for some applications.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ ‘Planet_killer’_asteroids_nearly_a_mile_long
detected_after_being_hidden_by_the_sun’s_brightness⠀⇛
Astronomers have detected three asteroids in close
proximity to Earth, two of which pose a potential
threat as “planet killers” because of their larger
and hazardous size, but don’t worry, says a NASA
expert, they aren’t expected to hurt us.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Boston-based_quantum_computer_QuEra_joins
Amazon’s_cloud_for_public_access⠀⇛
Quantum computer startup QuEra, born from
researchers at Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said on
Tuesday its computer is now accessible to the
public through Amazon.com (AMZN.O) cloud’s quantum
computer service Braket.
While there are various technologies for creating
so-called quantum bits or qubits where the
computations happen, QuEra’s qubits use neutral
atoms in a vacuum chamber and use lasers to cool
and control them. It is the first neutral atom
quantum computer to join Braket, which offers five
other quantum computers on the cloud – Rigetti
Computing, IonQ, D-Wave, Xanadu Quantum
Technologies and Oxford Quantum Circuits.
The 256-qubit computer is called Aquila and is
physically based in Boston, said Alexander
Keesling, CEO of QuEra. “One of the great things
about this machine is that you can program the
qubit layout so you don’t have to use all of
them…You can build different mini clusters of
different atoms to parallelize the computation even
further,” said Keesling about Aquila.
# ⚓ Algorithm_for_2D-to-3D_Engineering_Integrates_Art,_Nature
and_Science_–_Penn_Engineering_Blog⠀⇛
Penn researchers have developed a universal
algorithm that allows 2D materials to retain
mechanical strength after conversion into 3D
structures.
The algorithm is the subject of a recent study in
Science Advances led by Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna
Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering (MSE), along with MSE
postdoctoral fellows Lishuai Jin and Young-Joo Lee
and collaborators Michael Yeager and Daniel J.
O’Brien of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.
The team’s work takes inspiration from kirigami, an
East Asian papercutting art, to create a
mathematically sound method of cutting and stacking
flat materials into durable curved objects.
# ⚓ uni Columbia ☛ Nearly_One_in_Ten_Americans_Reports_Having
Depression⠀⇛
Increases in depression without commensurate
increases in treatment are widespread, reports a
study conducted at Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health and City University of New
York. In 2020, past 12‒month depression was
prevalent among nearly one in ten Americans and
almost one in five adolescents and young adults.
The findings are published online in the American
Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Data were drawn from the 2015−2020 National Survey
on Drug Use and Health, a nationally representative
study of U.S. individuals aged 12 years and older.
Major depression is the most common mental disorder
in the U.S. and is the strongest risk factor for
suicide behavior. Previous findings show an
increase in depression in the U.S. population from
6.6 percent in 2005 to 7.3 percent in 2015.
“Our study updates the depression prevalence
estimates for the U.S. population through the year
2020 and confirms escalating increases in
depression from 2015 through 2019, reflecting a
public health crisis that was intensifying in the
U.S. even before the onset of the pandemic,” said
Renee D. Goodwin, PhD, an adjunct professor in the
Department of Epidemiology at Columbia Mailman
School of Public Health, professor of epidemiology
at The City University of New York, and lead
author. “The net effect of these trends suggests an
accelerating public health crisis and that parity
and public-service announcement efforts have not
achieved equity in depression treatment.”
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Prop._28_Appears_Poised_to_Pass_With
Entertainment_Industry_Backing⠀⇛
Supporters of the measure argue that only 1 in 5
schools in the state has a full-time arts or music
program and that such programs ought to be spread
more equitably. Beutner argues that the initiative
will be particularly helpful in improving the
diversity of the entertainment industry.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_Those_NES_DIP_Chips_Were_Reduced_To_QFNs⠀⇛
The world of console modding leads us to some
extremely impressive projects, and a recent one we
featured of note was a portable NES produced by
[Redherring32]. It was special because the original
NES custom DIP chips had been sanded down to
something like a surface-mount QFN package. Back
when our colleague [Arya] wrote up the project
there wasn’t much information, but since then the
full details have been put up in a GitHub
repository. Perhaps of most interest, it includes a
full tutorial for the chip-sanding process.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ M.2_For_Hackers_–_Cards⠀⇛
Last time, I’ve explained everything you could want
to know if you wanted to put an M.2 socket onto
your board. Today, let’s build M.2 cards! There’s a
myriad of M.2 sockets out there that are just
asking for a special card to be inserted into it,
and perhaps, it’s going to be your creation that
fits.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Commodore_Datasette_Does_Its_Own_Calibration⠀⇛
Ah, the beloved Commodore 64. The “best-selling
computer system of all time”. And hobbyists are
keeping the dream alive, still producing software
for it today. Which leads us to a problem with
using such old equipment. When you get your copy of
Petscii Robots on cassette, and try to fastload it,
your machine might just consistently fail to load
the program. That’s fine, time to pull out the cue-
tips and rubbing alcohol, and give the read heads a
good cleaning. But what if that doesn’t do the job?
You may just have another problem, like tape speed
drift.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dosimetry:_Measuring_Radiation⠀⇛
Thanks to stints as an X-ray technician in my early
20s followed by work in various biology labs into
my early 40s, I’ve been classified as an
“occupationally exposed worker” with regard to
ionizing radiation for a lot of my life. And while
the jobs I’ve done under that umbrella have been
vastly different, they’ve all had some common
ground. One is the required annual radiation safety
training classes. Since the physics never changed
and the regulations rarely did, these sessions
would inevitably bore everyone to tears, which was
a pity because it always felt like something I
should be paying very close attention to, like the
safety briefings flight attendants give but
everyone ignores.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_US_Chips_and_Science_Act_of_2022_and_Its
Impacts_on_China’s_Semiconductor_Industry⠀⇛
This article was distributed by a Chinese
government accepted source, but we believe it is
worthy of a wider audience because it provides
documentation of important ongoing dialogue within
top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Smelting_Solar_Style⠀⇛
If you attended the 2022 Supercon, you might have
heard the story about the SMD soldering challenge
table nearly catching on fire. A magnifying lamp
caught the sun just right and burned a neat trench
into another lamp’s plastic base. While disaster
was averted, [Jelle Seegers] does this on purpose
using a huge 5-meter lens to smelt metal.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Overengineered_Fume_Extractor,_Version_2⠀⇛
We all know the temptation of adding one more
feature to your latest project. [Arnov Sharma]
didn’t resist the urge. Building on his 3D-printed
fume extractor, he developed a new version made of
PCB material.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Very_Harmful’_Lack_of_Data_Blunts_U.S.
Response_to_Outbreaks⠀⇛
After a middle-aged woman tested positive for
Covid-19 in January at her workplace in Fairbanks,
public health workers sought answers to questions
vital to understanding how the virus was spreading
in Alaska’s rugged interior.
The woman, they learned, had underlying conditions
and had not been vaccinated. She had been
hospitalized but had recovered. Alaska and many
other states have routinely collected that kind of
information about people who test positive for the
virus. Part of the goal is to paint a detailed
picture of how one of the worst scourges in
American history evolves and continues to kill
hundreds of people daily, despite determined
efforts to stop it.
But most of the information about the Fairbanks
woman — and tens of millions more infected
Americans — remains effectively lost to state and
federal epidemiologists. Decades of underinvestment
in public health information systems has crippled
efforts to understand the pandemic, stranding
crucial data in incompatible data systems so
outmoded that information often must be repeatedly
typed in by hand. The data failure, a salient
lesson of a pandemic that has killed more than one
million Americans, will be expensive and time-
consuming to fix.
# ⚓ The_accelerating_war_on_science-based_medical_regulation⠀⇛
Add this as another chapter to a series that I
really should have called “Everything Old Is New
Again”, even if the title grates a bit, coming
across as, “I told you so”. I’ve long written about
how there’s a war against science-based regulation
of doctors’ practice by the states, just as there’s
a war against science-based policies regarding drug
approval, vaccine mandates, and public health. This
war predates the pandemic, and not by a little. For
example, previously I wrote about how autism and
cancer quack Dr. Rashid Buttar had mobilized public
support to neuter the North Carolina Medical Board
and prevent it from disciplining doctors who
practice quackery associated with “integrative
medicine”. This happened 13 years ago. Since then,
this war on the regulation of medicine has only
accelerated, as I’ve described before a number of
times. Unfortunately, last week it became
increasingly clear that this war is only
accelerating, and it involves old school antivax
physicians who have taken advantage of the rise of
what I like to refer to as the “new school”
antivaxxers who only started promoting antivaccine
propaganda after the introduction of COVID-19
vaccines nearly two years ago. It’s gotten to the
point where “new school” antivaxxers are becoming
increasingly indistinguishable from “old school”
antivaxxers.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ AIM ☛ After_Twitter,_Meta_Succumbs_to_Mass_Layoffs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Musk_Fires_Half_of_Twitter’s_Workforce;
Rights_Orgs_Urge_Boycott_of_“Superspreader_of
Misinformation”⠀⇛
Alarm is growing over how the world’s richest
person, Elon Musk, is changing Twitter after he
spent $44 billion to buy the influential social
media platform. Musk fired nearly half of Twitter’s
workforce in a mass layoff Friday that gutted teams
dedicated to human rights, artificial intelligence
ethics and combating election misinformation, just
days before Tuesday’s midterm election. This comes
after he met with over half a dozen civil rights
groups amid concerns he will let misinformation and
hate speech go unchecked. We speak with leaders
from two of those groups: Nora Benavidez of Free
Press and Free Press Action Fund, and Rashad
Robinson of Color of Change. “Self-regulated
companies are unregulated companies,” says
Robinson, who along with Benavidez says Musk has
exacerbated already toxic conditions at Twitter and
failed to see the “real and porous relationship
between the online world and this offline real
world.” Both groups are urging advertisers to
boycott Twitter unless Musk takes dramatic actions
to safeguard rights on the platform.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_world_was_promised_‘cloud_magic’._So
much_for_that_fairy_tale⠀⇛
Last week, AWS and Microsoft admitted that their
customers have realized their cloud costs are out
of control. Some of Microsoft’s customers may even
be ready to walk because the software giant
admitted that helping them to control costs will
enhance long-term loyalty. AWS blamed a slowdown in
growth on customers wanting to get out of
commitment to cloudy resources.
Each cloud’s admission was made in the context of a
quarterly earnings announcement. That makes the
confessions all the more important because they
represent disclosures to investors that customers
have changed behavior in ways likely to have
material impact on financial performance.
# ⚓ Windows Latest ☛ Microsoft_hints_at_low-cost_Windows_11_PCs
powered_by_advertising_and_subscriptions⠀⇛
According to the job listing, Microsoft wants to
build “low-cost PCs powered through advertising and
subscriptions”. This seems to indicate that
consumers will be able to buy low-cost PCs, but
they will see more ads within the operating system.
In addition to subscriptions, this could also be a
new revenue stream for the tech giant.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Microsoft_working_on_affordable_Windows_11_PCs
dominated_by_ads_and_subscriptions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Microsoft_is_now_pushing_ads_and_promos_in_Windows
11_Start_menu,_but_you_can_disable_them_–_Neowin⠀⇛
If you have been following Microsoft news for a
while on Neowin or elsewhere, you are probably
familiar with Microsoft’s (bad) habit of pushing
ads and promos of its various features on Windows.
While Microsoft is well within its rights to
promote its other products inside one of its own
products, it can be an annoying and a pestering
experience for users.
So far, this year, the company has been found
testing such ads and promos in File Explorer (later
disabled) and Microsoft Store on Windows 11. And
now, it looks such a thing could be coming to the
Windows 11 Start menu as well.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ What_Happens_to_Infra_Engineers?⠀⇛
If companies continue to outsource all their
infrastructure work to the cloud providers, does
infrastructure engineering as a skill set become
much rarer?
o § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Smart_cities_should_focus_on
sustainability_not_safety [Ed: Greenwashing and
securitywashing mass surveillance]⠀⇛
Cities adopt technology for two primary
reasons: safety and cost savings. Both of
these are driven by a need to please
constituents who want lower taxes and the
perception of safer streets. Thus, we’ve seen
cities adopt LED lighting to save on energy
costs, and services such as Shot Spotter,
which listens for gunfire and reports the
location to police.
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ EU_governments_open_the_door_for
biometric_mass_surveillance_in_public_spaces⠀⇛
Today, the EU Council Presidency’s proposal
for a regulation on the use of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) was leaked. Patrick Breyer,
German Pirate Member of the European
Parliament, warns that the proposal would
open the door for biometric mass surveillance
in public spaces on a broad scale: [...]
# ⚓ CBC ☛ While_Putin_denies_war_crimes_in_Ukraine,_a
Russian_soldier_confesses_to_executing_a_civilian⠀⇛
“People were filming a lot,” said resident
Anatoly Boyko, “and that was the first thing
the Russians were looking for. If you walk
with a phone, you could be tortured and then
executed. They look through your Facebook
because it can incriminate you, and then they
know more about you.”
As word spread, residents quickly erased
videos and social media links. Boyko managed
to survive, but several other Andriivka
residents weren’t so lucky. The mayor,
Anatoly Kibukevych, lost three of his
relatives.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ China’s_Secret_Police_Stations_in_Europe⠀⇛
China has allegedly established dozens of
police stations abroad, including many in
Europe. Beijing has sought to play down the
reports, but one dissident in Europe recounts
how he has been constantly harassed by staff
members of one such office.
# ⚓ Greece ☛ Greece_to_ban_sale_of_spyware_amid
wiretapping_scandal⠀⇛
Greece will soon ban the sale of spyware, the
government said on Monday, after a newspaper
report that more than 30 people, including
ministers and business people, had been under
state surveillance via phone malware.
A list of persons whose phones were allegedly
infected with the Predator malware was
published on Sunday by left-wing Documento
newspaper, which cited two sources who played
a role in the surveillance on behalf of the
conservative government.
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ EU_calls_for_spyware_moratorium,_but_no
ban_to_protect_human_rights_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
Today, the European Parliament’s Pegasus
committee is calling for an immediate
moratorium on the sale, acquisition,
transfer, and use of spyware. Access Now
reviewed an early copy of the committee’s
draft report via Politico — the preliminary
conclusions of its investigations — that
outlines detailed recommendations that would
significantly increase the protections
against the use of spyware and ensure further
accountability. Notably, however, it just
does not demand the prohibition of
technologies that are incompatible with human
rights. To right this wrong, Access Now is
calling on the special committee to recognise
a need for a ban to strengthen its stance on
these dangerous tools, and urges other EU
institutions to take the necessary steps to
implement the committee’s recommendations
both in law and practice.
“A call for prohibition would have been a key
indicator that the European Parliament has
the fortitude to stand up against the spyware
industry and abusive governments. Hungary and
other examples highlight the painful gaps the
EU still needs to fill to protect democracy,
rule of law, and fundamental rights,” said
Fanny Hidvegi, Europe Policy and Advocacy
Director at Access Now. “The special
committee’s report rightly shows that
national security is a political excuse not a
legal constraint, and EU institutions have
the means and obligations to fulfill their
role as the guardian of the EU treaties.”
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ WiFi_security_flaw_lets_a_drone_track
devices_through_walls_|_Engadget⠀⇛
WiFi’s friendliness to other devices might
pose a significant threat in the wrong
circumstances. University of Waterloo
researchers have discovered a security flaw
in the networking standard that lets
attackers track devices through walls. The
technique identifies the location of a device
within 3.3ft just by exploiting WiFi devices’
automatic contact responses (even on
password-protected networks) and measuring
the response times. You can identify all the
connected hardware in a room, and even track
people’s movements if they have a phone or
smartwatch.
# ⚓ Post-Quantum_Cryptography:_Anticipating_Threats_and
Preparing_the_Future⠀⇛
The new report published by the European
Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
explores the necessity to design new
cryptographic protocols and integrate post-
quantum systems into existing protocols.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Democracy_Is_on_the_Ballot._But_Will_It_Decide
the_Election?⠀⇛
As the midterm results come in on Tuesday and in
the following days, we’ll get a sense of whether
the Democrats made a wise gamble in playing up the
threats to democracy. If they fall short, the
lesson should not be that they should avoid talking
about democracy in the future. The GOP in its
current form is genuinely hostile to democracy—and
that has to remain an issue. But Democrats might
need to reformulate their case by arguing not just
for democracy but also making clear all the harmful
policies that an autocracy can enact. The threat to
democracy is not just an abstract matter of civic
procedures or of threats to government officials.
It also has very real consequences for the economic
and social issues that shape everyday life for
ordinary people. That’s the message that the
Democrats haven’t yet been willing to make.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ NATO_aspirant_Sweden_wants_to_move_towards
Ankara_in_Kurdish_policy⠀⇛
The new Swedish government wants to extract an
endorsement from the Turkish regime for its aspired
NATO accession by making concessions on anti-
Kurdish policies. Foreign Minister Tobias Billström
said in a radio interview on Saturday about the
Kurdish Democratic Unity Party (PYD) and the
People’s Defence Units (YPG) active in Rojava
(northern Syria) that their links to the Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) were “too close to be good for
relations between us and Turkey”. His government’s
main goal, he said, was Sweden’s NATO membership.
Billström thus signalled his willingness to add a
new dimension to the criminalisation policy against
the Kurdish people that has been in place in the
Nordic country for decades.
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Stoltenberg:_Finland,_Sweden_fulfilling_Türkiye’s
demands_for_NATO_membership⠀⇛
“Sweden is passing new legislation prohibiting
participation in terrorist organizations, including
the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party]. And
strengthening the tools on terrorist financing.
“More extraditions and expulsions are taking place.
And restrictions on arms sales to Türkiye have
ended.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ U.S._Review_Envisions_Using_Nuclear_Weapons
Against_Non-Nuclear_Attacks⠀⇛
Stephen Young, of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Global Security Program, said the new nuclear
review “abandons the pledge Biden made on the
campaign trail to support a ‘no first use’ policy
and declare that the sole purpose of U.S. nuclear
weapons is to deter nuclear attacks on the United
States and its allies.”
Since Clinton, each presidential administration has
conducted a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to assess
the role nuclear weapons play in U.S. security
strategy. The latest released October 27 says, “The
United States affirms that its nuclear forces deter
all forms of strategic attack . . . nuclear weapons
are required to deter not only nuclear attack, but
also a narrow range of other high consequence
strategic-level attacks.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ksenia_Sobchak,_journalist_and_former_presidential
candidate_returns_to_Russia_after_reportedly_fleeing_arrest_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Socialite and journalist Ksenia Sobchak has
returned to Russia, Russian state media reported on
Monday, citing witnesses who saw Sobchak enter the
Pskov region.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ 30_Penza_women_demand_military_prosecutor_call
their_conscripted_relatives_back_from_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A group of women from Penza have reportedly
demanded that their regional military prosecutor
call their mobilized relatives back from the front
line.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cuba’s_Victory_at_the_UN⠀⇛
Cuba has withstood the blockade for 60 years, a
duration equal to one-fourth of the years of U.S.
national existence. Cuba has lacked the resources
and powerful allies that would have been necessary
to force the U.S. government to backtrack.
Cuba has relied on ideals, high principles, and
supportive consensus, as epitomized by the yearly
votes in the General Assembly. These majorities
have attested to the blockade’s cruelty,
immorality, unfairness, and illegality under
international law. An opportunistic and powerful
U.S. ruling class does not budge.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Our_Democracy_Under_Attack⠀⇛
A friend of mine recently said “I am at the point
where I think a dose of real fascism might be the
only way to teach the MAGA crew.” Certainly tongue
in cheek, but in Wisconsin and nationally, as the
possible outcome of next week’s mid-term elections
come into focus, we may be getting closer to a real
dose of fascism than we know.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_to_meet_with_Russians_to_discuss_support_for
mobilized_soldiers_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will “meet
with people” to discuss the issues of resources and
support for mobilized soldiers. He mentioned the
plan during a meeting with Tver Governor Igor
Rudenya, a video of which was posted by the
Kremlin’s official Telegram channel.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kherson_annexation_authorities_announce_end_of
‘evacuation’_to_left_bank_of_river_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Representatives of the Russian-backed annexation
administration of Kherson region announced the end
of the “organized evacuation” from the right bank
of the Dnipro River, where Kherson is located.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Undesirable_but_likely’_How_the_Putin
administration_plans_to_sell_a_Russian_retreat_from_Kherson
to_the_public_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On November 7, the Russian-backed occupation
authorities in Kherson announced that the
evacuation of the city’s civilian residents to the
left bank of the Dnipro River was complete.
Moscow’s claims the measure was necessary because
Ukraine is planning an attack on the Kakhovka
Hydroelectric Power Plant, which would likely cause
massive flooding, though according to Ukrainian
President Volodymyr, it’s Russian forces themselves
who have mined the power station. In reality,
Moscow fears that a large-scale Ukrainian
counteroffensive on the city may be imminent — and
has begun laying the groundwork to explain a
Russian retreat to the public if need be. Meduza
has obtained two new documents prepared by the
Putin administration that outline how Russia’s
propaganda outlets should cover the situation in
Kherson. We also spoke to multiple sources close to
the Russian authorities about the Kremlin’s plans
— and contingency plans — in southern Ukraine.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ I_am_sure_that_if_Orbán_showed
willingness_for_a_visit,_he_would_be_welcomed_in_Kyiv⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_administration_says_they_‘never_refused’
to_negotiate_with_Russia_—_rather_they_would_only_do_so_after
Russian_troops_withdraw_from_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine has never refused to negotiate with Russia,
says presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Opposition_politician_Ilya_Yashin’s_arrest
extended_to_November_26_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow court has granted prosecutors’ request to
extend the arrest of opposition politician Ilya
Yashin until November 26, according to TASS. Yashin
was charged with spreading “disinformation” about
the Russian army in July.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Lena,_I_might_be_executed_by_our_own_today.’_21
Russian_conscientious_objectors_are_held_captive_in_a
basement_in_the_Donetsk_region._Their_wives_and_mothers_plead
desperately_for_help._—_Meduza⠀⇛
21 Russian conscripts, who were mobilized this fall
and are refusing to fight in Ukraine, are held
captive in Zavitne Bazhannia, a village in the
Donetsk region of Ukraine. The Insider, a Russian
media project, has reported this, citing a letter
from the wives and mothers of the unlawfully
detained servicemen.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I’m_spoiled_by_my_Ukrainian_love_of_freedom’_In_a
bitter_echo_of_Stalinist_deportations,_Russia’s_mobilization
is_forcing_Crimean_Tatars_into_exile_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_resident_who_left_note_on_grave_of
Putin’s_parents_released_from_house_arrest_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On October 6, 60 year old Irina Tsybaneva left a
note on the grave of the Russian president’s
parents. The note read: “Parents of a serial
killer, take him, we have so much pain and misery
from him, the whole world prays for his death
[illegible]. Death to Putin, you raised a freak and
a killer.”
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Few_governments_have_done_much_about_the
climate_this_year⠀⇛
The modellers estimate that if every national
climate goal for the end of this decade were met,
including those conditional on money promised by
rich countries actually turning up, then average
global temperatures would rise by 2.4°C by 2100. If
mid-century net-zero pledges are met, it could mean
just 1.8°C of warming, but the report’s authors
warn repeatedly that this is “currently not
credible” (see chart). Existing climate
policies—real action on the ground, not just
promises—equate to 2.8°C of warming by 2100. These
findings are consistent with a similar analysis by
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the
main forum for international climate talks.
Climate models suggest that, to avoid more than
1.5°C of warming, greenhouse-gas emissions must
peak before 2025 and then fall by 43% from 2019
levels by 2030. Systems Change Lab, a conglomerate
of environmental organisations and think-tanks, has
translated these reductions into 40 indicators,
each with a 2030 target. In its report, the State
of Climate Action 2022, it finds not a single one
of them on track for 1.5°C. Five are heading in the
wrong direction entirely. For example, the share of
electricity generated by “unabated fossil gas”
(natural gas burned without capturing the resulting
carbon dioxide) has actually risen in recent years.
Similarly, the amount of CO2 generated for each
unit of steel produced has increased, and food
production is emitting more than it did five years
ago.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Barbados_PM_Condemns_Lack_of_‘Simple
Political_Will’_to_Deliver_Climate_Action⠀⇛
Addressing international leaders in Sharm el-
Sheikh, Egypt at the 27th United Nations Conference
of the Parties, the annual global summit on the
climate crisis, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley
on Monday said that only “political will” stands in
the way of ending fossil fuel emissions and
mitigating the resulting extreme weather, melting
glaciers, and other impacts felt disproportionately
by the Global South.
“We have the collective capacity to transform,”
Mottley said. “We’re in the country that built
pyramids. We know what it is to remove slavery form
our civilization. We know what it is to be able to
find a vaccine within two years when a pandemic
hits us. We know what it is to put a man on the
moon and now we put a rover on Mars.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_United_Nations_Issues_Its_Starkest_Climate
Warning_Yet⠀⇛
Juan Cole examines a UN report that presents
further evidence that human-caused global heating
is accelerating rapidly and dangerously.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Frida_Berrigan:_Living_in_a_Tipping-Point
World⠀⇛
Frida Berrigan considers what Generations Z and
Alpha need for their future on this planet earlier
generations have wreaked havoc on.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Giving_$32_Billion_Less_Than_Its_Annual
‘Fair_Share’_to_Help_Poor_Nations_Survive_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛
Despite being most culpable for the climate
emergency as the world’s largest historical emitter
of heat-trapping gases, the United States has
contributed far less than its “fair share” to meet
wealthy nations’ legal obligation to help poor
countries ramp up clean energy and fight extreme
weather, according to an analysis published Monday.
“This is an absolute scandal.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Yes,_There’s_Hope_to_Be_Found_at
COP27⠀⇛
Following a year of horrific and deadly heat waves,
floods, droughts and storms, global leaders will
converge this week on Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for
the 27th Conference of the Parties to the U.N.
Framework Convention on Climate Change. The looming
question for COP27 is whether nations will
strengthen their pledges enough to get us on a path
that averts catastrophic climate disruption.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_People_Must_Protect_the
Planet_When_the_Courts_Refuse⠀⇛
In the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v.
EPA, the state of Massachusetts successfully sued
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require
it to address greenhouse gas [GHG] pollution under
the Clean Air Act. In this summer’s West Virginia
v. Environmental Protection Agency case the Supreme
Court forbade the EPA to implement just the kind of
climate protection that followed from Massachusetts
v. EPA. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held
that the EPA did not have authority to implement
emissions caps that would shift power generation
from coal to renewables like wind and solar energy.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Global_Heating_Has_Made_Ice-Free_Summers_in
Arctic_Inevitable_by_2050⠀⇛
A new report released at the 2022 United Nations
Conference of the Parties on Monday revealed that
some level of total Arctic sea ice loss in summer
months is now unavoidable, regardless of whether
policymakers are able to drastically reduce planet-
heating fossil fuel emissions.
Even an ambitious emissions-cutting agenda—one that
slashes emissions by at least 50% by 2030, which
experts say would put the planet on the path to a
peak global temperature rise of 1.6°C to
1.8°C—”will not prevent at least one ice-free
summer before 2050,” reads the annual State of the
Cryosphere report.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report:_US_Only_Paid_19_Percent_of_International
Climate_Funding_Target_in_2020⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP_Has_Already_Filed_a_Deluge_of_Lawsuits_to
Challenge_and_Invalidate_Ballots⠀⇛
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Zaporizhzhia_plant_no_longer
connected_to_Ukraine_grid⠀⇛
Ukraine has four nuclear power plants with a
total of 15 units. They produce 50-60% of the
electricity in the national grid, according
to the state energy company Ukrenergo.
The plant in Zaporizhzhia is the largest not
only in Ukraine, but also in the whole of
Europe. It has six power units with a total
capacity of 6,000 MW. And it generated almost
half of the electricity produced by Ukraine’s
nuclear power plants before the Russian
attack, according to Petro Kotin, head of
Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power plant
operator Energoatom.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Single_Billionaire_Produces_a_Million
Times_More_Emissions_Than_Average_Person:_Oxfam⠀⇛
With the United Nations Climate Change
Conference underway in Egypt, Oxfam on Monday
released a report highlighting how
billionaires’ investments produce massive
amounts of planet-heating emissions that must
be reined in to ensure a habitable planet.
“These few billionaires together have
‘investment emissions’ that equal the carbon
footprints of entire countries like France,
Egypt, or Argentina.”
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ U.S._Seizes_Over_50K_Bitcoin_Worth_$3.3
Billion_Linked_to_Silk_Road_Dark_Web⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on
Monday said it seized 50,676 Bitcoin in
November 2021 that was stolen in the 2012
hack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web
marketplace.
The bitcoin, which was obtained in 2012 and
valued at $3.36 billion when it was
discovered last year, is now worth $1.04
billion. Additionally recovered were $661,900
in cash, 25 Casascius coins with an
approximate value of 174 Bitcoin, and gold-
and silver-colored bars.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Greece ☛ Dolphins_‘dumbing_down’_language_to_adapt_to
din⠀⇛
Noise pollution from ships, speedboats and
other human activities is taking a toll on
the communications of aquatic mammals, the
Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
has warned.
According to a long-term study in Greece’s
seas, dolphins and other cetaceans that rely
on a series of sophisticated signals to
communicate with each other, travel in groups
and hunt are having to “dumb down” their
communications so they can be heard over the
human din.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Why_Scientists_Are_Rallying_to_Save
Ponds⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ I_Fought_The_PayPal_And_I_Won⠀⇛
I called, emailed, and waited on hold, but never
got a straight answer from PayPal’s customer
service drones. They endlessly repeated that I had
violated PayPal’s acceptable use policy as if it
were some mantra. If I asked for any detail
whatsoever, their response had the tone of a
schoolteacher frustrated at having to explain
repeatedly to the same kid that crayons should not
be shoved up one’s nose. I knew what I did to get
my account deleted, apparently. If I wanted to hear
it from them, I’d need a court order.
I took inventory of my options.
Here is what I did not have: money in the account,
any serious reliance on it, or any wisp of
nostalgia for the 14 years we shared.
Here is what I did have: too much free time and a
whole heap of pettiness to propel things forward.
So I made a crazy decision. I read PayPal’s User
Agreement.
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Job_leaving_rituals_in_the_WFH_era⠀⇛
We used to have ceremonies for leaving jobs.
Everyone gathering around your desk, a few cheesy
words from your boss about how they wouldn’t cope
without you, maybe a card & small gift. People
would pat you on the back, you’d exchange personal
phone numbers – even if you had no intention of
ever speaking to Jane from accounts again. You’d
hand over your ID badge, hand over laptop to an IT
support person who’d scowl at all the stickers
you’d peppered it with. As you walked out of the
building, you’d turn around for one last look at
the office, sigh, and wonder if you were making the
right decision. Perhaps the team might decant to a
pub for valedictory drinks where someone would
drunkenly let rip about how they were secretly in
love with Jane from accounts.
# ⚓ WSWS ☛ Mass_layoffs_in_tech_spread_to_Meta,_corporate
parent_of_Facebook⠀⇛
The mass layoffs at Meta/Facebook follow by several
days the jobs massacre at Twitter in which half the
staff of 7,500 was eliminated by the billionaire
and wealthiest man in the world Elon Musk shortly
after he assumed private ownership of the
microblogging platform. The layoffs were
precipitated by a previously existing financial
crisis that was exacerbated when advertisers began
pulling out of Twitter after Musk took over the
company and fired its executive leadership and
board of directors.
According to a Crunchbase News summary, 45,000 tech
jobs had been eliminated before the cuts at Twitter
were announced. Among the tech firms to announce
layoffs recently include the rideshare company Lyft
(650 jobs or 13 percent), payment processor Stripe
(1,120 jobs or 14 percent), Shopify (1,000 jobs or
10 percent), Snap (cutting 1,000 jobs or 20
percent) and Coinbase (1,100 jobs or 18 percent).
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ An_Economist’s_Chart_Goes_Viral:_Shows_Main
Source_of_Inflation⠀⇛
Included in the blog post was a graph showing that
corporate profits account for 53.9 percent of the
recent rise in inflation versus an average of 11.4
percent for the period 1979 through 2019. (See
above chart.)
Bevins’ chart made it into the hands of
Congresswoman Katie Porter, who blew it up into a
giant poster and explained its significance during
a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Economic
and Consumer Policy on September 22. The hearing
was titled: “Power and Profiteering: How Certain
Industries Hiked Prices, Fleeced Consumers, and
Drove Inflation.” Armed with the chart, Porter said
this during the hearing: “This is another really
important point when we talk about inflation – what
consumers are experiencing. Prices are not going up
just because of supply chain or labor or some other
invisible market forces, they are going up because
powerful executives are making deliberate choices
to maximize their profits at the expense of the
rest of us.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report:_Big_Shipping_Companies’_Profits
Increased_30,000_Percent_Amid_Inflation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Boomer_Bonus:_“Downsizer”_the_only
Budget_item_of_superannuation_substance_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
Superannuation lurks and perks are now so large
they are nearing the entire cost of Australia’s
aged pension, and Budget 2022 adds just a little
bonus to the suite of Baby Boomer bonuses.
This Budget has very little in the way of super-
related announcements. In fact the extension of the
Downsizer Super Contribution to those aged 55 – 59
is about the only super measure of any significance
in the whole Budget.
And yes, by far the cohort with the highest ability
to shelter wealth in low-taxed super from this
initiative will be wealthier property owners who
can now, from age 55 onwards, move up to $600k a
couple into super tax-free (it is effectively
after-tax so called ‘Non Concessional
Contributions) on top of the regular $110,000 NCC
limit per person per year, says financial adviser
Harry Chemay.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Herman_Daly:_A_Economist_Who_Future
Economists_—_and_Societies_—_Will_Dare_Not_Ignore⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Winter_Is_Coming:_A_Recession
Created_by_the_Fed’s_Disdain_for_Workers⠀⇛
Winter is coming and with it a very likely economic
contraction in 2023. Its roots lie beyond just the
pandemic’s effects on the economy. To be sure,
Covid acted as a catalyst exposing much deeper
structural deficiencies related to a highly unequal
distribution of wealth along class lines, state
capture by huge MNCs and financial interests, and
the waning influence of organized labor over the
last 40 or more years. The weaknesses in the
globalization of supply chains and “just in time”
production were on full display as soon as supply
bottlenecks manifested during the shutdowns.
Compounding this is the war in Ukraine that is
making itself felt in both energy and food markets.
Finally, climate change is disrupting global food
markets in every country on earth in the form of
droughts, hurricanes, and other extreme weather
events.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Do_Billionaires_Love_Owning
Newspapers?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘That’s_Oligarchy’:_Sanders_Rips
Billionaires_for_Trying_to_Buy_Midterm_Victories⠀⇛
Rallying for Pennsylvania congressional candidates
Summer Lee and John Fetterman in Philadelphia on
Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped U.S.
billionaires for pumping record-breaking sums of
cash into the midterm elections in an effort to
sway the results in their favor.
“It is not just Trump and his allies who are trying
to undermine American democracy,” Sanders (I-Vt.)
told the crowd gathered at Franklin Music Hall
Sunday night. “You are living right now under a
corrupt political system which allows billionaires
to buy elections.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Helping_Create_Peace_at_the_Polls⠀⇛
Yet this tense year, things in some places may be
rather different. A security guard is now visible
at the early voting site in the public library near
me. I’m reading articles that detail threats
against election officials and poll workers, as
well as intimidation at ballot drop boxes.
Despite all this, if we’re prepared, we can ensure
our Election Day is still a fun civic event. We all
can play a role in preventing or de-escalating
tensions at our polling places.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Attorney_General_Formally_Bans_The_Collection_Of
Journalists’_Records_During_Leak_Investigations⠀⇛
The early months of 2021, following Trump’s loss at
the polls and the subsequent raid of the Capitol
building by his supporters, were periodically
punctuated by disturbing revelations about the DOJ
under the former reality show star.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DEA’s_Rainbow_Fentanyl_Moral_Panic_Is_Making
Broadcasters,_Politicians_Stupider_Than_They_Already_Are⠀⇛
Some news outlets engage in journalism. Others just
engage in hype. The latter tend to repeat press
releases verbatim, only ask for statements from law
enforcement when law enforcement screws up, and
otherwise cater to the “if it bleeds, it leads”
maxim that has allowed mass media to portray
America as a criminal dystopia despite crime levels
in most of the nation still bottom-feeding on
historical lows.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Money_flowed_to_[blockade]_protesters_through
envelopes_of_cash,_cryptocurrency_campaign,_inquiry_hears⠀⇛
The Public Order Emergency Commission heard
evidence this morning about donations to the
protest made through e-transfers, cryptocurrency
and fundraising platforms like GiveSendGo and
GoFundMe.
Despite raising millions of dollars to support
their cause through crowdsourcing sites, [blockade]
organizers were prevented by court orders from
accessing most of those funds.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Facebook_parent_company_Meta_plans_mass
layoffs_—_report⠀⇛
Meta Platforms Inc — the company that owns
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp — is reportedly
preparing to lay off thousands of employees as the
social media giant reels from a poor financial
outlook for the coming year.
The measures could be announced as early as
Wednesday, the US newspaper the Wall Street Journal
reported on Sunday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg already said in October
that the company’s staff of around 87,000 may
shrink by the end of 2023.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Federal_government_advised_to_pause_Twitter_ads_after
mass_layoffs_at_company⠀⇛
Cossette’s guidance said the layoffs prompted
increased concern about the effectiveness of
Twitter’s moderation and brand safety — which
essentially means ensuring that advertising placed
next to content does not negatively impact the
reputation of the advertiser.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Twitter_suffers_“massive_drop_in_revenue,”_Elon
Musk_says⠀⇛
Last Tuesday, more than 40 civil rights and civil
society groups urged Twitter’s top 20 advertisers
to suspend ads on the platform, too.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Groups_Urge_Boycott_of_Twitter_If_Musk_Allows
Misinformation_to_Go_Unchecked⠀⇛
# ⚓ Wired ☛ Elon_Musk_Has_Put_Twitter’s_Free_Speech_in_Danger⠀⇛
BEFORE BECOMING TWITTER’S CEO, owner, and “Chief
Twit,” Elon Musk had often lobbed criticism at the
platform for its approach to content moderation,
even going so far as to target the company’s former
policy chief Vijaya Gadde. But while Musk has
expressed his concern about “liberal bias” on the
platform, many activists, journalists, and
advocates outside the US—where the majority of
Twitter’s users reside—have begun to worry about
how Twitter, now without a board or shareholders
and led by a CEO with multiple business
entanglements, will respond to authoritarian and
authoritarian-leaning governments that have long
sought to control public opinion.
“How he treats pressure from countries like Saudi
Arabia and India—I think those are key indicators
of where he’s going with the platform,” says David
Kaye, former UN special rapporteur on the right to
freedom of opinion and expression and clinical
professor of law at the University of California,
Irvine.
While Twitter does not boast nearly as many users
as Meta-owned Facebook or Instagram, it is widely
used by activists, civil society groups,
journalists, and politicians—all of whom are
influential in shaping public policy and opinion.
The platform has also proved crucial for those
organizing protests in places like India, Nigeria,
and Argentina, and has provided an avenue for those
living in highly controlled societies like Saudi
Arabia to voice criticism of their governments.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Twitter_Suspends_Comedian_Kathy_Griffin_After
She_Mocks_Elon_Musk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Elon_Speedrun_Continues;_Apparently_Comedy
Is_Not_Quite_Legal_On_The_New_Twitter⠀⇛
Last week, we posted a cheat sheet on how to
speedrun the content moderation learning curve. It
went a bit viral, but I don’t think Elon got to
check it out. In the meantime, he seems to be doing
his actual speedrunning in public.
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Kathy_Griffin_Defies_Twitter_Ban_by_Using_Late
Mother’s_Account,_Calls_Elon_Musk_an_‘A–hole’_and_a_‘Hack’⠀⇛
Kathy Griffin logged into her late mother’s Twitter
account to continue trolling Elon Musk after he
banned her main account for impersonating him.
Griffin changed her original Twitter name to “Elon
Musk,” which ended up getting her thrown off the
social media platform. Musk followed up Griffin’s
ban by announcing, “Going forward, any Twitter
handles engaging in impersonation without clearly
specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended.”
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Twitter_Halts_Plans_to_Institute_Subscription
Model_for_Verification_Check_Marks_Until_After_Election_Day⠀⇛
The planned changes to the verification system have
been met by strong criticism from users, experts
and company employees, particularly for their
potential to exacerbate the spread of
misinformation in final hours ahead of the midterm
elections on Tuesday. Twitter first introduced
verified accounts in 2009; the check mark serves as
a visual signifier to show that significant users,
such as celebrities, politicians and news
organizations, are authentic — not fake or parody
accounts.
# ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ Emoji_for_U.S._presidents⠀⇛
Content warning: something here to offend almost
everyone
A while back I complained that there were no emoji
portraits of U.S. presidents. Not that there a
Chester A. Arthur portrait would see a lot of use.
But some of the others might come in handy.
I couldn’t figure them all out. I have no idea what
a Chester Arthur emoji would look like. And I
assigned 🧔🏻 to all three of Garfield, Harrison, and
Hayes, which I guess is ambiguous but do you really
need to be able to tell the difference between
Garfield, Harrison, and Hayes? I don’t think you
do.
# ⚓ Twitter,_cut_in_half⠀⇛
Eight days into Musk’s ownership of Twitter, many
pundits have begun to predict that this is the
beginning of the end. No one can quite imagine a
world without Twitter, but no one can quite imagine
this version of Twitter surviving, either.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Twitter_suspends_users_for_imitating_Elon_Musk_in
early_test_of_his_free_speech_stance⠀⇛
Musk’s team on Friday laid off roughly half the
workforce in a bid to cut costs, rattling veteran
employees and riveting much of Silicon Valley. The
changes to the platform, combined with the
reduction of Twitter’s workforce, left some people
worried that the service will have trouble
enforcing its rules against misinformation and
impersonation.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Musk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Carlsberg_won’t_put_ads_on_Twitter
anymore_following_Elon_Musk’s_buyout⠀⇛
Denmark’s sixth largest publicly traded company
confirmed the news to the Financial Times, but
didn’t mention if it would stay away forever or
just for some time.
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Time_Magazine_Enlists_New_CEO⠀⇛
Sibley was most recently COO at Forbes, and before
that held executive stints at The Wall Street
Journal, Bloomberg and Condé Nast. Felsenthal has
been Time’s editor in chief since 2017 and took on
the additional role of CEO in 2018.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ 20_Examples_of_Johnson_Amendment_Violations,
Experts_Say⠀⇛
The endorsement of political candidates by
religious leaders from the pulpit has grown
increasingly brazen, aggressive and sophisticated
in recent years.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have found 20
apparent violations in the past two years of the
Johnson Amendment, a law that prohibits church
leaders from intervening in political campaigns.
Two occurred in the last two weeks as candidates
crisscross Texas vying for votes. The number of
potential violations found by the news outlets is
greater than the total number of churches the IRS
has investigated for intervening in political
campaigns in the past decade, according to
documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Voters_to_Decide_on_Abortion,_Marijuana,
Ranked-Choice_Voting_&_Prison_Labor_in_2022_Midterm_Ballot
Initiatives⠀⇛
Across the United States, local voters will decide
critical ballot initiatives related to reproductive
freedom, voting rights, marijuana and slavery in
Tuesday’s midterm elections. Chris Melody Fields
Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
says the initiatives like abortion could surprise
some people, and says the recent Kansas vote to
protect abortion shows reproductive health can
transcend party lines. Fields Figueredo also
explains how slavery is still enshrined in some
state constitutions as a form of punishment, which
she says has “led to mass incarceration of Black
and Brown communities.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Why_Is_AIPAC_Spending_Millions_to_Beat
Summer_Lee,_a_Democratic_Socialist_Running_for_Congress_in
PA?⠀⇛
With Democrats at risk of losing both the House and
Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, we speak with Justice
Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid about the
progressives favored to win congressional seats.
Texas city councilmember and former labor organizer
Greg Casar, Illinois state Representative Delia
Ramirez and Pennsylvania community organizer Summer
Lee have all been endorsed by Justice Democrats,
who are best known for helping catapult members of
the Squad to victory in 2018. “I think that we’ll
continue to see these progressives expand the
horizon on issues that working-class communities
care about,” says Shahid, who critiques the
Democratic Party for weak messaging on the economy.
Shahid also discusses how the pro-Israel lobbying
group AIPAC is pouring money into defeating
progressive candidates like Summer Lee.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_Gen_Z_Save_the_Midterms_for_Democrats?⠀⇛
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a
global journalism collaboration cofounded by
Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation
strengthening coverage of the climate story.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Democrats_Should_Have_Talked_About_the
Economy⠀⇛
As the 2022 midterms enter the final stretch, there
has been broad agreement that Democratic candidates
have lost tremendous ground on economic issues, and
never hit upon a sustained and coherent plan to
regain it. For the most part, this line of argument
has devolved into counterproductive zero-sum
infighting within Democratic policy and campaign
circles, pitting the issue of “the economy” against
campaign pitches around abortion rights in the
post-Roe era or the fate of democracy in the still-
rampaging Trump one.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Rabbi’s_Tales⠀⇛
And it’s all amplified by the yelling of fire in
the omnipresent American theater of social media,
worsening by far its destructive ramifications
spread by the flames.
For Rabbi Schwab, it’s the growing enmity against
Jews. He didn’t have to label it in addressing
another Jew in a long, tormented, sorrowful email.
He was my rabbi for several years in Santa Fe,
N.M., not long ago.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Head_of_the_Secretariat_of_the_20th_Party
Congress_Speaks_About_Amendment_to_CPC_Constitution⠀⇛
This article was distributed by a Chinese
government accepted source, but we believe it is
worthy of a wider audience because it provides
documentation of important ongoing dialogue within
top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Chasing_a_Mirage:_How_Israel_Arab_Parties
Validate_Israeli_Apartheid⠀⇛
Israel was established on a problematic premise of
being a homeland of all Jews, everywhere – not of
Palestine’s own native inhabitants – and on a
bloody foundation, that of the Nakba and the
destruction of historic Palestine and the expulsion
of its people.
Such beginnings were hardly conducive to the
establishment of a real democracy, perfect or
blemished. Not only did Israel’s discriminatory
attitude persist throughout the years, it actually
worsened, especially as the Palestinian Arab
population rose disproportionally compared to the
Jewish population between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_On_Election_Day,_the_Sum_of_All
Fears⠀⇛
Vote! For a day or two, forget all things large and
small that you as a progressive may dislike about
the Democratic Party, Congress, and the Biden
administration. You can pick up where you left off
later in the week. Right now, there’s too much at
stake to not make yourself heard.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘This_Is_Important’:_DOJ_to_Step_Up_Poll
Monitoring_for_Midterms⠀⇛
Amid mounting fears of voter intimidation and
political violence on the eve of the U.S. midterm
elections, federal officials on Monday announced
plans to monitor polls in 64 communities across two
dozen states.
“We’ve seen… in Arizona in recent weeks, people
surveilling drop boxes, videotaping. People taking
pictures of their license plates.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Washington_Post_Claims_Voters_Want_Cuts_in
Social_Security_and_Medicare⠀⇛
While the paragraph is awkward, it implies that
voters are demanding big cuts to spending, which
could be met by cutting Social Security and
Medicare, but it may be possible to appease them
with smaller cuts to some of the programs pushed
through by President Biden. The Post does not
present any evidence that a substantial segment of
the population would be happy with cuts to Social
Security and Medicare, which polls consistently
show enjoy strong support across the political
spectrum.
The piece also does not tell readers how it has
determined that cuts to the budget would be a
“shift to fiscal responsibility.” At the moment,
most economists are quite concerned that the
economy is headed towards a recession. It is hard
to see how cutting spending as an economy heads
into recession is fiscally responsibe. It is
obviously bad for the economy, almost certainly
making a recession worse.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘You_Will_All_Be_Executed’:_Arizona_Poll
Workers_Endure_Right-Wing_Midterm_Threats⠀⇛
Election workers in a hotly contested Arizona
county have endured more than 100 violent threats
and intimidating messages leading up to Tuesday’s
crucial midterms, most of them based on thoroughly
disproven lies about Democratic voter fraud that
former President Donald Trump and his allies have
repeated ad nauseam for the past two years.
“We’re going to continue to find it more and more
difficult to get the job done when no one wants to
work for elections.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘They’re_Looking_for_Every_Advantage’:_GOP
Sues_to_Block_Thousands_of_Ballots_in_Key_States⠀⇛
National and state-level Republicans are engaged in
a coordinated legal effort to disqualify thousands
of absentee and mail-in ballots in key battleground
states ahead of Election Day, a mass voter
suppression campaign that—if successful—could swing
the results of close races.
In states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,
right-wing organizations and Republican groups
animated by former President Donald Trump’s “Big
Lie” have filed lawsuits seeking to toss ballots on
technical grounds, potentially disenfranchising
thousands of voters for failing to put a date on
the outer envelope of a ballot or other small
mistakes.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_It’s_Not_Too_Late!_How_to_Crush
the_Thieving,_Lying_GOP_in_the_Midterms⠀⇛
Will Democrats save themselves and the country?
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_To_Improve_US_Democracy_in_the
Future,_We_Must_Defend_It_Right_Now⠀⇛
“You’ve got to have the foundations on which this
country was built solidly in place in order for all
the other things to happen.”—MSNBC’s Alex Witt on
why voters should care about “democracy”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Problem_With_Jihad,_Rehab_Isn’t_Filmmaker
Meg_Smaker’s_Color_or_Religion⠀⇛
The first word you hear when watching the
documentary Jihad, Rehab is “Meg.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Labor_Rights_Are_on_the_Ballot⠀⇛
Seventy-one percent of Americans now say they feel
favorably about unions, the highest level of
support for organized labor since the 1960s.
Unfortunately, in much of America, workers who
would love to be in a union face barriers to
organizing, getting first contracts, and
collectively bargaining. Even in historically pro-
union states such as Wisconsin and Michigan,
legislators have passed anti-labor “right-to-work”
laws. Backed by corporate interests, these laws
prevent employees from obtaining necessary
representation in the workplace and deny workers
opportunities to amplify their voices in political
debates.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Youth_Turnout_Will_Decide_the_Fate_of_the
Midterm_Elections⠀⇛
Historically, the midterm elections in the United
States receive far less attention than the,
admittedly more exciting, presidential races. In
2014, the midterm election had the lowest turnout
of any race since World War II, when just 36
percent of eligible voters participated. But two
years into the Trump presidency, there was an
exception to this trend. National turnout in 2018
reached 53 percent—a four-decade high for midterm
engagement. “Young adults ages 18 to 29—the age
group that voted most strongly Democratic—saw a
rise in their turnout rate by 16 percent from 20
percent in 2014 to 36 percent in 2018,” wrote
William H. Frey in Brookings.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What,_Her_Worry?_Iowa’s_Kim_Reynolds_Is
Running_a_Dishonest_and_Nasty_Campaign⠀⇛
Iowa City—The painting American Gothic, by Grant
Wood, depicts a stern and stoic white couple, their
lips pinched, wearing a prim apron and sturdy
overalls as they stand in front of a frame house in
Eldon, Iowa. The painting has been parodied
hundreds of times—including several in Mad magazine
featuring Alfred E. Neuman in overalls.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Legal_Experts_Say_Trump’s_Admission_at_Rally_May
Be_Admissible_Evidence_in_Court⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Georgia’s_Governor_Deputized_GOP_Vigilantes_to
Challenge_149,000_Voters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Examining_US_–_The_Voters_and_Drop-Out
Voters⠀⇛
Set the above aside and reflect on the unused
citizen power, given wholesale, to 535 members of
Congress. Our sovereign power starts with the
preamble to our U.S. Constitution – that is “We the
People.” Not “We the Congress.” Not “We the
Corporations.” As a Republic, we then delegate
power to Congress to define, enable and fund the
activities of the Executive and Judicial branches.
If you don’t like what your Senators and
Representatives are doing, elections are supposed
to give you a chance to say “Stop, Go, Listen or
Leave.” The problem is that the monied interests
corrupt our elections, from pressing their own
choice of candidates, financing them, directing
them and backing them with nonstop television/
radio/social media propaganda, and using front
groups to promote lies and coverups.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Political_Analyst:_It’s_Possible_Dems_Could
Control_Congress_After_Midterms⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chomsky:_Midterms_Could_Determine_Whether_US
Joins_Ominous_Global_Fascist_Wave⠀⇛
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Turkey’s_New_Disinformation_Law_Spells_Trouble
For_Free_Expression⠀⇛
Troublingly, the vaguely-worded law, passed
by parliament on October 13, prescribes three
years’ imprisonment for anyone who publishes
“false information” with the intent to
“instigate fear or panic” or “endanger the
country’s security, public order and general
health of society.”
This latest law is one of many attempts by
the country to restrict its citizens’
internet usage. Dubbed an “enemy of the
internet” by Reporters Without Borders
several times, Turkey’s government censors
thousands of websites and frequently shows up
on social media companies’ transparency
reports for demanding content removals. The
country is also among the world’s top jailers
of journalists.
In 2020, at a time when the internet was more
vital than ever for citizens the world over,
Turkey passed a copycat law reminiscent of
Germany’s NetzDG that required large social
media companies to appoint a local
representative and take down offending
content within 48 hours. The law also
introduced new powers for courts to order
internet providers to throttle social media
platforms’ bandwidth by up to 90%, which
would effectively block access to those sites
in the country.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] WSWS ☛ Doctors_send_open_letter_to_British_and_US
governments_demanding_Assange’s_freedom⠀⇛
The doctors’ organisation, which has campaigned in
defence of Assange since late 2019, explains that
it is now composed of psychiatrists, psychologists
and other respected and highly qualified healthcare
professionals from more than 35 countries. They
write that they are “deeply concerned” that the
ongoing extradition of Assange from Britain to the
US, and his related imprisonment in London,
“threatens not only the health of Julian Assange,
but also the health of our democracy.”
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Philippine_Prisons_Chief_Charged_in_Journalist’s
Killing⠀⇛
The complaints were filed against Bureau of
Corrections chief Gerald Bantag, who has been
suspended from his post, prisons security official
Ricardo Zulueta and other key suspects in the
October 3 fatal shooting of Percival Mabasa. The
journalist had fiercely criticized Bantag and other
officials for alleged corruption and other
anomalies.
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Three_Egyptian_journalists_start_hunger_strike_to
free_dissident⠀⇛
Three Egyptian journalists said Monday they had
begun hunger strikes to demand authorities free
Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed political dissident who
has been refusing food and now water too.
British-Egyptian Abdel Fattah, 40, a major figure
in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president
Hosni Mubarak, stopped drinking water on Sunday to
coincide with the opening of the COP27 climate
summit in Egypt.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Award_Winner:_Alaa_Abd_El-Fattah⠀⇛
The EFF Awards is a new ceremony dedicated to the
growing digital rights communities whose technical,
social, economic, and cultural contributions are
changing the world. We can feel the impact of their
work in diverse fields such as journalism, art,
digital access, legislation, tech development, and
law.
All are invited to attend the EFF Awards ceremony!
The celebration will begin at 6 pm. PT, Thursday,
November 10 at The Regency Lodge, 1290 Van Ness
Ave. in San Francisco. Register today to attend in
person. At 7 pm PT, the awards ceremony will stream
live and free on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and
Twitter.
We are honored to present our three winners of this
year’s EFF Awards: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Digital
Defense Fund, and Kyle Weins. But before the awards
kick off, we want to take a closer look at each of
our winners. First up: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, EFF
Awards for Democratic Reform Advocacy:
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_NBA’s_Hypocrisies_Are_Sabotaging_Its
Response_to_Kyrie_Irving⠀⇛
The Brooklyn Nets have decided that Kyrie Irving is
“not fit to associate” with their team for five
games because he posted an anti-Semitic video
called Hebrews to Negroes. Following Irving’s
apology on Instagram—after he failed to apologize
to the media twice—the team laid out a set of
conditions for him to return that seem designed to
ensure that if he refuses, it could mean the end of
his career. I wrote about the politics of the
film—and, more importantly, the white supremacist
forces celebrating Kyrie—last week. But suffice it
to say, seeing the film, which denies the Holocaust
and claims that Jews worship Satan, atop Amazon’s
charts has Nazi message boards in a tizzy of joy.
It’s like a giggling popularity contest between
boosters of Elon, Tucker, Kanye, and Kyrie.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Extradition_Clouds:_The_Duggan_Case_and_the
Chinese_Angle⠀⇛
On October 21, Duggan was arrested by Australian
authorities in the New South Wales town of Orange
at the request of Washington. He appeared in Orange
Local Court and was refused bail.
After his formal tenure as a military pilot, Duggan
moved into the field of aviation consultancy,
running AVIBIZ Limited, “a comprehensive
consultancy company with a focus on the fast
growing and dynamic Chinese Aviation Industry.” He
moved to Australia in 2005, where he founded Top
Gun Tasmania, providing customers flights in the
British military jet trainer, the BAC Jet Provost,
and the CJ-6A Nanchang, a Chinese propeller-driven
trainer. His staff consisted of former US and UK
military pilots.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ White_Christian_Supremacists_Try_To_Cancel
Kyrie_Irving⠀⇛
As an aside, my embrace of vaccine mandates was my
darkest day as a leftist. I wasn’t alone but I will
take complete responsibility for my mistakes. What
an awful thing to promote. To throw people out of
their livelihood. I want to apologize to all those
hurt by my words and I would like to thank from the
bottom of my heart all those who called me out on
it. You made me better and you made society better.
The left does have to account for why we did not
side with the working class. However, one thing I
will not be doing as many have is to declare that I
am no longer a leftist. I don’t blame the left for
what I said. I take full responsibility. The left
has always been the place for positive and radical
change and it continues to be. To abandon the
leftist project is to give up on changing the
world. To all those who have stuck it out amidst
divisive times, I thank you too.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jackson_Issues_First_Dissent_Over_Supreme
Court_Refusal_to_Hear_Death_Row_Appeal⠀⇛
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Monday in her
first U.S. Supreme Court opinion—a dissent—that she
would have heard the appeal of a man facing
execution following a trial in which the
prosecution likely suppressed evidence.
Jackson’s dissent from the high court’s refusal to
hear the appeal of Davel Chinn—an Ohio death row
inmate convicted of shooting and killing a man
named Brian Jones during an attempted robbery in
1989—was joined by left-wing Justice Sonia
Sotomayor.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Migrant_Defenders_Demand_Italy_Allow_All
Asylum-Seekers_Off_Rescue_Ships⠀⇛
Human rights defenders on Monday urged authorities
in Italy to allow all asylum-seeking migrants
aboard several rescue ships in and near southern
Italian ports to immediately disembark, while a
German charity said it would sue Italy’s new far-
right government for refusing to designate a safe
port for humanitarian vessels.
“Italian authorities must urgently allow all people
on ship to disembark as soon as possible.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Obscured_and_Forgotten_History_of_Black
Communist_Women⠀⇛
At a time when organizing by leftists, particularly
Black women, faces numerous challenges in politics,
public schools, and the media, it can feel as
though a dark history is repeating itself. Concerns
about the rising alt-right, police violence, anti-
trans legislation, book banning, and the erasure of
“uncomfortable” histories are colliding with
reinvigorated anti-racism and pro-labor movements.
This year alone, we saw what Amazon union organizer
Chris Smalls called the “Hot Labor Summer”: an
ongoing wave of strikes and unionization efforts
from giant corporations such as Starbucks, to
museums, rail yards, and coal mining facilities.
While seemingly newly urgent, the fights for racial
justice, gender equity, and workers’ rights began
decades ago. A new collection of Black women’s
writing—Organize, Fight, Win—brings to light to the
theories and tactics activists used to build
successful coalition movements at the beginning of
the 20th century, and their enduring relevance in
today’s political climate.
# ⚓ Brr ☛ Voting_from_Antarctica⠀⇛
It’s a bit confusing – it wasn’t clear to me
whether I needed to re-register with the state, or
just update my existing registration. I clarified
this with the city: turns out that since I was
already registered to vote, all I had to do was
update my existing record.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Supreme_Court’s_‘sleeper’_case_is_major_clash
over_Native_American_adoptions⠀⇛
“It is a sleeper case,” said Mary Kathryn Nagle, a
Native rights attorney who filed an amicus brief in
the case. “For Indian country, it is maybe one of
the most important cases that has ever gone before
the Supreme Court.”
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ New_Iran_Protests_Erupt_in_Universities,_Kurdish
Region⠀⇛
New protests erupted in Iran on Sunday at
universities and in the largely Kurdish northwest,
keeping a seven-week anti-regime movement going
even in the face of a fierce crackdown.
The protests, triggered in mid-September by the
death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for
allegedly breaching strict dress rules for women,
have evolved into the biggest challenge for the
clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Americans_Overwhelmingly_Support_Protesters_in
Iran⠀⇛
“When we traditionally think of Iranians, we think
of how they took hostages at the U.S. embassy [in
Tehran], or how they shot down a [Ukrainian]
passenger plane [in 2020],” she told VOA. “But what
America is finally seeing is that this is a regime
that commits those same atrocities against its own
people — a regime that attacks its own universities
and shoots its own women in the streets.
# ⚓ Securepairs ☛ Fight_to_Repair_Daily:_Friday_October_28,
2022⠀⇛
Starting next week, we will be changing from the
Fight to Repair Daily to the Fight to Repair Weekly
with one email on Thursdays
# ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ ‘Are_you_a_tyrant?’_Viral_video_shows
Florida_police_arrest_legally_blind_61-year-old_for_holding
cane⠀⇛
According to arresting documents, deputies in
Columbia County saw James “Jim” Hodges, 61, cross a
street despite a crosswalk indicator telling him to
wait, then stopped him when they spotted a metal
object they thought was a weapon in his back
pocket. (Mr Hodges, who says he’s legally blind,
carries a foldable metal cane for help walking.)
# ⚓ Florida_deputies_arrest_blind_man_for_carrying_cane⠀⇛
Hodges tells the second deputy that he has ID but
does not need to show it to the deputies because he
hasn’t been detained and is not suspected of a
crime. At that point, both deputies move to place
Hodges in handcuffs. While in handcuffs, Hodges
repeatedly asks for the deputies’ names and badge
numbers. He also explains that he was walking in
the dark to get to jury duty, which is why he was
carrying the cane. When he once again asks them to
identify themselves, the supervisor says “You know
what? Put him in jail for resisting.”
The 61-year-old Hodges was booked into Columbia
County Jail on Halloween morning and was not
released until 10:30 a.m. the next day. The only
charge on his booking is resisting an officer.
Retaliatory arrest — a.k.a arresting someone
because they’ve made a cop angry — is illegal under
the US Constitution, though recent decisions by the
conservative Supreme Court have cast that idea into
doubt.
# ⚓ Florida_cops_arrest_legally_blind_man_for_carrying_cane⠀⇛
Lake City’s Jim Hodges was taken into custody by
the North Florida cops after a tense interaction
with local authorities. In a video that has since
gone viral on Twitter, Hodges is accosted by one of
the deputies who spotted his folded cane in his
back pocket.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Usage_Caps_Coming_To_Starlink_As_Capacity_Crunch
Rears_Its_Head⠀⇛
We’d noted a few times how Elon Musk’s Starlink
isn’t really as disruptive as it pretends to be.
For one, the service keeps getting more expensive
thanks to price hikes, and with a $710 first month
price tag ($600 hardware fee, $110 a month) it’s
too expensive for the struggling rural Americans
it’s purportedly aimed at. Then there’s the year
long waitlist and the complete lack of customer
service.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fourth_Circuit_Goes_On_The_Attack_Against
Section_230_In_A_Lawsuit_Over_Publication_Of_Third_Party
Data⠀⇛
Prior to the turn of the century, the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a formative
decision that helped craft the contours of Section
230 immunity. The case — Zeran v. America Online —
dealt with a tricky question: whether or not a
platform’s failure to moderate content (in this
case, posts that contained Zeran’s phone number and
oblique accusations he approved of the Oklahoma
City federal building bombing) made the platform
liable for the user-generated content.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Netflix’s_Failed_Adaptation_of
“All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front”⠀⇛
As a work of art, Edward Berger’s highly
anticipated Netflix adaptation of Erich Maria
Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front”
certainly deserves all the praise and accolades it
has garnered for fine filmmaking, cinematographic
excellence, production design, and stunning
performances by an impressive ensemble cast of
German-speaking actors.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Z-Library_Aftermath_Reveals_The_Feds
Seized_Dozens_of_Domain_Names⠀⇛
Late last week, Z-Library lost control over
its main domain names. All signs suggest that
the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI
are behind the action, a theory supported by
an updated seizure banner. While Z-Library
remains operational through the Tor network,
new details show that more than a hundred
domains were affected by the action,
including the ‘GLOBAL Electronic library.’
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ The_Czech_Republic’s_proposed
version_of_upload_filters_has_a_bad_idea_that_could
become_a_great_one_–_Walled_Culture⠀⇛
A clear demonstration that the EU Copyright
Directive is a badly-drafted law is the fact
that it has still not been implemented in
national legislation by all the EU Member
States three years after it was passed, and
over a year after the nominal deadline for
doing so. That’s largely because of the
upload filters of Article 17. The requirement
to block copyrighted material without
authorisation while fully preserving users’
rights is probably impossible to put in place
in any straightforward way. As a result,
national legislators have had to come up with
various kinds of approximations when drawing
up their local laws.
Over on the Communia blog, Paul Keller has a
good exploration of how the Czech Republic is
tackling the issue. The current Czech
proposal is particularly interesting because
it is one of the first to be available after
the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of
the European Union (CJEU), brought a little
clarity on the safeguards that need to be
included in national implementations of
Article 17.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GYLRTUI_Wordo:_ADOP⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lunar_Eclipse_2022-11-08_(Fairbanks,_AK,_US)⠀⇛
I woke a little before midnight and observed the
lunar eclipse from the start of the partial phase,
which was shortly after midnight (AKST) to the
beginning of totality, which I observed to occur at
about 1:15am AKST.
# ⚓ Quick_update⠀⇛
Not much has happened other than planning a trip
and playing Guild Wars 2. My ex-employer still owes
me $65.44 for mileage, and I am just petty enough
to hound them over it. I’ll give it a little more
time (i.e. until about Thursday) and then get after
them for it.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Diegetic_mechanics⠀⇛
Interacting with NPCs and the environment, items,
levers, floor tiles, drawers etc through direct
conversation with NPCs and through saying what your
character does “I lift the rug, is there anything
under there?” is not hand-waving.
It’s, uh, let’s call it “diegetic mechanics”, and
things like dice rolls, attack checks, HP, fate
counters, numbers on a sheet etc, those are
“symbolic mechanics”.
My own preference is to do everything diegetically
if it can be done diegetically, which means…
probably fighting and disease and stuff like that,
climbing, all kinds of actually physically
dangerous stuff, that I wanna leave to remain on
the symbolic layer only.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ copilot_and_Free_Software⠀⇛
I’ve always been more than a little sceptical about
“Microsoft loves
open source”, but seeing them not only *embrace*
the (A)GPL, but
*extend* it to all copilot users as well takes
liberating software to
a whole new level.
I mean, that’s logically what they’re doing: they
mash all source
available under a Free Software license together
which means the whole
must be published under the license with the
strictest subset of
licence term compatibility, which would be the
(A)GPL.
As for “fair use”: it’s not about the output of
quoting a few literal
lines of outliers like the fast inverse square
root, it’s about taking
sourcefiles as input wholesale, of which apparently
about 20% is
(A)GPL licensed.
[...]
Long live Microsoft, and long live Embrace, Extend,
Extinguish!
# ⚓ A_Linux_laptop_on_Chromebook_for_my_student⠀⇛
Recently one of my students came up to me and
talked to me about the difficulty she is having
accessing a computer with Processing, which we use
in the class I’m teaching. She doesn’t have her own
computer and she told me she didn’t qualify for a
school loaner laptop.
If I found a cheap or free laptop that could be a
potential solution. I told her I would look for a
laptop and try to locate one within a week. I have
a few old Raspberry Pi’s around, but that wasn’t
the right fit. I asked friends for suggestions, and
I received a suggestion to look in local thrift
stores for old Chromebooks. Unfortunately, that’s
not really a viable option in NYC. There are few
thrift stores around, and those that do generally
do not sell electronics, much less old Chromebooks.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Tribe_without_Tribalism⠀⇛
@rusty@sonomu.club *tooted* the album that
I’m listening to as I begin to scribe today’s
entry. It may be this *week’s* entry,
actually, as I’ve been *slacking* on my blog
writing duties. I laughingly call them
“duties”. As if I owe *words* anything. What
have *words* ever done for me? Absolutely
nothing! They only suck up time and energy as
they bombard me from every angle – acute,
obtuse and metaphorical. Unfortuntely, to fit
into any clan at all and be somewhat
comfortable in said clan’s bubble, one must
*aguantar* the barrage. I’d say I’ve got
exponentially better at withstanding the hail
of palabras, sometimes jailed in phrases,
sometimes not, over the epochs, and
especially since living in Spain. However, I
still attest to the *fact* that they are
mostly flying debris. One must fling oneself
widely and wildly to catch relevant ones
(almost always jailed in phrases).
# ⚓ The_Twitter_invasion⠀⇛
I’m sure we’re all aware by now that not
everyone is happy about Elon Musk owning
Twitter. For those of us on the Fediverse we
had the pleasure this week of having a lot of
our instances overrun by a huge influx of new
accounts. It seems that someone, actually a
number of someones, suggested that Mastodon
is a great place to move to from Twitter, and
the people came. The instance where my
account lives saw a doubling of accounts in
about two days, before the admin prudently
shut down new registrations.
The problem is, as quickly as our admin
acted, he probably wasn’t quick enough. That
second day of the mass influx the server was
obviously under a torture test and the
hardware must have been running literally
flat out to keep up with demand, a task that
it was very much failing at as posts on
everyone’s timeline were running six to eight
hours behind. More, in the case of federated
content. And our instance was only one of the
many that was having issues, with some of
them being hit much harder.
Now, as a Geminaut, I’m used to back and
forth communication taking a slower pace.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Screenshots/Screencasts
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devuan_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Environment
# Energy
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_November_6th,_2022⠀⇛
This week was all about software and distro releases,
starting with Linux Lite 6.2, OBS Studio 28.1,
SuperTuxKart 1.4, Nitrux 2.5, Ardour 7.1, LXQt 1.2, and
PeppermintOS’ November 2022 release.
Also this week, the LibreOffice 7.3 office suite received
its last maintenance update as the end of life
approaches, and Arch Linux’s ISO snapshot for November
2022 ships with Linux kernel 6.0 by default. Below, you
can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly
roundup for November 6th, 2022.
o ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Nestbox_makes_running_Linux_virtual_machines_easy_on
Google’s_Pixel_6_or_later_smartphones_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
Android developer Danny Lin (also known as kdrag0n), has
introduced a new app called Nestbox that makes it easy to
run Linux virtual machines on Google’s latest Pixel
phones.
In a nutshell, this lets you run Linux tools and apps on
an Android phone without the need to reboot. While this
isn’t the first app that lets you do that, there are a
few things that make kdrag0n’s Nestbox stand out.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ RP2040_firmware_converts_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_into_a
an_I2C_to_USB_bridge⠀⇛
Nicolai Electronics’ rp2040-ic2-interface open-source
firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (or other Raspberry Pi
RP2040 boards) converts the board into an I2C to USB
bridge to connect any I2C sensor or module to a PC or
other hardware without GPIOs.
The firmware implements the USB protocol expected by the
I2C-Tiny-USB kernel driver used by the original I2C-Tiny-
USB project for Microchip ATMega 8-bit AVR
microcontrollers. The RP2040 is however not a fork of the
original project, but instead a complete re-
implementation of the firmware.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_User_Space_Episode_3:10:_1337_H4xx0r⠀⇛
Coming up in this episode
Releasing it when it’s ready
Exploitation Remotely
Exploitation Locally
Name Changes and Mergers
And Kali as we see it today
# ⚓ Video ☛ Neovim_is_Better_–_Invidious⠀⇛
I’ve never experienced a program with such power
and potential than Neovim. It does so much and we
are at the beginning as it isn’t even to a 1.0
release yet. The best part is the program works on
Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Steam_Deck_vs._Retroid_Pocket_3…_they_get_along
quite_nicely,_actually._–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ Why_we_NEED_new_distros!_–_TROM_Jaro_Review_–
Invidious⠀⇛
So many thoughts on this one. Inspired by a recent
videos by @Chris Titus Tech and @The Linux
Experiment I make the argument for why we need new
Linux distributions for the desktop using a pretty
sweet distro based on Manjaro – TROM Jaro.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Lite_6.2_overview_|_Simple_Fast_Free._–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Linux Lite 6.2 and some of the applications pre-
installed.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Should_you_trust_NEW_GOOGLE_services?_–_Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ Gitea_Is_A_Community_Run_Project_In_Name_Only_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Gitea for the longest time has been treated as a
community run project but in reality it might not
have been that simple, it turns out the keys were
actually being held by one person and they decided
to go in a different direction
# ⚓ Video ☛ Is_This_The_First_Country_to_Switch_to_Linux??_–
Invidious⠀⇛
What’s up, Linux Community!!! In this video, we
check out an article that covers the first country
to fully switched to Linux.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Steam_Deck_desktop,_link_problems?_[fixed]_–
Invidious⠀⇛
# ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ Reality_2.0_Episode_131:_Digital
Wallets⠀⇛
New episode of the Reality 2.0 podcast is uploaded
and out today: Reality 2.0 Episode 131: Digital
Wallets. Tune in to our new episode! Katherine
Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk
digital wallets and current events.
# ⚓ Digital_Wallets⠀⇛
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros
Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Ghostwriter:_An_Excellent_Open-Source_Writing
App⠀⇛
We have covered several open-source tools for
writers with some distraction-free editors.
One of them is Ghostwriter. It is available for
Linux and Windows with an unofficial build for
macOS.
I will not blame you for accidentally reading it as
“Ghost Rider” if you are a fan of it.
Keeping that aside, it looks like Ghostwriter is
now under KDE’s umbrella, with Carl Schwan (KDE
Developer) as a sponsor. So, you can expect the
writing app only to get better.
Hence, I think it is a good idea to spotlight KDE’s
newest addition to its Incubator, i.e., Ghostwriter
as one of our weekly app highlights.
# ⚓ GNU ☛ texinfo_–_GNU_documentation_system_–_News:_Texinfo
7.0_released_[Savannah]⠀⇛
We have released version 7.0 of Texinfo, the GNU
documentation format.
# ⚓ GNU ☛ Texinfo_7.0_released⠀⇛
We have released version 7.0 of Texinfo, the GNU
documentation format.
This package contains tools to produce
documentation in various
formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files
in the Texinfo
format. Texinfo is a text-based format with
commands for marking text,
document structuring and indexing.
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.gz
If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors
is at:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
Failing that, you can use the main server:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.gz
In this release, texi2any now supports LaTeX and
EPUB 3 as output
formats. There are many other changes; see the list
below.
Special thanks to Patrice Dumas for the many
improvements to the
texi2any program. Thanks to all whose work is in
this release: who
contributed fixes, tested or reported problems, or
contributed
translations.
Please email any comments to bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
The Texinfo web page: https://www.gnu.org/software/
texinfo/
Support free software ~ https://www.fsf.org/ ~
https://www.gnu.org/
7.0 (7 November 2022)
* texi2any
. LaTeX added as an output format, selected with -
-latex
. EPUB 3 added as an output format, selected with
--epub3
. reform throughout the code in general
. thorough review of character encoding issues
. new customization variables involved with
character encoding:
INPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING,
OUTPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING,
DOC_ENCODING_FOR_INPUT_FILE_NAME,
DOC_ENCODING_FOR_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME,
MESSAGE_ENCODING and COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING
. warn if full-text commands (@ref, @footnote,
@anchor) appear in @w
. new variable NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT
. IGNORE_BEFORE_SETFILENAME variable removed.
former effect
is now always on.
. HTML output:
. use manual_name_html as output directory for
split HTML instead of
manual_name or manual_name.html
. default DOCTYPE declaration changed to plain
HTML5 style rather than
HTML4 DTD reference
. output only the CSS rules that are needed in
an output file
. remove CSS_LINES variable and add
SHOW_BUILTIN_CSS_RULES
(custom CSS can still be output using
EXTRA_HEAD)
. use <code> tag for the output of @t and
@verb instead of <tt>
. use <abbr> for @acronym instead of <acronym>
. link to table of contents from short table
of contents only if a
table of contents is actually output
. prefix classes from @example arguments with
`user-'
. percent encode URL in @url/@uref, @email,
@image and external
manual file
. new USE_XML_SYNTAX,
HTML_ROOT_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES and
NO_CUSTOM_HTML_ATTRIBUTE variables can be
used to output
valid XHTML
. systematic addition of classes attribute in
HTML elements based on the
Texinfo @-command names. renaming of class
attributes to avoid
confusion with @-commands formatting and
describe the role in the
document rather than the formatting style.
. COPIABLE_ANCHORS renamed to COPIABLE_LINKS
. do not add a title by default; SHOW_TITLE or
NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT has
to be set
. USE_TITLEPAGE_FOR_TITLE is now true by
default
. L2H variable removed, replaced by HTML_MATH
set to `l2h'
. rename OVERVIEW_LINK_TO_TOC to
SHORT_TOC_LINK_TO_TOC
. rename BEFORE_OVERVIEW to
BEFORE_SHORT_TOC_LINE
. rename AFTER_OVERVIEW to
AFTER_SHORT_TOC_LINES
. remove PRE_ABOUT, AFTER_ABOUT, and add
PROGRAM_NAME_IN_ABOUT
. remove KEEP_TOP_EXTERNAL_REF
. new variables IGNORE_REF_TO_TOP_NODE_UP,
CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH,
HTMLXREF_MODE and HTMLXREF_FILE
. DocBook output:
. do not output Top node or text before the
first @node or sectioning
@-command. NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT can be set to
false to output Top node
for now.
. replace @definfocenlose defined @-commands
by the argument as-is
to be more consistent with printed output
. HTML/DocBook output:
. USE_NUMERIC_ENTITY changed to mean to use
numeric entities instead
of named entities. former effect is now
always on.
. ENABLE_ENCODING_USE_ENTITY variable removed.
former effect is now
always off.
. Info output
. quote problematic node names (with :,
comma...) by default
. new customization variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION
to use plain ASCII
characters for quotation marks and a few
other symbols
* texinfo.tex
. `@microtype on' uses microtypography in
formatting for pdfTeX and LuaTeX
. do not ignore @part page immediately following
Top node
. do `@set txicodevaristt' to get slanted
typewriter for @var in code,
`@clear txicodevaristt' to use slanted,
variable-width roman font for
@var everywhere. flag is @set by default, but
we may turn this off
in the future.
. new file doc/texinfo-zh.tex for Texinfo
documents in Chinese.
new support file doc/txi-zh.tex for Chinese.
doc/short-sample-zh.texi is
a sample document.
* info
. better support for index entries containing
parentheses
. better support for getting bold text etc. when
displaying manpages
. bug fixed where the first index entry in a file
could be ignored
. M-C-f closes as well as opens footnotes window
. do not crash if run in Brazilian Portuguese
locale
* Language
. @deftype* commands use typewriter font in
argument list
. new commands @latex, @iflatex, @ifnotlatex for
new LaTeX output format
. do `@set txidefnamenospace' to omit space after
a definition name
* Other
. build fixed for glibc 2.34
# ⚓ GStreamer_1.21.2_unstable_development_release⠀⇛
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a second
development release in the unstable 1.21 release
series.
The unstable 1.21 release series adds new features
on top of the current stable 1.20 series and is
part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series
of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
The unstable 1.21 release series is for testing and
development purposes in the lead-up to the stable
1.22 series which is scheduled for release in
December 2022. Any newly-added API can still change
until that point.
# ⚓ Best_Cryptocurrency_Wallets_for_Ubuntu_and_Linux⠀⇛
Linux is a popular open-source operating system
that uses the Linux kernel, which was released in
1991 by Linus Torvalds. It is considered the best
free alternative to Windows and one of the most
widely-used operating systems, especially by
developers (39%) or websites (37%).
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Firewalld_in_Examples:_A_Complete_Beginner’s
Guide⠀⇛
This guide will teach you all you need to know to
get started with firewalld to add, change, and
remove rules from your firewall zones.
Nowadays, configuring and implementing a reliable
firewall for your servers and network is a must.
Without it, the question is no longer if but when
malicious attacks will harm you, unfortunately, are
common on the Internet these days.
This is where Firewalld comes into play. Firewalld,
the default firewall in Linux distros such as Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Oracle Linux,
openSUSE, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and others,
provides all the protection you need to secure your
servers and network. But before we get into how to
use it, let’s first explain what it is.
# ⚓ Apache2_http_logging_into_journald_ring_buffer_–_Lukáš
Zapletal⠀⇛
My webserver at home has several services including
Mastodon. And I use Apache2 for web content and as
a reverse web proxy, however, this system is
configured to log all hits in /var/log/httpd. Both
disks in my server are SSD and I do not want to let
it to rotate hundreds of megabytes of access logs
every week full of bots trying to find security
hole in wordpress or other known software (which is
not even running on my site).
# ⚓ Prevent_Lubuntu_22.04_(SDDM_and_LXQt)_from_leaving_an
external_drive_mounted_incorrectly_for_other_users_|
Fitzcarraldo’s_Blog⠀⇛
An external USB disk drive is connected permanently
to my family’s PC that currently has Lubuntu 22.04
installed. There are several user accounts on this
multi-user single-seat machine. If a user does not
unmount the external drive before logging out, when
another user logs in, the external drive is still
mounted with the priviledges of the previous user.
In the days when Lubuntu used LightDM and LXDE, I
devised a scheme to unmount automatically the
external drive when each user logged out (see an
earlier post). However, that method is no longer
possible now Lubuntu no longer uses LightDM.
Therefore I devised a different scheme. This time,
the external drive is unmounted automatically every
time a user logs in, and udisks2 automatically
mounts it for the current user. Below I explain the
new scheme. In the example below the external USB
drive happens to be an NTFS drive and have the
label ‘FREECOM HDD’. The machine actually has
several user accounts but, for the sake of brevity,
the commands for only two users are shown. All the
steps shown below are performed by the account
holder with the ability to use the sudo command to
get superuser priviledges.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Display_Your_User_Avatar_in_GNOME_Quick
Settings_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
A glut of great GNOME extensions that modify,
manage, or merge features in to the new Quick
Settings menu in GNOME 43 have been released over
the past few weeks — and another one has just
appeared!
We’ve seen Bluetooth integration, button removers,
time remaining battery tweak, and a super all-in-
one add-on that adds notifications and media
controls to the Quick Settings menu.
The latest bolt-on for the fast-access menu?
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GlassFish_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GlassFish on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, GlassFish is a free and open-source
implementation of the Java EE Platform developed by
Eclipse. It’s the world’s leading implementation of
the Java EE platform. GlassFish provides a
lightweight application server and allows you to
deploy multiple Java-based applications. The
GlasshFish project was originally started by Sun
Microsystem. It comes with two different free
Licenses – The Common Development and Distribution
License and the GNU General Public License.
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 GlassFish on Rocky Linux. 9.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Hugo_website_generator_on_Ubuntu
22.04⠀⇛
It is incredibly fast because it is written in Go
and will be able to build your website in no time.
Hugo is open-source and completely free. So, you
can use it without restrictions both for learning
and for medium-scale information projects.
Hugo provides a robust theming system that is easy
to implement but capable of producing even the most
complicated websites. So, there will be no
creativity problems when creating the site.
Therefore, it is an important tool, and we are
going to install it.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ 2_Ways_to_VLC_Media_Player_on_Fedora_37/36/
35⠀⇛
The VLC Media Player is an open-source, free
portable, cross-platform media player software and
streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN
project. VLC can play nearly all known multimedia
files and DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various
streaming protocols and can be extended and
customized with multiple plugins.
In the following tutorial, you will learn to
install the VLC Media Player on a Fedora
workstation desktop using two methods with RPM
Fusion with the dnf package manager or the flatpak
package manager, along with some tips in
maintaining or removing VLC in the future using the
command line terminal.
# ⚓ CrowdStrike ☛ Linux_Logging_Guide_Part_1:_Basics⠀⇛
Linux is an open-source operating system
originating from the Unix kernel. It’s now one of
the most used operating systems across devices. You
may be familiar with the various flavors of Linux,
including Ubuntu, Centos, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL). Their common Linux core means all
these operating systems have a logging framework
installed to monitor the system and its services.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Firefox_in_Ubuntu_22.04_Finally_Get_Back
Native_Messaging_Support_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
The pre-installed Firefox Snap package in Ubuntu
22.04 & 22.10 now works again for native messaging
support. Meaning user can now make it work with
GSConnect, KeePassXC, Plasma extension, and/or
installing Gnome Shell Extensions,
As you may know, Ubuntu switched to the Snap
version of Firefox that runs in sandbox since
21.10. Which, however broke the feature to exchange
messages with native applications.
Thanks to Flatpak team for working on a new
WebExtensions XDG desktop portal and its
integration in Firefox. The new native messaging
feature is available for testing for a few months
in beta channel. And, it’s made int stable channel
just a few days ago.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Install_Portmaster_in_Linux_–
Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
The modern user is a privacy conscious one. We want
to know what data is being collected and how it’s
being used. For Linux users, we embody this mindset
ten-fold. Portmaster gives you more control over
your data.
# ⚓ AlmaLinux Official ☛ How_We_Built_AlmaLinux_8.6_for_s390x_–
AlmaLinux_OS_Blog⠀⇛
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced support for
the IBM z (s390x) platform thanks to a
collaboration with Gold Partner, Sine Nomine
Associates (SNA).
The Almalinux OS Foundation continues a long
history of Linux and open source software support
on mainframes, which was kickstarted at the end of
the last century. In this blog, we wanted to
highlight some of SNA’s involvement as we open a
new chapter for Linux on the mainframe.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_use_the_Zorin_OS_Windows_App_Support
feature,_so_you_can_have_your_cake_and_eat_it,_too_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
Zorin OS simplifies the task of installing Windows
apps. Here’s how it’s done.
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_MISP_on_Ubuntu_22.04/Ubuntu_20.04_–
kifarunix.com⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install
MISP on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_RPG_Maker_MZ_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install RPG Maker MZ
on a Chromebook.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Shopware_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Shopware on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Shopware is an API-first and headless
core open commerce platform. If you have used or
worked on e-commerce platforms like Magento OR
WooCommerce, you will find Shopware similar to
them. It offers a beautiful and user-friendly web
UI used for managing clients and orders. It allows
you to manage the prices of products, change or
update themes, design email templates for marketing
your products, and generate statistical results.
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 Shopware 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.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Install_Portmaster_in_Linux_–
Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
The modern user is a privacy conscious one. We want
to know what data is being collected and how it’s
being used. For Linux users, we embody this mindset
ten-fold. Portmaster gives you more control over
your data.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Download_Youtube_videos_on_Ubuntu_22.04_via
command_line⠀⇛
Use the youtube-dl tool in the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Jammy Linux to download and save Youtube or various
online videos directly on your local drive using
the command line terminal.
YouTube is one of the popular platforms to watch
videos online and in case you want to download some
of your videos from it on Linux such as Ubuntu,
Debian, RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS; then you don’t
need some GUI software. This can be done directly
using the command terminal of the Linux distro you
are using.
Moreover, many of us are not regular YouTube video
downloaders, thus for once in a while getting some
video for offline usage doesn’t need software. We
can use a simple command-line tool called youtube-
dl for downloading online videos. However, this
tutorial is for educational purposes, thus before
saving anyone’s video please take care of all
copyright laws applicable to that.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ELK_Stack_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
ELK Stack on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, The ELK stack is an acronym used to
describe a stack that comprises three popular
projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It
is designed to collect data, analyze and visualize
in real-time.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of ELK Stack on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy
Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions
for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based
distribution like Linux Mint.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_GlassFish_Java_Application
Server_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
GlassFish is a free and open-source implementation
of the Java EE Platform developed by Eclipse.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Scanning_All_or_Specified_Ports_With
Nmap⠀⇛
Nmap is an open source utility for network
discovery and security auditing. You can use it for
penetration testing, network analyzing and more.
It is a utility with vast options but the goal of
this tutorial is to show you various ways of
scanning ports.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Trashing_Files_From_the_Linux_Command_Line_Is
Easy_With_trash-cli⠀⇛
Home directories almost always end up cluttered
with loose files: random downloads from the
internet, to-do lists, and working directories for
projects long since abandoned.
Desktop users can send all of their garbage to the
trashcan—a temporary holding space where files are
kept before deletion—but users who prefer to carry
out their maintenance in the terminal don’t have
this option. Here’s how you can change that.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_VMware_Tools_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_Linux
using_terminal⠀⇛
Learn how you can enable VMWare tools on its
hypervisor for not only Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux but
also for previous versions such as Ubuntu 18.04,
19.04, 16.04, including Linux Mint, Debian,
Elementary OS, and more…
VMware is one of the oldest entities that deal with
Virtualization technology and stability with the
performance of Vmware Workstation Player on Windows
and Linux OS proof of that. As we know, we have
only a couple of Type-2 virtualization platforms to
run on our OS which Vmware Player, VirtualBox, and
KVM are the best options. Well, if you leave the
KVM aside then between VirtualBox and VMware, the
performance I got while using Ubuntu 20.04 on
Vmware Player was much faster than the VirtualBox.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_start_using_mongodb_6.0_in_Ubuntu_20.04
LTS_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Learn how to install & start the MongoDB 6.0
database on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux Focal using the
command terminal for storing your data.
MongoDB is an open-source, non-relational database
solution that belongs to the NoSQL databases and
can be used for big data applications. It was first
introduced in 2009 and freely available database
system for NoSQL databases. Instead of storing and
organizing the data into tables, MongoDB uses BSON-
format documents and collections of those documents
to store the data. It is characterized by its high
flexibility and good scalability. MongoDB is freely
available under Server Side Public License (SSPL).
In addition to the free MongoDB Community Edition,
there is a commercial MongoDB Enterprise Edition
and fully managed cloud-based database services
under the name MongoDB Atlas. MongoDB is
characterized by its high flexibility and almost
unlimited horizontal
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_AnyDesk_on_Debian_11/10/
Sid⠀⇛
AnyDesk is a remote desktop application that allows
users to connect to and control a remote computer.
It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and
Android. AnyDesk can be used for various tasks,
such as accessing a remote computer from another
location, providing remote support, or transferring
files between computers, and is a commonly used
software for technical help to users remotely.
The following tutorial will teach you how to
install AnyDesk on Debian Linux desktop. The
tutorial will import the official repository and
gpg key and update and remove the remote desktop
software using the command line terminal.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ What_happens_when_you_delete_a_file_in
Linux?_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Understanding how the rm command works helps you
make informed decisions about how you trash,
delete, or shred files.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Awesome_Linux_Game_Tools:_Heroic_Games
Launcher_–_GOG_and_Epic_Games⠀⇛
Digital distribution of video games is becoming
increasingly common with major publishers and
retailers paying more attention to digital sales.
Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open
source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. Epic
Games is an American video game and software
developer and publisher. GOG is a digital
distribution platform.
Heroic is an open source alternative to the
proprietary Epic Games Launcher that runs on
Windows and macOS only.
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Anbernic_RG353M:_New_gaming_handheld
arrives_with_Android_and_Linux_dual_boot_support_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
Anbernic is now selling a new gaming handheld and
another member of the RG353 series. While the
company already offers the RG353P, RG353V and
RG353VS, it has now brought the RG353M to market.
As its name suggests, the RG353M shares many
features with other RG353 devices. In short, the
RG353M is the RG353P but with a different shell.
Specifically, the RG353M features the same 3.5-inch
IPS display as its siblings, which operates at 640
x 480 pixels. Additionally, Anbernic includes a
Rockchip RK3566 chipset, 2 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 32
GB of eMMC 5.1 flash storage. Moreover, the gaming
handheld has a 3,500 mAh battery and is capable of
dual-booting Android 11 or Linux. For reference,
the RG353M measures 145 x 70.5 x 15.9 mm and weighs
232 g. Likewise, the device has two microSD card
slots, two USB Type-C ports, a 3.5 mm jack, an HDMI
output and the usual array of gamepad controls.
Currently, Anbernic sells the RG353M directly or
via AliExpress. It is worth noting that while
AliExpress orders are US$12 more expensive on the
face of it, the retailer includes free shipping. In
comparison, Anbernic charges US$12 in shipping when
ordering the RG353M directly, eliminating the price
difference entirely.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Krita ☛ Krita_5.1.3_Released⠀⇛
Today we’re releasing Krita 5.1.3. This is
strictly a bug fix release, but we recommend
updating to everyone. There are also
performance improvements because we updated
some of the libraries we use! Note that we
have skipped 5.1.2 because of a last-minute
bug fix (with the exception of Android, where
we are still on 5.1.2 due to signing trouble,
and thus bugs 461436 and 459510 are still at
large. They will be fixed in the next
version).
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Crosswords_0.3.6:_‘The_Man_from_G.N.O.M.E’_–
Jonathan_Blandford⠀⇛
It’s time for another GNOME Crosswords
release! This one is particularly exciting to
me as it brings a lot of new content. The
major highlights include new puzzles, a new
distribution channel, and the start of
adaptive behavior with an eye to working on
mobile. It’s available for download in
flathub.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Zenwalk_GNU_Linux:_New_Zenwalk_Current_ISO_2022_07_November
is_ready⠀⇛
It’s been some time since the last Zenwalk Current
ISO, so here it is.
Most packages have been rebuilt here or upstream.
Since 18 years Zenwalk follow the same guideline :
being the only true 100% Slackware compatible
striped-down optimized system.
The main change in Zenwalk design lately, is the
return of Mozilla Firefox as main browser. Due to
the lack of improvements, especially performances
issues and instability in Chromium. I also believe
that privacy can be more easily achieved with
Mozilla Firefox.
The Zenwalk “SlackBuild” packaging utility has also
been updated so that it now allows to build
Slackware packages from any source tarball without
any configuration, as well as from any .DEB Debian
binary as long as it’s using the same toolchain and
shared libs as Zenwalk, as well as from any Github
URL.
You’ll also notice some improvements in Netpkg :
the multi-repository, dependency aware, package
management system.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ elementary_OS_7_is_Getting_Closer_to
Release⠀⇛
Danielle Foré, Founder & CEO of elementary OS, has
announced that the team is now preparing for the
release of 7.0. With all blocking window manager
issues resolved, the team is ready to move forward.
At this point, the remaining tasks are mostly
centered around builds, infrastructure, etc. But
even with the OS in this position, the team is
still adding more polish to the release.
But what can you expect with elementary OS 7.0? The
team has been fairly closed-mouthed about the
project, but we do know that it will include
Flatpak 7.1 (based on GNOME 43) and a number of Gtk
4 improvements.
o § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_First_Official_Ubuntu_Unity_Flavor_Release_|
Ubuntu_22.10_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Today we look at Ubuntu Unity and congratulate the
team for officially being recognized as an official
flavor. This build features the 5.19 Kernel and the
old Unity 7 desktop environment.
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ The_LXQt_Desktop_updated_to_1.2.0_–
PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
LXQt is a free and open source lightweight desktop
environment. It was formed from the merger of the
LXDE and Razor-qt projects. Like its GTK
predecessor LXDE, LXQt does not ship or develop its
own window manager, instead LXQt lets the user
decide which window manager they want to use. Linux
distributions commonly default LXQt to Openbox or
xfwm4 or kwin.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Artificial_intelligence:_3_ways_to
prioritize_responsible_practices⠀⇛
The question of how to use AI responsibly has been
a hot topic for some time, yet little has been done
to implement regulations or ethical standards. To
start seeing real industry change, we need to shift
from simply discussing the risks of unbridled AI to
implementing concrete practices and tools.
Here are three steps practitioners can take to make
responsible AI a priority today.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 3_critical_roles_for_successful
digital_transformation⠀⇛
Companies are like high-performance engines –
they’re optimized over time to create the greatest
output. They handle small incremental changes and
fine-tuning well but often break down when broader
changes and rebuilding are needed.
Enter the digital transformation journey. How can
companies learn how to shift quickly to meet the
needs of their customers, employees, and the market
when incremental progress isn’t working? What roles
can help ensure success along the way?
In my experience, it’s best to focus on a “top-
down” and “bottom-up” transformation plan to
increase the potential for success and encourage
more people to join the journey. Remember, each
employee has their journey to consider, and it’s
important to bring people along to help them see
themselves on the other side of change.
For a successful transformation, someone needs to
own the why, what, when, and how of the journey.
The following three critical roles represent these
key components, each integral to success.
o § Devuan Family⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Peppermint_OS_Devuan_Edition_2022-11_Release
Brings_Nala_Package_Manager_+_More_Updates⠀⇛
Peppermint OS is a Debian-stable-based Linux
Distribution which primarily features a lightweight
Xfce desktop environment. On August 2022, for the
first time, Peppermint OS released its “Devuan”
version. Devuan is a Debian fork free from Systemd.
Hence Peppermint Devuan edition is much faster than
the standard Peppermint OS version.
The Peppermint Devuan 2022-11 release brings
additional updates since its first release. Here’s
what’s new.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Giveaway_Week_–_e-con_Systems_e-CAM20_CURB
camera⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ MS2130_based_“4K”_HDMI_to_USB_3.0_video
capture_dongle_sells_for_$19_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
We first discovered the MS2130 chip in the
YuzukiLOHCC PRO open-source hardware board that
claims to have a bills-of-material cost of about
$10. But you have to build it and source the
components yourself, so it’s not for everyone. Now
USB 3.0 adapters capable of recording or streaming
up to 1080p60 uncompressed video from an HDMI input
up to 4Kp30 are available to anyone with around
$20.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_turns_15_years_old⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Samsung_Galaxy_S21_series_is_getting
Android_13⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Sony_Xperia_1_IV_starts_receiving_stable_Android_13
update⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Galaxy_S10_gets_a_new_update,_but_it’s_not
Android_13⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_November_security_patch_live,
download_Pixel_OTA⠀⇛
# ⚓ GO Media ☛ The_Full_List_of_Smartphones_That_Support
Android_13⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR1_Beta_3.1_rolling_out_with_many
Pixel_fixes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Android_12_lands_on_Nokia_5.3_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_Final_Fantasy_games_on_Android_in
2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ 5_Best_Fixes_for_Android_Keyboard_Haptic_Feedback_Not
Working_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_rugged_Android_phones_in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ 5_Android_camera_features_that_I_need_to
have_on_my_iPhone_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_Best_AirTag_Alternatives_For_Android
Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ Android_Auto_update_arrives,
but_the_big_change_we’re_waiting_for_is_still_missing_|_T3⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_users_told_to_delete_four
apps_now_â_or_risk_your_bank_being_emptied_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Walmart_website_won’t_let_you_buy_Android_TV
streamers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android:_How_to_disable_autocorrect_option_on
Android⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_Conference_2022:
Impressions_from_an_attendee_(and_speaker!)⠀⇛
Since the LibreOffice Conference 2022 was a
“hybrid” conference, I decided to travel to Milan.
These were exciting days. I gave two presentations:
“Introduction to the ‘Limo Stretch’ feature of
shapes” and “Creating ‘fontwork’ geometries beyond
the predefined shapes”. The first one is addressed
at developers, whereas the second one is suitable
for everyone. You find the slides and additional
material here and here. Videos of my talks are
below.
It was important for me to gain insights into other
areas. The Community Meetings on Wednesday
introduced me to the problems that LibreOffice
communities have in several regions of the world,
along with solutions and success stories from
others. During the conference, I heard a lot about
language-specific aspects of LibreOffice. Do you
have ever think about the way a piece of text in
Arabic is justified? Or noticed what special
problems occur with writing directions top-to-
bottom and then right-to-left as used in Japanese?
Last but not least, I enjoyed personally meeting
community members. Having lunch together and the
wonderful pasta community dinner were opportunities
to get to know each other, beyond code review,
Bugzilla and mailing lists. I hope to meet you all
again at next LibreOffice Conference.
# ⚓ FOSDEM_2023_In_Person_–_Community_DevRoom_Call_for
Participation!_|_Laura’s_Blog⠀⇛
The twenty-third edition will take place Saturday
4th and Sunday 5th February 2023 in Brussels,
Belgium.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Understanding_Performance_Impact_–_Mozilla
Performance⠀⇛
A few years ago, a small group of engineers
at Mozilla introduced a process to identify
the tasks that would have the greatest impact
on the performance of Firefox. They would
gather each week to look over user submitted
profiles, and discuss bugs reports. Each bug
would then be assigned a category and a score
to reflect its impact on performance. This
would help teams to prioritise their work for
performance, and proved crucial in delivering
the significant speed improvements that were
present in Firefox Quantum.
Fast forward to today, and this performance
triage process has continued, but you’d be
forgiven for not knowing about it. This year
we have been making improvements to the way
bugs are nominated for triage, how the impact
and keywords are determined, and getting more
people involved. I’d like to share some of
these changes with you, starting with how to
request a performance impact review for a
bug.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Native_Messaging_Support_Arrives_in
Stable_Version_of_Firefox_Snap_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
Satisfied users of the Firefox Snap on Ubuntu
— hey, if Big Foot can exist, so can they —
will be stoked to hear they can FINALLY take
advantage of native messaging support without
needing to get dicey with dev builds.
Got a sense of deja vu?
Back in July I reported that the Firefox Snap
finally “fixed” its extant ability to use
this feature, but at the time it was limited
to beta builds of the browser (thus meaning
users who wanted it us either had to switch
Snap channel to enjoy.
However, as of early November the relevant
bits and pieces that make it all work HAVE
made their way in to stable builds, meaning
all users of the Firefox Snap, regardless of
channel, benefit.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pgmetrics_1.14_released⠀⇛
We’re happy to announce the release of v1.14 of
pgmetrics.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pg_builder_2.1.0_released_with
support_for_Postgres_15_syntax⠀⇛
pg_builder is a query builder for Postgres backed
by a partial PHP reimplementation of PostgreSQL’s
own SQL parser. It supports almost all syntax
available in Postgres 15 for SELECT (and VALUES),
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE queries.
With pg_builder it is possible to start with a
manually written query, parse it into an Abstract
Syntax Tree, add query parts (either as Node
objects or as strings) to this tree or remove them,
and finally convert the tree back to an SQL string.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Nordic_PGDAY_2023_Call_for
papers⠀⇛
Hi,
we are happy to announce that Nordic PGDay will
return in 2023. The conference will be held in
Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday, 21st of March. As
implied, it will be focused on PostgreSQL, the
world’s most advanced open source a database.
The event offers the opportunity to the speakers to
present to an audience from the Nordics with a wide
footprint in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Attendees
typically
cover a vast spectrum of experience, area of
interest, and professional backgrounds; ranging
from newcomers to experts, DBA’s to CEO’s, students
to seniors.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ woofQ_project_now_on_github [Ed: Sadly,
Barry Kauler continues to outsource his work to Proprietary
Prison of Microsoft, which is very expensive in the long run
(traps are expensive)]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_sued_for_open-source_piracy
through_GitHub_Copilot [Ed: Microsofters' site]⠀⇛
Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that
GitHub’s Copilot violates the terms of open-source
licenses and infringes the rights of programmers.
GitHub Copilot, released in June 2022, is an AI-
based programming aid that uses OpenAI Codex to
generate real-time source code and function
recommendations in Visual Studio.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ No_more_updates_for_nodejs14,_below_in_Leap_15.4
–_openSUSE_News⠀⇛
As of today, nodejs14 as well as any older nodejs
versions will no longer receive updates in openSUSE
Leap 15.4.
Users are adviced to switch to nodejs16 instead.
The nodejs16 version is an official package in Leap
15.4 despite software.opensuse.org not visibly
showing the tag. There is a issue filed to fix that
on the website.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_is_not_just_for_developers_and_command_line
pros_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
I’m not a developer. Although, I did study C++ back
in the 90s and that was really the extent of it. I
did very well in my classes but quickly realized I
had no desire to become a developer. And, as
everyone knows, if you don’t use it, you lose it.
It took very little time for my brain to jettison
everything I’d learned about C++.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Animation_Retargeting_in
Godot_4.0⠀⇛
This post will talk about animation retargeting, a
new feature coming in Godot 4.0. It has already
been merged, so anything you read in this post can
be done in the current beta version (beta 3).
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the
3D features of Godot 4 that have been improved such
as rendering, physics, etc. To make those
improvements widely known, we should make it easier
to create 3D games with Godot so that more people
will be able to use them.
# ⚓ Meson_Release_0.64.0⠀⇛
The optimization built-in option now accepts plain
value, which will not set any optimization flags.
This is now the default value of the flag for
buildtype=plain, which is useful for distros, that
set the optimization and hardening flags by other
means.
If you are using the value of get_option
(‘optimization’) in your Meson scripts, make sure
you are not making assumptions about it, such as
that the value can be passed to a compiler in -
O flag.
[...]
It is not possible to portably grant the sticky bit
to a file, and where possible, it doesn’t do
anything. It is not expected that any users are
using this functionality.
[...]
A new command has been added: meson wrap update-db.
It downloads the list of wraps available in WrapDB
and stores it locally in subprojects/wrapdb.json.
When that file exists and a dependency is not found
on the system but is available in WrapDB, Meson
will automatically download it.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Markdownify:_Markdown_Editor_for_Windows,_Linux
and_macOS⠀⇛
Markdownify is a free lightweight open-source
Markdown editor that comes with a dozen of useful
features.
It supports KaTeX out-of-box, allows you to export
your notes and documents in PDF format, and
supports multiple cursors.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.45_Evaluersion_–_Rakudo_Weekly_News⠀⇛
Anton Antonov has published a blog post (and
associated video) about the conversion and
evaluation of Raku files (/r/rakulang
comments) into Mathematica and Jupyter
notebooks.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Big_Three_in_Cloud_Prompts_ARM_to_Rethink
Software_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛
British chip design company ARM has seen rough days
in the last few years: a merger with Nvidia fell
through, and plans for an IPO were put on hold as
semiconductor companies got caught in the middle of
countries battling over chip supremacy.
Despite the setback, ARM remains afloat, driven by
unprecedented success in smartphones, and slowly
working its way into the server market. ARM was
once considered dead-on-arrival in servers, but the
narrative has changed with the big three cloud
providers putting ARM processor designs in cloud
native environments.
ARM is now trying to shore up its software stack, a
weakness that held back its adoption in server
environments for more than a decade. At the recent
ARM DevSummit conference, the company outlined its
software development efforts for cloud native,
server and embedded computing environments over the
next two years.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Mashing_Up_CXL_And_OpenCAPI_For_Shared
Disaggregated_Memory⠀⇛
The industry is impatient for disaggregated and
shared memory for a lot of reasons, and many system
architects don’t want to wait until PCI-Express 6.0
or 7.0 transports are in the field and the CXL 3.0
and beyond protocols that ride on it to reach out
to external memory have been tweaked to do proper
sharing across servers.
Recently, we detailed what one startup was working
on to help bridge that CXL memory gap by mashing up
a combination of Gen-Z transports and protocols
with CXL at the endpoints of servers and memory
devices. Now, we have another on that is using a
mix of OpenCAPI and a PCI-Express 5.0 switch that
is coming out from a new vendor plus the CXL
protocol on servers to create sharable extended
memory that will range up to 16 TB on a single
memory appliance.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(ffmpeg, libxml2, python-django, python-scciclient,
and xen), Fedora (ghc-cmark-gfm, java-latest-
openjdk, and vim), Mageia (expat, ntfs-3g, and
wkhtmltopdf), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (sudo),
and SUSE (expat, libxml2, rubygem-loofah, and
xmlbeans).
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Experts_Find_URLScan_Security_Scanner
Inadvertently_Leaks_Sensitive_URLs_and_Data⠀⇛
Security researchers are warning of “a trove of
sensitive information” leaking through urlscan.io,
a website scanner for suspicious and malicious
URLs.
“Sensitive URLs to shared documents, password reset
pages, team invites, payment invoices and more are
publicly listed and searchable,” Positive Security
co-founder, Fabian Bräunlein, said in a report
published on November 2, 2022.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Robin_Banks_Phishing_Service_for
Cybercriminals_Returns_with_Russian_Server⠀⇛
A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform known as
Robin Banks has relocated its attack infrastructure
to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of bulletproof
hosting services.
The switch comes after “Cloudflare disassociated
Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its
services, causing a multi-day disruption to
operations,” according to a report from
cybersecurity company IronNet.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ The_Conviction_of_Uber’s_Chief_Security
Officer_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛
I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan,
Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. He was
convicted of crimes related to covering up a
cyberattack against Uber. It’s a complicated case,
and I’m not convinced that he deserved a guilty
ruling or that it’s a good thing for the industry.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Former_Uber_Security_Chief_Found_Guilty_of
Hiding_Hack_From_Authorities⠀⇛
A jury found Joe Sullivan, who led security at the
ride-hailing company, guilty on two different
counts. The case could change how security
professionals handle data breaches.
# ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ REMnux:_The_Linux_Toolkit_for_Reverse
Engineering_and_Malware_Analysis_|_eSecurityPlanet⠀⇛
REMnux is a free community distribution that
ethical hackers, security researchers, and many
other security pros can leverage to build their own
labs and speed up malware analysis.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Medibank_Refuses_to_Pay_Ransom_After_9.7
Million_Customers_Exposed_in_Ransomware_Hack⠀⇛
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed
that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million
of its current and former customers were accessed
following a ransomware incident.
The attack, according to the company, was detected
in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it
said was “consistent with the precursors to a
ransomware event,” prompting it to isolate its
systems, but not before the attackers exfiltrated
the data.
“This figure represents around 5.1 million Medibank
customers, around 2.8 million ahm customers, and
around 1.8 million international customers,”
Medibank noted.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Ransomware_group_threatens_to_post
Medibank_data_on_dark_web⠀⇛
The operator of a ransomware blog, which was
formerly used by the REvil gang, claims that data
from Australia’s Medibank Group will be posted on
the dark web in 24 hours.
Exactly when the post was made is unknown, but it
comes soon after the company, on Monday, made a big
deal about announcing that it would not pay a
ransom to the attacker(s) who had hit its systems.
It was later updated to include a screenshot of ABC
satirist Mark Humphries who recently published a
video about Medibank’s woes.
# ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Linux_Database_Security_Tips_|
LinuxSecurity.com⠀⇛
Data leaks are extremely prominent in the cyber
world due to lack of proper or adequate security
implementation. Securing databases is an essential
practice to ensure that consequences such as data
loss to even unauthorized access or system downtime
is avoided.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Optus_agrees_to_refund_NSW_users_for
licences,_others_are_in_limbo⠀⇛
Telco Singtel Optus has agreed to reimburse the
costs of a new driving licence for NSW residents
who were hit by the telco’s catastrophic data
breach.
In other mainland states, the respective
departments of transport are still battling to try
and get the telco to accept responsibility for the
leaking of drivers’ licence data and pay up.
It may be recalled that when Optus was asked about
reimbursement of these costs with specific
reference to Victoria, the company indicated that
it would pay only the administrative costs incurred
in issuing new licences — and not the costs of the
licences themselves.
iTWire contacted the five transport departments of
the mainland states last week and asked them about
Optus stance on paying for these documents.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ This_Hidden_Facebook_Tool_Lets_Users
Remove_Their_Email_or_Phone_Number_Shared_by_Others⠀⇛
Facebook appears to have silently rolled out
a tool that allows users to remove their
contact information, such as phone numbers
and email addresses, uploaded by others.
The existence of the tool, which is buried
inside a Help Center page about “Friending,”
was first reported by Business Insider last
week. It’s offered as a way for “Non-users”
to “exercise their rights under applicable
laws.”
An Internet Archive search via the Wayback
Machine shows that the option has been
available since at least May 29, 2022.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ US_makes_biggest_bitcoin_seizure_from_man
who_stole_from_Silk_Road⠀⇛
A man who stole bitcoin worth US$3.36 billion
(A$5.19 billion) at the time of the theft,
from the Silk Road marketplace on the dark
web in 2012, has now admitted he was guilty
of wire fraud.
A statement from the US Department of Justice
on Monday said James Zhong had entered a
guilty plea on 4 November before US district
judge Paul Gardephe.
The 50,676.17851897 of bitcoin was seized on
9 November 2021 and is the biggest
cryptocurrency seizure by the DoJ.
The statement said the government was looking
to forfeit: approximately 51,680.32473733
bitcoin; Zhong’s 80% interest in RE&D
Investments, a Memphis-based company with
real estate holdings; US$661,900 in cash
seized from Zhong’s home; and various metals
also seized from his home.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Coburg,_Prince_Alfred_and_Queen_Victoria_in
more_detail⠀⇛
That sounds like an opportunity for the Internet
community.
Prince Alfred was born in August 1844.
The state of Victoria was named after Queen
Victoria in 1851. The state of Queensland is also
named after Queen Victoria.
Marie was born in October 1853.
An assassin shot Prince Alfred during his visit to
Sydney in 1868. Alfred was nursed back to good
health. Citizens in both Sydney and Melbourne
raised large sums of money to build hospitals named
in the Prince’s honor.
It wasn’t necessary for royal princes to risk their
lives to join the navy and sail half way around the
world. He could have stayed home and played polo. A
navy career in that era probably required a lot
more skill and courage than a military career
today. Therefore, royalty aside, his arrival in
Australia certainly deserved some respect.
# ⚓ All_the_perfect_drugs_and_superheroes…:_Dissociated_Press⠀⇛
And, unlike other times, I see little evidence that
the factors pushing people off Twitter are going to
change and people seem to have shifted from
“federated is going to fail again, like before” to
“trusting in centralized sites has failed us again
and again.”
# ⚓ Since_YOU_asked_MY_take_on_Twitter…_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛
Tomorrow there are the US 2022 midterm elections
(more on this below), but as far as I can tell you
are all screaming at Twitter, leaving Twitter,
staying on Twitter, going Mastodon or explaining
Mastodon.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ #FreeAlaa:_At_COP_27,_Canada_Must_Speak_Out_for
the_Release_of_Alaa_Abdel-Fattah_–_Access_Now⠀⇛
We, the undersigned members of civil society, write
to express our solidarity and support for the
wrongfully detained British-Egyptian citizen Alaa
Abd el-Fattah and urge all elements of the Canadian
government participating in the upcoming COP27
conference in Egypt to raise Alaa’s case before
Egyptian authorities and to utilize all possible
leverage to secure his timely release from unjust
and arbitrary detention.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah is one of Egypt’s most prominent
political dissidents and activists, renowned for
being an intellectual leader of the 2011 revolution
and for his steadfast commitment to freedom,
dignity, and justice for all Egyptians. Alaa was
granted British citizenship through his mother in
December 2021, and is now in desperate need of
immediate intervention. Alaa’s family fears that
his life is in acute danger: he has now been on
hunger strike for more than 200 days, consuming
roughly 100 calories a day. When COP begins on
November 6th, he will begin a full hunger strike
and stop drinking water entirely. In a letter to
his mother announcing this decision and explaining
his rationale, Alaa wrote: “I’ve taken a decision
to escalate at a time I see as fitting for my
struggle for my freedom and the freedom of
prisoners of a conflict they’ve no part in, or
they’re trying to exit from; for the victims of a
regime that’s unable to handle its crises except
with oppression, unable to reproduce itself except
through incarceration.”
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Strange_Bedfellows:_Why_Advocates
From_Across_the_Spectrum_Still_Oppose_the_JCPA_–_Public
Knowledge⠀⇛
While the Senate Judiciary Committee markup
of the Journalism Competition and
Preservation Act (JCPA) may have moved the
bill forward in terms of process, it did
nothing to resolve the ongoing problems,
confusion, and contradictions about the
legislation.
We’ve analyzed and written about the JCPA a
lot (see additional resources). We recognize
and have written about the crisis in local
news (for example, here), and seek policy
solutions designed to meet the information
needs of communities (for example, here). In
fact, we have developed some of our own (see
our “Superfund for the Internet” proposal
here).
But even after multiple amendments and much
discussion, the JCPA remains the wrong
solution. It compounds some of the biggest
problems in our information environment and
it does absolutely nothing to “rein in Big
Tech.”
If you haven’t been tracking the debate, you
should find this post a fresh if consistent
take on what critics say about the JCPA –
what it is, where it is now, what’s broken
about it – and what Congress should do now.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Good_and_Bad_of_Random⠀⇛
In the blorb style, the most important role of the
dungeon master is to be the keeper of secrets. Your
players can help you with rule calls, book keeping,
initiative stuff, tracking HP, and so much more,
but it’s your job to make sure they don’t know what
they haven’t discovered yet, and reveal it to them
as their character learns it.
That’s the main reason you even have a DM role at
the table instead of playing all coop, going
through a dungeon together. One person takes it
upon herself to have that map and key and text in
front of her, getting spoiled by its secrets, and
keeping them from the players and their characters
until they’ve turned the appropriate stones and
pulled the correct levers.
# ⚓ Moneyless_Friday⠀⇛
With Black Friday coming up soon I was thinking of
an anti-consumerist and environmentally-friendly
antithesis to it. In a sense the opposite of
spending money on unnecessary things is to not
spend money at all.
Moneyless Friday takes place on the same day as
Black Friday. The idea is to refrain from making
any transactions involving money for a twenty-four
hour period. That means buying groceries or any
essentials in advance, meeting with friends at home
or public spaces instead of cafes or pubs and
limiting transportation to foot and human-powered
vehicles. Using non-electric motor vehicles is
discouraged for environmental reasons. Limiting
your energy use during Moneyless Friday is another
goal. The essence of Moneyless Friday is to
challenge capitalism, consumerism and waste. Any
action along these lines is encouraged during
Moneyless Friday.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_HTMOPRI_Wordo:_LUNAR⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dark_[2022-01-02]⠀⇛
As is often the case these dark winter seasons,
I’ve fallen into a bit of a funk. Inspiration it
seems is as rare as sunlight, and sunlight is
scarce indeed in the winters of the north.
I do know what is missing, novelty. I’ve fallen
into consuming “content”. Infinite scroll is the
torture rack of the spirit. What is necessary doing
new things and seeing new inspiring sights,
exposing myself to new inspiring thoughts.
Given a lack of options, I perused the section of
my bookshelf that contains books I have not yet
read, and after some vacillation decided on
Herodotus’ Histories.
# ⚓ not_so_long_ago⠀⇛
i can see a thunderstorm getting closer in the
distance, i like the smell of rain
is it just me or is it wild that the 90’s was 30
years ago? i feel like anyone born before the start
of the century just kind of has their internal
clock a little bit broken.
i saw someone attributing this feeling is the
result of things like popular music having such a
long shelf life or something, that it’s difficult
to perceive time passing on a macro scale… idk what
do you think?
# ⚓ Car_Free_Lifestyle⠀⇛
When we moved about six months ago we were looking
forward to being closer to places we want and need
to go. We like to ride our bikes, ebikes and walk
so this was a big part of our decision to move
where we did. Well after six months I can say that
I’m loving it. We walk to the farmers market
downtown with the kids in the stroller most
Saturday mornings and to other events that happen
downtown at various other times. I take our oldest
to school and pick him up on the ebike every day. I
do our grocery shopping with the ebike and trailer.
Lately when I go to play pick up soccer I take the
ebike as well. We go visit friends on the ebikes,
we walk to parks, walk to get our hair cut, get
lunch, coffee etc. The other night we rode the
bikes down to the brewery we like to go to and our
neighbor pulled up on her bike about 15 minutes
later. So we had a couple beers with her and all
rode back together and had a nice chat and cruise.
# ⚓ Star_Log_2022-11-05_Evening_(Fairbanks,_AK,_US)⠀⇛
God gave us clear skies for a few hours on the
evening of November 5th. The moon was very bright,
making stargazing very difficult, but the cloud
situation has been so poor that one must take
whatever opportunities are available.
I spent some time looking at the moon with the
H12.5 eyepiece. After that, I did another sketch of
Jupiter. I recently bought a Night Sky Observation
Logbook (ISBN-13 979-8687347891) which has made
sketches neater and more fun.
# ⚓ Run⠀⇛
As I open the window of my appartment on the
seventh floor, the chill air – the winter is soon –
comes into contact with my skin. Tiny needles of
frost pierce me. I can now breathe freely, I didn’t
know breathing this freely was ever possible.
The entire universe gets divided by a two-
dimensional plane running through my window,
through me, standing in that window, perpendicular
to my line of sight as I look forward into the dark
nightly forest.
# ⚓ Enjoying_Hummel_🎼🎹♫⠀⇛
I’d never heard of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. I found
him at the bottom of a long list of playlists of
“well known” composers¹. So I gave him a go.
I don’t get on with Mozart so well. Too many notes.
He’d squeeze in as many trills as he could². Hummel
isn’t so far off Mozart but he gives things a bit
more space. Sometimes he’s surprisingly modern.
Some of his instrument choices are surprising too.
I’ve never heard a mandolin concerto before. The
orchestra had to play pretty quietly or the
mandolin would have disappeared. There’s a lot of
piano pieces accompanied by only a few string
players, which again gives a pleasing amount of
space. The playlist is a bit over six hours and
it’s all good so far.
# ⚓ Music_recommendations_(and_how_I_generated_them)⠀⇛
This article contains two parts: I’ll start by
sharing some of my favourite songs, diving into a
few genres I enjoy. After that I will show how I
keep track of what I hear and how I generated the
recommendations from the first part.
# ⚓ Persistence_of_Memory⠀⇛
When it comes to memory, I am with Dali. A few
melted pocketwatches and a protoplasmic sack of
crap.
I am somewhat neurodivergent, so your mileage may
vary.
As a kid I had a near total recall. I memorized and
recited chunks of ‘the Odyssey’. I read my mother’s
math textbooks (she was a math teacher), and skated
through math with very little work. I even got into
a specialized NYC math/science high school with a
perfect math score, in spite of almost non-existent
English.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The_best_ideas_come_AFK_[_2022-11-07_]⠀⇛
I get my best ideas when I’m not working.
This seems paradoxical, but past a point, the more
I work on a project the slower it seems to go. I’ll
find changes to do, but lose any sort of vision.
If I’m not programming at all, I rarely get good
ideas as well.
There appears to be some magic stoichiometric
mixture where I work on a project for a while, then
force myself to take a break somewhere far away
from any keyword for a day or two, the ideas start
to roll in at a pace where I can barely keep up to
write them down.
# ⚓ Tom_MacDonald,_Voltaire⠀⇛
Tom MacDonald has another release to which I’ve
been listening, this one called ‘Sheeple’.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Switched_to_Emacs_in_Mutt⠀⇛
Early 2021 I started to learn using Emacs, with the
vanilla key bindings.
I started actually doing things in Emacs, like my
professional writing. Compared to converting
Markdown to ODT with Pandoc, Org mode export to ODT
is so much faster.
# ⚓ Capsule_Housekeeping⠀⇛
While the gemlog improvements are nice when sharing
posts on the web/Mastodon, these changes also
enhance the Lagrange home page that is perhaps the
most prominent part of the capsule on the web:
=> /lagrange/ Lagrange home page
# ⚓ Checking_out_Void_Linux⠀⇛
Void Linux is a Linux distribution that is built
completely from scratch, so it’s not based on some
other distribution like Debian GNU/Linux or Arch
Linux. I’m testing the “musl libc” edition here
because this is one of the more outstanding
features of the distro among others. It utilizes
the runit init system instead of systemd, which is
fast and simple. The update strategy is the “stable
rolling release” model. The packages are more well
tested and a little behind the bleeding edge
packages you get with something like Arch Linux.
# ⚓ This_Great_Xerox_Machine⠀⇛
This is not just some rant from an angry (former)
student. This is a
feeble attempt at a manifest to save knowledge from
the vulture-like
claws of the universities and publications. The
universities have
turned themselves into a great xerox machine;
publishing one research
after the other and printing the degrees much the
same and handing
them out to those who help sustain this unhealthy
cycle of academic
regurgitation. This foul cult of submission. This
regime of scholar
workers of the machine has poisoned and violated
the chronicles of
critical thinking and academic innovation.
# ⚓ Floppinux_–_An_Embedded_🐧Linux_on_a_Single_💾Floppy⠀⇛
Short story why I decided to make my own one floppy
distribution. An extensive yet simple tutorial/
workshop on how to make embedded Linux distribution
under 1.44MB.
# ⚓ Embracing_Vanilla_Emacs_as_a_Vim_user⠀⇛
I started using Vim somewhere around 1997~1998, and
arranged my working habits so that I could use Vim
for almost everything. Like using Markdown and
Latex at work, Mutt for email, and so on.
In the past I have tried to use Emacs before, but
never with success.
# ⚓ Our_responsibility_as_software_engineers⠀⇛
On Twitter, an ex-Twitter engineer called Steve
Krenzel talk about his job and we can infer that
it’s not different from Google/Facebook/Microsoft.
While we have no confirmation that this is true,
there’s no particular reason to doubt what is said.
There’s no huge secret. But this serves as a
reminder.
A reminder that it is normal that any application
on your phone is registering every single action
you are doing, every single location and beaming
those info back.
A reminder that companies are buying those data
and, no, they don’t care about privacy. They want
hard data on individuals. And they got them.
A reminder that this is the world we are currently
living in with phones recording position and sound
everywhere. For one story where the engineer
refused to do it, how many times was it done
silently?
As software engineers, we have a huge moral
responsibility. We are not only implementing it, we
are ourselves using those tools and letting our
family and children using them.
# ⚓ Our_responsibility_as_software_engineers⠀⇛
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Mayan_priests_and_slapping_trouts⠀⇛
The only reasonable response to someone
questioning the accessibility
and inclusiveness of the Gemini network is to
ignore them. Even though
that might be rude (and probably considered
an example of the
detractor’s point), it’s still far less rude
than replying with: “How
dumb and lazy do you want it to be?”
In case “slapping trouts” doesn’t ring a
bell: “/slap” was a mIRC
feature that resulted in the program printing
“USER slaps USER around a
bit with a large trout” in an irc room.
mIRC was a popular MS Windows IRC client and
was the preferred client of
teenagers when the world started getting
online and interacting.
# ⚓ I_made_an_self-portrait⠀⇛
# ⚓ Thank_you_rawtext.club_(and_the_whole_Gemini
sphere)!⠀⇛
For years, I’ve been planning to migrate my
blog from WordPress to a more minimalistic
solution. I did multiple experiments, worked
hard with providers, even contributed to
writefreely but nothing managed to stick.
Problem was, like always, the customer:
myself. I didn’t exactly know what I wanted.
I even wrote huge requirements and discussed
them with potential providers. I wanted a
minimalistic blog but I wanted lots of
features. When I discovered Gemini, it was
only one more feature to add to my
minimalistic blog.
# ⚓ Thank_you_rawtext.club_(and_the_whole_Gemini
sphere)!⠀⇛
In the meantime, I started a gemlog on
rawtext.club.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ fix-me-now⠀⇛
If you have a tree that’s almost perfect, but
you just need to, uh, “fix it up” a little,
that’s where this fix-me-now macro can be
your friend.
It’s a combination of strse* from the strse
egg and pre-post-order-splice* from sxml-
transforms.
The first argument is the tree you wanna fix,
followed by zero or more matches and
replacements (so an even number), followed by
zero or one alist of tags and bindings.
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