𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, September 02, 2023
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Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/
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⦿ Chrome OS + GNU/Linux Reach 7% Market Share in September 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Andy, Helen and Ed (Cyber|Show) Explain What the UK ’Online Safety Bill’ Actually Does | Techrights
⦿ In Asia, Almost 60% of the Total World Population, GNU/Linux Climbs to 6%, Windows Majority Becomes Rare | Techrights
⦿ Reasons Why Debian 12 KDE Should Not Default to Wayland | Techrights
⦿ GNU/Linux ’Proper’ (Not Chrome OS) Surges to 4% in Africa, 7% in Nigeria (by Far the Largest Population) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 01, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Azure Stagnating, Partners Have Layoffs | Techrights
⦿ I Installed Microsoft Edge for Linux So You Wouldn’t Have to and Alan Pope is Basically Using ‘MSN Explorer with Chromium’ | Techrights
⦿ Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. More Thoughts On Reddit. | Techrights
⦿ Lenovo Profits Down 66% in Q1 on 24% Lower Revenue, Vista 11 Hasn’t Picked Up Net Users Since April | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/7-percent-gnu-linux/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/andy-helen-and-ed-cybershow-explain-what-the-uk-online-safety-bill-actually-does/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/asia-gnu-linux/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/do-not-default-to-wayland/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/gnu-linux-proper-africa/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/irc-log-010923/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/microsoft-partners-layoffs/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/msn-explorer-for-linux/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/thoughts-on-mastodon-and-reddit/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/vista-11-rotting/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/bad-uspto-policies/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/fediverse-and-feeds/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/fediverse-issues/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/nitrux-3-0-is-out/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/postgresql-16-rc1-released/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/power-kde-copyrights/#comments
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Posted in GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Windows at 4:45 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
About an hour ago statCounter finally released August_and_September_data (I’ve
been checking every hour for 2 days already) and the preliminary observations
are positive:
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Chrome OS + GNU/Linux market share (in percent) growing over time. As graphed
here.
Summary: In India, GNU/Linux grew_to_all-time_highs (about 15%) and worldwide
too we’re seeing encouraging growth at Microsoft’s expense
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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Andy Farnell and friends⦈ Summary (by Cyber|Show): On this
feature length special episode marking the start of Season 2, join Andy, Helen
and Ed, special guest Dr Kate Brown, our in-house tenacious investigative
apprentice reporter and various members of the public as they tear apart (and
lovingly put back together) the UK Online Safety Bill, currently progressing
through our parliament. After countless revisions, modifications and additions,
is the premise of the bill still what it was originally intended to be?
Related: Recommendation_of_The_Cyber_Show | Discussion_About_The_Cyber_Show,
New_Programme_by_Helen_Plews,_Andy_Farnell,_and_Edward_Nevard
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⢄⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⣿⣀⢀⠀⠇⣀⠀⠀⠀⣲⣾⣇⡁⠀⠀⠀⠊⠈⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⢀⣤⣼⣾⣿⣿⡗⠂⣹⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀
⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠃⡆⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⠀⢀⣀⡀⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⢻⣻⠿⢿⡿⠛⠉⠁⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠏⠁⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢲⢶⣾⣿⢻⣿⡇⠀
⠀⠇⠀⢺⡶⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠩⣿⠀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⡖⠀⣾⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣷⣾⡍⠉⠁⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡿⢿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⢰⣿⡅⠀
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Windows_Majority_Becomes_Rare⠀✐
Posted in Asia, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 8:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇In_Asia,_GNU/Linux_Climbs_to_6%⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Operating_System_Market_Share_Asia⦈_
Summary: Assuming these_new_numbers bear resemblance to reality (very doubtful
iOS has high share in North Korea), the migration to GNU/Linux picked up pace
in Asia, just like in_Africa
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✐ Reasons_Why_Debian_12_KDE_Should_Not_Default_to_Wayland⠀✐
Posted in Debian, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 2:10 am by Guest Editorial
Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
I have been using Debian 12 with KDE for a couple of days and decided to give
Wayland another chance since they made it the default session for Plasma.
I ran into troubles with it on openSUSE Leap 15.5 with KDE and switched to
Plasma on X11 (Xorg) to make the problems stop.
Here’s what Plasma on Wayland suffers from in Debian 12 KDE.
On first login you get messages that ibus and fcitx don’t work with Wayland.
The message only happens once, but the ibus program runs even though it doesn’t
work.
This appears to cause applications to sometimes refuse to accept input from the
keyboard until you restart the program.
(Also, probably inconvenient for people who use non-Latin alphabets for their
native language.)
The Plasma shell randomly crashes. Seems like maybe once every 7-8 hours. It
comes right back up without any programs dying, but my….how very Windows of
them.
“This appears to cause applications to sometimes refuse to accept input from
the keyboard until you restart the program.”X11 programs (including Windows
applications in Wine) look weird when scaled by the system in Wayland, but also
don’t scale themselves correctly if you use that option, so you end up with
really tiny GUI widgets or really smudgy text. Your choice.
To fix all of this, log out and select “Plasma on X11” and log back in.
Wayland_simply_isn’t_ready_and_it_isn’t_clear_it_ever_will_be.
My opinion of it has not improved.
It still strikes me as beta software that has now become the default in Long
Term Support distributions and, of course, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Brought to you by the IBM, GNOME, GTK people who close bug reports with:
“You need to justify your use case.” Also, ignores use case.
“This feature isn’t important enough to most users.”
“That’s broken because something something Security.”
“We are divesting from the Linux desktop to try to get Wayland to work and do
things X11 already does. So enjoy us pulling resources away from Bluetooth and
GNOME.”
“You’re not being very nice. Being very nice is mandated by the Code of
Conduct, unless someone in the Fedora project that’s immune from the CoC says
you’re_on_meth,_and_crazy,_then_the_CoC_doesn’t_apply. Also, we’re deleting
your bug report comments because you weren’t nice. Nice is a registered
trademark of IBM.”
“It still strikes me as beta software that has now become the default in Long
Term Support distributions and, of course, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”More
Flatpak Observations. (Hiding Proprietary Software)
Maybe you’re like me and don’t like seeing proprietary software in your Package
Manager or having it made available at all.
It turns out you can force it to show only Free Software in Plasma Discover and
on the console! But they did not make it easy and nobody on Flathub seems to
have documented this command.
flatpak remote-modify –subset=floss flathub
Technically, the possible values for the subset are “floss” for Free Software,
“verified_floss” for Free Software and only Free Software that’s been packaged
by the developer themselves, and “verified”, which would list both Proprietary
and Free Software, but only if they are packaged by the developer themselves.
It seems like they just don’t want to make it widely known you can do this.
There are so many commands in Flatpak that are undocumented, badly documented,
and barely documented, that when I tried this out and logged out and back in,
all I could see in Plasma Discover were Free Software Flatpaks, which is what I
asked for, but…
How to undo it if you want to?
I was unable to find a specific command. I figured “Delete the flathub repo and
install it again.” but was told I couldn’t uninstall it with Flatpaks from
Flathub.
When I told it –force, it removed it, then I added the Flathub repo again and
waited for it to refresh, and sure enough proprietary software reappeared in my
Plasma Discover.
Specifically, the commands I used to remove and reinstall the Flathub remote
were:
sudo flatpak remote-delete flathub –force && sudo flatpak remote-add –if-not-
exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
It seems sort of dumb that there’s no obvious way to reset Flathub to the
defaults if you want to short of doing this. Probably, nobody documented the
process to put it back because they figure everyone uses GNOME_Software anyway.
Literally the only thing that makes this “better” is that there is a toggle to
hide and unhide proprietary software from Flathub.
“It turns out you can force it to show only Free Software in Plasma Discover
and on the console! But they did not make it easy and nobody on Flathub seems
to have documented this command.”Now I know I’ll look at the license and if it
says Proprietary, I’m almost certainly not going to install it, because frankly
a lot of it is useless junk that has alternatives with all of the same features
anyway.
Like Microsoft Edge is crappy spyware full of garbage, and all of the features
that Alan Pope recently praised it for are in Brave anyway, and he just
apparently didn’t look at Brave. (Including Vertical Tabs, the Memory Saver).
A lot of the rest of the proprietary garbage are things I could open in a Web
browser tab, but they’ve packaged them in Electron (Chromium) as a “desktop”
app full of baloney. (And who knows what they’ve put in it?).
It is frightening that Flathub has managed to put almost 600 pieces of
proprietary software in there. So maybe you should just give it an enema and
not look back.
“It is frightening that Flathub has managed to put almost 600 pieces of
proprietary software in there. So maybe you should just give it an enema and
not look back.”Having looked it over, I’ll almost certainly just set the subset
of “floss” back anyway, I just wanted to make sure “something” would reset it
for this blog post.
I don’t like having to stop and read licenses, and Flathub has a lot of good
Free Software programs, but it feels like they really want proprietary software
in your face by default, and don’t want to document a way out.
According to the bug reports I was reading, this filter wasn’t even an option
until maybe a year or a year and a half ago. I guess it’s something they “put
out there” to silence critics. █
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✐ GNU/Linux_‘Proper’_(Not_Chrome_OS)_Surges_to_4%_in_Africa,_7%in_Nigeria(by
Far_the_Largest_Population)⠀✐
Posted in Africa, GNU/Linux at 5:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2 days ago: Microsoft_Windows_Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_in_Nigeria:
Down_From_99%_to_47%_in_13_Years
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU/Linux_surges_in_Africa⦈_
Source: Africa_laptop/desktop_breakdown
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Source: Nigeria_laptop/desktop_breakdown
Summary: In Africa, GNU/Linux grows rapidly on desktops and laptops; if one
counts Android as “Linux” (because Android’s kernel is Linux), then “Linux” has
about_65%_of_the_market_in_Africa
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⠭⡏⡍⣿⡶⣹⣶⡧⡎⡱⢸⡿⢿⣗⣺⠫⠋⣍⣯⣿⡶⣸⣶⢱⢮⣖⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣽⣶⣷⣷⣿⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣇⣶⣷⣿⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣙⣉⣉⣉⣿⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣄⣉⣉⣉⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣉⣉⢉⠉⠙⠛⠿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣄⠈⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⡀⠙⠁⠀⣤⠈⠻⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣾⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣦⠈⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠿⣿⡟⠉⢿⡿⢿⠀⡄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣂⣀⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡅⢨⠁⡀⠉⢀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣤⠈⠁⣀⣀⡅⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠉⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣷⠈⠏⠀⢹⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠒⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠐⠀⠉⠉⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⢀⣴⣤⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⠛⢛⢙⡛⠛⠋⢙⠟⣛⠛⡛⠟⠛⠛⠃⡟⢋⢉⠉⢙⠙⢉⣟⡯⡋⢿⢹⡙⣟⡏⣋⠹⢻⠍⠉⠩⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠈⠻⠟⠀⠀⢠⣸⣿⣥⣼⣬⣥⣤⣤⣬⣤⣭⣤⣥⣦⣤⣤⣤⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⢩⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣽⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣀⣬⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣷⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣬⡙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣼⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣄⡒⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢸⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠟⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠀⠀⠀⠒⠒⠛⠒⠀⠀⠐⠀⠐⠒⠐⠒⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⠒⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠂⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⠠⢸⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⢠⣿⣿⠟⠀⣽⣿⡿⠣⢪⣾⣿⡟⠕⢱⣿⣿⠫⠈⣼⣿⡿⠁⢠⣿⣿⠏⠀⣼⣿⡿⠁⢨⣾⣿⠟⠄⣴⣿⡿⠣⢪⣾⣿⡟⠔⣠⣿⣿⠃⠂⣼⣿⡿⠑⢠⣿⣿⠏⠂⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢓⢤⣿⣿⡟⠲⣼⣿⣿⠓⢢⣾⣿⡟⠚⣴⣿⣿⠗⢣⣼⣿⡿⠛⣤⣿⣿⡟⣢⣼⣿⣿⢓⢤⣿⣿⡟⡢⣼⣿⣿⢓⢢⣾⣿⡟⠒⣴⣿⣿⠗⢣⣾⣿⣿⢚⣤⣿⣿⡟⡣⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣕⢰⣿⣿⣯⡂⣼⣿⣿⣅⢠⣿⣿⣯⡀⢼⣿⣿⣥⡀⣾⣿⣯⣅⢰⣿⣿⣯⡂⣾⣿⣿⣕⢰⣿⣿⣯⡂⣼⣿⣿⣕⢠⣿⣿⣯⡄⢴⣿⣿⣥⡀⣾⣿⣿⣅⢰⣿⣿⣯⡀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣕⣂⣽⣠⣀⣩⣉⣈⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣑⣪⣏⣒⣀⣒⣐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣐⣨⣇⣃⣉⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡛⢿⢻⠻⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡻⡟⢟⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⡻⡿⠻⠿⠟⠿⠿⠻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣷⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣽⣐⣀⣰⣁⣠⡇⣀⣑⣐⣀⣈⡂⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿
⣿⣿⢸⡆⣏⣋⣏⣽⠘⡇⣿⣽⢽⢽⣽⣿⢾⣷⡏⣭⢙⣉⣻⣽⣙⢹⣿⢸⣽⢹⠽⣿⣧⣟⣟⣏⣝⢽⣿⢙⣹⢹⢩⣽⣿⢈⢟⣾⣙⢹⣹⣟⢽⣙⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠶⢾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣾⣾⣾⣶⢾⡶⡾⣿⣷⣶⣇⣶⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣾⣒⣼⣷⣶⣟⣾⣶⣾⣾⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣽⢻⣴⢹⣒⢹⣴⢑⣹⣿⣮⡃⣿⡷⣲⢑⣹⢰⣿⢗⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡾⢶⠾⡿⠷⢾⣿⣿⠷⣿⣔⣪⣷⡾⢾⢿⠷⡾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡿⣇⣀⣾⣟⣹⣛⣟⣐⣹⣯⣿⣊⣅⡄⣲⣺⣏⣢⣣⣋⣓⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣯⣏⣉⣝⡿⠟⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣶⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣌⡉⠻⣿⣿⡇⣭⣉⣉⣉⠛⠛⠿⠟⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣈⢁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣷⣦⣤⣈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⠛⡻⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠆⠉⠻⠿⠿⠿⠇⠤⠙⠠⠈⠟⠉⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣈⠉⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣷⣤⢸⣿⠛⣿⣿⣿⠃⠙⠙⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⡇⠀⠸⣿⡇⢸⣿⣶⡆⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠃⢸⡀⢉⣁⣾⣿⣿⣧⡀⢻⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡈⢿⠉⢻⠀⡄⠻⡇⠀⠹⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⡇⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⣶⡆⠐⡆⠶⠐⠰⠀⠆⠴⠆⠴⢰⠰⠀⠀⡆⡆⠶⠐⠠⠀⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣆⠰⠀⠐⢀⣶⡆⠀⣶⣆⢰⣶⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⣠⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣾⣾⣿⣷⣿⣶⣿⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣼⣧⣼⣿⣷⣠⣿⣿⠀⠈⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⣀⣀⣀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡄⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠁⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠹⠁⠸⣿⡏⠀⣿⡿⢀⣠⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣸⠀⢸⠀⡟⠃⡄⢻⠇⣸⣿⢸⣿⣿
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Summary: There is more evidence of scarce demand for Azure; this means layoffs,
as we_saw_weeks_ago
TODAY we’re seeing the third_article about Microsoft-connected_layoffs at
SkyKick (the rest are in Daily Links). The first article came from a_Microsoft-
bribed_site, which issues distractions and fake news. This does not bode well
for Azure and clown computing in general:
SkyKick, whose products include tools to migrate to and backup for
Microsoft 365, has confirmed to CRN that the vendor is laying off
more than 100 employees worldwide.
In a statement to CRN, Todd Schwartz – co-CEO of Seattle-based
SkyKick – said that the layoff was a “tough decision” and due to
“current market conditions.”
“We are well positioned and remain steadfastly committed to ensuring
our partners’ success in the cloud over the long-term,” Schwartz
said.
Well, merely mentioning this tends to rile up Microsoft-connected_militants.
Azure performance is faked and there are many layoffs. █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⡿⢻⠻⠻⠿⢿⠿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣶⣿⣷⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣇⣡⣸⣇⣒⣰⣐⣸⣀⣇⣂⣶⣐⣿⣚⣺⣀⣂⣟⣻⣐⣸⣿⣸⣐⣨⣒⣇⣂⣸⣷⣡⣅⣸⣰⣇⣂⣕⣺⣰⣿⣊⣁⣕⡎⣼⣤⣻⣀⣒⣨⣺⣇⣛⣇⣂⣷⣸⣸⣀⣾⣆⣆⣃⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⣿⢟⠟⡟⢟⢻⢙⢹⡟⣛⢛⢹⣟⢻⢟⡟⡛⣿⠛⢻⠛⡛⡟⣻⢹⢛⡟⣟⢟⠿⡻⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣭⣬⣜⣸⣮⣼⣼⣼⣷⣬⣾⣼⣯⣬⣶⣶⣵⣿⣬⣽⣧⣧⣧⣽⣼⣬⣗⣼⣮⣷⣽⣮⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣏⣭⣯⣩⣉⣹⣭⣋⣏⣉⣟⣏⣟⣛⣟⣍⣹⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡏⡏⢉⢩⠉⣻⠉⢉⢹⠭⢿⢽⠭⡏⣟⡋⠏⡏⣏⡛⣿⠉⢭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⠻⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⣿⢿⡿⣟⣿⡿⣿⣻⠿⢿⡿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⣻⡿⢿⢿⠿⠿⢿⡿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⠿⡿⢿⢿⠿⢻⠿⡟⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣾⣦⣾⣿⣾⣾⣷⣿⣶⣿⣾⣵⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣷⣶⣷⣷⣷⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣧⣼⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡍⣭⡍⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⣭⣭⣭⣭⣍⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠂⠠⠀⠓⠐⢠⢠⣀⣴⣥⡬⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣍⣼⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⢿⣧⡄⡘⠿⠿⢿⣿⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢁⡀⠀⢀⣀⣡⡃⠑⠛⠙⠛⢃⡟⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠑⠀⠁⠀⠒⠒⡂⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡤⠧⢒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢀⠎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡜⡀⠀⠀⠈⡛⢸⣻⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠠⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⢿⣶⣬⡽⠟⢂⢀⢐⠊⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠉⠀⢀⡶⠄⠒⠊⠀⠂⣠⣄⣄⣐⣇⣤⣬⣭⣭⣭⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠘⠩⠇⠟⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠂⠀⠀⢀⡜⠈⠀⠠⠀⠆⢠⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣺⣠⣔⢂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⡷⢦⣄⣄⣦⣶⠖⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠺⢃⡞⠭⠍⠓⠛⠾⠌⡽⣽⣖⡖⣶⣶⡲⣸⣿⣿⢿⣻⣿⣿⢻⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⠛⠓⠻⠿⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠾⠷⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣧⣤⣀⣀⣉⣉⣁⣾⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⢠⣄⣤⡶⠀⢈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠰⠃⣄⠂⠀⢀⣠⣠⣤⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡜⠶⡾⢢⣤⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣐⣠⣦⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢛⣋⣹⣯⣿⣿⣶⣀⡀⢀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⠀⢶⣦⠌⠢⡀⠲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⢺⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠟⢉⣉⡙⠠⡀⢍⡂⠉⠻⣷⣦⣬⣥⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣤⣖⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠻⣿⣍⣥⡀⠲⣷⡈⠣⣈⠛⠛⢀⣰⣂⣼⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠋⠋⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠀⡀⢤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡟⠛⠻⢇⠘⢿⡇⠐⠄⢉⠻⢿⣆⣙⣿⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⢛⣉⠙⠓⠌⠙⢷⣆⡉⠙⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣬⣤⣴⣯⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠛⠛⠿⡄⢀⠙⡄⠘⢦⠀⢦⣄⣀⣹⣠⣽⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⠛⢿⡍⠈⠐⣄⠃⢉⣤⠗⢀⢁⢔⣤⣽⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
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(Meanwhile, on_Alan_Pope’s_computer…MSN Explorer rides again. Now with
Chromium)
I Installed Microsoft Edge for Linux So You Wouldn’t Have To.
Alan Pope recently wrote a post about problems with Web browsers. Rather than
to sit down and realize that all the features he claims Microsoft Edge has are
in Brave, or part of Chromium and in all Chromium-based Web browsers, he chose
to use “MSN Explorer with Chromium”. Microsoft Edge for Linux.
Windows users who were around more than 20 years ago probably got a glimpse of
MSN Explorer. It was horrid. It was a platform for steering people to the MSN
portal, and it looked cartoonish, cheesy, and tacky. (And_it_still_exists,
apparently.)
When I installed Microsoft Edge on my other laptop through Flatpak for a
moment, I noticed it had gotten even worse than the last time I saw it, on
Windows.
There are ads, “features” which basically do little more than route you to more
ads, as well as “online shopping crap”, and “Bing Chat” which is a boring
lobotomized chat bot that people are losing interest in quickly, so Microsoft
stapled it to Edge in a sidebar.
The whole thing just screams “Consumertard” or “Someone’s feeble old
grandmother that doesn’t know what a good browser is”.
Brave, on the other hand, gets cooler the deeper you dive into it.
Brave has actual features that protect your privacy. Unlike Edge, which is
designed to violate it and shove trash in your face.
Microsoft Edge’s usability is quite low, due to all of the useless visual
clutter, to the point that even opening a new tab feels pretty heavy.
It was fairly clear to me every time I opened this program on any computer that
the only real goal Microsoft seems to have for it is to rename features that
are going into other browsers anyway, or make noise about minor features which
end up in other browsers. This includes vertical tabs. But also what Microsoft
calls “Sleeping Tabs”.
Essentially, “Sleeping Tabs”, as Microsoft Edge calls them, or the “Memory
Saver” as Brave calls it, is designed to keep memory usage lower by suspending
older tabs you haven’t used in a while.
Firefox based browsers have this too. Before the browsers had it, you could get
extensions that did it.
In Brave you can simply search the Settings for “memory”, and flip “memory
saver” to “on”. In Firefox, you can go to about:config and search
“browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory” and double-click it to “true”. You can also
exempt some domains from being suspended in case you run off and leave form
data in them you’re worried about, or have a browser application running in
them.
Firefox-type browsers have a different strategy for older tabs. They don’t
unload any until the system starts to run low on memory, and then they move
idling tabs out of the way to help keep your computer running.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a handy feature, but other browsers do it too. So
to imply that other browsers don’t have it when they all do is disingenous.
Opera has it, Vivaldi has it, I think Chrome does too.
On Windows in particular, Microsoft_has_done_some_questionable_things_to_save
memory that have been rejected by Google for Chromium, because they slow down
the browser’s performance and increase its CPU usage, and Google moved to other
methods that apply more generically to all operating systems.
On Microsoft’s SegmentHeap patch, Google engineers had this to say:
“The CPU cost (10% slowdown on speedometer 2.0, 13% increase in CPU/
power consumption) is too great for us too keep” Brue concluded.”
If you look at the memory usage of Edge and Brave, the two are really quite
comparable, with Brave coming in slightly under Edge. At least that’s how it
looked on one of my Debian systems.
It’s pretty obvious that memory optimization work has been a much more serious
undertaking on Chromium browser than on Firefox, but I still remain skeptical
of non-Brave Chromium browsers because Google is sabotaging the privacy
extensions.
Microsoft Edge has “features” that violate your privacy. So many that in 2020,
it_was_shown_to_be_the_least_private_browser most Americans are likely to come
into contact with.
It sends everything to Microsoft down to your keystrokes and what sites you
visit and which files you download, ostensibly for “safety” reasons. (They
disguise this as “features”, like typo corrections that require contacting a
remote server.)
The only browser that was worse was “Yandex Browser”, where a_data_leak_from
Yandex shows that the Russian Government has backdoors into practically
everything the company makes. The Russian government is so despotic that they
don’t even try to respond to it or deny it because they don’t have to.
Naturally, Yandex Browser has also been packaged by Flathub.
Other browsers, such as Firefox, and to a greater extent, LibreWolf, typically
disable this or offer some way to use “Google Safe Browsing” to inspect this
data using a local cache of hashed values which limits or totally eliminates
data being sent to Google, and Brave proxies any such network requests so that
you never interact with Google to stay safe online.
Whereas, Microsoft Edge can only fairly be described as a “Keylogging Trojan
Horse” that tells Microsoft about all your Web activity, including those
naughty or embarrassing sites, and stores them on a Microsoft server, to be
picked over to sell ads, and for purposes that can only be guessed at.
Using Microsoft Edge is therefore sort of like being an inmate at Stateville
Correctional Facility in Illinois, where the guard house can look into any
particular cell whenever it wants to.
Only, Edge goes further and records this so that a machine can analyze your
browsing data, to sell creepy ads that follow you around, and share it with the
government and “partners”, whoever those are.
I put it in a Flatpak temporarily on a tertiary machine specifically so that I
could remove some Microsoft Account data.
(I have an Outlook Mail account, which I only give out to sites that want to
spam me later with newsletters and crap. Let Microsoft store the garbage.)
I don’t believe I ever did much in Edge, but when I briefly used Windows on
this machine while Linux support was coming along, it may have grabbed
something, because Edge_is_also_a_password_stealer (Bruce Schneier) from other
Web browsers.
Schneier also pointed out that Windows and Edge display “smartphone app”
behavior, where they constantly ask to do the same bad thing until the user
accidentally, or in frustration, ends up allowing it.
On some occasions, Edge has grabbed people’s history and passwords out of other
browsers while they were setting up Windows, even if they told it not to do
that.
When I was done with it, I deleted the Flatpak and erased its configuration
folder under .var/app.
Microsoft makes it a process to wipe your data from their sync server if you
want to stop using Edge.
To accomplish this, you basically have to trick it.
There’s a button called “Reset Sync”, but they hide it behind something you
have to click on in the Sync page under Settings. It’s really meant to be used
to reset your Sync system if there’s an error on Microsoft’s server and it’s
not syncing with other copies of Microsoft Edge.
Classic Microsoft, instead of even trying to fix the bug, they have something
that whacks the thing that’s malfunctioning and then tries to upload all of
your data out of the local program.
So what you do is, you go down about 15 toggles for syncing certain types of
data, and turn them all off, then you click “Reset Sync” and once the server is
cleared, it will update with all the types of data you want to sync, which is
now hopefully nothing, and the server should therefore have nothing on it (but
who knows what they keep).
To test this, I wiped .var/app’s subfolder for Microsoft Edge with the browser
closed, reopened it, signed in, and verified that logging into Sync pulled in
nothing.
On top of all of the spyware, ads, and visual clutter in Microsoft Edge, I
generally find that the browser is just so “noisy” in its constant efforts to
get your attention on something that makes money for Microsoft, or screens
“bribing you” with Microsoft points and “free” access to some of their products
only if you use Edge and sign into it, that it makes it flat-out impossible to
even focus on the Web pages you’re trying to visit.
Even attempting to turn this stuff off is difficult to document, and Microsoft
leaves “breadcrumbs” for it everywhere so it is likely to be accidentally
turned back on later.
I can’t imagine a person with a condition that makes it difficult to focus
trying to use Edge, or how a person with disabilities is supposed to use it
when it has stuff that pops up everywhere shouting that you need to use “Office
365” and “Xbox” and “Microsoft Points”.
The New Tab page is bad enough. By default, it’s MSN junk “curated” and written
by chat robots.
In summary, Microsoft Edge is so unpleasant to use that a person that’s become
accustomed to another Web browser that makes it easy to focus, like LibreWolf,
Brave, GNOME Web, or even proprietary ones like Vivaldi, would have a hard time
legitimately defending why they would use Edge.
It’s basically designed not only to steal your private data, but also to steal
your attention away from Web sites and towards Microsoft. Its page rendering is
maybe on par with other Chromium browsers, aside from the fact that everything
Microsoft has written is just garbage riding on top of Chromium.
Edge also heavily leans on the user to go to Bing, which is Microsoft’s search
engine that can’t ever seem to grow its market share much past the Microsoft
browsers that default to it.
Edge, like Bing, is so lousy, they bribe people with company scrip, and it’s
still not widely used.
Brave is actually pretty cool. It just gets more cool as you discover more of
the program.
Brave was ranked as the most private commercially-available Web browser by the
same academic study I cited earlier.
Since the study, Microsoft Edge has only continued getting worse, while Brave
has done more to defend your privacy than it did three years ago. Brave
Software blogs about it quite frequently and even have a_list_of_malicious
Chromium_features_they_patch_and_compile_out while creating their fork.
So not only is Microsoft Edge nasty spyware with junk, it’s riding atop a
platform that’s “open core” and pretty nasty all by itself. Designed that way
by Google with Microsoft’s help.
I have always browsed around in Brave with ad blocking and fingerprinting
protection set to Aggressive, and while there are some things to shut off (the
“Web 3 stuff, Brave Rewards, Brave News, Sponsored Wallpapers in New Tab”) and
buttons to turn off in the GUI (related to those things), it’s not difficult
and when they’re off the browser is not visually cluttered at all.
And yes, I find it kind of lulzy, to be honest, the amount of “tech bruh” stuff
in Brave, but turning it off and using the browser actually works pretty well.
Brave isn’t really making money on you at this point and you can simply use the
browser in peace. In the Shields setting, you can add content blocker
subscriptions, including the ones to block “annoyances” and “cookies”, which
are maintained by “Fanboy”, aka “ryanbr” who works at Brave now.
The built-in content blocker is fast, and written in Rust, and like the rest of
Brave’s code, is available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, not some
crummy Microsoft EULA that goes on forever.
Unlike most browsers, Brave has a real “private mode” that can keep you safe
from your ISP or library/public WiFi following you around, called “Private Mode
with Tor Tabs”.
Don’t ever expect this in Microsoft Edge. Like Google, it sits there watching
everything. In most proprietary browsers, the only thing “Private Mode”
actually does differently is that it does not log a local history while you’re
using that tab, but Google has been caught spying on “Incognito” tabs in Google
Chrome. It makes exceptions for itself.
Brave is possibly the only commercial browser with a business model that I
would say is “not unethical”, because the business model doesn’t spy on you and
you can turn it offnever to be heard from again and just use this really neat
and fast browser program (under the MPL, a Free Software license), without
visual clutter or wondering who is “peering over your shoulder”.
You shouldn’t have to feel like you’re being watched while you browse, and
Microsoft Edge never lets you forget that you are being watched (and
exploited).
In the Soviet Union, they used to have armed guards watching all of the copying
machines. In North Korea, they actually have a fork of Firefox that spies on
people’s usage of their national “Internet” and submits them for punishment by
the regime.
This sort of behavior that you get with Microsoft Edge is the stuff that people
in Communist countries have to put up with…but even THEY didn’t get ads from
Microsoft’s commercial cesspit in the process.
People who browse with Microsoft Edge are doing themselves a disservice, and
people like Alan Pope should be ashamed for recommending it to Linux users.
Microsoft used to port Internet Explorer to all kinds of platforms, and they
dropped it without warning and left people without updates when they finished
killing Netscape.
When Microsoft gets done “faking their ratings” by buying glowing reviews, and
determines that no self-respecting *nix user would touch this as a daily
driver, they’ll abandon it.
They lay tens of thousands of people off now, including people working on Edge.
How important will the Linux port be?
Linux users don’t really strike me as the type to like to be spied on and have
a browser opening MSN and offering them “online shopping coupons” that don’t
even work.
There’s no “I’m a Web developer.” use case either. You can check your sites in
Chromium.
Nothing in Edge screamed “I’m a computer expert. I use Debian.”, no, it was
just a straight up copy of this utterly garbage Windows browser.
Would you let a garbage truck driver borrow your Rolls-Royce?
-The Cat, Red Dwarf
I think that the only reason anyone would open this thing, on Windows, is that
this is where Microsoft has put the rotting guts of Internet Explorer’s Trident
engine.
They may need this to get at an ActiveX control that never got updated.
Microsoft is pushing “Internet Explorer Mode” as a feature, on Windows 11. The
entire Internet Explorer 11 browser is there and can be “manipulated” into
opening up despite Microsoft’s efforts to force you to interact with Edge to
use Trident.
In Linux, there’s no IE Trident to deal with corporate Intranet apps that some
asshole wrote 20 years ago, so Microsoft’s only leverage to use it doesn’t
exist anyway.
Frankly, it’s amazing that Microsoft’s star feature, Internet Explorer Mode,
relies on a browser so dangerous that the US Department of Homeland Security
warned people in 2004 that they needed to use another browser because Microsoft
wasn’t interested in securing theirs.
I have a “browsing appliance” set up where I’ve created this rigged icon to
open Internet Explorer directly anyway to deal with one ActiveX control on an
Intranet set, in a Virtual Machine, and then the entire VM gets shut down.
Thankfully, mercifully, like a fever dream, Microsoft is gone.
Nothing else can run these things so Microsoft still continues to benefit from
antitrust crimes it committed 25 years ago.
I did the “rigged icon” deliberately so I don’t have Edge screaming at me about
“Microsoft Points” and “Xboxes” and “Free Office Trials” every time I’m trying
to get at an ActiveX control that should have been replaced years ago.
There are some corporations out there, like Walmart, that will spend gobs of
money trying to be cheap. █
“Back off man, I’m a scientist!”
-Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters)
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Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own.
Today in Techrights IRC, Roy Schestowitz posted a_link_to_a_Gemini_Pod.
For those without a Gemini client (emphasis mine):
Why I don’t use the Fediverse
1. The technology sucks. Activity Pub is half baked, and was
rolled out prematurely to create Mastadon.
2. Mastadon is a Twitter clone and Lemmy is a Reddit clone. I hate
the originals. Why would the clones be better?
3. Mastadon doesn’t work at all without Javascript. Lemmy barely
works without it. Puke!
4. The people there are not nicer than Twitter or Reddit. Their
mobs just have different political motivations. Never forget
how Wil Wheaton fled Mastadon after getting bullied.
5. No account freedom. You are stuck on your instance, and if they
boot you, you have to start over.In this limited respect Nostr
is superior.
6. AIDS doesn’t cure cancer.
=> /s/Fediverse Posted in: s/Fediverse
=> /u/LittlePrince 🚀 LittlePrince
I agree with this author completely.
It’s hard to find a more outspoken tree hugging liberal hippie than Wil Wheaton
and_the_Cancel_Mob_even_came_after_him,_apparently.
Like most tree hugging liberal hippies, Wheaton is sufficiently vile, that he
attacks_his_own_mother_and_father,_in_public, which is something that in decent
cultures, like Japan, you would NEVER do.
(Parents suffer and sacrifice for their children, only to be publicly impugned
by the little snot as soon as they’re old enough to get on the Web.)
Wil Wheaton is vile.
It’s basically,
“Mah parents abused me! They’re the only reason people know who I am and I have
money now!”, “Did you knowmy Dad is such an evil man he saved millions of
infants with ECMO?” (Including my brother, btw.) “But he watches Bill
O’Reilly!”.
I mean, Wheaton is an idiot. A vile idiot. So vile that he should have fit
right in with the rest of the leftist troll mob on Mastodon.
Humorously, The Verge quoted Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon and the
Admin of Mastodon dot social which_banned_me, as saying he was unhappy with how
the situation regarding Wil Wheaton was handled.
Fundamentally, these “Social Control Networks” are just infuriating.
On the off chance they have information you sought, you need to back it up,
LOCALLY, in case it ever gets deleted.
In fact, when I was looking for a source about the Wil Wheaton Incident, one
link was to Reddit. I clicked on it, and the entire post had been removed.
Reddit is one of those platforms for censorship. You post something informative
that mods or Reddit doesn’t like, it vanishes. Unfortunately, search engines
are starting to index and prioritize Reddit, and then you click on more posts
that aren’t there.
The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive doesn’t always have them either.
Sometimes, some bot went scraping photos on Reddit or something, and they still
exist in some spamfarm’s cache.
Is this really the Web we want and deserve? I say it isn’t.
It’s very much not only mob rule, but it’s rule by idiots that are in charge
because they own the place, or registered the subreddit before someone else
could. So a lot of the time, it’s random malicious idiots. Which are worse than
garden variety idiots.
It would be useful if something scrapes Reddit in real time, ignores robots.txt
restrictions and retains it indefinitely. If there’s something like that
though, I don’t know what it is.
The “New Reddit” even recently got a makeover that makes it heavier and less
compatible than ever.
Brave can handle it because it’s written in Web Bundles and other Chrome-ism
junk.
SeaMonkey just renders it like Reddit went through a Cuisinart.
In most of my browsers, I have an extension that forces everything to load on
Old Reddit and removes the “Get New Reddit” button and suppresses their cookies
prompts, but SeaMonkey’s extensions platform is too old for Old Reddit Redirect
to work.
Luckily, the Searx.be search defaults to Old Reddit. (Which looks better in all
browsers anyway.)
I learned to lurk and backup any information I find that’s useful in text or
something locally. Because it has a habit of disappearing later. Bookmarking
Reddit and thinking you’ll just come back and refer to it later is bad.
There’s a lot of Web rot, but Reddit is worse than Web rot.
Did I mention I hate Reddit? █
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Posted in Asia, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows at 8:17 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
Lenovo Profits Down 66% in Q2 on 24% Lower Revenue. Windows 11 Hasn’t Picked Up
Net Users Since April.
Lenovo_Group’s_First-Quarter_Profit_Declined_66% (in Q1 as revenue fell 24%) -
Morningstar
Rejection of Windows 11 and a dour economy have forced consumers to run their
PCs until the wheels fall off.
I looked at Lenovo’s Web site, and they’re boasting that you can “downgrade” to
Windows 10, even on PCs as cheap as $249.
Despite major price cuts on all their models, they can’t move inventory well.
Windows 11 has failed to gain any net users between April and August 2023,
according_to_BetaNews, citing StatCounter.
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This is a graph just showing Windows versions by market share in the Windows
world.
But all versions of Windows counted together, are down to just_69.27%_of
desktop_operating_systems according to StatCounter in August 2023.
If you count all devices with an OS, Windows_is_30.12%.
Microsoft really screwed the pooch with Windows 11.
It’s so bad that even after all this time, it has yet to actually cut into its
predecessor.
Most new users are just replacing Windows XP and 7 machines that finally died
while Windows as a whole bleeds desktop users to (mostly), Mac, Linux, Chrome
OS (which is also Linux and runs applications through Debian).
Their blind devotion to Microsoft, which is now laying off tens of thousands,
is not paying off well at Lenovo. It’s basically the same story at other OEMs.
I have some advice for Lenovo. Get out while you still have a company, quit
sucking up to Microsoft, and give your customers what they want.
Every time I buy a laptop from you, killing Windows and replacing it with Linux
gets harder.
If you don’t shape up, you’ll lose your next sale to System76 (where I know it
runs Linux and can deploy the OS of my choice) or leave x86 entirely to use
Linux, and you have no products in that market at all.
You have some Linux choices, but perhaps working with Microsoft, you keep the
specs limited to where it’s “better” to just buy something with Windows and
more RAM and replace it with Linux right away, however System76 has lots of
nice systems that are price-competitive with you. Maybe some people reading
this didn’t know that.
Viewing me as a “single pesky customer” is a bad idea.
I shouldn’t have had to file an antitrust complaint against you with Illinois
to get you to settle to fix your systems so that Linux could boot.
Giving your customers what they want is the foundation of a successful business
that wants to be around for a long run.
You lose money because nobody wants this ridiculous Windows 11.
Even Microsoft ends up competing with its own products, which users cling to
years, sometimes decades after they become unsupported.
When looking at StatCounter, you still see that over 0.3% of Windows users are
still on XP and using it on the Internet.
There’s a lot of people out there who simply can’t upgrade to something newer
(from Microsoft, although Linux has a habit of running indefintely), because
every time Microsoft releases something it can take up to double the RAM and
CPU cycles, and in Windows 11, they’ve hidden the bloat by setting baseline
requirements for a really fast computer to run it at all or they fake error
screens to prevent you from seeing how bad it really is. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_POPCAKE_airport_lounge_pancake_maker⠀⇛
Welcome to September, a month representing an absurd
amount of progress through 2023. Isn’t it supposed to
still be May? I find myself in Melbourne for work and
related matters, which gives me an opportunity to discuss
a topic that’s been near and dear to my heart for many
years.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN:_Organized_crime_in_Southeast_Asia_coerces_thousands
into_online_fraud⠀⇛
The United Nations Human Rights Office said in a new
report on Tuesday that criminal syndicates in Southeast
Asia are forcing hundreds of thousands of individuals
into online criminal activity, including operating
fraudulent investment schemes and facilitating unlawful
gambling.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_1200_Restoration⠀⇛
Someone recently sent me their Amiga 1200, which
used to be their pride and joy, for free, to look
after. They no longer had a use for it. It needed a
bit of work, so I decided to document it. This
Amiga This machine came with a case that was not in
great condition.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Arm_Gets_Closer_To_Creating_Full-Blown
Server_CPU_Designs⠀⇛
It takes too long to get a new compute engine in
the field, and everybody complains about it.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_smartphone_market_follows_the_global
trend_down⠀⇛
On the plus side, the sales of devices priced above
US$1000 (A$1541) continued to grow, IDC said
without providing a specific figure. sales of mid-
range phones showed a downward trend, while the
lower end saw sales rise.
The average selling price of a smartphone in
Australia rose by 5% year-on-year in the quarter
but saw a 10% drop from the previous quarter, going
down to US$755.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ CRN ☛ Microsoft_Cloud_Tools_Vendor_SkyKick_Confirms_Layoff
Of_140_Employees⠀⇛
SkyKick, whose products include tools to migrate to
and backup for Microsoft 365, has confirmed to CRN
that the vendor is laying off more than 100
employees worldwide.
In a statement to CRN, Todd Schwartz – co-CEO of
Seattle-based SkyKick – said that the layoff was a
“tough decision” and due to “current market
conditions.”
“We are well positioned and remain steadfastly
committed to ensuring our partners’ success in the
cloud over the long-term,” Schwartz said.
# ⚓ CRA_fires_120_employees,_staff_‘inappropriately_claimed’
CERB⠀⇛
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has fired dozens of
employees who “inappropriately claimed the Canada
Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)” during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
According to news outlets, including CTV News, the
agency said in a statement on Sept. 1 that “120
individuals are not longer with the CRA.”
“The CRA takes any form of wrongdoing very
seriously, and is strongly committed to protecting
the integrity of Canada’s tax and benefit systems
and demonstrating to Canadians that [we are] a
trusted and fair organization,” the statement
reads.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Mitigations_for_Important_Vim_Code_Execution,_DoS_Vulns
Released⠀⇛
Several denial of service (DoS) and code execution
vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Vim
enhanced vi editor.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Potential_Weaponizing_of_Honeypot_Logs_[Guest
Diary],_(Thu,_Aug_31st)⠀⇛
[This is a Guest Diary by James Turner, an ISC
intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
# ⚓ SANS ☛ The_low,_low_cost_of_(committing)_cybercrime,_(Thu,
Aug_31st)⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(chromium, firefox-esr, and gst-plugins-ugly1.0),
Fedora (firefox, libeconf, libwebsockets,
mosquitto, and rust-rustls-webpki), SUSE (amazon-
ssm-agent, open-vm-tools, and terraform-provider-
helm), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-
azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-
gcp-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-
gkeop-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-
oracle, and python-git).
# ⚓ TFS ☛ Za:_Enforcement_Notice_Issued_To_Dis-Chem_For
Violating_POPIA⠀⇛
On the 31st of August 2023, the Information
Regulator took action by issuing an Enforcement
Notice against Dis-Chem, due to their non-
compliance with several provisions of the
Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
In the timeline of events, it was revealed that
during the months of April and May in 2022, a brute
force attack was launched against Grapevine, a
third-party service provider engaged by Dis-Chem. A
brute force attack involves repeated attempts to
guess a password until the correct combination is
discovered. It wasn’t until the 1st of May 2022
that Dis-Chem became aware of this security breach
when certain employees received SMS notifications.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ NPS_tells_media,_families_it_will_strive_to
communicate_better⠀⇛
In August’s board meeting, Norman Public Schools
announced it would improve its relationship with
media outlets and parents.
“We are always wanting to make sure we have ongoing
transparent easily-accessible communication, not
only internally, but externally as well,” said
Holly Nevels, the associate superintendent and
chief human resource officer, at the meeting.
“We want our internal staff, teachers, and students
to feel informed, and we certainly want our
community to feel informed and connect to our
schools,” she added.
The district has adjusted language in its 2022-2027
Strategic Plan to bolster its commitment to open
communication, said Chelsey Kraft, the director of
communications, public relations, and public
information officer for the district, in an
interview with The Transcript.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Norman_Public_Schools_tells_media,_families
it_will_strive_to_communicate_better⠀⇛
Well, it seems one school district has seen the
light and will try to be more transparent and
timely in the event of security incidents. Norman
Public Schools in Oklahoma experienced a ransomware
attack in November 2022. At the time, DataBreaches
was revealing more details about the breach by the
Hive ransomware gang and the leaked data than the
district had revealed and noted the district had
not responded to this site’s inquiries.
# ⚓ Education_Sector_Heavily_Targeted_as_the_School_Year
Begins⠀⇛
As the 2023 school year begins, threat actors are
poised to launch various types of cyberattacks
ranging from direct deposit scams to ransomware.
The education sector is often targeted during
holiday breaks. Threat actors take advantage of
this pastime when staff is away or just prior to
busy seasons, such as the beginning of the school
year, long weekends, or before the end of a marking
period when final grades are due. Within the last
few weeks, publicly announced ransomware attacks
sharply increased and included Cleveland City
Schools in Tennessee, the Prince George’s County
Public Schools – one of the largest US school
districts with approximately 130,000 students in
the Washington D.C. area – and the University of
Michigan, just three weeks after the MOVEit data
theft attack impacted Michigan State University.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ At_some_point,_SNAtch_Team_stopped_being
the_Snatch_ransomware_gang._Were_journalists_the_last_to
know?⠀⇛
In December 2019, Sophos published an analysis of
Snatch ransomware. In June 2020, DFIR Report
provided a case study, and in July 2020, LIFARS
wrote an article about Snatch ransomware having
been detected in attacks in June.
Since then, the Snatch leak site has continued to
add victims and the media (including DataBreaches)
has continued to report on their attacks, but
somehow, none of us reporting on Snatch seemed to
know that there had been a seismic shift in their
operations. On some date unknown to DataBreaches,
the gang that took its name as fans of the movie
“Snatch” was no longer a ransomware gang. To say
that DataBreaches was surprised to realize that we
might have been misreporting them as a ransomware
gang would be an understatement.
# ⚓ USDOJ ☛ United_States_v_Alexander_Pakhtusov⠀⇛
Alexander Pakhtusov was a seller on both Slilpp and
Paysell (now called Blackpass) using the moniker
“Mrtikov.” His overall involvement spanned from at
least April 2016 through September 2019 and
included listing for sale over 17 million
economically valuable accounts of individuals held
at various companies and banks. He actually sold
over 14,000 sets of login credentials. The people
who purchased those login credentials used those
credentials to steal money from victim accounts.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Sourcegraph_Discloses_Data_Breach_Following
Access_Token_Leak⠀⇛
Sourcegraph says customer information was breached
after an engineer accidentally leaked an admin
access token.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Over_$1_Million_Offered_at_New_Pwn2Own
Automotive_Hacking_Contest⠀⇛
ZDI is offering more than $1 million at the Pwn2Own
Automotive hacking contest, hosted in January at
the Automotive World conference in Tokyo.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Energy_Department_Offering_$9M_in
Cybersecurity_Competition_for_Small_Electric_Utilities⠀⇛
Small electric utilities in the US offered $9
million as part of a competition whose goal is to
help them boost their cybersecurity posture.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Vulnerability_in_WordPress_Migration_Plugin
Exposes_Websites_to_Attacks⠀⇛
A vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration
plugin’s extensions exposes WordPress websites to
attacks leading to sensitive information
disclosure.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Splunk_Patches_High-Severity_Flaws_in
Enterprise,_IT_Service_Intelligence⠀⇛
Splunk has released patches for multiple high-
severity vulnerabilities impacting Splunk
Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dangling_DNS_Used_to_Hijack_Subdomains_of
Major_Organizations⠀⇛
Dangling DNS records were abused by researchers to
hijack subdomains belonging to major organizations,
warning that thousands of entities are impacted.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ 500k_Impacted_by_Data_Breach_at_Fashion
Retailer_Forever_21⠀⇛
Fashion retailer Forever 21 says that the personal
information of more than 500,000 individuals was
compromised in a data breach.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Optus_says_it_will_not_release_Deloitte_report
into_data_breach⠀⇛
Telco Singtel Optus will not release a report into
the data breach it suffered last year, which it
commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to
carry out, the company has confirmed.
Asked about the report on Thursday, an Optus
spokesperson said: “Optus can confirm that Deloitte
has completed its report. The report is
confidential and the subject of a legal
professional privilege claim.”
No details were given as to the “legal professional
privilege claim”.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Lawsuit_Accuses_University_of_Minnesota_of
Not_Doing_Enough_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.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Own_Your_Own_Government_Surveillance
Van⠀⇛
A used government surveillance van is for
sale in Chicago:
So how was this van turned into a
mobile spying center? Well, let’s
start with how it has more LCD
monitors than a Counterstrike LAN
party. They can be used to monitor
any of six different video inputs
including a videoscope camera. A
videoscope and a borescope are very
similar as they’re both cameras on
the ends of optical fibers, so the
same tech you’d use to inspect
cylinder walls is also useful for
surveillance. Kind of cool, right?
Multiple Sony DVD-based video
recorders store footage captured by
cameras, audio recorders by high-
end equipment brand Marantz capture
sounds, and time and date
generators sync gathered media up
for accurate analysis. Circling
back around to audio, this van
features seven different audio
inputs including a body wire
channel…
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Increase_in_torture_complaints_brought_to_the_attention_of
the_Parliament⠀⇛
DEVA Party Istanbul MP Yeneroğlu stated that there
was a 22 percent increase in the submissions
received by the Human Rights Foundation in 2022
related to torture compared to the previous year.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_Coast_Guard_water_cannon_attack_on_Vietnamese
fishing_boat_leaves_2_injured⠀⇛
Move reflects Beijing’s strategy of ‘rocking the
tree to threaten the monkey,’ an observer says.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Niger’s_coup_weakens_regional_fight_against
Boko_Haram:_four_reasons_why⠀⇛
Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum was detained and
deposed on 26 July by his military guard under the
command of General Abdourahamane Tchiani. The
unconstitutional change of government has been
widely condemned internationally. Ecowas, the
regional group, also issued sanctions and
threatened military intervention.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ecuador_rocked_by_gang-related_violence_as_law
enforcement_officers_taken_hostage_in_prisons⠀⇛
Ecuador’s fragile security situation was
underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings
and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law
enforcement officers inside various prisons, just
weeks after the country was shaken by the
assassination of a presidential candidate.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ African_Union_to_‘immediately_suspend’_Gabon
after_military_coup_ousts_Bongo⠀⇛
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council said
Thursday it had decided to “immediately suspend”
Gabon following a coup that ousted President Ali
Bongo. The decision came as the junta that took
power announced it would respect Gabon’s
commitments at home and abroad in a bid to reassure
the international community.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Suicide_Bomber_Attacks_Security_Convoy_In
Northwestern_Pakistan,_Killing_Nine_Soldiers⠀⇛
At least nine Pakistani soldiers have been killed
and 20 more injured in a suicide attack that
targeted a security convoy in northwestern
Pakistan.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Lauds_Kyrgyz_Repatriation_Of_95_People_From
Camps_In_Northeast_Syria⠀⇛
The United States has lauded Kyrgyzstan for its
repatriation of 95 women and children from
northeast Syria, calling it “important towards
resolving the humanitarian and security challenges
in the region.”
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_Chongqing_first_to_roll_out
local_anti-espionage_rules⠀⇛
Chongqing, a Chinese megacity of more than 32
million people, has pioneered a local version of
the country’s expanded counter-espionage law,
requiring institutions to go through security
screening when organising overseas trips.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_renews_Lebanon_peacekeeping_mission_after
dispute_over_troop_movement⠀⇛
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday
renewed the mandate for its peacekeeping force in
Lebanon for another year after tense debate around
the troops’ freedom of movement.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Home_Charging⠀⇛
I recently wrote about my experiences in
driving_a_fully_electric_car. Today, the
electrician dropped by and installed a
charging box in my garage. Finally I can do
11kW charging from home, at the lowest
possible price.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Sputnik_Strike:_Court_rejects_request_by_management_to
suspend_the_strike⠀⇛
Sputnik Turkey management, which has fired 24
journalists after the strike action at the news
outlet was announced, went to court against the
strike, but the 4th Labor Court of Istanbul
rejected taking a “precautionary measure” against
the strike.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Muhammad_Yunus,_the_father_of_microfinance,_is
facing_a_prison_sentence⠀⇛
Among foreign economists and civil society
activists, the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is an
icon for extending microloans to those too poor to
access conventional banks.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ AG_Merrick_Garland_denounces_election_worker
threats_as_DOJ_charges_over_a_dozen_people⠀⇛
The DOJ announced Thursday that two men in two
separate cases in Arizona and Georgia had pleaded
guilty to threatening election officials in the
respective states in separate cases, brought by the
the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task
Force — which has now brought charges in 14 cases.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_jails_economics_professor_who_highlighted
government’s_personnel_costs⠀⇛
Yang Shaozheng’s sentence comes amid allegations of
torture from his legal defense team.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_citizen_detained_for_suspected_terrorism
glorification⠀⇛
The State Security Service (VDD) has detained a
citizen of Latvia of Islamic faith in relation to
suspected public glorification and justification of
terrorism, as well as the distribution of materials
glorifying, justifying, and appealing to terrorism,
the VDD said August 31.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ An_open_letter_to_the_RightsCon_community_about
RightsCon_Costa_Rica_and_what_comes_next⠀⇛
We explain the challenges and exclusion some
participants faced, apologize and take
accountability for our role, and share thoughts on
the road ahead.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Together,_We’re_Changing_the_Face_of_Crisis_Response
in_D.C.⠀⇛
Ezenwa Oruh was a creative spirit who loved
storytelling and was pursuing his dream of being an
actor. He was a wonderful uncle to his sister
Chioma Oruh’s two children, who are both autistic.
Ezenwa also had schizophrenia, and would sometimes
become dysregulated and disoriented. Sometimes, his
family would have to call 911 for help. They knew
the responders would be police, but they had no
other option.
“When the police come on site oftentimes — whether
it’s for my brother, or the children that I
birthed, or other children in the community that go
through these crises — the last thing on the mind
of a first responder is that these children are
brilliant, that they’re loved, that they have
gifts, that they offer things to the community,”
said Chioma. “The problem is not their family or
their condition, but it’s about how the system
responds to them and their condition and their
loved ones who only seek and want help.”
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘Walking_Dead’_spinoffs,_‘Interview
With_the_Vampire’_can_resume_with_actors’_union_approval⠀⇛
Two spinoffs of “The Walking Dead” and the next
season of “Interview With the Vampire” will be
resuming production despite the Hollywood strikes
after reaching a deal with the actors’ union. The
union granted what’s known as an interim agreement
to the three shows on cable channel AMC. The
agreements, which have been granted to hundreds of
films and TV shows, allow productions outside the
alliance of major studios to resume, so long as
they grant actors what they were asking for before
the strike broke out. The shows are the highest
profile series yet to get the deals, which some
actors say are undermining their strike.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Also_Strikes_Down_“Public_Health_Warning”
for_Porn_Sites⠀⇛
From today’s long decision in Free Speech
Coalition, Inc. v. Colmenero, by Judge David Alan
Ezra (W.D. Tex.) (see here for excerpts from the
part of the decision that strikes down the separate
age-verification requirement): [...]
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Plans_for_teachers’_strike_mar_start_of_new_school
year_in_Lithuania⠀⇛
The new school year is kicking off in Lithuania on
Friday amid tensions over teachers’ plans to go on
strike if the government fails to raise their
salaries.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ What_happened_with_the_GEO_strike
over_the_summer⠀⇛
In November 2022, the Graduate Employees’
Organization and the University of Michigan began
negotiating a new contract for Graduate Student
Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants.
Negotiations continued through the school year with
no resolution, eventually leading GEO to go on
strike March 27.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ What_the_Landmark_U.S._v._Google
Antitrust_Suit_Means_for_Search_—_And_for_You⠀⇛
The case could have widespread effects on the
internet as we know it.
# ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Microsoft_backs_down_to_Europe_over_Teams
and_Edge⠀⇛
Tech giant will unbundle Teams from Office 365 and
stop links opening in Edge by default – but only
for European customers.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_says_Teams_to_be_unbundled_from_Office
in_EU_from_1_Oct⠀⇛
Linde said Microsoft would enhance existing
resources on inter-operability with Microsoft 365
and Office 365.
“…we have heard feedback that, given the broad
capabilities of Microsoft 365, Microsoft could do
more in terms of providing support and making
development easier,” she said.
“To help address these concerns, we will create new
support resources to better organise and point
application developers to the existing and publicly
available APIs and extensibility in Microsoft 365
and Office 365 apps and services that connect with
Teams.”
Linde added that, additionally, new mechanisms
would be created to enable third-party solutions to
host Office Web applications.
The North American-based Coalition for Fair
Software Licensing welcomed Microsoft’s move, but
said it was not enough.
The group’s executive director, Ryan Triplette,
said in a statement: ““This announcement proves
that Microsoft is capable of doing the right thing
for its customers, but chooses not to unless
compelled by regulatory scrutiny. As we noted in
our comment to the US Federal Trade Commission, the
tying of Teams to the Office Suite is not a
regional or product-specific issue.
“Microsoft has the power to flip a switch and offer
its products separately, at any time and in any
location it wants. However, unless the software
giant’s entire restrictive licensing regime is
unwound by regulators, it won’t.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Patent_Trolls_Will_Prey_on_SMEs_if
USPTO_Proposals_Proceed⠀⇛
USPTO’s proposed restrictions on validity
review would hurt SMEs by limiting
independent third parties interested in
deterring patent trolls’ use of invalid
patents. Unified’s Shawn Ambwani provides
third-party examples that have successfully
challenged especially egregious patent trolls
which would no longer be allowed if ANPRM
proposals or the PREVAIL Act are enacted.
Patent trolls will be more aggressive, more
profitable, and more rampant, imposing what
amounts to a legal tax on economic growth and
innovation, especially against SMEs who do
not have the financial resources to fight.
# ⚓ Follow_the_Founders_and_Insist_on_Review_of_Unjust
Monopolies_Created_by_Invalid_Patents⠀⇛
This post draws from and summarizes a
forthcoming law review article from the
author. The full article is available on
SSRN. A patent is a monopoly, for a certain
time, on the sale of something for profit.
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Venue_Transfer_Games
Continue:_Rafqa_Star_v._Google⠀⇛
Google is one of the largest companies in the
US with extensive ties not just to every
state, but virtually every household in the
entire country. Still, the company regularly
argues that it would be too unfair and
inconvenient to litigate patent cases in
states such as Texas. In a recent decision,
Judge Alan Albright (W.D.Tex.) denied
Google’s motion to transfer venue. In his 40-
page order, Judge Albright provided an in-
depth analysis of the private and public
interest factors that, based upon prior
precedent, govern transfer under 28 U.S.C. §
1404(a). The relevant statute reads as
follows:
For the convenience of parties and witnesses,
in the interest of justice, a district court
may transfer any civil action to any other
district or division where it might have been
brought or to any district or division to
which all parties have consented.
Id. Before analyzing this case, I want to
step back and recognize that the current
legal test for patent venue transfer has
departed significantly from the statutory
language declaring the goals of convenience
and justice.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Limiting_improvisation⠀⇛
I was asked why I suggest limiting improvisation in
the blorb playing style. Great question! Here’s my
answer.
I’ll first clarify one thing and then explain why
there’s this limitation.♥
Ah, for “wallpaper” stuff you can make up stuff as
much as you want! They’re like “what color is her
towel” and you go “it’s a light yellow”. Maybe your
notes say “The desk is full of uninportant papers.
Hidden under the rug is a key” and the players
start looking at papers and you can start making up
geneologies and transaction accounts to your hearts
contempt. That stuff happens all the time, room
descriptions should be short & sweet knowing that
you can make this sort of thing up.
It’s only for “salient” things—the core main things
the players and their characters are interacting
with—that there’s a limit. For example, the other
day I ran a module that said “the desk is full of
important documents. GM’s choice”. That violated
this principle. If the documents are so important,
they shoulda been specified before the session
began. (It’d had been OK if the module had said
upfront that “DMs, you need to specify the
documents on page 277″ but it did not.)
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CEMNOYP_Wordo:_OASES⠀⇛
# ⚓ Across_The_Spider-verse⠀⇛
The amazing visual style of the first movie is
back—and even a little improved. The story hops
between “dimensions”, giving the artists a chance
to play; and in some segments they are
spectacularly successful.
The one criticism I have in this department is that
the device of dropping incidental text into the
frame—comic book style—is not used as much as in
the first movie. That’s a shame; I like it. It
still works well when it is used.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ listing_data_with_TableDb⠀⇛
These two things will cause it to dump… something
or another. I kind of expected them to be the IDs
of the locally stored DHT keys. but they aren’t.
unless they’re encoded in some other way. on my
computer they all started with VkxEM
that VkxEM seems to be the start of a base64′d
binary blob that starts out with “VLD0″ I guess the
key names are stored pretty packed.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Issue_using_ZNC_with_multiple_accounts_and_SASL⠀⇛
I have been using different bouncers on
different IRC networks since I got more into
IRC again (with SDF and Tildechat) in the
beginning of this year and switched between a
ZNC and a Soju-based bouncer and I am
actually using both right now since I don’t
want to change the configs that are working,
both are working quite well, so I am not sure
if I am preferring one over the other.
When configuring ZNC I had a rather random
issue that caused the nickserv or SASL
authentication to fail on some irc accounts
and I couldn’t really figure out why and when
manually authenticating via Nickserv it
always worked, also using cert auth usually
works. Since most bouncers and irc networks
are up for a long time, this is not really an
issue and I simply thought, it is an
intermittend issue that happens every Blue
Moon (which was actually last week).
# ⚓ Fedi_is_like_email⠀⇛
I love email.
Email has a lot of the same problems fedi
has. It’s used by some very bad people,
there’s not a lot of moderators, there’s spam
and bad faith servers that you need to block
on the instance level, if you get kicked off
a server or a server operator folds you need
to migrate your address and that’s a 🐝, the
protocol is also really complicated these
days with many layers and spec addons, it’s
difficult to find a place and crowd that’s
good for you etc.
Fedi also has some of the same advantages as
email: no-one owns it, it can be used for all
kinds of things, it’s free etc.
# ⚓ Re:_Why_I_don’t_use_the_Fediverse⠀⇛
Yeah, the clones do have a lot of the same
problems. Mastodon is akin to tinylogs, and
Lemmy is like a discussion site or Usenet
type thing. (Although with more bugs.) For
example, there is a currently defunct app
that makes Lemmy look and feel like a phpBB
site (except you get access to all of Lemmy).
I guess my typical approach to this stuff is
trying to think back at what worked? Email,
discussion sites, mailing lists. If something
works like it did in that era it might be
fine, if it works differently then there
might be some risks.
# ⚓ Re:_Creating_a_atom_feed_file_to_submit_to_antenna⠀⇛
I also use Atom for Antenna (because then I
can have time stamps, not just dates), and
Alex’s guide above is good, go check it out
if you do wanna use Atom, but just know you
can also just make a gmisub file and only use
it for Antenna.
That is much easier, for people who don’t
wanna have to fiddle with the Atom format.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Gemini_Links_02/09/2023:_Fediverse_Issues_and_Back_to_Agate⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Monks_in_Swords_&_Wizardry_Complete_Revised⠀⇛
I got my print copy of the Swords & Wizardry
Complete Revised Rulebook from the recent
Kickstarter a little while ago, and I was reading
it and noticed that they made some of the most
unbalancing monk abilities available only if the
monk has has 15+ DEX or 15+ WIS, depending on which
ability is in question. I was amused, because the
Original D&D monk had to have a 15 in DEX and WIS
just to be a monk. And the AD&D 1E monk had to have
a 15 in STR, DEX, and WIS!
The result is that in S&WCR you don’t have
attribute requirements to be a monk, but you DO
have attribute requirements for Weapon Damage
Bonus, Multiple Attacks, Alertness, Deflect
Missles, and Slow Falling; in other words, the fun
stuff. So if your DEX and WIS are less than 15 you
can still play a monk, but you’re nowhere near as
powerful as the classic monk.
# ⚓ Adorable_Children⠀⇛
Earlier today, my brother sent me a video of my
niece. She was running along with a stroller thing
in the garden as his dogs were chasing her. She is
laughing the whole time until she stops and sort of
sounds like she is crying. Turns out she is so
happy she cannot make a reasonable sound other than
a cry. Then the one dog goes in for a lick attack
and she is giggling away while trying to avoid the
licking. The video ends at this point.
This is the sort of video which makes me a teary
laughing mess. I am always glad of my brother
sending this sort of silly video through. Precious
moments which are all that much easier to record
with phones while not recording every moment.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Hello_Pub⠀⇛
I’m tired of pure rationalism. Recently, I’ve had
the urge to learn aphorisms, riddles, and powerful
stories to use in life. Any good collections or
books?
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Macintosh_Classic_II_Repair_—_Part_1⠀⇛
In which I discuss the progress so far in my quest
to repair a Macintosh Classic II I’ve been given.
Written on a MacBook Pro while listening to
Blondie’s Autoamerican.
# ⚓ Vaseline_your_balls⠀⇛
While it still worked, it did not feel smooth to
roll the ball around.
After some investigating I came across a faq, by
trackball manufacturer Kensington, describing the
process of maintaining your trackball.
I was really surprised to read that they recommend
slathering your ball with a bit of vaseline.
# ⚓ Benchmarking_RK3588_NPU_matrix_multiplication_performance
EP2⠀⇛
Not long after my last benchmarking attempt.
Rockchip releases a SDK update that fixes the
crashing matrix multiplication API. Now I’m no
longer restricted to using ONNX. Now I can directly
do matrix multiplication from C! And now I can do
an apple to apple comparison with OpenBLAS. That’s
benchmarking. Actually, I knew the SDK update days
before writing this post. But I held on because I’m
working on something more exiting – porting Large
Language Models to run on RK3588 NPU. The result
is.. well, you’ll see. I also got an oppertunity to
speak at Skymizer’s interal tech forum because of
my work. I’ll share the side deck after I gave the
talk.
# ⚓ A_Practical_Use_for_NNCP⠀⇛
I’ve used AWS for quite some time before moving my
capsule into EC2: my primary use case for it is
off-site archival by backing up my files to S3.
Using a shell script and the AWS CLI, I encrypt the
files in my NAS, tag them with a checksum to detect
file changes, and upload them in bulk, storing them
in the Glacier Flexible Retrieval tier to save on
storage costs.
I recently rewrote my backup script to be able to
exclude directories from archival. The mechanism by
which I do this is including a “.noupload” dotfile
in any directory I want to exclude. When the script
sees this file, it archives a list of the
directory’s contents rather than the directory
itself, and it ignores all of its subdirectories.
This allows me to save even more by excluding files
that are easy to replace or don’t mean much if I
lose them.
# ⚓ Re:_Creating_an_atom_feed_file_to_submit_to_antenna⠀⇛
While I like the idea of gemlog format and could
submit my index page to Antenna, I thought the cgi
route would be fun. I’ve posted about it in the
past but seeing as others are looking at generating
the same type of file I thought I might as well
toss it back out there for inspiration.
The script is fairly simple, written in python3.
Reads through a directory, scrapes a few attributes
to put in publish times and tags, title from the
first heading, etc. Nothing too crazy but very
helpful in automating the process.
# ⚓ Mirror_Story⠀⇛
I dug out the following old text of mine from the
Story Games archive and edited it for grammar and
punctuation:
Not sure what writeup is the best but I had been
playing & running RPGs for 20 years and then
somewhere in 2012, 2013 I found an OSR group (so I
was kinda late to the party, Grognardia had been up
for years at that point) and I played with them
once, thought “ok that was kinda fun, but kinda
scripted”, went home, looked at the module and
thought “huh…. that could’ve gone all kinda
different ways”, and then played with them again
and we find this room.
There’s an object behind a curtain. I walk up to it
and put my hand under. Feels like glass. “It’s a
cursed mirror?” we all think. We take it down from
the wall without looking at it or removing the
curtain. Attach it to our cart.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_I_don’t_use_the_Fediverse⠀⇛
1. The technology sucks. Activity Pub is half
baked, and was rolled out prematurely to
create Mastadon.
2. Mastadon is a Twitter clone and Lemmy is a
Reddit clone. I hate the originals. Why would
the clones be better?
# ⚓ Four_short-term_wishes_for_fedi⠀⇛
The Fediverse, a.k.a. fedi, is a name for
mostly-compatible implementations of a
protocol that started as ActivityPub.
Mastodon is probably the most well known.
[...]
* Keep trying to fight the rando weird
harasso instances that plague our mentions.
Maybe use tech from email? The nightmare
scenario for fedi would be an app that can
churn out new, uniquely named, one-off
harassing instances. Maybe we need to think
of something preemptive for that scenario.
# ⚓ Re:_Why_would_students_use_Gemini_♊️?⠀⇛
My answer is: as a toy protocol to understand
the basics of networking and as a model for
very simple and fast software. I think of my
syntax classes, which introduced us to the
structure of a complex sentence by adding
more complexity as the class went on.
Initially, all of our syntax trees (sentence
diagrams) were simple and pretty imprecise.
They didn’t need to be complex because we
hadn’t learned about the possible
consequences of such rigid simplicity. As the
class progressed and as we learned more, we
were able to understand abbreviated trees and
recognize why certain things are complex, as
well as different positions on complexity
(e.g. I think there are some Scandinavian
maximalists who give every morpheme a
discrete marker; some minimalists argue that
a top level S phrase marker is ok iirc).
# ⚓ Back_to_Agate⠀⇛
Satellite always irritated me with how it
treated foo.com/bar/ as its own entity
separate from foo.com/bar/index.gmi. It would
serve content incorrectly if you used the
“parent up” command that’s present in so many
Gemini browsers. So now my capsules are back
on Agate.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_02/09/2023:_Release_of_Linux_From_Scratch_and_Nitrux_3.0_is_Out⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 2:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Reviews
o BSD
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
# Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Science
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Has_mankind_lost_it’s_ability_to_learn?⠀⇛
Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user.
Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU
Linux.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.5.1⠀⇛
All users of the 6.5 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.5.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.5.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.14⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.51⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.130⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.194⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.256⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.294⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.325⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi_Pakkanen:_CapyPDF_0.5_is_out⠀⇛
There are no actual release notes, but a bunch of
stuff got added. Code is here. Many of these were
things needed by Inkscape for its new CMYK PDF
exporter. More info about that can be found on
DoctorMo’s_YouTube_channel.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ RustPlayer_is_a_local_audio_player_and_m3u8
radio_player⠀⇛
RustPlayer is an audio player that plays locally
hosted files. It’s also a radio player.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Family
History_Software⠀⇛
This article highlights the best genealogy software
that runs under Linux.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# § idroot⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kodi_Media_Server_on
AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Kodi Media Server on AlmaLinux 9.
Kodi, a versatile and highly acclaimed media
center software, has gained a dedicated
following due to its capability to transform
your computer into a multimedia powerhouse.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ SQL_vs_NoSQL:_What’s_the_Difference?⠀⇛
In today’s data-driven world, databases serve
as the backbone of countless applications,
from e-commerce platforms to social media
networks. Among the diverse array of
databases available, SQL and NoSQL stand out
as the two primary categories, each with
distinct characteristics and benefits.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Transfer_file_between_VirtualBox
VM_Activities_Host_without_Shared_Folders⠀⇛
In the recent update of Ubuntu 23.10 daily build,
the GNOME desktop has been updated to v45 beta.
And, here are some visual changes. The default
wallpaper now has a dark variant. Meaning changing
Ubuntu Desktop to dark style will also change to
dark style wallpaper. Though, the final wallpaper
is not revealed yet!
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Transfer_file_between_VirtualBox
VM_Activities_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.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Sort_du_Command_Output_by_Size⠀⇛
Learn to use the du command with sorted output
based on size.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Deploying_Convolutional_and_Transformer-
based_Generative_Models_as_Microservices_on_Kubernetes⠀⇛
Here are some tips on deploying generative models
as microservices with Kubernetes.
# ⚓ Adam_Young:_How_to_optimize_a_flipit_solve⠀⇛
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_change_screen_resolution_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
There are cases when screen resolution doesn’t get
adjusted automatically after installing a new
monitor on your computer.
This happens mostly because of faulty drivers, or
when wrong drivers are in use. However, sometimes
you need to adjust screen resolution manually in
order to make the monitor usable.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The
Wine_development_release_8.15_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 8.15 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Support for TEXT print processor.
- Cycle Collection support in MSHTML.
- Cross-process memory notifications in Wow64.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-
8.15.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE:_Weekly_report_and_News,_23.08.0_Snaps_call_for
testing!⠀⇛
Another busy week in the KDE snap world. Most
of the release-service apps are in –candidate
channel waiting to be tested. Testing is the
bottle neck in the process, so I am trying
something new and calling for help! Please
test your favorite apps and report on https:/
/discuss.kde.org/t/all-things-snaps-
questions-concerns-praise/ any issues and
which apps tested. Thanks!
I believe I have a solution for our PIM
applications by creating an Akondai dbus
provider snap and setting all the PIM
applications as consumers. I am waiting for
manual review to pass.
# ⚓ Write.as ☛ Profiling_&_Optimizing_KRunner⠀⇛
One central topic of this year’s Akademy was
energy efficiency and performance of
software. I took this occasion to give
KRunner another look in regard to profiling,
because the multithreading refactor
simplified lots of plugin code and allowed
for more optimizations.
When I did some benchmarking around two years
ago, one of my major performance surprises
was the windowed widgets runner. This runner
queried all available applets for each letter
typed.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Extensions_in_GNOME_45⠀⇛
By now it is probably no longer news to many:
GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom
imports system to standard JavaScript modules
(ESM).
JavaScript originated in web browsers to add
a bit of interactivity to otherwise static
pages. There was no need to split up small
code snippets into multiple files, so the
language did not provide a mechanism for
that.
This did become an issue when people started
writing bigger programs in JavaScript, so
environments like node.js and GJS added their
own import systems to organize code into
multiple files. As a consequence, developers
and tooling had a hard time transitioning
from one environment to another.
That changed in 2015 when ECMAScript 6
standardized modules, resulting in a well-
defined, widely-supported syntax supported by
all major JavaScript engines. GJS has
supported ESModules since 2021, but porting
GNOME Shell was a much bigger task that had
to be done all at once.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ LFS_and_BLFS_12.0_are_released.⠀⇛
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce
the release of LFS Version 12.0, LFS Version 12.0
(systemd), BLFS Version 12.0, and BLFS Version 12.0
(systemd).
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Nitrux_3.0_Arrives_with_Improvements_to_Boot,
Installation,_and_Upgrade⠀⇛
Powered by the Liquorix-flavored Linux 6.4.12 kernel,
Nitrux 3.0 is here with the latest KDE Plasma 5.27.7 LTS
desktop environment on top of Wayland and using a Git
snapshot of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 open-source graphics
stack for hardcore Linux gamers.
As the headline suggests, Nitrux 3.0 brings improvements
to the boot process to improve hardware support by
implementing a check in the Kernel Boot tool to verify
the presence of the NVIDIA proprietary driver and
restrict it from being used on computers with NVIDIA
hardware.
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ [GSoC_2023]_VPN_Support_Project_Update_#7⠀⇛
§ Where We Last Left Off
Last post, I left off on the problem where the select
functionality was working but there are some problems as
it works but not well as the average latency is above
2000ms and when using ping it drops more than 60% of
packets on average. For two weeks I was working on this
issue but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with
select and given that I was coming up on the deadline of
my project, I decided to go with a condition variable
approach when reading data from the driver for both the
application and interface side. For the application side,
it does have a timeout on it so that write can also take
place since OpenVPN uses select/poll which will check if
both read and write can happen at the same time, and
since I am blocking one of them, it would just infinitely
block both operations until read was fine. While select
functionality is something that should be implemented
with the driver, timing was not on my side with this
issue so for those who want to take more of a crack at
finding out what the problem is, here was how I tested
it: [...]
o § Reviews⠀➾
# ⚓ Slimbook_Pro_X_14_first_impressions⠀⇛
First impressions start with the outside look and
while I was concerned about that the silver colour
would get on my nerves – it is OK really.
What is not just OK, but abso-bloody-lutely amazing
is the custom engraving on the laptop lid Slimbook
did for me. It is a Conan_Gasket_fractal and I have
to thank María Hornos at Slimbook for both patience
and perseverance in making this engraving a
reality.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_version_of_vi_shipped_with_the_BSDs⠀⇛
Hackaday ran a story about Vim with some
interesting history. I knew the late Bram Moolenaar
had started the project on the Amiga, though I
didn’t know the history of the original code going
back to Tim Thompson’s Stevie on the Atari ST, and
the ports made by Tony Andrews. I swear the world
is conspiring to get me into buying a 520 or
1040ST.
On_Vim,_Modal_Interfaces_And_The_Way_We_Interact
With_Computers
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ August_Edition_of_PCLinuxOS_KDE
available.⠀⇛
The August Edition of PCLinuxOS KDE is now
available.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/35⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The move of OBS to the new data center has been
completed and issues we had seen as a consequence
of this are mostly fixed (all in working order,
some performance not exactly where it used to be,
but in a workable state). Yet, we only managed to
release a single, small snapshot during this week:
20230828. Two more made it to QA but had to be
discarded for bugs identified which slipped
Staging.
Snapshot 0828 was, as mentioned small, and only
brought you those changes over 0823: [...]
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ saptune_3.1_on_the_Horizon [Ed:
SUSE is still promoting SAP and proprietary software, first
and foremost]⠀⇛
In a few weeks saptune 3.1 will reach the public
repositories of SLES for SAP Applications. Time to
talk about the changes and new features.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Red_Hat_and_Google_partnership_targets
streamlining_transition_from_on-premises_to_cloud [Ed: So
this publisher takes bribes from both Google and Red Hat to
promote puff pieces like these; this harms journalism in
general]⠀⇛
Red Hat Inc. and Google Cloud have been
collaborating for more than 11 years in migrating
customers to the cloud platform. At the heart of
this partnership is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or
RHEL, which provides an operating system backbone
to streamline operations from datacenter to cloud
and out to the edge.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_news_2023/08⠀⇛
The 8th monthly Sparky project and donate report of
the 2023: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.5.0,
6.1.50-LTS, 5.15.129-LTS – Sparky packages of Linux
kernel moved from ‘unstable’ repo to ‘core’; the
‘unstable’ repo made misunderstanding of many users
thinking that the packages of Debian unstable repo
are available to all Sparky branches [...]
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Armbian_Wallpaper_Contest:_Showcase_Your_Talent
and_Win_SBC⠀⇛
Designers, don’t miss the Armbian Desktop Wallpaper
Contest – an excellent opportunity for anyone to
have their work featured on Armbian.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Linux_Mint_Monthly_News_–_August_2023⠀⇛
Hi everyone, We received 474 donations in July. I’m
always amazed when I see these numbers. It’s both
humbling and highly motivating to picture that many
people enjoying what we do and wanting to help us.
I really appreciate it. Many thanks for your
support and these donations!
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ How_to_Install_CasaOS_in_Raspberry_PI:_a_One-
Click_Services_Hub⠀⇛
Last Updated on 1st September 2023 by peppe8o This
tutorial will show you how to install CasaOS on
Raspberry PI computer boards.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_owners_are_just_realizing_little-known
button_stops_vampire_apps_draining_your_battery_life
instantly_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_See_Blocked_Numbers_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_Force_Restart_an_Android_Phone_–
Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Free_Android_Apps_You_Need_In_The_Kitchen⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ New_Android_games:_The_best_from_August
2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Galaxy_Watch_5_gets_‘Watch_Unlock’_for_Android
on_Wear_OS_4⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_S24_Problems,_OnePlus’
OxygenOS_14_Confirmed,_How_Android_Lost_America⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ This_Android_Auto_dongle_will_make_your_daily
commute_easier:_Temporarily_15%_off⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 22_Open-source_Free_Date,_Clock,_Date_Picker_and
Calendar_JavaScript_Libraries_for_React⠀⇛
Datepicker and calendar JavaScript libraries are open-
source tools that developers can use to add date and time
selection functionality to their web applications. These
libraries provide pre-built components that can be easily
integrated into a project, saving time and effort.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Open-source_Free_Disk_Data_Recovery_Tool⠀⇛
Data recovery is the process of salvaging and restoring
data that has been lost, corrupted, or made inaccessible.
This can be done through a variety of means, including
software-based recovery tools, hardware repair, and
forensic recovery techniques.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 14_Open-source_Free_Google_Map_Scrapping_Tools_and
Scripts⠀⇛
Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google.
It offers satellite imagery, street maps, panoramic views
of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route
planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle or public
transportation.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Dave Airlie ☛ Dave_Airlie_(blogspot):_Talk_about_compute
and_community_and_where_things_are_at.⠀⇛
Sriram invited me to the oneAPI meetup, and I felt
I hadn’t summed up the state of compute and
community development in a while. Enjoy 45 minutes
of opinions!
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Some_recent_package_updates:
chromium_(-ungoogled),_ffmpeg,_handbrake,_pipewire-
jack⠀⇛
Chromium, regular and un-googled. Google is
speeding up its Chromium release cycle. Let’s
see if I can keep up since I also build the -
ungoogled variant. The latest update is
116.0.5845.140 and addresses a vulnerability.
You can now upgrade to my latest chromium and
chromium-ungoogled packages.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_GNU40⠀⇛
The GNU System is turning forty. In honor of this
event, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is
organizing a hackday for families, students, and
anyone interested in hacking. Come and celebrate
with us with kith and kin!
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ woofQ_support_to_build_with_Void_.xbps
packages⠀⇛
Had better report on this, as rapid changes.
Already posted about mime handling for .xbps
packages:
https://bkhome.org/news/202308/mime-handling-for-
void-linux-xbps-packages.html
The target is to build EasyOS from Void Linux .xbps
packages. The great thing is that heaps of work has
been done for this in Woof-CE.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom MacWright ☛ Recently⠀⇛
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde
parked in the Brooklyn_Navy_Yard. It’s been fun to
identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane
knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being
greeted by this Concorde, and watching the new Top Gun
has brought it back.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ NASA_Spots_a_New_Moon_Crater:_Likely_The
Gravesite_of_Russia’s_Crashed_Lunar_Probe⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RGB_Graphics_On_A_DEC_Rainbow_With_Reverse-
Engineered_Monitor⠀⇛
One of the delights of the boring pre-VGA era is
that you get to express your creativity when it
comes to making a random color CRT work with an
equally exciting dual CPU computer like the DEC
Rainbow 100. This is the situation that the folk
over at Usagi Electric found themselves in with a
recent project. The Rainbow 100 is an interesting
computer in that it can boot not only DOS with its
8088 processor, but also CP/M on the Z80 processor.
Although generally used in monochrome mode, it
supports a color graphic card to output RGB signals
via its male DB15 connector.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review_of_CrowView_14-inch_portable_monitor
with_laptops_and_mini_PCs⠀⇛
I received an early sample of the CrowView 14-inch
laptop monitor for review a few weeks ago, and
regular readers may have seen me already use it in
some mini PC reviews, but I’ve yet to review the
monitor itself, so I’ll report my experience using
both laptops and mini PCs running Windows 11 and
Ubuntu 22.04. CrowView laptop monitor unboxing The
display ships in a retail package highlighting the
main features of the display such as its Full HD
resolution, compatibility with 13 to 16.5-inch
laptop displays, 160° viewing angle, and its
mechanical clamping mechanism. The CrowView display
ships with a 12V/2A power supply, USB-A to USB-
C and USB-C to USB-C cables, an HDMI to mini HDMI
cable, a velcro tie, some stickers, and a user
manual in English.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Growing_Lemons⠀⇛
I’ve extended the house with a large glassed area.
We call it the orangeri, which is a lie, since what
grows there are lemons. So how do you grow lemons
in Sweden?
First of all, you have a hole straight through the
construction of your house all the way down to the
soil underneath.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ An_Expert_Explains_How_to_Fall_Asleep_on
Long-Haul_Flights⠀⇛
Don’t try to force it.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Talk_about_something_else’:_Chinese
AI_chatbot_toes_party_line⠀⇛
Chinese tech giant Baidu rolled out its ChatGPT-
like ERNIE Bot to the public on Thursday. But the
app is highly censored, offering state-approved
answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing
to process them altogether when AFP tested the
service.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope
249_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce
the release of diffoscope
version 249. This version includes the following
changes: [...]
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Spyware_Vendor_Hacked⠀⇛
A Brazilian spyware app vendor was hacked by
activists:
In an undated note seen by TechCrunch,
the unnamed hackers described how they
found and exploited several security
vulnerabilities that allowed them to
compromise WebDetetive’s servers and
access its user databases. By exploiting
other flaws in the spyware maker’s web
dashboard—used by abusers to access the
stolen phone data of their victims—the
hackers said they enumerated and
downloaded every dashboard record,
including every customer’s email address.
The hackers said that dashboard access
also allowed them to delete victim
devices from the spyware network
altogether, effectively severing the
connection at the server level to prevent
the device from uploading new data.
“Which we definitely did. Because we
could. Because #fuckstalkerware,” the
hackers wrote in the note…
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ In_Other_News:_Hacking_Encrypted_Linux
Computers,_Android_Fuzzing,_Skype_Leaking_IPs⠀⇛
Weekly cybersecurity news roundup providing a
summary of noteworthy stories that might have
slipped under the radar.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploit_Code_Published_for_Critical-
Severity_VMware_Security_Defect⠀⇛
Exploit code and root-cause analysis released by
SinSinology documents the problem as a case where
VMWare “forgot to regenerate” SSH keys.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ What_is_the_origin_of_passwords_submitted_to
honeypots?,_(Sat,_Sep_2nd)⠀⇛
DShield honeypots collect a variety of data,
including passwords, that are submitted from SSH
and telnet attacks.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Free_Decryptor_Available_for_‘Key_Group’
Ransomware⠀⇛
EclecticIQ has released a free decryption tool to
help victims of the Key Group ransomware recover
their data without paying a ransom.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Industry_Reactions_to_Qakbot_Botnet
Disruption:_Feedback_Friday⠀⇛
Industry professionals comment on the law
enforcement operation targeting the Qakbot botnet
and its implications.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Threat_Actors_Adopt,_Modify_Open_Source
‘SapphireStealer’_Information_Stealer⠀⇛
Cisco has observed multiple threat actors adopting
the SapphireStealer information stealer after its
source code was released on GitHub.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ UK’s_NCSC_Warns_Against_Cybersecurity
Attacks_on_AI⠀⇛
The National Cyber Security Centre provides details
on prompt injection and data poisoning attacks so
organizations using machine-learning models can
mitigate the risks.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Meta_May_Offer_Ad-Free_Subscriptions
for_Instagram_and_Facebook_in_the_E.U.⠀⇛
The subscription plan is a response to
European Union policies and court rulings to
restrict Meta’s data-collection practices.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Monitoring_Child_Sex_Abuse,_Apple
Is_Caught_Between_Safety_and_Privacy [Ed: No, Apple is
a surveillance company and it uses the typical straw
man for propaganda rags like Wall Street Times to
pretend this is OK]⠀⇛
An advocacy group is starting a $2 million
campaign calling for the company to better
police materials on its products and
services.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_X,_Formerly_Twitter,
Will_Have_Voice_and_Video_Calls,_Updates_Privacy
Policy⠀⇛
Twitter has updated its privacy policies,
which will allow for the collection of
biometric data and employment history, among
other information.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_security_officers_cleared_over_black
man’s_death_in_custody⠀⇛
French investigating magistrates have dropped their
case against three gendarmes over the 2016 death of
a young black man in custody that sparked violent
protests, lawyers said Friday.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer:_Hong_Kong’s_national
security_crackdown_–_month_38⠀⇛
Hong Kong authorities continued their campaign
against those with links to eight wanted overseas
activists, with their family members and associates
“taken” from their homes for offices for
questioning. Additionally, 12 people with
connections to a defunct 2019 protester relief fund
were arrested almost two years after it ceased
operations.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Niger:_UN_Agencies,_NGOs_Banned_From_Working_in
Operation_Zones⠀⇛
In recent years, a new center of insecurity has
emerged in the extreme southwest of Niger, a region
known as the “three borders” (Niger-Mali-Burkina
Faso) where terrorist groups often carry out deadly
attacks targeting both military and civilian
population.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australian_police_to_stay_in_Solomon
Islands_until_2024_election⠀⇛
They will provide security for a regional sporting
event in November and national elections in 2024.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Video_Released_of_Officer_Fatally_Shooting
Ta’Kiya_Young_in_Ohio⠀⇛
The family of Ta’Kiya Young said that her death
outside a supermarket in Ohio was “not only
avoidable, but also a gross misuse of power and
authority.”
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australian_delegation_heading_to
Beijing_for_dialogue,_government_says⠀⇛
Trade, investment, regional and international
security will be discussed during the dialogue.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Biden_Administration_Sued_as_Thousands_of
Afghan_Evacuees_Are_Detained_Overseas_Waiting_for_U.S.
Entry⠀⇛
More than two years after the Taliban took control
of Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan evacuees
seeking to come to the United States remain
arbitrarily detained in other countries like Qatar,
Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates. Many of the
Afghans are living in camps that are largely
coordinated, facilitated or under the control of
the U.S. government. The Center for Constitutional
Rights and the civil rights group Muslim Advocates
recently sued the Pentagon, State Department and
the Department of Homeland Security seeking
governmental records about the relocation and
detention of Afghan evacuees. “What this lawsuit
hopes to achieve is to provide more information to
humanitarian, human rights and civil society
organizations … to intervene and prevent the
continued detention of these Afghan civilians,”
says CCR attorney Sadaf Doost.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_says_it_thwarted_Ukrainian
drone_attack_on_Crimea_bridge⠀⇛
Russia said its forces destroyed Ukrainian
naval drones that were attempting to target
the Crimea bridge early on Saturday. Kyiv has
repeatedly targeted the strategic bridge that
connects the Russian mainland to the
peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Under_sirens,_threats,_Ukraine’s_children
go_back_to_school⠀⇛
Ukrainian children on Friday began their
second school year since Russia launched its
full-scale invasion, forcing classes online
and in underground bomb shelters in several
parts of the country. More than 1,300
Ukrainian schools were destroyed over the
past 18 months, but the dangers will not stop
Ukrainian children from going back to school
again.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_says_it_shot_down_281_Ukrainian
drones_over_the_past_week⠀⇛
Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said it
had destroyed a total of 281 Ukrainian drones
over the past week. Also on Friday, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky told a business
forum in Italy that there can be no
“sustainable peace” in Ukraine unless the
country regains control of Crimea, Donbas and
other territories occupied by Russia.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Led_by_US,_Rohingya_aid_nosedives_as_donors
focus_on_Ukraine,_experts_say⠀⇛
But that’s no excuse to overlook declining
physical and mental health of over a million
refugees, they add.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ White_House_Discusses_Anti-Corruption_Efforts
With_Ukrainian_Delegation⠀⇛
U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan
met on September 1 with the heads of
Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions and
reiterated American support for anti-
corruption reforms in Ukraine, the White
House said in a statement.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Claims_Crimean_Bridge_Attacks_Thwarted
As_Ukraine_Continues_Push_Toward_Melitopol⠀⇛
Russia has said that its forces thwarted
three sea drone attacks on the strategic
Crimean Bridge linking Ukraine’s occupied
Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland, as
Ukraine’s military said it was continuing its
push toward the southeastern city of
Melitopol.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_Zelenskiy_Expected_At_UN_This
Month⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is
expected to attend the annual gathering of
world leaders at the United Nations in New
York this month and take part in a UN
Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Sentenced_To_15_Years_For_Allegedly
Preparing_Attack_In_Kursk⠀⇛
Russia’s Second Western District Military
Court has sentenced Ramazan Murtuzov to 15
years in prison for allegedly preparing an
explosion in a shopping center or train
station in the city of Kursk, near the border
with Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Schools_In_Kyiv_Targeted_By_Bomb_Threats_As
Kids_Return_To_Classrooms⠀⇛
Police in Kyiv said bomb threats to the
city’s schools were registered on September
1, the first day of the new school year.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_More_Ships_Leave_Ukrainian_Black_Sea_Port
Under_Temporary_Corridor⠀⇛
Two cargo vessels have left a port near
Odesa, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said
on September 1 — the third and fourth to
transit from deep-water Ukrainian ports
through the Black Sea since Russia withdrew
from a safe-passage deal for grain ships.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ An_Oasis_in_the_Middle_of_the_Ukraine_War:
The_Pike_–_and_the_Drones_–_Come_at_Night⠀⇛
Sometimes the noise is distant artillery, at
others it’s the lawnmower next door: In the
far east of Ukraine, on a river meandering
its way through the forests, there is a
village where people can take a break from
war. But it is never far away.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Spying_and_Sabotage_at_the_OSCE:_How_Russia
Is_Paralyzing_Europe’s_Peace_Organization⠀⇛
The long-established Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe is
threatening to disintegrate because of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Critics claim
Moscow is infiltrating the organization and
sabotaging its work in ensuring European
peace and stability.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Antti_Lindtman_confirmed_as_SDP_leader⠀⇛
In her farewell speech, Sanna Marin thanked
Finland for its unanimous support of Ukraine.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Europe’s_big_influencer_on_Ukraine⠀⇛
The Dutch have played an outsize role in
aiding Ukraine. Now they might set an example
against Russian-style ethnic nationalism.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Counteroffensive_Pushes
Forward,_Village_by_Village⠀⇛
As Ukraine pushes slowly forward in its
counteroffensive, it’s relying heavily on the
effort of hundreds of small-scale assault
groups, each tasked with attacking a single
trench, tree line or house.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Ukraine’s_Fight_Grinds_On,_Talk
of_Negotiations_Becomes_Nearly_Taboo⠀⇛
Discussion of a Plan B, should Ukraine fail
to win a total victory, has become more
fraught than ever, say those who have tried.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Promising_unwavering_support_for
Ukraine,_the_U.K._replaces_its_ex-soldier_defense
secretary_with_a_savvy_politician.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Defense_Ministry_says_drone_attack
on_Pskov_airport_launched_from_inside_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Around_4,500_Russians_could_be_asked_to
leave_Latvia⠀⇛
More than 25 thousand Russian citizens living
in Latvia have their permanent residence
permits expire on September 1. About 19
thousand people have applied for the status
renewal or are planning to do so. A little
over 800 people have applied for a
temporary permit. The others have done
nothing to get a residence permit, Latvian
Radio reported.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_court_issues_arrest_warrant_for_man
who_fled_to_Russia_with_child⠀⇛
A court in western Lithuania has issued an
arrest warrant for a man who is suspected of
abducting his child and illegally crossing
the Lithuanian-Russian state border.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Taxi_Law_Requiring_Companies_To_Share
Data_With_FSB_Goes_Into_Effect⠀⇛
A law requiring taxi companies to provide the
Federal Security Service (FSB) with data on
riders’ trips has come into force.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Protesters_Back_Indicted_Pro-Russian_Bosnian
Serb_Leader⠀⇛
Protests in support of the pro-Russian leader
of the mostly Serb-populated entity of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, who has been indicted for
disrespecting the decisions of the Office of
the High Representative (OHR), took place on
September 1 in several locations across
Bosnia.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Anger_In_Sweden_As_Nobel_Prize_Organizers
Invite_Officials_From_Russia,_Belarus,_Iran_To
Ceremony⠀⇛
Several Swedish lawmakers said on September 1
they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize
award ceremonies on December 10 after the
private foundation that administers the
prestigious awards changed its position from
a year earlier and invited representatives of
Russia, Belarus, and Iran to attend.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Denmark_Orders_Russia_To_Reduce_Embassy_Staff
To_Same_Number_That_Copenhagen_Has_In_Moscow⠀⇛
Denmark on September 1 informed Russia’s
ambassador in Copenhagen that it must reduce
its embassy staff to the same number that
Denmark has in Moscow because talks to
increase numbers have foundered.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian-Led_Military_Alliance_Holds_Drills_In
Belarus⠀⇛
An estimated 2,500 troops from the Russian-
led Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO) have opened military exercises in
parts of Belarus that border NATO members
Poland and Lithuania.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Agrees_With_OPEC+_a_New_Reduction_in
Oil_Exports⠀⇛
In March, Russia began a voluntary reduction
in oil production by 500,000 barrels per day.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_and_Türkiye_Discuss_Future_of_Grain
Deal⠀⇛
FM Lavrov and Fidan discussed the initiative
to supply up to one million tons of Russian
grain to Turkey at a discounted price for it
to be further sent to countries in need.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia,_Belarus_and_Iran_Are_Invited
to_2023_Nobel_Prize_Ceremony⠀⇛
The executive director of the Nobel
Foundation said it was reversing course from
a year ago in an effort lower tensions at a
time of growing geopolitical divisions.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_removes_air_defense_system_from_Kuril
Islands_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_space_agency_Roskosmos_reports
Sarmat_nuclear-capable_intercontinental_missile_system
set_to_combat_mode_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Family_that_tried_to_flee_to_Belarus_released
from_custody⠀⇛
The mother and father who took their children
from a care home and were detained when
attempting to flee to Belarus were released
from detention on Friday.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Grand_Skate_Tour_Attracts_Young_People_in
Moscow⠀⇛
Representatives from the Americas, Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are taking
part in the competitions.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drone_strikes_Kurchatov,_town_near_the_Kursk
Nuclear_Power_Plant_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP_Lens:_Hong_Kong_prepares_for
Super_Typhoon_Saola_as_China_warns_of_‘strongest’_storm_in
decades⠀⇛
Hongkongers on Friday hunkered down for Super
Typhoon Saola, as the Observatory announced the T9
storm signal at 6.20 pm, saying that the storm was
expected to skirt within 40 kilometres of the city.
A Government Flying Service aircraft captured
meteorological data near Super Typhoon Saola on
Friday morning.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ White_House_launches_billion-dollar_effort_to
speed_EV_production⠀⇛
The White House has launched a fresh attempt
to speed domestic electric vehicle production
while allaying labor fears about the
transition from gasoline to plugs.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_banks_pay_€56m_in_solidarity_levy⠀⇛
Commercial banks and other credit institutions
operating in Lithuania have paid 56 million euros
in the so-called temporary solidarity contributions
for the second quarter of 2023, preliminary figures
from the Finance Ministry showed on Friday.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._labor_market_adds_187,000_jobs_in_August⠀⇛
The U.S._economy added 187,000 jobs in August,
while the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, the Labor
Department said on Friday.
Why it matters: Employers added jobs at a slighter
quicker pace than economists expected, while the
unemployment_rate jumped as more workers joined the
labor force.
===================================================
Where it stands: The number is a bit more than the
170,000 payrolls forecasters anticipated.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Malwarebytes_lays_off_100+_workers_ahead_of
planned_company_split⠀⇛
Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes Inc. has laid
off more than 100 workers amid a restructuring
initiative that will see it split into two
companies. TechCrunch first reported the move on
Thursday, citing a former Malwarebytes employee.
Marcin Kleczynski, the company’s chief executive,
confirmed the layoffs to the publication.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Genocide’_with_seventh_graders_Moscow
schoolteachers_describe_how_they_navigate_the_Russian
state’s_new_‘patriotic’_curriculum_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Women_being_‘sold’_at_a_market_in
Ethiopia?_Not_so_fast⠀⇛
In a tweet that has gone viral, a far-right
Dutch politician known for his anti-Islam
stance has claimed there is a “market” in
Ethiopia where Muslim women are being sold,
with a video to back it up. In the images, a
crowd can be seen surrounding people kneeling
on the ground and covered in white cloth.
However, the video has been taken out of
context: it actually shows young Senegalese
boys taking part in an initiation rite, and
has nothing to do with slavery.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_unveils_online_form_for_users
to_report_LGBT_content_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Organization_Serving_Disabled_People_Claims
Newspaper_Discriminatorily_Targeted_It_for_Criticism⠀⇛
A N.J. judge has thrown out the lawsuit, on the
narrow grounds that, even if the newspaper
deliberately discouraged people from attending the
group’s charity gala, the N.J. Law Against
Discrimination doesn’t apply to charity galas.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Justice_Ministry_adds_Nobel_Prize-winning
journalist_Dmitry_Muratov_to_‘foreign_agents’_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Crackdown_on_Free_Speech_in_Jordan⠀⇛
A satirical Arabic website, much like The Onion,
poked fun at a royal wedding in Jordan in June. Not
long after, it was blocked. “We’re totally
backsliding,” said one cartoonist in the kingdom.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ That_School_Is_Still_Treading_on_Jaiden
Rodriguez’s_Free_Speech_Rights⠀⇛
The district is still censoring the Gadsden flag
patch as well as Second Amendment advocacy,
according to FIRE.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ FIRE_on_the_School_Restricting_“Dont_Tread_on_Me”
and_Firearms_Policy_Coalition_Patches⠀⇛
From FIRE’s letter sent yesterday to the
Superintendent of Harrison School District Two in
Colorado; I generally trust FIRE’s factual accounts
in such matters, and I think its legal analysis
here is spot on: The Foundation for Individual
Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonpartisan
nonprofit dedicated to defending freedom of speech,
is concerned by The…
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_federal_judge_strikes_down_a_Texas_law_requiring
age_verification_to_view_pornographic_websites⠀⇛
A federal judge has struck down a Texas law
requiring age verification and health warnings to
view pornographic websites and blocked the state
attorney general’s office from enforcing it.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Sputnik_strike:_Court_rejects_request_by_management_to
suspend_the_strike⠀⇛
Sputnik Turkey management, which has fired 24
journalists after the strike action at the news
outlet was announced, went to court against the
strike, but the 4th Labor Court of Istanbul
rejected taking a “precautionary measure” against
the strike.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Helsinki_police_prepare_for_anti-racism,_anti-
government_demonstration_on_Sunday⠀⇛
As of Friday afternoon, a Facebook event created
for the protest had over 3,000 people listed as
attending and nearly 8,000 expressing interest.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Florida_Prison_Confiscates_Newspapers_After
Deciding_Puzzle_Game_Might_Be_A_Way_To_Send_‘Coded
Messages’⠀⇛
Censorship is a priority for prison systems.
Despite publicly claiming to be instrumental in the
act of “rehabilitation,” correctional facilities
generally engage in the sort of non-productive
paranoia that ensures the only resources prisoners
have are… other prisoners. And we’re all supposed
to act like it’s a surprise when people re-offend.
Or worse, exit this “rehabilitation” process more
criminally-minded than when they were remanded to
the custody of the state.
# ⚓ Uzun’s_body_remains_handed_over_to_his_family_in_a_box⠀⇛
Father İbrahim Uzun who received the body remains
of his son three years later in a box said that he
provided a blood sample back in 2020 in order for
his son to be identified among the five people who
were killed in an airstrike but the family was not
informed although the results were completed.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Impact_of_Hollywood_Strikes_on_Jobs_Goes
Beyond_the_Strikers⠀⇛
Walkouts by screenwriters and actors have meant
less work in fields that cater to the TV and film
industry.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ National_World_journalists_vote_to_strike
over_pay⠀⇛
Three days of strike action have been announced, as
well as a work to rule period.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ 98%_of_UK_junior_doctors_vote_to_stage_first_ever
joint_strike_with_consultants⠀⇛
The British Medical Association (BMA) announced
Thursday that in a recent re-ballot for continued
junior doctor strike action, 98 percent of junior
doctors in the UK voted in favor of continuing
their planned strikes for the upcoming months.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Strikes_Down_W._Va._Law_Restricting_Property
Owners_from_Asking_Visitors_About_Whether_They_Have_Guns_in
Their_Parked_Cars⠀⇛
From yesterday’s decision by Judge John T.
Copenhaver, Jr. (S.D. W. Va.) in W. Va. Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, Inc. v. Morrisey (some
formatting changed); note that the court upheld
some other provisions of the law, which I discuss
in a separate post: In March 2018, the West
Virginia Legislature enacted House Bill 4817 [...]
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_lawyers_file_complaint_against
‘arbitrary’_detention_of_Bongo’s_wife_in_Gabon⠀⇛
Lawyers for Sylvia Bongo, the wife of Gabon’s
President Ali Bongo, on Friday said they filed a
lawsuit in Paris over her “arbitrary detention” and
that of her son Jalil. Sylvia Bongo and her
children are dual Franco-Gabonese nationals.
“Because they’re French nationals, France has
jurisdiction,” Catalina de la Sota, a lawyer at
Zimeray and Finelle Advocates, told FRANCE 24.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Alabama_AG_argues_state_can_prosecute_people_who
help_others_obtain_abortion_care⠀⇛
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a
motion Monday arguing that the state can prosecute
those who assist people with accessing out-of-state
abortion care. In doing so, he asked the court to
dismiss a lawsuit brought by an abortion assistance
fund contending that such prosecutions are
unconstitutional.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ L._Ron_Hubbard’s_Estate_Is_Against_Right_To
Repair_For_Scientology’s_E-Meters⠀⇛
For years we’ve covered the silly triennial review
process associated with Section 1201 of the DMCA.
If you don’t know, Section 1201 is the part that
makes circumvention of any “technological measures”
a form of infringement, even if bypassing those
technological measures is not for copyright
infringing reasons. It’s actually even worse than
that, because it’s not just the actual
circumvention that could violate the rules, but any
attempt to “manufacture, import, offer to the
public, provide, or otherwise traffic in…” anything
that can be used for circumventing.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Current_level_of_transparency
at_the_Unified_Patent_Court_is_far_below_standard’ [Ed:
UPC is illegal and unconstitutional. They are trying to
hide it. This is a major fiasco for the EU and it
implicates the corrupt EPO.]⠀⇛
The level of transparency at the Unified
Patent Court is far below what would normally
be considered acceptable in civil court
proceedings in most of the EU member states,
says UK, Dutch and European patent attorney
Joeri Beetz of law firm Keltie.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Amgen_and_Sanofi’s_race_to_file_UPC_actions
ignites_bifurcation_question [Ed: UPC is an illegal
kangaroo court, but JUVE is being bribed to legitimise
this crime; nothing has improved]⠀⇛
For years, Amgen and Sanofi have battled it
out across various European patent courts
over cholesterol-lowering medication
Praluent. Now the case’s latest twist has
played out at the Unified Patent Court, where
the two parties were in a race to file
infringement and revocation actions via hard
copy.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Songbird_Tech_audio
patent_prior_art⠀⇛
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash
prize, was added seeking prior art on at
least claim 10 of U.S._Patent_8,825,787,
owned by Songbird Tech, LLC, an NPE. The ‘787
patent relates to an audio message-driven
customer interaction queuing system for any
public web page to allow web page visitors to
utter questions into a browser-resident
recorder application.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $3,000_for_Jeffrey_M._Gross_entity
Context_Directions_detection_patent_prior_art⠀⇛
A new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash
prize, was added seeking prior art on at
least claim 3 of U.S._Patent_9,807,564, owned
by Context Directions LLC, a Jeffrey M. Gross
entity. The ‘564 patent generally relates to
a method for detecting context of a mobile
device, and to a mobile device having a
context detection module, especially to
detect that the mobile device is located in a
moving vehicle.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ B.S.D_Crown_streaming_video_patent
challenged⠀⇛
On September 1, 2023, Unified Patents filed
an ex parte reexamination proceeding against
U.S._Patent_6,389,473, owned and asserted by
B.S.D Crown Ltd. (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.), an
NPE. The ‘473 patent relates to streaming
video over the Internet.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ USPTO_Downsizes_HQ;
Building_Owner_Faces_Financial_Troubles⠀⇛
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
has called their 2.4 million square foot
headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia home
since 2005. But the agency does not actually
own the cutting-edge facility located in the
Carlyle neighborhood near the Potomac
riverfront. Instead, the USPTO has leased the
complex from New York-based real estate owner
LCOR.
Several months ago, the USPTO announced it
would be downsizing and relinquishing 800,000
square feet of space. The renewed 5-year
lease covers 1.6 million square feet. Still
a big footprint, but one reflective of how
the USPTO’s workplace and workforce have
evolved over the past two decades.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Short_Circuit:_A_Roundup_of_Recent_Federal
Court_Decisions⠀⇛
Detroit’s forfeiture machine, major nuclear
questions, and copyrightable materials.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ A_4%_Link_Tax:_Why_the_Government’s
Draft_Bill_C-18_Regulations_Just_Increased_the_Chances
of_No_News_on_Meta_and_Google_in_Canada⠀⇛
The government is releasing its draft
regulations_for_Bill_C-18_today and the
chances that both Google and Meta will stop
linking to news in Canada just increased
significantly.
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ US_Copyright_Office
Generative_AI_Inquiry:_Where_are_the_Thresholds?⠀⇛
Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI)
systems like MidJourney and ChatGPT that can
generate creative works have brought a wave
of new questions and complexities to
copyright law. On the heels of a recent court
decision denying registrability of AI created
work, the U.S. Copyright Office recently
issued a formal notice of inquiry seeking
public comments to help analyze AI’s
copyright implications and form policy
recommendations for both the Office and for
Congress. The notice is quite extensive and
raises fundamental questions that many have
been discussing for several years about
copyrightability of AI outputs, use of
copyrighted material to train AI systems,
infringement liability, labeling AI content,
and more. The Copyright Office’s inquiry is
an attempt to respond to AI’s rapidly growing
impact on creative industries. [Link to the
Notice]
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Excluded_Middle⠀⇛
So this turned into a little rabbit hole of
digressionary research. At least the logic part,
not any UI library or linking. So one thing that
Aristotle is said to have said is that every claim
must be either true or false with no other options.
This tidbit got hard boiled into Western logic for
a long while.
Another thing that Aristotle is said to have said
is that there are statements that are neither true,
nor false. Whoops, is that a third choice? An
example would be “the first cat born in the 22nd
century will be named Socrates” which is (at this
time) indeterminate, neither true nor false. Worse,
you can have statements that are both true and
false. Various paradoxes such as the old “this
statement is false” apply here.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Gentoo_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ What_to_Know_About_Deploying_Docker⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Unfurls_Managed_Kubernetes_Service_for_the
Enterprise⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_CD_and_GitOps_Help_You_Build_a_Successful_K8s
Platform⠀⇛
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ NEW_Linux_Tablet,_GNOME_45,_LibreOffice_7.6_and
more!⠀⇛
# ⚓ Video ☛ Bodhi_Linux_7.0_|_Installation_|_Detailed_Review_|
Moksha_Desktop⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers
Conference:_Power_Management_and_Thermal_Control_MC_CFP⠀⇛
The Power Management and Thermal Control
microconference focuses on power management and
thermal control infrastructure, CPU and device
power-management mechanisms, and thermal control
methods.
In particular, we are interested in improving the
thermal control infrastructure in the kernel to
cover more use cases and utilizing energy-saving
opportunities offered by modern hardware in new
ways.
The goal is to facilitate cross-framework and
cross-platform discussions that can help improve
energy-awareness and thermal control in Linux.
The current list of topics proposed so far includes
the following:
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ ligoogle:_Google_For_Linux_Users⠀⇛
Ligoogle is a search engine designed specifically
for Linux users, providing them with a simple,
fast, clean, and user-friendly interface. It’s a
highly efficient search tool that allows users to
find the information they need quickly and easily.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_August
2023_Updates⠀⇛
August 2023 updates to the largest compilation of
recommended free and open source software available
for Linux.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Functions-as-a-
Service⠀⇛
Here are the best Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)
solutions, sometimes known as serverless. Free and
open source goodness.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ LockKnife:_Unlock_Old_Android_Passwords⠀⇛
LockKnife is a command-line tool written in Bash
that helps you recover Android lock screen
passwords of an Android device. It is a convenient
terminal-based tool that is easy to use with
interactive prompts.
LockKnife supports Android devices with USB
debugging enabled and automatically connects to the
device using ADB.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Easyspider_is_a_Free_Open-source_Self-hosted
Distributed_Web_Crawler⠀⇛
Easy Spider is a fascinating project that was
created in 2006 to facilitate distributed web
crawling.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ COBOL_Programming_on_Linux:_Installation_Guide_&_First
Program⠀⇛
COBOL (also known as “Common Business-Oriented
Language“) is a high-level programming language
that first appeared in 1959 to meet the business
data processing needs of companies and
organizations. It was particularly designed for
business applications and handling large-scale data
processing, and despite its declining popularity,
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_ultimate_Pop!_OS_home_server_setup_guide⠀⇛
In an age where digital autonomy and personal data
control have become paramount, setting up a home
server stands out as a wise decision. Leveraging
the power and user-friendliness of Pop!_OS for this
purpose ensures a smoother journey. Whether you’re
looking to centralize your files, run web services,
or delve into other server-related activities,
Pop!_OS offers a versatile foundation.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Mysterious_inaccessible_folder⠀⇛
Posting about this here, in case anyone else
stumbles upon it and wonders what is going on.
Forum member caramel reported this: [...]
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Mime_handling_for_Void_Linux_.xbps
packages⠀⇛
Making a start to support Void Linux .xbps packages
in Easy. The *.xbps package file will be
recognised, displaying in the file manager with an
appropriate icon and action when left-click or
right-click offer to install. Here are the commits:
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ CentOS_8_Initial_Setup_and_Basic_Configuration⠀⇛
In this guide, we will show you the CentOS 8 Server
initial setup and Basic Configuration after its
installation. There are some basic primary
configurations that you need to do to ensure the
new CentOS 8 server is ready to host your
applications and services.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Monitoring_my_home_network⠀⇛
Guest Post: Setting up a home network monitoring
stack built with Telegraf, Grafana and Raspberry
Pi.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_we_ensure_statically_linked_applications_stay
that_way⠀⇛
While glibc’s highly configurable name resolution
and character set handling features offer an
advantage when it comes to system configuration and
installed content, there are limitations when it
comes to statically linked applications. This
article summarizes the current state, recent
improvements, and plans for moving toward truly
statically linked applications.
Although dynamic linking has advantages, making it
the default choice for situations where binary
compatibility is guaranteed (i.e., many Red_Hat
Enterprise_Linux components), static linking is
still useful in many situations such as: [...]
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Theme_Windows_Application_in_Wine
With_.msstyle_Files._foobar2000_Looks_Better._Spek_Accoustic
Analysis_Tool_is_in_Debian_Again._|_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛
Theme Windows Application in Wine With .msstyle
Files.
While I was playing around with foobar2000 2.1
Preview builds on Wine in Debian 12 with KDE, I ran
into the usual issue trying to display the media
library.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Welcome to our guide on how to install PHP on
Ubuntu. PHP is a popular server-side scripting
language that is used to create dynamic and
interactive web pages. It is widely supported and
compatible with various operating systems,
including Ubuntu.
PHP works in conjunction with a web server to
process PHP code and generate HTML content, which
is then displayed on the user’s web browser. By
installing PHP on your Ubuntu system, you’ll be
able to run PHP scripts and build dynamic websites
or web applications.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_8_On_Ubuntu⠀⇛
PHP is a popular scripting language used for web
development. With the release of PHP 8, developers
can take advantage of its numerous improvements in
performance and features. In this article, we will
guide you through the process of installing PHP 8
on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a widely used operating system for both
servers and desktops. By following this tutorial,
you will be able to install PHP 8 on your Ubuntu
system, enabling you to leverage the latest
enhancements in PHP development.
# ⚓ Using_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_For_a_Bluetooth_Low-Energy
Application⠀⇛
With the advent of version 1.5.1, the Raspberry Pi
Pico SDK now supports Bluetooth Classic and
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on the Raspberry Pi Pico
W development platform. As expected, following the
announcement of Bluetooth support, a number of Pico
Bluetooth examples based on a port of BlueKitchen’s
BTstack became available. The Raspberry Pi Pico SDK
ported example code retains the original BTstack C
language format. However, most of the BTstack-based
Pico Bluetooth examples that can be found in the
public domain have been realized in MicroPython or
Arduino. With that, the object of this discussion
will be to produce a working C-language Pico
Bluetooth Low-Energy example developed under Ubuntu
22.04 LTS using Visual Studio Code and the latest
Raspberry Pi Pico SDK toolchain. You can obtain the
example project source code from the EDTP
Electronics download site.
# ⚓ How_to_Mine_Bitcoin_on_Linux⠀⇛
Bitcoin is a digital currency that has taken the
world by storm. Many tech-savvy users are
interested in Bitcoin mining, which is the process
of earning Bitcoin as a reward for contributing
computing power to the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin
mining on Linux is possible, but it takes some
technical know-how to get started. This
comprehensive guide will walk you through
everything you need to know to start mining Bitcoin
on Linux.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_In_Linux⠀⇛
Installing PHP on a Linux system is a fundamental
step to enable web development and server-side
scripting capabilities. PHP, which stands for
Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular scripting
language used for creating dynamic web pages and
applications. With PHP, you can seamlessly
integrate server-side code with HTML, enabling you
to build robust and interactive websites.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ antiX_23:_Anarchic_for_sure,_but_‘design_by
committee’_isn’t_always_the_best_for_Linux⠀⇛
The latest release of antiX is Linux how it used to be,
in the good way. It’s not the friendliest, but it does
everything – and, wow, it’s fast.
The “proudly antifascist” antiX project has released its
latest edition, based on Debian 12. This release is
codenamed Arditi del Popolo – “the People’s Daring Ones”
– after a 1920s Italian antifascist group formed to
oppose Mussolini’s regime. antiX is not, as the name
might imply, opposed to the X window system: its main
editions are graphical, with a choice of environments
(although there is a super-minimal, text-only edition if
that’s what you want).
o § Gentoo Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Genpatches_Supported_Kernel_Versions⠀⇛
As part of a an effort to streamline developer
capacity, the maintainers of gentoo-sources and
genpatches have decided to limit past kernel
versions to a maximum of 3 years post initial
release.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Rocky_Linux_Confirmed_to_Remain_1:1_Fully
Compatible_with_RHEL⠀⇛
In a statement about OpenELA, Rocky Linux confirmed
its commitment to remaining a 1:1 fully
compatible drop-in replacement to RHEL.
# ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_Red_Hat_Certified_Specialist_in
Managing_Automation_with_Ansible_Automation_Platform⠀⇛
A few weeks ago, I passed the Red Hat EX467 exam,
which allowed me to become Red Hat Certified
Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible
Automation Platform. As of today, this is the
newest Red Hat exam on Ansible. You can notice this
from the version of Ansible Automated Platform that
this exam uses: 2.2.
An aspect that is already clear by looking at the
objective is that this exam is completely
complementary to the EX294 exam.
# ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_on_the_road_to_the_8.3.0
release⠀⇛
Version 8.3.0_Release_Candidate_1 is released. It’s
now enter the stabilisation phase for the
developers, and the test phase for the users.
RPMs are available in the php:remi-8.3 stream or in
the remi-php83 repository for Enterprise Linux 7
(RHEL, CentOS) and as Software Collection in the
remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora)
The repository provides development versions which
are not suitable for production usage.
# ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_version_8.1.23_and_8.2.10⠀⇛
RPMs of PHP version 8.2.10 are available in remi-
modular repository for Fedora ≥ 36 and Enterprise
Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-
php82 repository for EL 7.
RPMs of PHP version 8.1.23 are available in remi-
modular repository for Fedora ≥ 36 and Enterprise
Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-
php81 repository for EL 7.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Fedora_Linux_Flatpak
cool_apps_to_try_for_September⠀⇛
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and
modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
This is one of the most used apps in the flatpak
world, it allows you to improve security on flatpak
applications. However, it needs to be used with
caution because you can make your permissions be
too open.
It’s very simple to use: Simply launch Flatseal,
select an application, and modify its permissions.
Restart the application after making the changes.
If anything goes wrong just press the reset button.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Automate_message_queue_deployment_on_JBoss_EAP⠀⇛
For decades now, software projects have relied on
messaging APIs to exchange data. In the Java/Java
EE ecosystem, this method of asynchronous
communication has been standardized by the JMS
specification. In many cases, individuals and
organizations leverage Red_Hat_JBoss_Enterprise
Application_Platform (JBoss EAP) to act as message-
oriented middleware (MOM), which facilitates the
management of message queues and topics.
Messaging ensures that no messages are lost as they
are transmitted from the client and delivered to
interested parties. On top of that, JBoss EAP
provides authentication and other security-focused
capabilities on top of the management functions.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_August_2023⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ I_Think_Ubuntu_23.10_is_Making_a_Mistake⠀⇛
Current daily builds of Ubuntu 23.10 only includes
a handful of apps by default. These cover only the
most basic of basic computing needs. This is the
same install everyone gets.
For anything else the idea is that we, the user,
fire up the Software Store (though the new one
isn’t included yet) and install what we want
ourselves.
As an idea, it’s not without merit.
But in practice, I think it’s a potential misstep.
# ⚓ Top_10_Best_Themes_for_Ubuntu_in_2023⠀⇛
Ubuntu themes are one of the most popular ways to
customize and enhance the look and feel of your
Ubuntu desktop. Themes can change the appearance of
various elements, such as windows, icons, fonts,
colors, sounds, and more. Themes can also improve
your user experience by making your desktop more
attractive, comfortable, and productive.
There are many themes available for Ubuntu users,
ranging from simple and elegant to colorful and
flashy. Some themes are designed to mimic the style
of other operating systems, such as Windows or Mac.
Some themes are created to offer a unique and
original design that reflects your personality and
preferences.
In this article, we will show you the top 10 best
themes for Ubuntu in 2023. We have selected these
themes based on their popularity, quality,
compatibility, and features. We will also provide
you with the installation instructions and download
links for each theme. So, without further ado,
let’s get started!
# ⚓ 10_Best_Dark_Themes_for_Ubuntu_Linux_–_Asiana_Times⠀⇛
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ ArmSoM-p2_pro:_Banana_Pi_subsidiary
releases_tiny_Rockchip_RK3308B-S_powered_single-board
computer⠀⇛
ArmSoM has released the p2 pro, stylised as the
ArmSoM-p2 pro on its website. Please note that
ArmSoM is a Banana Pi subsidiary that produces
single-board computers (SBCs) like the BPI-6202 and
BPI-CM2. As CNX Software notes, the ArmSoM-p2 pro
appears to be a re-branded BPI-P2 Pro, which Banana
Pi introduced in March.
Thus, the ArmSoM-p2 pro is a tiny single-board
computer that is only just wide enough to contain a
40-pin GPIO header. Additionally, the board’s GPIO
header supports ADC, I2C, SPI, UART, twin line out
connections and a single SPDIF out. Moreover, the
40-pin header can handle eight microphone inputs or
one PDM/I2S input. For reference, the ArmSoM-p2 pro
measures 65 x 52.5 mm and weighs 30 g, in part
thanks to the following ports…
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ESP32-S3-BOX-3_devkit_comes_with_2.4-inch
display,_dual_microphone,_PCIe_expansion_connector⠀⇛
Espressif Systems has launched an update to their
ESP32-S3-Box development kit for online and offline
voice assistants with the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 devkit
that still features a 2.4-inch capacitive
touchscreen display with 320×240 resolution, two
microphones, a built-in speaker, and a USB-C port,
but replaces the PMOD connector by a PCIe connector
for various expansion modules. The open-source
ESP32-S3 development kit is powered by the ESP32-S3
SoC with AI extensions and can be used to implement
all sorts of solutions using the company’s ESP-SR,
ESP RainMaker, and Matter solutions such as an
offline voice assistant, a chatbot powered by
ChatGPT, a handheld gaming console, a tiny robot, a
Matter-compatible Smart Home hub, and more.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_and_AWS_team_up_to_bridge_hardware_and
cloud_for_business⠀⇛
Today, Arduino officially announced its partnership
with Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering a new path
for the future of edge hardware and cloud services.
The new partnership will provide Arduino products
and Arduino Cloud customers more options to
integrate AWS into IoT projects.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Powers_Handcrafted
Wooden_Fight_Stick⠀⇛
RealHowl has created a handcrafted case for a
custom fightstick that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico as
its main controller.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ From_browser_brat_to_backend_boss:
Will_WASM_win_the_web_wars?⠀⇛
Beginning in 1995 and for decades after,
JavaScript was the only game worth playing
when it came to web-based scripting. While
incredibly versatile, JavaScript had its
limitations, especially regarding
performance-intensive tasks. As the web
evolved, so did the demand for more power,
speed, and flexibility in web applications.
Enter WebAssembly (WASM).
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Localization_(L10N):_Localizer
Spotlight:_Victor_Ibragimov_(Tajik_locale)⠀⇛
Hello World!
My name is Victor Ibragimov, and I am from
Dushanbe, Tajikistan (One of Five Central
Asia Countries).
On September 3, 2023, I celebrate my third
year as a member of the Mozilla community,
starting from September 3, 2020!
# ⚓ Ten Four Fox ☛ Cameron_Kaiser:_August_patch_set_for
TenFourFox⠀⇛
The next patch set has landed, bringing the
TenFourFox security base up to 115ESR. This
includes the usual new certificate roots and
updates to pins, HSTS and TLDs, as well as
applicable security updates such as a full
pull-up to the browser’s SCTP support (not
that this is frequently used in TenFourFox
but rather to make future patches a little
more tractable). On the bug fix side there is
an update to the ATSUI font blocklist (thanks
Chris T) and a wallpaper for a JavaScript-
related crash on apple.com (thanks roytam1).
Finally, basic adblock has been made stricter
and is now also targetting invasive
fingerprinting scripts. This adds a bit more
overhead to checking the origin but that all
runs at native C++ speed, and ensures we’re
less likely to get bogged down running
JavaScript that we’d really rather not.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL_16_RC1_Released!⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces
that the first release candidate of PostgreSQL 16
is now available for download. As a release
candidate, PostgreSQL 16 RC 1 will be mostly
identical to the initial release of PostgreSQL 16,
though some more fixes may be applied prior to the
general availability of PostgreSQL 16.
The planned date for the general availability of
PostgreSQL 16 is September 14, 2023. Please see the
“Release Schedule” section for more details.
§ Upgrading to PostgreSQL 16 RC 1
To upgrade to PostgreSQL 16 RC 1 from earlier
versions of PostgreSQL, you will need to use a
major version upgrade strategy, e.g. pg_upgrade or
pg_dump / pg_restore. For more information, please
visit the documentation section on upgrading:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/upgrading.html
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ PHP_8.1.23_Released!⠀⇛
The PHP development team announces the immediate
availability of PHP 8.1.23. This is a bug fix
release.
All PHP 8.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this
version.
For source downloads of PHP 8.1.23 please visit our
downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be
found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of
changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.
# ⚓ PHP_8.3.0_RC_1_available_for_testing⠀⇛
The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of
PHP 8.3.0, RC 1. This is the first release
candidate, continuing the PHP 8.3 release cycle,
the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP
Wiki.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
* Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
* Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
o Open_Data
* Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Install_Linux_Kernel_6.5_on_Ubuntu,
Here’s_How⠀⇛
Released by Linus Torvalds last Sunday, Linux
kernel 6.5 brings new features like Wi-Fi 7
support, MIDI 2.0 support, ACPI support for the
RISC-V architecture, Landlock support for UML
(User-Mode Linux), better support for AMD “Zen”
systems, and much more.
Linux kernel 6.5 is now available for installation
on Ubuntu systems from their official Ubuntu
Mainline Kernel Archive and it’s supported on amd64
(x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMhf, PowerPC 64-bit
Little Endian (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x)
architectures.
# ⚓ Talospace ☛ Linux_6.5⠀⇛
[...] There’s not a lot notable for Power ISA,
though ELFv2 is now the default for 64-bit big-
endian kernel builds, and if you’re running Power10
this release adds support for the DEXCR SPR
(Dynamic Execution Control Register) which helps to
reduce speculative execution risk. [...]
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Using_apcupsd_on_the_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Apcupsd is short for APC UPS daemon and is used to
interact with and monitor APC UPSes. While
initially designed for the APC, it can also talk
with some other brands of UPS, including some by
Cyberpower.
One of the advantages of using Apcupsd over
something like NUT on your Raspberry Pi is that it
can be considerably simpler to get up and running.
The downside is that it doesn’t support nearly as
many UPSes and lacks other functionality that the
NUT server supports.
By the end of the following sections, you will have
APCUPSD running on your Raspberry Pi and have it
monitoring the status of your attached UPS.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Crusader_Kings_III_hits_3_million_sales
after_3_years⠀⇛
Paradox Interactive announced today that following
the recent released of Wards & Wardens for Crusader
Kings III, that on the 3 year mark they’ve now hit
3 million sales. Crusader Kings III has Native
Linux support, and it is rated Steam Deck Playable
by Valve.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ War_Thunder’s_next_major_update_is_‘Sons_of
Attila’,_plus_easier_vehicle_unlocks_coming⠀⇛
Gaijin Entertainment have teased the next big
update for War Thunder, named Sons of Attila and
they continue to work through their roadmap to
improve other parts of the game. War Thunder has
Native Linux support and it is Steam Deck Verified.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Creature-collecting_life-sim_Moonstone
Island_launches_September_20th⠀⇛
Studio Supersoft and publisher Raw Fury have
announced the cute creature-collecting life-sim
Moonstone Island launches September 20th. As far as
I know, it’s launching with Native Linux support
too which was confirmed some time ago and Steam
still shows this. Looks like it will be a
delightful game to take with you on Steam Deck too.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_technical_merits_of_Wayland_are
mostly_irrelevant⠀⇛
Today I read Wayland breaks your bad software
(via), which is in large part an inventory of how
Wayland is technically superior to X. I don’t
particularly disagree with Wayland’s general
technical merits and improvements, but at this
point I think that they are mostly irrelevant. As
such, I don’t think that talking about them will do
much to shift more people to Wayland.
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Custom_ordering_for
KRunner_search_results⠀⇛
This was a big week for KRunner! In addition,
the number of open Plasma 6 issues continues
to tick down. Thanks to everyone who’s been
making this happen!
You can now manually configure certain types
of search results in KRunner to be high
priority and hence always appear first in the
results list!
KRunner has also received a lot of
performance work
Landed some nice performance work for KWin as
well, including making it do less unnecessary
work by avoiding repainting layers of the
screen that haven’t changed at all
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Season_2:_Adjusting_To_Automation⠀⇛
Automation is a game-changer. It promises to
decrease time to deploy, reduce errors, and
increase reliability and efficiency. But you can’t
automate change.
What does it take for teams to actually reach that
finish line? And how does it affect how they
actually work? Season 2 of Code Comments goes
beyond the sales pitch and features teams who’ve
tackled automation. Because there’s no script for
adjusting to automation.
# ⚓ 7_project_priority_checks_for_overloaded_IT_agendas⠀⇛
Jim Palermo, VP and CIO at software company Red
Hat, agrees.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Next-generation_network_management:
Event_streaming_with_a_service-oriented_approach⠀⇛
BlueAlly is a Red Hat Advanced Build (AB) partner
focusing on network and cloud automation using Red
Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In May of 2023,
the BlueAlly Consulting team was invited to the
Cisco Federal Innovation Challenge (CFIC) hosted at
the GSA Workplace Innovation Lab 1 in Washington,
DC.
The goal of the CFIC is to bring together ideas to
accelerate modernization across the federal and
defense landscape. The focus is NetDevOps, IT
modernization, telemetry and visualization.
# ⚓ Introducing_Kepler:_Efficient_power_monitoring_for
Kubernetes⠀⇛
Monitoring and optimizing power consumption is
crucial for efficient resource management in
Kubernetes environments. To address this need, a
powerful tool called Kepler (Kubernetes-based
Efficient Power Level Exporter) has emerged.
Leveraging software counters, custom machine
learning (ML) models, and the Cloud Native
benchmark suite, Kepler offers accurate energy
estimates and detailed reporting of power
consumption at the pod level.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ Trisquel_on_ppc64el:_Talos_II⠀⇛
The release notes for Trisquel 11.0 “Aramo” mention
support for POWER and ARM architectures, however
the download area only contains links for x86, and
forum posts suggest there is a lack of instructions
how to run Trisquel on non-x86.
[...]
One of my production machines is running Debian_11
“bullseye” on a Talos_II_Lite machine from Raptor
Computing_Systems, and migrating the virtual
machines running on that host (including the VM
that serves this blog) to a x86 machine running
Trisquel felt unsatisfying to me. I want to migrate
my computing towards hardware that harmonize with
FSF’s_Respects_Your_Freedom and not away from it.
Here I had to chose between using the non-free
software present in newer Debian or the non-free
software implied by most x86 systems: not an easy
chose. So I have ignored the dilemma for some time.
After all, the machine was running Debian 11
“bullseye”, which was released before Debian
started to require use of non-free software. With
the end-of-life date for bullseye approaching, it
seems that this isn’t a sustainable choice.
* § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ New_SBC_powered_by_Allwinner_T507-H_processor⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ FSF ☛ August_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:_Seventeen_new_GNU
releases!⠀⇛
Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of
August 29, 2023): [...]
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Talospace ☛ Firefox_117_on_POWER⠀⇛
Now that the Talos II is upgraded and tuned
up, it’s back to development work, starting
with (after a TenFourFox patch dump) Firefox
117. [...]
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_Full_text_content_in_Hugo⠀⇛
tl;dr I’ve enabled full content text rather than
summaries in the RSS feed for this blog. The irony
that I am then summarising the entire post in one
line here at the top, is not lost on me.
§ History
I’ve used various tools for my blog over the years.
Initially in the late 1990’s it was hand-crafted
HTML and some FrontPage_extensions. Later I used
Polarblog through the mid 2000’s then dropped that
in 2006 for Drupal and subsequently WordPress.
Most recently I tried Nikola before “finally”
settling on Hugo. Originally my blog was hosted on
some free webspace I got from my ISP. Later I self-
hosted at home on a Linux server in my garage.
Eventually I moved it onto a VPS form Bitfolk.
Most of the “modern” (HAH!) blogging platforms have
had the ability to present content via RSS (Really
Simple Syndication). I used to avidly view news in
an RSS reader, but like many others, these have
fallen out of favour.
* § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
o § Open Data⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Fans_fear_art_of_keeping_score_at
baseball_games_is_going,_going_gone⠀⇛
Used to be, so many people did it. Just look at the
old, grainy black-and-white photos. You went to a
baseball game; you kept score.
But not anymore. Keelean and the hearty bunch just
like him are part of a small, dedicated breed these
days. Fewer and farther between.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Grants_For_R_Language_Infrastructure_Projects_Available
Now!⠀⇛
Round two is here! The R Consortium Infrastructure
Steering Committee (ISC) orchestrates two rounds of
proposal calls and grant awards per year to fortify the R
ecosystem’s technical infrastructure. We have one key
goal: to make meaningful infrastructure improvements that
serve the R community.
o ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ Short_C_program_that_repeats_a_string_forever⠀⇛
I recently wanted a command that would endlessly repeat a
string at the command line. Like the yes command, but
without newlines.
o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ “Out_of_the_Software_Crisis”:_Dependencies⠀⇛
As Baldur notes, “Low variability opens up its own
possibilities.” Dependencies are a definite point of
variability, so lowering your dependence on other
software opens up its own possibilities, e.g. less risk
and more stability. It’s kind of interesting to think
about how adding dependencies can give you more velocity,
but taking them away can too. It’s trade-offs all the way
down.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Back_at_the_data_centre_in_Melbourne⠀⇛
I’m sitting here late on a Friday night at the breakroom
of Equinix’s fancy facilities in Port Melbourne, chewing
on a delightful cookie from the vending machine and
having a decaf nightcap, of sorts!
This is going to sound weird, but this work trip means a
lot. It was Febuary 2020 when I was last sitting here,
right when we all started getting an inkling that
something dreadfully serious was brewing. I don’t think
any of us knew when we’d be back. Covid is still
everywhere, and is an evolving threat I think too many
have become lax about, but in my own weird way it feels
like I’ve taken another step being here.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rescuing_Native_Remains_From_the_Traditions_of
Golden_State_Plunder⠀⇛
Jack Potter Jr. was on the University of California
at Berkeley campus to pick up the bones of a
grandmother and five of her grandchildren. He said
he could hear noises: “like white noises, but even
stronger.” He stared at a structure in the distance
when a representative of the university asked him,
“What do you keep looking at over there?”
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ It’s_Not_Surprising_That_Federal_Funding_Didn’t
Stop_Pandemic_Learning_Loss⠀⇛
Giving schools more money doesn’t make them better.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ We_Used_A.I._to_Write_Essays_for_Harvard,
Yale_and_Princeton._Here’s_How_It_Went.⠀⇛
While the chatbots are not yet great at simulating
long-form personal essays with authentic student
voices, I wondered how the A.I. tools would do on
some of the shorter essay questions that elite
schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth
are requiring high school applicants to answer this
year.
So I used several free tools to generate short
essays for some Ivy League applications. The A.I.
chatbots’ answers have been edited for brevity and
clarity.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Ban_or_embrace?_Colleges_wrestle_with_AI-
generated_admissions_essays⠀⇛
“Students on some level are going to have access to
and use AI,” Clark said. “The big question is: How
do we want to direct them, knowing that it’s out
there and available to them?” “Students on some
level are going to have access to and use AI,”
Clark said. “The big question is: How do we want to
direct them, knowing that it’s out there and
available to them?”
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Robotic_Dog_Teaches_Spanish
To_Deaf_Children⠀⇛
Robins is fitted with two OAK-D cameras that rely
on artificial intelligence. One interprets sign
language while the other monitors the user’s face
for various emotions while completing the
activities. The robotic dog can also respond to the
user’s progress in real-time with expressions by
moving its mouth, eyes, and eyebrows.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Dead-End_Hardware⠀⇛
Today in Tedium: The great thing about a lot of
technology is that even if its ideas fail, they
often re-emerge elsewhere, influencing the thinking
of others in the field to come up with something
better and more interesting. But often isn’t
always, and sometimes ideas just die on the vine,
with no innovator coming up behind to make it
better. It was an idea that deserved to fail, but
that nobody thought might be worthy of giving a
proper follow-up for whatever reason. Tedium is a
place where failure deserves to live forever, where
we embrace it, so with that in mind, today’s Tedium
brings you a list of 10 examples of hardware
features, devices, and gadgets that did not change
the world, or really even influence it much. They
mostly just ended in disappointment for everyone
involved. — Ernie @ Tedium
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Make_Better_3D_Printed_Molds,_For_Thermoforming
Plastics⠀⇛
Thermoforming — which includes vacuum-forming — has
its place in a well-rounded workshop, and Mayku
(makers of desktop thermoforming machines) have a
short list of tips for getting the best results
when 3D printing molds on filament-based printers.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ What_Would_You_Do_With_A_16.8_Million
Core_Graph_Processing_Beast?⠀⇛
If you look back at it now, especially with the
advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs,
maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray
had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm”
massively threaded processors and high bandwidth
interconnects.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Nikki_Haley_calls_Senate_“most_privileged_nursing
home”_in_U.S._after_McConnell_freeze-up⠀⇛
Republican presidential candidate Nikki_Haley
called Senate Minority Leader Mitch_McConnell’s (R-
Ky.) second_apparent_freeze-up during a news
conference this week “sad,” but added: “you have to
know when to leave.”
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Judge_blocks_Arkansas_law_requiring_parental_OK
for_minors_to_create_social_media_accounts⠀⇛
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked
Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have
required parental consent for minors to create new
social media accounts, preventing the state from
becoming the first to impose such a restriction.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a
preliminary injunction that NetChoice — a tech
industry trade group whose members include TikTok,
Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as
Twitter — had requested against the law. The
measure, which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee
Sanders signed into law in April, was set to take
effect Friday.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Arkansas_Social_Media_Age_Verification_Law_Likely
Violates_First_Amendment⠀⇛
From Judge Timothy Brooks’ opinion yesterday in
Netchoice, LLC v. Griffin (W.D. Ark.): [...]
# ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ Layers_of_exhaustion⠀⇛
As for tech exhaustion… it’s ultimately just a
phase — which is lasting longer than in previous
periods of time when innovation felt like an
unstoppable force. In photography and music, there
seems to be a trend where people are appreciating
more and more a return to more ‘analogue’ habits,
mindsets, and æsthetics. I’ve been doing the same
even before it was cool, because I basically never
stopped listening and buying vinyl records, CDs,
and MiniDiscs. And I never really stopped engaging
in film photography with 40–50-year-old equipment.
With writing, I’m trying to go back to using pen &
paper even more than before, as I found many many
times that this really improves my creative
process.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Phase_II_Study_Finds_That_Psilocybin_Plus_Therapy
Can_Help_Treat_Depression_Symptoms⠀⇛
The study was published Thursday in the journal
JAMA. It involved 104 adults diagnosed with at
least moderate clinical depression. The volunteers
were randomly assigned to either receive a single
25 milligram dose of psilocybin or niacin, in
conjunction with several sessions of therapy.
Niacin was chosen as a placebo since it can induce
temporary physical sensations like flushed skin,
making it harder for volunteers to know which group
they belonged to. The therapy included a session on
the day of dosing as well as “postdose integration
sessions” where people were encouraged to talk
about their experiences.
# ⚓ “Innovation.”_You_keep_using_that_word._I_do_not_think_it
means_what_you_think_it_means.⠀⇛
A week ago, I wrote about the reaction of COVID-19
vaccine quack Dr. Pierre Kory to learning that the
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had
informed him that its Credentials and Certification
Committee had voted to strip him of his board
certifications in internal medicine, critical care,
and pulmonary medicine. Unsurprisingly, Dr. Kory’s
reaction was to weaponize legitimate complaints
about the ABIM that a number of physicians enrolled
in its maintenance of certification program have
made regarding its onerous expense and time
commitment in order to portray the organization and
its president as utterly corrupt and in the thrall
of the powers that he views as forcing harmful
vaccines and public health mandates in response to
the pandemic in order to control the population. He
also portrayed himself and his fellow quacks from
the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
(FLCCC) as brave maverick “innovators” whose
“innovation” frightened the powers that be, such as
the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and
the ABIM.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ A_late_summer_COVID_wave_is_here,_but_it’s_trickier
than_ever_to_track⠀⇛
The anticipated late_summer_COVID_wave is here –
but it’s tougher than ever to measure.
The big picture: With the end of federal COVID_case
tracking and the prevalence of rapid at-home
testing, virus-related hospitalization rates and
wastewater_analyses are the best bet for monitoring
spread.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Pandemic_leads_to_decline_of_‘daigou’
era_in_Australia⠀⇛
One of the reasons for the daigou slump is that
Chinese consumers are increasingly buying local
products.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ No_Google_AI_Search,_I_Don’t_Need_to_Learn_About
the_“Benefits_of_Slavery”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploit_Code_Published_for_Critical-
Severity_VMware_Security_Defect⠀⇛
He pointed to VMWare’s CVE-2023-34039 advisory
(CVSS severity score of 9.8 out of 10) that
describes the bug as a network authentication
bypass and warns that the issue is being
mischaracterized.
“Interestingly, VMware has named this issue
“Networks Authentication Bypass”, but in my
opinion, nothing is getting bypassed. There is SSH
authentication in place; however, VMware forgot to
regenerate the keys,” Kheirkha said.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Why_is_.US_Being_Used_to_Phish_So_Many
of_Us?⠀⇛
Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain
for the United States — are among the most
prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows.
This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the
U.S. government, which is frequently the target of
phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains
are only supposed to be available to U.S. citizens
and to those who can demonstrate that they have a
physical presence in the United States.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Court_Rules_in_Pornhub’s_Favor_in_Finding
Texas_Age-Verification_Law_Violates_First_Amendment⠀⇛
Under the Texas law, which was set to go into
effect Sept. 1, 2023, porn sites would have
been required to use “reasonable age
verification methods” to “verify that an
individual attempting to access the material
is 18 years of age or older.” In addition,
pornography sites would have been forced to
display a “Texas Health and Human Services
Warning” in at least 14-point font — one such
warning was specified to read, “Pornography
increases the demand for prostitution, child
exploitation, and child pornography” — along
with a national toll-free number for people
with mental health disorders. Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott signed H.B. 1181 into law on June 12.
In the Aug. 31 ruling, Senior U.S. District
Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Texas
wrote, “The Court finds that H.B. 1181 is
unconstitutional on its face.” The ruling
enjoined Angela Colmenero, acting attorney
general of Texas, from taking any enforcement
action under H.B. 1181 “pending further order
or final judgment.”
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Scrutiny_of_Sam_Altman’s_iris-scanning_
[cryptocurrency]_project_Worldcoin_grows⠀⇛
Almost 2.3 million people globally have
signed up to have their irises scanned by
Worldcoin’s “orb” devices in exchange for a
digital ID and free cryptocurrency.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_may_allow_Instagram,_Facebook
users_in_Europe_to_pay_and_avoid_ads⠀⇛
Those who pay for Facebook and Instagram
subscriptions would not see ads in the apps,
said the people, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity because the plans are
confidential. That may help Meta fend off
privacy concerns and other scrutiny from EU
regulators by giving users an alternative to
the company’s ad-based services, which rely
on analyzing people’s data, the people said.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ ‘Defending_democracy’_a_losing_strategy
against_authoritarian_narratives⠀⇛
Not so long ago, the consensus around defending
democracy on the internet was nearly a settled
matter. A sort of de facto understanding held that
to fight disinformation and defend democracy, we
should resist the impulse to try to control
information or the behaviour of authoritarians we
oppose.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There_isn’t_a_rational_explanation_for_torture’
Oleksandra_Matviichuk,_who_founded_Ukraine’s_Center_for_Civil
Liberties,_speaks_about_tracking_Russian_war_crimes_in
Ukraine_and_sharing_a_Nobel_Peace_Prize_with_peers_from
Russia_and_Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Montana’s_Attorney_General_Made
Banning_TikTok_a_Top_Priority⠀⇛
How one of Montana’s top elected officials made
banning the app a top priority, putting the state
at the center of a geopolitical storm.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belarus_says_Polish_helicopter_violated_its
airspace,_demands_explanation_from_Warsaw_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_a_Historic_Vote,_the_State_of_California
Becomes_the_Largest_Economy_in_the_World_to_Endorse_the_Call
for_a_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty⠀⇛
The SJR 2 resolution was introduced by California
Senate Majority Whip Senator Lena A. Gonzalez, and
co-sponsored by Indigenous Environmental Network,
Stand.earth, and SAFE Cities. The resolution calls
on President Biden to support Pacific nations
moving ahead with seeking a negotiating mandate for
a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Preventing_outer_space_from_becoming_a
hazardous_junkyard⠀⇛
The number of satellites in space may exceed 100
000 by 2030, according to forecasts. Small
satellites are increasingly being sent into low
orbits 500 to 1 000 kilometres above Earth to do
everything from improve remote communications to
guide driverless cars.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Facing_Climate_Change⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ With_Democratic_control,_Michigan’s_governor
pushes_for_health_care_and_climate_change_laws⠀⇛
Paid family and medical leave, a 100% clean
energy standard and codifying protections
ensured by the Affordable Care Act are among
the issues that Michigan Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer is directing Democrats to tackle in
the final months of the year.
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ One_month_with_a_solar_battery_–_real
statistics⠀⇛
August is meant to be full of gloriously hot
days. An endless parade of sunshine and
drinks in the park. This year it seemed
mostly grey, miserable, and prone to pissing
it down at a moment’s notice.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ EPA_Proposes_Regulations_to_Curb
Cancer-Causing_Emissions_From_Coke_Plants⠀⇛
The ultrawealthy family of West Virginia Gov.
Jim Justice is looking to reopen a shuttered
industrial plant that for decades emitted
chemicals that have harmed historically Black
neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama. But the
family faces a series of new regulatory and
financial hurdles — including a push by local
regulators to throw the governor’s son in
jail over thousands of dollars in unpaid
penalties connected to the plant’s pollution.
The century-old facility, which burns coal to
make coke, a key ingredient for manufacturing
steel, was the subject of a 2022 ProPublica
investigation that showed how the family’s
company and the plant’s past owners
repeatedly failed to make necessary repairs.
Without timely maintenance, Bluestone Coke
released more cancer-causing chemicals into
the air breathed by residents of three
surrounding communities on Birmingham’s north
side. In 2021, local regulators declined to
renew Bluestone’s permit because of its
repeated violations of air pollution
regulations, but the plant kept operating as
Bluestone appealed the decision. Months
later, the company idled its coke ovens
because of major equipment problems.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ What_Supreme_Court_Justice_Clarence_Thomas_reported
on_his_new_financial_disclosure⠀⇛
Supreme Court Justice Clarence_Thomas reported
three reimbursements for travel and meals from
Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow in 2022, according
to his newly released annual financial disclosure.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Airline_Sold_Tickets_for_Already_Canceled
Flights,_Watchdog_Group_Says⠀⇛
Australia’s consumer commission said in legal
proceedings that Qantas, the country’s national
carrier, had sold tickets for routes it never
intended to fly.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Americans_sound_miserable,_but_are_buying_lots_of
boats⠀⇛
Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, FactSet;
Chart: Axios Visuals
Spending on pleasure boats continues to hover near remarkable highs.
Why it matters: You don’t buy a boat unless you’re fairly confident the
economic wind is at your back, so this is a good sign that Americans — despite
what they tell pollsters — are actually feeling pretty good.
⚓ T-Mobile’s_upcoming_layoffs_to_impact_over_400_Bellevue_employees⠀⇛
Over 400 employees in Bellevue will be impacted by T-Mobile’s
recently announced layoff plans, according to the U.S. Labor
Department and Washington’s Employment Security Department.
The Labor Department’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
(WARN) reported last week 401 employees in Bellevue will be impacted.
The department reports the “layoff start date” as Oct. 24.
The information comes as the company recently announced it will lay
off 5,000 employees, about 7% of its workforce.
⚓ Remote_Work_Is_Harder_To_Come_By_As_Companies_Push_For_Return_To_Office⠀⇛
Back in 2020, when schools were still virtual and city dwellers were
living their lives in masks, Jamie Dimon emerged as one of the
earliest critics of remote work.
“There’s a huge value to working together in terms of collaboration
and creativity and training the younger people,” the CEO of JPMorgan
Chase told MSNBC in August that year.
Three years later, Dimon’s message is unchanged. The difference now
is that the sentiment has gone mainstream.
Today, even Zoom’s leadership is extolling the benefits of in-person
work.
⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Internal_email:_Expedia_Group_lays_off_some_tech_workers_in
latest_move_to_reshape_its_workforce⠀⇛
Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its
technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their
positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based
travel giant to overhaul its workforce.
Those impacted by the cutbacks include employees in Expedia Group’s
Traveler Products team, which is part of Expedia Group Chief
Technology Officer Rathi Murthy’s larger Product & Technology
organization.
⚓ Games ☛ Starfield_review_controversy_traces_game_journalism’s_orbital_decay_|
This_Week_in_Business⠀⇛
More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review
codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on
the game to drive their business
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ India Times ☛ US-based_software_company_Pegasystems_to_lay_off_nearly
240_employees⠀⇛
US-based Pegasystems (Pega) said in public filings that it
plans to cut approximately 4% of its employees across various
geographies, citing a reorganisation of its customer success
roles, reports Boston Business Journal.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Food_ads_are_in_the_crosshairs_as_Burger_King,_others_face
lawsuits_for_false_advertising⠀⇛
Food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and
crispier than they are in real life. But some consumers say
those mouthwatering ads can cross the line into deception, and
that’s leading to a growing number of lawsuits.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ A_look_inside_Donald_Trump’s_deposition:
Defiance,_deflection_and_the_‘hottest_brand_in_the_world’⠀⇛
In newly public testimony, Donald Trump boasts about building a
multibillion-dollar brand and saving “millions of lives” as
president. He spars with the New York attorney general suing
him for fraud, telling Letitia James “the whole case is crazy”
and accusing her staff of trying to trip him up like old-time
TV lawyer Perry Mason did to witnesses. Trump’s lawyers posted
a transcript of his April deposition in a flurry of court
filings Wednesday related to James’ lawsuit. A video recording
of his testimony could be played when the lawsuit goes to trial
Oct. 2.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Firing_Based_on_Employee’s_Pre-Employment_Social_Media_Posts
Leads_to_Discrimination_Lawsuit;⠀⇛
federal court allows the case to go forward.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UN_says_its_still_pushing_for_action_on_abuses
in_China’s_Xinjiang,_following_criticism_from_rights_groups⠀⇛
The United Nations insisted Thursday it was still pushing for
accountability for abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, after
rights groups accused it of inaction.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Government_to_force_criminals_to_attend_sentencing
hearings⠀⇛
UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced Wednesday that the UK
will enact new laws to force criminals to attend their
sentencings in court, with offenders potentially being subject
to longer sentences. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commented
saying “Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to take the coward’s way
out by refusing to face their victims in court.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump_dismissive_as_New_York_attorney_general
accuses_him_of_inflating_his_net_worth_by_$2_billion⠀⇛
Newly released testimony shows Donald Trump defending his real
estate empire and his presidency in a face-to-face clash with
the New York attorney general suing him for fraud. Testifying
at a closed-door session in April, he said his company is flush
with cash and claimed he saved “millions of lives” by deterring
nuclear war when he was president. Trump said it was a
“terrible thing” that Attorney General Letitia James was suing
him over claims he made on annual financial statements. James
says evidence shows Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth
by more than $2 billion in some years. Trump’s testimony was
made public Wednesday.
* ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Governor_Whitmer,_please_run_for_president⠀⇛
The 2024 presidential race is looking less like a function of
democracy than it is a Greek tragedy. Complete with huge egos
and fatal flaws, you know from the beginning that it ends
poorly for everyone.
* ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Trump_thanks_Viktor_Orban_for_endorsing_him_for
president⠀⇛
Viktor Orbán urged Americans. to “call back Trump,” in an
interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. According
to Hungary’s far-right prime minister, “Trump is the man who
can save the Western world and probably human beings”. After
the interview was published the four-times indicted, twice-
impeached former president took to Truth Social to thank Orban
for the gesture.
The interview was focused on the relationship between the US
and Hungary and the war in Ukraine. Carlson presented the
interview as a way for American viewers to understand what is
happening in Ukraine. The conservative commentator began by
saying that everyone in the United States is convinced that
Ukraine will win this war:
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_and_Erdoğan_set_for_talks_in_Sochi_on_September_4_—
Meduza⠀⇛
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin,_Erdogan_To_Meet_Next_Week_After_Ukraine_Grain_Deal
Unraveled⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep
Tayyip Erdogan for talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on
September 4.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Did_a_Right-Wing_Network_Interview_a_Fake_AI_Trump?⠀⇛
The Daily Beast itself got caught up in the hall of
mirrors surrounding Trump’s nasally and awkward audio.
The outlet first claimed it spoke to Robert Sigg, the
owner of Performance One Media, the parent company of
Real America’s Voice. Sigg supposedly said that Trump
sounded like “ChatGOP” and the network is launching an
internal investigation. But later, the Beast updated the
story saying a reporter had texted a number that had once
belonged to Sigg according to public records, and the
network has subsequently contacted the publication to
inform them they were never communicating with the real
Sigg.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Director_of_Russian_U.S._and_Canada_Studies_Institute
debunks_anti-Western_propaganda_and_quickly_loses_his_job⠀⇛
Shortly before he was removed from his position, Garbuzov
published a column in the publication Nezavisimaya
Gazeta, in which he debunked myths about the West favored
by Russian propagandists and described Russia’s place in
the world. In the article, which appeared on August 29,
the scholar wrote that Russia has not left behind “the
charge of foreign policy expansionism.” First, he argued,
the country’s leaders constructed the myth of world
communism, and then invented several others, including
about American imperialism.
Garbuzov suggests that the myths propagated by the
current Russian authorities are spread via a state
propaganda machine composed of “well paid professional
political manipulators and participants in a number of
televised talk shows.” The myths include the supposed
crisis of globalization and the “Anglo-Saxon” world,
anticolonial revolutions, the loss of American dominance,
a global anti-American revolution, and the collapse of
the West.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Opens_School_Year_In_Russia_But_New_History
Textbook_Given_Failing_Grade⠀⇛
Russian students began the first day of a new school year
with words of encouragement from President Vladimir Putin
and a revised history textbook that critics say is
intended to “incite anger toward Ukrainians” and explain
to future conscripts “why they are putting on uniforms
and boots.”
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ NPR ☛ Saudi_man_sentenced_to_death_for_tweets_in_harshest_verdict_yet
for_online_critics⠀⇛
A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to
death for his tweets criticizing the country’s leadership to
his handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his
family.
The sentencing of Mohammad Alghamdi, who is in his mid-50s, is
the latest in an escalating crackdown on social media users in
Saudi Arabia. While others are serving prison terms ranging
from 20 to 45 years for their tweets and online criticism of
the government, Alghamdi appears to be the first person to be
sentenced to death based solely on his posts on X, formerly
called Twitter, and YouTube activity.
* ⚓ [Old] Associated Press ☛ Saudi_case_against_Twitter_user_may_have_its
roots_in_US⠀⇛
But the story may have roots in an elaborate ploy that began in
Silicon Valley and sparked a federal case against two Twitter
employees accused of spying for the kingdom.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Brands_Nobel_Winner_Muratov_‘Foreign_Agent’⠀⇛
Russia has added journalist and Nobel Prize laureate Dmitry
Muratov to its list of “foreign agents.” [...]
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Protester_Dies_In_Prison_Under_What_Rights_Groups_Call
‘Suspicious’_Circumstances⠀⇛
After receiving a death sentence from the court, Kaveh — who
was not allowed to be present at the trial — said he was
finally allowed access to the case. He said after reviewing the
materials that there was no concrete evidence supporting the
crimes for which Rohi was sentenced to death and the ruling was
overturned by the Supreme Court in June.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Marion’s_is_national_news,_but_Kansas_is_rich_with
small-town_papers._Meet_the_Lucas-Sylvan_News.⠀⇛
On Aug. 11, when the Marion County Record was raided by local
police, the strobe light of national attention swung toward
Kansas journalism. An outpouring of support for the newspaper
and the press’s preservation of First Amendment freedoms
brought more than 4,000 new subscriptions, doubling the Marion
County Record’s previous reach.
Of course it’s our responsibility to champion publisher Eric
Meyer’s determination to cover cops, courts and city and county
without fear or favor. I encourage us to remember, once the
attention drifts from Marion, that many small and smaller
newspapers in Kansas also deserve our support.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ After_years_of_hunger_strikes,_jailed_Chinese_citizen_journalist
is_in_hospital⠀⇛
Zhang Zhan, who reported from the emerging COVID-19 pandemic in
Wuhan, weighs just 37 kilograms.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ CBS ☛ LAPD_officer_arrested_for_allegedly_stealing_resident’s_debit
card⠀⇛
Following his arrest, Babaians was stripped of his police
powers and “assigned home” as he waits for the department to
finish their administrative and criminal investigation.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Other_Work_Remote_Workers_Get_Done⠀⇛
The appeal of remote work is all too often glossed over as a
matter of “quality of life” or “work-life balance.” Those are,
of course, important. But that framing also ignores the
uncompensated caregiving that Vigil and millions of others
provide for America’s young, sick, elderly, and disabled. Their
efforts are not just a quality-of-life issue; they’re an
enormously important and overlooked part of our economy. For a
lot of caregivers, telecommuting allows them to manage a
workload that is, if anything, way too big. Remote work, then,
isn’t just a question of work-life balance; it’s a question of
work-work balance. The traditional conception of “productivity”
doesn’t account for this.
* ⚓ [Repeat] University of Michigan ☛ What_happened_with_the_GEO_strike
over_the_summer⠀⇛
In November 2022, the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the
University of Michigan began negotiating a new contract for
Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff
Assistants. Negotiations continued through the school year with
no resolution, eventually leading GEO to go on strike March 27.
The strike continued throughout the majority of summer before
coming to an end on Aug. 25 when the union finally reached an
agreement on a new three-year contract with the University.
Though a lot happened between March 27 and Aug. 25, The
Michigan Daily is here to catch Wolverines up on all the labor
negotiation details. Here’s what the campus community might
have missed from the GEO strike this summer.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ 45,000_USPS_Workers_Aren’t_Getting_Paid_This_Week
Amidst_Union_Decertification_Push⠀⇛
The USPS missed payroll for more than 45,000 rural postal
workers this week due what their union called “an egregious
payroll error.”
Workers will instead have the option of effectively taking out
a loan via money order. The timing is not the most auspicious
as it comes during a push by some rural carriers to decertify
their union, which is seen by many workers as not doing enough
to protect their interests after more than two-thirds of them
took a pay cut determined by an algorithm earlier this year.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ [Repeat] The Verge ☛ Microsoft_is_using_malware-like_pop-ups_in_Windows
11_to_get_people_to_ditch_Google⠀⇛
I have no idea why Microsoft thinks it’s ok to fire off these
pop-ups to Windows 11 users in the first place. I wasn’t alone
in thinking it was malware, with posts dating back three months
showing Reddit users trying to figure out why they were seeing
the pop-up.
I’m sure Microsoft is legally covered by the myriad of license
agreements that nobody reads, but in reality I never knowingly
consented to Microsoft abusing its ability to analyze my PC
usage to show me a Bing pop-up just because I use Chrome with
Google search.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ A_New_Facebook_Setting_Tells_Meta_Not_to_Use_Your_Data
for_AI⠀⇛
Buried in the nether regions of Facebook’s Privacy
Center—a part of the website most people probably never
visit—you’ll find an entry called Generative AI Data
Subject Rights. “This form is where you can submit
requests related to your third party information being
used for generative AI model training,” Facebook tells
the weary travelers who’ve managed to stumble onto the
page.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RARBG’s_Demise_Gave_These_Torrent_Sites_a_Huge
Boost_in_Traffic⠀⇛
After an extraordinary run, torrent site RARBG shut
itself down in May with no advance warning. With no time
to prepare for the site’s disappearance and no obvious
ability to proactively take up the slack, users would
simply have to stand by and let nature take its course.
Three months later it appears that numerous well-known
torrent sites have turned RARBG’s loss into healthy wins.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ YouTube_Defeats_Mexican_Movie_Tycoon’s_Piracy
Lawsuit⠀⇛
YouTube has landed a major legal victory after defeating
a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by movie tycoon
Carlos Vasallo. According to a Florida federal court,
Google’s video platform complies with the DMCA and has no
legal obligation to use its piracy filtering tools to
remove all potentially pirated videos.
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