𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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⦿ [Meme] 951,000 Tweets Are Okay, So Let’s Dig Into 15 Years’ Worth of Informal IRC Logs (in Social Channel, Two-Person Chats) | Techrights
⦿ New FSF Video: IDAD 2022 Interview with Muhammad about Freedom to Share | Techrights
⦿ Corporate Bullying Disguised as Mannerism and Professionalism | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 26, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Frivolous Harassment and Surveillance Instead of Serving Clients | Techrights
⦿ Reality Check: Sirius ‘Open Source’ is Not Open Source Anymore (and Most of the Remaining Staff Turns Down Open Source) | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Sirius Staff Always at the Bottom | Techrights
⦿ Sirius Corporation’s Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements Released a Day Before Christmas Eve | Techrights
⦿ Wikileaks is Losing Pages. We Replicate Them Here to Preserve Important Information. | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/andrew-bucknor-meme/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/freedom-to-share/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/frivolous-sirius-witch-hunts/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/irc-log-261222/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/not-serving-clients/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/reality-check-sirius-open-source/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/sirius-open-source-staff/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/sirius-unaudited-financial-statements/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/wikileaks-is-losing-pages/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/lichee-pi-4a-risc-v/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/malware-stats/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/zephix-6/#comments
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✐ [Meme]_951,000_Tweets_Are_Okay,_So_Let’s_Dig_Into_15_Years’_Worth_of_Informal
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 1:13 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Andrew_Bucknor_meme:We_cannot_find_any'offending'_tweets;
Leave_it_to_me,_I_can_quote-mine_years_of_IRC_logs⦈_
Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ isn’t even carrying out any real investigations;
it’s manipulating, distorting, and lying about so-called ‘evidence’, which
basically boils down to very informal conversations between two people (never
even mentioning the company at all)
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⢀⡾⠋⠉⠙⠛⠛⠿⠟⠛⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡼⠂⣾⣧⣤⣀⣀⣀⣰⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢱⡟⠈⠻⠿⠿⠋⣽⣿⣿⣌⠳⢾⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣧⣤⣢⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠺⠉⠙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢀⣀⠒⠢⢅⣠⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠰⠀⢾⣷⣄⠀⠐⢶⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣠⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣷⣦⣤⣀⣸⣿⣿⣗⣀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠷⠀⠀⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠘⢓⣿⠃⠀⢀⣤⣴⣶⣤⡉⠻⡿⠉⢉⣁⣤⣼⣿⠿⠛⠋⣁⣠⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⢰⣾⠀⡀⢸⡆⠘⠁⢸⠀⢰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣀
⢄⣾⠇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⢀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⢰⡟⠀⠃⠈⡇⠀⠀⢸⠀⢠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣾⣿⡇⡀⠈⠉⢻⡿⠉⢉⣹⡆⡘⠿⣛⣃⣀⣰⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣿⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⣣⣤⠖⣸⣿⣶⢿⣿⣧⣧⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣟⢿⣿⡟⠛⡟⠛⠛⢻⣿⠛⠛⠛⡿⠛⠛⢻⣿⡟⠛⢻⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣉⡀⣀⣙⣿⣿⣃⣨⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⡇⠀⡇⢸⣿⡇⠀⠘⢀⠀⡇⠀⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡯⠳⢈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⡇⠗⠇⢸⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⡇⠀⠇⢸⣿⡇⠀⡀⢸⠀⡇⠀⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠿⠏⠑⠸⠀⠐⢿⣿⡿⢯⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⢻⢛⢟⠛⡿⢿⡿⢾⢾⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠉⠁
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⢰⣘⣸⣘⣸⢸⠀⢯⡇⢀⢸⢸⠈⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠉⡏⢽⠉⡏⠝⡋⣻⡟⡛⡟⣻⡟⠿⢿⠿⢿⡷⣷⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣼⣧⣥⣤⣧⣥⣕⣸⣇⣃⣃⣾⣀⢠⢸⠸⢺⠇⡇⡆⡇⠂⢅⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣮⡛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⠇⠀⠀⢶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢲⡀⣸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢇⡦⠹⢿⣿⣶⡶⢷⣾⣿⠰⢤⣴⠆⠞⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠧⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣷⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠮⠉⠛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣶⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⣐⠒⠮⢅⣠⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠰⠀⢶⣿⣿⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣠⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣶⣦⣤⣀⢸⣿⣿⣞⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⢹⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⢉⣉⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✐ New_FSF_Video:_IDAD_2022_Interview_with_Muhammad_about_Freedom_to_Share⠀✐
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* ⚓ IDAD_2022:_Celebrating_the_freedom_to_share_with_a_new_advocacy_video⠀⇛
For IDAD 2022, FSF staff took to the streets to ask passersby
what they think about digital sharing. Read our wrapup and
watch the first in a series of videos we are releasing in the
coming days.
In our sixteenth annual International Day Against DRM (IDAD),
we stood up for the freedom to share cultural works, continuing
our fight against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Each
year, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) rallies anti-DRM
advocates from all over the world for a day of action against
digital restriction. This year was no exception, building on
the recent efforts we’ve made in our year-end fundraiser to
draw attention to something vitally important for the free
software movement and cultural endeavors alike: the freedom to
share.
In addition to our call to use DRM-free media as a springboard
for starting a conversation about DRM with a friend or loved
ones, we took to the streets of Boston to interview passersby
on how they felt about digital sharing. At first, it seemed
like a strange request to our interviewees, but its supposed
“strangeness” highlights the success corporations like Disney
and Netflix have had on the public consciousness. Just what
does make a digital file so different that we’re barred from
sharing it with a friend in person, or passing it down the
family line like our favorite books? The results that we
received were interesting to say the least, and we’ll have more
to say about them in the future.
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Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Law at 12:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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taking⦈_
Summary: The company that I left this month is breaching several regulations
and failing to follow the law; to make matters worse, pointing this out from
within the company is impermissible and may very well instigate witch-hunts
THE HOLIDAYS are not over, but we’re still in a relatively quiet period of the
year. People are resting. Nevertheless, we’re receiving additional information,
which we plan to cover next month. As we shall show, under the guise of
“manners” and the veneer of “professional” self-appointed enforcers are lying
to people and lying about people. It is highly manipulative and it pits Sirius
‘Open_Source’ in conflict with human rights, not just labour regulations and
ethical codes.
Shown below is a portion of a month-old report (predating my resignation). It
highlights the fact that the company where I worked for since early 2011 had
gradually become more and more hostile towards its workers — to the point of
false accusations and pathological lying.
=> =============================================================================
⚓ Adherence to the Rule of Law and Human Rights⠀⇛
From what can be gathered thus far, the company is shooting from the hip,
walking in the dark without any legal guidance. From what’s witnessed and what
lawyers have made an assessment of, legal protocols are disregarded or simple
breached; the managers don’t go through HR as they did before (impartial),
probably due to cost-related overheads and a lack of budget/money in the
company’s bank account, as can be seen by failure to comply with very basic
legal protocols. Very, very basic stuff.
In a society based on the Rule of Law it is important to ensure, at all times,
that laws are being followed, including the freedom of expression. A proper
investigative process should be based on law-compliant guidelines rather than
made up or twisted as one goes along, based on some personal preferences of a
self-appointed investigator. Improvised ‘laws’ aren’t laws but kangaroo courts
of theatrical nature with arbitrary routines.
Freedom of speech was in general respected, but only selectively (i.e. rules
not equally and consistently applied). Inside work, for instance, some people
were allowed to express political opinions, whereas others got reprimanded for
making a harmless joke pertaining to Donald Trump (whom the company’s founder
supports). Is it the case that some workers have the privilege to express
political opinions, whereas some are denied that? Is kinship a recipe for
immunity, not just a recruitment fast lane?
In the same vein, management can use very crude language at times, but even
reasonably polite words used by ordinary staff are spun as “rude” and staff is
forbidden from expressing opinions, based on false pretexts of “manners”. █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/12/27/not-serving-clients/#comments
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✐ Frivolous_Harassment_and_Surveillance_Instead_of_Serving_Clients⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 8:32 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 8d8f65debd319f2ce20370cf6df32a32
Sirius Spooking the Sceptics
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-witchhunt.webm
Summary: Corporate bullying and false accusations/finger-pointing thrive when
companies are failing and find themselves unable to blame the management; this
is the story of the company my wife and I left this month (a company that only
exploits the term “Open Source”)
THE surveillance by Sirius_‘Open_Source’ (with even more surveillance in the
pipeline) will be explained here next month, but today’s video deals with the
low-grade muck-raking done by the company’s CEO instead of actually running the
company.
“They in turn resort to bullying for the sake of scaring sceptics or
critics.”Who is disgracing the company? This episode in the company’s history
is shameful and it is embarrassing to staff. As geeks flee the company (a
years-long exodus as noted in the video above) all that’s left in Sirius is a
bunch of self-appointed managers who are neither trained nor qualified to act
like leaders. They in turn resort to bullying for the sake of scaring sceptics
or critics. █
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✐ Reality_Check:Sirius‘Open_Source’is_Not_Open_Source_Anymore(and_Most_of
the_Remaining_Staff_Turns_Down_Open_Source)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 3:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: What’s left of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (about a handful of people working
full-time) is mostly people who don’t care about “Open Source” (or Free
software)
The following was_in_the_official_site of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ before the
company turned rogue:
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They took that down almost a decade ago. They’ve since hired people who have no
clue what “Open Source” (let alone Free software) is, even for technical roles.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇We_generally_like_to_call_ourselves_'Open_Source';_but_most
of_the_staff_you_employ_rejects_open_source⦈_
The people who currently run Sirius think that software freedom or digital
security is “hobbyist” and “paranoid” (actual quote). Uploaded one_month_ago by
Vladimir Berezhnev:
Sirius isn’t run by grow-ups.
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣦⣴⣼⣦⣿⣵⣮⣯⣦⣯⣧⣼⣧⣦⣮⣷⣤⣿⣯⣧⣦⣿⣤⣬⣿⣯⣧⣾⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣯⣾⣷⣼⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡄⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⡟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠻⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢀⠀⣀⠀⣀⢀⣀⣴⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢸⣄⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣹⣷⠀⠀⠀⠐⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡿⣿⣼⣿⣼⣾⣧⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⠀⢀⣨⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣧⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣉⣉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠑⠂⠚⣻⣜⠣⠙⠛⠉⠛⡘⠛⠈⠛⠂⠉⠛⢻⣿⡟⢁⡟⠿⠟⠛⢛⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠿⠛⠛⠋⠋⠉⠉⢹
⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⡇⠘⠁⢀⠀⠐⠿⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⣿⡿⠅⡞⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⡋⠝⠿⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⡿⣠⣤⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡏⠈⠀⠀⢐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠈⠙⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣾⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠋⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣠⣤⣿⣿⠿⠛⣩⣾⣿⣏⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⠁⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣃⠀⠈⣿⠁⠀⠀⠈⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣀⢸
⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣯⣉⣿⣿⢩⣭⡇⠀⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠘⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠸⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠘⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⣘⣿⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣭⢩⣍⣭⣤⣬⠈⣩⣥⡄⣤⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⡄⣤⣤⢠⣤⡄⣤⠀⣤⢠⣄⣤⠀⣤⠀⣤⢠⣤⡤⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⣠⣤⡌⢻⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⡭⣵⠙⠃⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣟⢷⣦⡀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿⣿⣿⢹⡷⠀⣿⣯⡅⣿⠦⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⣿⣿⢸⣿⣇⣿⠀⣿⠀⣿⡏⠀⣿⠀⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⠶⠀⢸⡇⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠈⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⠿⢷⡶⠶⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠘⠛⠙⠛⠘⠛⠀⠙⠛⠃⠛⠛⠛⠙⠛⠛⠃⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠓⠛⠃⠘⠃⠀⠛⠓⠛⠘⠛⠓⠛⠛⠀⠘⠃⠙⠛⠃⢰⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢷⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣷⡆⣶⣶⢰⡆⢰⡆⠀⣴⣿⡆⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣴⡿⠆⣶⠖⣶⢰⣶⣶⢶⡶⢲⣿⠦⠐⡶⣦⣾⣷⢰⡶⣦⣶⠖⣶⣴⡆⢰⣾⠶⣴⣷⡆⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣰⣾⣦⣶⠶⡶⣾⢨⡿⢟⣿
⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⣿⣷⣦⣿⣿⣼⣇⣸⣇⠀⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣿⡇⣿⣃⣿⡀⣿⣿⢸⣟⣨⣿⣷⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⢸⡟⠋⣿⣋⣿⣿⡇⢠⣝⣷⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣷⡦⣿⣛⠀⣠⣾⣷⣾⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⣉⣀⣉⣉⣈⣉⣉⣈⣩⣥⣭⣍⠉⠁⠉⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠈⠁⠀⠉⠉⠉⠈⢁⣀⠉⠁⠈⠉⠁⠈⠉⠈⠉⠉⠈⠉⠁⠉⢉⣼⣿⣿⣿⣟⣽
⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠶⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣆⠀⠠⠄⠀⢸⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⠀⠀⠘
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⢠⠀⢸⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⣠⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠸⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⢻
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣶⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣄⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣼
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣼⡟⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠿⠿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣟⣉⠙⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢠⠀⠈⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣶⡤⣠⣿⣿⣿⠋⠈⢻⣿⡏⢀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠘⠃⠻⠟⠛⠃⢰⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢻⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡼⣄⣀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⠿⠁⠰⣿⣿⣿⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠠⠃⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣅⡀⠀⠀⣻⣿⡏⠀⠈⣿⡿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣴⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠔⢫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡇⠀⣼⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠉⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⠟⠰⢿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣄⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⣤⣤⣶⣦⣼⣦⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣄⠉⠉⠉⠙⢻
⡇⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣷⣾⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡤⠀⠴⠿⠿⢿⡟⠀⠈⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣷⣦⡀⠀⢸
⡷⡶⠀⠀⠉⠻⠟⠁⠀⠈⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠶⠦⠤⠄⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣶⣼
⣗⠀⠀⠀⠀⣲⣧⡄⠀⠀⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣆⠉⠻⢿
⣿⣿⢷⠶⠿⣿⠿⠂⠀⠸⠋⣶⣶⣦⣶⣶⣶⢶⣶⠆⠀⢰⣶⣴⣶⢰⡶⣶⣰⣶⣦⢶⣶⠆⠀⢠⣶⣶⣴⣶⠆⠀⠰⣶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⠆⠀⠀⣰⣶⣶⢶⣶⠆⣶⣶⢰⡶⢶⣶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠀⢸
⡟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠃⠀⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠀⠀⢸⡿⣿⣿⢸⡇⣿⢈⡿⣦⢸⣿⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⢹⡟⠀⠀⠀⢘⡿⣦⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⡟⢻⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠉⠈⠛⠁⠈⠉⠀⠀⠈⠃⠋⠛⠈⠛⠋⠈⠛⠋⠀⠋⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠈⠋⠀⠀⠀⠙⠃⠙⠋⠋⠘⠛⠁⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠈⠋⠘⠃⠙⠘⠃⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⢶⣶⡖⣶⣷⡆⣶⣶⡆⠀⣶⠶⣶⣦⣶⡆⣶⢶⣶⣶⢠⣶⣶⡴⣦⣶⠀⣶⣶⣦⣶⡶⢰⣶⣶⡶⢲⡾⣶⡴⣶⡶⣶⣷⡆⢠⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣴⣶⢶⣶⣶⡆⢰⣾⣶⢰⡾⣶⢰⣶⣶⢰⣶⣶⢰⡾⣶⢰⡶⠆⠀⢸
⠃⠘⣿⠁⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⡛⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⠛⢻⣿⣸⣿⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢸⣿⣿⣟⢸⡇⣭⡄⣿⡇⣽⢿⡆⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢹⣿⣻⣿⣿⡇⢨⣿⣷⣼⡇⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⣇⣭⢸⣟⢃⠀⠈
⡇⠀⠛⠀⠙⠛⠁⠙⠛⠁⠀⠛⠛⠛⠘⠙⠃⠛⠀⠈⠛⠃⠛⠛⠁⠛⠃⠀⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠉⠛⠋⠀⠛⠁⠙⠛⠁⠀⠙⠛⠉⠛⠀⠘⠛⠋⠋⠙⠃⠈⠛⠋⠈⠛⠋⠈⠛⠋⠘⠋⠛⠈⠛⠋⠙⠻⠻⠀⢰
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✐ [Meme]_Sirius_Staff_Always_at_the_Bottom⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 1:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_clients,_staff,_geeks,_and_management⦈_
Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ is failing to grasp that its productive workers
should be put first; without them, there’s no company
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⣏⡿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠙⠁⢅⣿⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⢰⡆⠚⠂⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣦⡄⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠘⢻⣿⠻⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡜⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣤⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡤⠄⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣛⡿⢻⢛⣻⢻⢻⡟⣿⢛⣻⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠿⠿⢭⣶⣶⣶⠿⠛⠁⠰⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣑⣂⣧⣸⣸⣿⣸⣘⣃⣿⣒⣪⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠡⡂⠃⣐⡂⣐⡊⠉⢮⣐⢸
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⢀⠀⠾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠈⠛⠀⠲⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣴⣶⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⡿⠛⠛⠲⠆⠈⠙⠋⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡆⠈⢿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣼⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢰⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣦⣾⣧⡀⠀⢿⣿⡟⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢰⣿⠿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Posted in Deception, Finance at 11:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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A Company Valued at One Pound
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-annual-statement.webm
Summary: The company known as Sirius Corporation (founded_24+_years_ago as
company number 03633198) is not really operational and it is carrying debt*; we
seem to be dealing with a truly dodgy business here, albeit it goes by the name
“Open Source” (which is a lie)
THE 27th of December is treated like Boxing Day this year (due to Christmas
happening or falling on a weekend), but Christmas Eve was 3 days ago — just 1
day after Sirius Corporation — the ‘parent’ of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ — had filed
the annual papers about the financial state (as of March of this year). Sirius
‘Open Source’ has been racking up a lot of debt and the same is true for Sirius
Corporation, which is discussed in the video above. There is another shell,
albeit it is based in the United States and it probably has its own debt
crisis.
“There is another shell, albeit it is based in the United States and it
probably has its own debt crisis.”The way things stand at the moment, Sirius
Corporation seems like a collection of shells. As noted above, we were pretty
much forced (not literally at gunpoint but blackmailed using threats) to move
to a newly-minted shell without any legal advice (before, during, or after the
signing). We’ll revisit this subject later this month. █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_loan⦈_
Jumping from one loan to the next [1, 2] (and one shell to another)
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⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⠿⠿⠿⠟⠻⢿⡿⠟⣻⠛⡿⠟⣿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠛⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣦⣴⣥⣤⣤⣼⣯⣤⣿⣤⣦⣤⣵⣤⣤⣴⣥⣤⣬⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣔⣄⣀⣆⣁⣇⣠⣈⣀⣨⣸⣀⣁⣇⣰⣀⣀⣵⣀⣇⣅⣀⣁⣀⣁⣪⣇⣀⣀⣠⣸⣠⣰⣏⣄⣵⣸⣀⣠⣀⣘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣇⣀⣽⣀⣰⣿⣸⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠛⠿⠿⠿⠟⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡟⠟⠿⠟⠛⠛⠿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠩⠛⠛⠛⠙⠋⠛⣻⠛⢹⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠏⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠉⠋⠉⠉⣉⠙⡉⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⣠⣤⣤⣄⣄⣄⣀⣄⣀⣼⣿⣇⠄⡄⣀⠠⠧⠀⠀⡸⠠⠈⢄⢡⠆⡀⠠⡠⡇⠤⠀⠄⠤⣠⠀⠇⠄⠄⠀⠼⠶⡄⡀⠇⢄⠀⠠⠀⠔⠐⠌⣄⠠⠠⢸⡠⡠⢄⢼⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠤⠥⠽⠴⠤⠤⢴⢦⣤⠤⠧⠯⠤⠤⠤⠧⠤⠤⠤⡤⡧⡼⠴⢤⢤⢤⠤⠤⡿⠧⡤⠤⠼⠴⢤⣧⠤⠤⠤⡽⠤⠤⠤⠥⣥⠥⠤⠤⢼⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠴⠵⠤⠤⡦⠤⡬⠬⠿⢤⢥⡤⠴⢥⠥⠤⠤⠼⠤⠧⢥⣶⣤⣤⣬⣬⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣦⣿⣤⣬⣽⣤⣤⣤⣭⣤⣤⣤⣤⣽⣴⣤⣥⣧⣦⣤⣤⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣦⣤⣴⣷⣦⣴⣴⣼⣿⣴⣷⣦⣶⣴⣶⣶⣦⣤⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠉⠛⠙⠋⠛⠋⠛⠛⡟⣫⣿⣿⣿⡏⠛⡏⠛⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠋⡙⠉⠋⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣐⣄⣀⣀⣸⣄⣰⣰⣅⣇⣅⣀⣀⣀⣇⣀⣀⣁⣱⣀⣀⣇⣄⣨⣀⣀⣀⣰⣤⣀⣸⣀⣀⣸⣀⣁⣅⣇⣆⣀⣄⣅⣸⣠⣇⣮⣸⣀⣆⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠟⠛⠻⣿⡟⠻⠟⠛⠛⢻⡟⠛⠻⠟⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⢋⠋⠋⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠏⠏⢉⠉⠉⢹⠉⠋⠋⠉⢹⢉⠹⠍⣏⡉⢉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⢝⡏⠹⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡏⡉⠉⠉⠩⣉⠉⠍⢯⠋⠉⡉⡋⠙⠙⢉⡍⠩⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⢉⢉⠙⡙⡉⠉⡏⣉⢉⢹⠉⠉⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⠿⠿⡿⡿⡿⡿⠿⢿⢿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⡿⡿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣶⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣸⣤⣤⣤⣷⣦⣄⣸⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣄⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
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Information.⠀✐
Posted in Intellectual_Monopoly, Red_Hat at 8:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Red Hat has a history of ‘IP’ shakedown for censorship’s sake
(covering up blunders); Wikileaks had a good example of this, but it has gone
offline, so we reproduce it here
IT was recently reported that Wikileaks had been losing pages as the site was
having issues. Today I navigated to this_page, which turned out to be among
those affected:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Wikileaks_error⦈_
It’s still in the Wayback Machine, but many people cannot find or search/
discover it at the Internet Archive.
So here are the contents of the pages which concern Red Hat trying to threaten
Wikileaks into self-censorship, using trademarks for the most part:
§ Category:Red Hat⠀➾
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) is an S&P 500 company in the free and open
source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor.
Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh,
North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.
Red Hat based on their operating system product Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and management products offers support, training (e.g.
certifications like Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE), and consulting
services.
Pages in category “Red Hat”
The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
R
- RHCE exam question 1 (2008)
- RHCE exam question 2 (2008)
These, in turn, link to the following two pages:
§ RHCE exam question 1 (2008)⠀➾
Release date
May 26, 2008
Note
From: Mia Bass <mbass@redhat.com>
Reply-To: mbass@redhat.com
Privacy: yes
Privacy: yes
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: wikileaks@sunshinepress.org, usa@wikileaks.org
Subject: URGENT--Removal of WikiLeaks Posting
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Privacy: yes
Message-Id: <20080530124655.33C03394B47@mail.wikileaks.org>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:46:55 +0100 (BST)
Dear Sir or Madam:
Red Hat, Inc. (Red Hat) recently became aware that a WikiLeaks
subscriber has posted materials to your site purporting to be Red Hat
Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam questions. Those documents are found
at
the following links:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/RHCE_exam_question_1_%282008%29,
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/RHCE_exam_question_2_%282008%29.
It is our understanding that WikiLeaks.org is a website aimed toward
revealing information regarding the unethical behavior of various
foreign governments and corporations. We do not believe that posting
exam content, authentic or otherwise, furthers the overall goal of
your
website. Red Hat neither confirms nor denies the authenticity of
these
documents. If authentic, their presence on your web site may assist
people who wish to cheat on our exam; if not, then the documents
mislead
Red Hat exam candidates and is a clear misuse of our brand and
trademarks. Consequently, it is imperative that both postings are
immediately removed from the WikiLeaks website.
We trust you will understand Red Hat's interests in protecting its
valuable trademark rights and business interests. Please contact me
no
later than 5:00p.m. on Monday, June 2, 2008 to confirm that the
postings
have been removed, or if we need to take additional steps to remove
the
documents.
Sincerely,
--
Mia Bass
Legal Affairs
Red Hat, Inc.
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, N.C. 27606
Direct Tel: +1 919-754-4734
Email: mbass@redhat.com
Wikileaks responds:
From: editor@sunshinepress.org
To: Mia Bass <mbass@redhat.com>
Cc: wikileaks@sunshinepress.org, usa@wikileaks.org
Subject: Re: URGENT--Removal of WikiLeaks Posting
Privacy: yes
References: <20080530124655.33C03394B47@mail.wikileaks.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20080530124655.33C03394B47@mail.wikileaks.org>
Message-Id: <20080530134035.C0D28394BD7@mail.wikileaks.org>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:40:35 +0100 (BST)
Dear Mia. Thank you for your letter. We have reviewed the material
at an editorial level.
Our view is as follows:
The documents reveal that, at least in the UK, the Red Hat
certificate
is worthless as an unknown number of students are cheating on the
exam. We have revealed which questions they have access to, placing
all students on a level playing field and in the process destroying
a black market in exam questions.
If Red Hat is to be treated seriously as a provider of test
credentials, then it is obligated to change its exam questions,
review its security processes and the treatment of its staff. That
Red Hat now seeks to censor the messenger and play ludicrous "we
refuse to confirm or deny" games with the public instead of
"apologising and improving" is cause for concern.
Jay Lim
Download
Further information
Context
United Kingdom
Company
Red Hat
Primary language
English
File size in bytes
40666
File type information
PDF document, version 1.3
Cryptographic identity
SHA256
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§ RHCE exam question 2 (2008)⠀➾
Release date
May 26, 2008
Download
Further information
Context
United Kingdom
Company
Red Hat
Primary language
English
File size in bytes
52986
File type information
PDF document, version 1.3
Cryptographic identity
SHA256
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Data
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# C/C++
# Python
# Shell/Bash
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Space ☛ 10_weird_things_about_SpaceX’s_Starlink_internet
satellites [Ed: Misleading history; GNU/Linux started in the mid-
1980s]⠀⇛
According to a SpaceX resources page, Starlink satellites
run on the open-source operating system Linux.
Linux was created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish
software engineer, in order to be a free, openly-shared
operating system that could be tailored for users’
specific computer hardware.
By its very design, Linux is easy to customize, making it
ideal for specific use cases like Starlink satellites. In
addition, Linux-based operating systems can draw upon a
worldwide repository of open-source programs and tools,
enabling rapid prototyping of new hardware and software.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_66:_individual_transform
properties⠀⇛
From now on you can transform elements with the
translate, rotate, and scale properties.
Let’s say you apply several transforms to an
element, and on :hover and :focus you only want to
change one of them, for example, scale.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Using_Blender_as_a_video_editor⠀⇛
Clicking Video Editor in the Blender splash screen
will take you to a timeline where you can do basic
video editing. It’s a bit different from other
packages I’ve used, but I’ve cut together and
exported a few things for work on it, and have been
pleasantly surprised.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Connecting_Commercial_433_MHz_Sensors_To_MQTT
And_Home_Assistant_With_RTL-SDR⠀⇛
The idea is simple: virtually all of those sensors
– many of them rated for outdoor use – use the
unlicensed 433 MHz spectrum that can easily be
captured using cheap RTL-SDR (software defined
radio) USB dongles. With the data stream from these
sensors captured, the open source rtl_433 project
enables automatic decoding of these data streams
for a wide range of supported sensors.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Find_My_IP_Address_in_Ubuntu_–_Linux
Nightly⠀⇛
There are several ways to view your system’s IP
address in Ubuntu. In this tutorial, you will learn
how to find your IP address from the command line
and GUI.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_List_All_Users_in_a_Linux_System?⠀⇛
In the Linux system, it is a critical
administrative task to manage users, add them,
remove users, or assign new user privileges. In
Linux, numerous users can simultaneously work on
the same system. But security measures must be made
to stop breaching other users’ private data.
Information related to the local users is stored in
the path “/etc/passwd”. In which, every row
indicates the data of a single user that may
contain the name of the user, user Id, directory of
the user, and login details. When it comes to the
listing of the user in Linux, there are multiple
ways to list them, we will discuss some of these in
this tutorial.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Determine_the_Filesystem_Type_in_Linux_
{Ext3,_Ext4,_XFS}⠀⇛
Determining the filesystem type in Linux can be
useful in various scenarios, such as when you want
to mount a filesystem, when you want to create a
new filesystem, or when you want to format a disk.
There are several ways to determine the filesystem
type in Linux, such as using the df, mount, or the
lsblk command. In this article, we will explore
these different ways to determine the filesystem
type in Linux.
There are several ways to determine the filesystem
type in Linux.
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_Python_on_Debian_11_–_Linux
Nightly⠀⇛
Learn how to install Python on Debian 11 Bullseye,
from either Debian repo or the latest stable
release or pre-release from Python download.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_QOwnNotes_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛
QOwnNotes offers many attractive features for users
who wish to keep all their essential information
organized in one place. The following tutorial will
demonstrate how to install QOwnNotes on Ubuntu
22.10 Kinetic Kuduo, Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish,
or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa using an official
dedicated LaunchPAD PPA dedicated to QOwnNotes to
install the latest version using the command line
terminal.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Scribus_on_Ubuntu_Linux
⠀⇛
Scribus is a powerful, free desktop publishing and
formatting tool for desktop operating systems. The
following tutorial will demonstrate how to install
Scribus on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kuduo, Ubuntu 22.04
Jammy Jellyfish, or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa using
an official dedicated LaunchPAD PPA dedicated to
Scribus to install the latest version using the
command line terminal.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Ubuntu_Cleaner_on_Ubuntu
Linux⠀⇛
Ubuntu Cleaner is a free and open-source
application that provides users with a graphical
interface for removing unnecessary files on Ubuntu
desktops to keep systems running smoothly. The
following tutorial will demonstrate how to install
Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kuduo,
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal
Fossa using an official dedicated LaunchPAD PPA
dedicated to Ubuntu Cleaner to install the latest
version using the command line terminal.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_PostgreSQL_15_on_RHEL_9_Step_by
Step⠀⇛
This post covers how to install PostgreSQL 15 on
RHEL 9 system step by step.
PostgreSQL is an open-source, multi-platform,
robust and highly extensible database server based
on the SQL language. It provides the features like
data integrity, build applications and create
fault-tolerant environments.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Write_JavaScript_Macros_in_ONLYOFFICE
Docs⠀⇛
Do you have to work with Word documents, Excel
spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations and need
to repeat complex tasks over and over again? For
example, you need to highlight duplicate values in
a sheet or remove shapes from the slides of a
presentation.
If this is the case, it might be challenging for
you as a Linux user. Performing such tasks manually
is meaningless. A lot of different operations can
be easily done automatically with VBA macros in
Microsoft Office. However, there is a serious
problem – they don’t natively run on Linux
machines.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ The_Complete_LXD_Tutorial⠀⇛
Linux supports the creation of containers, which
act as virtual machines but are separated from the
system process. Containers are lightweight, and
unlike virtual machines, they don’t need CPU
hardware virtualization support. Hence, you can
quickly create multiple containers on one server.
The containers can be created and managed using
LXD.
This guide discusses everything about LXD. We will
see how to install LXD and create and manage
containers.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Replay_gives_you_an_overview_of_your
2022_gaming_habits⠀⇛
Steam Replay is Valve’s new highlight page going
over a bunch of fun stats about your gaming year,
something made popular by the likes of Spotify
Wrapped and similar events from numerous other
places.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Xfce_4.18,_and_the_Future_of_the_Desktop⠀⇛
Xfce 4.18 was released on December 16, 2022.
The lovely desktop environment has been around for
around 25 years now (since 1997!). A lot of Linux
and other Unix-like systems users like Xfce for how
lightweight and straightforward it is.
It just doesn’t get in the way of the user like
some other desktops do. It helps the user to do
what he/she wants to do.
Perhaps the consistent user experience and familiar
traditional design were the main selling points of
this desktop, allowing it to last for more than
quarter a century.
In today’s article, we will examine the current
state of the Xfce desktop, as well as some
important feature highlights in the latest 4.18
release. We will also discuss some possible
improvement points in the mouse-driven desktop.
[...]
Xfce is a very functional desktop for Linux and
other Unix-like systems, it is enjoyed by many, and
won’t be going away any time soon.
Mostly it works just fine, the thing people love
about it is that it works just fine for years
without a breaking change for the user experience.
However, some areas are still in need of
improvements like we have seen together.
Sadly, it feels like the development team is
overwhelmed with tasks and to-dos. It could help a
lot if you can donate to the project or help fix
some issues by yourself, if you know how to.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Best_Linux_Distros_for_Programmers⠀⇛
Linux distros are the most popular operating systems for
programming and other development-related work. Whether
you are a programmer or a system administrator, Linux
distros can maximize your productivity.
Linux operating systems also provide power, flexibility,
stability, and more features. However, the massive range
of Linux operating systems may confuse programmers,
whether they are experts or beginners. So, in this guide,
we will explain the best Linux distros for programmers in
2023.
o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Best_Linux_Distros_for_USB_in_2023⠀⇛
If you have a low-end device, it can be hard to smoothly
use the operating system. That’s why Linux contains
various types of lightweight and portable distros.
Portable distros provide a convenient approach to using
Linux from a USB flash drive. You can carry these fully
functional operating systems in a USB and connect them to
your machine.
It also comes in handy when you want to use someone
else’s device but only works on your OS. However, the
wide variety of these types of Linux distros sometimes
confuses the beginners. This blog will give you a
complete information on the best Linux distros for USB.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pop!_OS_Vs_Linux_Mint_Compared⠀⇛
Various types of Linux OS are available to fulfill
different users’ requirements. Linux operating
systems like Arch Linux, Gentoo, and Kali Linux are
the most suitable for advanced users. Linux Mint,
Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, etc., are best for beginners.
Although experienced users know which OS they
should use, this is different for beginners. Some
new users are always confused about which Linux OS
is best for them. So, if you are also a beginner,
this guide will briefly compare Pop!_OS and Linux
Mint.
[...]
Pop!_OS and Linux Mint are best for beginners and
provide a fresh experience to the users. However,
there is always an argument between users that
Linux Mint is not optimized enough. Linux Mint uses
Cinnamon, which feels a bit outdated, so many users
think it is old. On the other side, Pop!_OS is
completely based on Ubuntu with the latest MESA
drivers making it simple for Nvidia lovers.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Lichee_Pi_4A_RISC-V_platform_available_for
pre-order⠀⇛
Sipeed also mentioned that support for operating
systems such as Debian, Android and OpenWrt will be
released around Q1 2023. Although, the company will
provide support for more OSes in the future.
It also seems that the company will release other
commercial products built around the Lichee 4A, for
instance, the Lichee Cluster 4A, the Lichee Router
4A and the Lichee Pad/Phone 4A.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ☛ Virginia
Tech_researchers_earn_national_recognition_for_advances_in
drone_practices⠀⇛
The award-winning project, “Research and Extension
for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in U.S. Agriculture
and Natural Resources,” evaluates and identifies
the most reliable, cost-effective, and user-
friendly drone platforms and sensors for monitoring
and managing stressors in agriculture and natural
resources. To maximize the accuracy of the data
collected, project members developed hardware,
software, and detailed protocols for calibrating
and using drones.
Maria Balota, a professor in the School and Plant
and Environmental Sciences and Tidewater
Agricultural Research and Extension Center; Daniel
Fuka, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of
Biological Systems Engineering; Cully Hession, a
professor and graduate program director in the
Department of Biological Systems Engineering; and
Joseph Oakes, the superintendent of the Eastern
Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension
Center, represented the university on the team of
scientists.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Controls_Christmas_Light
Effects_With_Custom_Web_Server⠀⇛
The project is built around a Raspberry Pi 4 but
you could easily recreate the concept using a Pi 3
or even a Pi Zero W. The Pi needs to have GPIO to
control the Christmas lights, which in this case is
a strip of individually addressable WS2812b LEDs,
as well as an Internet connection to help host the
web server interface.
# ⚓ IT Pro ☛ Return_of_the_Mac⠀⇛
The free software library RetroPie, for example,
lets people relive the Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32,
Commodore 64, Master System, Neo Geo, Oric, TRS-80
and Vectrex among many, many other machines.
Raspberry Pi has also effectively become a near-
perfect Amiga thanks to the distro Amibian.
Recently, however, our heads were turned by a new
tool created by Jarosław “Jaromaz” Mazurkiewicz
called MacintoshPi. This open-source project allows
users to run full-screen versions of Apple’s Mac OS
7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 (operating systems
released between 1991 and 2001) and it does so
complete with sound, an active internet connection
and modem emulation.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Teensy_Twofer_Of_Plug-In_Emulated_Retro_CPUs⠀⇛
[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new
drop-in replacements for widespread old-school
CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the
“chips” run in cycle-accurate mode as well as in a
super turbo mode, which can run so fast that you’ll
need to use the Teensy’s internal RAM just to keep
up.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ You_can_now_set_Google_Illustrations_in
Contacts_for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Sought-after_Lenovo_Legion_Y700_8-inch
Android_tablet_poised_for_possible_international_launch_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ New_Year_2023:_The_Android_apps_to_help
you_gain_control_over_your_digital_life_|_Technology_News,The
Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Opinion:_Google_Pixel_8_needs_5_Android_OS_updates_to_stand
out⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ 5_practical_ways_to_use_Android_NFC_in_your
day-to-day_life_(2023)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ We_asked,_you_told_us:_Many_of_you_own
an_Android_TV_set_or_box⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_14_can_make_sure_your_device_can_access
the_web_even_as_it_ages_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A13_gets_Android_13,_its_first
major_software_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Roger Comply ☛ IPFS_error:_Resource_limits_were_exceeded⠀⇛
For a while now, my IPFS node has complained about
resource limits being exceeded. Sadly, I’ve not had any
time to look into the issue. Speaking of, what kind of
miserable bastard would spend their Christmas holiday
troubleshooting an IPFS node? Ah yes, that would be me.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Download_Printable_2023_LibreOffice_Calc
Calendar⠀⇛
This is a LibreOffice Calc calendar of 2023 made
ready for you to download, import as template and
print. We offer it as editable OpenDocument
Spreadsheet (ODS) files and PDF. We use a template
by Claus Kofoed Nielsen from Denmark. Feel free to
download and make yourself more productive!
# ⚓ LibreOffice_7.5_RC1_is_available_for_testing_–_LibreOffice
QA_Blog⠀⇛
LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the
beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release
Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Release Candidate 1
(RC1) the third pre-release since the development
of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the
previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1, 213
commits have been submitted to the code repository
and 70 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to
find the new features included in this version of
LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 7.5 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux,
macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard
version.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Data⠀➾
# ⚓ Geospatial Media and Communications ☛ Linux
Foundation’s_AgStack_Project_will_build_dataset_of
field_boundaries⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation announced its AgStack
Project, which will host an open-source code
base, along with a fully automated,
continuous computation engine that will
maintain a global dataset of boundaries for
agricultural fields. The AgStack Asset
Registry dataset will aid food traceability,
carbon tracking, crop production, and other
field-level analytics.
This ‘registry’ is designed to continuously
update using data from satellites and real
field registrations that contain boundary
information, which will train machine
learning models to ascertain more boundaries,
among other capabilities.
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Septentrio Academic Publishing ☛ No._39_(2020):
UiT_goes_open:_Et_festlig_skrift_til_Stein_Høydalsvik⠀⇛
A collection of articles on various branches
of Open Science dedicated to Stein Høydalsvik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/rt.39
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 6_articles_to_inspire_open_source
sustainability_in_2023⠀⇛
The scientific community builds upon open
access and open information. Recalling the
famous quote in a 1675 letter by Isaac
Newton: “if I have seen further [than
others], it is by standing on the shoulders
of giants.” The scientific community has
built our collective knowledge of the world
around us on the information shared by those
who came before us, and that is still the
case today.
Looking back at the past year examining open
source science and sustainability here on
Opensource.com, many of the top articles on
this topic touched on aspects of climate
change. And that’s a good thing to see. We’re
all in this together when solving this global
problem. No one benefits when the solutions
to climate change are locked up in
proprietary solutions. In order to succeed,
we need to spread the solutions far and wide
to enable a truly global effort to fight back
and save our planet.
Without further ado, here is a look back at
some of the highlights from this year in
science and sustainability.
# ⚓ LSE ☛ Wikipedia_is_open_to_all,_the_research
underpinning_it_should_be_too.⠀⇛
Often thought of as ‘the last good place on
the internet’, Wikipedia plays a key role in
the online information ecosystem by linking
its entries to current and historic research
papers. But, after following these links, how
much of this research is openly accessible?
Presenting evidence from a recent study, Andy
Tattersall, finds that around 50% of research
linked to Wikipedia from the White Rose
Universities of Sheffield, York and Leeds, is
openly accessible. As Wikipedia’s stated aim
if for its sources to verifiable, he argues
openness should be central to the use of
research on Wikipedia.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § C/C++⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strcpy_C++⠀⇛
The C++ language has many inbuilt methods for
programmers. We just need to access those
methods by importing the required libraries.
Strings play a vital role in coding and C++
provides plenty of built-in functions for
strings. Strings are arrays of characters. It
can store one or more than one characters.
The difference between character arrays and
strings is that character arrays can be of
fixed size but mostly we do not define the
size. And in strings, we do not need to limit
the size. There are many methods used for
strings. We can find the length of strings,
we can concatenate two or more strings, and
many more methods for strings are available
for programmers to use. One of these built-in
methods is string copy, denoted by the term
strcpy(). This function is used to copy one
string in another. These methods are pre-
built in the C++ library so that we do not
have to write the entire piece of code over
and over again for the operations we carry
out for the majority of the time when we
code. To use this strcpy() function, we need
to import the specific library that contains
this method. For this function, we have to
import any of the below command.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ C:_Connect_Function_System_Call⠀⇛
In the C language, establishing a client-
server connection through a socket requires
several steps and functions. Some of these
are used to retrieve data from the server you
want to connect to, others are used to create
the socket or convert addresses.
Although there is no particular order, this
series of steps and function calls must be
done in an order because their results are
used in the input arguments of the subsequent
function.
In this Linux Hint article, you will learn
how to use the connect() function and create
a socket from scratch to connect remotely to
a server.
We begin with a description of the syntax,
the input and output arguments that make up
this function, and a theoretical explanation
of how it works. Then, we will look at an
example that shows step-by-step process on
how to create and connect a socket.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Generate_Random_String_in_Python_–
TecAdmin⠀⇛
Generating random strings in Python is a
common task that can be useful in various
scenarios, such as when you need to create
unique identifiers, when you want to generate
random passwords, or when you want to create
random data for testing purposes. In Python,
you can use the random module and the string
module to generate random strings. The random
module provides functions for generating
random numbers, and the string module
provides functions for generating random
strings.
[...]
In conclusion, generating random strings in
Python is a useful task that can be easily
accomplished using the random module and the
string module. The `random` module provides
functions for generating random numbers, and
the string module provides functions for
generating random strings. By combining these
two modules, you can generate random strings
of any length and complexity. Understanding
how to generate random strings in Python can
be helpful in various scenarios, such as when
you need to create unique identifiers, when
you want to generate random passwords, or
when you want to create random data for
testing purposes.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Generate_Random_Password_in_Python
–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
In Python, you can generate a random password
using the secrets module, which is part of
the Python standard library. The secrets
module provides a secure way to generate
random strings, numbers, and other values
that can be used for various purposes, such
as generating passwords, tokens, or unique
IDs.
# § Shell/Bash⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Bash_And_Condition_–_buildVirtual⠀⇛
In Bash, the && operator is used to perform a
logical AND operation. It allows you to
execute a command if and only if the
preceding command executes successfully.
# ⚓ What_Are_the_Different_Types_of_Linux_Shells?⠀⇛
The UNIX/Linux shell is a command-line
program that creates a bridge between the
terminal emulator and kernel to allow users
to enter commands, execute programs, and
perform various other tasks by typing
commands at the command prompt.
Once the shell has finished executing the
user assigned program, it will send the
output to the user on the terminal screen,
which is the standard output device.
Note that the shell is not just a program but
a whole programming language like Python or
C/C++. You can write your own program,
utility, or script that contains the if-else
logic, loop statement, functions, variables,
object, etc.
Most users are familiar with the Bash shell
(the successor to the traditional “sh“), but
there are many other shell implementation
programs that provide different features and
functionality, which we will explore in this
article.
# ⚓ The Valuable Dev ☛ A_Guide_to_the_Terminal,_Console,
and_Shell⠀⇛
Why does Davina want her colleagues to know
more about the virtual consoles, the
terminal, and the shell?
I don’t know any developer who doesn’t use a
terminal, a shell, and some CLIs. I
definitely use them all the time. They are
the central building bricks of my Mouseless
Development Environment.
So, since it’s so useful, let’s look a bit
deeper what’s this shell, console, and
terminal. More precisely, we’ll see, in this
article: [...]
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 3_aspects_of_Rust_you_need_to
learn⠀⇛
Rust is consistently voted one of the
languages people most want to learn. In 2022,
Opensource.com had a few articles to help you
get started.
Rust is a fairly new language, but it’s grown
quickly. The general excitement about it goes
beyond interest in a new language to try.
Rust has genuinely useful features, like the
ability to allocate data to the heap (instead
of the stack) using the Box data type.
There’s no separate garbage collection
required, and you don’t have to manually
manage memory yourself. Additionally, the
Crate.io infrastructure for library
management and installation makes it easy to
find and use functions contributed by the
Rust community.
Rust is a programming language focusing on
speed, concurrency, and safety. Thanks to its
integration with online registries, its
helpful compiler, and its almost intuitive…
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ History Computer ☛ VisiCalc_of_Dan_Bricklin_and_Bob_Frankston
Guide:_History,_Origin,_and_More⠀⇛
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program released in
1979 for the Apple II computer. It was easy to use and
allowed for data sorting and storing in tabular rows and
columns. VisiCalc was created to address and replace the
manual spreadsheet management method. Changing a single
value meant modifying the entire spreadsheet because
changes made to one cell were automatically applied to
all connected cells with VisiCalc. This program was one
of the most critical factors in making personal computers
more appealing to everyday customers and companies
instead of hobbyists and techies.
o ⚓ [Old] Dan Bricklin ☛ VisiCalc:_Information_from_its_creators,_Dan
Bricklin_and_Bob_Frankston⠀⇛
This web site, www.bricklin.com, includes lots of
information about VisiCalc, the first computer
spreadsheet program as we know them today. It has
material directly from Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston,
the co-creators of VisiCalc, including scans of original
photographs from VisiCalc’s development days, a working
copy of the program, and other things from Software Arts,
Inc., Dan and Bob’s company. Additional material is
constantly being added, so researchers, computer
historians, and teachers should check back periodically.
o ⚓ [Old] Cult Of Mac ☛ Today_in_Apple_history:_Apple_II_gets_its
first_‘killer_app’⠀⇛
January 2, 1979: Entrepreneurs Dan Bricklin and Bob
Frankston incorporate their company Software Arts to
publish a little program called VisiCalc.
The first spreadsheet for the Apple II, the $100 VisiCalc
ultimately becomes personal computing’s first “killer
app.” It helps transform personal computers from “cool to
have” toys into “must have” business accessories.
o ⚓ [Old] Jeremy Norman ☛ Dan_Bricklin_Introduces_VisiCalc,_the_First
Spreadsheet_Program⠀⇛
In 1979 Dan Bricklin, a student at Harvard Business
School, and Bob Frankston wrote VisiCalc, the first
spreadsheet program, for the Apple II. It helped dispel
the notion that the Apple II was only a toy for
hobbyists. The PC version of VisiCalc was called “the
first killer app” for the PC.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Language_Technology_Startup_Process9_launches
latest_version_of_its_Neural_Machine_Translations_in_13_Indian
languages;_doubles_translator’s_output⠀⇛
Process9, India’s leading language technology company,
has released the latest version of its cloud-based neural
machine translation technology – MoxWave. This new Made
in India SaaS product can translate content into 13
Indian languages, including a popular mix of Hindi and
English (Hinglish). More Indian and global languages are
being added to the product. One of MoxWave’s key features
is its ability to be tailored for particular domains like
BFSI, e-commerce, Govt/PSU or chatbots. With
customization, the translation caters to the target
audience by using words that are specific to the
industry. Companies and individual translators can even
use their own data to train the software so that it can
produce an output of higher quality.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Modelling_In_English_With_AI⠀⇛
By now, you’ve surely seen the AI tools that can
chat with you or draw pictures from prompts. OpenAI
now has Point-E, which takes text or an image and
produces a 3D model. You can find a few runnable
demos online, but good luck having them not too
busy to work.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Bill Wadge ☛ 50_Years_of_Wow-_I_lived_through_5_decades_of
computing_milestones⠀⇛
Everyone’s all, “Wow, chatGPT, amazing, a real
milestone, everything will change from now on”. And
they’re right – but probably don’t realize that
this is not the first time something like this has
happened. In fact there’s been wave after wave of
computing technological innovation ever since the
industry got started in the 1950’s. Here are some
of the waves I’ve experienced personally.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_computer_for_everyone_that_made_a
video_game-superpower_out_of_Hungary⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Standalone_Touch_ID_For_Your_Desktop_Mac⠀⇛
With the proliferation of biometric access to
mobile devices, entering a password on your desktop
can feel so passé. [Snazzy Labs] decided to fix
this problem for his Mac by liberating the Touch ID
from a new Apple keyboard.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Turning_A_Microchip_MPLAB_Snap_Into_A_UDPI_AVR
Programmer⠀⇛
The Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is
Microchip’s proprietary interface for programming
and on-chip debugging, and has become the standard
on AVR MCUs after Microchip’s purchase of Atmel.
Being a proprietary interface means that even
entry-level programmers like the Atmel-ICE are
rather expensive at over $100. That’s when for
[Scott W Harden] the question arose of whether the
much cheaper MPLAB Snap board (~$34) could be used
as well for AVR UDPI purposes.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_Self-Balancing_Robot_Brings_Control
Theory_To_Life⠀⇛
Stabilizing an inverted pendulum is a classic
problem in control theory, and if you’ve ever taken
a control systems class you might remember seeing
pages full of differential equations and bode
diagrams just to describe its basic operation.
Although this might make such a system seem
terribly complicated, actually implementing all of
that theory doesn’t have to be difficult at all, as
[Limenitis Reducta] demonstrates in his latest
project. All you need is a 3D printer, some basic
electronic skills and knowledge of Python.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tube_Audio_Amplifiers_Needn’t_Be_Complex⠀⇛
There’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube
amplifiers. They can have a very nice sound which
is attributed to their even-harmonic distortion,
but they are often portrayed as requiring rare and
expensive components. You don’t need matched gold-
plated tubes and special transformers would by
Japanese monks with oxygen-free silver wire when
the tube you’d have found in a TV back in the day
paired with a repurposed mains transformer will do.
[Mikremk] demonstrates this with a simple but
effective amplifier using a PCL82 triode-pentode.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Winter_sports_etiquette⠀⇛
What follows is both a small introduction for
newcomers and a friendly reminder for all you
veterans out there. Regardless of your preferred
equipment (skis obviously being cooler than
snowboards), if you find yourself lucky enough to
embark on winter holidays despite Covid-19, use
this quick read to freshen up on the basics!
# ⚓ NBC ☛ DIY_dental_‘hacks’_keep_going_viral_on_TikTok._But
dentists_say_they_can_be_dangerous_and_painful.⠀⇛
Teeth are organs with their own blood supplies and
delicate nerve structures, which “people don’t
understand,” Winters said. By whittling away the
hard, protective enamel that covers the surface of
a tooth, “you’re basically giving yourself a
deadline for how long that tooth can last.”
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ TikTok_bans_on_government_devices_raise
questions_about_platform’s_future⠀⇛
The latest development is the decision by
Republicans and Democrats in Congress to include a
measure banning TikTok from devices used by federal
employees in the $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus
bill setting out federal funding for the next year.
It follows similar moves by a host of state
governments to keep TikTok off devices held by
state government workers.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Vanuatu_ransomware_attack_claimed_by
RansomHouse [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
On December 24, RansomHouse threat actors added the
government of Vanuatu to their leak site, claiming
to have locked them on October 6 and exfiltrated
3.2 TB of files. A proof pack includes files that
do appear to be consistent with government files.
The evidence pack did not include particularly
personal or sensitive files.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Cyber_attacks_set_to_become_‘uninsurable’,
says_Zurich_chief [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
From what this blogger has seen, lack of insurance
does not reduce the likelihood of an entity
becoming a victim in the k-12 education sector. How
many school districts have we seen that were hit
and did not have any cyberinsurance to pay any
ransom demands or just refused to pay ransom? Vice
Society even told this blogger that the absence of
cyberinsurance is not a factor for them or
deterrent, and when asked about one of their recent
attacks on a k-12 district, a Hive spokesperson
told this blogger that they had no idea whether the
victim had cyberinsurance to pay as they hadn’t
checked. So maybe that approach is not likely to be
as effective as some might hope.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Cyber_threats_shoot_up_over_60%_through_Nov:
S.Korea [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Nearly 90 per cent of the ransomware victims were
small and midsized enterprises, and only 41.8 per
cent of them had systems that could defend against
ransomware attacks, the data added.
# ⚓ Naz Markuta ☛ Cracking_encrypted_Lastpass_vaults⠀⇛
In this post I will go into technical details on
what attackers could do with the stolen encrypted
vaults, specifically how they could use tools like
Hashcat to crack vault passwords and get access to
sensitive log-in credentials.
To simulate the stolen data, I will use my test
Lastpass account to extract an encrypted vault from
the Chrome Browser extension on macOS. Following
this, I will use a wordlist attack to bruteforce
the vault which has a weak and guessiable password.
# ⚓ [Repeat] The Verge ☛ [crackers]_stole_encrypted_LastPass
password_vaults,_and_we’re_just_now_hearing_about_it⠀⇛
If you have an account you use to store passwords
and login information on LastPass, or you used to
have one and hadn’t deleted it before this fall,
your password vault may be in hackers’ hands.
Still, the company claims you might be safe if you
have a strong master password and its most recent
default settings. However, if you have a weak
master password or less security, the company says
that “as an extra security measure, you should
consider minimizing risk by changing passwords of
websites you have stored.”
That might mean changing the passwords for every
website you trusted LastPass to store.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Madison_Square_Garden’s_Facial_Recognition
Tech_Boots_Lawyers_Litigating_Against_The_Venue⠀⇛
MSG Entertainment — the company running New
York’s Madison Square Garden and other venues
— has chosen to turn over its doorman duties
to facial recognition tech. Setting aside the
fact (for the sake of argument) that this
tech tends to subject minorities and women to
higher rates of false positives/negatives,
recent events at MSG Entertainment-owned
venues suggest maybe it’s not a wise idea to
do certain things just because you can.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Vendor_Claims_to_Have_Scraped_400M
Twitter_User_Records⠀⇛
The data, that were allegedly scraped due to
a vulnerability, include email, name,
username, follower_count, creation_date, and
phone_number. The seller provides a sample on
the forum that involves well-known
individuals.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Privacy_Shouldn’t_Clock_Out_When_You_Clock_In:
2022_in_Review⠀⇛
Since then, EFF has joined with those in the
labor community to learn more about
surveillance in the workplace and on work
devices, and the effect it has on employees.
Particularly as regulators start to pay more
attention, and legislators include workers’
privacy in general consumer privacy bills,
it’s important to understand the ways that
the workplace presents unique challenges in
this arena.
Bossware has Real Effects on Workers
As white collar remote workers felt bossware
breathing down their necks, there was more
coverage than ever of how employers are
monitoring the workforce, and the lasting
effects it has on workers’ health, safety,
livelihood, and collective bargaining rights.
Even for remote staff, these stresses
affected their mental health and family
responsibilities. But it is workers across
all fields that have increasingly felt the
heat of surveillance, and some of the
coverage was propelled by blue collar workers
who fought back, from meatpacking facilities
to service workers to delivery drivers who
experienced increased surveillance as a form
of retaliation for wage demands. Neither the
ineffectiveness nor the impact on real people
calmed employers’ desires for increasing
means to monitor and control worker behavior,
with some even floating a database on worker
productivity. Courts and agencies in other
countries, like the Netherlands, have been
quicker to take on U.S. firms who they allege
have violated the human rights of foreign
remote workers with demands on their
acquiescence to invasive monitoring.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Suing_Meta_in_Kenya⠀⇛
A similar pattern is detectable in the
digital world. The slavers have replaced
their human product with data and
information. The ubiquitous sharing of
information on social media platforms has
brought with it a fair share of dangerous
ills. A $2 billion lawsuit against Facebook’s
parent company Meta, which was filed in
Kenya’s High Court this month, is a case in
point.
The petitioners, Kenyan rights group Katiba
Institute, and Ethiopian researchers Fisseha
Tekle and Abrham Meareg, argue that Meta
failed to employ sufficient safety measures
on the Facebook platform which would have
prevented the incitement of lethal conflict.
Most notable were the deaths of Ethiopians
arising from the Tigray War, a conflict that
has claimed tens of thousands of lives, and
seen the displacement of 2.1 million
Ethiopians.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ No_need_to_tie_student_visas_to
dropout_rate,_say_Swedish_rectors⠀⇛
The Swedish Migration Agency found a third of all
Pakistani master’s students dropped out and took up
full-time work as soon as they hit the 30-credit or
one-semester threshold to be eligible for a work
permit under Swedish law.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Resisting_Gun_Violence⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Police_Drones_and_Robots:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛
This year began with a report that elucidated what
police are doing with drones. Answer? Not much for
now. A law in Minnesota mandates police departments
report all of the times they deployed drones and
for what reason. We’ve suspected that police have
few clear uses, other than invasive surveillance.
The Minnesota report reveals that drones were
mostly just for training purposes.
One purpose Axon was hoping to find for drones this
year was to stop school shooters. The company
announced they were developing a drone that came
with a mounted taser for the purpose of subduing
people in dangerous situations. The backlash was
immediate. After a majority of Axon’s ethics board
resigned the company paused the project.
In Oakland and in San Francisco, activists defeated
municipal plans to authorize police to use deadly
force with remote-controlled robots. In Oakland,
police hoped to use a shotgun-mounted robot-–a plan
which received so much backlash the proposal was
pulled in just a few days. In San Francisco, it
took a little longer. After the Board of
Supervisors voted 8-to-3 to authorize police to use
robots strapped with bombs to deploy deadly force,
an EFF-led coalition mobilized. After one week,
which included a rally and international press
attention, the Board of Supervisors reversed
course.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_soldier_who_confessed_to_murdering_a
Ukrainian_civilian_is_being_investigated_for_‘fakes’_about
the_Russian_army_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Khabarovsk military court is hearing a case
against service member Daniil Frolkin. He’s been
charged with spreading known falsehoods, created by
a group of people with selfish motives, about the
Russian army. Human rights media project OVD-Info
called attention to the case.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Izyum_renames_19_streets_as_part_of_‘de-
Russification_of_toponyms’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Authorities in the city of Izyum, in Ukraine’s
Kharkiv region, have decided to rename 19 streets
in order to “de-Russify toponyms,” according to the
city’s deputy mayor Volodymyr Matsokin.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Foreign_Ministry_calls_for_Russia_to_be
excluded_from_UN_and_UN_Security_Council_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry released a statement
saying that Russian joined the United Nations (UN)
illegally, occupying the place held by the USSR on
the UN Security Council.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Every_War_Ends_in_a_Diplomatic_Way’:
Ukrainian_Foreign_Minister_Floats_February_Peace_Summit⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ “Dumb_&_silent_we_may_be_led,_like_sheep,
to_the_Slaughter:”_Elvis_Chan,_Hacks,_the_Klan,_and_the
Twitter_Files⠀⇛
In fact, though Hunter Biden came up in this
deposition 36 times, Chan’s testimony was that
Hunter Biden came up in just one briefing with
social media companies, one in which someone from
FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, Laura Dehmlow,
refused to comment in response to a question from
Facebook about the already-published NY Post story.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Responding_To_Critics:_Reality_Winner_Talks
Snowden,_Trump_Taking_Classified_Documents⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ New_JFK/CIA_Revelations_&_Our_Alarmingly
Secretive_Security_State⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Markets_and_Technology_Won’t_Solve_Climate
Crisis._We_Must_End_Capitalism.⠀⇛
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Following_Electric_Vehicle_Announcement,
Advocates_Say_DeJoy_Still_Needs_to_Go⠀⇛
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Shell_Persists_with_Effort_to_Explore_for
Oil_Off_South_Africa’s_Wild_Coast⠀⇛
On the southern coast of Africa, local
community groups and environmental activists
have been celebrating a significant legal
victory over a major oil player. In September
a South African court prohibited Shell’s
controversial plan to conduct seismic
exploration for oil and gas deposits off the
Wild Coast in South Africa’s Eastern Cape
Province. But, the battle is far from over,
Shell is appealing the ruling, and it has the
resources and government support to take the
case through the country’s court system to
get the decision it’s after.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Arizona_Is_in_a_Race_to_the_Bottom
of_Its_Water_Wells,_With_Saudi_Arabia’s_Help⠀⇛
Thanks to fresh scrutiny this year from state
politicians, water activists and journalists,
the Saudi agricultural giant Almarai has
emerged as an unlikely antagonist in the
water crisis. The company, through its
subsidiary Fondomonte, has been buying and
leasing land across western Arizona since
2014. This year The Arizona Republic
published a report showing that the Arizona
State Land Department has been leasing 3,500
acres of public land to Almarai for a
suspiciously low price.
The case has prompted calls for an
investigation into how a foreign company
wound up taking the state’s dwindling water
supplies for a fee that might be as low as
one-sixth the market rate. But the focus on
the Saudi scheme obscures a more fundamental
problem: pumping groundwater in Arizona
remains largely unregulated. It’s this legal
failing that, in part, allows the Saudi
company to draw unlimited amounts of water to
grow an alfalfa crop that feeds dairy cows
8,000 miles away.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Public_cloud_repatriation_trends_are_gaining
ground_and_can’t_be_ignored⠀⇛
However, there are companies which went to the
cloud with great enthusiasm; however, they are now
struggling with bloating costs of running their
business in comparison to their in-house infra.
What is cloud repatriation?
Cloud repatriation means a reverse migration from
public cloud by large enterprises to on-premises IT
infrastructure. This is a remarkable trend that is
gaining momentum with respect to public cloud these
days.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Industrial_Policy_Is_Not_a_Remedy_for
Income_Inequality⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Most_Dangerous_Architect_in_America⠀⇛
Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los
Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more
egalitarian architecture never came to be.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Note_on_Minimum_Age_for_Mandatory
Retirement_Fund_Distributions⠀⇛
The mandatory distribution requirement is based on
life expectancy at your current age. This means,
for example, if your life expectancy at 72 is ten
years, then you have to withdraw (and pay taxes) on
roughly 10 percent of the money in your IRA or 401
(k). The actual calculations are somewhat more
complicated, but this is the basic story.
Anyhow, the ostensible justification for raising
the age for mandatory withdrawals was that people
are worried about outliving their retirement funds.
It is important to realize that this is not really
the issue with mandatory withdrawals.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump,_Bankman-Fried,_Musk:_Monsters_of
American_Capitalism⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Military’s_2023_Budget_Boost_Is_3,200
Times_Larger_Than_NLRB’s_Increase⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Amid_Inflation_and_Short-Staffing,_Labor
Organizers_Demanded_More_in_2022⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Making_of_a_Congressional_Con_Man⠀⇛
If Santos seemed almost too good to be true, it’s
because almost his entire biography and résumé was
a fiction. As the Forward reported on Wednesday,
“Congressman-elect George Santos’s emotional
narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled
Europe during World War II appears to be untrue,
like much of the rest of his campaign biography,
according to genealogy websites reviewed by the
Forward.” It’s an open question whether Santos is
even Jewish at all.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Claims_He’s_Not_Worried_About_The_FTC;
He_Should_Be⠀⇛
Soon after Elon took over Twitter and fired
everyone, we wondered (somewhat jokingly) if there
was anyone left at the company who was aware of the
FTC’s consent decree with the company, signed
originally in 2011, but which runs for 30 years,
and which was updated back in May of 2022. These
documents have some fairly strict requirements for
the company around protecting the privacy of its
users, and also limiting employees access to
certain data.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Electoral_Count_Act_Reform_Is_Welcome—But
Much_More_Is_Needed_to_Save_Democracy⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Raskin_Says_Electoral_College_Is_a_‘Danger’
to_Democracy_and_Should_Be_Abandoned⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Poor_People_Have_the_Power_to_Transform
America⠀⇛
Last week, I was in Washington, D.C.’s Union
Station. The weather had turned cold and I couldn’t
help noticing what an inhospitable place it had
become for the city’s homeless and dispossessed.
Once upon a time, anyone was allowed to be in the
train station at any hour. Now, there were signs
everywhere announcing that you needed a ticket to
be there. Other warning signs indicated that you
could only sit for 30 minutes at a time at the
food-court tables, while barriers had been placed
where benches used to be to make it that much
harder to congregate, no less sit down.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Are_Aliens_Who_Visit_Earth_Likely_to_Be
Socialist?⠀⇛
In 2020, I published a book about the Posadists, a
communist sect from Argentina who believed that the
extraterrestrial pilots of UFOs had come in peace
to help us overcome the suicidal capitalist order
that rules Earth. The Posadists were an apocalyptic
cult with absurd ideas about nuclear war and
comradeship with dolphins, but their party line on
aliens was pretty sound.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_creates_new_position_for_Medvedev,
appointing_him_first_Deputy_Chairman_of_the_Military-
Industrial_Commission_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin named Dmitry
Medvedev, currently the deputy chairman of the
Security Council, to another post — the first
deputy chairman of the Military-Industrial
Commission of the Russian Federation. Putin’s
decree on the matter has been published on the
official web portal for legal information.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Consequences_of_“For_as_Long_as_It
Takes”⠀⇛
For Ukrainians, they will confirm the official
Ukrainian perspective that, with the world’s
preeminent military power irrevocably committed to
offering unlimited miltary and economic support,
perpetuating the war will be worth all the
sacrifices which doing so will entail.
For Russians, they will confirm, dramatically, the
official perspective that Russia is at war with the
United States and NATO, not with the manipulated
“brotherly people” of Ukraine, that this war is
existential for Russia and that Russia cannot
afford to lose this war.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Even_After_Electric_Vehicle_Progress,
Advocates_Say_DeJoy_Should_Still_Be_Fired⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Corporate_Media’s_Commitment_to_‘Both
Sides’_Coverage_Is_Dangerous⠀⇛
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Society for American Archaeology ☛ SAA_Sends_Letter
to_Netflix_Concerning_“Ancient_Apocalypse”_Series⠀⇛
We have requested Netflix and ITN remove any
labels that state or imply that this series
is a factual documentary or docuseries,
reclassify the series as “science fiction,”
and to balance the deleterious content in the
show with scientifically accurate information
about our human past.
# ⚓ Society for American Archaeology ☛ SAA_open_letter_to
express_the_Society_for_American_Archaeology’s_concern
over_the_series_Ancient_Apocalypse⠀⇛
(2) Netflix identifies and advertises the
series as a “docuseries,” a genre that
implies its content is grounded in fact when
the content of the show is based on false
claims about archaeologists and archaeology;
and [...]
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Falsehoods_plague_elections_as_voters_tackle
Trumpian_tactics⠀⇛
From the United States to Brazil and Israel,
a barrage of election-related misinformation
hammered voters around the world in 2022, but
many pushed back against the conspiracy-laden
Trumpian tactic of sowing distrust in the
democratic process.
A tsunami of falsehoods flooded Twitter,
Facebook, TikTok and YouTube — from “deep
fake” videos to doctored photos seeking to
manipulate voters — with pro-democracy
activists accusing the platforms of doing too
little to combat the menace.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Battle_For_Online_Speech_Moved_To_U.S._Courts:
2022_in_Review⠀⇛
The bevy of bad internet regulation proposals
coming out of Congress hasn’t stopped. In 2022, the
EARN IT Act was re-introduced. This wrongheaded
bill would have allowed states to strip away
critical legal protections for any websites, apps,
or platforms, as long as state lawmakers linked
their proposals to child abuse. If passed, the EARN
IT Act would encourage censorship and prod
companies away from using encryption.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ TikTok_Admits_It_Used_App_Data_To_Spy_On
Journalists_To_Try_To_Find_Source_Of_Leak⠀⇛
Either way, in October, we again wrote about
another story by Baker-White, now at Forbes,
talking about how ByteDance appeared to use TikTok
data to try to spy on certain US citizens, though
the details were vague. As we said at the time,
this seemed like the sort of thing that should spur
people to pass a comprehensive federal privacy law,
not that that’s happened. Instead, we’ve just been
getting more and more performative nonsense focused
exclusively on TikTok, rather than on the
underlying problem.
Now, Baker-White has the third piece in this
trilogy that ties them all together. Apparently one
of the US citizens ByteDance was trying to spy on…
was Baker-White herself, and it was because of the
original Buzzfeed article, as the company sought to
track down how the initial info was leaked. It’s
quite a story and you should read the whole thing,
though here’s just a snippet.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ ‘The_Worst_Year_for_Independent_Media’_in
Nicaragua⠀⇛
With an entire newsroom in exile, over a dozen
media licenses revoked and more than 120
journalists fleeing, journalists and analysts say
Nicaragua is witnessing one of its worst periods
for press freedox
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Lusaka ZM ☛ Amnesty_International_welcomes_abolishment_of
the_death_penalty⠀⇛
Mr. Chagutah says Zambia has become the 25th
country in sub-Saharan Africa to abolish the death
penalty for all crimes.
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Taliban_Ban_Women_From_Universities_In_Latest
Crackdown⠀⇛
The regression of women’s rights is the latest in a
series of moves made by the Taliban in line with
their hardline interpretation of Sharia law. The
Taliban were in power in Afghanistan from 1996
until 2001, when they were forced out by a U.S.-led
invasion. After two decades of occupation, U.S.
forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, with large
majorities of Americans “expressing negative views
of the Biden administration’s handling of the
situation in Afghanistan,” according to Pew
Research Center. Disapproval largely centered
around criticism that Biden should have started the
evacuations earlier or in a more orderly manner.
Within ten days of the American troop withdrawal,
the Taliban had laid siege to the country,
regaining power with shocking speed.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran_protests:_‘No_going_back’_as_unrest_hits_100
days⠀⇛
A hundred days after they began, the longest
running anti-government protests in Iran since the
1979 Islamic revolution have shaken the regime, but
at a heavy cost to the people.
More than 500 protesters, including 69 children,
have been killed, according to the Human Rights
Activists’ News Agency (HRANA). Two protesters have
been executed and at least 26 others face the same
fate, after what Amnesty International calls “sham
trials”.
# ⚓ Foreign Policy ☛ Iran’s_Revolutionary_Year⠀⇛
The movement amounts to the most serious challenge
to the regime’s control of the country since the
early days of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The
protests are also the longest running since the
Green Movement arose after the disputed 2009
presidential election. Unlike the earlier revolt,
however, the current movement is leaderless—and
more explicitly revolutionary in character.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Sex_Workers_Have_Been_Banned_From_Airbnb_for
Years._Will_You_Be_Next?⠀⇛
Freya was planning a Christmas vacation to a small
seaside town when she received a notification:
Airbnb had not only canceled her booking but also
suspended her account. When she asked why, Airbnb
asked her to verify her identity, which she did by
submitting her photo ID.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Dirty_Game_Republicans_are_Playing_With
Desperate_People’s_Lives⠀⇛
This happens every two years when a Democratic
President is in office. And finally the US news
media seems to be getting a clue as to why. More
about that in a moment.
Notwithstanding Fox “News” hysteria about a
“caravan” of immigrants heading for the border
during Obama’s last year as president, in the
months leading up to the 2016 election, by that
time, as Politico noted:
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ On_the_First_Workday_of_the_New_Year,_the
Average_CEO_Will_Make_More_Than_an_Average_Workers_Earns_in
an_Entire_Year⠀⇛
In other words, in less than seven hours on the
first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have
made as much as the average U.S. worker will make
all year.
I took a look at the even wider disparities for
various types of essential workers. My calculations
are based on average S&P 500 CEO pay of $18.3
million in 2021 (the most recent figure available),
which works out to $8,798 per hour, or $147 per
minute.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Greg_Abbott_Blasted_for_Bussing_Migrants_to
Kamala_Harris’s_Home_in_Cruel_Stunt⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Abbott_Blasted_for_‘Cruel_Stunt’_as_Migrants
Bussed_to_Kamala_Harris’_Home_on_Christmas_Eve⠀⇛
“How Christian of you, Greg Abbott,” Rep. Joaquin
Castro said sardonically. “Being a heartless POS
isn’t going to make you the next Republican
president.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Louisiana_Communities_Organize_to_Defend
Libraries_From_Far_Right_Censorship⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ States_Take_Tax_Revenue_Vital_for_Funding_Tribal
Services⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “An_Immense_World”:_Ed_Yong_on_How_Animal
Senses_Reveal_the_Hidden_Realms_Around_Us⠀⇛
Ed Yong, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer
at The Atlantic, talks about his recent book, “An
Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden
Realms Around Us.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ To_Catch_a_Dictator:_Human_Rights_Lawyer
Reed_Brody_on_the_Pursuit_and_Trial_of_Chad’s_Hissène_Habré⠀⇛
In this special broadcast, we speak with Reed
Brody, the international human rights lawyer who
has been called “the dictator hunter” for his role
in bringing historic legal cases against former
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and others.
Brody’s new book is just out, titled “To Catch a
Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.”
Habré, a former U.S. ally, was convicted in 2016 by
the Extraordinary African Chambers in the
Senegalese court system and sentenced to life in
prison.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ As_Temperature_Drops,_Incarcerated_People
Prepare_for_Dangerously_Cold_Conditions⠀⇛
For the millions of people incarcerated in the
U.S., freezing temperatures amid failing
infrastructure can be deadly.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Adoption_of_the_EU’s_Digital_Services_Act:_A
Landmark_Year_for_Platform_Regulation:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛
The DSA overhauls the EU’s core platform
regulation, the e-Commerce Directive, and is
intended to be an important tool in making the
internet a fairer place by setting out new legal
responsibilities for online platforms and educating
users on why content is removed and what they can
do about it. The powers of Big Tech are also reined
in as the DSA subjects “very large online platforms
(VLOPs)” to comply with far-reaching obligations
and responsibly tackle systemic risks and abuse on
their platform. These risks cover a variety of
aspects, including the dissemination of illegal
content, disinformation, and negative impact on
fundamental rights. VLOPs also face oversight
through independent audits, which will assess
whether platforms respect the obligations under the
DSA.
Whilst the obligations placed on intermediary
services depend on the role, size, and impact of
the service in the online ecosystem, the DSA
introduces all-encompassing protections on user
rights to privacy by prohibiting platforms from
undertaking targeted advertising based on sensitive
user information, such as ethnicity or sexual
orientation. More broadly, the DSA increases the
transparency about the ads users see on their feeds
as platforms must place a clear label on every ad,
with information about the buyer of the ad and
other details. Despite being in its infancy, this
provision is already inducing tension as companies
like Twitter – whose primary source of income is
obtained through ad revenue – have publicly
affirmed their intention to further amplify
targeted ads on the platform, in potential
contravention of the DSA.
The DSA’s emphasis on greater transparency and user
rights also includes requirements on platforms to
explain their content curation algorithms in more
detail and in user-friendly language. This aims to
ensure that users can better understand how content
decisions – which should be non-arbitrary – are
made, and how they can pursue reinstatement should
platforms make mistakes. The DSA also requires
platforms to give users the option to choose a
content curation algorithm that is not based on
profiling.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ With_YouTube_Deal,_the_NFL_Cements
Itself_as_the_Most_Powerful_Force_in_Entertainment⠀⇛
The NFL will now take in $120 billion over the next
decade, not only from legacy TV companies like NBC,
CBS, Disney and Fox, but arguably the three most
powerful companies in technology today: Apple,
Amazon and Google.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ UK_IP_Office_Tries_To_Claim_Netflix_Password
Sharing_Is_Illegal⠀⇛
The UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office
published new piracy guidance this week claiming
that Netflix password sharing is illegal.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Tom_Lehrer_Puts_Whatever_He_Hadn’t_Already
Donated_To_The_Public_Domain_Into_The_Public_Domain⠀⇛
As I said, much of this statement reflects
what was on the site before, but now it
covers the music as well as the lyrics. He’s
also basically put up everything you need.
You can download the music as MP3s, you can
stream albums, you can download lyrics as PDF
files. It’s… pretty comprehensive. And pretty
impressive.
Of course, there’s also this semi-ominous
warning: [...]
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ACE_Expands_to_Become_a_Lean_and_Mean
Anti-Piracy_Machine⠀⇛
With the addition of more than a dozen new
members, the Alliance for Creativity and
Entertainment (ACE) will soon close the book
on a record year and a string of coalition
successes. Through agreements with domain
registries, collaboration with governments,
and partnerships with enforcement agencies,
including Interpol, ACE hopes to continue
down this path in the year ahead.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ IPTV:_Anti-Piracy_Coalition_Reveals
‘Offshore_Hosting’_Challenges⠀⇛
For services that prefer not to be
overwhelmed by DMCA notices or taken offline
unexpectedly, ‘offshore hosting’ is usually
considered a positive step. For a major anti-
piracy group tackling pirate IPTV providers,
‘offshore hosting’ enforcement challenges
warranted a recent “call to action” at the
UN-mandated Internet Governance Forum.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADTNOMS_Wordo:_BOFFO⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ bernina_L460_first_review⠀⇛
when i seen anyone sewing with an overlocker
(serger) i am amazed at what these do: securing the
seam, the fabric edge, and cutting off excess
fabric.
i reached the tipping point and bought a Bernina
L460. another contender was a Bernette air
threading overlocker. i stuck with the L460
decision because it has the same motor control as
my Bernina 570QE – stitch by stitch from the foot
controller, quieter operation.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Red_Hat_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o FSF
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
o Environment
# Energy
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Mandriva_Linux_Chronicles:_Full_laptop_upgrade⠀⇛
Finally, with some free time at last, I decided to
perform a full upgrade of 4 of the distros that I have in
my laptop.
Manjaro Ruah becomes now Manjaro 22 (Sikaris). This was
taken care of by Octopi without any problem.
Mageia 8 had not big deal upgrading some packages.
MX Linux also had like 76 packages to upgrade and
everything went smoothly.
OpenMandriva ROME 22.11 is the most challenging distro
for me to upgrade now. I used to mess up the upgrade by
not reading the forum post before, but I learned my
lesson. So, I visited this post here, where rugyada
kindly reminds one of the commands to do the upgrade
correctly: sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf –best
–allowerasing distro-sync
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ More_developers_reportedly_now_use_Linux_than
macOS_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
New 2022 figures have claimed some surprising
results in what the most popular operating systems
were in 2022
The 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (opens in
new tab) reports that Linux-based software is now
more popular than Apple’s macOS as developers
apparently flock to other systems.
Linux distros, representing 40% for both personal
and professional use, which are recognized as being
some of the most customizable and adaptive
operating systems for developers. The 40% share is
up from around one quarter in each of the previous
five years, which shows a significant shift to
Linux that may continue into 2023.
# ⚓ Paul Thurrott ☛ Report:_More_Developers_Use_Linux_Than_a
Mac⠀⇛
A new survey from Stack Overflow shows that
significantly more developers use Linux than a Mac,
though Windows maintains a huge lead over both.
“Each year we explore the tools and technologies
developers are currently using and what they want
to use,” the vaunted developer resource explains in
its 2022 StackOverflow developer survey. “We have
the favorite Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted data as
well as Worked With vs. Want to Work With, which
shows us precisely what developers used in the past
year and what they want to work on in the following
year.”
As for the platforms that developers use, Windows
retains its lead, with 62.33 percent of respondents
using Windows for personal use and 48.82 percent
using it for work. Linux is number two, with 40 and
40 percent, respectively, while the Mac brings up
the rear with 31 and 33 percent. Interestingly,
Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is in
fourth place, with 15 and 14 percent usage,
respectively, which indicates that the
popularity—or necessity—of Linux with developers is
even higher.
For non-developer “synchronous tools,” Zoom and
Microsoft Teams are tied for number one with 56
percent usage, followed by Slack (53.43 percent)
and Google Chat (20 percent). As for “asynchronous
tools,” Jira Work Management is in first place by a
wide margin (50 percent), followed by Confluence
(40 percent), Trello (33 percent), and Notion (20
percent).
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ YAY_(AUR_helper)_|_Install_and_Use_on_Arch_Linux_–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I cover how to Install and Use on
yay in Arch Linux. Yay is used to install packages
from the Arch User Repository.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Mint_21.1_“Vera”_Cinnamon_overview_|_Sleek,
modern,_innovative._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” Cinnamon and some of the
applications pre-installed.
# ⚓ Video ☛ ThinLinc_Overview_and_Tutorial_–_How_to_Install_and
Utilize_this_Linux_Remote_Desktop_Solution_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Recently, I decided to check out ThinLinc – a
remote desktop solution for Linux. With client apps
for Linux, macOS and Windows – it’s easy to set up
and configure. In this tutorial, I’ll give you an
overview of the solution and walk you through the
process of setting it up.
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_New_4K_OLED_Oryx_Pro_–_A_Linux_Laptop_with_a
Beautiful_4K_OLED_Display_–_Invidious⠀⇛
System76 recently expanded their line of Linux
laptops with a new Oryx Pro model – complete with
DDR5 and a 4K OLED display! In this video, Jay will
give you his thoughts on this latest model.
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_version_of_Emacs_used_by_Linus_Torvalds⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ Manjaro_Linux_–_Gnome_43_|_Is_It_The_Best_Gnome
Distro?_–_Invidious⠀⇛
A quick video covering the newest release of
Manjaro. This video covers the Gnome version of the
distro and discusses whether or not it is the best
version of any Gnome Distro.
# ⚓ Video ☛ NCDU_–_Disk_Usage_Viewer_–_Invidious⠀⇛
NCDU shows disk usage and can be installed with
sudo apt install ncdu or any package manager.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.2_rc1_released_with_CPU,_GPU
updates,_new_features⠀⇛
Following the Linux Kernel 6.1 release two weeks
back, the merge window for Linux Kernel 6.2 is now
closed, and that too, on Christmas day of 2022.
Without further delay, Linus released Kernel 6.2
for everyone to test.
Furthermore, Linus mentioned that the final release
might get delayed due to fewer activities during
the holiday week.
Let’s take a look at what arrives in Kernel 6.2.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 11_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Comic_Book
Viewers⠀⇛
Many users associate desktop Linux with their daily
repetitive grind. However, we are always on the
look out for applications that help make Linux fun
to use. It really is a great platform for
entertainment.
Some document viewers offer a good range of
different formats. Although they are not dedicated
comic book viewers, Evince and okular have support
for the common comic book archive files, and merit
mention here.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ This_App_Enhance_your_Photo_Images_to_4K
Resolution_or_Higher_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Got photo images but not clear enough? Or you want
to convert them into 4K resolution without losing
quality? This app can help!
It’s upscayl, a free and open-source app for Linux,
Windows, and macOS. It uses AI modules to upscale
single or batch of photo images into 7680×5120 (or
double resolution 15360×10240).
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Android_Studio_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
The Google-built Android Studio is a perfect match
for developing apps on the vast mobile operating
system. In the following tutorial, you will learn
how to install Android Studio on Manjaro Linux
using the Arch Linux user repository (AUR) and the
command line terminal.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Scribus_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Scribus on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Scribus is a free and open-source
desktop publishing (DTP) application that allows
users to create and edit documents such as
brochures, magazines, and newsletters. It contains
all the functionality that a high-end program would
have, including image editing, vector drawing, and
layout creation. Scribus is suitable for use on a
wide range of platforms, including Linux, macOS,
and Windows, and it is available in a range of
languages.
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 Scribus 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.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Debian_11_–
idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Microsoft Fonts on Debian 11. For those of you who
didn’t know, Microsoft Fonts, also known as Windows
Fonts or TrueType Fonts, are a collection of font
families that are used on the Windows operating
system. These fonts are designed to work seamlessly
with the Windows operating system and are used by a
wide range of software applications, including
Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and many
other programs. In addition to being used on the
Windows operating system, Microsoft Fonts are also
available for use on other operating systems,
including macOS, Linux, and mobile platforms.
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 Microsoft Fonts on a Debian 11
(Bullseye).
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_OpenVPN_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–
RoseHosting⠀⇛
A Virtual Private Network is a tool that lets you
browse the internet with some degree of anonymity.
While OpenVPN is an open-source network connection
protocol used to facilitate a secure tunnel between
two points in a network. OpenVPN is both a VPN
protocol and software that uses VPN techniques to
secure connections. It is one of the most popular
and well-known VPN protocols among VPN users. In
this tutorial, we will show you how to install
OpenVPN on Ubuntu 22.04 server.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
Most Linux Distributions use open-source fonts to
substitute Microsoft’s iconic typefaces like Arial,
Courier New, and Times using Red Hat Liberation
family to replace these similar-looking but
different sizes, but you may require the original
fonts for work purposes or to make your document
work. The following tutorial will teach you how to
install Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts on Manjaro
Linux utilizing the command line terminal with the
Arch Linux user repository (AUR).
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_Foxit_PDF_Reader_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Want to view and modify PDFs on Ubuntu? Consider
installing Foxit PDF Reader, a simple and easy-to-
use PDF viewer for Linux.
In search of a good PDF reader for your Ubuntu
system? Foxit PDF Reader is easy to install and
works fantastically with PDF documents on both
Ubuntu and its derivatives.
You can install Foxit Reader either graphically or
using Ubuntu’s command-line interface (CLI). Here’s
how to get started.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Audacity_on_KDE_Neon_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at how to install
Audacity on KDE Neon.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_7.0_on_Linux_Mint
21/20⠀⇛
VirtualBox 7.0 is the latest free and open-source
(FOSS) hypervisor version. In the following
tutorial, you will learn how to install VirtualBox
7.0 on Linux Mint 21 or Linux Mint 20 release by
importing the official virtual box repository and
installing the most up-to-date version using the
command line terminal. The extra benefit for users
using this method is that you will receive them
instantly from the VirtualBox repository when
updates drop instead of waiting for improvements or
security fixes to be ported down by the Linux Mint
team or Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Ventoy_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
Ventoy is a free, open-source tool to write media’s
ISO image files directly onto storage media to
create bootable USB flash drives. The following
tutorial will teach you how to install Ventoy USB
Bootable Image Creator on Manjaro Linux utilizing
the Arch Linux user repository (AUR).
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Encrypt_And_Decrypt_Files_Using_GnuPG_In_Linux
–_OSTechNix⠀⇛
Today, we are going to see how to encrypt and
decrypt files from command line in Linux using a
free utility named GNU Privacy Guard (shortly GPG
or GnuPG).
There are, of course, plethora of methods, and
applications are available to encrypt and decrypt
files in Linux. But, encrypting and decrypting
files with GnuPG is the easiest method.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ oh_my_zsh_and_powerlevel10k:_A_Match_Made_in
Heaven⠀⇛
The default shell in most of the Linux
distributions is bash. Bash is solid and a legacy
utility. However, it lacks some customizations,
such as nice colours, cursor support, etc.
You can use another shell, zsh to enjoy additional
tweaks and help you to extend your Bash shell
experience.
This crisp guide explains how to install zsh, oh my
zsh and apply the powerlevel10k theme.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_Kali_Linux_on_Windows [Ed: At
least they do not shill WSL]⠀⇛
Here’s how to get Kali Linux on a Windows machine
with very little hassle.
Kali Linux is the primary Debian-based Linux
distribution used for information security purposes
such as security research, penetration testing,
password cracking, and more. It is mainly used by
white hat or ethical hackers to test the integrity
of a system or a network.
If you cannot install Kali Linux on your PC
directly, you can easily install it on Windows
through a virtual machine. Read on as we guide you
on installing Kali Linux on a Windows PC.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_Ubuntu_Touch_on_Your_Mobile
Phone⠀⇛
Smartphones are increasingly invasive, with
tracking technology, user accounts, and apps
recording your activity. If you’re looking for a
way to strip things back but still use a
smartphone, a Linux phone is an option. But where
do you start? The answer may already be in your
pocket, thanks to Ubuntu Touch.
Maintained by UBports, Ubuntu Touch is now
available on more smartphones than ever before.
Want to try it out? Here’s how to download and
install the Ubuntu Touch Linux operating system for
mobiles.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Jenkins_on
Ubuntu⠀⇛
Jenkins is a free and open-source automation server
that facilitates software development processes.
Here’s how you can install it on Ubuntu.
Jenkins is the most sought-after tool used for
automating software development. The automation
software allows you to easily integrate various
DevOps stages in your project.
Jenkins has great community support. The best thing
about the tool is that it is easy to install and
learn on any Linux system. Let’s see how you can
install and configure Jenkins on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_a_container_to_a_remote_Docker
machine_with_ServerCat⠀⇛
ServerCat is one of my favorite tools for remotely
accessing and monitoring Linux servers. With a
beautifully designed UI and user-friendly
structure, anyone can use this tool to access
remote Linux servers.
But ServerCat has a few other tricks up its crafty
sleeve. One such trick is the ability to batch-
execute Docker deployments to any supporting server
you have connected. With a single command, you can
deploy containers to all of your Docker servers and
then monitor them to make sure they’re running as
expected. I’ll show you how simple it is to do just
that by batch-deploying an NGINX container to
multiple servers hosting Docker containers.
# ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_install_LibreCAD_on_Linux⠀⇛
Do you need a good CAD application on your Linux
workstation? Try out LibreCAD. It’s a 100% free and
open-source app that is a great drop-in-replacement
for Linux users looking to create CAD apps. Here’s
how to set up LibreCAD on your Linux system.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Recursively_Change_the_File’s_Permissions
in_Linux_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
In Linux, the file permissions determine who can
access and modify a file or directory. By default,
the owner of a file or directory has full control
over it, but it is also possible to grant or
restrict access to other users or groups. If you
want to change the permissions of multiple files or
directories at once, you can use the `chmod`
command with the `-R` option to recursively change
the permissions.
In this article, we will explore how to recursively
change the file permissions in Linux.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_change_priorities_of_x-www-browser_–
update-alternatives⠀⇛
Update Alternatives is the command available on
Linux to change the default program preference
using the terminal. We can use it to create,
remove, maintain, and display information about the
symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives
system.
Although, sometimes even after changing the app’s
default value, still it not works. For example, you
set Chrome as the default browser, and at the time
of opening some link on the system, it selects
firefox.
It is because of the priority value set by the apps
on our system. Here we learn the command to change
the priority of applications using the Update
Alternatives command.
# ⚓ Learn Ubuntu ☛ Perform_a_Checksum_in_the_Ubuntu_Command
Line⠀⇛
Want to check whether the downloaded file is
corrupted or not? The easiest way is to verify its
checksum.
In simple terms, the checksum can be considered a
digital fingerprint of a file made up of characters
and numbers.
You will find checksums while downloading files
from the internet such as software packages, ISO
files, etc.
So let’s jump to the ‘how to’ part.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ GSoC_22_–_The_Closing_Blog_Post⠀⇛
In the summer of 2022, I participated in Google’s
Summer of Code, contributing to the Thunar file
manager at XFCE, with the help of my mentor
Alexander Schwinn. It’s been about a month since my
GSoC term was officially over, and after a hectic
couple weeks, I’ve finally decided to sit down and
write down the closing blog post.
[...]
This is the big one. While adding support for undo
and redo, one of the most crucial things for me was
doing it in an elegant way that would make it easy
to have multi-level undo and redo.
How we decided to do this was to maintain a global
linked list, containing information about the last
performed operation, including what type of an
operation it was, what files were involved in it,
etc. This allowed it to be as trivial as moving a
few pointers around to keep track of the state of
the system once an undo or a redo is performed. The
actual undo/redo operation is simply executing
either the inverse of the last performed operation,
or executing the exact same operation that was last
undone.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_43.2_Officially_Released,_Brings
Improvements_to_Screencast_UI,_Bluetooth,_and_More⠀⇛
GNOME 43.2 is packed with lots of changes to
improve edge resistance and window snapping,
window resize, window screenshots, screencast
UI, as well as Night Light support, scrolling
in clients with no high resolution scroll
support in RDP sessions, Flatpak applications
bypassing X11 permissions, and always visible
cursor in virtual streams.
It also improves support for Mali GPUs and
newer Intel (i915) systems and enhances
Wayland support by adding black padding to
fixed-size full-screen windows, preventing
Wayland popovers from blocking the Activities
Overview, and fixing the Wayland keyboard to
actually send pressed keys on enter.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Red Hat / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Debugging_binaries_invoked_from_scripts_with_GDB
|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛
Suppose you want to use GDB, the GNU debugger for C
and C++ programs, to debug a program invoked from a
shell script. You might have trouble knowing what
is going on in the program because the script might
give it a complicated run-time context, setting
environment variables in various ways depending
upon the machine, architecture, installed programs,
etc. with which it’s being run.
A good example of such a script is /usr/bin/
firefox. On my Fedora 35 machine, the firefox
script is 290 lines long. It mostly sets a lot of
environment variables, but it also contains
commands to make directories, remove files and
directories, and make symbolic links. All these
changes can have impacts on the binary when it
runs. Near the end of the script, a command invokes
(via exec) another script named run-mozilla.sh.
The run-mozilla.sh script itself is 356 lines long.
It also sets environment variables and eventually
invokes (also via exec) the Firefox binary.
Additionally, the script provides options that
allow you to debug the Firefox binary with a
debugger, though for this article we won’t use
those options.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_3_tips_to
overcome_common_challenges⠀⇛
Once upon a time, businesses took a measured,
sometimes glacial, approach to rolling out new
technology. But the pandemic flipped the script on
digital transformation, accelerating digital
transformation for nearly three-quarters of all
businesses by months, if not years. And the speed
of adoption increased across all aspects of an
organization – from improving operations and new
digital business models to delivering seamless
customer experiences and adopting new workforce
models.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_data_science_articles_IT_leaders
should_read_now_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛
Data science as a practice continues to make its
way into the spotlight. Digital transformation
technologies such as artificial intelligence,
automation, and edge computing are gaining
adoption, and data science is powering them. Let
2023 be the year your organization prioritizes data
science. Check out these most-read articles to
advance your journey.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 10_tutorials_to_study_for_RHCSA
certification_in_2023_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
Add the Red Hat Certified System Administrator
(RHCSA) badge to your resume with the help of these
study guides.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Debian:_transgender_threats_to_transgender
death,_Lucy_Wayland,_RIP⠀⇛
Today is the anniversary of Ian Murdock’s suicide.
It is four years since the Debian Christmas
lynchings of 2018. Two Debian Developers, Charles
Plessy and I, observed the environment was so toxic
that it could kill somebody else. One month later,
Lucy Wayland passed away all too soon.
Wayland was transgender. Some people knew her by
her original name, Jon Ward and her IRC nickname
aardvark.
Transgender people don’t spontaneously die. There
are a range of interconnected problems involving
their environment. Debian was clearly part of
Wayland’s environment.
Earlier this year, I contributed several blog posts
to the debate about the Frans Pop Debian.Day
suicide. Later, I looked at the way the burden of
14,000 messages on debian-private may have been a
factor in the mistakes made by an underage
developer in 1998.
There are significant similarities between the
deaths of Ian Murdock, Frans Pop and Lucy Wayland.
They were all male, in their mid-forties. They were
all talented and hard-working people. Murdock and
Wayland both consumed alcohol, there is no mention
of whether alcohol was a factor or not for Pop.
They were all single and complained about being
alone. Of particular note, it looks like Murdock
was alone at Christmas.
Now it is time to look at the hard evidence showing
Debian progressed from transgender threats to a
transgender death in the space of less than one
year and demonstrate the plausible links between
Debian harassment culture and the high mortality
rate of transgender people in general.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_20.04_release_candidate_is_now
available_for_select_smartphones_and_tablets_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
Canonical scrapped its plans to bring Ubuntu to
smartphones and tablets years ago. But the
independent developers at UBPorts have been keeping
the dream alive since 2017.
Now they’ve announced a release candidate of a new
build of Ubuntu Touch that marks a major milestone:
it’s the first version of the Linux-based operating
system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Unity_7.7_Desktop_Environment_Promises
Redesigned_Dash_and_Panel,_Widgets⠀⇛
Ubuntu Unity maintainer Rudra Saraswat writes today
about the new features and improvements coming to
the Unity 7.7 desktop environment, which will be
available next year as part of the Ubuntu 23.04
(Lunar Lobster) release.
In an attempt to bring back the “old-school UI
concepts” from when Canonical was still developing
the Unity desktop for Ubuntu, Unity 7.7 promises a
redesigned Unity Dash that’s more in line with what
Lomiri (the Unity8 fork used in the Ubuntu Touch
mobile OS from UBports) currently offers, as well
as a redesigned Unity Panel to be slightly bigger
and more visually appealing than what you get in
Unity 7.6.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 6_Best_Ubuntu_Linux_Alternatives_for_Beginners
to_use_in_2023⠀⇛
It is not difficult for new users or those who are
shifting from Windows 7 or 10 Operating systems to
Linux distro when you have the right one. Thus,
here we are with some best Ubuntu desktop
alternatives Linux distros for beginners who want
something similar to Canonical’s OS but better in
terms of usage.
No doubt, Ubuntu is one of the most popular and
best Linux among new users because of easy-to-use
commands, huge package repository, and online
tutorials. However, if you don’t like its interface
and want something much easier to use, thus you
should look at the alternatives we are listing
here.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Canonical_Considering_IPO_in_2023:_What_It_Means
for_Ubuntu_Users⠀⇛
2023 is already here, and if this plan comes to
fruition, it will impact Ubuntu’s focus and future
development in some way. So, let’s analyze the
likely ramifications.
First, we need to answer the question: why does a
company opt to go public? Whether a company is
brand new or has been in operation for years, it
may decide to go public via an IPO. However, in the
mainstream case, companies seeking to expand often
use an Initial Public Offering to generate funds
via access to capital markets. So, the most
significant benefit of an IPO is the additional
funds raised.
Furthermore, when a company moves to IPO, it sells
shares to the public. I.e., it is a capital raise
event. So, it is much easier to raise money once
publicly traded. Also easier to attract employees
by paying higher salaries with out-of-thin-air-
newly-issued shares when public.
In other words, ideally, an IPO would allow
Canonical to raise funds through the sale of
company shares, potentially leading to more money
and human capital being invested in the development
of Ubuntu.
However, on the other hand, switching to the IPO
model always involves changes in the company’s
vision and direction. In this regard, it is also
essential to consider how this move could affect
the open-source nature of Ubuntu and the community-
driven development model. So let’s see how this
affects the average Ubuntu user.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ SONOFF_ZBMINI_Extreme_tiny_Zigbee_smart
switch_does_not_require_a_neutral_wire_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
SONOFF ZBMINI Extreme (aka ZBMINI-L2) is an ultra-
compact Zigbee smart switch that can control home
appliances and lights without a neutral wire and
can fit into almost any mounting box.
The tiny wireless switch can fit into the smallest
EU-type/86-type/120-type mounting box, and works
with gateways supporting the Zigbee 3.0 protocol
such as ZBBridge Pro, NSPanel Pro, SmartThings Hub,
Amazon Alexa Echo speaker, and so on. It also
supports external switches, voice control, eWelink
app control, and other features.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A13′s_MediaTek_version_gets
Android_13_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Samsung_Android_13_update:_What_devices_will
get_the_upgrade?⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ One_UI_5.1_is_heading_to_future_Samsung
smartphones⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ How_to_transfer_data_from_an_old_Android_phone_to
your_new_one⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_7_Ways_to_Fix_Wi-Fi_Greyed_Out_on_Android_–_Guiding
Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Pixel_7_Pro_vs._OnePlus_10T:_Which
should_you_buy?⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A13_is_the_latest_phone_to_get
Android_13-based_One_UI_5.0_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung’s_cheapest_Galaxy_tablet_gets
upgraded_to_Android_13_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_XCover_Pro_gets_Android_13,_its_last
major_software_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ One_year_later,_Samsung_Galaxy_A01_and_A02s
receive_Android_12_in_the_US_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ IDAD_2022:_Celebrating_the_freedom_to_share_with_a
new_advocacy_video⠀⇛
For IDAD 2022, FSF staff took to the streets to ask
passersby what they think about digital sharing.
Read our wrapup and watch the first in a series of
videos we are releasing in the coming days.
In our sixteenth annual International Day Against
DRM (IDAD), we stood up for the freedom to share
cultural works, continuing our fight against
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Each year,
the Free Software Foundation (FSF) rallies anti-DRM
advocates from all over the world for a day of
action against digital restriction. This year was
no exception, building on the recent efforts we’ve
made in our year-end fundraiser to draw attention
to something vitally important for the free
software movement and cultural endeavors alike: the
freedom to share.
In addition to our call to use DRM-free media as a
springboard for starting a conversation about DRM
with a friend or loved ones, we took to the streets
of Boston to interview passersby on how they felt
about digital sharing. At first, it seemed like a
strange request to our interviewees, but its
supposed “strangeness” highlights the success
corporations like Disney and Netflix have had on
the public consciousness. Just what does make a
digital file so different that we’re barred from
sharing it with a friend in person, or passing it
down the family line like our favorite books? The
results that we received were interesting to say
the least, and we’ll have more to say about them in
the future.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ At_17000_curl_commits_|_daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛
Today, another 1,000 commits have been recorded as
done by me in the curl source code git repository
since November 2021. Out of a total of 29,608
commits to the curl source code repository, I have
made 17,001. 57.42%.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Jean-François Fortin Tam ☛ The_post-lockdown_work_rave,_abuse,
and_shortened_fuses_–_The_Open_Sourcerer⠀⇛
Around the same time, I was also trying to support two
good friends who were undergoing nervous breakdown due to
criminal harassment and who, in late summer, were in deep
distress. Now, if you’ve paid attention to my last few
years’ retrospectives so far, you know I’ve had my share
of dead friends in the past, so no, not this time, not on
my watch.
I told my clients about my reduced availability during
that time, and focused on helping those friends—from mere
emotional and logistical support (“I have extra capacity.
Use it.”, I said) to “last minute evac to the airport”,
as they had to exile themselves for their own safety
(because this is the harassment they’ve been going
through). They have now left the country forever. It
pains me that I won’t be able to see them around much
anymore, but if that’s what it takes for them to stay
alive, so be it.
It started out as a dark, life-threatening situation, and
they are now safe and sound, albeit an ocean apart. I
guess that’s a reasonable outcome.
o ⚓ Chris_Lamb:_Favourite_books_of_2022:_Fiction⠀⇛
Here begins my yearly roundups of the favourite books and
movies that I consumed in 2022, to be published over the
next few days.
Just as I did for 2020 and 2021, I won’t actually reveal
exactly how many books I read in the last year. I didn’t
get through as many books as I did in 2021, however, but
that’s partly due to reading a significant number of long
nineteenth-century novels — in particular, those books
that American writer Henry James once referred to as
“large, loose, baggy monsters”…
However, in today’s post I’ll be looking at my favourite
books typically filed under fiction, with ‘classic’
fiction following tomorrow.
Works that just missed the cut here include John
O’Brien’s Leaving Las Vegas, Colson Whitehead’s Sag
Harbor and possibly The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco,
or Elif Batuman’s The Idiot. I also feel obliged to
mention (or is that show off?) that I finally read the
1,079-page Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace this
year, but I can’t say it was a favourite, let alone
recommend others give it a try unless they are in the
market for a sturdy under-monitor stand.
o ⚓ Steve Kemp ☛ Steve_Kemp:_A_summary_of_the_year.⠀⇛
This year had a lot of things happen in it, world-wide,
as is always the case.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Commercial_LTS_Qt_5.15.12_Released [Ed: Proprietary is
what they mean, not "Commercial"]⠀⇛
We have released Qt 5.15.12 LTS for commercial
license holders today. As a patch release, Qt
5.15.12 does not add any new functionality but
provides bug fixes and other improvements.
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ Google_is_making_its_internal_video-
blurring_privacy_tool_open_source_|_Engadget [Ed:
Openwashing stunt by mass surveillance company. Of
course Google is also outsourcing this code to
proprietary prison of Microsoft.]⠀⇛
Google has announced that two of its latest
privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs),
including one that blurs objects in a video,
will be provided to anyone for free via open
source. The new tools are part of Google’s
Protected Computing initiative designed to
transform “how, when and where data is
processed to technically ensure its privacy
and safety,” the company said.
The first is an internal project called
Magritte, now out on Github, which uses
machine learning to detect objects and apply
a blur as soon as they appear on screen. It
can disguise arbitrary objects like license
plates, tattoos and more. “This code is
especially useful for video journalists who
want to provide increased privacy
assurances,” Google wrote in the blog. “By
using this open-source code, videographers
can save time in blurring objects from a
video, while knowing that the underlying ML
algorithm can perform detection across a
video with high-accuracy.”
# ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Google_Open_Sources_Magritte_Image-
Blurring_Tool⠀⇛
The second tool lets developers “perform
computations on encrypted data without being
able to access personally identifiable
information,” Dent says.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Albanian_IT_staff_charged_with
negligence_over_cyberattack⠀⇛
Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the
house arrest of five public employees they blame
for not protecting the country from a cyberattack
by alleged Iranian hackers.
Prosecutors said the five IT officials of the
public administration department had failed to
check the security of the system and update it with
the most recent antivirus software.
They are accused of “abuse of post,” which can
attract a prison sentence of up to seven years.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Arresting_IT_Administrators_–_Schneier_on
Security⠀⇛
The next step would be to arrest managers at
software companies for not releasing patches fast
enough. And maybe programmers for writing buggy
code. I don’t know where this line of thinking
ends…
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(gerbv), Fedora (webkitgtk), and SUSE (ca-
certificates-mozilla, freeradius-server, multimon-
ng, vim, and vlc).
# ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ LastPass_Breach:_Change_Passwords_Now⠀⇛
The LastPass password manager has been breached by
hackers, meaning your master passwords could be for
sale, reports David Rutland. The true severity of
the breach, which was first reported in August, was
detailed in a December 22 blog post from LastPass.
“Personal details and password vaults containing
the sign-in credentials of millions of users are
now in the hands of criminals. If you’ve ever used
the password manager, LastPass, you should change
all of your passwords for everything, now,” Rutland
says.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ If_You’ve_Ever_Used_LastPass,_You_Should
Change_All_Your_Passwords_Now⠀⇛
Personal details and password vaults containing the
sign-in credentials of millions of users are now in
the hands of criminals. If you’ve ever used the
password manager, LastPass, you should change all
of your passwords for everything, now. And you
should immediately take further measures to protect
yourself.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Critical_Linux_Vulnerability_Found_to
Impact_SMB_Servers_–_Linux_Magazine⠀⇛
A Linux vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 has
been found to affect SMB servers and can lead to
remote code execution.
A new flaw has been discovered in the processing of
SMB2_TREE_DISCONNECT commands which can lead to
remote code execution in servers with ksmbd
enabled. KSMBD is an in-kernel SMB file server that
was mostly written by a team at Samsung Electronics
that was merged into the 5.15 kernel on August 29,
2021. This kernel server implements the SMB3
protocol in kernel space for the sharing of files
over a network.
According to the Zero Day Initiative, “The specific
flaw exists within the processing of
SMB2_TREE_DISCONNECT commands. The issue results
from the lack of validating the existence of an
object prior to performing operations on the
object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability
to execute code in the context of the kernel.”
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ 2022_sees_over_5000_times_new_Windows_malware_vs
macOS,_over_60_times_vs_Linux_–_Neowin⠀⇛
As the year comes to a close, AV-TEST, one of the
major anti-malware solutions assessment firms,
alongside AV-Comparatives, has shared some
interesting statistics regarding malware growth in
2022. The data shows there were close to 70 million
new malware samples on Windows, which dwarfs that
on macOS, which only saw around 12,000 samples.
Hence, the number of malicious files on Windows is
over 5,000 times compared to that on mac. The
comparison with Linux is far more favorable for
Windows as close to 2 million samples were captured
on Linux. However, the Windows numbers are still
more than 60 times higher.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ The_Christmas_Electric_Grid
Emergency⠀⇛
As temperatures plunged this weekend,
Americans in much of the country were told to
turn down their thermostats and avoid using
large appliances to prevent rolling
blackouts. The cascading grid stress came at
an awful time but was all too predictable to
anyone paying attention.
The interconnected U.S. grid is supposed to
be a source of resilience, but the
government’s force-fed green energy
transition is creating systemic
vulnerabilities that politicians don’t want
to acknowledge. Utilities and grid operators
weren’t prepared for the surge in demand for
natural gas and electricity to heat homes,
which occurred as gas supply shortages and
icy temperatures forced many power plants
off-line.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ More_Linux_Distros_Break_H264_GPU
Acceleration_–_Invidious⠀⇛
After Fedora and OpenSuse decided to break
there MESA packages I thought we were done
talking about this whole patent encumbered
codec situation with h264, h265 and vc1, oh
how wrong I was. Steam OS 3 and Manjaro are
back to make me worried once again
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Is_harn_fast_enough?⠀⇛
I became a bit concerned that my relocation/
garbage-collection speed might make the system
sluggish.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
# Shell
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Report:_Over_33_Million_Desktop_Linux
users,_worldwide⠀⇛
Measuring the market share of Linux has been an
elusive goal since the beginning of Linux itself —
with most attempts at understanding the total
number of Linux users based on nothing more than
“Star maths and wishy thinking.”
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Qubes_OS_–_First_Impressions_–_Invidious⠀⇛
my first impressions of qubes os the reasonably
secure operating system
# ⚓ Video ☛ Valve_Funds_More_Than_Just_Linux_Gaming_Patches_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Valve has been a massive contributor over the past
few years to the linux space and not just directly
involved in gaming, even for things that just
benefit the general linux desktop
# ⚓ Video ☛ Mabox_Linux_–_Flawless_Linux_Experience_|_Just
Keeps_Getting_Better_–_Invidious⠀⇛
A quick video covering the newest release of Mabox
Linux. A great Linux experience with Openbox and
XFCE/LXDE components. It makes using Linux flawless
and completely effortless. Take a look and let me
know what you think in the comments below.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Best_Virtual_Machine_for_Linux:_KVM_vs.
VirtualBox_vs._QEMU_vs._Hyper-V⠀⇛
QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, and Hyper-V are
virtualization technologies that allow you to run
multiple operating systems on a single physical
machine. While they all serve a similar purpose,
there are some key differences between these
technologies that are worth noting.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open-
source virtualization solution built into the Linux
kernel. It allows you to create and run virtual
machines on a Linux host system using hardware
acceleration, providing high performance and low
overhead. KVM is often used in production
environments due to its stability and reliability.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_is_cron_and_how_do_you_use_it?_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
Linux is one of the most flexible operating systems
on the planet. There is very little you can’t do
with Linux… even automate tasks using a simple
command line tool.
The tool in question is called cron and it allows
you to schedule jobs for the Linux operating
system.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_the_Default_sudo_Password
Timeout_on_Linux⠀⇛
When you run the sudo command in Linux, it
remembers the password for 15 minutes by default,
determined by the timestamp_timeout variable in the
/etc/sudoers file. So during this time, you can run
any other sudo command without providing the
password. It prompts for a password again after 15
minutes of sudo inactivity.
However, you can tweak the default timeout period
and make it longer or shorter according to your
preferences. You can also configure it in a way
that it always asks for a password or ask for it
once per terminal session or system boot. Here’s
how you can do this.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Moshi_Moshi_Rewritten_Desktop_on_KDE
Neon_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at how to install
Moshi Moshi Rewritten Desktop on KDE Neon. Enjoy!
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_UrBackup_on_Debian_11_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
UrBackup on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t
know, UrBackup is a free and open-source network
backup and disaster recovery software. It is
designed to back up and restore files, folders, and
entire systems. urBackup also provides a web
administration interface, which makes it users
easier to set up and configure. urBackup available
on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
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 UrBackup on a Debian 11
(Bullseye).
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Gacha_Life_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
UrBackup on Debian 11 (Bullseye), as well as some
extra requirements for UrBackup
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_are_hidden_files_in_Linux_and_how_do_you
create_them?_|_ZDNET⠀⇛
Linux is a very powerful operating system. Although
having that much power at your fingertips might
give you the impression that Linux is quite
challenging, modern Linux distributions go a long
way to proving that assumption wrong.
Take, for instance, the hidden file, which is a
file that is not visible by default. The file is
still there, unencrypted for anyone to view, so
long as you know where it is and how to view it.
That brings up an important point. Hidden files are
not password-protected, so anyone can view the
contents of the file, so long as they know how.
Because of that, you should not keep sensitive
information (such as bank accounts and passwords)
in these files. Although you’re tucking those files
away from the casual viewer, any user with even the
slightest bit of Linux experience will be able to
view those files.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Mount_Windows_Folders_from_Linux⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to mount Windows
shared folders on Linux. You will be surprised how
easy it is. Let’s get started.
One of the most common situations we face in a
network is file sharing. Although many sysadmins
may not like it, it is often the fastest way to
share information within the organization.
Previously, we have explained how to install and
configure a Samba server which is an important
method for this purpose, but being a server, it
requires a central Linux machine.
How to do it the other way around? That is to say
that it is Windows that shares the folder, you will
see.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Wine_Reviews_:_vkd3d-proton_version_2.8_has_been_released⠀⇛
VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to
implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of
Vulkan. The project serves as the development
effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.
This release rolls up some significant new
developments before the holidays.
[...]
The entire API feature was rewritten from scratch
to support more implementations and edge cases
without a lot of per-application hacks and
workarounds.
As the most extreme example of weird API usage,
Guardians of the Galaxy should (finally) run well
on NVIDIA.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_The_ultimate
single-page_app⠀⇛
I run a chess analysis site as a hobby. It’s not a
big thing (usually ~1k simultaneous viewers when
it’s broadcasting, peak at ~27k during the London
WCC), and the surface functionality is also pretty
basic: It’s a single-page app picking up a JSON
(updated via long-poll) from a backend containing a
chess position and computer analysis, and then
presents it to the viewer.
I won’t go into detail for why this isn’t as simple
as it seems, but there’s one thing I’ve always
prided myself in: Making it not eat too much of
people’s data caps. (It’s one of the few sites in
its class that actually works pretty well on
mobile, without requiring an app.) The JSON updates
have been pretty meticulously pared down over time,
to the point where it’s 1–2 kB/sec once you’re
going, so even watching for extended periods of
time should be quite cheap.
The initial load wasn’t so bad either; you need
some HTML, some CSS, a bit of JavaScript, PNGs for
the chess pieces and so on… totaling about 109 kB
of downloads (308 kB after un-gzip), in 18 HTTP
requests. It’s not tiny, but it’s smaller than
most.
In October, I was starting to get annoyed that the
PNGs were a bit pixelated on 4K screens, so I
swapped them out with SVGs. (Both came from
Wikipedia’s chess piece set, which has been tweaked
over time, so I picked out some older ones that
looked the most similar.) And in the process, I
noticed that they were actually smaller; could I
perhaps reduce the initial code download size a
bit? (Of course, I know that this isn’t the same as
the site being fast; for one, I don’t use a CDN for
serving, so network latency will matter strongly,
and there’s a bunch of JavaScript stuff happening.)
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ That_was_2022_–_Sophie’s_Blog⠀⇛
Released Pika Backup 0.4 with scheduled
backups and GTK 4 & libadwaita
Started working on a “Welcome To GNOME”
website
Refactored apps.gnome.org to share a lot of
code with “Welcome to GNOME”
Reviewed some apps for GNOME Circle and made
announcements for new apps that joined
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Haiku_Beta_4_—_The_Definitive_Review_–_by
Bryan_Lunduke⠀⇛
A lot has happened for the Haiku Operating System
over the last year or two. What originally started
as an open source “clone” of BeOS, really came into
its own back in August of 2021 as they hired their
first full time developer.
Now, on December 23rd of 2022, Haiku Release 1 Beta
4 has been officially released.
# ⚓ Distribution_Release:_Zephix_6⠀⇛
2022-12-26: Zephix v6 (Zephix-6R-20221226-x86_64)
was released. Fixed uEFI issue of not booting on
specific systems and on latest VirtualBox; Updated
base to Debian 11.6 adding corrections for security
issues, along with a few adjustments for serious
problems; Optimised the toram boot option mechanism
– to boot Zephix totally in memory, it now requires
1.5GB RAM (core, firmware and desktop modules) or
512MB RAM (core module only); Updated module
creation and manipulation scripts making it much
easier to create new modules without having to
reboot the ISO after creating a single module and
also reducing the size of each module accordingly
(refer to the Customise section for more details);
Updated desktop and firmware modules; Optimised
boot sequence code for a cleaner and smoother boot
process; Added a new feature in Zephix – on boot it
searches available media for modules inside a zx
directory in the root of the media itself and, if
found, Zephix mounts them automatically. This
feature removes the need to modify the ISO to
include additional custom modules; Added a new boot
option called maintenance mode – Zephix will boot
in single user mode and, after entering the root
password, the user can do some changes before
actually continue booting the system.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_v1.26:_CPUManager_goes_GA_|
Kubernetes⠀⇛
The CPU Manager is a part of the kubelet, the
Kubernetes node agent, which enables the user to
allocate exclusive CPUs to containers. Since
Kubernetes v1.10, where it graduated to Beta, the
CPU Manager proved itself reliable and fulfilled
its role of allocating exclusive CPUs to
containers, so adoption has steadily grown making
it a staple component of performance-critical and
low-latency setups.
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ [Satire]_BREAKING:_Red_Hat_CEO_admits_he
“has_no_idea_what_Kubernetes_is”⠀⇛
In an exclusive interview with The Lunduke Journal,
Red Hat CEO, Matt Hicks, admitted that he has “no
idea what Kubernetes is” and that he thinks it “has
something to do with containers or boxes or
something.”
“I asked our CTO to explain Kubernetes to me,”
stated Hicks. “He said we don’t call it Kubernetes
anymore. We call it K8s. So. You know. That cleared
that up.”
To better understand how the CEO of a company which
offers Kubernetes solutions could not understand
what it is, The Lunduke Journal reached out to the
leadership of another company in the Kubernetes
industry: Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical,
the company behind Ubuntu Linux.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux
Update_(51/2022):_The_last_one_to_be_published_in_2022⠀⇛
Ubuntu Touch 20.04 beta is the elephant in the
room, but there’s more!
# ⚓ Merry_Christmas_from_UBports_|_UBports_Forum⠀⇛
We have some very special news! Ubuntu Touch 20.04
Focal Fossa now has a beta Release Candidate update
channel. To give it a trry, use the UBports
Installer… or if you’re already using 20.04 Devel,
change channels as normal.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue
767⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_767⠀⇛
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 767
for the week of December 18 – 24, 2022.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Lichee_Pi_4A_RISC-V_SBC_takes_on_Raspberry
Pi_4_with_TH1520_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Lichee Pi 4A is a single board computer (SBC)
powered by Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core RISC-
V Xuantie C910 processor @ 1.8 GHz with an
Imagination GPU and a 4 TOPS NPU for AI that can
compete against the Raspberry Pi 4 in terms of
performance and features.
We previously mentioned the Lichee Pi 4A (LPi4A) in
our article about the Sipeed LM4A RISC-V system-on-
module, but at the time we only had some benchmarks
for the board and no photos and specifications
about the SBC. Sipeed has now released photos and
more detailed specifications and is taking “pre-
orders”. So let’s have a look.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ India ☛ Oppo_Phones_Will_Get_Four_Android_Updates_From_Next
Year,_Do_Older_Models_Count?⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ All_parents_urged_to_check_Android_phones_right
now_–_don’t_take_the_risk_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_cast_your_Android_screen_to_a_TV_|_Fox_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Open_The_SIM_Card_Slot_On_Your_Android
Phone_Without_The_Ejector_Tool⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ How_to_save_webpages_as_PDF_in_Firefox_for
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ RedMagic_8_Pro_and_Pro_Plus_launch_as
“evolved”_flagship_Android_smartphones_–_NotebookCheck.net
News⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ To_Don’t:_Helps_You_Quit_Bad_Habits⠀⇛
The app is released as an open-source under the Apache
2.0 License.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Firefox_Money:_Investigating_the
bizarre_finances_of_Mozilla⠀⇛
The Lunduke Journal spent some time with
Mozilla’s financial disclosures and came away
with some wild observations — bizarre
expenditures (including to companies that
don’t even seem to exist) and political
organizations with no relationship to
Mozilla’s core business.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ C++_Cmath_Library⠀⇛
To make Mathematical problems stress-free for the
programmer, C++ offers a library that contains all
the functionalities we use in our routine to solve
mathematical problems. The ‘cmath’ library contains
logarithmic, exponential, hyperbolic, power,
trigonometric, and many more.
# ⚓ Create_Texts_with_a_Markov_Chain_Text_Generator…_and_what
this_has_to_do_with_ChatGPT!_–_Learning_Machines⠀⇛
I will share a secret with you: at the core of the
latest craze, Large Language Models (LLMs), like
GPT3, its brother ChatGPT, from OpenAI or PaLM from
Google, lies a (sophisticated) function for
predicting the next best word, phrase or sentence
based on statistics! You will say, no way!?!
First, try an experiment with your smartphone:
start some messenger or social media app and begin
typing. Then tap on the suggested word in the
middle above your keyboard on the display. Continue
tapping and see how a sentence forms. This sentence
is also based on statistics which word normally
follows which other word, probably refined by your
using your phone.
Not impressed yet, then consider the following
simple algorithm, called a Markov chain algorithm.
We won’t go into the mathematical details of why it
is called that but just take it as a simple way to
create texts based on simple statistics.
# ⚓ What_is_survival_analysis?_Examples_by_hand_and_in_R_–
Stats_and_R⠀⇛
For the last post of the year, I would like to
present a rather unknown (yet important)
statistical method–survival analysis.
Although survival analysis is a branch of
statistics, it is usually not covered in
introductory statistics courses and it is rather
unknown to the general public. It is mostly taught
in biostatistics courses or advanced statistics
study programs.
In this article, I will explain what is survival
analysis, in which context and how it is used. I
will explain the main tools and methods used by
biostatisticians to analyze survival data and how
to estimate and interpret survival curves.
# ⚓ Computing_Win-Probability_of_T20_matches_–_Giga_thoughts⠀⇛
I am late to the ‘Win probability’ computation for
T20 matches, but managed to jump on to this bus
with this post. Win Probability analysis and
computation have been around for some time and are
used in baseball, NFL, soccer hockey and others. On
T20 cricket, the following posts from White Ball
Analytics & Sports Data Science were good pointers
to the general approach. The data for the Win
Probability computation is taken from Cricsheet.
# ⚓ Any_Time_At_All:_tweet_frequency_around_the_clock_–
quantixed⠀⇛
Please consider this a “supplementary analysis” to
my previous post looking at the frequency of tweets
from my personal account over the last 12 years.
I was curious about what times I was active on
Twitter (measured by when I tweeted). Others might
be interested in a solution to look at this in R.
# ⚓ Twitcher_II:_tweet_frequency_and_top_tweets_–_quantixed⠀⇛
To generate these plots, it was a case of loading
in the data (as described previously). I am
analysing data from @clathrin and not from my
quantixed Twitter account.
# ⚓ AAAS ☛ AI_learns_to_write_computer_code_in_‘stunning’
advance_|_Science_|_AAAS⠀⇛
A new artificial intelligence (AI) system called
AlphaCode is bringing humanity one step closer to
that vision, according to a new study. Researchers
say the system—from the research lab DeepMind, a
subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s parent
company)—might one day assist experienced coders,
but probably cannot replace them.
“It’s very impressive, the performance they’re able
to achieve on some pretty challenging problems,”
says Armando Solar-Lezama, head of the computer
assisted programming group at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 5_Upcoming_Code_Editors_that_May_Challenge_the
Supremacy_of_Visual_Studio_Code [Ed: Loaded and misleading
headline. Microsoft's proprietary spyware has no "supremacy",
just hype from the likes of Sourav Rudra, a Microsoft
apologist and habitual booster. Number 1 and 2 in this list
are also Microsoft (or Microsoft-controlled forks), so a site
called "It's FOSS" basically promotes several Microsoft
things as 'alternatives' to Microsoft. Ankush Das and Abishek
need to give Sourav Rudra the boot already.]⠀⇛
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.52_Antonovmas_–_Rakudo_Weekly_News⠀⇛
Anton Antonov was on a roll this week.
Videos, blogs, and fun with Raku in these
festive times.
[...]
A very quiet week, apart from the many blog
posts, videos, new and updated modules :-).
The nights are getting shorter again. Good
news for many people in Ukraine who have no
heating or water or electricity, and who are
still fighting the Russian aggression.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python:_Append_to_File_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
In Python, you can use the open() function to
open a file in append mode, which allows you
to add new content to the end of an existing
file. Appending to a file is useful when you
want to add additional information to a file
without modifying or deleting the file’s
original content.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python:_Write_to_File_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
Writing to a file in Python is a common
operation that allows you to store data in a
file for later use. Whether you are working
with a simple text file or a more complex
binary file, Python provides a number of ways
to write data to a file.
# § Shell⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Creating_Bash_Infinite_Loop_by_Example
Scripts⠀⇛
Every loop has a finite lifespan and
depending on the loop, it ends when the
condition is either true or false. The bash
infinite loop is simply a series of
instructions that loops indefinitely. It has
no ending condition, a condition that is
never met, or a condition that stimulates a
new iteration of the loop. The bash infinite
loop can be created with the for, while, and
until loops. With just a little modification
to the infinite loop conventional syntax, we
can implement the bash infinite loop scripts.
Here, we are required to create a loop that
executes the commands continuously until it
is forcibly stopped from outside the program.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ A_Shell_Script_to_Check_Disk_Space_and
Send_Alert_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
It is important to monitor the disk space on
a Linux server to ensure that there is enough
free space available for new files and
applications. If the disk becomes full, it
can cause issues such as system crashes, data
loss, and other problems. To prevent these
issues, you can use a shell script to monitor
the disk space and send an alert when the
available space falls below a certain
threshold.
In this article, we will walk through the
process of creating a shell script that
monitors the disk space and sends an alert
when the available space falls below a
certain threshold. We will use the df command
to check the available disk space and the
mail command to send the alert.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ So,_this_is_Christmas?_–_Terence_Eden’s_Blog⠀⇛
The Church of England publishes statistics about the
numbers of its faithful. These are particularly
interesting in light of the recent news that the UK no-
longer has a Christian majority.
The CofE’s statistics are for 2019 – before COVID messed
up everything – and I think offer a fascinating glimpse
into its future.
[....]
The good news is fewer funerals. The bad news is fewer
baptisms. In the intervening 5 years, the Church went
from losing 16,000 members per year to now losing 25,000
members per year.
Now, not everyone who enters the Church does so via
baptism. And not all of those that do will become a
worshipper. Similarly, not every CofE funeral is
conducted on behalf of a worshipper, and not every
worshipper will want a religious funeral. But those are
the numbers we have to work with. So let’s take them as
gospel.
So how many people does the CofE count as worshippers?
There are many ways to count that.
o ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ My_Writing_Cycle⠀⇛
I think a lot of internet writers go through a stage
where they focus more on refining their workflow than
they do than actually writing. What I’ve noticed is that
for me, this can be represented as a sine wave. In that I
go through phases of really wanting to nail a perfect
workflow for every situation, then periods of time where
I just don’t care about how I write, I just get on with
putting words somewhere and then publishing it to my
blog.
Right now, I’m at a stage where I feel like I can write a
blog post in any application that can handle plain text.
In the past few weeks, that’s mainly been Obsidian, but
I’ve also used TextEdit recently, and even the Ghost web
interface for my blog.
o ⚓ Russell Graves ☛ New_Years_Resolutions_2023:_Radical_reduction_in
consumer_tech_use⠀⇛
Well, 2022 is coming to an end, and (rather ahead of
schedule for me), that means I’m putting together some
new years resolutions. This year, they’re a bit more
interesting than the usual, because they consist largely
of, “To the extent that I am reasonably able, opt out of
consumer tech culture.” That includes a range of things,
and I’ll go over them here, with the goal that at least
some people might be inspired to join me in tilting at
these particular windmills, and reducing some of the data
collected, aggregated, and used against them in 2023.
[...]
For a while now, I’ve generally tried to restrict my
internet use during Lent – it’s been a good time to back
off, take some time, and just pull the crap out. Coming
back, I tend to use the internet less, having separated
from the draw of the various forums and social media-ish
things (what little shadow of that I use) – but I’ve
found that, with time, my use starts creeping back up to
where it was before. I’ll respond to a forum thread,
check back in more frequently for updates, and after a
few months of that cycle, I’m back to something
resembling a regular posting schedule. Unfortunately, the
change isn’t lasting – and I’ve tried this experiment
enough that I know the pattern I’ll slip back into. It’s
less than it used to be, but… still. I don’t like that.
So, at this point in time, after quite a bit of
evaluation, I’ve decided that I simply need to stop
engaging so much – I want to “put the internet back in a
box,” which I’ll discuss in more detail a bit later.
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Book_Review:_Reality_Is_Broken_–_Why_Games_Make_Us
Better_and_How_They_Can_Change_the_World_by_Jane_McGonigal_–
Terence_Eden’s_Blog⠀⇛
I have never felt less like a human being than while
reading this book. I don’t mind video-games, I find them
mildly diverting. I’ve never gotten in to massively
multiplayer online games (unless you count Twitter). I
just don’t see what’s appealing about them. Why would I
want a bunch of teenagers screaming racial slurs at me
when I’m trying to relax?
[...]
A new religion. Humans seem hardwired to want to take
part in epic stories. To feel like we’re part of history.
That our names will be sung about in the future. That we
will be heroic. Well… some humans.
Some of us want to try the occasional novel experience,
pretend to be a superhero for a few minutes, and
experience an artificially generated dopamine bump.
This is a good book. But I am the wrong audience for it.
It explains a part of the world that I just don’t see and
– if I’m honest – distrust. I would love to live in a
world where we could harness gaming for good. But I fear
the consequences of misdirecting that energy.
o ⚓ MWL ☛ The_complete_Montague_Portal_on_sale_for_$5.85_at_Amazon_–
Michael_W_Lucas⠀⇛
Seriously. You can cost Amazon money by buying one of my
books.
o ⚓ Barry Hess ☛ Silly_Customer_Service_::_Barry_Hess_::_bjhess.com⠀⇛
If you follow me on socials, you might know that I’m
working on an idea for making a page online that shows
the various things one consumes over time. The starting
point is using a Stable Internet Technology™ called RSS
to provide the feed of data. Services like Album Whale,
Letterboxd, and Goodreads all offer an RSS feed because
it provides a way for people to track various web things
on their own time using services like Feedly or Feedbin.
RSS is a bit of an old timer in web world. It was the
pipeline for keeping up with things in the 2000s, but has
fallen out of fashion with the rise of walled gardens
like Twitter and Facebook. In case you haven’t noticed,
there is a not-insignificant amount of pushback against
these megacorps. While I don’t think they’re going to
crash and burn, it does appear that in the future there
will be a large share of the market that prefers to tend
their online gardens with classic, open technologies.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ A_huge_satellite_just_launched_–_astronomers_are_worried⠀⇛
Called BlueWalker 3, it’s a prototype by American
company AST SpaceMobile, which is to create a
space-based mobile broadband network. This is only
one of multiple satellites planned for the
SpaceMobile constellation – some even bigger than
BlueWalker 3.
“The reason why our satellite is large is because
in order to communicate with a low-power, low
internal strength phone, you just need a large
antenna on one side with a lot of power, and so
that’s a critical part of our infrastructure,” AST
SpaceMobile Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski
told Space.com.
“We think that’s really important for communicating
directly with regular handsets, with no change to
the handset, with no extra burdens on the user.”
# ⚓ NIST ☛ NIST_Drafts_Revised_Guidelines_for_Digital
Identification_in_Federal_Systems_|_NIST⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has
drafted updated guidelines to help the nation
combat fraud and cybercrime while fostering equity
and preserving fundamental human rights. The
guidelines support risk-informed management of
people’s personas online — their “digital
identities” — often required to engage in everyday
digital transactions from banking to ordering
groceries.
“These guidelines are intended to help
organizations manage risks related to digital
identity and get the right services to the right
people while preventing fraud, preserving privacy,
fostering equity and delivering high-quality,
usable services to all,” said Under Secretary of
Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST
Director Laurie E. Locascio. “We are actively
seeking feedback not only from technical
specialists, but also from advocacy and community
engagement groups that have insight into the
potential impacts these technologies can have on
members of underserved communities and marginalized
groups.”
# ⚓ New_Process_Allows_3-D_Printing_of_Microscale_Metallic
Parts_|_www.caltech.edu⠀⇛
Engineers at Caltech have developed a method for 3-
D printing pure and multicomponent metals, at a
resolution that is, in some cases, an order of
magnitude smaller than previously possible. The
process, which uses water-based chemistry and 3-
D printing, was described in a paper published in
Nature on October 20.
# ⚓ Scientists_Apply_a_Novel_Machine_Learning_Method_to_Help
Diagnose_Deadly_Respiratory_Illness⠀⇛
An international team of scientists led by UC San
Diego electrical and computer engineering professor
Pengtao Xie has developed a new algorithm that
shows promise in improving the detection of
pneumonia from chest x-rays. The new approach
includes a two-way confirmation system that could
be used as a way to complement the work and
expertise of physicians in ways that minimize both
human and computer error.
# ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ The_Other_Side_Of_Physics_
(TEDxNewcastle)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ How_Chaos_Control_is_Changing_The
World⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ How_Does_Quantum_Uncertainty_Work?⠀⇛
# ⚓ IEEE ☛ New_AI_Speeds_Computer_Graphics_by_Up_to_5x⠀⇛
On 20 September, Nvidia’s vice president of applied
deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, went to Twitter
with a bold claim: In certain GPU-heavy games, like
the classic first-person platformer Portal, seven
out of eight pixels on the screen are generated by
a new machine-learning algorithm. That’s enough, he
said, to accelerate rendering by up to 5 times.
This impressive feat is currently limited to a few
dozen 3D games, but it’s a hint at the gains that
neural rendering will soon deliver. The technique
will unlock new potential in everyday consumer
electronics.
# ⚓ The_Generative_AI_Revolution_in_Games⠀⇛
What’s transformative about this work is not just
that it saves time and money while also delivering
quality – thus smashing the classic “you can only
have two of cost, quality, or speed” triangle.
Artists are now creating high-quality images in a
matter of hours that would otherwise take weeks to
generate by hand.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ An_algorithm_can_use_WiFi_signal_changes_to_help
identify_breathing_issues⠀⇛
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) researchers have developed a way to monitor
breathing based on tiny changes in WiFi signals.
They say their BreatheSmart deep-learning algorithm
could help detect if someone in the household is
having breathing issues.
WiFi signals are almost ubiquitous. They bounce off
of and pass through surfaces as they try to link
devices with routers. But any movement will alter
the signal’s path, including how the body moves as
we breathe, which can change if we have any issues.
For instance, your chest will move differently if
you’re coughing.
Other researchers have explored the use of WiFi
signals to detect people and movements, but their
approaches required dedicated sensing devices and
their studies provided limited data. A few years
ago, a company called Origin Wireless developed an
algorithm that works with a WiFi mesh network.
Similarly, NIST says BreatheSmart works with
routers and devices that are already available on
the market. It only requires a single router and
connected device.
# ⚓ Flying_Snakes_Help_Scientists_Design_New_Robots_–_AIP
Publishing_LLC⠀⇛
Robots have been designed to move in ways that
mimic animal movements, such as walking and
swimming. Scientists are now considering how to
design robots that mimic the gliding motion
exhibited by flying snakes.
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing,
researchers from the University of Virginia and
Virginia Tech explored the lift production
mechanism of flying snakes, which undulate side-to-
side as they move from the tops of trees to the
ground to escape predators or to move around
quickly and efficiently. The undulation allows
snakes to glide for long distances, as much as 25
meters from a 15-meter tower.
# ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Engineers_improve_electrochemical_sensing_by
incorporating_machine_learning⠀⇛
Combining machine learning with multimodal
electrochemical sensing can significantly improve
the analytical performance of biosensors, according
to new findings from a Penn State research team.
These improvements may benefit noninvasive health
monitoring, such as testing that involves saliva or
sweat. The findings were published this month in
Analytica Chimica Acta.
# ⚓ IEEE ☛ Robot_Learns_Human_Trick_for_Not_Falling_Over_–_IEEE
Spectrum⠀⇛
Humanoid robots are a lot more capable than they
used to be, but for most of them, falling over is
still borderline catastrophic. Understandably, the
focus has been on getting humanoid robots to
succeed at things as opposed to getting robots to
tolerate (or recover from) failing at things, but
sometimes, failure is inevitable because stuff
happens that’s outside your control. Earthquakes,
accidentally clumsy grad students, tornadoes,
deliberately malicious grad students—the list goes
on.
When humans lose their balance, the go-to strategy
is a highly effective one: Use whatever happens to
be nearby to keep from falling over. While for
humans this approach is instinctive, it’s a hard
problem for robots, involving perception, semantic
understanding, motion planning, and careful force
control, all executed under aggressive time
constraints. In a paper published earlier this year
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,
researchers at Inria in France show some early work
getting a TALOS humanoid robot to use a nearby wall
to successfully keep itself from taking a tumble.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Popular Science ☛ Quantum_computing_used_to_design_heat-
blocking_glass_|_Popular_Science⠀⇛
Two researchers at the University of Notre Dame in
collaboration with South Korea’s Kyung Hee
University recently utilized quantum computing to
help develop a new transparent window coating
capable of blocking solar heat. In findings
published in ACS Energy Levels, Tengfei Luo, Notre
Dame’s Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies,
and postdoctoral associate, Seongmin Kim, worked
together to devise their transparent radiative
cooler (TRC) layer, which only permits external
visible light that doesn’t raise indoor
temperatures, thus cutting buildings’ cooling costs
by as much as a third of current rates. According
to the International Energy Agency, air
conditioning and electric fans comprise 20 percent
of buildings’ energy costs around the world—roughly
10 percent of human electricity consumption.
To determine the absolute best materials
configuration, the team relied on machine learning
and the promising field of quantum computing for a
solution. Although in its relatively early phases
of development, quantum computing offers immense
potential due to its ability to far surpass
traditional computing methods. Currently, even the
most advanced of classical supercomputers rely on a
binary state—representing information as 1’s and
0’s—to do all their calculations, meaning that
there are limits to what they can and can’t
achieve. Quantum computing, in contrast, can
represent information as either 1, 0, or a
combination of the two. This hypothetically gives
scientists a massive advantage in numerous fields,
such as natural science simulations and nuclear
fusion research.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Foundation’s_AgStack_Project_will_build_dataset_of
field_boundaries_–_GPS_World_:_GPS_World⠀⇛
On Dec. 20, the Linux Foundation announced its
AgStack Project, which will host an open-source
code base, along with a fully automated, continuous
computation engine that will maintain a global
dataset of boundaries for agricultural fields. The
AgStack Asset Registry dataset will aid food
traceability, carbon tracking, crop production, and
other field-level analytics.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Why_don’t_people_just…?_:_Dissociated
Press⠀⇛
Bit of a rant here, so be warned…
Caught two threads today with the general gist of
“why don’t people just…” –specifically, why haven’t
people learned from Twitter or just sucked it up
and started using 2FA, no matter what level of
computer literacy they might be at.
Why don’t open source projects just stand up
Mattermost instead of Discord? Why haven’t users
finally learned and started adopting 2FA?
In the first instance, I think people just imagine
standing up a service and don’t think about the
long-term implications of offering a service like
Mattermost for a project. There’s a ton of work,
and potentially a fair amount of money, involved in
offering up a service that’s going to be used by a
lot of users 24/7.
There’s the scaling. There’s the need to apply
security fixes whenever they may arise. Not just
the service like Mattermost, but all its
dependencies, the operating system, the database…
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Old:_White_House_announces_100-day_cyber
sprint_for_chemical_sector⠀⇛
The chemical industry is the next sector to take up
President Biden’s 100-day cybersecurity sprint, the
administration announced Wednesday, an effort
designed to sharpen operators’ focus on the most
significant risks from a digital attack such as gas
leaks and other contaminations.
The sprint also aims to improve information sharing
and “analytical coordination” between the public
and private sector and encourage chemical
manufacturers to deploy threat detection on control
systems.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ Lower_email_spoofing_incidents_(and_make_your
marketing_team_happy)_with_BIMI_–_NVISO_Labs [Ed: When the
media says "marketing team" it typically means obnoxious
spammers who fill up mail boxes of people who just try to
report actual news and analyse facts]⠀⇛
Over the last couple of years, we saw the amount of
phishing attacks skyrocket. According to F5, a
multi-cloud security and application provider,
there was a 220% increase of incidents during the
height of the global pandemic compared to the
yearly average. It’s expected that every year there
will be an additional increase of 15% in phishing
attempts, making it one of the most threatening
security risks for a company’s IT department.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ The_Key_Role_of_the_Service_Delivery_Manager
at_NVISO’s_Managed_Detect_&_Respond_Service [Ed: Selling
proprietary snake oil?]⠀⇛
The Service Delivery Manager (SDM) plays a key role
in the delivery of our NVISO cybersecurity NITRO
Managed Detect & Respond (MDR) services. As the
main point of contact, we represent the client at
NVISO and represent NVISO at the client. During the
operational lifecycle of a contract, my fellow SDMs
and I are responsible for the quality of the
cybersecurity services delivered and we ensure an
efficient relationship and coordination between the
customer and the various NVISO internal departments
engaged in the delivery of these services.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ The_Beauty_of_Being_a_Cybersecurity_Project
Manager_for_NVISO_NITRO_MDR_–_NVISO_Labs⠀⇛
Cybersecurity is a dynamic and evolving sector, and
we, cybersecurity Project Managers, have the
privilege of being right at the centre of the
action. We make projects come to life, and seeing
the satisfaction of the clients for the results
provided and the fulfilment of the colleagues for
the great work done is what makes our job so worth
it.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Who’s_Watching_|_Marina_Manoukian⠀⇛
The evolution of the right to privacy
[...]
Long before TikToking on the iPhone 14 Pro
Max, there was the Kodak Camera, first
unveiled in 1888, which made a previously
expensive and cumbersome venture
comparatively accessible to the masses. By
1896, over one hundred thousand had been
sold, and those who couldn’t put them down
were dubbed “Kodakers.” Advertisements
likened photography to hunting, and men were
often shown taking “shots” of women
unbeknownst to them. The New York Times
observed in 1889 that “if the young lady
refuses he will perhaps strive to get her
picture when she is not on guard just out of
spite.” Photographs of random people were
sold everywhere and even given away for free
in packs of cigarettes. “Many people felt a
profound sense of exposure and violation upon
being photographed, or upon finding their
photographs displayed and sold in photo
shops, or used in advertisements, without
their consent,” writes Robert E. Mensel in
“Kodakers Lying in Wait.”
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ BBC ☛ UK_apology_sought_for_British_war_crimes_in_Palestine
–_BBC_News⠀⇛
The people of al-Bassa got their lesson in imperial
brutality when the British soldiers came after
dawn.
Machine guns mounted on Rolls Royce armoured cars
opened fire on the Palestinian village before the
Royal Ulster Rifles arrived with flaming torches
and burned homes to the ground.
Villagers were rounded up while troops later herded
men onto a bus and forced them to drive over a
landmine which blew up, killing everyone on board.
A British policeman photographed the scene as women
tended to the remains of their dead, before maimed
body parts were buried in a pit.
It was the autumn of 1938 and UK forces were facing
a rebellion in Palestine, under British control
after the defeat two decades earlier of the Ottoman
Empire.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Mars_has_enough_wind_to_power_bases
near_the_poles_all_year_round_|_New_Scientist⠀⇛
Wind turbines on Mars could theoretically
provide enough energy for scientists to
safely explore outer regions of the planet
during crewed missions.
Solar energy might be sufficient for
investigating Mars near the equator, but to
live nearer the poles all year round, other
power sources are needed. In combination with
solar power, well-placed wind turbines could
supply enough energy for a group of six
people to live and work on Mars all year
round, without the radiation risks associated
with nuclear energy, says Victoria Hartwick
at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain
View, California.
“It’s really exciting that by combining
potential wind power with other sources of
energy, we open up large parts of the planet
to exploration and to these really
scientifically interesting zones that the
[scientific] community may have previously
discredited because of energy requirements,”
she says.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old]_Where_Elma_becomes_Selma⠀⇛
Adivasis from Chhattisgarh who have for long
migrated to Andhra Pradesh are now returning. But
many stay back too, despite poor amenities and an
officialdom that misspells their names – because
they feel safe
# ⚓ Gregory Hammond ☛ Why_points_doesn’t_equal_to_saved_money⠀⇛
With everyone looking to save money, there are many
people promoting about collecting points (either
through a store or credit card). While this sounds
great, collecting these points don’t actually equal
to saving money, and there are a number of things
you should look into before and while doing this.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Mass_pub_closures_hit_England_and
Wales_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
More than 32 pubs disappeared from communities in
England and Wales each month in 2022 as rocketing
energy bills and staffing pressures forced
businesses to shut for the final time.
New analysis of official government data by real
estate adviser Altus group found the overall number
of pubs slid by 386 during the year.
The total number of pubs in England and Wales,
including those vacant and being offered to let,
fell to 39,787 in December compared with 40,173 at
the same time last year.
# ⚓ [Old]_The_Deeper_Malaise_Behind_Rupee’s_Free_Fall_|
NewsClick⠀⇛
The fact that forex reserves left with RBI to
defend the rupee have been declining only
strengthen expectations of a further fall, and
entails an even greater assault on working wages.
# ⚓ What_Does_the_Fed’s_Jerome_Powell_Have_Up_His_Sleeve?_|_WEB
OF_DEBT_BLOG⠀⇛
The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation,
the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy? “There is
no sense that inflation is coming down,” said
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a
November 2 press conference, — this despite eight
months of aggressive interest rate hikes and
“quantitative tightening.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Mother Jones ☛ [Old]_How_Wisconsin_Became_the_GOP’s
Laboratory_for_Dismantling_Democracy_–_Mother_Jones⠀⇛
ice in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping
plaza next to a dentist and an acupuncturist,
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scans the brightly
colored maps that hang on the walls. They depict
the tortuously shaped legislative districts drawn
in a state now regarded as one of the most
gerrymandered in the nation. “Who in their right
minds could’ve made them up?” Evers asks.
The answer: Republicans in the state legislature.
Evers saw firsthand the impact of GOP control of
the redistricting process when he ran for governor
in 2018. That year, Democrats swept all five
statewide races and won 53 percent of votes cast
for the state assembly, but the party retained just
36 percent of seats in the chamber. “It’s real
simple,” Evers says, after eating a Five Guys
burger for lunch. “All the statewide elected
officials are Democrats… But then you go into the
legislature and it’s almost two-thirds Republicans.
There’s something wrong with that picture.”
# ⚓ Crucifying_Haiti⠀⇛
Foreign interventions have plagued Haiti since the
mid-19th century. Virtually every world power
indulged in coercive “gunboat diplomacy” to meddle
in Haitian domestic affairs. Christopher Young
amply demonstrates that France, Britain, the United
States, Canada, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Norway
sent warships to bully Port-au-Prince into
submission on multiple occasions throughout the
late 1800s. Washington, Paris, and especially
Berlin could hardly conceal their disdain for an
independent and black-majority nation.
# ⚓ Israel_and_the_Rise_of_Jewish_Fascism⠀⇛
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s
apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head
that portends the obliteration of the few
restraints against killing Palestinians.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Freedom_of_reach_IS_freedom_of_speech⠀⇛
The platforms treat your unambiguous request to
receive messages from others as mere suggestions, a
“signal” to be mixed into other signals in the
content moderation algorithm that orders your feed,
mixing in items from strangers whose material you
never asked to see.
There’s nothing wrong in principle with the idea of
a system that recommends items from strangers.
Indeed, that’s a great way to find people to
follow! But “stuff we think you’ll like” is not the
same category as “stuff you’ve asked to see.”
Why do companies balk at showing you what you’ve
asked to be shown? Sometimes it’s because they’re
trying to be helpful. Maybe their research, or the
inferences from their user surveillance, suggests
that you actually prefer it that way.
# ⚓ uni Cornell ☛ Trust_in_online_content_moderation_depends_on
moderator_|_Cornell_Chronicle⠀⇛
More than 40% of U.S. adults have experienced some
form of online harassment, according to Pew
Research surveys, highlighting the need for content
moderation on social media, which helps prevent and
remove offensive or threatening messages.
But who – or what – are the moderators policing the
cyber landscape? And can they be trusted to act as
gatekeepers for safe content?
An interdisciplinary collaboration with Marie
Ozanne, assistant professor of food and beverage
management at the Peter and Stephanie Nolan School
of Hotel Administration, in the Cornell SC Johnson
College of Business, found that both the type of
moderator – human or AI – and the “temperature” of
the harassing content influenced people’s
perception of the moderation decision and the
moderation system.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Caitlin Johnstone ☛ The_Biggest_Obstacle_To_Real_Freedom_Is
The_Belief_That_We_Already_Have It_–_Caitlin_Johnstone⠀⇛
If you live in one of the so-called free
democracies of the western world, the worst mistake
you can make is to buy into the hype. To believe
you are a free individual in a nation that respects
and protects your freedom and individuality.
Whenever I broach this subject I always get a
deluge of objections along the lines of, “Well I’d
much rather live where I live than under an
authoritarian regime like in Iran or China! You
would never be allowed to criticize your rulers the
way you do if you lived in one of those places!”
And I always want to ask them, what do you think
drove you to make that objection? Why are you
falling all over yourself to defend your country
and the people who rule over you, while condemning
foreign countries that your own government happens
to dislike? Could it be because that’s how you’ve
been trained to behave from a young and
impressionable age, and that your objection is
arising from the same place as a cult member’s
objections to criticisms of their cult?
Because that’s ultimately what holds power
structures together in the US-aligned nations of
the global north: indoctrination. The same thing
used to program religious extremists and cult
members. The only difference is that rather than
scripture and religious leaders, the means of
indoctrination is school, mainstream media, and
Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation.
# ⚓ Ideas,_Including_Foolish_Ones,_Have_Consequences_–_FPIF⠀⇛
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion?
Well, they may start from that, but humans that
they are, some of them try to rationalize their
hates and fears into theories that, though detached
from reality, literally provide the ammunition that
enables their followers to wreak havoc, like the
guy did who descended on a store frequented by
Black people in Buffalo several months ago in order
to kill as many African-Americans as possible.
Matthew Rose’s A World After Liberalism (Yale
University, 2021) brings together and critically
analyzes the thoughts of people that most of us
probably have not heard of but are worshiped in far
right networks around the world. Rose says we
better listen to what these guys are saying, even
if we find them utterly distasteful, because their
ideas have consequences.
Steve Bannon, the incendiary Trump adviser, may be
the best known activist of the international far
right, but he has derived inspiration from
otherwise little known figures on the fringes of
history, underlining the wisdom in Keynes’ well-
known observation: “Madmen in authority, who hear
voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from
some academic scribbler of a few years back.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Vint_Cerf_Helped_Create_the
Internet_on_the_Back_of_an_Envelope⠀⇛
Much has changed in the world of cyberspace since
Jan. 1, 1983, the date often called “the birthday
of the internet.” Yet the internet’s fundamental
architecture—the communications protocol that
allows computer networks all over the world to talk
to each other—remains essentially the same. This is
largely thanks to a design that Vint Cerf sketched
on the back of an envelope while holed up with
fellow computer scientist Robert Kahn in a Palo
Alto cabana nearly 50 years ago.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Oligopoly_Unchecked_|_Michael_Hudson⠀⇛
Well, I grew up in a Marxist household. My father
was a political prisoner, one of the Minneapolis
17.1 Minneapolis was the only city in the world
that was a Trotskyist city, and my parents worked
with Trotsky in Mexico. So, I grew up not having
any intention of going into economics. I wanted to
be a musician, and when I was 21, I began writing a
history of the connection between music, art, drama
theory, and the Renaissance in the 19th century.
But then I went to New York and went to work on
Wall Street just to get a job. I met the translator
of Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value, Terence
McCarthy, who convinced me that economics was more
interesting than anything else that was happening.
He became my mentor, I took a PhD in economics, and
that’s it.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Getting_Back_into_Final_Fantasy_XIV⠀⇛
It’s probably no small surprise that I enjoy
MMORPGs seeing as they’ve taken up a
disproportionally large amount of discussion
related to video games on this capsule. Depending
on the game, they can have a pretty decent mix of
exploration, story, bopping things in dungeons,
enjoyable things to do that don’t involve dungeons,
and if we’re really lucky it might even have a very
nice / kind community. Of all the games that I’ve
played in the genre, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild
Wars 2, and Final Fantasy XIV have checked the most
boxes on that list. Well, they check all of those
boxes to be honest.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ On_limits_of_Code_and_Data⠀⇛
The history of general-purpose computing has been a
never-stopping expansion of addressable memory
space (and with it, bit-width of registers to
access such memory). It is my conjecture that we’ve
long passed the limits of reasonable.
I will stick to the practical aspects of Harn
implementation — based on much previous experience
implementing 8-, 9-, 12-, 16-, 18-, 24-, 32- and
64-bit systems. When I say experience, I mean
actual nose-to-the-ground coding in assembly, not
setting a flag on some compiler and changing some
#defines… (not that there is anything wrong with
that…)
# ⚓ GmCapsule:_Extensible_Gemini/Titan_Server⠀⇛
I’ve been relying on Agate since the beginning, but
now I increasingly want to serve dynamic content
and handle more advanced requests, so it was time
to upgrade instead of running little ad-hoc servers
on side ports.
# ⚓ It’s_not_a_“security_hole,”_it’s_a_“privacy_hole”_and_I
don’t_think_it’s_anything_to_worry_about⠀⇛
> Imagine a scenario where Big Tech does a massive
marketing campaign in an attempt to mainstream the
protocol. As part of their marketing, they could
try to sell the idea of a Big Proprietary browser,
or even add Gemini support directly into their
existing web browser. Then they start a
disinformation campaign to demonize the wide range
of existing clients. Normies, naturally, would buy
that without question, as they do. At that point,
Big Tech could simply have their browser
automatically generate a client certificate for
every user and attach it to every request.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Tarai⠀⇛
The tarai function recently came to my
attention; the context was music composition,
or the art of creating hopefully neither
boring nor terrible sounds from the emissions
of some algorithm.
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