𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, August 12, 2023
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Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/12/
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⦿ Techrights: Best Viewed in Gemini | Techrights
⦿ An Exciting Year For Us | Techrights
⦿ Libera Chat is a Toxic Troll Farm. Bonus: Code of Conduct Ticket Filed Regarding Fedora Moderator “Khaytsus”. | Techrights
⦿ GeekWire, Home of Longtime Microsoft Propagandists and Source Burners, Admits Taking Money From Microsoft | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 11, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Summer’s Update on Gemini’s Growth and Our Presence in Geminispace | Techrights
⦿ Conde Nasty Rolls Out Updated Reddit and Breaks SeaMonkey Rendering | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Smugly Serving Monopolies | Techrights
⦿ The ’Modern’ Web | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/best-viewed-in-gemini/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/exciting-2023/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/fedora-and-code-of-conduct/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/geekwire-microsoft-money/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/irc-log-110823/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/on-our-presence-in-geminispace/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/reddit-breaks-seamonkey-rendering/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/smugly-serving-monopolies/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/the-modern-web/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/discovering-the-psp-in-2023/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/fedora-has-staff-shortage/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/firefox-116-on-power/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/more-microsoft-security-breaches/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/12/tui-and-ibm-lenovo/#comments
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Posted in Protocol, Site_News at 3:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇A_gemini_meme⦈_
Summary: After several iterations and improvements we believe that Techrights
followers can leverage_Gemini without losing anything except perhaps images
(though there are detailed textual descriptions of the images)
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✐ An_Exciting_Year_For_Us⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 5:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Plans and Status Updates
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/techrights-status-2023-plans.webm
Summary: We’ve decided to do a quick video in which I explain what we’re
planning to cover this year; we’ve devoted a lot of energy to researching/
covering Microsoft’s many waves of mass layoffs and there’s also a breakthrough
in our investigation of Sirius_‘Open_Source’, plus escalation regarding
criminal_activities
LAST month we smashed our all-time_record_for_number_of_blog_posts_per_month
and we’re nowadays juggling with or entertaining many topics, themes, and
protocols (the Web is one of several). Last month we wrote_a_lot_about
Microsoft_layoffs (it was mayhem over there and it's_certainly_not_over).
We’ve not been covering the EPO much so far this month, as instead we’re
focusing on a number of other emergent topics. The video above explains what
we’ve been up to and what’s coming next. █
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Regarding_Fedora_Moderator_“Khaytsus”.⠀✐
Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Red_Hat at 3:49 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer
Libera Chat Is a Toxic Troll Farm Full of Corrupt Moderators That Don’t Apply
Their Own Code of Conduct to Each Other.
I think it’s funny that our resident troll on Techrights IRC gave me an
alternative name for Libera.
“Liberia” is the result of a series of coups and civil wars and has had a
history of corruption and problems with rampant illiteracy.
That’s an adequate description of Libera Chat. Freenode wasn’t this bad before
the alleged crown prince (of Korea, or so he says, although I doubt either the
regime of North or South Korea is going to give him a participation trophy
anytime soon).
It’s important to note that toxic individuals operating a troll farm and
excluding themselves from their own Code of Conduct only applies to “Liberia”
Chat. Their ban makes no difference anywhere else even if they could ultimately
enforce it somehow.
That’s one reason why they want to replace IRC with something else. Then they
can forcibly ban you from EVERY room on the service, because it’s all
centralized, even if the room moderators don’t approve.
Authoritarians always want ultimate power and the last say on every decision.
So basically, “Liberia Chat” only has control of their own stinking corrupt
network, and nothing else. If this was Discord, I could lose everything just
because of one jerk, somewhere.
While it’s unfortunate that some people are on “Liberia” Chat and subject to
the whim of some jerk that represents Red Hat and commits online harassment in
their name.
For what it’s worth, I filed a Code of Conduct violation report against
Khaytsus (Walter Francis).
We’ll see if that goes anywhere. MinceR on TechRights said expect total silence
from IBM Red Hat about the online_campaign_of_harassment_and_abuse_committed_by
their_moderator.
The accusations against Khaytsus include:
another individual, including statements such as “Wow man, lay off the
meth,” “Seek help. Serious real medical help,” “Seriously, you need
help,” and “Something has slid off your cracker.”
illness, which could be considered harassment.
committing infractions such as making personal attacks, instigating
conflict, engaging in public harassment, and making exclusionary
statements.
of representing Fedora and Red Hat.
ban (k-line) to conceal their misconduct.
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✐ GeekWire,_Home_of_Longtime_Microsoft_Propagandists_and_Source_Burners,_Admits
Taking_Money_From_Microsoft⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Microsoft at 3:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Todd_Bishop's_Microsoft_money⦈_
Summary: Everywhere Todd_Bishop goes the Microsoft bribes follow (just like his
last employer, which had also amassed Microsoft bribes); this was published
yesterday about their “INDEPENDENT [sic] COVERAGE”
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Friday,_August_11,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 1:04 pm by Needs Sunlight
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✐ Summer’s_Update_on_Gemini’s_Growth_and_Our_Presence_in_Geminispace⠀✐
Posted in Protocol, Site_News at 4:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Gemini is Still Blooming
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-latest-summer-2023.webm
Summary: Gemini Protocol is becoming veryimportant to us; as it turns out, the
same is true for the broader Gemini_community, which continues to grow this
year (the founder of Gemini is also active again and publishes_updates
regularly)
THE video above explains that we’ve not made many articles about Gemini this
year. That’s because Gemini is doing fine and barely needs advocacy (or
awareness campaigns) anymore. It just keeps growing.
Our Gemini capsule has grown to the point where it has nearly 50,000 pages and
in the past week it served about 200,000 pages (in Tux_Machines that’s another
~50,000 this past week). Even if we ever gave up on the Web or the Web went
down in some fiery glory (it_seems_like_SEO/SPAM_“geniuses”_do_a_fine_job
ruining_it_already!) we’d still have incentive to produce a lot of stories. The
next video (after this) will give an ourline on how we’ve leveraged several
other protocols on the Net.
“Gemini is vastly easier than today’s “modern” Web, it’s just more scarcely
known or recognised.”Gopher is still going and some examples are shown in the
video above. Some of our readers are ardent Gemini users and only follow
Techrights over gemini:// (self-hosted from my office), which is great news. We
do everything we can to ensure privacy and uptime (there has been no downtime
for several months already).
We invite more people to join Gemini, either as users or authors. Gemini is
vastly easier than today’s “modern” Web, it’s just more scarcely known or
recognised. █
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Posted in GNU/Linux, OpenSUSE at 3:40 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer
We call them (Conde Nast) “Conde Nasty” at TechRights for a number of reasons.
This includes employing Peter_Bright,_AKA,_DrPizza at Ars Technica (which we
call “Arse Technica”), who posted glowing articles about Microsoft and then was
convicted for trying to rape children (he confessed that he’d done so before to
the undercover cop).
Before he was arrested, DrPizza trolled TechRights and tried to convince Roy
Schestowitz to ban me. Now Pizza/Not-So-Bright is in the federal penitentiary.
Microsoft only affiliates itself with utter monsters, like Not-So-Bright and
Joseph_Cantrell,_the_Nazi who is now up on attempted murder in Washington,
after stabbing a fellow Microsoft employee numerous times, as well as several
rapists (like Jeremy_Soule) and a strangler_(Alex_Graveley).
I had to do the series on Cantrell because the media tried to protect Microsoft
by burying it.
Anyway, Peter Not-So-Bright’s articles are still up and bringing in ad money.
Maybe Conde Nasty even deposits Not-So-Bright’s royalties in his prison
commissary fund so he can get Bubba some lube. They never took it down, they
continue to profit from this monster. They just renamed everything “Ars
Technica Guest Author” or something.
In TechRights, we joke (perhaps somewhat inappropriately, but he’s in prison
where just about most everyone who affiliates with Microsoft should be for some
reason or another in this author’s opinion) about Microsoft Peter.
He told the undercover cop that he wanted to give the children “just the tip”,
so that’s an inside joke now whenever we discuss tipping at a restaurant or
something.
Anyway, Reddit is also owned by Conde Nast(y).
Reddit has a gigantic problem with underage illegal pornography. They don’t
give a shit because they have safe harbor as long as they delete it,
eventually, once they become aware.
Reddit has been caught using nasty_fingerprinting_javascripts_that_even_look
for_security_vulnerabilities_in_Web_browsers. Why? Who knows?
"haha jit go brrrrr"
-Reddit fingerprinting script
But now they’ve gone and done it.
They deployed some new code on their main site that breaks in SeaMonkey.
Look at this shit!
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇New_Reddit⦈_
See what I have to put up with to browse around without the latest Chromeisms
in Firefox?
Fortunately Old Reddit still works, so you replace www with old and hit enter.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Old_Reddit⦈_
Most people think New Reddit is hideous, slow, and annoying anyway.
Someone wrote an extension for Firefox called Old_Reddit_Redirect which also
suppresses the EU cookie nag. (I suppress them in general with ublock-origin.)
It works in Firefox, but not in SeaMonkey.
But if you don’t post there anyway, you can also use libreddit proxies, at
least if you can find one that isn’t rate limited.
I can definitely see why they’re having so many PR problems.
Get an “app”? I assume you mean for an iPhone barf.
Sorry Charlie, this fish ain’t gettin’ hooked.
Anyway, I’m trying to figure out if OpenSUSE is worth migrating to these days
given the IBM behavior, letting Fedora fall apart, letting their moderators
commit hate speech, etc. Red Hat isn’t half the company it used to be.
Then of course I run into garbled Reddit because of course I do. █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⣉⣁⡇
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠀⠀⡇
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Posted in Google, Microsoft, OSI at 5:59 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Misusing_"isms"_to_gaslight_and_censor_critics_of_their_paymasters
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇An_OSI_smile⦈_
Summary: We now live in a so-called ‘tech world’ where even the supposedly
‘open’ groups (e.g. Mozilla, OSI, ISO, Linux_Foundation) primarily exist to
serve monopolies that push proprietary traps; just follow the money and find
they’re funded by their enemies
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⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣮⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⡧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡇⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣾⣿⣧⢴⣤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⡵⣀⣴⣿⣿⢃⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⡗⠝⢸⠛⠕⠷⠁⠟⠿⠺⠀⠘⠙⠛⠇⠇⠸⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠶⠾⠲⣷⠐⠶⠀⠇⠳⠶⡄⢷⠰⠶⡶⠷⠾⠶⠠⠷⠶⢶⠶⠶⠲⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠐⢛⣙⣠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠘⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣟⣻⣿⣟⣛⣛⣛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⣻⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⠛⠿
⣿⣿⣿⣟⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡏⠸⠿⠟⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⢸⠇⠀⢠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡇⣷⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠀⣨⡿⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⢻⠹⠗⣂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠴⠂⣴⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠱⣶⣂⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣽⣿⣿⡅⢰⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿
⡿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢉⣉⣽⣿⣉⣉⣉⠉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣶⣶⣶⣦⣦⣤
⠃⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠈⠉⣿⡇⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⣤⣤⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣅
⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣽⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⢲⣄⣄⡤⢀⣀⡤⣀⣆⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠤⠎⠀⠀⠀⡦⣄⣀⣠⠀⣠⣠⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣠⠀⣀⣀⣀⣴⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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IJust Call It “Diarrhea Code” When I Encounter a Website That Won’t Work in
SeaMonkey.
When you’re not nice to idiots who make “Modern” stuff, like “Diarrhea Code”,
they pretty much just ban you from everything.
It’s “bad” to be opposed to bloated Web sites that stick out a sign saying
you’re not welcome here because they’ve made a mess and it only works in
Firefox and Chromium.
The reason I call code meant for Chromium “Diarrhea Code” is because it reminds
me of what happens to a toilet bowl after you had too much Taco Bell and
Mountain Dew. Stuff goes flying everywhere, it’s nasty, it makes the paint peel
off the walls. It makes the buttons melt off your shirt. And you can’t wait to
get rid of it.
20 years ago people began to push for what the Web is now. Binary blobs that
run untrustworthy applications in your browser, too much JavaScript, HTML files
that are several MB long and impossible to read that call out to this.
And they criticized people like me for writing clean, readable, markup, which
was parsed, displayed, and presented to the user, over dial up modems, in a
matter of seconds.
In 1999, you could right-click on my site and read the entire source code of
the page. You didn’t have to take my word as to what was in there. I couldn’t
have hidden much in there if I wanted to. HTML 3 and 4 were clean and readable
by humans.
People said the situation where browsers would “forgive” slightly bogus tag use
or the occasional typo (which I checked for) was “unacceptable” and now you
have Microsoft Azure pumping_in_stuff_that’s_barely_even_code_when_you_try_to
pay_your_electric_bill_with_ComEd, and Chrome, Firefox, and Edge happily try to
make sense of tens of megabytes of that.
Today in the GNOME room I was somewhat horrified to learn that you can make a
Firefox .desktop that can handle mailto: with a Webmail “provider”.
I responded,
Webmail *barf*
They all have different interfaces. Piles of JavaScript, their spam
filtering is not uniformly effective, and they almost always have ads
and tracking scripts, or at least whitespace where the ads are
supposed to go. Consider SeaMonkey Mail.
Now if you do load Outlook in Firefox, it tries to register itself to
handle mailto: *rolls eyes* with a banner that pops up. Also, I have
to lie to Google about my SeaMonkey UA with a pref to make it think
I’m Thunderbird, even though the underlying Mail code IS FROM
THUNDERBIRD.
Jamie Zawinski’s “Law of Software Envelopment” said that all programs expand
until they can read email.
Giving mail so some garbage Web browser, which is made to run “Diarrhea Code”
is only about the worst way you could expand something to read email.
Email belongs in a reader that supports POP3 and IMAP. Email should be text-
only.
Sylpheed is a good Email program, but I doubt it could even handle GMail
because of the entire OAuth debacle and needing to load a Web page to handle
that, which sniffs to see if you’re “on the list” of allegedly secure “apps”,
like Thunderbird, which just_rewrote_the_entire_GUI.
Someone_already_wrote_why_WASMs_are_terrible_for_security.
They have introduced an entire unique set of CVEs (listed in the monthly
Mozilla patch updates, WASMs are roughly 10% of the attack footprint of the
entire Firefox browser!) that will never stop, and they’re on by default in Tor
Browser.
If you use a Web browser to handle your mail, eventually what they’re probably
going to do is just rewrite the entire “Web” thing into_a_WASM_blob which is so
much worse than “Diarrhea Code”.
It won’t even be markup and scripts anymore. Just a binary program you can run
it like it is, and none of your extensions (NoScript, ublock-origin, etc.) can
act on the elements as they come in.
WASM is part of the Google trap to destroy the Open Web.
Widevine (Web DRM…I turn it off) and WASM are_the_warm_up_band_for_WEI.
And why wouldn’t you trust some skeevy porn or bittorrent site to send a WASM
your way?
After all, Windows is a very secure operating system because you can just
trust the operating system company that already has 95% of the total malware to
make sure that WASMs can’t do any harm. 😛
And Mozilla can obviously make sure they stay in the “sandbox”. LOL
Even when they do stay in the browser sandbox, they can still do a lot of
damage. They can spy on the user. They can mine crypto.
Crypto Miners that load in Web pages boasted that they were early adopters of
WASM and they could use the victim’s phone or laptop to mine “Monero” at “70%
of the speed of a native program”.
Turn it off.
Security Posers talking about “threat models” and “Secure Boot” in the firmware
are just absolutely laughable in light of all of the new threats the same
people, and the companies that handle them, stuff into everything.
This is worse than ActiveX and Internet Explorer. At least all you had to do to
stay safe from that was find some other browser.
Now all Mozilla does is blind copy things from Google. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Dostoevsky’s_The_Idiot⠀⇛
There’s a little thrift shop not far from my house,
and every once in a while I stop by. This weekend,
they had a few shopping carts full of books just
inside the door, ten for a dollar. I rummaged
through and selected a few for myself and my family
members, then texted a friend about the Warhammer
and military books that were sitting in there.
# ⚓ re:…the_maxim_of_Arkham_(luxferre)⠀⇛
My neighbor has been having issue with his icloud
account recently. He’s an older gentleman, and he
somehow linked up a landline number (which is
really an IP phone) with his icloud account, then
proceeded to lose his password. Now he can’t reset
his password, because they want to verify the
account with a text message to the landline. If you
try to start the process, it bounces you back-and-
forth between his two Apple devices, never getting
anywhere.
# ⚓ Carmina⠀⇛
Listening to Radio BOB! via DAB+. The first work
week is in the books and I’m a bit tired although I
did not manage to do a lot of work, rather I had to
do a lot of support and had plenty of meetings.
Summer made a long-awaited comeback today, it was
slightly over 30 °C on the balcony.
# ⚓ My_best_guess_at_a_climate_solution⠀⇛
No more extracting oil, coal, or gas.
# ⚓ Shoes:_the_unknown_resource⠀⇛
One way to play exploration games like D&D is as a
resource game. Spells, HP, food, water, and light.
But there’s one resource I rarely see other DMs
talk about.
[...]
Now, I don’t think they meant for this to apply in
the dungeon or in cities, but we’ve been playing it
that way and it’s been pretty fun, it makes the
days go by and it make finding a good camp really
important. It’s just something extra to add to your
game if you wanna. If you don’t, that’s fine too!
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ I_converted_a_coworker_to_the_church_of_emacs⠀⇛
It seems i accidentaly converted a coworker to the
church of emacs… well it was a couple of months ago
when she told me how much stuff she does note on
paper and that her desk is cluttered and she is
drowning in too much information. Well… i just
mentioned that there is something called org-mode,
gave her a few links to youtube videos and helped
her set up an emacs with some basic quality of life
settings.
# ⚓ MIDI_pitch_wheel_change⠀⇛
MIDI has a pitch_wheel_change event that may do
things, and the things done may vary by playback
device, which suggests writing some tests scripts
to delve into how this event works.
# ⚓ Discovering_the_PSP_in_2023⠀⇛
My wife and I were going through some of her old
things at her parents’ place and we made some
interesting finds.
She managed to track down her childhood Game Boy
Advance SP along with all its games. A replacement
battery was all it took to get it back up and
running. I think she even managed to finish a
couple of the games she could never beat as a kid.
I thought about ordering a flash cart for it too
but it looks like the good ones that people often
recommend are so expensive that it’d be cheaper to
buy a modern retro handheld and emulate.
# ⚓ Why_I_think_TUI_music_players_don’t_suck⠀⇛
I don’t know why or how he installed it, but the
way I do, I never got into any problems with
whatsoever. It could be the way he tries to install
it, my only guess would be he might build it from
source. Maybe some build dependencies are missing
then? I’ve never had any issues with it on anything
GNU/Linux, whether it is a Fedora, Ubuntu or Arch
Linux. And it is usually just an aptitude install
or pacman -S away.
# ⚓ open_source⠀⇛
yesterday was the day when hashi decided that it
didn’t need the open source community which built
it. hashi has decided to switch from mpl2 to busl.
busl is not open source, it reverts to open source
after 4 years. this is unfortunate, to start, it’s
a security risk.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ One_small_step_for_a_boy⠀⇛
Just wanted to say hi. I think I’m not going
to proxy content from http to gemini and vice
versa, I think it is just not worth it.
Gemini has always been an alternative and not
a replacement, so it makes sense to just put
a link to the web when I feel like.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_12/08/2023:_Microsoft_Under_Fire_for_Massive_Breach,_Fedora_Has_Staff
Shortage⠀✐
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights/Music
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 8_Best_BitTorrent_Clients_for_Linux_in_2023⠀⇛
We recently published an article on the best cloud
torrent service providers for readers who enjoy
operating from the cloud so check it out if you
haven’t.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_rename⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to
rename, software that renames the specified files
by replacing the first occurrence of expression in
their name by replacement.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ BetBlocker_Linux_App_vs._GamStop_Blocker⠀⇛
Among the new tools that allow players to control
their behaviour and adhere to Responsible Gambling
rules are BetBlocker for Linux users and GamStop.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_date⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to date,
a utility that prints or sets the system date and
time.
# ⚓ Petter Reinholdtsen ☛ Petter_Reinholdtsen:_Invidious_add-on
for_Kodi_20⠀⇛
I still enjoy Kodi and LibreELEC as my multimedia
center at home. Sadly two of the services I really
would like to use from within Kodi are not easily
available. The most wanted add-on would be one
making The_Internet_Archive available, and it has
not_been_working for many years. The second most
wanted add-on is one using the_Invidious_privacy
enhanced_Youtube_frontent. A plugin for this has
been partly working, but not been kept up to date
in the Kodi add-on repository, and its upstream
seem to have given it up in April this year, when
the git repository was closed. A few days ago I got
tired of this sad state of affairs and decided to
have_a_go_at_improving_the_Invidious_add-on. As
Google_has_already_attacked the Invidious concept,
so it need all the support if can get. My small
contribution here is to improve the service status
on Kodi.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 22_Open-source_Free_VoIP_and_Sip_Servers⠀⇛
A VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) server is a
computer system that enables voice communications
over the internet. It converts analog audio signals
into digital data packets and transmits them over
the internet.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 20_Open-source_Self-hosted_Inventory_and
Warehouse_Solutions_(2023)⠀⇛
Inventory and storage management software is a type
of software system that helps businesses manage
their inventory levels, storage locations and
delivery process. This type of software is useful
for businesses that have a large inventory and
multiple storage locations.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 14_Open-source_Free_Non-destructive_Photo_Editors
For_Photographers⠀⇛
What is a Non-Destructive Photo Editor?
A non-destructive photo editor is a type of photo
editing software that allows you to make edits to
your images without permanently affecting the
original file.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Mount_an_AWS_S3_Bucket_Locally_on_Linux_Using
Mountpoint⠀⇛
The day has finally come. Mountpoint for Amazon S3
is now generally available. Probably the most
anticipated headline since ChatGPT. Mountpoint for
AWS S3 Mountpoint for AWS S3 is a high-throughput
open source file client for mounting an Amazon S3
bucket as a local file system on Linux.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Docker_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Docker stands out as one of the most popular
technologies for running containers, which can be
thought of as lightweight virtual machines.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Thunderbird_115_via_PPA_in
Ubuntu_22.04_|_23.04⠀⇛
Can’t wait to try out the new Thunderbird 115, but
hate Snap and Flatpak packages? Here’s how to
install it from Ubuntu PPA! Thunderbird 115 is a
new major release series with refined look and
feel. It now uses GNOME CSD style header bar
instead of the old title-bar.
/blockquote>
# ⚓ Compute_newest_kernel_version_from_Makefile_on_Torvalds’
git_repository⠀⇛
$ curl -s -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/
torvalds/linux/master/Makefile | head -n5 | grep -
E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' | cut -d' ' -f3 | tr '\n' '.' |
sed -e "s/\.$//"
# ⚓ A_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Changing_File_Permissions_in_Linux⠀⇛
Efficiently managing file permissions is an
essential aspect of maintaining robust access
control and ensuring top-notch security within
Linux systems.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Flutter_on_Linux⠀⇛
Flutter is an open-source UI software development
kit (not a programming language) that leverages the
Dart programming language for application
development. Google developed this tool to empower
developers to build natively compiled applications
for mobile, web, and desktop from a single
codebase.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Guide_to_Install_Matomo_Web_Analytics_on
AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Matomo, formerly Piwik, is free and open-source web
analytics software that can track website visits
and display reports for data and audience analysis.
The following tutorial shows you how to install
Matomo web analytics on AlmaLinux 9 server. I will
install Matomo with the Httpd web server, PHP, and
MariaDB database. I will also secure Matomo with
SSL/TLS certificates via Letsencrypt.
# ⚓ Linux_User_Management:_Adding_Users_to_Groups_Made_Simple⠀⇛
Do You have added a user in wrong group, and want
to add in right group?
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Use_Split_Screen_in_Ubuntu_to_View_Multiple
Application_Windows_at_Once⠀⇛
The split screen feature in GNOME gives your
productivity a tiny boost by saving the time you
spend in switching between applications.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GDB_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GDB on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. GNU Debugger, commonly
known as GDB, is an essential tool for software
developers. It helps identify and resolve bugs,
enabling smoother code execution.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GlusterFS_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GlusterFS on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, In the ever-expanding digital
landscape, data management has become a crucial
aspect of modern businesses and enterprises.
Managing massive amounts of data efficiently,
ensuring high availability, and scalability are
paramount for seamless operations.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ The_kill_Command_in_Linux:_Detailed_Guide
with_Examples⠀⇛
Linux, a robust and versatile operating system,
provides users with the “kill command in Linux” to
expertly manage and control processes. This article
delves deep into its intricacies, offering a
structured, example-rich, and guide to mastering
this essential command.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_balenaEtcher_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
In the realm of open-source software, BalenaEtcher
stands out as a powerful, user-friendly tool
designed to burn images to SD cards and USB drives.
It’s a cross-platform application, meaning it’s
compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux.
# ⚓ How_to_Change_the_Default_Port_of_SSH_in_Linux?⠀⇛
Securing your Linux server is of paramount
importance, and one effective step is to modify the
default port used by SSH (Secure Shell) for remote
access. Changing the default port adds an extra
layer of security by making it less predictable for
potential attackers. In this guide, we’ll walk you
through the process of changing the default SSH
port on a Linux system. Step 1: Connect to Your
Server Before making any changes, ensure you are
logged in to your Linux server with administrative
privileges.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Python_Django_Framework_on_Ubuntu
22.04⠀⇛
Django is a free and open-source Python-based web
framework for building complex and scalable
applications. I will cover three different ways of
installing Django and how to create the first
Django project.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Use_Pbcopy_And_Pbpaste_Commands_On
Linux⠀⇛
Discover how to replicate macOS pbcopy and pbpaste
commands functionality in Linux using Xclip and
Xsel programs.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_KDE_Connect_on_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
KDE Connect is an open source app that allows you
to share files between your phone and your
computer. It also allows you to remote control your
computer from your phone.
Want to use your phone as a touchpad for your
computer? Or want to turn off your computer using
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Magento_eCommerce_Software_on_Ubuntu
22.04⠀⇛
Magento is an open-source and well know eCommerce
platform written in PHP. Magento is a robust and
powerful eCommerce solution that use by more than
240.000 merchants worldwide. Initially, Magento is
created as a fork of osCommerce in 2007, and in May
2018 Magento is acquired by Adobe Inc and become
Adobe eCommerce.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Import_Deb-Multimedia_PPA_on_Debian
13/12/11/10⠀⇛
In the vast ecosystem of Debian, the deb-
multimedia.org repository stands as a pivotal
resource for multimedia enthusiasts. This guide
will demonstrate how to import the deb-multimedia
PPA on Debian Sid, Debian 13 Trixie, Debian 12
Bookworm, Debian 11 Bullseye, or Debian 10 Buster.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ What_is_TMPFS_in_Linux?_From_Basics_to
Advanced_Use_Cases⠀⇛
Linux, a cornerstone of many modern systems, boasts
a myriad of features designed to optimize system
performance. Among these features is TMPFS, a
temporary filesystem. But what exactly is TMPFS,
and how can it be a game-changer for your system?
Let’s embark on this journey of understanding.
# ⚓ Level_Up_Your_Linux_Expertise:_Creating_Users_via_the
‘adduser’_Command⠀⇛
Use of adduser Command in Linux Description of
adduser Command in Linux
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_create_a_secure_SFTP_server_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
For those running the versatile Ubuntu operating
system, setting up an SFTP server can prove to be
both efficient and secure. In this comprehensive
guide, we will delve into the steps necessary to
establish an SFTP server on Ubuntu, offering an
organized way to transfer files without
compromising on security.
# ⚓ Connecting_Globally:_A_Step-by-Step_Guide_to_Install_Skype
on_Ubuntu [Ed: There's hardly ever a reason to use this
Microsoft spyware in 2023. Better avoided.]⠀⇛
Do you know about skype?
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ System76 ☛ Customizing_COSMIC:_Theming_and_Applications⠀⇛
It’s Back to School season, so grab yourself a
brand new discounted computer and let’s get back to
COSMIC class! Our new, not yet released Rust-based
desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other Linux
distros is filling out with some essential systems
that cater the DE to both users and developers
alike. Customization is one of our main focuses for
COSMIC, and was a huge focus for us in August, too.
One of our objectives early on was to provide an
easy and meaningful way to personalize your
desktop’s appearance. In order to build
customization into the foundation of COSMIC DE, we
needed to make sure the design system was
themeable.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Sam_Thursfield:_GUADEC_2023⠀⇛
I was lucky enough to attend the 2023 edition
of GUADEC in Riga, Latvia.
In a way GUADEC is more fun each year because
each time I know more people, have more
things to talk about, and also it’s 4 years
since my last in-person GNOME event so this
one was particularly special.
Where else can you have in-depth
conversations about the future of GObject,
for example? (The future sounds interesting,
by the way).
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Oracle,_SUSE,_and_CIQ_go_after_Red_Hat_with_the
Open_Enterprise_Linux_Association⠀⇛
Three of Red Hat’s rivals are taking on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux with their new Open Enterprise
Linux source code repository. Here’s why this is a
big deal.
# ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Open_Enterprise_Linux_Association_takes_aim
at_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux⠀⇛
A new group has formed this week known as the Open
Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) and it’s
taking direct aim at IBM‘s Red Hat business unit.
OpenELA was formed by a group of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) software clone vendors including CIQ,
Oracle and SUSE. The clones are not happy and
they’re now joining forces to do something about
their dissatisfaction.
For the last several months, there has been
significant disruption in the Linux open source
software world, with enterprise Linux vendor Red
Hat changing some of its terms, making it somewhat
more difficult for others to simply clone and
replicate RHEL. With the new OpenELA organization,
the goal is for the clone vendors to come together
in common cause to help each other in various ways
to build RHEL clones.
# ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ Suse,_Oracle,_CIQ_join_forces_to_fuel_RHEL-
compatible_Linux_distros⠀⇛
Responding to Red Hat’s recent changes to Linux
source availability, Suse, Oracle, and CIQ have
partnered to form a trade association to encourage
the development of Linux distributions compatible
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The companies on August 10 announced their intent
to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association, or
OpenELA. CIQ, Oracle, and Suse are collaborating to
deliver source code, tools, and systems through the
organization. “With OpenELA, CIQ, Oracle, and Suse
join forces with the open source community to
ensure a stable and resilient future for both
upstream and downstream communities to leverage
Enterprise Linux,” said CIQ CEO Gregory Kurtzer in
a prepared statement.
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Linux_is_more_relevant_than_ever_–
A_conversation_with_Vojtech_Pavlik_on_the_future_of
Enterprise_Linux⠀⇛
Cloud native, edge, security, and AI is where
innovation happens today. Next week, Linux will be
32 years old. Is Linux with all its flavours a
dinosaur, or can it play a vital role in a cloud
native world?
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ CentOS_Alternatives:_Migrating
Workloads_From_CentOS_To_OpenSUSE_Leap_–_Migrating_your
webserver⠀⇛
Introduction In this blog post we will show an
example of how to migrate your Apache web server
running on CentOS to openSUSE Leap, all while
keeping downtime to a minimum.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Kevin_Fenzi:_Flock_to_Fedora_in_Cork,_IE_(2023)⠀⇛
Just got back from our first in person flock since
2019 and it was amazing. I thought I’d share my
journey and thoughts from it here in longer form.
I did do some prep work the previous week in that I
tried to make sure as best as I could that
infrastructure and releng stuff was stable and
wouldn’t need any interventions from me, which
mostly worked out in the end, with only some releng
work (starting mass signing of f40 in prep for
branching this coming week) and some troubles with
the matrix/irc bridge (which I can’t do much about
aside from letting people know).
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Job_Posting:_Fedora
Operations_Architect⠀⇛
Red Hat is hiring for a new full-time role
supporting the Fedora Project.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Contribute_during_the
DNF5,_GNOME_45,_and_i18n_test_days⠀⇛
Fedora test days are events where anyone can help
make sure changes in Fedora Linux work well in an
upcoming release. Fedora community members often
participate, and the public is welcome at these
events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora Linux
before, this is a perfect way to get started.
There are four test periods in the upcoming weeks:
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–
Week_32_2023⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community
Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any
questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on
libera.chat.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Debian_Disguised_Work:_David_Graeber,_village_wives_&
Debian_Outreachy_internships⠀⇛
David Graeber’s book Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
takes a fascinating look at obligations between
people and communities in many different cultures.
One of the most colourful stories is in Chapter 6,
under the title Games with Sex and Death
She waits for an opportune moment and
slips off at night to an enemy village,
where she asks for sanctuary. This is
always possible: all villages have their
traditional enemies. Neither would an
enemy village refuse a woman who came to
them in such a situation. They would
immediately declare her “wife of the
village,” who all men living there would
then be obliged to protect.
When a whole group of Albanian women were
trafficked_to_DebConf19_and_seated_with_former
Debian_leader_Chris_Lamb_for_the_dinner, why did
nobody else object or express jealousy?
Graeber’s book goes on, explaining how young men
acquire wives in communal organizations.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Stephane_Graber:_A_month_later⠀⇛
It’s now been a whole month since I_left_Canonical
and started working as an independent!
This has been quite the month, both professionally
and personally!
In no particular order, this included, setting up a
new business, dealing with a somewhat last minute
datacenter move (thankfully just one floor down),
doing some initial sponsored work, helping out with
a LXD fork, selling a house and caring for a sick
cat (now all back to normal).
Given everything that’s been happening, I thought
I’d use the opportunity to write down some details
on the most relevant things I’ve been doing and
what to expect moving forward.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.3_LTS_is_out_now⠀⇛
Canonical has released Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. With
this update, Canonical has released a new ISO image
so if you perform a clean install, you’ll have all
the latest updates installed straight away.
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.3_LTS_released⠀⇛
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release
of Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its
Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as
other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Orange_Digital_Signage⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ myCobot_Pro_600_Raspberry_Pi_4-based_robot
arm_supports_600mm_working_range,_up_to_2kg_payload⠀⇛
Elephant Robotics has launched its most advanced 6
DoF robot arm so far with the myCobot Pro 600
equipped with a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC, offering a
maximum 600mm working range and support for up to
2kg payloads. We’ve covered Elephant Robotics’
myCobot robotic arms based on Raspberry Pi 4,
ESP32, Jetson Nano, or Arduino previously, even
reviewed the myCobot 280 Pi using both Python and
visual programming, and the new Raspberry Pi 4-
based myCobot Pro 600 provides about the same
features but its much larger design enables it to
be used on larger areas and handles heavier
objects.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Firefox,_Noscript,_jerky_video_playback_–
Solution⠀⇛
I really like Noscript, and I use it
everywhere I can. But I am a bit baffled by
the “hidden” settings, and the fact it can
make life a bit more difficult for ordinary
users, even nerds if they don’t really
suspect that there are options that can’t be
changed through the UI. I guess the solution
would be to expose this, including the
relevant explanation and rationale for the
default state, so the users can make the
right decision.
In my case, it was a matter of temporarily
allowing WebGL, before toggling the option
back after I’ve done watching the videos.
Hopefully, you will find this tutorial
useful. I will keep on playing with Noscript,
as seemingly there’s always another layer of
optimization that can be introduced into the
everyday browsing workflow. Well, we’re done,
see ya.
# ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_Unboxing_More_DevTools_Powers,_and
Reusable_Delights_–_These_Weeks_in_Firefox:_Issue_144⠀⇛
§ Highlights
Several Developer Tools updates landed thanks
to the DevTools team and fellow contributors.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Open_Policy_&_Advocacy_Blog:
Mozilla_Supports_Updates_to_the_Health_Breach
Notification_Rule⠀⇛
Privacy is in our DNA at Mozilla, from our
privacy-enhancing products to our support for
laws and regulations that enshrine privacy
for all. In line with our foundational
principle that individual privacy and
security on the web should never be treated
as optional, we have supported a range of US
action_on_privacy, including bipartisan
Federal_privacy_legislative_proposals and the
Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Commercial
Surveillance_and_Data_Security_ANPR.
# ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_A_View_to_a_Better,_Faster_Web_–
These_Weeks_in_Firefox:_Issue_143⠀⇛
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_is_the_LibreOffice_digital_signature_feature
and_how_do_you_use_it⠀⇛
In this modern age of hacks, scams, and identity
theft, it’s always a good thing to help those you
collaborate with to know that the document they’ve
received is actually from you. Or maybe you simply
need to send a document to someone and you want to
be certain they can trust the document and the
sender.
That’s why tools like LibreOffice include the
ability to add a digital signature. Once you’ve
added a digital signature to a document, a banner
will appear, clearly indicating the document has
been signed and even allowing the user to view the
signature.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Seaborn_Color_Palette⠀⇛
The “seaborn.color_palette()” function of the
“Seaborn” module in Python is used to
retrieve the list of colors or continuous
colormap.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Add_Column_with_Default_Values⠀⇛
The “df[ ]” operator, “DataFrame.assign()”,
and “DataFrame.insert()” methods are used to
add a column with default values in Pandas
DataFrame.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Tkinter_Fonts⠀⇛
“TkFont” class is part of the “tkinter”
module and enables the creation and
management of “fonts” for text display in
GUIs.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Calendar_Module⠀⇛
In Python, the “calendar” module provides
various methods and classes for dealing with
the month, day, and year of the specified
calendar.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Various_Ways_to_Increment_or
Decrement_Counters_in_Bash⠀⇛
Working with loops in bash? Here are various
ways of incrementing and decrementing
counters.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Bisco ☛ Birger_Schacht:_Another_round_of_rust⠀⇛
A couple of weeks ago I had to undergo
surgery, because one of my kidneys
malfunctioned. Everything went well and I’m
on my way to recovery. Luckily the most
recent local heat wave was over just shortly
after I got home, which made being stuck at
home a little easier (not sure yet when I’ll
be allowed to do sports again, I miss my
climbing gym…).
At first I did not have that much energy to
do computer stuff, but after a week or so I
was able to sit in front of the screen for
short amounts of time and I started to get
into writing Rust code again.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_longest_word_you_can_type_on_the_first_row⠀⇛
I grew up thinking typewriter was the longest English
word one could type on the first row of letters on a
QWERTY keyboard. I remember being told this was by design
for typewriter demonstrations, then someone telling me it
was an urban legend, then someone else saying it was
true.
Here comes the proverbial posterior prognostication: but…
what if the premise of this discussion wasn’t true at
all? What if you could type an even longer word on this
first row?
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Distracted_drivers_at_a_meta_level⠀⇛
Futurity published an article yesterday on a recent
University of Missouri study, which I found quite
interesting:
Focus_on_choice_may_get_drivers_to_quit_texting
The findings also indicate that reactance—or the
resistance to being persuaded or controlled—played a
paradoxical role in texting-and-driving prevention. When
individuals were primed to experience reactance and
exhibited initial resistance to prevention messages,
researchers found death awareness effectively reduced
those individuals’ resistance and positively influenced
their behavior.
In other words, people behave more responsibly when they
feel they have agency over their decisions. I’d be
interested to see the accident rates in my Australian
state of New South Wales after they introduced mandatory
phone lockouts for all young drivers.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ PC World ☛ Windows_11’s_Cortana_is_dead,_and_it’s_you_who
will_pull_the_plug⠀⇛
Microsoft began deprecating the Cortana app within
the Windows Insider program just a short time ago —
that’s programmer-speak for “getting rid of,” just
like “layoff” or “workforce reduction” is HR-speak
for the same thing. You can still open the Cortana
app on Windows 11, but be careful.
On the top of the app you may notice that Cortana
has an update available. If you ignore the update
(for now), Cortana should continue to work as she’s
supposed to for the time being. But if you apply
the update, you’ll essentially kill Cortana.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Lessons_from_Maintainers_of
the_World’s_Most_Critical_Software [Ed: Linux mentioned not
even once, only "LF"]⠀⇛
When Norbert De Langen inherited the maintainership
of Storybook.js, he thought the best approach was
to actively design himself out of his role. This
would mean bringing in as many good contributors as
possible. So he undertook heroic measures. De
Langen sent a meeting scheduling link requesting to
speak in person to anyone who emailed him with a
suggestion or question about the project code. De
Langen met with over 200 people using this method
during the project’s first year. He estimates that
nearly 20% of those he met with later became repeat
contributors to Storybook, including many core
contributors. With this effort, De Langen boosted
his contributor pool and significantly reduced his
coding burdens, making his maintainership more
manageable.
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Open_Mainframe_Project
Celebrates_Major_Technical_Milestone_with_the_5-Year
Anniversary_of_Zowe [Ed: IBM openwashing, a pandora's box of
patents]⠀⇛
The Open Mainframe Project, an open source
initiative that enables collaboration across the
mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and
resources, announced today that Zowe will mark its
5-year anniversary this month. Zowe, an open source
software framework for the mainframe that
strengthens integration with modern enterprise
applications, will celebrate the milestone by
bringing the community together for Zowe Day at
SHARE New Orleans on August 14.
# ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces_Keynote_Speakers_for_Open
Source_Summit_Europe_2023 [Ed: None from Microsoft, for a
(good) change]⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization
enabling mass innovation through open source, today
announced the keynote speakers for Open Source
Summit Europe, taking place September 19-21 at the
Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Spain. The
full event schedule is available here.
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ The_Linux_Foundation
Announces_Keynote_Speakers_for_Open_Source_Summit_Europe
2023⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization
enabling mass innovation through open source, today
announced the keynote speakers for Open Source
Summit Europe, taking place September 19-21 at the
Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Spain. The
full event schedule is available here.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ US_cyber_body_to_review_cloud_computing
safety,_Microsoft_breach⠀⇛
-A U.S. cyber safety body will review issues
relating to cloud-based identity and authentication
infrastructure that will include an assessment of a
recent Microsoft breach that led to the theft of
emails from U.S. government agencies, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on
Friday.
The review by the Cyber Safety Review Board will
look at the malicious targeting of cloud computing
environments, the DHS said in a statement.
“Organizations of all kinds are increasingly
reliant on cloud computing to deliver services to
the American people, which makes it imperative that
we understand the vulnerabilities of that
technology,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said
in the statement.
# ⚓ Computing UK ☛ UK_cybersecurity_firm_NCC_makes_second_round
of_job_cuts_this_year⠀⇛
NCC Group, a UK cybersecurity firm with more than
14,000 customers, has confirmed it more staff are
to lose their jobs, after it cut 125 roles in
February.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ This_week_in_global_cybercrime:_twin
takedowns_by_Interpol_and_FBI⠀⇛
The evidence that cybercrime has gone global was
doubly reinforced this week with news of two
independent takedowns of criminals behind the
16shop and Lolek Hosting operations, both used as
sources of automated tools for various malware
attacks.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s_Downfall_Mitigations_Drop
Performance_Up_to_39%,_Tests_Show⠀⇛
Linux publication Phoronix evaluates the
performance impact of Downfall mitigations on
different Intel processors.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ AMD_and_Intel_CPU_security_bugs_bring_Linux_patches
[Ed: They make it sound like the issue is Linux rather than
utterly defective chips]⠀⇛
Two new chip vulnerabilities, AMD Inception and
Intel Downfall, forced Torvalds to push out Linux
security fixes.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Show_me_All_Your_Windows!,_(Fri,_Aug_11th)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Freexian_Collaborators:_Debian_Contributions:_PTS_tracker,
DebConf23_Bursary,_and_more!_(by_Utkarsh_Gupta)⠀⇛
Contributing_to_Debian is part of Freexian’s
mission. This article covers the latest
achievements of Freexian and their collaborators.
All of this is made possible by organizations
subscribing to our Long_Term_Support_contracts and
consulting_services.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_says_it_is_aware_of_China-
linked_intelligence_activity_in_country⠀⇛
A report also highlighted “foreign interference”
activity from Iran and Russia.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russia_and_Ukraine_trade
aerial_attacks_as_Zelenskyy_makes_another_move_against
corruption⠀⇛
Ukrainian officials say Russia fired missiles
at western Ukraine that killed an 8-year-old
boy. The child died Friday in a region of
Ukraine located about 100 kilometers (60
miles) from the Polish border. However, local
officials in Kyiv say Ukrainian air defenses
frustrated Russia’s daylight attack on the
capital. Russian officials say drones
targeted Moscow for a third straight day but
didn’t cause significant damage. Meanwhile,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
announced the firing of the heads of all
regional military draft boards as part of his
crackdown on corruption since the outbreak of
Russia’s war in Ukraine more than 17 months
ago.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Global_South_Stands_Up⠀⇛
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive and chances of
winning the war begin to show signs of
falling apart, and the realization that,
eventually, Ukraine will end the war only
through negotiations begins to dawn, Kiev has
begun a campaign of conferences to court the
neutral global south, or what Russia now
calls the global majority…
# ⚓ PHR ☛ A_Horrific_Milestone:_More_Than_1,000_Attacks
on_Health_Care_in_Ukraine_Since_Russia’s_Full-scale
Invasion⠀⇛
Today Ukraine marks the grim milestone of
more than 1,000 attacks on health care
workers and infrastructure since Russia’s
full-scale invasion began 17 months ago,
according to documentation and monitoring by
human rights and humanitarian organizations.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ New_report_highlights_evidence_of
escalating_Russian_genocide_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
A new international report has identified
evidence that Russia’s campaign of genocide
in Ukraine is escalating as the full-scale
invasion of the country approaches the one-
and-a-half-year mark, writes Kristina Hook.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Co-founder_of
Russia’s_most_popular_search_engine_condemns_war_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
A co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s primary
search engine, issued a public statement of
opposition to the war in Ukraine and
acknowledging his “share of responsibility.”
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ F-16_delays_leave_Ukraine_exposed
to_deadly_Russian_air_superiority⠀⇛
A clear commitment to send Ukraine a fleet of
F-16s would do much to repair the damage to
Western credibility caused by earlier delays.
Crucially, it could also save countless
Ukrainian lives, writes Olivia Yanchik.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Satellite_hack_on_eve_of_Ukraine
war_was_a_coordinated,_multi-pronged_assault⠀⇛
The satellite hack that took the world by
storm was more complex than initially
thought, according to a Viasat executive.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Zelensky_fires_heads_of_military
enlistment_in_all_Ukrainian_regions⠀⇛
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on
Friday that the heads of all Ukraine’s
regional military recruitment centers were
being dismissed from their jobs amid concerns
about corruption. The mass sacking came as
Ukraine urged civilians near the northeastern
front line to evacuate on Thursday as Russia
ramped up an assault to capture territory
already seized once during the conflict.
Follow our live blog for all the latest
developments on the war in Ukraine. All times
are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_says_situation_in_northeast
‘difficult_but_under_control’⠀⇛
Ukraine on Thursday said the situation on the
northeastern front line near the town of
Kupiansk was “difficult but under control”
after an uptick in Russian attacks on the
settlement. Earlier in the day, local
authorities urged vulnerable residents to
leave the area. Read our liveblog to see how
the day’s events unfolded. All times are
Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_To_Dismiss_All_Heads_Of_Regional
Military_Recruitment_Offices_Amid_Corruption_Concerns⠀⇛
All the heads of Ukraine’s regional military
recruitment centers will be dismissed,
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced on
August 11, amid concerns about corruption.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Journalist_Aleksandr_Nevzorov_Fined_In_Russia
Over_RFE/RL_Interview⠀⇛
A court has ordered one of Russia’s most
prominent TV journalists, Aleksandr Nevzorov,
who fled Russia in March 2022, to pay 20,000
rubles ($205) for “extremist” thoughts he
expressed in his interview with RFE/RL’s
Belarus Service and on his YouTube channel
about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Women_In_Russian-Occupied_Crimea_Fined_For
Dancing_To_Ukrainian_Song⠀⇛
A court in occupied Crimea has imposed a
15,000-ruble ($152) fine on three young women
for dancing to a song by a Ukrainian singer.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Explosions_Heard_In_Kyiv_Amid_Deadly_Russian
Strikes_In_Ukraine,_As_Moscow_Says_Drone_Downed_Near
Moscow⠀⇛
Explosions were heard above Kyiv and Russian
air strikes killed more civilians, including
a small child, as Russia said it downed a
drone west of Moscow amid reports of two
Russian airports closing temporarily for a
suspected drone flight.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ukraine_Starts_Mandatory_Evacuation_From
Kupyansk_City⠀⇛
In recent weeks, Russian forces have
intensified attempts to break through
Ukrainian front lines east of the Oskil
River.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainians_in_Kupiansk_Fear_a_Second
Russian_Occupation⠀⇛
The torture rooms in the battered Ukrainian
city of Kupiansk have been empty for months.
But Moscow’s advancing forces are just five
miles away.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Influencer_Ksenia_Sobchak_on
the_War:_Resistance_Is_Futile,_So_Find_Ways_to_Cope⠀⇛
Ksenia Sobchak, one of the best known media
figures still in Russia, says her fatalistic
stance just reflects a grim reality. Some
liberals call her a Kremlin stooge, while
hawks see her as disloyal.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Zelensky_Cracks
Down_on_Corruption_in_Military_Recruitment⠀⇛
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine
dismissed all the directors of regional
military recruitment centers, saying that the
system “should be run by people who know
exactly what war is.”
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_asks_Congress_for_billions_more_in
Ukraine_funding⠀⇛
President Biden is unveiling a request to
Congress for $24 billion in supplemental
funding_for_Ukraine and other international
needs.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian-Occupied_Nuclear_Plant_In_Ukraine
Reconnected_To_Main_Power_Line,_Averting_Possible
Blackout⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya
nuclear power plant has been reconnected to
its main external power line, state-owned
power generating company Enerhoatom said on
August 11, averting what officials said was a
possible blackout.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_launches_moon_lander_in_race_to
find_water_on_moon⠀⇛
Russia launched its first moon-landing
spacecraft in 47 years on Thursday, in a bid
to be the first power to make a soft landing
on the lunar south pole, a region believed to
hold coveted deposits of water ice.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Launches_Lunar_Lander_In_Race_To_Find
Water_On_Moon⠀⇛
Russia launched its first moon-landing
spacecraft in 47 years on August 11 in a bid
to be the first country to make a soft
landing on the lunar south pole, a region
believed to hold coveted pockets of water
ice.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Luna-25_Mission_Launches_to
the_Moon⠀⇛
The Luna-25 mission, years in the making,
will try to put a robotic lander near the
moon’s south pole.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russia_Will_Launch_Its_First
Mission_to_the_Moon_in_Decades_Tomorrow⠀⇛
Russia hasn’t landed anything on the moon in
nearly 50 years, and will make an attempt on
Friday.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ In_His_First_Public_Statement_After_Latest
Conviction,_Navalny_Slams_‘Those_Who_Lost_Russia’s
Historic_Chance’⠀⇛
In his first public statement after his
latest trial that ended with a conviction and
a 19-year sentence on extremism charges last
week, Russian opposition politician Aleksei
Navalny lashed out at Russia’s post-Soviet
ruling class, saying, “I fiercely, madly hate
all those who sold, drank away, wasted the
historic chance our country had at the
beginning of the 1990s.”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Charges_Against_82-Year-Old_Writer_Of
Discrediting_Russian_Army_Dropped⠀⇛
A court in the Russian city of Perm has
dropped all charges against 82-year-old
writer Aleksandr Nikonov, the writer’s lawyer
said on August 10.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Microsoft_Suspends_Extending_Licenses_For
Companies_in_Russia⠀⇛
U.S. software giant Microsoft will not renew
licenses for Russian companies from September
30, the U.S. company said in a letter sent to
Telecom Daily Agency in Russia on August 11.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Photos_of_the_Week:_Foam_Party,_Pet
Dryer,_Hummingbird_Care⠀⇛
Mountain-bike racing in Scotland, flooding in
Northern Europe, missile strikes in Ukraine,
wildfire damage in Hawaii, a rubber-duck
derby in Chicago, and much more
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yandex_Founder_Calls_Russia’s_War_In
Ukraine_‘Barbaric’⠀⇛
Arkady Volozh is only the second sanctioned
Russian businessman to take an unequivocal
public position against the invasion.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Seeks_$24_Billion_More_for
Ukraine_in_Test_of_Bipartisan_Support⠀⇛
The aid request is the first by the president
since Republicans took over the House, and
some party leaders have expressed opposition
to spending more to help Ukraine beat back
Russian forces.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden’s_$20_billion_Ukraine_request_sets
stage_for_GOP_showdown⠀⇛
President Biden’s requestfor $20 billion in
additional funding for Ukrainehas teed up the
first major test of the anti-interventionist
sentiment coursing through the GOP — with
real-world implications for Kyiv’s
existential war.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Wagner_Group_Is_Always_Ready_for
a_Coup⠀⇛
The ouster of Mohamed Bazoum by Niger’s
military presents an important opportunity to
Russia’s Wagner group.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_Niger,_military_takes_control,_with
Moscow_in_the_wings⠀⇛
Washington’s hope of combating Islamists in
Niger more by social and economic means than
with military force suffered a setback with
last month’s coup.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ More_evacuations_considered_in
Norway_where_the_level_in_swollen_rivers_continues_to_rise⠀⇛
Authorities are on standby to evacuate more people
in southeastern Norway, where huge amounts of
water, littered with broken trees, debris and
trash, are thundering down the usually serene
rivers after days of torrential rain. The level of
water in swollen rivers and lakes continued to grow
Friday despite two days of dry but overcast
weather, flooding abandoned houses, coating cars in
mud and swamping camping sites. In one of the most
affected places where a river running through a
town had gone over its banks, authorities were
thinking about moving more people downstream out of
fear of landslides. Norway’s prime minister and
king were planning to visit affected sites.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Photos:_Deadly_Wildfires_Sweep_Across
Maui⠀⇛
Early images from the disaster in Lahaina,
Hawaii
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Tries_to_Bolster_Ruble_as_Inflation
Adds_to_Economic_Woes⠀⇛
The central bank in Moscow took steps to counter
the currency’s slide, but the war and resulting
sanctions have put intense pressure on the economy.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tajik_Minister_Says_Two_Former_Top_Police_Officers
Involved_In_Banker’s_Disappearance⠀⇛
Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda has said
that two former top police officials were involved
in the disappearance in June of Shuhrat
Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the
Centra Asian country’s leading banks.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_Awaits_Release_of_Its_Assets_Held_in_Korean
Banks⠀⇛
The Persian nation has funds worth over US$7
billion in ROK’s two banks, which refuse to process
them for fear of possible U.S. penalties.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ “Like_fatter_Tony_Soprano”_Attending_the
Arraignment_and_“Effect[ing]”_Liz_Harrington’s_Pregnancy⠀⇛
It’s not, just, that DOJ has to try the former
President in at least two venues. It’s that the
entire criminal gang is gambling that if they just
get beyond the election, any and all lies can be
excused in a wave of pardons like Trump used to
escape his Russian exposure.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Normalisation_of_racism_in_Finnish
politics_a_concern_for_non-discrimination_ombudsman⠀⇛
NON-DISCRIMINATION Ombudsman Kristina Stenman is
concerned about the risk of normalisation of hate
speech and racism in Finnish politics.
Stenman on Tuesday offered her analysis of the
current situation to the government task force that
is drafting a statement for promoting equality and
non-discrimination in response to revelations about
racist statements and writings by senior members of
the Finns Party.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Speaking_of_Asia_Podcast:_Asia_without
Shinzo_Abe⠀⇛
A conversation with the foreign policy speech-
writer of Japan’s longest serving post-War Prime
Minister.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ NOT_REAL_NEWS:_A_look_at_what
didn’t_happen_this_week⠀⇛
Social media users shared a range of false
claims this week. Here are the facts:
Dominion Voting Systems didn’t contribute $2
million to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. A
Facebook hoax about a supposed serial killer
on the loose is using the mugshot of an
alleged murderer who has been in jail since
2018. A video clip of President Joe Biden on
MSNBC was altered to appear that he spoke
incoherently for more than a minute. A video
of partygoers at a Kyiv beach doesn’t prove
the war in Ukraine is fake; the city is far
from the epicenter of the war.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Bots_Behaving_Badly:
A_Products_Liability_Approach_to_Chatbot-Generated
Defamation,”⠀⇛
by Prof. Nina Brown, just published in our
symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech;
more articles from the symposium coming in the next
few days.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Review:_The_Peculiar_Politics_of_Killer_Mike⠀⇛
The rapper is a Bernie Sanders supporter who speaks
out about gun rights and free speech.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Authorbots,”_by
Profs._Derek_E._Bambauer_&_Mihai_Surdeanu⠀⇛
The article is here; here is the Introduction:
ChatGPT has exploded into the popular consciousness
in recent months, and the hype and concerns about
the program have only grown louder with the release
of GPT-4, a more powerful version of the software.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Section_230_Won’t
Protect_ChatGPT,”_by_Prof._Matt_Perault⠀⇛
Just published, in our symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the
symposium coming in the next few days.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Chechen_Diaspora_Rallies_In_Zurich_To_Prevent
Deportation_Of_Hunger-Striking_Kadyrov_Critic⠀⇛
Several members of the Chechen diaspora in
Switzerland on August 9 held a protest outside a
deportation center in Zurich calling on the Swiss
authorities not to deport to Russia a Chechen
refugee who has been on hunger strike for almost
two months.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Hollywood_Must_Change—But_How?⠀⇛
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern
for a discussion about the Hollywood strikes with
television writer and political commentator Rob
Long.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Visualizing_the_Racial_Wealth_Gap⠀⇛
Systemic inequities and barriers keep people of
color from achieving economic security through
employment, education, and homeownership, resulting
in racial disparities in wealth and income. These
disparities are the consequence of ongoing
discrimination, structural inequality, and biases
across our institutions. They continue to emerge in
new forms of technology — including artificial
intelligence and algorithmic risk assessment tools
— that influence nearly every facet of life. The
confluence of these inequities has created a
massive, persistent racial wealth gap in the United
States.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Germans_dominate_list_of_newly_appointed
technical_judges [Ed: JUVE, a bribed propaganda mill of
Team UPC (promoting illegal and unconstitutional
kangaroo courts with corrupt judges), is still at it]⠀⇛
Experienced experts from patent offices and
patent courts feature heavily on the list of
21 new technical judges at the UPC.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $6,000_for_Patent_Armory_patents
prior_art⠀⇛
Unified has added 3 new PATROLL contests,
with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking
prior art on the list below. The patents are
owned by Patent Armory, Inc., an NPE. The
contests will end on October 1, 2023. Please
visit PATROLL for more information or click
on each link below.
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Shamoon_v._Resideo:
Obviousness_affirmed [Ed: Fake patents aplenty]⠀⇛
Shamoon v. Resideo Technologies, Inc., No.
2021-1813 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 8, 2023) (opinion
by Judge Newman; joined by Judges Reyna, and
Cunningham) (non-precedential)
Charles Shamoon is the inventor and owner of
U.S. Patent No. 8,064,935. The patent relates
to a remote access system that allows users
to monitor and control “environmental
devices” like alarm and HVAC systems in their
home using a base control unit and a remote
unit. Resideo challenged the patent in a
pair of IPR petitions, and the PTAB
eventually found the challenged claims
unpatentable as obvious over a combination of
two/three prior art references.
On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed and
rejected Shamoon’s three challenges.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_State-Media_Group_Applies_For_Ekho
Moskvy_Name,_Logo⠀⇛
One of Russia’s longtime leading independent
sources of news, which closed last year amid
growing pressure from the Kremlin, is now
facing the prospect of seeing its brand
snatched up by Russian state-controlled
media.
# § Copyrights/Music⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ 50_years_of_hip-hop:_Made_in_New_York,_now_a
global_sensation⠀⇛
Data: Chartmetric, Billboard, Axios research;
Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals
Today marks 50 years since the birth of hip-hop — a relatively short trip from
its inception at a small party in the Bronx to one of the most popular and
influential genres in the world.
Driving the news:In New_York_City and across the country this weekend, concerts
and celebrations are being held to mark the milestone.
⚓ Axios ☛ How_Latinos_helped_shape_the_multi-billion_dollar_hip-hop_industry⠀⇛
On Friday, hip-hop will celebrate 50 years since its birth, and
Latinos have been there every step of the way.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Education
o FSF
o Programming/Development
# Python
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ India’s_Defense_Services_Are_Switching_to_GNU/Linux⠀⇛
However, the attacks in and of themselves are less
of a problem than the fact that a large, and
increasing, number of them are successful against
that aging legacy desktop operating system.
For India to pull this off successfully, they must
study how their opponent has maneuvered over the
years against GNU/Linux deployments and in
particular look at case studies like Kerala,
Munich, Lower Saxony, Vaasa, and Turku. India’s
opponent in this move has had many programmes,
years ago one was EDGI, and a long standing mandate
that “under NO circumstances lose against Linux”.
# ⚓ MS Poweruser ☛ India’s_Defence_Ministry_to_ditch_Windows
for_homegrown_Ubuntu-based_Maya_OS⠀⇛
India’s Defence Ministry is planning to replace
Microsoft Windows with a new operating system
called Maya in all its internet-connected
computers, as part of a major overhaul of its
cybersecurity system.
The move is a response to the growing threat of
malware and ransomware attacks, which have become
more frequent and severe in recent times, targeting
the country’s critical infrastructure and defence
systems. The idea of Maya OS was conceived in 2021
after India faced several cyberattacks from foreign
actors that targeted its critical infrastructure
and defence systems. The Defence Ministry decided
to create its own operating system that would be
more secure and reliable than Microsoft Windows.
# ⚓ India ☛ Desi_Maya_OS:_‘Safer’_Ubuntu_Wins_As_India_Says_NO
To_Microsoft_Windows⠀⇛
It’s free. It’s safer. And no more annoying Windows
updates! The Indian government is looking to
replace the Windows operating system on computers
used in the Defence Ministry with a new indigenous
operating system called Maya OS. Having a new
operating system (OS), that too for the government
is a challenge but the Ministry claims that Maya OS
is being introduced to thwart cyber threats and
also reduce the dependence on OS made by global
tech companies, like Microsoft. Not to forget, Maya
OS is free, so, the government will no longer have
to spend on getting genuine Windows licences or pay
for expensive Microsoft Word and other services.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ IDrive_Compute⠀⇛
Each server uses NVMe storage, and you can outfit
one with a Linux distribution, such as AlmaLinux,
CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Rocky Linux, and
Ubuntu. Like Digital Ocean, IDrive lacks the
Windows Server operating system. Check out AWS or
Google Cloud Platform if you need that OS.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Dumber⠀⇛
§ It’s Not Maintenance5
I just got back from lunch and have to work off
some cals, and that means it’s time for another big
lift on the blog. Today’s topic: how dumb can a
driver’s compiler stack be?
As I outlined in the previous post, zink’s compiler
stack is about to get a whole lot dumber for
various reasons. But what exactly does that look
like?
Lesser bloggers would simply link_to_the_MR and say
“figure it out”.
Here at SGC, however, I put in the extra effort so
my readers can comprehend all the stringy awfulness
that goes into each individual graphical sausage
that this triangle factory is pumping out.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Neovim_GUIs⠀⇛
To use Neovim, you can use the program in a
terminal emulator. Alternatively, there’s the
option of using a third party GUI designed for
Neovim. Neither Vim nor Neovim were built for
beauty. However, many users prefer a graphical
interface combined with the power of Neo(vim). One
interesting aspect of Neovim’s RPC support is that
developers can create new front-ends for Neovim
that are outside of the terminal.
This article seems to highlight the best free and
open source front-ends for Neovim. We make the
following recommendations captured in a legendary
LinuxLinks-style chart. The vast majority of the
software featured in this article is cross-
platform.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Mail_Notification
Tools⠀⇛
Email is arguably one of the most popular and
useful functions of a Linux system. Fortunately,
there is a wide selection of free email software
available on the Linux platform which is stable,
feature laden, and ideal for personal and business
environments.
A mail notification tool lets you know when new
emails are received. A prominent feature of these
tools is the non-obtrusive passive notification
about important emails which will let you
concentrate on your work and avoid unnecessary
interruptions.
When all you want to do is be notified when you
have a new e-mail message the last thing you want
is software chugging along in the background using
up valuable system memory. Fortunately, the
programs are lightweight in nature.
We make the following recommendations captured in a
legendary LinuxLinks-style chart. All of the
programs are free and open source goodness.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Benjamin John Hardill ☛ Network_Booting_Rapberry_Pi⠀⇛
There are a couple of solutions these days with
anything newer than a Pi 3 you can boot from a USB
drive or totally from the network.
You can configure the boot device and order using
the raspi-config tool, under Advanced -> Boot
Order.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Various_Ways_to_Increment_or_Decrement
Counters_in_Bash⠀⇛
Incrementing/decrementing is mostly used in a loop
where the user has instructed the script/program to
increase/decrease value based on the given
condition.
# ⚓ budgie-desktop_>=_10.7.2-6_update_requires_manual
intervention⠀⇛
When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to
10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced
with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter.
As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual
intervention is required to complete the upgrade.
# ⚓ Parabola_GNU/Linux-libre:_[From_Arch]:_budgie-desktop_>=
10.7.2-6_update_requires_manual_intervention⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Enable_Collaboration_on_Drupal_with
ONLYOFFICE_Docs_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
If you feel like building your own website or blog,
you can always find a professional developer who
could get this done for you in the shortest
possible time.
However, it might be much more exciting and
challenging to create something on your own. Modern
software tools make the process of website creation
simple, and even average Linux users with no deep
technical background are able to do that.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Create_Your_Own_VPN_in_Linux_With
OpenVPN⠀⇛
Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow you to hide
your online data transmissions and enhance your
security while browsing the Internet from public
places. Many online service providers offer both
free and paid VPN options for you to use. However,
even the best paid plans can be unreliable or slow
at times.
Here we’ll discuss how you can use OpenVPN to
create a secure connection on a Linux machine.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ The_Perfect_Server_–_Debian_12_(Bookworm)
with_Apache,_BIND,_Dovecot,_PureFTPD_and_ISPConfig_3.2⠀⇛
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian 12
server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) to install
ISPConfig 3.2. The web hosting control panel
ISPConfig 3 allows you to configure the following
services through a web browser: Apache web server,
Postfix mail server, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server,
MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin,
ClamAV, and many more.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Linux_Permissions_Demystified:_SUID,_SGID_&
Sticky_Bit⠀⇛
Meta (160 characters): Dive into Linux permissions:
Understand the intricacies of SUID, SGID, and the
sticky bit. Enhance your system’s security and
functionality with these tools.
Introduction:
In the vast universe of Linux, permissions play a
pivotal role, governing who can do what with files
and directories. While regular permissions (read,
write, execute) are straightforward, advanced
permissions like SUID, SGID, and the sticky bit are
vital tools that can enhance, or in some cases,
jeopardize your system’s security.
# ⚓ SSH_Permission_Denied_(publickey)_Solved:_Troubleshooting
and_Fixes⠀⇛
Encountering the “SSH Permission Denied
(publickey)” error while trying to connect to a
remote server can be frustrating. This error
typically occurs when the SSH server doesn’t
recognize your public key or when your local SSH
client is unable to authenticate using the provided
key. In this guide, we’ll walk you through
troubleshooting steps and solutions to resolve the
“SSH Permission Denied (publickey)” error. Step 1:
Verify Your Public Key Ensure that you are using
the correct public key for authentication.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Throw_FreeCAD_Some_Curves⠀⇛
[Mango Jelly] got a question from someone trying to
model a phone box with a complex curved roof. We
have to admit that when we saw it, we knew it would
be hard to model well. Naturally, there are several
ways it could be one, but [Mango Jelly] used the
curves workbench in FreeCAD to produce a wireframe
of the shape, and you can see how that works in the
video below.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“/var/lib/pacman/db.lock”_error_on
Arch_Linux⠀⇛
I was trying to install firefox today on my Arch
Linux machine, and I couldn’t do it because of the
error ” Failed to init transaction (unable to lock
database)” .
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Identify_a_Bash_Script_is_Sourced_or
Executed_Directly⠀⇛
Bash scripting is a powerful tool that developers
can leverage to automate tasks on Unix and Linux
systems. One common use-case is to source a script
in another script, allowing the sharing of
variables and functions between them.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Remove_(Delete)_PPA_from_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛
If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while, you’re
probably familiar with the term PPA, which stands
for Personal Package Archive. PPAs are a great way
to install and update software that isn’t available
in the official Ubuntu repositories.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Scala_on_Linux⠀⇛
Scala (stand as “Scalable Language“) is a general-
purpose programming language built on the Java
virtual machine that combines functional
programming and object-oriented programming
language paradigms.
# ⚓ Deploying_virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm_on_Arch_Linux
Distributions_(Manjaro,_ArcoLinux,_EndeavourOS)⠀⇛
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GCC_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GCC on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t
know, GCC, developed by the Free Software
Foundation (FSF), is a collection of compilers for
various programming languages, including C, C++,
and Fortran.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_InfluxDB_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
InfluxDB on Debian 12. InfluxDB, the powerful open-
source time-series database, has emerged as a go-to
solution for managing high-frequency data streams
in various domains. From monitoring system
performance to handling Internet of Things (IoT)
data, InfluxDB provides a robust foundation for
real-time analytics.
# ⚓ Viewing_Test_Automation_as_a_Software_Project:_A_Jenkins
Perspective⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Power_of_Visualization_in_Jenkins_Workflow_Management⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Role_of_Conventions_in_Streamlining_Jenkins_Processes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Navigating_the_Expanding_Landscape_of_Jenkins_Test
Frameworks_and_Commercial_Choices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Addressing_the_Issue_of_Starving_QA/Integration_Servers_in
Jenkins⠀⇛
# ⚓ Keeping_Up_with_Jenkins:_A_Guide_to_Reading_and
Understanding_the_Change_Log⠀⇛
# ⚓ Minimizing_Human_Bottlenecks_in_Jenkins:_Strategies_and
Best_Practices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Efficient_Jenkins_Workflows:_The_Benefits_of_Offsetting
Work_to_Jenkins_Nodes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Avoiding_Groupthink_in_Jenkins:_Ensuring_Individual_Input
in_Collective_Decisions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Building_Jenkins_Expertise:_The_Importance_of_Training_and
Community⠀⇛
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ Install_and_configure_Rainloop_Webmail_in_Debian⠀⇛
In this guide, you will learn how to install and
configure the latest version of Rainloop Webmail in
Debian to retrieve emails from popular email
services such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft
Outlook.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Talospace ☛ Tonight’s_game_on_OpenPOWER:_Doom64EX_and
Doom64EX-Plus⠀⇛
However, unlike most of the re-creations we’ve
talked about before, there’s no getting around it:
if you’re not playing the remaster you’ll need an
N64 ROM. And that’s all I’m going to say about
that. If you have the N64 cartridge and a dump of
it, play Doom64EX (it can’t play the remaster); if
you bought the remaster and have the data files,
play EX-Plus (it can’t play the original).
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_has_a_new_bundle_with_Jupiter_Hell,
Coromon,_Songs_of_Conquest⠀⇛
Now this is a tasty looking bundle full of tactical
goodies! The Take Your Turn & RPGs Bundle is live
and it has a really nice set of games to pick up.
One not to be missed.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Escape_Simulator_is_getting_a_free_Portal
cross-over_DLC⠀⇛
Pine Studio have announced that their popular
puzzle game Escape Simulator is getting a Valve-
approved Portal themed free DLC with Escape
Simulator: Portal Escape Chamber.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Experimental_fixes_Street_Fighter_6
and_disables_NVAPI_for_Rachet_&_Clank⠀⇛
A small update for Proton Experimental launched on
August 10th for Steam Deck and desktop Linux to fix
issues with two problematic games. Valve launched a
bigger update only a day ago so this is just
cleaning up more issues.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_has_Play_On_The_Go_Summer_Bundle
for_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Fanatical is currently doing their own special
Summer Sale with new bundle launches like the Play
On The Go Bundle – Summer Edition, a free game and
lots of discounts.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Survival_horror_deck-builder_Draft_of
Darkness_launches_August_23rd⠀⇛
Blending together survival, horror, a deck builder
and roguelike dungeon exploration – Draft of
Darkness has a little bit of everything. Currently
in Early Access the developer has now announced it
will launch in full on August 23rd.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Celebrate_QuakeCon_and_Quake_II_Remastered
with_this_Steam_Sale⠀⇛
Earlier we reported about how id Software and
Nightdive Studios had come together once more to
remaster Quake II for a new generation and shadow
dropped it at QuakeCon. Well, that was only one
part of the festivities as id and Bethesda have put
a bunch of their hit games on sale to celebrate
QuakeCon, with games from Doom to Hi-Fi Rush
receiving discounts.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Recommended_Games_on_Debian_12_Bookworm⠀⇛
We collected ten games you can play on Debian 12
Bookworm GNU/Linux. They are all native games
provided by Debian themselves and they are free
software. You can immediately install and play
these games by following command lines we provided
under each one below. As a premiere bonus, we can
also learn a lot of lessons about free software
community so you can spread education about free
software by playing with students at your school or
friends at your office. Now choose your game and
let’s play!
We often mention the term ‘free software’ in this
article. When we talk about free software, we do
not mean price, but we mean freedom, meaning the
user is free, that the user have the full rights to
control the software (thus, the game) both
individually and socially. This meaning aligns with
Debian principles. See Free Software Definition.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Plasma_6_development
continues⠀⇛
Much bugfixing happened this week, and as a
result, the number of open issues only rose
by 2 compared to last week. In addition,
feature work and planned UI changes are in
development and getting merged!
More 1st-party widgets and System Tray icons
are now always monochrome and symbolic no
matter the thickness of the Panel they live
on, even if there are colorful icons at large
sizes. This includes the Trash, Folder, and
Minimize All widgets and KTeaTime’s System
Tray icon.
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ OpenID_Connect/OAuth2_with_KDE’s
Gitlab⠀⇛
With KDE’s contributor account management
moving from the deprecated identity.kde.org
and my.kde.org systems to Gitlab as the
central identity provider we need to adapt
all applications requiring a login to use
OpenID Connect/OAuth2 for authentication.
While that is largely done for the web-based
ones, native client applications remain a
challenge.
Before we start: This is not a definitive
guide on how to set things up properly. It is
rather my current understanding on how things
could be done, and a request for review/
feedback by people with more experience on
this subject.
# ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE:_Post_Akademy_Snap_Wrap_Up
and_Future⠀⇛
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in
the KDE snap world! Here is a rundown of what
has been done: [...]
# ⚓ Timothée Ravier ☛ Timothée_Ravier:_Testing_latest_KDE
software,_from_Apps_to_the_Plasma_desktop⠀⇛
Software has bugs! One way to find bugs is to
have users test changes.
To make that possible, we need to deliver
pre-release versions of our software in a way
that is accessible to our users which are
usually not developers.
Remember that even as a developer, you are
always the user of someone else’s project.
The technology stack is now so complex that
it is mostly impossible to understand every
single projects included in a modern desktop
environment, even if it is fully open source.
Testing pre-release software also has to be
reasonably safe regarding user’s data, as
it’s often not practical to ask users to
backup everything all the time and testing a
small fix for an application should not have
your entire system crash.
# ⚓ Timothée Ravier ☛ Timothée_Ravier:_Introducing
Kinoite_Nightly_(and_Kinoite_Beta)⠀⇛
Update: Kinoite Nightly & Beta images are
temporarily paused while we work on making
Kinoite image with Plasma 6 content
available.
As announced during the Fedora_Kinoite_“Hello
World!” (slides) last year at the Fedora 35
release party, one of the goals for Fedora
Kinoite is to make it easier for everyone to
try and test the latest KDE Plasma desktop
and Apps, without having packaging, compiler
or development knowledge.
We are now much closer to that goal with the
introduction of Kinoite Nightly, an
unofficial variant of Fedora Kinoite based on
stable Fedora plus nightly packages for KDE
software (Plasma desktop and a base set of
apps).
Alonside Kinoite Nightly, we are also
introducing Kinoite Beta, which is also an
unofficial variant of Fedora Kinoite, also
based on stable Fedora but with KDE Plasma
Beta packages. This variant is based on fresh
release of KDE_Plasma_5.27_Beta.
While the Nightly variant will be built daily
and will always be available, the Beta
variant will only be built and available
during KDE Plasma Beta testing phases.
# ⚓ Timothée Ravier ☛ Testing_latest_KDE_software,_from
Apps_to_the_Plasma_desktop⠀⇛
This is the transcript of the_talk_I_gave_at
Akademy_2023.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker:
#108_Sandboxed_Images⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from August 04 to August
11.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Oracle,_SUSE_and_CIQ_launch_Open_Enterprise
Linux_Association_to_target_Red_Hat⠀⇛
SUSE SA, Oracle Corp. and Ctrl IQ Inc. announced
Thursday the formation of a new industry alliance
forming the Open Enterprise Linux Association,
OpenELA, a new organization that aims to encourage
the development of distributions compatible with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/32⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
At least over here where I live, the last few days
we had slightly less summery time and more rain –
and bad weather means more work in front of the
screen. The same thing likely happened to other
contributors, looking at the things we passed
through staging or are still there. This week has
seen 7 snapshots (0804..0810).
The most relevant changes during this week were:
# openSSL 3.1.2
# Linux kernel 6.4.8 & 6.4.9
# Libvirt 9.6.0
# Perl 5.38 (incl all perl modules rebuilt)
# LibreOffice 7.6.0.1 & 7.6.0.2
# QEmu 8.0.4
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Join_SUSE_at_Google_Next_2023
August_29_–_31,_2023_in_San_Francisco_–_Booth_#1625⠀⇛
Google Next 2023 is a showcase of inspiration,
innovation and education and SUSE is excited to be
a Velocity sponsor at this event. We’re eager to
hear the great keynotes, learn about Google’s
latest innovations, share ideas and network with
you.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_Fedora_Copr_outage_–_updating
servers⠀⇛
This outage impacts the Fedora_Copr_Frontend.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Libera_Chat_Is_a_Toxic_Troll_Farm.
Bonus:_Code_of_Conduct_Ticket_Filed_Regarding_Fedora
Moderator_“Khaytsus”.⠀⇛
Libera Chat Is a Toxic Troll Farm Full of Corrupt
Moderators That Don’t Apply Their Own Code of
Conduct to Each Other.
# ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Red_Hat_describes_how_open_source_and
infrastructure_at_scale_drive_genAI [Ed: Openwashing and HEY
HI buzzwords salad. Also failing to disclose that Red Hat has
been paying this publisher for all those puff pieces, which
Red Hat Official ☛ it_later_links_to.⠀⇛
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is an
exciting technology on its own, but the way access
to large-scale infrastructure has changed is the
real story, according to Red Hat‘s Sherard Griffin,
senior director of engineering for AI services.
AI technology has been around for a while, but the
infrastructure needed to run complicated AI
workloads has finally caught up, Griffin told
SDxCentral. “Generative AI is not about AI in its
own right, in terms of what it’s doing with
generative AI. But it’s thinking about how it’s now
so readily accessible,” he said. “To me, that’s the
exciting part.”
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Find_your_top_tasks_on_the_new_Red_Hat
OpenShift_Service_on_AWS_learning_hub⠀⇛
Interested in Red Hat OpenShift Service on Amazon
Web Services (ROSA) but not sure where to start?
Our new ROSA learning hub page may be just the
thing you need. This hub page speaks to the various
stages of adopting and utilizing a managed Red Hat
OpenShift service running natively on AWS. From
high-level learning, to procedural walkthroughs
about deploying workloads, there are several
avenues for a user to find what they need.
# ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Kubernetes_and_the_Software_Supply_Chain⠀⇛
The ability of organizations to gain value from
Kubernetes — and, more broadly, cloud-native
technology — is being hampered by concerns around
security. One of the biggest concerns reflects one
of the industry’s biggest current challenges:
securing the software supply chain.
Red Hat’s “2023 State of Kubernetes Report” found
that Kubernetes security is in question at some
companies. Based on a survey of DevOps,
engineering, and security professionals from around
the globe, the report finds that 67% of respondents
have delayed or slowed deployment due to Kubernetes
security concerns, 37% have experienced revenue or
customer loss due to a container/Kubernetes
security incident, and 38% cite security as a top
concern with container and Kubernetes strategies.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Chris_Wright_Talks_OpenShift_AI⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Debian_Systems_Now_Patched_Against_“Downfall”
and_“INCEPTION”_CPU_Flaws⠀⇛
The Debian Project released today updated kernel
and intel-microcode packages for all supported
Debian GNU/Linux releases to address the recently
disclosed “Downfall” vulnerability affecting Intel
CPUs, as well as the “INCEPTION” hardware
vulnerability affecting AMD Zen CPUs.
Discovered by Daniel Moghimi, “Downfall” (a.k.a.
CVE-2022-40982) is a GDS (Gather Data Sampling)
hardware vulnerability that allows unprivileged
speculative access to data that was previously
stored in vector registers.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_Mint_planning_new_‘EDGE’_ISO,_plus
Linux_Mint_21.3_due_in_December⠀⇛
There’s some interesting plans ahead coming from
the Linux Mint team including a new EDGE ISO for
running Mint on newer hardware, info on the next
Linux Mint release and their concerns with Ubuntu
and Snap.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Texas_Instruments_LaunchPad_taps_Arm_Cortex-
M0+_processor⠀⇛
The LP‑MSPM0L1306 is a Texas Instruments Launchpad
based on a 32-bit Arm Cortex M0+ microcontroller.
The evaluation module includes an onboard debug
probe, thermistor, light sensor, among other
features.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Low-cost_dev_platform_features_Lattice_ICE40
FPGA⠀⇛
The UPduino v3.1 is an affordable development
platform that showcases the capabilities of the
Lattice ICE40 Ultra Plus 5K FPGA. This device is
also fully compatible with the open-source
graphical design tool, IceStudio.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ MainsailOS:_A_Raspberry_Pi_OS_based_distribution
for_3D_Printers.⠀⇛
MainsailOS is an exceptionally user-friendly and
efficient Raspberry Pi OS-based distribution that
has been specifically designed to cater to the
needs of 3D printer enthusiasts. This feature-
packed distribution is equipped with a web-based
interface that enables you to manage and control
your 3D printer with ease.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ SmoothStream:_Webcam_and_PiCamera_Streaming_over
the_Network_with_Python⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Chart_confirms_higher_level_of_Raspberry_Pi
restocks⠀⇛
Earlier this month, we noted that Raspberry Pi
supplies were improving mostly from tweets from
Eben Upton who provided data about shipped boards
since the beginning of the year. But there are also
third-party data that confirm this since RPILocator
provides statistics for restocks of Raspberry Pi
hardware from approved resellers. The chart below
shows weekly data of restocks since January 2022
until today, and we can clearly see a jump in
restocks in recent weeks, especially for the
Raspberry Pi 4, so there’s no need to steal old
boards from discarded scooters anymore 😉 The ramp-
up really started on week 25 (June 19-25) and
peaked on week 28 (July 10-16) possibly to fill
back orders, and restocks have been going down in
recent weeks but still at a higher level than
previously.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ UNO_R4_Stars:_Meet_Monica_Rikic⠀⇛
Rikic has also already developed a new project
leveraging the UNO R4 Minima variant: “It’s a weird
machine that generates infinite classical music, in
collaboration with Rodo. Visitors at the Palau de
la Musica can modify the output as they get closer
to the installation, speak or even sing to it.”
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ How_to_build_a_laser_range_finder⠀⇛
Why use an ordinary measuring tape when you can
measure things with a laser? If there is ever an
opportunity to incorporate lasers in everyday
activities, we must take it. Here, Hesam Moshiri
shows you how to build your own laser ranger finder
using our RP2040 chip.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Used_To_Hijack_Casino_Card
Shuffler⠀⇛
Gambling is big business, and a casino’s revenue
will make the highest of high-stakes bets on the
floor look like peanuts. Therefore, casinos
implement rigorous procedures and processes, to
make sure there is no cheating by customers.
However, compared with computers, some security
researchers reckon gambling regulations and
security technologies are “a bit out of date.” and
this leads to interested parties fabricating its
own proof of concept tools, using the Raspberry Pi
Zero.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Lo-Fi_ESP32-S3_board_features_LoRa_module
for_low-power_long-range_connectivity_(Crowdfunding)⠀⇛
SB Components’ Lo-Fi is an ESP32-S3 board equipped
with a LoRa module for low-power long-range
connectivity, and the company has also introduced
two LoRa USB dongles with either Type-A or Type-
C connectors.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Coin_cell-powered_boards_provide_an_easy_way
to_test_USB-C_cables⠀⇛
The A2C caberQU and C2C caberQU boards enable the
quick and easy testing of respectively USB-A to
USB-C and USB-C to USB-C cables without external
hardware. Powered by a CR2032 coin cell battery,
the boards apply a voltage to all pins of a cable
and measure which ones are connected to the other
end. The results can be visualized immediately
through various LEDS on the board. The C2C caberQU
board comes with a dedicated LED for each of the 24
USB pins and the shield, and it’s possible to test
the USB Type-C to USB Type-C cable in several
different modes: USB 2.0/1.1 USB Power Delivery USB
3.0/3.1/3.2 Alternate Mode Debug Accessory Mode
Audio Adapter Accessory Mode The A2C caberQU board
has fewer pins and LEDS for testing USB-A to USB-
C cables specifically, but it works the same way.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_will_feature_a_new_way_to
combat_full-screen_ads⠀⇛
# ⚓ 7NEWS ☛ Android_apps_with_2.5_million_downloads_displaying
ads_with_display_off_|_7NEWS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Emulate_Your_Favorite_Sega_Dreamcast
Games_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ GO Media ☛ Your_Android_Can_Now_Detect_AirTags_Tracking
You⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ One_UI_6:_Everything_new_in_the_Samsung
Android_14_beta⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ FOSS_Week_in_Review:_Window_Maker_Live_Adopts
Systemd,_New_Tails_on_the_Down_Low,_and_Google-Free_/e/OS⠀⇛
While most of the world bakes under the hottest
temperatures since people have been keeping track of such
things, in my part of the world we’re having one of the
mildest summers in memory, which has followed what was
also one of the mildest winters I’ve experienced in these
parts. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this doesn’t
mean a shoe is about to drop.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Talospace ☛ Firefox_116_on_POWER⠀⇛
Firefox 116 is out with user interface improvements
(notably a sidebar switcher), faster HTTP/
2 uploads, and some initial UI rework for changes
to how recently closed tabs are handled. [...]
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Browsers_barely_care_what_HTTP
status_code_your_web_pages_are_served_with⠀⇛
Back when I wrote an entry on issues around the
HTTP status code for a web server’s default front
page, I said in passing that the HTTP status code
mostly doesn’t matter to browsers. More exactly,
the status code for a web page mostly doesn’t
matter to people looking at web pages in a browser
(this has come up before). This is well known in
some circles and probably surprising in others.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Dedoimedo ☛ Firefox,_Noscript,_jerky_video
playback_–_Solution⠀⇛
If you’re using Firefox (as you should), then you
also may want to consider Noscript (as you should),
for it helps transform the Javascript jungle that
is the modern Web into something more pristine and
palatable. But, the problem is, Noscript can be a
little tricky to configure for normies, and it does
take some understanding to utilize effectively.
Then, there could be odd bugs. Like the one I will
describe right now.
I wanted to play a video in Firefox. One of them
streaming services. Find an episode of something
you like, watch it. Of course, beforehand, I
enabled scripts on the streaming service domain,
all of the necessary and required bits and pieces.
And the playback started just fine … except, every
10 seconds or so, there would be this jerky effect,
like a couple of frames dropping. Or perhaps
networking buffering. Weird. Well, I decided I
could not let it be, and started exploring and
investigating. Long story short, the pathfinding
led me to Noscript. After me, people.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Some_problems_with_‘first_name’_and
‘last_name’_fields_in_data⠀⇛
First off, not everyone has only two names plus
possibly an unimportant ‘middle’ name that you can
omit without them caring too much. Some people may
have more than two or three names, all of which are
important, and some people may not have two names.
Providing only two fields forces people to squeeze
their name into those fields, in some split that
may or may not work and correspond to what you
want.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Hacker_vs._machine_at_DEF_CON:_Thousands
of_security_researchers_vie_to_outsmart_AI_in_Las_Vegas⠀⇛
Over the next four days, more than 3,000 hackers
will descend upon a conference hall at DEF CON and
try to break into leading generative artificial
intelligence systems. Attendees of the annual
hacking conference in Las Vegas will have 50
minutes each at one of 156 laptops to deceive,
probe and steal information from AI chatbots, in
the largest-ever public exercise aimed at
discovering the security weaknesses of large
language models.
# ⚓ Troy Patterson ☛ Tech_In_Education⠀⇛
I’ve long been using Technology in education. I was
an early adopter. I clearly remember having one of
the first WiFi access points in our district (an
Apple “UFO”). I integrated Technology into my
classes early on. The students were highly
motivated, novelty of technology was high. At the
time, I was teaching in a lock-up facility for
teenagers. The students had lots of challenges. It
was a great place to learn to teach.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ The_5_Best_VPNs_for_the_Back_to_School_2023
Season⠀⇛
School IT departments typically monitor activity on
the campus WiFi, so you might hear from them if
you’re a criminal who torrents movies, TV shows,
and music, for example. Some colleges also prohibit
a certain class of unscrupulous websites and video
platforms. Here at Gizmodo, we love rules, so we
recommend that you steer clear of VPNs so the spies
at your college can watch for this kind of
behavior.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_News:_Happening_now:_The_second_round_of_FSF
board_candidate_discussions⠀⇛
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Transcoding_UTF-8_strings_to_Latin_1
strings_at_12_GB/s_using_AVX-512⠀⇛
Most strings online are Unicode strings in the UTF-
8 format. Other systems (e.g., Java, Microsoft)
might prefer UTF-16. However, Latin 1 is still a
common encoding (e.g., within JavaScript runtimes).
Its relationship with Unicode is simple: Latin 1
includes the first 256 Unicode characters. It is
rich enough to convert most of the standard
European languages. If something is stored in Latin
1, it can be encoded using Unicode. The reverse is
obviously false. Nevertheless, let us assume that
you have a Unicode string in UTF-8 that you want to
quickly transcode to Latin 1.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ pmax()_and_pmin():_Finding_the_Parallel_Maximum_and
Minimum_in_R⠀⇛
Title: Unleashing the Power of pmax() and pmin()
Functions in R
Introduction: In the realm of data manipulation and
analysis, R stands tall as a versatile programming
language. Among its plethora of functions, pmax()
and pmin() shine as unsung heroes that can greatly
simplify your coding experience. These functions
allow you to effortlessly find the element-wise
maximum and minimum values across vectors in R,
providing an elegant solution to a common
programming challenge. In this blog post, we’ll
dive into the syntax and explore real-world
examples that showcase the true potential of pmax()
and pmin().
# ⚓ [Old] Patrick McKenzie ☛ Falsehoods_Programmers_Believe
About_Names⠀⇛
I have lived in Japan for several years,
programming in a professional capacity, and I have
broken many systems by the simple expedient of
being introduced into them. (Most people call me
Patrick McKenzie, but I’ll acknowledge as correct
any of six different “full” names, any many systems
I deal with will accept precisely none of them.)
Similarly, I’ve worked with Big Freaking
Enterprises which, by dint of doing business
globally, have theoretically designed their systems
to allow all names to work in them. I have never
seen a computer system which handles names properly
and doubt one exists, anywhere.
# ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Introducing_nixexpr:_Nix_expressions_for
JavaScript⠀⇛
As a regular reminder, it is a bad idea to give me
ideas. Today’s bad idea is brought to you by
managerial nerd sniping, insomnia, and the letter
“Q”.
At a high level: writing complicated data
structures in JavaScript kinda sucks. Here’s an
example of the kinds of things that I’ve been
writing as I go down the ElasticSearch_tour-de-
insanite:
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python_from…import_Statement⠀⇛
Python, with its expansive library of modules
and packages, offers a variety of
functionalities. To access these
functionalities in your code, you’ll often
need to incorporate them using the import
statement.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ku-Go:_The_World_War_II_Death_Ray⠀⇛
Historians may note that World War II was the last great
“movie war.” In those days, you could do many things that
are impossible today, yet make for great movie drama. You
can’t sneak a fleet of ships across the oceans anymore.
Nor could you dig tunnels right under your captor’s nose.
Another defining factor is that it doesn’t seem we seek
out superweapons anymore.
o ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Fiction_as_a_lens_into_technological
change⠀⇛
But we don’t often see these two together in close
proximity. The creation and the disruption are spaced out
in time and distance, so the creators of new technology
need not grapple with the disruption viscerally. Software
developers at Airbnb and Uber sit behind 4K monitors and
sling code into the world, while hotel workers,
neighbors, and taxi drivers deal with the real-world
consequences, unseen by their disruptors. And the changes
that take longer, that slowly put people out of work, we
struggle to connect to the real-world changes since the
creation and disruption are so spread out. The original
developers of the newsfeed on Facebook surely did not
anticipate the… disruption… to democracy and journalism
that would have come from it over a decade later.
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Weeknotes:_fin._(So_what_did_I_accomplish?)⠀⇛
I hate being introspective. But I’m told it’s good for
me. A few months ago, I handed in my notice to Cabinet
Office. And now I’m no longer a Civil Servant.
It’s hard to sum up those 2,462 days. Every day brought
new challenges. I saw my work presented to the highest
offices in the land, discussed on the nightly news,
cancelled due to General Elections, and implemented
across the nation. I represented my country across the
world, helped protect it from attacks both digital and
biological, and tried to speak a little truth to power.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Little_Bit_Of_Science_History_Repeating_Itself:
Boyle’s_List⠀⇛
In a recent blog post, [Benjamin Breen] makes an
interesting case that 2023 might go down in history as
the start of a scientific revolution, and that’s even if
LK-99 turns out to be a dud. He points to several
biomedical, quantum computing, and nuclear fusion news
items this year as proof.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ DraftKings_CEO_calls_pro_athletes_caught_gambling_a
“small_number_of_bad_actors”⠀⇛
Sports betting is back in the spotlight following ESPN’s
giant_deal with Penn Gaming.
Shortly before that transaction was announced, Axios
spoke with DraftKings CEO Jason Robins, whose company is
solidly in second place for market share (behind FanDuel)
and whose share price has climbed over 150% so far this
year.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Roscosmos_euphoric_as_Russia_sends_first_mission
to_Moon_in_nearly_50_years._Luna-25_lander_to_reach_lunar
south_pole_by_August_21._—_Meduza⠀⇛
The first lunar mission in Russia’s post-Soviet
history was launched at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time (just
after midnight GMT) today, from the Vostochny
spaceport in the Russian Far East.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2023:_Circuit_Scout_Lends_A_Hand_
(Or_Two)_For_Troubleshooting⠀⇛
Troubleshooting a circuit is easy, right? All you
need is a couple of hands to hold the probes,
another hand to twiddle the knobs, a pair of eyes
to look at the schematic, another pair to look at
the circuit board, and, for fancy work, X-ray
vision to see through the board so you know what
pads to probe. It’s child’s play!
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Weather_Station_With_Distributed_Sensors⠀⇛
Building a weather station is a fairly common
project that plenty of us have taken on, and for
good reason. They can be built around virtually any
microcontroller or full-scale computer, can have as
many or few sensors as needed, and range from
simple, straightforward projects to more complex
systems capable of doing things like sending data
off to weather services like Weather Underground.
This weather station features a few innovations we
don’t often see, though, with a modular and
wireless design that makes it versatile and easy to
scale up or down as needed.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ SoftBank-owned_Arm_courts_Big_Tech_interest
in_its_IPO⠀⇛
Arm has been in talks with about 10 companies,
including Amazon.com, Intel, Alphabet and Nvidia,
about investments ahead of its IPO.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Drive-thru_mania_pushes_chains_to_rethink
restaurants⠀⇛
The_future_of_fast_foodis already here with AI
already taking orders and the first “underground
delivery system” on the way.
Why it matters:The push for more efficient drive-
thrus at some of the country’s biggest chains
reflects massive consumer demand for quicker
service.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Delta_Air_Lines_passenger_settlement_offers
refunds_to_some_customers_affected_by_COVID_cancelations⠀⇛
The lawsuit also accused the Atlanta-based Delta of
not delivering refunds in a timely manner.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘I_feel_like_I_have_Ebola’:_Hong
Kong_mpox_patient_warns_fear_of_enforced_isolation_may_stop
people_reporting_infections⠀⇛
When Covid-19 was at its worst in Hong Kong, a
palpable fear pervaded the city: people were afraid
not only of the virus, but of being forced into
isolation.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ American_Suicides_Reached_All-Time_High_Last
Year,_CDC_Data_Shows⠀⇛
Suicides have risen in the United States for the
second straight year, new data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention shows. In 2022,
there were nearly 50,000 estimated deaths
attributed to suicide in the U.S. An increase in
suicide was found across most demographics, but
numbers did decline for Native Americans as well as
people between the ages of 10 to 24.
# ⚓ CDC ☛ Suicide_Data_and_Statistics⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ UM_nurses_seek_metal_detectors_after
gun_incident_as_more_hospitals_battle_violence⠀⇛
The rate for nonfatal occupational injuries and
illnesses involving days away from work resulting
from intentional injury by other person in the
private health care and social assistance industry
was 10.4 per 10,000 full-time workers in 2019, up
from 6.4 in 2011. This is nearly five times higher
than in overall private industry, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Microplastics_found_in_human_hearts_for_first
time,_alarming_new_study_finds⠀⇛
The alarming find was made by a team of scientists
from Beijing Anzhen Hospital in China, who analyzed
the heart tissue of 15 patients who underwent
cardiovascular surgery, according to the study
published by the American Chemical Society.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_Sacklers_woulda_gotten_away_with_it_if
it_wasn’t_for_those_darned_meddling_feds⠀⇛
The saga of the Sacklers, a multigenerational
billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-
peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the
wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered
lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions,
profit handsomely, and evade justice.
But there’s an unexpected twist to this tale. After
the Sacklers procured a sham bankruptcy that denied
their victims the right to sue while leaving their
fortune largely intact, the Supreme Court – yes,
this Supreme Court – saw through the scam and froze
the process, pending a full hearing: [...]
# ⚓ NPR ☛ An_eating_disorders_chatbot_offered_dieting_advice,
raising_fears_about_AI_in_health⠀⇛
Maxwell shared her concerns on social media,
helping launch an online controversy which led NEDA
to announce on May 30 that it was indefinitely
disabling Tessa. Patients, families, doctors and
other experts on eating disorders were left stunned
and bewildered about how a chatbot designed to help
people with eating disorders could end up
dispensing diet tips instead.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Macworld ☛ Apple’s_vendor_specs_listed_for_Michigan
ed_initiative⠀⇛
“I have been teaching various computer classes or
computer related classes since 1994,” Randall said.
“For the past four years, I have been teaching in
labs that have been operating Windows 3.1, 95 and
98. For these years, I have been hearing from a few
other teachers, but mostly from IT professionals,
that Windows is very powerful. To be honest, I
haven’t seen it. As a teacher, all the of the
multimedia applications that I have run seem to
operate best on a Mac.”
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Before_a_Bot_Steals_Your_Job,_It_Will_Steal
Your_Name⠀⇛
As generative AI continues to advance, expect a
deluge of new human-named bots in the coming years,
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a computer-science
professor at Brown University, told me. The names
are yet another way to make bots seem more
believable and real. “There’s a difference between
what you expect from a ‘help assistant’ versus a
bot named Tessa,” Katy Steinmetz, the creative and
project director of the naming agency Catchword,
told me. These names can have a malicious effect,
but in other instances, they are simply annoying or
mundane—a marketing ploy for companies to try to
influence how you think about their products. The
future of AI may or may not involve a bot taking
your job, but it will very likely involve one
taking your name.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ California_allows_robo-taxis_to_expand_and_emergency
responders_aren’t_happy⠀⇛
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities
Commission, or CPUC, voted 3-1 to let self-driving
car companies expand their programs and start
charging passengers like taxis.
The build-up before the Commission’s vote Thursday
was tense. Public comment lasted more than six
hours. Much of that testimony was about how
autonomous vehicles have impeded emergency
operations in the city.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“An_AI’s_Picture
Paints_a_Thousand_Lies:_Designating_Responsibility_for_Visual
Libel,”⠀⇛
Two decades later, the technology to construct such
scenes has gone from a feat of amazing
cinematographic wizardry to common internet filler.
Kendrick Lamar used deepfake technology to morph
his image into that of “O.J. Simpson, Kanye West,
Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and
Nipsey Hussle.” In March 2023, a photograph of
“Pope Francis wearing a big white Balenciaga-style
puffer jacket” became an internet staple.
Unsurprisingly, synthetic media has also been used
for military disinformation. In the Russian war
against Ukraine, a video depicting Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordering Ukrainian
troops to lay down their arms and surrender
appeared both on social media and broadcast briefly
on Ukrainian news. Some synthetic content has
already found commercial adoptions such as the
replacement of South Korean news anchor Kim Joo-Ha
with a synthetic look-alike on South Korean
television channel MBN, or one company’s
introduction of internet influencer Lil Miquela, an
alleged nineteen-year-old, as their spokesperson.
In reality, Miquela is an entirely artificial
avatar created by AI media agency Brud. She has
over 3 million Instagram followers and has
participated in brand campaigns since 2016. She is
expected to earn Brud in excess of $1 million in
the coming year for her sponsored posts.
# ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ Introducing_My_Upcoming_Book_About
Reliability_Engineering_Mindset⠀⇛
Instead of repeating the technical details which
are one Google or ChatGPT query away, this book
tries to build a more timeless mental model and
attitude towards reliability.
The idea is to take you from knowing nothing about
service levels to using them as a tool to measure
and improve reliability.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Llama/Unix⠀⇛
Llama was developed with the R&D budget of Meta.
Like Unix, it was first generally accessible to the
academic community. Now, it’s more permissively
licensed for commercial use (although there are
still restrictions).
Is Llama Unix? If so, then what will be the Linux
of Llama? A fully permissive license and truly
open-source development (maybe with its own BDFL —
Benevolent Dictator for Life).
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Tech_advocacy_groups_want_a_zero-trust
framework_to_protect_the_public_from_AI⠀⇛
The framework is a response to a bevy of suggested
frameworks by private companies on responsible AI
use and regulation as well as more general efforts
from Congress and the White House. Last month, top
AI companies including Google, Amazon, Meta, and
Open AI agreed to voluntary safety commitments that
included allowing independent security experts to
test their systems.
But authors of the “Zero Trust AI Governance”
framework say that the solutions the private sector
have volunteered aren’t enough and the frameworks
they put forth “forestall action with lengthy
processes, hinge on overly complex and hard-to-
enforce regimes and foist the burden of
accountability onto those who have already suffered
harm.”
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ In_The_Age_Of_Culling⠀⇛
Discussing the dumb thing CNET did in an effort to
please the Google Gods: Don’t cull old news content
to improve your SEO ranking. That’s your history!
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Microsoft_SQL_Server_2022_preview_mode_is_avaiable
for_RHEL_9_and_Ubuntu_22.04 [Ed: This is not really a port,
it is DrawBridge, and it's proprietary software from a
company that attacks Linux. Avoid.]⠀⇛
The preview mode for SQL Server 2022 is only
available in its Evaluation edition, which last for
180 days that started on July 27. It now supports
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Lost_in_translation:_Microsoft_forced_to_pull
update_due_to_language_issue⠀⇛
Microsoft has been forced to pull an update it
issued as part of its August Patch Tuesday after it
was found that the patch in question, meant to fix
a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange
Server, would not install properly on non-English
systems.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Exchange_updates_pulled_after
breaking_non-English_installs⠀⇛
Microsoft has pulled Microsoft Exchange Server’s
August security updates from Windows Update after
finding they break Exchange on non-English
installs.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft:_Codesys_PLC_bugs_could
be_exploited_to_‘shut_down_power_plants’⠀⇛
Fifteen bugs in Codesys’ industrial control
systems software could be exploited to shut
down power plants or steal information from
critical infrastructure environments, experts
have claimed.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Cyber_Safety_Review_Board_to
analyze_cloud_security_in_wake_of_Microsoft_[breach]⠀⇛
The Cyber Safety Review Board — a public/
private entity established via presidential
executive order in 2021 in the wake of the
SolarWinds breach and launched in early 2022
— will review the incident as part of a
broader look at the “malicious targeting of
cloud computing environments” and “focus on
approaches government, industry, and Cloud
Service Providers (CSPs) should employ to
strengthen identity management and
authentication in the cloud,” the agency said
in a statement.
The operation [breaching] top U.S. officials’
emails, announced in July but detected in
June by security staff at the U.S. State
Department, spurred heavy criticism of
Microsoft, particularly because evidence of
the breach was only apparent if customers
paid for a premium logging tier. Microsoft
has since announced that customers will have
access to expanded logging and storage
capability at no additional cost.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ US_cyber_safety_board_to_investigate
cloud_security_and_[Microsoft]_Exchange_Online_breach⠀⇛
The Cyber Safety Review Board has launched an
investigation into the cybersecurity threats
facing cloud service providers. The probe by
the CSRB was first reported by Bloomberg late
Thursday and confirmed today.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Discloses_Codesys_Flaws_Allowing_Shutdown_of
Industrial_Operations,_Spying⠀⇛
Over a dozen Codesys vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft
researchers can be exploited to shut down industrial processes or
deploy backdoors.
§ Linux Foundation⠀➾
* ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces_Keynote_Speakers_for_Open
Source_Summit_Europe_2023⠀⇛
Open Source Summit is a global conference that hosts a
collection of microconferences, mini-summits, and co-located
events for the open source community. Developers,
technologists, and community leaders unite at Open Source
Summit every year in North America, Europe, and Asia to
collaborate, innovate, and help advance a sustainable open
source ecosystem.
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (intel-microcode,
kernel, and php-dompdf), Fedora (linux-firmware, OpenImageIO,
and php), Oracle (aardvark-dns, kernel, linux-firmware, python-
flask, and python-werkzeug), SUSE (container-suseconnect,
go1.19, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-base,
gstreamer-plugins-good, java-11-openjdk, kernel-firmware,
kubernetes1.24, openssl-1_1, poppler, python-scipy, qatengine,
ucode-intel, util-linux, and vim), and Ubuntu (dotnet6,
dotnet7, php-dompdf, and velocity-tools).
* ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ CISA:_Review_Of_The_Attacks_Associated_with_Lapsus$_And
Related_Threat_Groups_Report⠀⇛
Beginning in late 2021 and continuing late into 2022, a
globally active, extortion-focused cyber threat actor group
attacked dozens of well-known companies and government agencies
around the world. It penetrated corporate networks, stole
source code, demanded payments while rarely following up,
lodged political messages in shadowy online forums, and swiftly
moved on to its next targets. The cyberattacks were not the
work of a nation-state actor, nor did they always involve
particularly complex or advanced tooling or methods. Yet the
attacks were consistently effective against some of the most
well-resourced and well-defended companies in the world. These
headline-grabbing incidents were perpetrated by a loosely
organized threat actor group known as Lapsus$. Lapsus$
exploited systemic ecosystem weaknesses to infiltrate and
extort organizations, sometimes appearing to do so for nothing
more than attention and public notoriety.
* ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ HHS_HC3:_Multi-Factor_Authentication_&_Smishing⠀⇛
HHS Health Center Cybersecurity Center (HC3) has published a
new informational handout and guidance on multi-factor
authentication (MFA) and smishing. It includes statistics and
suggestions for dealing with common obstacles to
implementation.
* ⚓ CBC ☛ Nearly_1.5_million_affected_by_data_breach_at_Alberta_Dental
Service_Corporation⠀⇛
A significant data breach has compromised the personal
information of about 1.47 million Albertans, the Alberta Dental
Service Corporation said Thursday.
In a statement, ADSC said certain data from public dental
benefits programs it administers for the provincial government
was implicated in a recent cybersecurity breach.
ADSC learned it was the victim of a ransomware attack and
called in cybersecurity experts to assist with containment,
remediation, and to conduct a comprehensive forensic
investigation into the nature and extent of the incident.
* ⚓ CT:_New_Haven_Board_of_Education_victim_of_$6_million_cyber_theft⠀⇛
The city of New Haven suffered a $6 million theft in a cyber
attack earlier this year it was announced Thursday. To date,
law enforcement officials have recovered over half the money.
Officials said the cyber attack targeted the Board of
Education’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer
in what was described as a “business email compromise.” Thieves
got access to the CEO’s email in late May. In June, they made
six successful and one failed attempts to steal money by
watching conversations and inserting themselves in the
discussion to steal money.
* ⚓ Notorious_phishing_platform_shut_down,_arrests_in_international_police
operation⠀⇛
A notorious ‘phishing-as-a-service’ (PaaS) platform known as
‘16shop’ has been shut down in a global investigation
coordinated by INTERPOL, with Indonesian authorities arresting
its operator and one of its facilitators, with another arrested
in Japan.
The three arrests, which concluded with actions against a
suspect last month, was made possible due to the intensive
intelligence-sharing between the INTERPOL General Secretariat’s
cybercrime directorate, national law enforcement in Indonesia,
Japan and the United States and private sector partners
including Cyber Defense Institute, Group-IB, Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 and Trend Micro, with added support from Cybertoolbelt.
The PaaS platform sold ‘phishing kits’ to hackers seeking to
defraud Internet users through email scams where victims
typically receive an email with a pdf file or link that
redirects to a site requesting the victims’ credit card or
other personally identifiable information. This information is
then stolen and used to extract money from the victims.
Phishing is considered the most prevalent cyber threat in the
world, and it is estimated that up to 90 per cent of data
breaches are linked to successful phishing attacks, making it a
major source of stolen credentials and information.
* ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ White_House_National_Cyber_Director_requests
feedback_on_open-source_software_security⠀⇛
Last week, the White House said it would launch a Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency competition focused on using
artificial intelligence to fix bugs created, in particular, by
open-source software.
* ⚓ Tech Times ☛ US_Government_Launches_Cyber_Contest_to_Harness_AI_for
National_Security⠀⇛
The White House launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to
use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and fix security
vulnerabilities in the U.S. government’s digital infrastructure
in response to hackers’ growing use of AI.
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Say_Hello_to_Downfall,_Another_Data-Leaking_Security
Hole_in_Several_Years_of_Intel_Chips⠀⇛
[BLACK HAT] Googlers have lately found not one but two more
security vulnerabilities in Intel and AMD processors that can
be exploited to steal sensitive data from a vulnerable
computer’s memory.
* ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ The_Inability_to_Simultaneously_Verify_Sentience,
Location,_and_Identity⠀⇛
Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper: [...]
* ⚓ IT Wire ☛ UK_electoral_body_breached_through_Microsoft_Exchange_Server:
claim⠀⇛
An unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server appears
to have been the entry point for the attackers who breached the
systems of the UK Electoral Commission, a fact disclosed by the
agency on Wednesday 10 months after it was spotted.
* ⚓ Google ☛ Protecting_Chrome_Traffic_with_Hybrid_Kyber_KEM⠀⇛
Teams across Google are working hard to prepare the web for the
migration to quantum-resistant cryptography.
* § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
o ⚓ Futurism ☛ CAPTCHAs_are_officially_over.⠀⇛
As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the
researchers found that despite CAPTCHAs having “evolved
in terms of sophistication and diversity” over roughly
two decades, techniques to “defeat or bypass CAPTCHAs”
have also vastly improved.
“If left unchecked, bots can perform these nefarious
actions at scale,” the paper reads.
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Want_to_pwn_a_satellite?_Turns_out_it’s
surprisingly_easy⠀⇛
In a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in
Las Vegas, Johannes Willbold, a PhD student at Germany’s
Ruhr University Bochum, explained he had been
investigating the security of satellites. He studied
three types of orbital machinery and found that many were
utterly defenseless against remote takeover because they
lack the most basic security systems.
o ⚓ Johannes Willbold ☛ Space_Odyssey:_An_Experimental_Software
Security_Analysis_of_Satellites⠀⇛
Abstract—Satellites are an essential aspect of our modern
society and have contributed significantly to the way we
live today, most notable through modern
telecommunications, global positioning, and Earth
observation. In recent years, and especially in the wake
of the New Space Era, the number of satellite deployments
has seen explosive growth. Despite its critical
importance, little academic research has been conducted
on satellite security and, in particular, on the security
of onboard firmware. This lack likely stems from by now
outdated assumptions on achieving security by obscurity,
effectively preventing meaningful research on satellite
firmware.
In this paper, we first provide a taxonomy of threats
against satellite firmware. We then conduct an
experimental security analysis of three real-world
satellite firmware images. We base our analysis on a set
of real-world attacker models and find several security-
critical vulnerabilities in all analyzed firmware images.
The results of our experimental security assessment show
that modern in-orbit satellites suffer from different
software security vulnerabilities and often a lack of
proper access protection mechanisms. They also underline
the need to overcome prevailing but obsolete assumptions.
To substantiate our observations, we also performed a
survey of 19 professional satellite developers to obtain
a comprehensive picture of the satellite security
landscape.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Pornhub_Sues_Texas_Over_Age_Verification_Law⠀⇛
In the complaint, the plaintiffs write that the act
employs “the least effective and yet also the most
restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’ stated purpose
of allegedly protecting minors,” and that minors can
easily use VPNs or Tor; on-device content filtering would
be a better method of restricting access to porn for
children, they write. “But such far more effective and
far less restrictive means don’t really matter to Texas,
whose true aim is not to protect minors but to squelch
constitutionally protected free speech that the State
disfavors.”
o ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Driverless_cars_can_now_operate_24/7_in
San_Francisco⠀⇛
Previously, both firms were only allowed to offer their
services under certain conditions. Cruise was authorized
to provide fared passenger service in limited areas of
San Francisco from 10 pm to 6 am without the presence of
a safety driver and non-fared passenger service
throughout San Francisco at any time without the presence
of a safety driver.
o ⚓ The San Fancisco Standard ☛ San_Franciscans_Are_Having_Sex_in
Robotaxis,_and_Nobody_Is_Talking_About_It⠀⇛
How much can you get away with in an autonomous vehicle
if they’re effectively window-covered hotel rooms on
wheels full of cameras that never stop recording?
“It was really funny because [the Cruise] got quite hot
and fogged up to the point that the windshield was
completely fogged over—in any other context, in any other
vehicle, that would be an actual problem,” Alex said.
Unfortunately for the debaucherous among us, robotaxi
companies currently use pretty extensive camera
surveillance inside and outside of their cars.
o ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ China’s_surveillance_cameras_with_‘Skin_Color
Analytics’_raise_concerns:_Report⠀⇛
Dahua’s ICC Open Platform guide for “human body
characteristics” includes “skin colour/complexion,”
according to the report. In what Dahua calls a “data
dictionary,” the company says that the “skin colour
types” that Dahua analytic tools would target are
“yellow,” “black,” and “white.” VOA Mandarin verified
this on Dahua’s Chinese website, VOA reported.
* § Confidentiality⠀➾
o ⚓ Max Levchin ☛ Shamir_Secret_Sharing⠀⇛
The key in question decrypts PayPal’s master payment
credential table – also known as the giant store of
credit card and bank account numbers. Without access to
payment credentials, PayPal doesn’t really have a
business per se, seeing how we are supposed to facilitate
payments, and that’s really hard to do if we no longer
have access to the 100+ million credit card numbers our
users added over the last year of insane growth.
This is the story of a catastrophic software bug I
briefly introduced into the PayPal codebase that almost
cost us the company (or so it seemed, in the moment.)
I’ve told this story a handful of times, always swearing
the listeners to secrecy, and surprisingly it does not
appear to have ever been written down before. 20+ years
since the incident, it now appears instructive and a
little funny, rather than merely extremely embarrassing.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_videos_responsible_for_online_harassment_and
physical_attacks,_claim_Ethiopia’s_LGBTQ+_community⠀⇛
In Ethiopia, homosexual acts are punishable by up to 15 years
in prison. The East African country whose population of close
to 120 million is split between Christianity and Islam is
largely conservative, and while LGBTQ+ people have long
suffered abuse, activists say the hostility has reached a new
level.
“TikTok is being used to incite violence,” said Bahiru Shewaye,
cofounder of House of Guramayle. Bahiru said several videos
have been reported to TikTok but “we are still waiting for them
to take action.”
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Why_Putin’s_Russia_cannot_accept_its_borders⠀⇛
To understand Russia’s current obsession with Ukraine, it is
important to recognize that Russia was never a state in the
common usage of the term. Unlike the modern Turkish state that
emerged from the Ottoman Empire, or Great Britain, which
acquired and lost an empire, Russia never had an identity
separate from empire. As British historian Geoffrey Hosking
observed, “Britain had an empire, but Russia was an empire.”
* ⚓ ABC ☛ Thousands_evacuated_in_Polish_town_after_builder_uncovers_WWII
bomb⠀⇛
World War II bombs are still regularly found during earthworks
in Poland, which was the site of heavy fighting
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ The_Azadi_Briefing:_Taliban,_Pakistan_Continue_To_Wrangle_Over
Militants⠀⇛
The decree is part of the Taliban’s response to Islamabad’s
accusations that Afghan fighters are involved in attacks on
Pakistani forces by the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and
other jihadist groups who shelter inside Afghanistan.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_to_reach_Gen_Z_on_Tiktok:_Six_of_the_best_pages
publishers_can_learn_from⠀⇛
More young people now get news from social media than they do
from publishers themselves, according to research from the
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Further research by Ofcom reveals one in three 16–24-year olds
in the UK use Tiktok to access news [sic].
* ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Indiana_Man_Indicted_in_Threats_Made_to
Michigan_Municipal_Clerk_Following_2020_Election⠀⇛
Andrew Nickels, of Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis, appeared
Friday in federal court in Detroit on one count of making a
threatening interstate communication, the U.S. Justice
Department said in a release.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ BBC_News_Russian:_Russian_officer_flees_to_Lithuania_and
requests_political_asylum_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ivan Korolev, a lieutenant in the Russian armed forces,
illegally crossed the border into Lithuania and requested
political asylum, reports BBC News Russian, who Korolev himself
contacted.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Cruel_and_inhumane’:_The_US-Mexico_floating_border_is
equipped_with_‘circular_saws’⠀⇛
Videos shared on social media on August 8 provide a closer look
at the floating border barrier installed by Texas Governor Greg
Abbott and aimed at keeping illegal migrants from entering the
US. These controversial installations, near which a body was
recently found, are equipped with spiky metal discs
manufactured by Cochrane Global.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘They_effectively_stop_the_economy’:_Deadly_protests_erupt
over_Cape_Town_taxi_strike⠀⇛
Violence has erupted all around Cape Town following last week’s
announcement of a disruptive taxi strike against new local
legislation allowing authorities to impound irregular vehicles.
In the absence of this critical mode of transportation,
commuters living in nearby townships have been left stranded –
an issue that has primarily impacted Cape Town’s Black
residents.
* § War in Ukraine⠀➾
o ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_destroys_20_Ukrainian_drones_over
Crimea,_defence_ministry_says⠀⇛
Russian forces destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones launched
onto the Crimean Peninsula early on Saturday, Russia’s
defence ministry said. There were no casualties and no
damage as a result of the attempted attack, the ministry
said on the Telegram messaging app. It was not
immediately clear what was targeted in the reported
attacks on the Russian-annexed peninsula.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Zelensky_fires_heads_of_military_enlistment_in_all
Ukrainian_regions⠀⇛
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday that the
heads of all Ukraine’s regional military recruitment
centres were being dismissed from their jobs amid
concerns about corruption. The mass sacking came as
Ukraine urged civilians near the northeastern front line
to evacuate on Thursday as Russia ramped up an assault to
capture territory already seized once during the
conflict.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘We_pay_taxes,_but_can’t_get_loans’_–_Ukrainian_businesses
in_Lithuania_struggle_to_expand⠀⇛
Ukrainians in Lithuania complain that they have no way to
develop their businesses because banks refuse to give
them loans and government support is limited.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Free_Boris_Kagarlitsky_—_Katrina_vanden_Heuvel⠀⇛
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Veteran_CIA_Analyst_on_Russia_Ray_McGovern_Has_Never
Been_More_Scared_of_Nuclear_Catastrophe⠀⇛
McGovern, who briefed seven US presidents, gives a
frightening dose of reality for the direction the world
is heading.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Woman_Killed_In_Russian_Strike_In_Ukraine’s_Kharkiv_As
Crimea_Reportedly_Targeted_By_Drones⠀⇛
Russia’s military continued to bombard a besieged town in
Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as Moscow reported drones had
targeted occupied Crimea.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ NATO_Training_Leaves_Ukrainian_Troops
‘Underprepared’_for_War⠀⇛
Western instructors don’t understand the kind of war or
enemy that we’re fighting, say Ukrainian soldiers
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_feeling_of_flames_all_around_me’_Russia’s_new_law
banning_gender_changes_has_made_life_unbearable_for_many_trans
people_—_but_emigration_isn’t_easy_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Video_shows_injured_Russian_soldiers_lying_on_tarmac
after_flight_delayed_due_to_Moscow_drone_attack_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Multiple Telegram channels shared a video Friday in which
a Russian soldier at a military airfield in the Rostov
region complains that numerous injured soldiers,
including some who are unable to walk, were left waiting
on the tarmac after their flight to Moscow was postponed
due to a drone attack on the city.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ BBC_and_Mediazona_confirm_30,003_Russian_soldiers_killed
in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Journalists from BBC News Russian and the independent
outlet Mediazona, working with a team of volunteers, have
used open sources to confirm the identities of 30,003
Russian soldiers who have died in the full-scale war
against Ukraine.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Containing_Lukashenko_In_an_effort_to_keep_Belarus_out
of_the_war_with_Russia,_Kyiv_may_encourage_the_rise_of_right-wing
opposition_in_Minsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
When the Russian military invaded Ukraine in February
2022, this was done partly from Belarusian territory. By
late March, however, those troops retreated back across
the Belarusian border, and Minsk has since been a
relatively demure partner to Russia, leaving warfare to
Moscow while Belarus itself struggled to regain its
economic balance, threatened by the collapse of oil
export to Ukraine. Meduza’s special correspondent
Elizaveta Antonova traces the precarious history of
Ukraine’s efforts to keep Belarus out of the war, and how
Kyiv’s pragmatic choice of allies has led Ukraine to
encourage the right-wing forces opposing Belarus’s
current president Alexander Lukashenko, rather than
establish ties with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s democratic
government-in-exile.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Three_women_in_Crimea_fined_and_forced_to_apologize_for
dancing_to_song_by_Ukrainian_singer_Verka_Serduchka_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Russian-controlled court in the Crimean city of Alushta
has fined three women for “discrediting” the Russian army
and forced them to apologize after they publicly danced
to a song by Ukrainian comedian and singer Verka
Serduchka.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Eight-year-old_boy_killed_in_Russian_missile_attack_on
Ukraine’s_Ivano-Frankivsk_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the morning of August 11, Russia carried out a
military strike on Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region,
reported the regional head Svitlana Onyshchuk. She said
that several people were injured and one child was killed
in the attack.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Courts_Write_Off_Debts_Of_Prisoners_Recruited_To
Fight_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia’s bailiff service has issued data on debt-relief
granted to former Russian inmates who served in the Storm
Z unit in the war in Ukraine.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ The_Ukrainian_cafe_serving_soldiers_free_food_and
motherly_love⠀⇛
Nataliia Bilovol’s cafe is not a normal pit stop. She and
her team serve up 2,500 free meals a day and loving
motherly care to Ukrainian soldiers.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Residents_of_village_in_occupied_Kherson_region_to_stop
receiving_insulin_unless_they_obtain_Russian_passport_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexander Dudka, the Russian-appointed head of the
village of Lazurne in the annexed part of the Kherson
region, said that village residents without Russian
passports will not be given medicine “purchased from the
Russian budget.” This was reported by the Telegram
channel Sirena.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Fixed-wing_UAV_blows_up_in_western_Moscow_near_bridge
over_Moskva_River._Intimidated_locals_share_footage_of_aftermath._—
Meduza⠀⇛
Muscovites heard a blast near the Zhivopisny Bridge over
the Moskva River this morning, when a UAV flying from the
direction of Istra, a western suburb of the Russian
capital, blew up in the area, shedding remnants over a
local park.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_fires_military_enlistment_chiefs_in_all
Ukrainian_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that the heads of all
of Ukraine’s regional military enlistment offices have
been dismissed.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US-Ukraine_space_project_taught_resilience,
innovation._Why_it’s_over.⠀⇛
A fruitful decadelong program of U.S.-Ukrainian
cooperation in space has ended, a victim of Russia’s war
against Ukraine and other forces.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Fires_Top_Military_Enlistment_Officers
After_Bribery_Scandal⠀⇛
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was removing all 24
regional recruitment chiefs, as corrupt draft evasion
schemes put the confidence of the public and Ukraine’s
Western backers at risk.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Debris_From_Downed_Missile_Fell_on_Kyiv_Hospital
Grounds,_Ukraine_Says⠀⇛
The Ukrainian Air Force said that three other missiles
were aimed at military airfields in the western part of
the country.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_citizen_Petr_Aven_slapped_with_U.S._sanctions⠀⇛
Russian businessman Petr Aven – who holds a Latvian
passport – was among four high-profile figures targeted
by fresh sanctions from Washington August 11.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Washington_Adds_Founders_Of_Russia’s_Alfa-Bank_To
Sanctions_List⠀⇛
The U.S. Treasury Department has added Russian tycoons
Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven — founders of Alfa-Bank —
to the sanctions list.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ If_Your_Country_Is_Falling_Apart,_the_Wagner
Group_Will_Be_There⠀⇛
The ouster of Mohamed Bazoum by Niger’s military presents
an important opportunity to Russia’s Wagner group.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ FAIR ☛ Vox’s_Student_Loan_‘Expert’_Is_Paid_by_Debt_Collectors⠀⇛
That Carey’s job is funded by corporations that stand to lose
so much from Biden’s cancellation of federal student loans
deserves a disclosure from Vox. Instead, the closest readers
get is Casey noting that when asked for comment, a loan
cancellation activist told him to “shill for student loan
companies elsewhere”—followed by his ludicrous rebuttal that
student loan companies “haven’t made federal student loans
since 2010.”
* ⚓ EFF ☛ Federal_Judge_Upholds_Arizonans’_Right_to_Record_the_Police⠀⇛
A coalition of news organizations and the ACLU of Arizona sued
state and county government officials in federal court arguing
that the law was unconstitutional. EFF filed an amicus brief in
support of the plaintiffs in the district court.
We are happy to report that the court in the case, Arizona
Broadcasters Association v. Mayes, recently entered a
stipulated permanent injunction in favor of the plaintiffs,
pursuant to a settlement between the parties. The order
prevents Arizona government officials from enforcing the law.
The court’s order includes strong language in favor of the
right to record the police. The order declares that the law
violates the First Amendment because “there is a clearly
established right to record law enforcement officers engaged in
the exercise of their official duties in public places.” This
conclusion reflects Ninth Circuit precedent (of which Arizona
is a member), as well as that of several other circuits.
* ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Micah_Herskind⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Wildfires_in_Maui_prove_once_again_that_the_world_must
face_the_dawn_of_the_“pyrocene.”⠀⇛
You might think those conditions would have been alleviated by
Dora: Hurricanes usually mean water, and wet things do not burn
as easily. But even this dynamic is shifting. An investigation
by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa found that
2018’s Hurricane Lane brought both fire and rain to Hawaii at
the same time, complicating the emergency response—dry and
windy conditions spread the fire on the edges of the storm,
while elsewhere, rainfall led to landslides. In 2020,
researchers pointed out that Lane was only one of three
documented cases of a hurricane worsening wildfire risk. With
Dora, we likely have a fourth.
* ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Corporate_Lobbyists_Are_Fighting_Heat_and_Wildfire
Protections_for_Workers⠀⇛
Fossil fuel and corporate lobbying groups blocking action on
climate change are also fighting labor protections meant to
safeguard workers from its intensifying effects. As record-high
temperatures kill the workers who grow our food, deliver our
packages, and build our homes, industry lobbying has stalled
heat safety measures in Congress and at least six states,
according to a Lever review.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Maui’s_Deadly_Wildfires_Burn_Through_Lahaina_–_It’s_a
Reminder_of_the_Growing_Risk_to_Communities_That_Once_Seemed Safe⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Hoax!⠀⇛
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Typhoon_Khanun_Kills_At_Least_Three_In_Russia’s_Far_East⠀⇛
Typhoon Khanun has caused floods in seven districts and left at
least three people dead in Russia’s Far Eastern region of
Primorye.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “We’re_Living_the_Climate_Emergency”:_Native_Hawaiian
Kaniela_Ing_on_Fires,_Colonialism_&_Banyan_Tree⠀⇛
We speak with Kaniela Ing, national director of the Green New
Deal Network and seventh-generation Kanaka Maoli, Native
Hawaiian, about the impact of this week’s devastating wildfires
and their relationship to climate change. The catastrophic
fires have destroyed nearly all buildings in the historic
section of Lahaina, which once served as the capital of the
Hawaiian Kingdom. What is now being described as the worst
natural disaster in Hawaii’s history was created by conditions
such as dry vegetation, hurricane-level winds and developers
redirecting water and building over wetlands, which are
directly related to the climate crisis. “Anyone in power who
denies climate change, to me, are the arsonists here,” says
Ing. “We’re living the climate emergency.”
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Unprecedented”:_Fire_Expert_Says_Climate_&_Native
Vegetation_Changes_Fueled_Explosive_Maui_Wildfires⠀⇛
We speak to a fire scientist about how the climate emergency
fueled this week’s historic wildfires on the Hawaiian island of
Maui. “This is something that is absolutely unprecedented,”
says Clay Trauernicht, a professor in the Department of Natural
Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at
Mānoa, where he focuses on wildland fire management in Hawaii
and the Pacific. He explains how colonial landscape changes to
the islands — prioritizing monocrop agriculture and land use
for tourism — paired with the worsening atmospheric effects of
climate change have set the conditions that sparked the
devastating wildfires and allowed them to rage
indiscriminately.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Two_dead,_16_missing_in_Xi’an_mudslide⠀⇛
The mudslide, which also damaged two residences, was caused by
torrential rain.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ California_Lets_Self-Driving_Taxis_Loose_In_San
Francisco_All_Day_and_Night⠀⇛
After a grinding more-than-six-hour meeting late
Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission
agreed to allow self-driving cars courtesy of General
Motors and Google to go out at all hours of the day and
night throughout San Francisco. The commission voted 3-
to-1 in favor of the measure.
Now, robotaxi companies Cruise and Waymo are allowed
everywhere they please within San Francisco city limits,
without a safety driver present. Previously, Cruise was
limited to specific areas of the city from 10 p.m. to 6
a.m. without a safety driver present, but was allowed out
any time with a driver present. Waymo was similarly
allowed fared passenger service everywhere with a safety
driver.
o ⚓ Scott Feeney ☛ Bikes_and_public_transit_mean_freedom⠀⇛
For the supposed freedom of driving to be real, there
would need to be only a few people with cars. If only 1
in 50 city dwellers had cars, there would be enough space
for parking. Traffic wouldn’t back up. It would offer a
big advantage over everyone else in getting around
(provided that everyone else was prevented by law,
custom, or the threat of violence from getting in the
way). But as soon as car ownership becomes widespread,
that’s gone. The cars overwhelm the space. It’s a
geometry problem. It’s why 50 years ago, André Gorz
observed that “the car is a luxury good. And the essence
of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone
can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it.” By
coincidence, that same year, 1973, San Francisco passed
its Transit First policy.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ FTX_founder_Sam_Bankman-Fried_jailed⠀⇛
Sam_Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of bankrupt
crypto exchange FTX, is headed to jail after his bail was
revoked.
Driving the news: The judge listed a series of ways that
Bankman-Fried toed the limits of his bail conditions
during the hearing Friday afternoon in explaining his
decision.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Judge_Throws_Bankman-Fried_Back_in_Jail⠀⇛
According to reports coming from inside the courtroom,
Kaplan told the court that it was probable Bankman-Fried
had tried to “tamper with witnesses at least twice.” The
ex-FTX CEO was remanded to federal custody, where he is
slated to remain until his trial date, currently set for
Oct. 2. It’s currently unclear where he will be held, but
Inner City Press reported he could either be going to
Putnam County Correctional Facility or MDC-Brooklyn.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sam_Bankman-Fried_Sent_to_Jail_After_Judge
Revokes_Bail⠀⇛
Mr. Bankman-Fried, 31, had been under house arrest at his
parents’ home in Palo Alto, Calif., since he was arrested
in December on fraud charges stemming from FTX’s
implosion. But at a hearing on Friday, Judge Lewis A.
Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan said that
arrangement would have to end, after prosecutors argued
that Mr. Bankman-Fried had twice tried to interfere with
witnesses in the case, including by giving documents to
reporters.
o ⚓ El País ☛ FTX_founder_Sam_Bankman-Fried_jailed_in_New_York;_judge
says_crypto_mogul_tampered_with_witnesses⠀⇛
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sent to jail Friday to
await trial after a bail hearing for the fallen
cryptocurrency wiz left a judge convinced that he had
repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered Bankman-
Fried’s bail revoked after prosecutors said he’d tried to
harass a key witness in his fraud case last month when he
showed a journalist her private writings and in January
when he reached out to the general counsel for FTX with
an encrypted communication.
o ⚓ CBC ☛ U.S._judge_revokes_Sam_Bankman-Fried’s_bail,_saying_FTX
founder_tampered_with_witnesses⠀⇛
Kaplan said there was probable cause to believe Bankman-
Fried had tried to “tamper with witnesses at least twice”
since his December arrest, most recently by showing a
journalist the private writings of a former girlfriend
and key witness against him and in January when he
reached out to FTX’s general counsel with an encrypted
communication.
o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Atlantic_Joins_Forces_With_PBS⠀⇛
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, is the
new moderator of the PBS program Washington Week, which
will now be called Washington Week With The Atlantic. I
talked with Jeff about this new partnership, which
launches tomorrow night on PBS at 8 p.m. ET.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Solar_Boat_Makes_Waves⠀⇛
The two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they
buy it, and the day they sell it. At least, that’s the
common saying among people who actually spend money to
buy a boat. [saveitforparts], on the other hand, looks
like he’s going to have many more great days on this boat
than that since he cobbled it together nearly for free,
and he won’t even need to purchase any fuel for it since
it runs on solar power.
o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Energy_Dept._Announces_$1.2_Billion_to_Advance
Controversial_Climate_Technology⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that
a subsidiary of U.S.-based oil company Occidental
Petroleum will receive a grant to develop a commercial-
scale direct air capture (DAC) facility in southern
Texas.
It is one of two DAC projects selected under a $1.2
billion federal program to scale up DAC, which the Energy
Department has called the “world’s largest investment in
engineered carbon removal in history.”
o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ MPs_Gifted_£4,200_Tennis_Tickets_by_Oil_Giant_BP⠀⇛
BP donated tennis tickets worth a total of more than
£4,200 to a government minister and two MPs,
parliamentary records reveal.
The oil and gas supermajor, which recorded bumper profits
of £22 billion last year, gifted Wimbledon tickets to
Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Westminster leader
Stephen Flynn, and Minister for Tech and the Digital
Economy Paul Scully, worth £1,500 and £1,560
respectively.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ As_Fires_Destroy_Native_Hawaiian_Archive_in_Maui,
Mutual_Aid_Efforts_Are_Launched_to_Help_Lahaina⠀⇛
In Lahaina, the area in west Maui that is of historical
importance to Indigenous people, entire neighborhoods
were wiped out by this week’s historic wildfires,
including the Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center, which
had a massive archive that was lost to the flames. We are
joined by Noelani Ahia, a Kanaka Maoli activist, who
describes the community’s reaction to the destruction of
Indigenous cultural documents, art and artifacts. “In the
blink of an eye, it was burned to the ground, and all of
those things were lost,” says Ahia. She also describes
mutual aid efforts now underway and notes, “The people
on the ground know what the community needs.”
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Voyage_of_the_Damned⠀⇛
Aid to Maui victims and their pets can be sent to the
Hawaii Community Foundation and Maui Humane Society.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “We’re_Not_Going_to_Die_This_Way”:_Father
Describes_Jumping_into_Ocean_with_5_Kids_to_Escape_Maui_Fire⠀⇛
From Maui, we hear from a survivor of Hawaii’s historic
wildfires, which have taken at least 55 lives to date.
Vixay Phonxaylinkham, a resident of California, was on
vacation with his wife and five children when they had to
jump into the ocean to escape the raging fires and
floated on a piece of wood for hours. “We stuck together.
We held on. We’re not going to die this way. We’re here.
We’re alive,” said Phonxaylinkham.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ BORROW_MONEY_FOR_FREE_(If_You_Already_Have_Them)⠀⇛
I set some money aside in funds each month, but I also have a
savings account that I keep at about €5,000. I call it my
buffer account. This is where I borrow money from when I need
it. I can repay the loan at any rate I want, and there is no
interest or late fees. In a way I am my own bank for the
purpose of payday loans.
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_Building_The_First_Computers_For_Banking⠀⇛
If you’ve ever wondered where the term “banker’s hours” came
from, look back to the booming post-war economy of 1950s
America. That’s when banks were deluged with so many checks,
each of which had to be reconciled by hand, that they had to
shut their doors at 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, just to have
a hope of getting all the work done at a reasonable time. It
was time-consuming, laborious, error-prone work that didn’t
scale well, and something had to be done about it.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_bailiffs_reportedly_canceling_debts_of_former
prisoners_fighting_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian bailiffs have begun canceling the debts of former
prisoners fighting in Ukraine as part of Defense Ministry
units, the independent outlet Verstka reported on Friday,
citing Federal Bailiff Service files.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ South_Africa_Supports_Iran’s_Entry_Into_BRICS⠀⇛
Iran is one of more than 20 countries formally seeking to join
the economic bloc currently comprising Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Departed_Vice_exec_Katie_Drummond_named_Wired’s_global
editorial_director⠀⇛
The appointment comes the week after Drummond and three other
senior executives left Vice following the company’s acquisition
out of bankruptcy by a consortium of its lenders.
Wired parent company Condé Nast said Drummond will be
responsible “for overseeing the vision and content across all
platforms… in addition to leading editorial teams in Italy,
Japan, Mexico, the UK and US”.
* ⚓ [Repeat] DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Libera_Chat_Is_a_Toxic_Troll_Farm.
Bonus:_Code_of_Conduct_Ticket_Filed_Regarding_Fedora_Moderator
“Khaytsus”.⠀⇛
It’s important to note that toxic individuals operating a troll
farm and excluding themselves from their own Code of Conduct
only applies to “Liberia” Chat. Their ban makes no difference
anywhere else even if they could ultimately enforce it somehow.
That’s one reason why they want to replace IRC with something
else. Then they can forcibly ban you from EVERY room on the
service, because it’s all centralized, even if the room
moderators don’t approve.
Authoritarians always want ultimate power and the last say on
every decision.
* ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_Is_Meta_Blocking_All_News_Links?_Because_Bill_C-18
Covers_All_News_Outlets⠀⇛
Blocking of news links on Facebook and Instagram in Canada has
becomes increasingly widespread in recent days, leading to a
growing number of public comments from media outlets and
reporters expressing surprise or shock about the scope of the
link blocking. Indeed, outlets with blocked links include
university student newspapers, radio stations, and foreign news
outlets. While there may have been some errors (Facebook has a
page to seek review of any blocked link decision), the
inclusion of a very wide range of Canadian and foreign news
outlets is no accident. Rather, it reflects the government’s
Bill C-18 approach, which effectively covers all news outlets
worldwide whose links are accessed in Canada. The Canadian
government could have adopted a more targeted approach – for
example, limiting the scope to news links from those news
outlets eligible to negotiate agreements with Internet
platforms under the law – but it instead went for the broadest
possible approach that includes foreign news outlets with
little or no connection to Canada.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russia_Will_Launch_Its_First_Mission_to_the_Moon_in
Decades_Tomorrow⠀⇛
Luna-25 is due to lift off on Friday from Vostochny Cosmodrome
in the Russian Far East, just a few weeks after India launched
its lunar lander, Chandrayaan-3, from Satish Dhawan Space
Centre in the Bay of Bengal. Advertisement
Both missions will try to land on the Moon’s south pole on, or
around, August 23. It’s not yet clear which nation will get to
the lunar surface first.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Story_We_Shouldn’t_Forget:_On_Nixon,_Trump_and_the
Perils_of_Pardoning_the_Unpardonable⠀⇛
This week marked almost 50 years since Richard Nixon tersely
gave up the presidency after he was charged with obstruction of
justice, abuse of power, and other offenses likely familiar to
a mouthy, crooked real estate developer who later wrote the
disgraced leader he was nonetheless “a great man.” When Nixon
was pardoned for his crimes, many say the action paved the way
for the deplorable fan and wannabe tyrant now deemed somehow
both far lesser yet more pernicious than Tricky Dick ever was.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Activist_Gets_Six_Years_In_Prison_On_Charge_Of
Distributing_Fake_News_About_Armed_Forces⠀⇛
A court in the city of Mytishchi near Moscow sentenced
environmental activist Aleksandr Bakhtin to six years in prison
on August 11 on a charge of distributing fake news about the
Russian armed forces.
* ⚓ NPR ☛ The_plot_thickens:_The_battle_over_books_comes_at_a_cost⠀⇛
It’s something of a “new normal” here — as it is around the
nation. No longer are just books under fire, but also the
library administrators, teachers and long-beloved librarians
who are defending them. They’re being shouted down by parents,
vilified on billboards, reported to the police, and trolled
online, leaving many fearing for their safety.
“I had an actual death threat,” says Livingston Parish school
librarian Amanda Jones, her voice breaking as she recalls one
particular post: “We know where you work + live….u have a LARGE
target on ur back. Click… Click… See you soon.”
* ⚓ [Old] Stella Novus ☛ History_Erased:_The_6_Most_Heartbreaking
Archaeological_Destructions⠀⇛
Unfortunately, after the Taliban took control of the region,
they decided the Buddhas had to go. Their reasoning? They
considered the statues to be idolatrous and a violation of
their strict interpretation of Islamic law. Demolition began on
2 March 2001.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Regime_Concerned_Start_Of_New_School_Year_Could_Spark
Fresh_Protests_On_Anniversary_Of_Mahsa_Amini’s_Death⠀⇛
Subsequently, student councils across Iran reported an uptick
in the number of “telephone summons” for students likely to
stage protests. In some instances, when students failed to
respond, security forces reached out to their families.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Politico’s_Weird_Celebration_Of_1st_Amendment_Violations
When_It_Comes_To_Adult_Content⠀⇛
Here on Techdirt we’ve chronicled the rise of a bunch of
terrible age verification laws, including many focused
specifically on adult content. We’ve also highlighted how
MindGeek, the company behind a bunch of largest adult content
sites, including Pornhub, have started geoblocking entire
states in response to these problematic laws, while the Free
Speech Coalition has been suing to get these laws tossed out as
unconstitutional.
* ⚓ EFF ☛ The_U.S._Government_Wants_To_Control_Online_Speech_to_“Protect
Kids”⠀⇛
KOSA is fundamentally a censorship bill. Politicians are
justifying it by harping on something we all know—that there’s
content online that’s inappropriate for kids. But instead of
letting tricky questions about what online content is
appropriate at what age be decided by parents and families,
politicians are stepping in to override us.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_can’t_stand_the_goat,_but_I_hate_those_who_let_it_get_the
cabbage’_After_receiving_a_19-year_prison_sentence,_Alexey_Navalny_lays
into_the_liberal_opposition_and_independent_media_for_legitimizing_the
regime_they_should_have_resisted_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Navalny, the opposition politician sentenced to 19 years
in prison last week, has released his first extended piece of
writing since the trial, expressing a deep disappointment with
the past two decades of democratic politics in Russia. We’re
publishing the full English text of Navalny’s essay that first
appeared on his website under the title “My Fear and Loathing.”
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“The_European_Liability_Regime_For
Large_Language_Models”⠀⇛
“Is It a Platform? Is It a Search Engine? It’s Chat GPT!,” by
Prof. Beatriz Botero Arcila, just published in our symposium on
Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the
symposium coming in the next few days.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Federal_judge_warns_Trump’s_right_to_free_speech_“not
absolute”⠀⇛
The federal judge overseeing the case involving former
President_Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert_2020_election
results agreed Friday to the defense’s proposal for a more
limited scope of the protective order, but argued that Trump’s
right to free speech is “not absolute,” according to multiple
reports.
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§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ Taliban_intelligence_agents_detain_three_journalists_on_claims
they_reported_for_exiled_media⠀⇛
On Thursday, August 10, officials from the General Directorate
of Intelligence, the Taliban’s intelligence agency, stormed the
office of the independent Killid radio station in Jalalabad
city, in eastern Nangarhar province, and detained its manager
Faqirzai and reporter Saleh, according to the non-profit
Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)and a journalist with
knowledge of the situation who spoke to CPJ on the condition of
anonymity, citing fear of retaliation by the Taliban.
Separately, also on Thursday, Taliban intelligence operatives
entered offices of the independent Uranus TV network in Kunduz
city in northern Afghanistan and detained Hasib Hassas, a
journalist at the independent radio Salam Watandar, according
to the AFJC and another journalist who spoke with CPJ
anonymously due to fear of Taliban reprisal.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Journalist_group_changes_its_name_to_the
Indigenous_Journalists_Association_to_be_more_inclusive⠀⇛
The group that was founded in 1983 and now includes more than
950 members, mostly in the U.S., announced the name change at
its annual conference in Winnipeg, Canada. The decision was
made after Indigenous members voted 89-55 in favor of the name
change. About 400 Indigenous members were eligible to vote.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Media_Groups_Decry_Taliban_Arrests_Of_Journalists⠀⇛
“Such unprincipled arrests can be considered as pressure on
journalists,” said NAI, an Afghan media advocacy group, in a
statement on August 11.
“If such arrests continue, they will create an atmosphere of
fear for journalists and make freedom of expression and access
to information in Afghanistan a serious challenge.”
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Celebrity_hair,_makeup_and_nail_stylists:_How
the_Hollywood_strikes_have_affected_glam_squads⠀⇛
A world of hair, makeup and manicurists have been idled by the
Hollywood strikes at a time when they were still rebuilding
from the covid shutdowns. And many don’t have a Plan B. In more
than a dozen interviews with The Associated Press, many fear
they’ll lose their homes and health insurance. They’re not
alone as the writers and actors strikes drag on. The
entertainment industry has hundreds of journeyman job
descriptions impacted by the strikes, from script supervisors
to costume designers. Says one Los Angeles-based hair stylist:
“Hair is what I love. There’s really nothing else.”
* ⚓ Gannett ☛ University_of_Michigan_Graduate_Employees_Organization
rejects_latest_contract_proposal⠀⇛
Several of the union’s concerns were still not met in the
university’s latest proposal, said Amir Fleischmann, GEO
contract committee chair, prior to the Friday meeting. Voting
took place in person and online. With nearly 500 GEO members in
attendance during a membership meeting Thursday night and
almost 1,000 total votes cast, “it was a pretty clear, decisive
margin. … We voted that the Aug. 2 offer was not good enough,
that we needed a little bit more.”
* ⚓ Pimoroni ☛ Plundered!⠀⇛
Our Sheffield warehouse was plundered in the dead of night, and
the thieves made off with a good haul of stuff. While we’ll be
circumspect about the details, we can say they were pretty
professional how they went about getting in and used some basic
but effective ninja skills to exfiltrate the wares.
Once the alarms tripped, the police were on-scene within
minutes, but the tea-leaves had vanished into the night. While
we’ve mostly tidied up from the ordeal, it’s a bunch of stress
and extra things to do that no one needs. I think that’s the
feel of the last few years for most people though!
* ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Hollywood_Writers_and_Actors_Are_Striking_to_Make
Globalization_Work_for_Them⠀⇛
Writers and actors are also on edge because of the threat
poised by studio deployment of artificial intelligence. The
writers fear it will degrade the script-making process while
many actors worry that AI has the potential to capture and
manipulate an actor’s image, thus threatening an Orwellian
future unless the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) wins a set of well-
defined guardrails protecting their personae.
* ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Taliban’s_treatment_of_women_is_a_crime
against_humanity,_says_ex-UK_PM_Gordon_Brown⠀⇛
Gordon Brown, the former prime minister of the UK and the UN’s
special envoy for global education, has called the Taliban’s
attack on women’s rights and lives a “crime against humanity.”
Brown slammed the Taliban during an interview with BBC Radio 4
on Thursday. He spoke at length about the kind of restrictions
and exclusions women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan have been
forced to endure.
The Taliban has put several restrictions on women since it took
over Afghanistan in August 2021. Most of its diktats target
women and their presence in public life.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Lawsuit:_Deputy_Tried_To_Shoot_‘Charging’_Pomeranian,_Shot
Woman_On_Porch_Instead⠀⇛
Cops love shooting dogs almost more than they like casually
violating constitutional rights. Even the DOJ called cop-on-dog
violence an “epidemic.”
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Some_WI_Lawmakers_Have_Changed_Their_Minds_About_Letting
Undocumented_Immigrants_Drive⠀⇛
When Judy Kalepp became the municipal court judge in
Abbotsford, Wisconsin, more than a decade ago, she was shocked
to see how many Latinos were ticketed for driving without a
license. She asked herself: Couldn’t they just get licensed and
stop breaking the law?
Then she got to know some of the drivers, mostly Mexican
immigrants who lived and worked in the community. Despite not
speaking Spanish, she was able to communicate with many of them
and learn that they were undocumented and prohibited by state
law from getting driver’s licenses.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ LA_Housing_Department_Demands_Residential_Hotels_Stop
Renting_Rooms_to_Tourists⠀⇛
The Los Angeles Housing Department has sent warning letters to
the owners of 17 buildings meant for low-cost housing,
demanding that they stop renting rooms to tourists in violation
of city law.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Says_A_Cop_Can_Violate_Another_Cop’s_Rights_By
[Squints_At_Ruling]_Shooting_At_The_Other_Cop⠀⇛
It’s a fact: You can violate a government employee’s rights
while being a government employee. Sure, it’s more tricky than
violating rights as a government employee (when targeting non-
government employees), but it can still be done.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_a_White_Curator_Do_Justice_to_African_Art?⠀⇛
The New Orleans Museum of Art generated a storm of controversy
when it announced on Instagram its recent hire of Amanda M.
Maples as its new curator of African art. Why? Maples is white.
Responses fell along two lines: demanding shared ancestry
between artworks and those who curate them, and demanding
racial representation in a predominantly Black city. (New
Orleans’s population is 59 percent Black.)
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Does_This_Racist_Keep_Getting_Silicon_Valley_Money?⠀⇛
In recent years it’s been difficult to keep track of all the
pundits or policy wonks on the American right who turn out to
have secret—and often not-so-secret—lives as white supremacist
provocateurs. This was certainly true during the Trump
administrations, which had a weakness for appointing racist
figures such as Sebastian Gorka and Darren Beattie. This was
also true of nearly a dozen staffers associated with Tucker
Carlson and his former show at Fox News. And it now applies to
staffers and influencers in the circles around the presidential
campaigns of both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. These stories
sometimes—although not invariably—end with the racist staffer
being fired.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Coalition_Demands_North_Carolina_Lawmakers_‘Cease_and
Desist’_From_Attacks_on_the_Poor⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Please,_Please_Stop_Blaming_“Progressives”_for_Donald
Trump’s_Fascism⠀⇛
I am not sitting at my desk drinking from a Judge Tanya Chutkan
coffee mug while a votive candle to special counsel Jack Smith
burns on my coffee table. I own neither; it’s not my way.*
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Amazon_Kills_Off_Most_Of_Its_House_Brands,_Perhaps_Its
Supposed_Anti-Competitive_Access_To_Data…_Didn’t_Actually_Help_It
Compete?⠀⇛
Three years ago we had the CEO of Jungle Scout, Greg Mercer, on
our podcast, to debunk the claim that Amazon was unfairly
competing with third party sellers in the Amazon marketplace.
It’s become somewhat accepted wisdom that Amazon is engaged in
some sort of predatory behavior, looking at what products sell
well with data that only it has, and then coming in with
competing products that undercut those sellers.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Jan Schaumann ☛ TLD_Domain_Count_Stats⠀⇛
You can find links to the graphs for all of the TLDs for which
I could find data here; there’s also a page with all TLDs
sorted by domain count. The scripts as well as the individual
data and HTML files are also pushed to this GitHub repository.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Max’_Loses_Millions_Of_Streaming_Subs_After_Ongoing_Merger
Incompetence_Bonanza⠀⇛
We’ve documented in detail how the series of mergers
(AT&T—>Time Warner—>Discovery) that created the Warner Brothers
Discovery entertainment empire may just be one of the most
destructive, pointless, and incompetently managed “business”
transactions in modern media history.
* ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Conde_Nasty_Rolls_Out_Updated_Reddit_and
Breaks_SeaMonkey_Rendering⠀⇛
Conde Nasty Rolls Out Updated Reddit and Breaks SeaMonkey
Rendering. We call them (Conde Nast) “Conde Nasty” at
TechRights for a number of reasons.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Microsoft_Continues_About_Face_On_‘Right_To_Repair,’_Makes
Its_Hardware_Easier_To_Fix⠀⇛
Microsoft has long been one of several companies that attempted
to monopolize repair in a bid for profit, particularly when it
has come to the company’s game consoles. But in recent years
the company appears to have realized that with state and
federal lawmakers and regulators cracking down on this
behavior, it might be smart to stop swimming upstream when it
comes to “right to repair.”
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Shifting_Arguments_at_the_PTAB⠀⇛
The Federal Circuit’s new decision in Rembrandt
Diagnostics, LP v. Alere, Inc., 2021-1796 (Fed. Cir. Aug
11, 2023) complements the court’s recent decision in
Axonics, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc., 2022-1532 (Fed. Cir.
Aug. 7, 2023). Ordinarily, an IPR petitioner must stick
to the arguments and reasoning that it sets forth in the
original petition. These two cases take a contrary
position and permit the petitioner to shift as late as
the final reply brief. The court permits these changes
only if responsive to new arguments by the patentee and
sufficiently linked to previously raised arguments.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_can’t_claim_safe_harbour_if_use_of
trademarks_in_Ads_Programme_violates_trade_mark:_Delhi_HC⠀⇛
The Delhi High Court has held that global search giant
Google cannot avail of protection under the safe harbour
clause of the Information Technology Act, 2000, if it
uses a trademark as a keyword in its advertisement
program.
It will also be held liable for trademark infringement in
such cases, the court added.
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_“S!MPLY”_for_EVA_FOOTWEAR_Confusable
With_“SIMPLY”_for_Dresses,_Jumpsuits,_and_Rompers?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark S!MPLY
for “Footwear, primarily made of ethylene-vinyl acetate;
Slip-on shoes, primarily made of ethylene-vinyl acetate,”
finding confusion likely with the registered mark SIMPLY
for “Dresses; Jumpsuits; Rompers.” Applicant Simply
Southern argued that its mark, when said aloud,”is
literally: ‘s, exclamation point, m, ply (or p-l-y).” As
to the goods, it asserted that there was no evidence that
dresses, jumpsuits, or rompers are made with ethylene-
vinyl acetate. How do you think this appeal came out? In
re_Simply_Southern_Holdings,_LLC, Serial No. 90728560
(August 3, 2023) [not precedential] [not precedential]
(Opinion by Judge Thomas Shaw).
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Google_Wants_AI_Scraping_to_Be_‘Fair_Use.’_Will
That_Fly_in_Court?⠀⇛
What do you think would happen if I tried this? I stroll
into a bank and see a wad of cash within arm’s reach
behind an unoccupied teller window. I grab the dough and
start walking out the door with it when a police officer,
very rudely, stops me. “I’m entitled to take this money,”
I say. “Because nobody at the bank told me not to.”
If you think my defense is implausible, then you don’t
work for Google. This week, the search giant said that it
wants to change copyright laws so that it can grab any
content it wants from the Internet, use it as training
data for its AI products, and argue “fair use” if anyone
objects to the plagiarism stew Google’s cooking up.
Google’s figleaf to copyright holders: they’ll find a way
to let you opt-out.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ IP_Address_Blocking_Banned_After_Anti-Piracy
Court_Order_Hit_Cloudflare⠀⇛
In 2022, rightsholders obtained permission in Austria to
block several pirate site domains and a list of IP
addresses that actually belonged to Cloudflare. ISPs had
no choice but to comply with the court’s instructions
which took out countless Cloudflare customers in Austria.
According to reviews conducted by local telecoms
regulator TKK, the IP address blocking violated net
neutrality regulations and will no longer be allowed.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Z-Library_Petitions_U.S._and_Argentina_to_Cease
‘Illegal’_Criminal_Prosecution⠀⇛
Z-Library has launched a petition calling on the U.S.
Attorney General and Argentina’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs to stop the criminal prosecution, labeling it as
illegal. The shadow library asks its supporters to sign a
petition which stresses that the site is essential to
ensure freedom of information and the progress of
science.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Guinness_World_Records_Did_An_Automated_Copyright
Strike_Oopsie_On_YouTubers⠀⇛
This is and will keep happening. As complicated a
landscape as copyright law is, the idea of automating the
policing of copyright infringement without creating all
kinds of collateral damage is simply absurd. Our pages
are absolutely brimming with example after example of all
kinds of entities issuing copyright claims and strikes on
all kinds of platforms in error, with the blame always
being laid at the feet of the copyright “bots” that
screwed up. Apparently the wider world is okay with this
kind of collateral damage clown show, since it sure
doesn’t appear to be changing.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Science
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CLNOSUY_Wordo:_SKIRT⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gazing_back_from_“The_Universe_Next_Door”⠀⇛
Maybe it’s dumb to try to review a 40-year old book
that has already had thousands of other readers &
commenters weighing in but here we go! And I’m not
talking about the contemporary Robert Anton Wilson
classic by the same name that was published at
around the same time.
Nope, the book I just read was Jim Sire’s The
Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog.
He is a Christian theist who lays out his own
worldview and then does brief forays into other
worldviews for contrast.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Occam’s_Turtles_All_the_Way⠀⇛
And the standard non-theist/pantheist/atheist/
polytheist answer is, of course, “who created that
creator? And the creator of that creator?”
Ultimately it becomes a matter of semantics.
Theists define “creation” as the subset of what
exists and what’s there that excludes the theistic
God and the entire realm of that God, labeling that
excluded part as “transcendent”.
I’m not onboard with that definition. By cosmos I
wanna refer to the whole shebang, not just a
subset.
Theism, to my mind, diminishes God so much. Shrinks
the idea down from something that encompasses all
to this tiny li’l superhero flying around.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_TUI_music_players⠀⇛
Yeah, that’s just facts. Most TUI things are bad.
CLI is where it’s at. mpc, for example, is a good
basis for shell scripts & automation. I love it.
And since it’s for mpd, you can still connect it to
a GUI or TUI app also, to get the best of both
worlds.
He also thinks that a conf file full of comments,
including commented-out defaults, is bad. That’s
also a good point. With a good editor it’s easy to
hide away all comments or to navigate a huge file,
ostensibly making the advantages of having those
comments outweigh the drawbacks, but not everyone
has that and starting from a blank file can often
be a lot easier.
# ⚓ Games_I’ve_played_on_my_brother’s_PSP_back_then⠀⇛
I’ve never had a PSP myself, but my brother had. He
is really one of those guys who has always been
into Sony. I think it must have been back in 2007.
My dad bought me my first computer a few years ago
for christmas and it has been the time when we have
got our first internet connection at home. An usb
UMTS modem with EDGE/HSPA+ support, 8 mbit/s and a
limited data plan of 1.5 gigs a month. Not much but
enough to download some demos and funny videos for
my brother’s PSP every now and then. I’ve even
built him a wiki of his favorite wrestlers (Jeff
Hardy, The Hardy Boys, CM Punk, Edge) from WWE/
Smackdown.
# ⚓ My_last_ThinkPad⠀⇛
I’ve been a ThinkPad user for more than a decade
now. I’ve enjoyed many of them, some for the
better, some for the worse. But at the end of they
day they all had something in common.
I’m sorry for the clickbait, but Kai Hendry
inspired me to use the same title for my own post.
And I’m with him, this is probably my last
ThinkPad, for sure.
# ⚓ The_$50_ThinkCentre_M600/M700_tiny_series⠀⇛
A few weeks ago, a friend from a local hackerspace
told me about them becoming so cheap the first
time. A lot of them are currently being sold from
many ebay sellers in Germany. The price?
Approximately EUR 50,-
The ThinkCentre tiny series is the ultra small form
factor (USFF) computer sold by Lenovo, while
others, such as HP calls them mini or Dell who came
up with micro. They are as small as a book but have
nearly the same performance as their desktop
brothers and sisters. At least when it comes to
office work. I’ve got the M700 tiny which sits
right next to my ISP router and I hardly ever
notice. They are silent, reliable and just do their
job.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Emphasis_On⠀⇛
Still interested in the question of Gemtext
and emphasis, I figured I’d gather some data.
[...]
But as there’s very little support for it,
the more important question is: why?
To see if data would help answer that, I
sampled three sources to check for use of
emphasis: news articles on the web, Gemlog
entries, and Phlog (Gopher log) entries.
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