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⦿ Corporate Disruption Tactics and More | Techrights
⦿ Debian 12 KDE Deployment: A Better Experience on My Laptops | Techrights
⦿ Big Gains This Past Summer for GNU/Linux in Indonesia | Techrights
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Posted in Microsoft at 7:36 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Support Coming to OpenRA. More Thoughts on
Retro Gaming, Corporate Disruption Tactics.
Support for most of the old Westwood Studios games is in OpenRA, a Free and
Open Source project to recreate these old video game engines.
(If you want the latest version, it’s available_in_AppImage_or_Flatpak.)
If you don’t already have the ISO or disc of an original game, the OpenRA
program can pull most of the assets (other than music and cutscenes) from
previously released freeware versions of the games.
Most of what you need can be acquired with a disc of Command & Conquer: The
First Decade and one of Dune 2000.
Like the others, Tiberian Sun was also released as freeware by EA, which
acquired Westwood (unfortunately) and continued the Dune and C&C series (with
far less effort).
I don’t know whether the freeware version of Tiberian Sun has the cut-scenes or
not. They got some bigger name actors, such as James Earl Jones and Michael
Biehn, to play various roles. They had a behind-the-scenes with both of them on
the set on the original Tiberian Sun game disc, which I got for Christmas one
year in the 90s.
I got a lot of good stuff for Christmas in the 90s, like Star Trek: Starfleet
Command, Fallout, the Westwood Studios series…
And the amazing thing about the games was that you have to remember, it was the
90s, computers were slow. Media codecs that could do anything were not
abundant.
So a lot of these games ended up being good despite the platform limitations,
because they would make their own media codecs and ship them on-disk for music
and cut-scenes, and they would get around the CPU and memory limitations by
using isomorphic game engines because true 3d on a game that size would really
limit the number of copies they could sell, and code optimization was
absolutely vital or it still wasn’t going to work at all.
There were still a lot of real programmers in the 90s that became obsessive
about writing good code because the computers back then were unforgiving of
bloatware. There simply wasn’t a place to put bad code because it wouldn’t fit.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, a Nintendo 64 port to the PC, was a fairly advanced
game for the time. To make the N64 version of it actually work, they even ended
up re-writing the sound drivers because the ones that Nintendo shipped in their
SDK were taking up too much space and couldn’t handle high quality sound. Then
they had other game developers coming to them licensing it, so they had to name
it something as a product. “MoSys”
It was just a wild time to be a PC or a Nintendo 64 gamer, especially with the
more advanced stuff, which ended up needing a 3dfx graphics card, or the Memory
Expansion Pak for the N64.
When I went back to run Rogue Squadron on my laptop, under Linux, I found that
RetroArch could run it, but the N64 core that ran everything else find
immediately brought RetroArch to the ground, and I had to bring in a different
core and assign it to running Rogue Squadron (and Perfect Dark, Star Wars
Episode One: Racer, and Star Wars: Battle for Naboo, I later found.).
Why use the N64 version? Well, because the PC version needed Windows and 3dfx.
I don’t know how to set up something like this in Wine. The 3dfx cards didn’t
use a standard graphics library (so basically Vulkan before it was cool). They
saw how bloated OpenGL was and how expensive it would be to do it in hardware,
and they also saw how laughable Direct3D was, and decided to make a “GL-like”
that simply tossed everything that wasn’t useful for gaming. And you know what?
It worked!
I think one of the things that made games fun was programmers being limited by
the hardware and having to go back to see how they could fit it in anyway. Once
you weed out the crap programmers that way, games just have a lot less bugs,
don’t they?
These newer titles from Bethesda, especially under Microsoft, are just
terrible.
Because they sprawl and can’t actually be debugged if you want a product out in
time.
Then the “community” becomes GULAG labor because they see that the game is too
broken to actually play, and the “done thing” ends up being to go in, as a
player, and become an expert in patching it as far as it will go, then applying
“mods” that some other people wrote (without being paid by the company selling
the title) that fix ~50,000 other bugs that nobody was going to pay to have
resolved before the thing went out.
It becomes no fun when you see a game like The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and you
end up spending more time hacking the game than you do playing the game, and
their later titles suffer from this even more. Especially after Microsoft
bought them, and instead of fixing bugs, they added more in the process of
harassing Linux users with Wine or Proton.
Thanks to the hard work of people who go back and redo video game engines (or
even write new ones), we will always have “something” to do, regardless of how
terrible “Microsoft Bethesda”, or “EA Westwood”, or “Microsoft Activision”
actually get.
I think this whole “post-corporate thing” is what big game companies are afraid
of. That people will find out, or even re-discover, that the old stuff is
better than the new stuff.
So they’re very litigious, right?
Companies like Nintendo and Rockstar are very litigious, and Microsoft
sabotages too.
In the case of Nintendo and Rockstar, they have lawyers sending out DMCA
letters to tear emulation projects and fan games apart, and with Microsoft they
do nasty things like that Fallout: New Vegas mod where they kept hiring people
working on it, then once it started listing, I think they probably had someone
to go in and sneak that batch of freaky perverted sex stuff into the game so
nobody would dare open it up and touch it again.
Nobody will ever prove the pervert was from Microsoft, or paid by them, but
hiring people to kill the project wasn’t working because someone would just
come along and replace them. This is how communities work. So a rather
“fortunate” spider came along.
“Total coincidence” I’m sure. 😛
Microsoft disrupts communities. They recently sent a “strike team” full of
Internet trolls to try to disrupt Techrights with sockpuppets spewing crap in
the IRC channel, and illegal DDoS attacks on the servers. We eventually had to
introduce a plug-in for the IRC server to disable access from Tor Exit Nodes to
stop the abuse.
I’ve never seen Nintendo or Sony due anything this reprehensible, but lawyer
attacks using the DMCA are bad enough.
Like I said, it’s sabotage.
Their new products are so bad (due to the lack of optimization and bug fixing)
that they actually devote more time to disrupting the community with lawyers,
criminals, and smut.
In the particular case of OpenRA, I doubt EA can or would do something like
this.
The game content is not open source, but they previously released it as
redistributable freeware, and the game engines don’t use any EA code. Besides,
if they didn’t want it out there, why make it “freeware”? Towing the Windows
binaries over into Wine works.
What game engine re-creations do offer is the ability to bypass Wine and some
crusty old Windows binaries and fix bugs and use modern APIs.
Once code is portable and doesn’t float around in a proprietary Windows binary
anymore, anyone interested can simply recompile it to work on non-x86 systems,
like Linux on ARM, and then you’ll be playing 90s PC games on your Raspberry Pi
or something in new engines without digging into whether you can tie in bochs
or something to run old x86 binaries for Windows 98.
And unlike Microsoft Windows, Linux has a future on ARM because Windows spent
decades digging its own grave even deeper with tons of proprietary x86 crap.
Nobody who is dead, out-of-business, or no longer interested in proprietary
software can fix it.
So Windows on ARM has this insurmountable chicken-and-the-egg issue, and Intel
has already threatened that it won’t go down quietly. They threatened to sue
Microsoft if there’s an x86 translator that has anything patented in it.
Going forward, more games that are just Free and Open Source Software to begin
with is one solution. The corporate types can only send lawyers out to attack
people if it was “theirs” to begin with.
I’ll be keeping an eye out for Tiberian Sun though. That was definitely the
most ambitious title before the Westwood buyout.
These corporate mergers of smaller game studios has never added anything of
value for video game players. It’s only led to stagnation. Now Microsoft, which
has made a series of disastrous and fruitless expensive mergers (like Nokia and
Skype) and has laid off tens of thousands of people, brings you “Microsoft
Activision” (and more layoffs).
You can’t rely on these companies for anything. █
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Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
I decided to deploy Debian 12 KDE on my old Yoga 900 ISK2 and ended up
deploying it to the ThinkBook 15 ITL Gen2 later.
The Yoga is a battlewagon. What can I say? I’ve had this thing since I filed an
antitrust complaint against Lenovo and got the settlement to make them knock it
off with the Linux lockout in 2016 and it’s been going ever since then.
Since it’s a backup system, I can use it to explore other Linux distributions
that I want to know more about.
The ThinkBook 15 ITL Gen2 is about 4 years newer and a lot faster. For most of
the things I do with my computers, Debian 12 is very fast and responsive on
both systems.
I got Debian 11 installed on this ThinkBook in 2020 and it worked pretty well,
except I ended up backporting too many things to get Fallout 4 and some other
games running well. In the end I gave up on it because I was running a
“FrankenDebian” with backported kernel, custom Mesa, a custom Wine build I
threw just Fallout 4 into, and even ended up having to cherry pick new firmware
for my WiFi to get it to stop crashing.
I ended up sticking Fedora on it. Not because I wanted to but because it always
has newer components. Well, that didn’t work out so well, leading to a whole
series of posts on everything wrong with Fedora and IBM.
Then I went to openSUSE Leap 15.5, that lasted a couple weeks. I think it’s a
good distribution, but then I started reading more about SUSE ALP, which is
some sort of “container-focused” SELinux-toting thing that is apparently going
to take a wrecking ball to Leap in another year or two, and it just sounded to
me like either vaporware or Fedora “Silverblue” with extra steps. (Read-only
file systems and OS images. Yuck!)
The whole idea of making the / read-only and deploying containers, all-or-
nothing OS images, and snapshots, and basically forcing the user to deploy
Flatpaks is something I want no part of. Had I read about ALP some more I might
have never installed openSUSE to begin with. Not helping their case was some
chatter on Reddit from the lead developer who can’t even find anyone who wants
to volunteer for this, so the only thing they may end up getting from SUSE is
the base system ALP that you don’t even get much software for. And nobody will
detail how you’re supposed to run this thing as a desktop user. At least YaST
is a known factor.
This morning I got bored and rolled out Debian 12 KDE on it from the Live USB
stick I made using Balena_Etcher, which is a disk imaging tool available in an
AppImage (download and double-click) or native RPM and DEB packages.
AppImages are self-contained and you just shut it off after you make an image.
So if you’re going to be dragging this thing around and want to use the same
binary, the AppImage is the way to do it.
Frankly, I don’t know and I don’t care about other methods of making a disk
image with a graphical program, because Etcher has always worked and you
double-click on a thing and press a few buttons and it doesn’t do anything
truly stupid with your disk image.
Starting the Debian 12 KDE Live Image.
I was somewhat perplexed to see that the Live environment for the KDE version
did not appear to have a graphical setup tool, so I had to turn the computer
off and back on again with the “Novo” button (I’ll explain this more later.),
and select Start Installer, or something to that effect.
A dedicated installation program walked me through the steps.
First off, let it never be said that Linux has a file system shortage. There
were numerous options. Debian 12 even still supports IBM’s old JFS file system,
should you want to use it for whatever reason. I don’t really get into odd file
systems because you never know what they’ll do with them later when the
kernel.org maintainers don’t feel like handling it anymore and the maintainer
disappears.
(In the case of ReiserFS, it will be removed soon. IBM JFS has been in mothball
mode with one guy patching it now and then, for years. No plans that I know of
to get rid of it yet.)
If you want to use Guided Partitioning and take over the entire disk, and put
everything under / (which is the most sensible option for a desktop user that
doesn’t want to be burdened by advanced file system management later), Debian
will deploy the system to the Ext4 file system and it will create a small SWAP
partition.
Since I don’t want SWAP, I was going to have to back up and do manual
partitioning anyway.
So I went back and selected Manual partitioning, and told it to wipe the data
out of the vfat “ESP” (EFI System Partitions use Microsoft FAT32…..meth is a
terrible drug).
From there, I told it to reformat the BtrFS partition that openSUSE had made
anyway, and mount it on /.
Much to my surprise, instead of asking me about subvoluming, the installer
proceeded to copy files over and then prompt me to reboot.
It turns out that Debian actually has a bug on the installer about not offering
to create BtrFS subvolumes. You can take a step back and open a console if you
want to hack your way into creating some and then the installer will deploy the
OS using the subvolumes, but that’s more work than I was willing to go into for
subvolumes.
Laptop users really have little use for BtrFS subvolumes anyway, which are
essentially logical partitions, which make it easier to snapshot certain parts
of the system.
For desktop users with an 8 TB hard disk, file system snapshots might be
prudent, especially if you use some crackpot distribution like Fedora that’s
constantly bringing in barely-tested new packages that could bring in all sorts
of horrible surprises, but if you’re using a long term stable distribution that
has a solid reputation for not shoving out broken packages on top of you and
having the distribution upgrades fail between versions, snapshots are probably
going to be a bizarre and unnecessary thing on a laptop.
Laptops have small SSDs these days. Generally 256-512 GB, maybe 1 TB if you’re
really lucky, and the mounting space snapshotting requires and the fact that
I’ve never used them in the past and have never needed them since 1998 makes me
not really want to go back and set up subvoluming anyway if it’s going to be
any extra work.
The short version is: Unless you care about snapshots, this is more of a quirk
of Debian at the moment than something that actually matters to you.
The feature of BtrFS that’s actually interesting to me is file system
compression.
Ext4 is a fine and reliable file system, and if you have plenty of space you
can just roll it out and never think of it again, but uncompressed programs
start taking their toll on SSD storage quickly, as do all of the extra writes.
While the problem isn’t as severe as it is on Windows, which is huge and comes
with with Microsoft’s 1993 file system whose disk tools frequently corrupt it
more by trying to fix it, and whose file system compression is inefficient and
stupid, once you start throwing Flatpaks (a “universal”, if somewhat bloated
Linux application system) into the mix, and/or have several Web browsers,
you’ll definitely want compression.
Thanks to BtrFS’s driver being smart enough to not stand there trying to
stupidly compress files that are already compressed, like Microsoft NTFS does,
you can opportunistically compress files without incurring a steep performance
drag if the file is not going to shrink much. Like compressed music, JPEGs, or
video game assets.
So if you never touch snapshots or are willing to take the long way around to
get subvolumes, you probably want BtrFS for its compression feature.
I ended up setting things up when I got logged into KDE later and brought up a
console.
Debian has btrfs-compsize to make sure the compression has been applied and
then I use btrfs filesystem defragment -r -v -czstd / to compress everything
else after I modify /etc/fstab to add compress=zstd:1 to the mount options for
the BtrFS partition.
Other than the one giant BtrFS volume that I later set up compression on, I
just made the EFI System Partition of the recommended size. Again, FAT32. Yuck.
I chose not to use a SWAP partition because I planned to set up ZRam swap later
on.
Debian’s installer prompted me with a “Are you really sure you want no SWAP?”
style message….LOL
Logging in and using the system. Setting up Wine for Windows programs.
Under KDE in Debian 12, Wayland is the default display system for KWin.
I’m still not a huge fan of it, but trying out Fallout 4 under Wine on KWin/
Wayland in Debian 12 on my newer laptop shows that performance seems to be a
lot better than openSUSE 15.5 Leap, and Debian 12 appears to actually come with
functional media codecs from the Live image now, as all my media files play for
the first time on Debian without having to install an unofficial software
repository.
So the sound in Fallout 4 was working in Wine (8.0 Stable) without having to
stop and figure things out. Which was refreshing.
The game also wasn’t crashing under Wayland during my 20 minutes or so, so far,
of messing around, although at this point I know what graphics options make it
terribly unstable. You can get away with high quality graphics settings, except
for things like “God Rays” which it always seems to want to turn back on, rain
occlusion, and a few other things.
It’s possible that Wayland and KWin are not getting along well at all on
openSUSE Leap for some other reason, although I plan to return to X11 simply
because it is still smoother and allows me to run the game at my native screen
resolution.
Installing just the “wine” package only seems to bring in wine64.
It’s likely I did not notice this with Fallout 4 because it’s an x86-64 program
anyway.
(This would have left me in a bizarre situation where foobar2000 2.0 “x64”
would have worked, but nothing in the Free Encoders Pack would have, because
they’re all 32-bit binaries. Except you could just put 64-bit Windows binaries
in there for encoders and it would totally work.)
When I ran winecfg, it printed to the terminal that wine32 is missing and I
should install it. Likely, Fallout 4 worked because it’s x86-64. It’s odd that
Debian splits Wine up this way when most distributions assume you’ll want 32-
bit Windows programs working too.
When I typed the entire command it gave me to enable multiarch to get wine32, I
got an error that something was holding the lock on Apt, but splitting it to a
three part sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 then sudo apt update then sudo apt
install wine32 worked.
Debian is a pure x86-64 OS and unless you start installing 32-bit x86 crap
(mostly Windows software), it’ll stay that way. Unfortunately, wine32 brought
in over 1.1 GB of installed files. However, BtrFS was able to compress them
back down to a few hundred MB.
The x86-64 CPUs can all run 32-bit x86 software, but late in the cycle of the
x86 Macs, Apple took the compatibility libraries away and ruined a bunch of
software. 🙂
This is a variation on that, except that Debian, like most Linux distributions,
lets you put them back and keep using the older software.
One more small issue with wine in Debian is that it does not install wine-
binfmt, which you will need to install with Apt to register as a handler of
Windows programs as a “foreign binary type”. The package description says
Debian avoids depending on this because of security concerns with potentially
running Windows malware by mistake.
It’s very important that if you run Windows programs, to be sure of what they
are, and to scan them for malware with something like the VirusTotal Web site
or ClamAV, a Free and Open Source anti- (Windows) virus program for *nix
systems. Here’s_a_tutorial.
(Worth noting that clamscan doesn’t need root permission if all you want to do
with it is scan and remove potential Windows viruses you’ve flung into your /
home directory.)
It’s worth pointing out that Windows viruses typically expect to find
themselves running on Windows. However, it is theoretically possible they could
be ransomware and actually manage to encrypt your documents or something, or be
aware of Wine users.
So the decision by Debian has some security merit, for sure. Be very careful
with Windows software because a significant portion of it does something
malicious.
Setting up power management.
These laptops almost_never_have_good_power_management_out_of_the_box.
Fortunately, you can fix a lot of this by enabling powertop as a system
service.
sudo systemctl enable powertop.service && sudo systemctl start powertop.service
No need to reboot. It should come on automatically every time you boot the
computer and tune your laptop for ideal power management.
Setting up ZRam swap.
This one was pretty easy. Have apt install systemd-zram-generator and then
using sudo, open nano /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and find “[zram0]“.
Underneath that add the line add zram-fraction = 1.00 and exit and save, and
reboot.
cat /proc/swaps should show you a /dev/zram0 with a size of your entire RAM,
and how much is in use.
There’s debate on what the fraction should be. However, Fedora defaulted to all
of RAM and I never had a problem related to this. The overhead is very small. 1
MB of RAM used per GB unless and until something gets paged out, so you’d be
saving MB of RAM at best by setting it lower, but with ZStandard compression,
I’ve observed that the stuff that ends up in the compressed swap device shrinks
by 60-70% sometimes. So it saves more than it costs.
Software selection under Debian 12.
In KDE, the Plasma Discover actually has AppStream Data and can offer the user
2,006 programs, which is the most effort I’ve seen by a distribution to
actually make Plasma Discover (and presumably GNOME Software) be a viable
package installer.
Debian also has no support for Flatpaks out of the box, and seems to have a lot
of the software I want in its own native package format. Fewer Linux
distributions are committing to support their own native packages so it’s good
that Flatpak is optional and the user is not heavily pressured to use it.
Later on, I suspect Backports of newer software will be available, but as of
this writing, there doesn’t seem to be a Bullseye Backports repository for Apt.
What’s an operating system without games?
Debian 12 appears to have games. A lot of Free and Open Source ones and even
Retroarch is here. Not even terribly far behind the latest available version as
I write this.
Plasma Discover tells me there’s 427 programs in this category as Debian
packages (and possibly more that are not listed in Discover because they don’t
have AppStream Data).
All of the usual Free and Open Source games are here, including (obviously)
many Doom engines. Except….not the GZDoom one I always use. So, we will be
installing Flatpak for a few things after all.
I’m certainly glad though, again, that unlike Fedora, Debian is far from
abandoning their native packaging format.
I installed synaptic (to get Synaptic Package Manager).
It looks a bit….odd, in KDE, but it will show you what packages are available
in Apt but don’t have AppStream Data for Plasma Discover/GNOME Software.
As expected, there are a lot more packages listed here. It’s a shame that they
didn’t install it in the KDE desktop version of Debian since I doubt there will
ever be all packages listed, for any distribution, in Appstream Data format.
I was skeptical about “Appstream Data” from the start because it’s been many
years now and you still need an actual package manager to tell you what’s
available aside from some rather superficial sampling of really popular
software that someone has displayed in some dumb “store”-like program.
Discussions about earlier Debian releases suggested that Synaptic wouldn’t
install anything due to limitations imposed by Wayland on graphical
applications and root access. However, it worked for me to install Extreme Tux
Racer, so they must have found a way around this problem.
Setting up Flatpak with Flathub in Debian KDE.
Flatpaks are “universal” Linux programs. They can be very large since they have
to depend on other flatpaks for “platform libraries”, which is why you may not
want to use them sparingly, if at all.
Unlike some other distributions, Debian only comes set up to use the Apt
package manager and Debian packages, the native format, so you would need to
add support for Flatpak yourself. It’s not difficult.
It’s also possible to list and remove all flatpaks later and then run flatpak
remove –unused, remove the Flatpak Debian packages and their dependencies with
Apt, and then clean up any remaining Flatpak mess on your system (such as the
hidden .var directory in your home directory). That would get you back to a
“clean” Apt-only system pretty fast.
The Flathub instructions seem to only acknowledge GNOME users, of course. 😛
If you want Flatpak support in KDE, the relevant packages to install with Apt
are:
flatpak
kde-config-flatpak
plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Then once you have them, you command flatpak to fetch the Flathub repo:
flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/
flathub.flatpakrepo
(You may be prompted to enter your administrative password to add the Flathub
repository.)
Restart your KDE session if you don’t see Flatpaks in Plasma Discover or
installed Flatpaks don’t appear in your Applications Menu.
I had trouble getting Discover to see any Flatpaks until I installed one using
flatpak install lagrange (the Gemini/Gopher browser) in konsole.
The kde-config-flatpak package adds a Flatpak permissions page to
“Applications” in the System Settings program in KDE, so you don’t actually
need Flatseal to manage Flatpak application permissions.
After setting up Flatpak, Plasma Discover now lists 3,699 graphical
applications and 831 of those are games.
So we’ve essentially doubled the available software packages.
I admit I have not looked over them all. Many seem to be emulators for other
computers and retro consoles, which interests me.
I also noticed that someone had cloned Space Cadet Pinball, which used to be
included with Windows but was dropped when Microsoft looked through the source
code provided by the vendor and couldn’t figure out how to get the ball to stop
falling out of the pinball machine when they recompiled it for x86-64, so they
gave up and deleted it, according to Raymond Chen.
The clone seems to be a fairly accurate remake.
(Running the old 32-bit Pinball binary on 64-bit Windows worked, so they could
have just thrown that in. Raymond Chen didn’t touch on why they didn’t.)
Plasma Discover offers Snaps.
Snaps are a competing software packaging format to Flatpak. I recommend not
using this at all.
The gist of it is. There’s only one source of applications. Canonical, the
company that makes Ubuntu (out of Debian) runs the server and won’t tell anyone
else how to make a package repository.
They claim it’s universal, but it’s not. I’ve had problems getting Snaps to run
just because I was on Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu with KDE instead of GNOME.
GZDoom in Snap on Kubuntu complained that I was not using GNOME.
Since they don’t work right on other destop environments on Ubuntu, they expect
me to believe they will work right on other distributions with non-GNOME
desktop environments?
Also, there are multiple confirmed cases where Canonical allowed malware
(cryptocurrency miners) into the Snap Store. When I had a Reddit account and
Alan Pope worked at Canonical, I had previously argued with him that their
policies invited malware. He played it off. When it happened, he played it off
some more and even argued that they shouldn’t be responsible for removing the
applications from affected systems!
He told me they had no mechanism for that. I asked what about pushing out an
empty Snap that claimed to be an update and wiped the malware that way. He
disappeared.
Later they promoted malware, including a lot of proprietary Microsoft programs
that pretty much violate your privacy every way imaginable and bundle adware,
such as Microsoft Edge. The Windows browser so bad they have to resort to
harassment to get people to give up and use it. See: [1] [2] [3]
Microsoft also ported their usual, awful,_security_standards_to_Linux.
Unfortunately, a lot of this proprietary junk ended up in Flatpak too.
That does mean that either one you add to Debian, there will be a listing for
“Microsoft Edge” in your Plasma Discover/GNOME Software.
While GNOME Software is overall so much more terrible than Plasma Discover, it
does have one setting that I could not find anywhere in Plasma Discover.
“Hide Proprietary Software.”
So if you add Flatpaks or Snaps (eww) look at the “License” before you install
it.
It may not be Free Software.
Microsoft isn’t even the one packaging Edge, just like Vivaldi, Chrome, Brave,
and Opera aren’t official either.
They’re some sort of “We dumped the binaries out and put them in a Flatpak.”
thing, which means someone is doing free work for Microsoft to advertise Edge
and trick users into thinking they found a Web browser, not a giant piece of
malware.
It’s really sad that large companies have unpaid moles doing grunt work to get
them more users to exploit. I could see putting Brave in there since that’s at
least under an open source license, but Edge? LOL Come on!
Flathub claims that Microsoft Edge was downloaded a million times. I don’t buy
it. I think most Windows users would delete it if they could.
The only browsers which do have an official Flatpak are Firefox and its cleaned
up (of_Mozilla’s_Firefox_junk) fork, LibreWolf, which I install.
Setting up KDE:
All the usual little things. I had to set it to never suspend the session when
plugged-in, tap to click for the touchpad, clicking on files and icons selects
them (never did like single-click), messing around with the themes, and if you
are planning to use KWin on Wayland, setting X11 applications to be scaled by
the system instead of themselves is better, although they may look slightly
fuzzy they’ll at least be the right size.
Also, I like to set KDE to start with an empty session instead of opening the
programs I had running.
Other oddities of note.
Debian isn’t like other distributions which do not want you poking around in
the root account, so if you make a password for root during install, the user
account you make for yourself won’t have sudo (administrative user) access. To
fix this, you can log in as root and adduser sudo and
restart the computer.
However, if you leave the root password blank, you’ll be in the sudoers file.
Also, Debian on my newer system, the ThinkBook 15 ITL Gen2, alarmed me by
saying it was missing a firmware file for my computer. I was able to figure out
it was talking about the sound firmware and that it would be available by
installing a package later.
However, when I rebooted and logged into KDE, the sound worked. This might have
been pulled in when I configured Apt during setup. It’s a good idea to use the
“deb.debian.org” instead of a mirror, because this will redirect you to a
working mirror instead of placing a specific mirror in your /etc/apt/
sources.list and possibly leaving you without a software source sometime in the
future.
Even though sound worked, it was too quiet out of my laptop’s speaker until I
clicked on the volume applet in the system tray and selected “Raise Maximum
Volume”. At 150% it’s loud enough. GNOME had this problem on Fedora.
When I went to check my “Time/Date” settings, the option to have the system
automatically set the clock was grayed out.
I looked up the resolution and apparently Debian does not install systemd-
timesyncd by default.
Telling apt to install systemd-timesyncd and closing and re-opening the “Time/
Date” settings checked the box and it appears to be working.
Firefox ESR (perhaps other browsers based on it) uses xwayland under Wayland
and then gets scaled strangely. To fix it, create the file .bash_profile in
your home folder (nano ~/.bash_profile) and add the line export
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 and hit ctrl+x and hit y to save. Log out and back in and
this will force Firefox to use Wayland.
(No harm if you switch to X11 sometimes because once it fails to use Wayland,
it will use X11.)
Overall impression.
Debian 12 continues to be easier to install and use than previous versions.
Although I feel that some of these “rough edges” could be, and should be,
sanded down, at least I figured out how to fix everything I ran into quickly
enough.
Although Debian has a reputation for stability, it does not have the same “hand
holding” and “very refined setup” that some other distributions do. If all you
want to do is whack your way through default setup options and have an ideal
desktop, well, I’m sorry to say you’ll be disappointed, but if you know kind of
what you’re doing, it will get you close enough to figure it the rest of the
way out at least.
In some ways, setting up and administering a Debian system is quite easy as
they don’t inflict all of their own bureaucratic decisions on top of you.
I can set up my system and never use a “security module” like SELinux, which
Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux have.
Why do I want that? SELinux is NSA-written (which a recent patch to Linux
removed all references to), but that aside it’s just so terrible to write
policies for that even if you sort of know what you’re doing, you’ll get things
wrong. Fedora is bumping the selinux-policy package all the time and it’s
usually because they find that something isn’t working right so they throw
another policy package at you and try again. The millionth time is the charm,
you know.
20 years ago, SELinux was so horrible that most users turned it off, and Red
Hat “solved the problem” by not even attempting to “secure” most of the system
with it, because it meant watching your entire machine get killed by “security
policies”.
If you want to set up SELinux, good for you.
When it breaks, good for you. I don’t want it! I spent a lot of years on Fedora
having to shut this particular pile of crap up over everything, including
running Wine programs.
Early on, when it was unbearable, I just unlabeled the file system to turn off
SELinux.
Note: I saw some scroll by saying there was no policy for Tomoyo loaded. I
might play around with that.
I’d rather have a Linux Security Module from a Japanese phone company than the
US NSA, which backdoors everything to help it make people all over the world
vulnerable to being spied on by the United States government.
If you want to use an “immutable file system”, good for you. Tell me how fun
bringing in thousands of packages in a “OS update image” where one or two of
them always misbehave somehow (Fedora) works out. I like installing software
that doesn’t require Flatpak or else makes me use some weird RPM overlay
followed by a reboot.
Debian adds more software in its own packaging all the time. IBM tossed out
LibreOffice, which one-person distributions have.
And there are “Expert installs.” of Debian that have a concept of “Minimal
system”, and other distributions are losing this and turning into something
more like Windows where they have no idea what components even depend on what
other components.
I would say there’s more right with Debian than there is wrong with it.
Conceptually.
I can also see how approaching it could be daunting for users who are not
computer experts.
My first run-in with Debian was in the late 90s as a teenager and I got a
vendor CD that was so broken you couldn’t install a working system if you
wanted to. It’s why I chose Mandrake_Linux as my first daily driver.
Why can I move between distributions easily?
Well, part of that is the SSD, isn’t it?
It forces me to put space hogs (Pigs in SPAAAAAACE!) on my backup drive anyway,
so there’s really not a lot to do except merge all files to be backed up onto
the HDD since most of the files are already going there to begin with, and then
move everything over to the new operating system.
The only thing that really bothers me is that I have to keep a fine-tipped
mechanical pencil around for this because Lenovo made the Novo button (which
you have to use on Lenovo laptops in order to get to the boot options to bring
up the installer stick) really really incredibly tiny, to the point it’s almost
impossible to find anything in the house small enough to press it with.
It’s almost like they don’t want you to kill Windows. █
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More than doubled in half a year?
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Microsoft/Windows down, Apple at 6%, GNU/Linux+ChromeOS at about 4.5%
Summary: In Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest population, GNU/Linux* is
almost outpacing Apple’s OS X, based on August’s numbers_from_statCounter
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G“oogle Shows Why it Has Too Much Power Over the Web By Dropping JPEG-XL
Support.” More Firefox Musings
Google continues to show why_it_has_too_much_power_over_the_Web.
The JPEG image format is very old. It dates back to 1992. The reason people are
still using it is almost entirely due to software patent messes on newer
formats.
Every time someone wants to do better, a “patent pool” forms to sue people in
the ground if they actually use it, and support withers.
While I understand that Microsoft now has a patent that could describe
something JPEG-XL does, and that is alarming, Google itself appears to have
prior art.
I don’t use anything newer than 1992 JPEG myself because you can never be sure
how it will be handled client-side if you try something else.
Other Free Software formats tend to produce larger files.
Apple, for its part, says it will implement JPEG-XL anyway in the iPhones.
We’ll see what Google does if people start posting them to the Web anyway.
Potentially, caching servers could otherwise use them but only if you’re using
a Safari user agent. We’ve seen this before with JPEG2000.
There are too many image formats out there that are not clearly different
enough from each other. I even have some WebP photos because it’s all I could
get a Web server to give me.
Now Google is walking away from that, and I’ll undoubtedly have some “AV1F”s at
some point too.
One of the problems with all these “even better than JPEG” formats is the
patents, but another is the support, like when you try to send off to Walmart’s
photo lab for prints.
My spouse’s damned iPhone shoots to HEIF files, which are cumbersome to store
in an authentic JPEG standard to send to be developed.
Quite often there is even additional file data which is parsed out, making the
thing look a bit worse than if he had a device, like Android, which shoots to
JPEG to begin with.
I’m getting real sick of all these damn Google image formats. I was really
hoping JPEG-XL would come about and be the de-facto standard for the next 30
years or so.
But it looks like we’re in for an endless bout of Google codecs that last 3-
5 years before they’re onto something else. They never stop and support what
they do.
At the first chance they get, they will ditch it and run.
Google sucks. They (and Apple) are causing the very proliferation of
pointlessly different formats they accuse JPEG-XL of.
Google is making new formats almost faster than rabbits can reproduce.
Frequently, and without much thought.
The only advantage Firefox-type browsers (Gecko) have left, now that they carry
almost no clout with Web developers, due to the spyware and much inferior
Google Chrome and Edge, is that Mozilla hasn’t managed to shoot themselves in
the foot for the last time by neutering the WebExtensions the way Chrome does,
which is about to get even worse with ManifestV3.
Google only considers Google. To Hell with everyone else. Chrome’s extensions
support was designed to be as good as it had to be to kill Firefox, and now
that that’s done, they spring the trap and neuter privacy and ad-blocking
extensions.
Essentially the only reason left to run a Gecko browser is this, but Firefox
has so much built-in spyware and adware, I’ve moved everything to LibreWolf to
stop the insanity.
There’s so much garbage in Firefox (and most browsers) now that it almost
defies documenting how to set it up, and even if you do, they’ll just change
the GUI again, so it’s almost pointless.
At least with the fork, the LibreWolf developers can stay current with all the
garbage that Mitchell Baker adds to Mozilla Firefox to pad her paychecks while
the company dies and fires people who were doing useful work.
Unfortunately, Mozilla’s other damage to the Web, being a flunky of Google’s
decisions (like the JPEG-XL one) are harder to fix with a fork few people use.
Pale Moon added JPEG-XL, which is odd. They don’t really have any pull and they
admit that they’re going to have to rebase on Firefox yet again at some point
because…hard forks are hard to keep going. █
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Posted in Site_News at 8:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
The reality:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇women-linux-com⦈_
Linux.com’s front page right now:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇men-speakers⦈_
Summary: It would be commendable if someone managed to get more women involved
in STEM (no sarcasm here); maybe the Linux_Foundation thinks it has a solution
to this
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✐ Another_Microsoft-Controlled_‘Global_Conversation’About“Open_Source_AI”,
Courtesy_of_the_Openwashing_Initiative,_OSI⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GPL, Microsoft, OSI at 10:48 am by
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
A day ago:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_shaping_perceptions_through_OSI⦈_
Whose agenda? Who’s there?
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇OSI_+_Microsoft⦈_
Who’s paying?
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_propaganda_at_OSI⦈_
Summary: The liars and shills working_on_behalf_of_Microsoft, salaried_by
Microsoft_through_the_OSI, carry on controlling perceptions about “AI” while
Microsoft uses it as a cover for mass plagiarism. Today’s OSI totally lacks
credibility and its Board is infiltrated by a Microsoft employee [1, 2] who is
a close friend of Matthew_J_Garrett. It takes bribes from Microsoft to lobby
for Microsoft, helping Microsoft against class_action_lawsuits_for_GPL
violations, i.e. the very opposite of the OSI’s mission. Mary Hardy (CELA) from
Microsoft is in there, as usual. Their latest_“debate” — like previous ones —
is manned by Microsoft and sponsored by Microsoft.
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠋⡟⠛⡛⢿⡏⠏⠛⠛⠛⠙⢟⡏⢋⣙⠩⡏⣿⠉⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠋⠉⠹⡛⠻⡏⠋⢛⠏⠛⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣶⣶⣯⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣮⣼⣧⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣩⣏⣉⣹⣐⣝⣹⣫⣋⣏⣟⣹⣐⣝⣙⣉⣙⣩⣇⣽⣕⣈⣉⣹⣗⣈⣉⣉⣙⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣡⣙⣙⣫⣃⣉⣋⣹⣢⣹⣉⣻⣛⣽⣿⣐⣙⣍⣩⣁⣥⣀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠍⠹⠛⠛⠙⢻⠏⠻⡟⣻⡻⡏⢝⢟⠛⣻⡙⠙⡻⢙⢹⠛⢻⠟⠛⢛⠛⢹⢛⡟⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⡛⢛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢀⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠸⡇⡿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠚⠛⠛⠃⠀⠘⠛⠑⠙⠚⠀⠘⠓⠙⠒⠃⠀⠛⠊⠛⠃⠀⠘⠊⠛⠙⠒⠙⠀⠐⠛⠚⠂
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡗⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⢁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣦⣴⡖⠁⢀⣔⣀⣤⣀⣾⣦⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠡⠼⣏⠀⠀⢀⣨⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠈⢲⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⢣⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡄⣾⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⠓⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⡟⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⢀⠀⢀⠀⠡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⡇⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠘⠘⠀⠃⠀⠀⠘⠂⠘⠃⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠚⠀⠃⠈⠃⠘⠀⠀⠀⠚⠂⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Posted in Deception, IBM, Red_Hat at 8:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: In early June IBM/Red Hat said it would make something of
Opensource.com within a month. 3 months later we’re still waiting…
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# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_522:_Zenbleed_Foot_Shooting⠀⇛
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History
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# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ LXD_5.17_is_now_available⠀⇛
While things sometimes slow down during summer
while we take a well-deserved break, the LXD team
stuck to our usual monthly release schedule
delivering two new feature releases.
We completed several bigger features from our
roadmap, as well as some usual user experience
improvements and bug fixes.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in LXD 5.16 and
5.17.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ My_Favorite_Command_Line_Editors_for_Linux_–
What’s_Your_Editor?⠀⇛
Knowing how to edit files quickly and effectively
via the command line is vital for every Linux
system administrator. File edits are performed on a
daily basis, whether it’s a configuration file,
user file, text document, or whatever file you need
to edit.
It’s a good idea to choose a favorite command-line
text editor and master it. While it’s beneficial to
know how to use various text editors, mastering at
least one is essential for handling more complex
tasks.
# ⚓ 11_Best_CAD_Software_[Free_and_Paid]_for_Linux_in_2023 [Ed:
Updated yesterday]⠀⇛
Computer-aided design (CAD) involves the process of
using computers to create, modify, analyze, or
optimize designs.
The CAD software is used by architects, animators,
graphic designers, and engineers to create and
perfect their design quality, create a database for
maintenance, and improve communication via
documentation.
There are several free and paid CAD software to
choose from and these days both the free and paid
ones have the same features.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 13_Free_and_Open-Source_Video_Editing_Software
for_Linux_in_2023 [Ed: Updated today]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_Kubernetes_Legacy_Package
Repositories_Will_Be_Frozen_On_September_13,_2023⠀⇛
On August 15, 2023, the Kubernetes project
announced the general availability of the
community-owned package repositories for Debian and
RPM packages available at pkgs.k8s.io. The new
package repositories are replacement for the legacy
Google-hosted package repositories:
apt.kubernetes.io and yum.kubernetes.io.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_install_LAMP_with_Let’s_Encrypt_Free_SSL_on
CentOS_8⠀⇛
LAMP is a free and open-source stack made up of
four software Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP.
Linux is used as an operating system, Apache is
used as a web server, MariaDB used for database and
PHP used as a language.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_install_Viber_on_Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛
Viber was founded on 2010, and it started
originally as a voice over IP app. However,
nowadays It is one of the most popular chatting app
that is used massively around the world.
Viber is a cross platform app, which means you can
run it on any smartphone and Computer.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Deploy_Secure_CockroachDB_Cluster_on
Ubuntu⠀⇛
CockroachDB is a scalable and cloud-native SQL
database for building scalable cloud services. It
is specially designed to store copies of data in
multiple locations to deliver speedy access. It’s a
distributed SQL database built on the transactional
and key-value store.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_WebStorm_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
The prowess of WebStorm as an Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) is hard to contest.
Especially for web developers, it offers a bouquet
of features, from intelligent coding assistance to
seamless version control integration. If you’re an
Ubuntu user, integrating this powerful tool into
your workflow can elevate your coding endeavors
manifold.
# ⚓ Stacer_–_The_Linux_System_Optimizer_You’ve_Been_Waiting
For⠀⇛
System optimizer apps are quite the thing on
platforms such as Windows and Android.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Install_Urbit_in_Linux⠀⇛
Urbit is a cloud-based operating system (OS) that
aims to create a decentralized space for content
creation and socialization. Unlike a traditional
OS, Urbit works by bootstrapping from an existing
Linux distribution. This makes it easy to use and
approachable even for novice users.
This article will guide you through the process of
installing Urbit on Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Transfer_file_between_VirtualBox
VM_&_Host_without_Shared_Folders⠀⇛
Shared Folders feature does not work for your OS in
VirtualBox Virtual Machine? Here’s a quick
workaround to transfer files between host and VMs.
VirtualBox has port forwarding feature that allows
to access a service or an app running in VM from
the host or even the internet.
# § howtoforge⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Terraform_on_Ubuntu
Server_22.04⠀⇛
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure
automation tool that allows you to deploy and
manage hundreds of servers via a command-line
interface. This tutorial will explain how to
install Terraform on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Zabbix_Monitoring_Tool
on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Zabbix is a powerful open-source monitoring
solution to monitor IT infrastructure. With
Zabbix, you can monitor various IT
components, including networks, servers,
virtual machines, and cloud services.
# § idroot⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Fix_“Sudo_Command_Not_Found”_on
Linux⠀⇛
In the realm of Linux systems administration,
the “sudo” command stands as an essential
tool, enabling users to execute commands with
elevated privileges. However, encountering
the dreaded “sudo command not found” error
can be a perplexing and frustrating
experience.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cockpit_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Cockpit on AlmaLinux 9. In the ever-
evolving landscape of IT management, the
effective administration of servers is a
critical pillar for business success.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Timeshift_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Timeshift on Debian 12. In the ever-
evolving world of technology, ensuring the
stability and security of your digital assets
is paramount. System backups and restoration
are the foundation of this stability, acting
as a safety net against unexpected data loss
or system failures.
# ⚓ Adam_Young:_Building_a_Kernel_RPM_with_the_Built-in
Makefile_target⠀⇛
Note that you need to have a .config file that will
be included in the build. It will also use the
Version as specified in your Makefile. Then run
make rpm-pkg
Which will use the RPM build infra set up for your
user to put the rpm in $HOME/rpmbuild/
# ⚓ Linux Questions ☛ linux_on_Commodore_C64⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Jellyfin_Media_Server_on
Debian_12⠀⇛
Jellyfin is free software for building a media
server. It lets you collect, manage, and stream
your media files from multiple devices or clients.
Jellyfin is a free and self-hosted application that
can be installed on your server, so you can create
your own media server in your local environment,
such as at home, and then allow multiple clients
and devices to access all your media files.
# ⚓ David Revoy ☛ How_to_customise_a_USB_numeric_keypad_under
GNU/Linux?⠀⇛
Something that relaxes me after hours of painting
or drawing is doing DIY projects. It’s always very
rewarding for me to hack, repair or customise
existing hardware.
Today I’m going to show you how I turned a cheap
USB numeric keypad (also known as a numeric keypad,
number pad, numpad, 10-key…) into a pad that I use
for my digital painting shortcuts when I’m using my
display pen tablet or when I’m painting on the go
with my laptop. I bought this from a local computer
shop for just 5€, a very good deal as this type of
device usually sells for between 13€ and 30€. The
build quality is a little bulky, the cable is thin
and of poor quality, but in the shop I noticed that
the keys felt good to press and weren’t too noisy
(they weren’t even in sealed boxes). At this price,
it wasn’t much of a risk to try it out on a DIY
project.
In this tutorial, I’ll describe what commands and
steps I used to create this project: remap the key
on Linux, and paint the keys.
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_List_Users_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Listing users on Ubuntu is useful for discovering
who or what is currently running on your system.
In Linux and Ubuntu, not every user is used by an
actual person. Users are also used for applications
to run under.
Over the following sections, you will learn various
ways to list users on the Ubuntu operating system.
Each of these methods has its pros and cons, so use
what you find easiest.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Bringing_Windows_to_Pop!_OS:_A_guide_to_using
Wine⠀⇛
There’s a certain allure to Pop!_OS’s robust
nature, but what if you’re missing some of your
favorite Windows applications? Enter ‘Wine’ – a
compatibility layer capable of running Windows apps
seamlessly on Linux distributions, including
Pop!_OS.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Getting_Started_With_GNU_Debugger_on_Linux:_A
Crash_Course⠀⇛
Debugging is an indispensable skill for programmers
and security researchers. Having a strong grasp of
debugging allows you to understand an executable on
a lower level and catch any lurking errors.
The GNU debugger or, GDB, is a timeless debugging
tool that has been relied upon by programmers for
years now. Here’s how to use GDB on Linux.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ My_top_20_video_games⠀⇛
Trivia, I’m not a huge gamer, I still play many
games nowaday, but I only play each of them for a
couple of hours to see what they have to offer in
term of gameplay, mechanics, and see if they are
innovative in some way. If a game is able to
surprise me or give me something new, I may spend a
bit more time on it.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_OS_3.4.9_released_with_GPU_fix
for_Starfield⠀⇛
As I speculated previously when Steam Deck OS 3.4.9
went into Preview, Valve has now released it as a
Stable update for all Steam Deck owners for
Starfield.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Embracer_closes_Volition_developer_of
Freespace,_Red_Faction,_Saints_Row⠀⇛
Well, there goes another big industry name.
Embracer Group, who currently own a stupidly vast
portfolio of developers and publisher has shut down
Volition.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Play_The_Classic_Snake_Game_In_Linux
Terminal⠀⇛
Snake is a classic game that has been enjoyed by
people of all ages for decades. This simple game is
easy to learn but difficult to master, making it a
challenge that players of all skill levels can
enjoy.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_Shredder’s
Revenge_–_Dimension_Shellshock_DLC_is_out_now⠀⇛
Native Linux beat-’em-up Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge received its Dimension
Shellshock DLC on August 31st, with discounts
available for both the DLC and the base game.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Experimental_update_has_newly
playable_games_and_fixes_Ship_of_Fools⠀⇛
Valve released a new upgrade for Proton
Experimental for Steam Deck and desktop Linux on
August 31st with a few additions, here’s what’s
new. Quite a small one but as always, all fixes are
appreciated to get more games into a playable state
even when the developers have long since stopped
updating their games.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ HoloCure_is_a_Vampire_Survivors_clone
that’s_free,_really_cute_and_surprisingly_fun⠀⇛
I will admit, I know basically nothing about
Hololive, VTubers or anything like that and yet I’m
now completely sucked in by the free fan game
HoloCure – Save the Fans! This is a Vampire
Survivors clone made for fans of Hololive, but
don’t let that dissuade you, it’s also a
surprisingly great game to kill some time with.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Halls_of_Torment_adds_new_characters,_new
stage,_‘Agony_Mode’_and_much_more⠀⇛
Well, there goes basically all of my free time.
Halls of Torment blends together retro Diablo with
Vampire Survivors and it was already horribly
addictive and now I fear I’m going to be sucked in
again.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Pro_wrestling_and_RPG_fantasy_collide_in
WrestleQuest_out_now⠀⇛
Love wrestling? Well the new release of
WrestleQuest might be what you need. A blend of
sweet pixel-art with pro wrestling and fantasy
elements. Coming from Mega Cat Studios and Skybound
Games it has Native Linux support and it’s Steam
Deck Playable.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ New_update_for_Dota_2_might_pull_me_back
in,_with_new_reporting_and_matchmaking⠀⇛
It finally seems like it might be time for me to
put another 500 hours into Dota 2, as Valve has
given the game quite an interesting upgrade for The
Summer Client Update.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ GNOME_45_Packs_in_Exciting_Upgrades:
Here’s_What’s_New⠀⇛
Every major GNOME release is exciting to me.
You can always expect UI-focused changes,
feature improvements, and updates to the core
apps.
GNOME 44 introduced some interesting
abilities like being able to check running
background apps, thumbnail view in the file
chooser, and more.
The GNOME 45 release is scheduled for
September 20, but the feature set can already
be seen in its beta version. So, let us look
at what you can expect with GNOME 45.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Reviews⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Mageia_9_Review:_A_Refreshed_Linux
Experience⠀⇛
We review the latest Mageia 9 release with its new
features, upgrades and performance. Mageia stands
out for its elegant simplicity and unique approach
that sets it apart from the typical Debian or
Fedora bases.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ OpenBSD_vmm_and_qcow2_derived_disks⠀⇛
Let me show you a very practical feature of qcow2
virtual disk format, that is available in OpenBSD
vmm, allowing you to easily create derived disks
from an original image (also called delta disks).
A derived disk image is a new storage file that
will inherit all the data from the original file,
without modifying the original ever, it’s like
stacking a new fresh disk on top of the previous
one, but all the changes are now written on the new
one.
This allows interesting use cases such as using a
golden image to provide a base template, like a
fresh OpenBSD install, or create a temporary disks
to try changes without harming to original file
(and without having to backup a potentially huge
file).
This is NOT OpenBSD specific, it’s a feature of the
qcow2 format, so while this guide is using OpenBSD
as an example, this will work wherever qcow2 can be
used.
# ⚓ OpenBSD ☛ LibReSSL_3.8.1_Released⠀⇛
We have released LibreSSL 3.8.1, which will be
arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local
OpenBSD mirror soon. This is a development release
for the 3.8.x branch, so we appreciate early
testing and feedback.
It includes the following changes: [...]
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ OpenBSD_vmm_and_qcow2_derived_disks⠀⇛
Introduction
Let me show you a very practical feature of qcow2
virtual disk format, that is available in OpenBSD
vmm, allowing you to easily create derived disks
from an original image (also called delta disks).
A derived disk image is a new storage file that
will inherit all the data from the original file,
without modifying the original ever, it’s like
stacking a new fresh disk on top of the previous
one, but all the changes are now written on the new
one.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ The_Arch_Decision:_Evaluating_If_a_Leap
From_Manjaro_to_EndeavourOS_Is_Right_for_You⠀⇛
In the expansive universe of Linux distributions,
the choice of which one to use can be overwhelming.
Among the galaxies of options, two Arch-based stars
have shone increasingly brightly: Manjaro and
EndeavourOS. Both are rooted in the Arch Linux
ecosystem, yet they cater to different kinds of
users and offer unique experiences. If you’re
currently a Manjaro user contemplating the switch
to EndeavourOS, this article aims to help you make
an informed decision.
Choosing between Manjaro and EndeavourOS boils down
to what you need and what you’re comfortable with.
If you prefer a system that is ready-to-go with a
safety net of added features and stability, Manjaro
is your go-to choice. However, if you enjoy diving
deep into system customization and getting updates
as quickly as possible, EndeavourOS is the way to
go.
Choosing a Linux distribution is a personal
journey. We encourage you to try both Manjaro and
EndeavourOS to see which fits your needs and
preferences best. Got any experiences or tips to
share? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the
comments below.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ insideHPC ☛ Linux_Open_Source_Guru_Greg_Kurtzer_on_Red_Hat
and_the_RHEL_Source_Code_Controversy⠀⇛
The Linux open source controversy was kicked off in
late June when Red Hat announced changes in access
to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code. We
discussed this in an earlier episode of this
podcast, Sorting through the Linux Source Uproar —
Red Hat Sets off a Firestorm, with special guest
and HPC software analyst Joe Landman. We’ve also
spoken with Greg Kurtzer of CIQ and Mike McGrath of
Red Hat for their conflicting perspectives on this
issue.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Red_Hat_and_Google_Cloud_deepen
collaboration_on_OpenShift,_Ansible_and_Data_Science
solutions [Ed: Red Hat-sponsored puff piece]⠀⇛
Red Hat Inc. was names Google LLC’s “Partner of the
Year for Infrastructure” during the 2023 Google
Cloud Partner Summit. The award recognizes the two
companies’ close collaboration in developing and
delivering open-source solutions that help
organizations build and run hybrid and multicloud
applications.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_wearable_device_uses_air_to_provide
directions⠀⇛
Most people today rely on technology to navigate
through the world. That is practical thanks to the
reliability of modern GPS. But receiving directions
can be difficult for people with certain
disabilities. People who are blind, for instance,
cannot look at a map on a smartphone.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Logic_Analyzers:_Tapping_Into_Raspberry_Pi
Secrets⠀⇛
Today, I’d like to highlight a tool that brings
your hacking skills to a whole new level, and does
that without breaking the bank – in fact, given
just how much debugging time you can save, how many
fun pursuits you can unlock, and the numerous
features you can add, this might be one of the
cheapest tools you will get. Whether it’s debugging
weird problems, optimizing your code, probing
around a gadget you’re reverse-engineering, or
maybe trying to understand someone’s open-source
library, you are likely missing out a lot if you
don’t have a logic analyzer on hand!
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Emulating_X86_On_Apple’s_AARCH64_X64_Emulator⠀⇛
You might know [Evan Martin] as the developer of
retrowin32. It’s a Windows and x86 emulator
designed to run on a Mac or on the web. He’s
recently been exploring how to run 32-bit x86
binaries on the AArch64 (aka ARM64) architecture.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Five_Eyes_Report:_New_Russian_Malware
Targeting_Ukrainian_Military_Android_Devices⠀⇛
The new malware, named Infamous Chisel, is actually
a collection of components designed to provide
persistent backdoor access to compromised Android
devices over the Tor network, and enable the
attackers to collect and exfiltrate data.
The campaign has been linked to the threat actor
known as Sandstorm, which was previously connected
to Russia’s GRU foreign military intelligence
agency.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Kremlin-backed_Sandworm_strikes_Android
devices_with_data-stealing_Infamous_Chisel⠀⇛
Russia’s Sandworm crew is using an Android malware
strain dubbed Infamous Chisel to remotely access
Ukrainian soldiers’ devices, monitor network
traffic, access files, and steal sensitive
information, according to a Five Eyes report
published Thursday.
The Sandworm gang, which Western government
agencies have previously linked to Russia’s GRU
military intelligence unit, was behind a series of
attacks leading up to the bloody invasion of
neighboring Ukraine. They’ve continued infecting
that country and its allies’ computers with data
wipers, info-stealers, ransomware, and other
malicious code ever since.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ ‘Five_Eyes’_nations_release_technical
details_of_Sandworm_malware_‘Infamous_Chisel’⠀⇛
Russia is pivoting from disruptive cyberattacks to
more targeted operations aimed at giving it an
advantage on the Ukrainian battlefield.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 4_Android_Browsers_That_Support_Extensions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_See_Blocked_Numbers_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ You_Can_Join_Any_Android_App’s_Beta_Programme
Even_If_It’s_Full:_Here’s_How⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Sony_Xperia_5_V_is_the_compact_flagship
Android_phone_enthusiasts_always_wanted⠀⇛
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Russia_Hackers_Infilitrated_Ukraine
Battlefield_Devices:_Intel⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Russian_State-Backed_‘Infamous_Chisel’
Android_Malware_Targets_Ukrainian_Military⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ New_SBC_powered_by_Allwinner_T507-
H_processor⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ When_is_Android_14_coming_out_and_will_my_phone
receive_the_free_upgrade?_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ One_UI_6/Android_14_Beta_2_starts_to_roll_out
to_the_Galaxy_S23_series_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Photos_starts_adding_support_for
Android_14′s_upcoming_Ultra_HDR_format⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_11_gets_Android_14_on_September_25_–
GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ AGM_Mobile_Pad_P1_launches_as_brand-first
waterproof_Android_13_tablet_with_optional_4G/LTE_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ SSLH ☛ sslh_v2.0_released⠀⇛
sslh-v2.0.0 is now available from the usual sources:
[...]
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ DBLab_3.4:_new_name,_SE_installer,_and_lots_of
improvements⠀⇛
DBLab Engine version 3.4, an open-source tool for
PostgreSQL thin cloning and database branching, has
been released with numerous improvements.
Rapid, cost-effective cloning and branching are
extremely valuable when you need to enhance the
development process. DBLab Engine can handle
numerous independent clones of your database on a
single machine, so each engineer or automated
process can work with their own database created
within seconds without additional expenses. This
enables testing of any changes and optimization
concepts, whether manually or in CI/CD pipelines,
as well as validating all the concepts suggested by
ChatGPT or another LLM. This effectively addresses
the issue of LLM hallucinations.
§ New name: DBLab Engine
The new name for the Database Lab Engine is “DBLab
Engine”. Updates are currently underway across our
materials to reflect this change. To align with
this change, we have introduced specific domains
for the product: dblab.dev and dblab.sh. For ease
of access, we have established the following short
URLs: [...]
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ wget2-2.1.0_released⠀⇛
Hi,
we are happy to announce the release 2.1.0 of GNU
Wget2.
Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and
recursive website
downloader.
Designed and written from scratch it wraps around
libwget, that provides
the basic functions needed by a web client.
Wget2 works multi-threaded and uses many features
to allow fast operation.
In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget
due to HTTP2,
HTTP compression, parallel connections, use of If-
Modified-Since HTTP header
and more.
Wget2 has several new command-line options, see the
wiki page for a list and
comparison with Wget.
Wget will be maintained further. The idea is that
breaking changes and new
functionalities go into Wget2 / libwget.
Except for WARC and FTP, Wget2 is a drop-in
replacement for Wget in most cases.
Of course there may be subtle differences, so make
sure to test well before
replacing Wget by Wget2.
GNU Wget2 is licensed under GPLv3+. Libwget is
licensed under LGPLv3+.
**Noteworthy changes since the last release (see
also the NEWS file):**
* New option --follow-sitemaps
* New option --dane (cert validation via DNS)
* Implement --check-certificate=quiet
* Support proxies on non-default ports
* Added CIDR support for no_proxy (IPv4 and IPv6)
* Improve recursive RSS/Atom processing
* Improve default cert/bundle paths for Windows
* Improve Windows and MSVC compatibility
* Use CONNECT for https_proxy
* Add decoding numeric XML entities
* Improve OpenSSL code
* Improve WolfSSL code
* Improve the progress bar
* New function wget_xml_decode_entities_inline()
* Support compilation of wget.h from C++
* Handle comments in robots.txt correctly
* Fix parsing HTMP/XML entities in URLs from
HTML/XML
* Fix use-after-free when updating blacklist
entries
* Don't try setting file timestamps on ttys
* Fix arguments parsing for --filter-urls
* Fix removing fragments when converting links
* Fix duplicate downloads for Link headers with
rel=duplicate
* Fix segmentation fault (NULL dereference when no
HTTP header has been received)
* Change arguments of wget_iri_compare to const
* Fix memory leak in wget_hashmap_clear()
* Extend network error messages with hostname and
IP address
* Fix status code for 5xx errors
* Fix issue in wget_buffer_trim()
* Improve tests, documentation, building
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ John D Cook ☛ First_time_seeing_a_rare_event⠀⇛
Suppose you’ve been monitoring a rare event for a
long time, then you see your first occurrence on
the Nth observation. Now what would you say about
the event’s probability?
For example, suppose you’re wondering whether dogs
ever have two tails. You observe thousands of dogs
and never see two tails. But then you see a dog
with two tails? Now what can you say about the
probability of dogs having two tails? It’s
certainly not zero.
We’ll first look at the case of 0 successes out of
N trials then look at the case of 1 success out of
N trials.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_MCUs_2.5.1_LTS_Released⠀⇛
Qt for MCUs 2.5.1 LTS (Long-Term Support) has been
released and is available for download. As a patch
release, Qt for MCUs 2.5.1 LTS provides bug fixes
and other improvements, and maintains source
compatibility with Qt for MCUs 2.5.x.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Online_Installer_and_Qt_Installer_Framework_4.6.1
Released⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Safe_Renderer_2.1.0_Beta1_Released⠀⇛
We have released Qt Safe Renderer 2.1.0 Beta1 for
commercial license holders today. The release
provides a snapshot of upcoming QSR 2.1.0 features:
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ AI_Assistant_Translates_Your_Every_Request
For_The_Command_Line⠀⇛
If you don’t live on the command line, it can
be easy to forget the exact syntax of
commands. It often leaves you running to the
“/?” or “–help” switches, or else a quick
Google search to find the proper
incantations. Shell-AI is a machine-learning
assistant that could change all that by
helping you find the proper command for the
job, right on the command line!
# ⚓ JT ☛ The_case_for_Nushell⠀⇛
Recently, I had a chat with some of my
friends about Nushell and why they stuck with
traditional shells like bash/zsh or the “new”
hotness like fish rather than using Nushell.
After chatting with them, my brain kept
bubbling away at the state of how folks were
using their terminals and the end result is
this blog post.
In this post, I make the case for really
taking a hard look at Nushell and also for
generally asking the question: “can the state
of shells be improved enough to overcome the
inertia of sticking to what you know?”
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Using_Microsoft⠀✐
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Super_NES_Cartridge_Pulls_A_Sneaky,_Plays_Minecraft⠀⇛
Sometimes it’s the little touches and details that make a
project. That’s certainly the case with [Franklinstein]’s
Super Nintendo (SNES) Cartridge Hard Drive. It might only
be an enclosure for a solid-state hard drive with a USB
interface, but the attention to detail is what really
makes it worth checking out.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ U.S._Aquifers_Are_Running_Dry,_Posing_Major
Threat_to_Drinking_Water_Supply⠀⇛
A major New York Times investigation reveals how the
United States’ aquifers are becoming severely depleted
due to overuse in part from huge industrial farms and
sprawling cities. The Times reports that Kansas corn
yields are plummeting due to a lack of water, there is
not enough water to support the construction of new homes
in parts of Phoenix, Arizona, and rivers across the
country are drying up as aquifers are being drained far
faster than they are refilling. “It can take millions of
years to fill an aquifer, but they can be depleted in 50
years,” says Warigia Bowman, director of sustainable
energy and natural resources law at the University of
Tulsa College of Law. “All coastal regions in the United
States are really being threatened by groundwater and
aquifer problems.”
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ New_study_sheds_light_on_plant’s_genetic
memory_transmission⠀⇛
Beyond the fundamental DNA code, organisms also
transmit chemical cues that instruct cells on gene
utilization. This transmission, known as epigenetic
inheritance, is particularly prevalent in plants.
The implications of significant findings in this
realm extend to agriculture, food security, and
environmental preservation.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Book_Notes:_“Out_of_the_Software_Crisis”_by
Baldur_Bjarnason⠀⇛
But alas, there’s no time. So it will have to
suffice to say: I enjoyed the book, here are a few
excerpts I want to note for future reference.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Aalto_University_plans_to_cut_English_language
teaching⠀⇛
These changes are being made in response to a
complaint filed by students at the university in
October 2021, which criticised the dominance of
Englishlanguage instruction.
The complaint was particularly focused on finance
studies and pointed out that these were not
available in Finnish or Swedish at the master’s
level. It also highlighted that the Bachelor of
Finance degree was no longer primarily taught in
Finnish or Swedish.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Taliban_stop_women_scholars_from_studying
in_Dubai⠀⇛
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor is a successful Dubai
businessman who has granted scholarships to some
100 Afghan women to continue their studies in the
United Arab Emirates. However, the Taliban have
barred women in Afghanistan from attending
university.
Some scholarship recipients planned to fly from
Kabul to Dubai last week to study abroad, where Al
Habtoor would have welcomed them. But the Taliban
refused to allow the young women to leave shortly
before their scheduled departure.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘A_huge_issue’:_US_colleges_work_to_shore_up
student_math_skills⠀⇛
At many universities, engineering and biology
majors are struggling to grasp fractions and
exponents. As more students are placed in pre-
college math, professors blame the pandemic.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_Engine_Gets_Carburetor⠀⇛
3D printed materials have come a long way in the
last decade or so as printers have become more and
more mainstream. Printers can use all kinds of
different plastics with varying physical
characteristics, and there are even printers now
for other materials like concrete and metal. But
even staying within the realm of the plastic
printer can do a lot of jobs you might not expect.
[Camden Bowen] recently 3D printed a single-piston
engine which nearly worked, and is back with some
improvements to it thanks to a small carburetor.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ PC_GPU_Sales_Up_11%_in_Q2,_But_Remain
Slower_Than_Last_Year⠀⇛
Intel continues to dominate the GPU market as AMD
regains some share from Nvidia in Q2 2023.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Neo6502_Is_A_Credit-Card_Sized_Retro
Computer⠀⇛
The venerable MOS Technology 6502 turned up in all
kinds of computers and other digital equipment over
the years. Typically, it was clocked fairly slow
and had limited resources, but that was just how
things used to be. Today, the 6502 can run at an
altogether quicker pace, and the Neo6502 was the
board built to take it there.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Unexpected_Appearance_Of_An_Iconic_Motorola
Chip⠀⇛
Generally when you crack open a cheap car-to-USB
charger unit that came with some widget, you do not
expect to find anything amazing inside. That’s why
it was such a surprise to [Big Clive] when said car
USB charger revealed a blast from the past in the
form of an MC34063. This is a switching regulator
that supports buck, boost and inverting topologies,
but perhaps it most notable feature is that it was
first produced by Motorola in the early 1980s.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Makes_Lower_Drug_Prices_a
Centerpiece_of_His_2024_Campaign⠀⇛
President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act allows
Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, a change
that the pharmaceutical industry and Republicans
have opposed for decades.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Administration_Unveils_First_Drugs
for_Medicare_Price_Negotiations⠀⇛
The price negotiation program, established by
Democrats as part of the Inflation Reduction Act,
is projected to save the government tens of
billions of dollars in the coming years.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ Marijuana_could_be_classified_as_a_lower-risk_drug.
Here’s_what_that_means.⠀⇛
HHS’s recommendation, which was based on a review
by the Food and Drug Administration, comes as
marijuana remains illegal at the federal level,
even as 23 states have legalized the use of
recreational marijuana and 38 states have approved
access to medical marijuana.
The DEA hasn’t signaled how it will respond to the
HHS recommendation. But if it does reschedule the
drug, marijuana businesses are among those most
likely to benefit. That’s because rescheduling
would likely mean access to federal financial
benefits meant to help businesses, including tax
breaks that marijuana companies currently aren’t
able to use.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Cannabis_detrimental_to
teens,_pregnant_women_and_mentally_ill_people:_study⠀⇛
The findings of the review were published by the
BMJ Medical Journal on Wednesday. The umbrella
review was conducted by an international team of
experts.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_admin_announces_first_10_drugs_facing
Medicare_price_negotiation [Ed: Why not mention the word
"patent" even once?]⠀⇛
The blood-thinners Eliquis and Xarelto are among
the 10 prescription medicines the Biden
administration will seek lower Medicare prices for
as part of a new program allowing the government to
negotiate drug prices for America’s seniors.
Why it matters: The administration’s landmark
announcement Tuesday detailed the first-ever set of
drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations, a
longtime_Democratic_priority included in last
year’s Inflation Reduction Act over drug companies’
fervent objections.
# ⚓ Diziet ☛ Conferences_take_note:_the_pandemic_is_not_over⠀⇛
Many people seem to be pretending that the pandemic
is over. It isn’t. People are still getting Covid,
becoming sick, and even in some cases becoming
disabled. People’s plans are still being disrupted.
Vulnerable people are still hiding.
Conference organisers: please make robust Covid
policies, publish them early, and enforce them.
And, clearly set expectations for your attendees.
Attendees: please don’t be the superspreader.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ COVID-19:_Commission_authorises
adapted_COVID-19_vaccine_for_Member_States’_autumn
vaccination_campaigns_*⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Brussels, 01 Sep
2023 The Commission has authorised the Comirnaty
XBB.1.5-adapted COVID-19 vaccine, developed by
BioNTech-Pfizer.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Public_freakouts,_burnout,_and_bullying_are_all
here_to_stay⠀⇛
Concertgoers throwing_things_at_performers, people
talking on their cell phones through movies,
tourists defacing historical landmarks in pursuit
of the perfect selfie — the first truly post-
pandemic summer has shown the bad behaviors
unleashed during the stress of COVID aren’t slowing
down.
Why it matters:A mix of worsening mental health and
decaying societal connections, both exacerbated by
the pandemic, may be driving this trend in rude
behavior that could extend far beyond COVID’s
upheaval, mental health experts told Axios. Though
other factors are also at play, they said.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Omicron_was_the_deadliest_pandemic_wave_for_cancer
patients⠀⇛
The Omicron wave of the pandemic was the deadliest
for cancer patients, reinforcing how much high-risk
individuals can succumb to COVID-19 strains that
pose less severe threats to the rest of the
population, according to research in JAMA_Oncology
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Experts_Worry_That_AI-Generated_Books_About
Mushroom_Foraging_Will_Get_Someone_Killed⠀⇛
That’s not much of a stretch. Some types of
mushrooms are extremely poisonous, and as far as
hobbies go, fungi foraging can be a dangerous
pastime. Generative AI is known to get its facts
wrong. What happens when a non-expert looking for a
quick cash grab publishes an AI-generated fungi
guide, and a piece of bad information — be it
outright wrong or even just a little too vague —
finds its way onto the pages?
“There are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North
America and several that are deadly,” Sigrid Jakob,
president of the New York Mycological Society, told
404′s Samantha Cole. “They can look similar to
popular edible species.”
“A poor description in a book,” Jakob added, “can
mislead someone to eat a poisonous mushroom.”
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Brain_fog_after_Covid_linked_to_blood_clots_–_study_–
BBC_News⠀⇛
A UK study links two proteins in the blood of
hospital patients to thinking and memory problems.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Health_Insurers_Have_Made_Appealing
Denials_So_Complicated⠀⇛
Have you ever had a health care claim denied by
your insurer? Ever tried to appeal it? Did you wind
up confused, frustrated, exhausted, defeated?
I’ve been a health care reporter for more than 40
years. And when I tried to figure out how to appeal
insurance denials, I wound up the same way. And I
didn’t even try to file an actual appeal.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ “Doomsday”_seed_vaults_are_on_the_rise_as_a
response_to_climate_change⠀⇛
“Doomsday” seed vaults are becoming an increasingly
popular tool in the race to insure global crop and
agricultural production against the damaging
impacts of climate change.
Why it matters: In an era of simultaneous climate
disasters, long-term solutions that bolster the
future of food supply are gaining momentum among
governments, scientists and small-scale farmers.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ AI-generated_Trump_rap_song_mocking_latest_arrest
tops_iTunes_chart:_‘My_mugshot_worth_a_billi’⠀⇛
“Out on bail, out on bail. I won’t see inside a
cell,” the eerily-accurate AI-generated voice
chants.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ A_Deep_Dive_Into_the_World_of_AI_Voice
Cloning⠀⇛
AI voice cloning, or voice synthesis, leverages
sophisticated machine learning algorithms to
recreate a specific human voice. To accomplish this
voice recreation, algorithms are trained using vast
volumes of the target voice data, honing in on
unique aspects such as tone, pace, accent, and more
nuanced vocal idiosyncrasies.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ DataTech Digital Inc ☛ UMinn_sued,_accused_of_taking
insufficient_action_to_prevent_data_breach⠀⇛
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student
and former employee at the University of
Minnesota accuses the university of not doing
enough to protect personal information from a
recent data breach.
Attorneys for the two plaintiffs said in the
lawsuit filed in federal court Friday that
the university “was fully capable of
preventing” the breach, the Minneapolis Star
Tribune reported Wednesday.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(firefox-esr, json-c, opendmarc, and otrs2), Red
Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kpatch-patch), Scientific
Linux (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (haproxy,
php7, vim, and xen), and Ubuntu (elfutils, frr, and
linux-gcp, linux-starfive).
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ One_month_later,_Ranhill_still_hasn’t_fully
recovered_from_cyberattack⠀⇛
More than one month later, it appears that Ranhill
has still been unable to fully recover.
DataBreaches previously reported complaints on
Facebook about the payment app not working. It
still isn’t working, and Ranhill does not even
reply Facebook to customers who are frustrated and
complaining about the inability to pay, as a “Wake
up, Ranhill” message posted a few days ago
suggests. Another customer complains because they
have not received their bills for the past three
months and can’t get them because the website is
(still) down.
# ⚓ Data_breach_could_affect_more_than_100,000_in_Pima_County⠀⇛
More than 100,000 Pima County residents could be
affected by a nationwide data breach that affected
the company that handled COVID-19 case
investigations and contact tracing here, officials
say.
The company, Maximus Health Services Inc., notified
the county earlier this month that data stolen from
a breach of Progress Software Corporation’s MOVEit
Transfer application in May included information on
about 110,000 Tucson area residents, a news release
from the county health department said.
# ⚓ [Repeat] DataTech Digital Inc ☛ UMinn_sued,_accused_of
taking_insufficient_action_to_prevent_data_breach [Ed:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension are investigating.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Geoff
Dittberner, who studied at the university and
worked as a government relations office assistant
there; and Mary Wint, who worked as a university
nutrition educator for about 20 years and was a
patient of its health care system. Attorneys are
seeking class-action status.
# ⚓ Singing_River_Health_System_still_recovering_from_recent
cyberattack⠀⇛
Surgeries delayed, prescriptions needing to be
written by hand, and some patients being
transferred to other hospitals. These are all
affects of the recent cyberattack at Singing River
Health System.
“We still deliver great patient care,” said Dr.
Randy Roth, Singing River Chief Medical Officer.
“It’s a little bit slower. For us guys with the
gray hair, we’re back to paper. We’re practicing
like we did in 2011, 12, before we got on EPIC.”
EPIC is Singing River’s medical record system. The
system that was hacked.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ LogicMonitor_customers_who_didn’t_change
default_passwords_were_hit_by_hackers⠀⇛
Some customers of the network security company
LogicMonitor have been hacked due to the use of
default passwords, TechCrunch has learned.
The incident is due to the fact that, until
recently, LogicMonitor was assigning customers
default — and weak — passwords such as “Welcome@”
plus a short number, according to a source at a
company that was impacted by the incident, and who
asked to remain anonymous as they were not
authorized to speak to the press.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Q&A_about_internet_issues_for
employees [Ed: The issue is that the university had its whole
system/infrastructure breached/paralysed, not “internet [sic]
issues for employees”; way to distract from Microsoft
saboteurs who should be held accountable for bringing in the
back-doored mess]⠀⇛
Questions and answers to some key questions for U-
M faculty and staff.
# ⚓ U._Michigan_restores_campus_internet_after_cyberattack
disrupts_first_week_of_classes [Ed: Well, "cyberattack" just
means complete, catastrophic breach, but they don't want to
admit it]⠀⇛
The University of Michigan announced it has
restored internet to its three campuses after a
cyberattack over the weekend.
[...]
University leaders opted to shut down [Internet]
access and many of its online services after
detecting a “significant security concern” on
Sunday, just ahead of the fall semester’s first
week of classes. The university also noted that it
was working with cybersecurity consultants and
federal law enforcement agencies.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Q&A:_Monthly_payroll_to_be_paid_on
time,_and_other_issues [Ed: Microsoft TCO]⠀⇛
Questions and answers to some key questions for U-
M faculty and staff.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Internet_service_restored_to_all
U-M_campuses [Ed: They do not bother explaining what happened
and who was held accountable]⠀⇛
Internet connectivity and WiFi has been restored on
all U-M campuses. Users should be able to connect
as normal from any device.
While some issues are expected in the short term
with select U-M systems and services, they should
be resolved over the next several days.
Any service interruptions will be posted on the ITS
status page. Please contact the Service Center for
technical assistance if needed.
Q&A: Monthly payroll to be paid on time, and other
issues
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ CSG_holds_first_meeting_of_the
semester_amid_campus-wide_internet_outage [Ed: Central
Student Government affected by Microsoft TCO]⠀⇛
The University of Michigan’s Central Student
Government convened Tuesday evening in the Michigan
Union to discuss the campus Wi-Fi outage and
various resolutions. While CSG is usually hybrid,
their first meeting of the fall semester was held
entirely in person due to the lack of internet.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ ‘Earth_Estries’_Cyberespionage_Group
Targets_Government,_Tech_Sectors⠀⇛
Earth Estries, a cyberspy group possibly linked to
China, has targeted governments and tech firms in
the US, Germany, South Africa and Asia.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Healthcare_Organizations_Hit_by
Cyberattacks_Last_Year_Reported_Big_Impact,_Costs⠀⇛
Roughly 78% of the healthcare organizations in
North America, South America, the APAC region, and
Europe experienced a cyberattack over the past
year, according to a new report.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Recent_Juniper_Flaws_Chained_in_Attacks
Following_PoC_Exploit_Publication⠀⇛
Four recent vulnerabilities in the J-Web component
of Junos OS have started being chained in malicious
attacks after PoC exploit code was published.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ DreamBus_Botnet_Exploiting_RocketMQ
Vulnerability_to_Delivery_Cryptocurrency_Miner⠀⇛
The DreamBus botnet has resurfaced and it has been
exploiting a recently patched Apache RocketMQ
vulnerability to deliver a Monero miner.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ DOE_launches_cyber_contest_to_benefit
rural_utilities⠀⇛
A Department of Energy contest aims to help under-
resourced rural utilities beef up their
cybersecurity defenses.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Africa_cyber_threats_exposed⠀⇛
That digital insecurity and cyber threats in Africa
are real was forcibly brought to light by a joint
Interpol/Afripol operation across 25 of the
continent’s 54 countries. The four-month Africa
Cyber Surge II operation focused on identifying
cybercriminals and compromised infrastructure.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Protecting_Kids_On_Social_Media_Act_Is
A_Terrible_Alternative_To_KOSA⠀⇛
We have covered the Protecting Kids On Social
Media Act a few times, when it was first
introduced back in April, where we
highlighted how it was both unconstitutional
and the rationale behind it was not supported
by any actual evidence, and then again just
recently when Senator Chris Murphy (one of
the bill’s co-sponsors) wrote a ridiculously
confused op-ed for the NY Times, claiming it
was necessary because kids these days get too
many music recommendations and no longer
could discover new music on their own.
# ⚓ [Repeat] NYOB ☛ Your_Fitbit_is_useless_–_unless_you
consent_to_unlawful_data_sharing⠀⇛
No way around the transfer of personal data.
When creating an account with Fitbit,
European users are obliged to “agree to the
transfer of their data to the United States
and other countries with different data
protection laws”. This means, that their data
could end up in any country around the globe
that does not have the same privacy
protections as the EU. In other words: Fitbit
forces its users to consent to sharing
sensitive data without providing them with
clear information about possible implications
or the specific countries their data goes to.
This results in a consent that is neither
free, informed or specific – which means that
the consent clearly doesn’t meet the GDPR’s
requirements.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ IBM_promised_to_back_off_facial
recognition_—_then_it_signed_a_$69.8_million_contract
to_provide_it⠀⇛
Despite these announcements, last month, IBM
signed a $69.8 million (£54.7 million)
contract with the British government to
develop a national biometrics platform that
will offer a facial recognition function to
immigration and law enforcement officials,
according to documents reviewed by The Verge
and Liberty Investigates, an investigative
journalism unit in the UK.
A contract notice for the Home Office
Biometrics Matcher Platform outlines how the
project initially involves developing a
fingerprint matching capability, while later
stages introduce facial recognition for
immigration purposes — described as “an
enabler for strategic facial matching for law
enforcement.” The final stage of the project
is described as delivery of a “facial
matching for law enforcement use-case.”
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Twitter,_now_X,_will_begin
collecting_users’_biometric_data⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s X Corp., the company formerly
known as Twitter, released an updated privacy
policy stating that it will start seeking
user consent to collect biometric data for
“safety, security and identification
purposes.”
The policy, which takes effect Sept. 29,
follows intense scrutiny over X’s lack of
account authentication and rampant fraud
across the platform.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Twitter_says_it_may_harvest
biometric,_employment_data_from_users,_per_privacy
policy⠀⇛
As August and summer in the northern
hemisphere draw to a close, Elon Musk’s
Twitter is making several changes to its
platform, including a privacy policy update
noting that it plans to begin collecting
biometric data and employment information
from the people still using the site, if
provided.
The website’s latest privacy policy, set to
go into effect on September 29, adds both
types of data to the “information we collect”
category, neither of which are present in the
current policy that’ll be superseded come the
end of next month.
# ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_ZeroTier_is_my_personal_VPN⠀⇛
Back in July, Martin introduced us to
ZeroTier on the Linux_Matters podcast,
episode_8. He detailed why he’s using the
tool and how. Worth a listen.
Per their website, ZeroTier “lets you build
modern, secure multi-point virtualized
networks of almost any type. From robust
peer-to-peer networking to multi-cloud mesh
infrastructure, we enable global connectivity
with the simplicity of a local network.”
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_man_sentenced_to_2-month
detention_in_psychiatric_hospital_over_inciting_random
killings_online⠀⇛
A man who praised the suspect of a double murder in
a Hong Kong shopping mall has been sentenced to two
months of detention in a psychiatric hospital,
after he pleaded guilty to inciting others to
wound.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Israel_dispatch:_do_Arab_lives_matter?⠀⇛
Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on
law-related developments in and affecting Israel.
This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student
in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv
University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in
Israel.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_Syria,_new_economic_protests_take_an_anti-
government_turn⠀⇛
In the government-controlled province of Sweida,
the heartland of Syria’s Druze, protests that were
initially driven by surging inflation quickly
shifted focus, with marchers calling for the fall
of the Assad government.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Military_Coup_in_Gabon_Seen_as_Part_of
Broader_Revolt_Against_France_&_Neo-Colonialism_in_Africa⠀⇛
Military leaders in Gabon seized power on Wednesday
shortly after reigning President Ali Bongo had been
named the winner of last week’s contested election.
Bongo and his family have led the country for close
to 60 years, during which they have been accused of
enriching themselves at the expense of the country.
The military junta announced General Brice Oligui
Nguema would serve as transitional leader in what
is the latest military coup in a former French
colony, joining recent power shifts in Niger, Mali,
Guinea, Burkina Faso and Chad. “The independence of
Gabon has never been real,” says Thomas Deltombe,
French journalist and expert on the French African
empire. “I think we might be witnessing a second
independence, a new decolonization process.” We
also speak with Daniel Mengara, a professor of
French and Francophone studies and founder of the
exiled opposition movement Bongo Must Leave, which
he continues to head. “This is a rare opportunity
for the Gabonese people to engage in national
dialogue,” says Mengara, who warns that the
intentions of the coup leaders are still unclear.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Palau,_United_States_expand_maritime_security
arrangements_after_Chinese_incursions⠀⇛
The new agreement allows the U.S. to enforce
regulations in Palau’s waters without a Paluan
officer present.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ IL:_Supo_blocked_Purra’s_choice_for_media_advisor
role_due_to_China_links⠀⇛
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service
(Supo) highlighted a number of issues during the
preferred candidate’s security check, including his
partner’s former Chinese nationality.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Jacksonville_Shooting:_Rep._Maxwell_Frost
Blasts_DeSantis_for_Pushing_Bigotry_&_Ignoring_Gun_Violence⠀⇛
Congressmember Maxwell Frost of Florida says this
weekend’s shooting in Jacksonville, carried out by
a white supremacist who targeted Black people at a
dollar store, did not happen in isolation. He
points to Republican efforts to loosen gun laws and
racist rhetoric from party leaders as part of the
problem of far-right violence. “All of these things
are connected,” says Frost, who also applauded
people for booing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at
a prayer vigil in Jacksonville. “In moments like
these, we have to stand strong on ensuring that
leaders who contributed to the problem can’t use
our communities as campaign stops.”
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ North_Carolina_campus_shooting_that_killed_faculty
member_reignites_student_calls_for_stricter_gun_laws⠀⇛
Local police announced Monday that an active
shooter on the University of North Carolina’s (UNC)
Chapel Hill campus shot and killed a faculty
member. Active shooter alerts and sirens caused
students, staff and faculty members at the famed
southern US university to barricade themselves into
classrooms and offices Monday afternoon. >
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Switzerland_indicts_former_Algeria_defense
minister_for_war_crimes_and_crimes_against_humanity⠀⇛
Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG)
announced Tuesday that it has formally charged
former Algerian defense minister Khaled Nezzar in
relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity
allegedly committed during the Algerian Civil War.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ US_Army_Brags_About_Plans_to_Mount_Rifle_on
Robot_Dog⠀⇛
First reported earlier this month by the
intelligence service Janes, the Army’s desire to
slap a weapon on one of Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60
Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) — which
is robotics manufacturing-speak for a competitor to
Boston Dynamics’ infamous robodog used by the likes
of the New York Police Department — seemed to be
softly confirmed by a spokesperson Military.com
talked to.
# ⚓ Janes ☛ US_Army_experimenting_with_weaponised_Q-UGV_for
infantry⠀⇛
The Ghost Robotics-made Vision 60 Quadruped
Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) is currently being
integrated with different sensors to see how well
it can perform reconnaissance and other missions,
Bhavanjot Singh, senior scientific technical
manager for autonomy and automation for armaments
systems at Combat Capabilities Development Command
(DEVCOM), told Janes on 26 July.
However, the service is exploring integrating the
robot with a Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW), a
new Sig Sauer XM7 Rifle, he said during a reception
for lawmakers where the robot was displayed.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ ‘Obama’s_man_in_Africa’:_under_house_arrest
as_popular_coup_rocks_Gabon⠀⇛
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Switzerland_Follows_EU_With_New_Sanctions
Against_Belarus⠀⇛
The Federal Council of Switzerland adopted
further sanctions against Belarus on August
30 to align it with the measures taken by the
European Union.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Red_Army_go_home’:_how_Lithuania_expelled
Russian_troops_30_years_ago⠀⇛
Initially, there were negotiations not only
on troop withdrawal but also a political
condemnation of the occupation. Russia
demanded proof of the economic damage caused
by the occupation, and the Lithuanians were
quick to come up with estimates. When the
Russians saw the numbers, they did not want
to talk about it anymore.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Putin’s_Russia_must_not_be_allowed
to_normalize_nuclear_blackmail⠀⇛
Much of Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling has
been deliberately ambiguous in nature and
highly choreographed for maximum impact. In
the first days of the war, Putin very
publicly announced that he was placing his
country’s nuclear forces on special alert,
while warning that anyone who attempted to
interfere with the Russian invasion of
Ukraine would face consequences on a scale
“you have never seen in your history.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_won’t_abandon_my_state’:_Zelensky_commits
to_running_for_president_if_there’s_a_wartime_election
—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Blogger_Andrey_Kurshin_arrested_in_Moscow_on
suspicion_of_spreading_‘fakes’_about_Russian_army_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prominent_Buryatia_activist_who_was_arrested
for_‘striking’_policemen_with_ballpoint_pen_sentenced
to_nearly_three_years_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_claims
responsibility_for_attack_on_military_airfield_in
Russia’s_Kursk_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_Ukrainian_military_helicopters_crash_in
Donetsk_region,_killing_six_pilots_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_says_two_‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_killed
and_five_arrested_in_Russia’s_Bryansk_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Doorstep_by_Commissioner_Olivér
Várhelyi_at_the_informal_meeting_of_Foreign_Affairs
Ministers_(Gymnich)_in_Toledo⠀⇛
We are here today to discuss our further
support to Ukraine.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Factsheet_on_EU-Ukraine
Solidarity_Lanes_Joint_Coordination_Platform⠀⇛
European Commission Factsheet Brussels, 01
Sep 2023 Factsheet on EU-Ukraine Solidarity
Lanes Joint Coordination Platform Factsheet
EU-Ukraine Joint Coordination Platform
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Target_hit_700_kilometers_away!’_Zelensky
celebrates_Ukraine’s_defense_industry,_possibly_hinting
at_Russia’s_Pskov_airport_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Vladimir_Putin_to_give_open_lesson_as_part
of_Russia’s_mandatory_patriotism_class_on_September_1_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_wanted_what’s_best,_but_it_turned_out_as
always’_In_this_very_brief_history_of_the_ruble,
historian_Ekaterina_Pravilova_explains_how_Russia’s
national_currency_got_coopted_by_the_state’s_autocratic
and_imperial_ambitions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Iran_and_targeted_human_rights
sanctions_update:_Providing_military_equipment_to_Iran
security_forces_and_Russia⠀⇛
The UK and Canada designated Iranian
individuals and entities for the provision of
military supplies to Russia and Iranian
security forces.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Russia_deploys
revamped_cruise_missile_warship⠀⇛
Russia has deployed one of its biggest
warships, which serves as a cruise missile
launch platform, from a Black Sea port.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Indonesia’s_economy_will_surpass
Russia’s_sooner_than_expected._Here’s_what_that_says
about_the_global_economy.⠀⇛
In 2026, Indonesia is expected to surpass
Russia to become the world’s sixth largest
economy
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_five-domains_update⠀⇛
Sea state The Russian and Chinese navies held
a joint patrol exercise last month involving
manoeuvres near the US Pacific coast.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Pope_visits_Mongolia_for_first_time_amid
strained_relations_with_China,_Russia⠀⇛
Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday
morning on a visit to encourage one of the
world’s smallest and newest Catholic
communities.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Pope_arrives_in_Mongolia,_sends
message_of_‘unity_and_peace’_to_China⠀⇛
September 01, 2023 4:35 PM
The papal visit is seen as a strategic move
to improve Vatican ties to Beijing and
Moscow.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ LRT_English_Newsletter:_Escape_to_Russia⠀⇛
LRT English Newsletter – September 1, 2023.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Court_rules_in_favour_of_Russian_national
denied_Lithuanian_residence_over_‘national_security’⠀⇛
Having worked in a Russian prison is not a
sufficient reason to be deemed a threat to
national security, a court in Vilnius decided
in a case of Russian national who has been
denied a residence permit.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_issues_sanctions_over_North_Korean_missile
program⠀⇛
A North Korean and a Russian national have
been sanctioned following Pyongyang’s Aug. 23
failed satellite launch.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_National_Granted_Asylum_In_Bulgaria
After_Being_Rejected_Earlier⠀⇛
Bulgaria will allow a Russian national to
stay in the country, after earlier rejecting
three asylum requests.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Aviation_Authorities_Warn_Of_Threat_To
Flight_Safety_In_Russia⠀⇛
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly
confirmed drone attacks that have affected
flights at Russian airports.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Vetoes_Renewal_of_Mali_Sanctions
Regime⠀⇛
To be adopted, a UN Security Council
resolution needs no veto from Britain, China,
France, Russia, and the U.S.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_renewal_of_sanctions_on_Mali_fails_after
Russia_veto⠀⇛
The UN sanctions on Mali are set to end
Thursday after the Security Council failed to
renew them. In August 2022, the UN renewed
its travel ban and asset freeze on some
individuals in the West African nation
resulting from political unrest in 2015.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pope_Visits_Mongolia,_With_an_Eye_on
Russia_and_China⠀⇛
The pontiff arrived Friday on a trip that the
Vatican said was meant to encourage the fewer
than 1,500 Catholics there. But it also
brings him close to two great powers that
have vexed him.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Robotyne_Recaptured,_Ukraine
Takes_Next_Step_in_Counteroffensive⠀⇛
After penetrating Russian defenses to retake
the village of Robotyne, Ukrainian forces
have pushed the fight a few miles east, but
formidable obstacles lie ahead.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Textbooks_for_Russian_High_Schoolers
Try_to_Justify_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
The textbooks, which cover Russian history
from 1945 to present, also reimagine the
brutality of Joseph Stalin’s policies.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Ukraine’s_Fight_Falters,_It_Gets
Even_Harder_to_Talk_About_Negotiations⠀⇛
Discussion of a negotiated Plan B, should
Ukraine fail to win a total victory, has
become more unseemly than ever and is now
nearly a taboo, say those who have tried.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ UN_chief_sends_Russia_bid_to
revive_Black_Sea_grain_deal⠀⇛
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres said on Thursday that he had sent
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov \”a
set of concrete proposals\” aimed at reviving
a deal that allowed the safe export of
Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US_lawmaker_says_Washington_has
‘obligation’_to_fulfil_military_sales_backlog_to
Taiwan⠀⇛
Taiwan has complained of delays to US weapon
deliveries as manufacturers turned supplies
to Ukraine.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Attacks_on_Pskov_Area_Not_to_Go_Unanswered:
Zakharova⠀⇛
She pointed out that Ukraine would not have
been able to hit targets deep inside the
Russian territory without satellite data
obtained from the West.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Over_20,000_Ukrainian_Troops_Get_Training
in_UK⠀⇛
Launched in the summer of 2022, Operation
Interflex is a UK-led international training
program for Ukrainian recruits.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_is_losing_in_Ukraine_but
winning_in_Georgia⠀⇛
If Putin is able to reassert Russian
dominance over Georgia while continuing to
occupy 20% of the country, he will be
encouraged to believe that a similar outcome
will eventually prove possible in Ukraine,
writes Giorgi Kandelaki.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_Ukraine_Has_Developed_A_Long-
Range_Weapon,_A_Day_After_A_Strike_Deep_Inside_Russia⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says
his country has developed a weapon that hit a
target 700 kilometers away, in an apparent
reference to the previous day’s strike on an
airport in western Russia.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkish_Foreign_Minister_Stresses_Importance
Of_Reviving_Grain_Deal_In_Meeting_With_Lavrov⠀⇛
Turkey’s foreign minister has emphasized how
important reviving the Black Sea Grain
Initiative is to global food security during
a meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Wounded_In_Russian_Missile_Strike_In
Central_Ukraine_As_More_Drone_Attacks_Reported_In
Russia⠀⇛
Three people were wounded in a Russian
missile attack in central Ukraine as Russia
reported more drone attacks early on
September 1, including near Moscow and a
nuclear power plant as Ukraine’s military
said its counteroffensive was continuing in
the country’s east and south.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_build_school_in_Ukraine’s_Bucha⠀⇛
Lithuania will build a school in Bucha and
invest 18 million euros in the reconstruction
of educational infrastructure in the
Ukrainian town.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Chief_Sends_Russia_New_Proposals_To_Revive
Black_Sea_Grain_Deal_But_Moscow_Isn’t_Satisfied⠀⇛
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres sent Russia a new proposal aimed at
getting grain and fertilizer to international
markets in hopes of reviving a deal that
allowed Ukraine to ship almost 33,000 tons of
grain at a time of growing global hunger.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Ready_To_Store_And_Re-Export_Gas_To
EU_This_Winter,_Operator_Says⠀⇛
Ukraine is ready to store and re-export
European gas for the 2023/2024 winter, the
country’s gas transmission operator said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ British_Defense_Giant_BAE_Sets_Up_Base_In
Ukraine⠀⇛
“BAE Systems…has established a local legal
entity and signed agreements with the
Ukrainian government to ramp up the company’s
support to Ukraine’s armed forces and to
explore the supply of light guns to Ukraine,”
the company said a statement.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russian_missile_hits_central
Ukraine_as_Moscow_reports_drone_attacks⠀⇛
Russian forces struck a private enterprise
with a long-range cruise missile overnight in
the central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia,
causing an unspecified number of injuries,
the local governor said Friday. Earlier,
Russian officials said a drone attack damaged
a building in a southwestern town near the
Kursk nuclear power station.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prigozhin’s_Right-Hand_Man_In_Wagner_Buried
Quietly_Near_Moscow⠀⇛
The co-founder and military commander of the
Russian mercenary group Wagner was buried
near Moscow on August 31, after dying in an
unexplained plane crash that also killed his
boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ What_do_we_know_about_the_videos_allegedly
showing_‘destroyed’_Wagner_cemeteries?⠀⇛
A few days after the plane crash that killed
Russian oligarch and head of the Wagner
private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin,
two videos emerged online showing the
destruction of cemeteries for Wagner
mercenaries – or so social media users
claimed. Some people are saying that this
destruction is part of a Russian campaign to
erase any sign of the powerful Wagner Group
in Russia after Prigozhin led a short-lived
rebellion against the country’s military
leadership. Our research currently shows no
link between what is happening in the
cemeteries and the plane crash.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Wagner_Group’s_second-in-command_buried
quietly_near_Moscow⠀⇛
Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military
commander of the Wagner Group, was buried
Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military
cemetery near Moscow after dying in a plane
crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny
Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian
counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talks
in a bid to revive the Black Sea grain deal.
# ⚓ Fidan,_Lavrov_discuss_revival_of_Ukraine_grain_deal⠀⇛
The top diplomats evaluated the efforts to
revive the deal, as well as discussing an
alternative plan proposed by Putin.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Putin_and
Erdogan_Will_Meet_Next_Week,_Kremlin_Says⠀⇛
The Kremlin’s spokesman said the leaders of
Russia and Turkey will hold talks in Sochi on
Monday.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Putin_rebounds_at_home,_but_global
ambitions_stymied⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin has strengthened his domestic
position in the wake of a June mercenary
mutiny, but Russia’s overall geopolitical
standing is falling.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Chile:_The_Secrets_the_US_Government_Continues
to_Hide⠀⇛
But Nixon had access to far more detailed and
dramatic intelligence. A special CIA
“CRITIC”—Critical Advance Intelligence Cable—that
would have been distributed on an urgent basis to
the highest levels of the White House on September
10, provided concrete reporting on the date, time,
and place of the planned coup; another top secret
CIA memo that reached the White House the morning
of September 11 contained an urgent request from “a
key officer in the military group planning
overthrow President Allende” who asked “if the U.S.
Government would come to the aid of the Chilean
military if the situation became difficult.” How
the president of the United States responded to
that request is one of the details of the history
of the coup that remain unknown.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Breach Media ☛ A_group_of_B.C._towns_want_to_sue_Big_Oil
over_the_climate_crisis⠀⇛
It was a sunny afternoon on the aptly-named
Sunshine Coast in B.C., when residents Dawn Allen
and Alaya Boisvert approached the Gibsons town
council in their chamber.
It was late winter and, for nearly a year prior,
Allen and Boisvert had spent long hours in Zoom
meetings. They had collected petition signatures at
fairs, farmers markets, and outside grocery stores.
They had trudged door to door, through stifling
heat waves, asking their neighbours to back them.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_Idalia_Threatens_Florida,_It’s_Time_to
Hold_Big_Oil_Accountable_for_Climate_Disasters⠀⇛
The threats posed this week to Florida by Hurricane
Idalia are just the latest in a string of extreme
weather and disasters exacerbated by the climate
crisis this summer. July was the hottest month on
record, within the hottest year on record – a year
that has been marked by deadly and tragic disasters
ranging from the devastating wildfires in Maui, a
searing heat wave across much of Europe and United
States, and record flooding in Italy, Cuba, Brazil,
India and beyond.
Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry has continued
to drive up prices and rake in massive profits, all
while walking back their own climate commitments.
Just this week, ExxonMobil announced that it
predicted the world would fail to meet its 2050
climate targets, while taking no responsibility for
its own role in the failure.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_settles_climate_lawsuit_over
systemic_risks_to_sovereign_bonds⠀⇛
Under the terms of the settlement, the government
will have to issue a notice saying its sovereign
bonds carry climate-related risks.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Scientist_Peter_Kalmus:_The_Hurricanes,
Floods_&_Fires_of_2023_Are_Just_the_Beginning_of_Climate
Emergency⠀⇛
As Hurricane Idalia left a wake of destruction
Wednesday, President Joe Biden said, “I don’t think
anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis
anymore.” Climate activist and scientist Peter
Kalmus calls for Biden to declare a climate
emergency in order to unleash the government’s
ability to transition away from fossil fuels. “The
public just doesn’t understand, in my opinion, what
a deep emergency we are in,” says Kalmus. “This is
the merest beginning of what we’re going to see in
coming years.” Kalmus blasts the fossil fuel
industry for manipulating politics through campaign
contributions, and GOP presidential candidates for
misleading the public about climate science. “As a
parent, as a citizen and as a scientist, I find it
appalling and disgusting,” declares Kalmus. “I
can’t mince words anymore.”
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Hurricane_Idalia_is_yet_another_test_of
America’s_aging_power_infrastructure⠀⇛
By the numbers: The average U.S. electricity
customer experienced 7.3 hours of power
outages in 2021 — down from 8.2 hours in
2020, but more than double 2013′s rate.
That’s per the latest available data from the
U.S. Energy Information Administration, an
agency within the Department of Energy.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Marathon_Refinery_Fire_Illustrates_How
Industry_Goes_Quiet_During_a_Crisis⠀⇛
Thick black smoke billowed and flames rose
from two chemical storage tanks at the
Marathon Petroleum refinery between Reserve
and Garyville, Louisiana, on Friday.
Geraldine Watkins saw the towers of smoke
through the passenger seat window of a car
that morning, while she was on her way to a
court hearing about whether another tract of
land in St. John the Baptist Parish, where
Garyville is located, would be zoned for
heavy industrial use.
Despite the alarming view, no community-wide
alarms had sounded when a naphtha leak
started a fire at the refinery earlier that
morning. While parish officials declared a
mandatory evacuation for all residents within
two miles of the refinery, including two
nearby schools, DeSmog’s Julie Dermansky got
inside the two-mile evacuation zone across
the river from the plant without encountering
a road block. Cars continued to pass by the
facility and workers at the neighboring
Cargill plant stood on the Mississippi River
levee and recorded the scene live on Facebook
for more than an hour.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hoverboard_Turned_Into_Bonkers_Omniwheeled
Bike⠀⇛
Segways stunned the world when they first hit
the market in 2001. Hoverboards then
terrified the world with nasty accidents and
surprise fires. [James Bruton] loves
hoverboards regardless, and set out on a
mighty upgrade regime turning the ride-on toy
into a giant omniwheeled bicycle.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_court_rejects_appeal_by_taxi_firm’s
Russian_owner⠀⇛
Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman earlier
this month ordered taxi service Yango, owned
by Russian tech giant Yandex, to stop
transferring and processing customer’s
personal data in Russia.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ A_Three_Seas_Chamber_of_Commerce
could_enhance_energy_diversification_across_Central_and
Eastern_Europe⠀⇛
The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Summit in
Bucharest takes place next week. To catalyze
investment and diversify away from Russian
energy, the summit should establish a Three
Seas Chamber of Commerce, capable of
sustaining progress and unleashing the
region’s full potential.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Egypt:_Last_Unit_of_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Allowed_to_Be_Built⠀⇛
The program is based on an agreement between
Egypt and Russia that entered into force in
December 2017, with the building of 4 reactor
units, each with a capacity of 1,200
megawatts, at a total construction cost of
28.75 billion U.S. dollars.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ The_Death_Toll_From_Climate_Change_Will_Be
Catastrophic,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛
This somber analysis was arrived at by
researchers in Canada and Austria who
analyzed 180 studies on climate change and
mortality, as laid out in a new paper
published in the journal Energies. From the
analysis, they converged on a “1000-ton
rule,” which means for every 1,000 tons of
fossil fuel burned, a person dies.
Calculating with this rule in mind, the
researchers concluded that roughly 1 billion
people will die if the planet warms up to 2
degrees celsius or higher by 2100.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Americans_are_saving_less,_earning_less_—_but
spending_more [Ed: Debt crisis growing. It'll implode very
badly.]⠀⇛
Americans saw income_growth that slowed to a crawl
in July, but their spending rate decidedly did not.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Swedish_payments_major_Klarna_hits_monthly
profitability_ahead_of_target_as_losses_shrink⠀⇛
Swedish payments group Klarna Bank reported on
Thursday a much smaller six-month operating loss
than a year earlier and said it had reached
profitability on a monthly basis ahead of target.
The January-June operating loss at the privately
held (BNPL) fintech, which last made a full-year
profit in 2018, was 2.01 billion crowns ($185
million) against a year-earlier loss of 6.17
billion crowns.
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Why_and_How_I_Believe_We’ll_Attain_AGI_by
2025-2028⠀⇛
I have a strong intuition about how we’ll achieve
both AGI and consciousness in machines.
Keep in mind: it’s just an intuition. And I’m not a
triple Ph.D. in AI or anything. But I don’t think
I—nor anyone else—has anything solid to stand on
with this stuff, so intuition / hypothesis is what
you’ll get here. So what that throat-clearing out
of the way, let’s get into it.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Parisians_Want_to_Bring_Their_Neighbors
Closer_Together._But_First,_Cheese.⠀⇛
A grass-roots movement aims to recast urban living
in Paris and other cities around the world through
a hyperlocal prism of neighborliness.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ UK_Replaces_Defense_Secretary_Ben_Wallace
With_Grant_Shapps⠀⇛
Mr. Wallace, a former soldier, had come to
symbolize Britain’s steadfast support for Ukraine
in the war against Russia.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Mongolian_woman_eager_to_welcome_Pope
Francis_keeps_up_tea-spilling_tradition⠀⇛
Perlimaa Gavaadandov offers a tribute to the sky by
splashing a cup of freshly boiled milk tea just
outside her yurt on the edge of Mongolia’s
grasslands, following an age-old tradition.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Pope_arrives_on_first_visit_to
Mongolia_as_Vatican_relations_with_Russia_and_China_remain
strained⠀⇛
Pope Francis has arrived in Mongolia on a visit to
encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest
Catholic communities. It’s the first time a pope
has visited the landlocked Asian country and comes
at a time when the Vatican’s relations with
Mongolia’s two powerful neighbors, Russia and
China, are once again strained. Francis arrived in
the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar on Friday morning
after an overnight flight passing through Chinese
airspace. That gave the pontiff a rare opportunity
to send a note of greetings to President Xi
Jinping. Following a welcoming ceremony, Francis
planned to rest for the remainder of the day. His
official program begins Saturday and lasts through
Monday.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Denmark_joins_Lithuania-led_cyber_rapid_response
force⠀⇛
The cyber rapid response team will consist of
nationally delegated experts from Croatia, Estonia,
Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania,
Belgium, Slovenia, and Denmark.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Cybersecurity_compliance:_What_companies
need_to_know_about_the_new_SEC_rules⠀⇛
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
recently updated its rules on cyber risk
management, governance and incident disclosure. The
new rules will take effect in December 2023.
Given that the guidelines have only been out for a
month, how are companies responding to its
stipulations so far, and what major challenges are
they facing on that path?
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Filing_Acknowledges_Harlan
Crow_Real_Estate_Deal,_Private_Jet_Travel⠀⇛
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for the first
time acknowledged that he should have reported
selling real estate to billionaire political donor
Harlan Crow in 2014, a transaction revealed by
ProPublica earlier this year. Writing in his annual
financial disclosure form, Thomas said that he
“inadvertently failed to realize” that the deal
needed to be publicly disclosed.
In the form, which was made public Thursday after
he’d received an extension on the filing deadline,
Thomas also disclosed receiving three private jet
trips last year from Crow. ProPublica reported on
two of those trips.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Elon_Musk’s_X_lifts_ban_on_political_ads,
reversing_Twitter_policy_on_halting_misinformation⠀⇛
Elon Musk on Tuesday lifted a ban on
political ads put in place at Twitter to
thwart misinformation before the billionaire
bought the platform now called X.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Books_To_Boots:_Critics_Say_New_Russian
History_Textbook_Is_Propaganda,_Preparation_For_War⠀⇛
Critics say the new textbook has little to do
with history but rather is a return to
Soviet-style practices of ideological
indoctrination aimed at youths who could soon
find themselves drafted into the military.
With some exceptions, boys become eligible
for one year of mandatory service when they
reach the age of 18.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Can_a_Controversial_User_Really_Get_Kicked_off_the
Internet?⠀⇛
In theory, yes; in practice, perhaps soon.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Bans_Weightlifter_For_Life_After_Photo_Shows
Him_With_Israeli_Rival⠀⇛
Iran on August 30 banned weightlifter Mustafa
Radschaie Langrudi for life, claiming he acted
“contrary to the ideals of the Islamic republic”
when a photo of him by a medals stand showed him
together with an athlete from Israel.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_pro-democracy_singer
jailed_for_2_years_and_2_months_over_sedition_and_money-
laundering_charges⠀⇛
Yuen’s online posts, the magistrate said, were
taunts and mockery aimed at inciting citizen’s
“scorn” towards the Hong Kong government and the
legal system.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Texas_Ruling_Shows_You_Can’t_Regulate_Online
Pornography_Like_A_Public_Health_Crisis⠀⇛
A Texas federal district judge granted a
preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of
a controversial age verification law set to enter
force September 1.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Culture_Ministry_official_says_Barbie_and
Oppenheimer_movies_do_not_promote_Russia’s_‘traditional
spiritual_and_moral_values’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Ministry_Rejects_Move_To_Allow_Showing_Of
Blockbusters_Barbie_And_Oppenheimer⠀⇛
Russia’s Culture Ministry said blockbuster films
Barbie and Oppenheimer do not meet the traditional
and moral values of Russia and therefore has
rejected an appeal by lawmaker Vladislav Davankov
to issue the movies with “compulsory” licenses for
products from “unfriendly countries.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Says_Texas’_Adult_Content_Age_Verification
Law_Clearly_Violates_The_1st_Amendment⠀⇛
One down, many more to go.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Sentences_Journalist_To_3_1/2_Years_In
Prison_For_‘Extremism’⠀⇛
A court in Belarus has sentenced journalist Larysa
Shchyrakova to 3 1/2 years in prison after finding
her guilty of “facilitating extremist activities”
and “discrediting” Belarus as a crackdown on
dissent by the country’s authoritarian ruler
Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Comedian_Who_Opposes_Ukraine_War_Says
Kazakhstan_Is_Blocking_His_Concerts⠀⇛
Russian comedian and TV presenter Maksim Galkin,
who has been vocal in his criticism of the
Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, says Kazakh authorities
have been blocking his plans to try and hold
concerts in the Central Asian nation for “some
fictitious reasons.”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Prosecutors_dismiss_journalist’s_complaint
against_radical_Islamist_threats⠀⇛
The threats were related to a video that Gönültaş
reported on in May 2022, in which a woman allegedly
affiliated with ISIS threatened those who did not
want sharia with a knife in her hand. The woman was
detained in a house raid targeting suspected ISIS
members.
Gönültaş, a journalist who specializes in ISIS and
refugee issues, said she received threats from
members of the radical Islamist group Tevhid after
this report.
# ⚓ PBS ☛ Kansas_reporter_files_federal_lawsuit_against_police
chief_who_raided_her_newspaper’s_office⠀⇛
Deb Gruver believes Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody
violated her constitutional rights when he abruptly
snatched her personal cellphone out of her hands
during a search where officers also seized
computers from the Marion County Record’s office,
according to the lawsuit. That Aug. 11 search and
two others conducted at the homes of the
newspaper’s publisher and a City Council member
have thrust the town into the center of a debate
over the press protections in the First Amendment.
# ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Kansas_reporter_sues_Marion_police
chief,_alleging_retaliation_in_newsroom_raid⠀⇛
As Gruver read the search warrant, she told Cody
she needed to call her publisher and editor, Eric
Meyer. The police chief, who was ostensibly
investigating another reporter’s computer use,
snatched the phone out of Gruver’s hand.
The scene is recounted in a lawsuit Gruver filed
Wednesday in federal court that says Cody had no
legal basis for taking her personal cellphone. She
is seeking damages for “emotional distress, mental
anguish and physical injury” as a result of Cody’s
“malicious and recklessly indifferent violation” of
her First Amendment free press rights and Fourth
Amendment rights against unlawful search and
seizure.
“Although I brought this suit in my own name, I’m
standing up for journalists across the country,”
Gruver said. “It is our constitutional right to do
this job without fear of harassment or retribution,
and our constitutional rights are always worth
fighting for.”
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Haitian_radio_journalist’s_home_destroyed_in_arson
attack⠀⇛
On August 23, unidentified armed individuals set
fire to Pierre’s home and several other houses in
the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood of Port-au-
Prince, according to the journalist, who spoke to
CPJ, and his employer, the local independent
broadcaster Radio Télé Galaxie.
The journalist and his family were able to escape
the home unharmed.
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Two_exiled_Russian_journalists_sentenced_to_11_years
for_disseminating_‘fake’_news_on_Ukraine_war⠀⇛
On Tuesday, August 29, the Basmanny Court in Moscow
sentenced Leviev, founder of the Russian
independent investigative project Conflict
Intelligence Team, and Nacke, a Lithuania-based
video blogger, to 11 years each in a penal colony
for distributing “fake” information about the
Russian military. Leviev was also issued a five-
year ban on managing a website, and Nacke was given
a four-year ban, Nacke told CPJ via messaging app.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Time_to_Take_Away_Fox’s_Broadcast
Licenses_–_Dispatches_from_Project_Censored:_On_Media_and
Politics⠀⇛
Although stripping an established TV station of its
broadcast license may seem like an extreme measure,
the Fox Corporation’s record of malfeasance and its
repeated betrayal of the public trust justifies the
action in this case. Indeed, an argument can be
made that the FCC should take away every single one
of the corporation’s broadcast licenses.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_Scottish_Gestapo⠀⇛
On 28 July a gender critical woman demonstrator,
Julie Marshall, was “punched in the face” by a
political opponent in Aberdeen. The man who struck
her was questioned and issued with a police caution
not to punch people.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Kansas_State_Police_Tell_Court_It’s_Too_Much_To
Ask_For_Troopers_To_Respect_The_Constitution⠀⇛
Given enough time and attention, informal parlance
just becomes… parlance. And so it is for the Kansas
State Police. For years, troopers have evaded the
Constitution and applicable Supreme Court decisions
to make the Fourth Amendment irrelevant.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ President_Biden:_Don’t_Give_Wall_Street
Control_of_Our_Public_Water_Systems⠀⇛
This week, President Biden’s National
Infrastructure Advisory Council issued a report
recommending the privatization of the nation’s
water systems. The chair of the advisory council is
the CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an
infrastructure investment bank with an estimated
$100 billion in assets under management that
targets energy, transportation, digital and water
infrastructure.
The report recommends, among other things, that the
federal government “[r]emove barriers to
privatization, concessions, and other
nontraditional models of funding community water
systems,” and open up all federal grant programs to
support privatized utilities.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_police_under_critique_for_training_mass
murderers_in_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛
Under a 2009 “security agreement” between the
German government and Riyadh, the German Federal
Police trained thousands of officers from security
agencies in Saudi Arabia. As such, it may have
played a larger role in human rights abuses than
previously known. This is according to new research
by the ARD magazine “Monitor“.
Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) had confirmed
in a study that Saudi officials had shot dead
hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers
since last year as they tried to cross the Yemeni-
Saudi border. Artillery weapons had also been used
in the process.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Woman_Who_Fled_Taliban_Dies_After_Fall_From
Building_In_Islamabad⠀⇛
Officials in Islamabad say a 22-year-old Afghan
refugee woman identified as Mariam, died after
allegedly jumping from the fifth floor of a
building on August 31. [...]
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ ‘Illogical_And_Inhumane’:_Taliban’s_Ban_On_Women
Entering_National_Park_Sparks_Widespread_Anger⠀⇛
The ban is seen as the latest attempt to erase
Afghan women from public life. Since seizing power
in 2021, the Taliban has banned women from
education and most forms of employment and imposed
strict limitations on their freedom of movement and
appearances.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ US_Government_Sued_For_Hiding_Information
On_Afghan_Refugees_In_Detention_Camps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Entertainment_PR_firms_take_major_hit_amid
Hollywood_strike⠀⇛
Entertainment public relations professionals are
caught in the middle of Hollywood’s current labor
battle.
Why it matters:Entertainment publicity is at a
standstill, and mid-sized PR firms are taking
bigger financial hits than they did during the peak
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
===================================================
State of play:Unlike COVID-19 — during which
clients could Zoom into talkshow interviews or
shoot creative content on their iPhones — talent
promotion is at a complete halt.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Are_California’s_New_‘Woke’_DEI_College_Standards
Illegal?⠀⇛
Join Reason on YouTube at 1 p.m. Eastern for a
discussion about a lawsuit against California
Community Colleges’ new DEI standards with FIRE
attorney Jessie Appleby and the plaintiff
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ A_Banana_Puts_The_Final_Nail_In_The_Coffin_Of_5G
Hype⠀⇛
We’ve long noted how 5G wireless is more of an
evolution than a revolution. Yes, it results in
faster, better networks, but it’s not a technology
that’s truly transformative.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Australian_Government,_Of_All_Places,_Says_Age
Verification_Is_A_Privacy_&_Security_Nightmare⠀⇛
In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as
the land where internet policy is completely upside
down. Rather than having a system that protects
intermediaries from liability for third party
content, Australia went the opposite direction.
Rather than recognizing that a search engine merely
links to content and isn’t responsible for the
content at those links, Australia has said that
search engines can be held liable for what they
link to. Rather than protect the free expression of
people on the internet who criticize the rich and
powerful, Australia has extremely problematic
defamation laws that result in regular SLAPP suits
and suppression of speech. Rather than embrace
encryption that protects everyone’s privacy and
security, Australia requires companies to break
encryption, insisting only criminals use it.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Diving_Into_Starlink’s_User_Terminal_Firmware⠀⇛
The average Starlink user probably doesn’t spend a
lot of time thinking about their hardware after
getting the dish aligned and wiring run. To
security researchers, however, it’s another
fascinating device to tinker with as they reverse-
engineer the firmware and try to both find out what
makes it tick, as well as how to break it. This is
essentially the subject of [Carlo Ramponi]’s
article over at Quarkslab as he digs into the
firmware architecture and potential weaknesses in
its internal communication.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Official:_Microsoft_unbundles_Teams_in
Europe⠀⇛
Microsoft has blinked first in its dispute with the
EU over bundling Teams with Microsoft 365 and
Office 365, and will now allow European customers
to buy the two software suites without it. It also
pledged to make it easier for rival meeting tools
to work with the two suites.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Microsoft_to_unbundle_Teams_from_Office_in
Europe_amid_antitrust_probe⠀⇛
Microsoft currently sells Teams as part of its
Microsoft 365 software bundle, which includes the
Office productivity suite. Three years ago,
Salesforce Inc.’s Slack unit filed a complaint over
the practice in the European Union. Germany-based
videoconferencing provider Alfaview submitted a
similar complaint in early July.
The concerns raised by Microsoft’s rivals prompted
the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch,
to launch an antitrust probe into the matter. The
commission believes that the fact Teams is bundled
with Office may give the former service an unfair
“distribution advantage” over competitors.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_to_unbundle_Teams_from_Office_in
bid_to_allay_EU_antitrust_concerns⠀⇛
Microsoft’s preliminary concessions failed to
address concerns.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Major_Sports_Leagues_Want_‘Instantaneous’
Site_Blocking,_ISPs_To_Be_Real_Time_Copyright_Police⠀⇛
Back in May of this year, the USPTO put out a
request for public comments from interested
parties in how to modernize its policies and/
or copyright law to combat counterfeiting and
online piracy. The world’s easiest prediction
would have been that the copyright industries
would request more stringent copyright rules
and heavier and faster policing of copyright
by literally anyone other than those from the
copyright industries. That they did so is
simply par for the course.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Italy_IP_law_revision_allows_new_coexistence
of_national_and_unitary_patents [Ed: No, unitary
patents are illegal and unconstitutional. This is
systemic corruption wherein they try to legalise their
crimes post hoc.]⠀⇛
Following several months of deliberation, the
Italian goverment has made several revisions
to its Industrial Property Code (IIPC) with
the support of the Italian Trademark and
Patent Office (UIBM).
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Arm_wrestles_assembly_language
guru’s_domains_away_citing_trademark_issues⠀⇛
“I wrote my thesis about Arm security
features and exploit mitigations for Arm’s
internal use, [have] given internal
presentations, keynoted their conference,
advocated for them, visited them at their HQ
in Cambridge – all without compensation
because I wanted this to be a mutually
beneficial relationship instead of a gig.”
Markstedter, who runs the Arm programming
training’n’tutorial outfit Azeria Labs,
therefore asked Arm what all the fuss was
about – only to meet radio silence. Then, on
Monday, blogs and websites owned and operated
by Markstedter were taken down by her hosting
provider after it received another cease and
desist letter. These websites included: [...]
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Posts_September_2023_Hearing
Schedule⠀⇛
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-
Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled nine oral hearings
for the month of September 2023. Seven of the
hearings will be held via video conference;
two will be “In Person,” as indicated below.
Briefs and other papers for each case may be
found at TTABVUE via the links provided.
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._23:_As_Used_on
Applicant’s_Specimen,_Depiction_of_Computer_Game
Character_Fails_to_Function_as_a_Trademark⠀⇛
The Board upheld a refusal to register the
mark shown below, for video and computer game
software, finding that the proposed mark
fails to function as a source indicator for
the identified goods. Reviewing Applicant
Stallard’s webpage specimen of use, the Board
concluded that “prospective consumers viewing
the proposed mark on the webpage would have
no reason to think that the cropped image of
Maria’s head identifies the source of the
goods.” In_re_Joseph_A._Stallard, Serial No.
97115036 (August 28, 2023) [precedential]
(Opinion by Judge Thomas V. Shaw).
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Paramount_DMCAs_‘Star_Trek’_Fan_Project,
Apparently_Deaf_To_The_History_Of_‘Star_Trek’⠀⇛
Of all the things we cover here at Techdirt,
content producers going legal on pure fan-
made productions that amount to fans
expressing their fandom will always be the
most befuddling for me. All the more so when
it comes to content that was essentially kept
alive by this same sort of fan-made work.
Take the Star Trek franchise, for instance.
Viacom/CBS and Paramount has gone after fan-
made works playing off of the franchise for
years and years. Even Paramount’s release of
guidelines by which fans could create fan
films served mostly as a giant middle finger
to the fandom, so stringent were the rules.
This apparently represents the owners of Star
Trek‘s IP being completely deaf to the
history of Star Trek and the internet and
what the fans have meant to the franchise.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Lithuania’s_Media_Watchdog_Issues
First-Ever_‘Fines’_to_Torrenting_Movie_Pirates⠀⇛
Since the summer, the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania (LRTK) has had the
legal authority to fine online pirates. This
week, the media watchdog announced that it
has used its newly gained power to fine three
users of popular private torrent site
Linkomanija.net, which appears to be actively
monitored.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Govts._Must_‘Encourage_or_Compel’
Internet_Companies_to_Fight_Piracy⠀⇛
A massive coalition of major rightsholders
says governments must encourage or even
compel companies doing business on the
internet to collaborate in the fight against
piracy. The USPTO submission from the IIPA
coalition contains direct criticism of ICANN
on domains and Cloudflare by implication; the
U.S. government must stop pirate sites from
using reverse proxy services, IIPA says.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ ChatGPT_Developer_OpenAI_Moves
To_Dismiss_Majority_of_Sarah_Silverman_Lawsuit,_Says
Claims_‘Misconceive_the_Scope_of_Copyright’⠀⇛
Beginning with the suit’s second claim,
OpenAI in its dismissal motion expressed the
belief that the plaintiffs had failed to
describe the direct infringement, right and
ability to supervise the alleged
infringement, and direct financial interest
required to demonstrate vicarious
infringement.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ We_all_scream_for_ice_cream_–_so
why_are_McDonald’s_machines_always_broken?⠀⇛
In reality, what might be a simple fix is
obfuscated behind “passwords and cryptic
error messages,” and control of these is what
forms the bulk of the manufacturer’s revenues
through pricey callouts.
But bypassing such software locks is a no-no
under the US’s Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA).
So, in the name of sweaty punters who might
visit the golden arches in the hope of a
frozen treat but are turned away by an ashen-
faced crew member, iFixit and IP law non-
profit Public Knowledge are soft serving the
US Copyright Office with a petition [PDF] to
“expand the repair exemption for consumer
electronic devices to include commercial
industrial equipment.”
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ U.S._Copyright_Office_launches
study_on_the_impacts_of_generative_AI_on_copyright
law⠀⇛
The Copyright Office claims that it will use
this information to “analyze the current
state of the law, identify unresolved issues
and evaluate potential areas for
congressional action,” according to the
office’s website.
The inquiry includes questions that the
office has about generative AI but welcomes
comments that are outside of those pertaining
to the specific questions. These include
inquiries about the public’s view on
copyrighted generative AI work, research that
is relevant to the study’s purposes,
perspectives on whether open-source AI models
raise unique considerations and others.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Scientologists_Tell_Feds_They_Don’t_Want
Randos_Repairing_Their_E-Meters⠀⇛
The letter is dated Aug. 10 and was sent to
the U.S. Copyright Office to contest the
renewal of an exemption of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act allowing people to
hack into consumer device software for the
purpose of maintenance or repair. This refers
to Section 1201 of the DMCA, also the “anti-
circumvention” provisions that have allowed
tech companies, tractor makers, and more to
restrict users from repairing devices
dependent on software. In 2021, The U.S.
Copyright Office changed the rules allowing
users to fix far more of their own software-
enabled devices.
# ⚓ 404 Media ☛ Scientologists_Ask_Federal_Government_to
Restrict_Right_to_Repair⠀⇛
Author Services Inc., a group “representing
the literary, theatrical, and musical works
of L. Ron Hubbard,” told the U.S. Copyright
Office that it opposes the renewal of an
exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act that makes it legal
for consumers to hack their personal
electronics for the purposes of repair.
This exemption to copyright law is needed
because many electronics manufacturers put
arbitrary software locks, Digital Rights
Management systems, or other technological
prevention measures that stop consumers from
diagnosing or repairing devices unless they
are authorized to do so. Special exemptions
to copyright law make it legal for farmers to
hack past John Deere’s DRM to fix their
tractors, consumers to use software tools to
help them repair certain parts of game
consoles, or use third-party software to
circumvent repair locks on printers, air
conditioners, laptops, etc.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_hit_with_copyright_lawsuit_by
Danish_online_job-search_rival⠀⇛
Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on
Thursday by Danish online job-search rival
Jobindex, a year after the latter complained
to EU antitrust regulators that the US tech
giant unfairly favoured its own job-search
service.
The Danish Media Association on behalf of
Jobindex sued Google at a Danish court
alleging copyright violations.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Exploring_Preference_Signals_for
AI_Training⠀⇛
What’s more, our engagement revealed that
people were motivated to share not merely to
serve their own individual interests, but
rather because of a sense of societal
interest. Many wanted to support and expand
the body of knowledge and creativity that
people could access and build upon — that is,
the commons. Creativity depends on a thriving
commons, and expanding choice was a means to
that end.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ ChatGPT_Developer_OpenAI_Moves
To_Dismiss_Majority_of_Sarah_Silverman_Lawsuit,_Says
Claims_‘Misconceive_the_Scope_of_Copyright’⠀⇛
Last month, Sarah Silverman (who wrote 2010’s
The Bedwetter) joined multiple other authors
in suing OpenAI for allegedly training
ChatGPT on copyrighted writing without
authorization. Now, the defendant entity has
moved to dismiss the majority of the suit.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Trying_to_cope_with_the_fear_of_death⠀⇛
If a thing never ends, or changes it becomes un-
special.
Fully experience the special thing while you can.
After it ends, keep the memories alive if you wish.
Memories can be revived with similar experiences,
but one cannot cross the same river twice.
A person doesn’t know what they’ve completely
forgotten.
# ⚓ Mushrooms,_Dragonflies,_Sandbar_Willow⠀⇛
I’m glad to see that, since the yard has some
pretty thick thatch build-up, and the landlord
doesn’t seem to be planning to aerate or anything.
Maybe the mushrooms will help decompose some of
that.
We are under a flood warning today, since heavy
rains north of here are causing the Tanana to
overflow its banks in places.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ What’s_a_healthy_relationship_to_technology⠀⇛
The question is there in the title and I don’t
really have an answer myself: what *is* a healthy
relationship to new tech?
These days I feel like I see every new development
that comes out of the tech sector in terms of
“okay, how is this going to be used for more
extraction, more exploitation?” or “oh this seems
fun…so what’s the catch? how am I going to get
screwed later?”
Was it always like this and when I was young I just
didn’t notice or are things actually getting worse?
Were there people who looked at the proliferation
of radio a century and change ago and thought “ah,
this is going to fuck us over”?
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ I’m_No_Longer_Streaming⠀⇛
This blog post will be quite short.
I just finished my last stream on Twitch
tonight. I do not intend to stream after this
point. There are quite a few reasons that I
won’t necessarily go into for why I prefer to
not stream, but it will be nice having 1 less
account to worry about.
My last subscription (which was gifted to me,
so I will wait until the sub runs out so I
don’t feel like I wasted someone else’s $5)
runs out on September 25th, so I will file
for account deletion when that subscription
expires. My Twitch account is not following
any other Twitch accounts now and I set
things up so no one can gift a sub to me for
an account I am not following.
# ⚓ Creating_an_atom_feed_file_to_submit_to_antenna⠀⇛
I recently considered submitting articles to
antenna but since I am not using a gemlog
format but just create random files.
I thoght I needed to reformat my files but it
is mentioned on the antenna site that you can
use an atom feed file instead. I tried that
and at first failed to understand what is
actually accessed and after some fiddling I
noticed that if the atom file is submitted,
the information in the file is used and the
actual article files are not even accessed by
the tool.
# ⚓ Hello,_world⠀⇛
Haigh. I’ve been on Gemini for years but thís
BBS seems ideal for a personal gemlog, so I
hope to post more often and more coherently
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
I have a few capsules and a different gemlog
for Linux notes and technical stuff.
I’m mainly interested in human rights,
equality, minorities, indigenous rights,
environment and wildlife.
# ⚓ RPoD_ideas⠀⇛
I am going to be experimenting with docker
and containerized gophernicus. I also really
like the idea of GeGoBi as a gemini server,
putting this in docker shouldn’t be
difficult.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ recutils_exploration⠀⇛
Tomasino [posted about recutils][1], I have
been intrigued. In my [2022-06-06 phlog post]
[2], I stated I had an idea to generate my
gophermaps via a recutils database. This
wasn’t such a new idea for me, back in 2017
this gopherhole was run on a “CMS” system I
wrote in C that fed from a MySQL database.
This was overkill, and of course, ended up
being a pain in the ass.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ The_only_help_I_got_for_it.⠀⇛
Louis was doing good the other day, almost human-
like still. So we walk out to Dr. Chin’s to see
what work he’s got.
Says he’ll give us forty if we take some bags of
oats over to Aiyaz’s mill. So we hitch up his horse
and wagon, load it up. Folks’d always laugh at Chin
for running horse and wagons like its old times.
But now them folks can’t afford the e’trics, and
there’s hardly a gas truck anywhere to be got by
now. I guess Chin gets last laugh on that.
So Louis and I are going along with the wagon and
Shirley, that’s Chin’s mare, the older one. And the
road is bad. Gumbo and deep puddles all through,
wherever it’s not washed out. Rain finally came
last week. So we’re going along about an hour, and
we get into one puddle so deep, the mud’s up to
Shirley’s hocks and she won’t move. Louis and me
undo the harness and get alongside to encourage
her.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AWCEHLB_Wordo:_PORKS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Depth_and_Surface⠀⇛
A couple weeks ago I finished Fawn Parker’s “What
We Both Know”, a very good novel that is not a
happy read. It’s narrated by the daughter of Baby
Davidson, a CanLit darling. His mind is going. He
has dementia. And as he worsens, as his daughter
first helps with, then takes over his memoirs, the
family’s awful secrets are slowly revealed.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Degrees_of_democracy⠀⇛
Jonas Staal is a self-described propaganda artist.
In his recent book he mentions the widespread
assumption that democratic societies have no
propaganda. Typically we would associate propaganda
with authoritarian states and assume that it has
nothing to do in a democracy where the press holds
power to account and there is some reasonable level
of transparency. Staal also refers to propaganda as
the performance of power. Being in power means,
among other things, being able to shape public
perceptions.
The cognitive dissonance resulting from the myth
that there is no propaganda in a democracy may be
resolved by claiming that the propaganda we see all
around us implies that, in fact, we do not live in
a democracy. But there is another solution if we
admit that democracy can be realised to varying
degrees.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Program_your_computer_(addendum)⠀⇛
It’s great to hear that my last post resonated [1]
with a few other people. Maybe there’s hope yet!
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
Before the dust settles, I want to add a few
clarifying remarks. Reading through my post now I
realise that I never explicitly defined what I
meant by “program”. This word is usually taken to
mean writing code in some text editor, IDE or what
have you, in some programming language or other.
With this narrow interpretation in mind, the post
might come off sounding a bit gatekeepy.
# ⚓ Yggdrasil⠀⇛
When I moved my capsule from self-hosting to EC2, I
gave up a static IP address for my residence and
changed my jsreed5.org domain to point to AWS. As I
have a home server designed for deploying and
managing VMs, this change also meant I was giving
up the ability to spin up new servers on the fly
and configure them to run Internet-facing services.
Now I have only one EC2 instance in AWS, and if I
want more, I have to pay a monthly cost for each
one.
The decision to move from self-hosting to AWS was a
financial one: I saved quite a bit of money each
month by changing my home ISP plan from a business
account to a residential account. But beyond the
ability to self-host, I lost other functionality
that I use quite often: using SFTP to move files to
and from my NAS, kicking off backup and download
jobs on my home connection, and so on.
[...]
I use Debian and Fedora at home, and my EC2
instance runs Amazon Linux. There are Yggdrasil
packages for Debian and Fedora, but I prefer to
build it from source on all my systems, since I
already use other tools written in Go and Go is
easy to run portably.
[...]
IPv6 addresses are somewhat cumbersome, so I
maintain a list of the Yggdrasil addresses of all
my nodes. I could certainly mitigate this through a
hosts file or local DNS settings, but I’m too lazy
to do that.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Solderpunk’s_gemlog_–_Announcing_ROOPHLOCH_2023⠀⇛
Ahoy, smolneteers! September really does seem
to be recurring on an annual basis. It’s
happened five whole times now! Deeply
mysterious. Once again, the time for
ROOPHLOCH is upon us.
For those who came in late, the Remote
Outdoor Off-Grid Phlogging Challenge, or
ROOPHLOCH, is a smolnet community ritual I
have organised each September since 2019.
Originally a Gopher-only phenomenon, this is
the first year I am also announcing it on
Gemini, since last year’s edition got some
Gemini participation anyway and nobody seemed
upset by it, so what the hey, the more the
merrier.
The essential idea is that you should make a
phlog and/or gemlog post sometime between
September 1st and September 30th (inclusive,
in your local timezone), under the following
conditions: you need to make your post
without being inside any kind of permanent,
non-natural shelter (e.g. be outdoors, or in
a cave, or in a tent, not in a building, not
even a log cabin. Do yurts count? Nobody has
tried it yet) and the device you post from
should not be plugged into a wall for any
reason – get your electrons and your packets
some other way! Once you’ve done this, email
solderpunk@posteo.net to let me know the URL
of your post. At the end of the month, I will
post a roundup of everybody who participated.
# ⚓ re:_why_would_students_use_gemini?⠀⇛
i discovered and started visiting gemini
early 2022, and started my capsule sometime
in april that year (my first microlog entry
was 28/04, shortly before my 21st bday).
before that, i was already a keeper of a
personal website for a while (since 2020
maybe?) and hovering around smolweb and
alternative internet spaces (hell, my capsule
is hosted by yesterweb).
[...]
but the thing is (at least to me) that gemini
presents itself as a blank slate, a way to
enter somewhere without baggage. and
somewhere with freedom to create without
pressures of algorithms, clout, blowing up
etc etc. it’s the same draw of personal
websites, except less technically demanding
(gemtext’s learning curve is essentially
flat, and i can’t even think of writing html
on a phone. i do hate using phones though).
# ⚓ Re:_Why_would_students_use_Gemini?⠀⇛
The best part of the smolnet is that content
is king. We blog, post code and recipes,
create simple services for social
interaction. Every page we go to has a single
purpose, sharing content with no noise. The
initial Internet was like this too. Content
for content’s sake.
Pretty soon after this initial Internet
people wanted to monetize content. Sadly the
“best” solution was banner ads. Turn physical
real estate in your content into billboards.
With dynamic content came dynamic ads.
Suddenly you could flood your content with
monetization and businesses started up where
their primary task was making money while
serving up some small bit of content. That’s
when content lost it’s privileged role.
Today we are seeing content producers trying
to find a happy middle ground with
monetization while corporations seem to be
going crazy. Bloggers and podcasters get
sponsors, patreon and money through services
like YouTube. But the TikTok generation
doesn’t always understand why so many
services are “free”. Your personal
information is sold while you’re actively
targeted by marketing. The “algorithms” of
these services aren’t there to find like
minded individuals. They exist to find the
best way to monetize the content you consume.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Weird_Shell_Arithmetic⠀⇛
Portability might vary here; these assume ksh
on OpenBSD 7.3.
[...]
Probably the FOO=’1+2′ and similar forms are
undefined behavior, and hopefully never show
up unexpectedly in a shell script of yours
that is trying to math. (I’d sooner switch to
some other language.)
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