𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, September 10, 2023
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⦿ Sirius ’Open Source’: The Tale of a Company That Loses All the Staff and Cannot Recruit Staff | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] ’DrAxe’ Targeting People Inside Sirius Open Source | Techrights
⦿ The “Intellectual Property” Stage of Capitalism and How It Relates to Free Software | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 09, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Sirius ’Open Source’, a Sick Company | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/disgruntled-sirius-applicants/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/doxxing-by-microsofters/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/free-software-vs-intellectual-monopoly/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/irc-log-090923/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/sick-company/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/calamares-qt6/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/docker-progress/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/kde-frameworks-5-110/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/microsoft-major-downtimes/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/mostly-world-news/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/smol-earth-compendium/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/disgruntled-sirius-applicants/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/10/disgruntled-sirius-applicants/
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✐ Sirius_‘Open_Source’:_The_Tale_of_a_Company_That_Loses_All_the_Staff_and
Cannot_Recruit_Staff⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 12:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum fc2ca023aa9cd6715b0568cf80397df3
Sirius Behind the Veil of Lies
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-job-offer-declined.webm
Summary: The crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ have made it virtually impossible
to attract people who can support GNU/Linux systems; there are lessons to learn
here, both for employers and for employees
THE collapse of Sirius is still being chronicled here, albeit less frequently
than before. At the end of July we saw that the company had sunk deeper into
debt and headcount fell to about half what the company falsely claims in its
Web site.
There is also a staff exodus (people fleeing); this includes high-level
positions. This is still an ongoing or outstanding issue. How long before it’s
a one-man shop with huge debt? Many workers got burned, some got burned out,
and many has been secretly robbed for many years. The details are updated still
and indexed under our Wiki pages; since leaving the company I was contacted by
people who had applied for the positions. All of them regretted even applying!
“There is also a staff exodus; this includes high-level positions.”“I have
decided to withdraw from the offer made by [redacted],” one told me. “I have
also carried out a credit reference check and it confirms a lot of what you
have said. I cannot be associated with a company like that. I think I have
dodged a bullet and wanted to thank you for your wiki entries. 🙂 [...] I ran a
check through companycheck.co.uk, it gave me a full history of the finances and
a score of the likelihood of the company folding. There was also a history of
Sirius spinning up shell companies. I do not like companies trying to dodge
their responsibilities by playing the system.”
“What takes a bit of effort here is hiding people’s identities.”“I looked at
the companies finances and compared that to [redacted]‘s version. It didn’t
match up, also [redacted] claimed contractors were “perm” employees to make it
look like the company was more successful than it actually was.”
The video above discusses this in greater depth. Some time tomorrow we intend
to tell a similar story. What takes a bit of effort here is hiding people’s
identities. The thing of utmost importance is to explain this from a more
generalised point of views, as it’s safe to assume many other companies behave
similarly. We try to explain the patterns. █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/10/doxxing-by-microsofters/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/10/doxxing-by-microsofters/
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✐ [Meme]_‘DrAxe’_Targeting_People_Inside_Sirius_Open_Source⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 12:17 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇I_heard_she_worked_for_Sirius;_being_the_misogynist_that_I
am,_I_will_dox_her⦈_
Summary: As we shall show later in the series about Sirius_‘Open_Source’,
malicious extremists who commit cybercrimes and are tied_to_Microsoft have
targeted Sirius staff
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Posted in Deception, Finance, Free/Libre_Software, Intellectual_Monopoly,
Microsoft at 6:28 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available in Gemini.
The “Intellectual Property” Stage of Capitalism and the Modern American
Economy.
I saw a_video_on_YouTube (Invidious Proxy) about where “managers” came from.
Today, most low wage hellholes like Taco Bell and Walmart call everyone a
“manager” to placate them with a job title, give them tons of extra work, and
take away overtime pay, in exchange for another 50 cents an hour or something.
The video went into more detail about how it was a Capitalist response to
various leftist angers about the unfairness and inequality in the system.
However, modern management theory is not the worst manifestation of this
problem.
One of the biggest modern inequalities in the system today is the inequality
and unfairness of “Intellectual Property”, especially as it pertains to
“digital works”.
There’s no costs of producing copies. This should make digital works cheaper,
but it usually doesn’t.
There’s also no workers making the copies that even have a chance at a middle
class life.
It’s, at best, in book publishing, one author (sometimes two), some executives
at a publishing company, lawyers, and some other slime. I say slime because
most of them are extremely rich and constantly complain it’s never enough.
In software, there’s usually not many programmers employed. Very few by the
time the product has “matured” and only needs tended to.
Then in exchange for propping up a few rich assholes who get another heated
driveway for the Lexus, you get to bust your ass at Taco Bell or Walmart, so
you can “buy thangs for mah iPhone 19 Pro Max OMG I’m gonna cum herrr
derrr!!!!!”, which actually was produced in a factory, in some low wage
cesspit, with suicide nets, which puts up two coal-fired power plants for every
one America shuts down (due to not having the factories here).
Then all the crap made in this hellhole gets put on a big diesel boat and
shipped across the world.
So this is clearly the “They’re just screwing with us now.” stage of
Capitalism.
You own nothing and will be happy with it.
But you’ll do real work to pay for it.
Your credit card bill will be real too.
Oh, yeah, and they might hire some software programmers to make some sort of
nutty copy control system that’s illegal to bypass. That way if you take a copy
for after the company goes under or shuts down the “store” or “activation
server”, you’re a felon.
But the other use for the nearly $2,000 phone that needs replaced every 2-
3 years is to view native advertising disguised as entertainment on TikTok.
Nobody is making money on TikTok without a moneyed interest’s hand up their ass
using them as a shill. Quite often, these “social media influencers” are
directly on the payroll of some Chinese sweatshop, promoting products for
Americans to buy.
I’ve only purchased several books this year. I didn’t get them on some “digital
platform” where I’m not even allowed to own the copy after the platform shuts
down.
I bought them from the author directly. They printed them out and took them to
a convention, and I got to hang out with them for a while and shoot the shit
over some snacks, and they were all nice enough to sign a copy for me.
Microsoft has outright stolen people’s money several times with DRM-encumbered
music files.
In at least one instance, Walmart “sold” the files to people, then shut down
the store.
Since the files were all tied to the PC and copies of Windows Media Player that
bought them, when those machines running Windows XP died, they stopped working.
They kept trying to get people to take the bait, like MTV “URGE” in Windows
Vista, or “Spiral Frog”, or Zune.
It wasn’t that people were smart enough to “Just Say No!” to DRM, it was the
cumbersome menial labor of moving around digitally encumbered files that needed
to be “managed” by some really terrible computer software.
Apple did one better.
First they sold people music that had the DRM, then they sold it to them again
(at a partial discount if they already had a copy with DRM) to remove the DRM.
Then they automatically deleted the entire music library of thousands of songs
($1.29, each!) from the person’s Mac and told them they could download the
files again, one at a time, from iCloud, or just pay $12.99 a month forever to
use Apple Music.
DRM is particularly nasty because you’ll never have a copy of your own of any
of the things you’re paying for. Even if you do have a copy, there’s no legal
way to share it with anyone, or make a backup, so it’s very anti-social.
When Apple said it was yours because it had no DRM, people fell for it again,
then Apple planted a malicious command that had the Mac destroy their music
library, and the notifications said your money is gone, now rent the things you
“bought” that we destroyed.
Book publishers hate public libraries, but the concept has been around so long
that they can’t just shut them down overnight.
But what they can do, what they are doing, is convincing library managers to
use limited taxpayer dollars to foist DRM’d “ebook lending programs” on people
which put the publisher in control of what’s even available.
Like Netflix, if they want to take it down, and it was on your list, well,
tough shit.
You can’t use it now.
This is why I never agree to DRM. I turn it off in all my Web browsers. It
should have never been allowed on the Web.
DRM is essentially a way to rob people who go to work of their money, in
exchange for absolutely nothing.
Five iPhones and $10,000 in the trash, and 10 years from now….still nothing.
DRM and the tyranny it promotes make trying to deal with “digital goods” like
holding onto sand, or water.
Apple also has the most successful scam in the entire software “publishing”
industry.
They charge software developers 30%, essentially for doing nothing more than
hosting it on servers, which they mostly rent from Google, and wrapping it in
DRM. They then force authors and users to deal with this store by abusing both
parties with App Store lock-in.
If they didn’t behave this way, I might even purchase an iPhone because I could
actually use it to do useful things. Apple discourages authors from giving me
software without charging me something for it, by charging them a considerable
amount of money, per year, if they want to register as a developer, only to
turn around and give me software for free. And their App Store is entirely
incompatible with most Free and Open Source Software licenses.
They’ve done me a favor. By making the platform so overtly useless and
obnoxious, I’ll be sure to never have the temptation to buy one.
Thank you, Apple. There’s so little you can do with an iPhone after you pay so
much for one that nobody could look at this arrangement and rationalize it.
It’s like a Jitterbug phone, only for teenagers and soccer moms.
It’s hard to make any real money on the Apple store due to the developer
account fees and the 30% revenue drain. So when people put useful software in
the App Store, like VLC, they make the platform more attractive to users, which
in turn hurts the same users.
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Marx’s_theory_of_alienation was turned into computing products.
The iPhone. The Mac. The Windows “device”.
The workers are totally alienated from their labor, they are directed at
meaningless pursuits that cost them money and life happiness, by the owners of
the means of production.
DRM hands the means of production to the wealthy elite with no benefits to the
workers who pay to use the digital goods. They don’t even get to work in a
factory for a small paycheck along the way.
If it were possible to dig up Karl Marx, and horrify him into dying again
immediately, you would show him America, and especially how Americans are
pressured into parting with valuable capital in order to do minor, trivial,
computing tasks.
The alternative to handing the means of production, in terms of computing, to
the wealthy elite, is to seize the means of production yourself with Free
Software and a sharing culture.
Richard Stallman as a de facto Marxist both makes me cringe and inspires me, it
really and honestly depends on the topic. In terms of computing, he’s often
correct.
It actually wasn’t even Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation that
made me decide that I didn’t like the concept of bring parted with a lot of
valuable capital every time I needed to do a small computing task.
In the 1990s, at least software publishers had to publish something. They gave
you a box with a disc or some diskettes in it (a physical copy of the
software), usually in a pretty box, that came with a printed manual about how
to install and use it. And although the software license said to only use one
copy at a time, if I wanted to put a copy on my other computer, in the bedroom,
there was no technical measure (DRM) that would prevent me from doing it.
So the metaphor of buying something, which was yours to keep, and paying for a
service (the disc/diskettes and the manual), and being free to use as many
copies as you wanted, generally rang true for proprietary software that you
paid for. It also had no built-in “time-bomb” like Product Activators that will
de-authorize the product if Microsoft shuts down a server (or has it go offline
unexpectedly), or you pay as you go and when your “subscription” runs out, MS
Office goes into “read-only” mode.
There was none of this. Your binaries would always work. Today, it is still
possible to install Office 95 on a PC, but if you pay for Microsoft 365, all
you get is another month.
Why is Microsoft so insidious?
The American government doesn’t literally send the police out to stick a gun to
the back of your skull and say, “Now you listen here, you, and you listen good!
You’re going to work for for free, to buy Microsoft Office, and pay taxes on
the earnings! Every year!”, no, they’re more subtle.
Got a petition to file with an Illinois court?
Need to interact with US Immigration or the Patent Office?
Got a course to take at the local government university?
Well, they use Microsoft formats.
So you’re being told, “In theory, you don’t have to work for free to subscribe
to this intangible thing you don’t even want, but if you don’t you can’t
interact with your own government or go to one of its schools if you can’t
handle their stinking office formats, which are so badly designed that their
software can be the only thing that touches it, and it still gets corrupted
eventually.”
What Apple or Microsoft represents is an extreme worst case of alienation of
labor.
In many cases, people are forced to buy poorly made software, which they don’t
even want, and can’t easily put down once they have it, like some sort of a
cursed object.
Depending on what the minimum wage is in your State, it might cost you 10-12
hours of working at your job for free, each year. As another cost of dealing
with your government.
The court system is already very expensive to access. They have filing fees,
and you’ll need an attorney, and now they’re pressuring you to subscribe to
lousy office programs you don’t even want.
We already have open standards for office formats, called Open Document Format,
but Microsoft has successfully paid off, bribed, corrupted, the Illinois State
government to demand Microsoft forms.
The government even demands that you edit PDFs using Microsoft Edge. But I
edited them with Okular in KDE and the court accepted them, so it’s not even
necessary to use Edge, they’re just giving Microsoft free advertising on a .gov
Web site!
The costs of dealing with Microsoft percolate throughout the entire economy.
Because all the businesses you interact with and governments you pay taxes to
are also dealing with this parasitic drag.
There are at least some minor positive benefits to employment in a sector that
actually produces things.
There are no positive economic benefits of dealing with Microsoft. It’s a
parasitic loss to the economy, which snowballs into many billions of dollars,
and to the capital you personally could otherwise spend on housing, food, gas
for your car, and a pair of shoes.
We already have software that meets or exceeds Microsoft standards and doesn’t
force me to squander valuable capital, so in logical conclusion, what else
could Microsoft be considered other than a parasite?
So I refuse to pay anything for it.
Microsoft Office could bleed me for $1,000 over ten years and I’d still have
nothing, really.
At least I could pay a month of rent on my apartment if I don’t subscribe
Microsoft Office.
LibreOffice has made it possible, and this is why Microsoft is leaning on their
partners at IBM Red Hat to defund it and delete the packages.
Overall, the fear of going broke and starving is what motivates people in the
US.
They try not to make everyone absolutely furious, -or- so comfortable that they
don’t need to do a lot of work.
It’s a balancing act. You need to have some people eating out of the dumpster
and living in cardboard boxes. Not enough to revolt and change anything and
gain a power base, but enough to scare others when they see it.
There’s this “ideal amount of suffering” to compel the public to not do
anything to kill the bastards, revolt, and start running the place. You have to
always make it enough to scare people into working, but not enough that the
police can’t quash them.
You want to keep the people who only barely subsist as distracted and apathetic
with nonsense as possible.
That way instead of rage and people burning shit because they’re all starving
and have nothing left to lose, at least they can go to McDonald’s and watch
some porn.
The problem is that this is all America aspires to be now.
The people running this place almost couldn’t have duplicated Orwell’s Ninteeen
Eighty-Four any better if they tried, including “telescreens” to monitor
people.
The government literally pays people to put surveillance cameras in their
house. The police don’t use them to solve crimes, they just want to be able to
tap into the cameras when they become interested, and it won’t be because
they’re interested in your home invasion.
My mother even asked me if I could install an Amazon Ring into her front door.
I told her I knew how to but I wouldn’t ever do that to her. She sincerely
wondered why not, then I explained how the police can access it without your
consent, and they’ve rarely solved any crimes with them, but they have arrested
the homeowner and used their own camera as evidence.
The government does not want to raise a big stink about how your own camera can
be used against you, and you can’t actually delete anything it sees.
Illinois is one of the worst States in America, especially for “right to self-
defense”.
If someone shows up, hopped up on crack, trying to break my door down, do you
think I want a camera aimed at me?
You can go further into Orwellianism to describe America today, including the
point where everyone should be in the middle class, but the government takes
their valuable labor and throws the excess into something like, the War in
Iraq, or Syria, or Ukraine for that matter. Always war. Never a chicken in the
pot and two cars in every garage.
No prosperity, just drugs flooding the streets.
The floorboard has rotten out from under the country.
Having children is generally a mistake because it keeps the cycle of
exploitation going.
The government is panicking because of this, insulting people who choose not to
have children, because they finally have no money to do it with, by having the
media throw about the term “infertility”.
Like you’re a eunuch. Like you need to lay on your back and think of America. A
country that has abandoned about half of its own citizens.
I think we should do more to educate potential immigrants coming here in
caravans that this country isn’t even taking care of its own citizens. It’s
falling apart, and it’s a giant real estate scam. They won’t like it when they
get here and nobody will hand them a work permit if they want one.
Of course, the whole point of not handing them one is actually so they will
have to work for some crook, for less than minimum wage, with no rights, while
the system looks the other way.
I wish I could say that I knew exactly what to do about all of this, but I
don’t. I know what to do in regards to my computing.
Don’t let them control that too and don’t let them turn me into another drone
who might as well have a $2,000 iPhone sewn into my skin, which needs to be
replaced every couple of years.
Don’t rely on proprietary software.
It only has one point, which is to addict you and make you dependent, so that
they can demand any price.
I ran into a Web site in the late 90s called “Completely Free Software”.
It had nothing to do with Free Software (as in Freedom), it was written by a
man in Australia named Graham Pockett, who admitted that he used to be a
“software pirate”, but “reformed himself” due to Fundamentalist Christian
beliefs, and then he only used “freeware” (which is an all encompassing term
for things that may be proprietary, binary-only, but free of financial cost).
Ironically, this all runs on Windows and DOS, which cost a never-ending pile of
money to use (although DOS has since been cloned).
I would say this misses an important point.
Using this “freeware” might alleviate the loss of useful capital, but you still
depend on single authors.
You can’t fully seize the means of production and produce a different version
that does things you want.
All you get are binaries that will rot.
If Google lets you use “Docs” for free, then it is “freeware”. But you don’t
even get the binaries. They can change their mind tomorrow and say it costs
$100 a year now.
They can change it, but you can’t. It’s “freeware”, but without even the
benefit of “rotting binaries” that you can at least copy exactly how they are
now.
Many people give up when they see obstacles like the ones that Microsoft has
built in order to ensure their hegemony of Office and Windows, but obviously
not everyone has.
Microsoft 365 is as much of a reaction to the decline in Windows usage as it is
anything else. I would say it’s even the typical Capitalist response to anger.
You adopt the points of the reformers, but only as many as you need to in order
to quell the insurrection.
It became necessary to decouple Microsoft Office from Windows because the PC
sales are worse every year, and Microsoft only has 69% of this shrinking
desktop market for Windows anyway. (StatCounter August 2023)
Porting their software to “Linux”, the Web, or the Mac is a necessary strategy
for Microsoft, if it wants to survive the collapse of Windows at all (which
they barely invest anything into anymore and manage to break somehow almost
every month).
While establishing a beachhead is a tactic that an enemy military might use to
make further gains, we should see what Microsoft is doing as exactly that, and
refuse to entertain this idea of meeting them on the platforms that we use. █
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✐ [Meme]Sirius‘Open_Source’,_a_Sick_Company⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 12:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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years;_Subjected_to_pension_fraud_for_many_years⦈_
Summary: The crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ will eventually bear consequences;
my wife and I worked for the company for about 21 years combined without ever
taking a single day off sick; meanwhile my colleagues and I were secretly
robbed by the company and the people who committed this crime are_acting_like
weasels (we have patience and we’ll ensure they’re punished)
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⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠐⠒⠀⠉⠁⠘⠓⠠⢌⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠾⠷⠶⠾⠷⠷⠶⠶⠓⠛⣓⣛⣛⣒⣚⣓⣚⣓⣛⣛⣛⣓⣛
⣿⣿⣿⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⡁⠰⠆⢈⣉⠓⠂⢌⡐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢙⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⢛⣛⣛
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⢈⠁⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠤⠆⠀⠀⡈⠐⠂⠤⡀⠂⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣓⣇⡞
⣿⣿⡇⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣤⣤⣤⣤⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⠀⠘⠁⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠄⢀⣀⡀⠀⠂⠄⡀⠈⠂⠀⠀⠐⢿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶
⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠐⠂⠀⠉⠁⡀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠈⠉⠑⠢⠄⠀⠀⠂⠀⠄⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠁⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠸⠿⠿⠿⡿⡇⠀⠀⡄⠠⠐⠒⠉⢀⣠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠠⠀⡀⠀⠀⠙⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢘⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛
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⣿⠰⢋⣩⣬⣍⢩⣭⡍⣭⡍⣭⣭⣭⡙⢩⣬⡍⣭⣭⡍⢉⣥⣤⡀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⡄⣠⣤⣄⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣀⢠⣤⣤⢠⣬⡉⣭⡍⣩⣭⣍⠛⣭⡍⢋⣭⣬⡙⢫⣭⠉⣭⠝⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⢨⢠⣭⢻⣿⠈⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⡏⣿⣧⢸⣿⡇⣿⡟⠃⣿⣿⢠⣤⠀⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⠛⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⠛⠋⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⢿⣿⡇⣬⡟⣿⡆⣿⡇⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢿⣿⠀⣶⣶⣶⣶
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⡇⠘⣉⣁⡀⣈⣉⣉⡒⢊⣉⣁⠐⢀⣉⢁⣈⢉⣀⣀⣀⠻⠆⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⡀⠛⣀⡙⣉⡉⣉⣁⣙⢛⣉⣙⠛⢛⣁⣙⡛⢟⣋⣉⡛⠿⠿⠿⠿
⡷⠀⣿⡏⠁⣿⡏⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢹⣿⡆⠀⢸⣿⠉⢸⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⡏⣿⡆⠀⢸⣿⣇⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⣿⠀⣿⣧⣿⡇⢻⣧⣿⠃⠆⢹⣧⣿⠃⣿⡏⠉⢸⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⡹⠿⠸⠿⠿⠿
⡇⠀⣿⡟⠃⣿⡟⣿⡇⣼⣏⣿⡇⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡟⣿⡄⠀⢸⡟⣿⡟⣿⡇⣿⣇⣿⡄⣿⣿⣿⡇⠈⣿⡏⢰⣶⠈⣿⡟⠀⣿⡟⠃⣸⣏⣿⡇⢸⣿⢻⣧⢈⣙⢿⣷⢹⣿⣿⡯
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* GNU/Linux
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# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
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* Gemini*_and_Gopher
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# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Nibble_Stew:_A_logo_for_CapyPDF⠀⇛
As you can probably tell I’m not a professional
artist, but you gotta start somewhere. The original
idea was to have a capybara head which is wearing
the PDF logo much like a bow tie around its ear.
The gist of it should come across, though it did
look much better inside my brain. The PDF squiggle
logo is hard to mold to the desired shape.
The font is Nimbus Sans, which is one of the
original PostScript Core Fonts. More precisely it
is a freely licensed metrically compatible version
of Helvetica. This combines open source with the
history of PDF quite nicely.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_IaaS_Software⠀⇛
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a service
model where an organization outsources the
equipment used to support storage, hardware,
servers and networking components.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Bare_Metal_Step-
by-Step⠀⇛
The step-by-step guide on this page will show you
how to Install Proxmox VE on bare metal.
# ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Use_Variables_in_Ansible_Playbook_
(Simple_Guide)⠀⇛
In this blog post, we will show you how to use
variables in Ansible playbook. If you have done
programming or written code before, then the
concept of variables should ring a bell.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_All_Important_Audio/Video
Codecs_in_your_Ubuntu⠀⇛
OOPS! When I play some videos on my Ubuntu
computer, the video gets played, but I can’t hear
anything from the speakers. If you’re facing this
problem, then you’re probably missing some
important codec, which is required for decoding the
audio or video file.
# ⚓ Adam_Young:_Following_a_code_path_in_the_Linux_Kernel
without_a_debugger⠀⇛
Sometimes you don’t get to use a debugger. When do
bare metal development, often it is faster to get
to the root of a problem by throwing in trace
statements, and seeing what path is taken through
the code.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Run_GUI_Applications_as_Containers_with
x11docker⠀⇛
As a developer, you might have a need to work with
GUI containers.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Flexible_Keyboard_Fits
Inside_Steam_Deck_Case⠀⇛
Karlis is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to power a
custom flexible keyboard that’s small enough to fit
inside of a Steam Deck case.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Rare_Arcade_Game_Teardown_And_Mods⠀⇛
[Video Game Esoterica] loves a 1990s video game
called Operation Tiger. Apparently, there are only
a few of these known to exist in 2023, and he
managed to find one of them. Well, it is really
just a module so he has to figure out how to give
it enough input and output to be actually playable.
You can see several videos of his work with the
Taito game below.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Ships_Frameworks_5.110.0⠀⇛
Saturday, 9 September 2023
KDE today announces the release of KDE
Frameworks 5.110.0.
# ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Calamares_Qt6⠀⇛
A week ago I wrote about Calamares 3.3.0
getting closer. One of the items on the TODO
list for that release is Qt6 compatibility.
That is a bit tricky because Calamares uses a
bunch of KDE Frameworks and also KPMCore, all
of which also need to be Qt6-compatible.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Control_Nanoleaf_Lights_on_Linux_Using_a
GNOME_Extension⠀⇛
If so, you’re in luck as there’s a plucky
little GNOME extension that lets you do
exactly that.
The creator of the Nano Lights GNOME
extension says their add-on “…controls
Nanoleaf shapes and possibly others Nanoleaf
devices on your local (wifi) network (sic)”.
This includes turning devices on/off,
adjusting the brightness, changing/setting
the colour, and setting Scenes.
# ⚓ GNOME_45.rc_released!⠀⇛
Also remember you can use the 45beta branch
of the flatpak runtime, which is now
available on Flathub beta.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_14.0-BETA1_Now_Available⠀⇛
The first BETA build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is
now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 14.0-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC
o 14.0-BETA1 i386 GENERIC
o 14.0-BETA1 powerpc GENERIC
o 14.0-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 14.0-BETA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 14.0-BETA1 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 14.0-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 RPI
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 ROCK64
o 14.0-BETA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 14.0-BETA1 riscv64 GENERIC
o 14.0-BETA1 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for
those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a
password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access.
Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is strongly
recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining
access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are available
here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the
Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based update
of an existing
system, use the "releng/14.0" branch.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386,
aarch64, and riscv64
architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the
following URL
(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/14.0-
BETA1/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/14.0-
BETA1/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT
label)
~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT
label)
~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT
label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and
raw disk image
formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB
and 165 MB
respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB
sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a
modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able
to boot the
virtual machine images. See this page for more
information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -
M virt \
-bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic
\
-drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual
machine image.
=== Amazon EC2 AMI Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 EC2 AMI IDs can be retrieved from the
Systems Manager
Parameter Store in each region using the keys:
/aws/service/freebsd/amd64/base/ufs/14.0/BETA1
FreeBSD/arm64 EC2 AMIs are not available for BETA1, and
the cause is
being investigated.
=== Vagrant Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 images are not available for BETA1. The
cause is being
investigated.
=== Upgrading ===
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of
amd64 and i386
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Note, aarch64
binary updates
are expected to be available starting with BETA2, due to
a configuration
error. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can
upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.0-BETA1
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user
to help by
merging some configuration files or by confirming that
the automatically
performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed
kernel before
continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to
install the new
userland components:
# freebsd-update install
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications
if possible,
especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release,
for example,
FreeBSD 12.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/
compat12x and
other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must
be rebooted
into the new userland:
# shutdown -r now
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run
again to remove
stale files:
# freebsd-update install
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Aborted_release_of_EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version
5.5⠀⇛
In the early hours of this morning, everything seemed OK
and uploaded version 5.5. My current host system is
5.4.9, so tested an update; clicked the “update” icon and
that went OK, but after rebooting: [...]
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Cannot_execute_usrmerged_binaries_on_non-usrmerged
OS⠀⇛
Building what is intended to be EasyOS 5.5 in woofQ, host
OS is Easy 5.4.10. Building with packages compiled in OE
with the “usrmerge” flag set in DISTRO_FEATURES, reported
earlier: [...]
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Debian ☛ Bits_from_Debian:_DebConf23_starts_today_in_Kochi
On_Sun_10_September_2023⠀⇛
DebConf23, the 24th annual Debian_Developer
Conference, is taking place in Kochi, India from
September 10th to 17th, 2023.
Debian contributors from all over the world have
come together at Infopark, Kochi to participate and
work in a conference exclusively run by volunteers.
Today the main conference starts with over 373
expected attendants and 92 scheduled activities,
including 45-minute and 20-minute talks, Bird of a
Feather (“BoF”) team meetings, workshops, a job
fair, as well as a variety of other events.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Andes_launches_AX45MPV_RISC-V_CPU_core_with
Vector_Extension_1.0⠀⇛
Andes Technology has recently announced the general
availability of the AndesCore AX45MPV RISC-V CPU
which builds upon the AX45MP multicore processor
and adds RISC-V Vector Extension 1.0. Equipped with
RISC-V vector processing and parallel execution
capability, the new RISC-V CPU core targets SoCs
processing large amounts of data for applications
such as ADAS, AI inference and training, AR/VR,
multimedia, robotics, and signal processing.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pi_Pico_Becomes_SRAM_For_1981_Educational
Computer⠀⇛
Ever since the Raspberry Pi Pico was introduced in
early 2021 we’ve seen the tiny Pi being used for an
astonishing variety of applications. It has powered
countless clocks, gadgets, games, and accessories
for all kinds of computers old and new. [Michael
Wessel] has recently added an interesting new
application in the “old computer” category, by
turning a Pico into a 2114 SRAM emulator for his
Busch 2090, an educational computer system from
1981.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_WebStick_Is_A_Small,_Cheap_NAS⠀⇛
The ESP8266 was one of the first chips that
provided wireless functionality at a cost low
enough to be widely popular for small
microcontroller projects. This project uses one to
provide rapid, small, and inexpensive network-
attached storage (NAS) capabilities wherever you
happen to go.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla_Thunderbird:_Thunderbird
Community_Office_Hours_Schedule_For_September_2023⠀⇛
Hello Thunderbird community! We’re bringing
back monthly Office Hours, now with a
Saturday option to make attendance more
convenient. Please read the details below to
learn how and when you can meet with us to
share your feedback and ask questions.
Now that Thunderbird_115_Supernova has been
released, we have a lot to discuss, plan, and
do! And we’re rolling out monthly Office
Hours sessions so that you can: [...]
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Once_free_of_charge,_North_Korean_eBooks_will
cost_money_to_access⠀⇛
The move will keep farmers and factory
technicians from studying helpful manuals,
some say.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppFarmHash_0.0.3
on_CRAN:_Small_Update⠀⇛
A minor maintenance release of the RcppFarmHash
package is now on CRAN as version 0.0.3.
RcppFarmHash wraps the Google FarmHash family of
hash functions (written by Geoff Pike and
contributors) that are used for example by Google
BigQuery for the FARM_FINGERPRINT digest.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Agreeing_By_Disagreeing⠀⇛
While we were working on the podcast this week, Al
Williams and I got into a debate about the utility of
logic analyzers. (It’s Hackaday, after all.) He said
they’re almost useless these days, and I maintained that
they’re more useful than ever. When we got down to it,
however, we were actually completely in agreement – it
turns out that when we said “logic analyzer” we each had
different machines, and use cases, in mind.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tape_Is_Very,_Very_Quiet⠀⇛
If someone stops by and asks you to help them make some
noisy thing less noisy, you probably wouldn’t reach for a
roll of tape. But [The Action Lab] shows some 3M tape
made for exactly that purpose. For the right kind of
noise, it can dampen noise caused by a surface vibrating.
You can see how (and why) it works in the video below.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_Tail_Lights_Lose_Touch_With_Reality⠀⇛
To study the history of the automobile is to also
be a student of technological progress — as with
each decade’s models come new innovations to make
them better handling, more corrosion-resistant,
faster, more efficient, or whatever the needs of
the moment dictate. But sometimes that
technological advancement goes awry and works
against the motorist, making for a vehicle that’s
substantially worse than what went before.
[FordTechMakuloco] has a video with an example in a
Ford pickup, which we believe deserves to be
shared.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_PM_Kishida_spoke_about_Fukushima
water_release_with_G-20_leaders⠀⇛
Mr Kishida addressed leaders of the G-20 on issues
ranging from the global economy to food security
and the water release.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Japanese_fishermen_sue_over_Fukushima_water
discharge⠀⇛
Approximately 150 Japanese fishermen, hailing from
the Fukushima Prefecture filed a lawsuit on Friday
in the district court of Japanese jurisdiction. The
defendants in this case are the government and the
TEPCO company. This legal action revolves around
the discharge of radioactive treated water from the
Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Koreans_worry_about_Fukushima
water;_more_disapprove_of_President_Yoon,_says_poll⠀⇛
S. Korean govt finds no scientific problem with the
release of water from the nuclear power plant.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Study_uncovers_how_sleep_deprivation_can
harm_the_brain⠀⇛
We all know that a poor night’s sleep can leave us
feeling groggy and irritable, but the effects of
chronic sleep deprivation on our brains go much
deeper, potentially increasing the risk of
neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s. A recent
study in the Journal of Proteome Research sheds
light on how sleep deprivation can harm our brains
and provides insights into the protective
mechanisms we rely on when we rest.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Clean_Water,_From_A_Plant-Based_Filter⠀⇛
If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest
things you learned was probably that in-field water
sources can’t always be trusted as drinkable. A
clear mountain stream could have a dead sheep in it
just upstream, for example. Maybe you learned to
boil it, or perhaps add chemical tablets. Up-to-
date campers have a range of filters at their
disposal thanks to nanotechnology, but such devices
aren’t the only options to avoid sickness.
[BeraAjan] has built one using plant xylem.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ 79%_rise_in_cancer_cases_among_those_under
50_in_three_decades⠀⇛
A new study published in the open-access journal
BMJ Oncology reveals a staggering 79 percent
increase in the number of new cancer cases among
individuals under the age of 50 worldwide over the
past three decades (1990-2019).
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Sri_Lanka_searches_for_solutions_amid_exodus
of_doctors⠀⇛
An exodus of health care workers is straining Sri
Lanka’s stressed medical system. Doctors are
weighing their professional responsibility against
their own well-being.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexican_Supreme_Court_decriminalizes
abortion_at_federal_level⠀⇛
The ruling is a critical step according to
activists on the road towards abortion access at
public health institutions in Mexico.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ ?Anyone_get_the_ASN_of_the_Truck_that_Hit_Me?!?:
Creating_a_PowerShell_Function_to_Make_3rd_Party_API_Calls
for_Extending_Honeypot_Information_[Guest_Diary],_(Sat,_Sep
9th)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Getting_the_right_type_of_certificate⠀⇛
This post covers my debugging of a self-signed
certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The
error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported
certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN:
unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs
server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought
it was a server versus client issue.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Israeli_army_kills_16-year-old
Palestinian_in_West_Bank,_claiming_youths_threw_explosives⠀⇛
Palestinian health authorities say that Israeli
security forces have killed a 16-year-old
Palestinian in a confrontation in the southern
occupied West Bank. Saturday’s shooting marked
latest violence to roil the territory during one of
the most violent stretches of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict in nearly two decades. The
death of Milad al-Rai brings to 185 the number of
Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this
year by Israeli fire, including over 30 youths
under the age of 18. This year’s death toll in the
West Bank and east Jerusalem has already overtaken
that of 2022, which had been considered the
deadliest year since the United Nations began
tracking in 2005.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Legal_fight_expected_after_New
Mexico_governor_suspends_the_right_to_carry_guns_in_public⠀⇛
Legal scholars and advocates say New Mexico Gov.
Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending
the right to carry firearms in public in and around
Albuquerque will spur a legal fight but might also
move the debate about gun violence. Lujan Grisham
on Friday announced at least a 30-day suspension of
the right to carry firearms in her state’s largest
city and surrounding Bernalillo County. Police and
licensed security guards are exempt. Law professors
at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles and Pepperdine
in California say the Democratic governor’s order
is certain to raise Second Amendment questions.
They also note the U.S. Supreme Court last year
expanded the right of law-abiding Americans to
carry guns in public for self-defense.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ New_Mexico_governor_issues_order
suspending_the_right_to_carry_firearms_in_public_across
Albuquerque⠀⇛
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has issued
an emergency public health order that temporarily
suspends the right to carry firearms in public
across Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo
County. The order issued Friday amid a spate of gun
violence is in effect for 30 days. The Democratic
governor says she’s expecting legal challenges but
felt compelled to act. She references several
recent deaths, including a suspected road rage
shooting this week outside a minor league baseball
stadium that killed an 11-year-old boy. The
firearms suspension is tied to a threshold for
violent crime rates that only the Albuquerque area
currently meets. Police are exempt from the
temporary ban.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Security_guard_shot_in_back_of_head_trying_to
break_up_fight_at_high_school_football_game⠀⇛
A group of about a dozen people were brawling on
the pavement when at least two shots rang out,
video of the incident shows.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Panama_announces_plan_to_slow_down_migrant
crossings_through_the_Darién_Gap⠀⇛
Samira Gozaine, the director of Panama’s National
Migration Institute, held a press conference with
Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino on Friday,
explaining plans to increase border control and
surveillance on land and in the air.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Photos:_Scenes_From_Morocco’s_Deadly
Magnitude-6.8_Earthquake⠀⇛
The quake about 50 miles from Marrakesh turned
residences into rubble and left the survivors
terrified.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Morocco_earthquake:_A_look_at_the
deadliest_quakes_over_the_past_25_years⠀⇛
An earthquake struck Morocco late Friday and killed
more than 1,300 people. The death toll is expected
to increase as rescuers struggle to reach some
areas. Some of the deadliest earthquakes over the
past 25 years have resulted in tens of thousands of
deaths in countries such as Haiti, China and
Pakistan.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Road_to_Hong_Kong_villages_cut_off
by_landslides_to_partially_reopen;_residents_rally_to
coordinate_clean-up_efforts⠀⇛
The only road into and out of two Hong Kong
villages would partially reopen on Saturday
evening, Chief Executive John Lee has said, after
two landslides caused by record rain cut access to
the coastal communities.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India’s_Modi:_There_is_need_to_expand
mandate_of_multilateral_development_banks⠀⇛
There is a need to expand the mandate of
multilateral development banks and develop global
standards to regulate cryptocurrencies, Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told G20 leaders
during a summit of the bloc on Sunday.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Food_inflation_changes_families’_diets
in_India;_importing_countries_face_restrictions_on_produce⠀⇛
To make matters worse, income growth has not kept
pace with inflation.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Will_Rat-Infested_24_Sussex_Drive_Be
Replaced?⠀⇛
Leaked information suggests that security concerns
may force officials to build a new house to replace
24 Sussex Drive, the derelict and abandoned
official residence of Canada’s prime ministers.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_President_Joe_Biden_visits
Vietnam_to_expand_ties_as_China_worries_grow⠀⇛
By Alice Philipson US President Joe Biden arrives
in Vietnam on Sunday to deepen cooperation between
the two nations, in the face of China’s growing
ambitions in the region.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UK_parliamentary_researcher_arrested
on_suspicion_of_spying_for_China⠀⇛
UK police said Saturday they had arrested a man in
his twenties for spying, with the Sunday Times
reporting he was a researcher in Britain’s
parliament suspected of working for China.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnam_wants_it_all_in_balancing_its_ties_with_the
US_and_China⠀⇛
Hanoi has worked to keep Beijing on side as Biden
visit elevates U.S.-Vietnam relations.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US,_Vietnam_to_elevate_ties_during
Biden_visit,_with_eye_on_China⠀⇛
The two sides are expected to declare themselves
strategic partners.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Absence_of_China’s_leader_Xi_Jinping
felt_at_G20_meeting_in_India_as_bloc’s_relevance_called_into
question⠀⇛
By Andrew Beatty and Bhuvan Bagga US President Joe
Biden and other G20 leaders gathered in New Delhi
on Friday for their annual summit, as deep
divisions between heavyweight members and a no-show
by China’s Xi Jinping called the bloc’s relevance
into question.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ African_Union_joins_G20_as_compromise_statement
agreed⠀⇛
Summit achieves unexpected breakthrough agreement
in New Delhi.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China,_Europe_should_‘unite_and_co-
operate’,_says_Premier_Li_Qiang_at_G-20⠀⇛
Mr Li’s call came as the European bloc grows warier
of the risks of engaging China.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Cynkin_interviewed_by_VOA_on_the_PRC’s
response_to_Camp_David_Trilateral_Summit⠀⇛
On August 31, IPSI nonresident senior fellow Thomas
Cynkin spoke with VOA Korea about the PRC’s
reaction to the recent Trilateral Leaders’ Summit
at Camp David. He explained, “I cannot rule out
more aggressive action, but I think the Chinese are
[currently] very cautious” in their response toward
South Korea.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ South_Korea_issues_unilateral_sanctions_on_North
Korean_firm,_5_individuals⠀⇛
Named individuals and company involved in illicit
financing for weapons of mass destruction programs,
said Seoul.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Cop_Jailed_Her_for_2_Years_on_Fake_Charges._Will
She_Ever_Get_Justice?⠀⇛
St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker has thus far
managed to get immunity for upending Hamdi
Mohamud’s life.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Analyzing_Removal_Jurisdiction_over_Section_Three
Lawsuit_in_Colorado⠀⇛
Time to brush off your federal courts outlines.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Another_Crazy_CDDA_Moment⠀⇛
In theory a searchlight is grounded, but in
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead with suitable resources
one can move a searchlight into a vehicle and drive
off with it. Granted, the searchlight remains
hostile, so friendly NPCs and other random monsters
could attack it. Or you could mindlessly hit tab
while next to it.
Benefits of this, are, uh, maybe you can use it to
provide free lighting at your base if you haven’t
found an atomic lamp yet? Or maybe you like being
lit up whilst driving through hostile realms by
night? Or you’ve looted so much that a broken or
inactive searchlight does not fit in your vehicle,
but it does when intact? Game physics…
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Busy_Phase⠀⇛
Life has been busy recently, as you may have
noticed from my lack of posts in the past
month or so. I’ve been following BBS daily,
of course, chiming in when I get a chance.
However, when it comes to programming
projects, it has been challenging to find
time for any substantial progress.
[...]
Lagrange v1.17 is shaping up nicely. However,
there are a few features I’ve been wanting to
implement for a long time, and I’d like to
add them before making a release. There is no
guarantee I’ll have much time later for the
planned v1.18, so postponing features could
mean several months of additional delay.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ a_large_metal_tube_through_the_throat⠀⇛
Listen here, Shorty, we’ve been through a lot
together here. This one is going to be a little
different. Tie your Penguin leash to the bicycle
stand by the door and come inside. We need to talk.
Keep your shoes on, and don’t mind the dirt. My
vacuum subscription ran out.
Don’t think I don’t see it too. My eyeballs might
be scratched, leaking blue on occasion, but I
recognize the despair etched 2 inches deep into the
walls of every street corner. So what if we lost
the war sometime in the 2000s. Did you really think
we stood a chance then? Still, we’ve kept fighting.
I smell it in whatever is left of your hair. Doubt.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Atheism:_coming_out⠀⇛
A number of things changed in my life. I changed
job. I moved to a different place. I gave up the
bad habit of being angry about unimportant things.
I have been growing quite a lot, while being a
little surprised that one can still grow when
hitting the 40′s.
Among other things I went from (mildly
enthusiastic) Christian to plain Atheist, through a
process of deconstruction of what I was thought in
my childhood. In case you’re curious I was never
particularly fervent. I just gave voice to what I
already kn
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ How_common_is_it_for_people_to_not_know_their_own_email
address?⠀⇛
I’m still receiving all sorts of email from other
Sean Conners to my `sean.conner@gmail.com` address
[1], and I’m seriously wondering *how?*
# ⚓ docker_progress⠀⇛
I have been experimenting with docker, slowly, as
time allows. I setup a Mac Mini (momt – Mac of
Miniature Torment) up on the shelf where TCoD
(ThinkCentre of Death) and RPoJ (Raspberry Pi of
Judgement) live. Its sole reason for existance is
to be my screw around machine.
I have made my own docker image (a work in
progress) based on the Alpine Linux image that
everyone uses. I have gophernicus, par, and
recutils compiling via RUN commands in my
dockerfile. Really that’s all I need for the cgi-
scripts I have live. My issue now is the log file.
# ⚓ thrig.me_bphflog:_vi_to/find_character⠀⇛
Some #forth folks did not know the f F t T commands
in vi(1), so on the odds that other vi users
likewise do not know them, what follows is a short
primer on these commands. Hopefully your version of
vi hasn’t mangled these commands too much; I’m
using a somewhat modified version of the vi(1) that
ships with OpenBSD.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_CalDAV_Servers⠀⇛
The CalDAV protocol is a calendar sharing protocol.
Just like CardDAV it was originally proposed as
standard by Apple, RFC 6638. It uses WebDAV to
share appointment data in the iCalendar-format. The
“Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
Specification” is an open standard itself, RFC
5545, that is widely supported. CalDAV allows
multiple devices and apps to access your calendar,
allowing cooperative planning and information
sharing.
This article recommends the best CalDAV servers. We
only include free and open source software here.
The chart below captures our verdict. Note that
there are a variety of other applications that
include a CalDAV server. They are deliberately not
included here. Other software that includes CalDAV
functionality include Nextcloud, SOGo, Kopano, and
Horde.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_effects_of_modest_TCP_latency_
(I_think)_on_my_experience_with_some_X_programs⠀⇛
As I mentioned recently, I recently had an extended
outage on my home Internet. When my Internet came
back, it was a little bit different. My old home
Internet was DSL with 14 Mbits down, 7 Mbits up,
and about 7 milliseconds pings to work. The new
state of my home Internet is still DSL from the
same provider, but now it’s 50 Mbits down, 4 Mbits
up, and about 18 milliseconds pings to work at the
moment. When my Internet first came back, I didn’t
expect to feel or see any real difference in the
experience. It turns out that I was naive.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ How_changing_a_ZFS_filesystem’s
recordsize_affects_existing_files⠀⇛
Simplifying slightly, ZFS files (in fact all
filesystem objects) are made up of zero or more
logical blocks, which are all the same logical size
(they may be different physical sizes on disk, for
example because of ZFS compression). How big these
blocks are is the file’s (current) (logical) block
size; all files have a logical block size. Normally
there are two cases for the block size; either
there is one block and it and the logical block
size are growing up toward the filesystem’s
recordsize, or there’s more than one logical block
and the file’s logical block size is frozen; all
additional logical blocks added to the file will
use the file’s logical block size, whatever that
is.
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Getting_the_right_type_of_certificate⠀⇛
This post covers my debugging of a self-signed
certificate on one of my Bacula instances.
# ⚓ Emily M Stark ☛ E2EE_on_the_web:_isolating_plaintext⠀⇛
With the publication of Messaging Layer Security
(MLS) as an RFC, I’ve been pulled into some recent
discussion about bringing end-to-end encryption
(E2EE) to the web. This is a topic that comes up
every so often and has weirdly haunted me
throughout my career. (I spent my undergrad and
graduate research years working on cryptography
implementations in Javascript and how to use them
in applications.)
In this post, I’m going to discuss an idea that
I’ve seen coming up a lot lately: the idea of
isolating plaintext in an E2EE application so that
it can’t be accessed by application code. But
first, some background on E2EE on the web
generally.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ SaveDesktop:_An_Easy_Way_to_Save_Your_Linux
Desktop_Environment_Configuration_Settings⠀⇛
Have you ever spent hours customizing your Linux
desktop environment, only to accidentally change
something and lose all of your hard work? If so,
you’re not alone. This is a common problem, but
there is a solution. Say hello to SaveDesktop, a
graphical application to save your Linux desktop
environment configuration settings.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Bare_Metal_Step-
by-Step⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Kdenlive_23.08_is_Now_Available_to
Install_via_Ubuntu_PPA⠀⇛
The popular free open-source Kdenlive video editor
released version 23.08.0 more than a week ago. For
those who are sticking to the native .deb package
format, the official Ubuntu PPA finally updated
with the new release package!
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_Install_Nobara_Linux_38⠀⇛
Nobara is a new Linux distro.
The reason why Nobara looks like Fedora, is that
Nobara is actually a customized version of Fedora.
If you’ve ever used Fedora, then you may also like
Nobara.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Firefox_Nightly_in_Ubuntu
22.04,_23.04_&_23.10⠀⇛
This simple tutorial shows how to install the
latest Firefox Nightly in all current Ubuntu
releases! Firefox Nightly is the bleeding edge
version of the web browser that updates twice a
day. It contains features that are still in
developments months or even years before they
become mainstream.
# § idroot⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_to_Fix_“Exec_Format_Error”_on_Linux⠀⇛
The Linux operating system is known for its
robustness and flexibility, but even the most
seasoned users may encounter the dreaded
“exec format error.”
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Jenkins_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Jenkins on Fedora 38. For those of
you who didn’t know, In the dynamic landscape
of software development, efficiency and
automation are paramount.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Fail2Ban_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Fail2Ban on AlmaLinux 9. For those of
you who didn’t know, Fail2Ban, at its core,
is a powerful intrusion prevention tool that
acts as a vigilant guardian for your server.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Extract_and_Create_RAR_Files_in
Linux⠀⇛
Got an RAR file? Learn to extract the rar file in
the Linux command line. Also learn to create a RAR
file in this quick tutorial.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_how_to_get_PAYDAY_3_Beta_to_work_on
Steam_Deck_&_Linux⠀⇛
PAYDAY 3 has a technical Beta currently live, as
they’re testing out their servers ready for the
full release on September 21st. Getting it running
on Steam Deck and desktop Linux needs a little fix
to work so here’s how.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.110_Adds_Support_for_the
QOI_Image_Format_to_All_KDE_Apps⠀⇛
While the KDE devs are working hard on the
massive KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment
series, which has been slated for release in
February 2024, KDE Frameworks 5.110 looks
like a small update that only adds a few
changes like support for the QOI image format
in all KDE apps.
Support for libavif 1.0 has been added as
well in this release, which also adds an
option to disable the installation of desktop
themes, adds support for the XFC v12 image
format, and improves the Ask Jeeves search
provider.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ p2k23_Hackathon_Report:_Marc_Espie_(espie@)_on_a
flurry_of_packages_activity⠀⇛
You know a good hackathon when you still have
things to do at the end !
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Fedora_Has_a_Kernel_‘Test_Week’_and_a
Toolbx_‘Test_Day’_Coming_Up⠀⇛
Fedora’s Sumantro Mukherjee posted a reminder in
Fedora Magazine on Friday about a “test week” that
starts on Sunday and a “test day” scheduled for
later in the week, that are being conducted by the
Red Hat maintained Linux distribution.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Debian ☛ Bits_from_Debian:_DebianDay_Celebrations_and
comments⠀⇛
Debian Celebrates 30 years!
We celebrated our birthday this year and we had a
great time with new friends, new members welcomed
to the community, and the world.
# ⚓ Debian ☛ Bits_from_Debian:_DebConf23_welcomes_its
sponsors!⠀⇛
DebConf23, the 24th edition of the Debian
conference is taking place in Infopark at Kochi,
Kerala, India. Thanks to the hard work of its
organizers, it will be, this year as well, an
interesting and fruitful event for attendees.
We would like to warmly welcome the sponsors of
DebConf23, and introduce them to you.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Asus’_RK3288-based_SBC_sells_for_£99⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Orange_Pi_Unveils_Cost-Effective_Alternative
to_RPi_Zero_2W⠀⇛
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_1200:_PiStorming⠀⇛
Now that my new Amiga 1200 has been restored, and
the boot loop repaired, I have been having a play
with the PiStorm32-Lite. Things have come along
leaps and bounds since this Amiga 1200 board was
released, so I wanted to go over setting it up and
running it.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Google_Chrome_&_ad_privacy_feature,_the
slow_death_of_the_Web⠀⇛
Google decided to forge ahead with this
initiative despite protests and
recommendations from pretty much everyone
else (in this regard Apple and Mozilla,
creators of Safari and Firefox). But it has
always been the case, and most ideas and
improvements that Google suggests are only
good for Google really. Now, I am not really
affected, for now, as I use Firefox as my
primary browser, and with a nice, juicy
adblocker like UBlock Origin (UBO), things
are quiet and sane. Now, wait until I tell
you about Manifest v3, woo-hoo!
The destruction of the Internet will not stop
until it becomes just like the pay-per-view
cable TV of the late 80s and early 90s. It
would seem it’s the only business model the
“management” understands. After all, to have
a super-successful mega-corporation, you must
follow the rules – and that’s the 1950s shoe-
in-the-door salesman, with a side dish of MBA
and a touch of Californian sun for good
measure, perhaps an inspirational quote or
two on your “business social media” profile.
But inevitably, this is where we’re going.
Service as a service, ads, DRM, everything
locked and triple-locked. The Internet began
its death around 2013 or so, and it’s
transforming into new-age cablenet. Enjoy it
while it lasts.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Pearson,_Spearman_and_Kendall_correlation
coefficients_by_hand⠀⇛
In statistics, a correlation is used to evaluate
the relationship between two variables.
# ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_zipdump.py_Version_0.0.28⠀⇛
This is an update linked to option -f l to find
PKZIP records. When option -E all is used, field
externalattributes is parsed now:
zipdump_v0_0_28.zip (http)MD5:
288DBCFACB42E6563F417E46BD6081BCSHA256:
4C3AD3A49FCFC1B5A680EAE80CE129A67912BCC03402EC9F46D08F902BC512A1
# ⚓ Daniel Janus ☛ My_mental_model_of_transducers⠀⇛
I’ve been programming in Clojure for a long time,
but I haven’t been using transducers much. I
learned to mechanically transform (into [] (map f
coll)) to (into [] (map f) coll) for a slight
performance gain, but not much beyond that.
Recently, however, I’ve found myself refactoring
transducers-based code at work, which prompted me
to get back to speed.
I found Eero Helenius’ article “Grokking Clojure
transducers” a great help in that. To me, it’s much
more approachable than the official documentation –
in a large part because it shows you how to build
transducers from the ground up, and this method of
learning profoundly resonates with me. I highly
recommend it. However, it’s also useful to have a
visual intuition of how transducers work, a mental
model that hints at the big picture without zooming
into the details too much. In this post, I’d like
to share mine and illustrate it with a REPL
session. (Spoiler alert: there’s core.async ahead,
but in low quantities.)
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Macroblogging⠀⇛
But the phrase microblog implies the existence of a
macroblog, and that’s what I miss the most. Back when
people used to write more than a sentence or two about
their day, the flowers they saw, the problems the solved,
the people they talked with, the places they travelled.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ Senior_to_Staff_Engineer⠀⇛
I work as a Senior Staff Engineer. One of my most
important missions is to help grow the next
generation of leaders using a variety of tools.
One such tool is mentorship. Mentorship is a two-
way street where I get to learn from the experience
and questions of someone who has put their trust in
me.
Below is an interesting Slack conversation I had
with a Senior Engineer about the role of Staff
Engineer, promotions, and required skills.
# ⚓ Emily M Stark ☛ Complaints_about_program_committees⠀⇛
After several years of serving on program
committees at computer security conferences, I
recently decided to take a hiatus. The time
commitment became overwhelming, but overall I
consider serving on PCs a worthwhile experience and
hope to eventually get back in the game after
taking a break. If you’re considering donating time
to review papers, I’ll mention a few things that I
find worthwhile about the experience: [...]
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Huawei_Phone_Is_Latest_Shot_Fired_in_the
U.S.-China_Tech_War⠀⇛
The release of a homegrown Chinese smartphone
during a visit by the Biden official in charge of
regulating such technology shows the U.S.-China
tech conflict is alive and well.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Huawei’s_New_Mystery_7nm_Chip_from_Chinese
Fab_Defies_US_Sanctions⠀⇛
Huawei’s Kirin 9000S that powers Huawei could pack
numerous breakthroughs.
# ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Why_Nvidia’s_AI_Supremacy_is_Only_Temporary⠀⇛
Nvidia is an amazing company that has executed a
contrarian vision for decades, and has rightly
become one of the most valuable corporations on the
planet thanks to its central role in the AI
revolution. I want to explain why I believe it’s
top spot in machine learning is far from secure
over the next few years. To do that, I’m going to
talk about some of the drivers behind Nvidia’s
current dominance, and then how they will change in
the future.
# ⚓ [Repeat] The Register UK ☛ Linux_on_the_Arm-based_Thinkpad
X13S:_It’s_getting_there⠀⇛
The Lenovo Thinkpad X13S Generation 1 which we
reviewed back in March is the first mainstream Arm-
powered laptop that the Reg FOSS Desk has got to
evaluate. There are other Arm-based laptops out
there, such as Pine64′s Pinebook Pro and various
Arm-powered ChromeBooks, but the X13S is closer to
an ordinary X86-based laptop: it has a decent spec,
with 16GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD – plus PC-
industry-standard UEFI firmware, which is still
relatively unusual on consumer Arm computers.
Better still, you can disable Secure Boot, which
many Arm-powered devices don’t allow. A decade ago,
this was a critical problem with the original
Microsoft Surface RT: Windows RT was a flop, and
the firmware wouldn’t let you run anything else.
# ⚓ Matthias Geisler ☛ Linux_on_ThinkPad_X13s_Gen_1⠀⇛
This is to document my ordeal #EmbraceTheSuck
journey and work-in-progress of daily driving a
Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ U.S._Government_Offers_Nvidia_A100_Nodes
at_Half_Price⠀⇛
The U.S. National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center is offering to rent Nvidia A100-
based compute GPU nodes of the Perlmutter
supercomputer with a 50% discount till the end of
September, as noticed by Glenn K. Lockwood, an HPC
storage specialist from Microsoft. The offer comes
as demand for compute horsepower for AI training is
scarce industry-wide. Meanwhile, the proposal is
available for NERSC users only.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Shortage_of_local_rice_in_Malaysia_due
to_diseases_and_lack_of_clean_water⠀⇛
This has forced Malaysian consumers to buy the more
expensive imported variety.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Tens_of_thousands_gather_in_Seoul_to_protest
Fukushima_discharge⠀⇛
The mass rally is the second since Japan started
releasing nuclear wastewater.
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Clucking_Good_Fun_🐔⠀⇛
My wife has wanted chickens for as long as I can
remember, but we’ve never had the space to do it;
when we moved here, we said that chickens would
most definitely be on the horizon.
Now they’re here.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Florida_Surgeon_General_goes_on_anti-vaccine_rant
against_new_COVID-19_booster⠀⇛
Florida’s Surgeon General slammed the recent push
to receive the latest Covid-19 jab — claiming that
the vaccine is littered with “red flags.”
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Federal_Government_Improperly_“Coerced”_and
“Significantly_Encouraged”_Certain_Speech_Restrictions_by
Social_Media_Platforms⠀⇛
In yesterday’s decision in Missouri v. Biden, the
Fifth Circuit (Judges Edith Clement, Jennifer
Elrod, and Don Willett) held that the federal
government violated the First Amendment by causing
social media platforms to block posts on various
topics (including “the COVID-19 lab-leak theory,
pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side-effects, election
fraud, and the Hunter Biden laptop story”).…
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ COVID_and_Vaccine_Jingoism._The
Politics_of_a_Plague.⠀⇛
COVID and Vaccine Jingoism. The Politics of a
Plague. There was a strange phenomenon during
COVID, well, a lot of them.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ As_Indian_export_curbs_fuel_global_food
inflation,_who_are_the_winners_and_losers?⠀⇛
Countries like Singapore are affected in particular
amid other global shortfalls caused by the war in
Ukraine.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Microsoft_365_Office;_Azure
Platform_Went_Down_for_Over_24_Hours.⠀⇛
Microsoft blamed the outage on an “overheating
issue” and lack of staff to deal with it and failed
automation, after firing tens of thousands of
people this year and being on a hiring freeze in
most departments.
Strangely, LibreOffice users with local office
software were unaffected by the Microsoft Clown
Office outage.
IBM Red Hat officials, who just weeks ago said they
were deleting LibreOffice because “everyone should
use MS Office on the Cloud anyway” were unavailable
for comment.
# ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ I.R.S._Deploys_Artificial
Intelligence_to_Catch_Tax_Evasion⠀⇛
The Internal Revenue Service has started using
artificial intelligence to investigate tax evasion
at multibillion-dollar partnerships as it looks for
ways to better police hedge funds, private equity
groups, real estate investors and large law firms.
The announcement on Friday was intended to show how
a more muscular I.R.S. is using some of the $80
billion allocated through last year’s Inflation
Reduction Act to target the wealthiest Americans
and tackle the kinds of cases that had become too
complex and cumbersome for the beleaguered agency
to handle.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ransomware_fiends_pounce_on_Cisco_VPN
brute-force_zero-day_flaw⠀⇛
The medium-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-
20269, exists in the remote access VPN feature of
Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and
Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software stacks.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Artificial_intelligence_technology_behind
ChatGPT_was_built_in_Iowa,_with_a_lot_of_water⠀⇛
As they race to capitalize on a craze for
generative AI, leading tech developers including
Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that
growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty
costs, from expensive semiconductors to an increase
in water consumption.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Windows TCO: Silicon Angle ☛ Lessons_from_a
ransomware_attack:_How_one_healthcare_CIO_helped_her
company_recover⠀⇛
In the early-morning hours of Feb. 25, 2021,
Terri Ripley got the call every chief
information officer dreads: Her company,
OrthoVirginia Inc., had been hit by a massive
attack of the Ryuk ransomware that had shut
down its entire computing fabric.
Although it would be 18 months before systems
were fully restored, OrthoVirginia never shut
down operations or abandoned patients. What
it learned during the crisis is a lesson for
any organization that might become an attack
target [sic]. Today, that’s everyone.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ How_common_is_it_for_people_to_not_know
their_own_email_address?⠀⇛
I’m still receiving all sorts of email from
other Sean Conners to my
sean.conner@gmail.com address, and I’m
seriously wondering how? Do these people not
know their email address? Currently: [...]
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Don’t_get_scammed_twice:_how_recovery
scammers_trick_vulnerable_victims⠀⇛
Fraudsters stalk social media offering fake
reimbursement services
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Australia_Prime_Minister_Anthony
Albanese_confirms_China_visit,_as_Beijing_ready_to_resume
exchanges⠀⇛
Australia’s prime minister confirmed Thursday he
will visit China later this year after talks with
China’s premier, who said Beijing was ready to
resume bilateral exchanges after years of friction.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_delegation_led_by_non-Politburo-member_to
visit_Pyongyang,_state_media_says⠀⇛
Sending an official of a lower rank in contrast to
five years ago may reveal Beijing’s complex
position.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_senators_question_defense_sharing_with_Australia⠀⇛
Australia’s spy chief acknowledged Chinese
espionage is rife, committee chair says.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_detention_center_overflowing_as_thousands
serve_time_for_protests⠀⇛
Prison visitors say they could be targeted by
police for helping jailed pro-democracy protesters.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ G20_to_meet_amid_a_global_turn_inward⠀⇛
Xi won’t be in New Delhi for the summit, but China
is not the only country turning away from the
world.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Congratulates_North_Korea’s_Kim,_Latest_Hint
Of_Deepening_Ties⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for
strengthening ties with Pyongyang, as he
congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on
the 75th anniversary of North Korea’s founding.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_has_photo
session,_but_quiet_amid_talk_of_Russia_visit⠀⇛
September 10, 2023 1:34 PM
Mr Kim was expected to travel to the Russian city
of Vladivostok to meet President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Shockingly,_Kim_Jong_Un_calls_South_Korea_by_its
official_name⠀⇛
North Koreans say Kim’s use of ‘Republic of Korea’
is a display of respect, but experts see it as
mockery.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ South_Korea_names_former_North_Korean_diplomat_as
aide_to_unification_minister⠀⇛
Appointment reflects Seoul’s renewed hardline
policy towards the North amid rising tensions.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_says_it_has_launched_a_new_‘nuclear
attack_submarine’⠀⇛
North Korea said Friday it has launched a purported
nuclear attack submarine it has been developing for
years, a step leader Kim Jong Un described as
crucial in his efforts to build a nuclear-armed
navy to counter the United States and its Asian
allies.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_warns_of_underwater_nuke_attack_as_new
submarine_unveiled⠀⇛
Kim finds it ‘exhilarating’ the new vessel will
pose a challenge to the enemy’s invasion fleet:
state media.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_unveils_first_tactical,
nuclear-armed_submarine⠀⇛
Leader Kim Jong Un, who attended the launch
ceremony, said arming the navy with nuclear weapons
was an urgent task.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ North_Korea_Says_Its_New_Submarine_Can
Launch_Nuclear_Missiles⠀⇛
South Korea’s military expressed skepticism, saying
that the converted Soviet-era submarine “doesn’t
look capable of normal operation.”
# ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_publicly_executes_9_people_for_running
beef_smuggling_ring⠀⇛
Authorities forced 25,000 residents to gather at
the airport to watch them being shot by firing
squad.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ South_Korea_warns_the_North_to_stop_nukes_program_or
risk_regime_instability⠀⇛
Yoon said global community’s resolute to deter
Pyongyang must exceed its will to pursue nuclear
development.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_test-fires_missiles_as_part_of_a
simulated_‘nuclear_attack’⠀⇛
North Korea staged a “simulated tactical nuclear
attack” drill at the weekend with mock atomic
warheads attached to two long-range cruise missiles
that were test-fired into the ocean, state-
controlled media reported Sunday.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_says_it_staged_‘tactical
nuclear_attack’_drill⠀⇛
The drill included two long-range cruise missiles
carrying mock nuclear warheads.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_fires_several_cruise
missiles_towards_sea,_says_South_Korean_military⠀⇛
It was the latest in a series of missile tests and
military exercises conducted by the North in recent
weeks.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Red_Cross_removes_42_dead_bodies_from_Somaliland
conflict_frontline_during_latest_clashes⠀⇛
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
reported Friday that 42 bodies were retrieved from
the Somaliland conflict front line.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_federal_judge_sentences_Proud_Boys_members_for
their_roles_in_January_6,_2021_Capitol_riot⠀⇛
A Washington DC judge sentenced on Friday multiple
members of a far-right nationalist group known as
the Proud Boys for their role in the January 6,
2021 Capitol riot. Former leader of the Proud Boys
Ethan Nordean received an 18 year prison sentence,
and member Dominic Pezzola received a ten year
prison sentence.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Six_out_of_178_Leopard_1_tanks_pledged_to
Ukraine_by_European_countries_had_to_come_out_of_Danish
museum_collections_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Increased_military_activity_near
Zaporizhzhia_NPP_raises_concern_over_nuclear_safety_at
the_site_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Trapped_in_the_trenches_Russia_appears_to_be
covertly_recruiting_Cuban_men_for_the_war_with_Ukraine.
Like_the_two_teens_in_this_story,_many_of_them_cannot
read_their_contracts._—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_launches_drone_attack_over
Kyiv_region,_say_Ukrainian_authorities⠀⇛
Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early
on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the
Ukrainian capital and its region for almost
two hours and drone debris falling on several
of the city’s central districts.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ G20_leaders_paper_over_serious_divisions
on_Ukraine_and_climate_change⠀⇛
G20 leaders papered over deep divisions on
the war in Ukraine and tackling climate
change Saturday, avoiding direct criticism of
Moscow and any concrete pledge to phase out
polluting fossil fuels.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_Russian_Drone_Strike_On_Kyiv
Mostly_Shot_Down⠀⇛
Russian forces launched an air strike on the
Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with dozens of
Iranian-made Shahed drones early on September
10, wounding one person and causing a fire
near a city park, Ukrainian authorities said.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Russia_says_G20_declaration
‘balanced’_as_summit_moves_to_final_day⠀⇛
Russia praised a G20 summit declaration that
stopped short of directly criticising Moscow
for the war in Ukraine and said the bloc’s
leaders had acted in the interest of conflict
resolution as deliberations headed into a
second day on Sunday.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Discussions_on_G-20_leaders’
declaration_went_on_till_last_minute,_says_EU
official⠀⇛
G-20 adopted a consensus declaration that
avoided condemning Russia for the war in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Divided_G20_Statement_Angers_Kyiv_As_New
Drone_Fragments_Found_In_Romania⠀⇛
The final declaration of the Group of 20
(G20) major economies in India left Kyiv
angry over its refusal to condemn Moscow for
its aggression against Ukraine, even as
casualties mounted from Russian missile
attacks.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ In_a_surprise_move,_G-20_leaders
release_declaration_amid_Ukraine_differences⠀⇛
Analysts said the show of unity is crucial as
some countries slip into recession and
developing nations face high debt.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ G20_Declaration_Omits_Criticism_of
Russia’s_Invasion_of_Ukraine⠀⇛
American officials defended the agreement,
saying it built on the statement released
last year and that the United States was
still pressing for peace in Ukraine.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Torture_of_Ukrainians
Amounts_to_State_Policy,_Expert_Says⠀⇛
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture said
Moscow’s refusal to address the issue
represented tacit approval of its use. Russia
has denied it practices torture.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Ukraine,_a_U.S._Arms_Dealer_Is
Making_a_Fortune_and_Testing_Limits⠀⇛
Billions are pouring into a clubby, secretive
arms market. With Pentagon cash and unusually
close Ukrainian military ties, Marc Morales
has few peers.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Takeaways_From_a_New_Elon_Musk
Biography:_Ukraine,_Trump_and_More⠀⇛
The biography, by Walter Isaacson, portrays
Mr. Musk as a complex, tortured figure.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Romania_Finds_New_Possible_Fragments_Of
Russian_Drone_On_Its_Territory⠀⇛
New fragments of a drone similar to those
used by the Russian military were found on
Romanian soil, the Defense Ministry said on
September 9, and President Klaus Iohannis
said this indicated an unacceptable breach of
Romania’s airspace had occurred.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Karabakh_Separatist_Leaders_Say_Deal_Reached
With_Azerbaijan_On_Transport_Corridors⠀⇛
Armenian-backed separatist leaders in
Nagorno-Karabakh have said Azerbaijani
authorities agreed to allow aid deliveries to
the breakaway region through the Lachin
Corridor from Armenian territory in an
operation to be controlled by Russian
peacekeeping troops and the Red Cross.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar_receives_first_shipment
of_Russia’s_Su-30_fighter_jets:_Russian_state_news
agency⠀⇛
September 10, 2023 12:31 PM
The 2 sides signed a contract in September
2022 for the delivery of six Su-30SME fighter
jets.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vietnam_in_Secret_Talks_to_Buy_Arms
From_Russia⠀⇛
Defying U.S. sanctions, a Vietnamese
government document lays out a plan to buy
Russian weapons, which officials see as a way
to upgrade its military as a hedge against
China.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_offers_alternatives_to_Belarusians_as
Minsk_stops_issuing_passports_abroad⠀⇛
As the Belarusian government stopped issuing
passports in diplomatic representations,
Lithuania is offering a “foreigner’s
passport” to Belarusian émigrés, while the
opposition is planning to have the EU
recognise its own alternative documents. Not
all are convinced.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Whales_stop_singing_and_rock_lobsters
lose_their_balance:_How_seismic_surveys_can_harm_marine
life⠀⇛
As marine biologists with research expertise in
this field, here we give a roundup of the latest
evidence on the effects of seismic surveys. It
shows there are many potential harms to marine
life, and many unanswered questions.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Even_Dimming_The_Sun_Wouldn’t_Save
Antarctica’s_Ice_Now,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛
There’s only one thing left that could, and it’s
the very same thing we’ve been failing to do for 40
years now: stop burning fossil fuels.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ The_world’s_brutal_climate_change_report_card,
explained⠀⇛
“The Paris Agreement has driven near-universal
climate action,” the report notes, but “much more
is needed now on all fronts.”
The task ahead is immense: According to the report,
global emissions need to be slashed 43 percent by
2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, one
of the main goalposts of the Paris agreement. But
the world has already warmed about 1.2 degrees so
far above preindustrial averages and is on track to
pass the key threshold in the next few years. So
when negotiators reconvene at the next climate
summit, the stocktake will shape the discussion.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UN_Puts_Out_‘Truly_Damning_Report_Card’_for
Climate_Action_Before_Global_Summits⠀⇛
“This report is a wake-up call to the injustice of
the climate crisis and a pivotal opportunity to
correct course,” Dasgupta continued. “We already
knew the world is failing to meet its climate
goals, but leaders now have a concrete blueprint
underpinned by a mountain of evidence for how to
get the job done.”
“There are a few bright spots worth celebrating,”
he noted. “But overall, the report finds there are
more gaps than progress—gaps that can only be
erased by transformational change across systems
like energy, food, land, and transport. The future
of our planet depends on whether national leaders
use this stark assessment as a catalyst for bold
systems transformation.”
“This report makes clear that President Biden is
squandering precious time every second he fails to
take bold action on fossil fuels.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Reaction:_U.N._stocktake_report_warns_world
off-track_to_cut_emissions⠀⇛
“This report makes clear that President Biden is
squandering precious time every second he fails to
take bold action on fossil fuels,” said Jean Su,
energy justice director at the Center for
Biological Diversity. “Every day we’re seeing and
feeling the harms of fossil-fueled climate change
from extreme heat to deadly wildfires and
devastating floods. As leader of the world’s
largest oil and gas producer, Biden has more power
than anyone to stop expanding the fossil fuels
driving this deadly crisis. Ahead of the U.N.’s
Climate Ambition Summit, thousands of people will
be in the streets of New York on September 17 for
the March to End Fossil Fuels. This is the perfect
opportunity for Biden to declare a climate
emergency, use all his executive powers to phase
out fossil fuels, and finally secure a legacy as a
climate leader.”
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ People_Are_“Fishing”_by_Just_Throwing_Dynamite
in_the_Water⠀⇛
While there are short-term benefits for blast
fishers — including that the yield can be up to
2,200 pounds of fish in a single go, versus the 50
or 60 one gets from traditional methods — its long-
term implications are numerous. Blast fishing not
only destroys marine flora, as the report explains,
it can also affect the generation of fish, leading
to shortages that are affecting the livelihoods of
fishers in Salpayaru and other areas that mainly
rely on fishing.
“An entire generation [of fishers] will be
destitute [because of blast fishing],” Perera said.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Extremes_will_become_normal’:_Hong
Kong_needs_better_disaster_awareness,_ex-Observatory_chief
says_after_record_rainfall⠀⇛
An hourly rainfall of 158.1 millimetres was
recorded in the hour after the Black rain warning
was hoisted, the highest since records began in
1884. It was 12.6 mm more than the 145.5 mm in
2008, the previous record.
“The flood reminds us that climate change is really
here,” Lam, who led the Hong Kong Observatory
between 2003 and 2009, said in a Cantonese phone
interview with HKFP.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Scorching_heat_wave_pushes_U.S._Open_players_to_the
brink⠀⇛
Why it matters: New York’s late-summer heat wave
can get dangerous fast when you’re chasing serves
above 130 mph for hours in the sun.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Window_to_reach_climate_goals_‘rapidly
closing’⠀⇛
The world is not on track to meet the long-term
goals set out in the Paris Agreement for limiting
global temperature rise, a major UN report warned
on Friday, calling for a commitment to decisive
action.Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
which issued the report, called for “greater
ambition and accelerating action”.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Storms_Cause_Major_Flooding_in_Hong_Kong
and_Nearby_Cities⠀⇛
Rainstorms caused by remnants of Typhoon Haikui,
which had been churning along the Chinese coast,
submerged roads and homes, and set rainfall
records.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_sweats_through_hottest
summer_since_records_began_in_1884⠀⇛
Hong Kong has just recorded its warmest August
ever, the city’s Observatory has said, adding that
this summer was also the hottest since records
began in 1884. The Hong Kong Observatory recorded
an average temperature of 29.7 degrees Celsius in
August, which is 1 degree above normal levels,
according to a statement released on Monday.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Court_suspends_government_order_to_disband
climate_group_for_sabotage⠀⇛
France’s top administrative court suspended the
dissolution of climate activist group Les
Soulevements de la Terre (SLT) on Friday, saying
that it was not clear that the group had provoked
violence.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Make_Sure_Federal_Climate_Money
Helps_Everyone⠀⇛
The Biden administration is spending billions to
transform how Americans use and consume energy. How
can we make that process more equitable?
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_court_suspends_dissolution_of_climate
activist_group_shut_down_by_government⠀⇛
France’s top administrative court suspended the
dissolution of climate activist group Les
Soulevements de la Terre (SLT) on Friday, saying
that it was not clear that the group had provoked
violence.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Is_Flooding_the_World_With_Car
Exports⠀⇛
Even as China’s other exports falter, its
carmakers are seeing big increases in
overseas sales, mainly for gasoline-powered
models.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_to_consider_extending
life_of_largest_coal_power_plant⠀⇛
A government-commissioned report had made the
case for extending the plant’s life.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ G-20_per_capita_coal_emissions
growing:_Research⠀⇛
The group, whose leaders meet in New Delhi
this weekend, accounts for 80% of global
power sector emissions.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Bolt_Latvia_continues_monitoring_reckless
scooter_drivers⠀⇛
Two months ago, the Bolt ride-
sharing platform introduced a system allowing
for monitoring of electric scooter
drivers. Around two thousand drivers received
warnings at this time, while around 150
people were temporarily banned from driving
the scooter, Latvian Television reported on
August 25.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ EU_To_Invest_4_bn
Euros_In_Renewable_Energy,_Hydrogen_In_Developing
Economies_In_Next_5_Years:_European_Commission
President⠀⇛
She further said, “We need to triple
renewable energy capacity and double energy
efficiency until 2030 if we are to reach our
goal of limiting temperature increases to 1.5
degrees. Only what gets measured gets done,
we know that principle.”
She then called to anchor a global goal at
COP28 for renewable energies that have to be
reached by 2030 and energy efficiency by
2030. Global goals will provide a benchmark
against which to track progress and a strong
signal of predictability to the private
sector.
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ This_2-liter_car_engine_can
run_entirely_on_hydrogen⠀⇛
The powertrain developed by researchers at
the Korea Institute of Machinery and
Materials (KIMM) and the Zero-Carbon Engine
Research Lab of Hyundai-Kia Motor Company
(HMC) is a 2-liter direct injection hydrogen
engine that runs entirely on hydrogen fuel.
# ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Solar_farm_mini-update:_Waiting_for
rego⠀⇛
What causes mayhem is that the earthing has
to be approved by the DNO (who will have
their own substation), but they only design
‘their bit’ and then we have to use external
consultants to design our bit, and then both
sides have to agree that the other sides
design doesn’t interfere with them, and then
you can proceed. This involves at least 5
companies (mine, the HV consultant, the farm
developer, the DNO and the earthing
specialist), and everyone seems to take it in
turns to have summer holidays, which has
stretched things out enormously 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴
🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:(⦈
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Carmageddon_by_Daniel_Knowles:_A
Brief_Review⠀⇛
Daniel Knowles’ Carmageddon: How Cars Make
Life Worse and What to Do About It is an
entertaining, lucid, and well-written
“manifesto” (to borrow a term from the
author) aiming to get us all thinking a bit
more about what cars do to society, and how
to move on to a better outcome for all.
The book alternates between historical
context and background, lived experience (as
the author is a foreign correspondent who had
the opportunity to travel), and researched
content. It is refreshingly free of
formalities (no endless footnotes or endnotes
with references, though I would have liked
occassional references but hey we all went to
school long enough to do a bit of research
given a pointer or two). I learned or
relearned a few things as I was for example
somewhat unaware of the air pollution (micro-
particle) impact stemming from tires and
brake abrasions—for which electronic vehicles
do zilch, and for which the auto-obesity of
ever larger and heavier cars is making things
much worse. And some terms (even when re-used
by Knowles) are clever such bionic duckweed.
But now you need to read the book to catch up
on it.
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ Global_Biofuels_Alliance_Announced_By_PM_Modi
At_G20_Summit:_10_Facts⠀⇛
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday
launched the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA)
on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New
Delhi and said that it marks a “watershed
moment” in the quest towards sustainability
and clean energy.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ NationalWorld.com_staff_say_morale_at_‘rock
bottom’_in_letter_to_HR⠀⇛
Rounds of compulsory and voluntary redundancies
have hit the national news site in recent months.
# ⚓ Cost_of_living_in_İstanbul_rises_80,6_percent_in_a_year⠀⇛
According to a study by the Istanbul Planning
Agency, the cost of living in Istanbul has
increased by 80.59% compared to August of the
previous year, reaching 42,593 lira per month for a
family of four.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Homeless_destroy_motel_in_Wyoming_city,_leave
about_500_pounds_in_feces_on_streets:_mayor⠀⇛
Meanwhile, city staff has been forced to scoop up
about 500 pounds of human feces in Casper’s
downtown, where many homeless people loiter, the
news outlet reported.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ French-Israeli_Business_Tycoon_Steinmetz_Detained
In_Cyprus_On_Romanian_Warrant⠀⇛
French-Israeli business magnate Beny Steinmetz, who
faces a five-year prison term in Romania, has been
arrested in Cyprus on a European warrant issued by
Bucharest, his spokesman said on September 3.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australian_PM_to_visit_China_soon_as
both_sides_hail_progress⠀⇛
Australia’s values will not always align with
China’s, “but we understand dialogue is absolutely
critical”, said Mr Albanese.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China,_Australia_hold_first_high-level
dialogue_in_three_years_in_Beijing⠀⇛
Diplomatic exchanges have been ramping up between
the two countries recently.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_26th_ASEAN-China_Summit_is_Held_in_Jakarta⠀⇛
The summit was attended by the leaders of countries
such as Indonesia, Lao, Brunei, Cambodia,
Malaysian, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam,
Thailand, and Timor-Leste.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_Premier_Li_met_Vietnam_PM_at
ASEAN_summit_–_Chinese_foreign_ministry⠀⇛
China’s Premier Li Qiang met with Vietnamese Prime
Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the sidelines of the
ASEAN summit in Indonesia, the Chinese foreign
ministry said on Thursday.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_says_90_countries_have_confirmed
attendance_for_Belt_and_Road_Initiative_conference⠀⇛
The Belt and Road Forum for International
Cooperation (BRF) will be held in Beijing in
October.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_says_willing_to_work_with_Italy
to_improve_trade,_investment⠀⇛
The commerce ministry’s comment follows a recent
visit by Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani to
Beijing.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ U-M_students_bridge_cultures,
empower_communities_around_world⠀⇛
From China to Mongolia, and from France to South
Africa, U-M students embarked on expeditions that
defied borders and redefined cultural connections
this summer.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines_says_‘ready’_to_chair_Asean
in_2026_instead_of_Myanmar⠀⇛
A diplomat said Asean wrote to the Philippines to
ask if it was willing to accept the chair for 2026,
and Manila accepted.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Naomi_Klein,_Naomi_Wolf_and_the_Political
Upside_Down⠀⇛
“Doppelganger” is a brilliant examination of a
berserk political moment.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Vanuatu_parliament_to_elect_new_prime
minister_after_court_appeal_dismissed⠀⇛
Vanuatu’s parliament will elect a new prime
minister after the Pacific Island nation’s court on
Monday dismissed an appeal against a decision that
would remove Ishmael Kalsakau from the role.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ More_than_half_of_Australians_oppose
Indigenous_panel_in_Constitution,_poll_shows⠀⇛
The Labor govt is struggling to lift support for
the landmark proposal ahead of a vote in 6 weeks.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Asean_leaders_to_meet_in_Jakarta_for
regional_summit,_amid_tensions_over_new_Chinese_map⠀⇛
The meeting will focus on developing and
strengthening Asean cooperation with external
partners.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ As_Delhi_spruces_up_for_G-20_summit,
its_urban_poor_take_a_hit⠀⇛
Thousands of street vendors and slum dwellers have
been evicted from different parts of Delhi since
July.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ More_than_10,000_gather_in_Helsinki_to_protest
racism,_government⠀⇛
A large-scale anti-racism demonstration took place
in central Helsinki on Sunday afternoon.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Latest_Target_Hits_Back⠀⇛
I’m pretty familiar with the ADL. Like many
reporters and subject-matter experts on anti-
Semitism, I’ve spoken at some of the organization’s
events. I haven’t always agreed with its approach,
whether on social-media moderation or Israel. But
though the ADL doesn’t get everything right, it has
a better batting average than most organizations in
this difficult space. In any case, as I wrote
earlier this week, none of what is happening to the
group today has much to do with the specific
policies it advocates, whatever their merits.
Rather, the ADL is being scapegoated on Twitter for
the platform’s own failings, and attacked as a
stand-in for supposed Jewish power.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ In_AI_Regulation_Coverage,_Media_Let_Lawmakers_off
the_Hook⠀⇛
The guests of the “listening session,” per the
Times, will include Twitter.com‘s Elon Musk,
Google’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Might the fact that each
of them has fought tech-industry constraints have
some bearing on the future? Reading the Times
story, which didn’t deem this worth a mention, one
wouldn’t know.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Examining_Australia’s_bid_to_curb
online_disinformation⠀⇛
Hardly a day had passed after the government
unveiled its initial draft of the Combatting
Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2023
when critics descended upon it. ‘Hey
Peasants, Your Opinions Hell, your facts Are
Fake News’, …
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Decade_Ago,_Jeff_Bezos_Bought_a
Newspaper._Now_He’s_Paying_Attention_to_It_Again.⠀⇛
The Amazon founder, who purchased The
Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, has
taken a more active role in the paper’s
operations this year.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ BBC_‘disinformation’_correspondent
busted_spreading_disinfo_on_her_own_bio⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Rakuten_CEO_touts_Viber’s_ability_to
counter_Russian_‘fake_news’_during_Kyiv_visit⠀⇛
Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and chief executive
of Rakuten Group (4755.T), on Saturday touted the
ability of his company’s Viber messaging platform
to counter Russian propaganda.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ If_the_big_corporate_publishers_disappeared
so_would_much_local_news_investment⠀⇛
Staying relevant to readers, not ownership, is the
biggest issue for local news media.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Memoir_sheds_light_on_lost_golden_age_of
local_news_and_democratic_accountability⠀⇛
Journalist Nigel Heath, aged 76, has just published
his memoirs of years spent on a local weekly and
then a city evening newspaper, before he launched a
news-led PR company.
But he did not realise he would also be shining a
light on a golden age of journalism that has
quietly faded away into the past, its disappearance
almost unnoticed by the general public, who are the
poorer for its loss.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Reporter_Elena_Milashina_cancels_plans_to_travel
to_Chechnya,_rebukes_Russian_human_rights_NGO_for_revealing
her_intent_to_go_to_Grozny_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Korean_police_nab_man_disguised_as
blonde_woman_in_bathhouse⠀⇛
He had been filming the inside of the bathhouse.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Fiji_to_deport_members_of_South_Korean
‘cult’⠀⇛
The cult’s founder Shin Ok-ju persuaded hundreds of
followers in 2014 to start a new life in Fiji.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Vulnerable_young_men,_masculinity_and
extremism⠀⇛
Elements of society continue to apply subtle and
not-so-subtle pressure on boys to be ‘real men’,
which can have negative impacts on their
development and on social cohesion.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz_Opposition_Party_To_Contest_Leader’s
Detention⠀⇛
Kyrgyzstan’s leading opposition party said
authorities were trying to destroy it and vowed to
fight the detention of its leader, who is accused
of treason.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Tunisia_authorities_place_opposition_leader_under
house_arrest⠀⇛
Tunisian authorities placed Abdel Karim Harouni,
the head of Ennahda party’s advisory council and a
senior opposition figure, under house arrest on
Saturday, according to a statement from the
National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s main opposition
coalition.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_singer_given_26-month_sentence_for
sedition_and_money_laundering⠀⇛
Hong Kong District Court judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung
handed down a judgment Thursday sentencing Tommy
Yuen, a former Cantopop boy band member, to 26
months of imprisonment.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘It_Feels_Horrible’:_Amazon_Workers
Delivered_Packages_During_Destructive_Tropical_Storm⠀⇛
“It was tough being on the road,” said one driver
who delivered in California the day it experienced
flooding and record rainfall.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Amazon_was_accused_of_calling_the_police_on
employees_in_the_latest_union-busting_case⠀⇛
Amazon was accused of violating federal law
multiple times to obstruct unionization efforts at
a warehouse near Albany, New York, last year,
according to a new complaint filed by a regional
director at the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB), first reported by Bloomberg.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ CSA_Regulation_Document_Pool⠀⇛
This document pool contains updates and resources
on the EU’s proposed ‘Regulation laying down rules
to prevent and combat child sexual abuse’ (CSA
Regulation)
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Those_Double-Parked_Amazon_Trucks_Are_More
Than_Just_an_Annoyance⠀⇛
Double-parked delivery trucks raise a political
question about the use of our roadways.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Scamwatch:_‘An_Amazon_delivery_driver_tricked_me
and_stole_my_new_phone’⠀⇛
We help a reader who fell victim to a one-time
password scam
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Ron_DeSantis_Bullies_Bud_Light_Like_Elizabeth
Warren_Bullies_Amazon⠀⇛
DeSantis talks a lot about freedom but increasingly
only applies it to those who agree with him.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Streaming_Has_Reached_Its_Sad,_Predictable
Fate⠀⇛
What should I watch? is now a much easier question
than How do I watch it?
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ EPO_Propaganda_Master_Class_–
or:_How_to_Justify_Higher_Fees_for_Lower_Quality_Work⠀⇛
It will be nothing new for regular readers of
this blog that I and many others have long
been advocating for more well-qualified
examiners at the EPO, e.g. here. Obviously,
these examiners also need to be given
adequate time to scrutinize the ever-
increasing number of new patent applications
per year thoroughly.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ iFixit ☛ What’s_Inside_That_McDonald’s_Ice_Cream
Machine?_Broken_Copyright_Law⠀⇛
We’d love to be able to make a tool to read
the error codes and help franchise owners
troubleshoot their machines. But copyright
law says “no.”
For those of you who aren’t copyright law
buffs: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) has a section (1201) that makes it
illegal to bypass software locks on devices,
even to repair them. This might have made
sense when it was all about CD piracy back in
the day, but fast-forward to today, and it’s
a straight-up brain freeze.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Amazon_to_require_some_authors_to
disclose_the_use_of_AI_material⠀⇛
The Authors Guild praised the new
regulations, which were posted Wednesday, as
a “welcome first step” toward deterring the
proliferation of computer-generated books on
the online retailer’s site. Many writers
feared computer-generated books could crowd
out traditional works and would be unfair to
consumers who didn’t know they were buying AI
content.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ WordPress_Rejects_86%_of_All_DMCA
Takedown_Notices⠀⇛
WordPress has published its latest
transparency report which shows that it only
takes action for a small fraction of the
piracy takedown notices it receives. A
whopping 86% don’t result in any removals.
This high rejection rate is mostly the result
of “careless” incomplete notices sent by
takedown companies, the report notes.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Microsoft’s_Many_Waves_of_Mass_Layoffs_Have_Caused_Major_Downtimes,_Very_Slow
Recovery⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 12:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
Microsoft 365 Office; Azure Platform Went_Down_for_Over_24_Hours.
Microsoft blamed the outage on an “overheating issue” and lack of staff to deal
with it and failed automation, after firing tens of thousands of people this
year and being on a hiring freeze in most departments.
Strangely, LibreOffice users with local office software were unaffected by the
Microsoft Clown Office outage.
IBM Red Hat officials, who just weeks ago said they were deleting LibreOffice
because “everyone should use MS Office on the Cloud anyway” were unavailable
for comment.
At least, I presume they were, after roasting their mailing lists to snuff out
stories about all the orphaned packages in Fedora.
Microsoft has had issues with outages recently, as earlier this
summer its services of Azure, Outlook and OneDrive were affected due
to a denial-of-service attack from a Russian-associated group. Azure
also found itself in a concerning situation a couple of months ago in
Western Europe, as a storm in the Netherlands caused a fibre
connection between two of Microsoft’s data centres to be damaged.
-IBTimesUK
Very robust. Not being able to even edit a small document file because
Microsoft’s server has collapsed. Wave of the future.
Facing the same problem as Microsoft in Sydney, due to likely sharing
a data centre, was computer technology company, Oracle, and its cloud
software subsidiary, NetSuite. Also, the Bank of Queensland and
Australian airline, Jetstar, experienced issues as customers were
unable to access necessary functions.
-IBTimesUK
It’s amazing how many people can’t get their work done because Microsoft can’t
run a reliable service.
And this not just a recent thing, oh no. When I was working with an attorney in
Chicago on an important case, she kept losing my emails because she was using
Microsoft 365 and like, the attachments were getting lost.
I ended up having to put them on a Google Drive (I know.) and taking the
permissions off the file (I know.) and then deleting the files when she was
done grabbing a copy from the link.
“Post-COVID” business practices have caused people to lose their damn minds and
not be able to deal with even small tasks with their own software and hosting.
E-mail? Well, I guess that’s forgivable, except that it’s important and she
handed it to Microsoft. Document editing? Oh my God….
Mind you that a decade or so ago, the same Microsoft_made_fun_of_Chromebooks
for “not being able to have a real office suite” and “being a brick when there
was no network connection”.
Now that’s pretty much how you have to use Microsoft Office, even though
Chromebooks can run any Linux application through Debian, including
LibreOffice.
Also, it’s somewhat odd that a company that’s been on a tear firing everyone,
including most people working on Edge and Bing, which nobody really uses
anyway, continues to be called a “tech giant”. Like several times in one
article.
Do you think they’re compensating for something? █
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✐ Links_10/09/2023:_Mostly_World_News,_Some_GNU/Linux_Catchup_and_HowTos⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 12:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Slashdot ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Linux’s_Marketshare_on_Steam_Still
Higher_Than_Apple_macOS⠀⇛
o ⚓ 2023-09-05_[Older]_80_Essential_Linux_Applications_for_Every_User
in_2023⠀⇛
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Linux_Sucks:_2023_schedule
announced!⠀⇛
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Linux_Weekly_Roundup
#251⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_How_to_install_Nvidia
driver_on_Debian_12_Bookworm_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_How_to_install_and_use_Tilix
Terminal_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ How_to_run_Steam_on_Linux⠀⇛
For many years, Valve has been focused on making
Linux a great operating system for Steam, and
suffice to say, it’s managed to succeed. It’s the
default operating system for the Steam Deck, and it
can easily run non-native games with the Proton
compatibility layer. But you can also get Steam on
your Linux PC. However, while Steam can easily be
installed on some Linux distros, the process is
more obscure on others.
Generally speaking, the best way to install Steam
is either through Valve’s own provided installation
software or through a repository. There are app
stores like Snap and Flathub that host Steam
installations, but at the time of writing, it seems
that installing Steam this way results in a lot of
glitches and, sometimes, makes it completely
unusable. So we’ll teach you how to install Steam
the old-fashioned way. Don’t worry, you’ll only
need to do this once, and you won’t have to
manually install updates afterward.
# ⚓ How_to_Change_Owner_of_Folders_and_Subfolders_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
As you learn Ubuntu, you find that you need to
change the ownership of a folder or even its
subfolders.
Why is this important? Whether you’re an
administrator managing multi-user environments or a
regular user consolidating data, changing folder
ownership can serve several key purposes. For
instance, altering folder ownership could be
crucial for segregating resources in shared
systems, executing specific scripts, or granting
selective access to sensitive information. When
you’re deploying applications, transferring files,
or performing automated tasks via cron jobs,
correct ownership is often important for seamless
operation.
Knowing how to modify folder and subfolder
ownership becomes essential for anyone aiming for a
higher degree of control and customization over
their Ubuntu system. Let’s dive into how to
accomplish that below.
# ⚓ Medium ☛ Comparing_Linux_File_Systems⠀⇛
In the world of Linux, the choice of a file system
can significantly impact data management,
performance, and stability. With a variety of file
systems available, each designed to meet specific
needs, it’s crucial to understand their differences
and strengths. In this article, we’ll compare nine
prominent Linux file systems: Ext4, Ext3, Ext2,
Btrfs, ZFS, XFS, F2FS, NILFS, and JFS, including
their release years and an analysis of their pros
and cons.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Solved:_403_Forbidden_“You_Don’t_Have
Permission_to_Access_on_This_Server”⠀⇛
Are you facing the “You don’t have permission to
access on this server” error on Apache or NGINX?
Here are three ways to solve it in a jiffy.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_How_to_Use_Multiple
External_Displays_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_How_to_Save_Command_Line
Output_to_File_on_Windows,_Mac,_and_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_How_to_Install_Notepad++
on_Linux:_2_Methods⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Wine_Programs_Not_Working?
Try_These_Steps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_How_to_Change_Language_on
a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_What_Is_the_Linux_unzip
Command?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_How_to_Send_PGP-Encrypted
Email_on_Linux_With_Evolution⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_How_to_install
KolourPaint_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_How_to_install
Flightgear_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_How_to_install
WebStorm_on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_How_to_install_Gacha
Nymph_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_How_to_install_the
Olive_video_editor_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_How_to_install
DataGrip_on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_How_to_install_the
Flowblade_video_editor_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_How_to_install_MEGA
Desktop_App_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_How_to_install_SPEAR
on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_How_to_install_GNU
Octave_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_How_to_install_OBS
Studio_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_How_to_install
StepMania_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ The_Great_CentOS_Linux_Migration:_How_We
Got_Here_and_What’s_Next⠀⇛
The recent news regarding Red Hat’s decision to
limit access to the source code of their Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution has garnered
considerable attention. In order to understand the
ramifications and subsequent changes, it is
important to look back at CentOS, its historical
alignment with RHEL and the options moving forward.
# ⚓ insideHPC ☛ @HPCpodcast:_Red_Hat’s_Mike_McGrath_on_RHEL
Source_Code_Access_and_the_Linux_Open_Source_Controversy⠀⇛
A change in source code distribution by Red Hat
started the biggest open source controversy in
years. @HPCpodcast continues our coverage of this
topic with Red Hat’s Mike McGrath, whose two blogs
– starting with this one – in late June announced
the company’s new policy regarding access to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) code.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Architecting_retail
solutions⠀⇛
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Zotac_ZBOX_PRO_PI339_pico_embedded_mini
PC⠀⇛
Zotac has unveiled a new addition to its range of
embedded solutions in the form of the ZBOX PRO
PI339 pico embedded mini PC. This compact PC is the
smallest embedded solution in the ZBOX PRO Series.
The connectivity options of the ZBOX PRO PI339 pico
are impressive, considering its size. It features
full-sized USB 3.1 ports, Gigabit LAN, WiFi 6, and
Bluetooth 5.2. These features ensure that the
device can connect to a variety of networks and
devices, enhancing its versatility and usability in
different scenarios.
The ZBOX PRO PI339 pico is not just a mini PC; it’s
a versatile tool designed for a wide range of
applications, including Internet of Things (IoT)
related tasks, industrial control, digital signage,
and edge computing. Despite its compact size, it
boasts two HDMI outputs, making it an ideal
solution for powering digital signage displays in
remote or commercial areas where space is at a
premium. The device operates at around 18W under
load, demonstrating its energy efficiency.
Moreover, it supports 4K output, ensuring high-
quality visuals for any display it powers.
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_SMA_and_AAA⠀⇛
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Making_a_Weather
Station_at_SparkFun_HQ⠀⇛
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Cloudy_With_a
Chance_of_Arduino⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile
Linux_Update_(35/2023):_A_new_device_showing_promise,_a_GTK4
file_manager_and_an_Ubuntu_Touch_Q&A!⠀⇛
# ⚓ Auto Evolution ☛ Everything_We_Know_About_the_Polestar
Phone:_Operating_System,_Features,_Launch_Date⠀⇛
Meizu is also known in the tech world as the first
company that launched a Linux phone. In 2015, it
launched the MX4 Ubuntu Edition, a smartphone
running Ubuntu Touch created as part of a
partnership with Ubuntu developer Canonical.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-09_[Older]_A_bit_of_history_about_The
Gecko_Book,_aka_“Learning_Perl_on_Win32_Systems”…_(from
my_“Half_my_life_with_Perl”_talk_a_decade_ago)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Of_Go,_C,_Perl_and_fastq
file_conversion_Vol_III_:_pledging_allegiance_to_the
flag⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Of_Go,_C,_Perl_and_fastq
file_conversion_Vol_I_:_intro⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Of_Go,_C,_Perl_and_fastq
file_conversion_Vol_II_:_the_Jedi_regex⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_233:
Separate_Digits⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_This_week_in_PSC_(115)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#233
–_Similar_Words_and_Frequency_Sort⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_I_just_discovered_Dev.to⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Idle_Thoughts_on_Old_Perl
Versions_for_New_Distributions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_GTC_API_(how_to_design_a
rich_interface)⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-08_G20_summit’s_plan_to_scare
off_monkeys_by_mimicking_their_‘natural_enemies’_may_work_–
but_not_for_the_reasons_it’s_supposed_to⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-08_The_UK_has_joined_the_EU’s
Horizon_science_funding_scheme_–_but_if_we_want_the_UK_to
lead,_the_hard_work_has_just_begun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Fyre_Festival_II:_a
psychologist_on_why_some_people_fall_for_fraudsters_over_and
over_again⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Air_traffic_control
chaos:_how_human_error_can_lead_a_tiny_glitch_to_spiral_out
of_control⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Have_we_really_found
the_first_samples_from_beyond_the_Solar_System?_The_evidence
is_not_convincing⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_It’s_reassuring_to
think_humans_are_evolution’s_ultimate_destination_–_but
research_shows_we_may_be_an_accident⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Why_not_all_urban
foxes_deserve_their_‘bin-raiding’_reputation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_With_Moon_Sniper,_Japan
takes_second_shot_at_lunar_landing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_UK_to_return_to_EU’s
Horizon_science_research_program⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Germany_DNA_study_links
colonial_skulls_from_Africa_to_living_relatives⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Aspiring
Taiwan_Presidential_Candidate_Terry_Gou_Resigns_From_Board_of
Apple_Supplier_Foxconn⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Apple_Could_Be_Making_Its_Own
Low-Cost_Chromebook_Lookalike_Laptops⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Intel_joins_Apple,_Alphabet
and_Samsung_as_an_Arm_investor [Ed: Intel trying to control
the opposition]⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ South_Korea,_Indonesia_up_cooperation_to_cut_supply
chain_risks,_reliance_on_China⠀⇛
They commit to build secure ecosystem for hi-tech
materials, backing U.S. drive to restructure global
supply chain.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_widens_ban_on_iPhones_among_government
officials⠀⇛
Meanwhile, citizens are told to install anti-fraud
app on their phones, sparking monitoring concerns.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_seeks_to_link_chip_access_to
climate_action_in_G-20_talks⠀⇛
Chinese officials brought up the prospect of
developed countries delivering more financing and
technology.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_Why_does_China_want
kids_to_spend_less_time_on_their_phones?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_WWF_urges_fundamental
change_in_EU_water_management⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_Therapy_on_social
media:_How_helpful_is_it?⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Canada’s_crackdown_on_energy
drinks_no_match_for_influencer_hype,_parents_and_teachers
warn⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Some_children_affected_by_E._coli
outbreak_at_Calgary_daycares_on_dialysis,_health_officials
say⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Alberta_health_officials_report
128_lab-confirmed_cases_of_E._coli_linked_to_outbreak_at
daycares⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Calgary_daycares_hit_by_E._coli
outbreak_could_be_shut_down_for_another_week⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Japan_announces_seafood
aid_after_Fukushima_water_release⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Air_pollution:_Nearly
everyone_in_Europe_breathing_bad_air⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Cancer_cases_in_under-
50s_jump_drastically,_study_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Germans_warned_to_avoid
spicy_eating_challenges⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Experts_warn_RAAC
concrete_safety_is_a_“global_issue”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Feeding_Big_Ag_While_Africans
Starve⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Food_waste_is_a_problem_in_Sask.;
a_new_app_could_help_change_that⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Tired_of_checking_your_email?_This
man_went_a_year_without_going_online⠀⇛
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Dutch_politicians_warn_about
AI’s_threat_in_academic_year_opening_speeches⠀⇛
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Microsoft
state_recent_cloud_outage_recovery_was_slower_then_hoped_due
to_staff_shortage [Ed: Microsoft after laying off tens of
thousands of its own workers]⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Microsoft
Says_Compromise_of_Its_Engineer’s_Account_Led_to_Chinese_Hack
of_US_Officials [Ed: Decoy and distraction. Microsoft
changing the subject. It got cracked. It was its own fault.
The people who trusted Microsoft pay the price now.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Some
Windows_11_users_are_absolutely_irate_with_Microsoft⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Three_Decades_After_Launch,
Microsoft’s_WordPad_Is_Headed_to_the_Trash_Bin⠀⇛
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Microsoft
to_remove_WordPad_from_Windows_in_future_updates⠀⇛
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]
Microsoft,_Apple_want_to_get_their_services_off_the_EU’s_tech
gatekeeper_list⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_EU_Designates_the_Big_Six
‘Gatekeepers’_of_Tech_that_Need_to_Bow_to_Regulations⠀⇛
# § Likely Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ CTV News ☛ Class_action_lawsuit_launched_against
federal_government_over_CRA_cyberattack⠀⇛
The Federal Court of Canada has certified a
class action lawsuit against the federal
government, which alleges negligence in
“safeguarding the confidential information of
Canadians, leading to widespread privacy
breaches.”
The suit follows cyberattacks that targeted
Canada Revenue Agency accounts and other
government services back in 2020.
The plaintiff, Todd Sweet, a retired police
officer from B.C., claims that “inadequate
safeguards” within several online government
portals threw sensitive information in
jeopardy, allowing “bad actors” to access the
online accounts of Canadians without their
consent.
# ⚓ KSTP TV ☛ DEED:_Data_security_incident_may_have
resulted_in_some_job_seekers’_contact_info_being
compromised⠀⇛
The Minnesota Department of Employment and
Economic Development (DEED) says it’s
notified job seekers that a recent security
incident may have resulted in some personal
information being compromised.
A DEED spokesperson says the agency recently
received information about suspicious
communications from one or more persons
claiming to be representatives of an approved
company on the MinnesotaWorks.net website.
After confirming they were not affiliated
with that employer, DEED says they revoked
their access.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ An_inexcusable_gap_from_breach_to
notification,_or_an_excusable_one?⠀⇛
Some state and federal laws provide specific
timeframes by which breached entities must
provide notice to regulators and to those
affected by a data breach. Unfortunately,
loopholes abound, as we seen in statutory
language such as Minnesota’s breach
notification law, where for timing of
notification, it says: “The disclosure must
be made in the most expedient time possible
and without unreasonable delay, consistent
with any measures necessary to determine the
scope of the breach, identify the individuals
affected, and restore the reasonable
integrity of the data system.”
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Keeping_Rust_projects_secure
with_cargo-audit_0.18:_performance,_compatibility_and
security_improvements⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Is_China’s_Temu_a_data
security_threat_for_shoppers?⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_CISA,_FBI,_and_CNMF_Release
Advisory_on_Multiple_Nation-State_Threat_Actors_Exploit_CVE-
2022-47966_and_CVE-2022-42475⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Dover_Fueling_Solutions_MAGLINK
LX_Console⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Phoenix_Contact_TC_ROUTER_and_TC
CLOUD_CLIENT⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Socomec_MOD3GP-SY-120K⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_CISA_Adds_One_Known_Vulnerability
to_Catalog⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Capacity
Enhancement_Guide_to_Strengthen_Agency_Resilience_to_DDoS
Attack⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Update_to_Threat
Actors_Exploiting_Citrix_CVE-2023-3519_to_Implant_Webshells⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Two_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Fujitsu_Limited_Real-time_Video
Transmission_Gear_“IP_series”⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Cisco_Releases_Security
Advisories_for_Multiple_Products⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_VMware_Releases_Security_Update
for_Tools⠀⇛
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Britain’s
AI_task_force_aims_to_tackle_cybersecurity_threats_that_are
national_and_global_safety_risks⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_US_FCC_Chair
Says_China’s_Quectel,_Fibocom_May_Pose_National_Security
Risks⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_United
Airlines_Says_the_Outage_That_Held_up_Departing_Flights_Was
Not_a_Cybersecurity_Issue⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Verizon_Unit
Agrees_to_Pay_$4_Million_to_Resolve_Cybersecurity
Accusations⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_New_Vanuatu_PM_wants_to
‘revisit’_Australia_security_pact⠀⇛
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Internal_Security_Forces
publish_names_of_4_fighters_martyred_in_‘Security
Reinforcement’_operation⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_New_fences,_gate_controls_among
international_border_upgrades_since_‘Freedom_Convoy’⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Rhode_Island
Airport_Ends_Brief_Lockdown;_Police_Say_Security_Threat_Was
Unfounded⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_North_Korea_stages_mock
‘nuclear_attack’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_North_Korea_unveils_new
tactical_nuclear_attack_submarine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Sweden:_Oil_executives
on_trial_over_Sudan_war_crimes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_What’s_behind_North
Korea’s_‘nuclear_attack’_drills?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31_[Older]_Has_the_EU’s_Africa
policy_failed_after_wave_of_coups?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ 2023-08-31_[Older]_South_African_Air_Force,
Lesotho_Defence_Force_strengthen_ties⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_African_Union
Suspends_Gabon_Over_Military_Coup⠀⇛
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Guterres_decries_African
coups⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_France’s
Waning_Influence_in_Coup-Hit_Africa_Appears_Clear_While_Few
Remember_Their_Former_Colonizer⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India’s_military_studying_options_for
any_China_war_on_Taiwan⠀⇛
The study will assess various war scenarios and
provide options for India in case a conflict breaks
out.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Why_China_is_choosing_to_stay_silent_on
Africa’s_wave_of_coups⠀⇛
For Beijing, the recent coups in Africa carry both
advantages and drawbacks.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines,_Australia_sign_strategic
partnership_deal_with_eye_on_China⠀⇛
Manila is pivoting back to its longstanding allies
amid Beijing’s growing assertiveness.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s_Premier_Li_Qiang_warns
against_‘new_Cold_War’_as_big_powers_meet_in_Indonesia⠀⇛
By Martin Abbugao China’s premier said on Wednesday
major powers must oppose a new Cold War, a thinly
veiled reference to Washington as top Asian and US
officials gathered for talks in Indonesia.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_premier_stresses_solidarity_with_ASEAN_amid
map_controversy⠀⇛
Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, pledges US
commitment to the South China Sea region.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_Yoon_says_rules-based
order_crucial_in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on
Thursday any attempts to change the status quo by
force in the South China Sea cannot be tolerated,
calling for a rules-based maritime order in the
region, his office said.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_What’s
at_Stake_When_Turkey’s_Leader_Meets_Putin_in_a_Bid_to
Reestablish_the_Black_Sea_Grain_Deal⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Putin’s_self-
isolation:_Lavrov_attends_the_G20⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Is_the_Wagner
Group_a_terrorist_organization?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_US_top_diplomat
Blinken_makes_surprise_visit_to_Kyiv⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_What_is_the_Three
Seas_Initiative_and_why_is_it_expanding?⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Arkansas
Blogger_Files_Suit_Seeking_Records_Related_to_Gov._Sarah
Huckabee_Sanders’_Travel,_Security⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Refugee_Law_Must
Adapt_to_a_World_Where_the_Effects_of_Climate_Change_Rival
Those_of_War⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_The_Pentagon_is_the
Elephant_In_the_Climate_Activist_Room⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Climate_change:_UN_says
world_way_off_course_to_meet_Paris_goals⠀⇛
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Mobile_Homes_Are_a_Climate
Solution_and_Deserve_More_Respect⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Top_Global
Ports_May_Be_Unusable_by_2050_Without_More_Climate_Action_–
Report⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_The_oil_industry’s_cynical_gamble
on_Arctic_drilling⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_“Climate-friendly”_beef_could_land
in_a_meat_aisle_near_you._Don’t_fall_for_it.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Criminalising_Activism:
Woodside,_Protest_and_Climate_Change⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Africa’s_Call_for
Global_Unity_in_Resource_Mobilization_for_Development_and
Climate_Action⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Greenpeace_opposes_nuclear_energy.
Young_climate_activists_say_that’s_‘old-fashioned’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Rethinking_the_war_on_invasive
species⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Many_Nicaraguans_cook_on_stoves
hard_on_the_climate_and_their_health._These_Canadians_are
trying_to_help⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_As_Africa
Opens_a_Climate_Summit,_Poor_Weather_Forecasting_Keeps_the
Continent_Underprepared⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Africa_Climate_Summit
concludes_with_‘Nairobi_declaration’⠀⇛
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_Climate_activists_occupy
Erasmus_Bridge_in_Rotterdam_during_World_Port_Days⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Hurricane_Idalia_Could_Be_the
Most_Expensive_Climate_Disaster_of_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_How_Leftists_Should
Think_About_Bidenomics⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Landmark_Africa_Climate
Summit_opens_in_Nairobi⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Africa’s_first-ever
climate_change_summit⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_African_renewable
energy_startups_hoping_to_be_heard_at_first-ever_climate
summit⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_The_First
Africa_Climate_Summit_Opens_as_Hard-Hit_Continent_of_1.3B
Demands_More_Say_and_Financing⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Hundreds_of
Millions_Pledged_for_African_Carbon_Credits_at_Inaugural
Climate_Summit⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Explainer-
What_Options_Do_African_Nations_Have_to_Finance_Climate,
Nature?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Net_Zero_Minister_Linked_to
Oil-Funded_Group_That_Targeted_Climate_Protesters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_The_Burning_Man_flameout,
explained⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_G20_summit_must
formulate_plan_for_Global_South_climate_change_threat⠀⇛
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Is_this_still_Weather_or_is_it
already_Climate?_Decoding_Chaos!⠀⇛
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Myths_and_Facts_About
Climate_Change⠀⇛
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_A_Novel_That_Links_Climate
Change_and_the_Death_of_Salvador_Allende⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Vivek_Ramaswamy_Is
Combining_Climate_Denialism_With_an_Attack_on_“Woke
Capitalism”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Idalia:_DeSantis_may_not
want_to_“politicize”_Climate_Change,_but_Climate_Change_is
determined_to_Politicize_DeSantis⠀⇛
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_In_Search_of_Climate
Politics’_Radical_Center⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s_Shenzhen_hit_by_heaviest
rain_since_records_began_in_1952⠀⇛
China’s southern city of Shenzhen has been lashed
by the heaviest rain since records began in 1952,
state media reported on Friday.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_legislature_approves
HK$70m_injection_into_disaster_relief_fund⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s legislature has approved an injection
of HK$70 million into the Disaster Relief Fund,
part of which would be used to support flood
victims in mainland China who were affected by
typhoon Doksuri that killed at least 78 people last
month.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_envoy_John_Kerry_hopes_China_and
US,_world’s_largest_economies_and_emitters,_can_‘come
together’_on_climate⠀⇛
US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday that he
hoped Washington and Beijing “could come together”
in the fight against global warming, at a landmark
summit in Kenya aimed at promoting Africa’s
potential as a green powerhouse.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Texas_Energy_Grid_Paid
Bitcoin_Miner_$31.7_Million_to_Stop_Working_Amid
Heatwave⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_OPEC_Was_First
Formed_as_a_Challenge_to_Western_Energy_Dominance⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Women_of_the
Global_South_Are_Key_to_the_Energy_Transition⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_BMW_says_electric
cars_as_profitable_as_petrol,_diesel_cars⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Italy’s_game
changer_for_European_energy⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_Scholz_says
nuclear_energy_issue_‘a_dead_horse’_for_Germany⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_While_Canadians
Struggle,_Energy_Corporations_Are_Laughing_All_the_Way
to_the_Bank⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Chinese_carmakers
flex_muscles_at_Germany’s_IAA_auto_show⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Is_Vietnam’s
electric_car_maker_hitting_the_brakes_in_Europe?⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Global_auto_sector_braces_for_Chinese_EV
tsunami⠀⇛
Western auto-sector bosses fret about a
wipeout driven by oversupply and cut-throat
pricing.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_In_the
Battle_Against_Amazon_Deforestation,_Brazil_Offers_Cash
Rewards_to_Municipalities⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]
Deforestation_in_Brazil’s_Amazon_Falls_66%_in_August⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_‘Your_job_is_to_be_in_tune
with_the_land’:_A_day_in_the_life_of_a_fire_lookout⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]
Brazil’s_Lula_Legalizes_More_Indigenous_Reservations_in
Amazon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-31_[Older]_Whaling_to_resume
in_Iceland_after_temporary_ban⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Award_Winning_Bird
Images_Are_the_Best_Thing_You’ll_See_All_Day⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Wolves:_Ecosystem
warrior_or_threat_to_humans?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Wolf:_Good_for
nature_recover,_but_danger_for_humans⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Germany’s_Greens
open_to_wolf_culling⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_B.C._crews_battling_Okanagan
fires_are_in_it_for_the_‘long_haul’_as_heat,_drought
continue⠀⇛
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Africa
Endures_More_Severe_Warming_Than_Elsewhere,_Posing_Risk
of_Conflict⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Macklem_stands_firm_on_2%
inflation_target_and_willingness_to_hike_more_to_get_there⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_There’s_now_a_Bank_of_Canada
number_for_carbon_tax’s_impact_on_inflation._It’s_small⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Alleged_Victoria_Ponzi_schemer
ordered_into_personal_bankruptcy⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Rising_rent,_food_costs_driving
significant_increase_in_Nova_Scotia’s_living_wage⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Canada’s_economy_contracted_during
2nd_quarter,_StatsCan_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Why_it’s_so_much_cheaper_to_ship
stuff_from_China_than_within_Canada⠀⇛
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ The_Observations_of_Leaving_the
House_Contradict_Paul_Krugman’s_“Robust_America”.⠀⇛
This country is basically dying. What’s going on is
the Democrats benefit from people who are too
illiterate to understand the issues finding their
way into a voting booth, so they enact policies
where people who litter the place with unemployable
children who will shoot at each other, deal drugs,
and scare the taxpayers out of the State don’t have
to use any of their own money to reproduce.
# ⚓ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Turkey’s_official_inflation_rate_rises
by_over_10_points_in_August⠀⇛
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Can_an_Indian-Born_CEO_Change
the_World_Bank’s_Toxic_Lending_Practices?⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_ASIC_sues_Westpac_for
alleged_failure_on_hardship_notices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Billionaires_Are_the
Real_Existential_Risk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Habeck_defends_German
economy_as_output_drops⠀⇛
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Did_Authoritarianism_Cause_China’s_Economic
Crisis?⠀⇛
An erosion of trust between the government and its
people now threatens the country’s decades-long
boom.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_property_market_sees_some_relief_amid
protests⠀⇛
Economists worry that sustained inaction by Beijing
could hit poorer regions hard.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Bank_of_China_Opens_Branch_in_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛
Currently, the Bank of China operates and provides
financial services across 64 countries.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Green_Party_calls_for_a
tax_on_the_super-rich_in_response_to_effective_bankruptcy_of
Birmingham_City_Council⠀⇛
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Education_system_left
crumbling_after_13_years_of_Tory_austerity,_say_Greens⠀⇛
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Green_Party_co-leader
Carla_Denyer_makes_urgent_call_to_save_rail_ticket_offices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_These_24_Members_of_Congress
Paid_for_Twitter⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Want_to_See_How_Bad_Twitter’s
Bot_Problem_Is?_Ask_for_Crypto_Help.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Elon_Musk’s_strange_new_feud_with
a_Jewish_anti-hate_group,_explained⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Musk_Says_He’ll_Sue_the_Anti-
Defamation_League_for_‘Almost’_Killing_Twitter⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Little_Musk_Who_Cries
‘Wolf’_Daily_Now_Claims_Twitter/X_Is_Going_to_Sue_the_Anti-
Defamation_League⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Defriending_Canada:
Natural_Disasters_and_Facebook’s_Information_Scrub⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Facebook’s_News_tab_is_going
away_in_the_UK,_France_and_Germany⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Facebook_Supreme_Court_Says
Posts_About_Abortion_Are_Not_Death_Threats⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_North_Korea_marks_75
years_of_Kim_dynasty_rule⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Big_money,_but_little_progress_on_South
China_Sea_dispute,_Myanmar_crisis_at_Asean_talks⠀⇛
September 09, 2023 1:45 PM
One achievement is the Asean Outcome on the Indo-
Pacific, which lays out the bloc’s position on
regional cooperation.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Tropical_Maldives_heads_to_polls
closely_watched_by_India_and_China⠀⇛
More than a quarter of a million people vote on
Saturday for the next leader of the tropical
Maldives in a closely contested election seen as a
battle for influence in the high-end tourist
destination between India and China.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vietnam_and_U.S._Deepen_Ties_Amid_Wariness
of_China⠀⇛
President Biden is expected to celebrate a new
upgrade in relations with Vietnam this weekend,
despite concerns about the country’s authoritarian
crackdown and repression.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_to_visit_Vietnam_in_effort_to_counter
China⠀⇛
President Joe Biden arrives in Vietnam on Sunday on
a mission to bolster US influence, but the heavy
emphasis on countering rival China will likely
confine human rights concerns to the margins.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Venezuelan_President_Nicolas_Maduro
arrives_in_China_to_seek_financial_support_for_ailing
economy⠀⇛
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in
China on Friday, he posted on social media, as the
oil-rich socialist country seeks to shore up its
ailing finances. China is Venezuela’s main creditor
and has close relations with the internationally
isolated nation, whose GDP has contracted by 80
percent in a decade because of an economic crisis.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_TFW_your_grandma_becomes_a
social_media_sensation⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Sword_attack_case
misinformation_leading_to_‘heightened_sense_of_anxiety’
in_P.E.I.,_police_say⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-03_[Older]_Disney_Wants
to_Narrow_the_Scope_of_Its_Lawsuit_Against_DeSantis_to_Free
Speech_Claim⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Troubling_Development_for_Free
Speech_in_Chad⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_England’s_Rugeley
Amazon_Warehouse_Tells_the_Story_of_Postindustrial_Decline⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Amazon_Workers’_Sci-
Fi_Writing_Is_Imagining_a_World_After_Amazon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Amazon_Warehouse
Workers_Are_Organizing_Against_Dangerous_Conditions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_Bernie_Sanders:
“Today_We_Are_Seeing_Workers_Stand_Up_and_Fight_Back”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_Lawsuit_Blasts_Amazon’s_Choice
of_Bezos’_Blue_Origin_for_Project_Kuiper⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-09_[Older]_Tennis-U.S.
Open_Beefs_up_Security_After_Protesters_Stop_Match⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Iraq:_Security_Forces_Open_Fire_on
Kirkuk_Protesters⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Judge_Orders
Louisiana_to_Remove_Incarcerated_Youths_From_the_State’s
Maximum-Security_Adult_Prison⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_Lawsuit_Accuses_Twitter_of
Helping_Saudi_Arabia_Pursue_Online_Dissidents⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_China’s
Huawei_Opens_Cloud_Data_Centre_in_Saudi_Arabia_in_Regional
Push⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Prioritizing_Human
Rights_in_Relations_with_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Saudi_Arabia_executions
reveal_‘relentless_killing_spree,’_NGO_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Saudi_Arabia
Considering_Investing_in_‘Made_in_Italy’_Fund⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Pakistan’s
Interim_PM_Says_Saudi_Arabia_to_Invest_$25_Billion_Over_Next
Five_Years⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-09-07_[Older]_Egypt:_Prominent_Critic_Prosecuted
Over_Peaceful_Speech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Young_Workers_Can
Provide_the_Organizing_Energy_That_Unions_Desperately_Need⠀⇛
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-09-09_[Older]_Iranian_theater_player_who
fled_to_Turkey_after_popular_uprising_faces_deportation⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Theater_player_who_fled_to_Turkey_after
Mahsa_Amini_protests_facing_deportation_to_Iran⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Manipur_violence
threatens_status_of_women’s_football⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ UN_labor_organization_discussed_forced_labor_during
Xinjiang_visit⠀⇛
But human rights groups said the visit would play
into China’s propaganda on the western region.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_leader’s_‘public’_meetings_lack_criticism
of_his_policies⠀⇛
The city’s chief executive John Lee says the
meetings are enough, with no need for in-person
petitions.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Taliban_Denies_Afghanistan_Sending_Female_Athletes
To_Asian_Games⠀⇛
Taliban officials have rejected reports that
Afghanistan will send female athletes to the Asian
Games in China later this month, saying all 133
athletes in the delegation being sent are male.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-02_[Older]_The_localization_of_IP
infringements_in_the_online_environment:_From_Web_2.0_to_Web
3.0_and_the_metaverse_–_New_study_for_WIPO [Ed: Ridiculous
buzzwords like "Web 3.0" and "IP"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_UK_takes_uncompromising
approach_to_interpretation_of_“the_product”_under_Art._3(a)
SPC_Regulation_(Newron_v_Comptroller_[2023]_EWHC_1471)⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-05_[Older]_Unpacking_IDC_v_Lenovo_(Part
IV):_top-down_cross_check;_allegations_regarding_conduct;
permission_to_appeal⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_EUIPO_report_on_trade_secrets
litigation_trends_shows_Italy_and_Belgium_to_be_the_most
trade_secret_owner_friendly⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_Forget_snakes_on_a_plane_–_the
UK_IP_Court_deals_with_Cobras_on_cars⠀⇛
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]
Apple_is_working_on_a_screen_that_protects_itself_upon
impact,_new_patent_suggests⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_First-ever_UPC
preliminary_injunction_hearing_held_in_Munich:_decision
scheduled_for_September_19 [Ed: UPC is illegal. This
whole 'case' is based not on law but an illegal
action.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Head_of_EU
Commission_unit_that_drafted_SEP_Regulation
acknowledges_lack_of_competence,_displays_irresponsible
regulatory_zeal_at_conference:_policy_makers_should
reject_that_attitude⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_The_proposed_EU
SEP_Regulation_is_a_hot_mess_that_lawmakers_can_dilute
but_not_fix_due_to_structural_issues,_fundamental
rights,_and_international_obligations⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-09-08_[Older]_Broad_Files_Reply_Brief_in
Interference_No._106,115_Cross-Appeal⠀⇛
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-01_[Older]_UK_IPO_consultation_on
trade_mark_and_design_services⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-04_[Older]_‘Put_Putin_In’_not
registerable_as_an_EU_trade_mark⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-09-06_[Older]_An_accelerating_engine
noise_is_not_inherently_distinctive,_says_EUIPO⠀⇛
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DEVISTG_Wordo:_RERUN⠀⇛
# ⚓ Proselytism_and_Veganism⠀⇛
When you talk about veganism with other people, or
on a blog, you’re often accused of making
proselytising. OK, I know vegans who would agree
with a vegano-fascism that forces people to eat
only vegetables but most vegans are more open-
minded and think differently, othen to a better
world.
Think back to your childhood, when your parents
forced you to eat some vegetables like Broccoli or
Brussels sprout… Do you eat them regularly or is it
a trauma? I love these vegetables but I know people
who don’t like them, sometimes don’t know what they
smell like… I don’t think that forcing people to
eat something makes them eat it regularly. And
imagine if it’s forbidden. No, I prefer a really
good vegan meal, chosen by everyone and it’s often
surprising when you tell someone it was «vegan», if
you don’t told them before
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning_brace_style⠀⇛
When I am sending patches I always try to use
whatever brace style upstream is using, and my own
projects rarely use brace languages.
So I rarely get to use my own prefered brace style,
and maybe that’s a blessing for the world since
it’s so unusual and non-standard.
Put on safety goggles for this one because it’s
gonna look weird. It’s just what makes sense to me.
# ⚓ Announcing_the_Smol_Earth_Compendium⠀⇛
Dear smol friends! I am very happy to finally
announce a kind of “soft launch” of a new Gemini/
Gopher project of mine which I have been turning
over in my head for a few months now. It’s not
ready for prime time yet, but if it is ever going
to be, it needs a small early adopter community to
get the ball rolling, and the purpose of this post
is to try to attract that community.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Project_Gemini_has_moved!⠀⇛
Ahoy! As per the linked news post, the
transition from gemini.circumlunar.space to
geminiprotocol.net is now complete! There are
redirects in place, naturally, but I would
like to urge people to please update links
wherever possible. In particular, if you run
a widely used service or develop some widely
used software which includes links to
anything in the official capsule, please
update them in the near future. The redirects
will stay in place forever, but the less
reliant we are on them, the better.
# ⚓ I’m_seriously_wondering_who_is_trolling_who_at_this
point⠀⇛
I have a Gmail account. I signed up early
enough to get my name as an email address at
Gmail. But I never use it for anything, so by
default, anything that arrives there is
either spam or misaddressed. I will
occasionally check it, and I found two emails
from one Trudy XXXXXXXXXXX.
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