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⦿ It’s Autumn Already! | Techrights
⦿ Using Free Software, Preferably Locally-Hosted, to Control and Secure Communications | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 04, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Back on the Saddle, Still Readjusting (New Microphone, New Setup) | Techrights
⦿ OpenIndiana Hipster Frustrations. (Revisiting Solaris, Non-Linux Systems, CentOS Stream) | Techrights
⦿ The Tor Network Becomes Less of a Nuisance to Us (After Complaints of Misuse Connected to Tor Staff) | Techrights
⦿ With UEFI, TPM, Pluton Etc. Microsoft and Intel/AMD Trashed an Entire Generation of Computers, Made Security a Lot Worse in Order to Curtail GNU/Linux and BSD Adoption | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Package Management on Windows | Techrights
⦿ Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux is on Flathub. Debian 12 with ZRam Helps Keep the System Running Smoothly. | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/autumn-and-news/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/control-and-secure-your-communications/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/irc-log-040923/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/new-microphone/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/openindiana-hipster-frustrations/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/the-tor-network-becomes-less-of-a-nuisance-to-us-after-complaints-of-misuse-connected-to-tor-staff/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/trashing-an-entire-generation-of-computers/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/windows-package-manager/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/yuzu-nintendo-switch-emulator-for-linux/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/end-of-wordpad/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/mageia-9/#comments
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✐ It’s_Autumn_Already!⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 1:32 am by Guest Editorial Team
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Milestones and Plans for Autumn
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http://techrights.org/videos/20k-loc-techrights.webm
Summary: We’re back to making new videos and aside from an outline of what’s
coming next today we happily mark a code milestone
THIS is the first video in quite some time (there was only_one_video_this_past
week). I think I’ve finally figured out near-optimal settings for the new
microphone.
Then there’s the weather getting in the way. It’s probably this year’s warmest
week here, even though we’re approaching the middle of September, i.e. early
autumn. The Tux Machines codecase continues to expand (site and OS migration
ongoing; there are still_routine_changes) and Techrights’_Git_repository is
just_a_couple_hundreds_of_lines_short_of_20,000. We’ve been very productive
lately (aside from output in the video and text sense) and the video above
talks about several series that we have in store, as well as those we leave in
“small fire” for the time being.
The next three videos will focus on more pertinent issues; the above is general
“site news” (for the most part). █
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✐ Using_Free_Software,_Preferably_Locally-Hosted,_to_Control_and_Secure
Communications⠀✐
Posted in Antitrust, Deception, Europe, Free/Libre_Software, Google, Microsoft
at 4:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Outsourcing Communications
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http://techrights.org/videos/chatting-with-freesw.webm
Summary: Communications are being outsourced to notorious surveillance
companies (in_bed_with_the_NSA_et_al) and censorship platforms such as Social
Control Media; we need to collectively (network effect) walk away from these
horrendous traps
THE missed opportunity that the mainstream media never speaks about is
migration to self-hosted communication platforms, both for personal and for
business use. People and companies needn’t outsource their communications to
companies like Google and Zoom. Heck, they needn’t license any locally-hosted
(but proprietary) stuff like Cisco. I myself fell in love with Mumble (family
and friends are now avid users), which can be hosted locally at home. There’s
also Jitsi, which is privacy-respecting. To quote the site: “What are the
meet.jit.si terms of service? Discover our terms & conditions here, and learn
more about using our services and tools.” [1]
“There’s also Jitsi, which is privacy-respecting.”The Free Software Foundation
uses both Jitsi and BigBlueButton (BBB), which is rather old but very reliable.
By extension, there are many other SIP-based communication tools and the Free
software community boasts Jami, set aside textual chatting tools built around
Jabber/XMPP and IRC. GNU has some great_projects, they just don’t get
publicised by the advertisers-controlled media.
The subject of this video was suggested by a reader of ours. “Microsoft is
forced to unbundle “Teams” from its productivity suite,” the reader said. “Yet
it is used. There is not just the problem of the sunk cost fallacy, but mainly
no-one reads the licenses for the software which they use. Thus even Zoom is in
use.”
“Mumble is fantastic and easy-to-use software that can be locally hosted and
ensure end-to-end-encrypted voice communication with multiple participants.”We
need to explain to companies that building their own communication platforms
isn’t hard and will pay off in the long run. I spent years talking about this
where I used to work (up until weeks before my resignation). Towards the end
almost everything was outsourced, from Jabber and Asterisk to Slack, Google and
Zoom (spyware [2] and worse [3]). What an embarrassment for a company called
Sirius_‘Open_Source’. In recent years it went out of its way to replace its own
Free software-based instrastructure with proprietary software that it doesn’t
even control (not locally hosted).
As our reader put it: “The push should be to at least read and compare the
licenses for Zoom, Teams, BigBlueButton [4], and Jisti-Meet. And there should
be a push to at least evaluate BigBlueButton and Jitsi-Meet before making any
decisions. If they were skipped during the initial evaluation, then they should
be examined anyway to avoid the sunk cost fallacy.”
People ought to inform and persuade peers and family to adopt Free software for
chat (textual, voice, and video). Here’s my_old_video_about_Mumble. Mumble is
fantastic and easy-to-use software that can be locally hosted and ensure end-
to-end-encrypted voice communication with multiple participants. By all means
avoid Microsoft — it’s by far the worst [5]. █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_September_04,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 3:28 am by Needs Sunlight
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✐ Back_on_the_Saddle,Still_Readjusting(New_Microphone,_New_Setup)⠀✐
Posted in Hardware, Site_News at 2:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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New Microphone Weeks Later
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Summary: As an external microphones ‘n00b’ (absolutely no prior experience) I
explain some of the things — e.g. widgets and features — that I now have on the
new microphone; it’s a nice peripheral device which will hopefully serve for
many years to come (it uses very standard sockets, which should be beneficial
to compatibility)
THE past week was exceptional. This past week I spent time doing some
‘housekeeping’ as we prepare to produce a lot more stories (the IRC abuse has
been mostly brought under control by now). I rearranged my desk, adjusted the
microphone settings, and last night I finally got back to making videos. We’ll
strive to make it a daily routine again.
“It has its own power supply and it can become temperamental if not used
correctly.”The microphone shown in the video is my very first “true” external
microphone (the other, prior ones were always utter crap) and it has some built
in effects/filters. To me, however, the learning curve was steep. I’m not even
used to the idea of having to charge the microphone. It has its own power
supply and it can become temperamental if not used correctly. █
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✐ OpenIndiana_Hipster_Frustrations._(Revisiting_Solaris,_Non-Linux_Systems,
CentOS_Stream)⠀✐
Posted in Red_Hat, Servers, UNIX at 8:37 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
OpenIndiana Hipster Frustrations. (Revisiting Solaris)
I finally downloaded OpenIndiana_Hipster, which is a forked continuation of
OpenSolaris, from before Oracle shut it down after buying Sun Microsystems.
After reading that they still kept Solaris going, and had packaged an
assortment of modern desktop software (and even SeaMonkey!), and had the ZFS
file system and (very pretty) Nimbus GTK theme on Mate Desktop, I simply had to
try it.
I was hoping for a longer post, but something happened as I was booting it on
my older laptop and it bailed to “Single User Mode” and you can’t really do
anything with it that way, so that was a let down.
As far as I know, if you get dropped to Single User Mode by SMF (the init
system), it means something very bad has happened, and it happened quite fast.
So pretty much, that laptop works in an “emergency recovery mode”, as root, on
a console. 😛
I may try booting it in VirtualBox and see if it’ll run on that.
(KDE doesn’t have GNOME Boxes, but GNOME Boxes is so awful I always ended up
with VirtualBox anyway.)
(If not, then they’ve made the UNIX answer to ReactOS.)
I actually had two OpenSolaris machines running at once when Sun had Ian
Murdock, who founded the Debian project, working for them as Vice President of
Emerging Platforms.
He resigned when Oracle took over the company. They probably could have found
him a new role at Oracle, but it wouldn’t have been working on anything open
source, probably. So I don’t know if they pushed him out or if he decided to
leave. But Solaris was becoming very usable on the desktop while he was at Sun.
It’s a huge shame what happened to him later. Driven to suicide due to police
misconduct.
He deserves to be remembered better than that way, but unfortunately, that’s
how the police operate. They probably did such a number on the poor fellow that
there’s no telling what he was thinking.
Solaris was as far as I’ve ever gotten in using a non-Linux *nix system for a
daily driver.
At the time, thanks to his work (which was wasted by Oracle), it worked really
well on PCs and it looked like it may have been a rival to Linux eventually.
Most of the non-Linux *nix systems really don’t really prioritize desktop/
laptop computer users as a “use case”, although they may “have X11 and some
desktop environments”, few people would ever want to use them as such.
It’s not like I’ve ever been married to the idea of sticking to Linux, but I
don’t think any other OS really even cares what the desktop experience is like
on a PC.
I’ve never even found working network drivers on FreeBSD on any computer I’ve
tried using it on.
There was a desktop-focused FreeBSD called PC-BSD that I tried a long time ago,
but while it detected and configured most of my hardware, no network drivers.
And, they’ve just sort of “spackled” in “support” for PC users throughout the
years if your idea of “support” is “buy an Nvidia card, use the proprietary
driver, and find some Windows driver to stick in the BSD kernel for
networking”.
They had a name for Windows (NDIS) networking support. Project_Evil.
Today I_also_ran_into_this, by “Bill Paul”, who worked on Project Evil.
I think a humorous rant like this would definitely violate some stupid Code of
Censorship in “Linux” projects today, so I don’t know if the “F*** ’em if they
can’t take a joke.” mentality is still around at FreeBSD, but that’s definitely
a point in their column.
The main problem with sticking proprietary modules and Windows drivers in your
OS is that now you have security vulnerabilities, bugs, and workarounds for
bugs, and the OS vendor can’t even help you if they wanted to. So it just
rapidly devolves into this big shitpile that nobody can fix.
The “pragmatism” of telling users to use blobs is that you’re offloading lack
of development resources onto the user, where it becomes their problem.
I ran into a post by a Google “engineer” about why CentOS Stream is more
appropriate for enterprise use than CentOS was and how everyone that doesn’t
like it is a “cargo cult” for wanting the same binaries that Red Hat’s
customers get.
Almost like they’re making a case that CentOS Stream is “enterprise” ready,
they point out that Twitter (X) is using it.
Twitter (X) hasn’t been noted for being highly reliable after Musk bought it.
Elon Musk has been closing down data centers on not paying his landlords or Web
hosting though, so to be fair, it’s hard to tell how much of this is really the
fault of CentOS Stream.
I have not noticed anyone from NASA talking about internal usage of Stream.
They were using CentOS previously, at NASA.
CentOS Stream is, unreliable in the sense that you aren’t getting the same
binaries that RHEL customers get (or at least something very, very close), like
you were with CentOS.
If you absolutely need something RHEL-like, you should look into Rocky or Alma,
but if you don’t, you should get a distribution like Debian where they show you
their code and everyone gets the same binaries.
Red Hat engineers go on and on about making their system “valuable” by adding
FIPS-compliance crap to get federal contracts. I’m not really impressed by
“security” standards that the NSA has been caught backdooring, and which
Windows can meet, so they too can get contracts.
One of the first things OpenBSD did when they forked OpenSSL after countless
security disasters and tons of bad code in OpenSSL made it impractical to rely
on, is, they deleted the FIPS crap.
(Also, things like DOS support and a big-endian_x86…LOL)
Musk can’t afford to pay any of their vendors. He’s lost so much money on
Twitter (X) already that he’s daring people to actually do anything about not
paying his bills.
He’s a deadbeat. A fraud and a deadbeat.
If your landlord is suing you and you’re daring the city to do something about
the unlawful building modifications and zoning issues, then maybe your risk
appetite for something like CentOS Stream is high.
This doesn’t really change anything about the issue that IBM is very much
opposed to the GNU GPL and comes as close to violating it as their lawyers
think they can get away with.
For a while I had a PC running Scientific_Linux because the High Energy Physics
Labs were cloning RHEL themselves and decided to make it available to everyone.
It was very stable and well-polished.
They ended up telling their users to go run CentOS.
Well, I sure hope they’re happy trying to get any actual work done with this
“rolling release” nonsense.
Hey, if it’s good enough for Twitter (X)! █
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✐ The_Tor_Network_Becomes_Less_of_a_Nuisance_to_Us_(After_Complaints_of_Misuse
Connected_to_Tor_Staff)⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Site_News at 3:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 237fcdc542b6557cb3089fa0b84b00f5
IRC Abuse and Violence Over Tor
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/tor-project-grudge-over.webm
Summary: The Tor Project (which we’ve already adopted for the future site of
Techrights) was contacted about a fortnight ago; things in general have since
then improved and today we report progress
TWO weeks ago I spoke about abuse we had received through the Tor network from
Matthew_Garrett and his_militant_flunkies. The situation has improved a lot
since then, so the grudge against Tor is mostly a thing of the past.
“It seems like contacting the project had the intended effect.”Tor is imperfect
like everything else, but it creates enough obfuscation to make unmasking very
expensive and time-consuming a task (we’ll cover this in the future and reveal
what the authorities here say). For the time being the threats and the hate
crimes have stopped and we have no intention of badmouthing Tor. It seems like
contacting the project had the intended effect. █
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Generation_of_Computers,_Made_Security_a_Lot_Worse_in_Order_to_Curtail_GNU/
Linux_and_BSD_Adoption⠀✐
Posted in Deception, DRM, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Hardware, Lenovo,
Microsoft, Security at 1:49 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
UEFI is Trash: Part 2 “Destroy the Computer to Continue Using Windows 11!”
This is a follow-up to_my_last_post about System76 getting rid of UEFI and
putting in Coreboot for their laptops.
UEFI is a security disaster.
Lenovo has patched my UEFI over 30 times and there are still releases like this
month’s.
Modified:
1. Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-44611,
CVE-2023-22616, CVE-2023-22615, CVE-2023-22612, CVE-2021-38578,
CVE-2022-24350,
CVE-2023-22613, CVE-2021-38575
2. Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-46897,
CVE-2023-27373, CVE-2023-26090, CVE-2023-27471, CVE-2022-24351,
CVE-2023-0286, CVE-
2022-4304, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-28468
3. Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-40982
4. Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-36392,
CVE-2022-38102, CVE-2022-29871
-Lenovo
That’s TWENTY-TWO security vulnerabilities with a CVE that they’ve patched in
one update (out of over thirty since this laptop was released in November
2020).
They’ve all been about like this.
“Security Expert” Matthew Garrett shows up to many debates about firmware,
talking UEFI up as if it were possible to secure, if they even knew what they
were doing with it.
Which they obviously, demonstrably, do not.
The recent Windows 11 “Unsupported Processor” error, had Microsoft say they
were “working with OEMs” to provide “firmware updates”.
You’d need Windows to install the update, and Windows is already hosed if you
got the update this month (you are making backups, right?), because it caused
the system to Blue Screen of Death before the desktop is available to run any
programs.
And even if you do install UEFI updates, which most users do not ever do, even
once, you run the risk of bricking the entire computer to get Windows to behave
itself enough to even do anything after you install the August Update.
(That’s if it doesn’t install the August Update and try to reboot itself while
you’re trying to update the firmware. Does it still do things like this?
Windows 10 was forcibly restarting for updates while people were live streaming
games and had Microsoft Office open.)
Every time you update your firmware, any one of a million things can go wrong
and leave the computer’s main board (which in a laptop has the CPU, RAM, and
SSD soldered in sometimes, so kiss everything goodbye) utterly ruined.
That could be a Windows program (or virus) messing up the update process,
Windows itself malfunctioning and freezing the computer before the update goes
all the way in, the power going out, etc.
Of course you’re going to play Russian Roulette with your Lenovo laptop three
dozen times, right? Right?
And even if it appears to update the UEFI, I have actually lost a motherboard
(from Acer) while updating the correct firmware revision, and then had Acer
refuse to do anything about it, so I had to find another motherboard that fit
the case, and rebuild the entire desktop computer. (Which I’m sure all of you
know how to do.)
So if you’re affected by Windows refusing to let you continue until you update
the UEFI, it’s safer to just remove Windows and install Linux instead, because
Linux doesn’t have fake errors like this.
It’s also worth mentioning that when I started tinkering with Windows 98 as a
child and gutting the operating system of Internet Explorer, the Trident
engine, the Windows 98 Shell Update (installing the Windows 95 B Shell),
Outlook Express, and the several dozen useless components of Windows, using RoM
II, I rebooted.
I said, “This is cool! Without all that Internet Explorer junk around, my games
run 10% faster!”.
It was like a free graphics card, RAM, CPU, and hard disk update!
Even back then things were, relatively speaking, as bad as they are now, with
the bloat.
You had a 4 GB hard disk and here comes Microsoft to spew at least 300 MB of
useless trash all over it, you had a PC that came from the factory with 32 MB
of RAM, or 64 if you were lucky, uh oh, here’s a bloated shell with IE stuff in
it that takes up 11 MB more than it should!
They’ve always considered everything in your PC pretty much theirs to waste.
You have an expensive PC? They’re wasting it on things you don’t even want to
run.
But today, 25 years later, I say, “Let’s remove all this Windows junk so my
games can go wheeeeeeee!”.
But for the adult in you, the average Linux distribution includes tons of Free
and Open Source Software (as in freedom and price), including an entire
Microsoft-compatible_office_suite that doesn’t go into “read-only” mode if your
subscription to “Microsoft 365” lapses, saying “Pay Up, Chump!”.
Windows 11 treats its users like they’re running some kind of awful browser
game with in-app purchases.
It’s not even really an operating system.
And you’re supposed to risk damaging a $1,500 laptop to continue running it
because Microsoft is too incompetent to fix bugs? █
䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 838
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Posted in Deception, DRM, Microsoft, Windows at 8:43 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
So I was told Windows has a “package manager”. I couldn’t resist.
Most people don’t really understand what makes a software repository different
from a software “store”.
We should avoid using the term “software store” to refer to software
repositories (or “repos”) in GNU/Linux distributions, because it implies that
there will be artificial limitations like Windows and Mac.
(How many times you can install it, DRM garbage, fake apps, viruses, nobody
reviewing what’s actually in the code before it goes in, etc.) █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇A_windows_package_manager⦈_
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⣉⣉⣙⣛⣛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠉⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⡶⠧⠼⡾⠿⣿⣒⡂⠒⢲⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣹⣿⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⢯⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠋⢭⠽⠿⠿⠟⠉⠛⠛⠉⠛⠉⠛⠛⠛⠲⢒⣐⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⡿⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣫⣝⢿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⠁⢠⣿⣿⠟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣞⣿⠙⣿⣷⡽⣿
⠛⠛⠛⠛⠙⠛⠉⠉⠉⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠟⠻⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⠇⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⡽⣿⣿⢸⣧⡈⢿⣿⣎
⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢸⣿⣿⣾⣷⠀⠻⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠟⠁⠙⣿⡿⣿⣿⣦⣻⠟
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⠿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⢿⣿⣿⣯⡇
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣋⣁⣀⡀⠤⠖⠶⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠯⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣠⣀⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣴⣤⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢠⠆⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⢀⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⢈⡾⠁⠀⠋⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣶⣶⣟⣻⡿⢿⡓⠂⠐⠤⠥⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣀⠀⣀⣀⡈⢸⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡽⠿⣿⣯⣃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠋⠛⠛⠛⠑⢳⡿⡛⠿⣿⡇⣹⠟⠋⠀⠴⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣟⣄⠀⣘⣯⣧⣦⢥⣼⡿⠏⣸⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠊⠻⢷⣷⡿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⡆⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢡⢸⣿⠃⠙⠋⠁⠀⢈⣻⡇⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣷⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣋⢇⣀⠄⣠⣠⣠⡖⡽⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⢠⣤⣾⣿⣶⣤⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠦⣤⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⡦⠳⣲⣿⢿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣈⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣷⡯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⣄⢳⣀⠰⣦⣤
⠿⠛⠛⠻⠉⠛⡉⠉⣉⢉⣙⢙⣛⢠⠄⣀⣤⡤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿
⣤⣤⣦⣄⣐⣒⣻⣟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣭⣥⣤⣐⠊⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢯⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣉⣉⣙⣛⣿⣉⣴⣞⣛⣛⣙⣀⣀⡀⠀⡆⡠⡨⣅⢈⡬⡁⡇⢀⣤⡥⢀⡄⡄⡧⢄⠠⠠⠀⣦⣹⡇⡦⢸⡭⡻⠋⢝⢉⢏⠁⠀⡭⢭⢟⠍⡛⡋⢝⠫⡡⢸⣿⠤⡝⢍⠕⣷⣝⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣋⣁⣃⣙⣜⣁⣃⣋⣊⣿⣧⣊⣔⣀⣃⣘⣘⣀⣠⣋⡹⠁⠃⣘⣇⠃⠂⠀⠈⠆⢀⡀⠃⠘⠘⠀⠀⠃⠀⠐⣑⣸⢻⣄⣁⣊⡂⠻⣿⣯⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⡉⢩⠉⢙⠛⡛⢩⠙⣛⠛⠛⢟⡻⠿⠟⣍⠙⡛⣛⡛⠃⣿⢩⡇⡄⢀⡿⢿⣀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢘⣅⠀⠀⣀⠀⡀⢀⢀⢀⢸⡿⢯⠿⢿⡿⠿⡄⠙⠿⢷⠀⠙⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⢠⡇⢸⢸⢸⠀⡇⢸⢸⠸⣀⢠⡄⢆⢸⣤⡄⣧⠀⡄⣂⠀⠀⡒⠸⡂⣇⢇⡸⢸⠀⡇⠀⠠⡀⠂⢰⠀⠸⣀⠇⢇⢸⢸⠀⠀⠃⣀⠅⢇⡺⡈⣌⢢⡀⢀⡀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣋⣿⣿⣿⠿⠷⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣙⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⣹⣿⣿⣿⣱⣀⣀⣀⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣫⣵⠶⠿⠛⠛⠛⣉⠛⣓⠪⣝⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢟⡭⠖⠚⠛⠛⠓⠶⠮⣭⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⢋⣴⡟⠉⠁⣠⡤⢞⣛⣭⣭⣭⣝⣛⣛⣛⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣛⣛⣚⣛⣻⣿⣛⡳⢤⣄⠈⠛⣦⡙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux is on Flathub.
I’ve been playing around with the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator from Flathub.
I was glad to see that they’re packaging the latest version of this.
By itself, the emulator does nothing except complain that it has no firmware or
decryption keys for the game, but they do tell you how to dump those out from a
console that you own.
So after spending a significant portion of last night updating my switch to the
latest firmware and dumping everything I was able to get Yuzu to load some
games I own.
When I was reading the release notes for Switch system firmware updates (I had
skipped several because it usually has no net access), I noticed that some of
them were really just Nintendo adding_more_“banned_words” if you go online.
Probably the best part about using an IRC server or something to talk to other
gamers is that Nintendo and Microsoft can’t sit in the middle, listening, and
censoring.
I have to say I’m fairly impressed that Yuzu can emulate the Switch, which is a
current console that’s for sale, with games on the shelf.
Debian has an older version of Yuzu in Debian package format, but since the
upstream pushed updates that makes games work (or work better) as time goes on,
you do care what version you get.
That makes this an example of “I don’t usually run Flatpaks, but when I do,
it’s normally a video game platform.”
Yuzu itself, which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3, doesn’t do anything except
complain that you don’t have the firmware or decryption keys.
Nintendo can’t shut something down when they’re just emulating hardware, and
can’t even do that without software.
Overall, I’d say that Yuzu does a good job at figuring out what your system can
deal with and setting things like accuracy and graphics settings automatically.
Many games that were not developed for the Switch are ports of things that were
on the XBOX 360 and PS3, but even then they have had graphics settings turned
down.
Which is understandable, because the Switch is meant to undock and run on a
battery, with its own screen, as a portable console.
I’ve noticed that it plays Red Dead Redemption (one of the SD cards I had on
the stack of games over by the switch) at between 26-30 fps on my computer.
It should be interesting to see how Yuzu deals with Skyrim. I have the SD card
over in the pile of Switch games and it’s actually a very unstable game on the
Switch itself.
That being said, the constant updates to the Windows binaries in Steam are very
aggravating in Proton and Wine.
Haven’t moved on to anything else yet. The emulator seems stable. It’s a bit of
a RAM hog though. I’ve seen it using about 5+ GB sometimes just for itself.
This laptop has 16 GB, plus I use ZRam (compressed RAM device) swap, and the
system was hitting 9+ GB used altogether with Yuzu running RDR, the operating
system (Debian 12 KDE), Brave with a bunch of tabs and Memory Saver, and then
dropping back down to 3.5-4 when I closed Yuzu.
At least I know ZRam on Debian 12 works. It got up to where it was using 3 GB
of the swap at one point this morning, which translates to about 5.5-6 GB of
RAM that would have been used instead if it wasn’t moved over to the compressed
RAM device, which uses ZStd Compression.
I was watching the system monitor in KDE, and looking at ZRam working, and it
was reducing the memory consumption of loaded programs, sometimes by up to 2/
3rds.
I’d say based on what I’ve seen, that running Yuzu on a 16 GB RAM laptop under
Windows 11 would probably make the computer turn into a slideshow and drive the
swap file nuts.
Yuzu also seems to have a “chatrooms” feature, some of the rooms are locked,
but I haven’t attempted to use this part of the program other than to glance at
it.
According to Wikipedia, some new games may eventually have Denuvo DRM on them.
The Switch is getting pretty old in its lifecycle anyway, so the vast majority
of games are already going to work on Yuzu at some point, regardless.
One more thing of note. Yuzu supports my Xbox 360 wired controller. I had to
remap the buttons. The Switch controller has XYAB buttons too, but they’re on
different places.
Putting them to align with the Xbox controlled makes it easier to hit the right
button when the game says “Press A” or something, but if you have good muscle
memory of the Switch controller, it might be easier to leave it alone.
I’ve been into emulation since I found Gens for the Sega Genesis in the 1990s.
It was one reason why I kept a Windows 98 (gutted of IE+ trash with RoM II) so
long.
At the time, the emulator could only work so well on the lowly hardware
available then because of limited accuracy and a lot of optimized x86 assembly.
So, today I use Gens-GS for this on Linux. In the mid 2000s I compiled Gens for
(32-bit) Linux and packaged it for (broadly) RPM and DEB (static-linked
libraries, all going under /opt).
The -GS fork hasn’t seen significant development in years but did a bunch of
code cleanup and porting away from assembly to C++.
The older consoles are “just a pile of processors” and didn’t need any
proprietary software dumps from the console itself, so they were a lot easier
to get going. █
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o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AMNWSTR_Wordo:_SCUDI⠀⇛
# ⚓ Long_shift⠀⇛
I left for work at 0620 this morning, got home at
0115. In between I worked 17 hours with no lunch
break, a 10 minute break to step outside to kiss
Evy and first daughter who were in the area on
their way home from Evy’s parents’ house, and I
peed twice.
It was my third day of what we call 12-hour shifts,
but never end up being less than 13. When I’m
charge nurse I have to stay til my required
paperwork is done.
# ⚓ ROOPHLOCH_2023⠀⇛
I’m writing this in the morning of Sept. 5th, with
pen and paper, on the top of a big boulder next to
the house I’m staying at. On top of me is a small
and sparse vine. I’d rather be writing this in the
woords, but I’ve come unprepared for this weather.
The boulder is wet, it was rainging not long ago,
I’m in natural squatting position.
I’m on vacations in a remote-ish village (there are
3 neighboring houses still occupied; the rest is
deserted and derelict) with my family. Yesterday,
Sept. 4th, the power went out intermittently
between 17h and 17h30, at which time it went out
completely. I didn’t notice it until around 19h, as
I was watching a movie on my laptop.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ FLOSS_Equivalent_of_Wordpad?⠀⇛
Microsoft is sunsetting Wordpad, which I have to
say only surprises me in the sense that I assumed
they’d done it years ago already. I never really
used Wordpad. Back in the day it almost seemed like
a handicapped version of Word. I’ve never had a
look at the rtf file format and don’t know how it
compares to, say, odt or Abiwords own format. Or
markdown for that matter.
These days I use LibreOffice for all my writing
that needs a bit of formatting. It is, however,
heavy. It takes time to open even on a rather fast
computer.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Fast_Thoughts_on_a_Fast_Language⠀⇛
I’ve spent the holiday weekend diving into
Ada, a language I tried out many years ago
but have since put on the backburner.
I figured that, since that time, I’ve become
much more well-versed in C and Rust, and also
you know graduated from college with a CS
degree so maybe I can make more sense of
Ada’s idioms and whatnot.
In this post I’ll collect some initial
thoughts from this weekend project.
# ⚓ AI_artist_statement_/_art_and_image_synthesis⠀⇛
why do i work with AI? first of all, because
i can. but what made me keep at it, and keep
reading about it?
GAN-generated images hold a sense of wonder,
as if you were to wander into the library of
babel and find a floor where all the books
made some simulacrum of cohesion, rather than
being mere linguistic white noise.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Education
o 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 Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
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 Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Dev Class ☛ JetBrains_promises_Wayland_support_for_its
IntelliJ_IDEs_on_Linux_–_eventually [Ed: Microsoft propaganda
agent Tim Anderson can happily gloat that Wayland leaves
"Linux" back]⠀⇛
JetBrains will add support for the Wayland Linux
graphics API to its IDE family based on IntelliJ –
though the effort is “ongoing” and depends on
Project Wakefield, an OpenJDK project to add
Wayland support to Java.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_535.43.09_and_stable
535.104.05_drivers_out_now⠀⇛
NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades
for Linux, although one of them we have no idea
what they actually changed. Here’s what’s up.
Firstly, NVIDIA launched the stable driver update
535.104.05 on August 22nd. However, for the second
time recently, they seem to have copy-pasted the
driver changelog from the previous release. This
driver has the same changelog as 535.98, and when
535.98 released it had the same changelog as
535.86.05 but they later corrected it. I tried to
contact NVIDIA this time but here we are nearly two
weeks later and they haven’t fixed it. So what did
they change in 535.104.05? No idea.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 13_Best_Free_Linux_DICOM_Viewers_for_Doctors_in_2023⠀⇛
DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications
in Medicine and it is the international open image
format for handling, storing, printing, and
transmitting information…
# ⚓ The_10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Lab_Management_Systems_for
2023⠀⇛
A Lab Information Management System aka LIMS is
software used in laboratory and/or hospital
settings for managing medical records, client data,
inventory, etc.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_(Open)SSH_Certificate_Authority
is_sort_of_unlimited_and_sort_of_not⠀⇛
One critical difference between OpenSSH cert-
authorities and TLS CAs is what you trust. In TLS,
you trust a specific self-signed X.509 certificate,
and the certificate is identified by its X.509
Subject Name plus (in effect) its public key. As
covered in sshd(8)’s section on the authorized keys
file format and the known-hosts format, OpenSSH
cert-authorities are identified by their public
key, and this is all of the cert-authority provided
information that you have to use. So unlike TLS
CAs, an OpenSSH cert-authority can’t generate a
‘CA’ that can intrinsically only be used to sign
things under a certain domain.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ TLS_CA_root_certificate_name
constraints_for_internal_CAs⠀⇛
For a long time, one of the pieces of advice for
dealing with various TLS certificate problems is
that you should establish your own internal
Certificate Authority with its own CA root
certificate, have your systems trust it, and then
issue certificates from your internal CA with
whatever names and other qualities you needed. My
reaction to this suggestion has traditionally been
that it was extremely dangerous. If your internal
CA was compromised in some way you had given an
attacker the ability to impersonate anything, and
generally properly operating a truly secure
internal CA is within neither the skills nor the
budget of a typical organization or group (it’s
certainly not within ours). Fortunately, this issue
was obvious to a lot of people for a long time, so
as part of RFC 5280 we got name constraints, which
restricted the names (in most contexts, the DNS
names) that the CA could sign certificates for. You
could include only some (sub)domains, or exclude
some.
# § idroot⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Next.js_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Next.js on AlmaLinux 9. Next.js, a
popular React framework, offers a powerful
toolkit for building web applications.
AlmaLinux 9, known for its security and
reliability, is an excellent choice for
hosting your Next.js projects.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kotlin_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Kotlin on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Kotlin
has swiftly risen to prominence as a modern
programming language that offers enhanced
expressiveness, conciseness, and safety,
making it a popular choice for various
software projects.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Building_a_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer_Part
32:_Two_Steps_Forward,_One_Step_Back⠀⇛
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_the_most_popular_Steam_Deck_games
for_August_2023⠀⇛
Another fresh month and Valve has revealed what
were the most played games on Steam Deck. Plenty of
them are of course quite obvious based on what
released recently.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_how_Starfield_runs_on_Steam_Deck_and
desktop_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Want to know how Starfield runs on Steam Deck? Or
desktop Linux? Well, I’ve given it a run to see
what I think of it and here’s some early info for
you.
For Steam Deck, Valve released two Steam Deck OS
upgrades to solve some issues, so you’ll want to
make sure you check for system updates first to get
Steam Deck OS 3.4.10 to fix a GPU driver crash and
a black screen problem. Once you update, Starfield
will run on Steam Deck with Proton Experimental but
the performance is an issue. Additionally, weirdly,
the Start / Select buttons on Steam Deck with
Proton Experimental are swapped – but you can
change them over in Steam Input (noted in video 2
below).
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Jamie Zawinski ☛ Wayland_and_screen_savers⠀⇛
Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a
matter of “port the XScreenSaver daemon”, because
under the Wayland model, screen blanking and
locking should not be a third-party user-space app;
much of the logic must be embedded into the display
manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a
better model than what we have under X11.
But that means that accomplishing that task means
not just writing code, but engaging with whatever
passes for a standards body or design committee in
the Wayland world, and that is… how shall I put
this… not something that I personally feel highly
motivated to do.
However, as I am the world’s foremost expert on
screen savers on Unix-like operating systems, here
are a few simple admonitions for young and old.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Mageia_9_has_been_released⠀⇛
Mageia 9 has been released and a lot of people are
already using it.
You can find the release notes here and the errata
here
A huge big thank you to everyone who contributed to
this great new Mageia version.
Even though almost not contributing myself, I have
been using Mageia 9 without problems from when it
started to be developed until now and I really like
it.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Badgercam_|_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛
“Originally the project was created – and I
generally referred to it as – ‘Badgercam’, but the
current iteration is not at the badger location, so
now it’s just Solar and Wind-powered sound recorder
(with image capture),” Philip tells us. We think
Badgercam rolls off the tongue a bit better though.
“[This was] to address the problem and help with
identifying the species or source of sounds; making
sure it was the badger I recorded; and also to keep
my footprint at the setts low by having a discreet
recorder, and a way to see into the life of badgers
without walking through their environment. They are
very sensitive animals and I wanted to only visit
once, or a limited amount of times!”
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Tiny_Tesla_go-kart_gains_self-driving_autopilot⠀⇛
Tesla’s autopilot and full self-driving features
don’t allow for 100% autonomous driving, but they
get pretty close. Blake’s autopilot is much more
limited, but still impressive. It can steer the go-
kart around a known track while Blake handles the
throttle and brakes. However, it can only follow
the course it was trained on and can’t deviate from
that without issues. It also can’t account for
unusual events, like a pedestrian in the “road.”
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ System76_Ditches_UEFI_Firmware
Trash,_Ships_Coreboot_Firmware_on_Linux_Laptops.⠀⇛
Coreboot is the firmware that people deserve to
have.
It’s actually designed to “Just boot the computer
and get the Hell out of there.”, which is what
Linus Torvalds said he missed about “PC BIOS”.
It’s up to the user, really, what they want to run
and so I congratulate System76 for taking strong
and decisive action on behalf of their customers
and recommend that people who need an x86 PC with
Linux take their business to System76 as I will do
next time I need a laptop.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_—_Um_—_Hook_And_Loop_Fasteners⠀⇛
[Teaching Tech’s] latest video discusses “3D
printed Velcro.” But as even he admits, Velcro is a
trademark, so we think it is more appropriate to
talk about hook and loop fasteners. In fact, you
can see the good-natured official video about the
trademark below [Teaching Tech’s] video.
Regardless, his experiments with several 3D-printed
Vel… fastener designs are worth watching.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ OnePlus_may_bring_affordable_‘Pad_Go’
Android_tablet_soon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ 3_Easy_Methods_to_Enable_Sound_on_Reddit
Videos_on_Android_and_iOS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Samsung_Galaxy_Watch_4_is_getting_its
upgrade_to_Wear_OS_4⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Check_for_Spyware_on_Your_Android
Device⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Compress_Video_on_Android_Fast⠀⇛
# ⚓ All_the_Ways_to_Take_Screenshots_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ YouTube’s_new_hum-to-search_feature:_A
harmonious_solution_for_song_identification_on_Android⠀⇛
Android users, get ready to hum your way to
discovering your favorite songs as YouTube
introduces a new search feature that listens to
your tunes. In a move that blends technology with
musical expression, YouTube is currently testing a
“search-by-song” capability on its Android app,
allowing users to identify songs by humming,
singing, or recording a snippet.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Empowering_government_innovation:_a_secure_path_to_open
source_excellence_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing
with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics
and economic uncertainty. Like many governments, they are
looking for new and innovative ways to tackle these
challenges.
FST Government 2023 is an exciting conference that brings
over 200 government leaders together to explore how the
latest advances in digital technology can help support
better policy outcomes and citizen service delivery.
Canonical participated in the 2022 edition and is
thrilled to join the conference again this year.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ The_curl-wget_Venn_diagram⠀⇛
I have contributed code to wget. Several wget
maintainers have contributed to curl. We are all
friends.
If you think there is a problem or omission in the
diagram, let me know and I can do updates.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Big_events_coming_up_in_the_LibreOffice_community!⠀⇛
Join us in Indonesia, Bucharest and Mexico, for
talks, workshops and lots of fun 😊 Click the image
below to find out more…
# ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ FLOSS_Equivalent_of_Wordpad?⠀⇛
These days I use LibreOffice for all my writing
that needs a bit of formatting. It is, however,
heavy. It takes time to open even on a rather fast
computer.
What kind of formatting can Wordpad do? And which
FLOSS editor available for Linux would be
equivalent to it?
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Phil Eaton ☛ Eight_years_of_organizing_tech_meetups⠀⇛
This is a collection of random personal
experiences. So if you don’t want to read
everything, feel free to skip to the end for
takeaways.
I write because I’d like to see more high-quality
meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will
help someone out.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Embarking_on_a_Journey_to_Revolutionize
Code_Editing:_The_Birth_of_“BiDE”⠀⇛
As the warm haze of summer gives way to the crisp
air of autumn, the season marks a pivotal moment in
my academic journey: the commencement of my
Master’s thesis project. Having successfully had my
research proposal accepted earlier this year, I now
face the last leg of this marathon—bringing my
theoretical framework to life.
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Defensive_Security_is_a_Glacier,_and
That’s_Ok⠀⇛
First, everything here was inevitable. Second,
everything here could only happen when it happened,
and not a moment before. When a new technology gets
invented, like SSL, that was the moment for it. And
if that person/group hadn’t done it, someone else
would have.
# ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Time_zones_are_hard_because_people_are_hard⠀⇛
Timezones are annoying enough for regular people,
but us software engineers have to deal with the
fallout. Then you add in the political aspects and,
well, you can’t always store all data in UTC.
So what makes time zones so bad?
# ⚓ James G ☛ Ensure_all_subpath_layers_resolve_in_URLs⠀⇛
I was just skimming the W3C “Style Guide for online
hypertext” this morning and came across the “Cool
URIs don’t change” document. If you haven’t read
that post already, please take a moment to do so.
My biggest takeaway from the document is that you
should spend time thinking about how you want to
structure URLs before you make a new site, or
during a rearchitecture.
# ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Out_of_the_Software_Crisis:_Gardening⠀⇛
Stuff in the garden grows at its own pace,
revealing itself along the way, and it’s the
gardener who must notice and respond in kind. This
growing happens together — the plants, the
gardener, the ecosystem — and drop-in replacements
are risky.
The constitution of a garden is the realization of
the gardener’s experience.
Software is quite similar.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ New_study_uncovers_the_causes_of_the_Qing
Dynasty’s_collapse⠀⇛
In 1912, after over 250 years in power, the Qing Dynasty
collapsed despite being considerably wealthier at the
time than modern-day China. “This clearly demonstrates
that any economy must be vigilant as circumstances can
change, and sometimes rather rapidly,” emphasizes Georg
Orlandi, the study’s first author. The study “Structural-
demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)
collapse in China” was published in PLOS ONE.
o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ What_was_Inbox_Zero?⠀⇛
Inbox Zero was the philosophy that there should be super
clear edges between “email you’ve never even seen
before”, “email you still need to reply to but you don’t
need to do anything else first”, “email that’s waiting
for you or someone else to do something external”, and
“email you’re done with but might wanna look up things in
later”, and using folders to do that.
I’m not sure if people are still using folders and stuff
to organize email, but yeah, in general, fishing out “I
need to do something” things from your notes or emails or
RSS or socials or phone calls or meetings, and then
making yourself aware of what are the practical and
concrete actions I need to take and what context I need
to be in, practicing that is pretty clutch.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Combatting_RSS_overload⠀⇛
I love RSS… perhaps a little too much. My feeds are full
of great stuff that I’ve curated since high school in the
2000s. It outlasted any social network, and I suspect
will continue to do so. But there’s a lot there.
There are three problems: [...]
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_to_see_first_fireworks_show
since_2019_as_pyrotechnics_display_planned_for_National_Day⠀⇛
Fireworks will light up Hong Kong’s skies on National Day
for the first time since 2019, after the city’s
pyrotechnics displays were cancelled due to protests and
the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive John Lee made the
announcement at his weekly press conference on Tuesday.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Model_Mimics_The_International_Space
Station⠀⇛
It’s not an overstatement to say that the
International Space Station (ISS for short) is an
amazing feat of engineering, especially considering
that it has been going for over two decades. The
international collaboration isn’t just for the
governments, either, as many images, collected data
and even some telemetry have been made available to
the public. This telemetry inspired [Bryan Murphy]
and his team to create the ISS MIMIC, a 1:100 scale
model of the ISS that reflects its space
counterpart.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Oh_God…_Kids_Are_About_to_Start_Writing_College
Essays_Using_ChatGPT⠀⇛
To ban or not to ban is the question, though as NYT
education writer Natasha Singer reports, very few
colleges or universities have thus far put rules on
the books about using generative AI on applicant
essays. Those who have acknowledged the technology,
which in its current iteration is still so new that
it was barely breaking through last year’s
application season, have taken stances as varied as
the schools themselves.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ IT_needs_more_brains,_so_why_is_it_being
such_a_zombie_about_getting_them?⠀⇛
So let’s move onto our own turf. What are IT
qualifications for in 2023?
They can certainly save time and effort for
recruiters. If you set an automatic filter on
submissions searching for an appropriate degree, or
a suite of industry-recognized letters, you’ll have
fewer resumes to read. You will also miss out on a
ton of talent, and if that seems a reasonable
compromise then that talent will certainly be
better off elsewhere.
# ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ Equivalent_experience_can_cut_both_ways⠀⇛
To recontextualize this in more familiar terms: a
person who uses a cursor to heavily make use of an
interface gets used to anticipating where and what
to click. A sudden visual update forces them to re-
learn where to anticipate where UI will show up.
An important takeaway here is the value of
consistency and predictability—this change was not
an impossible barrier to overcome. It is instead
more an annoyance that requires retraining some
reflexive behaviors.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ MaskRay ☛ Toolchain_notes_on_MIPS⠀⇛
In the llvm-project project, I sometimes find
myself assigned as a reviewer for MIPS patches. I
want to be transparent that I have no interest in
MIPS, but my concern lies with the specific
components that are impacted (Clang driver, ld.lld,
MC, compiler-rt, etc.). Therefore, regrettably, I
have to spend some time studying MIPS.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Minimalist_LED_Lamp_Is_Circular_Beauty
Incarnate⠀⇛
Lamps used to be things built to provide light with
specific purpose, whether as reading lamps, desk
lamps, or bedside table lamps. Now we just build
them for the vibes, as with this minimalist LED
lamp from [andrei.erdei].
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_‘Scope_Of_This_Kickstarter?_Ten_Years.⠀⇛
It may have taken ten years to come through on this
particular Kickstarter, but a promise is a promise.
In late August 2023, backers who had since likely
forgotten all about the project started receiving
their oscilloscope watches from creator [Gabriel
Anzziani]. Whatever the reason(s) for the delay,
the watch looks great, and is miles ahead of the
prototype pictures.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hands-Free_Compass_Uses_Haptic_Feedback⠀⇛
If you’ve never experienced it before, getting
turned around on a cloudy day in the woods or
getting lost during an event like a snowstorm can
be extremely disorienting and stressful — not to
mention dangerous. In situations where travel goes
outside the beaten path, it’s a good idea to have
some survival gear around, including a good
compass. But if you need your hands for other
things, or simply don’t want to have to stop often
to check a compass, you might want to try out
something like this belt-mounted haptic feedback
compass.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Just_because_medical_consensus_evolves_does_not_justify
your_quackery⠀⇛
If there’s one thing that I came to understand over
my two-plus decades of critically evaluating the
claims of “brave maverick doctors,” the vast
majority of whom are really just quacks, it’s that
quacks hate the very concept of scientific and
medical consensus. Indeed, long ago I pointed out
that hostility towards the very concept of
scientific consensus is a red flag, a very good
indicator that the person expressing such hostility
is a science denier (or quack, if it’s a
physician). Moreover, although I concede that
anyone has the “right” to “challenge” a scientific
consensus, the bigger problem in the age of social
media is recognizing when someone doing the
challenging has the necessary expertise to make a
scientifically robust challenge, compared to the
vast majority of such “challenges,” which are made
by pseudoexperts in different fields who think they
have the necessary expertise but do not or by lay
people who don’t even have the basic expertise
necessary. Unsurprisingly, we have seen this
phenomenon play out in a world stage since COVID-19
was first declared a pandemic three and a half
years ago. However, even though seeing
pseudoexperts about COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines
flourish during the pandemic did not surprise me, I
will admit, though, that even I was somewhat
surprised at the sheer scale and influence of the
phenomenon and how much it bled into mainstream
politics and culture this time.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ COVID-19_Virus_Evolving_Rapidly_in_White-
Tailed_Deer,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
“It’s probably not a one-way pipeline.”
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Can_the_iPhone_do_that_yet?⠀⇛
So, what did St Stephen of Fry wish for? And can
2023 iPhones and Android match His expectations?
# ⚓ Locus Magazine ☛ Commentary_by_Cory_Doctorow:_Plausible
Sentence_Generators⠀⇛
ChatGPT can take over a lot of tasks that, broadly
speaking, boil down to “bullshitting.” It can write
legal threats. If you need 2,000 words about “the
first time I ate an egg” to go over your omelette
recipe in order to make a search engine surface it,
a chatbot’s got you. Looking to flood a review site
with praise about your business, or complaints
about your competitors? Easy. Letters of reference?
No problem.
Bullshit begets bullshit, because no one wants to
be bullshitted. In the bullshit wars, chatbots are
weapons of mass destruction. None of this prose is
good, none of it is really socially useful, but
there’s demand for it. Ironically, the more
bullshit there is, the more bullshit filters there
are, and this requires still more bullshit to
overcome it.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ X_[Twitter]_may_train_its_AI_models_on
your_social_media_posts⠀⇛
The new policy is expected to come into effect on
29 September. “We may use the information we
collect and publicly available information to help
train our machine learning or artificial
intelligence models,” the company said.
Owner and former CEO Elon Musk said that private
data, such as text in direct messages, however,
will not be used to train its models. The change
should come as no surprise, Musk previously said
that he planned to use data from the microblogging
site to help researchers and engineers from his
latest startup, xAI, to build new products.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ UEFI_is_Trash:_Part_2_“Destroy_the
Computer_to_Continue_Using_Windows_11!”⠀⇛
UEFI is a security disaster.
Lenovo has patched my UEFI over 30 times and there
are still releases like this month’s.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Diverse_Open_Source_uses_highlight_need_for
precision_in_Cyber_Resilience_Act [Ed: When OSI still
publishes something sane rather than paid-for Microsoft
propaganda it is clearly Simon Phipps]⠀⇛
The final legislative phase of the Cyber Resilience
Act (CRA) is starting and the drafts still have
issues arising from bad framing by the Commission
or Parliament. Read OSI’s recommendations to frame
the trialogue.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_mobile_operators_slam_mandatory
registration_of_prepaid_SIM_cards⠀⇛
With the Lithuanian government considering
mandatory registration of prepaid SIM cards
from 2024, mobile operators are sceptical
about the measure, saying it could cause
chaos in socially vulnerable groups and give
rise to a black market in SIM cards.
# ⚓ [Repeat] OpenRightsGroup ☛ UK_Online_Safety_Bill_will
mandate_dangerous_age_verification_for_much_of_the
web⠀⇛
This will result in an enormous shift in the
availability of information online, and pose
a serious threat to the privacy of UK
[Internet] users. It will make it much more
difficult for all users to access content
privately and anonymously, and it will make
many of the most popular websites and
platforms liable if they do not block, or
heavily filter, content for anyone who does
not verify their age. This is in addition to
the dangers the Bill poses to encryption.
The details of the law’s implementation have
been left to the UK’s regulation agency, the
Office of Communications (Ofcom), but the
Bill is vague on the details of this. Social
media and other sites, where users regularly
engage with each other’s content, will have
to determine the risk of minors using their
site, and block their access to any content
that the government has described as
‘harmful’. Platforms like Facebook and
TikTok, and even community-based sites like
Wikipedia, will have to choose between
conducting age checks on all users – a
potentially expensive, and privacy-invasive
process – or sanitising their entire sites.
That’s why Wikimedia has come out strongly
against the Bill, writing that in its
“attempt to weed out the worst parts of the
[Internet], the Online Safety Bill actually
jeopardises the best parts of the
[Internet]”.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_fighter_reportedly_beaten_and_shot
with_air_pistol_in_Russia’s_Rostov_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Financial_Times:_China’s_biggest_banks_have
quadrupled_their_investments_in_Russia_since_start_of_full-
scale_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ INTERVIEW:_‘All_we_see_is_an_increase_in_violence’⠀⇛
The head of a UN investigative unit sees a trend in
the Myanmar junta’s willingness to disobey
international law.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ E.U._Official_From_Sweden_Imprisoned_in
Iran_for_Over_500_Days⠀⇛
A Swedish citizen working for the European Union
diplomatic corps has been imprisoned in Iran for
more than 500 days, making him an important
bargaining chip for Tehran as it tries to wring
concessions from the West.
The arrest, which has been kept under wraps for
over a year by the Swedish and European Union
authorities, appears to be part of an expanding
pattern of what has become known as Iran’s “hostage
diplomacy.”
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Pakistani_militants_using_US_military_gear
abandoned_in_Afghanistan,_prime_minister_says⠀⇛
US military equipment left behind during the
chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has made its
way into the hands of Pakistani militants, the
country’s prime minister claimed Monday.
The high-tech gear, which may include firearms with
laser and thermal sighting systems, is reportedly
being used by the Pakistani Taliban, a militant
group also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in
clashes that have intensified in recent months with
Pakistan’s security forces.
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Pakistani_premier_claims_US_military
equipment_left_behind_in_Afghanistan_is_now_in_militant
hands⠀⇛
The equipment — which includes a wide variety of
items, from night vision goggles to firearms — is
now “emerging as a new challenge” for Islamabad as
it has enhanced the fighting capabilities of the
Pakistani Taliban, Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq
Kakar said.
The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban
Pakistan or TTP, have over the past months
intensified attacks on Pakistan’s security forces.
They are a separate militant group but an ally of
the Afghan Taliban.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Significantly_more_suicides_in_German_prisons:
Intelligent_video_surveillance_to_detect_“suicide_plans”⠀⇛
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldova’s_Future_Is_In_The_EU,_President
Proclaims,_As_Country_Celebrates_Independence_Day⠀⇛
Moldovan President Maia Sandu marked her
country’s Independence Day by recalling the
effort of Moldovans to “win freedom” 32 years
ago and by saying that Moldovan authorities
now “have the chance and the duty” to take
the country into the European Union.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_and_Erdoğan_fail_to_reach_agreement_on
resuming_Black_Sea_grain_deal_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Reznikov’s_out_Zelensky_replaces_Ukraine’s
defense_minister_in_biggest_government_shake-up_since
Russia’s_full-scale_invasion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Maybe_the_most_dangerous_period’:_Russian
opposition_politician_Vladimir_Kara-Murza_transferred
out_of_Moscow_detention_center_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There_aren’t_any_Nazis_here’_Ukrainian
intelligence_shares_video_of_Russian_pilot_who_defected
by_flying_helicopter_over_border_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_downed_three_drones_en
route_to_Moscow,_says_mayor⠀⇛
Russian defences shot down three drones in
the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and
Tver, authorities said on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is
planning to meet this month with Russian
President Vladimir Putin. He is likely to
head by armored train to Vladivostok
to discuss the possibility of Pyongyang
supplying Moscow with weapons.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ No_new_grain_deal_until_West_meets
Russia’s_demands,_says_Putin⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on
Monday that the deal that allowed Ukraine to
export grain safely through the Black Sea
won’t be restored until the West meets
Moscow’s demands to facilitate Russian
agricultural exports. Putin made the
statement after talks with Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian port city
of Sochi.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_set_to_meet_Putin
this_month,_officials_say⠀⇛
The focal point of the meeting is expected to
be arms trading.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_‘General_Armaggedon,’_Not_Seen_Since
Wagner_Mutiny,_Reappears_In_Telegram_Photo⠀⇛
General Sergei Surovikin, who has not been
seen publicly since the June mutiny by Wagner
Group mercenaries, has reappeared in a new
photograph online, adding further mystery to
the fate of the Russian commander.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Says_North_Korea’s_Kim_Expects_Arms
Meeting_With_Putin⠀⇛
The White House says arms negotiations
between Russia and North Korea “are actively
advancing,” and North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un expects to meet with Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kosovo’s_President_Accuses_Serbia_Of
Following_‘Putin’s_Plan’_By_Destabilizing_Balkans⠀⇛
Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani has accused
Serbia of trying to destabilize the Western
Balkans in a similar fashion to how she said
Russia acted against Ukraine in 2014.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Why_North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_may
meet_Putin_in_Russia⠀⇛
The North Korean leader plans to travel to
Russia in September to meet the Russian
President.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Kim_Jong_Un_to_meet_Putin_as
Russia_seeks_closer_military_ties_with_North_Korea:
Report⠀⇛
Mr Kim will discuss the possibility of
supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kim_Jong-un_and_Putin_Plan_to_Meet
in_Russia_to_Discuss_Weapons⠀⇛
Russia seeks more weaponry for its war in
Ukraine, and a North Korean delegation
recently traveled to Russia by train to plan
for Mr. Kim’s visit this month, officials
say.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Meets_Erdogan_to_Discuss_Grain
Deal⠀⇛
Any notion that President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan of Turkey might be shifting away from
his friendly ties with the Kremlin appeared
to evaporate on Monday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kamianka,_Ukraine,_Bears_Legacy_and
Detritus_of_WWII_and_Putin’s_War⠀⇛
The legacy of World War II lingers in the
Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors
spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it
has been destroyed by a new conflict.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tuesday_Briefing:_Kim_and_Putin_Plan
to_Meet_in_Russia⠀⇛
Also, Xi Jinping might skip the Group of 20
summit.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sergei_Surovikin,_Russian_General
Detained_After_Wagner_Mutiny,_Is_Released⠀⇛
Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was seen as an
ally of the mercenary leader Yevgeny V.
Prigozhin, has re-emerged in public.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Former_Rīga_councilor_could_go_to_prison_for
Russian_war_support⠀⇛
After a call to donate funds to Russian
occupation forces in Ukraine, the
prosecutor’s office is seeking a two-year
prison sentence for former Rīga City Council
deputy Igors Kuzmuks. The trial is still
ongoing, Latvian Television reported on
September 4.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Jewish_president_picks_Muslim
defense_minister:_Ukraine’s_diverse_leadership_debunks
Russia’s_“Nazi”_slurs⠀⇛
Ukraine now has a Jewish president and a
Muslim minister of defense, underlining the
diversity of the country’s leadership while
exposing the absurdity of Russia’s “Nazi
Ukraine” propaganda, writes Peter Dickinson.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Another_Russian_mercenary_group_shows
discontent_with_the_Kremlin:_‘A_sign_of_more_to_come’⠀⇛
At the end of August, Ukraine declared it had
finally managed to pierce Russia’s first line
of defence after retaking the small village
of Robotyne in Ukraine’s south. This key
advance coincided with a Russian mercenary
group’s threat to stop fighting on Russia’s
behalf on the front lines of the village and
could be a sign of more anti-Kremlin
sentiment brewing among those fighting for
Moscow.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Reportedly_Advance_Past
Russia’s_‘Dragon’s_Teeth’_Defenses_In_Zaporizhzhya⠀⇛
Ukrainian forces in the southeastern
Zaporizhzhya region have breached formidable
Russian defensive obstacles, according to a
U.S.-based research group.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Downed_Ukraine-Launched_Drones
Targeting_Moscow⠀⇛
Russia shot down at least three Ukraine-
launched drones early on September 5 that
were targeting the country’s capital, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Military_Staff_Will_Hear_Issues
Raised_By_Soldiers,_Zelenskiy_Says⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says
issues raised during his meetings with
soldiers who have battled on the front line
will be considered by top Ukrainian military
officials.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Majority_of_Russians_fail_Latvian_language
test_on_first_try⠀⇛
During the period from April 11 to August 29,
the Latvian language test was passed by 39%
of Russian citizens who had taken it for the
first time, while 61% of Russian citizens did
not pass the test on the first try, the State
Educational Content Center (VISC) reported on
September 5.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Fate_of_many_Russian_citizens_in_Latvia
still_unclear⠀⇛
According to the law currently in force, a
number of citizens of the Russian Federation
who have not shown an initiative to pass the
Latvian language check lose their permanent
residence permit in September. Meanwhile,
additional proposals are coming in and there
is no complete clarity on what’s awaiting
these people yet, Latvian Television reported
on September 4.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Over_80_Russians_denied_residency_by_Latvian
State_Security_Service⠀⇛
About 80 Russian citizens who have applied
for residence permits in Latvia in connection
with the amendments to the Immigration Law
have received a negative opinion from the
State Security Service (VDD), reports the
Latvian Television broadcast “Forbidden
Method” (Aizliegtais paņēmiens) on September
4.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Mother_of_abducted_girl_goes_to_Russia_to_meet
with_her_daughter_–_Lithuanian_body⠀⇛
The mother of a nine-month-old girl
unlawfully taken to Russia by her father has
left for the neighbouring country to meet
with her daughter, the National Crisis
Management Centre (NKVC) has confirmed to
BNS.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russians,_Belarusians_Given_Green_Light_To
Compete_As_Neutrals_By_World_Aquatics⠀⇛
Russian and Belarusian athletes will be
allowed to compete as neutrals in World
Aquatics events, the sport’s governing body
said on September 4.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Confirms_It_Won’t_Hold_Zapad_Military
Exercises_This_Year⠀⇛
Russia will not conduct the major military
exercises known as Zapad (West) this year,
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Kremlin_rejects_Armenian_PM’s
suggestion_that_Russia_is_quitting_South_Caucasus⠀⇛
The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion
by Armenia’s prime minister that Russia had
failed to ensure Armenia’s security amid its
standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was
winding down its role in the wider region.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_not_planning_limits_on_Russia-based
taxi_firm_Yango⠀⇛
Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman has
temporarily ordered Yango to stop the
transfer and processing of personal data of
customer data from Finland to Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ UN_commission_says_it_does_not_yet_have
sufficient_evidence_to_conclude_genocide_is_taking
place_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Alive,_healthy,_and_home’:_Russian_General
Sergey_Surovikin_seen_in_first_photo_since_Wagner_Group
rebellion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_we_report_on_a_warming_world⠀⇛
There’s also the fact that, with what we’ve already
put in the atmosphere, some warming is inevitable.
Is it helpful to describe a nonending situation as
a crisis? Does that take away crucial nuance –
removing our ability to effectively distinguish
more acute and serious climate challenges?
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_LRT_system_launched_to_ease
traffic_and_pollution_in_Jakarta⠀⇛
The driverless, 41.2km system connects
central Jakarta and its satellite cities in
West Java, Bekasi and Depok.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ European_copper_producer_launches
investigation_as_metal_inventory_goes_missing⠀⇛
Although saying the exact amount of the
damages could not be assessed, the company
has said it cannot be ruled out that the
damages might be in the low three-digit
million-euro range.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Developing_A_4,500_RPM_Twin-Cylinder_Air
Engine⠀⇛
Compressed air isn’t really a practical form
of energy storage for headline uses like
transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to
tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton]
is plenty experienced in that area, having
built a series of compressed air engines over
the years. His latest effort is capable of
running at up to 4,500 RPM, and delivering a
full 0.05 horsepower.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Heat_Pump_Control_That_Works⠀⇛
Heat pumps are taking the world by storm, and
for good reason. Not only are they many times
more efficient than electric heaters, but
they can also be used to provide cooling in
the summer. Efficiency aside, though, they’re
not perfectly designed devices, largely with
respect to their climate control abilities
especially for split-unit setups. Many of
them don’t have remotely located thermostats
to monitor temperature in an area, and rely
on crude infrared remote controls as the only
user interface. Looking to make some
improvements to this setup, [Danilo] built a
setup more reminiscent of a central HVAC
system to control his.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kazakhstan_dispatch:_President_Tokayev
announces_nuclear_power_plant_proposal_will_be_decided
in_a_national_referendum⠀⇛
Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and
a 4th year law student attending the Moscow
State Institute of International Relations
under a Kazakh government scholarship.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_a_Man_in_Prison_Stole_Millions_from
Billionaires⠀⇛
With smuggled cell phones and a handful of
accomplices, Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., took money
from large bank accounts and bought houses, cars,
clothes, and gold.
# ⚓ Redundancies_set_to_start_at_Wilko_offices_on_Monday_as
hopes_remain_for_shops⠀⇛
he first round of potentially thousands of layoffs
at failed retailer Wilko is expected to start on
Monday even as hopes of a rescue deal for parts of
the business remain.
Administrators confirmed last week that 269 people
in the company’s Worksop support centre would be
having their last day with the business.
Redundancies at the company’s Worksop and Newport
warehouses are also due to start early this week.
The administrators did not confirm how many
warehouse staff would lose their jobs, but around
1,296 people are thought to work there.
# ⚓ TechCabal_Daily_-mPharma_lays_off_150_staff⠀⇛
mPharma, the Ghanaian startup that manages
prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and
their suppliers, has laid off 150 employees.
According to the company’s CEO, Gregory Rockson,
the layoffs are in light of the current
macroeconomic conditions driven by the naira
devaluation.
# ⚓ More_tech_sector_layoffs_coming:_AlixPartners⠀⇛
Further job cuts are expected in the technology
sector as a growing number of industry CFOs and
other C-suite executives prioritize profitability
over growth, according to a survey by AlixPartners,
a consulting firm.
The survey found that many executives are relying
on headcount reduction as a tool to boost their
profitability, with nearly half (46%) of those
whose companies have already trimmed their
workforce by more than 5% planning future job cuts
over the next 12 months.
“Unfortunately, we expect more pain to come for the
tech industry,” Giuseppe Gasparro, a partner and
managing director at the firm, said in a press
release.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Are_YouTube_Shorts_Cannibalizing_Long
Form_Content?_—_Yeah,_Here’s_Proof⠀⇛
YouTube Shorts have amassed billions of views since
2021, but some staff are worried the platform is
losing focus. Here’s the latest. According to a new
report from the Financial Times citing senior
staff, many are worried that Shorts are
cannibalizing its core business.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Retired_teacher_sentenced_to_death_in_Saudi_Arabia
after_tweeting_criticism⠀⇛
The death sentence comes amid an “escalating
crackdown” on free speech in the country, said Lina
Alhathloul, ALQST head of monitoring and advocacy
and sister of released Saudi political prisoner
Loujain al-Hathloul.
“They are sending a clear and sinister message –
that nobody is safe, and even a tweet can get you
killed,” she said.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Nobel_Prize-winning_journalist_Dmitry_Muratov_to
step_down_as_Novaya_Gazeta_editor-in-chief_while_appealing
‘foreign_agent’_designation⠀⇛
The newspaper also said Muratov will temporarily
suspend his duties as editor-in-chief while the
legal proceedings are underway. Sergei Sokolov will
serve as acting editor-in-chief. “We don’t want to
get used to putting idiotic notices on our
website,” its journalists said, referring to the
24-word disclaimer that Russian law requires be
posted on all content authored by “foreign agents.”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_labels_Nobel_Prize-winning_journalist_a
‘foreign_agent’⠀⇛
Critics argue that this maneuver by the Kremlin
represents a broader strategy aimed at stifling
dissent and suppressing independent journalism. Of
significance, Muratov also holds the position of
Editor at Independent Novaya Gazeta, which
temporarily halted its publication in response to
Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. Nevertheless,
many of its journalists have regrouped to establish
a new publication, Novaya Gazeta Europe, now
headquartered in Latvia. Novaya Gazeta, founded in
1993 by former Soviet leader and fellow Nobel Peace
laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, is one of the rare
media outlets in Russia openly critical of
President Vladimir Putin’s policies.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Media,_journalists,_and_migrants⠀⇛
The current events in the border area of
Latvia–Belarus are a reason to create daily news
centered on migrants, border crossing, fence,
breaking through it, deterring migrants, or
allowing migrants into Latvia. The process is
justifiably described in the context of the hybrid
war by the Belarusian regime. How to write about
all this in the media professionally and ethically?
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Prominent_Uyghur_activist_learns_about_father’s_death
in_Xinjiang_months_after_demise⠀⇛
Hearing about a relative’s death months or years
later is not unusual for Uyghurs abroad.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Our_hearts_are_broken:’_Jacksonville_grieves
3_killed_in_shooting⠀⇛
As thousands gathered in Washington Saturday to
commemorate the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom, a racist gunman killed three people in
a historically Black Florida neighborhood.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Chinese_paper_Global_Times_demands
British_Museum_return_‘stolen’_artefacts⠀⇛
The newspaper said the museum had 23,000 Chinese
items.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Top_10_Labor_Day_Songs⠀⇛
In honor of Labor Day, I’ve revised a previous
attempt at the impossible task of naming the best
songs ever written about working people. The list
is highly debatable; songs about work and working
people cut across genres and generations. I know
it’s a travesty to neglect “Which Side Are You On?”
and Johnny Paycheck’s classic “Take This Job and
Shove It.” It also seems impossible that I’ve
excluded Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Nina
Simone, and John Mellencamp, and given such short
shrift to the rich history of punk rock odes to the
insanity of wage slavery. Hopefully, these songs
will get people thinking about their own favorite
musical celebrations of the working condition.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Pakistani_woman_stoned_to
death_for_alleged_adultery⠀⇛
A woman in Pakistan was allegedly stoned to death
by her own family members, including her husband,
for committing adultery. The incident took place in
Rajanpur district of Punjab, some 500 km from
Lahore, on Friday.
According to local media reports, the woman’s
husband tied her to a tree with the help of her
brother-in-law and one more accomplice.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Labor_Built_This_Republic⠀⇛
Given the relative universe that is organized
labor’s long, hard, hurdle-strewn history, this is
“a good year to have a Labor Day,” with a string of
organizing wins, a pro-union president, soaring
jobs and even rising support from a public long
immune to acting in its own best interests. Still,
in a ceaseless, shifting fight between those with
the overweening power of “a rich men’s club” and
those seeking a sliver of it, the bottom line stays
constant: “The only effective answer to organized
greed is organized labor.”
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Martin_Luther_King_Jr’s_Forgotten_1962
Speech_on_Civil_Rights_Unionism⠀⇛
MLK regarded progressive unions as bulwarks of the
civil rights movement. In this rousing 1962 speech
to the National Maritime Union, he linked the
democratic struggles of workers and black people
and ended by quoting the “beautiful words” of
Eugene Debs.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Great_Escape”:_Saket_Soni_on_Forced
Immigrant_Labor_Used_to_Clean_Up_Climate_Disasters_in_U.S.⠀⇛
As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers
who are hired by corporations to clean up after
hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are
increasingly on the frontlines of the climate
crisis.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Salvadoran_Writer_Javier_Zamora_on_Coping
with_Trauma_from_Being_Detained_&_Undocumented_in_U.S.⠀⇛
Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora discusses
the roots of his memoir Solito, which details his
odyssey as an unaccompanied 9-year-old child
through Guatemala and Mexico to reunite with family
in Arizona. “After surviving that nine-week
journey, surviving the United States as an
undocumented person was perhaps the main reason why
I became a writer,” Zamora says. He describes how
he works to cope with trauma from his experiences,
and how he was inspired to become a writer when he
was exposed to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda as a
high school student in California.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] APNIC ☛ The_Internet_Landscape_of_Japan⠀⇛
Japan is widely regarded as one of the most
advanced economies for Internet penetration.
Japan’s Internet usage rate (individuals) is 82.9%
and the development rate of optical fibre is 99.3%.
The number of broadband subscribers is 43.8M, which
includes 36.6M FTTH subscribers and 6.5M CATV
Internet subscribers, while the number of mobile
broadband subscribers (4G and 5G) is 184M.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Rescorla ☛ Private_Access_Tokens,_also_not_great⠀⇛
Stepping back, I worry about the equilibrium steady
state: the more that people are able to
authenticate these technologies the more attractive
it is for sites to basically require them, to
increase the level of scrutiny (as in WEI), and
provide a massively inferior experience to those
who can’t. Ironically, this is actually a direct
consequence of Privacy Pass being well-designed so
that it’s seamless and provides a good level of
privacy, because that makes it seem less
objectionable to require, as opposed to (say)
making everyone log in with a Google account.[6] At
the end of the day, though, the risk is further
entrenching the existing big players.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ TV_Museum_Will_Die_in_48_Hours_Unless
Sony_Retracts_YouTube_Copyright_Strikes⠀⇛
No matter whether takedowns are justified,
unjustified (Markscan hit Sony’s own website
with a DMCA takedown recently), or simply
disputed, getting Markscan’s attention is a
lottery at best, impossible at worst. In
MCCTv’s short experience, nothing has
changed.
“Our YouTube channel with 150k subscribers is
in danger of being terminated by September
6th if I don’t find a way to resolve these
copyright claims that Markscan made,” Klein
told TorrentFreak on Friday.
“At this point, I don’t even care if they
were issued under authorization by Sony or
not – I just need to reach a live human being
to try to resolve this without copyright
strikes. I am willing to remove the material
manually to get the strikes reversed.”
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘News_Media_are_a_Useful_Tool_to
Educate_the_Public_on_Piracy_Risks_and_Threats’⠀⇛
Tackling online piracy isn’t an easy task. In
addition to dismantling illicit sites and
services, the public at large should be made
aware of the associated risks and threats.
According to the Premier League, news media
can be helpful to spread these messages.
However, the lines between reporting news and
serving as a simple mouthpiece can sometimes
find themselves blurred.
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